AFN NEWS ON THE HOUR

Thursday, April 5, 2018

1)  From ABC News, I’m Richard Cantu. Sending the National Guard to the border with Mexico, President Trump will sign an order authorizing the use of National Guard troops to fight illegal immigration. Use of the regular army will require an act of Congress. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjan Nielsen insists the threat is real. “We continue to see unacceptable level of illegal drugs, dangerous gang activity, transnational criminal organizations and illegal immigration flows across the border.” Some National Guard troops could be at the border today.

 

2) Facebook announced that Cambridge Analytica improperly got its hands on data from as many as 87 million users, mostly in the U.S. That’s up from the previously estimated 50 million. Company Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announcing they’ll do restrict the user data outsiders can access. “It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough. We didn’t focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well; fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and data privacy.” Previously the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced Zuckerberg would appear before that panel next Wednesday.

 

3) The nation is marking 50 years since the assassination in Memphis of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The nation is celebrating the Rev. King’s ___ at the Civil Rights Museum and scolding some members of this generation for not using the vote he fought to give them. “If we would have gone out and voted, we would not have had what we have now in the White House.” Bishop E Lynn Brown marched with Dr. King and says nearly 40% of African Americans did not vote in the last election. Andy Field, ABC News.

 

4) A new federal lawsuit seeks to bar Ocean Springs, Mississippi from flying the state flag because it contains the Confederate battle emblem. A 2016 lawsuit was rejected because it sought statewide ban.

 

5) Wall Street: the Dow closed up 231 points. The NASDAQ gained 101. You’re listening to ABC News.

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If you’re like most adults, you assume young people never experience boredom. I mean how could they with YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook, which shows just how disconnected you may be. Kim Komando is with your Wednesday “Consumer Tech Update. We’ll call them Generation Z, the ones born between 1998 and 2010, the 8 - 20 year olds who have never lived without high speed internet, smartphones and 24/7 connectivity. This is the world we have given them and they’re bored out of their minds, and an article published this week in BuzzFeed breaks it down nicely. Even though you may think they’re completely immersed as they instagram, snapchat, and take selfies nonstop for them, and all eventually looks the same. All apps become mundane. Nothing is new or exciting in this constant blur of overstimulation. It drains and depresses exactly the opposite of technology’s promise. The best advice you can give them will make you somewhat like your parents. Turn it off. Read a book, go outside and play. I’m Kim Komando.