 Josh Shapiro, a top VP contender, rallied the troops against Donald Trump. Several other VP contenders joined a massive fundraising Zoom call last night. It was billed as White Dudes for Harris and raised more than $4 million.  North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper spoke on the call, too, even as the news broke that he had taken himself out of the running for VP. A source familiar with his thinking says Cooper was concerned that North Carolina's controversial lieutenant governor, Republican Mark Robinson, would, quote, cause chaos whenever Cooper left the state to campaign.  Now to Northern California and the major wildfire that's now one of the largest ever in the state. Here's CBS's Jonathan Vigliotti. The Park Fire is still raging with minimal containment. We saw this thing just explode. Ground and aerial teams are fighting heat and rugged terrain to prevent wind-driven embers from igniting more forest.  With the crews and the air attack and the helicopters that were putting in good work yesterday, they were able to kind of contain those couple hundred acres. The man accused of starting the fire, 42-year-old Ronnie Stout, appeared in court Monday. Prosecutors say he pushed a burning car into an embankment. The district attorney said Stout claimed it was an accident. Now to Venezuela, CBS's Lilia Luciano is covering the turmoil there after the disputed presidential election.  It was widespread chaos on the streets of Venezuela Monday, as thousands of demonstrators across the country protested what they say was an attempt by President Nicolás Maduro to steal the country's presidential election. Maduro claimed victory for a third six-year term, while challenger Edmundo González claimed to have the proof that he received 70 percent of the vote against Maduro's 30.  On Instagram, Taylor Swift says she's completely in shock over the stabbing attack at a Swift-themed dance and yoga class in England. Three children were killed. A 17-year-old boy has been charged. At the Summer Games, the U.S. men took a team bronze in gymnastics. Later today, as we hear from CBS's Wendy Gillette in Paris, the spotlight will be on the women and Simone Biles.  The U.S. comes into the final ranked first, easily beating Italy, China, and Brazil by a massive margin of around 5.5 points. But the format is different in the final versus qualifying, when one score could be dropped. 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Lukin. There's no room for error, and three girls up on each event, all three scores have to count, so it all comes kind of down to that.  The men's triathlon was postponed today over concerns about water quality in the Seine River. They'll try again tomorrow, five minutes after the hour. Think O'Reilly Auto Parts for all your car care needs. 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Call 731-300-6655 to learn more and chat with me, a real person, and an experienced farmer's agent today.  We are farmers. Bum, ba-dum, bum, bum, bum, bum. Underwritten by farmers. Truck or fire insurance exchanges or affiliate products not available in every state.  THERE ARE NEW CALLS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, WHERE A BLACK WOMAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY AUTHORITIES AFTER CALLING 911 FOR HELP. CBS'S CHARLIE DEMAR SAYS THE SHERIFF HAS APOLOGIZED BUT IS RESISTING DEMANDS FOR HIS RESIGNATION. SANGAMON COUNTY SHERIFF JACK CAMPBELL SAYS HIS DEPARTMENT DIDN'T DO THEIR JOB THE NIGHT SONYA MASSIE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY NOW FORMER DEPUTY SEAN GRAYSON. SHE CALLED FOR HELP AND WE FAILED HER. THAT'S ALL SHE DID. THAT'S ALL SHE DID WAS CALL FOR HELP.  It's been a week since body camera video was released showing Grayson shooting and killing Massey in her home after she called 911 to report a prowler. Grayson was charged with murder and has pled not guilty. President Biden tried to make the case for Supreme Court reform at the LBJ Library yesterday in Texas. The court is not self-policing. The court is not dealing with the obvious conflicts of interest.  But his proposals, including term limits, have been marked dead on arrival by congressional Republicans. A federal appeals court has blocked the Biden administration's new rule on upfront disclosure of airline ticket fees. The panel said the move exceeds the Department of Transportation's authority. A full review of the regulation is next.  New information on the arrest last week of two alleged Mexican drug lords. CBS's Robert Legare says one of them apparently helped the U.S. make the arrests. The FBI took Ismael Zambada Garcia, known as El Mayo, and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of former drug king Ben El Chapo, into custody last week in Texas. Guzman delivered El Mayo to the U.S. Sources tell CBS News Goodman may have actually kidnapped El Mayo and brought him to the U.S. against his will.  A Missouri couple has filed the first lawsuit linked to the growing listeria outbreak that's been blamed for at least two deaths. It targets Boar's Head and a market chain for selling deli meats that caused one of them to become ill. Time on the Roundup, 8 past the hour.  And now, WCMT News. A service of Gleason Lumber and Supply, C.R. Wilson Lumber and Supply in Dresden, and Farmers Insurance, the Kimberly Montoya Agency. An excessive heat warning for today and tomorrow are in effect from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day.  