Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I AM six forty
wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Good morning, everybody,
this is your wake up call. Today is Thursday, June one. Seems
like, I don't know, we're close to summer, right the solstice on
June twenty first. School is out, public school, private school. That's
all over with pretty much. Or this week just seems like a fresh start,
right, getting into a little bit of changing the weather. Just kidding.
The marine layer is here sticking around. So anyway, it's June the
first. I was looking for something we could reference as June first, and
there's not a lot, I mean a lot of it historical. There's a
couple of two historical things I'd like to just point out real quick. Fourteen
ninety five. Back then, just after, not too long ago, right
on the Guttenberg a little but after, a monk records the first known batch
of Scotch whiskey fourteen ninety five, and a monk brought that into the world.
And in nineteen sixteen, Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the
United States Supreme Court. Huge deal. So those are just a couple of
things for June the first, But like I said, summer's coming up.
We're looking ahead, maybe some summer reading, hopefully a vacation here and there.
I've been doing some advanced data research for what it's going to cost to
go on vacation this summer, and looks like the revenge travel thing is still
happening, but the prices are still up to so we'll try to figure that
out and we'll cover that a little bit more tomorrow on this show. Let's
do a couple of quick headlines before we get going full bore. The Bipartisan
Fiscal Responsibility Act is moving from the House to the Senate. The bill raises
the debt ceiling and avoids the government from defaulting. The Senate vote, according
to Senator Mitch McConnell, at least could happen as soon as later today.
We're gonna have more on that this hour. We're gonna talk with ABC's Karen
Travers. The La City Council has voted that air conditioning is required in all
rental units, mostly because er visits. Statistically, we're up last year after
all those heat waves that we had, and they're trying to address that.
That was passed unanimously yesterday, by the way, and June is Pride Month,
well, there's something fun. June is Pride month. That's a month
to celebrate the lgbt Q plus community and to focus on equal rights for everyone.
And of course the first Pride marches were organized in nineteen seventy. I'm
sure we'll have plenty more on that this month as well. In just a
few minutes, we are going to dig into this morning's basically the business headline,
and then we're going to scan the technology news as well. We're gonna
do a biz bite segment later this hour at the bottom, we're gonna have
ABC's Brad Garrett with us to talk specifically about AI and the rise of the
road bots. And then in just a few minutes, we're going to talk
about more of this. The House has passed a bill to raise the debt
ceiling and cut federal spending by trillions of dollars over two years. How Speaker
McCarthy celebrated last night's vote talking about the work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid
included in the bill. There's going to be people were on welfare today that
will no longer be on welfare that they will find a job because of the
work requirement. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it needs sixty
votes before it can go to President Biden. The federal government is expected to
run out of money on Monday, that's called the X Day, if the
debt ceiling is not raised by then. The La Times says it wants transcripts
from two closed door meetings held by the La County Board of Supervisors. The
Times claims there was discussion about the county's juvenile halls, but the agendas for
March twenty fourth in April eighteenth show the supervisors going into close session to discuss
department head of valuations. An attorney for the Time sent a letter to the
board demanding transcripts after Janis Han told The Times there was discussion about the juvie
halls. The Brown Act is a state law which limits closed door discussions only
to union negotiations, personnel matters, and litigation. Steve Gregory king off I
News, a homeless man who allegedly attacked a woman in Long Beach and then
stabbed a man who tried to help her, has pleaded not guilty to assault
charges. Officers said they had to use less lethal weapons and pepper spray Friday
to arrest the guy on the line with us as ABC's White House correspondent Karen
Travers. Good morning, Karen, good morning. So the final vote was
three fourteen to one seventeen. This promotes the debt ceiling bill from the House
to the Senate. So let's just start there. You're three hours ahead.
