NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 5)

Welcome to Entity Evening News. Here are our top stories tonight. A U.S. delegation meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Former U.S. Ambassador Jim Gilmore joins us to unpack the significance of the meeting. U.S. forces destroy three Iranian crude oil carriers, what prompted the strikes, and what the U.S. says about continued Iranian aggression. Burnout? Medical experts say it can harm you both physically and mentally. Best-selling author Dr. David Perlmutter tells Vital Signs it's even linked to Alzheimer's. And the latest tribute to the late music legend Dolly Parton. Why the country music legend is getting a new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Thank you for joining us tonight, I'm Arlene Richards. A U.S. delegation is visiting Russia and Ukraine this weekend, working to end the fighting between the two countries. Special Envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner are in Moscow today, meeting with Russia's President Putin before heading to Kiev. I would like to ask you to convey my best wishes and words of gratitude to the President of the Nevertheless, he's persisting in his efforts to contribute to resolving the Russia-Ukrainian conflict. I want to thank you for endorsing the no-shoot policy in Kiev and in Moscow for these three days that allowed us to be able to come here in a safe manner. Both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to pause strikes on each other's capital cities while the envoys are visiting. It's not clear how the delegation will travel between the two cities, as Ukraine's airspace has been closed since the start of the war. Earlier today, Ukraine accused Russia of striking Kiev's airport, calling it a, quote, demonstrative attack. He says the strikes were a reaction to the possibility that U.S. envoys could fly directly into Ukraine. This week's meeting comes just over a week after CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow. Neither Washington nor Moscow has disclosed the purpose of that meeting, with President Trump describing the visit as semi-routine. From new strikes on Iran and a sweeping energy deal with Venezuela to a push to re-industrialize America, it was another action-packed week for the Trump administration. Entity's Daniel Monahan has your White House Week in review. U.S. forces launching fresh strikes on Iran this week, hitting air defense sites, radar systems, and mine-laying capabilities. President Trump saying the strikes were retaliation for Iran's failed attempt at adding sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Besen says operations targeting Iran economically are moving full steam ahead. We are going to economically asphyxiate this regime. The U.S. brokering a major oil deal with Venezuela, giving the United States access to 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil reserves. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum saying on Fox News it means no more buying energy from countries waging war on U.S. allies or sponsoring terrorism. It's really nothing short of actually shifting the geopolitical center of the global energy markets away from these choke points like in the Middle East and moving it back to the Western Hemisphere. At a Rose Garden dinner, President Trump says he's hitting the road for the midterms. President saying he'll visit all 35 competitive races to help get GOP candidates over the finish line. So I'm relying on you guys to give me some names where I say is either tied or you're winning by a little bit or you're losing by a little bit. President Trump bowing the GOP will defeat what he called the Democrat communists. They want to be a communist country. They skipped socialism. They were supposed to hit socialism and then go communist, Mike, but they skipped socialism. They went right down to the bottom, and the bottom is communism. The Trump administration launching Foundry School, a national program to train the engineers, technicians and industrial leaders needed to rebuild U.S. manufacturing. I think we made a terrible mistake in this country, not many years ago under people that were in charge at the time, especially at the end of the Cold War. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. And the idea that if you're working with your hands, you're not using your mind is one of the dumbest things that America's leaders ever told a generation of American kids. On Wednesday, the U.S. military stopped and boarded a vessel involved in drug trafficking in international waters in the eastern Pacific. Officials say the vessel was working for a violent narco-terrorist organization called Los Choneros. Once cleared, U.S. forces sank the boat. President Trump signing a stopgap funding bill into law this week, keeping the government running through the November midterms until December 11th. On this vote, the yeas are 370, the nays are 48. Federal immigration authorities say ICE made a number of arrests in August, 51,000, as the Trump administration continues its crackdown on illegal immigration. When you choose to take the shortcut, you have made a decision, a conscious decision, to enter this country illegally and break our nation's laws. Turkey has signed the Artemis Accords, backing international rules for peaceful exploration of the moon, Mars, and beyond. It comes as President Trump pushes NASA to fast-track America's return to the moon, with a permanent moon base and a future manned mission to Mars in his sights. A week that ranged from the battlefield to the border, with the campaign trail already on the horizon. Daniel Monaghan, NTD News. U.S. forces today destroying three Iranian crude oil carriers, that's after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles toward two Navy warships. The missiles did not strike the Navy warships and no Americans were hurt in the attack. CENTCOM says the oil tankers were part of a multibillion-dollar shadow network that funds Iran. The commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Brad Cooper, says the message to the IRGC is clear. In his words, if you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost, taking out three of yours. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also posting on X, saying, quote, It's simple. If Iran shoots at U.S. ships, we will destroy and sink their oil tankers. All they have to do is not shoot at U.S. Navy. Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy continues to enforce the blockade of Iranian ports. As of Wednesday, U.S. forces redirected 86 commercial vessels, disabled three, and boarded two to ensure compliance. The FBI is expanding its most wanted fraudster list, the bureau adding three fugitives accused of major fraud worth tens of millions of dollars. Here are the details. The FBI is adding three fugitives to its most wanted fraudsters list, bringing the current roster to 12 people accused of major fraud. The bureau launched the new list in June, highlighting cases involving millions of dollars in alleged fraud. One of the three new additions is Turkish national Onur Simsek, who the FBI accuses of running a defense contract fraud scheme targeting the U.S. Department of War. The FBI says he used a Florida company as a front, allegedly selling military parts made in Turkey, while falsely claiming they were made by an approved U.S. company. The Department of War says the alleged deception could have compromised national security by allowing potentially substandard components into the U.S. military supply chain. Another new addition to the fraud list is Bernhard Fritsch, who was found guilty of defrauding investors. Prosecutors say he lied about the financial performance of his company StarClub. Prosecutors estimate he scammed investors out of nearly $27 million. The FBI says Fritsch fled to Mexico and is now believed to be living in Germany. He was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in federal prison. The FBI is also seeking Munyit Singh Bedi, a 65-year-old grocery store owner accused of stealing more than $600,000 in federal food assistance benefits. The FBI says Bedi used an Asian grocery store in Tacoma, Washington, to swipe customers' SNAP benefits and give them cash instead of food, keeping part of the money for himself. The FBI believes he is now residing in India and is offering up to $150,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction. FBI Director Kash Patel says four people previously placed on the list have been captured. Look, President Trump and the Vice President stood up their anti-fraud task force, and in just the last five weeks, Trey, the FBI has captured four of the most wanted fraudsters in the world on three different continents, totaling $2 billion in Medicare and health care fraud money that was supposed to be allocated to our elderly and our children. They include individuals accused of Medicare fraud, COVID-19 relief fraud, and scams related to the Feeding Our Future child nutrition program. Patel says the FBI will continue targeting major fraud cases around the world, saying, quote, we're not slowing down. House lawmakers wrap up a busy week in Washington, alerting an election-time government shutdown, condemning socialism, and passing a censure vote, all as Republicans probe birth tourism and Democrats deal with friction within their own party. NTD's Melina Weiskopf has this week's recap from Capitol Hill. House lawmakers returned to Washington this week, immediately fast-tracking a bill, averting a government shutdown during the midterm elections, punting the funding negotiations until Congress's lame duck session. And they will continue through the process after the election. I wish we could get everybody to work faster and sooner if that's where we are. The second order of business, censoring Representative Chuck Edwards over sexual misconduct allegations towards two young female staffers. Regret is not an admission of sexual harassment. I can acknowledge poor judgment, regret the discomfort that some of my actions may have caused. According to an ethics committee report, Edwards sent personal texts, paid for vacations, and lavish gifts, which prompted the two staffers to quit. In other news, Republicans are making a priority of probing birth tourism and the national security risks involved. A task force this week pressed Dr. Vladimir Lorenz, founder of Have My Baby in Miami. Does your business help children of members of the Chinese Communist Party obtain American citizenship? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer the question. Lawmakers say there are companies like his across the nation that promote birth tourism to foreign nationals for profit. All of these individuals, however, who've grown up in a foreign country, are not vetted before they arrive, could conceivably get a national security clearance because they're American citizens, and that is a concern. Many of these kids were taken back and raised in China, withholding U.S. citizenship, and then all while retaining the right to vote in our elections once they turn 18. On the House floor, lawmakers voted to condemn socialism and key policies of the Democratic Socialists of America. Socialism is communism lite. Socialism is the first step to communism. And if anybody doubts what I'm saying, just listen to Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union who proclaimed the goal of socialism is communism. It comes as several DSA candidates have won primaries across the nation, some even unseating incumbent Democrats. Communists never tell you they're communists, okay? It's a DSA platform. It's not a socialist platform. It is a communist platform. Just eight Democrats voting with Republicans. The resolution called for the passage of the Save America Act, leading some Democrats to oppose it, even though they said they reject socialism. Get rid of the Senate and get rid of jails and, you know, Fidel Castro is fantastic, you know, that sort of stuff is, yeah, especially in South Florida, have given Republicans something to run against. Just goes to show politically how they are on shaky ground. Intra-party friction within the Democratic Party on full display this week. Two moderate Democrats broke ranks to support a procedural vote. It paved the way for Republicans to pass much of their midterm messaging bills. Democrat leadership called the votes a breach of trust. The caucus is engaging in a family discussion about how we all move forward. The Democrat caucus is likely to face a test of unity in the next session as leadership weighs how to balance a party of moderate and socialist lawmakers. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskup, NTD News. Next week in Dallas, the Republican National Committee's first ever midterm convention. NTD Capital reports Steve Lance and White House correspondent Iris Tao will report live from Dallas, bringing you the latest updates, in-depth analysis and conversations with newsmakers on the November elections. Hear directly from Republican lawmakers and candidates and watch as President Trump takes center stage. A U.S. delegation meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Former U.S. Ambassador Jim Gilmore joins us to unpack the significance of the meeting. 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I think we have a technical difficulty here. Ambassador, maybe your microphone's not on. Okay, we apologize for that. We're experiencing a technical difficulty with the ambassador. We'll go on. So some lawmakers call it the Safe at Work Act. Opponents call it the Stop Nick Shelley Act. The journalist himself is taking matters to court, arguing the new California law allows corruption and fraud to be overlooked. Entity's David Lam reports. Journalist Nick Shirley is suing the California attorney general and secretary of state after the state passed a privacy protection law. The law is intended to protect information of immigration service workers from being posted online, but Shirley says it violates free speech rights under the First Amendment. And why specifically make immigration support service providers a protected class inside of California? Shirley is known for investigating organizations and hospices that allegedly defraud taxpayer money through government programs. Excuse me, let's see if they can just answer our questions really quick. Hello, can we ask you a quick question? Driving out in a brand new M8, they can't get out that easy. How can I get an M8 as well? Should I open up a hospice? In March, he said his team uncovered more than $170 million in fraud in California. He calls the new law the Stop Nick Shirley Act. That's quite literally, they are then going to be able to give me a written demand, a piece of paper saying, hey, you cannot publish that video. And if I do, I will get a $4,000 fine. And if you do too, you will also potentially get a $4,000 fine. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill into law in August, and it will come into effect in October 2027. California Assembly Member Mia Bonta introduced the bill. And my bill and the Safe at Home program defines this as sharing personal information with the intent to incite imminent to great bodily harm or place someone in objectively reasonable fear for their personal safety. Shirley says he is not seeking money through the lawsuit, but rather defending First Amendment rights. He anticipates the legal process to play out over the course of months or years. David Lamb, NTD News, California. All right, we're back now with former U.S. Ambassador Jim Gilmore. He's helping us to understand the significance of this meeting between Russia and the U.S. Ambassador, welcome. We're good. Thank you. I hope you can hear me this time. Sorry about that microphone problem. No problem. No problem. I can hear you. All right. So a new push for Russian-Ukraine peace talks is in motion today. Ambassador, earlier this week, Putin said there's a chance at peace. He's also agreed to a no-shoot policy between Kyiv and Moscow for three days while these talks continue. So are things moving in the right direction? It really depends upon how much pressure Vladimir Putin is under. I think the most important thing I can tell your viewers, the most important thing is to remember that this is a political dispute between Ukraine and Russia, and you have to look at what their goals are. Russia's stated goals are the destruction of Ukraine