The excessive heat warning means that dangerously hot conditions with heat index values between 110 and 115 are expected both today and tomorrow, especially during the heavier portions of the day between 10 and 6. We'll see these heat warnings probably extended into Thursday as well, but be cautious and, of course, drink plenty of fluids and stay inside if possible.  TBI agents are investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Sunday morning in Dyersburg. Just after 7, Dyersburg police responded to a report of a man trying to harm himself and police at a home located in the 1400 block of Keats Street. Upon arrival, officers made contact with the man who was armed with a gun. Officers attempted to de-escalate the situation, but the man identified as Courtney Alexander pointed his firearm at the officers.  The police fired shots striking Alexander. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were harmed during the incidents.  A fundraiser for the Union City Police Department was a big success Saturday night. The Battle of the Badges softball game featuring the police department at O'Brien County Sheriff's Office drew a large crowd and netted over $6,800 for the Shop with a Cop program. Police Chief Ben Yates said they were very pleased with the game and community support. We were very excited, very happy. We had a large crowd that showed up to support both departments and our efforts, what we're trying to do in the community.  We had a lot of assistance from, again, the sheriff's department, the police department, the sponsors that we had that made a lot of donations for this event to make it possible. But as far as I'm concerned, this is the inaugural softball game, but it's here to stay. Each and every one of us up here, we enjoyed it. The guys and girls of the sheriff's department, their families and friends, they enjoyed it. It looks like the community had a good time.  I think we completely packed the Elam Stadium. I said everybody was excited to come up there and support a great cause, eat good food, and watch us put on a show.  Martin resident Dr. Gene Little has been awarded the prestigious Building Excellence Schools Fellowship. The former principal of Carr Elementary in Fulton and UT Martin alumna is the sole recipient from Tennessee. This highly competitive fellowship is awarded to only 8 to 10 outstanding educational leaders nationwide each year.  Throughout the fellowship year, Dr. Little will engage in comprehensive training and development. This includes eight weeks of residences in the nation's highest performing schools. In addition to working at Carr Elementary, she'd spent 11 years teaching high school English in O'Brien County and three years in leadership roles, including working in the Jackson-Madison County school system and with the Department of Education. WCMT Newstime is 7-11. 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Life insurance issued by Farmers New World Life Insurance Company, Bellevue, Washington. Industry research conducted by LNRA. Life happens in 2021.  WCMT color radar weather for today and tomorrow. An excessive heat warning in place from 10 until 8 p.m. both days. As we'll see heat index values rise between 110 and 115 likely throughout the day today and tomorrow. Otherwise, sunny high near 95, low of 77 overnight. Tomorrow the same, sunny with a high of 95 and a low of 76 overnight.  On Thursday, sunny and 95 with a low of 76 again. Friday, sunny and 94 with a low of 73. Saturday and Sunday, we'll see the highs just right around 90. Now, there is a slight chance of thunderstorms both Thursday night and Friday night. That will only increase the humidity that we'll experience throughout the day.  Right now, humidity is at 100%. Winds out of the southwest at 7. Barometric pressure 29.94 inches. It is currently 79 with a heat index of 84. That will climb very quickly today, so do be cautious, again, if you are outside. For more news, sports, and weather, visit ThunderboltRadio.com. Follow us on X at ThunderboltInfo and download the Thunderbolt Radio mobile app to take us with you everywhere you go.  This news has been a service of Gleason Lumber and Supply, C.R. Wilson Lumber and Supply in Dresden, and Farmers Insurance, the Kimberly Montoya Agency. I'm Kevin Bartholomew. Before we get too far down the road, I want to tell you about something. 10 until 3 tomorrow morning.  You folks who know what Sweet Jordan's food truck means to a lot of special people, they're going to be there on the lot at Vaughn Brothers, 10 to 3 tomorrow. Keith Kemp and his staff at Vaughn Brothers, thank you for supporting Sweet Jordan's.  And Vaughn Brothers, especially this Wednesday, 10 till 3. Stop by there and meet some really special people at Sweet Jordan's. Tomorrow, 10 to 3, Dresden, Tennessee. Vaughn Brothers, okay? Don't forget that.  Well, we have the election precincts already established, and we are getting closer to determining who's going to be the mayor of Wheatley County. You folks who have gone to the polls, how many did we say we had voted? It's around about 3,000. Yeah, it's around 3,000 here. I don't remember exactly what the number was. It's a shade under 3,000. 29, 441, something like that.  