Top Story with Tom Llamas - Monday, June 30, 2025

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

Tonight's Top Story has the latest breaking news, political headlines, news from overseas and the best NBC News reporting from across the country and around the world.

We're following breaking news tonight. Brian Coburger appearing to be accepting a plea deal in the killings of four Idaho college students. It's a shocking twist in the closely watched case, potentially now sparing him the death penalty. The moment coming just weeks before the long-awaited trial was set to begin. Plus, how the families of the victims are responding. Also breaking tonight, officials identifying the sniper who ambush firefighters in Idaho. The suspect sparking a fire to lure his victims, leaving at least two dead. First responders dodging bullets, shielding behind trees and fire trucks, and the new details about the 20-year-old gunman, what the suspect's grandfather is now revealing. Air travel meltdown, the ground stops and delays at major airports

along the East Coast during one of the busiest weeks of summer. Could storms upend your July 4th travel plans? Diddy deliberation drama, the jury in Sean Diddy Combe's sex trafficking case, raising concerns over a fellow juror. The note sent to the judge as they weigh the music moguls fate. Miracle at sea, a young girl falling overboard from the fourth floor deck of a Disney cruise ship, a man jumping in to save her, the video of the incredible moment they were both brought back to safety. WNBA star Caitlin Clark's new sneakers selling out in minutes, the league soaring and popularity announcing it'll add three new teams, the cities now getting brand new franchises. And Robo Soccer, the bizarre soccer match of the future

as humanoid players face planet pile up, some even carried out on stretchers. Plus, the lottery mistake that had thousands falsely thinking they had hit it big. We're talking millionaire status. Top story starts right now. And good evening. We're coming on the air tonight with breaking news. Brian Coburger appears to have struck a plea deal with prosecutors in the case of the Idaho college murders.

Coburger accused in the 22 killings of four University of Idaho students at their off-campus home, authorities arresting him at his parents' home in Pennsylvania weeks after the deaths, the killings. This possible resolution coming just weeks before Coburger's trial was set to begin. Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty, should he have been convicted, but were hearing from one victim's family and their attorney, this deal would take the death penalty off the table. Now, nearly four years after those students lost their lives, a possible resolution, to the case. Our Stephanie Goss joins us now on set with the latest. So, Stephanie, walk our viewers through what we're learning at this hour. Well, a possible resolution

means there wouldn't be a trial, Tom, which is a remarkable conclusion potentially. But we're not quite there yet. We've been speaking to the attorney for Kelly Gonzalez's family who tells us that there appears to be a deal. But soon after we started talking to that attorney, the Gonzalez family posted on Facebook, and I'm going to read it to you because it is powerful. They write, it's true. We are beyond fear. at the state of Idaho. They have failed us. Please give us some time. This was very unexpected. And it's that last part that I want you to focus. Unexpected. It's surprising that it is a surprise for them. You have to wonder the other three families, how they're feeling at this point as well tonight.

Yeah. And then Stephanie, when we talked to our viewers about what happened here, there was a lot of evidence that prosecutors had against Brian Coburger. Yeah, they did. They had DNA. I mean, perhaps the most important thing, DNA at the scene. that they say is a match for Coburger as well as a knife sheath that was there. But there is also other evidence, including the car that was seen at the scene of the crime. A lot of that was going to go through, you know, that was going to play out throughout this trial. You have to imagine now that there is a judge that said, okay, we are going to trial, setting the date. They were going to have jury selection August 4th. The trial was going to be in August 18th.

I mean, it was happening. This would have been a moment to have these conversations. It was pretty incredible because in November of 2022, these murders happened, and the prosecutors and police come out, they give a news conference, and it seems like they may be in over their head. And then within a month, they come back, and they've traced DNA back to Pennsylvania. They went through the trash at Coburger's house. They had the sheath. They had the cell phone data as well. They had put together what seemed like a very strong case.

