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five o'clock. Good morning, Welcome to Home Day. It's Wednesday, June
fifth. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeart Radio app and
glad that we have you along this morning. Lots to get to, so
here's what's ahead on wake up Call. The ink on President Biden's new executive
order to restrict asylum claims at the border is barely dry, and the ACLU
is already saying it's gonna sue. The ACLU says the order puts tens of
thousands of live at risk migrants will be turned away at the border once the
daily average of people trying to cross illegally hits twenty five hundred. We're going
to be talking more about the executive order, what it does and what it
doesn't do with ABC's Karen Travers in less than five minutes. Now that shohe
Otani's former interpreter has pleaded guilty to stealing almost seventeen million dollars from the Dodgers
Superstar to pay for illegal gambling debts. The Dodgers have issued a statement saying
the team wants to move past the betting scandal you think. Governor Newsom has
submitted a proposal to the Department of Education for four million dollars in funding for
Californians who haven't graduated from high school to get federal financial aid to attend community
college. It's part of the state's master plan for Career Education. The days
of scrolling past ads on Instagram maybe over. We're going to be talking to
our tech guru, Rich Demiro from KTLA in just a few minutes at about
five twenty find out what that means and how we're going to lose precious scrolling
time. Darn darn ads. Hey, did you feel that joelt yesterday?
You didn't feel a kono? You got nothing in the ie nothing? Sorry,
well I did. In Silver Lake. There was another earthquake near Pasadena.
It's a three point zero. Remember there was another one just a couple
of days ago. Felt that one too. I hope that doesn't mean there's
another one coming at six five, right after wake up call. It's handle
on the news. Hunter Biden's ex wife is expected to testify in his federal
gun trial that continues today in Delaware. But let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LAPD chief Dominic
Choice says he has added thirty two more officers to the one hundred and ninety
two who are already working on Metro trains and buses. Mayor Bass had requested
a twenty percent increase in armed presence. Choy says the only staff who don't
ride the Metro are supervisors and homeless outreach coordinators. Everyone else is physically all
the trey range of the platforms, and there's a deployment plan that allows them
to be assigned to two or three platforms at a time and they ride the
train in between or the bus stops. Thela County Sheriff's Department says it has
also added more deputies to train and bus routes. Sho hey Otani's former interpreters
facing up to thirty three years in federal prison for stealing seventeen million dollars from
the Dodgers Star to payoff gambling debts. You Bay Misuhara pleaded guilty to both
bank fraud and subscribing to a false tax return. This Otani fan was waiting
outside the courthouse and says Misuhara betrayed not only a his friend, but Dodger
fans who also trusted it. Every time something like this happens in any sport,
it just brings negative attention and it's unfortunate because these are our sports heroes,
you know, for our kids. The FED said in March o Tawni
had nothing to do with the sports gambling and was a victim in the case.
Misuhara pleaded guilty yesterday in Santa Ana and is due in court for sentencing
October twenty fifth. Chris Adler KFI news Dale County Board of Supervisors has extended
a four percent cap on rent increases for stabilized units in unincorporated parts of the
county. A new formula adopted yesterday will allow for modest increases next year.
Supervisor Holly Mitchell says it's beneficial to both renters and landlords. We believe,
through lots of work and collaboration and negotiation with various stakeholders, that this motion
presents a balance fair perspective. Some landlords told the board they're hurting financially too,
and the rent caps are affecting their ability to maintain their properties. The
vote was three to two, with Supervisors Catherine Berger and Jenis Hahn opposing it.
