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Let's get to this morning's need to know headlines. We are going to start with the weather. Severe thunderstorms across the eastern US left last night left two people dead. A 15 year old in South Carolina was killed by a fallen tree. A 28 year old man in Alabama was struck by lightning. The storms brought heavy rain, wind, hail and tornadoes across multiple states. According to power outage dot us, nearly 400,000 households along the storm's path are still without power. In Washington. Federal employees were ordered to leave at 3 p.m. after a tornado watch was issued in the area according to fly to air dot com, nearly 9000 us flights were delayed. Almost 3000 were canceled. The National weather service warns that New England is at risk of thunderstorms and flash flooding today. Elsewhere, it turns out July 2023 was officially earth's hottest month on record. That's according to the European Union's Copernicus climate change service. The eu climate observatory reported today that July was more than 1.5 °C higher than the pre average 1.5 degrees is the target chosen by the Paris agreement in 2015. Hoping to limit warming by weaning off the use of fossil fuels. Scientists warn that above that level, extreme weather events like the summer's global heat wave will become more common. And according to Berkeley Earth, July is the first time that the globe has exceeded the 1.5 degree threshold during summer for the northern hemisphere. President Trump and prosecutors have yet to come to an agreement on the protective order issued as a part of the 2020 election case. In a court filing yesterday, Trump's attorneys asked for a narrower definition of sensitive evidence. The former president is not allowed to speak about this publicly. The filing argued prosecutors are attempting to stifle the former president's first amendment rights and their own filing. Prosecutors argue that Trump is looking for a quote, pretrial publicity, citing his attorneys TV, interviews and Trump's own social media posts. The judge will hold a hearing this week to find a solution and a New York City woman was hospitalized yesterday if she was bitten by a shark, the 50 year old who was swimming at New York City's Rockaway beach yesterday evening when the attack occurred. Well, according to the city's Parks department, she was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The New York Police Department and Fire department cleared the beach and searched the area but they didn't see any sharks. Rockaway beach will be closed for swimming and surfing today. And at least five other shark bites have been reported in New York this summer. In 2022 there were eight shark bites all non fatal. And today police in Montgomery, Alabama are set to release more details about a brawl that broke out on the city's waterfront. Over the weekend, several people were detained after this very incident. You see on your screen there. Witnesses said it began when a group of white boaters attacked a black worker video of the incident has been widely circulated online in recent days, Montgomery mayor Stephen Reed issued a statement on acts formally Twitter of course, saying, quote, those who choose violence will be held accountable by our criminal justice system. Montgomery police said in a statement the charges were pending, they're set to hold a press conference later today. We will have more on the story right here on need to know later in the show. The MLB suspended two players for throwing punches and starting a fight between the White Sox and Cleveland Guardians during a game on Saturday, Chicago White Sox player, Tim Anderson was suspended for six games for allegedly instigating the fight. And Cleveland Guardians, Jose Ramirez was suspended for three. Both players were also fined by the MLB for undisclosed amounts. The players faced off in the middle of the baseball field and other players and coaches later swarmed the field managers and coaches for both teams were also suspended for one game. Us Air Force announced yesterday it had discovered unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at a Montana nuclear missile base. An investigation was launched after a cluster of non hodgkin lymphoma cases were diagnosed among troops assigned to the launch sites. The air force said tests conducted so far showed PCB levels higher than those recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency, the EPA. Now the Air Force Global Strike Command directed quote immediate measures to begin the clean up process for the affected facilities. Over 11,000 Los Angeles city workers walk off the job. Today, workers including lifeguards, sanitation and traffic officers began a 24 hour strike over alleged unfair labor practices. Picket lines went up before dawn at Los Angeles International Airport and other locations and members voted to walk off the job after the city allegedly failed to bargain in good faith. The unions local 7 21 which represents the workers chief of staff, Gilda Valdez says the strike is a very strong message come to the table. Both union workers and the city of Los Angeles are expected to resume talks next week.