And since then, the defense attorneys have tried a lot of sort of, I wouldn't call them Hail Mary's, but different type of defense. tactics to get either the case thrown out or moved or delayed and delayed. Yeah, they did try to get it delayed on a number of different fronts, and the judge wasn't going for it. They also tried to introduce other suspects. And the judge said there just isn't any evidence to support that there are other suspects involved. But I want to go back to you talking about those weeks following those murders and the sense of anxiety and fear at the University of Idaho campus during that period of time. And there was a fair amount of silence from authorities as well. But then they came out and they said they were,

were looking for a white Honda-Launtra. You may not remember that. And that was through that car, how they were eventually able to trace it back to Brian Coburger, who was a graduate student at Washington State University. And that's when all the pieces started to come together. He got in the car with his father and drove cross country, and authorities said that the FBI tracked them for four days before they got to Pennsylvania,

and that was when that arrest was made. We have datelines Keith Morrison standing by, but, Steph, before you go, explain to our viewers, this is not a done deal yet. No, it is not official until they get in front of a judge. That would be the judge in Boise, Idaho, who's going to hear the case, present it, and the judge will ask Brian Coburger if he agrees with it. All right, Stephanie Gosk, on that breaking news.

I do want to bring in datelines Keith Morrison now, who has been following this case closely for that broadcast. Keith, talk to us about this breaking news. You've covered a lot of murder trials. You've seen a lot of evidence and the way prosecutors can build the case. Did Coburgers sort of have no way out from this? I mean, the evidence seemed, at least from my perspective, perspective, in some cases, to be sort of overwhelming against him? You never know whether there's a way out or not, and certainly Kohlberger had good attorneys

who were interested in pursuing the case. However, the evidence against it was pretty powerful stuff, and it's quite possible if they simply finally looked at it and thought it makes sense for us to take this. I am, I don't have any information about this at all, except I would have assumed that the prosecution would have contemplated the police making a proposal for a deal earlier and may even have done so. And now simply was the time that the defense decided. You know, Keith, it's interesting. This happened on a day where we know that witnesses were questioned in Pennsylvania and Coburger's hometown, people from his past. One of his high school, I think it was high school boxing coach, maybe a girl who had known him in high school as well.

So his past was going to come back into this case as well. Some of them were going to be character witnesses for the prosecution, we understand, as well. But the case was building up. It was getting closer and closer to trial date, which was August 18th. Do you think prosecutors were putting the pressure on, and Koberger essentially felt that as well? I mean, we got a reminder of viewers, right. He was somebody who was studying criminal justice, correct? He was not only studying it.

He was a PhD student in criminal justice, and he was, according to his master's degree, professor, the smartest student she ever had in criminology. So he was somebody who was very interested in it, who understood a lot about it, but who had an aspect which others found socially extremely awkward. His relationship with women was troubled and strange. The information he had in his telephone was troubling and strange regarding women. behavior in the months before these murders occurred in Moscow, Idaho was troubling and strange. A lot of nighttime driving around that area with murders occurred within 100 meters of that house.

This was a young man who was just behaving in ways that criminology students tend not to behave. And his relationships were a little bit like that as well. I think of the... Go ahead. I was going to say there are things you remember from every case you cover every murder trial. And I think one of the things people will remember from this case is when the description first came out, right? There was a man in black muscular build, not too tall, maybe around six feet, but bushy eyebrows. And the first time we got Brian Coburger and we saw his image, the first thing that stood out were those bushy eyebrows.

Well, it's true. Although I think the defense would have had some reason to suggest. that maybe that bushy eyebrows remark was not necessarily as damning as you might think, because the young woman in question, who used the expression, bushy eyebrows, then wasn't so sure that she did see the same guy. She didn't identify him properly. So, you know, would it have been damning evidence or not? It's really hard to know. Keith Morrison there, it looks like he froze up a bit, but always great to have Keith on. We have somebody else who's great as well, Sarah Azari, defense attorney, a good friend of top story as well.