What's the latest and what's the next thing on the Hills agenda today? Yeah,
I wish I could give you like some glimpse into the future that this
has all been solved already, but it does go to the Senate now,
and the goal there to get this done as quickly as possible. That's according
to Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority leader. Mcconnells, the minority leader,
has also said the same thing. They would like to get this passed by
tomorrow so lawmakers can get out of town and the president can sign this well
before that June fifth deadline. It is now June first, so they have
a couple of days. But the question in the Senate now is just the
procedural issues. Any One senator can slow things down by offering amendments to the
legislation pushing debates on those amendments, So there could be a little bit of
lag time, but they're trying to alleviate some of that, and we'll get
a better sense in the next couple of hours about what that process will look
like now over the next twenty four hours. So, as you mentioned there,
one senator might have some fobo and doesn't get enough brakesmanship happening. But
it sounds like McConnell and Humor both kind of want to put this on the
President's desk as quickly as possible. Are you getting any wins that there could
be somebody that raised their hand and say, let's slow this down and talk
about it one more time. Yeah, there's some conservatives who have said they'd
like to put forward amendments, even some Democrats who also don't like something in
the bill who say they'd like to get some things stripped out. Now,
this doesn't mean that any of those amendments would pass, which would, of
course, if it does pass, change the bill force it back to the
House for another vote. So that's another question too of where that process would
go. The goal I think would be is to limit the number of changes
to potentially nothing. So they could just pass this in the Senate, get
it to the President by tomorrow night, and be done with it, and
everybody would stick around over the weekend if there was some kind of procedural hiccup.
Right, they've already been warned by Chuck Schumer, you might want to
prepare to be here in town for the weekend, just in Kate's votes slip
over into Saturday or Sunday. I know we have to let you go in
just about a minute or so, but I wanted to ask you that the
Speaker McCarthy and his very slim majority kind of picked this fight before the debt
ceiling. Politically speaking, what's the standing been there? Is he coming out
a little bit I don't know, with more cachet politically speaking, more chips
on the table. You know. Interestingly, when you looked at polls and
the poles were really on the board of default, there was equal blame going
around between Republicans on Capitol Hill and President Biden, a little different than pulling
we saw back in twenty eleven during a similar debt ceiling showdown, where President
Obama didn't get as much of the blame. So this time it was a
little bit more even so that's not great for anybody. But now in terms
of the spin, everybody is claiming a victory here now that it's gotten passed
in the House and talking about what they got included in this legislation, not
what they conceded. But Kevin McCarthy did have seventy one Republicans vote against this,
and most said it's because they wanted deeper spending cuts. There was significant
outrage among conservatives. It was very fierce. Now the big question is does
he have that rumbling revolt still on his hands or was it squashed? And
what does it mean going forward for his speakership because remember a couple of months
ago, it took many, many rounds for him to even get installed as
speaker, So there's always been sort of that tenuous hold on power. Yeah,
that's true too, for sure. Thank you so much for your time
this morning. Always a pleasure. I hope to talk again soon. I'm
a great gay thing at ABC's White House. Correspondent Karen Travers reporting with us
from DC. Let's get back to some of those stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom that seventies show actor Danny Masterson has been found guilty
of sexually assaulting two women at his home in the Hollywood Hills nearly twenty years
ago. ABC's Jason Nathanson says jurors yesterday said they were deadlocked on a third
rate charge. Masterson showed no motion as the verdict was read. His wife,
Biju Phillips loudly crying in court. He was taken away in handcuffs.
He'd been free on bail sinceince twenty twenty arrest. Masterson's first trial last year
ended in a hum jury hearing in the latest case is set for August.
No sentencing date has been scheduled yet. Hotel workers and some LAX employees are
one step closer to getting a raise. The LA City Council approved a study
on raising wages for the workers to twenty five dollars an hour this year,
with the goal of thirty dollars an hour by twenty twenty eight. Northeast lat
Tell Owners Association president Ray Petel says many limited service hotels in LA won't be
able to afford the wages. The majority of these limited service hotels in Los
Angeles are family business. They're small business. The back moon of the economy
in Los Angeles, Buttell has asked the council to carve out limited service hotels
from the rules. The increases what apply to hotels with sixty or more rooms.
