WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.639 Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I AM six forty 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:09.640 wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning, everybody, 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:14.240 this is your wake up call. Today is Thursday, June one. Seems 4 00:00:14.279 --> 00:00:19.039 like, I don't know, we're close to summer, right the solstice on 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:24.760 June twenty first. School is out, public school, private school. That's 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:30.079 all over with pretty much. Or this week just seems like a fresh start, 7 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:33.439 right, getting into a little bit of changing the weather. Just kidding. 8 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.679 The marine layer is here sticking around. So anyway, it's June the 9 00:00:37.719 --> 00:00:40.840 first. I was looking for something we could reference as June first, and 10 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.840 there's not a lot, I mean a lot of it historical. There's a 11 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:48.359 couple of two historical things I'd like to just point out real quick. Fourteen 12 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:52.960 ninety five. Back then, just after, not too long ago, right 13 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:58.840 on the Guttenberg a little but after, a monk records the first known batch 14 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:03.759 of Scotch whiskey fourteen ninety five, and a monk brought that into the world. 15 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:11.760 And in nineteen sixteen, Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the 16 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:17.319 United States Supreme Court. Huge deal. So those are just a couple of 17 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.000 things for June the first, But like I said, summer's coming up. 18 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:23.280 We're looking ahead, maybe some summer reading, hopefully a vacation here and there. 19 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:29.599 I've been doing some advanced data research for what it's going to cost to 20 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.799 go on vacation this summer, and looks like the revenge travel thing is still 21 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:34.760 happening, but the prices are still up to so we'll try to figure that 22 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.599 out and we'll cover that a little bit more tomorrow on this show. Let's 23 00:01:38.599 --> 00:01:44.159 do a couple of quick headlines before we get going full bore. The Bipartisan 24 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:49.439 Fiscal Responsibility Act is moving from the House to the Senate. The bill raises 25 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:55.840 the debt ceiling and avoids the government from defaulting. The Senate vote, according 26 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.200 to Senator Mitch McConnell, at least could happen as soon as later today. 27 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:01.599 We're gonna have more on that this hour. We're gonna talk with ABC's Karen 28 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:07.840 Travers. The La City Council has voted that air conditioning is required in all 29 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:13.960 rental units, mostly because er visits. Statistically, we're up last year after 30 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:17.000 all those heat waves that we had, and they're trying to address that. 31 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.560 That was passed unanimously yesterday, by the way, and June is Pride Month, 32 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:25.560 well, there's something fun. June is Pride month. That's a month 33 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:31.560 to celebrate the lgbt Q plus community and to focus on equal rights for everyone. 34 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:38.199 And of course the first Pride marches were organized in nineteen seventy. I'm 35 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.680 sure we'll have plenty more on that this month as well. In just a 36 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.960 few minutes, we are going to dig into this morning's basically the business headline, 37 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:51.639 and then we're going to scan the technology news as well. We're gonna 38 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:53.840 do a biz bite segment later this hour at the bottom, we're gonna have 39 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:59.719 ABC's Brad Garrett with us to talk specifically about AI and the rise of the 40 00:02:59.800 --> 00:03:02.159 road bots. And then in just a few minutes, we're going to talk 41 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:07.159 about more of this. The House has passed a bill to raise the debt 42 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:12.319 ceiling and cut federal spending by trillions of dollars over two years. How Speaker 43 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:17.000 McCarthy celebrated last night's vote talking about the work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid 44 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:22.520 included in the bill. There's going to be people were on welfare today that 45 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:27.400 will no longer be on welfare that they will find a job because of the 46 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.039 work requirement. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it needs sixty 47 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:35.319 votes before it can go to President Biden. The federal government is expected to 48 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.599 run out of money on Monday, that's called the X Day, if the 49 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:45.000 debt ceiling is not raised by then. The La Times says it wants transcripts 50 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:49.800 from two closed door meetings held by the La County Board of Supervisors. The 51 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.639 Times claims there was discussion about the county's juvenile halls, but the agendas for 52 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:58.280 March twenty fourth in April eighteenth show the supervisors going into close session to discuss 53 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:00.639 department head of valuations. An attorney for the Time sent a letter to the 54 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:05.000 board demanding transcripts after Janis Han told The Times there was discussion about the juvie 55 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.840 halls. The Brown Act is a state law which limits closed door discussions only 56 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:14.599 to union negotiations, personnel matters, and litigation. Steve Gregory king off I 57 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.800 News, a homeless man who allegedly attacked a woman in Long Beach and then 58 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:21.959 stabbed a man who tried to help her, has pleaded not guilty to assault 59 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:27.720 charges. Officers said they had to use less lethal weapons and pepper spray Friday 60 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.879 to arrest the guy on the line with us as ABC's White House correspondent Karen 61 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:35.279 Travers. Good morning, Karen, good morning. So the final vote was 62 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:40.279 three fourteen to one seventeen. This promotes the debt ceiling bill from the House 63 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.959 to the Senate. So let's just start there. You're three hours ahead. 