Following the Fourth of July weekend, Mark Thompson asks listeners: are fireworks worth the hype?

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KGO's Mark Thompson is joined by News Anchor extraordinaire Kim McCallister, and fill-in Producer Rock N' Roll Anthony!

*Winning ticket for Powerball’s $366.7 million jackpot sold in Vermont. The tax bite for the winner is huge!

*A South Carolina man wins more than $100,000 after using lottery strategy he saw on reality TV show where he spent $25 a week on Powerball tickets for three months.

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Gavin Newsom bought TV ads to run in Florida over the holiday weekend, touting his support for individual freedom, and the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro speaks with callers/texters about Newsom's viability as a candidate for national office, if he's qualified to become the leader of the Free World, or if there's another Democratic candidate who would be a better fit.

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The Morning Show with Nikki Medoro welcomes Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf to comment on last week's vote to continue the process of building a new baseball stadium for the A's at Oakland's Howard Terminal. Mayor Schaaf also explains why projects to build more affordable housing have to jump through so many bureaucratic hoops in the name of safety.

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An investigative report by the Senior Healthcare reporter for Business Insider joins the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro to expose the detrimental business practices of Silicon Valley startup Cerebral who hurt hundreds of patients and recklessly prescribed serious medication to its clients.

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ABC Washington Correspondent Faith Abubey joins the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro to outline how the Biden Administration is hoping to tackle the gun violence that escalated over the holiday weekend. Also, a discussion follows about the perception President Biden is an ineffective leader.

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The House Select Committee has called a hearing for next Tuesday, July 12, and the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro discusses the possibility of former President Trump facing formal charges because of his role in the Capitol attack so he and others know that kind of behavior is unacceptable. More generally, are our current punishments deterring crime effectively?

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Monday's tragic shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, has prompted him to be charged with seven murder counts reports ABC News Correspondent Alex Stone, and the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro also speaks with ABC News Consultant and former Counterterrorism coordinator at Homeland Security John Cohen offers some things government can do to possibly prevent this type of violence.

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Despite 12,000 flights delayed and hundreds canceled over the Fourth of July weekend, the Morning Show with Nikki Medoro experienced efficient flights to the red state of Idaho and plenty of nice people, but it was an adventure to be in a less diverse community with homogeneous political views! Also, well-dressed teens propel the new Minion movie to the box office's top spot.

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Kim speaks with callers about preventing shooting like Highland Park.

Kim’s guest is Lee Hudson to speak about the use of balloons in war.

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