Blake Trolley, k if I Knews Disney is finally reaching the company's goal
of laying off seven thousand employees. Variety is reporting that notices to employees impacted
during the third round of cuts were sent out last Friday. The layoffs focus
mostly on the media divisions, while the parks themselves remained untouched. For the
most part. Disney is still planning to drop more roles internationally as the rest
of this year wears on. A computer chip maker has joined a very exclusive
club, and it wasn't done artificially. Navidia has briefly joined the one trillion
dollar club. Only six other companies in the United States if hit the trillion
dollar market value, and you know the names Microsoft, Apple, Amazon Alphabet
or Google Tesla and Meadow or Facebook Tesla Meta, I've already fallen out of
the club. The video started at a Denny's thirty years ago and grew thanks
to the video game market and got bigger with the cryptocurrency boom. The crypto
crash last year knocked the video down, but the recent boom and artificial intelligence
put it over the trillion dollar mark. It quickly fell below that trillion dollar
value after passing it on Monday, but AI is expected to keep in the
video in that big money group for a while. Michael Krozer KFI News and
Video stock has been on a tear. It started to give back a little
bit last night and after market trading, but mostly because it's been so bullish
all year long. A beekeeper is pushing for backyard bee hives to be legal.
Leave that hanging there in Coasta, Mesa despite recent local attacks. Beekeeper
Alberta Mirascotti says bees are naturally docile. Most people who get stung they have
a very small reaction. But people when they say be they kind of scream
and holler, which was shutting too. Should just let them do their thing.
President Biden says the House took a critical step forward yesterday to prevent a
default. In a statement following the Chambers vote to pass a debt ceiling bill,
Biden called it a bipartisan compromise. We talked with ABC's White House correspondent
Cary Travers just a little bit earlier this hour about that. I'm sure more
will be on the Bill Handle Show later this morning. Former Vice President Pence
will announce his twenty twenty four presidential campaign next week. The Hill reports his
team is wrapping up plans to launch his campaign for the GOP presidential nam on
June the seventh. I think he's going to do that also on CNN.
He'll join a growing field of candidates, including his former President Trump and Florida
Governor Ron de Stantis. The US and Taiwan are signing their first deal under
a new trade talks framework. The two governments started their own trade talks last
August after the US excluded Taiwan from the larger Indo Pacific Economic Framework. This
is part of the trade war that the Bide administration seems to be advancing against
China and in South Asia overall. Taiwan's Office of Trade Negotiation says the first
agreement under the new framework will be signed this morning in Washington. China,
of course, thinks this is no bueno. At five thirty five, ABC's
Brad Garrett will be here to talk about artificial intelligence, and he and I
are going to try to separate the scary clickbait headlines from some actual AI substance,
and some of that scary clickbait headlines comes from the industry itself, So
hopefully Brad and I can unpack that a little bit. A couple of stories
from the newsroom before we rock that AI with Brad and La County sheriff's deputy
who pleaded no contest to an off duty crash and torrents that killed a passenger
is facing thirteen years in state prison. Two other people were hurt in the
crash in twenty twenty. Prosecutors say Daniel Owner was going one hundred and sixteen
miles an hour when his Dodge charger hit a center medium and at least seventy
one miles an hour when he slammed into a traffic poll. A new six
million dollar campaign is aiming to boost tourism. It's called Always San Francisco.
Yeah, just for the Bay area, and it does include a one minute
commercial of the most iconic sites and sounds in the Bay area Golden Gate Bridge,
the Painted Ladies, of course, Lombard Street, no pictures of Market
Street. For some reason. The ad is already airing in New York,
Boston, Washington, d C, Houston, and Chicago. It refers to
the city as the most fascinating forty nine square miles on the planet. Before
I moved there and moved back to La finally, after twelve years up there,
there was a magazine called seven by seven. I didn't understand that before
I went up, And then of course San Francisco County as seven miles by
seven forty nine. Rush has dropped another round of bombs on Ukraine's capital,
killing at least three people and hurting others. Russian forces also carried out three
aerial attacks over the south of Ukraine, along with missile and heavy artillery strikes.