64 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.680 What's the latest and what's the next thing on the Hills agenda today? Yeah, 65 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:48.560 I wish I could give you like some glimpse into the future that this 66 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.680 has all been solved already, but it does go to the Senate now, 67 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:57.680 and the goal there to get this done as quickly as possible. That's according 68 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.279 to Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority leader. Mcconnells, the minority leader, 69 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:03.639 has also said the same thing. They would like to get this passed by 70 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:09.240 tomorrow so lawmakers can get out of town and the president can sign this well 71 00:05:09.240 --> 00:05:13.000 before that June fifth deadline. It is now June first, so they have 72 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.199 a couple of days. But the question in the Senate now is just the 73 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:21.319 procedural issues. Any One senator can slow things down by offering amendments to the 74 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:27.240 legislation pushing debates on those amendments, So there could be a little bit of 75 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:30.639 lag time, but they're trying to alleviate some of that, and we'll get 76 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.120 a better sense in the next couple of hours about what that process will look 77 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:36.319 like now over the next twenty four hours. So, as you mentioned there, 78 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.639 one senator might have some fobo and doesn't get enough brakesmanship happening. But 79 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:45.879 it sounds like McConnell and Humor both kind of want to put this on the 80 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:48.839 President's desk as quickly as possible. Are you getting any wins that there could 81 00:05:48.839 --> 00:05:51.480 be somebody that raised their hand and say, let's slow this down and talk 82 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:56.240 about it one more time. Yeah, there's some conservatives who have said they'd 83 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.279 like to put forward amendments, even some Democrats who also don't like something in 84 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:02.240 the bill who say they'd like to get some things stripped out. Now, 85 00:06:02.319 --> 00:06:05.920 this doesn't mean that any of those amendments would pass, which would, of 86 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:10.240 course, if it does pass, change the bill force it back to the 87 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:15.319 House for another vote. So that's another question too of where that process would 88 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.519 go. The goal I think would be is to limit the number of changes 89 00:06:17.639 --> 00:06:21.040 to potentially nothing. So they could just pass this in the Senate, get 90 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:24.600 it to the President by tomorrow night, and be done with it, and 91 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:28.319 everybody would stick around over the weekend if there was some kind of procedural hiccup. 92 00:06:28.399 --> 00:06:31.639 Right, they've already been warned by Chuck Schumer, you might want to 93 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.600 prepare to be here in town for the weekend, just in Kate's votes slip 94 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:39.279 over into Saturday or Sunday. I know we have to let you go in 95 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:41.879 just about a minute or so, but I wanted to ask you that the 96 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:47.040 Speaker McCarthy and his very slim majority kind of picked this fight before the debt 97 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:50.680 ceiling. Politically speaking, what's the standing been there? Is he coming out 98 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.439 a little bit I don't know, with more cachet politically speaking, more chips 99 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.720 on the table. You know. Interestingly, when you looked at polls and 100 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.920 the poles were really on the board of default, there was equal blame going 101 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:06.839 around between Republicans on Capitol Hill and President Biden, a little different than pulling 102 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:11.720 we saw back in twenty eleven during a similar debt ceiling showdown, where President 103 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:14.920 Obama didn't get as much of the blame. So this time it was a 104 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:18.759 little bit more even so that's not great for anybody. But now in terms 105 00:07:18.800 --> 00:07:24.079 of the spin, everybody is claiming a victory here now that it's gotten passed 106 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:28.199 in the House and talking about what they got included in this legislation, not 107 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:33.079 what they conceded. But Kevin McCarthy did have seventy one Republicans vote against this, 108 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:38.639 and most said it's because they wanted deeper spending cuts. There was significant 109 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:43.319 outrage among conservatives. It was very fierce. Now the big question is does 110 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:47.040 he have that rumbling revolt still on his hands or was it squashed? And 111 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:50.800 what does it mean going forward for his speakership because remember a couple of months 112 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.160 ago, it took many, many rounds for him to even get installed as 113 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.600 speaker, So there's always been sort of that tenuous hold on power. Yeah, 114 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.959 that's true too, for sure. Thank you so much for your time 115 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:03.040 this morning. Always a pleasure. I hope to talk again soon. I'm 116 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:09.000 a great gay thing at ABC's White House. Correspondent Karen Travers reporting with us 117 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.480 from DC. Let's get back to some of those stories coming out of the 118 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.959 KFI twenty four hour newsroom that seventies show actor Danny Masterson has been found guilty 119 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.680 of sexually assaulting two women at his home in the Hollywood Hills nearly twenty years 120 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:26.600 ago. ABC's Jason Nathanson says jurors yesterday said they were deadlocked on a third 121 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:30.079 rate charge. Masterson showed no motion as the verdict was read. His wife, 122 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:33.759 Biju Phillips loudly crying in court. He was taken away in handcuffs. 123 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.320 He'd been free on bail sinceince twenty twenty arrest. Masterson's first trial last year 124 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:41.000 ended in a hum jury hearing in the latest case is set for August. 125 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:48.279 No sentencing date has been scheduled yet. Hotel workers and some LAX employees are 126 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:52.399 one step closer to getting a raise. The LA City Council approved a study 127 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.879 on raising wages for the workers to twenty five dollars an hour this year, 128 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:58.879 with the goal of thirty dollars an hour by twenty twenty eight. Northeast lat 129 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:05.120 Tell Owners Association president Ray Petel says many limited service hotels in LA won't be 130 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:07.720 able to afford the wages. The majority of these limited service hotels in Los 131 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.480 Angeles are family business. They're small business. The back moon of the economy 132 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.240 in Los Angeles, Buttell has asked the council to carve out limited service hotels 133 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:20.159 from the rules. The increases what apply to hotels with sixty or more rooms. 