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This is your wake up call for Monday, April twenty ninth. Oh,
this would be my Danny's birthday. That happy birthday, and heaven to
Nick. It is as I said. It's Monday, April twenty ninth.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. Thanks for
getting your day started with us. Gotta tell you I went out to one
thousand Oaks over the weekend and was driving down the one oh one and got
my first look at the Annis Wallenberg Wildlife Crossing. It's pretty impressive. Looks
like they've got like half of it up already. You know they're doing the
overnight road closures. I think that roadway should be reopening right now. I'm
not sure if it's open on or closed on Sunday nights, but it's pretty
cool. Looks like it's halfway down it's not gonna be finished finished for a
while, but once it is, big mountain lions have a place to cross.
Also, this happened yesterday morning, so it was a beautiful morning.
I went out out of my little tiny balcony and I'm having my coffee and
I was like, what's that noise? They were these bees like buzzing around
under the cover of the balcony, a bunch of them. And I always,
you know, you get one or two bees that kind of buzz by,
but this was like a a definite group, like a little gang of
bees. And I was like, oh God, are they looking for a
new place to like bring the queen and start a hive or something like that.
So I just went out. I said, I'm not going to be
scared of you guys, sat down, They buzzed around, left me alone.
I left them alone, and then they eventually left. I was just
thinking the whole time because I don't know if you know this, but Moe
Kelly is deathly afraid of bees. Can't stand him. So it was like,
oh, I got a call, but I was seriously worried, like
what do they were they scouting for a new location? I guess I'll find
out when I go home today, but they didn't stick around much anyway.
Here's what's a head on wake up call this Monday morning. Protesters on both
sides have shouted and shoved each other during dueling demonstrations at UCLA. About two
hundred and seventy five people were arrested on Saturday at campuses around the US,
including at Indiana University Bloomington, Arizona State University, and Washington University in Saint
Louis Man. They have a cool campus. I've been there before. The
number of arrest nationwide is approaching nine hundred. A baby is among at least
five people killed by tornadoes in the Midwest. Yesterday was the third day of
severe weather across the Heartland that saw millions under threat of violent storms. The
number of babies born in the US is at its lowest level in decades.
Birth rates in twenty twenty three were down two percent from the year before,
and the CDC says the three point six million babies born last year is the
lowest number we've seen since nineteen seventy nine. We're going to be talking with
ABC's Jim Ryan about this a little bit more coming up in about fifteen minutes
or so at six oh five, it's handle on the news. Here's a
protest I can get behind, A rally against La County DA George Gascon I
was going to tell you about that. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Fights have broken
out at UCLA during dueling protests between pro Palestinian and pro Israeli groups on campus.
The Israeli American Council and other Jewish groups sponsored a rally yesterday to show
support for Jewish students. Others held a demonstration to support the pro Palestinian students
right to protest. The vice Chancellor of you U UCLA Strategic Communications says their
heart broke into report that some fights broke out between demonstrators on Royce squad.
She says the universities put in additional security measures and increased the number of safety
team members on site. Hundreds have been arrested over the weekend during protests by
pro Palestinian demonstrators. ABC's Jerine Shaw says about two hundred and seventy five were
arrested Saturday at schools including Indiana University Bloomington, Arizona State and Washington University Saint
Louis demonstrators demanding their university divest from companies base a profit from the Israel Hamas
War and called for a ceasefire, while counter protesters demand one hundred plus hostages
be released by Hamas. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was among those arrested.
In Missouri. Nearly nine hundred arrests have been made on college campuses since
April eighteenth. Cornell University has suspended several students and referred some employees to human
resources, saying they are deeply distressed by chance made at some of the rallies.
A person has died in house fire in South LA. The man was
found inside a century old home in the Florence area that burned last night.
LA Fire says firefighters kept the flames to one room in the house. The
agency also says there were no working smoke detectors in the home. Challengers challenged
and beat the competition at the box office. Zendaa's movie about a love triangle
and the Tennis World took in about fifteen million dollars in its opening weekend.
