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I know feels like Monday, but it's Tuesday, which means we're one
day closer to the weekend. See another reason to get up and get going
this morning. Here's what's ahead on today's wake up call. Another metro bus
driver has been attacked. A possibly homeless woman lunged at the driver on a
bus in down town, LA yesterday, grabbed the driver's glasses, broke them,
and scratched the driver's face. No arrests have been made. Israeli strikes
on Rafa have killed at least sixteen people in southern Gaza. The latest strike
happened in the same area where Israel targeted what it said was a Hamas compound
Sunday night. That strike ignited a fire in a camp for Palestinians and killed
at least forty five people. Israel has called that one a tragic mistake.
Handle's going to have more on this on Handle on the News, which comes
up right after wake up call. An aggressive shark has bumped a surfer off
his board, prompting the closure of waters along a two mile stretch of beach
near the T Street Beach in San Clemente. Another person says he saw something
dark in the water swimming toward him. No one was hurt. Google's got
a new AI feature rolled out a few weeks ago, and it's offering some
rather unusual advice to users, including telling someone to add glue woo to tomato
sauce to help cheese stick to pizza better. We're gonna find out about some
other suggestions offered by the AI with ABC's Mike Debuski in just a couple of
minutes. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis are going on
strike today. The union members voted more than a week ago to authorize the
strike because it says the UC system has infringed on free speech rights of pro
Palestinian protesters and mishandled how it dealt with the protests on campuses. Workers at
u See Santa Cruz went on strike last week. Pro Palestinian protesters have spent
part of the Memorial Day holiday demonstrating in downtown LA. They walked from LA
near a street in La near City Hall to a nearby on ramp to the
one on one Freeway yesterday afternoon that caused some northbound freeway lanes to be closed
for a time. The group then continued onto City Hall. A guy with
a gun has stolen a French bulldog from a couple in Montebello. Maria Felix
says she and her husband were walking their dog, Jennifer Sunday night when a
man got out of a car and demanded the husband's rolex and the two year
old pup. Wherever you are, please return us to us. We're good
parents, We're good. We will. He love her so much, we
wanted to come back home. The couple tells Katie La they don't have kids,
so Jennifer is all they have. Jennifer is a spotted brown French bulldog
that weighs about twenty five pounds. The robber was in a silver Kia Optima
that had no back bumper. A man who attacked former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
husband with a hammer in San Francisco is said to be re sentenced today because
of a court error. The judge who sentenced David to Pop earlier this month
to thirty years in prison says she made a mistake by not giving him a
chance to speak in court. De Pop broke into the Pelosi's home two years
ago. He was caught on police body camera video hitting Paul Pelosi with a
hammer. To Pop will be re sentenced today. US Cellular customers are about
to become T Mobile customers if this deal goes through. T Mobile has announced
a deal to acquire almost all of US Cellular in a four billion dollar deal
that will include taking on US Cellular's debt. Fallen soldiers have been remembered at
the Nixon Presidential Library in Your Belinda. The event included a flyover with old
warplanes, a prayer, and a keynote speech by a veteran wounded in combat.
Joe Lopez with the Richard Nixon Foundation says he was happy to see many
kids and attendance. They get to see people in uniform. They get to
hear from veterans who've served our country, They get to see planes fly over
and people dressed in red, white and blue. More than five hundred people
attended yesterday's service. The crowd was treated to a patriotic performance by the Huntington
Beach Concert Band after the initial ceremony and your Belinda Blake trolley k if I
News, let's say good morning now to ABC's Mike Debuski. Mike, Google
has rolled out it's a I overview. It's been a few weeks. How's
it going rocky? In some cases literally amy, because this is an AI
generated uh sort of feature that Google has been integrating into its search function.
And the idea here is that it's going to present you with an AI generated
answer to your question, as opposed to a page of blue links that you
would traditionally see that maybe link out to websites that could answer your question.
Google just wants to provide you with unanswer. But so I said, it's
been a rocky rollout. In fact, in one case, a person reported
that they saw that an AI overview told them to eat rocks, which you
know is not correct. Don't eat rocks. That's what a question was.
