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Middleton. Good morning, everyone, Welcome, this is wake Up Call.
It's June thirtieth, halfway point calendar wise. I was looking at the markets
actually figuring out how they're going to close out the first six months of the
year on the trading thing. Will have a little bit more on that during
Handle on the News with Wayne. It is the of course, it's kind
of a getaway day for a lot of people because of the July fourth holiday
that's coming up. We have an interview later on this hour with Jim Ryan.
A fifty one million people are expected to travel. A lot of that's
going to be going through major airports. We're gonna check on that too.
If you're not going anywhere, we're gonna do a whip around of the wake
Up Called crew this morning of what we're watching this weekend reading and at least
in one instance, somebody's going to go outside, so we're gonna have that
too. Let's get a few headlines in and then we're going to get into
what's happening in the rest of the show. The Supreme Court is expected to
drop a few more decisions this morning, including student loan repayment and LGBTQ plus
policies. Now. Yesterday the Supreme Court jenmed up the news cycle with its
affirmative action ruling, and we're going to have more on that in this show
as well. In and around Paris, six hundred have been arrested during civil
unarrest and violent protests after a teenager was shot and killed by a police officer
moral and that is also coming up this hour. And we've had a spate
of deadly and serious car accidents, it seems this week. Last night a
sixty year old woman was killed and five others, including a toddler, were
hurt, and a head on crash in Van five people were taken to the
hospital. And as this heat wave moves in, another thing to watch,
specifically the sporting overnight fog is picking up and some spots only have visibility of
a quarter of a mile, So I know that the traffic volume might be
down a little bit today and definitely on Monday and Tuesday, but still if
you only can see for a quarter of a mile and you're going eighty five
one one thirty four, maybe not the best choice. Let's start with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom, where we
do lead local A lawsuit has been filed against the VA over allegations it failed
to provide housing for homeless veterans in LA. Attorney Eve Hill says the new
homeless data released yesterday includes a twelve percent increase in the number of homeless vets
in the LA area. Hill says the VA was sued once before over a
failure to act. It was settled in twenty fifteen with a plan in place
that would have had seven hundred housing units in place on that campus by now
and would have had twelve hundred units on that campus within the next few years.
But Hill says when asked why the housing has happened, she says,
the agency replied, We're not going to spend the money. The VA won't
comment on pending litigation. Steve Gregory kafinews family members of people killed in the
school shooting in Parkland, Florida, have questioned how a sheriff's deputy who did
nothing was cleared by a jury. We don't understand how this jury looked at
the evidence that was presented and found him not guilty fired at Deputy Scott Peterson
was acquitted yesterday of felony, child neglect and other charges for taking cover in
twenty eighteen instead of confronting the shooter who killed seventeen people. Peterson teared up
as the verdict was read. He later hugged his wife and said he also
wanted to hug the families, but you know, I know that's maybe not
what they're feeling at this point. Peterson says the only person to blame is
the monster who did the shooting. The deadline for actors in studios to make
a deal is getting close. ABC's Jason Nathanson says if the Hollywood groups can't
negotiate by tonight, the actors could join the WGA strike on the WJA on
strike. The actors sag AFTER has been negotiating with the Hollywood studios represented by
the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for several weeks now over many of
the same things at issue in the writer's strike. Earlier this month, nearly
ninety eight percent of sag after A members approved the vote to authorize a strike.
Nathanson says the last time and the only time that SAG and the WGA
were on strike at the same time was in nineteen sixty And Broadway is going
back to nineteen eighty five. Previews get underway today for Back to the Future
the musical. It's the Broadway music version of Robert Semeckis and Bob Gil's classic
nineteen eighty five time travel blockbuster movie iconic songs the Power of Love and Johnny
B. Good will be in the stage production and the Whole Gang's Back Marty
McFly, Doc Brown, George McFly, Lorraine Baines, and Biff Tannon.