The faith based unsung Hero about a Christian rock band was second. Godzilla X
Kong the New Empire is still destroying it at the box office. It came
in in third place. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
It was a big night in DC over the weekend the Washington Corresponden's Dinner,
Yes, the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner this weekend. The President,
first Lady, the Vice President, and second gentlemen were our guest at this
dinner. And you know, it's a one night a year where everybody can
kind of put aside some political differences in the room. It's a bipartisan group
out there in the audience and get together for some jokes. But also it's
a scholarship night. It's a big night to raise money for dozens of scholarships
that the WHCA gives out to college students. And we also give out awards
to members of our community, members of our White House Press Corps for the
work that they do all throughout the year, and some lifetime achievement awards as
well. So you know, a lot of focus, of course on the
Hollywood glam that shows up or athletes and all of that, but there's so
much more that goes into it, and it's a very important night for our
association to raise money for those big things. Well, unlike when Trump was
president Biden. Biden attended and took the stage and it did get political.
Yeah, it did. You know, he has attended every year he does
a comedy bid, but this year it was pretty short remarks from the president.
He kept it much shorter than he has in previous years, and about
half of it was spent on more serious things. He did get some zingers
in about who he's running against. He said, you know that the election
is in full swing and age is an issue. The President said, I'm
a grown man running against a six year old in the crowd really liked that
one. But he also got very serious at the end, talking about the
stakes right now in this country and what is happening, you know, around
the world with journalists being in prison for the work that they're doing, and
how the industry. You know, it's an important time. He also called
on the press to move past what he called sensationalism and said that you know,
he's not asking people to take sides, but to rise up for the
seriousness of this moment. Move past horse race poll numbers, gotcha moments and
distractions and side shows that he says have sometimes dominated political coverage, and he
said, focus on what's actually at stake right now. Well, he's not
wrong about the gotchas and that kind of stuff. See a lot of that
overall. Was he pretty well received? I mean that I think it's been
basically a friendly room for him. Yeah, you know, he was well
received. Like some of the jokes maybe don't land, but you know,
he's not a comedian. But it was funny. They work a lot on
these for the president, every president before him. You know, it's not
just his team working on it. You bring in some comedy writers that can
help you with it. And then he was followed by Colin Jost of a
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Oh yeah, he's very funny and normally you
see him with Michael Chay, his counterpart at the Weekend Update GUESK, but
this was just a solo routine for him, so a little bit different of
a scene. I personally like him. I think he's very funny on SNL
and was funny on Saturday Night. But you know, he got in quite
a bunch of lines going after the President for his age, for you know,
trying to run up the stairs of Air Force one and how he shouldn't
be doing that anymore. And of course the former president as well was a
frequent target of Colin Jost, but he also turned serious towards the end,
and you know, talked about the you know, journalism, talked about his
own family story and his grandfather who had recently passed away, who he said
was a Staten Island firefighter for many decades, a pillar of his community,
and you know, from a very conservative community that supported Donald Trump in the
twenty twenty election. And he told the president that his grandfather voted for him
Joe Biden, because of decency. And so he kind of made a plea
for decency in these very difficult times, you know, not really just took
reporters, but to the politicians in the room, to the elected officials and
the people who worked for them in the room. So it was a nice
message to kind of close it out. Decency. What a concept. Huh.
Yeah, All right, Well the fun is over for you, Karen.
It's back to us, yes, back to work, back to making
sure the vending machines are stocked for the reporters today, because that's also the
important work that we do from the WHCA. Karen Travers, thanks so much.
We'll talk again soon. Thank you. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A small plane has crashed into a neighborhood in Alcoholane. Jim Alen says it
happened around six last night, a few miles away from Gillespie Fields. I
saw the plane coming in, sputtering, coming up down Lily hit the power
lines up here, and I was in the backyard, so I didn't see
where he but he hit this poll up the street and flipped over the house
and landed on lily Aalen says he was surprised the plane didn't hit morequite a
shock. I didn't think. I didn't think he was going to make it.