Federal prosecutors in Delaware have played excerpts from the audiobook of Hunter Biden's memoir
at his gun trial. The jury got to hear the president's son talk about
the years he spent battling NonStop drug addiction. ABC's Terry Moran says the jury
also heard from the prosecution's first witness yesterday, FBI agent Erica Jensen. She
came in to establish all these facts from that infamous laptop that Hunter Biden had,
from the iCloud, all of his text messages, and from his own
audiobook recording of his memoir. Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to charges of
illegally buying a gun in twenty eighteen when he was a drug addict. Thousands
of AT and T customers have reported issues with their cell service, Alex Stone
says for several hours yesterday, users across the US reported that they couldn't make
or receive calls to people who have other carriers. The FCC says it's investigating
reports of wireless customers having problems making phone calls. A few months ago,
AT and T had a large outage it blamed on an upgrade to a system
that went wrong. AT and T says it worked with carriers to resolve the
issue, claiming it wasn't an actual outage. Down detector show. A detector
showed the city's most impacted were New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas,
Pittsburgh, and Indianapolis. It's five oh six on your wake up call.
Time to say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, let's
pick up where we left off yesterday when sources were saying the President was going
to sign an executive order, but we didn't know quite when or what it
was going to be. So now we know there has been an executive order
issued. Tell us please, what's in it? Yeah, you know,
and it was executive action. It's, you know, kind of a legal
qualification, but executive action yesterday at the border that has new restrictions on those
who crossed between ports of entry, and it went into effect immediately last night
at midnight. So the border is temporarily closed to migrants seeking asylum if they've
crossed illegally between ports of entry, and it's the toughest action the President's taken
so far on the border. What this does is these restrictions that went into
effect. It's because there have been seven consecutive days of more than twenty five
hundred unlawful encounters crossings between ports of entry. We're looking at about thirty five
hundred for the daily average right now. That restriction, the pause would only
be lifted if there have been fourteen days of encounters at fifteen hundred or less.
You know, some are saying it's maybe a permanent ban because at this
point we haven't seen numbers like that fifteen hundred or fewer encounters in years.
I mean, there were ten thousand back in December. Thirty five hundred is
a significant drop since then, but it's still pretty significantly higher than what this
threshold would be. President said yesterday that you can still, of course seek
legal asylum with an appointment and going at a port of entry, but if
you cross illegally between the ports of entry, you will not be allowed to
claim asylum. Okay, So they're crossing illegally already or trying to and they've
been flooding in and so up until now, because now this this action goes
into a fact, they've basically said, okay, surrender and we'll take you
basically into custody and haul you off and process you. So now they're just
basically saying, Nope, you can't come across, turn around, go home.
You can't claim asylum if you've come in not at the official port of
entry. You have to go and do it through an appointment. You have
to do it through there's an app but you actually have to have the official
process when you show up at the port of entry. You cannot just come
to anywhere along the border or over the border inside the border and then claim
asylum. And that is how it's always been that once you got there,
you could claim asylum because of what was happening in your country. So this
is making it more difficult now. I should know. There are some little
bit of wiggle room where you could say that there is such a danger back
in your home country that there would be a consideration given to that. How
many people will qualify, that's not known at this point, but the administration
is saying that it's going to be a pretty strict standard, and for the
most part, people who come in between ports of entry, the official places
where you can come into the country claim asylum. If you don't go to
those places, you're going to be sent back to your home country. Okay.
And did I hear something that kids are excluded from this? Children would
be excluded for this, and there might be some other exclusions for very older
people, sick people, people who'd need medical care. Those would also be
some potential exemptions. Okay. And are there any more border patrol agents and
judges and that kind of thing that the kind of the infrastructure needed to process
people, is that included in the executive action because the President doesn't have funding
to be able to do that. And that was the point he made yesterday
that you know, they'd rather this be done through Congress. This was actually
something that was included in that bipartisan deal that had been negotiated that didn't go
anywhere, that fell apart, of course, once it reached the House side.
That was the whole thing we talked about a couple months ago, when
Donald Trump put a lot of pressure publicly and privately on House Republicans to not
move forward with that bipartisan Senate deal that would have done this specific asylum thing.