Sarah, you know, a lot of people may or may not be surprised, but you've been a defense attorney. You fight the case. You defend your client, right? You defend the law. Were you surprised by this? I wasn't, Tom, because we had the forensics. We had, you know, IGG investigative genetic genealogy evidence. We had the phone records.

But we had that problematic roommates, I guess. identification of him with the bushy eyebrows. But just recently, the DoorDash driver showed up and put him at the crime scene. So the evidence was just mounting and mounting. And this is exactly what happens is when you realize that this is a no-go. He's probably going to get convicted. You sit down and talk to prosecutors. I think it's interesting that they're willing to drop the death penalty here. You know, there was a lot of defense tactics that were used. Some of these are classic. They wanted to move the venue out of that area to Boise, which made sense because it was just everyone had heard about this. trial. But there were some other tactics as well, especially the last one they tried, which was that there were other suspects. The defense floated this. But then the judge said, you did not provide any evidence of this. What were the defense attorneys? Because as we heard Keith say, they were good defense attorneys. What were they trying to do? Well, I think it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. They're doing what we always do, which is poke holes in the prosecution's case. And so I think that all of those motions were warranted. But with respect to what you're

talking about, remember, there was touch DNA on that knife sheet. And touch DNA is the most unreliable type of DNA. The problem here is we have other DNA. We have the stuff from the trash can in Pennsylvania. We have the IGG. So it was just a lot of damning evidence. And I think now, Coburger, you know, the death penalty is a trial within a trial. So I think for the prosecution, it was like maybe we're not going to get the death penalty. So it's better to just make this deal and put him behind bars for the rest of his life. And you think Brian Coburger, or somebody like we talked to Keith about, who sort of had studied this in school, was well-versed in how these cases work, how evidence works, looked at the facts of the case and ultimately accepted.

Yeah, I think that he's pretty smart and he knows he's going to go down on these charges. I think what's interesting is that, you know, with the death penalty, you have a lot of mitigation that comes in. We also know that he has a lot of troubled past. And so I think all of that would have come in and maybe mitigated the death penalties. I think, you know, on both sides, I don't, I have to say, Tom, I don't really agree with the family, the father's statement. Well, I was going to ask you about that. I mean, these families are incredible. sad and they're never going to see their children again. They're never going to see their daughters, three of those families,

and one of them a son ever again or hold them. They wanted justice, and at least one family, this sounds like they didn't get justice. Yeah, the families want the evidence to play out. They want to see him go down in real time in the courtroom. But of course... And maybe even be put to death, you know? Right, exactly.

They want the jugular. But, you know, at the end of the day, he was spared death, but he's not going to be spared life. He's going to spend the rest of his life on bars. Yeah. And also just a shocking sort of scenario where this played out in a place that had not had a murder since 2015, a quiet college town, where kids and parents thought everyone would be safe. And then you had this horrific murder in a house. Four college students, just in one house.

But I think, look, I think his plea, his change of plea when he goes to court and actually the judge accepts the plea and then he's sentenced, I think that's going to bring some closure to the community. How long does that process usually take? I don't know when his change of plea hearing is set for, but it's fairly pretty quickly right after the agreement is struck. And then the judge gives some time for the sentencing because each side might need to present their arguments for sentencing, and then he'll be sentenced. All right. Sarah Zari, so great to see you again. We thank you for your help on this one. We're going to turn to another story out of Idaho as well, that horrific sniper attack on the mountain, which left two firefighters dead and a third injured. Tonight, authorities are revealing new details about the suspects as they search for a motive. Croyce has the latest from Idaho.

