Hollywood Actors Strike, Arizona Heat, U.S. Deficit Jumps
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Sunny and seventy, that's going to be my disposition. When I turned seventy.

oh, i'm going to cloudy. I think i'll be dark and storming. But with a little little lightning and some thunder, hollywood actors walked out on the major studios calling executives greedy.

IT is disgusting. Shame on them.

So what's split of the profits will get hollywood back up and running.

I'm Steve scape for the Martina, and this is up first from N. P. R. news. The heat wave is pounding much of the country, and it's even worse in phoenix, where temperatures have been at or above one hundred ten degrees every day for two weeks. How does the urban landscape make IT worse?

The dark, hard surfaces in the city tends to be really good at absorbing and retaining heat.

And the government deficit sounds pretty massive IT now to nearly one point dollars. So just what exactly is the cost borrowing and how our lawmakers, trying to figure things out day with us, sweep, got all the news.

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Yeah, we're in for like the saturday Christmas ever stuck with Robin, who is basically a lump of coal in the shape of man here. New episodes of all songs considered every tuesday wherever you get podcast. It's a lucky break for pop culture that Barbie the movie is in the can. That's because actors are .

now on strike. They are union sag after that's an acronym LED for the workshopped against the big studios. The basic question is who receives how much of the profits from a swiftly changing entertainment industry? Some of the actors, of course, are extremely wealthy, but thousands make a marginal living and all face questions about their futures as computers generate more content.

Mp, one of the that bodle is in law s Angels. This hasn't happened in decades, so was IT look like .

some of the actors from seg after have already been picketing outside the studios in solidarity with striking screen riders. But starting this morning, there will be so many more. The union has more than one hundred thousand actor members.

This is the first time since one hundred and sixty that there's a double strike in holly's with the actors and writers back then. The strikes resulted in union members getting health care and pensions and IT set up a residual system to compensate writers and actors when movies were aired on TV. Now it's a whole new holly's wood ecosystem, especially with the streaming platforms, and actors don't feel they're getting their share of the pie. That's with the president. Sag, after france, russia said when announcing the strike.

the gig is up. You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized and disrespected and dishonored. The entire business model has been changed by streaming digital AI SHE spoke about actors not wanting .

to be replaced by machines and wanting to share the profits of the hollywood companies.

What are studios saying?

The alliance of motion picture and television producers, which represents the so they offered a salary increases in a quote, ground breaking proposal on A I. In a statement, the studio alliance said the sag after has chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for everyone who depends on the industry. And you know, in these hard economic climate, studios and the streamers have already been laying off workers. Just before the strike was called, disney's CEO bob igor said the writers and actors demands were not realistic. Sag after obviously disagrees.

and you are at the press conference where russia gave that fire speech. What else you have to .

say will certainly friend rusha delivered quite a performance beyond anything SHE did on her TV show, the nani. So once on the show, her character did refuse to cross a picket line. SHE got cheers for speaking out about how the contract negotiations went down. SHE blasted studio executives for being insulting and greedy.

I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. I cannot believe IT, quite Frankly, how far apart we are on so many things, how they pleaded poverty, that they're losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEO IT is disgusting. Shame on them.

I do need to make clear that many of us that npr are members of sag after, but broadcast journalists are under a very different contract. And we're not on strike.

The writers were on strike. You could say hollywood at lee, slow down. Now it's the actors. I mean, where stand still in hollywood to how big gba .

deal is this a double strike? Now, according to seg, after rules, striking performers are not allowed to act, saying dance or do dance. They can't promote their projects, so no red carpets, no premiers, no press junkets, no awards shows, no new movies or T, V shows. So now the entire hollywood machine is on pause.

and people manage their vertical things up for the input.

thanks.

Okay, now let's travel to a city that's even hotter than other parts of .

the united states. The city is phoenix. And IT makes me sweat. Just to say this, temperatures and phoenix reached at least one hundred ten degrees every day for two weeks.

Now, Catherine Davis Young is with member station K J Z, Z. In phoenix. Katherine, i'm not kidding.

here. I call a friend in feenix at midnight to find out how how I was. And he said, one hundred, one hundred at midnight. So does that feel as bad as that sounds?

IT is intense of, you know, water comes out of my tap, scalding hot. If i'm inside, and I put my hands to an exterior wall in my house, it's warm. IT really does never let up.

I let my dog outside, usually around six A M, and even early in the morning, I get a blast of hot air as soon as I open the door. So that's part of why this heat spell is so brutal. High temperatures of one fifteen or one eighteen make the headlines, but those overnight low temperatures haven't dipped below eighty five now for about two weeks. Actually, on wednesday night, the low temperature was ninety five. And that has only ever happened six times since record keeping began.