Ukraine was attacked seventeen times last month. Okay, right now we're gonna
tee up our biz bus headlines. And first up this morning, we have
the job market. Okay, if you're looking for work, we have some
numbers. The job markets still in your favor. We got more job openings
in April than we thought we were going to get. So the number is
one point eight right here. One point eight or how many job openings there
are for every one point zero person who is looking for work. Now,
stick with me. This is math on the radio, But it makes sense.
April job openings ten point one million happened. We expected nine point four
million. Now here's where those jobs are, which I think is more important
detail trade two hundred and ten thousand more jobs opened in retail, healthcare and
social assistance one hundred and eighty five thousand new job openings in April, and
transportation, warehousing and utilities up one hundred and fifty four thousand. Okay,
So it's that's a good news coming out of April. When it comes to
the job market, it's not all rainbows and cotton candy. The number of
job openings has dropped fourteen percent from a year ago. That's according to chief
economist Julia Pollock at ZIP Recruiter. In addition, the quit rate of two
point four percent fell to its lowest since February of twenty twenty one. So
having less people quit their existing jobs kind of shows that the Great resignation is
likely ending. So that means the job market overall's starting to cool off,
starting to tighten a little bit, and that matters, and that rolls in
macroeconomically into the next story about the FED. Now, this is the less
sexy version of will they or won't they The Federal Reserve is no longer behind
the curve when it comes to controlling inflation because of all the recent interest rate
hikes. But the question is whether there's another interest rate hike coming up in
June. We have seen this sticky inflation start to cool off, not as
quickly as the Fed had hoped and otherwise, so consumer prices are still up.
The CPI is still a consumer price index is still up. So just
analytically speaking, having followed this for a while, I think the will be
a pause this month in June. I think there's still a chance that an
interest rate hike could happen in later this year another quarter of a point,
because there's still data driven at the FED. So the job story we just
talked about that shows there's a little bit of cooling off in the job market.
It's not huge still, but it's just enough to show progress and response
in a very macro sense to the interest rate hikes that have been going on.
Also, wages are starting to not go up as fast as they were
a year ago, another sign that inflation is starting to cool off. We
may not be seeing it too many other places. At the grocery store,
necessarily, and we're definitely not seeing it in the mortgage and housing market,
and we're definitely not seeing it on our credit card bills because the APR is
still high end responding to the FED so recession analysis in a nutshell June pause,
another hike this year point two five, a soft err, shallow err
and short ter recessions still has about a fifty percent chance. I'd say it's
more like sixty percent chance. I think that the survey of analysts that I
take part in was came in at about fifty six percent most recently. So
that's the macro Let's move on to a couple others. American Airline CEO says
the airline is planning to appeal a court's ruling blocking its partnership with Jet Blue
Airways. The CEO announced yesterday the companies will prevail. We'll see a judge
ruled earlier this month the airline's partnership is anti competitive and ordered the airlines to
end it within thirty days. The airlines argue their partnership lets them compete against
Delta and United in New York and Boston, and the deal lets Jet Blue
and American coordinate routes. And schedules and share revenue. This whole deepregulation thing
I've been researching as well since the Reagan administration. This has been still playing
out. Fascinating stuff if you're into that kind of thing, but you might
not be. So let's do this one. Amazon is going to pay the
Federal Trade Commission more than thirty million dollars to settle two lawsuits that allege that
Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and it's Ring doorbell cameras violated users privacy. So the
FTC claimed Amazon retained customers videos and voice recordings for years, sometimes without consent.
