WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:16.879 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. 3 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:29.039 It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's 4 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:34.240 five o'clock. I'm gonna turn on the coffee pot, get your day going. 5 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:39.000 This is your wake up call for Monday, April twenty ninth. Oh, 6 00:00:39.119 --> 00:00:44.240 this would be my Danny's birthday. That happy birthday, and heaven to 7 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:50.039 Nick. It is as I said. It's Monday, April twenty ninth. 8 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.200 We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. Thanks for 9 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:57.719 getting your day started with us. Gotta tell you I went out to one 10 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.600 thousand Oaks over the weekend and was driving down the one oh one and got 11 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:07.680 my first look at the Annis Wallenberg Wildlife Crossing. It's pretty impressive. Looks 12 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:11.560 like they've got like half of it up already. You know they're doing the 13 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:17.719 overnight road closures. I think that roadway should be reopening right now. I'm 14 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:21.560 not sure if it's open on or closed on Sunday nights, but it's pretty 15 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:23.560 cool. Looks like it's halfway down it's not gonna be finished finished for a 16 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:29.760 while, but once it is, big mountain lions have a place to cross. 17 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:33.400 Also, this happened yesterday morning, so it was a beautiful morning. 18 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:36.359 I went out out of my little tiny balcony and I'm having my coffee and 19 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.000 I was like, what's that noise? They were these bees like buzzing around 20 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:45.079 under the cover of the balcony, a bunch of them. And I always, 21 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.319 you know, you get one or two bees that kind of buzz by, 22 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:51.400 but this was like a a definite group, like a little gang of 23 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:53.719 bees. And I was like, oh God, are they looking for a 24 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:57.400 new place to like bring the queen and start a hive or something like that. 25 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.000 So I just went out. I said, I'm not going to be 26 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:04.760 scared of you guys, sat down, They buzzed around, left me alone. 27 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:07.680 I left them alone, and then they eventually left. I was just 28 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:08.759 thinking the whole time because I don't know if you know this, but Moe 29 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:13.280 Kelly is deathly afraid of bees. Can't stand him. So it was like, 30 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.120 oh, I got a call, but I was seriously worried, like 31 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.759 what do they were they scouting for a new location? I guess I'll find 32 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:24.639 out when I go home today, but they didn't stick around much anyway. 33 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:29.159 Here's what's a head on wake up call this Monday morning. Protesters on both 34 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:34.719 sides have shouted and shoved each other during dueling demonstrations at UCLA. About two 35 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:38.840 hundred and seventy five people were arrested on Saturday at campuses around the US, 36 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:45.400 including at Indiana University Bloomington, Arizona State University, and Washington University in Saint 37 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:46.960 Louis Man. They have a cool campus. I've been there before. The 38 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:52.960 number of arrest nationwide is approaching nine hundred. A baby is among at least 39 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:55.759 five people killed by tornadoes in the Midwest. Yesterday was the third day of 40 00:02:55.800 --> 00:03:00.599 severe weather across the Heartland that saw millions under threat of violent storms. The 41 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:06.280 number of babies born in the US is at its lowest level in decades. 42 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:10.159 Birth rates in twenty twenty three were down two percent from the year before, 43 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:15.000 and the CDC says the three point six million babies born last year is the 44 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:19.280 lowest number we've seen since nineteen seventy nine. We're going to be talking with 45 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:23.080 ABC's Jim Ryan about this a little bit more coming up in about fifteen minutes 46 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.800 or so at six oh five, it's handle on the news. Here's a 47 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:31.759 protest I can get behind, A rally against La County DA George Gascon I 48 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.240 was going to tell you about that. Let's get started with some of the 49 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:40.960 stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Fights have broken 50 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.120 out at UCLA during dueling protests between pro Palestinian and pro Israeli groups on campus. 51 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:52.719 The Israeli American Council and other Jewish groups sponsored a rally yesterday to show 52 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:57.680 support for Jewish students. Others held a demonstration to support the pro Palestinian students 53 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:02.080 right to protest. The vice Chancellor of you U UCLA Strategic Communications says their 54 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.199 heart broke into report that some fights broke out between demonstrators on Royce squad. 55 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:12.400 She says the universities put in additional security measures and increased the number of safety 56 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.800 team members on site. Hundreds have been arrested over the weekend during protests by 57 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:20.519 pro Palestinian demonstrators. ABC's Jerine Shaw says about two hundred and seventy five were 58 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:27.959 arrested Saturday at schools including Indiana University Bloomington, Arizona State and Washington University Saint 59 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.240 Louis demonstrators demanding their university divest from companies base a profit from the Israel Hamas 60 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:39.399 War and called for a ceasefire, while counter protesters demand one hundred plus hostages 61 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:44.319 be released by Hamas. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was among those arrested. 62 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:47.720 In Missouri. Nearly nine hundred arrests have been made on college campuses since 63 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:54.680 April eighteenth. Cornell University has suspended several students and referred some employees to human 64 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:58.639 resources, saying they are deeply distressed by chance made at some of the rallies. 65 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.879 A person has died in house fire in South LA. The man was 66 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:04.560 found inside a century old home in the Florence area that burned last night. 67 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.800 LA Fire says firefighters kept the flames to one room in the house. The 68 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:15.879 agency also says there were no working smoke detectors in the home. Challengers challenged 69 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:19.240 and beat the competition at the box office. Zendaa's movie about a love triangle 70 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:23.480 and the Tennis World took in about fifteen million dollars in its opening weekend. 