and the reassembly of their Russian empire and their invasion successfully. Ukrainians, on the other hand, are fighting for their lives and fighting for their sovereignty and their independence. So a lot is at stake here. But that's really what's going on. The military part of it, the war part of it is just an instrumentality of that. Well, we haven't had a meeting this big in a while. Why now? I mean, what's led to this now? Well, I think that President Trump thinks he can offer something. And of course, Whitkoff and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are people that he trusts. They're not professional diplomats, but they do have the trust of President Trump. So he's probably asked for an opportunity to go and present these things both to Ukraine and to Russia. And if you're going to do that, who knows, maybe what we're seeing here is that Putin is under such pressure in Russia because all of a sudden the Ukrainians are successfully striking Russia that maybe he needs to get rid of this conflict. And that would be a very helpful thing if that's true. I frankly don't believe it. Well, you know, in terms of what each side wants, Ukraine and Russia, do you expect any changes from what we've heard in previous talks? Maybe they're softening on either side? There certainly hasn't been any report of that. The Russians said, Putin said as recently as yesterday that he's happy to have a conversation. But, you know, his goals, which are the complete conquest of the Donbass and basically that Ukraine must always surrender their chance to be in NATO, is his intractable position. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, are saying, we're not giving up our territory just because you invade us with a military army. We're not going to try to be conquered and they're part of our country. These two positions are absolutely diametrically opposed. The question, I suppose, that you're posing is, is there anything going on right now that would cause either of these people to try to find a middle grade solution? Frankly, the two positions are completely opposite. They're not subject to any kind of real compromise. Maybe somebody can dream up some way to get this done. And of course, if you have a conversation about it, you never know what will emerge. But I am very skeptical that this is going to yield anything. Well, does the U.S. have any leverage over Russia at this time? Does the United States have any leverage over Russia? I guess only that the United States could play a more aggressive role in helping Ukraine. They're not doing that right now. But if they basically were to go into this meeting and say, look, if you don't begin to agree to withdraw and get out of this other sovereign country, the United States will come in and help the Ukrainians at least survive the cold winter that's coming. Because there's been a lot of talk about that. Putin is committing war crimes, of course. He's attacking energy infrastructure in Ukraine, killing civilians deliberately in order to put the maximum pain on Ukraine so that they will give up. That's not going to work, but it's going to be a terribly miserable situation. If the United States and the Europeans come forward and help Ukraine survive the winter, that would be something that Putin would not like very much. So maybe that's the one place where we might have some leverage. It would be an affirmative position of the United States to intervene in a positive way on behalf of Ukraine. Well, the Russia-Ukraine war has had a global impact on trade, oil supply chains and foreign relations. But we've seen Russia become more dependent on China, which wants to weaken U.S. influence. So would ending this war weaken what some are calling the axis of autocracy? It depends on what the political outcome would be of the war. Remember, they're each fighting for a particular goal. It would depend on what the ultimate outcome is. I remind people what I've said all for a long time now. This is a global conflict that the United States is in, both in Europe, which I consider to be the key pivot location, but also in the Pacific as well. Your picture there shows Xi and Putin working together and very happy people together because they have, while their goals are really in the long run not the same, today they are the same, which is to remove the United States from authority across the world and to destroy our leadership across the world because we stand for freedom and independence, and these two countries absolutely do not. But they also stand for their own goals. Let me make one more point, particularly for your viewers, which is that if the Russians are successful in conquering any part of Ukraine, which sets them up for further conquest at a later time, that encourages the Chinese to begin to say, well, if it's okay for the Russians, it's okay for us. So then they would begin to put more pressure on Taiwan. And frankly, if there's a Taiwan incursion at the same time that the Russians are doing their aggression, then I think you're headed for a lot of trouble, and we don't want that to happen. Well, you know, earlier you said that you weren't very confident that this meeting was going to lead to anything. Is there anything in your mind or from your experience as an ambassador that would ultimately help this lead to peace? Well, listen, I think that having personal contacts is always a good thing. I believe that having a good relationship with our allies, particularly, is very