Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I AM six forty
wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. That's Monday, man,
it's time to rise and shine. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your morning wake
up call. How was your weekend. I feel, for the first time
like I actually accomplished something. I can now open the door to my garage.
The jeeps in one side, so look at that. A whole space
has been cleaned out, and I'm about a third of the way through wave
six seven foot tall wall of just junk I don't need. I filled up
two giant black you know, like the regular ash barrels, and it felt
so freeing if it was. I was looking through things, going why didn't
I keep this? Why did I think I would ever need this? I've
been in this house since September, and so what I was telling myself was
if this has been in a bag or a box since September, And yesterday
I was saying this, and I was thinking, and tomorrow is May first,
I clearly don't need it, and what wow, is there just a
lot of stuff I don't need. I was finding shoes that only had one
to them. Now where the hell the other one went in the move?
I have no idea, and maybe it's in another bag for all I know,
but that means I haven't worn those shoes since September. Off to goodwill
those go, I mean, not just one shoe. Of course I'll find
the other one. But what I'm saying is, if you've never done that
before, where you went in your garage with the mindset that if I have
not used this in months, I don't need it, try it. It
was. It was the best thing I could have done yesterday. Anyway,
I know, boring weekend, I guess you could say, but it felt
really really good. So anyway, and thank you to my neighbor Cupcake,
who knew I was going to be clean in the garage. Cupcake who calls
Tyler by the way, t dollar sign or tea money, as the case
may be. Cupcake went and got me a big old soda just give me
some sustenance throughout the day. What a guy, I'm telling you, He's
pretty amazing. So anyway, it was just a fun weekend. And it's
you know, if you're also doing your garage, you get to hang out
and see all the neighbors. You get to hang out and look in their
garage. Is too because usually their doors are opening and closing, just saying
it's a little voyeuristic. Then you see who also is like you and has
a ton of crap in their garage, and who's very organized. Here's what's
ahead for your wake up call. So it looks like police in la are
trying to find three home invasion robbers. These are so scary. They slipped
in through a sliding door and assaulted a couple in bel Air, an elderly
couple. Ooh. And the Crowning of King Charles. You know I love
a good Lifetime movie. Apparently the UK is not without controversy in crowning the
King. People in London are scoffing at the price tag. Wait till you
hear how much this is going to cost taxpayers. It's not like it comes
out of the I don't know King's Coronation fund, if there is such a
thing. It's just really sad. I guess you could say. Five o
five We're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers all about the White House Correspondence
dinner that happened over the weekend and the President did his own joke, and
I'll tell you what it had to do with something that he's having to address.
How's that for it? All that's coming up with Karen in just a
few minutes. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. LA police are trying to find three home invasion robbers
who went into a home in bel Air through a sliding door and assaulted an
elderly couple. Police say the man was punched several times in the face Friday
when he told the intruders there were no valuables in his home. The couple's
son says the intruders also stepped on his mom's head. The sun says the
robbers took a safe and some cash. A man from Baldwin Park's been arrested
for a hit and run crash that killed a pedestrian in Irwindale. Police say
security video shows a guy walking along Azusa Canyon Road Saturday afternoon when he was
hit by an suv. The driver took off. Cops eventually found the driver
at his home and arrested him. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused
the crash of a single engine plane that was reported missing while headed to the
airport and Van Eyes. There was thick fog Saturday a night when the plane
crashed in LA's Beverly Crest area. The La City Fire Department says the plane
was eventually found on a steep hillside that has a large water tank which was
not damaged. One person on the plane was killed. And there's a survey
by La Metro that is found eight hundred homeless people find shelter on Metro trains
on any given night and nearly six hundred end up sleeping on the streets when
the trains reached the end of the line. Metro has been scrambling to find
solutions. That is considering enacting a homeless emergency similar to those enacted by the
City and the County of La. Karen Travers, good morning to you.