71 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:28.639 The faith based unsung Hero about a Christian rock band was second. Godzilla X 72 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.480 Kong the New Empire is still destroying it at the box office. It came 73 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:36.720 in in third place. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. 74 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:43.079 It was a big night in DC over the weekend the Washington Corresponden's Dinner, 75 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.199 Yes, the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner this weekend. The President, 76 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:51.120 first Lady, the Vice President, and second gentlemen were our guest at this 77 00:05:51.240 --> 00:05:55.399 dinner. And you know, it's a one night a year where everybody can 78 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.480 kind of put aside some political differences in the room. It's a bipartisan group 79 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:02.000 out there in the audience and get together for some jokes. But also it's 80 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.240 a scholarship night. It's a big night to raise money for dozens of scholarships 81 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:11.639 that the WHCA gives out to college students. And we also give out awards 82 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.759 to members of our community, members of our White House Press Corps for the 83 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:19.000 work that they do all throughout the year, and some lifetime achievement awards as 84 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.160 well. So you know, a lot of focus, of course on the 85 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:25.680 Hollywood glam that shows up or athletes and all of that, but there's so 86 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:28.560 much more that goes into it, and it's a very important night for our 87 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:32.639 association to raise money for those big things. Well, unlike when Trump was 88 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:38.160 president Biden. Biden attended and took the stage and it did get political. 89 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.759 Yeah, it did. You know, he has attended every year he does 90 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:45.519 a comedy bid, but this year it was pretty short remarks from the president. 91 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.199 He kept it much shorter than he has in previous years, and about 92 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.319 half of it was spent on more serious things. He did get some zingers 93 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.560 in about who he's running against. He said, you know that the election 94 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:00.560 is in full swing and age is an issue. The President said, I'm 95 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.160 a grown man running against a six year old in the crowd really liked that 96 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:06.480 one. But he also got very serious at the end, talking about the 97 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.800 stakes right now in this country and what is happening, you know, around 98 00:07:11.839 --> 00:07:15.160 the world with journalists being in prison for the work that they're doing, and 99 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:19.160 how the industry. You know, it's an important time. He also called 100 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:24.519 on the press to move past what he called sensationalism and said that you know, 101 00:07:24.759 --> 00:07:27.920 he's not asking people to take sides, but to rise up for the 102 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.319 seriousness of this moment. Move past horse race poll numbers, gotcha moments and 103 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:38.000 distractions and side shows that he says have sometimes dominated political coverage, and he 104 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.560 said, focus on what's actually at stake right now. Well, he's not 105 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:45.720 wrong about the gotchas and that kind of stuff. See a lot of that 106 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:48.560 overall. Was he pretty well received? I mean that I think it's been 107 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:51.600 basically a friendly room for him. Yeah, you know, he was well 108 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:55.800 received. Like some of the jokes maybe don't land, but you know, 109 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:59.480 he's not a comedian. But it was funny. They work a lot on 110 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.879 these for the president, every president before him. You know, it's not 111 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.959 just his team working on it. You bring in some comedy writers that can 112 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.240 help you with it. And then he was followed by Colin Jost of a 113 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.839 Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Oh yeah, he's very funny and normally you 114 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:16.199 see him with Michael Chay, his counterpart at the Weekend Update GUESK, but 115 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.000 this was just a solo routine for him, so a little bit different of 116 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:22.199 a scene. I personally like him. I think he's very funny on SNL 117 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:26.079 and was funny on Saturday Night. But you know, he got in quite 118 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:31.279 a bunch of lines going after the President for his age, for you know, 119 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.919 trying to run up the stairs of Air Force one and how he shouldn't 120 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.519 be doing that anymore. And of course the former president as well was a 121 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:41.960 frequent target of Colin Jost, but he also turned serious towards the end, 122 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:45.960 and you know, talked about the you know, journalism, talked about his 123 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:50.240 own family story and his grandfather who had recently passed away, who he said 124 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.200 was a Staten Island firefighter for many decades, a pillar of his community, 125 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.879 and you know, from a very conservative community that supported Donald Trump in the 126 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:03.440 twenty twenty election. And he told the president that his grandfather voted for him 127 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:05.919 Joe Biden, because of decency. And so he kind of made a plea 128 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:11.320 for decency in these very difficult times, you know, not really just took 129 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.559 reporters, but to the politicians in the room, to the elected officials and 130 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.159 the people who worked for them in the room. So it was a nice 131 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.440 message to kind of close it out. Decency. What a concept. Huh. 132 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.480 Yeah, All right, Well the fun is over for you, Karen. 133 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.759 It's back to us, yes, back to work, back to making 134 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:31.720 sure the vending machines are stocked for the reporters today, because that's also the 135 00:09:31.759 --> 00:09:37.519 important work that we do from the WHCA. Karen Travers, thanks so much. 136 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:39.120 We'll talk again soon. Thank you. All right, let's get back 137 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:41.679 to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. 