The President said yesterday. You know, they would have preferred to address
this through l because then you could get funding to hire more border patrol agents,
more asylum officers, and more judges. But as a president with executive
action, you can't conjure up funding. It's Congress who approves the funding.
They have the purse strings, as they like to say in Washington. A
president can't do that with executive action unless there's funding that already exists and he
can figure out a way to shift things around. Okay, so effectively the
action is in effect. It is right now, okay as of midnight last
night. Okay, I'm sure there's going to be lots of news outlets at
the border to see how it's all taken in and legal challenges to come.
Oh yeah, ACLUS saying they're already doing absolutely all right. ABC's Karen Travis,
thanks so much for the update and the information. Have a great day
there, all right, you too. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The CHP is looking
for a person involved in a road rage attack in Thousand Oaks. CHP says
two drivers got out of their cars yesterday afternoon on the twenty three and fighting.
One of the drivers ended up in the Center median with major injuries.
The other driver got back in his car and took off. The Pasadena Fire
Department wants more money for more staff. The departments proposed three million dollar increase
calls for the hiring of two additional fire inspectors to join the current roster of
seven. Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustine says the city is currently completing eighty four
percent of mandated inspections, and the added staff would bring the city to one
hundred percent. We also have hundreds of commercial buildings that don't require annual inspections,
but by best practice, they should be inspected every two to three years.
Augustine's sixty nine million dollar proposal would also pay for recruit academies and an
engineer who would teach at them. But like Trolley Kafi News, another big
time music producer in La has been accused of sexual assault and other crimes.
A lawsuit filed by Schanaz Mangro yesterday claims Terrius nash Aka the Dream Sex,
trafficked her in twenty fourteen when she was twenty six years old. She says
Nash lured her into an abusive and violent relationship after promising to make her a
star. Nash, who was produced for Beyonce, Rihanna, Justin Bieber and
others, says the allegations are untrue and defamatory. Amanda Knox has been convicted
if of slander in Italy again for accusing an innocent man of her roommate's murder
into two thousand and seven, but she will not serve any more jail time
because the nearly four years she spent in jail counts as time already served.
Knox was tried for the murder of her British roommate. She was found guilty
and later exonerated. Thirty one Eyes twenty nine knows you've passed HGR twenty sixty
sign an offen session. Voters in Arizona are going to decide whether or not
to make illegal border crossings into the state a crime house. Republicans passed a
resolution yesterday to put the Secure the Border Act on November's ballot. If voters
pass it, it would allow state and local police to make border crossing arrests,
kind of like what Texas is doing. It also includes harsher penalties for
bringing fentanyl into the country. Some Democrats opposed the bill, saying it was
similar to a previous measure that caused racial profiling and harassment. Students in Irvine
have unwrapped some candy with a state of the art robot that can also spot
lung cancer and pilled off the wrapper of the starbust. This precocious little girl
used the robotic arms and camera to spot tiny names of US states printed on
the back of a five dollars bill. She says it's because she loves science,
but also I God had a sumch sturgery and to fix it they use
something that looked like this. Providence Hospitals Brian Fuller says the life saving tech
was on display yesterday for students and others, many who were there to get
screened. First, ION is a robotic broncoscopy so going into the long looking
for a lung cancer nodule. Second CT scanner that's connected to the ION and
actually gets to a stage one cancer diagnosis. And finally, the da Vinci
XI is a minimally invasive surgical robot. The physicians doing surgery and is using
real robotic technology to do in this case a long resection. He says,
Unfortunately, one in sixteen people can expect a lung cancer diagnosis, which translates
to one every two minutes. But fortunately robots can make diagnosis and treatment a
little easier. In Irvine, Corbin Carson KFI News, LA County supervisors voted
to extend the current four percent cap on rent increases in all rent controlled units
in unincorporated areas of the county for another six months. The county froze rent
hikes on rent controlled units in March of twenty twenty because of the pandemic,
but agreed to allow minor increases in November twenty twenty two. Hunter Biden's infamous
laptop has been entered into evidence in his federal firearms trial in Delaware. During
the first day of testimony, and FBI witness explained on the stand how prosecutors
obtained evidence of Hunter Biden's drug use on the laptop. We're going to find
out more about what happened in court yesterday and what's up for today with ABC's
Stephen Portnoy a little bit later this hour. A little shaking in the Southland
for the second time in a week. A three point zero magnitude earthquake jolted
South Pasadena yesterday, near where a three point four quake hit Sunday. The
US Geological Services the quake was felt in East La, Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Commerce Bell and Silver Lake. Yep, I felt it. I'm hoping
this doesn't become a normal routine thing. At six oh five's handle on the
news. At and T customers weren't able to reach out and touch someone yesterday
if they had another carrier. I'll tell you about that. Right now,
let's say good morning to the host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI.