The question was is it healthy to eat rocks? And the AI generated answer
said yes, but only small ones, and regardless, don't eat rocks.
That's bad. You know, is a nice story right here. It's another
story you might be able to get by. But maybe that's not reck mended.
Okay, either way, It sort of underscores the challenge that Google faces
here, which is that a lot of these generative AI tools hallucinate, they
get things wrong, and the rock question is just one of many answers that
this AI overviews feature has gotten wrong. Another one that got a lot of
attention online in the last few weeks is that a person asked Google, hey,
how do I get the cheese to stick to my pizza if I'm making
pizza at home? And the AI generated response said, you can add glue
to your tomato sauce. And it was sourcing that answer from a Reddit comment
from more than ten years ago, which in context was clearly a joke,
but the AI system took as fact as a real human generated suggestion. Okay,
again, I feels like we shouldn't have to, you know, say
this, but like, don't eat glue either, don't eat rock. State
glue. Yeah, it seems to be hung up on that. Okay.
So just to as a refresher for what AI does is it takes everything that's
on the Internet and searches out answers that are already there or for information that's
already there. It doesn't come up with the information, right, that's right.
So Google is kind of sourcing this information from various websites around the Internet.
We don't know specifically what goes into training this model, but we do
know that it's a lot of human generated writing. They you know, that
could be you know, a Reddit comment, it could be a Facebook comment,
but it could also be like academic papers and news articles and that type
of thing. It really scans the whole web and using kind of context clues
and using its understanding of what you're searching for, it provides you with an
answer to your question, as opposed to a bunch of different options that could
answer your question. The problem there, of course, is that occasionally that
answer is wrong, right, and confidently wrong. Google is presenting this to
you as if it is a real hardened fact, as if you know,
you would be traditionally googling something and trusting the answer when in fact, this
technology you know, remains pretty imperfect, but they're kind of it's come fround
the internet. It kind of doesn't fact check itself, or it's very difficult
to write. As we said, it's kind of you know, hard for
this system to discern between what's a joke and what is you know, a
real fact, and it also struggles with other things, right, it has
you know that there was another problem that someone raised where it asked, hey,
what has the value of the US dollar been over the past twenty years
or how is it fluctuated? And it got that question horribly wrong, right,
It said that the US dollar has you know, collapsed in value,
when in fact it has gone up slightly. And the idea here is that
it's actually kind of bad at math, right, like that Gemini is you
know, kind of their large language model struggles with sort of basic math calculations,
so any questions around that might be more likely to be wrong or more
likely to be hallucinatory. In addition to that, it's very difficult to distinguish
between you know, people who have the same name, right, So there
you know, are people who share their names with presidents who are also famous,
or people who share their names with actors and and you know, Gemini
is difficult, you know, has trouble discerning you know, who's the real
you know, Woodrow Wilson, for example, and that can provide some difficult
responses. But again, these are just problems that all AI companies face.
It seems like Google's getting a lot of heat for this because they have put
it into a tool technology product that a lot of people use, which is
of course Google Search. So was it maybe that Google rolled it out before
it was ready for prime time? It seems that way. But you could
also make the argument that all artificial artificially generated you know, responses and chatbots
and that type of thing are a little too soon to market, right chack
GPT gets things wrong. Perplexity AI gets things wrong. Many of these tools
get things wrong, and that is a problem that the AI industry continues to
struggle with as it moves forward. That these things hallucinate, they still get
things wrong. But you know, you go back two years now to when
Open launched chat GPT. That really lit a fire under Google, which had
been working on a lot of the same technology but hadn't made a public facing,
kind of consumer ready product yet. And many point to that moment when
chat GPT hit the market, as when Google said, hey, we got
to get our own tools out there. We can't, you know, have
our lunch eaten by this upstart open AI company. And that, I think
is why you're seeing now Google start to integrate this into its various products,
because of course it stretches itself, you know, across a whole much wider
industry than open ai does. But again, you know, it comes with
some risk, which is you know, now rearing its head with this AI
overviews feature. So use it, but use your common sense as well.
