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--:-- John Bickley: I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, June 6th, and this is your Morning Wire afternoon update.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A federal judge has temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender medical treatments for minors.
--:-- John Bickley: The Tuesday ruling says the state has no rational basis for denying patients this treatment.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The preliminary injunction mainly focuses on language surrounding children and allows three children whose parents brought the suit to continue their treatment.
--:-- John Bickley: The judge claims that evidence shows, quote, gender identity is real, and that, quote, banning these treatments for minors ignores risks patients might face.
--:-- Georgia Howe: A major dam was destroyed early Tuesday morning in Russian-occupied territory in southern Ukraine.
--:-- John Bickley: Over 15,000 residents downstream of the dam were evacuated as officials warned that the rising water levels could hit a critical point in just a couple of hours.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here with more is Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce.
--:-- Tim Pierce: Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of knocking out the Kohovka Dam and a nearby hydroelectric plant.
--:-- John Bickley: In addition to the flooding, the dam's failure is causing immediate concerns about water supplies in the region.
--:-- Tim Pierce: The Kohovka Reservoir provided for almost all the water needs of the Crimean Peninsula, 2 million residents.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The dam failure also has officials worried that the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant could run out of water in a few months.
--:-- Tim Pierce: An artificial lake kept in reserve for the power plant will serve its water needs for now.
--:-- John Bickley: State Farm, one of California's top insurance agencies, recently announced it will no longer be taking home insurance applications in the Golden State.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The insurer says the reason for the move is the threat of wildfires, as well as increasing costs of construction.
--:-- John Bickley: Now, the state's insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, is telling Californians that there's nothing he can do to stop the company from following through on its decision.
--:-- Ricardo Lara: According to my legal team, I do not have the authority to do that.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And again, we're going to focus on the things that we can do, which is bringing companies together, having the conversation, making sure that consumers are protected and don't lose their coverage.
--:-- John Bickley: And that's what we're going to focus on.
--:-- Georgia Howe: State Farm's decision to change its business practices in California comes after Allstate made a similar announcement.
--:-- John Bickley: Adding to California's woes, one of San Francisco's largest hotel owners announced that it would be dumping two of its downtown properties from its portfolio due to a range of issues, including uncertainty regarding the city's success in the future.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has the latest.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: This week the Virginia real estate conglomerate Park Hotels and Resorts announced that it would immediately stop making payments on its $1 million loan for two hotels in San Francisco, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Park 55.
--:-- John Bickley: The firm cited record high office vacancy, concerns over street conditions, lower return to office than peer cities, and a weaker than expected citywide convention calendar as reasons behind the decision.
--:-- Cabot Phillips: A Hilton Hotels spokesperson told sfgate.com that it does not plan to close the hotels and that they will remain operational under the management of Hilton Hotels and Resorts.
--:-- John Bickley: The CEO of Park Hotels and Resorts added that forfeiting the two properties was, quote, difficult but necessary.
--:-- Georgia Howe: In a major shakeup in the sports world, the PGA announced that it will be merging with Live Golf.
--:-- John Bickley: The deal combines the PGA Tour and Live Golf along with DP World Tour into one for-profit company.
--:-- Georgia Howe: The PGA Tour's decades of dominance were challenged in June 2021 after retired golfer Greg Norman hosted Liv's first tournament, a tournament funded by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund.
--:-- John Bickley: Here's Commissioner Jay Monahan speaking about the deal.
--:-- Jay Monahan: We can have a far greater impact on this game than we can working apart.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And I give Yasser great credit for coming to the table coming to discussions with an open heart and an open mind.
--:-- John Bickley: We did the same and the game of golf is better for what we done here today.
--:-- Georgia Howe: We'll have a full report in tomorrow's episode of Morning Wire.
--:-- John Bickley: And Oakland native Jim Hines, a U.S. Olympic gold medalist and the first man to run the 100-meter dash in under 10 seconds, has died at 76.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Hines won his Olympic medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and was widely regarded as the fastest man alive while in his prime.
--:-- John Bickley: Details of his death are unknown.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Here's the radio call from Hines' historic sprint.
--:-- John Bickley: Three Americans, one Cuban, one Jamaican, one Frenchman, one Canadian, one Madagascar. Way to go this time.
--:-- Georgia Howe: Hines got a good one.
--:-- John Bickley: Also doing well there is Mel Tender. It's Mel Tender, American, and Miller is doing well.
--:-- Georgia Howe: And what a future is it going to be. And Hines comes through.
--:-- John Bickley: All right, those are your drive home updates this afternoon.
--:-- Georgia Howe: To learn more about these stories, go to dailywire.com.
--:-- John Bickley: And for more in-depth discussion of the biggest stories of the day, listen to our latest full episode of Morning Wire every morning.
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