It's Rich Demiro, also KTLA's tech guy. Rich, I hear that
we're not going to be able to skip ads on Instagram for much longer.
Yeah, well, they're testing something brand new, non skippable ads, and
Instagram did confirm that they are testing this. These are ad breaks. So
if you've ever watched YouTube, you know, without paying for the premium survey,
you've seen these. It basically pops up when you try to watch a
video, it counts down five four, three two one. Now you can
skip it and go to the next thing. That is what Instagram is trying
out. Obviously, they are trying to make more money. That's the name
of the game here. Okay, so explain to me, like, if
you're just scrolling, it's not going to like freeze your screen. But if
you click on something to look at it, then that's when it would come
up. The idea is that it is stopping you from scrolling, and that's
what people are getting a little bit upset about because it literally pauses your entire
experience. Oh hell to the no. Yeah, so, but look,
it makes a lot of sense. And I stay on my radio show all
the time the free ride is over. These companies want to make money,
and they want to make gobs of it, and this is one way they
can easily just turn on that spigot of cash. Is Instagram making money or
they because I I hasn't Twitter never made money or something like that. No,
I believe. I know Instagram is definitely making money. You know,
they're owned by Meta. Meta makes a lot of money. I know they
had a big hit with their with the way Apple changed the tracking mechanism on
the iPhone. But no, these companies are making pretty good money, especially
because Instagram is super popular and ads are very easy to target to viewers there.
Okay, so it's just being tested now. But what I'm seeing is
what they're doing with the stream and then creating an ad free version where you
would pay for your Instagram. I don't know about that. I don't see
that happening with Instagram. I know that's a rumor out there. I don't
think that that is. Facebook's business model is to do the subscriptions. I
do know that they have a premium if you are if you want, like
that blue check mark, similar to what Twitter did. Yeah, but I
think look, at the end of the day, these things are all going
to be free because they want as many people as possible on them. But
will there be some premium upgrades over the years. Probably, Okay, we'll
be watching for it. And here's something that you say is a premium but
not necessarily a premium price. It's some new headphones. Yeah. So this
company called nothing I know, it's a funny name. They make tech accessories
like smartphones, which I really like. But they're making some new earbuds called
the Nothing ear and then nothing Ear A and so they're both noise cancelation.
They've got great features, you know, great audio quality, fast charging,
water and dust resistance. But what I love about the Nothing ear a they're
great value. They are ninety nine dollars. They come in this cool yellow
color if you want. You can always get black and white if you're boring.
But they just sound great. Not to make a commentary about you,
no, no, no, but you know, they just sound great,
and they're like, you know, you come up with these, you know,
I get sent so many earbuds and it's like, Okay, do I
really have to try another pair of earbuds? And these kept going to my
ears because I really really like them. And so when I find something I
like, I want to tell people about it because there are so many out
there. Okay, and these are fun and they're only for Android though no,
they work with iPhone. But here's my my my theory on that.
It's like iPhone has such this ecosystem of like Siri and the way that you
know, the fast uh you know pairing and the way they switch between devices.