If it tells you to eat rocks, maybe take a second look. Always
double check, right, I mean the one with the rocks, you know,
yeah, And you know you might say, hey, that's common sense.
I would know how to discern between that, but you know, you
might not know when to discern between you know, the date a certain president
took office, which you know, the system has also gotten wrong, so
that these subtler ones that are maybe less flashy than you know, putting glue
on pizza are kind of the more insidious ones. But that is that is
that is the way of the world, and it's also worth mentioning Amy that
this is a feature that you can turn off. You can go into the
settings of Google Search and just toggle off AI overviews, but it is on
by default. Okay, good to know. ABC's Mike Debuski, thank you
so much for letting you know how these ais are. Still I love the
term hallucinating. Yes, absolutely, I'm now hungry for pizza as well.
So yeah, just go address that, keep the glue away from it,
right, Thank you, Yank. Bye. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Special Olympics Southern California is launching its law Enforcement Tortu run this morning. San
Diego Assistant Chief Bernie Cologne, who has been involved with Special Olympics for two
decades, says law enforcement and athletes will make up the relay team that will
get started at the Chula Vista Police Department. Helps them build confidence and it
helps them build friendships, teamwork how that they otherwise wouldn't have. The flame
will be carried over one thousand miles in the next two weeks. The Torch
run ends at cal State Long Beach, where the cauldron will be lit for
the special Olympics opening ceremonies. June eighth, an elected member of a water
district in Ventura County has been since to thirty days in jail for stealing water.
Investigators say from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one, Daniel Nauman used bypasses
on two commercial pumps to divert water into his own crops before the water flowed
through meters used to calculate usage and billing. Nowman, who owns Nowmon Family
Farms and Auxnard, had been a member of the United Water Conservation District and
an alternate board member of the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency. Prosecutors say,
now'm install about thirty thousand dollars worth of water, which he's finally paid back,
and he'll begin his jail sentence on June seventeenth. Steve Gregory, King
of fineows Some LA City Council members say they want clearer guidance on which non
government flags can be flown on buildings like city Hall. The council is set
to vote to allow the Pride flag to fly during June. Council President Paul
Krekorian says it should clear any legal challenges. My preference would be to have
a proper ordinance that allows that complies with the Constitution and the law. The
council is also requesting guidance for future flag raising decisions, like what flags can
be flown during the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Current city ordinance only allows
government and pow flags to be flown on city property. A black bear named
Oreo has found his way into a home in Monrovia. The bear was caught
on video over the weekend leaving the house with a box full of of all
things oreos in his mouth. Oreo has been spotted all over the neighborhood,
recently roaming backyards looking for food and taking a dip in swimming pools. Prosecutors
and defense are set to deliver closing arguments to the jury in former President Trump's
hush money trial. It's each side's last chance to score points with the jury
before deliberation begin. The arguments are expected to last all day. Former heavyweight
champion Mike Tyson is reportedly doing great after experiencing a medical emergency on a flight
from Miami to lax. Officials say paramedics boarded the plane on Sunday to take
Tyson off. The flight Once it landed at Lax passengers had to wait almost
a half an hour then to get off the plane. Tyson rep says Tyson
had an ulcer flare up, but he is doing good now. A young
mountain lion has been spotted roaming through a neighborhood in Thousand Oaks. Surveillance video
at one home shows it chasing a housecat a few days ago. The neighborhood
is near Los Padres Trail, a wildlife preserve. At six oh five,
It's handle on the news, Toyota says it's done with the Olympics. Bill's
going to tell you why. Right now. Let's say good morning to the
host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard. Joel, I'm a
big football fan, but you're saying I should find a new sport you and
Kno. He was already giving me crap about this this morning because I'm going
to tell people to watch less football, and man, this is an American
tradition on an important you know, coming off an important holiday weekend, and
I know football is not coming around till the fall. But we've talked about
just how streaming it seemed like it was going to solve all these problems for
us, and it seemed like it was going to reduce the bill and then
it's just done the opposite overtime, and now a lot of us are like
pining for the days of a simple, you know, cable subscription. Will
The Guardian ran the numbers, and because every all these little streaming companies like
with Netflix and and now where there's Peacock and there's Prime Football on Thursday nights
because of because there's like a couple of football games here and there, and
if you're an extreme football addict and you have to watch it all, you're
going to pay more than sixteen hundred dollars over the course of the year to
sign up for every single one of those streamers so that you can watch all
the football you want. That's just so much money, and it's really I
think hopefully only the extreme football addicts that are going to partake. But it's
just it just is a sign of the times, and it shows just how
much it's going to cost you to keep up with your favorite teams and your
favorite sports these days. So do you really think football is not going to
be on CBS and Fox anymore? But not all of them? Right,
think about the Peacock game. A ton of people signed up to watch the
Dolphins and the Chiefs, and you know that was that was like a really
big event. I even signed up to watch that. But the number show
that seventy one percent of people kept that subscription after the fact. So we're
not great at canceling the subscriptions after we've watched the game we want to see.