Opening night for what some theater watchers are saying they hope will be out of
Time on Broadway is August third. Amy King KFI news first topic for today
on Wake Up Call is the Supreme Court ruling that recasts, if not recalls,
affirmative Action in the United States. ABC News correspond at Faith of Boo
Bay is with us to help us with the day afternows around this welcome back
in Yeah, thank you, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's the
day after Affirmative Action was effectively rolled back. How are the politics playing out
since yesterday morning? Well, Mami here the White House. You know,
this was not a topic that the Biden administration wanted the Supreme Court to take
up. You know, they've been on the record explicitly asking the Supreme Court
to reject this case, going back to when this case was being considered by
the Supreme Court. The administration even went through the Department of Justice to file
a brief to the Supreme Court arguing that there was no reason to take up
the Harvard case at all. So fast forward. Now, the Justices have
gutted the use of affirmative action in the process of admissions for colleges, and
the yesterday the President said, you know, he strongly, strongly disagrees with
the court's decision. He said this is not a normal because they were walking
away from decades of precedent, and that moving forward, that there needs to
be something done in place of this. You know, he said, this
cannot be the last word. And so he's now directing the Department of Education
to review practices in the school admissions process when it comes to diversity, when
it comes to legacy admissions and other systems. And so what we're learning right
now is that the Department of Education will start that review as soon as possible,
and then within the next forty five days they will issue some guidance to
the collegists all across the country as it relates to this ruling and what they
can do moving forward. But the President really urged collegists across the country to
maintain their commitment to diversity despite what the Supreme Court ruled in this case.
Well, Faith, you just described some of the very detail oriented responses to
this, which of course implies that they were prepped for it and the administration
wanted to have an immediate kind of pushback. And that was kind of my
follow up question. But then I did notice that he kind of sort of
the President kind of sort of fell for the classic walk away question again yesterday.
What happened with that? Yeah, so a reporter asked him whether this
was a rowe court, and you know, he responded by he paused for
a minute, and then he responded and he said, this is not a
normal court. Of course, later on, the President explained further what he
meant by that, and what he said during a TV interview was the fact
that, you know, he has issues with the way that the court has
been rolling back precedent. For example, with affirmative action, and also with
the Roe v. Wade, you know, decades of precedent and the Court
is overturning that, and so he said, that's what he meant by that.
But you know, he was asked yesterday as well, you know,
whether this decision means that he would be in favor of expanding the courts,
and he said no, and that's that it would be a mistake to do
that, and that it would further politicize this court, which would be not
in the a good thing for the country as a whole. But you know,
he also misspoke yesterday he talked about how a majority of Americans actually support
affirmative action. That's not what the polls show. Polling from our five thirty
eight partners who actually they actually analyze the sentiments across the country using different polls
altogether, and they found that a majority, a strong majority of Americans actually
have said that they would agree with limiting affirmative action or ending affirmative action in
higher education. They do support diversity in higher education, but they just don't
want affirmative action the way it has been. And so the polling as shown
that Americans do support what the courts did in this case. Well. As
we move into the weekend, of course, the Sunday yacht shows will have
a lot more to add to this, But thank you for helping us unpack
the day after news when it comes to affirmative action. I assume you're on
the case this morning as well when other rulings drop around seven am Pacific.
Yes, I will be here at the White House that if the President has
anything to say, we'll be sure to let you know. Oh, thanks
a lot, Thank you very much, and thanks for joining us again.
Thank you have a great day. ABC News correspondent Bob there helping us unpack
the day after affirmative action was effectively rolled back. Now, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Long Beach City College is planning to build affordable housing for homeless students. Superintendent
President doctor Mike Munos says about three hundred units would be created on campus for
students without dependence. The twenty four units that we're hoping to build as part
of the North Long Beach Educational Higher Educational Center that would have units that would
allow for students but dependence. Hopefully as well, you see. Muniz says
the on campus units will cost about ninety million dollars to build, and other
off campus housing is going to cost another thirty million dollars. He says there's
no set date on when the units would be ready. You see. Irvine
researchers have helped create the world's first high resolution human breast atlas to help fight
breast cancer. The seven year project is part of a global Human Cell Atlas
consortium, which is mapping every organ system in the body. You see.