138 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.639 A small plane has crashed into a neighborhood in Alcoholane. Jim Alen says it 139 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.399 happened around six last night, a few miles away from Gillespie Fields. I 140 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:56.440 saw the plane coming in, sputtering, coming up down Lily hit the power 141 00:09:56.440 --> 00:09:58.519 lines up here, and I was in the backyard, so I didn't see 142 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:03.480 where he but he hit this poll up the street and flipped over the house 143 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.960 and landed on lily Aalen says he was surprised the plane didn't hit morequite a 144 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.080 shock. I didn't think. I didn't think he was going to make it. 145 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.080 It's coming down so low. I thought he was going to hit this 146 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.000 two story house across the street. Here. Flight Aware shows the plane taking 147 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:20.200 off from the Gillespie Airfield and apparently turning back then it went down. Fourteen 148 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:24.679 hundred people lost power when the plane hit that power line, but power has 149 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:28.639 been restored. The pilot was taken to the hospital. Palestinian health officials say 150 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.960 Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafa have killed at least twenty two 151 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.960 people, including women and children. Israel has carried out air strikes on Rafa 152 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:39.600 since the start of the war and is getting ready to send in ground troops. 153 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:45.399 Israel says Rafa is the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza. More than 154 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.360 a million Palestinians have sought refuge in the city, which is on the border 155 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:54.320 with Egypt. The US and others have urged Israel not to invade. Talks 156 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.399 continue for a pause in fighting in Gaza. ABC's Christiana Cordero says negotiators are 157 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:03.879 meeting today in Cairo to discuss a potential ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The 158 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:07.679 Wall Street Journal reports, the potential deal includes around twenty hostages being released in 159 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:15.440 return for Israel releasing an estimated five hundred Palestinian prisoners and allowing three hundred thousand 160 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:20.720 people to return to northern Gaza. Israel's foreign minister has said Israel would delay 161 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.960 its offensive and Rafa in exchange for a hostage deal. We're going to be 162 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.919 getting more information on that possible deal with ABC's tom Rivers coming up at the 163 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:35.200 bottom of the hour. The mayors of La Long Beach and Santa Monica are 164 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.559 in Washington, d C. To ask for help to address homelessness. Mayor 165 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:46.039 Bass is leading the group of forty eight mayors meeting today. The three Cabinet 166 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.279 secretaries and White House Chief of Staff Jeff zat Zeitz will also be attending. 167 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:58.480 The delegation is going to lobby to expand veteran eligibility for housing vouchers, lift 168 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.919 the cap on project based vouchers, and let cities build more affordable housing, 169 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:09.279 and also urge federal leaders to increase funding for housing choice vouchers. Sounds like 170 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:18.360 they got a lot going there. Oh, I would have loved to have 171 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:22.559 seen that. Jelly Roll and hip hop legend t Paine took the stage at 172 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.120 Stagecoach over the weekend to pay tribute to the late Toby Keith. They sang 173 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:31.279 Keith's first hit song should Have Been a Cowboy. Jelly Roll also released the 174 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:35.679 duet on Amazon Music. The proceeds are going to benefit the Toby Keith Foundation. 175 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.159 Toby Keith died in February. Fights had broken out at UCLA between Pro 176 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:48.000 Palestinian and pro Israel supporters after a barrier was breached. The barrier was supposed 177 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:52.279 to separate the groups of demonstrators. A vice chancellor at UCLA says the university 178 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:58.120 has instituted additional security measures and increase the number of safety team members on site. 179 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:03.679 President Biden has spoken with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho as pressure builds for 180 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:09.639 a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release. The White House says Biden reiterated 181 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.759 his clear position that is against Israel going into Rafa to go after what Israel 182 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:20.320 considers the last Hamas stronghold. We're going to be talking more about this from 183 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:24.360 ABC's Tom Rivers at the bottom of the hour. Check out the brains on 184 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:31.000 these kids. El Camino Real Charter High School has won its tenth Academic Decathlon 185 00:13:31.200 --> 00:13:35.399 championship. The national competition happened over the weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The 186 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:43.200 school in Woodland Hills also won the national title last year. Not so shabby. 187 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.000 Former President Trump is still leading President Biden in several polls at six oh 188 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:52.159 five handle. It's going to have a few things to say about that. 189 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:56.399 But right now, let's see what ABC's Jim Ryan has to say, because 190 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.039 we're not making babies, Jim, No, we're not. Marvin Gade choice 191 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:03.320 of songs was good. Let's get it on because it was really good at 192 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:07.399 that. About an hour ago, different station used Paul Ankaz having my baby. 193 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:11.559 Oh my god, I heard that for years. Yeah, there's a 194 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.759 reason you haven't heard it for years on the radio. It's awful. It 195 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:20.360 was really terrible. But yeah, so we're not we're not having as many 196 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:26.120 kids as we used to. The American population continues to grow, but the 197 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:33.000 rate at which our babies are being born has fallen behind three point six million 198 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:37.080 babies born in twenty twenty three. That sounds like a lot, well, 199 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.960 it does well, but consider but the three point one six million people died. 200 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.279 Yeah, there were people coming into the country. Immigration helps to bolster 201 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:50.519 some of the numbers, but overall, our fertility rate has been declining for 202 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.360 decades. In fact, it's that it's the lowest point ever. There was 203 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.720 a minor little, if not an optic, then at least a slowing of 204 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.679 the decline just after the pandemic, when people were saying, you know what, 205 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:01.080 yea, I can work from home, we can let's have a kid. 206 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.240 Let's have our babies now, because if we're working from home, it's 207 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.720 easier, we don't have pay for childcare, etc. Oh come on, 208 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.000 Jim, it was because people couldn't leave their houses. They had nothing better 209 