So I think it's okay if like and again you're right, Yeah,
CBS is going to have a lot of the games. If you're not a
diehard addict, they don't have to see all the games and can watch this
stuff via the antenna. That's, you know, which is like an underutilized
thing these days. Put up in an antenna, you can catch a lot
of games over the air, But there are some games that you won't be
able to watch that in that way, right the Prime Thursday night games for
example, but Netflix games on Christmas, there's going to be a few games
streaming, specifically on Peacocky. There are these These games have become frag minted
across a wide variety of streaming services and some yes are going to be available
just via your antenna. In fact, a lot of them, but not
all of them. That's right. The prime games are on Thursday nights,
then they're not on regular TV. Nope, nope. So yeah, it
depends. Like and maybe you're like, cool, maybe I'm just not going
to watch on Thursdays. I'll be an NFL on Sunday's kind of person,
which is great. I'm not hating on NFL. It's a fun sport.
But I also just think you have to be careful and think how much money
am I spending to watch all of the games, and just kind of make
sure you I always put calendar reminders when I sign up for a streaming service.
I'm like, okay, cool, I need to cancel by June eighteenth
or something like that. So I put it on June sixteenth on my calendar,
reminding me to cancel before I get hit with another bill. Yeah,
and speaking of that, because I've done that before, do it like you
did a couple of days before, not just the day before, because I
think I did it and then they ended up charging me on the day that
I thought I could renew or cancel it. So do it a couple of
days before at least. YEP, I mean, you can't put the genie
back in the bottle, and I think a lot of us wish we could,
because streaming is just it really is getting out of control. It's hard
to manage so many people. I mean when you look at the numbers.
We've talked about this before, but people are spending hundreds of dollars more a
month than they think when it comes to recurring streaming bills and recurring subscriptions.
It's kind of become the modern version of a plague. Okay, so mind
your stream less dangerous to your health, but your financial health, okay.
And speaking of money, people are investing a lot of money in getting a
college degree, and you're saying that it might not be worth it. So
this is something that's there takes a lot of nuance to really get to the
heart of this topic, but especially in today's economy and what's happening with the
value of higher education going it just I mean, it's pretty clear to most
people, as we've seen articles written in the New York Times, not just
six figures to go to school and get a degree, but six figures for
one year at some of these fancier schools like Vanderbilt. Insane. So think
about that that's like, if there's no scholarships and no financial aid or whatever,
you're talking about four hundred grand at the end of the day. And
granted that's just a few schools, but the price of higher education when you
look at kind of like an inflation map over the past twenty years, it's
healthcare costs and it's higher education that have just essentially ballooned in price. And
so it deserves a double take to see whether or not education and higher education
still makes sense in the way that we've talked about it for so many years,
that it's this path to higher income and it's path to a better job
and a better life. And there is still some truth to that, but
you have to pick apart the details and you have to be wise in your
approach to getting that higher education or you might find yourself on in the much
larger group now that doesn't experience college as accountable to the next great thing.