134 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:24.759 Blake Trolley, k if I Knews Disney is finally reaching the company's goal 135 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:31.799 of laying off seven thousand employees. Variety is reporting that notices to employees impacted 136 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:35.480 during the third round of cuts were sent out last Friday. The layoffs focus 137 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:39.799 mostly on the media divisions, while the parks themselves remained untouched. For the 138 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:46.039 most part. Disney is still planning to drop more roles internationally as the rest 139 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.559 of this year wears on. A computer chip maker has joined a very exclusive 140 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:56.080 club, and it wasn't done artificially. Navidia has briefly joined the one trillion 141 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.200 dollar club. Only six other companies in the United States if hit the trillion 142 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:03.080 dollar market value, and you know the names Microsoft, Apple, Amazon Alphabet 143 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.960 or Google Tesla and Meadow or Facebook Tesla Meta, I've already fallen out of 144 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:09.320 the club. The video started at a Denny's thirty years ago and grew thanks 145 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.080 to the video game market and got bigger with the cryptocurrency boom. The crypto 146 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:16.600 crash last year knocked the video down, but the recent boom and artificial intelligence 147 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.879 put it over the trillion dollar mark. It quickly fell below that trillion dollar 148 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:22.759 value after passing it on Monday, but AI is expected to keep in the 149 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.440 video in that big money group for a while. Michael Krozer KFI News and 150 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.440 Video stock has been on a tear. It started to give back a little 151 00:10:31.480 --> 00:10:35.759 bit last night and after market trading, but mostly because it's been so bullish 152 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:43.000 all year long. A beekeeper is pushing for backyard bee hives to be legal. 153 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:48.360 Leave that hanging there in Coasta, Mesa despite recent local attacks. Beekeeper 154 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:54.440 Alberta Mirascotti says bees are naturally docile. Most people who get stung they have 155 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.440 a very small reaction. But people when they say be they kind of scream 156 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.679 and holler, which was shutting too. Should just let them do their thing. 157 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:07.559 President Biden says the House took a critical step forward yesterday to prevent a 158 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:11.600 default. In a statement following the Chambers vote to pass a debt ceiling bill, 159 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:16.919 Biden called it a bipartisan compromise. We talked with ABC's White House correspondent 160 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.080 Cary Travers just a little bit earlier this hour about that. I'm sure more 161 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:24.759 will be on the Bill Handle Show later this morning. Former Vice President Pence 162 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:31.320 will announce his twenty twenty four presidential campaign next week. The Hill reports his 163 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:35.840 team is wrapping up plans to launch his campaign for the GOP presidential nam on 164 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:41.600 June the seventh. I think he's going to do that also on CNN. 165 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:46.399 He'll join a growing field of candidates, including his former President Trump and Florida 166 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:52.360 Governor Ron de Stantis. The US and Taiwan are signing their first deal under 167 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.879 a new trade talks framework. The two governments started their own trade talks last 168 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:03.559 August after the US excluded Taiwan from the larger Indo Pacific Economic Framework. This 169 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:07.919 is part of the trade war that the Bide administration seems to be advancing against 170 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:11.639 China and in South Asia overall. Taiwan's Office of Trade Negotiation says the first 171 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:18.399 agreement under the new framework will be signed this morning in Washington. China, 172 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:22.080 of course, thinks this is no bueno. At five thirty five, ABC's 173 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.360 Brad Garrett will be here to talk about artificial intelligence, and he and I 174 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:33.480 are going to try to separate the scary clickbait headlines from some actual AI substance, 175 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:37.080 and some of that scary clickbait headlines comes from the industry itself, So 176 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:41.279 hopefully Brad and I can unpack that a little bit. A couple of stories 177 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:46.279 from the newsroom before we rock that AI with Brad and La County sheriff's deputy 178 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.600 who pleaded no contest to an off duty crash and torrents that killed a passenger 179 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:54.440 is facing thirteen years in state prison. Two other people were hurt in the 180 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:01.080 crash in twenty twenty. Prosecutors say Daniel Owner was going one hundred and sixteen 181 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.759 miles an hour when his Dodge charger hit a center medium and at least seventy 182 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:11.320 one miles an hour when he slammed into a traffic poll. A new six 183 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:18.200 million dollar campaign is aiming to boost tourism. It's called Always San Francisco. 184 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.759 Yeah, just for the Bay area, and it does include a one minute 185 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:26.679 commercial of the most iconic sites and sounds in the Bay area Golden Gate Bridge, 186 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:31.879 the Painted Ladies, of course, Lombard Street, no pictures of Market 187 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:35.879 Street. For some reason. The ad is already airing in New York, 188 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:39.240 Boston, Washington, d C, Houston, and Chicago. It refers to 189 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:46.320 the city as the most fascinating forty nine square miles on the planet. Before 190 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.480 I moved there and moved back to La finally, after twelve years up there, 191 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.159 there was a magazine called seven by seven. I didn't understand that before 192 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.600 I went up, And then of course San Francisco County as seven miles by 193 00:13:56.679 --> 00:14:01.639 seven forty nine. Rush has dropped another round of bombs on Ukraine's capital, 194 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.879 killing at least three people and hurting others. Russian forces also carried out three 195 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:11.519 aerial attacks over the south of Ukraine, along with missile and heavy artillery strikes. 