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107 3 FM and AM 580. Orlando's news and talk. This is the 8 a.m. expanded news feed. 15 minutes of nonstop, in-depth coverage on today's top stories. The exclusive weather forecast and an expanded I4 traffic update. Orlando's only commercial free 8 a.m. expanded newsfeed starts with the three big things you need to know right now. Oh, the price of gas went back up an average of about 20 cents last night here in central Florida, that darn price cycling. AAA this morning says that Florida's average price is $391 a gallon. NASA is going to reveal the Artemis 3 astronaut crew later on this morning in Houston. The Artemis 3 crew will test rendezvous and docking operations in Earth orbit sometime mid. next year. It is our top story on WDBO. The president, again optimistic about ending the war with Iran reportedly telling the Israeli prime minister that a breakthrough is close. And WDBO's continuing coverage of the conflict in Iran, Vice President JD Vance, sitting down with Fox's Jesse Waters' prime time as the conflict with Iran and negotiations continue. The vice president responding to concerns that Iran would, quote, keep playing their games rather than coming to a deal with the U.S. The Iranians don't want this war to continue. It's not in their best interest. And I think they're coming to the table, putting some real things on the table. We're, of course, going to verify it. But if we get to this deal, it's going to be a home run one for the American people. This as a U.S. Army helicopter has gone down near the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump acknowledging the incident as he boarded Air Force One to return to the White House after watching the Knicks take on the spurs in game three of the NBA finals. The pilots are fine, yeah. Nobody injured. We are going to issue a report tomorrow, but the pilots are fine, yeah. The Apache helicopter was reportedly flying over the critical waterway that's been blockaded by both the U.S. and Iran when it crashed amid an ongoing ceasefire. Coming up, your reactions to that earthquake that jolted the state on Monday is now being called one of the strongest ever in the Gulf. We'll have that story for you and more coming up next. You're on Orlando's morning news. I'm Channel 9 meteorologist Cassandra Creamy tracking rain chances moving back into the forecast. Who will see a decent shot for scattered showers and when coming up. And seeing delays on I-4 eastbound from Osula Parkway to 535 from the WDBO Traffic Center. I'm Ed Torrance. Thanks for being here for the 8 a.m. expanded news feed here on WDBO 107 3 FM and AM 580.

A coalition of attorney generals from 19 states and jurisdictions now calling on Formula One racing to end sponsorships involving tobacco and nicotine products. The coalition has sent a letter to racing leadership expressing concern that tobacco companies are reaching young audiences through high-profile motorsport sponsorships. The letter specifically cites nicotine pouch advertising connected to F1 teams and events. The tobacco industry watchdogs stop applauded the AGs for their move. Back in March, 160 international public health organizations and advocates called on Formula One to eliminate tobacco and nicotine sponsorships from the sport. I'm Tammy Trujillo. Now the WDBO Sports Update. And the Spurs are finally on the board in the NBA Finals. The team edging the New York Knicks 115 to 111 in game three from Madison Square Garden. Victor Wembenyama tying for a game high 32 points to guide San Antonio away from that deadly 3-0 deficit in that best of seven series. Galen Brunson matching it with 32 points for New York, which will try to recover from its 13-game postseason winning streak coming to an end. when game four tips off from MSG on Wednesday. Big win for the San Antonio Spurs on the road. No home team has won yet in this series. Thank you, Greg. 807 WDBO. What do you say we get that extended forecast for you? On a Tuesday morning, it is brought to you by Universal Roof and contracting. Gentlemen, I witness, Chief Meteorologist, Tom Terry. The heat is back again today, Scott. Not much rain, though. We're still on the drier side of things that's kind of gone on since late last week. Our rain chance starts to kick up a little bit tomorrow and then higher rain chances from Thursday through the upcoming weekend. Of course, it'll be over the weekend, right? Temperatures today in the low 90s. Not much of an additional heat index feels like about 93 today, but our rain chance will be going up the next several days all the way up to 60 to 70 percent. From Thursday to Sunday. From Channel 9, eyewitness news, I'm certified chief meteorologist Tom Terry. All right now, I am looking at Point Ciana down there in Osceola County, where we've got 76 degrees, and I've got 76 now at Orlando Severe Weather Station. Ed Torrance is in the WDBO Traffic Center. How are we rolling on a Tuesday morning yet? Scott, we got delays on the Turnpike Northbound at 192 and then also on the 408 westbound. You're seeing traffic slowing in spots between 436 and I4. Eastbound just got a tap of the brakes at OBT. Having computer issues, get to refresh computers. Help from the pros with advice you can count on without the box store attitude. 407, 478, 8200 or refreshcomputers.net. I'm Ed Torrance with reliable traffic reports every six minutes in the morning on WDBO. Good morning. T's 808 now. I'm Scott Inez. Orlando's morning news on WDBO, 107.3 FM and AM 580. Orlando's News and Talk. Well, all eyes are on Apple after the company spent yesterday trying to answer the question that's hung over the company since 2024. Can it finally deliver on the future it promised? Let's go in depth now. Live to our tech guru, ABC News Technology reporter Mike Duboski.