So there were some new stats. Thirty percent of college grants are not going
to earn enough to offset the price of their higher education. That's a big
chunck of people. It's almost a third of people who over their working lifetime.
Like we've heard the generic stat that people who graduate with a college degree
typically earn about a million dollars more over their life. But so much depends
on what you study, on how much debt you take on, like,
for instance, engineering, computer science, nursing degrees. Those degrees in particular
offer the best return on your investment, but then other majors come with a
little bit of a financial advantage, and the other majors that you get are
actually going to make you worse off over the long haul. And what are
some of those? Oh, I mean, I think there's some like literature
degrees that you could get, Like there's there's just a bunch of you have
to be like, Okay, what is it that's going to actually what kind
of job am I going to get with this degree? There? And it
doesn't mean that like, hey, guess what amy I don't know do you
have? Like I don't have engineering skills. That doesn't if someone said you
should go to college to get an engineering degree because that's going to pay off,
well, not for me, because like it doesn't jive with my personality
with the kind of skills that I have inherently, So you have to think
about that, and you just don't want to try to shoehorn yourself into doing
work that doesn't make sense for you. But you also want to at least
look at this list and think, well, okay, then does college make
sense for me or is there a better way? And I talked recently with
somebody about apprenticeships, and sadly we're not great at that in this country,
although we're better in California than in some other states. But this is another
approach I think people should consider taking. Is there like an apprentice route I
can take so I can avoid at least some of the worst parts of college,
which is the student loan debt and getting a degree that might or might
not pay off. And at minimum, even if you're looking at one of
those degrees that might not pay off as well, you've got to keep your
debt to a minimum, like you have to. You have to really think
about the price tag if you're going to get a four year degree that doesn't
come with the same the same accolades and the same potential, the earning potential
at the end of the day as well. And the other thing too,
it's graduate degrees. Be really careful going back to school to get a graduate
degree. I sound like fifty percent of those don't pay off. Is Codo
getting one? He already has his? Oh okay, yeah, yeah.
And the truth there's a lot of them don't pay off in the way you'd
hope, and especially when you talk about the time and the money that you
pour into it. And some people just assume education equals good equals more money,
and there can be truth to that, but there's also it's not an
unfailing equation. Sometimes you have to run the numbers ahead of time to make
sure that it's going to for you. And I've always said, I don't
think everybody needs to go to college. I don't think everybody should go to
college. It's just like home ownership. We've made it sound like it's the
end of all, be all, it's the bee's knees, and that everybody
in the United States of America needs to do these two things. And there's
a lot of truth for a lot of people, but it's also certainly not
true in so many cases. And you have to think about both things long
and hard before you pounce. Okay, Joel Larsgard such good money advice,
as always, and you can hear lots more of that when you listen to
how to Money with Joel lars Guard coming up this Sunday from noon to two.
You can also follow Joel at how to Money Joel, Thank you,
Joel Larsgard. Thanks Amy, all right, take care. A family in
Montabello is pleading for the safe return of its French bulldog. The dog,
named Jennifer, was stolen at gunpoint during a walk late Sunday night. The
dog's owners, Rolux, watch, cash and iPhone were also taken. The
LAPD will hold a ceremony this morning to honor the two hundred thirty nine LAPD
officers who've died in the line of duty since the department was established in eighteen
sixty nine. The memorial service will be held at LAPD headquarters. It'll feature
police honors, a role call of the fallen, a riderless horse, and
the missing man, helicopter flyover. It all starts at nine at six Pozho
five. It's handle on the news. A two mile stretch of beach in
San Clemente has been closed at least the water because of what may be an
aggressive juvenile great white sharket not attack. Well, he kind of went after
somebody, but nobody was hurt. At five point fifty. As I mentioned,
ABC's Jim Ryan is in Texas. We're going to be talking to him,
but right now we're going to talk to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So,
Stephen. Over the weekend, former President Trump showed up at the Libertarian convention
and which was kind of a surprise. Yeah, I mean, look,
a bit of a long shot, a bit. What he did was he
took the stage at the Libertarian convention here in Washington, and he appealed to
the delegates to the convention for their votes or their support. He really was
asking for their nomination. He didn't get that. I'm not sure he's going
to get many other votes either. But look, the Libertarian Party had its
convention here with about nine hundred delegates deciding who the nominee of the Libertarian Party
should be. They decided on a men named Chase Oliver who is from Georgia.