Irvine Associate Professor Kai Kessenbrock says this is a groundbreaking resource for the cancer a
research community. You can look at it as somewhat of a Google Maps system
for the human breast and you can see sellia neighborhoods and you can see how
they start to change potentially during breast cancer. The human organ system Atlas projects
build off recent advances and g no make expression on a single cell level.
In Orange County, Corbin Carson k if I News. Before we go to
Nick Poliuchuini in check traffic one more time, We're gonna start our whip around
as to what people are going to be watching, doing, reading, listening
to this weekend and I'll want to start with producer Nate. Nate, are
you still all on the mic? Oh? Yeah, I'm here? All
right? Cool? Now, you mentioned one thing and I said, hey,
let's save it for air. So I hope I picked the right clip.
But I'm going to start with the clip and then you tell me why.
Okay, totally, all right, mister g qu gotta take it.
How you doing, Mike? Are you screaming about operations? So Nate?
So, yeah, that's an iconic show. Yeah, totally. I don't
know if I've seen that episode yet, but um yeah, I've been watching
The Sopranos for the first time. I just finished season two last night's violence.
Yeah. I was gonna say, yeah, a spoiler. There might
be something because in that clip, what he's doing is he's a stapling a
parking ticket to somebody's chest. You know, that's what I thought. I
heard a staple gun in there. That's you know, that's really cool way
to paint the picture. Okay, Well, what made you whip around back
to The Sopranos. I mean it's been out for a minute. Yeah,
I mean I kind of just missed it. I was a little too young
when it dropped in like nineteen ninety nine, two thousand and Um, I've
always loved mob movies, and since I have the streaming service Max formerly known
as HBO Max, I have no idea why they changed the name. Um,
we're not sponsored, by the way, Yeah, not sponsored. Uh
yeah. I just decided like, hey, I love mob movies. Everyone
talks about the sopranos. Let me crack this open. And then I watched
like the first couple of episodes of the first season, and I've pretty much
been hooked right on. Okay, well cool, let's put a pen in
when you see the finale and then we'll come back and see what you think
of that. No, no spoilers, no further spoilers. Oh yeah like
that. I've heard things about the finale, but you know, I'm enjoying
the ride so far. It's about the journey. Good exactly. It is
about the journey and good call on the branding miss from HBO. Yeah Max.
I was watching Max over the weekend, like, what is that your
dog? Are you writing your kid? I don't know what that means.
Nate, Thanks for thanks for that. I appreciate it. Thank you.
Jason the Pentagon says a Chinese by balloon did not collect intelligence during a flight
over the US earlier this year. The Defense Department says the balloon did not
gather any data as it flew over the country for most of a week in
February, fascinating most people who have televisions. The US Supreme Court says employers
must reasonably accommodate a worker's religious beliefs. The court ruled yesterday on the case
of a Pennsylvania mail carrier for the US Postal Service. Republican Congressman George Antos
is going to be in federal court today is New York court appearance comes after
pleading not guilty to thirteen charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and
making false statements to the House of Representatives. The fact that that's a crime.
At five thirty, yeah, the House whisper a Dean Sharp is going
to be with us. We're gonna be talking about finding new life for older
homes. And honestly, with Dean, you can go narrow and deep on
just about anything when it comes to homes, home designs, inside and outside.
But right now, ABC's Jim Ryan is on the line. The top
of mind subject for us this morning in a lot of ways, at least
until seven o'clock where the Supreme Court comes out with some new rulings. Fifty
one million Americans are going to hit the road this weekend and some fourth welcome
in, Jim, good to hear you again. It's an eleven percent increase
from last year, Jason. About eight percent of those people will travel by
air. Doesn't sound like a lot, but that's extremely high in terms of
the ratio of people flying to people driving. Highest it's spin in about twenty
years. So yes, skis are going to be crowded. The roads are
going to be crowded. They all across the country. Triple A has figured
out some best times and some worst times, and best routes and worst routes.
To take the worst one around Los Angeles, taking I fifteen to Las
Vegas tomorrow, well Sunday at six pm, it'll take sixty percent longer than
it normally does, about six hours twelve minutes. Wow. Talk about fear
and loathing on the road. That's why I didn't know idea. So eleven
percent jump, that's quite a bit. Are we at pre pandemic levels yet?