important in this global conflict. There's nothing wrong with opening up lines of communication. When I was United States Ambassador in Vienna at the OSCE, it was my pleasure to begin to introduce some contacts between myself and the Russian representatives, which were warmly received at that time. And there's always setting the stage for something, but do not mistake that for the political consequences and objections that the parties have that has led to this kind of war to begin with. Putin has sacrificed now a million and a half Russian people, soldiers, and wounded and dead. You don't do that unless you have a determination to achieve a goal. We know what the goal is. He thinks he can restore the previous glory of Russia by creating an empire. The problem he's got is that nobody wants to be a part of that empire. So he's trying to do it by force. The Ukrainians, on the other hand, they're saying, look, we're not going to be part of this. They understand exactly what happened. If they are conquered and fall back into the grips of the Russians, they know exactly what will happen. And that's why they're fighting for their lives. All right, Ambassador, thank you so much for those insights on this. And thank you for joining us this evening. Thank you for the opportunity. Another city is moving against block camera systems. The police department in Dallas has announced that it will shut down hundreds of block cameras over a funding pause. The move follows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis acting against the technology, calling it out of control. Entities Daniel Monaghan spoke with a retired police chief who criticizes the push to abandon such road cameras, saying better regulation is needed, not banning useful tools. Block cameras are artificial intelligence driven automated license plate reader systems. They have drawn online controversy over concerns regarding data privacy, surveillance overreach and their potential misuse. Police in Dallas, Texas, are removing the camera system after Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive ending funding for block camera use. Meanwhile, the Florida Department of Transportation saying Monday agencies have 30 days to remove license plate reading cameras off state highways. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he backs giving police useful crime fighting tools, but he's drawing the line at turning Florida into a surveillance state. I was hoping that he would do some type of review, an independent review of the way the system is worked. And if it is working as intended and there's not a mass, you know, like misuse of the system that then they would order them back on. Retired police chief Tom Whitesell calls the current movement to take down block cameras an overreaction. Is there room for some improvement for oversight and accountability? For sure. And has there been some misuse by police officers? But in every case that I've been able to research, they have either been under investigation and are on suspension. They have been found to have misused and been fired. And in most cases, states are criminally charging them. In Haines City, Florida, an officer is now facing charges accused of running his estranged wife's plate through flock system more than 700 times. And in Sumter County, Florida, a sheriff detective was fired and charged, accused of using license plate data to dig up information on her husband's ex-wife. Whitesell says license plate reader camera systems have a passive mode and an investigative mode. Passive mode, all that means is that you get an alert on your squad car computer that a vehicle has come into your jurisdiction that's wanted, entered in the system, is taken maybe in a carjacking, stolen, wanted in connection with a child kidnapping. It gives you the location and direction of travel and then you can go and investigate it. The investigative mode, says Whitesell, can be used for cases like fatal hit and runs, where the only information is car make and a certain bumper sticker like the Chicago Bears. You can put that information into flock as an investigative tool, search, and it will come up with any vehicles in the system that were in that area or that they have caught on their cameras with that type of description. And those have been very, very helpful in solving crimes. Marion County, Florida, officials say the cameras helped find a missing 13-year-old girl at the center of an amber alert. And in December 2025's Brown University shooting, two students killed, nine wounded. Flock's AI cameras tracked the suspect's car 14 times beforehand, and police say the system kept him on their radar even after he swapped his license plate. It's also used for everyday police work. It solves hundreds of, maybe tens of thousands of hit and runs, hit and run fatalities, burglaries, retail thefts, and other carjackings, stolen autos. I mean those are everyday crimes that the beat officers come in contact with. It doesn't make the news media. It's not a big story. Whitesell says losing such a useful tool would handcuff law enforcement. He is calling for greater penalties for misuse, for example, five years in prison and stronger regulation of the camera systems. That's reasonable. You're misusing the system. You know that if you're convicted, you're going to go to prison for five years. I think most people would support that. The retired police chief acknowledges the concerns about privacy and misuse, but says no police tool is 100 