The FTC also alleges that video and audio foot could be accessed by unauthorized
parties. There's been a couple of headlines around that that doesn't even be a
tsunami of those kind of headlines. Amazon denies the claims, but says that
the settlements would put these matters behind us. So thirty million dollars to the
FTC from Amazon because of its Alexa and Ring alleged practice. This Amazon,
by the way, makes about nine hundred thousand dollars every minute. So I'll
start the clock right now and thirty three and a half minutes from now I
will remind you because that's going to give Amazon enough time to pay this fine
of thirty million dollars to the FTC. Another tech story before we head out,
courtesy of Meta, the platform formally and probably presently referred to his Facebook
Meta Platforms is threatening to pull news links from Facebook and Instagram in California if
state lawmakers move forward with the California Journalism Preservation Act. The company responded similar
fashion after related proposal was tabled in Congress back in December, and it was
also going down like this in Canada and briefly blocked news links in Australia as
well before Meta broker to deal with the government there. Among the amendments was
a clause stipulating that digital platforms and newsgroups would be required to mediate for two
months before subjecting them to mandatory arbitration. So we'll have to see how that
plays out. But the California Journalism Preservation Act, obviously I kind of leaned
into that one, but I can understand if some others don't. I don't
think you need to prioritize it. That's why we have algorithms. Right.
The Senate is set to take up and vote on the debt ceiling bill the
House passed yesterday. One element of the bill would require student loan payments to
restart. It would put in law that the pause and payments ends on August
thirtieth. The new slogan for the Ron de Santa's presidential campaign is Make America
Florida. The Florida governor started his Republican campaign this week in Iowa and is
looking for financial support. The new website for that is Make America Florida dot
shop if you're looking for any bit of an array of campaign merch. FedEx
has reportedly reached a new contract agreement with its pilots. The company says there's
a tentative agreement with the pilot's union that will help the company deliver outstanding service
to customers around the world. At five fifty, we're going to close out
wake Up Call with ABC's Jim Ryan. This morning's topic with Jim is something
we lean on every day here in Southern California. That's the breaks in our
cars, some new breaking regulations and whether that's going to hit the sticker prices.
Coming up later right now, though, on wake Up Call, it's
ABC's Brad Garrett. Brad and I have both been keeping eyes on the hype
cycle around artificial intelligence that started late last year. Picked up Steve in January.
Good morning, Good morning, Jason. So I've been looking at the
headlines. So, could artificial intelligence destroy humanity if not contained? Is one
of them? Do we need the regulations to safe guards? We'll come back
to that in a second. Equating it the nuclear war basically is meant to
get attention. Is it getting attention? I don't think it's getting the attention
that it should. And that's one of the reasons I wanted to talk about
it, because you know, clearly I'm not an AI expert, but I
do read a lot about it, and I also look at the angle of
how AI can be used both by law enforcement, the military, and the
intelligence community, which you know is in my wheelhouse. So yes, you
know, I really had to stop back and look at this. When people
like Jeffrey Hinton, who's a super smart scientist, he and two graduate students
actually developed AI a number of years ago that he left his job at Google
recently, as you well know, because he was so concerned that AI was
moving at such a speed that there is that potential that AI could overtake us
and make us obsolete, and he thinks we need and clearly we do some
guardrails to slow that down and regulate it the best we can. So you're
thinking we're not taking this as seriously as we should so far, and that
the efforts from those within the AI sector and those outside are starting to respond,
or are you thinking that we're still behind the curve. Well, I
think we're a little behind the curve. I mean, at least congresses haven't
hearings. They're bringing in some of these AI experts and some from industry because
again, this is all driven to a large extent by money, obviously,
and everyone gets that, and that's fine. You know, Google, Microsoft,
a number of other companies that are working on AI stuff see the potential
for making trillions of dollars because there's clearly, Jason, a positive side to
AI. I mean, this stuff apparently they're starting to work on in medical
research. I mean, if you think about that, a computer it can
basically read everything that's written about brain cancer and then write a code and then
implement a code as to how we solve or treat certain types of brain cancer.
I mean that's really cool stuff. But what these scientists are saying,
and there are a lot of them. I mean, like the chief technology
guy at Microsoft is even saying this too, and he's in the middle of
promoting it obviously for Microsoft, is that we have to slow this down because
if this train gets going so fast, we can't put the brakes on it.