He had run for Senate there in twenty twenty and got about two percent
of the vote. Never served in government before, but has been a long
time Libertarian Party activist. And so that's what those hundreds of people who attended
these conventions do. They give it to the guy they know, and Trump
got booed, Why, well, libertarian, they're all about small government,
they're all about individual rights and freedoms. And there is a liberal streak that
now runs through today's libertarian party. And so they opposed the man who proudly
appointed three justices to the Supreme Court who have made it harder for women to
get abortions, for example. They opposed the man who saw an increase in
the national debt during his presidency. Libertarians believe in small government, tax cuts
and lower government spending. Trump saw it the other way. So in the
end, Trump got booed, and he sped through some of his remarks.
At other points he seemed to be enjoying mixing it up with the crowd.
But he did not receive the nomination. Yeah, and I think that the
interesting thing that comes out of all of this. After being booed and heckled,
he said, well, if I wanted it, I could have gotten
the nomination. Well, there are lots of things, Trump says, What
can I say to that? Okay, Well, let's move on, because
that was this weekend and today we're back in New York and Trump's expected to
head toward the court room anytime. Now, we've got closing arguments on tap,
so closing arguments at the end of five weeks of testimony. The jury
had off all last week and today the summations. The defense goes first,
then the prosecution. And the question is that Trump is raising is why the
prosecution should go last, And the answer is that in the United States,
the prosecution has the burden of proof and therefore they have the privilege to present
their arguments last to the jury. The jury already heard from twenty two witnesses,
Trump not among them, but among them importantly David Pecker, the former
owner of the National Inquirer, Stormy Daniels, the woman who was paid one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars, Michael Cohen, the man who arranged the payments,
and said that it was all done to advance Trump's electoral prospects in twenty
twenty sixteen. Rather, the prosecution theory is that what Trump did was hide
the true nature of the payments to avoid any kind of scrutiny that he was
trying to suppress the story about Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the twenty
sixteen campaign, because he, according to Michael Cohen, knew that it would
have been damaging for Trump. Now, the defense is that Trump did nothing
illegal here. You can't violate the law by paying a lawyer to affect a
payment of a non disclosure agreement. And at the end of the day,
it was just simply how it was accounted for, and that the New York
prosecutors have sort of amalgamated this case with a faulty legal theory. And those
are all probably things that the defense is going to argue to the jury.
The jurors include among them two attorneys, and you have to wonder how this
is all going to play out. I imagine that summations could be done by
today. This case could go to the jury for deliberations tomorrow. Going to
be interesting. We'll be watching, Steven Portnoy. Thank you for the information.
You bet all right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new program in La County
offers guidance and support to street vendors and home based food businesses. Micro enterprise
home kitchen operations called MIKO for short, now have clear regulations from the board
of supervisors. It outlines the number of meals they can sell and how much
money they can bring in a year to qualify. Supervisor. Holly Mitchell says
it's a win win for street vendors and traditional businesses. This will allow them
to operate safely and minimize disruption to brick and mortar businesses and other community stakeholders.
The new program covers the entire county except for the cities of Long Beach,
Pasadena and Vernon in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News. The Papua
New Guinea government has asked for international assistants following the deadly landslide. Officials say
more than two thousand people are thought to have been buried alive when the side
of a mountain tumbled down. For Locals are still digging for survivors with spades,
sticks, anything they can find, even their bare hands. ABC's James
Longman says the first heavy machinery arrived yesterday, but the recovery operation is dangerous
the rain still unstable. Rescuers can only move so fast. So far,
they've found the bodies of just five victims. The un hasn't changed its estimated
death toll of six hundred and seventy, but says as time goes on,
the number will remain fluid. It says the body is ready to offer assistance.