So I feel like the only earbuds you want for the iPhone are the
AirPods. But you know, with Android you have a lot more choice in
brands, and so these are really good for Android, but yes, they
will work on iPhone as well. Okay, I got those the Beats earbuds.
Yeah, because the guys at the AT and T start said, oh,
we like this so much better, but I don't like them. Well,
they like them because they're promoted to say that. So that's the difference,
because you know, I thought, then, oh, come on they
you know that. Look I worked in retail. You know, people come
in there, they whine, they dine, they schmooze, and they say,
look here's and Apple's very good at this. You know, Apple makes
beats and they come in there and they explain to these salespeople why you know,
quote unquote why the are better. And because they told you why they're
better, it's easier to sell. So that's yeah, I bought it and
I don't like them. Okay, yeah, well you colwase your turn them
right? Yeah? Okay, So I want to talk about passwords for a
second because I got that notification. AT and T says they were hacked.
Somebody else got hacked and they're like, change passwords now, And I was
like, oh my god, how are you going to ever remember passwords?
Because that's my big fear, like a lot of my passwords are similar because
I'm worried that I'm going to forget them and be locked out of all of
my accounts. Yes, and uh well yeah, So here's my advice with
passwords. You should be using a password generator. I know it's annoying,
but if you use just Apple products, then I would recommend using iCloud keychain.
It will generate your passwords, it will save them, it will remember
them. You already have a passcode to your phone, so it will,
you know, be secure. If you're using a combination of the iPhone and
also Google Chrome on your desktop or on your phone, that I would use
Google's password manager, and again, it's all secured, it's going to remember
them, it's going to generate them for you. And then if you're a
little bit more advanced and you want something that standalone, which I would fully
recommend, Bitwarden is free. Again, it will generate all your passwords,
but you're going to need to come up with what's called a master password,
the one password that lets you access all the rest. And then if you
want something that's paid, dash Lane is really good. And you know,
this is probably one of the most popular questions I get at this point.
But you have to use unique passwords because when companies get hacked, if you're
using the same password, hackers are going to use that password to access your
other accounts, I know, and then the whole idea of going and changing
them all is very daunting. Well, start with the important one, So
start with your email, Start with your finance, your banking, anything that
is sensitive information. Start with those, and then you can do you know,
need to change Shutterfly you know today you can you know, the ones
that are a little bit lesser you can do later on, you know,
but start with the important ones. Okay, do you hear that wake up
call? It's time to go change our passwords because we don't want to get
hacked. Because everybody's getting hacked. Oh yeah, it's it's not a matter
of it's just a matter of when every major company. It's happening too.
So if you're using the same password again, they will figure that out.
They will take that password. It's out, it's available on the open web.
People can just literally see your password. They will take that and they'll
say, oh, they're using the same password for Shutterfly that they're using for
eBay, let me hack into their eBay account, and that's how it happens.
M Okay, all right, fine, fine, I know, I
know it's a pain. Okay. And before I let you go, I
hear you liked your crochet, mister tech guy. I did learn how to
crochet as a kid. What my neighbors? What is that? It's a
big it's a thing now that that rich Jamiro learned how to crochet. I
saw it on Twitter or it's not that it's not that big of a thing.
But look, I grew up New Jersey. I was, you know,
the kind of kid that went to their neighbor's house, like watch cable
TV and drink tab and I learned how to yeah, and in the meantime,
I learned how to crochet. So this is what kids did back in
the day. You kind of knew your neighbors and you hung out with them,
you know. And nowadays it's like, no, your kids are inside
on their couch playing the iPad. So did you make a plant holder?
