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MJ LEE, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back to Early Start. I'm MJ Lee in Washington.
An update on our top story, police say there was only one shooter in the attack on firefighters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Sheriff's officials believe the body of the suspect was found near the scene on Canfield Mountain with a rifle nearby. On Sunday afternoon firefighters were shot while responding to a brush fire in a popular park. Police believe the fire was set intentionally as an ambush. The International Association of Firefighters says two of its members were killed. Police say a third firefighter who was shot is fighting for his life, but is in stable condition after surgery. Earlier, we heard from Mark Lathrop who lives near the scene.
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MARK LATHROP, LIVES NEAR IDAHO SHOOTING SITE: I got a text from my brother who lives down the street for me. He filled me in because he lives next to the fire station that would have been responding to this call. And it was -- it was -- that was about 2:15, so about 40 minutes after the incident started. I was made aware of it. And I think I sent it along the fire, you could see from my ring camera. I was actually at work at my winery. So I ran home because my wife was home and didn't have a vehicle to evacuate if that was the case so. We might have spent on the -- the freeway a bit on the way home.
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LEE: Idaho officials say a shelter-in-place order has been lifted, but the wildfire is still active on the mountain. And in the coming hours, the U.S. Senate is expected to enter into a marathon voting session also known as vote-a-rama before a final vote on President Trump's domestic agenda bill. It comes after a weekend of discussions and debate over a package of tax cuts and spending priorities. That session is expected to begin at 9:00 a.m. in Washington. President Trump declared it was a great victory after a key Senate Republicans shifted their votes to advance the bill to the debate stage. He says they are patriots who truly love our country. So what are the odds that the bill will pass by President Trump's July 4th deadline? We asked CNN senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein.
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RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: I don't know about July 4th. But the history is that presidents have traditionally passed this bill. I mean, really, going back to Ronald Reagan in 1981, every president except for George H.W. Bush has essentially consolidated their first-year economic agenda into what we are now calling one big, beautiful bill, a reconciliation package that you can pass through streamlined procedures in the Senate.
And it's often been hairpin turns and a tightrope to get there, but they have historically passed them. Now, what makes this more complicated is that Republicans are trying to do two things at once. They are trying to cut taxes in a way that mostly benefits people at the top, and at the same time they are cutting social safety net programs that mostly benefit people at the median income and below.
And they are doing them both in the same bill for the first time since 1995, when Newt Gingrich tried to do this and was ultimately stopped by a veto from Bill Clinton. They found it very difficult to defend the idea of cutting programs for the middle and working class at the same time that they were funding tax cuts for the rich then. And in the polling now, they are finding it very difficult again.
In the end, I would bet they get there, but there are probably going to be a few more twists along the way.
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LEE: Canada says trade talks with the U.S. are back on. That's because Canada is canceling its tax on online services. The digital services tax was supposed to begin today. It's a way to tax online services as opposed to physical products. The move comes after President Trump announced that he was ending all trade discussions with Canada.
U.S. stocks have been on a tear lately, and investors are looking to close out the month with a big finish. Here's a look at where things stand right now, just a few hours ahead of the opening bell on Wall Street. You can see all across the board, we are up in the green. The Dow futures up some half of a percentage point, and the S&P 500 futures up some 0.35 percentage point.
Now, President Trump says he has a potential buyer for TikTok, but he's not revealing any names just yet. It comes months after Congress signed a law requiring ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, to sell off the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. Speaking with "Fox News," the President said he'll reveal who the buyer is soon.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We have a buyer for TikTok, by the way. I think I'll need probably China approval. I think presidency will probably do it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who's the buyer?
TRUMP: I'll tell you in about two weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A big technology company there.
TRUMP: Very, very wealthy people. It's a group of very wealthy people.
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LEE: President Trump has so far signed three orders delaying the enforcement of the TikTok ban in the U.S. The only outage was for about 14 hours back in January.
Europe is sweltering under the first heat wave of the summer. Still ahead, we'll go live to Spain to see how Europeans are coping with soaring temperatures.
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LEE: Tropical storm Barry weakened to a tropical depression as it made landfall in the southeast -- southeastern parts of Mexico earlier. Barry formed in the Bay of Campeche on Sunday morning in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the second named storm of this year's hurricane season.
Its intensity has decreased and now has maximum sustained winds of near 55 kilometers or 35 miles per hour. Tropical storm warnings have been canceled in Mexico. But they're still expecting a wet next couple of days in the area with the potential of 10 to 15 centimeters or up to six inches of rain.