It's coming down so low. I thought he was going to hit this
two story house across the street. Here. Flight Aware shows the plane taking
off from the Gillespie Airfield and apparently turning back then it went down. Fourteen
hundred people lost power when the plane hit that power line, but power has
been restored. The pilot was taken to the hospital. Palestinian health officials say
Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafa have killed at least twenty two
people, including women and children. Israel has carried out air strikes on Rafa
since the start of the war and is getting ready to send in ground troops.
Israel says Rafa is the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza. More than
a million Palestinians have sought refuge in the city, which is on the border
with Egypt. The US and others have urged Israel not to invade. Talks
continue for a pause in fighting in Gaza. ABC's Christiana Cordero says negotiators are
meeting today in Cairo to discuss a potential ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The
Wall Street Journal reports, the potential deal includes around twenty hostages being released in
return for Israel releasing an estimated five hundred Palestinian prisoners and allowing three hundred thousand
people to return to northern Gaza. Israel's foreign minister has said Israel would delay
its offensive and Rafa in exchange for a hostage deal. We're going to be
getting more information on that possible deal with ABC's tom Rivers coming up at the
bottom of the hour. The mayors of La Long Beach and Santa Monica are
in Washington, d C. To ask for help to address homelessness. Mayor
Bass is leading the group of forty eight mayors meeting today. The three Cabinet
secretaries and White House Chief of Staff Jeff zat Zeitz will also be attending.
The delegation is going to lobby to expand veteran eligibility for housing vouchers, lift
the cap on project based vouchers, and let cities build more affordable housing,
and also urge federal leaders to increase funding for housing choice vouchers. Sounds like
they got a lot going there. Oh, I would have loved to have
seen that. Jelly Roll and hip hop legend t Paine took the stage at
Stagecoach over the weekend to pay tribute to the late Toby Keith. They sang
Keith's first hit song should Have Been a Cowboy. Jelly Roll also released the
duet on Amazon Music. The proceeds are going to benefit the Toby Keith Foundation.
Toby Keith died in February. Fights had broken out at UCLA between Pro
Palestinian and pro Israel supporters after a barrier was breached. The barrier was supposed
to separate the groups of demonstrators. A vice chancellor at UCLA says the university
has instituted additional security measures and increase the number of safety team members on site.
President Biden has spoken with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho as pressure builds for
a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release. The White House says Biden reiterated
his clear position that is against Israel going into Rafa to go after what Israel
considers the last Hamas stronghold. We're going to be talking more about this from
ABC's Tom Rivers at the bottom of the hour. Check out the brains on
these kids. El Camino Real Charter High School has won its tenth Academic Decathlon
championship. The national competition happened over the weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The
school in Woodland Hills also won the national title last year. Not so shabby.
Former President Trump is still leading President Biden in several polls at six oh
five handle. It's going to have a few things to say about that.
But right now, let's see what ABC's Jim Ryan has to say, because
we're not making babies, Jim, No, we're not. Marvin Gade choice
of songs was good. Let's get it on because it was really good at
that. About an hour ago, different station used Paul Ankaz having my baby.
Oh my god, I heard that for years. Yeah, there's a
reason you haven't heard it for years on the radio. It's awful. It
was really terrible. But yeah, so we're not we're not having as many
kids as we used to. The American population continues to grow, but the
rate at which our babies are being born has fallen behind three point six million
babies born in twenty twenty three. That sounds like a lot, well,
it does well, but consider but the three point one six million people died.
Yeah, there were people coming into the country. Immigration helps to bolster
some of the numbers, but overall, our fertility rate has been declining for
decades. In fact, it's that it's the lowest point ever. There was
a minor little, if not an optic, then at least a slowing of
the decline just after the pandemic, when people were saying, you know what,
yea, I can work from home, we can let's have a kid.
