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Jason Middleton. Good morning everyone. Yeah, it's Friday. This is your
wake up call. Thanks for joining us this morning. Normally do say that
there's like a lot of news, but is it legit? Yeah, because
there is a lot. We have a lot packed into this hour too.
Just off the top of the head though, try not to rely on these
too much. But the typewriter was patented on this day in eighteen sixty Yet
think about the ubiquity of typewriters since eighteen sixty eight. Like, texting is
a big thing. I still I still do the textings. Is that how
they say that the textings? Okay, yes, I do the textings.
I do the emailings anyway, eighteen sixty eight, and wow, it's it's
everywhere more importantly en up to date. We do have a lot of headlines,
so let's get right into it. There are no survivors after a day's
long search for a submersible that lost contact with the surface on Sunday. We
will have more on that throughout the hour and this morning I'm sure Ukrainian intelligence
believes that Russia is prepared to launch a terrorist attack with radiation leak each at
the Zepperzia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine. There are observers on the site,
but it's been under Russian control for about a month or six weeks.
Francis Victor Weibin Yama was selected by the San Antonio Spurs with the first overall
pick. That was the worst kept secret ever. Let's start with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. As always,
we do lead local. The La City Council is set to decide if
Councilman Current Price, who's charged with corruption, will face a suspension. Councilman
Price has urged the committee to vote against recommending his suspension. He says the
charges against him are misguided and the attacks on his wife's reputation are unfair.
Local prosecutors ledged Price engaged in a paid a play scheme in which developers paid
his wife's consulting firm and in exchange, Price voted in favor of their projects.
Today, a three member committee will decide if the entire council will get
to decide whether or not to suspend price. Council President paulker Coreyan is one
of the members on the committee. He says he's waiting to hear discussion before
deciding if he actually supports suspending price. Do you anticipate a hot battle tomorrow
in committee? Hot battle is probably not the phrase I would use. I'd
say a thorough discussion and a stakeholder driven discussion, and there's going to be
a lot of strongly held viewpoints. We've already started to hear some of them
in public comment during council meetings, and that's good. That's a good thing.
I want to hear them now rather than later when people are frantically trying
to figure out how do we get out from where we are. The La
City Council as a whole has remained quiet unformally calling for prices suspension. La
Mayor Bass backed away from saying whether she actually supports the suspension when I questioned
her about it yesterday. I believe this needs to be a deliberative process and
we need to see I support where the council is going. We'll see what
happens in the meeting tomorrow. If ultimately the council gets there, then we'll
talk about it then. Ella County DA Gascon says the case is the result
of a thorough investigation. However, the DA has not held a formal press
conference on the charges in the major case. Council President paulker Coreyan says he's
less than pleased with that choice. We have seen zero evidence in support of
these charges, unlike in past situations where there's been a vast amount of evidence
that was made public before the charges were even far We don't say on that.
Do you wish that the DA had held a press conference, had made
himself more available. I do. I would like to know much more about
what's behind all of this. Frankly, I'm the president of the city Council.
I wasn't even given a heads up. So if there were some risk
by mister Prices continuing to be an active member of the council, if that
were true, I would think that the district attorney would have given the president
of the council heads up so I could take some steps. He reached out
to you at alas Gascon reached out to you at all, zero no contact
whatsoever. Prices supporters held a press conference yesterday urging the committee to vote against
his removal. Councilman Marquis Harris Stausin, who's on that faithful Committee, has
questioned the severity of the charges against Price. If the committee decides to send
suspension to the floor four a vote, council members could vote as early as
next week. Blake Trolley, k if I News. All right, the
first topic for today on Wake Up Call is the GUP presidential nomination. Let's
go to ABC's political director Rick Klein pretty quick before somebody else joins the race.
Good morning, Rick, Thank you to be with you. Yeah,
let's let's talk after Yeah. Right, So, how many are we up
to right now? And who's the latest to join the race. I'd say
were twelve, thirteen, fourteen, something like that. The late former Congressman
Will Heard from Texas a couple of terms in Congress, Black Republican, also
a former CIA operative. Interesting national security credentials, but it's also interesting that
he got out of Congress not to run re election, sort of the height
of the Trump fervor and his party. So I don't know how in tunity
is with where the party is at this exact moment, but it's going to
be one of the things that's tested and assure is a crowded field. Okay,
well we do have a crowded field. We have a leader. I
guess we have to talk about former President Trump and his poll numbers. Have
you seen anything moving around when it comes to the news coming out of the
Trump camp. Nothing that that significantly hurts him. No, I mean,
if anything, we've seen from polling showing him with more solidly since the first
round of indictments and even the second round of inditement. So you know,
here we are kind of where we started with this race being Trumps to lose.
