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That's all I'm saying. At any rate, We're happy you're here. Got
a lot going on today as always, so let's get right to it.
Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. A group of about one hundred pro
Palestinian protesters have taken over and trashed at least one floor of the Student Services
building at cal State LA. Some chained themselves to the building outside the main
entrance, others blocked entrances. The takeover started yesterday afternoon. Security has gone
into the building this morning, and it appears the protesters of left, leaving
behind smashed windows and garbage and graffitied walls and windows. The G seven summit
has opened in Italy with agreement reached on a US proposal to back a fifty
billion dollar loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets as collateral. That gives Ukraine
a strong show of support from the leaders of Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Japan, the UK, and of course the United States. We're
going to be talking with ABC's Tom Rivers in just a minute, because speaking
of Russia, they've signed a bunch of warships to Cuba. They're awfully close
to the US. We'll find out what's up with that. A fire in
the Annelo Valleys burned through about fifty acres of brush. LA and San Bernardino
County fire crews are working to surround the fire that started around five yesterday afternoon
in Lano. No homes or other buildings are threatened. Also coming up this
hour, we're going to be talking about how La is a great place to
bike naked. I know. Let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestadium protesters have taken over
a building at cal State LA. They occupied at least one floor of the
student Services building last night and set up barricades. There's chairs, copy machines,
overturned picnic tables. Some administrators were said to be inside the building as
the doors were blocked. This demonstrator says they want the school to cut ties
with companies that support the war in Gaza, and they want to convey that
to the university's president. We had radio silence from the president for the past
twenty odd days. This is not a host situation. We have been encouraging
the administration to leave the building. They have every right to leave the building.
People loved the building when this started. As I mentioned, campus security
was seen in the building this morning. There may be also police on scene.
It's not clear where the protesters are. The man seen running or the
man running to replace La County District Attorney George Gascone in November, says Gascone
is the reason people in the county don't feel safe. Nathan Hackman told the
John Cobalts Show that Gascon's policies just don't work. Two thirds of Los Angelinas
feel less safe today than they did when Gascon came into office, and his
management style could only be described as catastrophically incompetent. Akman says Gascon's extreme political
agenda has harmed public safety and the quality of life in La County. Thieves
have taken more than eleven thousand dollars worth of copper wire from the sixth Street
Bridge in La and they did that by cutting about seven miles of wire from
electrical boxes that line the bridge. This man works nearby and says thieves have
been taking copper wire from anywhere they can find it, including the roof of
his office. They walked up the tension wire under the roof and started cutting
the whatever loose copper wires around, but also the copper drainage pipes for the
AC units. City officials called for a copper wire task force in January to
curb the ongoing crime, but locals say nothing has been done. Portions of
the bridge have been left in darkness at night because the thieves damage lighting wires.
Chris Adler KFI News, let's say good morning now to ABC's Tom Rivers.
So, Tom, we've got some Russian ships ominously close to the US.
What's going on? Yeah, call it amy a symbolic projection of power,
Bye bye Russia. This time it can be being maneuvers around Cuba,
and we don't know how long, but we suspect, giving some of the
vessels in the fleet, it's going to be there for quite some time,
maybe a couple of months. It's a frigate that would be a command ship,
if you will, a nuclear powered submarine, although senior officials tell the
AP the intelligence US intelligences have found no indication that there's anything like nuclear weapons
on board an oil tanker. So this thing can carry on for a while,
and a rescue tug if required to be a tow truck in that part
of the world, if required. So yes, it's going to be there
for for some time. And trying symbolically to get the message across. This
comes what a couple of weeks after the President said yes, Ukraine can have
long range weapons that can hit targets on Russian soil. France and Germany and
Britain did as well, So this is kind of the flip side of the
coin, the Russian saying, well, if you want to do that,
we can get close to your backyard as well. And it's getting a lot
of attention from stations today and we're hearing that the US is saying, not
to worry, there's no thread here. Is that what they're there really isn't
Yeah, well it's not nineteen sixty two, so we're we're not there,
but it is. It is kind of just underlining the point saying, look,
you know, it's not nice to have weapons close to your border,
and that's what Russia wants to get across this time with their maneuvers. Okay,
And did the ships come over from Russia or had they already been kind
of out patrolling and then they went, hey, let's just send them over
there, or do we know if this was a planned thing, that's a
great, that's a great and I don't have an answer for that. But
if they if they were steaming, they certainly could have gotten there in two
weeks, So it may have been something on the schedule that maybe have been
moved up on the calendar. We simply don't know one thing too. A
lot of people have been noting this and we've gotten zero indication from Russia.