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:13.039 to do, and they got it on, I guess, is what you're 210 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:16.799 saying. But you know, once the pandemic was over and people were being 211 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:22.799 called back into the office, reality sets in and while economists and demographers look 212 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.679 decades down the road, couples and families are looking at the short term and 213 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.360 they see sky high interest rates, they can't afford a house. In a 214 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:33.200 lot of cases, they see the sky high cost of childcare, I mean, 215 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.559 and they say, let's just put this off for a while, And 216 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.360 they put it off and put it off, and finally at some point they're 217 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:43.879 too old to have kids at all, and that's it. So yeah, 218 00:15:43.919 --> 00:15:48.159 the Elon Musk has issued sort of a dystopian view of what the country's going 219 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.279 to look like if it's fertility rate, and for every Western country, he 220 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:56.919 says they're going to fall into decline and be just heaps of ruin before it's 221 00:15:56.919 --> 00:16:00.320 over. You how many kids Elon Musk has. He's got like a dozen 222 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:04.000 doesn't He got eleven eleven kids from three women. Yeah, so I guess 223 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.679 he's practicing what he preaches. But at the same time, wow, eleven 224 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.720 kids that we know about anyway, So he's one of the he's one person 225 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:18.159 who's promoting a turnaround in the declining fertility rate that people get a tax break 226 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:21.360 for having kids. But you know, I don't know what else is out 227 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.799 or what other you know. The good side of this is that with fewer 228 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:27.720 people, you've got fewer resources being used up at such a rapid rate. 229 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:32.240 At the same time, you don't have new people coming into the workforce to 230 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:37.080 help, for one thing, support the old people. Well I get that, 231 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.720 but I mean we're up at like eight billion people on the planet now. 232 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:45.600 At some point, don't we got to slow down? Well yeah, 233 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:49.720 and this isn't just a US problem. Every country is seeing the same sort 234 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:55.360 of thing. The United Nations says that around the world, the western countries 235 00:16:55.399 --> 00:17:00.159 are every country almost is having the same situation. That ninety seven percent of 236 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.000 the countries by the year twenty one hundred won't be able to sustain their population 237 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:07.279 growth. So it's across the board. So eight billion around the world right 238 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:14.240 now, something like that in twenty eighty. Right, it's what sixty something 239 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:18.519 years from now fifty five, twenty eighty, we're going to sit at ten 240 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:22.920 point one billion people and it's going to hold that number all the way up 241 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:27.319 through the year twenty one hundred. So yeah, the rate of birth just 242 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:32.240 isn't growing. Well, it still sounds like it's growing. Like again, 243 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:37.200 we're at eight billion out they're expecting ten billion, and we've got housing shortages. 244 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.279 Now, how are we gonna how are we going to feed those people? 245 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.200 I just don't I think that we need to readjust and like go, 246 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.680 you know what, a shrinking population isn't necessarily a bad thing? Well, 247 00:17:47.680 --> 00:17:49.200 you're right, I mean, it's definitely a good news bad news sort of 248 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:53.759 scenario. And so, yeah, fewer people throwing plastic bottles into the landfill, 249 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:56.599 that'd be nice. You're at the same time, you've got people fewer 250 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:02.640 people working, generating income, you know, helping the economy to run, 251 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.920 to keep the country alive. So yeah, it's there's a lot to be 252 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.519 said. I think on both sides of this. It's a big debate, 253 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:17.839 but the raw number does show that the US fertility rate has declined dramatically, 254 00:18:18.240 --> 00:18:19.799 and then you mentioned that it's it's not just us, that it's kind of 255 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.759 all over the place. I remember not too long ago hearing something about China 256 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.559 saying, hey, you guys have more than one right there. One baby 257 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.960 policy has worked for a long time. Kind of backfired now because it's not 258 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.359 as though you can sit there and say, well, US is going to 259 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.200 fall in competitiveness to China because China is still growing. Well it's not. 260 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:41.440 It's it's growing, you know, at a very slow pace, just like 261 00:18:41.480 --> 00:18:45.480 the US is interesting problem, Yeah it is. Yeah, Okay. Well, 262 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.640 hey, by the way, I started playing Connection to the other day. 263 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.799 Yeah, you recommended it. Yeah, what do you think of the 264 00:18:51.039 --> 00:18:52.319 game? I think I might be addicted. Yeah, it's a good thing. 265 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:55.559 You can only do it once a day. That's how I feel about 266 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:59.039 Wordle and Cordal too, because otherwise I just sit there for hours and play 267 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:03.319 them. Yeahs Jim and I were talking about last week. It'says they give 268 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.039 you sixteen words and you have to group them in groups of four and figure 269 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:11.480 out what ties each four words together, And if you're just starting, it 270 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:15.319 can be darn tricky. Yeah. I'm looking at to day's puzzle right now, 271 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:19.240 I see no connections among these words, but just hit shuffle a few 272 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:23.599 times and it starts to jump out at tricks of the trade. You do 273 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.440 the spelling B two Nah, that one bores me. I got it. 274 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:33.039 I had good luck with that the other day. Maybe I'll including well anyway, 275 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:37.240 forget it, including what well? If there are seven letters, right, 276 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:41.119 you have to include the one center letter in all of the words you 277 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.519 form, and according to the rules, one word that you can come up 278 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.839 with will include all of the letters. I got it. I got that 279 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:52.799 one figured out. I tell check out the brain on you. Yeah, 280 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.079 hey, I love it. Jim Ryan, Thank you so much, Jimmy, 281 00:19:56.119 --> 00:19:59.400 talk to you soon. People in Oklahoma are cleaning up after a series 282 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:03.680 of storm that spawned tornadoes over the weekend. At least four deaths are blamed 283 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.200 on the storms, including an infant. The state reported about one hundred injuries. 