percent abuse-proof. Better regulation and stiff penalties, he believes, will do the job to ensure law enforcement keeps a valuable tool. Daniel Monahan, NTD News. Los Angeles schools banning artificial intelligence. Los Angeles Unified, the nation's second largest school district, is barring all students from using generative AI this school year. The move reverses a policy that allowed older students to use it after completing a digital literacy course. The school board did not vote on the policy. District administrators put the ban in place on their own. Board members say they weren't informed in advance. The change comes days after New York City schools announced a similar one-year ban for grades pre-K through eight. More than three dozen states have issued AI guidance for schools, but there's still no national standard for how the technology should be used in classrooms. 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In an interview with vital science neurologist and bestselling author, Dr. David Perlmutter, says there's actually a connection between burnouts and Alzheimer's. Here's a preview of that episode. Dr. Perlmutter, it's great to have you back on Vital Signs. Delighted to be here. I always look forward to our times together. And I'm very interested to talk to you about your new book, Brain Defenders. I know that there's a dedicated chapter in this book to stress hormones, and that spurred on my interest to ask you about the epidemic of burnout that we're seeing in society, something that is particularly affecting younger generations. I hear that Gen Z is experiencing this actually more than millennials. So I wonder, is there a connection between someone experiencing burnout and potentially ending up with Alzheimer's later in life? Well, actually there is. And burnout, as you can imagine, is not necessarily a term of art or a technical term. I think we all know what it means, that you just can't do it anymore. Your brain is no longer able to let you fulfill the obligations that you have, and you just can't do it. You basically have to quit. And it's really when you ask people who you think are going to qualify for that nomenclature of burnout, what are they feeling? And they say, I just don't have the energy anymore, the physical and mental energy. And while that's an interesting description, it's actually absolutely on target. Because as we go back to high school biology, we remember that what makes energy in the cells of our bodies are things called the mitochondria, the energy producers of the cells. The brain is a very energy-hungry organ, being like a computer. So we really depend on the brain to have good energetics, good mitochondrial function, to use the fuels that we give it, basically glucose from the foods that we eat, to make the energy in the presence of oxygen so that the brain cells can work really well. But here's where the story gets really interesting. When I say brain cells, you're probably thinking neurons, right? The cells in the brain. But the neurons in the brain represent only 50% of the total cells in the brain. There are other cells in the brain that are immune cells, these microglial cells that characterize the brain's immune system. And like the neurons, they are dependent upon energy to do their job. When they are not able to make enough energy because their mitochondria are not working well enough, then these immune cells undergo a change from being supportive of our brain cells, neurons, and our synapses, and even the blood-brain barrier, to becoming destructive. This is a shift in the brain's immune cells, which we call, again, the microglial cells, from being supportive to being destructive. Now, to absolutely answer your question, what is the relationship then between the situation of burnout caused by lack of energy in the brain and risk for Alzheimer's? And it turns out that when these brain immune cells shift from being supportive to being destructive, because their energy isn't where it needs to be, that sets the stage for that brain to be one that is characterized by any number of neurodegenerative conditions, even including Alzheimer's. So we've got to take this notion of burnout very, very seriously and attack it and change lifestyle. It isn't worth it. If I had to say one thing to people who are thinking they've got to burn the candle at both ends to make things happen, the long-term consequences are absolutely not worth it. That's probably advice that I need to be taking on board. I think I've definitely approached the edge of burnout more than a few times. So given that burnout is a potential risk for someone developing Alzheimer's later in life, what kind of warning signs should younger generations be watching out for now that they might be headed down that direction? Well, let me answer that question in a moment, but I think the idea that younger people should be thinking about Alzheimer's risk is really sort of uncharted territory, but critically important nonetheless. Why? Because the current paradigm is live your life however you choose, burnout, metabolically compromised or otherwise, and then when you're 65 or 70 and you're cognitively having issues, then there'll be a drug to fix that. Well, I'm hopeful there'll be a drug, but there is no drug that will fix your Alzheimer's as you and I have this conversation right now. In fact, we've actually unpacked that before. So what should the younger person in his or her 30s and 40s be thinking about? That