But there are elections in Venezuela toward the end of July, so they may
fly the flag for Venezuela and have a port visit around election time to help
shore up maybe some support for Maduro. Okay, and for the arrival in
the port of Havana yesterday. How did that all go? What did it
look like? Yeah, very friendly, welcome, twenty one gun salute,
A lot of people out taking pictures. Is not something they see every day.
There have been some port visits in the past, going back about sixteen
years, infrequently but occasionally, so yes, it's something that people there find
a bit unusual. So they showed up and many people took a lot of
pictures, kind of like our fleet week, but not quite as I don't
know, sort of. Yeah, for the sailors, you know, the
Caribbean is a lot nicer and a lot warmer than plying the waters of say
the North Atlantic or maybe up in the Arctic. So yeah, I'm sure
they're enjoying their maneuvers as Well, I'm wondering because I'm thinking about fleet week,
and I think these guys are deployed on active duty, but I wonder
if they're going to get any short time or if it's like, nope,
we're at the ready, this is serious business, or how they're handling that.
Yeah, it's interesting. We got an email just about an hour ago
from the defense briefing in Moscow. Let me find the language. They're there
on maneuvers to work on an exercise, a drill using a high precision missile
weaponry. So unessa's they're gonna get. They're gonna do drill, drill,
drill that and if they're satisfied, then yes, there could be a few
days on shore to have some R and R. But yeah, that's that's
basically why they're there, to kind of shake out and try to get to
their programs together in their mind. Okay, And as we talked about the
US, this isn't a threat. So are we expecting any kind of a
response or a counter action from the US or did we just kind of counter
This is a this is a counteraction to the presidents saying we're going to give
the Zelenski missiles that can hit targets in Russia. So we might expect a
counter counter response from the White House, but who knows. Watch your space,
all right, well we'll be watching. And for now they're saying it's
not an escalation, so hopefully it's just them kind of ruffling feathers. Yeah,
and it's it's getting a message across. As I say, you know,
a couple of weeks ago, very few stations were interested in the fact
that the US is saying, yeah, you know, you can, you
can have some missiles and that could hit Russian targets. But boy, the
stations are really interested today when you can have Russian assets, pretty small ones,
but in their neck of the woods. And it is getting the attention.
And that's exactly what the MUSCO had anticipated and what they're getting. All
right, well, we will keep paying attention. Thank you so much,
Tom Rivers for the information. Take care, all right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Supporters of murdered actor Johnny Wackter have marched through downtown LA to demand justice.
What do we want when do we want it? The group first held a
rally where wactor was fatally shot by a catalytic converter thief. Wactor's friend,
Micah Parker, said yesterday it was difficult for him to be at the location
for at the same time, it's the place to be because the city and
the city's leaders need to understand what soft on crime policies leads to Whacktor was
fatally shot last month when he confronted a group of catalytic converter thieves. The
LAPD says the thieves had Wactor's car jacked up when he was shot in downtown
La Blake Trolley. KFI News police saying they do have several leads and are
making progress in the case. That's not from CSULA. That's protesters storming the
field at the Congressional baseball game in Washington, d C. Yesterday. They
claimed to be climate change protesters then started a pro Palestinian chant. US Capitol
police tackled the protesters and took them out of the ballpark as fans cheered.
The Congressional baseball game raises money for local charities in the DC area. House
Republicans won yesterday. The score was Old Crap thirty one to eleven ouch.