That doesn't mean it will definitely be there, but the more candidates in
the race, there's certainly a school of thought. I think it's an unreasonable
one that the Trump is better off with more people running. That's the situation
that he took advantage of in twenty sixteen, and certainly the situation to the
job all over again. Okay, so we're what we're about sixteen months out
from the election general. So is this normal behavior for the year before going
into an election year for the presidency? Normal behavior in terms of the polls
or the size of the field. Size of the field, Let's go the
side of the field. It seems like a big horse race. Yeah it
is, But you know, I think that's kind of become the new normal.
I mean, I think we had well more than this one, more
than a dozen Democrats running in the open race against Trump in twenty twenty sixteen,
seventeen candidates running in twenty sixteen other Republicans side. I think important and
how many candidates are running now is how many how many candidates are still going
to be running, say in in August when the debate happens, how many
makes that debate stage, and then after that, how many stick around to
the first voting that we actually get down to it in Iowa New Hampshire.
Are we talking about fifteen candidates? Are we talking about six or seven or
four? That to me is the more interesting metric. It's impossible to know
right now what we're going to be looking at, but I don't think that
we've at all seen the final word on the side of his field. I
think it's going to shift over time, and that bad in itself is normal
as well. Willie have you for about thirty seconds r F K JR.
Is that a name recognition bump in the news right now or Is that a
legitimate candidacy. Yeah. I think it's two things. I think his name
recognition, it's also, you know, a little frustration with Biden. People
want to have an alternatives and they kind of parking their support there. I
don't think he's going to be a serious contender against Biden, but he's sure
could be a headache. And I think because he is as widely known in
his name, as as widely known as it is, there's no there's nothing
that sort of pushes him out in the immediacy of its race. Thank you
for your time and contact this morning, Context this morning, Rick, have
a good weekend. Thank you. That was ABC's political director Rick Klein helping
us unpack the growing field for the GOP presidential nomination. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFY twenty four hour news room.
The Coast Guard says all five people aboard the submersible that disappeared near the wreckage
of the Titanic have been lost. An rov or remote operated vehicle from the
vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail cone of the titans submersible approximately sixteen hundred feet
from the foul of the Titanic. Coastguard Rear Admiral John Mauger says the debris
field found yesterday is consistent with a catastrophic implosion. Cruce had been searching for
the submersible since Sunday. Officials say they're trying to put together a timeline of
events. The LA Animal Services Department says it will no longer require appointments to
adopt animals or to get pets microchipped. Adopted dogs can also get free training.
General manager Annette Ramirez says she hopes the changes, which take effect June
twenty eighth, will encourage more people to go to city shelters and rescue the
many animals waiting for a home. Disneyland Resort has partnered with multiple groups to
open a one hundred and two unit affordable housing community in Anaheim with wrap around
services. I spend a lot of time being houseless, including living in my
car. Alexis Taduro says he lost his job and was evicted by the pandemic.
Now I'm dreaming again. I'm not have to think about where I'm going
to sleep tonight. Disneyland Resort president Ken Potrock said yesterday it's important for disney
to help as a member of the community, to be part of not just
the tourism environment, but really what happens with our residents and really making an
ecosystem that's good for all. The sixty one million dollar property provides health,
mental and childcare services in Anaheim. Corbin Carson k if I News. Attorneys
in California will soon be required to report colleague misconduct. The state Supreme Court
announced yesterday that's starting August first, lawyers will have to notify the bar if
they have credible evidence of another lawyer's wrongdoing. Anyone who does not comply could
face suspension of their license. We're up to three years. A false report
can lead to criminal charges. We'll have more on that and handle on the
News with Wayne Resnick. A community in Florida has been asked to quarantine because
a population of giant African snails has been found the Miramar area. Officials say
the snails are damaging to local ecosystems, but can also transmit a parasite that
causes meningitis in humans. Officials say the snails, which likely arrived in the
state through an illegal pet trade, are hard to get rid of and can
produce as many twenty five hundred eggs a year. There are only two recorded
instances in the state where the snails were fully removed since infestations were first reported
in the nineteen sixties. Torrance City workers have removed Pride flags from light poles
following complaints from the public. The banners were put up by Downtown Torrance Association
members, who say as soon as anything Pride related goes up, the city's
there to take it down. The DTA's Adam Schwartz says he just wants the
city to include the LGBTQ community. Last year, we tried decorating trees and
storefronts. Vandals took it down. This year, we put up banners.
