Three, two, one, release, release, release.

And that is a full duration burn, folks. We are headed to space.

Sir Richard Branson wins the first heat of the new space race, beating Jeff Bezos to become the first person to blast off in his own spaceship.

The question this morning is this the launch of the space tourism industry.

Plus, more than a dozen guns and rounds, thousands of ammunition seized from a hotel room

near the site of the upcoming All-Star game.

Four people have been arrested.

The question is, what were they plotting?

And thousands join rare

anti-government protests in Cuba, with shortages of food, medicine, and vaccines amid the worsening

pandemic there. The question, how is the government responding? It's way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that would take a beach vacation before I book a ticket to outer space.

Really something. I am Casey Hunt on this Monday, July 12th, we'll start with the news. The Biden administration is responding after thousands of Cubans took to the streets

in what's being called the biggest anti-government demonstration in decades there. The protests

erupted amid food shortages, high prices, and daily blackouts as the island struggles to contain the coronavirus.

The anti-government protest in the capital of Havana lasting about two and a half hours

before it was eventually broken up. Witnesses tell the Washington Post that Cuban security personnel

deployed tear gas and other forms of force to disperse the crowds. Multiple people were injured

as authorities clashed with the demonstrators.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Cannell blamed the United States for agitating the population.

The country is going through its worst economic crisis in decades as it suffers the ongoing consequences of U.S. sanctions.

A U.S. State Department official released a statement on

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