San Fernando police have installed high tech cameras at intersections to help catch criminals.
Artificial intelligence is used to capture images of vehicles that can possibly be tied to
wanted criminals. Earlier this month, images from the so called flock cameras led
police to a man who allegedly tried to kidnap and rape a fourteen year old
girl at a bus stop. The chief of the San Fernando Police Department says
more cameras like this are going to be added to the city's system soon.
Orange County supervisors have approved a preliminary budget of nine and a half billion dollars
for the next fiscal year. The proposed budget is one hundred and eighty two
million dollars more than the previous budget, which is a two percent increase for
staff and infrastructure improvements, specifically at John Wayne Airport. The county would eliminate
three hundred and twenty two jobs which are already vacant. Supervisors Tuesday called on
staff to simplify how the budget is presented, look into extending some homeless services,
prepare for less state money for affordable housing, and create a program that
helps save large animals during wildfires. A vote on the final budget is expected
in two weeks in Orange County Corbin Carson KFI News. The Federal Reserve is
keeping interest rates unchanged. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says regulators want to see inflation
cool further before they cut rates. Inflation is used notably over the past two
years, but remains above our longer run goal of two percent. The Consumer
Price Index shows prices rows three zero point three percent year over year compared to
the same time last year. Powell says the Board is maintaining its restrictive stance
of monetary policy to keep demand in line with supply and to reduce inflationary pressures.
He says they expect just one rate cut this year, which is a
big change from back in March when the Fed said they expected three. Much
of South Florida is underwater because of a tropical storm system moved from the Gulf
of Mexico and has dumped heavy rain as it tracked eastward across the state.
The system has caused flooding in a lot of areas, including parts of downtown
Fort Lauderdale. Florida Governor rond De Santis has declared a state of emergency in
five counties. UCLA has increased security on campus as five days of commencement ceremonies
get underway today. About seventy ceremonies are going to be held around campus throughout
the next couple of days, including the main ceremony inside poly Pavilion tomorrow.
The beefed up security measures come after a series of pro Palace Dennian demonstrations led
to dozens of arrests. A federal grand jury has indicted a man from Orange
County on charges that he robbed a BMO bank in Anaheim and took three hostages
back on May eighth. It happened a day after he was released from San
Quentin. The man has a lengthy criminal history that includes grand theft, auto
robbery, and sexual battery. Transgender swimmer Leah Thomas will not be competing in
the Olympics this summer. A three judge panel has dismissed Thomas's request to overturn
a ban on trans women competing. World Aquatics rules state transwomen can't compete if
they've gone through any part of the process of male puberty. Olympic swimming trials
begins Saturday at six oh five. It's handle on the news a measure to
repeal parts of Proposition forty seven, including the one that made a lot of
thefts misdemeanors instead of felonies, has qualified for the ballot. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Geordana Miller. Nah, there is a US
backed ceaspire deal. Hamas has responded, and like they did last time there
was a ceasefire proposal, they made a bunch of changes to it. That's
right, and so term Sate Anthony Blinkeln, you know, appeared quite frustrated
when he first talked about this from the region here. I mean, he
called some of the changes workable, but he said there are some that you
know, he implied were unworkable. Is that yes, yes, So learning
that Hamas, for example, pushed up the timeline on Israel's declaration of the
end of the war and its withdrawal of all the troops. Now Hamas wants
Israel to do that in phase one, during the first six weeks and before
all the Israeli hostages dead in alive have been freed. Now that is a
non starter for Israel. They've called Hamas's response it's written response I quote rejection
of the US back deal, which is essentially the Israeli proposal, so you
know, sex trick to Anthony's. Lincoln said they're going to go back and
try to bridge these gaps. But he even he said, you know,
Hamas has come back instead of with a plane. Yes, it's come back
with changes that include changing parts of the deal they previously agreed to, like