Our own city government took it down. The city set at its meeting Tuesday
it wants to create a policy that would allow only city related or military banners
to be displayed. Chris Adler KFI News. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sees diminishing
risk of the US falling into recession. She's also suggesting that a slowdown in
consumer spending maybe the price to pay to contain inflation. Yellen says this to
Bloomberg News, My odds of a recession if anything have gone down because look
at the resilience of the labor market and inflation is coming down. That said,
she did not rule out the risk of a slowdown given the potential for
more rate hikes from the Federal Reserve. J Powell Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell
is on Capitol Hill again today for the end of his two day session that
he has to do and he has to take questions, usually the same questions
over and over again so I people can get camera time. We'll get more
on that later this morning as well. Two LA City Council members have been
arrested during a protest near lax Nithia Rahman and Hugo Soto Martinez were arrested while
protesting with hotel workers last night. Los Angeles Metro is on the path to
having its own public safety department. Metro's board of directors voted yesterday to approve
the development of a plan for an in house public safety department. Residents are
concerned that a three mile stretch of Mulholland in the Hollywood Hills is disaster waiting
to happen. Over the fourth of July, a lot of crowd goes up
there for the fourth of July to watch the fireworks and then they might let
off their own. At the bottom of the hour, we're gonna get this
week's house call with Dean Sharp. Dean is, of course, Kafi's house
whisperer, and we're going to look at a nostalgic way to contextually update some
older homes. But right now, let's welcome in ABC's and Flaherty and as
a senior national policy reporter for the network, Good morning, in, good
morning, Happy to be here. Yesterday I was in a meeting and just
unprompted, the student loan forgiveness discussion just kind of came up. This seems
to divide voters, and it's top of mind for a lot of people.
Does that surprise you at all? You know, people who have had opinions
about this for decades now. It's you know, an interesting program was set
up to help middle class kids access college because it used to be only that
really wealthy families, most of them on the East Coast, could attend college.
This was Lennon B. Johnson says, let's expand this, let's make
it easier for kids to go to college. Well, you know, so
many years later, we're almost. I think it's more than fifty years later,
the cost of college has absolutely risen exponentially. Republicans, of course,
blame the program for increasing those tuition costs. Democrats say, well, okay,
but there's no other avenue for kids to achieve a college degree, and
we need more favorable terms by the government. So that's what all eyes on
the Supreme Court waiting for that decision that could come as early as today,
that could forgive some student loans for many Americans. Is student loan forgiveness kind
of a bandige or a band aid on a larger policy wound that could be
healed into different approach or is this is this going to lead to a bigger
discussion. I mean, you would hope that it would lead to a bigger
discussion, because you're absolutely right. This is one of the it's a major
crisis in the United States because you have an entire generation of young people sattled
by debt and they can't invest in homes, they can't save for retirement.
That actually impacts everybody when you have a loan program like this. I mean
one point six trillion dollars is owed to the Education Department. That's essentially turning
the government into a major US bank. So, you know, when I
talk to people who have these loans, one interesting thing that I hear a
lot is, you know, listen, I've actually already paid for college bills
one time over, two times over. It's the interest that's killing me.
