You're listening to wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty KFI and
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wake up call. This is your wake up Call for Tuesday, July second.
I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King. Good morning everyone. We're so
glad you're here with us today and is here to help us along, and
Kono is here as well, and we have some great stories planned for you
today as in depth interviews. So let's just get right to it, Shally,
here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. A blockbuster decision by the Supreme
Court is raising questions about what happens next for former President Donald Trump. We'll
dive into what this means for his criminal cases. And a new bill aims
to fight deep fake porn. We'll talk about what that is and how it
could affect you. The Safe Plan is back in business. We'll talk about
what that means for your student debt and what it doesn't mean as well.
Then at six ZHO five, it's handle on the news. Israel has new
evacuation orders for southern Gaza. We'll talk about why that means hospital patients are
now being transferred. But let's start with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La has made it a whole lot cheaper
to be a street vendor. The city to criminalize street vending several years ago,
but a permit was hundreds of dollars. City council Woman Nippia Ramin says
that was too much, but the financial costs alone were still enough to prevent
vendors from operating legally, and that changes today, which is really exciting.
The city council on Friday voted to lower the permit fee from five hundred and
forty one dollars to just twenty seven dollars and fifty one cent. Supporter said
the change would bring illegal vendors quote out of the shadows and into the formal
local economy in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News. Excessive heat warnings have
been issued for parts of La County as the temperatures continue to soar. A
warning for the five and fourteen freeway corridors, the western San Gabriel Mountains,
the Analope Valley Foothills, and the Antelope Valley begins at eleven o'clock today and
continues through six o'clock next Monday. The National Weather Service says temperatures in the
warning area could reach as high as one hundred and fifteen degrees. An excessive
heat warning for the Santa Clarita Valley, the Santa Monica Mountains, Recreational Area,
Calabasas, the San Fernando Valley, and the eastern San Gabriel Mountains will
take effect tomorrow. Lakewood could lose its Equestrian Center because it's saddled with six
million dollars in repairs unless it becomes financially stable. Horse border Alexa Roddel says
the eighty year old center has until the end of next month to reduce its
size or more than one hundred horses could become homeless, or if somebody could
come in and take over running the equestrian center to release the city from doing
so and also provide funding necessary to me those capital improvements. Rodell says many
horse owners would have to consider euthanasia because there are not many buyers for horses,
which already have no place to go. The city council gave the center
until the end of next month to find a solution. Airbnb is cracking down
on parties in their rentals ahead of fourth of July. The vacation rental company
says three hundred million guests arrivals are expected this year for the holidays. The
company says if guests break the no party rules, they're subject to suspension or
removal from Airbnb. Neighbors of the rental properties can call a twenty four hour
neighborhood Support line to report disturbances. A second ballot initiative to reform Prop forty
seven is said to be voted on this week in the California legislature. The
measure will compete with another measure that would overturn Prop forty seven. Former Assemblyman
Mike Gatto says he doesn't think voters will support the latest move out of the
legislature. Sometimes I think Sacramento thinks that voters are stupid. But the reality
is that people are watching this. They're watching this very closely, Gotto says.
Other Gotto and others say the new measure doesn't do enough to address crime.
Supporters say it will fight fentanyl and retail crime without going back to draconian
policies in the past. The Supreme Court's ruling that former President Donald Trump is
presumptively immune from criminal prosecution for official acts is likely to have a big ripple
effect on each of the former presidents for criminal cases. ABC's Peter Haralamboos joins
US Live from New York with more. Good morning, Peter, Good morning,
Thanks for having me. All right, So, what will likely be
the first impact that we see after the decision on Trump's criminal cases? Yeah,
we've surprisingly already seen the first impact last night here in New York,
former President Donald Trump moved to overturn his conviction in his New York criminal case.
His lawyers are arguing here that the jury in the case saw evidence that
should have been limited by this idea of presidential immunity, and because of that
which has already been done, the conviction itself can't stand. It's also likely
that we see the former president moveford laid down in his Florida case, and
of course we might see a fundamental reshaping of that case in d C now
that the former president lawyers have this decision from the Supreme Court really limiting what
cannon can't be prosecuted. Yeah, that was one of my next questions is
how is this going to affect those cases in Florida and Georgia. Yeah,
so I think we're most likely to see the immediate impact in DC, but
in Georgia and Florida, the real long term implact is kind of endless delays.