the timeline. So you know, it looks like we are still far away
from the deal. Yeah, and it seems like every time they come up
with a deal and both sides kind of go oh okay and then boom,
they still have those hard the hard line, which is will stop the war
when you release the hostages from Israel and from Hamas, release the hostage or
stop the war and then we'll release the hostages. I mean, it doesn't
seem like there's been any movement on that, that's right. I mean you
can see it looks like Hamas is playing games essentially with the mediators and Israel,
because it's hard for us to grasp the fact that Hamas actually is still
in a decent, strong position. When you look at the Gods's strip,
it's devastated. There's mass destruction. The death toll is heartbreaking. The displacement,
the hunger the people are facing across the strip and in the north some
famine, pockets of famine. This is absolutely heartbreaking and soul wrenching. But
below ground, Hamas is doing just fine, and so is its leader,
Yaka Seymour. He's still holding one hundred and sixteen hostages, he has plenty
of food that he's siphoning off, he has plenty of air conditioning, his
fighters are able to rest and sleep, and still, you know, battle
israelly, true groups, and he has the sympathy of the world because of
what's happened in Gaza Uh And so he's holding out for a deal where the
world will accept a role for Hamas after the war. That is his ultimate
aim in a way, the one thing that links him to Israel's Prime Minister
Benjamin Attanyahu, and it is the only thing that links them. They both
want to survive this war desperately and stay in power, and that is what
Ceinoir is ultimately holding out for. He's going to play games and reject I
think every deal until there's one that says he can somehow still be in control.
And I don't think that deal is ever going to come by him.
Now Jordana and I heard that Seine I think it was Cinoir who said,
basically, we have Israel where we want him, like they think they're winning
this right. So the Wall Street Journal reported recently that they were reporting on
intercepted messages between Seinoir and the leadership in Oha write the political leadership of Kaman
and he is he's the military leader inside the Gaza strip, in which she
said, you know, we have Israel where we want them. You know,
the civilian deaths are quote unquote necessary sacrifices. This is something of course
Israel and those who have studied Sinore have known for a long time that he
is willing to see civilians die, and even at very high numbers, because
it will be part it will help the cause quote unquote, and they will
be seen as martyrs. You know. I want to remind you of a
very interesting and important interview that was done not too long ago here in Israel
with the head of the Israeli Prisons who got to know Seinoir quite well when
he was jailed here, and he recounts a conversation he had with Sinoir where
he said, you know, your vision for Palestine, for Greater Palestine.
You know how many people have to die for that? Are you okay with
one hundred thousand Palestinians dying? And his answer was even two hundred thousand would
be okay. So that gives us a window into Seinoir's mentality. The deaththole
of thirty seven thousand is high enough for everybody, but perhaps not for Seoir.
And it'll be interesting to see if hearing him say these things changes sentiment
at all, because we know that Israel's under a lot of pressure to keep
try to reduce the number of civilian deaths. Israel says it's trying to reduce
those numbers, and yet Sinoir is like, hey, it's part of war,
right right. I mean, for Seineoir the sympathy of the world and
if that means, you know, another thirty thousand people die, that's what
it means. You know, anything that will help him off with the to
stay in power and feed the propaganda machine that Israel is an evil country that
intentionally targets women and children and holds back food from them. Meanwhile, psc
are stealing some of the good portion of thea that goes in Anything that will
paint Israel as the evil, violent country with an immoral army that furthers the
cause of Hamas. And these extreme Palestinian groups that aren't interested in sitting at
a table and negotiating a resolution to this decade of conflict. They are interested
in violent resistance and quote unquote taking back what they call Palestine right, which
includes taking you know, Tel Aviv and you know a city, you know,
cities that are uncontested in this conflict. So it is, you know,
it's a sad commentary, but this to see more. He's cynical,
and he's a killer, and people should know, at least especially those students
who waive Hamas propaganda or chant it should know the person they are supporting.