Did you get to go to the White House Correspondence dinner? Please say yes,
I do. I'm actually on the board of the correspondence. Well look
at you, wow, Okay, that's all. Yeah. I sit at
the head table. I was sitting next to Roywood Jr. The entertainer,
and Karen Jean Pierre, the Press secretary, and presented the Journalism Awards to
our colleagues who won the awards on Saturday night, and it was a really
great event. So the President was very serious, talking about the importance of
a free press and the importance of what the industry does and bringing journalists who
are detained overseas home thing he's working like hell to bring home Wall Street journal
reporter Evan Gerskovich who's detained in Russia, and then also had a good time
poking fun at himself and his age, which was the big topic of most
of his jokes, and how old he is and how much everybody else likes
to make jokes about how old he is. Right, And you know what,
I think that that was smart of him to address the elephant in the
room right away, to make it like, I know, you guys are
all questioning this and joking about this, and so you know what, I'm
going to not pretend like it's not there, just go ahead and hit it
hard and then move on. Yeah, And you know, he started out
very serious with his remarks, and it almost seemed like maybe he wasn't going
to do any jokes. I was sitting next the Kareem, like I said,
and I kind of turned her and said as transitioning, and she said,
yeah, he's getting into it. And his transition line actually was really
funny and proud loved it. As he's talking about journalism in the industry,
he said, I believe in the First Amendment. He paused and said not
just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it. And everybody laughed, and
then I kind of laughter the races with all the old person jokes and how
old he is, and he said, you say I'm ancient. I say
I'm Why do you say I'm over the hill? And then he got in
the dig at the former CNN anchored Don Lemon. He said Don Lemon would
say that's the man in his prime and then talks about how, you know,
the media covers him being old, but they don't cover how old Donald
Trump is. He talked about how that's unfair. But you know, he
seemed to have fun and enjoyed being up there and enjoyed spending time at the
dinner. But again, it's all about scholarships. The dinners an annual fundraiser
scholarships that the WHDA gives out the college students who to go to the dinner,
they had a chance to take a picture with the president before and and
it's a really great event. And you know, yeah, there's always criticism
too about the mingling of people from the government side and reporters, but it's
also a chance to do some reporting there in the room too, when you're
talking with those cabinet secretaries as you're sitting at a table with them and walking
around the room and members of Congress or at the table next to you,
Oh my gosh, I can only imagine. And was there anybody there that
was I don't want to say, a controversial guest, but a surprise guest
or anything like that. I always want to know, like what the backstory
is on stuff. Yeah, so a couple of notable guests, John Legend
and Christy Keegan were there. Brittany Griner was there. She got a lot
of mentions in various remarks from the president to the comedian, but very notable,
and a couple of standing locations. The people who seemed to be getting
a lot of attention in terms of who people wanted to take the pictures with
the most were the people from vander Pump Rules from Bravo, very very high
in demand, so certainly seeing them showing up on a lot of social media
accounts. Oh my gosh, yeah, I mean of all kinds of people.
When I saw that too, I was like, oh, well,
all right, I guess there's Secretary of State Anthony B. Lincoln and there
is Lisa Vandal Pumps. So you know, it's that type of events.
It's a little bit of everything I mean, And that's what makes it kind
of fun, is you know that you don't know who's going to be there,
and it does make it for you do have to have those uh I
don't know, sort of the now trending kind of people in there, just
so you got a little bit of that, like wait, what what are
they doing here? You guys need to have fun while you're there too.
Yeah, absolutely, And it creates buzz for the events, and then a
lot of articles get written about it, and you know, you have those
celebrities go back to Hollywood and talk a little bit about Washington and yeah about
the event, and that's always good for it too, of course. But
you know, it's again, it's really about the scholarship students. It's about
honoring our all leagues and maybe awards that we gave out and just underlining the
importance of the work that journalists in Washington do, and you know, at
the time when they're layoff throughout the industry at local level and at the national
level. A lot of news organizations in that room hit recently with layoffs.
It was important to celebrate the work it's being done and the importance of the
mission at the White House and in Washington. All right, Karen, thank
you so much. And I kind of feel like I'm rubbing elbows with a
celebrity here if you're on the board. For goodness sakes, holy cow.
Well it was yeah, it was fun. It was really nice. But
that's why my voice sounds like it does. Today is a long week,
got it Monday and well yesterday, oh my gosh. All right, well,
I hope you've got some vacation coming off. Just arrest that voice coming
up. All right, Thanks Karen, appreciate it, Thank you, all
right, see you later. That is ABC's Karen Travers. Hey, So,
what is this a possibility of rain in the forecast? This was weirding
me out like crazy. Yesterday it was warm, warm, warm, I'm
sweating in the garage, and then by the time that I'm putting the show
together, last night I was sitting out on my patio it got cold.