284 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:11.680 This man in the town of Holdenville says, the winds are really strong. 285 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.240 My brother lives down there, and another mile or trying to get to 286 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:18.440 him, I think it blow. Dish tractor shared away and the house is 287 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.799 found from there. The small town of Sulfur saw a tornado that crumpled many 288 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:26.920 downtown buildings and sheared the roofs off houses in a fifteen block radius the White 289 00:20:26.920 --> 00:20:30.759 Houses. President Biden spoke to Oklahoma's governor yesterday and offered the full support of 290 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.519 the federal government. A man and a woman from Glendale had been found dead 291 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:40.319 inside a car near Lake Matthews in Riverside County. Glendale police alerted the Riverside 292 00:20:40.359 --> 00:20:44.960 County Sheriff's Department yesterday morning that two people had threatened to kill themselves and were 293 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:49.240 possibly in the area of Cahalco Road and Lo Sierra Avenue. Deputies found the 294 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:53.319 car with the two bodies inside. Secretary of State Antony blink And is back 295 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:56.799 in the Middle East to talk with leaders about the negotiations for a ceasefire in 296 00:20:56.799 --> 00:21:00.759 Gaza. He's stopping in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel this week. 297 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:07.480 Blanket is expected to repeat the Biden administration's opposition to as an Israeli offensive in 298 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.680 Rafa, It's push for expanded aid for citizens or civilians, and the creation 299 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:15.640 of a Palestinian state. A lawmaker in Orange County says he wants schools in 300 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:21.240 California to serve halal and Kosher meals. Democratic State Senator Josh Newman says he 301 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:25.200 wrote legislation because every student, no matter religion or culture, deserves to feel 302 00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:29.880 supported and included at school. The Halal and Kosher School Meals Act would require 303 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:33.559 schools to provide these meals if more than five percent of their students request it. 304 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:37.720 Newman says kids shouldn't have to choose between hunger and adhering to their religious 305 00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:41.079 beliefs. Should it pass, the bill would take effect in the twenty twenty 306 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:44.640 five twenty six school year. If less than five percent request the meals, 307 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:48.559 the school could still provide those options, but would not be mandated to do 308 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:56.359 so. Steve Gregory, King of Fins the White House's protests on university campuses 309 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:02.240 against the Israel Hamas war must be peaceful. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby 310 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:06.680 condemned anti Semitic language and threats of violence seen at some of the demonstrations. 311 00:22:06.880 --> 00:22:11.400 Protesters on both sides shouted and shoved each other during dueling demonstrations at UCLA over 312 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:17.359 the weekend. We're going to get more on this from ABC's Stephen Portnoy in 313 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:21.400 about fifteen minutes or So, a fifty eight year old man from Burbank, 314 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.119 is expected to be arraigned today in federal court on charges of not paying nearly 315 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:30.319 five point eight million dollars in federal taxes over several years by using a show 316 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:37.599 company to illegally collect Medicare reimbursement payments made to his blood testing company. Arman 317 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:44.000 mariad Dian is charged with tax evasion. La Mayor Bass is leading a delegation 318 00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:48.240 of mayors and will meet Monday with three Cabinet secretaries and White House Chief of 319 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.400 Staff Jeff Science to ask for more assistance from the federal government to reduce homelessness. 320 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.240 The group includes the mayors of Long Beach and Santa Monica. At six 321 00:22:56.359 --> 00:23:00.640 oh five, it's handle on the news, william Sonoma is in a lot 322 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:06.039 of trouble for advertising made in the USA products that were made somewhere else. 323 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:12.000 Let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom as the war rages on 324 00:23:12.960 --> 00:23:18.039 Israeli government officials that are taking their case to the court of public opinion to 325 00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:23.319 social media very much so. Yes, and it is a complex picture we're 326 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:27.480 looking at Politically, You've got a couple members on the right wing that say, 327 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:33.599 if a deal which is being talked about yet again in Cairo, if 328 00:23:33.599 --> 00:23:36.640 it were to be signed, sealed and delivered, they may walk. That 329 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:41.599 could mean a collapse of the Netanyahu government. That could create all kinds of 330 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:47.640 problems. Although his opinion poll ratings are very very low. Indeed, having 331 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:51.240 said that, on the other side of the coin, you got people shouting 332 00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:56.119 and yelling and protesting, saying you have had six months to get the hostages 333 00:23:56.160 --> 00:24:00.279 out. Why haven't you done that? You are inept. So that's under 334 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:04.960 the domestic political football going on in Israel right now. In Cairo, who's 335 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:11.079 talks yet again about a deal. The Wall Street Journal says the deal might 336 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.400 be along the lines of getting twenty of the suspected about one hundred hostages out 337 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:22.680 this time exchange for five hundred Palestinian prisoners and about three hundred thousand people allowed 338 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:26.640 to go to North Gaza to return to their homes or rubble piles where their 339 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.240 homes once were. So we keep watching these one very very closely, indeed, 340 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:36.079 And also the seventh trip right now for Anthony Blincoln not much success the 341 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:40.000 previous six. We'll see if this one is the magic one, Okay, 342 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:47.319 And going back to the ceasefire deal that includes twenty hostages or twenty Israeli hostages 343 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:52.720 for five hundred Palestinians. It's that one is in Hamasa's hands now. Basically, 344 00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:57.519 the deal's been presented and we're waiting to hear back exactly. So we 345 00:24:57.640 --> 00:25:03.440 again, we wait and see if that is a good enough deal for Hamas. 346 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:08.559 And kind of the icing on the cake. This is from the Foreign 347 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:12.200 Minister of Israel, he says, if this in fact can be delivered, 348 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:18.720 he says, the offensive in Rapa in southern Gaza would be delayed, we 349 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.839 don't know for how long, but that would be at least a step in 350 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:27.240 the right direction. And the delays would be a step in the right direction 351 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:33.839 just because they're trying to get a million people out of the area. Well 352 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.359 that's what they would like to do. They bombed three homes last night, 353 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:44.839 Israel did they killed twenty two people, including six women and five children. 