It's Thursday June 29th 2023 this brand new day starts now

Hey, hey, it's first thing with Kevin Mano. Welcome to it a quick rundown of all the headlines

Before I get to a few celebrity birthdays today's my birthday. I'm 40 today

That's kind of a big one. I don't normally make this big of a deal about my birthday

But 40 kind of feels important

Anyway, Camila Mendez from Riverdale. She's celebrating today Nicole Scherzinger from the pussy cat doll

Hey, she just got engaged comedian Richard Lewis and Gary Buce all my birthday buddies happy birthday

And I'm the state in history

16 years ago today the first iPhone went on sale

It's a game changer. Don't we had four gigabytes of storage and it cost five hundred dollars 16 years ago today

It's amazing what fits in a pocket these days

You remember those commercials I do

All right, we always start with the top story again today one of the top stories is that unhealthy air quality just blanketing the country

There are currently close to 500 active wildfires burning up in Canada

More than half are quote out of control. It's not good so far about 20 million acres have burned up there yesterday

20 US states were under air quality alerts more than

122 million people were under that haze that's more than a third of all Americans

And it's not going anywhere anytime soon for the next few days parts of New York state

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are supposed to get the worst of it

It's even visible in Spain right now

Yesterday Chicago the air quality index got up to 207 they say any number over 100 is considered unhealthy

For sensitive groups and it was 207 people with heart or lung conditions the elderly kids

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