* WHAT…Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 106.

* WHERE…A portion of southwest California.

* WHEN…Until 8 PM PDT this evening.

* IMPACTS…There is a high risk for dangerous heat illness for
anyone, especially for the very young, the very old, those without
air conditioning, and those active outdoors.
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Do not leave young children and pets in unattended vehicles. Car
interiors will reach lethal temperatures in a matter of minutes.

Take extra precautions when outside. Wear lightweight and loose
fitting clothing. Try to limit strenuous activities to early morning
or evening. Take action when you see symptoms of heat exhaustion and
heat stroke.

To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent rest breaks in
shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone overcome by heat
should be moved to a cool and shaded location. Heat stroke is an
emergency! Call 9 1 1.

Stay cool, stay hydrated, stay informed.

Monitor the latest forecasts and warnings for updates.

If you do not have air conditioning in your home or lack shelter,
you can call 211 for assistance locating appropriate shelter from
the heat.

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By Clare Duffy, CNN

Rochester, Minn. (CNN) — Preparing to meet with a patient can require Mayo Clinic internal medicine physician Dr. Alexander Ryu to sort through dozens, or even hundreds, of pages of medical records.

Many patients visit the renowned clinic looking for a third or fourth opinion, carting with them unsorted documents from external health systems. A new artificial intelligence tool is helping clinicians parse through records faster — generating relevant patient summaries, organizing documents in chronological order and making them easier to search.

Ryu said the tool, called Record Time, can save him between five and 30 minutes of preparation per visit, depending on the complexity of the case. That’s time he can instead spend face-to-face with the patient. And Record Time helps ensure that he doesn’t miss important details that might be buried in the file that could drive treatment and testing recommendations.

“We receive a huge volume of these records, tens of millions of pages every year, and we needed a way to find important information in that,” said Ryu, who also serves as vice chair of innovation for the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine.

Health-related applications are considered among the most promising areas of innovation for AI. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and others have rolled out health assistant chatbot features — and tens of millions of people are turning to AI for medical-related questions. Leaders in Silicon Valley also frequently make bold promises about AI curing cancer and other diseases, although those statements often sound more like marketing pitches given the big industry players are largely focused on other consumer and business applications.

But Record Time is just one way that Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s most well-known hospital systems, is using AI in hopes of improving patient care and, ultimately, saving lives. The hospital is partnering with firms like Microsoft and Scale AI to use its huge volume of patient records and research to develop AI tools.

There are now around 150 AI models deployed within the hospital, according to Dr. Matthew Callstrom, a radiologist and medical director of Mayo Clinic’s generative AI program.

The use of AI in healthcare settings is not without controversy, raising big questions about accuracy and patient privacy.

Mayo Clinic’s former Director of Research Operations Traci Tamiko Eto sued the hospital earlier this month, alleging she was retaliated against for raising privacy and oversight concerns around some Mayo AI systems.

Mayo Clinic spokesperson Andrea Kalmanovitz said the hospital doesn’t comment on ongoing litigation but noted it is “committed to the responsible development and deployment of AI, with privacy, security, transparency and compliance embedded throughout our processes.”

“Our research and clinical innovation are conducted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and we remain steadfast in upholding the trust patients place in us and respecting their privacy,” Kalmanovitz said in a statement.

‘Potentially life changing’

Part of what makes AI so useful in health and medicine is that the technology excels at identifying trends in large swaths of data, said Jason Droege, CEO of Scale AI, which worked with Mayo Clinic to develop Record Time.

“AI can step in and do a lot of the tedious work that very specialized doctors or medical professionals do to speed up that process — get to more accurate diagnoses, faster so you can tr

CNN, MAYO CLINIC, SCALE, GETTY IMAGES

By Clare Duffy, CNN

Rochester, Minn. (CNN) — Preparing to meet with a patient can require Mayo Clinic internal medicine physician Dr. Alexander Ryu to sort through dozens, or even hundreds, of pages of medical records.

Many patients visit the renowned clinic looking for a third or fourth opinion, carting with them unsorted documents from external health systems. A new artificial intelligence tool is helping clinicians parse through records faster — generating relevant patient summaries, organizing documents in chronological order and making them easier to search.

Ryu said the tool, called Record Time, can save him between five and 30 minutes of preparation per visit, depending on the complexity of the case. That’s time he can instead spend face-to-face with the patient. And Record Time helps ensure that he doesn’t miss important details that might be buried in the file that could drive treatment and testing recommendations.

“We receive a huge volume of these records, tens of millions of pages every year, and we needed a way to find important information in that,” said Ryu, who also serves as vice chair of innovation for the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine.

Health-related applications are considered among the most promising areas of innovation for AI. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and others have rolled out health assistant chatbot features — and tens of millions of people are turning to AI for medical-related questions. Leaders in Silicon Valley also frequently make bold promises about AI curing cancer and other diseases, although those statements often sound more like marketing pitches given the big industry players are largely focused on other consumer and business applications.

