It's 10:00 AM and there is a question this morning
now that the convention wrapped up in Milwaukee and it
was quite a wrap up, that's for sure.
We've got some takes on everything that happened last night.
But what you really want to look at is once
the conventions come and go, first for the Republicans and
then for the Democrats, check those polls, they will register
whether or not the conventions really cut through.
I mean, it's a whole reason they do them because
for the most part, unless we have total chaos at
the Democrats convention next month, it's already well known who
the candidates going to be.
And it was clearly well known amongst the Republicans in
Milwaukee.
But there is the first poll taken entirely out of
convention week.
It was specifically taken on Tuesday.
That was Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis night and then
Wednesday and then last night, Thursday.
So the big question we're going to answer it for
you in just a moment now is whether it's really
good news for Donald Trump or for Joe Biden.
It's been a lot of bad headlines for Joe Biden
over the last couple of weeks, but he did have
something very interesting to say in the last few minutes.
We're going to share it with you and it might
just provide some pretty good input as to what his
current thinking is.
When you hear from him, from the man himself, it's
probably going to give you a little bit more clarity
in terms of where things stand.
So this is FOX 10 Talks.
We go on at 10 every morning right after our
excellent morning show on FOX 10 TV.
I'm Ron Hoon.
Desiree Fluellen is going to be hopping in in just
a minute or two.
We thank you for starting your day with us.
Some of the other headlines we are watching this morning.
There is a lot to understand about this chaos that
is going out on at our airports this morning.
I mean, for the most part, it is some cancelled
flights and some delayed flights.
I mean, but there are certain airports that are full
on shut down earlier in the day.
And it is definitely more than just a Microsoft update.
So what's going on with that?
Plus, the new survey is out for 2024.
What is America's favorite pizza now?
Is it the old standby or is there something else
kind of moving up the ladder?
But let's get started here with this brand new poll
that just came in.
And it's a You Gov CBS poll, which seems to
have done a pretty good job over the last, well,
many months in terms of tracking where the race stands.
I mean it was just two weeks ago right at
the beginning of July that a poll came out, I
think it was around like July 2nd, 3rd, 4th in
that time frame and showed the race was still within
the margin of error, A2 point race.
Now we are looking at a well, potentially a whole
new race and the number is this Trump 52, Biden
47.
That five points margin is one of the largest we
have seen so far.
By the way, I see GAIL Luviano on and joining
the chat this morning and DJ Razor Edge on as
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But all right, so let's get into it a little
bit.
The last poll showed A2 point spread.
Now it's a 5 point spread.
Donald Trump up and outside the margin of error.
Now getting a bounce coming out of convention is certainly
expected.
I mean, to the tune of two points, maybe three
points.
Let's face it, it has been over the course of
this last week when we talked last Friday about politics.
Who could have predicted everything that has unfolded since then
with the shooting in Butler, PA, back on Saturday, the
beginning of the convention on Monday and everything that transpired
there in Milwaukee.
And, you know, they're going to be in the process
of kind of tearing things down there at the Fiserv
Forum.
But a lot to talk about regarding all of that.
The this particular poll, though, as I say, has gone
from two points to five points and a lot of
the national polls, even though the focus is on Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania looks like Ohio is leaning red.
Michigan appears to be about a one to two point
race right now.
So those are all key battlegrounds.
Florida appears to be trending red.
The campaign for for President Trump says they feel like
some other states that are traditionally blue states, for example,
like Virginia, possibly even New York, might be in play
for them.
And that's part of what's kind of setting off the
alarm bells within the hierarchy of the Democratic Party.
But right now, it feels like there's a kind of
a tug of war between Joe Biden and his campaign
staff and his White House staff and Nancy Pelosi, who
apparently has made no bones about the fact that according
to many, many reports that she wants Biden out, she
wants somebody else.
In another development today, AOC coming out and saying there
are plenty of Democrats who don't want either Joe Biden
or Kamala Harris.
How about that?
Where is the left in the party, what with those
remarks coming in from AOC?
But in terms of the convention itself last night, it
was definitely a subdued Donald Trump who says when something
like that happens it to you, it definitely strength strengthens
your belief in God and the fact that he felt
like that God was right there protecting him over the
course of those fateful moments.