354 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:51.519 And is there been any response from Israel like why because they're saying that they're 355 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:56.000 targeting places where Hamas is is there any indication that there was Hamas there. 356 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:02.240 Well, if those five kids are not Hamas, correct, you know, 357 00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:04.359 I have a little bit of common sense. You can see that for yourself. 358 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:10.839 And there are also some videos came out a couple of days ago of 359 00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:14.880 a couple of the hostages. What was it exactly, Yeah, a couple 360 00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:21.400 of dual citizen Americans and one Israeli national. Again, you have to look 361 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:25.319 at that in the light of Hamas is saying, look, we can release 362 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.519 people that the deal is right and as I say, the devil's in the 363 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:32.799 detail, and we're going to be watching this one in Cairo very very closely. 364 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.200 This week's fingers crossed. A deal can be struck. But of course 365 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:41.720 we've been down this road before and many many false starts ending nowhere. Yeah, 366 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.359 and do we know, Tom, if the videos that they released are 367 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:48.519 current? Is there any way to know or if they were made months ago? 368 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:52.119 That's a great question. You know, it's above my pay grade. 369 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:56.000 But yeah, the people in the note would be looking at that very very 370 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.400 closely and trying to determine, yes, is it current or was it you 371 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:04.759 know, you know, pictures taken a long time ago and things have changed 372 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:10.799 since then. Yeah, and then as we were talking about, it's kind 373 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:14.559 of in Hamas's hands right now on the deal. Is there any kind of 374 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:18.480 a timeline on when they might have a response. You know, we I 375 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:21.759 think people are hopeful that you know, with again Blinkol is back in the 376 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:26.799 in the in the region Jordan and Israel, after Saudi Arabia. We have 377 00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:33.319 a French diplomatic team in Lebanon as we speak, too, trying to pour 378 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:38.680 oil on the waters there between Hezbollah and Israel, Northern Israel. So there 379 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:42.920 are a lot of moving parts and pieces and you know, if it all 380 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:48.039 came together, it might provide a six week you know, breather to say, 381 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:53.319 can we find a better solution so no one else dies? But again 382 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:56.640 we're not there yet. Okay, well, we'll continue to watch. And 383 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:02.039 Tom Rivers thank you for bringing the information to us as take care. All 384 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:03.319 right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI 385 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:08.240 twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestinian protests at colleges across the US have led 386 00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:11.960 to hundreds more protests over the weekend. About two hundred and seventy five people 387 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:18.519 were arrested on campus's Saturday, including at Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State, 388 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.799 and Washington University in Saint Louis. Nearly nine hundred protesters have been arrested 389 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:29.279 since April eighteenth. La Mar bass Is the decision to cancel USC's main graduation 390 00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:33.839 ceremony was due to safety concerns. The ceremony was canceled last week as pro 391 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:38.039 Palestinian protests continue on campus. They were expecting about sixty five thousand people on 392 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:41.200 campus, and they just did not feel that it was going to be safe. 393 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:45.000 And the job of the president, just like my job as mayor, 394 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:48.759 my number one job, is to make sure that Angelinos are safe. Best 395 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:52.480 told CNN's State of the Union, free speech has to be protected, but 396 00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:56.279 some protests went beyond what is acceptable. She didn't say whether she agreed with 397 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:02.119 USC's decision to cancel graduation. The White House is weighed in on the protests 398 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:07.359 spreading across college campuses kind of ABC Stephen Portnoy has the latest on that coming 399 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:12.319 up in about ten minutes. US intelligence officials have found Russian President Putin likely 400 00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:18.279 did not order the death of impresident of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalney. One 401 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.759 official says they found no smoking gun that Putin was aware of the timing of 402 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:27.440 Navalney's death. In February or directly ordered it, but the official says it's 403 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:33.200 believed Putin was ultimately responsible for Navalney's death. The US Department of Education has 404 00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:38.440 found the Redlands School District repeatedly failed to protect students from sexual abuse. But 405 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:42.519 twenty page letter to the district from the department's Office of Civil Rights listed multiple 406 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:48.240 Title nine violations, including failing to maintain records responding to sexual harassment as required 407 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:52.839 by federal law, failing to provide any evidence that the district took any action 408 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:57.640 in twenty six of the thirty five reported incidents between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty. 409 00:29:57.880 --> 00:30:03.640 Lawyers for thirty seven former students said Friday Redlands enabled and ignored sexual assaults 410 00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:07.599 by at least twenty five predators over the last twenty years. The district agreed 411 00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.960 without admitting guilt, to a list of reforms. Corbin Carson KFI News, 412 00:30:11.359 --> 00:30:18.039 He's a guy made a girl is dass orderbody didn't make no place to go. 413 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:26.319 Asy pray Sure so man made the ball with stage coach now behind him. 414 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.319 Country star Morgan Wallen is headed to court this week in Nashville. He's 415 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:36.039 facing three felony counts for allegedly throwing a chair from a rooftop bar, narrowly 416 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:41.039 missing some police officers standing on the street below. He's facing reckless endangerment and 417 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.519 disorderly conduct