That's what they want the government to pull back on. Republicans of course saying,
you know, listen, this is a bailout for people who chose to
go to college. What about those who didn't. So it's a really it's
a flashpoint. I think it's emotional for a lot of people. But I
have spoken with experts who say there are solutions that we could talk about if
we were in a less partisan environment. Try to exactly the polarization, right,
The less partisan thing I tried to take during that meeting issue that impromptu
discussion. I tried to take the point of what about the opportunity costs if
you can't go to college. You're right, there's a generational wealth is at
stake, as well as some social stability. But this really comes down to
this week the Supreme Court, and it's not the Court's job to set policy,
So why are all the eyes on the court. Well, you know,
it's an interesting legal argument. There was a Hero's Act that was signed
into law, and it gave the president the ability to waive or modify student
loans. And you know, the argument that progressive make is, look,
if you're a bank, which is essentially what the federal government is, you
can determine, you can set the terms for loans, you can decide when
people have to pay you back, how they have to pay you back,
how much they have to pay age month. And they say that the government
has this power. So the lawsuit that was filed again against the administration,
the administration is arguing, what the Heroes Act gives us this ability to waive
or modify these loans. Republicans, of course, arguing that's not what it
was intended for. You can't put taxpayers on the hook to just give these
bailouts to people. So we expect these conservative justices are going to have to
weigh in on that. Have you seen any reportage as to who might react
which way when the ruling comes out. Will the Biden administration if it's ruled
against, will they have a backup plan to they have a Plan B they
want to roll out, or is it a hurry up and wait situation.
So that's what everybody's talking about. What is the Plan B? Because we
you know, a lot of people do not expect the conservative justices on this
court to side with the Biden administration on this. The White House, this
is what they do. They're not going to say, you know, okay,
let's start talking about Plan B. That sends a bad message. What
they're saying is, oh, no, of course we're going to win in
court. We're focused on winning in court. We know we've got a good
case. I think privately, behind closed doors, there is some consideration about
this. The debt ceiling bill says payments have to resume, But the question
is whether or not the Biden administration could maybe look at other avenues, legal
arguments and try to make another case on this, or could they set more
favorable terms for people, not a bailout because those payments do have to resume
under law, that you know, maybe lowering the payments that people have to
give every month, setting more favorable terms. I think that's what people will
be looking at. I think you're right. I think that that last part
they're the favorable terms, is the way to do it, because if you're
going to spread out the payment duration, then you have to lower the interest
that we're back at the top of the interview when we talked about how the
compounding interest really just takes over and puts people into default interest. Absolutely,
I think that's a big issue, and I think there's more that we can
talk about this. But as we said, it's just so partisan and such
an emotional issue right now, not a lot of people are yeah, yeah,
exactly. Yeah. It's not a sit down, let's have a cup
of tea kind of conversation yet. So, but we appreciate you joining us
for this cup of coffee this morning. I don't know if you're having any,
Joe, but I am, but thank you so much and for coming
in. I am thank you so much. By ABC's and Flarity there.
She is a senior national policy reporter for the network. Let's check some more
stories from the caf I twenty four hour news room before we get into Dean
Sharpne segment. The Navy says acoustic sensors detected the likely implosion of the Titan
submersible during its dive. A senior Navy official said yesterday the service did an
analysis of acoustic data and detected an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in
the general area where the Titan was operating when it stopped communicating. The skull
of a young boy found a thirty two years ago near mentone has finally been
identified. Detectives with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department say the boy was idd
after his DNA was sent to a sequencing a genomic's laboratory. From there,
a genealogy investigation started, and in February, the lab revealed some relatives in
Houston, Texas. Eventually, a woman named Patricia Clark was identified, who
confirmed her son, Derek Burton, was reported missing. Burton's skull, which
was missing the teeth and part of a jaw, along with some clothing,
had been found by a man who was quail hunting in October of nineteen ninety
one. Steve Gregory Caophine News. The Orange School Board has adopted a parent's
Bill of Rights. Supporters say parents need better access to district information and more
of a voice over critical race theory and other ideologies they say are being forced
into classrooms. Parents had the right to know what subjects and topics are being
taught. In their child school, as well as the curriculum standards that are
being followed. This includes information about textbooks, teaching methods in any major changes
in the curriculum. Other parents called it a political stunt, claiming the new
rights are already district policy and the curriculum is already posted online. Start spreading
the news. If congestion pricing can make it there, it'll probably spread everywhere.