National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall is on with us this morning. Todd,
this is a rollercoaster weather ride I've never seen, or haven't seen in quite
a while. Yeah, good morning, Jennifer. Yeah, we're looking at
a really kind of a cold, unfeasonable storm system moving in. Uh,
you know for this for this time of year. So for early day,
you're going to start off pretty chili to start off, to start off May.
What what are you expecting as far as chili? What's you know?
Are we back in the sixties again? Yeah, I mean we're gonna see
temperatures in the upper fifties to six feet across across the area. Um,
chances of rain are going to increase through the week, So probably looking at
Wednesday and Thursday five potential for rain and maybe maybe Iceland thundersporns. Wow.
So how much rain are you expecting right now? It looks like about a
half an inch for the close valleys, but there's a chance that we could
see you know, it's a cutoff. It's it's one of these these these
troughs that it's kind of going to wobble around and hang out, but it's
gonna make us look bad over the over the coming week. Unfortunately, as
far as meteorologists in Sounding California, it's not a great time to be a
meteorologist when this kind of happened. So we're looking at the potential for you
know, uh, you know where we could see you know, showers lingering
and musi on Friday possibly and increasing those rainfall amount. So right now we're
saying it happened to one inch, but it's it's there's certain that there is
a certain amount uncertainty with that, you know. Um as we're starting to
see more and more fires and they're just popping up here and there. A
few have been in San Bernardino County recently, And I was talking with a
friend of mine who's a firefighter, and he was talking about how, in
spite of all the rain that we got and then obviously the fuel that grew
from it, just this little tiny stint of dry weather that we had dried
all that fuel out so fast. So from a fire standpoint, I guess
it's good if this thing lingers, Yeah, I mean, this will end
up and actually help a little bit alleviate some of fire weather positions for a
few weeks before we get into the summer. Um. So it's it's it's
going to help a little bit. Um. But I mean, we have
all this rain that happens over you know, over the winter, and then
as we hit April May typically we start to dry out, and and we
have these grasses, these fine grasses that dry out as well. So as
we get that warmer weather as the terms begin into summer. So that's that's
kind of what we're that's kind of what you know, those those vegetation is
starting to respond to that by weather we had. All right, Todd,
thank you so much. All Right, so we'll start looking for the grace.
Guys, probably tomorrow. You think you think we'll have any sunshine today,
we'll well, we may have a little bit of breaks of sunshine this
afternoon, but it looks like we're going to continue to speak kind of the
kind of a cloudy, dreary type May gray type pattern. Okay, you
know that we're going to see over the next couple of days. I don't
hate that because I love to nap when it's gray. So thank you Todd
for that, Thank you so much. All right, see you later.
National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall. Is there anything worse than when you're trying
to take a nap and the birds are singing and the sun is out?
I have cussed birds more often than I would like to admit in my life
because they're not on my schedule. How dare they? These are the Hollywood
writers who could soon walk off the job if a new labor contract isn't reach
the sticking points pay and security. The Writers Guild says TV execs have used
the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writers from production, directly
impacting scripts for series That's ABC's Derek Dennis. He says the writer's Guild is
also concerned about artificial intelligence being used to generate scripts without the writers. I
can only imagine, because that's what AI can do. It can write you
a song, it can write you a script, It can write your paper
for school. Where the hell was AI when I was going to school.
Some of TV's biggest shows could go dark as soon as midnight tonight if a
deal is not reached. Cops in La are trying to find three home invasion
robbers who slipped into a home in bel Air through a sladding door and assaulted
an elderly couple. Police say the man was punched several times in the face
late Friday when he told intruders that there were no valuables in the home.
The couple's sons says the intruders stepped on his mom's head. I don't the
punching of the man is bad enough, but then you step on an elderly
woman's head. Yeah, no place in society for you as far as I'm
concerned. The Sun says the robbers took a safe and some cash coming up
at five thirty five. This is a horrific story that came out of Texas
this weekend, and local, state, and federal investigators are trying to determine
now what the connection is between five people who were aged eight to thirty one
and the man accused of shooting them all to death. Over the weekend.
