Monday morning news: August 5, 2024

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Good morning!

Language matters in the courtroom…but who keeps track of the definitions … and decides whether they belong in a dictionary?

GARNER: And there was a trademark dispute about what qualifies as a Boston Cream Pie. I don't think that belongs in Black's Law Dictionary.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: That’s ahead on Legal Docket.

Also, the Monday Moneybeat…Market turbulence after a lower-than-expected jobs report… we’ll talk about what it means.

And the WORLD History Book. A town comes together to help victims of a terrible plane crash.

LINDBLADE: I still say it was Sioux City's best day, because we did everything right.

ROUGH: It’s Monday, August 5th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Jenny Rough.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

ROUGH: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS REPORTER: Hurricane » Hurricane Debby is lashing Florida this morning … after intensifying rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico. National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan … said while this is not a major hurricane on paper, the danger is very real for Florida’s Big Bend region and beyond.

BRENNAN: Life threatening storm surge inundation as well as hurricane force winds. Then we're going to see longer term, a potentially catastrophic flooding event

Much of the state is under flood watches or warnings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis:

DESANTIS:  It is going to move very slowly across northern Florida and southeast Georgia. It is gonna drop a lot of rain across, many parts of the state, but certainly, uh, the northern part of the state.

He added that ground across much of the region is already saturated, which makes serious flooding more likely. But the storm’s impacts reach beyond Florida … into Georgia and much of the southeast.

Israel-Iran » Tensions in the Middle East are boiling over. WORLD’s Paul Butler has more.

PB: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies … and it’s ready for whatever comes next.

And the United States and allies are preparing to defend Israel from an expected attack from Iran.

Tensions have soared after nearly 10 months of war in Gaza… and the recent killings of a senior Hezbollah commander and Hamas’ top political leader.

Iran has vowed to exact revenge against Israel.

While the U.S. says it’s prepared to defend the Jewish state … the White House says it’s also doing everything possible to try and deescalate the situation.

For WORLD Radio, I’m Paul Butler.

Secret Service failure » The fallout continues from the Secret Service failure that almost led to Donald Trump’s assassination last month at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Republican Congressman Mike Waltz is calling on the Secret Service to hand over some of its protection duties to another government agency.

WALTZ:  They certainly shouldn't be in charge of security details right now as we speak. Site leads advances. I mean, it's all still going on despite these obvious gross errors.

Acting Secret Service Director Robert Rowe called the incident a “mission failure,” and vowed to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Presidential politics » The former president, meantime, is not slowing down on the campaign trail. He jabbed Vice President Kamala Harris over the weekend in Atlanta.

TRUMP:  Harris has the most ultra left wing agenda of any presidential candidate ever in history. There's never been anybody like this. She is considered more left wing than crazy Bernie Sanders. Look at her.

Trump has been hitting the presumptive Democratic White House nominee especially hard on the border crisis. But Democratic Senator Chris Murphy countered…

MURPHY:  Kamala Harris has always been for border security. And the fact of the matter is, this campaign is going to involve an enormously important contrast between the Biden Harris administration

Murphy said the Biden-Harris administration pushed for a bipartisan bill to address the border crisis earlier this year. And he said pressure from Donald Trump killed the legislation.

Most Republicans said the Senate border bill in question was not sufficient … and could have made the problem worse.

Ukraine F-16s » Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled his country’s new F-16 fighter jets over the weekend.

Zelenskyy spoke while standing in front of two American-made F-16s … recently provided by Western allies.

He said the planes will boost the country’s war effort against the invading Russian military

Crowds Pack Theaters for ‘The Firing Squad’ Movie Opening » This weekend crowds in the thousands packed the independent Christian movie ‘The Firing Squad' with sold-out shows in many theaters across the nation.

SOUND (Firing Squad trailer): Peter Lowe, the one-time drug dealer turned pastor, will be executed at 12 midnight local time.

The film is based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country… and lead the entire prison camp to faith in Christ.

But limited showings have caused a quiet uproar among patrons. One woman drove 100 miles to see the movie as there were no showings of the film near her home.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Collecting and defining words... on this week's Legal Docket.

Plus, the Monday Moneybeat.

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