‘Trump-a-palooza' Midterm Convention Underway

0:00Hey, from CNN, I'm a FOMA DK, with the five things you need to know for Wednesday, September 9. President Donald Trump is heading to Dallas where he's headlining the first-ever GOP midterm convention taking place today and tomorrow. He'll give the keynote speech tonight as the post-labor day sprint to election day gets underway. Speaking to reporters earlier today, Trump said he expects Iran will abandon its war effort after the midterms, and he conceded that gas prices are unlikely to fall before them. I think the war will end immediately after the election, because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election so that we can get a nice week group of people in there and leave them alone and let them have their nuclear weapon. But right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. They're going to be tumbling down and we'll get them down. I think for gasoline, we'll get them below $2 a gallon. Global oil prices are back above $100 a barrel, driven by step-up fighting in Iran in recent

1:04days that has further jeopardized the flow of crude oil through the straight-of-form ooze. Trump also shrugged off concerns about summer publicans skipping the convention. The reason that some people are not coming is because we don't have room for 500 politicians. We have room for the ones that have a close race if they're slightly behind or slightly ahead or tied. A former AI researcher for Anthropic is joining a list of employees who have loudly quit their jobs over concerns about AI. In a resignation threat on X, Jacob Coxon gave an apocalyptic message saying, quote, the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Other experts have publicly voiced worries that the technology is moving too quickly and will one day outpace human's ability to control it. CNN contributor Jacob Bourd weighs in. Jacob, thoughts? I think what all of these researchers are so worried about and what they're talking about now so publicly is the recursive ability, the ability of these technologies to improve

2:06themselves. Anthropic has said at this point, and some of this is the weird thing is you can't quite distinguish the marketing language from the warning language here. The warning is that Claude definitely could make the next version of itself without any human intervention. We're at a place where this technology is improving itself incredibly quickly. And I would just point out Jacob Coxon, the person here, he is walking away from an immense payday and estimated seven weeks before this company is supposed to go public. This guy who has cord to the effort of pre-training the data is walking away from one of the greatest payouts in the history of capitalism. And so I think it's really important we listen to a guy who is this much at stake, leaving with no plans for anything else and saying something as scary as this. The US just hit its hottest summer on record. It's according to the data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today. The average temperature is across the lower 48 states have topped previous records, set in the decimal era more than a hundred years ago and the benchmark of hottest summers in the US. CNN's Bill Weir has more.

3:08Bill break this down for us. Absolutely, yes. So three degrees Fahrenheit above average, that's what they found for this summer here. It's a fever, the size of the earth and it manifests itself in ways that range from annoying to expensive to deadly as we've seen there from, you know, canceled fireworks or summer camps through the smoke or heat or flash floods in some parts of the country, record wildfires and other parts. And if you look at rainfall patterns, it's a similar thing of too much or not enough. While 60% roughly of the country is now in drought that's expanded by 10% in August now, you had record wet summers in Indiana and Illinois, parts of Ohio there in the Midwest. So it's sort of dealer's choice with a broken climate system that's happening right now. And the bad news is this is just the beginning. All of the pollution in the sky and the sea, the more gigatons that are added to it, the temperature just climbs and climbs and climbs and there's no little ice age coming to save

4:13us and cool us off. Coming up, the biggest change to the iPhone in nearly 20 years. So if I got news for your ears, the podcast, I am your host, Michael Ian Black. Let's get into it. We're talking about New America and Donald Trump's Labor Day, Tweet Storm and Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoff's magical musical piece twist with the brain trust, the brain trust. I'm Steve Schippendale. Have a good news for your ears. Check us out on Apple, Amazon Music, wherever you get your podcast. Even better, you can watch the podcast on Spotify. Airports are scrambling to resume services after an air traffic control outage. About 2,000 flights in London airports such as Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted have been canceled or grounded over the past two days, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. National Air Traffic Service or NATS, the UK's Air Traffic Control Provider, has faced criticism

5:17for the outage. A Downing Street spokesperson says the UK's Transport Secretary has called for an investigation. It's not the first time a major outage has affected passengers at UK airports in recent years. A major glitch at NATS in August 2023 forced several UK airports and airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. Apple is rolling out its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. CNN's Claire Duffy is with us. Claire so Samsung dominates the foldable phone niche, but now Apple wants to compete. How much are we talking in price? The iPhone Duo is not going to come cheap. It starts at $1,999 going up to more than $3,000 for the highest memory version. But this is an important launch for Apple as the biggest change to the iPhone's form factor in years. And coming as new CEO John Ternis was under pressure, he's Apple's former hardware cheap to show that he could usher in a new era of hardware innovation. So while not all consumers will be up for paying $2,000, even $3,000 for a phone, this could

6:21allow Apple to attract more high-paying consumers who might otherwise have sought out a foldable device from a rival company. Okay, so apart from the iPhone Duo, what are some other new Apple products? Apple also announced a new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, new AirPods, the AirPods 5, two new Apple watches, the series 12 and Ultra 4. And most importantly, Ternis laid out an AI strategy for Apple that centers around using the personal information they have from users various devices, along with Apple's new AI enhanced Siri to create this really personalized AI assistant that works across the devices and services that Apple's customers are already using. Thanks Claire, that is for us. We're back tomorrow morning. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, host of the Chasing Life Podcast. Last week, there was this important report that dropped that I think got a lot of attention. It's about football and there was this new study in the British Medical Journal, which

7:23estimates that of all the NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, about 878 players, at least 25% of them had confirmed CTE. That is the disease that is caused by repetitive hits to the brain. So CNN's resident NFL veteran, Koi Wire, he called me, we called fellow CNN sports anchor Andy Scholes, and we were talking about it. I know as a former player, anytime I forget my keys, if I get a slight headache, it pops in my head. I'm thinking like, man, I hope this is just Andy, do you forget your keys? Oh, dear, it's supposed to say yes all the time Koi, make me feel better. Listen to Chasing Life, streaming now, wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, I'm Anderson Cooper. On my podcast, all there is, we explore grief and loss in all its complexities. My guess on the podcast is NASCAR Champion and Hall of Famer Kurt Busch, who's grieving the recent death of his younger brother, NASCAR Champion Kyle Busch.

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