But Record Time is just one way that Mayo Clinic, one of the world’s most well-known hospital systems, is using AI in hopes of improving patient care and, ultimately, saving lives. The hospital is partnering with firms like Microsoft and Scale AI to use its huge volume of patient records and research to develop AI tools.

There are now around 150 AI models deployed within the hospital, according to Dr. Matthew Callstrom, a radiologist and medical director of Mayo Clinic’s generative AI program.

The use of AI in healthcare settings is not without controversy, raising big questions about accuracy and patient privacy.

Mayo Clinic’s former Director of Research Operations Traci Tamiko Eto sued the hospital earlier this month, alleging she was retaliated against for raising privacy and oversight concerns around some Mayo AI systems.

Mayo Clinic spokesperson Andrea Kalmanovitz said the hospital doesn’t comment on ongoing litigation but noted it is “committed to the responsible development and deploy

By Andy Rose, Priscilla Alvarez, Michael Williams, CNN

(CNN) — It was the problem that installing a new top official at the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to solve.

Support for the Trump administration’s intense focus on immigration enforcement was falling early this year after high-profile operations resulted in controversial deportations, violent confrontations with protesters and, ultimately, two US citizens shot to death in January on the streets of Minneapolis.

“My goal in six months is that we’re not in the lead story every single day,” the incoming DHS secretary, Markwayne Mullin, told a congressional panel in mid-March.

Although there are two months left to go on that self-imposed deadline, Mullin’s hope for a quiet summer of inconspicuous immigration arrests has been foiled by another pair of fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents under his broad command.

The killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastian Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, both came at the end of traffic stops, which had become a critical tool for agents trying to meet the Trump administration’s goal of around 2,000 arrests a day.

That seemed to change Tuesday as DHS faced more criticism from local officials and members of Congress: ICE agents were told to largely suspend vehicle stops until further notice and to coordinate with partner agencies when executing a criminal warrant on someone in a vehicle.

But border czar Tom Homan had barely finished a round of interviews downplaying the significance of those traffic stops and predicting the temporary change wouldn’t greatly impact the number of immigration-related arrests when the directive changed again.

The flip-flop came at the direction of President Donald Trump, a White House official said. The pause had made him furious, two sources familiar with the matter said, as prominent MAGA voices suggested his administration was weakening immigration enforcement.

“We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump wrote Wednesday morning on Truth Social. “Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.”

“I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job,” he added

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN

(CNN) — Facing what Secretary of State Marco Rubio will describe as a “resurgence” of “far left political terrorism,” according to a State Department official, Rubio will convene diplomats from around the world in Washington on Thursday to discuss a response.

It is a key priority of the Trump administration, which has argued in its counterterrorism strategy that “violent left-wing extremists, including anarchists and anti-fascists” are foremost terrorist threat to the United States, alongside cartels and “legacy Islamist terrorists.”

However, multiple former officials said the issue has been politicized by the administration and that the threat from the “far-left” does not rise to the level of that posed by groups like ISIS or by far-right extremists. The latter was absent entirely from the administration’s counterterrorism strategy released in May.

Thursday’s ministerial, according to the State Department, is meant to “expand coordination, enhance information sharing, and strengthen international law enforcement mechanisms to counter the threat” that it says has “remained a blind spot in the international community’s counterterrorism focus.”

A senior State Department official said 65 country delegations are slated to attend the event from “across the Western Hemisphere, Asia, Europe, and beyond.”

According to sources, many of the delegations will not be led by the foreign ministers of the countries, but rather more working-level and technical officials. Several cited scheduling, with invitations to the event only being issued at the beginning of July.

Countries that had worked with the administration on the topic were among those invited, the official said, noting they’ve had “very productive engagements with Germany, with Greece, with Italy, and that’s often where the problem is most pronounced in Europe.”

In his speech, Rubio plans to describe left-wing terrorism as “the result of a unique evil rooted in a deep resentment towards civilization,” according to the State Department official. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller are also expected to participate.

The threat of left-wing terrorism “has not really been addressed collectively in an effective way,” the senior State Department official said. According to the official, partners have said they “have a handle” on other forms of political violence but “this one is more difficult for us.”

The senior official cited attacks by members of European Antifa groups, which the administration designated as terrorists last November, as examples of far-left terrorist actions. They did not provide examples from other parts of the world but said they are focused on “violent criminal terrorist acts,” when asked if a leftist protest would be considered a form of far-left terrorism.

However, former officials said the ministerial appears to be a part of the administration’s broader effort to amplify the threat and target those on the political left who oppose Trump’s policies. Several who spoke with CNN said that the reality of the threat from far-left extremists does not match the administration’s portrayal.

“We looked at terrorism of all stripes, including left-wing terrorism, but the reality and the data, both here domestically and abroad, indicate that left-wing extremism is not and has not been the type of threat or the degree of threat that far-right terrorism or extremist violence or jihadist violence have posed,” said Ian Moss, the former deputy coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department under the Biden administration.

Moss, now an attorn