Oh yeah, yeah. And in fact, this fourth of July holiday
is probably gonna set records for all Fourth of July holidays, but keep in
mind that it's a very long holiday. This year the Triple A puts brackets
around these holiday weekends. Of course, then it begins today and it ends
this coming Tuesday. Well, Tuesday is the fourth of July. Who's going
to stay out watch fireworks on the fourth of July or drone shows or whatever
you do, right, and then go back to work on the fifth,
which is Wednesday. So I sort of think that they might as well extend
it out to today through next Wednesday, a five day holiday, because that's
I think what a lot of people will be doing. But so you know,
that's that's one of the reasons I think that we're naturally gonna have a
record for travelers because it is a very long holiday. But yeah, the
volumes are much higher as well. ABC's Jim Ryan right there calling for a
European style holiday weekend of five days. Okay, gotcha, Jim. I'd
be nice. What did though? But yeah, I'm with you. I
mean, you're right. Tuesday night, the family and I are going to
go to Dodger Stadium to see the game, and then the fireworks are afterwards,
and then I'm back on the air Wednesday morning because nobody could cover for
him because they're all out doing their July fourth party. Don't bother going to
bed because you won't get out of there until. Yeah, it's fair,
you know, two three in the morning. Yeah, I'm just gonna roll
with it. What about let's go back to the tips you mentioned. Can
you extrapolate on some of those coming out of triple because I mean, fifty
one million people traveling is no joke and we want to be ready. Oh.
Absolutely, And you know, obviously getting to the airport early is the
best advice. TSA does have a goal set for herself. It wants to
have ninety eight percent of wait times under thirty minutes in the stand hundred line.
In the pre check line, they want to have it under ten ten
minutes. So ninety eight percent of the way times and pre checks should be
ten minutes or less, should be half an hour in the regular lines.
So get there early, be ready for that sort of delay. Potentially,
if you're on the road, keep in mind that in a lot of parts
of the country it's extremely hot. Make sure that your coolant levels are up
to your oil has been changed and as fresh the tires are up, and
that the air conditioning works. And if you're in the in the east coast,
or if you're ahead of that direction, be aware that some storms could
be coming. So it depends upon where you are as to being prepared for
this fourth of July holiday weekend. Jason, good call on the car maintenance,
especially if you're head into Vegas and you don't want to add to that
sixty percent increase. If you're slepping all the way to hit the strip.
I fifteen can be a lonely place if you're out there with a busted radiator,
it's just you and the Vulguersum. I know we can go. I
know I can go lateral with you a little bit. And I believe you're
still in North Texas today, Yes, And how's the heat doome doing?
It has moved to the eavest, Thank Heaven's mercifully right at this moment at
seventy seven degrees and at seven twenty five Central time, and it'll climb out
into the mid nineties today, may not touch a hundred, that's the expectation
at least. But over to the east of here, in Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama. They are looking at triple digit heat now and it is miserable
out there. So yeah, mercifully that heat dome that sucked all the life
out of North Texas now has gone over toward Louisiana. Okay, well,
thanks for that update too, Jim, and I hope you have a great
holiday weekend. I'm on the air all next week, so maybe we'll speak
again me too. We'll talk to you then, all right, thanks Jim.
Let's get back to some news coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The California Reparations Task Force has recommended one hundred and fifteen policies to
address harms to black people, but no payment amount or funding plan. Never
forget that we were enslave in this country longer than we have been free.
Class Force chair and repertory justice attorney from La Camillamore listed some of the racial
disparity he's documented in the eleven hundred page report, vigiland team violence, extrajudicial
terror, war on drugs, mass and car serration, unfair sentencing, the
school to prison pipeline, extreme poverty, homelessness, gentrification, wealthlessness. The
report also suggests formal apologies. We have been relegated to the bottom of the
cast system in this country. Governor Newsom said yesterday, the report comes out
right as the Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action and other civil rights in the
country are regressing. I take the responsibility to answer and to be accountable to
what's going on as relates to race relations in the state in the nation.