So the Florida case and the Floyd case, Trump's lawyers have already argued
that the former president should be immune from prosecution because they argue the former president
classified those secret documents as personal while he was still in office. Judge Eileen
Cannon, who overceived that case, hasn't made a ruling on the matter,
but it's now likely to set some hearings or more seriously considered. And while
the experts I've spoken to you suggest that that argument might not necessarily succeed in
dismissing the case, will certainly result in delays. The same kind of impact
will likely be seen in Georgia, of course, delays once the case gets
handed back to Judge Scott McAfee. And it's also possible we see a real
slimming down of the Georgia case because the former president can argue that a lot
of the conduct alleged there were actually official acts that should be protected by this
idea of presidential immunity. So I know we talked a little bit about you
the more immediate impact on the election interference case. I also understand that Trump
is and his team have asked for the sentencing to be pushed back for next
week. And is that I'm assuming is a direct result of what's happened with
the Supreme Court. Yeah, that's one hundred percent right. So, given
the Supreme Court's landmark ruling yesterday, Trump's team filed that letter last night asking
to kind of toss that conviction. And because they're now raising this new argument
directly related to the Supreme Court, they don't think that July eleventh sentencing should
really stay and stick at that current date. It's four days ahead of the
RNC, so there are already some issues about the timing of it, and
the Supreme Court decision has really given them an opening to push that sentencing and
get a further delay. We'll likely get a response from prosecutors sometime today,
and the decision is in now in the hands of Judge Hwan Merschan, who
will likely have to make a pretty quick decision given how close we now are
to that sentencing. So what happens next is his legal team right now scrambling
to see what they can get removed in terms of any charges or cases or
anything like that. His I'm sure his team is working over time to get
a lot of that removed as much as possible. Yeah, I think you're
one hundred percent right about his team working overtime. At this point, it's
basically a feeding frenzy. With the Supreme Court decision, it basically has an
apt implication on every single one of these cases. The most immediate one is
New York given how close the sentencing is, while the Florida and Georgia cases
are kind of long term delayed already. I would expect that the next area
we're going to see some focuses this DC case over the next months. Just
Tanya Chukkin's going to have to make a decision about what can and can't stand
in the indictment, and it's possible that Jack Smith team considers refiling a new
indictments kind of slim down the case, make it more likely to withstand the
scrutiny of the Supreme Court decision. I would expect the flurry of activity in
that case after it's kind of been frozen for the last six months. Yes,
well, it looks like we're going to have I think we're going to
be covering this almost daily now, just to see all the new developments that
are coming out over the next several months. So, Peter, thank you
so much. I appreciate your time. Thanks so much for having me.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Closing arguments have started in Orange County in the
trial over a gay Jewish man murdered in Lake Forest, brutally murdered and buried
within an hour and a half. Prosecuter Jennifer Walker says Sam Woodward stabb Blaze
Bernstein twenty eight times in twenty eighteen because Bernstein was gay, he already had
his bags and he thought he was going to get away with it. Defense
attorney Ken Morrison says this is not a hate crime. It's about Woodward's social
isolation and autism, like millions of adolescents privately struggling with his own sexuality.
First degree murder could mean life in prison, while voluntary manslaughter means Woodward could
get out someday at OC Superior Court. Corbin Carson kf I News and excessive
heat warning has been issued for Riverside County because of triple digit temperatures. The
heat warning is in effect until at least nine o'clock for Palm Springs, Coachella,
Palm Desert, Lakina Cathedral City, banning Desert Hot Springs, and Indio.