Tonight, Idaho authorities identifying 20-year-old West Val Roli as the suspect, they say, deliberately ignited a brush fire before then shooting at responding firefighters in a violent ambush attack. We do have some social media presence. Here's some of his social media postings that were recently removed from social media. We have not been able to find any manifesto. The sheriff saying Roli was found. dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after an hours-long standoff Sunday at a popular hiking

and recreation area in Cordillane, with more than 300 law enforcement personnel, including the FBI, responding. Everybody shot up here. Law enforcement. Code three now up here. Authorities saying firefighters asked Roley to move his car. Two firefighters killed, another injured, among the fallen, a 17-year veteran of Kootenie County Fire and Rescue. This is an unimaginable tragedy. A husband, a father, a champion of the fire service, somebody who cared about his people. Fire chief Christopher Way says 20 local firefighters responded to the initial call, describing the harrowing moments after the suspect opened fire. Some hid behind trees in wooded areas. Some actually climbed up higher on the mountain. I know one crew hid behind a fire truck

for protection. Terrifying. Very terrifying. Tonight, authorities say they're still trying to piece together a motive. Roli's grandfather telling NBC News that something must have snapped for his grandson to commit this crime, saying Roli had been in contact with the fire department for a job and that he wanted to be part of a team that he sort of idolized, adding maybe he got rejected or something. Do you believe that the suspect potentially wanting to be a firefighter was a motive here? You know, we just don't know. It's too early to tell. Tonight, this tight-knit town left shaken and searching for answers as they step up to support their heroic first responders. What is so shocking about something like this happening?

You never think it's going to happen in your town. And with that, Liz Kreutz joins us tonight from Hayden, Idaho. So, Liz, we've been hearing more from authorities just in the last couple of hours about the suspect. What else have you learned? Well, Tom, just moments ago, authorities released the names of the victims. They're saying that it's two battalion chiefs that were sadly killed. John Morrison of Cordillane Fire and Frank Harwood, who is that 17-year veteran of the county fire and rescue. The fire chief telling us he has two little daughters, just tragic.

We're also learning a little bit more about the suspect. Authorities say that they've had five interactions with him here in Idaho for trespassing and for welfare checks, but they say he has no criminal record, and it's still unclear to them why he did this, Tom. Okay, Liz, Liz, we thank you for that report. Also breaking tonight, holiday air travel. a snag as delays and cancellations mount at major airports up and down the east coast. Tom Costello is live for us tonight at Newark International with the busiest travel day of the holiday week quickly, one of the busiest travel days of the holiday we quickly approach. And we see those lines behind you there, Tom. Talk to us about these delays tonight. Well, listen, it started this afternoon with ground delays. And then we had pretty bad thunderstorms moving in from the west.

And as a result, they had to stop all activity here at Newark. Total ground stop. downstops also at LaGuardia and also at JFK and Philadelphia also affected. The good news is in the last few minutes, Newark has gone to ground delay. The bad news, the ground delay is going to last until midnight or so. And so these lines at times have gone all the way to the other end of the terminal and then all the way to the terminal behind the photographer, behind our cameraman here. It is a very, very long wake for folks who tell me they've waited two, three, four hours only to have their flight canceled. And the trouble is, Tom, because it is one of the busiest travel periods of the entire year. Oftentimes, the flight you're hoping to catch, the next flight, it's already sold out. So we talked to one woman who is hoping to fly home to Orlando, and now they've told her, you're going to have to wait until at least July 2nd and maybe beyond that. So this is all part of the volatile summer weather systems, which always play havoc with airlines trying to move passengers this time of year.

All right, Tom Costello, not a good start to this. holiday week. We thank you for that report. Next to the jury deliberations, they've begun in the Sean Diddy Combs' sex trafficking and racketeering trial. And it appears it's getting off to a rocky start. The jury raising a concern saying in a letter to the judge that one member of the jury, quote, does not follow his instructions. NBC's Chloe Malas has been covering this trial for us and brings this report tonight. Only about an hour after the case of Sean Diddy Combs was turned over to the jury, already a potential wildcard in the deliberation room. The jury delivering a note to the judge, saying one juror is not following instructions.

He's a 51-year-old scientist with a Ph.D. It was unclear whether or not there was a concern about following the legal instructions or the other instructions about how to approach the case. Is it too late to replace a juror? It's not. The judge can, but it would be a big deal once deliberation starts. The case is complex and sprawling. Combs charged with five federal counts, including racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. In this courthouse, eight men and four women are sifting through seven weeks of testimony from 34 witnesses, as media from all over the world await a verdict.