I made a potholder? Yeah? Nice? Yeah, So that was that
was the most I ever made. And I think they had to like end
it because I didn't know how to like finish it well. At least they
helped you. Yes, all right, Rich, Jamiro You're gonna get great
tech advice, and who knows, maybe he'll teach you how to crochet on
the radio with Rich on Tech here on KFI. It happens every Saturday from
eleven to two. And your new streaming show is where Sunday mornings eleven am
KTLA plus Rich works every day. Thanks Rich, all right, thanks for
having me on you. Next week, an excessive heat warning is up for
much of Riverside County as a heat dome settles over southern California. The National
Weather Services low deserts and ie we'll see peak heat tomorrow and Friday with highs
of one hundred eight to one hundred and thirteen degrees. Former President Trump's lawyers
have asked a judge in his hush money trial to terminate the gag order on
him now that the trial's over. Trump is facing sentencing for thirty four felony
convictions on July eleventh. More than half of young adult men and women are
living at home. Recent census data sites rising inflation, student debt, and
high housing and rent prices as reasons. Eighteen to twenty four year olds are
moving back in with their parents. At Sikaso five, it's handle on the
news. The mayor of Kohita, Mexico has been shot and killed hours after
the first woman was elected President of Mexico. At five point fifty, we're
going to be talking with Stephen Portnoy about the introduction of the so called computer
from Hell at Hunter Biden's trial, and also what's coming today It Amy's Me's
on it, dais on it. What I'm on streaming shows, movies,
books. Sometimes this week I'm on the stream. I'd planned to do something
else, but then I read that Tomorrow, June sixth is the fortieth anniversary
of the first release of tech Tetris, which was created by a Russian computer
engineer named Alexi I don't know how to say his last name, Paganatav.
It became the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US,
and a portable version was released on the Nintendo Game Boy in nineteen eighty
nine. So that reminded me of the movie Tetris. It was released last
year. It's on Apple TV Plus and it's based on the true story of
a video game salesman named Hank Rogers. It stars Tarren Edgerton and he is
the guy who played Elton John in Rocket Man. Love him really good actor.
So this is the story of how Rogers went to the Consumer Electronics Show
CES back in nineteen eighty eight and while he was there, he played the
game which had just come out, and he says after he played the game,
the falling blocks continued falling in his dream and he just became obsessed with
it. So it is the story of his discovery of the game, how
it sparked literally a journey around the world as he tried to license the game
to get it out to the world, and it wasn't only the video game,
but the arcade game and the handheld the game boy too. Nikita Efferman
plays the creator of Tetris Alexi. We learn about him, what he gets
for his invention that changed the video game world, really interesting insights into life
in the Soviet Union, and along the way, this guy, Hank Rodgers
gets just like totally into this tangled web of lies and corruption and it's all
beyond the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, and he's basically trying to make
an honest deal in a dishonest world. And it sounds like it might be
kind of lame because it's a movie about how somebody's trying to get the licensing
rights to Tetris. But it's a really good movie. I mean like I'm
sitting on the edge of my seat going, oh my god, are they
going to get away with it? And people are flip flopping allegiances and they're
deceiving each other and they're trying to pull one over on each other, and
they just made it into a really fun, compelling movie. And it also,
on the flip side, shows some of the really grim realities of living
in a communist USSR, which makes the movie even more thrilling and a little
bit scary. Visually, it's super fun with this juxtaposition between live action and
what is now a very archaic video game world, and it's of a look
back in history, retro music and clothes and cars and computers. So it's
really fun, really interesting, and a really great way to spend a couple
hours on the couch. It's a great show to watch to celebrate the fortieth
anniversary of Tetris. It is called Tetris and it's on Apple TV. Plus.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Animal advocates say they're concerned about overpopulated shelters after a dog
mauled a kennel worker in San Pedro. The pitbull mix latched onto the kennel
supervisor's right leg, tearing into her flesh. The Animal Rescue Mission Shira Scott
says the attack is an example of how overcrowded and understaffed shelters are in the
county. We're not no kill, you never were no kill. We have
an over population crisis happening right now at every shelter. They are killing dogs
for space. A dog attack the worker as she tried opening the gate last
week and it had to be put down. LA Animal Services says it's aware
of the severity of the attack and is investigating. Chris Adler KFI News.
