Afternoon Alexa Flash Briefings of July 11th 2023

Everyone. This is your daily news briefing from chatter news. The historic heat wave in the southwestern US continues to hit states with temperatures well above 100 degrees. Again, the National weather service says Phoenix Arizona is set to exceed 110 degrees for the 12th consecutive day and that's just six days shy of beating an all time record set in 1974. Meanwhile, talk about a double feature A MC says than 20,000 A MC Stubs members have purchased tickets to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer on the same day. The company says that over the weekend alone, they saw a 33% increase in the number of guests buying tickets to see both movies. Barbie and Oppenheimer both open July 21st and it's Amazon Prime Day, which is now a two day event prime all over the world will have access to 48 hour exclusive deals to millions of things including Amazon inclusive items from top brands. Amazon says they'll offer more deals than previous years and says new deals will drop every 30 minutes during select periods and that your chat, our news update, I'm Baker Machado coming to you from Cheddar studios in Lower Manhattan.