La County Metro is expected to release a traffic reduction study this summer with
details on a pilot program for the south Land. But ahead of US,
New York City is waiting for final approval to become the first in the US
to charge people for driving downtown. A public review for the plan ended Monday,
and a thumbs up from the FEDS is all that's needed for the program
to begin as early as next spring, just like Los Angeles. Some are
calling it a cash grab for the city, with prices between nine and twenty
three dollars a day, but the MTA in New York says it could to
produce the number of cars on the road by up to twenty percent. Michael
Crows your KFI News, President Biden and Indian Prime Minister at Norendra Modi are
hailing a new era of cooperation between the US and India. Biden did host
a state dinner for Modi at the White House yesterday. Modi went with a
lot of tech sector CEOs. And the major highway that collapsed in Philadelphia is
going to reopen today. Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation says six temporary lanes of I
ninety five will be open to traffic starting at six am Pacific. And the
rumors are not true. Dean Sharp did not directly involved himself in the reconstruction
of that or it would have gone even faster. Coming up at five fifty,
Jason Nathanson's going to join us from ABC. We're going to talk about
the weekend and entertainment, including Asteroid City. But right now we do have
kfi's Dean Sharp on the line. He's the house whisperer. He's our Southern
California beat poet of home design. Welcome en, Dean. I've never been
called Southern California's beat poet of home design. Of writing that hang on,
let me get a pen, I got it, write then down. That's
courtesy of my wife. She likes listening to this segment, and she was
like, I don't know, Dean, just he's given me information that I
can use, but he's given it to me in a way that I want
to use it. So I was like, oh, well, I gotta
go yeah, all right, okay, all right, all right, let's
let's jump into a classic. What is a classic? Oh? What is
a classic? You know? This weekend we're going to be talking about living
to how to do an older home or a classic style home. And at
first, blush, you would think, Okay, well, that's a few
folks out there, but not everybody. You know what Southern California is aging,
sorry to tell you. And the fact of the matter is most homeowners
now live in what should be considered classic homes. A classic, it's not
so much about the years, like how old a thing is, although I
can tell you right now exactly how old a Southern California classic is. What
has to do with mostly is whether the home that you live in belongs to
a noteworthy architectural design genre that has kind of passed through history. And the
last genre here in Southern California and arguably maybe across the Nine States, was
the California ranch period. And since Ranch ended around nineteen eighty. That means
a classic house needs to be at least forty three years old to be considered
classic. All right, okay, doesn't seem like that classic, but you
know what I mean, forty three Come on, I mean now again,
I'm talking about here, No no, no, no, But yet you
know what, hey, all you have to do to add another thirty years
to that, and now we're talking about an Eichler. And the fact of
the matter is that a California Ranch style is a much more prolific style,
and I would argue maybe a stronger style even than the Eichler period. So
I know we're getting into the weeds for some folks, but the point is
this California Ranch. It's a real, real style genre for residential homes,
and there hasn't been another one since Everything after Ranch has been I don't know,
it's been all sorts of eclectic nouveaux. You know, it's all just
words thrown out word soup in order to say we don't really know what we're
doing. We're just sort of stealing from everything everywhere. And currently it doesn't
look like anybody is really trending towards a new major genre. So California ranch
the last of the classics at the moment. Okay, cool, I'm going
to put a pin in the next generation of things. And I want to
ask you any totally speaking, when people are updating their California ranches, do
they look at the kitchen first? If they're looking internally, is it a
bathroom upgrade? And if they well, no, matter what you tell me
right there, how are they going to approach it? Wow? You know
the weird thing about a California ranch is that it was never really intended to
be a showy house. California ranch. I mean, you think about ranch
ranch, it's a celebration of the fact that we had room, that we
had space. It's a sprawling, single story house that kind of just breads
out on a lot of room. Okay, now they don't have to sit
on a ranch property, but it is that kind of celebration. And so
I would say the best way to emulate a California ranch, or to treat
it well is number one, see if you can't vault some ceilings in the
inside in the interior, and number two, work that landscape around it.
Because the California ranch is at its best when it's nestled into a beautiful piece
of property. It seems like a knee jerk reaction if wanting to update a
classic home would be to be period appropriate. That said, I'm not looking
to put an inefficient stove or something into you know, like an electric stove
from the seventies into my house. Yeah, yeah, Okay. So now
you're touching on something that is critical to our conversation all weekend, and that
is what is the word authentic really mean when it comes to these things.