He's pretty shitty, abhorrent. All right. Well, as we does not
appear that this is ending anytime soon, but we'll hope that the Secretary of
State can somehow find a way to make some headway. He said, he's
going to keep trying. Jordana Miller, thank you so much for the information
and insight this morning. Thanks Tuxton. All right, talk to you soon.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. LAPD chief dominic choices. Following the pandemic, robberies and
thefts continue to outpace homicides and other violent crimes. Torolie says with more people
going out, he's noticing more crimes of opportunity. COVID has now gone.
People are more comfortable being in public places and for example Rampart Division, this
is where we're seeing the spike. As MacArthur Parker, he says most of
the calls in that area have been strong armed robberies, per snatching and threats.
He says more officers are working the area, but people need to be
more vigilant, having resources in the right place, educating people to harden their
own targets and hide their valuables. Since robberies are up eighteen percent from this
time last year. Steve Gregory k Fine News. The parents and sister of
the cinematographer killed on the set of the movie Rust have dropped their lawsuit against
multiple defendants, including actor Alec Baldwin. The family of Helena Hutchins filed a
lawsuit in LA in February of last year, but their lawyers have now filed
court papers asking the entire complaint be dismissed. No explanation was given. Adding
Marilyn Monroe's house in Brentwood to a list of city landmarks has been delayed again.
The Holy City Council was expected to put an end to the month long
effort to name the house in Brentwood to the city's list of historic cultural monuments,
but at yesterday's meeting the item was yanked from the agenda so that discussions
and possible litigation with the current owners could continue. Those owners lived next door
and want to tear down the house on Fifth Helena Drive, where the mid
century Hollywood star died in nineteen sixty two. A judge sided with the city's
preservation efforts last week to prevent the teardown. The issue is expected to be
back before the city Council in two weeks. In downtown La, Michael Monks
KFI News, as many as one hundred pro Palestinian protesters have taken over in
trash the student services building at count State La. Entrances were blocked off with
golf carts and overturned picnic tables, chairs, copy machines. Officials say about
a half dozen staff members were stuck inside the building overnight. Security has gone
through the building this morning. It doesn't appear the protesters are still there,
but what they left behind is a lot of damage. But Francis will become
the first pope to address a G seven summit, which is now underway in
Italy. He's expected to speak tomorrow about the promises and perils of artificial intelligence,
and also will renew his appeal for a peaceful end to Russia's invasion of
Ukraine and the Israel Hamas war in Gaza. A California based company has rolled
out its Tesla cybertruck patrol vehicle up dot Fitz says it's cyber truck next gen
patrol can be used by police and fire departments, the military, and tactical
response agencies. The Anaheim Police Department rolled out several Tesla model Y patrol vehicles
earlier this year as part of its fleet. I think that cyber truck looks
like a swat vehicle, so maybe that's what they made it for in the
first place. I've still only seen like two of them actually on the road
at six ZHO five. It's handle on the news. Elon Musk and SpaceX
have been sued by engineers who say they were discriminated against and sexually harassed.
At five point fifty, we're going to be talking about how Orange County is
trying to get a handle on e bikes, which have gotten out of control
in the county. But right now we want to tell you about a couple
of things. So if you are we didn't do an official out and about
segment this week, but there are plenty of things to do out and about,
and one of them is go to a state park because it is State
Parks Week. Who knew? So there are state parks all around the state
and they're doing special community events and they have different things going on for different
days of the week. Yesterday was Explore New Experiences. Today it's Nourish your
Health and well Being. And if you go to the state park's website,
they have a complete list of all of the activities going on all around so
something to check out if you want to get out and about go outdoors.
Today it's, as I mentioned, nourish your health and well being. Tomorrow
it's support climate resilience, so okay, and then Saturday it's celebrate community and
culture. They say that state parks are for all people and it is.
It's cool like we went, Nick, I don't know. Is it a
state park that poppy the California Poppy Reserve? Is that this part? Well,
it's a California State park. It's not a national state park, but
it's a California State parks and it's California State Park week right, exactly,
No, right, but yeah, there was some of it, which is
interesting because some of those parks do have crossover between the two. So yeah,
but there's there's state parks all over the place and really cool things to
do that aren't that far away that if you just want to kind of get
out and explore and try something new, now's a good time to do it.