they've got to pay attention to their metabolism, their blood sugar, levels of inflammation, how well they're sleeping, what is their waist to hip ratio? Measure your waist, measure your hip. What's that ratio looking like? These are all metabolic factors that are absolutely worsened when we are under a lot of stress and even prior to the actual achievement of being burned out and can't do it anymore. That doesn't happen all of a sudden. People build up to that stage where they quit their job, they drop out of school or whatever the real signature of burnout is. We know we get there slowly. It's not like it happens overnight, but the point I'm making is that those metabolic consequences of living that type of lifestyle are hugely relevant because those issues, those metabolic threats are when the seeds for Alzheimer's are sown in that particular individual. To see that full interview and others on how to optimize health, go to ept.ms forward slash vital signs. Vital signs offers general health information not intended as medical diagnosis or advice. Please consult your doctor before undertaking a new health regimen. 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A week after Dolly Parton's Hollywood Walk of Fame star was strewn with memorial flowers, no flowers, no crowds, and no star, 42 years of foot traffic and seismic activity had taken its toll, as it has on many stars on the world-famous walk. The original star was pretty damaged, so we want to give the Hollywood Trust wanted to honor her with a new star. When she passed, we immediately brought her up to the top of the list, and we're like, this needs to be done. We want to be able to honor somebody so wonderful and important. After removing the old star, workers began constructing the new one in the same spot on Hollywood Boulevard. The same company has made all 2,800-plus stars since the walk was dedicated in 1960. It's a pour-in-place process, and today they're doing the rough pour-in. Once it's cured, they'll come and grind it, and they'll put a layer of the same cementitious ink in black. Unsurprisingly, the work drew tourists, including one from Parton's home state. Just the way that she loved and respected everyone under any condition, and she's given so much back to the community, especially through her library. A few days later, after grinding, sanding, and polishing, Dolly was back in all her glory. She's given back so much, and I think she deserves something that's just as polished and beautiful as she is. Influencers are invading the U.S. Open, impromptu photo shoots interrupting the tennis tournament, even enforcing an umpire to pause a match featuring a former world number one player. Here are the details. Antics off the court, temporarily stopping play at the U.S. Open. This after a group of influencers were so disruptive while taking selfies in the stands, a chair umpire paused play during Naomi Osaka's match on Monday and told them to take their seats. Some tennis fans are frankly fed up. They take it over everywhere, the influencers. Why shouldn't they take over this? You should have the courtesy to the people who are competing and their families and guests. Point taken, says this content creator, who is offering up her humble apology. And I had the influencer light on me. I was the perfect stereotypical influencer, so I get it. Mary Ganka Chawla says all she wanted to do was have her picture taken during the Osaka match. This lovely usher or guard, I don't know what they're called. And she was like, she took the photo. I thought it was okay, and then I woke up to a storm. A well-deserved storm, but a storm regardless. Her moment went viral, landing her in newspapers and on the receiving end of some hate. Listen, I deserve, what do you want me to say? I deserve to get called out for what I did. I messed up. Can't do nothing. Are you calling me in 4k? It turns out not all tennis fans here think influencers like her are out of bounds. I think it's great. Oh, you do? Oh, totally. Tell me why. Just because it gives more publicity to the event. I find it tiresome. We're married. For me, it's part of the problem because you can't quite get away from it. So you'll have to agree to disagree, it sounds like. We do. Like a lot of things in our marriage. Jokes aside, former pro player Patrick McEnroe says folks are being just a little too hard on all these influencers. I consider myself a tennis purist, okay? So I love tennis, I love the competition, but let's be serious here. We're supposed to be upset that the U.S. Open in tennis is getting bigger, getting more popular. I say it's much ado about nothing. Of course, the influencer's got to learn to turn off their lights if they're on the stadium court, if it's during the match. Certainly critics of content creators worry the selfie culture has gone too far, that it may be cluttering artistic spaces as well. So here's this advice from a self-described sports influencer. I think the biggest piece of advice would be to learn the culture of the sport that you're getting to go to, whether it's the U.S. Open or the World Cup. And while a picture may be worth a thousand words, this influencer says it should also be kept in perspective. I hope people are like, they see that I messed up by taking a photo, but like, I didn't kill their cat. You know, like, I'm still a person, like, I'm sorry. And that's the news for this evening. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Arlene Richards. Good night.