What makes phoenix s then even worse sense? Some other places that are .

getting hotter. So those overnight lows are part of way that climate change is even more extreme here. The group climate central says summer night time temperatures nationwide have a risen about two and half degrees since one hundred and seventy.

So that's true everywhere. But our summer nights have heated up nearly six degrees in that same time period. That's really because we've just changed the natural landscape so drastically. David handel a is director of phoenix office of heat response and mitigation. He tells me this is what's known as the urban .

heat island effect.

The dark hard surfaces in the city tends to be really good at absorbing and retaining heat and slowly rereleasing IT at night. Compared to the much brighter surrounding Sandy desert environment.

Basically sense cities tends to be paved over. They just can't cool off at night. And cities bring with them lots of machinery and cars and other things that keep temperatures high. So phenix has been one of the fastest growing metro areas in the country for several years, and that explosive growth has contributed to this heat island phenomenon.

And this kind of heat is dangerous, too.

Yes, the number of heat related deaths in the metro area has been skyrocketing for the past decades, so finding ways to make the city more adaptable to heat is a huge priority.

Yeah, but feenix has never been a cool play. It's always been hot and feeling. So what's IT doing to get little relief?

So I mention hondo las office of heat response and mitigation. That office is not even two years old. It's one of the first of its kind in the country.

They're working on solutions like a special coating for pavement that prevents some of that heat absorption, that causes the heat island effect. But they're also investing in more low tax solutions, like just planting a lot more trees across the city to create shade. But honda a tells me urban heat island really needs to be part of the conversation as our population and our city boundaries continue to grow.

That's K, J, Z, Z. Catherine Davis Young, thanks a lot of Catherine s. Take all.

if you thank you.

The federal deficit nearly tripled in the first nine months of a fiscal years. So how is this for a gusher? A reading can nearly one point four trillion dollars.

Everything is affecting this. Government spending is up. Tax collections have slumped, and rising interest rates mean it's costing more for the government to borrow money to close the gap.

Camp r scot horsey, about that got to mean, even for the federal government, I mean, one point four trillion dollars IT sounds like a lot of money. So what's happening?

Well, if the government was already in deep hole, and IT has continued to dig of spending over last nine months without about ten percent compared to the same period a year earlier, health care bills that medicare and medicare pays are rising. Social security spending is also up. Remember, social security recipient got a big cost of living adjustment at the beginning of this year to help make up for last year's high inflation.

And at the same time, tax revenues red down about eleven percent of all that because of the drop in investment gains last year, the stock market was mostly down in twenty twenty two. So capital gains were down last year. That means capital gain, taxes are down this year. So more money going out, less money coming in. That is a recipe for growing deficits.

okay. How much than is IT costing the government to borrow that money more than I used to?

The government can still borrow money fairly cheaply, but not as cheaply as IT one did. This deficit adds to an already large government debt of around thirty two trillion dollars. Interest on that dead in the last nine months, with six hundred fifty two billion dollars that's more than we spent on the military during that period. I am again, as who leads the committee for a responsible federal budget says this is just not as sustainable path for the federal government.

With inflation and higher interest rates, I think it's harder for anybody to credibly look at this situation and say this is healthy. And I do think that the discussion needs to start in earnest for people saying what they would do to address IT.

The discussion hasn't started. His got to are we hearing any discussion on that?

Not a whole lot. We just went through this big show down over the federal debt limit, but that came out of that really just nimble around the edges of this problem. Congressional republicans insist they will not consider any increase in taxes.

The by definition ration has ruled out cuts to major spending programs like medicare and social security. Ultimately, IT will probably take some combination of those, those things to narrow. This budget gap gets to something more manageable. Michael Peterson, who heads the foundation his father, Peter Peterson, started to promote fiscal responsibility, says he would like to see a by partition commission to look at all sides of the federal budget and make recommendations about how to bridge this cap, even though he acknowledges commissions are often just excuse in washington to kick the .

king and down the road. I understand that the commission is not Stellar, but that doesn't mean it's not a good idea to give you another try. And I think what's good about IT is that it's a forced, serious, comprehensive dialogue on a by partial basis. And unfortunately, that's rare these days .

in wasn't ton very rare? The fish bond rating agency warned last month that partisanship and polar ization are some of the biggest fiscal chAllenges facing the U. S.

H. The country and the government have lots of strength, fish said. A strong economy, dynamic businesses, a dollar that's prize around the world. And yet the foundation agency said our spotless rating could be jeopardized because of weak governance. Now maybe the rising Price tag on this deficit will Spark some action. Uh, just yesterday, a group of democratic and republican lawmakers announce reforming a new group to tackle the nation's death and deficit problem, as they call themselves the bay parties in fiscal forum or B, F, F.

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