So, and there's state parks website. You can go to Parks dot
CA dot gov. Super easy to find. We also have found there's some
other cool things going on around southern California, and that's why we check in
with our buddy Nick, who has Nick's top picks for the weekend. Give
us what's your first one fringe festival? Right? Yes, So, Hollywood
Fringe is something that's been around for many, many years and it is so
unique and special because so it starts today and it runs all the way through
the thirty at the end of the month, so it's not just this weekend,
but you do have a little extra time. But the Hollywood Fringe Festival
is a gathering of over four hundred performances over this next number, you know,
two weeks kind of thing where you are able to go see brand new
musicals and brand new plays that are being workshopped for maybe showing up on Broadway
or coming to the Pantas, just with something that effect is I thought it
was at all, Oh okay, yeah, no, it's it's a place
where a lot of things that have been being worked on, So you'll see
incredible actors, musicians, people that you are very familiar with who are using
this as a testing ground for something that they will be bringing to a much
larger audience at some point in time. They have a reward show for the
smaller performers and the smaller content creators and everything to that effect. But Hollywood
Friends has been around for a good number of years. I've already attended two
of performances and got a couple of previews. A really incredible, unique and
neurodivergent magic show that will be coming also a kind of like Avenue Q if
you're familiar with that which involves some muppets from a Broadway it was a musical
or is a musical. There's a new one that will be coming in the
very near future with an untitled situation for that. So it's really fun.
It's really really inexpensive. Tickets are usually between five and ten dollars, so
it's an easy thing to do, and with Father's Day this weekend, on
top of National Bars, cal State Parks week, it's one of those fun
things that you could take dad and take a head out and go do.
So that's why I really encourage supporting people in your own backyard. But if
you are familiar with something that is returning to the Hollywood Bowl, this is
one of my favorite things that I've been to many many years. It's the
Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival this weekend. And this used to be backed by Playboy.
That's been a long time since that has been the case. But it
is a gathering of really intelligent and thoughtful musicians within the jazz community, but
performers as well. But I think it's really cool because this year it's going
to be hosted by our Sinio Hall. Also, they always have local schools
that are involved, so the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA and
then the La County High School for the Arts Jazz band will be performing.
So it's not just like Jodasye or Alex Eisley or Semi Funk, which will
be there Kristen McBride, but you'll see all sorts of different artists that show
up. And that actually runs Friday or Saturday and Sunday, so it's this
weekend that way. And then one more thing is going to be an Orange
County Summerfest at Fountain Valley a sports Park and that's only five bucks to get
in free parking. And this is one of those really fun things that's kicking
off with summer officially starting on the twentieth, So next Thursday, there's so
many things happening Tonight, it's two dollars Carnival Ryan. If you go tomorrow,
you'll be able to check out a really cool drone show that is sponsored
by Hyundai and also drone shows lately they are my gosh, spectacular every well,
and you've seen them at Dodger Stadium, right you've seen them or no,
meet a Dodger Stadium I've seen several drone shows, but every time I
see where I just said, they're going, how do they do that?
And it just it's amazing how quickly it's improving. So this is kind of
that merger of what we have always known as incredible fireworks shows, but with
the drones you're allowed or able to sustain some much more interesting and more engaging
displays in the sky. So that's what I love, and all time to
music and all sorts of other things. So one night you missed that,
Yeah, I mean that's your that's your stick is Yeah. Five dollars Beer
in Wine night is going to be tomorrow night. There's a drone show on
Saturday, and then on Sunday, found Balley Summerfest will be celebrating dads for
Father's Day. I love that. And where can people find more information about
all these events? All this can be found at this Weekend on Nick dot
com or you can check the Lincoln Bio on Instagram at Nick Poliochini or this
Weekend with Nay okay perfect and before we get away. I don't know if
this is something that you want to do this weekend. I'm excited about this
one ye. This is something that I never want to do and I don't
ever want to see. But if you're into naked biking, World Naked Bike
Ride kicks off this month. Long Starter has ranked the best cities for naked
naked biking. Who knew there was such a thing? So long Starter compared
five hundred of the biggest cities in the US based on five categories. They
looked at the number of naked biking events, local interest in nude cycling,
biking infrastructure, and public nudity law, among other things. So the top
city to do naked biking is my old hometown, Portland, Oregon. Yeah,
he is the weather beautiful this time of year for that, Yeah,
it's pretty well, it's it's kind of hit or miss right now. But
they just said that thanks to high numbers of Google searches for World Naked Bike
Ride and it's cyclists friendly infrastructure, Portland ranks number one. And I know
they do do a naked bike ride there. But Seattle does a naked bike
ride. It ranks fourth on the list, and they put a unique touch
on their naked bike ride by celebrating the summer solstice with a naked bike ride
parade that also encourages body paint. Okay, well, and then floats.