As jurors began deliberating in the courtroom, Combs's family joined hands and prayed. Prosecutors alleged Combs ran a criminal enterprise, wielding his power to have employees carry out a legal activity on his behalf. They also argued that he used violence, drugs, and threats of blackmail to coerce former girlfriends, Cassie, Ventura and another referred to only as Jane to have sex with male escorts while he watched. In contrast, the defense not calling any witnesses, resting their case in 30 minutes. Combs declined to take the stand. But in closing arguments, his lead attorney Mark Agnifalo said all sexual encounters were consensual, saying Combs had a swinger's lifestyle. Agnifalo also arguing that this video of Combs beating Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 is evidence of domestic

violence, not sex trafficking. Going so far as to call their relationship a great modern love story. Okay, and with that, Chloe Malas joins us now and set. So, Chloe, you were in courtroom. There's been some reporting about what did he's bringing into the courtroom. He's had some books with him. What is he reading? So remember, this is a guy who's walked in to trial nearly every single day going like this, blowing kisses at his family in a good mood. He had some books with him today, turns around to everyone. The jury wasn't in there. And he held up two books. I mean, it's, like, kind of ridiculous if you think about it, but he's like smiling and he holds up the power of positive thinking and another one called the happiness advantage, right? So clearly, I guess, like, he's reading these at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which is not really a positive place, right?

Like, there's a lot of issues there at that prison. And clearly, maybe those are the books that he's trying to get through. Maybe he's helping him get through. Maybe he's working on his own book. When he does this, does he smile? Is he kind of joking? Yes, but, like, his mood then, it was a roller coaster today. He was somber and stoic during jury instructions.

Then he had that positive moment where he showed the books. But then at the end of the day, when that second jury note came in, asking a question about a predicate crime of RICO conspiracy, him and his attorneys, they did not look happy. So maybe the jury's getting closer on RICO. And if they're deliberating RICO, does that mean he could potentially be guilty? That has a life sentence. We'll have to wait and see tomorrow. Chloe, we thank you for being there for us.

Still ahead tonight, the Incredible Rescue at Sea. A little girl falling off a cruise ship plunging into the waters below. a man then jumping in to save her, the video of what happened next. We are now back with a scary scene at sea after a child went overboard from a Disney cruise, a man on board jumping off the ship to save her the moments after caught on camera. NBC's George Solis has the latest from Florida. This dramatic video shows rescue boats racing towards a man and child desperately treading water in the middle of the ocean. Do you see them?

Yeah, look. After passengers say the child fell overboard from the Disney Dream cruise ship and the man jumped in to save her. You could see all the staff running to the port side. They got their life jackets and rings and everybody was looking in the water. The cruise ship making a U-turn, according to stunned passengers who watched from aboard. It was horrific. Aplaus and cheers erupting when crew members hoisted the pair to safety and brought them back

to the ship. cheered. It was a good moment. It happened Sunday as the ship was sailing from the Bahamas back to Fort Lauderdale. Passengers say the fall occurred somewhere along the floor floor deck just below the yellow boats you see here. Passengers say they also heard loudspeaker warnings of Mr. Bob, emergency code for man overboard. It's unclear how the child ended up in the water. It was so scary. Like, it was like, how did she fall? In a statement to NBC News, Disney Cruise Line confirming the rescue of two of their guests, saying, we commend our crew members for the exceptional skills and prompt actions, which ensured the safe return of both guests within minutes.