196 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:18.240 Ukraine was attacked seventeen times last month. Okay, right now we're gonna 197 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.080 tee up our biz bus headlines. And first up this morning, we have 198 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:26.159 the job market. Okay, if you're looking for work, we have some 199 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:31.360 numbers. The job markets still in your favor. We got more job openings 200 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:35.559 in April than we thought we were going to get. So the number is 201 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:41.919 one point eight right here. One point eight or how many job openings there 202 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:46.960 are for every one point zero person who is looking for work. Now, 203 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:50.120 stick with me. This is math on the radio, But it makes sense. 204 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.039 April job openings ten point one million happened. We expected nine point four 205 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:58.360 million. Now here's where those jobs are, which I think is more important 206 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.360 detail trade two hundred and ten thousand more jobs opened in retail, healthcare and 207 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:11.039 social assistance one hundred and eighty five thousand new job openings in April, and 208 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:18.080 transportation, warehousing and utilities up one hundred and fifty four thousand. Okay, 209 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:20.399 So it's that's a good news coming out of April. When it comes to 210 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.759 the job market, it's not all rainbows and cotton candy. The number of 211 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.519 job openings has dropped fourteen percent from a year ago. That's according to chief 212 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:35.519 economist Julia Pollock at ZIP Recruiter. In addition, the quit rate of two 213 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.320 point four percent fell to its lowest since February of twenty twenty one. So 214 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:46.320 having less people quit their existing jobs kind of shows that the Great resignation is 215 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:50.480 likely ending. So that means the job market overall's starting to cool off, 216 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.399 starting to tighten a little bit, and that matters, and that rolls in 217 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.840 macroeconomically into the next story about the FED. Now, this is the less 218 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:03.360 sexy version of will they or won't they The Federal Reserve is no longer behind 219 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.159 the curve when it comes to controlling inflation because of all the recent interest rate 220 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:12.000 hikes. But the question is whether there's another interest rate hike coming up in 221 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:17.759 June. We have seen this sticky inflation start to cool off, not as 222 00:16:17.840 --> 00:16:22.240 quickly as the Fed had hoped and otherwise, so consumer prices are still up. 223 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:27.919 The CPI is still a consumer price index is still up. So just 224 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.360 analytically speaking, having followed this for a while, I think the will be 225 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.240 a pause this month in June. I think there's still a chance that an 226 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.919 interest rate hike could happen in later this year another quarter of a point, 227 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.320 because there's still data driven at the FED. So the job story we just 228 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:51.399 talked about that shows there's a little bit of cooling off in the job market. 229 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:56.200 It's not huge still, but it's just enough to show progress and response 230 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:00.840 in a very macro sense to the interest rate hikes that have been going on. 231 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:06.640 Also, wages are starting to not go up as fast as they were 232 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:10.400 a year ago, another sign that inflation is starting to cool off. We 233 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:12.240 may not be seeing it too many other places. At the grocery store, 234 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:17.920 necessarily, and we're definitely not seeing it in the mortgage and housing market, 235 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:22.240 and we're definitely not seeing it on our credit card bills because the APR is 236 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:27.920 still high end responding to the FED so recession analysis in a nutshell June pause, 237 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:34.359 another hike this year point two five, a soft err, shallow err 238 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:41.319 and short ter recessions still has about a fifty percent chance. I'd say it's 239 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.359 more like sixty percent chance. I think that the survey of analysts that I 240 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:49.160 take part in was came in at about fifty six percent most recently. So 241 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.359 that's the macro Let's move on to a couple others. American Airline CEO says 242 00:17:55.359 --> 00:18:00.000 the airline is planning to appeal a court's ruling blocking its partnership with Jet Blue 243 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.720 Airways. The CEO announced yesterday the companies will prevail. We'll see a judge 244 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:10.400 ruled earlier this month the airline's partnership is anti competitive and ordered the airlines to 245 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:15.240 end it within thirty days. The airlines argue their partnership lets them compete against 246 00:18:15.240 --> 00:18:18.480 Delta and United in New York and Boston, and the deal lets Jet Blue 247 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:25.119 and American coordinate routes. And schedules and share revenue. This whole deepregulation thing 248 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:29.799 I've been researching as well since the Reagan administration. This has been still playing 249 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:32.960 out. Fascinating stuff if you're into that kind of thing, but you might 250 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:34.640 not be. So let's do this one. Amazon is going to pay the 251 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:41.359 Federal Trade Commission more than thirty million dollars to settle two lawsuits that allege that 252 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:48.359 Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and it's Ring doorbell cameras violated users privacy. So the 253 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:56.599 FTC claimed Amazon retained customers videos and voice recordings for years, sometimes without consent. 