Hawaiian Electric says the County of Maui is to blame for the deadly wildfire
in Lahina, and in countersuit filed Friday, the utility says county officials failed
to maintain proper brush clearance and bungled the fire response, causing the deaths of
one hundred and one people in damage totaling five billion. Soon after the fires
last August, the County of Maui filed a lawsuit against Hawaiian Electric, claiming
its rotten power poles and neglected infrastructure caused the fires. Hundreds of lawsuits have
been filed against the state's largest power supplier, and though no official cause of
the fire has been revealed, some reports just down power lines ignited dry brush.
Steve GREGORTAAFI News. Walmart has ended its partnership with Capital One, which
has been the exclusive issuer of store credit cards since twenty nineteen. Last year,
Walmart sued Capital One, saying it was taking too long to process payments
and to mail replacement cards. A federal judge ruled in March that Walmart could
terminate the deal. ABC's Daria Albinger says anyone with a Walmart rewards card can
continue to use it and earn rewards unless you get notified of a change.
Capital One reported last week there's about eight and a half billion dollars in loans
in the existing Walmart credit portfolio. The Dodgers and Mets got rained out yesterday,
so it's a doubleheader today as the Dodgers take on the Mets in New
York. First pitch is going to go out now at one ten, because
again it's a double header. You can listen to every play of every Dodger's
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. Prosecutors and defense are set to deliver closing arguments to the
jury in former President Trump's hush money trial. It's each side's last chance to
score points with the jury before deliberations begin. The closing arguments are expected to
last all day. An aggressive shark has bumped a surfer off his board,
leading officials in San Clementing to order people out of the water. Access was
restricted yesterday along a two mile stretch near the T Street Beach. Another person
says he saw something dark in the water swimming toward him. No one got
hurt. SpaceX is planning to launch a Falcon nine rocket from Vandenberg Space four
space this afternoon. The rocket will be taking four scientific instruments into space.
The launch could create sonic booms in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis
Obispo counties. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
this is kind of robocopy. China's military has rolled out rifle toting robot
dogs. That's scary. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaking of scary, you guys cannot catch a break with his weather. Yeah,
and not just here Amy, but all over the region from here.
Although in New York State, twenty two people died over the Memorial Day weekend
in tornadoes that hit Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kentucky. And then
of course you've got the heat and of course the things that come with those
those thunderstorms, including lightning. It's thought that lightning killed or rancher in Colorado,
along with thirty four of his cows and also thought to have sparked a
wildfire that's now burning into Mexico. So really it's a widespread issue this springtime,
Amy, Yeah, and can it's been going on for weeks now,
it has, and in fact, this has been the most active springtime for
severe weather in thirteen years, at least thirteen hundred and thirty six severe storm
reports from Texas to New York Friday through Monday, and it's continuing at this
moment. More severe thunder storms moved down from the northwest right along the Texas
Oklahoma line within the last couple of hours came here into the Dallas Fort Worth
area. We have six hundred and seventy seven thousand power outages at this moment.
These storms are continuing to move to the southeast and bring a thread of
new tornadoes down in East Texas. Okay, and you guys are kind of
getting a double whammy too because you've got these storms. But it's hot down
there, isn't it. Yeah, it has been hot. It was pushing
one hundred degrees yesterday, a hot, very humid. The heat is part
of the issue here, but I mean everything else kind of is factoring into
this too. The hailstones, the size of baseballs that came down over the
weekend. It's just been really tough a few days, really tough month.
Actually, where was that hail that's big ideo is Yeah, around the Denton
area, west or rather east of the area where the tornado came into Valley
View on Saturday and killed so many people. So yeah, it's the hailstones.
It's the In fact, this morning we had a straight line went of
seventy seven miles per hour at DFW Airport. That's hurricane strength. Yeah.