I am very mindful of our past recommendations from the two year task force now
go to the state legislature. Corbin Carson k if I news and La County
is being sued by the US Attorney's Office for allegedly discriminating against voters with disabilities.
Prosecutors say polling places in Pasadena, North Hollywood, Downey, and Watts
are still in use, even though the federal government first alerted the county about
lack of accessibility for people with disabilities back in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty.
The lawsuit claims more than two hundred fifty voting centers were observed throughout the county
in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. An investigators say they noticed only a small
number complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Issues with van parking ramps and
handrails were among the most common complaints. Steve Gregory KINGO Fine News. An
elderly woman has returned home from the hospital following an attack by thousands of bees
outside her home in Murietta. Video from Wednesday shows the woman being swarmed by
bees, falling to the ground, and then neighbors trying to help. Fire
and rescue crews arrived and were also attacked, but they were able to get
rid of the bees with help from bee removal pros. Now experts say southern
California's bee population has exploded after the historic wet winter, and I can tell
you don't squad at them. If you can't, just back away. Biggest
nightmare is one of my biggest nightmares. Is it a bee attack? Yeah?
I don't. Yeah, I'm pro b bees, man, I'm prob.
I feel you. And apparently with the population this high right now,
yikes. I respect bees, I respect what they do for us, but
stay very far away from me, please, Okay? Fair enough? Anne
put her headset on. I saw produce Ram put her headset on because she
let's talk about bees. Apparently, No, you don't want to talk about
a big bee lady that Anne is he yeah, yeah on the West loses
on the West Valley. Let me get back to this one real quick before
we get to the bottom. The Equally Employment Opportunity Commission says new federal laws
for pregnant workers will not overturn stricter California laws. The laws would require employers
with at least fifteen workers to make workplace accommodations for expectant mothers. Employment attorney
Doug Silverstein says this could include rest breaks, relief from strenuous activity, and
special parkings. At least one hundred people have died in Mexico over the past
three weeks as a heat wave is pushing temperatures above one hundred and twenty degrees
in some parts of the country, and nearly all the deaths are attributed to
heat stroke and dehydration. Geraldo Rivera says he has been fired from The five
on Fox News and is quit the network. The journalists said so in a
post last night on Twitter celebrating Social Media Day. Now coming up at five
fifty, ABC's Royal Oaks is gonna spin with us back to the affirmative action
decision that dropped yesterday, and then we're also going to talk about what we
expect to get at around seven am Pacific time today. Of course, this
is Wayne's swing zone as well, so we're just going to kind of t
that up. But right now on the line, the inimitable being sharp.
Good morning Ding, Good morning Jay. So how are you doing? But
I'm okay, Man, New life for older homes? Okay, what qualifies
as an older home in California? Older home? You know, anything about
forty plus years at this point. And it's not so much the age of
the house as it is, you know, whether it belongs to a style
grouping or a style classification that's no longer being you know, made in mass
And the last major architectural style for southern California was California Ranch and that stopped
being done in mass by developers right around nineteen eighty or so. So it's
twenty twenty three. You do the math, you know, to live in
a classic home in California, it's probably got to be at least forty three
years old or so. Okay, thanks Now for older homes. You want
to give him new life. You don't want to tear the do you want
to kind of accentuate the positives. Right, So there's got to be some
lighter lifts and then some heavier lifts. Let's start with the lighter lifts.
What would you suggest, Yeah, the lighter lifts are the things that really
have to do with a superficial stuff that have been built into homes. And
when we talk about, you know, rehabbing an older home, what we're
really talking about. There's two categories of things. One that's just stuff that's
breaken down right, just maintenance kind of things. The other is, you
know, improving on the style that it was built in to begin with.