Let's see.
Let me just real quick mention here, Sam, Samuel Mcguiry
is on this morning as well.
Hi, Samuel and B Miguel, we appreciate all you guys
joining us this morning in the live chat box.
That's for sure.
But it was really two speeches last night from Donald
Trump.
It started.
Now, this is interesting too, because just in terms of
the loudest applause of the night, clearly when Donald Trump
took the stage, that was big applause.
But when Hulk Hogan ripped the shirt off, that was
some pretty big applause as well, you know, and he
got the crowd so riled up this morning.
A lot of folks are still talking about that highlight.
Hey, by the way, everybody, let's go to the Desiree
Cam now.
Here she is.
Good morning.
Good.
How's it going?
What's in your cup water?
OK, with a little bit of ice, hopefully.
Oh, a ton of ice.
Yes.
OK, I'm fill it all the way with ice.
OK.
And then put water in type of person, right.
So, Yep, lots of ice.
Excellent.
Got to hydrate.
OK, so we have Des in here.
Let's get back to talking about Hulk Hogan.
I mean, the the pre speech portion of the night
just rocked.
I mean, Kid Rock, he had the crowd going this
moment from Hulk Hogan as certainly people still talking about
that.
I mean, if you I mean, what better hype guy,
right?
Hulk Hogan.
Yes.
And I said, you know, I said, well, let's check
his age.
And you went and looked it up and it's like,
wow, he's 70 and he is in great shape.
He's in great shape.
He's in really good shape.
I can only hope because I still go to the
gym almost every day that I can be in that
good of shape.
Yeah, I know.
I think I said on the show this morning, I
think this is the first time we've seen a Hulk
Hogan ripped shirt moment without a bare chest underneath because
that's usually what we're getting.
Yeah.
Well, so it's interesting because over the course of last
night, you know, right up until President Trump took the
stage, it was rocking.
And then he took the stage, and boy, was there
a different tone.
And you could just tell that he is emotionally still
dealing with everything that he went through on Saturday.
He's even said it's so painful, you're only going to
ever hear me talk about it this one time.
Yeah, yeah.
And I mean, maybe at least initially, right.
I mean, you, you're probably still going through the shock
of that.
We're talking about something that happened less than, you know,
just about a week ago.
Not even.
Yeah, six days.
So it's understandable.
I can see why it weighs heavy on him.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And so that first, really, it kind of felt like
it was two different speeches.
The first half was really subdued.
He paid tribute to the firefighter who lost his life.
And of course, talked about the fact that his prayers
are with the other two who attended did survive the
attack.
And he said it looks like they're going to make
it and they're doing better.
But then he got into out there at the Fiserv
Stadium or the Fiserv Forum.
Then he kind of shifted gears and got a little
more into the, I guess you could call it the
red meat of the night that he knew his supporters
were going to like, you know, getting into the same
topics that he has talked about so many times in
the past, the kind of topics that you would hear,
for example, of one of his rallies.
I mean, I do think that's sort of his comfort
zone.
He did, for the most part, stick to his pledge
to not mention Joe Biden by name.
He only did it once.
Yeah, probably a a slip of the tongue or, you
know, you're so used to obviously talking about him, right?
Yeah.
And so it looked like all the other speakers were
kind of given the same note, no mention of the
word Biden.
Now, I think part of it is, you know, because
it's so up and down on an everyday, if not
every hour basis.
Will it be Biden?
Will it be Kamala Harris or as AOC said today,
Alexandria, Okasha Cortez?
Maybe it should be somebody besides those two.
There are a lot of Democrats who want somebody else
besides them.
So I mean, but here's what Joe Biden said Dez
just a little while ago this morning.
He said here's his quote.
This is Amit's reports that the family has been meeting
and talking about a possible exit strategy.
You saw that headline.
Then he comes out just a little while ago and
says, I look forward to getting back out on the
campaign trail this week.
That doesn't sound like somebody who's trying to figure out
an exit plan.
That sounds like somebody who's got a plan to keep
on running right to the dimension.
But really, I mean, how much weight can we even
put in that right?