Temperatures in those area are expected to range from one hundred and fifteen to
one hundred and twenty two degrees. The La City Council's Energy Committee is looking
into whether to ban synthetic turf. Emotion says materials used to produce it are
harmful to the environment. Sean Garritty, the former chairman of the Synthetic Turf
Council, says artificial grass has benefits. Synthetic turf very importantly provides more equitable
access to recreation space across communities of all income levels. There's less upkeep,
lower maintenance costs, and it provides a safe, consistent playing surface. California
has allowed cities to ban synthetic turf since last year. Two cities have done
so so far. A fifty thousand dollars reward has been offered to help the
Laped solve the fatal shooting of a man in Boil Heights. The shooting happened
June thirteenth, near Washington Boulevard and Grande Vista Avenue. Noah Martinez died at
the scene. The reward is for information leading to the identity, arrest,
and prosecution of the persons responsible. The TSA warrants passengers who are set to
travel by air this week to be prepared for longer wait times and crowded airports
as they prepare to screen a record number of passengers. ABC's Trevor Alt is
at the Newark Airport with more on this record setting travel season. This comes
on the heels of weeks of what's already been record setting travel, as we
are just now getting into the busiest stretch so far. And TSA says it's
expecting to screen twenty eight million people for the fourth of July window. That's
from this past Friday through next Monday, July eighth. That's a five and
a half percent increase from last year. This comes on the heels of weeks
of what's already been record setting travel, as we are just now getting into
the busiest stretch so far. The TSA says it's expecting to screen twenty eight
million people for the fourth of July window. That's from this past Friday through
next Monday, July eighth. That's a five and a half percent increase from
last year. Hurricane Burrow has strengthened into a Category five hurricane as it moves
through the windward islands across the Caribbean. The National Weather Service says the storm
has wins up to one hundred and sixty miles per hour and is moving northwest
at about twenty miles an hour. Forecaster say Burrell is expected to remain extremely
dangerous, with hurricane conditions possible in Jamaica tomorrow. At Israeli, airstrike has
killed at least nine people in the southern Gaza city of Conunis. The overnight
strike hit a home near the European Hospital, which is inside the zone Israel
said should be evacuated. The UN Agency for Palestinian Refugee says about two hundred
and fifty thousand people are in the evacuation zone. The La City Council is
expected to consider a proposal to modernize and expand the downtown convention Center in preparation
for the twenty twenty eight Olympics. Council members will vote on whether to spend
up to fifty four point four million dollars for pre construction work on the facility,
and the California National Guard has seized an estimated seven million pills containing fentanyl
in just the first six months of the year. And President Biden has warned
that the new Supreme Court ruling granting President's broad immunity for prosecution would make an
unchecked Republican Donald Trump more emboldened to do whatever he wants if he regains the
White House in November than at six five. I have it's handle on the
news. After yesterday Supreme Court ruling, Donald Trump is now pushing to have
his sentencing set aside in this hush money case. We'll talk about what his
lawyers are doing to try to make that happen right now. And new survey
has found that Americans are spending too much on their monthly phone bill. Joel
Larsgard joins us now to talk about ways you can save Good morning, Joel,
Good morning, Heather. I am really excited to talk with you because,
to be fair, I mean to be honest, finance is my weak
spot in life. So anything related to saving money, I want to soak
it all in, all right, that's what I'm here for. Okay,
excellent, all right, So let's talk about this new survey that's come out.
Let's talk about overspending on our cell phone bills. How much are we
overspending? So I do this all the time, right, I'm always thinking
about money and helping people figure out their money. And I was shocked to
see just how much people are spending on their cell phone bill. Whistle Out,
which is this website that really helps document the bestell phone plans, the
cheapest cell phone plans, and the best Internet all that kind of stuff,
they found that the average American currently spends a shocking stat one hundred and fifty
seven dollars a month on their cell phone plan if they're with one of the
major carriers. And they've basically talked about how inflation and rising costs of self
service has caused people to not be able to afford their cell phone bill.
And from where I'm sitting over here, I've seen the opposite thing happen when
it comes to cell phone service. I've seen people get more for less,
and so I'm shocked. And the only way that this makes sense is if
you're staying with one of the major carriers, and a lot of people are
learning they're going to some of these smaller carriers that what are known as m
v and o's Mobile Virtual network operators, and so these smaller cell phone companies
they operate on the towers of the big guys. It's not like it's inferior
service. You're still getting Verizon or T Mobile service, but you're just paying
a whole lot less. And so yeah, if you're paying, if you're
if you're paying anywhere north of one hundred bucks a month, you could stand
to save a substantial amount of money every single month in perpetuity. Okay,
I'm embarrassed to say I am one of those people. Okay, but I
obviously help. Okay, good, I see we have like we have the
unlimited plan, and you know, I feel, like you said, there
is sort of a stigma with the smaller cell phone companies where I'm like,
am I going to get as good of a service because I am with one
of the bigger companies. So that's something I definitely want to check into.