Four people were dead at this scene, and that eight year old died at
the hospital. Cops say all of the violence may have started as a dispute
between neighbors in the city of Cleveland, Texas. That's about forty five miles
north of Houston. So we'll get into that with Jim in just a few
minutes. Well, some kids from Boyle Heights have become new horse riders thanks
to the LAPD. It's part of a rebounded program in Metro's Mounted Unit.
Lieutenant Carlos Figeroa says the kids were selected by the department's Community Safety Partnership Division.
They selected kids from the Ramona Gardens Housing develop who got some funding through
help of the Los Angeles Police Foundation to purchase helmets and boots, food for
the kids when they were here. On Saturday, ten kids graduated from the
Mini Mounties program. They spent five saturdays in a row here at the Almonds
and Equestrian Center learning how to ride and care for horses. At first,
I was nervous and I didn't want to go on the horse because I was
like, what if I fall? But you get comfortable riding a horse and
being with the horse, so it was it was pretty cool. He was
fourteen and says this was life changing. Then there's fifteen year old Jose I
came out. It turns out riding horse it turns out to be my passion
is fun. What was it like when you first got on that saddle?
When I first gone on that saddle? Kind of nervous, almost fell once,
but I didn't give up. The kids got certificates, cool polo shirts
and a bunch of memories in atwater. Steve Gregory, King of I News,
I love that horses are the best. If you've never ridden a horse,
you're doing yourself a disservice. Eric Katursky, good morning to you.
You know that has to be my question. Have you ever ridden a horse?
Yeah? Yeah, not like competitively. I was just thinking, right,
but I was just thinking maybe, I don't know. You're a big
city guy. I don't know if you've ever ridden a horse. Yeah,
yeah, sure, like when I was eight at summer camp or something.
Sure, Okay, that makes only interactions of wildlife. We have her,
you know, pigeons, cockroaches and rats. So like, if I try
not to go too crazy, all right, well, you know what,
I will take a horse over all of that any day. So come out
and visit us. Aaron, good morning to you. Let's get back into
what the trial is now or where we stand. I guess you could say
of journalist E Jean Carroll, who will be back today and her federal battery
and defamation suit against former President Trump. She's due back She's due back today
for a cross examination, which will continue under Joe Tacopina, the defense attorney
or former President Trump, and this morning, Jen he wrote to the judge
asking for a mistrial. He said that the judge had improperly limited some of
the questions that he was asking her about, why she didn't go to the
police, why she didn't pursue security camera footage, why she just made some
of the decisions that she did after she was allegedly raped. The judge at
different points intervened and told Tacopina to move along, and he took exception to
that, and so much so that he's now asking for a mistrial. I'm
not sure that's necessarily going to go anywhere, but it does lay the groundwork
for an eventual appeal perhaps, And so her cross examination will continue, and
then we expect to hear from two friends of hers that she says she told
in real time after the alleged rape occurred. Will that make a difference based
on the line of questioning that Tacopino was going with, Well, the friends
could because there's no physical evidence here and there's no direct eye witnesses. So
in order to boast the bull Eegeene Carol's credibility with the jury that the pointiff
side wants to show that, you know, she didn't just make this up
whole cloth, as Trump alleges, but she actually told two friends about it
at the time it allegedly occurred in the mid nineteen nineties, and those two
friends, Carol Martin, a former television news anchor, and Lisa burned Back,
a writer, are expected to testify about it. And we'll also see
at some point during the trial, probably later this week, the so called
Access Hollywood take to remember that from the twenty sixteen campaign, when you know,
Trump has overheard telling then host Billy Bush about what he does with women
without their consent, and although he's dismissed it as locker room banter, Carol's
attorneys have said it wasn't locker room talk. It's exactly what he did to
Egeene Carol. And then I'm sure then the defense will say, well,
Eejeene Carroll came out with this after we all saw that video, so they
could say that. I'm sure they'll try and say she's making it up or
something. I mean, you're what the tip for to in this trial is
kind of predictable. I'm a little bit surprised by it. Well, I
mean, you know, absent any physical evidence or direct eyewitness accounts it you
know, it isn't, he said, she said, but the you know,
the plaintiffs insist it's not because they're these you know, corroborating witnesses.