And that can be a little bit too trickier because some of those things that
were built in by the tract home developers, just assuming most of us live
in tract homes, some of them are in bed into the home unfortunately,
stuff like you know, builder grade plumbing and electrical systems, other things are
more on the surface of the home, right, Like they use cheap paint,
Okay, well now we're going to use better paint. They put in
cheap lighting fixtures, Well we're going to replace those. Those are light lifts,
right, because they're superficial things. Floor coverings, even things like roofing
materials are a lighter lift than getting into the walls and redoing plumbing, drainage
systems, electrical work, that kind of thing. So if we're looking for
the light changes, then we're going for purely superficial items. And then if
we dig in just a little bit, we could be making some changes like
getting rid of unnecessary soffits, which I just about every tract home in California
has unnecessary soffits. Or if you're from the north, bulkheads, changing out
lighting panels, acoustic ceilings, right, the popcorn on the ceiling, those
kinds of things. Those are the kinds of things that are yeah, capital
capital C charming. Don't like you like that popcorn ceilings? Right, very
it's very period, for sure, you're totally You're totally right, Hey,
household budget wise, Dean, just real quick on the roofing thing. Is
that a higher ROI because it's visual and structural? Yeah, it is,
it is, and and it's also something that's just so critical to the house.
I mean, obviously the roof is super important. And anybody who's in
the middle of thinking about like, oh, you know, it's time to
change out the roof, I would tell them two things. Number One,
good on you. It's good timing for that. In fact, not this
weekend, but next weekend. We're spending the entire weekend talking about roofing y
because El Nino is officially here, and so we are probably staring down the
pipeline at yet another extremely wet winter. Okay, it's not a guarantee,
but it is a very strong likelihood, and so now is the time to
you know, tune up the roof and make sure that as we head into
fall in winter, you're ready for drainage and water issues. But also from
an aesthetics point of view, I think we mentioned this a couple three weeks
ago. When you're actually looking at most houses in Southern California, the average
attract home in southern California, we kind of forget about the roof, but
as you look at a house, it takes up about a third of the
view, and so stylistically the roofing choice really really important for the way that
your house just vibes on the street. Very cool. I know, I
have to let you go relatively soon. We're talking about older homes. We
talk about popcorn ceilings being a visual affront, but there are other caustic materials
in homes, and I imagine those have to be confronted as projects eventually.
What are some of those Well, probably the other issue would be asbestos ducting
and duct work in the attics that sometimes you can just avoid changing out altogether.
It's not a threat to you when it's not being disturbed. In fact,
if you have an older acoustic ceiling, you want to make sure it
gets tested for asbestos. And then the other thing for a really really old
home, when we're just changing out or stripping paint, you got to be
aware of whether the original paint on that house was done in the era of
lead based paints. Because there's a way to treat releasing getting lead based paint
off of a house, and it's not just by sitting there with your sander
breathing in all the lead that you're now releasing. So there are ways to
do that. We'll be talking about that this weekend as well. What time
this weekend Every Saturday morning from six day and Sundays from nine to noon.
Dean, thanks so much for the time. Thanks Jason, talk to you
next week and I'll be listening this weekend too, because honestly, there's something
to pick up every week when Dean does a show. It's really cool.
You don't have to be a home owner either. It's just kind of anyway.
It's very useful information. And speaking of useful information, we're doing the
whip around on what people are binging, watching, listening to, maybe going
out and doing this weekend as we head into the July fourth holiday, And
Tyler, can I ask you what you're happening, what you might have on
your plate when it comes to this long ish weekend, not for us but
for most. Yeah. So I actually have a non typical busy weekend ahead
of myself. It's my wife and I his anniversary tomorrow, two years married.
So tonight she's got some plans for us. We're gonna go to Tomoco,
which is a massage parlor, and then afterwards you have some sushi together
in a kimono. So that'll be nice and romantic and also super relaxing.
I'm excited about that. Yeah, And then tomorrow we're slated to see No
Hard Feelings, the new Jennifer Lawrence movie, Huh boilers on that. I
saw it this week. You know, I think I'll just wait and see
it. If that's okay, that's okay. There's a lot of subtexts.
I'm just kidding. Yeah, I hear she shows her true colors in that
movie. Uh yeah, the colors are flying. Yeah, personality really comes
out. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait. Indeed, a happy anniversary
to thank you, sir, appreciate that absolutely. A federal judge rejecting Donald
Trump's bid to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from New York columnist A Jean Carroll.