charges. Wallen was last seen or was last night's headliner at the 418 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:52.680 Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio. You know, movie theaters are trying to 419 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:57.119 kind of reinvent themselves a little bit as fewer people are going to movies and 420 00:30:57.240 --> 00:31:00.920 more people are staying at home and streaming. And you know that it was 421 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:06.160 a big commercial success obvious. Obviously when you put Taylor Swift in a movie 422 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:07.759 theater, she made I don't know a grazillion dollars on that, and then 423 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:15.119 Beyonce tried it. Well, here's the latest move by movie theaters to entice 424 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:21.519 people to come on in this summer is the Olympics in Paris. And there 425 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:26.319 are like one hundred and sixty AMC theaters across the US that will be showing 426 00:31:26.440 --> 00:31:33.119 the Olympics, so on weekdays over actually maybe it's probably weekends too, but 427 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:38.599 over the two week period of the Olympics, they're going to say, hey, 428 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.960 come on down watch the Olympics with a bunch of people on the big 429 00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:45.640 screen, and I was thinking all that that'd be kind of a fun way 430 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:47.720 to do it, because you know, normally you sit at home and just 431 00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:49.559 kind of turn it on and watch the track or watch gymnastics or something like 432 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.359 that, but it might be kind of interesting to go and watch it with 433 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.119 a crowd. So the showings are going to start on July twenty seventh, 434 00:31:56.160 --> 00:32:01.480 which is a day after opening ceremony, and then we'll conclude on August eleven. 435 00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:06.359 Might have to go check that out at least once, unless it's you 436 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.279 know, fifty bucks or something like that. But some to look out for. 437 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:13.680 The Dodgers play the Diamondbacks in Arizona tonight. First pitch goes out at 438 00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:16.200 six point forty. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on 439 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:20.960 AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games in HD on the 440 00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:27.039 iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of 441 00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.240 La Oh. The Dodgers have been out on the road for a long time, 442 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:31.880 but guess what they're coming back. They'll be back at Dodgers Stadium this 443 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:38.680 weekend. Fights have broken out at UCLA between pro Palestinian and pro Israel supporters 444 00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:45.559 after a barrier was breached that was supposed to keep the two groups separators separated. 445 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:51.759 Vice Chancellor at UCLA says the university has instituted additional security measures and has 446 00:32:51.880 --> 00:32:55.359 increased the number of safety team members on site. President Biden has spoken with 447 00:32:55.559 --> 00:33:01.000 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure build for a deal on a ceasefire and 448 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:06.799 hostage release. The White House says Biden reiterated his clear position that is against 449 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:12.440 Israel going into Rafa to go after what Israel considers an Hamas's stronghold. Governor 450 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:19.920 Newsom says there's one out of five EV charging stations are now fast charging stations 451 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:23.440 in California. On x the governor said the states working to improve the charging 452 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:29.599 network in the state. There are one hundred five thousand public EV chargers around 453 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:34.720 California. Newsom also says twenty five percent of all new cars purchased in the 454 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.880 state are now EV's. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this 455 00:33:38.039 --> 00:33:42.039 morning, President Biden, as I mentioned, had a little chat with Israel's 456 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.400 Benjamin nettan Yaho. Talk about that. But right now, let's say good 457 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:52.680 Morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. As the protests continue at college campuses around the 458 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.000 US, the White House is officially weighed in on it. Yes, I 459 00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:01.680 mean to the extent that he Look. John Kirby was on This Week yesterday 460 00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:05.519 with George Stephanopoulos, and in the course of the interview, one of the 461 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:10.000 questions was about the White House's reaction to the protests, and John Kirby said, 462 00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:14.039 quote, We'll leave it to local authorities to determine how these protests were 463 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.840 managed, but we want them to be peaceful protests. Obviously, he said, 464 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:22.559 we don't want to see anybody hurt. Kirby said that the White House 465 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:27.440 absolutely condemns the anti Semitism language that it's heard of late, and certainly condemns 466 00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:31.760 hate speech and threats of violence out there. Beyond just saying that position, 467 00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:37.519 is there anything else the White House could do? Not really? Well? 468 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:42.360 Look, one of the questions is whether Title six of the Civil Rights Act 469 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:50.639 should be enforced to withhold funding from these educational institutions if the Education Department determines 470 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:57.000 that the presence of these protests on campus amounts to discrimination against Jewish students. 471 00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:01.159 And that is the question that Republicans that they want answered. So when you 472 00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:07.280 see Speaker Johnson going to Columbia University as he did last week, and you 473 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:09.360 see the House of Representatives voting this week, as we expect they will, 474 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:15.519 on a bill that affirms up a definition of anti semitism in this regard, 475 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.960 you get a sense of what it is Republicans want. They want to see 476 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:23.280 federal tax dollars withheld from some of these schools where these protests have been ongoing. 