We'll see if the jury believes it. You know, the defense has already
gotten Carol at a concide. She can't remember the exact date the alleged rape
occurred. She did not go to the police, she didn't seek security camera
footage, she didn't seek medical treatment or psychological help after. The defense is
suggesting she didn't do the things that other rape victims do, including screaming during
the alleged attack, and Carol said, he can't beat up on me for
not screaming. Some women scream, some don't. And then she said,
with dramatic flair, you know he raped me, whether I screamed or not.
Wow. And I mean, oh my gosh, even from just a
watcher of this, you can't judge what a rape victim does or does not
do. Reporting remembering the day, you don't know what she's suppressed. Who
she you know, was she so ashamed when it happened that she just didn't
want you want to say anything about it or whatever. And now as she's
gotten older, maybe she's gotten stronger and wants to say something about it.
But you can see where Tacapino can look at this and say, hey,
you never did any of this. So you told two friends, but you
never did anything that a normal rape victim might or might not have done.
I don't know what a normal victim is, but gosh, you can kind
of see how both sides are or the believability I guess on both sides is
there. Well, And that's exactly what the defense is hoping for to say
that, look, you know, you may have some sympathy, but but
she can't prove it that you know she's And even if you don't believe she's
fully made it up, he's already gotten her to conceive that some of the
details are odd and inconceivable. You know, it is a former president of
the United States being accused of rape and open court. That's never happened before
an American history, And so the defense is suggesting, you're gonna want to
be sure, whereas you know, Carol's attorneys say it's Trump, it's his
m just look at you know what two dozen other women have said, even
though this would represent a first conviction. All right, Aaron, thanks for
watching it for us. I'm sure we'll talk to you again. Thank you,
all right, see you later. ABC's horse riding Aaron Katursky. I
think I need to see Aaron on a horse, just for the record,
because Aaron is probably one of the most city guys that I know, you
know, like he's got when you see him on TV. He's got the
coat and the scarf and the you know, he's dressed to the nines,
as a reporter from New York would be. I kind of need to see
him in jeans and like a snap up shirt and some boots. An assembly
woman from Irvine is alerting small businesses about a new law that gives them equal
chances. The Hollywood writers could soon walk off the job if a new labor
contract is not reached. It's the writers Guild that's also concerned about artificial intelligence
being used to generate scripts without the writers rightedly, so some of TV's biggest
shows could go dark as soon as midnight tonight if a deal isn't reached.
And speaking of deals. The FDIC says JP Morgan Chase Bank will take over
all deposits and most of the assets of First Republic Bank, which has struggled
since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March. The
FDIC announced early this morning that regulators in California had closed First Republic and appointed
it as a receiver. First Republic Banks eighty four branches in eight states are
reopening today as branches of JP Morgan Chase Bank. It's so crazy because when
I was working in the Bay Area pretty early on, I think when I
started actually anchor, so it would have been twenty four, twenty five at
the time, we had your weather forecast brought to you by First Republic Bank.
First Republic Bank, where it's a privilege to serve you, and they
were the hot thing. I remember them being the big up and comer.
And then now this what twenty years later? That was fast. All right,
let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, what a
horrific story out of Texas. Go ahead and give us just sort of the
nuts and bolts of the story before we get into the investigation. So,
yeah, Jennifer well, it started on Friday evening, and we're told that
people in Cleveland, Texas, sometimes they get home from work on Friday,
they blow off steam by shooting off guns in their yards, firing into the
air. That's apparently, according to neighbors at least, what this man in
this case was doing. And now he is gone. Francisco Orld pass his
name. He's thirty eight years old. Neighbors told him to stop it.
They had somebody sleeping inside, a baby was asleep. He said he was
in his own property, on his own yard, and so he wasn't going
to stop. Instead of stopping, he went next door with this ar fifteen
semi automatic rifle, according to police, shot and killed five people, including
an eight year old boy. Killed them execution style, shooting them in the
head. And now he has disappeared. The police have been looking for him.