So if you are, in fact, planning to vote, I'm not being chastisable, okay? So don't misunderstand this. You're not able to be chastised? Not here. No, not on this, and I'm not going to do it. But I've been telling you, go vote early. You're going to likely be in 100-degree weather making that ballot count, and that's going to show just how –  persistent people will do. Now, my wife and I had this conversation this morning and she says, I'm going to go vote. I said, it's going to be 115 degrees, you know, and all of this kind of stuff, you know, and there's a pause right there. And when you start hearing 112, whatever that number is, it's going to be awfully hot. Um,  You'll probably take a couple of minutes. It'll be cool inside. Don't misunderstand that. If you were thinking you didn't have to get out, well, if you're going to vote, you're going to have to get out and go vote. Well, and with the exception of retirees or stay-at-home parents, people are already getting out that day. It's a Thursday. It's a work day. So people are already getting out that day anyway. I think Kentucky does it right. They take a state holiday.  I like that idea. I think it's a great idea. Schools are closing, you know, in November, and I think it's a good idea. It also gives these students a chance to go vote as well.  Just my opinion, teachers get a chance to go. I mean, some teachers have traveled a long way, an hour maybe, to get home or to get to school. Well, you know, and as we said the other day, I mean, early voting is good in theory. The execution of early voting in certain places is just a little more challenging. You know, if you're coming from the far side of the county,  to get to where you can go and vote early, then it's not necessarily practical. You only have a couple of options, and those are Saturdays because largely people work during the week, and so you don't have that chance to go do it. Early voting in more locations would be apropos. It would make it much easier for people to cast that ballot.  Well, early voting, every one of these places across the state, they have different ways of doing it. It's all bona fide and that kind of thing. We should make voting as easy as possible for people. We genuinely should. It is one of those...  core fundamentals of democracy we elect our uh we elect our leaders and so we should make it as simple as possible for people to go and vote uh show up wherever you are show your id to prove you are who you are cast your ballot and and move on as well as a uniform voting machine across the entire country i don't know why everybody uses something different so 112 degrees is what it's going to be on the heat index here in the next couple of days  When does it start going up? Is it today? What's it supposed to go to? Yesterday we had heat index values around the highest I saw it was 107. Where is that? I think you're looking for this. I want to see that. Just tell me what it is. Well, it says 112 today, 111 tomorrow. And that is a generalization. Expect between 110 and 115. Roll your windows down in your car if you're going to get out for a while.  Hey, somebody break into my car. The chances of somebody breaking into your car while you are at a pole, chances are pretty slim. I can't.  With all of the, what do you call it, cameras that are out there and all that kind of stuff, it would be kind of hard for anybody to get away with that. But, you know, crack the window a little bit. And don't leave anything in the car that is alive, okay? No, yes, not at all. And, again, today you had another great day for windshield cookies. You can do those windshield cookies again today. Have you smiled today, folks? Have you all gone into a smile yet? Have you had anything to smile about?  Have you looked in the mirror? Have you smiled at yourself and laughed a little bit? Diana was sitting at the table. I was trying to wrap up in the office. I came in. I said, what are you? She says, oh, look at this. So she's on the phone, and there's a woman that picked up a little puppy that  out on the roadway. Right. And it just made her smile so much because somebody apparently dropped the dog off. Right. And here's somebody that picked up the dog, saved it from getting run over and who knows what may have happened to it. And that just, she was just all kinds of, you know, Oh, it's one of those moments.  See, it made Kevin laugh just then, made him smile. That's right. You know, that's what little babies will do for us. So if you haven't smiled in a while, you know, what are you getting up for? Take it no matter, hey, you're, what is it they say? You're six feet above, right? This is John Clark, UT Martin College of Business and Global Affairs, Duncan Chair of Banking, speaking about the annual Mid-South Ag Finance Conference, which will be on campus August 7th at UT Martin's Watkins Auditorium from 8 to 3.  Speakers include economist Dr. David Cole, here for the 26th year, Richard Brock, Brock & Associates, Eric Snodgrass, also known as The Weather Guy, and Dr. Brian Brigham, a new speaker this year, an ag economist. The speakers will talk about trends in business reality action plans in agriculture for lenders, producers, and other ag businesses.  Please register by July 31st at utm.edu forward slash agconference or call Tracy Crawford, 731-881-7350. Farmers, you'll have a great opportunity to meet lenders, ag business providers, ag services, meet with other farmers, and have a great meal in the ballroom.  