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On this day in 1961, Elvis gave a rare concert to help save the USS Arizona. At the time, he wasn't performing live often, but iconic American singer and actor Elvis Presley stepped up to honor the fallen soldiers at Pearl Harbor. Learn more in today's KTAR timeline brought to you by Beatitudes Campus.
In today's Sharper Point Commentary, Jim Sharpe talks about how annoying group chats can be and in a recent case, how dangerous they can be too. Jim gives his perspective as news comes out this morning that Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist.
During a court hearing Monday, a federal appeals judge told a Justice Department lawyer that the United States treated alleged Nazis better during World War II than the Trump administration treated Venezuelan migrants last week. Peter Charalambous with ABC News joins the show to break down what Judge Patricia Millett said.
Established in 2022, The Arizona Motion Picture Production Program was created through House Bill 2156 with support from both Democrats and Republicans. The program is authorized to award up to $125 million in credits for eligible film productions. Mignon Gould is the Associate Editor for Phoenix Business Journal and talks to us the potential value of making films in Arizona.
The editor-in-chief for The Atlantic says that he was added to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, who wrote about war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen. ABC's Karen Travers is joining us this morning and says in addition to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, that group chat included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence.
On this day in 1989, an Exxon supertanker crashes, causing an oil spill which is now considered to be one of the worst in U.S. history. The supertanker, known as the Exxon Valdez, was owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation when it crashed on a reef in southern Alaska. Learn more in today's KTAR timeline brought to you by Beatitudes Campus.
In today's Sharper Point Commentary, Jim Sharpe talks about how while Arizona has always been very hot, the dangers associated with the heat are only worsening. Phoenix experienced 158 extreme heat days in 2023, an increase of more than three weeks compared with 1976.
According to a recent study by the Florida personal injury law firm Anidjar & Levine, Arizona's weather is the deadliest in the country. This morning we are talking about how last year, 771 people in the state died due to excessive heat. In 2023, 645 people died from heat-related illness in Maricopa County alone.
Jessica Rousset is the Director of the Interplanetary Initiative at Arizona State University. We are talking with her this morning about how ASU is collaborating with colleagues from local, national, and international governments to discuss how Arizona can best meet the needs of the growing commercial space sector.
President Donald Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, vowed on Sunday that the Trump administration would not defy court orders stemming from legal challenges over its use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport undocumented migrants. Joining us this morning is ABC's Steven Portnoy to talk about how the family members of some of those flown to El Salvador say those deported had no affiliation with any gang.