A woman in her seventies has been found stabbed to death inside a home in
South Pasadena. Police recalled just before nine last night to the home on Brent
Avenue. The woman was dead inside. Whoever killed her was already gone.
No arrests have been made. The Port of San Diego is asking people to
clean up plastic before it gets into waterways. As part of its That's My
Bay awareness campaign, we want people to reduce their use of single use plastics,
and when they can't, just try to make sure you dispose of it
properly. The port's Emily Christiansen says people should throw a plastic away where animals
can't get to it. Wildlife can mistake single use plastics for food, or
they can even get stuck in pieces of single use plastic. Christiansen says plastics
take a long time to break down and can have detrimental effects on the environment.
She says when they're produced, a lot of greenhouse gas emissions come with
them, and then they're used by the public and often not thrown away properly.
NASA is said to try again this morning to launch the manned Boeing Starlin
Liner spacecraft. The first two attempts to get astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams
to the International Space Station had to be scrubbed because of technical glitches. Saturday's
attempt was aboarded with less than four minutes before the scheduled lift off because of
a computer issue. The Dodgers take on the Pirates this afternoon in Pittsburgh first
pitch goes out at three point forty. You can listen to every play of
every Dodgers game on AM five to seventy LA Sports Live from the Gaupin Motors
Broadcast booth, and you can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio
app keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. LA County Supervisors have voted to extend
the current four percent cap on rent increases in all rent controlled units in unincorporated
areas of the county for another six months. It affects about one hundred thousand
units. The county freeze or froze rent hikes on rent controlled units in March
of twenty twenty because of the COVID pandemic, but did agree to allow minor
increases in November of twenty twenty two. The La County Board of Supervisors has
voted to explore additional efforts for making reparations to what it calls historically disenfranchised black
residents. Among the ideas are apologizing to black residents and their descendants and I
love this one. An offer of a free museum for a day admission this
month to attractions like the Natural History Museum and the County Museum of Art.
That's going to make everything all better. Cindy Laupers placed her hand, handprints
and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theater. She was honored at a
ceremony yesterday to coincide with the new streaming documentary Let the Canary Sing, just
released on Paramount Plus. Lauper also just announced her farewell tour that will make
a stop in la at the Intuit Dome on November twenty third. We're just
minutes away from a handle on the news this morning, the FDA doesn't think
psychedelic drugs are a good idea to treat PTSD. You can bet that Bill's
going to have a lot to say about that. Right now. Let's say
good morning too. ABC's Stephen Portnoy Steve in the first day of testimony has
been held in Hunter Biden's federal firearms trial. The prosecution laid out their case.
So what did they lay out? Well, what they laid out was
some evidence. I mean evidence that included text messages from Hunter Biden to his
then romantic partner Halle Biden, who's expected to take the stand today, and
evidence from the laptop the lap of which Americans have heard so much about you
know over the last couple of years. Look, the laptop is also not
just you know, containing information that's on it physically, but it's information that
was uploaded to the cloud in backups, So it's verified information. Regardless of
everything you've heard about the laptop in the early reporting of it, all set
that aside. The jury heard the text messages and saw photographic evidence of Hunter
Biden with a crack pipe, all of it trying to used by prosecutors to
try to demonstrate that he was addicted to drugs and using drugs at the time
he bought the handgun, which would be a violation of the law, and
it would indicate that he lied on the form. Now the defense is going
to try to poke holes in all this, suggesting that perhaps Hunter Biden wasn't
actually using drugs or addicted to drugs when he bought the gun. And Halle
Biden will be called by the prosecutors to refute that because she found the gun
and she'll be able to say what was going on at the time. And
Halle Biden is his ex wife. No, Halle Biden is Vo Biden's widow
with whom Hunter Biden had been romantically involved in the years after his brother died.
