A 22 year old suspect has now been taken into
custody that following a deadly shooting in Highland Park Illinois
. This was all just outside of Chicago where six
people were killed. That after a gunman opened fire
on a crowd of people just celebrating. The fourth
of july, police are calling the attack with a
high powered rifle. Random and intentional. The police
took the suspect into custody after an intense manhunt the
suspect, the suspected shooter is believed to have climbed
onto the roof of a nearby business before he fired
into that crowd. There's anger and unrest following the
police shooting and killing of a black man in Akron
Ohio 25 year old Jaylin walker was shot and killed
on june 27th as he fled traffic after firing a
gun from his car. Akron police released body cam
footage over the weekend showing officers firing at walker who
left the gun in the car and then ran from
Police protests have grown in the city has imposed an
overnight curfew. The eight officers involved have been put
on administrative leave and an investigation is underway to no
one's surprise. Thousands of airline flights were canceled or
delayed over the fourth of july weekend. On saturday
alone, more than 600 flights were canceled and almost
6000 were delayed friday was the biggest travel day of
the year thus far. T. S. A
. Says they screened almost 2.5 million travelers at security
checkpoints. The situation did improve. However, on
monday that as many travelers were at their holiday destinations
, delays and cancelations are expected to continue through the
summer and beyond that. As airlines are coping with
staffing shortages, especially with pilots and we are going
to talk a little bit later on with a travel
expert later on in the show. And the world
of politics is waking up this morning as well.
Are Megan prats live in Washington, bringing us the
biggest stories unfolding there. Good morning, Megan.
Good morning baker. Now, of course, you
know, it's a slow week in Washington after the
july 4th holiday. So we're taking a look at
a larger trend that's come into focus in the past
few weeks. The decline in trust in the Supreme
Court. A survey last year from the marquette University
Law School found that about 60% of americans approved of
the job the Supreme Court was doing and about 39%
disapproved. But in a follow up survey earlier this
year, just after a draft opinion in the Dobbs
case leaked in May, the market poll found the
court's approval had dropped by 16 points to 44% but
it's not just the overall approval. That's bad for
the court. A larger and larger percentage of americans
believe the Supreme Court justices are acting on their own
political motivations. A new survey from NPR PBS News
hour and maris college found that 57% a solid majority
of americans believe the court's decision to overturn roe v
wade was motivated by politics, just 36% believe it
was motivated by the actual law of the land.
The justices like to use their public appearances to reiterate
that the court is not a political branch of government
. But as these polls show, many americans aren't
buying it baker and Alicia. Well, Megan,
what's the significance of this drop? And what could
it mean? Long term if the public thinks the
court is motivated by politics? It's a really important
question and depending on how bad things get, we
could have a constitutional crisis on our hands. The
court doesn't have any kind of enforcement mechanism. Its
decisions matter because we all believe they matter and therefore
follow them when they happen. But that's not guaranteed
forever. If the court is seen as just another
political branch by enough americans, there could be a
presidential administration one day that just decides to ignore whatever
the court says. If that happens, we're in
uncharted territory without our nation's top judicial body making actual
lasting decisions to make a very good point, making
prats for us live in our nation's capital. Thank
you so much Megan. Meanwhile, taking a look
at some of the business stories we're following for you
at this hour, Jeff Bezos slamming president biden on
twitter for calling on companies running gas stations to lower
their prices, biden tweeted on saturday quote, this
is a time of war and peril and he demanded
companies reduce their gas prices, which are averaging about
$4.30 a gallon on monday. While the amazon founder
shot right back, he said, quote ouch,
inflation is far too important of a problem for the
White House to keep making statements like this. It's
either straight ahead misdirection or deep misunderstanding of basic market
dynamics. Now back in May, Brazos blamed the
by administration for a spike in inflation. Meanwhile,
could the red hot rental market actually be cooling off
? Well, that seems to be the case.
According to the national rent report from some per that's
a rental search site, medium prices for one bedrooms
are up only.5% year over year and two bedrooms
have dropped 2.9%. Many cities have seen significant decreases
just between May and June. Tallahassee florida had the
biggest drop 6.5% for a one bedroom followed by Anchorage
, Alaska and downtown Honolulu hawaii. And finally,
the world's richest man met with the head of the
catholic church over the weekend, Elon musk broke his
twitter silence. Finally, he posted a picture of
himself and four of his sons with the pope at
the Vatican. This was the first tweet he's done
in nine days and also a rare family photo as
well. Now musk has seven Children in all.
He did not give a reason for the meeting,
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