Mike, this Apple conference open, there's usually big news coming out of this conference. And the big news this year is about Siri getting an AI boost. Tell us all about it. Yeah, that is right. And this is a long time coming. As you mentioned, Apple has been touting this new AI enhanced version of Siri for the better part of two years now. In fact, they recently agreed to settle a $250 million class action lawsuit that had accused the company of misleading consumers about AI. Siri and the ability of its AI when they first kind of showed off this new Siri at WWDC 2024. Well, this week is WWDC 2026 and they say AI Siri is almost ready for prime time. There is a whole variety of new applications here that they say they co-developed with Google for this new virtual assistant. For one, it gets its own dedicated app. It gets a new design. It almost looks like a notification that pops down from the copy your screen. And it's going to be more AI. It's going to be more conversational in the same way that you can have like sort of long-form conversations with chat GPT. That's going to be how Siri operates now. And they demonstrate a whole variety of different things that you can do with it. For example, you come across, you know, the announcement about a concert for one of the bands that you like. You can ask Siri, hey, this concert, how do I get tickets to that? And then it will respond. And then you can set up a reminder through Siri to, you know, buy tickets when they eventually. do go on sale. So there's sort of like workflows that Apple is demonstrating here. Another one that I thought was kind of handy was you can ask it to surface things that, you know, you forgot to save. So, for example, if somebody texts you their address, you can ask Siri, hey, Larry texted me, you know, where he lives like a couple months ago. Could you just surface that address? I forgot to put it in his contact information. And it will be able to go find that and do that for you. It will also, you know, intelligently be able to understand who you're talking to on the phone. Like, for example, the business like an airline and go into your email or go into your messages, be able to surface relevant information on the screen for you, things like your, you know, booking code and that sort of thing. You can even take a photo of a bill at a restaurant and then Siri will be able to split that bill between however many people are paying, which is kind of handy. Of course, the big question hanging over all of this is, does it work? Right now, AI, Siri is not available to the general public. This is just available to developers for the next month or so. It enters public beta next month and then is expected to ship sort of in its final form in the fall alongside the next generation. Okay. So I know this wasn't the only thing that Apple announced on Monday. What other good stuff is coming out here, Mike? Yeah. So a lot of little things that I'll just run through very quickly. A couple updates to Savari, for example, in that web browser, Siri will now be able to group tabs together based on topic, which is an effort to, you know, cut down on the, you know, millions of tabs that we all have open at one point. or another. For example, in the Photos app now, you can do some really crazy modification stuff with AI. You can clean up things so you can remove people in the background of your photos. You can extend the composition of your photo, literally like making it look like you're zooming out of a photo and then AI will fill in sort of the negative space there. You can even reframe a photo so you can make it look like after the fact you're placing your camera in a different part of the photo.

different part of the space, you know, and make it look like you took that photo from a different angle. So some raises some really interesting questions about, you know, whether we should trust photos anymore, but that is going to be baked into the next generation of iPhones at the software level as well. Some, I think important stuff too. Child accounts is something that Apple is rolling out. This is part of a partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics. It basically allows parents to regulate what apps kids can download and use. You need to all be on your same. sort of Apple account, but if a kid wants to download a new app on their phone, parents will get notified and have to sign off on that. It works the same for websites and new contacts as well. They can also set, you know, time limits for apps or only allow apps to be used during certain hours, namely not school hours, for example. And they can, parents rather, can see how much time kids are spending in each individual app. So giving parents a lot more insight into exactly what their kids are doing with their phones. Most of the experts that you will talk to say though that this is not necessarily a technological problem it's a parenting one this really comes down to the relationship you have with your child at the end of the day more so than the the tech that is available to them and real quick before i let you go i know this week you're checking out a new electric vehicle That isn't a car? What's this about here, Mike? Yeah, that's right. When you think about EVs, you normally go to cars, right? But I actually got a chance to check out an arc sport. This is an all-electric boat. So I took a trip out to Sag Harbor, New York out on Long Island this past week. And they took me around the sort of bay and inlet area of that coastal town on Long Island. This is an all-electric boat. So it's got a battery in the rear or the stern, if you're feeling nautical. I learned a whole bunch of new nautical terms. So this is exciting for me. The motor comes from an electric. semi-truck, and it's good for about 500 horsepower, which is a lot. And it has that same sort of very quick acceleration that we talk about when we talk about electric vehicles. You put your foot down, they just take off. Same deal with this electric boat. In fact, they did that acceleration run, and I almost dropped my phone in the water, so that was exciting. Software limited to about 40 miles an hour, which is plenty for a boat that is only 23 feet long. And they say range, which is kind of hard to think about because it's not exactly mileage out on the water. About four to six hours of mixed use. what they say. And it's a wakeboat. So it's a boat that kind of creates this little depression in the water behind you as you're going along that you can surf on or water ski or inner tube or what have you. It's a tough job, mine, but you know, someone's got to do it. Somebody's got to do it, man. Then they have bigger designs as well. This is not just a toy for rich guys, though it is a $300,000 proposition, at least the one that we were in. Ark says they have plans to build a series of electric tugboats that are set to start working at the port of Los Angeles later this year. Always interesting stuff. From our tech guru is Mike Doboski. Michael, thank you. Appreciate it. As always, that is Mike of ABC News. He's their technology reporter. It is 815 WDBO. We do have your weather and you traffic every six minutes on a Tuesday morning. I'm Channel 9 meteorologist Cassandra Crimmie tracking another hot and steamy day for the area with a high of 90 expected in Orlando. Winds coming off the Atlantic today bringing us a 20% chance for isolated showers, but we'll improve that rain chance tomorrow. And it gets even better Thursday into the upcoming weekend. Good seabree shower and storm potential as our temperatures stay in the 90s and our humidity climbs. Heat index values by the end of the week, climbing into the upper 90s and even low triple digits. From Channel 9, eyewitness news and meteorologist Cassandra Crimmie. Right now it's 76.

degrees at Orlando Severe weather station. Ed Torrance is in that WDBO Traffic Center. What's going on, Ed? Scott, we got traffic slowing on the Turnpike as you're heading northbound, approaching 192. Also going to see a little bit of a slowdown tap of the brakes on the South