Register at utm.edu slash agconference or call Tracy Crawford, 731-881-7350. MidSouth Ag Finance Conference, Wednesday, August 7th, UT Martin.  Some of you call him John Robert. Some just call him John. And a few people call him Bert. You think we should tell them that Mama calls them sometimes? No, Ellie. We're on the radio, remember? Girls, no matter what anyone calls him, he'll always be your daddy. And he will make a really good mayor for Wheatley County. Just in case you're wondering. Vote August 1st. I'm Amanda Beth Freeman asking you to vote for my husband, John Robert Freeman, father, businessman, farmer, and Christian. Paid for by John Robert Freeman for County Mayor Lindsey Parham, Treasurer.  Here's an important message. The Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center will be closing effective September 1st, 2024. The Good Samaritan staff believes the new Kentucky Care Clinic at 2006 Holiday Lane in Fulton will be able to provide care to those who have been served to live in O'Brien County, Fulton County, and Hickman County. All medical records will be transferred to the Kentucky Care Clinic.  Patients who prefer to pick up your records at the Good Samaritan Clinic may do so during regular hours Tuesday 530 till 8 p.m. and 9 a.m. till noon on Wednesday prior to September 1st, 2024. The last days for chart pickup at the Good Samaritan Clinic will be August 27th and 28th. The Good Samaritan staff will be closing the doors at 209 West State Line in South Fulton. You may pick up your charts no later than August 27th or 28th. If it's been over three years due to the date of your last visit, your records are considered inactive and will not be transferred to the Kentucky Care Clinic.  The Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center staff thanks all the churches, business, and individuals for your support. The Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center will be closing effective September 1st, 2024.  Nissan of Paris is blowing it out with their big invoice sale on new Rogues, Armadas, Frontiers, Muranos, and all remaining 2023 models. You pay what we pay. Get huge savings with manufacturer rebates and special rates with approved credit. You can even qualify for 1.9% for 60 months on a new Rogue or special rates on new Nissans. Hurry on down to Nissan of Paris, Highway 77 behind Walmart in Paris. Nissan of Paris, where we want your trade. We will give you top dollar for trades, and we will also buy your vehicle. Nissan of Paris, all financing with approved credit.  Hi, this is Courtney Harris, one of the tellers here at Greenfield Banking Company. I hope you'll come by sometime and let us help you with a deposit, maybe a bank card, online banking, or perhaps another service. We have the answers to your questions. At Greenfield Banking, we're hometown folks just like you, and we're here to serve. Member FDIC and Equal Housing Lender. Hometown people, hometown spirit.  Hot, hot, hot. Excessive heat warning today and tomorrow. Expect that to continue into Thursday. It just hasn't been issued by the National Weather Service yet. Sunny 95 with a low of 77 today and tomorrow. 95 and 76 on Thursday. 94 and 73 Friday before we're just around 90 on Saturday. But the heat index value is going to be between 110 and 115.  For at least the next two days, I would say probably the next three, maybe even four days. We are at 79 this morning. Excuse me, 81 this morning. And the heat index is already 91. And it's not even 730 yet. So it's getting up there. It's getting up there quick. Already 91. You mean 81. It's 81 with the heat index of 91. Oh, goodness gracious. Already 91. We were at 71 here about 25 minutes ago. All of a sudden.  Somebody took the cover off of them. I don't know what they're doing up there. I made a post on Facebook last night. Diane was rummaging around the freezer. Uh-oh. Uh-huh. All right.  She found some old ham. How old? We don't date anything in the refrigerator or freezer. I wish she would, but she doesn't.  She gets out, let's say that it was beyond the expiration date, and there was none on it, okay? Right. She gets some old ham out, and she chops it up into little square times, you know, about the size of your small fingernail, and went to work. Did you see? I did not see. Oh, I've got to show it to you. I've got to show it to you. Okay, all right. Let me show it to you. Here we go.  So it says, for women only, Diane made one of the most delicious meals I had eaten in a very long time. It's called ham pasta. All right. Ham pasta. Yes. I don't know what all was in it, but old ham.  So, folks, I'm not by any means. Listen, you can go look it up. Go ahead. Test my water here. See if this is on the Internet. It's ham pasta. You ladies ever made? If you've made ham pasta, call 588-1410. I just want to know what all went into it.  Well, I guess it depends on which one of these it looks like. Well, here's a picture. Yeah, show me your picture. All right, it's little bitty baby things that are in there. Oh, yeah, yeah. Squiggly things, yeah. Did it have peas in it?  I don't know. Did you not eat it, Paul? I ate the whole, I bet I had four helpings of it. Pasta with ham and peas apparently is a pretty popular recipe. No, because she had peas separate. She had her vegetables out on the right. There's a lot of recipes here for pasta and ham. They don't sell it anymore, but Outback Restaurant used to have one of my favorite restaurant pastas for a first chain.  