Cuz are you really gonna tell us?
You know what?
Yes, right.
I'm considering of pulling out or not, right?
I don't think you will.
I don't think you're gonna hear what his decision or
what his thought process is going to be until we
hear yeah, you know, get that final yeah answer.
You know, and the other thing, I think we won't
know for a few more days.
I was just telling the audience about this brand new
poll.
It's ACB CBS you Gov poll that actually puts it
outside the margin of error now and it's the first
poll to be done fully within the days of the
convention.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Trump 52 Biden 47.
The same CBS you Gov a couple of weeks ago
said it was almost a tie A2 point margin for
Trump.
So anyway, people are certainly talking about it.
And, you know, the images from last night were pretty
well, perfectly staged.
I mean, no matter who you are, to have your
name lit up on the stage with 100 light bulbs,
You know, when he first came up with the word
Trump behind him.
Yeah, that's for sure.
All right, we're going to shift now and talk a
little bit about the chaos at America's airports because the
CEO of the cybersecurity firm and we're seeing pictures, by
the way, like this from every airport in the USA.
And you know what, Maybe one there's not because our
John Hook earlier this morning was live in Milwaukee and
said they were flying back on Southwest and there were
no problems.
The Southwest uses a different system.
So Southwest, of course, uses the Dallas Love Field in
the downtown Dallas area.
Maybe they're doing fine, but in terms of what people
have been dealing with at airports from from one coast
to the other, it's really been something.
Now, the head of a cybersecurity firm at the heart
of Microsoft's outage, literally this is from the New York
Post, got emotional this morning, choked on his words as
he had tried to apologize for their company being so
responsible and was not willing or able to give a
timeline for when everything would return to normal.
So, you know, we've been looking at Sky Harbor and
of course, we want to see those planes taken off,
that's for sure.
Sky Harbor looks like it's been doing OK this morning.
But boy, there's some airports.
We're going to tell you about it right after the
break where they have really been dealing with the trouble
anyway.
There is a firm called Crowdstrike.
You need to know who they are and what role
they're playing in this.
And it's all coming up after this break.
Well, Desiree, on her career path to Phoenix here, has
worked in Boston and Nashville, TN, and I haven't spent
a lot of time in Tennessee, but I swear every
part of that state is beautiful and is nice.
It's so green and lush and mountainous, right?
Yeah.
I want to hop on a plane.
No, I don't want to hop on a plane.
I wanted to get in the car and drive to
Tennessee.
This is Crossville, TN and a beautiful little golf course
they have there at just a little spot there up
in the hills that has really proved to be very
popular for people.
It's about in between Nashville and Knoxville, but a little
closer to Knoxville.
Yeah.
When you were working in Nashville, did you ever go
over to Knoxville?
No.
Yeah, Yeah, No, it's a it's a kind of a
pretty town.
It's more up into the Great Smokies.
And it's the jumping off point to get over to,
let's just see if this guy makes his putt right
there.
Very quiet.
He approaches the ball.
So yeah, it's on the way up to Pigeon Forge
and Gatlinburg.
Yeah.
I wish I had made time when I was there
to go because now super, super fun.
Yeah.
It's a beautiful part of that.
OK yeah.
Let's get back out to this whole story about what's
been going on at America's airports, because here is the
CEO of Crowdstrike and he basically said this is the,
again, the New York Post.
We're deeply sorry for the impact we've caused to our
customers, to travellers, to anyone affected by this.
And that was based on ANBC interview.
He, The thing is, you know, I know you, you're
running Crowdstrike or you're the, you know, the person who
has to hit go or enter or whatever it is
to roll out your software update.
But does it have to be just going into Friday
morning?
That's the one day of the week that everybody goes
to the airport because they're heading out of town.
I saw an interview with a lady today.
She was trying to stay optimistic, but she was like,
we were trying to get to a family wedding.
And if we it's too far to drive.
And so you just feel for people, man.
You just really feel to them.
So this crowd strike, they are out of Texas.
They once had to track the hack, the North Korean
hack back on Sony Pictures in 2014.
When that first happened, it was like the first wake
up of like industrial espionage coming from another country.