A major heat wave is sweeping through Europe, sending temperatures soaring across the continent. Tourists and residents alike sought shelter and tried to stay hydrated. In London, temperatures rose to over 30 degrees Celsius or 86 Fahrenheit, well above average.
And Spanish authorities warned of extreme temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. That's a scorching 104 Fahrenheit.
Let's get more now from journalist Al Goodman. He joins me live from the sweltering Spanish capital of Madrid. So, Al, how hot is it where you are and how long is this heat wave expected to last?
AL GOODMAN, JOURNALIST: The heat waves, hi -- hi, MJ, the heatwave expected to last here in Spain through about midway -- midweek. Right now, it is not what we are expecting for later in the day. In Seville, 41 degrees Celsius or 106 degrees Fahrenheit. Madrid will be just a little bit below that.
So people right now like me are still trying to stay in the shade. The shade is your friend on these kinds of days. But it's not going to last long because this will soon be full of sun. That's the Retiro Park on the west side of that is the Prado Museum. Now, the lows, on the flip side of this, the lows at night have not been very cold.
So people don't get a chance to refresh overnight. In Portugal, a similar story, Portugal to the west of Spain. Lisbon in the 40s this day with high -- high alerts for temperatures and wildfires. In Athens and in Greece, just before the weekend, there was a big wildfire near the Temple of Poseidon. And 40 people were evacuated from that.
In Italy, there have been heat alerts in the major cities in Rome, Milan, Naples. And regions like Tuscany are considering reducing or mandating that people do not go outside and work in the hottest part of the day. And in England, the Wimbledon tennis match is supposed to get started this day. And authorities there say it would be the hottest start in terms of temperatures ever.
If it gets to 31 points -- 31 -- 30.1 Celsius or 86 degrees Fahrenheit, there will be mandatory 10-minute breaks. They will also be trying to take care of the ball boys and the ball girls and the general public. But a study by a European Union and United Nations joint agency study says that heat related mortality is up 30 percent in Europe in the last 20 years. MJ?
LEE: Al Goodman in Madrid, thank you and stay cool.
Space company, Blue Origin, has successfully launched a new flight of tourists into space. After a string of delays due to weather, the rocket finally lifted off with six tourists aboard.
The flight lasted about 10 minutes, taking them just past the internationally recognized boundary for space and giving them a brief moment of weightlessness. The rocket, known as New Shepard, is the 13th tourist flight launched by Blue Origin.
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And still ahead, the streets of Santa Monica, California, are now filled with Waymo taxis. But some residents wish there were way fewer. Why the driverless cars are driving some people crazy.
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LEE: It's A.I. versus humans in one California City. Some in Santa Monica say they're fed up with noises from Waymo driverless taxis. They're now operating in at least five major cities across the U.S. with more locations expected soon. And while they are popular with riders, others say the beeping sound that they make when backing up is a nuisance. CNN's Nick Watt has more.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We just want the Waymos to stop beeping at night. Hold on. Sorry. We have to, oh, oh, oh.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Careful, careful, careful.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is there a person inside of it?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's no human inside of it. OK. We're on. We're on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're never interfering with a human driver.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just with the robots.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've explained that to the police as well.
NICK WATT, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Santa Monica residents faces hidden from security cameras, disabling self-driving Waymo robot taxis. They call it stacking.
WATT: Man versus machine?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man versus machine, yes.
WATT (voice-over): It's getting near midnight.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'll try lasering the next one.
WATT (voice-over): They object to the robots flashing lights, backup beeps and the general hubbub. Keeping humans awake at nights and disturbing their days.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please step back.
WATT (voice-over): Stacker One, the O.G., asked us not to use his real name.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I, for one, would walk down the center of the alley.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've got to stop honking. Stop honking. It's the middle of the night.
WATT: Waymo tried to get a restraining order against you to stop you doing this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: True.
WATT (voice-over): As we wrapped up talking to Stacker One --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nick, she's citing them.
WATT (voice-over): -- robot gridlock.
WATT: Citing them for -- for what?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Parking tickets.
WATT (voice-over): If there was a human behind the wheel, she couldn't.
WATT: Parked in the alley without a driver, that's the issue.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Correct.
WATT (voice-over): Under current California law, a robot can get a parking ticket, but not a traffic ticket. Lawmakers still working on that.