The response was just amazing. Amazing. More than 30 million people go on cruises every year. During a 10-year period, 212 people went overboard from cruise ships worldwide. Just 48 were rescued. By law, cruise ships must have rails that are 42 inches or higher. I'm just glad they're safe. Tonight, the child in rescuers' conditions are unknown, but those on board calling it nothing short of a miracle. relief. I mean, it's a parent's biggest nightmare. And with that, George joins us from Fort Lauderdale. George, what more do we know about how long that pair was in the water? Yeah, Tom, passengers telling us this whole ordeal, but between the time the girl fell into the water and that boat went out to rescue here was about 15 to 20 minutes. And passengers, get this, Tom,

telling us the boat was actually still moving, slowly albeit, but still moving when that girl hit the water, making this story all the more miraculous. Yeah, incredible. He got to her and then the cruise ship was able to turn back. around and send that emergency crew in. George, we thank you for that. Coming up on Top Story, we'll tell you how this driverless car you see right here got to its new driver, pretty cool. And another big win for Caitlin Clark. We'll tell you about her new sneaker that just sold out. Stay with us. All right, we are back down with Top Story's news feed, and we start with the victim of the June 1st fire bomb attack

in Boulder, Colorado. She has died. Prosecutors saying the 82-year-old woman succumbed to severe injuries from that attack, filing an additional first-degree murder charge against the suspect who was filmed throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages. 13 others were hurt. A firefighter injured while trying to put out an industrial fire at a Michigan oil recycling facility. Video showing fire crews battling flames at a waste treatment facility in Detroit. No cause for the fire has been found just yet, but an employee at the facility reported seen steam and hearing a bang, the injured firefighter is being treated at a nearby hospital but is expected to be okay. And two teen girls were shot near the landmark stonewall

in after the New York City Pride March on Sunday. Celebrations outside the historic LGBTQ bar were coming to a close when a gunman fired at a 17-year-old girl. That bullet striking her in the leg before she fired back with her own gun and accidentally struck a 16-year-old girl in the head. A 16-year-old now in critical condition, police saying it is too early to know if the incident was a hate crime related. No suspect has been yet identified. And Tesla making its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer, the company is sharing a video of the car leaving the Tesla factory in Austin, Texas, the model YSUV driving 30 miles across streets and highways with no one behind the wheel. Look at that. The meeting, it's then meeting its buyer on a curb.

The car using the same technology as Tesla's Robotaxie, which piloted in Austin last weekend and has been criticized for incidents that report erratic driving by the autonomous cars. Okay, big news for basketball fans. The WNBA announcing it is expanding to 18 teams. On the same day, Caitlin Clark's new Nike sold out in just minutes. NBC's Aaron McLaughlin has this one. As the popularity of the WMBA explodes, driven by superstars like Caitlin Clark. Six on the shot clock, Clark, a deep freeze. And Asia Wilson.

Take one way and finishes the others. The league tonight says it will expand to meet skyrocketing fan demand. The WMBA is building on a wave of momentum that is only growing stronger. Commissioner Kathy Engelbert announcing three new teams will join the league. One in Cleveland in 28, one in Detroit in 2029, and another in Philadelphia in 2030. Comcast, the parent company of NBC News, holds a minority stake in that team. These are proud cities with powerful sports legacies. each one rich in basketball tradition and fueled by passionate fan bases.

The expansion teams will be owned by the city's NBA ownership groups, which each paid $250 million fee. UNESCO catch fire and hit! An enormous bet on a league that had its most watched season ever on ESPN platforms in 2024, a spike due in large part to Clark, the Indiana fever phenom. As Clark got around, Stokes gets to the rim, lays it in. Just how popular is she? Today, her Nike sneakers, the Kobe 5 Pro Tro, which retail for $190, sold out almost instantly. Resale listings on eBay almost double the price around $350.