Well, this is capitalism. And so when companies that already have companies
that already have projects and products that are in the marketplace don't want to slow
down, everybody who doesn't have those products wants them to slow down so they
can catch up. I understand that that's the market dynamic, your wheelhouse,
as you said at the top, with security and whatnot. Why not just
do something that Silicon Valley tells itself to do every day and iterate or die.
So why don't we just iterate the regulations we have right now? What's
needed? Well, it's you know, what's interesting is it's unclear based on
what I have read as to what guardrails they're really talking about. And I
think they do admit there is a limitation to guardrails because there's a lot of
smart hackers out there. There's a lot of smart the bad guys in the
ransomware business if they can break into the stuff and start controlling it and using
it against us. And you know, one step further is that when you
look at d D and the amount of money they're spending on AI, they're
saying, we can't afford to slow down because Russia, China, Iran,
and North Korea are not slowing down. I see, And if they get
ahead of us, maybe they are, maybe they aren't. I have no
idea. Then we're into some really unchartered territory as to what could potentially happen
from you know, mistaken missile launches to whatever it might be. That's why
you get these scientists saying things like it could really damage humanity. In your
coverage and watching this and analyzing this, is DoD also very much engaged in
these conversations or is it mostly just coming from the tech sector first? And
then it's a response thing. I guess what I'm asking is is the government
staying or regulatory agencies trying to stay the tip of the spear. Well,
it's hard to say. Do I think dd is concerned about it? And
of course they are because they know that this type of technology or if you
have computers that are smarter than us, and it can actually then implement on
their own without us. What the potential of that is like some of the
sci fi movies that have been made, and so yes, the military does
know that, but it's kind of like a push pull for them for what
I just described. They obviously have to they have to keep up because if
China and Russia are way ahead of us and they start using it against us,
we don't have the capability maybe to perhaps counter it or figure out,
you know, is this artificial intelligence or is this real. We're speaking with
ABC's analyst and security expert Brad Garrett. Brad open Ais ZEO Sam Altman was
on Capitol Hill recently and took questions and actually basically asked for regulation to come
in now we can we can pars whether he's that's a little bit of signaling,
you know there. But at the same time, when after open Ai
CEO leaves the Hill, well, what would you think would be the next
good person to testify on Capitol Hill to help round out our approach to this.
Would it be a security expert like yourself, would it be somebody from
d D Responding to direct questions as far as much as they could an open,
open arena. What's your take. I think it has to be a
combination, in particular of of folks like Jeffrey Hinton, and maybe he's testified.
I have no idea. I haven't been following that now because okay,
so he's the guy that is super smart, supermasured in his approach to this,
you know, is not you know, he left Google. I think
he likes Google. He didn't leave them because he didn't like them or what
they were doing. He just felt, because he is the guy, that
he had to step out where he could talk publicly about AI. And that's
that's what he's doing. And he's gotten literally dozens and dozens of A scientists
and AI. I mean the other side of this, Jason, is AI
investors, the folks that are trying to make money off AI are also saying
the same thing. I mean, the collective voice of the people that are
in the know about AI. You know, based on what I read and
understand and have conversations with people, is you know that train is really trying
to get drive down the road. Now they may have to drag Congress along
with them, but what we'll see, but they're saying you got to slow
down. As I mentioned earlier, if we get too far, we can't
go back right. It's hard to put it back in the box once it
gets out right. So exactly, ABC's Tech in Security expert correspondent analyst Brad
Garrett. Always a pleasure to speak with you. This is a thorny issue.