I think God's mad at the Midwest. In the South, so are the
I'm just shocked at how many severe weather events are happening all at once.
Normally, you get you get a tornado, it moves out, there's sunny
skies, you do the cleanup, and off you go. But it's just
like been day after day after day. Where are the storms headed to next?
Yes, it's just relentless. I mean, just as they start picking
up in Valley Ue where seven people died in the tornado on Saturday, here
comes a new batch of storms. And right now the ones that came through
Dallas for Worth have moved to the southeast. But there is another big line
of storms coming down from Witchdolf Falls Taxes and down from the Oklahoma border and
approaching Dallas for so, yeah, some of the same areas that got it
over the weekend are going to get it again within the next couple of hours.
Looks like the stuff that came through on Saturday in Dallas Fort Worth now
has moved east off the east coast. But you know there's still stuff around
up in you know, the Minneapolis area and in the central part of Kansas
Kay, And you mentioned Dallas Fort Worth. But it seems like when the
tornadoes hit, they tend to hit in small towns or around them. Have
any of the population center has been hit pretty heavily, well, not lately.
We had one that touchdown in Dallas a few years ago, a tornado
that dropped down to the northwest part of the city and tore up a lot
of property. Nobody was killed in that one, but people were hurt.
But you're right, it's just luck of the draw that it doesn't strike a
more populated area. And there was a tornado that hit Waco, Texas in
about nineteen fifty seven and just destroyed the place. So yeah, you're lucky.
I mean, it's just it's luck of the draw. We've got eight
million people living in Dallas Fort Worth and luckily these storms, at least the
ones that hit over the weekend stayed kind of the northwest. Okay, well,
we'll hope that they move out soon so you guys can enjoy the what's
left of the spring. It's been beautiful here. Yeah, you're lucky.
Yeah, it's cann't count yourself like it could have been. You know,
wildfire's out there. We had that wildfire that was started and it's still burning
into Mexico in the Lincoln National Forest. Probably sparked by a lightning strike.
Yeah, that's the other thing that lightning does. That to the northwest a
lot, yep, lots and lots. But we'll hope for a calmer weather
pattern heading your direction. Thanks Amy. All right, thank you, ABC's
Jim Ryan. Stay safe. See you. Well, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
metro bus driver in downtown LA has been attacked by a woman who grabbed the
driver's glasses, broke them, and scratched the driver's face. The driver had
reportedly recognized the woman yesterday because they'd had issues with her before they tried to
keep her from getting on the bus. The attacker was a white woman around
thirty five foot eight, about one hundred and eighty pounds, with brown hair,
brown eyes. Metro says it is not at all happy that another bus
operator has been assaulted. A spokesman says Metro is accelerating it's work to prevent
crime on the system. A person's been stabbed at a bus stop in LA's
Miracle Mile area that was reported last night about ten thirty near West Olympic Boulevard
and South Librea Avenue. A person was seen being taken away in an ambulance.
A bill from a state senator in LA would require store employees to monitor
self checkout lanes and limit items then can go through. Employers want to introduce
machines because people are too difficult. Democratic State Senator Lola Smallwood Quavis says that's
led to a need for regulations for self checkout, which is responsible for sixteen
times more theft than a cashier, About six ten billion dollars is lost,
and it's becoming a place where workers have been threatened. Critics say those regulations
are unnecessary because retailers have already started implementing similar changes. The bill passed the
Senate last week and is now in the Assembly. Corbin Carson KFI News US
Cellular customers are about to become T Mobile customers if this deal goes through.
T Mobile is announced a deal to acquire almost all of US Cellular. It's
a four point four billion dollar deal that will include taking on US Cellular's debt.
McDonald's reportedly has plans to get rid of all its self serve soda machines
by twenty thirty two, and at some locations do away with free refills.
The changes are meant to bring uniformity to all McDonald's operations and make customers' experiences
the same whether they're picking up, dining in, or using the drive through.
Some experts say they expect other fast food places to follow the leader.
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