Nobody, Jason, nobody really wants to live in a rigidly authentic period house.
In fact, it's arguably these days that you know, by building codes
alone, the city won't let you live in a period authentic house. If
you want to build a purely period authentic house, then it's going to be
a museum literally that people can walk through and take a look at, but
no one will live there, everybody. What we really want when we see
authentic is we want to emulate the best of an authentic period, but do
it using twenty first century technology in twenty first century lifestyle sensibilities. So it's
a little fuzzy, you know, it's it's kind of it's like all every
kind of fundamentalism. The closer you look at it for clear cut boundaries,
the fuzzier everything becomes. And so it's it's a bit of a hybrid mix,
but that's the general goal. Emulate the best themes from the classic period,
but do it in a way that fits a twenty first century lifestyle.
That's pretty cool, and also thanks for the permission to use up to date
technology. I don't have to dig out my dunlap box wrench from the garage
to get back getting there. I was looking at your I was looking at
your talk points before we had this discussion, and one that stood an angle
of view. That phrase was very cool to me. I think you mentioned
the exterior of the home and updating that way, but can you unpack angle
of view for it. Angle of view has to do with the fact that
when you know, a lot of people like to imagine or look at their
home in terms of a set of blueprints or plans. It's a huge mistake,
especially if you're building the new home or you're just working off an architect
set of your existing home. Because an elevation, that's technically what the term
is, it has no perspective to it. It is simply a flat,
one hundred percent direct view of the house, and no one ever sees their
house that way. So you're always standing at an angle. You're standing below
the roofline, you're standing off to the left, off to the right,
and so things like, for instance, we're thinking about redoing the roof,
Okay, how what kind of money are we going to spend on this roof
And how important is it to the overall and the curb appeal or just the
general vibe of the house. Well, what we really have to take into
consideration is the angle of view. If you live in a nice, big
two story house that's relatively close to the street, you probably don't see much
of the roof at all. The most important thing there is the eve You're
looking up at the way where the roof overhangs the edge of the building,
and the underside of that so corbels, details, siding, all sorts of
stuff can go on at the eve line. However, single story ranch house,
even with a decent pitch, when you're standing you know, down the
street looking at that house, that roof may take up more than a third
of the overall view of the house. That makes it, as I like
to say, a very very important head of hair on top of that house,
and so the roof choice becomes really significa. Dean, thank you so
much for your time this morning. Always a pleasure to speak with you.
Hope to do it again next Friday. I think I'm back next Friday,
so I'm gonna prep even more for that segment. All right, sounds great,
that's ka if i's home, whispered Dean Sharp. Home with Dean Sharp,
Saturday six to eight am, Sunday nine am to twelve. Dean is
just one of those combinations of like GSB and home design and chill. It's
just it's such a good time. Let's get back to one quick story out
of this twenty four hour KFI newsroom. The LAPD says the stabbing of a
metro bus driver in Venice was unprovoked. They say the driver was working on
the handicap ramp yesterday when he was attacked. A witness says a homeless guy
punched the driver, then stabbed him in the back when he turned around.
The witness helped catch the attacker and held him for police. News is brought
to you by Terranea resort. Two La City Council members have been arrested during
a protest near lax Nathaia Rahman and Nythia Raman and Hugo Sodo Martinez were arrested
while protesting with hotel workers last night. And Los Angeles Metro is on the
path to having its own public safety department. Metro's Board of directors voted yesterday
to approve the development of a plan for an in house public safety department,
and residents are concerned to the three mile stretch on Mulholland Drive in the Hills
is a disaster waiting to happen on the Fourth of July. In recent years,
thousands of people have flocked to the area to get a view of the
fireworks in the city below, with some setting off fireworks themselves. A couple
more stories before we get to Jason. Driving in express lanes without a transponder
is no longer a crime. The Metro board has voted to permanently decriminalized the
use of express lanes on the ten and one ten freeways. Supervisor Janis Han
first introduced the proposal to allow drivers to pay as they go in twenty eighteen.