So we're not compromising quality, then necessarily we're just going to be saving a
little money exactly exactly, And so I want people to look into. You
can go to a website like whistleout dot com, or you can there's We've
got some articles on our website how to money dot com on which cell phone
services? Which of these less expensive cell phone services are going to be the
best for you. But I'll name a few real quick. I really like
Mint Mobile and I'm on the fifteen dollars a month plan. You get five
gigs of Internet, you get unlimited talking text, and it's runs on t
mobiles towers. And then there's another one that's just on my radar. US
Mobile is becoming one of the biggest NB and os out there. And so
if you're like, sorry, Joel, five gigs isn't enough for me,
I need the unlimited plan. Well, US Mobile has an unlimited plan for
seventeen dollars and fifty cents a month, and so you prepay for the year.
You're not in a contract, but you do prepay. But when you
prepay for the year, that's when the savings roll in. So instead of
going month to month, the idea is just to pay for your cell phone
and one big, one big chunk, and then you have unlimited data.
You've got some hotspot, you've got unlimited talking text of course as well.
And so those are a couple of my favorites, but there are more out
there. There's there's Visible, which runs on Verizon's backbone and you get unlimited
for twenty five dollars a month with them. There's a lot that you can
look into. But especially this is one of those things where my favorite thing
to do is make one choice that's a little different and save money every single
month from here on out. It's not like it's this thing, and especially
when it means that you're not really trading off very much because again, like
we said, the service pretty great on these things. Yeah, I think
it might be just the fear of something new or change. But I want
to Ryan remind everybody quickly. If you didn't have time to grab a pin,
you can listen to this back on the iHeartRadio app and our podcast when
it's up later today. Make all those notes, write everything down. Those
are great suggestions for different cell phone company options. Are I want to switch
gears just a little bit before we have to let you go. So a
federal appeals appeals court says it will allow a key part of President Biden's student
loan relief plan to resume as the legal challenges against it unfold. So that
means we have the Save Plan is our only option right now. If you're
looking to pay down those student loans, what can you tell us about the
Save Plan? Sure? So, the Safe Plan has been after student loan
forgiveness was shut down by the Supreme Court, and the Save Plan has been
like all the eggs in this basket to try to help student loan borrowers reduce
their payments and see loan forgiveness on a shorter timeline. And the Safe Plan
is incredibly generous and ultimately will allow a whole lot of folks, especially lower
income folks or folks with bigger families and they don't make a ton of money,
will allow them to see a much greatly diminished monthly bill for their student
loans. Or a lot of people, millions of people are going to see
a monthly bill of zero and that. And still even if you're paying zero
dollars a month forward your student loans, you might find that you're able to
bach forgiveness within ten years. But this has been in the courts because a
bunch of states said, you know what, we don't love this plan,
and we actually don't think the President has the authority, the President and the
Department of Education to implement the plan as constituted, and so that's what's going
on. There was one ruling last week and then there was another ruling on
Sunday, and so the Safe Plan has kind of been in this legal limbo.
Is how it's going to shake out in the coming weeks and months is
anybody's guest, But at least for right now, the Safe Plan is going
to move forward. In particular, you're going to see those reduced payments because
and that's the thing it's been on this kind of slow rollout timeline and the
low the payments they essentially reduced payments because of the new discretionary income rules.
Those were going to take place starting this month, and it looked like that
might not happen. But now it is going to happen. We are going
to see reduce payments, which is going to be a relief for a whole
lot of people. It's definitely was a relief for me. I got in
and got my student loans paid for, so I was like, WHOA done
with that? So we'll definitely be keeping an eye on the progress there with
the same plan and any other movements made there with them with President Biden's plan.
So it feels like it's been a bit of a seesaw, and I
know that people biting their nails. What's going to happen? Is this going
to stay put? For me? And I do think the Safe Plan in
some form or fashion is going to stick around. The full forgiveness after ten
years, is that gonna Is that thing going to hang around? I don't
know. That might be the biggest challenge that's in place against the Safe Plan,
But at least for now, your payments are going to go down and
we'll see what happens next. All right, thank you so much, Joel.