And so, you know, they have a they have a
good reputation as far as I know.
And not that, you know, they haven't experienced a lot
of a lot of troubles out there at the airports,
you know, or with their systems.
But boy, they sure did today.
And there's LAX.
And the one thing I will point out is I
have never seen the car traffic this light at LAX.
It's a weird situation, right?
Yeah.
You don't ever see it like that.
Usually maybe half the people said, you know what?
Don't take me to the airport.
I'm giving up.
My flight's already been cancelled.
And LAX isn't even the worst airport in the country
right now, right?
It's experiencing the worst of the world.
Oh, yeah, you looked some of that up, right.
94 delays and 33 cancellations.
OK.
But obviously some of the worst Atlanta, they have 113
delays, 83 cancellations.
Miami International Airport, 78 delays, 16 cancellations.
So yeah, well, yeah, it's funny, but it's, I mean,
it's not funny, but it's just some of the biggest
airports are the ones that are getting hit the worst.
And by the way, these are Delta airports.
Delta seems to have really been struggling with all of
this.
The New York airports, especially JFKA, big hub for them.
And of course, Atlanta is their biggest hub and it's
been a lot of problems for their.
SO we want to talk just a little bit about
we all have to stay cool.
And we're going to be talking about that in about
two minutes because a little bit of ice was delivered
today and we had zoo animals very happy.
But before we do that, just in terms of the
kind of the the heat and everything we've been dealing
with for the second day in a row, Dez, we've
had a big rig catch fire.
And I mean, that thing is pumping out the smoke,
the bright orange flames.
And this is right on the I-10 at about baseline.
So pretty close to where you connect to the superstition
that you.
Yeah.
And then the other day it was a fed, the
FedEx truck, right?
Experienced.
Right.
So that was out in the West Valley.
Is there a correlation directly to our heat?
You know, I vehicle, I wonder Celeste told a story
last week about being on an airplane and the pilot
coming on and saying we can't take off right now
because we have a sensor.
It's so hot that we have a sensor that is
telling us the plane's on fire.
It's not on fire, but we got to get this
figured out.
So when the attempts are this extreme, you know, when
an engine starts to overheat, who knows?
It does actually look like it was focused on the
the cab of the truck.
But then when the fire began.
It swept all the way downward.
Oh, and by the way, that's another part of this
global chaos story.
Today FedEx came out and said they're having all kinds
of problems trying to get packages with their systems.
I bet banks were impacted.
Yeah, hospitals were like many outpatient centers Banner here, outpatient
centers affected.
There were even stores overseas that people couldn't use their
cards to pay for stuff.
They're like, you expect me to have cash digital, right?
What's cash, right?
Goodness, we're going to have to go back to those
arcade dudes for sure.
All right.
Anyway, the zoo animals, they got some treats with the
snow.
And when you can make a rhinoceros happy, I mean,
you got to do what you can to cool them
off.
I have no idea when you got to all that
to skin on you how hot it really is.
But boy, they're doing a great job out there at
the Phoenix Zoo.
They've been delivering the ice and the snow for the
last couple of days.
And, you know, I mean, we have one more, it
looks like one more hot stretch in US.
And let's talk just briefly about where we stand with
our weather.
I love this shot because the camera is all the
way downtown by the Footprint Center, but you're actually looking
all the way up toward Midtown and all those buildings
up there, and it's almost like you can see the
heat wafting through.
We're heading to 116 tomorrow.
Yeah.
You know, And we were trying to get a commitment
out of tie.
That's it.
Let's put the kibosh on anymore one sixteens after tomorrow.
And he wasn't buying it.
No, but the good news is on Sunday, it's a
real good chance that we're going to see some rain.
50% chance.
That's really good.
We need it.
Yeah.
Cross your fingers for that.
We do.
Have you tried anything lately just to try to stay
cool or keep the kids cool?
Maybe you're not going out as much.
We're not going out as much, right.
Definitely not during from, you know, early afternoon to evening.
Really.
Right.
And then when I'm here, David has the kids, so
they they'd get in the pool in the morning.
OK.
But even the pool, as you know, I mean, that's
as warm as bath water right now.
Yeah, it really is.