477 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:30.039 Now, the protesters themselves say that the pressure from Republicans is meant to 478 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.840 curb their right to speak. Let's see how it all plays out. Okay, 479 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:39.639 and some of the pro Palestinian protesters have denounced anti semitism, But there 480 00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:44.039 is a lot of hate speech going on. If it's not coming from the 481 00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:46.039 students, who is it coming from or is it coming from the students too, 482 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:49.000 well, if some of them are, you know, look in some 483 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:51.559 cases, most of the people who've been arrested or not. I think in 484 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:52.480 one case, I think it was in Saint Louis, most of the people 485 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:58.960 who arrested were not students. They just happen to be agitators, organizers' activists 486 00:35:59.079 --> 00:36:02.679 in the area. Who converged on a particular campus. I don't know what 487 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:07.400 the situation is everywhere, but I think generally speaking, you are seeing examples 488 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:13.679 of people saying that Jews should Inpe, in Israel, should or even here 489 00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:20.760 should go back to Europe, whatever that means. And you also see signs 490 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:28.960 I've seen signs where at pro Israel demonstrations held by pro Hamas or pro Palestinian 491 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:32.880 supporters saying that Hamas should target them next. These are obviously calls to violence, 492 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:38.360 calls for the undoing of the decision of the international community in the aftermath 493 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:44.440 of the Second World War to create a Jewish state, And that's why the 494 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:47.360 House is set to pass this bill that would include in its definition of anti 495 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:57.440 Semitism the notion that Israel is engaged in its own of racist governmental structure. 496 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:01.000 The fact is that there are Arabs that are included in the Israeli government, 497 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:07.559 and Arabs who Israelis have the right to vote. There is the allegation that 498 00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:12.360 Israel is engaged in an occupation and in an apartheid, and it has to 499 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:16.800 do with how the Israel interacts with the Palestinian territories in the West Bank. 500 00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:24.599 Most acutely and for the last several months the war on Gaza. I think 501 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:30.000 that, or should say war on Hamas that has been in Gaza. Look, 502 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:32.480 the Secretary of State right now is in Riad. He's meeting with Arab 503 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:37.559 leaders and with Saudi leaders. His aim is to try to get the Arab 504 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:43.480 community to get behind a ceasefire agreement that Hamas and Israeli negotiators are now set 505 00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:46.800 to talk about in Cairo. The hope is that the sides can reach a 506 00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:52.360 deal in a six week cease fire that prevents or staves off an Israeli invasion 507 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:58.440 of Rafa. The Israelis have their own internal political dynamic at play, where 508 00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:01.559 there are some elements in these rarely population who believe that hostages should be the 509 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:06.960 first priority and seeing to it that they're safely returned. There's the far right 510 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:12.239 element in Israeli politics who believes that Netnahu should continue the fight and do what 511 00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:16.559 he pledged to do, which is eradicate Hamas and take out the remaining battalions 512 00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:23.000 that are now sheltering in Rafa. So you've got that internal dynamic. You've 513 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:28.239 got the protests here in the United States that put political pressure on the president. 514 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:34.320 He's acutely aware of the political weakness that he suffers on the left and 515 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:38.840 among young people across the board. Well, like everything else, whether it's 516 00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:43.599 you know, protests or fighting, it's just when when it when it involves 517 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:46.760 Israel, it's just so complicated. Well, I think that is a function 518 00:38:46.920 --> 00:38:52.719 of the it is it is, of course it is, and it is 519 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.840 it is is an element of the history of the world, the history of 520 00:38:55.920 --> 00:39:04.440 the region, the history of American Israeli relations, and these dynamics are shifting, 521 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:09.119 and as everything, it's political, and it's political in Israel, it's 522 00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:13.840 political in the United States. It's political in the Arab capitals. And there 523 00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:15.039 was a story I read this morning in one of the newspapers, it may 524 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:20.440 have been the New York Times, about how possibly the Washington Post, about 525 00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:25.920 how there is pressure now in Arab capitals which have repressive regimes that have aligned 526 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.639 themselves with Israel over the years for their own internal purposes, now trying to 527 00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:37.920 deal with unrest from their own populations. And so it is political everywhere. 528 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:42.119 Wow. All right, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much for the information you've 529 00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:44.840 bet All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of 530 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:46.880 the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five people have been killed in a two 531 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:52.440 car crash on Pair Blossom Highway in Little Rock that's in the Annilo Valley. 532 00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:57.159 People were reported trapped in both cars last night. Both drivers were killed along 533 00:39:57.199 --> 00:40:00.679 with three other people from one of the cars. AM has collapsed in Kenya, 534 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:05.559 killing at least forty people. The waters swept through houses this morning and 535 00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:08.719 cut off a major road. Ongoing rains in Kenya since mid March have caused 536 00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:13.719 flooding that's killed nearly one hundred people and caused the opening of schools to be 537 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:20.079 postponed. More rain is expected. La County is considering naming a day after 538 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.559 Jane Fonda. April thirtieth would be declared Jane Fonda Day in La County this 539 00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:28.599 year and every year if the Board of Supervisors approves it at its meeting tomorrow. 540 00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:32.360 Supervisor Lindsay Horbath says the Oscar winning actress and activists should be celebrated for 541 00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.119 her contributions to the entertainment industry and to peace, environmental and social justice work. 542 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.920 Horbath says the honor should encourage communities across La County to celebrate Fonda's work 543 00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.880 by engaging in their own advocacy on behalf of social justice and the environment. 544 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:51.280 The resolution says Fonda's activism can be traced to Santa Monica, where she became 545 00:40:51.320 --> 00:40:55.639 involved in social justice and community activism. Michael Monks KFI News. This is 546 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:02.199 KFI and KOST HD two luss Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live 547 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:07.679 from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer KNO. 548 00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.280 I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call. If you missed 549 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:14.920 any wake up Call, you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've 550 00:41:14.960 --> 00:41:17.440 been listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can always 551 00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:22.599 hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six 552 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.519 forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.