Let's have our babies now, because if we're working from home, it's
easier, we don't have pay for childcare, etc. Oh come on,
Jim, it was because people couldn't leave their houses. They had nothing better
to do, and they got it on, I guess, is what you're
saying. But you know, once the pandemic was over and people were being
called back into the office, reality sets in and while economists and demographers look
decades down the road, couples and families are looking at the short term and
they see sky high interest rates, they can't afford a house. In a
lot of cases, they see the sky high cost of childcare, I mean,
and they say, let's just put this off for a while, And
they put it off and put it off, and finally at some point they're
too old to have kids at all, and that's it. So yeah,
the Elon Musk has issued sort of a dystopian view of what the country's going
to look like if it's fertility rate, and for every Western country, he
says they're going to fall into decline and be just heaps of ruin before it's
over. You how many kids Elon Musk has. He's got like a dozen
doesn't He got eleven eleven kids from three women. Yeah, so I guess
he's practicing what he preaches. But at the same time, wow, eleven
kids that we know about anyway, So he's one of the he's one person
who's promoting a turnaround in the declining fertility rate that people get a tax break
for having kids. But you know, I don't know what else is out
or what other you know. The good side of this is that with fewer
people, you've got fewer resources being used up at such a rapid rate.
At the same time, you don't have new people coming into the workforce to
help, for one thing, support the old people. Well I get that,
but I mean we're up at like eight billion people on the planet now.
At some point, don't we got to slow down? Well yeah,
and this isn't just a US problem. Every country is seeing the same sort
of thing. The United Nations says that around the world, the western countries
are every country almost is having the same situation. That ninety seven percent of
the countries by the year twenty one hundred won't be able to sustain their population
growth. So it's across the board. So eight billion around the world right
now, something like that in twenty eighty. Right, it's what sixty something
years from now fifty five, twenty eighty, we're going to sit at ten
point one billion people and it's going to hold that number all the way up
through the year twenty one hundred. So yeah, the rate of birth just
isn't growing. Well, it still sounds like it's growing. Like again,
we're at eight billion out they're expecting ten billion, and we've got housing shortages.
Now, how are we gonna how are we going to feed those people?
I just don't I think that we need to readjust and like go,
you know what, a shrinking population isn't necessarily a bad thing? Well,
you're right, I mean, it's definitely a good news bad news sort of
scenario. And so, yeah, fewer people throwing plastic bottles into the landfill,
that'd be nice. You're at the same time, you've got people fewer
people working, generating income, you know, helping the economy to run,
to keep the country alive. So yeah, it's there's a lot to be
said. I think on both sides of this. It's a big debate,
but the raw number does show that the US fertility rate has declined dramatically,
and then you mentioned that it's it's not just us, that it's kind of
all over the place. I remember not too long ago hearing something about China
saying, hey, you guys have more than one right there. One baby
policy has worked for a long time. Kind of backfired now because it's not
as though you can sit there and say, well, US is going to
fall in competitiveness to China because China is still growing. Well it's not.
It's it's growing, you know, at a very slow pace, just like
the US is interesting problem, Yeah it is. Yeah, Okay. Well,
hey, by the way, I started playing Connection to the other day.
Yeah, you recommended it. Yeah, what do you think of the
game? I think I might be addicted. Yeah, it's a good thing.
You can only do it once a day. That's how I feel about
Wordle and Cordal too, because otherwise I just sit there for hours and play
them. Yeahs Jim and I were talking about last week. It'says they give
you sixteen words and you have to group them in groups of four and figure
out what ties each four words together, And if you're just starting, it
can be darn tricky. Yeah. I'm looking at to day's puzzle right now,
I see no connections among these words, but just hit shuffle a few
times and it starts to jump out at tricks of the trade. You do
the spelling B two Nah, that one bores me. I got it.