I don't know. And here's the funny thing, La, which I do
not consider a bike friendly city in any way, shape or form, but
La ranks number one on the list. Yeah, top five. L A
good job. What you said. You know people who've done this. I
do. And the funniest part, Long Beach has a contingency that'll be going
this weekend. So I mean it's like I've seen it for years and you
know, we're living southern California. The weather, it's away from Long Beach.
No, no, no, don't stay away from Long Beach. Just
avoid the roadways in Long Beach. That's all. Come on down to Long
Beach. We've got a lot of fun things. You can check out the
Queen Mary. There's no naked bike bike riding over there, so there's just
too many. You know, just sitting on the bike seat makes me like
thinking about it makes me uncomfortable and thinks of thinking of things flapping in the
wind. I just don't. I don't want to go there. But yeah,
so that's another thing that La is high ranking when it comes to naked
bike riding. Love it tonight. The Dodgers take on the Texas Rangers in
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will ultimately be classified could end up with the Supreme Court. We're just minutes
away from Handle. On the news this morning, the US says nothing to
worry about as Russian warships sailed to Cuba. Right now, let's say good
morning to Orange County Supervisor Katrina Fully. Good morning, Katrina, thanks for
getting up with us so early this morning. Yeah, good morning. It's
great to be here. So this morning, Supervisor Fully, we're going to
be talking about e bikes because e bikes seem like a great idea. They
look like at a lot of fun, but they've become a real problem.
So what's been happening. Well, you know, as soon as I became
the supervisor for South County in twenty twenty two, I started getting all kinds
of requests that we regulate e bikes. And part of the problem is we
have a lot of young people who are under sixteen even riding motorcycles, not
e bikes. Right, they're actually motorcycles, mopeads, et cetera, chore
license and they're just not really following the rules of the road or recognizing pedestrians.
Some senior citizens are getting injured. We saw a five hundred percent increase
in injuries. Chalk Hospital is reporting that two thirds of their patients, that
our child patients are coming in with e bike trauma. So we needed to
do something and so what what are you doing? So what we're doing is
we we have initiated an ordinance and this will apply only to the county unincorporated
areas and all of our Orange County parks, trails and park areas. And
so it would require you know, sidewalk speeds, helmets for miners, yielding
to pedestrians and equestrians in the case of South County areas, consequences for driving
without a license and when required. It also helps us to you know,
identify what are the different types of e bikes Class one, two or three,
and that really is based on pedal assists and speeds. Anything going over
twenty eight miles per hour is a motorcycle and you have to have a license
with those. So this will help our peace officers helped to enforce and our
park rangers help to enforce because prior to the ordinance, we really didn't have
any regulations on the books here in Orange County. Now that's different from the
cities. Of course, they have their own e bike ordinances. Okay,
So then my question that you mentioned that there's no helmet rules, but there
are helmet laws for bicyclists, right. For bicyclists is voluntary. This is
helmet laws for e bikes. Right. I'm just saying because some people are
going, oh, well, it's just a bike that has a little motor
on it, so wouldn't the same rule supply, But you're saying no,
they're actually more like motorcycles because they they're powered by motors and they can go
really fast. That's right. And look an e bike. I have an
e bike. It goes, it's it's very powerful. And so if you
are a twelve year old or fourteen year old, uh, and you're not
wearing a helmet and you crash on an e bike, you could have serious
brain damage that could hurt you for the rest of your life. And we've
been seeing kids on e bikes, uh, you know, two or three
deep on a seat and you know, some on the pedals in the back,
and so it has become a little bit out of control. I when
I first was elected, I would get these complaints about gangs of e vibes,
and I, you know, I just kind of blew it off at
first because I thought, oh, that's silly, you know, first world
problems. But as it turns out, they're you know, people were injured
significantly, and animals getting run into. We had just recently dogs a lot
of dogs getting run into. Yeah, and then just a little bit of
lawlessness. I guess I would say, So, we're not trying to put
anybody in jail or an e by okay, come on, but it is
just to you know, it'll help give a tool for like if a if
someone is riding a motorcycle, maybe parents don't know it's a motorcycle when they
buy it because the stores aren't really telling anyone. And then this will give
a tool for the peace officers to say, look, you need to get
a license if it's or you're not even old enough right to have this motorcycle.