They brought in the FBI, they brought in dogs, did an extensive
search. They found his cell phone and some articles of clothing, but still
Oral Pessa is nowhere to be found. All right. Do they think that
he was drinking? Do they think that he on top of it all,
it just seems like a random I'm shooting a gun I mean, that's weird
enough. I'm shooting a gun in my own backyard. But was there more
to it? Was he on something to the neighbors know? No, they
haven't said, and we may not know that ever. In fact, by
the time he's caught, if he's caught, then whatever was in his bloodstream
might not be there anymore. So Yeah, was it drug induce? Was
it alcohol induce? We don't know. But all we know is that this
horrific crime has happened. An eighty thousand dollar reward has been issued. Oropeza
is now subject to arrest in a five million dollar bond. Meanwhile, the
people in this house are trying to recover. There was a civil There was
a vigil last night in Cleveland. People from around that community of about seven
thousand gathered in solidarity with the families that lost loved ones, both the shooter
and the folks the victims are thought to be in the country illegally, but
Cleveland still came around this family and said that they were supporting them. Was
he illegal, No, he's from Mexico. The those who were killed,
it's thought all of them were most of them at least were from Honduras and
many of them had moved into this house only recently, so it's likely that
he didn't know these people at all, that the neighbors didn't know him,
he didn't know them, and that this was just a crime of passion or
something. Well. Yeah, I mean it sounds like one of those almost,
um, I don't know, I'm trying to like, can it somehow
a road rage where all of a sudden you get mad at somebody really fast
and you see red. But usually for most of us, we see red
for half a second and then you go, wait a minute, that person
might have a gun or that person you know, like, all right,
never mind, I'm backing off. But this guy, it's I know,
this sounds awful. It's one thing to go after adults, but in eight
year old execution style. I mean, there's something screwed up with you if
you're able to do that. Yeah. And I think there's there's a lot
of credence to your theory that he was on something. He was either on
drug store was drunk at the time, but again we just don't know that
yet. All right, and then as far as he was not here legally,
do they believe now they're going to have to work with Mexican authorities.
Do they think he went to Mexico. Well, yes, and certainly the
State of Texas working with the US Customs and Border Protection there along the US
Mexico border in uh, you know, in South Texas, in West Texas,
to try to let them know, distribute his picture to those folks out
there, to those border patrol agents so that if he does kind of try
to leave the country through one of the international bridges, that he'll be caught.
Yeah, you're right. It's it's a difficult thing once somebody gets out
of the country, but it's happened before. We've had fugitives from Texas who
have made it into Mexico and have been caught and brought back to the US.
Same story with California, I'm sure, all right. And the reward
that you were talking about was that the Governor's office, who's it's a part
of it, right, is from the Governor's office. That's part of it.
The crime Stoppers, the multi county Crime Stoppers has put up five thousand
dollars. The State of Texas, through the Governor's office, has put up
a reward, and the FBI is offering another twenty five thousand, So fifty
plus five and twenty five is thirty's at eighty thousand. All right, well,
let's hope that that gets somebody to come forward and talk about where this
guy is. Jim, thank you so much. See Jennifer. All right,
see you later. That is ABC's Jim Ryan. I you know,
don't know. It's not that I am in any way, shape or forms
thing. It's it's okay for one person to shoot an adult. That's not
what I'm saying. There's just that little the pit in your stomach when you
hear a child was killed eight years old execution style. What the hell is
wrong with people? Hey, I just I don't know why I can't wrap
my head around it. All right, I'm gonna end with something light.
Let's get out of that. Let's get out of that darkness, because we
can laugh at this or giggle at this. I should say, although if
I was a prior or, if I was a taxpayer in the UK,
I might not be laughing. I might be a little annoyed. The crowning
of King Charles comes with a one hundred twenty five million dollar price tag,
and who pays that price? The taxpayers? It just doesn't stay quite right,
they could be paying for it themselves, and how it would be like
a nice gesture. Yeah, it's not like the royal family is without some
money now. ABC's Lionel Moise says. People have also criticized the plans to
have the archbishop asked the public to vocally vocally pledge allegiance to King Charles and
his successors. Critics call the oath offensive and tone deaf, pointing out that
it asked people to swear allegiance to Prince Andrew, who, despite being stripped
of his royal titles, is still technically a successor. He's technically a successor.
He's also been accused of being a Jeffrey Epstein, I don't know,
partner in crime with the sexual assault of women. What are we doing?
The coordination of Britain's new monarch and his wife, Queen Kimilla is less than
a week away. You know, there's they're only part of me that is
made happy by that story. Well two parts, I guess, Like I
said that I'm not a UK taxpayer, but also apparently they are as screwed
up as we are. At times that make you feel a little better,
like misery loves company on that level a little bit. Hey, look at
this, As of tonight at midnight, Hollywood writers could soon walk off the
job. No, because that means some of TV's biggest shows could go dark
as soon as midnight tonight if a deal isn't reached. Now. The writer's
guild is very concerned about this new contract. But in addition to the contract,
they're worried about artificial intelligence being used to generate scripts without the writers.