I had good luck with that the other day. Maybe I'll including well anyway,
forget it, including what well? If there are seven letters, right,
you have to include the one center letter in all of the words you
form, and according to the rules, one word that you can come up
with will include all of the letters. I got it. I got that
one figured out. I tell check out the brain on you. Yeah,
hey, I love it. Jim Ryan, Thank you so much, Jimmy,
talk to you soon. People in Oklahoma are cleaning up after a series
of storm that spawned tornadoes over the weekend. At least four deaths are blamed
on the storms, including an infant. The state reported about one hundred injuries.
This man in the town of Holdenville says, the winds are really strong.
My brother lives down there, and another mile or trying to get to
him, I think it blow. Dish tractor shared away and the house is
found from there. The small town of Sulfur saw a tornado that crumpled many
downtown buildings and sheared the roofs off houses in a fifteen block radius the White
Houses. President Biden spoke to Oklahoma's governor yesterday and offered the full support of
the federal government. A man and a woman from Glendale had been found dead
inside a car near Lake Matthews in Riverside County. Glendale police alerted the Riverside
County Sheriff's Department yesterday morning that two people had threatened to kill themselves and were
possibly in the area of Cahalco Road and Lo Sierra Avenue. Deputies found the
car with the two bodies inside. Secretary of State Antony blink And is back
in the Middle East to talk with leaders about the negotiations for a ceasefire in
Gaza. He's stopping in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel this week.
Blanket is expected to repeat the Biden administration's opposition to as an Israeli offensive in
Rafa, It's push for expanded aid for citizens or civilians, and the creation
of a Palestinian state. A lawmaker in Orange County says he wants schools in
California to serve halal and Kosher meals. Democratic State Senator Josh Newman says he
wrote legislation because every student, no matter religion or culture, deserves to feel
supported and included at school. The Halal and Kosher School Meals Act would require
schools to provide these meals if more than five percent of their students request it.
Newman says kids shouldn't have to choose between hunger and adhering to their religious
beliefs. Should it pass, the bill would take effect in the twenty twenty
five twenty six school year. If less than five percent request the meals,
the school could still provide those options, but would not be mandated to do
so. Steve Gregory, King of Fins the White House's protests on university campuses
against the Israel Hamas war must be peaceful. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby
condemned anti Semitic language and threats of violence seen at some of the demonstrations.
Protesters on both sides shouted and shoved each other during dueling demonstrations at UCLA over
the weekend. We're going to get more on this from ABC's Stephen Portnoy in
about fifteen minutes or So, a fifty eight year old man from Burbank,
is expected to be arraigned today in federal court on charges of not paying nearly
five point eight million dollars in federal taxes over several years by using a show
company to illegally collect Medicare reimbursement payments made to his blood testing company. Arman
mariad Dian is charged with tax evasion. La Mayor Bass is leading a delegation
of mayors and will meet Monday with three Cabinet secretaries and White House Chief of
Staff Jeff Science to ask for more assistance from the federal government to reduce homelessness.
The group includes the mayors of Long Beach and Santa Monica. At six
oh five, it's handle on the news, william Sonoma is in a lot
of trouble for advertising made in the USA products that were made somewhere else.
Let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom as the war rages on
Israeli government officials that are taking their case to the court of public opinion to
social media very much so. Yes, and it is a complex picture we're
looking at Politically, You've got a couple members on the right wing that say,
if a deal which is being talked about yet again in Cairo, if
it were to be signed, sealed and delivered, they may walk. That
could mean a collapse of the Netanyahu government. That could create all kinds of
problems. Although his opinion poll ratings are very very low. Indeed, having
said that, on the other side of the coin, you got people shouting
and yelling and protesting, saying you have had six months to get the hostages
out. Why haven't you done that? You are inept. So that's under
the domestic political football going on in Israel right now. In Cairo, who's
talks yet again about a deal. The Wall Street Journal says the deal might
be along the lines of getting twenty of the suspected about one hundred hostages out
this time exchange for five hundred Palestinian prisoners and about three hundred thousand people allowed
to go to North Gaza to return to their homes or rubble piles where their
homes once were. So we keep watching these one very very closely, indeed,
And also the seventh trip right now for Anthony Blincoln not much success the
previous six. We'll see if this one is the magic one, Okay,
And going back to the ceasefire deal that includes twenty hostages or twenty Israeli hostages
for five hundred Palestinians. It's that one is in Hamasa's hands now. Basically,
the deal's been presented and we're waiting to hear back exactly. So we
again, we wait and see if that is a good enough deal for Hamas.