US District judge there made the ruling yesterday on the first of two lawsuits that
accused Trump of defamation for denying he raped her in the mid nineties. The
US is considering sending cluster munitions to Ukraine. That's according to two senior US
officials, who say the Biden administration is leaning towards sending the weapons within the
next few months. More than one hundred million Americans are under air quality alerts
as smoke from wildfires in Canada continues filing up the air in the United States,
air quality alerts Washington to Vermont, down to North Carolina and the worst
air quality this morning Michigan. Sorry, ABC's Royal Oaks is on the line.
He's a legal analyst, be busy this week. Welcome in, Hey
my pleasure. Yeah, big day for the Supreme Court yesterday in terms of
affirmative action, and the Chief Justice Roberts announced from the bench today Friday is
going to be it the last. A couple of big decisions will be picked
out the door, and then the justices are off on vacation. By the
way, I love the music. Mad Man is my favorite TV show ever.
All Right, so we were doing whip arounds on what people are going
to be binging this weekend. I'm glad you brought up mad Man. Let
me get you, Let me get your take on yesterday's decision before we preview
what we expect later this morning when the affirmative When the affirmative action came in,
what was your immediate knee jerk take. Well, it wasn't a surprise,
so I wasn't too shocked. You know. When they had the oral
argument several months ago, the justices on both sides kind of telegraphed their punches.
Chief Justice Roberts wrote back in two thousand and seven that the way to
end that racial discrimination is not more racial discrimination. So we kind of knew
where he was coming from but he really laid it out. He just said,
look the equal Protection clause at the Constitution, band's racial discrimination. He
did say, nothing prohibits universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected
their life. So the Justice sodomy Or was not impressed with this. She
said, that's like putting a lipstick on a pig. So, yeah,
there was a lot, a lot of emotion on the High Court yesterday.
Okay, let's move to this morning. Apparently, or hopefully or optimistically,
we should expect two more fairly large decisions to come down around seven o'clock our
time here on the West Coast. Let's start with the LGBTQ plus rights slash
free speech decision. Is what's at stake there and what do you expect?
Yeah, so the court took up the case of a Christian graphic artist who
does not want to make wedding websites for same sex couples. This is in
Colorado. Again, we were called with several years ago. There was another
Colorado case involving the wedding cakes that made it up to the US Supreme Court.
Colorado state law requires that businesses open to the public provide services without discrimination.
So the real question is whether there is a religious right or a free
speech right for this web designer, Laurie Smith, And she's going to learn
her fate, as you say, at the seven o'clock our times more okay,
and the other ones that you expect to get today, I believe is
student debt relief. There are more than one case there though, right,
yeah, a couple of cases, but really the same issue. The court
is going to decide if President Biden's federal student loan forgiveness program that would wipe
out about four hundred billion dollars of debt, whether that may go forward.
There were a couple of suits won by six states controlled by Republicans and the
other by two borrowers who said, hey, we don't qualify for loan forgiveness
under the terms of this deal. This one's a little harder to predict it.
We didn't see the tea leaves that well at the oral argument. So
we'll find out at seven o'clock, and a lot of students are going to
be listening to find out if their chunk of the four hundred billion dollars debt
will disappear. You know what I read the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Everybody
just assumes we're going to go right to the affirmative action decisions. Can we
talk about the other one about the postmaster from Pennsylvania the postal employee from Pennsylvania
for a second. What was at stake there? And let's unpack the ruling
a little bit. That one's not getting as much press as the others.
No, but it was kind shocking because it was nine to zero. Every
justice agreed to vote for the postal workers. So essentially, this is a
Christian postal worker who does not like to work on Sundays because of his faith.
The boss said, sorry, Jeff Bezos says, the Amazon packages have
to be delivered today. We promised one click and all that, and the
postal worker said, no, I'm not doing it. And so the question
is may he be fired? And the court nine zero said no, he
may not be fired. The idea is, if your religious beliefs has a
substantial impact on a workplace, on the company you work for, in a
negative way, then you can get away with infringing on somebody's religious beliefs.