GRAYSON SMALL, RESIDENT: I think the solution is to treat these cars like their cars. And so you can watch it even now. It didn't stop at all at the stop sign. It's rolling. It's rolled all the way. It stopped right at the edge.
WATT (voice-over): This is a very visible example of a massive issue. We haven't figured out how we live alongside and legislate A.I.
HAMID EKBIA, DIR., AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS POLICY INSTITUTE, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: The public should be involved in conversations before the fact, before these technologies are let loose. You know, all A.I. technology should -- should go through this process.
WATT (voice-over): Professor Ekbia heads the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute.
WATT: It's physical. We can see it. We can hear it. We can stand in front of it. But that's not going to be the case.
EKBIA: No, no. Trust me, no. So we -- we better do something before it's too late.
NANCY TAYLOR, RESIDENT: It's like a light show, Las Vegas. So you have to have blackout curtains.
WATT: Did the city or Waymo or anybody speak to the humans who live around here?
TAYLOR: No. And I asked if I could come to their city council meeting to ask questions.
WATT: Right.
TAYLOR: And they said, oh, they have a waiver. There's not going to be a city council meeting.
WATT (voice-over): Waymo wouldn't talk to us on camera. We strive to be good neighbors, a spokesperson told me via e-mail. They're working with the city as we explore and implement mitigations that address neighbors' concerns.
They have limited the human workers noise, planted some bamboo, hoping to muffle, stop using one of the lots most nights and limited the robot speed in the alleys. But there still beeping.
TAYLOR: You know, they've not done enough. In fact, last night it was worse.
WATT (voice-over): Santa Monica officials say this isn't loud enough to violate the city's basic noise ordinance. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told them that this is a violation of the Santa Monica noise ordinance prohibiting business support operations of any decibel level between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. And there's no mention of an exception that says if you get a robot to yell for you, you're allowed to do that at night.
WATT: What do you think the rest of us can learn from your experience as to how we should all progress through this age of A.I., as humans and robots are going to be coexisting?
SMALL: Doing things that we've never been able to do in the past is great. But if it comes at the expense of humanity and human happiness and joy and being able to live life and not being inconvenienced constantly, what's the point?
WATT (voice-over): Nick Watt, CNN, Santa Monica, California.
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LEE: The magic ran out for Messi and Inter Miami at the Club World Cup on Sunday. The Argentine superstar carried his Major League Soccer team on an improbable run to the knockout round of the tournament, but they were soundly defeated 4-0 by European champions PSG. CNN's Patrick Snell was there.
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PATRICK SNELL, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: This really was all too easy for the reigning French and European champions against the only American side left in the tournament. Messi against the team he once graced, a day, though, he'll want to forget very quickly indeed.
SNELL (voice-over): No matter what, though, fans will always flock to see him. Among the 65,000-plus in attendance, supporters both young and old, the message, I love you, Messi. The Argentine superstar inspired a rousing comeback win against Porto at this very stadium earlier this month, but on Sunday there would be no repeat performance.
This was an absolute stroll in the park for the Parisians, with chants of Messi, Messi reverberating around Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The Parisians ahead after just six minutes of play through their young and unmarked Portuguese Joao Neves. With the gulf in class now evident, PSG doubled their advantage through Neves again. An exquisite team move finished off in style.
Tomas Aviles own goal made matters worse for Miami. The look of utter dejection on Messi's face all too apparent. And it was 4-0 even before halftime. Achraf Hakimi couldn't miss from close range, and he didn't. A resounding 4-0 scoreline in favor of PSG as Messi and Miami head out of the tournament.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know, Messi is Messi, so. But great, it was good seeing him. I felt like Jesus was in the room. No, he's -- he's amazing. He's an amazing player. So, we're big Messi fans.
SNELL: Will this PSG side, will they win the tournament?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, in my opinion, I think that they're going to take it all. They are the best team in Europe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They're the champions of Europe right now, so that tells you basically how good they are.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are the Champions League winner. They are -- I think they are the team who most likely will win this tournament.
SNELL: The European champions have well and truly flexed their muscles here in dispatching Messi's into Miami, and they are going to take some stopping in their quest to become the first-ever winners of the newly revamped FIFA Club World Cup.
Patrick Snell, CNN, outside Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
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LEE: Thank you for joining us for this hour of Early Start. I'm MJ Lee in Washington. I'll be back with more news after a quick break.
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