And kind of the icing on the cake. This is from the Foreign
Minister of Israel, he says, if this in fact can be delivered,
he says, the offensive in Rapa in southern Gaza would be delayed, we
don't know for how long, but that would be at least a step in
the right direction. And the delays would be a step in the right direction
just because they're trying to get a million people out of the area. Well
that's what they would like to do. They bombed three homes last night,
Israel did they killed twenty two people, including six women and five children.
And is there been any response from Israel like why because they're saying that they're
targeting places where Hamas is is there any indication that there was Hamas there.
Well, if those five kids are not Hamas, correct, you know,
I have a little bit of common sense. You can see that for yourself.
And there are also some videos came out a couple of days ago of
a couple of the hostages. What was it exactly, Yeah, a couple
of dual citizen Americans and one Israeli national. Again, you have to look
at that in the light of Hamas is saying, look, we can release
people that the deal is right and as I say, the devil's in the
detail, and we're going to be watching this one in Cairo very very closely.
This week's fingers crossed. A deal can be struck. But of course
we've been down this road before and many many false starts ending nowhere. Yeah,
and do we know, Tom, if the videos that they released are
current? Is there any way to know or if they were made months ago?
That's a great question. You know, it's above my pay grade.
But yeah, the people in the note would be looking at that very very
closely and trying to determine, yes, is it current or was it you
know, you know, pictures taken a long time ago and things have changed
since then. Yeah, and then as we were talking about, it's kind
of in Hamas's hands right now on the deal. Is there any kind of
a timeline on when they might have a response. You know, we I
think people are hopeful that you know, with again Blinkol is back in the
in the in the region Jordan and Israel, after Saudi Arabia. We have
a French diplomatic team in Lebanon as we speak, too, trying to pour
oil on the waters there between Hezbollah and Israel, Northern Israel. So there
are a lot of moving parts and pieces and you know, if it all
came together, it might provide a six week you know, breather to say,
can we find a better solution so no one else dies? But again
we're not there yet. Okay, well, we'll continue to watch. And
Tom Rivers thank you for bringing the information to us as take care. All
right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestinian protests at colleges across the US have led
to hundreds more protests over the weekend. About two hundred and seventy five people
were arrested on campus's Saturday, including at Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State,
and Washington University in Saint Louis. Nearly nine hundred protesters have been arrested
since April eighteenth. La Mar bass Is the decision to cancel USC's main graduation
ceremony was due to safety concerns. The ceremony was canceled last week as pro
Palestinian protests continue on campus. They were expecting about sixty five thousand people on
campus, and they just did not feel that it was going to be safe.
And the job of the president, just like my job as mayor,
my number one job, is to make sure that Angelinos are safe. Best
told CNN's State of the Union, free speech has to be protected, but
some protests went beyond what is acceptable. She didn't say whether she agreed with
USC's decision to cancel graduation. The White House is weighed in on the protests
spreading across college campuses kind of ABC Stephen Portnoy has the latest on that coming
up in about ten minutes. US intelligence officials have found Russian President Putin likely
did not order the death of impresident of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalney. One
official says they found no smoking gun that Putin was aware of the timing of
Navalney's death. In February or directly ordered it, but the official says it's
believed Putin was ultimately responsible for Navalney's death. The US Department of Education has
found the Redlands School District repeatedly failed to protect students from sexual abuse. But
twenty page letter to the district from the department's Office of Civil Rights listed multiple
Title nine violations, including failing to maintain records responding to sexual harassment as required
by federal law, failing to provide any evidence that the district took any action
in twenty six of the thirty five reported incidents between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty.