I appreciate us being able to talk about it with a little bit of
dynamism. Great, thank you, Jason, Thanks bred. Former Vice President
Pence is going to announce his twenty twenty four presidential campaign next week. Also
in presidential nomination GOP news or news adjacent, Florida Governor Ron de Stantis has
a new presidential slogan campaign slogan make America Florida. And it's been wet and
gray here recently in La and OC. But the Atlantic hurricane season officially starts
today. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting twelve to seventeen named storms,
with five to nine of those becoming hurricanes. It's also supposed to be
an El Nino year here for the Pacific coast. It is five fifty one
on your wake up call. We're going to close out this morning with ABC's
Jim Ryan joining us for some consumer safety news that's relatable for daily life in
southern California cars and trucks. It's breaks. Good morning, Jim, Good
morning, Hey Jason. Yeah, this is fairly new technology within the last
five to six years, maybe ten years or so. Automatic emergency braking systems.
I'm not talking about anti lock breaking systems, which have been around forever
and are found in almost every vehicle on the road out there. This is
the kind of system that you find right now in generally higher end vehicles.
You know, they had to use radar, they use cameras. They're watching
ahead of you, so that if you're looking down at your phone, or
you're applying makeup in the mirror or something, this system is going to tell
you if you're getting too close to the car in front of you, or
if you're coming up too fast on that part car in front of you.
It'll either alert you and or start to apply the brakes if you don't apply
the brakes. The National Highway treat and Traffic Safety Administration says this kind of
system on every new car and light truck could save thousands of car crashes every
year. Could prevent those could prevent three hundred and sixty deaths by car crash
every single year, Jason. That's the estimate of least, and so NETSET
is recommending that these automatic emergency braking systems be put into every car in the
next three or four years. Safety on the highways makes tons of stense,
of course, and you just mentioned some data that supports that. Well what
about the cost. Yes, well, these systems cost well about two thousand
dollars on most of these vehicles. They have historically. Some automakers though,
are kind of cutting into that. Mass production and improved technology, more computerization
could help to lower that cost. In fact, Toyotall all the way back
in twenty fifteen said that on its twenty sixteen V four models and Lexus models
that it was going to make it available this sort of breaking system for three
hundred dollars up to six hundred and thirty dollars for the Lexus. So the
price has come down somewhat in the last few years. But yeah, it's
it's going to impact, it'll affect the sicker price of that vehicle, Jason.
But at least according to safety advocates, it's worth the cost okay,
well, Jim, I tend to recall, okay, when Volvo was the
first company to patent three point seat belts and they shared the patent with the
rest of the industry because of safety, you know, maybe even morals is
is I mean, so are the specs. Are the specs going to be
basic from the NHTSA and so everybody has to come at least to a minimum,
and then they can go their different differentiating ways. Sure, and even
now as it is, the assists have different levels. I suppose if you
will, some of them will just you know, they'll beat if you're coming
up behind somebody too quickly. Some of them will beep and then listen for
you or feel for you to apply the breaks you don't, it's going to
apply, and if you do apply them, it will kind of regulate the
breaking pressure like ABS does automatic braking systems. So it's all based on radar
detectors and you've seen them on your cars and cameras that so many cars have.
But yeah, it's gonna it will impact the cost. Right now,
the average new car goes for forty eight thousand dollars. Huge, It's I
mean, that's that's a lot of money, but still so Yeah, an
uptick by three or four hundred dollars, probably most people wouldn't even notice it.
So what happens next? When you talk about regulation, you tend to
think about layers and layers and oh, ireaucracy. What's next? Yes,
Well, netza's recommendation will then go on to the Department of Transportation. The
DOT will hold public hearings and and will probably come out with a recommendation like
they did with three point seat belts, like they did with seat belts initially
way back in the nineteen sixties. And then we'll write this into law,
distribute that to all the auto manufacturers that deal in the United States. The
process takes generally about three years from the time that NETZA makes a recommendation until
it actually is put into law. Put into force. Might be an opportunity
for artificial intelligence to get involved in the process here as well. You're just
talking earlier this month about the threats from AI. Well, there are some
benefits possibly too. Yeah, we'll put your smart money on automatic breaking system
stocks. I agree. I'm with you, Jim Ryan. Always a pleasure
to speak with you. Maybe we'll talk again tomorrow. If not, maybe
next week. See you, Jason. That's ABC's senior correspondent, Jim Ryan.