I get that, because you could also have news anchors without the news anchor.
Some of TV's biggest shows again, we will be watching because they could
have to stop as of midnight tonight. Also, Tyler, I need your
help on this one, or Michelle or Anne or all if everybody's in there.
Nobody's in here, Oh dude, it's just you then, all right.
Singer songwriter at Cheron's copyright infringement trial resumes today in Manhattan. Tyler,
I need you to do the let's get it on part. He's facing a
one hundred million dollar lawsuit over allegations that his song thinking Out Loud Baby UH
Will Be Loving You to is seventeen. Tyler, it's a no for me,
dog, dude, you were supposed to do. Good dog. It's
a no for me. Dog. You suck the audio for you if you
want it. No, I don't want it. I wanted you to sing,
but screw that. Cheron is the claim, and says he has twenty
fourteen hit Thinking out Loud was he very collaborative effort with co writer Amy wedd
Hey. By the way, there is talk about AM radio being removed from
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If you're thinking, okay, I have a text alert on my phone and
that's how I'm going to get it. That's lovely, but it's not a
substitute for what broadcast radio provides in time of needs. If you get a
one line text alert, it can't take the place of the voice on the
radio who comes to you twenty four to seven until the emergency passes. And
that's even assuming that the cell networks are up and running, which often they
are not. In a big emergency, So when emergencies occur, your local
broadcast radio station is there providing wall to wall coverage, life saving information and
a live connection in the crisis when radio stays in the aftermath. So this
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Standard data and messaging rates apply. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Inez de la Kutera. Inez. Last time we spoke to you about the
evacuation in Sudan of US Americans. At that point, we knew that the
embassy had been cleared and that it was a very quick and clean operation.
Those helicopters on the ground. I think the whole thing lasted like an hour
if I remember correctly. But there were also sixteen thousand Americans still in the
country. What happens to them? And where are we now in the evacuation
of our citizens? Hey, good morning. Yeah, so you'll remember that
dramatic rescue from last weekend when the US decided to step in and evacuate embassy
staff and their families from Sudan. So they came in with military planes.
They got them all out safely. But the US at that point had told
the remaining US nationals in Sudan, and there were a lot, I mean,
there were over sixteen thousand Americans in Sudan at the time when the fighting
first broke out. A lot of them were dual US Sudanese nationals, but
over sixteen thousand US nationals in Sudan, and the US had told those Americans
that they were basically on their own, that the situation on the ground was
too difficult too, that it just wasn't safe enough for the US to come
and get them. And then the US based quite a bit of criticism because
there were a number of other countries who were able to go in and get
their nationals. So Saudi Arabia, for instance, was pretty quickly able to
send in ships to Sudan and evacuate Saudi nationals. We saw Germany sending in
military plane, the UK evacuating some of its citizens as well, and so
the question was why wasn't the US coming in to help US citizens. I
actually spoke to one family so that the two parents were away. They were
out of the country when the fighting first broke out, and the children were
with their aunt. And the children were dual US Sudanese nationals, and the
father was frustrated, but that he had been reaching out to the embassy repeatedly,
he was getting kind of automatic emails back. He was having a really
hard time getting ahold of anyone. And he pointed repeatedly since that Saudi Arabia
had been able to get their citizens out, and he didn't understand why the
US couldn't do the same. So we did. Over the course of this
weekend, see the US begin to evacuate at citizens. They were using bus
so bus convoys evacuating two hundred to three hundred Americans per bus convoys. There
are drones flying overhead to ensure that the route is safe. And as far
I mean in terms of the latest numbers, over a thousand Americans have now
been evacuated. But again still the total out of Americans in Sudan was sixteen
thousand, so you know, still a long ways to go before everybody is
out. And faith where what was the US answer to the criticism? I
guess that other countries were able to do it, so why weren't we?