Lawyers for thirty seven former students said Friday Redlands enabled and ignored sexual assaults
by at least twenty five predators over the last twenty years. The district agreed
without admitting guilt, to a list of reforms. Corbin Carson KFI News,
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Asy pray Sure so man made the ball with stage coach now behind him.
Country star Morgan Wallen is headed to court this week in Nashville. He's
facing three felony counts for allegedly throwing a chair from a rooftop bar, narrowly
missing some police officers standing on the street below. He's facing reckless endangerment and
disorderly conduct charges. Wallen was last seen or was last night's headliner at the
Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio. You know, movie theaters are trying to
kind of reinvent themselves a little bit as fewer people are going to movies and
more people are staying at home and streaming. And you know that it was
a big commercial success obvious. Obviously when you put Taylor Swift in a movie
theater, she made I don't know a grazillion dollars on that, and then
Beyonce tried it. Well, here's the latest move by movie theaters to entice
people to come on in this summer is the Olympics in Paris. And there
are like one hundred and sixty AMC theaters across the US that will be showing
the Olympics, so on weekdays over actually maybe it's probably weekends too, but
over the two week period of the Olympics, they're going to say, hey,
come on down watch the Olympics with a bunch of people on the big
screen, and I was thinking all that that'd be kind of a fun way
to do it, because you know, normally you sit at home and just
kind of turn it on and watch the track or watch gymnastics or something like
that, but it might be kind of interesting to go and watch it with
a crowd. So the showings are going to start on July twenty seventh,
which is a day after opening ceremony, and then we'll conclude on August eleven.
Might have to go check that out at least once, unless it's you
know, fifty bucks or something like that. But some to look out for.
The Dodgers play the Diamondbacks in Arizona tonight. First pitch goes out at
six point forty. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on
AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games in HD on the
iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of
La Oh. The Dodgers have been out on the road for a long time,
but guess what they're coming back. They'll be back at Dodgers Stadium this
weekend. Fights have broken out at UCLA between pro Palestinian and pro Israel supporters
after a barrier was breached that was supposed to keep the two groups separators separated.
Vice Chancellor at UCLA says the university has instituted additional security measures and has
increased the number of safety team members on site. President Biden has spoken with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure build for a deal on a ceasefire and
hostage release. The White House says Biden reiterated his clear position that is against
Israel going into Rafa to go after what Israel considers an Hamas's stronghold. Governor
Newsom says there's one out of five EV charging stations are now fast charging stations
in California. On x the governor said the states working to improve the charging
network in the state. There are one hundred five thousand public EV chargers around
California. Newsom also says twenty five percent of all new cars purchased in the
state are now EV's. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this
morning, President Biden, as I mentioned, had a little chat with Israel's
Benjamin nettan Yaho. Talk about that. But right now, let's say good
Morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. As the protests continue at college campuses around the
US, the White House is officially weighed in on it. Yes, I
mean to the extent that he Look. John Kirby was on This Week yesterday
with George Stephanopoulos, and in the course of the interview, one of the
questions was about the White House's reaction to the protests, and John Kirby said,
quote, We'll leave it to local authorities to determine how these protests were
managed, but we want them to be peaceful protests. Obviously, he said,
we don't want to see anybody hurt. Kirby said that the White House
absolutely condemns the anti Semitism language that it's heard of late, and certainly condemns
hate speech and threats of violence out there. Beyond just saying that position,
is there anything else the White House could do? Not really? Well?
Look, one of the questions is whether Title six of the Civil Rights Act
should be enforced to withhold funding from these educational institutions if the Education Department determines
that the presence of these protests on campus amounts to discrimination against Jewish students.