But in this case, it's not going to take the company down just by
whether or not. This guy delivers packages from Amazon on Sundays. I mean,
if you were a Rastafarian and you said, you know, smoking Dopez
is a sacrament, and so I want to do it. The courts are
going to say, sorry, you can't get away with that. But just
not delivering packages, that was okay, royal in classic anchor fashion. I'm
gonna throw you a quick curveball. Can you remember anything recent when it's nine
to nothing as far as the ruling goes, it could be mundane. I
just it's hard to I mean, you're right that that fact alone stands out,
not just the ruling, but nine to zero. Yeah. You know,
there were a couple of them earlier this year, and unfortunately they're not
popping into my head. But when it happens, it's so shocking because they're
so diametrically opposed. For example, of Justice Jackson and Justice Thomas in yesterday's
affirmative action decision, both black justices absolutely totally different viewpoints. Thomas says that
affirmative action is just a worthless program, whereas Jackson says, you know what,
this is not a colorblind society. It never has been. So we've
got to make up for past discrimination, but so it's very unusual when all
nine of the justices agree on any Thank you for that, Royal, I
appreciate it. Always good to speak with you. Hope you have a great
weekend too, do two thanks ABC's legal analyst Royal Oaks. There. Let's
get back to a couple of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour news room, and then we're gonna finish up with our whip around as
to what people might be binging over the weekend. People over sixty can get
a new RSV vaccine this fall, but health officials recommend talking to your doctor
first. The CDC initially considered a stronger recommendation that everyone sixty five and older
get this shot, but loosened up when members had questions about how well it
works in feeble adults and how much it will cost. Drugmaker GSK says its
vacs will cost two hundred to two hundred and ninety five dollars, but we'll
hold up for multiple seasons, and Fiser hasn't yet set a price. The
San Diego Zoo Safari Park has welcomed a baby Shovalski's horse, sometimes called the
Last Wild Horse. The species was considered extinct until nineteen ninety six. Still
critically endangered, it has survived for forty years almost exclusively in zoos. Conservation
groups have recently worked to reintroduce them to their native habitats. So now there's
a few herds in China and Mongolia. And I like to thank the writer
for not having me say Schavolski's more than a couple of times in that story.
Apple is on the brink of hitting a market value of three trillion dollars
in what would be a first for any company globally. Right now, in
pre market training, Apple shares are around one hundred and ninety dollars and eighty
cents per share, which would bring its year to date gain to forty six
percent share price gain. Apple is also viewed as a safe haven stock given
its durable revenue streams and its massive user base around the world. Now remember
the purchase of individual stocks does come with the risk of loss. In its
third estimate of GDP, the Department of Commerce reported that US economic growth expanded
by two percent year on year in the first three months of twenty twenty three.
That's revised from its previous estimate of one point three percent, and it
exceeds expectations of one point four percent, so it was rounded up by more
than half a percent. And you're talking about the American economy, the biggest
in the world. That's not a small change. And the change does reflect
upward revisions to exports consumer spending as well. See the one trillion dollars combined
credit card debt we have as a country right now, all set also by
downward projections of non residential fixed investment and some government spending that is expected to
drop. I did ask Aaron, who is the news editor, this morning.
She's working remotely so she doesn't have a mic in front of her,
but I asked her what she was going to be doing over the weekend,
and she said that she actually gets out and likes to do stuff. There's
an insanely decept from shot I'm thirketball that's becoming more popular, so I got
my friend Gabriel Tardiot to show us how it's done. Basically, you just,
okay, I just pulled that pickleball clip from TikTok just because it's really
funny. Now, I'm not saying that Aaron plays dirty pickleball, and since
she doesn't have a mic, she can't defend herself anyway, So saying I'm
glad, I'm glad that she even though she might be in an air quality
issue kind of place, I do think that it's awesome that she's going to
get out there and do that. Now, for me, I'm going to
be sitting on the couch. You want to seek out new life, go
where the aliens are. Your presence is blasphemy. Let's talk about this.
Find some company. I think that went well. This new Star Trek looks
really fun on Paramount Plus. And yeah, I'm going to be nerding out
with some science fiction. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up call. You've
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