And I never understood that before moving here, people would
say, oh, it's too hot to swim.
Right.
Like what?
That makes no sense.
Now.
I get it.
Yeah, no kidding.
Water is just too warm.
So there are plenty of ways in other parts of
the world because let's face it, it's been kind of
hot in various locales where they're doing their best to
stay cool, including.
Let's go to Vienna, Austria.
This looks like a hot tub.
Which who would want to be in a hot tub
in this weather?
But you know what that is?
That is a full on ice bath.
I wonder how much ice is in each.
Ooh, that's a good question.
Pool.
Yeah, but you know what?
They said they were going to chill the water to
393939.
Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah.
You have a polar plunge.
Yes.
Right.
Colder.
Yeah.
Now the house where I'm living now, we don't have
a pool, but in our last house we did.
And I was too cheap to ever run the heater.
And besides, you don't need it in the summertime.
And in the winter, though, it would get so cold.
I would go out there in the winter and jump
in and I'd be like, I'm sure it was probably
55°.
Yeah, you can ice bath in the pool 8 plus,
but we got to give a shout out to those
Hardy Viennese people.
Beautiful city on the other side of the world there,
the capital of Austria.
But they had to stay in the in the pool
39° wetter or water for two minutes, 2 minutes.
You couldn't just hop in and hop out.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Could you do it for two minutes?
I don't think so.
No.
I think I could do it for, I mean, I
think I could go that cold for a hop in
and a hop out.
But after a while, I think I would start to
lose consciousness.
You just don't feel anything.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
So it was a big fundraiser, by the way, for
the Austrian Paralympic team, and that was their goal.
And 300 people were there to set a new world
record.
All right, So couple more stories just to get to
real quick.
We have these robots.
They're trying to make them look more lifelike.
I hope we don't look like that.
I know.
And So what they're trying to do is get them
to grow human skin cells and then make them create
a the shape of a face.
The whole goal is to not just make them look
lifelike, but to literally make them more lifelike to be
tested on and testing drugs and cosmetics because they're not
fully real.
But it feels like we're getting closer.
I don't know.
I know.
Where are we going?
I'm all for science.
But yeah, some of it's a little odd, a little
creepy.
All right, let's go to our happy place and talk
pizza.
So the new 2024 survey is out and it shows
that pepperoni still reigns supreme.
67% said that was their favorite top three then included
sausage and bacon.
And I'm always, it's great that we do these surveys,
but.
And by the way, anchovies, I don't even, I don't
even look for anchovies on a menu, but I just
think about some of the other toppings that are out
there, like I like a good ham and pineapple.
OK, what is your perfect pizza?
I like to go to Mod Pizza.
You know, where you go through the line and just
add almost everything.
They got like 14 different items.
OK, so there's no limit at Mod Pizza.
That's good to know, right?
They probably are giving me the evil eye.
But anyway, dig your pepperoni, everybody.
Let's go.
We just got a minute or so left.
Let's go to the mystery Cam and take a look
right here.
Oh, this is interesting.
Dean Fazini has really been winning the week with some
shots of place that we have not been able to
guess.
That is a stately old church there to the left.
And I swear those buildings to the right look a
little bit more like New England.
So I'm going to go Vermont.
What do you think?
By the way, Yesterday you were way closer.
Closer.
But yeah, I don't know.
OK, we're both going New England and here comes, let's
go to the Des Cam.
Here comes your answer.
OK.
Oh, great.
As far away as possible.
Oh, really?
Is that right?
OK, All right.
Show the audience right there.
Utica, NY.
And ladies and gentlemen, if you ever go, that's what
it looks like.
Wow.
That's a really beautiful church.
Yeah.
Utica, Utica, Schenectady.
Yeah.
Some of those towns in upstate New York, But there's
nothing like Buffalo, Dez's hometown.
Yeah.
Anyway, that's a nice shot for sure.
I think we should probably wrap things up.
Dez, what do you think?
Yeah, let's do it.
OK, let's do it.
By the way, if you want to communicate with us,
Mystery Camp, that's the way to do it.
FOX 10 talks at fox.com.
Dez, have a great day.
Yes, you guys too, as you're watching.