254 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:02.759 The FTC also alleges that video and audio foot could be accessed by unauthorized 255 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:07.799 parties. There's been a couple of headlines around that that doesn't even be a 256 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:11.000 tsunami of those kind of headlines. Amazon denies the claims, but says that 257 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:15.720 the settlements would put these matters behind us. So thirty million dollars to the 258 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:22.680 FTC from Amazon because of its Alexa and Ring alleged practice. This Amazon, 259 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:29.359 by the way, makes about nine hundred thousand dollars every minute. So I'll 260 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.839 start the clock right now and thirty three and a half minutes from now I 261 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.640 will remind you because that's going to give Amazon enough time to pay this fine 262 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.039 of thirty million dollars to the FTC. Another tech story before we head out, 263 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:47.519 courtesy of Meta, the platform formally and probably presently referred to his Facebook 264 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:52.400 Meta Platforms is threatening to pull news links from Facebook and Instagram in California if 265 00:19:52.920 --> 00:20:00.440 state lawmakers move forward with the California Journalism Preservation Act. The company responded similar 266 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.759 fashion after related proposal was tabled in Congress back in December, and it was 267 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:10.640 also going down like this in Canada and briefly blocked news links in Australia as 268 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:15.440 well before Meta broker to deal with the government there. Among the amendments was 269 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:19.640 a clause stipulating that digital platforms and newsgroups would be required to mediate for two 270 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:26.480 months before subjecting them to mandatory arbitration. So we'll have to see how that 271 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:33.480 plays out. But the California Journalism Preservation Act, obviously I kind of leaned 272 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.680 into that one, but I can understand if some others don't. I don't 273 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:40.440 think you need to prioritize it. That's why we have algorithms. Right. 274 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.079 The Senate is set to take up and vote on the debt ceiling bill the 275 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.400 House passed yesterday. One element of the bill would require student loan payments to 276 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:53.640 restart. It would put in law that the pause and payments ends on August 277 00:20:53.759 --> 00:21:00.119 thirtieth. The new slogan for the Ron de Santa's presidential campaign is Make America 278 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:07.640 Florida. The Florida governor started his Republican campaign this week in Iowa and is 279 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.799 looking for financial support. The new website for that is Make America Florida dot 280 00:21:11.880 --> 00:21:19.000 shop if you're looking for any bit of an array of campaign merch. FedEx 281 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:23.240 has reportedly reached a new contract agreement with its pilots. The company says there's 282 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:27.480 a tentative agreement with the pilot's union that will help the company deliver outstanding service 283 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:30.559 to customers around the world. At five fifty, we're going to close out 284 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:34.720 wake Up Call with ABC's Jim Ryan. This morning's topic with Jim is something 285 00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:38.000 we lean on every day here in Southern California. That's the breaks in our 286 00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:41.759 cars, some new breaking regulations and whether that's going to hit the sticker prices. 287 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:45.599 Coming up later right now, though, on wake Up Call, it's 288 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.319 ABC's Brad Garrett. Brad and I have both been keeping eyes on the hype 289 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:53.160 cycle around artificial intelligence that started late last year. Picked up Steve in January. 290 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:59.200 Good morning, Good morning, Jason. So I've been looking at the 291 00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:03.640 headlines. So, could artificial intelligence destroy humanity if not contained? Is one 292 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.799 of them? Do we need the regulations to safe guards? We'll come back 293 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:08.920 to that in a second. Equating it the nuclear war basically is meant to 294 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:14.599 get attention. Is it getting attention? I don't think it's getting the attention 295 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:17.680 that it should. And that's one of the reasons I wanted to talk about 296 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:21.119 it, because you know, clearly I'm not an AI expert, but I 297 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.880 do read a lot about it, and I also look at the angle of 298 00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:30.119 how AI can be used both by law enforcement, the military, and the 299 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:34.680 intelligence community, which you know is in my wheelhouse. So yes, you 300 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:37.759 know, I really had to stop back and look at this. When people 301 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:44.279 like Jeffrey Hinton, who's a super smart scientist, he and two graduate students 302 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:49.240 actually developed AI a number of years ago that he left his job at Google 303 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:53.599 recently, as you well know, because he was so concerned that AI was 304 00:22:53.680 --> 00:23:02.119 moving at such a speed that there is that potential that AI could overtake us 305 00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:07.400 and make us obsolete, and he thinks we need and clearly we do some 306 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.000 guardrails to slow that down and regulate it the best we can. So you're 307 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:15.559 thinking we're not taking this as seriously as we should so far, and that 308 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:21.279 the efforts from those within the AI sector and those outside are starting to respond, 309 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.599 or are you thinking that we're still behind the curve. Well, I 310 00:23:23.640 --> 00:23:26.799 think we're a little behind the curve. I mean, at least congresses haven't 311 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:33.000 hearings. They're bringing in some of these AI experts and some from industry because 312 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:38.839 again, this is all driven to a large extent by money, obviously, 313 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:45.799 and everyone gets that, and that's fine. You know, Google, Microsoft, 314 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:52.079 a number of other companies that are working on AI stuff see the potential 315 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:57.480 for making trillions of dollars because there's clearly, Jason, a positive side to 316 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:03.480 AI. I mean, this stuff apparently they're starting to work on in medical 317 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.079 research. I mean, if you think about that, a computer it can 318 00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:12.200 basically read everything that's written about brain cancer and then write a code and then 319 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:18.279 implement a code as to how we solve or treat certain types of brain cancer. 