What, nobody ever had any ham pasta? Well, and it had ham in it. It had ham and sun-dried tomatoes and spinach. But let me tell you something. She spent a good 30 minutes working on cutting those little squares. Yeah, she can cook. Let me see if I can find one of those little tiny squares here. Hold on.  Here you go, Kevin. You'll appreciate this. Now, you see that little one right there in the middle? Oh, very nice, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's meticulous. When she's got a knife in her hand, look out, because nobody was hurt.  on this old ham but so she got it i don't know how she i i guess she just put it in there and you know warmed it up you know for you know in the oven or something or the microwave you know to thaw it out i don't know what all she did but i'm going to tell you uh i have never had such a good meal yeah uh of pasta and she's great with lasagna everybody knows that  But when she got into this, I figured, oh, man, there's a lot of stuff in there. You know, some leafy stuff, you know, and some basil. Oh, yeah. And what is that called? Thyme? Thyme, yeah. And what is that other thing? And Peter, Paul, Mary. Rosemary. Rosemary. Some rosemary in there. I don't know what all was in it. But it was about as good as I've ever had.  I will say, and it sounds like you were in a position that I have been in on multiple occasions. My wife is like, so I've made this dinner, and here's all the stuff that's in it. I'm like, there's no way I'm going to like that. Because I'm not a big fan of cabbage, and she made this cabbage pasta, cabbage soup type thing.  A couple of weeks ago, and I just really don't like cabbage. And it was amazing. And I mean, I had seconds. It was so good. But you're going into this thinking, well, if that's what you're cooking, I guess that's what I'm eating. I don't really want to, but I don't have a choice sort of thing. You know, I'm not going to insult her cooking. I try to be honest enough to say that I don't think I'd care for this again.  But, man, you know, it's a pleasant surprise. And it sounds like when Miss Diane got into that ham, you're like, I don't know about all this. I guess I have to try it. But, you know, it turned out good. All I can say is I thought this morning and I said,  I wonder if I could have some ham pasta for breakfast. I thought. Did you? I thought about it. I did. I really did. And so I pulled up and I said, I'm going to leave that alone. That's too much to get it out. Throw it on there and do this and then put it in the microwave and get it back out. And I'll end up getting it on my shirt and all that.  So I went over there and got one of those plastic bags, you know, with those two little round sandwiches in it, you know, a little sandwich, sausage sandwich with cheese. Those things, they're foolers. That's all they are. They're foolers.  Well, it was probably a little disappointing after you were all excited about the ham. 90 seconds into it, you pull it out, and you eat it. And that sausage just isn't, you know, I don't know how else to say it. It's not the same, that's for sure. Yeah, these weren't William's sausages, and these weren't Jimmy. And then, you know, you got all of those guys out there that got them, you know, Jimmy Dean. Yeah, Tennessee Pride, they all make them. Yeah, this was, what do you call it?  uh, wannabes. All right. All right. You got store brand store brand. Maybe. Okay. Okay. That's what it sounds like. Sounds like they were in a box, you know, pull it out, you know, throw it in there. 90 seconds. It'll give you enough.  It'll put something on your tummy. I was going to say, that's when you're just, well, I've got to eat something. Yeah. I don't know what people are eating for breakfast this morning. Those things just, to me, don't get, you know. They don't hit the spot. They don't. No satisfaction. The ones in the sandwich bag. Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, did you have sandwich bags this morning? You know, I don't typically eat breakfast. Yeah. Well, I don't typically eat it either. So, I just usually do the coffee and.  Yep, that's my breakfast every morning pretty much is a cup of coffee. I went up and forgot and left my pill at the house. I don't know what I've done with it. Anyway, just one of those moments, you know, where you just sit there and you think, this really, oh, I put some Duke on it.  You put mayonnaise on it? I put Duke's on it. You put mayonnaise on a sausage biscuit? I did. It was the only thing. I had to bring out some kind of flavor in the thing. Now, listen, I've heard of mustard and people who put cheese or jelly, things like that on sausage. I've never heard of mayonnaise on a sausage biscuit. You have now.  Hi, I'm Bubba Cobb, asking you to elect me to be your state representative for Lake, Obine, and Dyer counties. Having grown up on a family farm, I know what farmers have to do to make a crop. And one thing I'm sure of, there's way too many regulations farmers have to deal with. We've got to give our farmers a break from regulations. I'll hold a meeting in a barn or out in the field. I don't mind getting dirty because I like to eat and I love the farmers. A vote for Bubba Cobb is a vote for farmers.  Paid for by Bubba Cobb, Benny McGuire treasure. This is Josh Moore asking for your vote for re-election to serve you on the weekly county school board from Dresden.