Says a lot of people don't know a transponder is required to drive in
the express lanes, so it's a nasty surprise when a driver gets a two
hundred and fifty dollars ticket in the mail. Under the new model, plate
numbers will be captured and a toll in processing fee will be sent in the
mail. Han says the new model makes city freeways more friendly by letting everyone
use them with or without a transponder. Amy King k FI News Okay,
if I reporter Chris Adler has a better take on the La Metro system that
voted to move forward with planning for an in house police department. The motion
was introduced as crimes on transit systems continue to rise. ELI Metro's Gina Osborne
says having an in house safety department would allow officers to be actively engaged with
writers. Metro will have control over the deployment of its police resources and may
be able to improve response times. The board voted unanimously yesterday to move forward
with the creation of the plan, but board member Janice Han abstained, saying
the program needs more thought. Chris Adler KFI News Fly fifty one on your
wake up Call, Welcome in and Welcome Into ABC's Jason Nathanson, Thanks for
joining us this morning. Sure good to be here. Before we get into
handle on the news at the top of the hour, let's talk about entertainment
a little bit. What do you want to start You wanna start with Asteroid
City or is that old news at this point for you? We could start
there. Sure, let's start there, because the usual formula seemed to play
out like it's an indie film. It did pretty well in its first of
the weekend. How's it holding up now? Well, I mean it remains
to be seeing how it's going to hold up this weekend. Last weekend it
opened in New York and Los Angeles and like record setting numbers in terms of
box office in per screen average. So we'll see how the rest of the
country digs Wes Anderson's kind of quirky sensibility. I mean, he's been successful
in the past, for sure, but not necessarily huge mainstream success. So
it'll be interesting to see how when the numbers translate. You know, we're
not gonna be talking about fifty sixty million dollars by any stretch of the imagination.
Wes Anderson is a you know, I think it's kind of a love
him or I would say love him or hate him, because I don't know
if people hate him, but like it's love him or you know, kind
of neutral on him. For me, I never really got into Wes Anderson
stuff. His singular vision just doesn't work for me. In this film,
which is Asteroid City, which is a very ry Wes Anderson film, and
you know, it's got a huge cast Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Steve
Carrell, Margot Robbie who I believe her all first time, yeah, in
the Wes Anderson universe, and then a bunch of other you know, Jason
Schwarzman, Adrian Brodie and others, um who were who've been in there before,
but a lot of them. Steve Carrell doesn't get a whole lot to
do, Margot Robbie's in one scene. Tom Hanks doesn't get the I mean,
he's the only one who seems to really kind of be a character.
And Scarlett Johanson, you know, she's fine, but the movie just didn't
do a whole lot for me. Understood and fair enough. And let's take
a hard one eighty then, and I'm gonna ask you about no hard feelings.
Sure, this is the Jennifer Lawrence rated comedy, which is I mean,
some people are calling it her comeback. I don't know about that.
She took a little a couple of years off to become a new mom and
do some other stuff and stay away from acting for a little bit. So
this is her This is her first real like full starring roll back. And
also she's never been in a comedy like a full on start in a full
on comedy before. She's had some comedic roles, and we definitely know that
she's funny. Anybody who's ever seen her on any kind of late night show
or anything, No, she's really really funny. And here it's an it's
all rated, it's you know, supposed to be, you know, raunchy
sex comedy. She plays a character who is about to lose her house.
The only way she feels she can save it is by driving for uber,
but her car is kind of messed up, so she can't really do that,
So she sees an ad online. A couple of wealthy helicopter parents who
have a nineteen year old is about to go to college. He's kind of
introverted and shy. They want somebody to quote unquote date their nineteen year old
son and give them a little more confidence, you know. I was.
I love raunchy comedies. Grew up in the eighties with like coming of age
like Meatballs and Porky's Agular Party, and then also the John Hughes movies,
which are also great aging movies as well. This is kind of stuck in
between those, and for me, it wasn't raunchy enough to be raunchy,
and it wasn't kind of heartfelt enough to be on the John Hughes side of
things. So a couple of laughs in there, for sure. Jennifer Lawrence
is great to watch, but really, at the end of the day,
didn't do what I wanted it to do. Okay, Um, yeah,
I was wondering about that. I actually had Porkys in my notes to ask
you about and see, because yeah, we're hard boiled gen xers and you're
telling me that we're somewhere in the middle, So all right, cool,
Maybe maybe that's a streaming option for me at least, I don't know.