And that is the question that Republicans that they want answered. So when you
see Speaker Johnson going to Columbia University as he did last week, and you
see the House of Representatives voting this week, as we expect they will,
on a bill that affirms up a definition of anti semitism in this regard,
you get a sense of what it is Republicans want. They want to see
federal tax dollars withheld from some of these schools where these protests have been ongoing.
Now, the protesters themselves say that the pressure from Republicans is meant to
curb their right to speak. Let's see how it all plays out. Okay,
and some of the pro Palestinian protesters have denounced anti semitism, But there
is a lot of hate speech going on. If it's not coming from the
students, who is it coming from or is it coming from the students too,
well, if some of them are, you know, look in some
cases, most of the people who've been arrested or not. I think in
one case, I think it was in Saint Louis, most of the people
who arrested were not students. They just happen to be agitators, organizers' activists
in the area. Who converged on a particular campus. I don't know what
the situation is everywhere, but I think generally speaking, you are seeing examples
of people saying that Jews should Inpe, in Israel, should or even here
should go back to Europe, whatever that means. And you also see signs
I've seen signs where at pro Israel demonstrations held by pro Hamas or pro Palestinian
supporters saying that Hamas should target them next. These are obviously calls to violence,
calls for the undoing of the decision of the international community in the aftermath
of the Second World War to create a Jewish state, And that's why the
House is set to pass this bill that would include in its definition of anti
Semitism the notion that Israel is engaged in its own of racist governmental structure.
The fact is that there are Arabs that are included in the Israeli government,
and Arabs who Israelis have the right to vote. There is the allegation that
Israel is engaged in an occupation and in an apartheid, and it has to
do with how the Israel interacts with the Palestinian territories in the West Bank.
Most acutely and for the last several months the war on Gaza. I think
that, or should say war on Hamas that has been in Gaza. Look,
the Secretary of State right now is in Riad. He's meeting with Arab
leaders and with Saudi leaders. His aim is to try to get the Arab
community to get behind a ceasefire agreement that Hamas and Israeli negotiators are now set
to talk about in Cairo. The hope is that the sides can reach a
deal in a six week cease fire that prevents or staves off an Israeli invasion
of Rafa. The Israelis have their own internal political dynamic at play, where
there are some elements in these rarely population who believe that hostages should be the
first priority and seeing to it that they're safely returned. There's the far right
element in Israeli politics who believes that Netnahu should continue the fight and do what
he pledged to do, which is eradicate Hamas and take out the remaining battalions
that are now sheltering in Rafa. So you've got that internal dynamic. You've
got the protests here in the United States that put political pressure on the president.
He's acutely aware of the political weakness that he suffers on the left and
among young people across the board. Well, like everything else, whether it's
you know, protests or fighting, it's just when when it when it involves
Israel, it's just so complicated. Well, I think that is a function
of the it is it is, of course it is, and it is
it is is an element of the history of the world, the history of
the region, the history of American Israeli relations, and these dynamics are shifting,
and as everything, it's political, and it's political in Israel, it's
political in the United States. It's political in the Arab capitals. And there
was a story I read this morning in one of the newspapers, it may
have been the New York Times, about how possibly the Washington Post, about
how there is pressure now in Arab capitals which have repressive regimes that have aligned
themselves with Israel over the years for their own internal purposes, now trying to
deal with unrest from their own populations. And so it is political everywhere.
Wow. All right, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much for the information you've
bet All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
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postponed. More rain is expected. La County is considering naming a day after
Jane Fonda. April thirtieth would be declared Jane Fonda Day in La County this
year and every year if the Board of Supervisors approves it at its meeting tomorrow.
Supervisor Lindsay Horbath says the Oscar winning actress and activists should be celebrated for
her contributions to the entertainment industry and to peace, environmental and social justice work.
Horbath says the honor should encourage communities across La County to celebrate Fonda's work
by engaging in their own advocacy on behalf of social justice and the environment.
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