320 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:22.799 I mean that's really cool stuff. But what these scientists are saying, 321 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:26.119 and there are a lot of them. I mean, like the chief technology 322 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.839 guy at Microsoft is even saying this too, and he's in the middle of 323 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:37.000 promoting it obviously for Microsoft, is that we have to slow this down because 324 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.759 if this train gets going so fast, we can't put the brakes on it. 325 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:45.240 Well, this is capitalism. And so when companies that already have companies 326 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.759 that already have projects and products that are in the marketplace don't want to slow 327 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:52.039 down, everybody who doesn't have those products wants them to slow down so they 328 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:56.000 can catch up. I understand that that's the market dynamic, your wheelhouse, 329 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.640 as you said at the top, with security and whatnot. Why not just 330 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:03.680 do something that Silicon Valley tells itself to do every day and iterate or die. 331 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:06.920 So why don't we just iterate the regulations we have right now? What's 332 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:11.359 needed? Well, it's you know, what's interesting is it's unclear based on 333 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.279 what I have read as to what guardrails they're really talking about. And I 334 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:22.359 think they do admit there is a limitation to guardrails because there's a lot of 335 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.359 smart hackers out there. There's a lot of smart the bad guys in the 336 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:32.319 ransomware business if they can break into the stuff and start controlling it and using 337 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:37.000 it against us. And you know, one step further is that when you 338 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:40.079 look at d D and the amount of money they're spending on AI, they're 339 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:44.359 saying, we can't afford to slow down because Russia, China, Iran, 340 00:25:44.519 --> 00:25:48.200 and North Korea are not slowing down. I see, And if they get 341 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:49.799 ahead of us, maybe they are, maybe they aren't. I have no 342 00:25:49.920 --> 00:25:56.960 idea. Then we're into some really unchartered territory as to what could potentially happen 343 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:02.799 from you know, mistaken missile launches to whatever it might be. That's why 344 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:08.319 you get these scientists saying things like it could really damage humanity. In your 345 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:15.720 coverage and watching this and analyzing this, is DoD also very much engaged in 346 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.759 these conversations or is it mostly just coming from the tech sector first? And 347 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:22.759 then it's a response thing. I guess what I'm asking is is the government 348 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:29.160 staying or regulatory agencies trying to stay the tip of the spear. Well, 349 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:33.400 it's hard to say. Do I think dd is concerned about it? And 350 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:38.519 of course they are because they know that this type of technology or if you 351 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:41.799 have computers that are smarter than us, and it can actually then implement on 352 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:48.200 their own without us. What the potential of that is like some of the 353 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.880 sci fi movies that have been made, and so yes, the military does 354 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.240 know that, but it's kind of like a push pull for them for what 355 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:02.279 I just described. They obviously have to they have to keep up because if 356 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:07.039 China and Russia are way ahead of us and they start using it against us, 357 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.799 we don't have the capability maybe to perhaps counter it or figure out, 358 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:15.319 you know, is this artificial intelligence or is this real. We're speaking with 359 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:22.160 ABC's analyst and security expert Brad Garrett. Brad open Ais ZEO Sam Altman was 360 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:27.839 on Capitol Hill recently and took questions and actually basically asked for regulation to come 361 00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:33.680 in now we can we can pars whether he's that's a little bit of signaling, 362 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.000 you know there. But at the same time, when after open Ai 363 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:41.319 CEO leaves the Hill, well, what would you think would be the next 364 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:45.759 good person to testify on Capitol Hill to help round out our approach to this. 365 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.079 Would it be a security expert like yourself, would it be somebody from 366 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:52.440 d D Responding to direct questions as far as much as they could an open, 367 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.000 open arena. What's your take. I think it has to be a 368 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:03.039 combination, in particular of of folks like Jeffrey Hinton, and maybe he's testified. 369 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.559 I have no idea. I haven't been following that now because okay, 370 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:12.079 so he's the guy that is super smart, supermasured in his approach to this, 371 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.039 you know, is not you know, he left Google. I think 372 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.799 he likes Google. He didn't leave them because he didn't like them or what 373 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:23.759 they were doing. He just felt, because he is the guy, that 374 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:29.680 he had to step out where he could talk publicly about AI. And that's 375 00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:34.359 that's what he's doing. And he's gotten literally dozens and dozens of A scientists 376 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:38.039 and AI. I mean the other side of this, Jason, is AI 377 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:44.319 investors, the folks that are trying to make money off AI are also saying 378 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.200 the same thing. I mean, the collective voice of the people that are 379 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.960 in the know about AI. You know, based on what I read and 380 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.880 understand and have conversations with people, is you know that train is really trying 381 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.720 to get drive down the road. Now they may have to drag Congress along 382 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:07.359 with them, but what we'll see, but they're saying you got to slow 383 00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:11.640 down. As I mentioned earlier, if we get too far, we can't 384 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:14.200 go back right. It's hard to put it back in the box once it 385 00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:19.279 gets out right. So exactly, ABC's Tech in Security expert correspondent analyst Brad 386 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.000 Garrett. Always a pleasure to speak with you. This is a thorny issue. 387 00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:25.720 I appreciate us being able to talk about it with a little bit of 388 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:30.720 dynamism. Great, thank you, Jason, Thanks bred. Former Vice President 389 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:36.319 Pence is going to announce his twenty twenty four presidential campaign next week. Also 390 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:42.559 in presidential nomination GOP news or news adjacent, Florida Governor Ron de Stantis has 391 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:51.400 a new presidential slogan campaign slogan make America Florida. And it's been wet and 392 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.400 gray here recently in La and OC. But the Atlantic hurricane season officially starts 393 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:03.079 today. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting twelve to seventeen named storms, 394 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:08.319 with five to nine of those becoming hurricanes. It's also supposed to be 395 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:14.759 an El Nino year here for the Pacific coast. It is five fifty one 396 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:19.480 on your wake up call. We're going to close out this morning with ABC's 397 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:26.839 Jim Ryan joining us for some consumer safety news that's relatable for daily life in 398 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.200 southern California cars and trucks. It's breaks. Good morning, Jim, Good 399 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:34.359 morning, Hey Jason. Yeah, this is fairly new technology within the last 400 00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:38.839 five to six years, maybe ten years or so. Automatic emergency braking systems. 401 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:41.920 I'm not talking about anti lock breaking systems, which have been around forever 402 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.079 and are found in almost every vehicle on the road out there. This is 403 00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:49.599 the kind of system that you find right now in generally higher end vehicles. 404 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:53.599 You know, they had to use radar, they use cameras. They're watching 405 00:30:53.640 --> 00:30:56.559 ahead of you, so that if you're looking down at your phone, or 406 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:02.759 you're applying makeup in the mirror or something, this system is going to tell 407 00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:03.559 you if you're getting too close to the car in front of you, or 408 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:07.839 if you're coming up too fast on that part car in front of you. 409 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:12.480 It'll either alert you and or start to apply the brakes if you don't apply 410 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:18.119 the brakes. The National Highway treat and Traffic Safety Administration says this kind of 411 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:23.599 system on every new car and light truck could save thousands of car crashes every 412 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:29.240 year. Could prevent those could prevent three hundred and sixty deaths by car crash 413 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:32.440 every single year, Jason. That's the estimate of least, and so NETSET 414 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:37.440 is recommending that these automatic emergency braking systems be put into every car in the 415 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.839 next three or four years. Safety on the highways makes tons of stense, 416 00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:45.960 of course, and you just mentioned some data that supports that. Well what 417 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:51.240 about the cost. Yes, well, these systems cost well about two thousand 418 00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:56.319 dollars on most of these vehicles. They have historically. Some automakers though, 419 00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:02.319 are kind of cutting into that. Mass production and improved technology, more computerization 420 00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:06.799 could help to lower that cost. In fact, Toyotall all the way back 421 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:12.119 in twenty fifteen said that on its twenty sixteen V four models and Lexus models 422 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:15.759 that it was going to make it available this sort of breaking system for three 423 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:20.240 hundred dollars up to six hundred and thirty dollars for the Lexus. So the 424 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:22.480 price has come down somewhat in the last few years. But yeah, it's 425 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.799 it's going to impact, it'll affect the sicker price of that vehicle, Jason. 426 00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.720 But at least according to safety advocates, it's worth the cost okay, 427 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:36.559 well, Jim, I tend to recall, okay, when Volvo was the 428 00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:40.440 first company to patent three point seat belts and they shared the patent with the 429 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:47.559 rest of the industry because of safety, you know, maybe even morals is 430 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:51.160 is I mean, so are the specs. Are the specs going to be 431 00:32:51.200 --> 00:32:54.279 basic from the NHTSA and so everybody has to come at least to a minimum, 432 00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:58.799 and then they can go their different differentiating ways. Sure, and even 433 00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:01.400 now as it is, the assists have different levels. I suppose if you 434 00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:05.559 will, some of them will just you know, they'll beat if you're coming 435 00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:09.279 up behind somebody too quickly. Some of them will beep and then listen for 436 00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:13.000 you or feel for you to apply the breaks you don't, it's going to 437 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:15.319 apply, and if you do apply them, it will kind of regulate the 438 00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:22.400 breaking pressure like ABS does automatic braking systems. So it's all based on radar 439 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:27.319 detectors and you've seen them on your cars and cameras that so many cars have. 440 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.160 But yeah, it's gonna it will impact the cost. Right now, 441 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:36.960 the average new car goes for forty eight thousand dollars. Huge, It's I 442 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.640 mean, that's that's a lot of money, but still so Yeah, an 443 00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:43.759 uptick by three or four hundred dollars, probably most people wouldn't even notice it. 444 00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:45.119 So what happens next? When you talk about regulation, you tend to 445 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:49.559 think about layers and layers and oh, ireaucracy. What's next? Yes, 446 00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.359 Well, netza's recommendation will then go on to the Department of Transportation. The 447 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:59.400 DOT will hold public hearings and and will probably come out with a recommendation like 448 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.480 they did with three point seat belts, like they did with seat belts initially 449 00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:07.599 way back in the nineteen sixties. And then we'll write this into law, 450 00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:12.320 distribute that to all the auto manufacturers that deal in the United States. The 451 00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:16.639 process takes generally about three years from the time that NETZA makes a recommendation until 452 00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:22.079 it actually is put into law. Put into force. Might be an opportunity 453 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:25.840 for artificial intelligence to get involved in the process here as well. You're just 454 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:29.599 talking earlier this month about the threats from AI. Well, there are some 455 00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:35.039 benefits possibly too. Yeah, we'll put your smart money on automatic breaking system 456 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.039 stocks. I agree. I'm with you, Jim Ryan. Always a pleasure 457 00:34:37.039 --> 00:34:39.159 to speak with you. Maybe we'll talk again tomorrow. If not, maybe 458 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:44.679 next week. See you, Jason. That's ABC's senior correspondent, Jim Ryan. 459 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.920 That really does make sense. If it senses something and responds to it 460 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.800 or helps alert you to respond to it, that's great. But it is 461 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:58.199 not cheap for sure, and there's different levels of this protection as he mentioned 462 00:34:58.199 --> 00:35:01.440 there too, so it's something it'll be interesting to see what the minimum basic 463 00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:05.559 requirements are in a few years when it comes out, and hopefully by then 464 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.679 that cost will come down to my goodness, another line item on the sticker 465 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:10.440 price. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI 466 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.360 twenty four hour newsroom. A lawsuit claims a baseball fan is permanently blind in 467 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:20.480 his left eye because an Angel's player hurled a ball into the stands after a 468 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:23.679 play was over. Imagine a grape being smashed. That's what happened to his 469 00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:28.800 eyeball. Lawyer Rob Marcia Row says the Angels incurred supernir baseballs, but should 470 00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:30.960 have a policy on how to do it safely, particularly when you're somebody like 471 00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:35.239 Juan Lagarris, who was a gold glover with a cannon for an arm. 472 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.320 I mean, this is a guy who even at fifty percent power throws it 473 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:42.599 harder than most people do when they throw as hard as they can. He 474 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:45.760 says the ball traveled ten rows last year and hit his client, who had 475 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:47.880 looked down for a sect because play had stopped. Angel says the team does 476 00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:53.360 not comment on pending litigation in Anaheim. Corbin Carson KFI News Latinos make up 477 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:59.920 the largest ethnic population in La County. The latest US sets His figures show 478 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.400 the total number of people in the county is just over ten million, four 479 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:07.840 million of whom are Latino. Whites are these second highest population with three point 480 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:13.199 two million, followed by Asians, Blacks, and Native Americans. The data 481 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:16.320 was collected in twenty twenty, but researchers say the pandemic caused some adjustments in 482 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:21.800 how they gathered that information. The La Times has sent a demand letter to 483 00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:28.000 the La County Board of Supervisors for transcripts from meetings about the county's juvenile halls. 484 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.760 The meetings on March twenty fourth and April eighteenth were in closed session, 485 00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:37.599 but agendas showed the discussions were related to department head evaluations. Supervisor Janis Hawn 486 00:36:38.199 --> 00:36:43.119 told The Times there were discussions about the juvenile halls but under state law, 487 00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:47.719 closed door discussions can only be allowed for litigation, personnel matters, and union 488 00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:54.039 negotiations. Virginia is sending National Guard troops to the US border in Texas. 489 00:36:54.519 --> 00:37:00.559 Governor Glen Yonkin said yesterday he's deploying one hundred troops to the border, following 490 00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:05.639 a briefing from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Yuncan is the latest Republican governor to 491 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:09.840 send National Guard soldiers to the southern border, joining Florida, Tennessee, and 492 00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:15.039 a few other states. The birth rate in the US has remained flat, 493 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:20.559 with fewer babies being born than before the pandemic. The CDC says about three 494 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:24.199 point seven million babies were born in the US last year, which is about 495 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:30.159 three thousand fewer than the year before. Most birth were to mom's thirty five 496 00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:35.400 and older verse the team moms were at a record low, down to one 497 00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:39.679 hundred and forty three thousand. The National Security Council has announced more military aid 498 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:44.280 for Ukraine. We've got an upcoming package here which will be the thirty ninth 499 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:50.280 draw down of equipment from the Department of Defense inventories using presidential drawdown authorities. 500 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:55.320 National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the US will also send more Avenger air 501 00:37:55.440 --> 00:38:07.000 defense systems, Stinger anti aircraft systems, and ammunition to Ukraine. Jurassic Park 502 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:14.000 is returning to the big screen at Universal Studios for its thirtieth anniversary next weekend. 503 00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:19.079 Fans of the original movie can see it at Universal Cinema AMC in CityWalk. 504 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:23.960 The park is also introducing fresh merch food and activities inside the park for 505 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:30.639 a limited time. Jurassic Park debuted in theaters oh Man June eleventh, nineteen 506 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.800 ninety three, and has earned more than one billion dollars at the box office 507 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:39.679 from its initial theatrical release and some subsequent rereleases. And they're going to put 508 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:44.760 a little bit more in the box office till starting very soon June eleventh. 509 00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:47.239 That's not the big date in there. I was two and a half years 510 00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:52.760 at ninth. Thanks, thank you, Tyler. I was. Let's see 511 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.840 voting for Ross Perot Okay. Southern California. Weather from KFI for the near 512 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:00.800 inland areas in LA and Orange County. Mostly cloudy today with a slight chance 513 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:04.800 of rain patchie drizzle this morning. Be careful, hies. In the mid 514 00:39:04.800 --> 00:39:07.719 sixties two around seventy at the beaches today. It pretty much looks and feels 515 00:39:07.760 --> 00:39:10.960 the same as inland, with the chance of rain at the coastline about twenty 516 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:16.199 percent until lunchtime tonight, patchie fog after midnight, lows in the upper fifties. 517 00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:21.559 Manhattan Beach right now is sixty one degrees, Orange is fifty nine degrees, 518 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:27.360 Torrents sixty degrees, in Altadena fifty four degrees. We lead local live 519 00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.239 from the KFI twenty four hour news room. I'm Jason Middleton. This has 520 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:32.679 been your wake up call. You've been listening to your wake up Call with 521 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:37.440 me Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always hear wake Up Call five to 522 00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:42.920 six am Monday through Friday at KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on 523 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:44.320 the iHeartRadio app