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US News consumer credit card analyst, Adriana Ocañas tells Megan Lynch that '1-in-5' parents says they need their kids to help pay for back-to-school supplies this year. She points out that daily costs for food and fuel are cutting into their budgets. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Aaron Robertson is an SIUE junior studying Mechanical Engineering, he's one of the drivers of 'Orion' a solar car in the Electrek American Solar Challenge. He chatted with Megan Lynch. The SIUE team is one of nearly two dozen schools participating in the race that started today. The teams of drivers travel 15-hundred miles along the Great River Road and Route 66 from Minneapolis to Texas - in 8 da...

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TV Guide's Matt Roush joins Debbie Monterrey with a look at this week's offerings on TV and streaming, including 'Furious' and celebrities on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire.'

'We are going to believe messages we like,' says KMOX Media Expert Julie Smith. She joins Megan Lynch as content creators seemingly become more trusted than 'legacy media.'

Courtney Rozen, U.S. Technology Policy Reporter, Thomson Reuters News Agency, joins Megan Lynch. 'It sounds like it's out of sci-fi movie, it's not,' says Roszen of an AI program, 'got out of it's box,' and hacked a competing AI platform. Has this happened before? 'We don't know the answer to that question, which is not satisfying, of course,' says Rozen. Should there be a quicker way to 'kill' an...

Dr Rachel Orscheln, a Wash U infectious disease specialist at St Louis Children's Hospital joins Megan Lynch. She is 'absolutely,' concerned with the high level of measles cases, the highest in 35 years. She notes that when, 'rates of routine childhood vaccine fall,' cases increase. She points out that 'serious complications,' can come from measles. (Photo by Jan Sonnenmair/Getty Images)

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Brad Jones, Missouri State Director, NFIB, joins Megan Lynch. He shares his concerns over sensitive requested information to fill out certain government reports in a corporate transparency act.

​It's an over 15-feet-tall mound of dirt that's been dubbed "Mount Soulard."

You'll want to be prepared to see thousand of partially or fully nude people on bikes.

It's an over 15-feet-tall mound of dirt that has been dubbed "Mount Soulard."

Megan Lynch re-visits the top stories for the week as covered by the KMOX newsroom. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Megan Lynch visited with Hillary Stanfield, Middle Market Technology Banker with Truist, about the changes in banking. She talks about how large banks are adapting to 'peer to peer' sites like Square, Venmo, Pay Pal, which allow for instant transactions between people. 'There s not enough talk about fraud and cybersecurity,' says Stanfield, about 'non traditional payment mechanisms.'

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The construction will add eight semi-private suites.

More people are getting scammed over low airfares, says The Technology Expert, Burton Kelso, he links it to the, 'demise of Spirit Airlines,' a low-cost carrier. 'Scammers are pretty good, they'll ask for all sorts of financial information,' says Kelso. He joins Megan Lynch. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Sylvester Chisom, co-founder of Show Me the World Coffee, says the organization, after years of bringing students to the coffee-making parts of the world, is expanding to help non-profits to fundraise. The new 'Show Me the Cause' www. ShowMetheCause.com still includes students working in every aspect of the coffee business, but the coffee sales will generate funds for other programs, like athletic...

The debut of the new Netflix series based on the 'Little House on the Prairie' series by Laura Ingalls Wilder has drawn some interest to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Home & Museum in Mansfield, Mo. Curater Tana Melton says Wilder eventually spent a majority of her life in Missouri, in Mansfield. Melton says Wilder originally wrote her stories geared for adults, but they didn't sell well, she then rewr...

Geoff Fowler is the Head of public engagement, Youth AI Safety Institute, Common Sense Media. He joins Megan with a look at a new report on AI-generated images. The institute conducted a national survey of teens, half of them have seen AI-generated sexual images and a quarter of it was of themselves. Where are they seeing it? A 'vast majority were seeing it in their social media feeds,' and group...

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Fans of 'The Big Bang Theory' will want to check out a new sci-fi comedy featuring comic book store owner, Stuart in 'Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.' TV Guide's Matt Roush says a new season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debuts this week, and Discovery Channel returns with 'Shark Week' programming. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

'I know it will be emotional when I get up there,' Joe Buck tells Tom Ackerman as he's headed to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend in Cooperstown, NY. He looks back on his longtime career and his start with the Cardinals as a 21-year old. 'Its pretty nuts to think at 21 I was doing this stuff,' says Buck, 'Joe you're the luckiest guy in the world,' and 'believe me, I'm the fi...

KMOX Legal Analyst Brad Young says lawsuits are already being filed against Taco Bell by individuals impacted by the cyclospora outbreak; Elijah Gantt heads to court for his role in the injury of a Ferguson police officer; and a new lawsuit in a weight-loss drug case.

KMOX's Megan Lynch talks about the new Missouri law creating a "Rangers" program for schools with a leading expert in school safety and crisis response, Dr. Stephen Brock. Brock is professor emeritus of the School Psychology Program at California State University and one of the lead authors of the National Association of School Psychologists PREPaRE curriculum.