Caitlin, I just want to personally congratulate you on being named captain for the 20. And this weekend, she broke a fan voting record to become the captain of the Eastern Conference All-Star team. Everything Caitlin Clark touches right now turns to gold. When Clark was injured earlier this season, fever ticket prices dropped by 70. 71 percent, according to tick-pick data. The numbers did not hit the over one million number of in terms of, like, viewership and even the sold-out crowds that they've had with Caitlin Clark on the court, but they still were very high, even looking at the playoffs last year, for example, once the fever were eliminated,

that we still had the best WMBA championship in terms of viewership and attendance and readings that we've seen in like 25 years. Over its 29-year history, the league has had a series of expansions and contractions as demand ebbed and flowed. The question tonight, will this current surge in popularity outlast its current star player? Do you think this momentum can continue? I do. I do. I know there's been concerned because in the previous iterations of women's basketball leagues, they've grown a little bit too much too quickly. I think the perspective has switched. The players are very active with the WNBPA, the media deals. They're getting all the aspects, the facilities, the resources, the maternity care

versus just investing in one avenue. And Tom, according to the WNBA Commissioner, this process involves scrutinizing 25 different factors, including fan bases, potential corporate sponsors, demographics, merchandise sales. All of that was looked at when choosing these three cities. And there were plenty of cities that ended up sort of on their cutting room floor, including Miami and Denver. The WNBA Commissioner, though, during her press conference, specifically mentioning Houston as a potential. expansion city. So watch the space. Tom. Yeah, all of those big cities, but congrats to the ones who got him. All right, thanks so much, Aaron. Staying in the world of sports with a major change at the world's top tennis tournament. Human line judges out of a job this year, Wimbledon, their role replaced by a camera system powered by AI. But does this move across a line in the lawn for tennis's top stars? NBC Stephen Romo out on the court for us. Wimbledon, the world's oldest tennis tournament is steeped in tradition.

from the lush lawn playing surface to the strict all white dress code for players. But this year, part of that history is now out of play. The All England Lawn Tennis Club phasing out human line judges for the first time in the tournament's 148 year history. I feel like Wimbledon always being like with the line empires and kind of like historically you see the referees there. Their replacement? A system of at least 10. on the court known as Hawkeye. The system can cost nearly $100,000 per court. The company says it's accurate to within a few millimeters. Already in use for more than a decade at Wimbledon for reviewing calls. Like this close call in the 2007 men's final. I would say that sport

isn't just about clinical accuracy. It's often more about the sort of moments of drama and story and failing. Lifelong tennis fans, Harry and Gabriel, showing up to Wimbledon this year to protest that tech. The amount of dramatic moments that have happened in Wimbledon thanks to the line judges. I mean, need I mention, John McHenrow. You cannot be serious. That ball was on the line. I say it's just those moments which we like to call happy accidents, which will no longer be the case with Hawkeye.

The only tournament left with humans in control? The French Open, where the clay cord shows where the ball lands in or after. They're top players like Coco Gough now calling for change. I definitely think that at this point it is almost ridiculous that we don't have it. But not all players are ready to say game set match to line judges. 2024 Wimbledon champ Barbara Krechikova sad to see the break from tradition. I mean, to be honest, I like the old traditional style. So I like I liked it the old way, but you know, like with the new

system. Yeah, it's just the way it is. I think I like the old way too. Anyways, Steve, let me ask you about this. I know there's other new rules at Wimbledon, including about the heat. Yeah, and it really went into effect today. They had a 93 degree high today in London, and a lot of people were not ready for that. They have this heat rule that's implemented whenever players need a 10-minute break. They can have one. They can get off the court, cool down for a little bit. They can't get any medical attention and they can't get any coaching during that time. But it can really help them. cool their core body temperature before they head out there and play again and hoping to find

some more heat actually on the core. Yeah, you don't want anyone passing out though either. All right, Stephen Romo, we thank you for that. Staying overseas with Top Story's Global Watch now, thousands evacuating from raging wildfires in both Turkey and France. A heat wave producing unusually high temperatures and fueling fires in Western Turkey and southern France. At least 50,000 were evacuated in Turkey with high wind spreading flames, video showing dramatic rescues with firefighters attempting to extinguish fires from the air and on the ground. Parts of Europe may have been ravaged by wildfires with climate change making summers hotter and drier.