Gotcha trying to keep track of everything? And is the defense have they
had much of a chance to talk yet, because they questioned the FBI guy
yesterday? Right, Well, the FBI agent was a woman who helped enter
into evidence the audio book that had Hunter Biden describing in his own words his
struggles with addiction. And you had the text messages all retrieved as part of
a subpoena that the FBI and federal prosecutors issued to Apple. So the FBI
agent essentially served as a custodian of that information, presenting it to the jury.
And the audiobook how they played a lot of it, didn't They close
to an hour? I understand, And it's Hunter Biden reading the book,
that's right. Okay. What's expected to happen today, Well, Halle Biden
will take the stand and she'll talk about how she found the gun, how
concerned she was, and why, and that will be very interesting. Okay.
And do we know what the jury's reaction has been so far? Well,
they've been attentive at times, taking notes, at other times through the
playing of the audio book, maybe losing focus because it went on for as
long as it did. But I will tell you that, and I'm not
in the courtroom. I'm my perch in Washington reading about it, perhaps a
bit more closely than everybody else. But what we are seeing and hearing are
reports that the first lady, doctor Jill, her daughter Ashley, were sitting
in the front row right behind the defend nearly in tears as they listen to
the audiobook and hearing Hunter describing the reaction. Yeah, I would think for
a family member, that would be hard to hear about somebody that you love
just being strung out on drugs and having struggles and that kind of stuff.
And they have a no camera rule in Delaware like in New York. Is
that why we were not seeing it? Well, this is the federal system
and there are no cameras in federal court anywhere in the country. See,
I always learn so much when I talk to you, Stephen, Thank you
so much. You bet all right, take care, We'll talk to you
soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPD has deployed an additional thirty two officers to
beef up armed security on the Metro. The department says it uses one hundred
and ninety two offices day, but after violent crime continued to escalate on buses
and trains, Mayor Bass requested a twenty percent bump in patrol officers and said
she didn't want them driving around in patrol cars. Here's LA Police Commissioner Maria
lu Klancia Yesterday's meeting with Chief Dominic Troy. Are you riding the buses because
I've heard that we're not on the buses. I'm telling you we are.
We are on the buses. Yes. The La County Sheriffs Department is also
deployed more deputies, though it wouldn't say how many. The Long Beach Police
Department also provides armed security. Steve Gregory kf I News See. LA County
Sheriff's Department says it's trying to figure out who's been stealing fire hydrants from unincorporated
parts of the county. Since January, eighty five hydrants have been taken,
an additional fourteen have been stolen in the city of Lynnwood, and another thirteen
have been vandalized. Officials say they think the thieves are after the brass parts
found inside the hydrants. Fire officials say the loss of the hydrants pose is
a significant safety risk to people, especially with the hot, dry summer just
around the corner. Former President Donald Trump is coming to californi Orna for some
fundraising events. He'll be in San Francisco tomorrow. Tickets for the dinner are
going from fifty thousand to five hundred thousand dollars. He'll be in Beverly Hills
and Newport Beach Friday and Saturday. Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on thirty
four felony convictions July eleventh. Governor Newsom has submitted a proposal to the Department
of Education for four million dollars in funding for Californians who haven't graduated from high
school to get federal financial aid to attend community college. It's part of the
state's master Plan for Career Education. A new study suggests women who follow a
Mediterranean diet are more likely to live longer. Medical data from more than twenty
five thousand women over up to twenty five years shows women whose diets are made
up of mostly fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts, fish, and healthy
fat at a twenty three percent lower risk of mortality for all causes. Well,
that's great, but I would miss cheetos. Okay, Remember a couple
of weeks, or maybe it was last week, we told you the story
about the guy from Michigan who had a suspended license, and so he had
a court appointment with a judge and the judge was on zoom with him and
apparently he was driving while he was on this zoom. And here's just a
little excerpt of what the interaction between the judge and Corey Harris. