Let's get to this morning's need to know headlines. We have some breaking news.
This morning singer, Tony Bennett has died at age 96.
The performer known as the last of the great saloon
singers released more than 70 albums and has won 19.
Grammys
Bennett was beloved by fans and other performers.
In a 1965 life magazine interview,
Frank Sinatra said, quote for my money. Tony Bennett is the best singer
in the business.
Be his publicist confirmed his death saying he died in New York
and the state of Alabama executed a man earlier this morning.
The Alabama Department of Corrections confirms
James Barber died just before 2 a.m.
This is Alabama's first lethal injection since 2022. Last November.
The governor ordered a pause because the
state had three failed execution attempts.
In February.
The governor removed the pause.
Now during his appeal,
Barber argued that using lethal injection to
kill him would violate his eighth amendment,
right.
Citing there was quote substantial risk of severe harm.
The Supreme Court denied Barbara's request to stay his execution
and the US Department of Transportation is investigating a Delta Airlines
flight where passengers were trapped in extreme heat for three hours.
Sickening multiple people
on Monday at a Las Vegas Airport where temperatures were 114 degrees.
A flight bound for Atlanta was delayed on the tarmac.
Passengers took to social media to complain about the conditions.
One passenger and a flight attendant received
medical attention at a local hospital.
In a statement Delta said Delta teams are looking into
the circumstances that led to uncomfortable temperatures inside the cabin
and we appreciate the efforts of our people and first responders.
Investigators now believe four murders on Gilo Beach Long Island
may have actually occurred inside the alleged killer's home.
Rex Homan
was charged with the murder of three of the women.
He is a prime suspect in 1/4 killing.
He also lived less than six miles from
the beach where the victim's remains were found.
Authorities are searching his home right now. This investigation
has also spread to South Carolina and Nevada
Homan
was known to spend a lot of time there.
Here's what the Suffolk county sheriff has to say
now that we have actual DNA,
we can compare it to other crime scenes that may have occurred in other locations.
We could be very suspicious
and where he can be possibly a suspect.
According to Horman's bail application, at least one
victim's cell phone records show she was in
the area of Horman's home before her death.
And we now know more details about the search warrant
issued in the long unsolved murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.
According to Nevada, police documents, authorities searched the home of Dwayne
D Davis, one of the few admitted witnesses to the murder.
They receive computers, a cell phone, bullets,
photographs and documents from Davis's home.
Davis is the uncle of Orlando Baby Lane Anderson who was
named in an affidavit as a possible suspect in Tupac's killing.
He denied
accusation was never charged.
Anderson was killed in a shooting in 1998.
And in an interview,
Davis claims he witnessed the shooting while driving a white Cadillac,
claiming the shots came from the back
seat where Anderson and another passenger were riding
and one of the most notorious hackers in the history of us, cyber crime is dead.
Now, Kevin Mitnick was one of the fbi's most wanted criminals.
In the early nineties,
the bureau wanted him for infiltrating
the networks of governments and corporations.
Now, after serving four years in prison on computer and wire fraud charges,
Mitnick became what's known as a white hat hacker.
Essentially, he started helping
strengthen cyber security. He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 59.
And there's no relief in sight from these record setting temperatures
around the globe last month was the hottest June in recorded history
according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
which has been documenting temperatures since 18 50.
The agency predicts more of the same for the rest of the summer
with the heat wave expected to continue across most of the US.
Well as of this morning,
more than 116 million Americans are under an
extreme heat alert from the National weather service.
So Congress is getting ready to hold
its first public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena
also known as us or like the rest of us know them UFO S.
This is happening next week.
That's when the House Oversight Committee
will hear testimony from three former defense
and intelligence officials who claim the government
has evidence of non human aircrafts.
The bipartisan group of lawmakers accused the Pentagon
yesterday of stonewalling and eroding public trust,
Kristen.
This is huge.
This is huge,
so many unanswered questions and especially after some of
these things that have been just showing up too,
like there was this massive thing that washed ashore,
I think on an Australian Beach,
the more answers the better to
our, I mean,
this is one of the moments where sci fi geeks like myself are just
waiting for what is out there that could prove we are not alone or
just dispel the Mets all together. Can't wait to see.
Hopefully we'll have some details soon.