And thousands of people in Norway were given false hope after being told they'd won life-changing lottery prizes, only to find out it wasn't true. About 47,000 people were notified they'd won huge prizes up to a million bucks in a Europe-wide lottery, but the state-owned gambling company, Norse Tipping, said a currency conversion error led prizes to mistakenly be multiplied by 100 before resigning the company CEO apologized for giving people false hope. That's pretty terrible. More than a third of residents in the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu have applied for a first of its kind climate visa to live in Australia. The visas are being offered as Tuvalu is one of the country's most threatened

by climate change. At least 4,000 of the country's 11,000 people applied for the special visa. It has an annual cap of about 280. Tuvalu sits less than 16 feet above sea level, with NASA estimating half of its most populated areas will be underwater by 2050. Okay, coming up next, a warning about the housing market back here at home. The new numbers showing mortgage delinquency rates are on the rise. Why? We'll tell you what may be behind it. That's next. We're back now with Money Talks and a potential red flag in the House. market, mortgage delinquencies are on the rise. And we're seeing a jump in the early stages of all delinquencies from 0.92% in April to just over 1% in May. You can see that there.

To tell us why this matters, I want to get right to senior business correspondent, Christine Roman. So, Christine, people are going to be saying that stat and be asking why is it on the news, but it's significant. Explain. It's a low number, but it's rising. And these are people who can't pay their mortgage bills. And if you think about it, your home is probably your most valued possession and investment. So it's showing some distress, among consumers who are homeowners. You know, it started with lower income consumers, but now this has moved into near prime, prime, and super prime.

What does that mean? Those are people who are at the higher end of their income spectrum who are also having some trouble paying their bill. So it shows some pain in their monthly budgets. And again, these are historically very low numbers. We're not talking about the Great Recession. So they're low, but they're rising, and that's why we're watching them. Does it tell you any sort of bigger sign of something that's coming

or not really? We're not sure. We think what it's saying is that the housing market right now is very stuck. And a lot of these people have a lot of home equity in their house. It's worth a lot, but their bills are going up as well. And maybe their income isn't keeping up with their bills. And so they're having trouble with these payments. You know, when you're talking about a prime or a super prime borrower, they could sell that house.

They could get out from under net probably very easily with a decent profit, but then where are you going to go? Yeah. So there's this real, this real frozen nature of the housing market right now. You've been doing a few stories for us on mortgages and just home ownership in general. We did the story about suburban neighborhoods turning into rental mecas, and now you have these issues with the homes and people not being able to buy them. Are you seen any kind of pattern because the mortgage rates are still high, but there's houses for sale. Yeah, and insurance rates have been rising as well. So you might be in the house that you paid for and you still have a pretty low mortgage rate, but your costs are still going up.

And what we've seen in those rent, those rental, the single family home rental has been a really big story in the suburbs. For these people who are behind on their mortgages, they might be able to rent out for more than they're paying in their mortgage bill anyway. So there are some options for some people in the suburbs who might feel like they're being priced out of their own home. All right, we're going to keep an eye on it. I know you will as well. Christine, we thank you. When Top Story returns soccer, sort of.

Robots powered by AI taking to the pitch for a soccer match, unlike anything we've ever seen, how they did when we come back. Finally, tonight is soccer match. unlike any other. The teams made up entirely of robots, captivating fans, even as they stumbled, face-planted, and had to be carried off the field in stretchers. Take a look. With fans in the stands, a first for the sports world. China is calling this the first three-on-three humanoid robot soccer match. But Messi and Ronaldo don't have much to worry about. These athletes seem to put around excel in face plants, and headbutting one another.

Some even had to be carried off the pitch. But it's not the athletic play that is world-class, it's the technology. China claims all these robots are AI-driven without human intervention, programmed to do push-ups, walk uphill, and withstand a straight shot to the chest, even designed to stand up after falling, equipped with sensors to help find the ball and navigate the field. Sort of. College teams reportedly built the robots with one taking home a trophy after scoring the most goals. The World Cup? It's not. But for one Chinese college, Glory, in the Robo Cup. That does it for us. We thank you so much for watching Top Story tonight. I'm Tom Yamis in New York.

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