So the US had told its citizens. So there were two things. So
when they were saying the situation on the ground just wasn't safe enough to conduct
these evacuations. And then the US also pointed to the fact that the State
Department had repeatedly told Americans not to travel to the Sudan and they had warned
Americans that they wouldn't be able to get them out should things escalate, should
the situation get to be too dire. So, uh, you know that
that was also mean there had been a level for do not travel advisory in
place for Sudan for a while. Now. We should point out also so
that the two warn military groups right now, it's the Studentese military versus a
paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. They had struck a truth,
but that truth, you know, and then they extended it another seventy two
hours. So there's been a ceasefire in place for a little over a week
now. The problem is that it doesn't appear that the ceasefire is really being
respected. There have been reports of explosions and gunfire in the cap all of
Khartoum, and so in a situation on the ground, it's still not safe.
All right, thank you so much, and as I appreciate the update,
thank you all right, see you later. That is ABC's Inez dela
Kutera. And that's hard because on one hand, you think, okay,
you should have abided by they do not travel to Sudan thing the issued,
the warning that was issued. However, if you live there, then what
If you are a Sudanese and American citizen, then what and at what point
is the US responsible for you or are you responsible for yourself if you choose
to live there. I honestly I don't I don't know how to split those
hairs because legally, I don't know how all of that works. But it,
I mean, it is. It is a mess. Right. Let's
look at some more stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
President Biden is meeting with the President of the Philippines. The meeting between
President Biden and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Junior at the White House showcasing US support
for the strategically vital island, An administration officials saying the meeting will affirm that
US security commitments to the Philippines remain ironclad amid provocative actions by China and Philippine
waters. ABC's Dave Packer says the two leaders will also talk about various commercial
initiatives to bolster the US Philippines relationship and break failure has been blamed for a
bus crash in Mexico that killed at least eighteen people. ABC's Connor Finnegan says
the bus was in the western state of Nyard on Saturday when it fell off
a cliff and ended up about fifty feet down a ravine. The bus was
traveling on a highway connecting the state capitol to the popular tourist destination Port of
Way Arta. This same stretch of highway saw a deadly bus accident in December
as well, when fifteen people were killed. Now more than thirty people were
taken to the hospital in the crash on Saturday. Nearly a dozen kids were
taken to the hospital. And I want to end with this story because I
okay, so one thing that I noticed moving from northern California to southern California
seven years ago now it's been was tinted windows. And I know that's a
really goofy thing. However, I just knew that in northern California, Man,
they really seem to nail you if you have tinted windows. The reason
I know this is because I might have fallen victim. To the fallen victim.
Please, I knew what I was doing, But then I come to
southern California, I'm like, hey, wait a minute, everybody's got tinted
windows, like dark tinted windows. So there was an article that came out
in a newspaper in San Diego Fox five or TV station, I guess,
called the Rules of the Road, and that was specifically our tinted windows legal
in California. And I wanted to do it Friday, but I ran out
of times, so we'll do it today. So what is legal and what
is not? This station talked to California Highway Patrol Sergeant Brian Pennings. He
says tinted windows have been a factor in a lot of crashes because drivers can't
see out their windows. So this is what is legal for your rear window.
Drivers can tint their rear windows as long as their vehicle has two side
mirrors, not including the rear view mirror. All right, So most cars
all have the two right, all right front windows. Here's the one where
I was like, wait a minute, you know you've passed one of those
cards where it's like blackout right. According to this front windows. When it
comes to the front window, California law states drivers must have seventy percent transparency,
meaning they can have thirty percent sent tint, which I'm sorry, but
there's a whole load of boatload of people not abiding by that one. Front
windshields. Drivers can tint their front windshields under certain circumstances. But apparently there
is actually a mathematical formula for this. So if you put the driver's seat
all the way back right this, I don't know who does this, but
put the driver's seat all the way back, measure four inches out from the
back and the bottom, and then measure twenty nine inches up. It can't
cross that horizontal plane. Well the hell is doing math on a tinted window?
And who was tinting their front window? Anyway? There are potential exceptions,
like a doctor's note that does not allow drivers to permanently tint their front
windows. However, you can have kind of a shape on it, so
I don't know if you're gonna do it. Drive around with a doctor's note
where your doctor says you can. Otherwise you're gonna have the officer in there
with a tape measure twenty nine from the top and four when a mess.
Anyway, basically, it is illegal to tint super super dark like that,
but based on the number of people I see doing it, it doesn't feel
like anybody's abiding by the rules. This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles,
Orange County. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening
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