You guys can listen to how to Money on Sundays right here on KFI
and then of course anywhere you listen on the iHeartRadio app, just tune into
how to Money. Thanks Joel, Thanks Heather. All Right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
The Lakewood Equestrian Center could shut down unless someone can rein in expenses and
raise six billion dollars for repairs. There's nowhere else that we can go.
Horse Border Alexa Rodell says if the city tears down the eighty year old Equestrian
Center, more than one hundred horses would be homeless. That really opens a
really sad conversation about what those owners would decide to do, whether or not
they would be able to rehome their horses or their horses would have to be
humanly euthanized. She just as people who grew up at the center and now
take their grandkids for writing lessons and to the petting zoo. But the city
says it's been losing money for years. The city council gave the center until
the end of next month to come up with a plan. In Lakewood,
Corbin Carson KFI News, the LA City Council is expected to set up a
twenty five thousand dollars reward for information on the theft of eleven metal plaques ripped
from Woodland Hills Walk of Hearts, which honors teachers. The plaques were most
likely stolen by someone to sell them for scrap metal, and a judge has
sentenced a group of Antifa counter protesters to prison. The eleven defendants are heading
to prison for the counter protest to the so called Patriot march in Pacific Beach
in twenty twenty one, just days after the January sixth Capital Riot. And
an excessive heat warning has been issued for Riverside County because of triple digit temperatures.
We'll be keeping an eye on that throughout the week. Then at six
zh five, it's handle on the news. Airbnb will enforce an initiative to
limit disruptive parties on holiday weekends. Where to talk about what that means.
For the fourth of July and a FI P fifty, we are going to
dive into the take It Down law that aims to fight deep fake and revenge
porn. For now, let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Prosecutors in Orange County have called for
a first degree murder conviction in the trial of a man charged with killing a
gay Jewish man in Lake Forest. Prosecutor Jennifer Walker said during closing arguments that
Sam Woodward stabbed Blaze Berenstein twenty eight times in twenty eighteen because he was gay.
To dig a grave in that terrain and bury and clean up and murder
someone in an hour and a half, that is not something happened, and
I need to figure it out. That is determined. The defense has called
for the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, claiming the killing was motivated motivated by
sexual confusion, social isolation, and autism diagnosis. The jury could get the
case today or as soon as closing arguments wrap up in the nearly three month
long trial. The US Supreme Court says former President Donald Trump is entitled to
some immunity from criminal prosecution for actions taken overturn results of the twenty twenty election,
but send the case back to the trial court to sort out which charges
can stand. ABC Steven Portnoy joins US Live from Washington to talk about what
that means. Good morning, Stephen, Oh, good morning to you.
So a lot of people are confused about why the Supreme Court's ruling means that
now the lower courts will have to sort of sort all of this out.
Can you explain that a little bit more sure? I mean, the reason
is because the Supreme Court decided he didn't want to. It's as simple as
that. So now it goes back to the lower court and Judge Tanya Chutkin
is going to have to figure out with some guidance from the Supreme Court's opinion
how to make this decision, what is official, what is unofficial? And
the overarching principle that the Supreme Court put down in its opinion by Chief Justice
Roberts is whether the Official Act touch on the powers and responsibilities and authorities of
the Executive branch, the branch itself, the Presidency itself, not Donald Trump
as a person, but what he does as an emblem of the presidency and
the powers that he has. Now, the question becomes, what of the
conversations that Donald Trump had with Mike Pence, the Vice president, with state
officials in Georgia and other places. Was he acting as the head of the
executive branch to see to it that the laws are faithfully executed, or was
he acting as a candidate to advance his own personal interests to hold power.
Those are some of the arguments that will be made, and the decision will
first rest with Judge Chuckkin. But I can promise you that Donald Trump's attorneys,
if they find that her ruling is unfavorable, will appeal it to the
d C. Circuit Court and ultimately to the Supreme Court. So this is
nowhere near over yet. Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a
long road ahead. And let's talk about the vote that was split by the
Supreme Court sixty three. What were the dissenters saying about this ruling. They
had some pretty strong opinions. The liberal justices wrote in their dissent that what
the majority has done is they've transformed the office of the presidency, turning the
person who holds that office into a king above the law, who can,
among other things, order the assassination of arrival, organize a coup, give
out a pardon for a bribe. Chief Justice John Roberts says that all of
that is overblown, that what his opinion does is nowhere near that. But
instead it grants the sitting president absolute immunity for the conversations that he has within
his own executive branch, within his own White House, and with his subordinates
who run the agencies, and beyond that conveys the presumption of immunity for all
his other official acts as president, a presumption which can be overcome if the
prosecutors have a good enough case. You know. The term King Trump and
King Biden was trending for a little while yesterday over on X And it's been
interesting seeing how people are interpreting what has actually happened here. I've been trying
to explain it to my seventy eight almost eighty year old mother, and she
wants to know if Trump won, because he's been touting that this is a
big win for him. Did he really win in this situation? Oh?