I'm let me ask you about I'm a Virgo because that's been popping all over
my social media feeds. Do you have any takes on I'm a Virgo seems
to have a hype cycle all around it. Yeah, that's a new series
from Boots Riley, who did a movie a couple of years ago called Sorry
to Bother You, critically a claimed kind of set up this surreal world in
which Boots likes to live in and write in and direct in. And it's
kind of surreal comedy but also social common terry as well. And here you
have I'm a Virgo stars Jerrell Jerome, who is great and when they see
us an Emmy winner for that the Central Park five story. And he plays
a nineteen year old black man living in Oakland who is thirteen feet tall and
he's never been out in the world. His parents have kept him sequestered because
they're worried about what might happen to him. If, you know, people
get a hold of him, they might call him a freak, or you
know, there might be mobs and pitchforks and things like that. They're just
they're not sure. So he's grown up. The only contact he has with
the outside world is through TV and what he reads, and he wants to
get out there. He wants to live life. He wants to stretch his
legs, metaphorically and physically, and so he does, but he encounters a
world with which is not familiar and it's kind of tough for him to get
used to it. I really like what I've seen so far of the show.
It's it's interestingly done and kind of a wild ride. So you have
seven episodes of that which are all available today on Prime Video. Okay,
great, um, run quick one before I have to let you go.
And this is has to do with some off camera drama with a real drama.
Sex in the City got to balance this week something to do with Kim
Cattrall. I wasn't following it completely, but I have a feeling people are
interested in Sex in the City. Well, the new series, the new
season of and Just like That, which is the Sex and the City spinoff,
is out this week. You have two episodes which dropped Thursday, I
believe, and you know there's been it hasn't been as warmly received, I
think as they want it to be the whole the whole show. People loved
Sex in the City. This is kind of a poor spinoff. But in
that first season, Kim Catrall, who was you know, made up the
fourth member of the group. She wasn't a part of it. She very
publicly said she didn't want to be a part of it. She was done
with that character. And word is that she is back in this season too,
just a cameo. Don't expect a whole lot, but she does appear
in that which you know, sex in the city fans makes them happy.
Okay, so she was done with the character. Should we be done with
the characters? You know, it's not a show that I've continued to watch
after last season or the first season. It didn't do a whole lot for
me. It's kind of a it felt a little sad to be returning to
these characters and kind of not that it takes away from the original show,
which was really really great um and put HBO on the map and was was
a fantastic show. That's still there. You can still go watch that.
And I don't mind with the people wanting to continue with characters and things that
are great and keep exploring that world. But the magic has definitely gone for
me and for a lot of people. Okay. ABC's Jason Nathanson, thanks
for your time. I hope you have a great weekend too. You two
ticket, Let's get back to a couple of stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room before the top of the hour. A man from
Palmdale is facing two years in pre and for illegally importing eloted mosaic from Syria.
The mosaic, which depicts Hercules and other Roman mythological figures, is valued
that more than four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The pieces eight feet tall
and eighteen feet long. Prosecutors say you have seen alkyrie He lied to customs
officials in twenty fifteen and told them he was importing tiles from Turkey worth less
than six hundred bucks. Federal agents took the mosaic from alkyrie He's garage shortly
after it was trucked in from the port of Long Beach. Alkyrie He is
set to be sentenced in August. Blake Trolley k if I News ninety five
in Philadelphia is about to reopen less than two weeks after a fatal crash caused
a bridge to collapse. Crews have been working around the clock and are set
to finish ahead of schedule, obviously because they told us if it's gonna be
three to six months. The interim six lane highway is set to reopen at
noon today Eastern time, so we'll have to be keep an eye on that
one. I guess we'll be used. A permanent bridge is built later this
year. And a firefighter in Florida has been given a permanent home to a
baby left in a Safe Haven baby box. The firefighter says and alarm sounded
when the little girl was placed in the baby box around two am January second.
The firefighter opened the box and found a healthy baby girl wrapped in a
pink blanket. He says he picked her up and when they locked eyes that
was it. He talked to his wife and by January fourth, she was
home with the firefighter and his wife. The couple adopted Zoe in April.
The firefighter says he's telling a story now and helps of giving the birth moms
some closure. There are one hundred forty eight Safe Haven baby boxes in the
US, including in southern California, and thirty one babies have been safely surrendered.
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