>> Coming up in the next hour, monsoon starts tomorrow and a forecast.

On Cronkite news, how to stay safe in potentially monsoon weather and on break it down, why people are fascinated by this.

That's all next on PBS.

>> A court in Moscow ruled Brittney Griner be held in jail for another 18 days and Briner was arrested after Russian officials found hash oils and carries a sentence of up to ten years in prison and they met with Mercury officials to secure her release.

>> This fire burned 20,000 acres with any containment and no home or structures destroyed as yet and evacuations including buffalo park and Schultz creek.

A 57-year-old man has been arrested and they say the man had been camping and burned toilet paper which he left under a rock where it became a small fire that spread overnight and the man told officials he had not seen posted signs in the area prohibiting campfires.

The house committee investigating the right at the capitol supposed to continue tomorrow and that won't happen.

Some of the videos to be presented are pushing to schedule back and committee members say it's not a big deal and that the hearings will resume on Thursday with a focus on then President Trump's push to get Mike Mike Pence to throw out Joe Biden's victory.

And the U.S. senate is considering a bipartisan bill addressing gun violence and emphasizing efforts to show those with mental health issues don't have access to firearms.

Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski is encouraged something will get down.

>> It's encouraging to say these are principles we get get behind.

I along with so many others will look to what is put to paper.

Here is our climb Randy Cerveny.

>> June is the hottest month of the year and we need that heat because it's that heat that helps to drive up the moisture that we get from Mexico and the hot air that we get now that helps to maybe produce some rain by this week.

>> Let's take a look at the map you September over sent over and this is the third day and this would be this weekend and that looks like something could sneak up there and is that possible?

>> The red circle on the map there indicates the projected precipitation for this weekend and that color green is so nice to actually see and to have thunderstorms coming to the Southeast part of state and that will probably be dry and when they come through that won't produce a lot of rain and will have wind, dust and lightning.

>> Don't we get some of the results and the dust storms that do nothing but mess up a backyard?

>> We normally have those for the first part of the monsoon and the first few weeks of the monsoon, particularly the first few weeks of July will be those kind of storms will the storms will build up by Tucson and fall apart and they will rush into phoenix.

>> Until we get more juice, that will stay and stay wind until the moisture gets up here?

>> What happens is it slowly is creeping north and so that right now, the monsoon is down in Mexico and there's big storms that are firing up right now along the coast of Mexico down by Baja and each day, those storms are getting a little closer into Arizona.

We're anticipating that by this weekend, they will actually make Arizona and then gives us, probably, a couple more weeks and get up into phoenix.

>> Let's talk about the forecast.

This is for the seasonal forecast and I've been hearing a lot of different reports that we're expecting a stronger monsoon than usual and that doesn't look all that strang strong to me.

>> This doesn't tell us how much but the likelihood.

Where you see browns, that's the likelikelihood it's drier.

The greens say it's drier.

>> Are we if that green?

At the edge of it and the Southeastern part of Arizona is expecting to get more rain than what they normally get.

El Nino, La Nino, does that affect it?

>> Those are ocean current temperature changes that we in the Pacific.

And normally, they are much more determining what's going to happen with the wintertime, not the summertime.

If we have La emergency Nino, it's stronger.

>> Does a strong winter,We had a strong monsoon last year and a good start, it fell apart.

>> It's going to go on into the fall might break down before the first of the next year and if it does, it might gives us more moisture for the first part of next year, but as I said, that's kind of speculative and we're interested in making sure we get all of that moisture that we can from the monsoon.

>> While the sun isn't shining.

>> A lot of people think, newcomers that we get thunderstorms every night and it doesn't work that way.

And the monsoon, it works in what we call bursts and breaks and there are periods when we get this moisture flow from Mexico and we get thunderstorms and then it shuts down and surprisingly, for us in phoenix, we get only ten days of rain during the whole 90 days of the monsoon.

>> Wow!

>> So it's not a big producer.