Right. I think, well, and I think the interesting thing you
said, like the little gangs, it's like a little mini motorcycle gangs for
kids, like in her Mosta Beach, which I know is it's La County,
but I think it was the beach last weekend there was a whole gang
of them, like fifty of them, and they started setting off fireworks and
causing all kinds of problems. And we've seen those kinds of groupings of e
bike riders, yes, And we in Ladera Ranch is where this sort of
got initiated. We had a lot of complaints because the kids would roll thirty
deep down Crown Valley or down the in the neighborhood and you know, hitting
all of the mirrors off of the cars, throwing water bottles with that are
frozen water bottle of that people. So enough of the community was reaching out
to try to say, we need to get some control over this before someone
dies. Really that's kind of an issue. Okay. So you've got the
ordinance introduced to what's next June twenty fifth. It's on our agenda for final
approval, and we do have support from the sheriff for the ordnance and our
Traffic committee that's comprised of law enforcement and representatives from the community. They also
weighed in and made recommendations, so I think it's pretty well teed up.
We are. First reading was unanimous, so we will We'll stay it back
on June twenty fifth for final adoption. Let's just keep those kids safe,
shall we. Thank you Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley for taking the time to
come on wake up call with us this morning. Also want to remind you
if you want to follow what Supervisor Foley is doing, you can follow her
on Instagram at supervisor fully Thanks so much. Thank you. Have a great
weekend. Happy Flag Day on Friday. Absolutely. Oh that's a good reminder.
We need to fly our Franks Tomorros all right, thank you, supervisor.
Thank you. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Regular citizens in La could be tasked to
enforce some traffic laws and investigate crashes in the city. The proposed reforms are
to be part of a report do back to the city council in ninety days.
Councilman Mark Weis. Harris Dawson says black and Hispanic driver are disproportionately targeted
by police for traffic stops, and that's costly. Communities pay an extra tax
because of this policy, because you pay more for insurance because you're more likely
to get stopped and you're more likely to have a traffic violation. Those proposed
reforms include unarmed civilians responding to some car crashes, and changing the way fees
and fines are levied against violators in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News for
Russian warships are taking part in military drills off the coast of Cuba. ABC's
Martha rad It says the first time Russian ships have been in the Caribbean in
sixteen years. The US Navy and Canadian Navy have been shadowing the Russians movements
with their own warships. A US official saying the Russian ships will remain near
Cuba for several days before making their way to Venezuela. One of the Russian
ships is a nuclear powered submarine. On Today, advanced tickets are about to
go up for sale for next year's Stagecoach Country music Festival. It's going to
be held April twenty fifth through the twenty seventh in Indio. Organizers say the
lineup of performers will come later. Probably won't know about those until September or
October. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at eleven. General admission passes start at
four ninety nine. This year's festival was headlined by Eric Church, Miranda Lambert,
and Morgan Walla. This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,
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