Yes, yesterday was a big win for Donald Trump. The court found in
his favor, and in fact, the court went further than Trump's arguments,
his lawyer's arguments even even asked by granting that absolute immunity, which now covers
any conversation, any action that the president might undertake within the executive branch.
Essentially, what the court says is, because the three branches of government are
separate, there are certain things that the executive branch should be able to do
that the Congress can't legislate against and that the courts can't dive into. And
that is something new, We've never seen it before. All Right, So
what happens next for mister Trump. What's the next move? Well, among
other things, they're now challenging his conviction in New York because of the argument
that the Supreme Court opinion also touches on evidence as it relates to his official
acts of trying to say that, for example, the tweets that he put
out about Michael Cohen having to do with the hush money payments and Michael Cohen
and while he was president, should never been shown to the jury because those
were official statements of the president. Well, that might not carry the day,
but it's an argument they're making now to try to prevent Donald Trump from
being sentenced a week from Thursday in New York. We'll see how that plays
out. It's a whole lot of spaghetti. It's going to be thrown up
at the wall. The first issue in the January sixth case goes back to
Judge Chutkin to begin to hear arguments from both sides over what is official,
what is unofficial, What should come out of the indictment, what can survive?
Again, that will be healed, possibly all the way up to the
Supreme Court and down in Georgia and Florida. You have two other cases going
where similar arguments will surely be made. I like that There's going to be
a lot of spaghetti thrown up against the wall. So we'll see what sticks.
Thank you so much, Stephen, all right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
new poll has found seventy two percent of Americans say President Biden should not run
for reelection. More than one thousand people were surveyed by CBS News and you
gov following last week's presidential debate. Forty six percent of Democrats said Biden should
not run again. The poll found Biden did outpace former President Trump when it
came to telling the truth. Last Thursday, city leaders in Stillwater, Minnesota,
have announced their postponing their annual July fourth fireworks celebration because of rising water
levels in the Saint Croix River. This local says he understands the decision,
but is still disappointed, sad. It's really disappointing that, you know,
Mother nature is not cooperating with us this year. The mayor says the show
isn't canceled, it will just be moved to another day. The park where
the celebration was supposed to be held Thursday has flooded following record breaking rain.
A soccer star is being investigated by the Union of European Foots Associations over a
potentially offensive gesture made during the championship game. The organization says it appointed a
disciplinary inspector to look at whether England starred Jude Bellingham violated rules of basic conduct
in Sunday's game when he appeared to make a gesture with his hand towards his
crotch. England went on to win against Slovakia. If Bellingham is charged in
a disciplinary case, he risks being suspended for the quarter finals Saturday against Switzerland.
Sassive heat warnings have been issued for parts of Elli County as the temperatures
continue to soar. Warning for the five and fourteen Freeway corridors, the western
San Gabriel Mountains, the Annalope Valley Foothills, and the Antelope Valley begins at
eleven o'clock this morning and continues through six o'clock next Monday. The National Weather
Service says temperatures in the warning area could reach as high as one hundred and
fifteen degrees. An excessive heat warning for the Santa Clarita Valley, the Santa
Monica Mountains Recreational Area, Calabasas, the San Fernando Valley, and the eastern
San Gabriel Mountains will take effect tomorrow. The La City Council is set to
consider a settlement with people forced out of their homes in South La by the
LAPD's botched detonation of illegal fireworks. That explosion three years ago damaged thirty five
properties. The people impacted have been living in a hotel downtown. They said
yesterday. They're uncertain about ever returning to their homes and are concerned about possibly
getting evicted from their temporary housing. The settlement being considered today would cover ninety
percent of those at the hotel. Closing arguments will resume today in the trial
of the man charged with the hate crime fatal stabbing of a former gay classmate
in Footlan Foothills Ranch. Millions of travelers are out and about ahead of the
fourth of July holiday. The TSA says it expects to screen over thirty million
passengers through July eighth. And an Israeli airstrike has killed nine people in the
southern Gaza city of Conunis. The overnight strike hit home near the European Hospital,
which is inside the zone Israel said should be evacuated. Then we're just
minutes away from handle on the news this morning. Adjustable rate mortgage holders are
about to get hit hard with higher monthly payments. We'll talk about what you
can do to help ease the blow. The US Senate Commerce Committee is taking
on the Take It Down Bill. Maybe sees. Jim Ryan joins US Live
to talk about the bill and what it means. Good morning, Jim.