Now the places that do get a lot of rain with the monsoon are places like Flagstaff at 3:00 every afternoon that it clouds up and they get rain out of that.

>> I saw, what, 30 to 50 day for that, as opposed to us?

>> Exactly, and three times the amount of rain that we get here.

>> And real quickly, you sent a map over and this one shows the monsoon, the building down there, we see that down in Mexico and not close, but that's the fire up there by Flagstaff, isn't it?

>> That trail in the northern part of Arizona, that's the pipeline fire and that is the smoke that we can detect from our latest generation of weather satellites and the latest generation that we have of weather satellites and we can see fire and there's one in new new Mexico, as well.

As meteorologists, what we're looking at, the bright white and as you watch that, that's going to get closer explore and closer to us.

>> ClerkA former election's official talks about the validity of election safety concerns.

>> Election security seems to be an ever present concern especially that the 2020 election was compromised how valid are those concerns as the state prepares for the upcoming elections.

Ken, thank you for join us and goodjoining us.First of all, are you watching the congressional hearings on January 6th?

>> I am.

>> What do you make of them.

>> I think they're really important because what's happening there is we're writing those chapters of history into the history books through these hearings.

And there's certain amount of people that are in the wrong side of history in the debate over how the 2020 election went and right side of history.

I wonder what my kids and kid's kids will see look back on this.

>> Especially in Arizona and let's talk about this and the latest conspiracy, 20,000 mail-in ballots after the deadline in Maricopa county and the claim that these late plots were scanned before verification and how valid is that and secondly, how does that process work?

>> It's not valid and I should be careful about speaking to processes that belong to, like, Maricopa county elections, where they're the correct sources of information, the trusted sources of information for that.

But in this case, from my knowledge is that those ballots were Septembers September Septembers sent to be signature scanned and never opened.

>> That the votes were illegally counted and can't happened if they were never counted.

>> Especially if the envelopes were never opened.

>> Let's talk about two thousand mismatched signatures and this is the county and the secretary of state's office and 200,000 mismatched signatures which means the signature verification process is deeply flawed and does any of that make sense?

>> No, a lot of misinformation there.

Look, in the science today, we call this MDM, misinformation, dis-information and mal-information.

Misinformation is from our sister-in-law and mom and that's what we're spreading around on social media and it's people not intentionally spreading bad information, but a lot of bad information carries that way because people believe it and dis-information is the intentional creation of bad information and spreading it out with a political or financial agenda.

Mal-information is taking data or actual events that have happened and writing a sinister narrative and attaching it to that and spreading that around.

We see that probably most in through the audit and when they're taking some data points that could be true.

Like, there was a certain amount of ballots that something happened to them and we'll twist that out of proportion and spread that around.

>> But if anything happened, you would think the courts in some way shape or form would have addressed that, indictments, charges and nothing has happened.

>> At this point, no Arizona election officials or workers in jail and this is because no laws were broken.

>> 200,000 mules or whatever the mule film is and we have a debate with republican candidate for secretary of state and this will no doubt come up and in has come up in previous debates for every other office.

This 200,000 mule office.

Ballot box stuffed with Biden votes and this ballot drop-box and for those who believe in this film, who think the film has something and nothing has been proven and certain aspects completely debunked and is there a kernel of truth.

>> The dataset is off-base and entirely founded in somebody's entire to present a narrative that is twisted and fake.

I mean, I relate it to the Blair witchhunt.

We wanted to believe that was an actual movie and believe that was a real thing, but it wasn't.

>> We've heard about dead people voting and do dead people vote in Arizona?

>> You know, there have been cases, individual isolated cases of a spouse filling out a plot for their dead spouse and sending it in and in every election minor cases of fraud, isolated individual cases some don't get prosecuted because maybe these people were too old and didn't realize what they were doing, but never been an election I've seen that I don't trust the results of.

We have not -- there has been no wide-spread fraud.

>> A handful of cases that would change anything at all.

And sharpies changing, stealing votes and that has been debunked and we don't hear about it.

Although it pops up every now and then and what do you make of it?