That really does make sense. If it senses something and responds to it
or helps alert you to respond to it, that's great. But it is
not cheap for sure, and there's different levels of this protection as he mentioned
there too, so it's something it'll be interesting to see what the minimum basic
requirements are in a few years when it comes out, and hopefully by then
that cost will come down to my goodness, another line item on the sticker
price. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A lawsuit claims a baseball fan is permanently blind in
his left eye because an Angel's player hurled a ball into the stands after a
play was over. Imagine a grape being smashed. That's what happened to his
eyeball. Lawyer Rob Marcia Row says the Angels incurred supernir baseballs, but should
have a policy on how to do it safely, particularly when you're somebody like
Juan Lagarris, who was a gold glover with a cannon for an arm.
I mean, this is a guy who even at fifty percent power throws it
harder than most people do when they throw as hard as they can. He
says the ball traveled ten rows last year and hit his client, who had
looked down for a sect because play had stopped. Angel says the team does
not comment on pending litigation in Anaheim. Corbin Carson KFI News Latinos make up
the largest ethnic population in La County. The latest US sets His figures show
the total number of people in the county is just over ten million, four
million of whom are Latino. Whites are these second highest population with three point
two million, followed by Asians, Blacks, and Native Americans. The data
was collected in twenty twenty, but researchers say the pandemic caused some adjustments in
how they gathered that information. The La Times has sent a demand letter to
the La County Board of Supervisors for transcripts from meetings about the county's juvenile halls.
The meetings on March twenty fourth and April eighteenth were in closed session,
but agendas showed the discussions were related to department head evaluations. Supervisor Janis Hawn
told The Times there were discussions about the juvenile halls but under state law,
closed door discussions can only be allowed for litigation, personnel matters, and union
negotiations. Virginia is sending National Guard troops to the US border in Texas.
Governor Glen Yonkin said yesterday he's deploying one hundred troops to the border, following
a briefing from Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Yuncan is the latest Republican governor to
send National Guard soldiers to the southern border, joining Florida, Tennessee, and
a few other states. The birth rate in the US has remained flat,
with fewer babies being born than before the pandemic. The CDC says about three
point seven million babies were born in the US last year, which is about
three thousand fewer than the year before. Most birth were to mom's thirty five
and older verse the team moms were at a record low, down to one
hundred and forty three thousand. The National Security Council has announced more military aid
for Ukraine. We've got an upcoming package here which will be the thirty ninth
draw down of equipment from the Department of Defense inventories using presidential drawdown authorities.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says the US will also send more Avenger air
defense systems, Stinger anti aircraft systems, and ammunition to Ukraine. Jurassic Park
is returning to the big screen at Universal Studios for its thirtieth anniversary next weekend.
Fans of the original movie can see it at Universal Cinema AMC in CityWalk.
The park is also introducing fresh merch food and activities inside the park for
a limited time. Jurassic Park debuted in theaters oh Man June eleventh, nineteen
ninety three, and has earned more than one billion dollars at the box office
from its initial theatrical release and some subsequent rereleases. And they're going to put
a little bit more in the box office till starting very soon June eleventh.
That's not the big date in there. I was two and a half years
at ninth. Thanks, thank you, Tyler. I was. Let's see
voting for Ross Perot Okay. Southern California. Weather from KFI for the near
inland areas in LA and Orange County. Mostly cloudy today with a slight chance
of rain patchie drizzle this morning. Be careful, hies. In the mid
sixties two around seventy at the beaches today. It pretty much looks and feels
the same as inland, with the chance of rain at the coastline about twenty
percent until lunchtime tonight, patchie fog after midnight, lows in the upper fifties.
Manhattan Beach right now is sixty one degrees, Orange is fifty nine degrees,
Torrents sixty degrees, in Altadena fifty four degrees. We lead local live
from the KFI twenty four hour news room. I'm Jason Middleton. This has
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