First, take it Down. It's actually an acronym. Believe it or not.
To see, I'm gonna tell you what it means, tools to address
known exploitation by immobilizing technological deep fakes on websites and networks. Take it Down.
That's a mouthful. Yeah, that's the Take It Down Act. Ed.
Yes, Ranking Member Ted Cruz is a sponsor, so to is Ammy
Klobachar, the Democrat from Minnesota. In fact, the committee that's looking at
this is evenly split, seven Democrats, seven Republicans, all co sponsors of
this legislation. A rare bit of bipartisanship in a place where you don't expect
to see that happen very much. But yes, this this is intended to
target specifically, not just deep fake porn, but revenge porn, stuff that's
posted online to get back at somebody. All right, so who is going
to be monitoring these videos well, you know, and overseeing making sure they
actually are being taken off social media. That's a great point. Nobody's really
sure who's going to do that, Heather, But that's the tough part of
the job. And in fact, in many of the cases, one case
that Cruise was highlighting one seventeen year old whose picture was modified or whose images
were put out there to make it look as though she was nude pictures posted
online. She didn't didn't realize it was out there at all until the police
came to her and said, hey, we received this from somebody on the
outside, and is this you? And she said, that's my face,
that's not my body, and so yeah, who's going to be the one
responsible for doing this? Well, there have to be a whole infrastructure to
monitor websites. Of course, it's up you know, the social media supposed
to be doing this itself, and so you know, may be left to
is it the fox guarding the handhouse? Maybe maybe not, but certainly this
bill is intended to address the whole picture. So let's talk about what exactly.
In case there's people who may not know what deep fake porn actually is,
can you talk a little bit about what that means. And also you
mentioned I believe AI generated porn and that are they similar the same thing?
Deep fake porn is created by artificial intelligence. So whereas the photoshop Adobe photoshop,
which was invented, by the way, in nineteen eighty eight, it's
been around that long to modify digital photos, you know, to take that
frown off your face or take the furrow out of your brow, it's pretty
rudimentary stuff. Well, the artificial intelligence components are like photoshop, but they're
light years ahead of it. And there are apps that you can get on
your phone, dozens of them out there. I suppose that can take your
face heather and superimposed it onto a body in video form, and whether that's
somebody else's body or what it could be the artificial intelligence representation of what you
look like wearing different clothes or wearing no clothes. And you can imagine the
terror of going online or something and seeing a video or an image of yourself
in a compromising situation that you had nothing to do with. So that's what
this is intended to address. What it would do was require social media platforms
to take down images like that. Within forty eight hours of their being posted.
So yeah, I think it's kind of a matter of AI itself as
a tool of social media watching itself to ensure this doesn't get posted. This
type of content that gets created and post online can be absolutely devastating in someone's
life, and it affects you know, men, women, I'm sure kids
as well. So this is something that's really important. What are the ramifications?
What will they be if the videos or images that are created aren't taken
down? Is there sort of are there finds being proposed with this bill?
Like, what is the ramification here? Well, it will be Yeah,
that's part of what this whole process is about, is determining what exactly should
be the penalty for not taking things like this down. Well, it'd be
a slap on the wrist, will be there? Will it be penalty,
you know, financial finds? What will be the upshot of that. This
committee has just started its hearings now and has been hearing from people who have
been victimized by this this. You know, there are twenty states around the
country that have some laws against revenge point example, or against deep fake porn.
This takes the whole issue, federalizes it, put it on puts it
under one umbrella and covers both deep fake porn and revenge porn, which is
a slightly different thing in a lot of cases. You know, in a
relationship, somebody takes pictures of somebody else, their partner, they're having a
great time, et cetera, they have a nasty breakup, and then the
partner who took the pictures post those pictures as revenge. This would be covered
by that as well, then so called revenge porn that involves actual images.
I know that they have listed here that it has to be removed within forty
eight hours, but I can tell you after seeing videos go viral in a
matter of you know, just a couple of hours, that seems like an
awfully lengthy amount of time for any type of you know, deep fake or
anything to be left online. Well, it really does. And once it's
out there, it's out there forever essentially, And so that's what this is
intended to do, to catch it. Yeah, forty eight hours is a
long window, but at least it is a window, and the supporters of
this bills say that as it is right now, in a lot of places
there is no window. Well, this is a really important issue. And
I'm so glad that at least somebody is talking about it, and hopefully since
they're working together, this one might might see some forward. You can't help
but cheer for it, right knowing that who's against this, who's compt Yeah.
Well, even the cruise was interviewed about this. Ted cruz wat was
about this and said that so far they haven't heard from any of the social
media platforms in complaint. They they haven't come out against this, so we'll
see if you know, maybe they can get on board. Wonderful. Well,
thank you so much, Jim. We appreciate your time today. Thanks
Heather. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Closing arguments have started an Orange County
in the trial over a gay Jewish man murdered in Lake Forest. He was
brutally murdered and buried within an hour and a half. Prosecutor Jennifer Walker says
Sam Woodward stabb Blaze Bernstein twenty eight times in twenty eighteen because Bernstein was gay.
He already had his bags and he thought he was going to get away
with it. Defense attorney Ken Morrison says This is not a hate crime.
It's about Woodward social isolation and autism, like millions of adolescents privately struggling with
his own sexuality. First degree murder could mean life in prison, while voluntary
manslaughter means Woodward could get out someday. At OC Superior cour Corbin Carson camp
I News, a bear has been wandering around in Chatsworth. It was spotted
in an industrial area near Desto Avenue and Lasson Street last night. This morning,
apparently it was hanging out in a tree. We're still looking at that
excessive heat warning it has been issued for Riverside County because of triple digit temperatures.
The heat warning is in effect until at least nine o'clock for Palm Springs,
Coachella, Palm Desert, Lakina Cathedral City, Banning Desert, Hot Springs,
and India. Temperatures in those areas are expected to range from one hundred
and fifteen to one hundred and twenty two degrees. The La City Council's Energy
Committee is looking into whether to ban synthetic turf. Emotions says materials used to
produce it are harmful to the environment. Shaun Garrity, the former chairman of
the Synthetic Turf Council says artificial grass has benefits. Synthetic turf very importantly provides
more equitable access to recreation space across communities of all income levels. There's less
upkeep, lower maintenance costs, and it provides a safe, consistent playing surface.
California has allowed cities to ban synthetic turf since last year, and two
cities have done so so far. A fifty thousand dollars reward has been offered
to help the LPDS saw the fatal shooting of a man in Boyle Heights.
The shooting happened June thirteenth, near Washington Boulevard and Grandivista Avenue. Noah Martinez
died at the scene. The reward is for information leading to the identity,
arrest, and prosecution of the persons responsible. Three of the four people killed
in a high speed crash in Upland have been identified as teenagers. San Bernardino
County Sheriff's deputies tried to stop a driver suspected of DUI last week, but
the driver sped off. They collided with another car and a poll at Mountain
Avenue and West sixteenth Street. The black Hyundai police were after was completely destroyed.
The TSA Warren's passengers who are set to travel by air this week to
be prepared for longer wait times and crowded airports as they prepare to screen a
record number of passengers. This comes on the heels of weeks of what's already
been record setting travel as we are just now getting into the busiest stretch so
far. TSA says it's expecting to screen twenty eight million people for the fourth
of July window. That's from this past Friday through next Monday, July eighth.
That's a five and a half percent increase from last year. All right,
So we are going to keep an eye on that hurricane throughout the rest
of the morning, as well as that heat advisory and heat warning that's happening
in our area. A lot of news coming up still with handle on the
news, and of course right here from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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