>> Again, the correct source of information for this would be Maricopa county and they did good work went they changed equipments that could scan sharpies correctly.

They had little videos and the cartoon characters explaining sharpies OK now.

>> Before this all happened.

>> Before, right, and spun out of content.

>> Did you hear when you were involved with this, did you hear about these types of concerns, these types of conspiracy theories, innuendo, the rumors, was this always bubbling and why now?

>> Why now?

I think the problem might start at the top.

There's four forces we've identified that drive the big lie expect first and the first was it bands your supporters up together and fear of retaliation from your party or the president.

Third is the fundraising and they've done some amazing numbers in fundraising through this for the audit didn't individual candidates and filling out the coffers and a springboard to promote legislation that they wanted.

Until the forces go away, I don't see it.

>> They've always kind of been there, and why with such gusto this time?

>> I believe -- I fear that the political machinery has figured out exactly how to persuade the public, how to how to push the buttons to trigger our own human per propensity.

It'sThe science of politics knows how to play a new psychological game and I don't think we'll see thethe end of that any time soon.

>> Former election security officer, good information and good to you have here.

[ ♪♪♪ ] >> Arizona has high rates of skin cancer but what do we know about skin cancer?

The risk factors and the best ways to protect against the disease.

To get answers, we welcome Dr. Edgar.

>> Skin cancer is important to recognize and there are a number of things we can talk about as to help us recognize what the risk factors are and how to avoid it and it's important to know that we have large amounts of sun exposure that because of unfortunatelyultra-violate radiation and tanning booths can increase the different types of skin cancer and basil cell cars carcenoma.

>> We have two layers of skin, the outer epidermis and cells with the pigment and it's from those cells that we develop respectively basil cell and the good news is that they rarely metastasize.

There's four million cases per year.

Mel la MonaMelanoma is the most aggressive and one hundred thousand cases year.

>> Risk factors involved and how much is genetics playing a factor?

>> One of the thing is family history or personal history of the skin cancer and there are certain skin types.

The classic fair skinned individual with blue eyes, green eyes, freckles and blond hair and knowing you have a history and certain genetic markers and family history is important.

>> Darker skinned folks, sometimes it's more serious because you don't catch it as quickly, true?

>> It is true.

In fact, cars carcenoma is dark skinned is 1/20th and they can develop melanoma and other skin cancers and underneath the finger nails and soles of the feet and it's in the esophagus and an circumstance.

>> us and I.

>> Irregular and borders and rather than than round mole and something with irregular edges and C is the color, when you see a dark lesion and changed in color, pay attention, the die diameter, bigger than a particularpe andsomething changing in color, changing in size, changing in shape is important.

>> With that, and we talked about risk factors and those who have had breast cancer, talk about that connection.

>> Well, there is a connection because it's epidermis and certain risk factors correlate between the two and the fact of the matter is, we see increasing incidents of both and the relationship as to why they're both increasing is a little bit unclear and it is true, however, that there are certain medications that have been taken and supplements and the like to address the incidents and one which is Vitamin D. >> One is the sun and taken through a supplement and the relationship is questionable and given the choice, a supplement rather than counting on the sun.

>> The important, is screening and how often are people screened, age differences?

>> Those that have a previous history themselves or family history and there are certain lesions, A typical Moles, if you will, that increase the risk called care kerotosis on a yearly basis and that's the best way point we know if you detect me know that early, it is the best chance for cure.

When I started out, we didn't have great therapies.

Over the last few years, we've identified targeted therapies and now with Metastatic disease have been cured and there's hopefulness and we'll improve our treatments.

At the end of the day, avoidance is the best.

When you need to be in the sun, wear a hat, wide brim, cover up exposed areas with cloths that go to your risk, use sunblock.

Even an SPF15 decreases by 50%.

>> Interesting.

>> So those are the things and be cautious, particularly in the beautiful area with lots of sun exposure.

>> There is great information and good to have you and thanks for joining us.

That is is for now and thank you for joining us and you have a great evening.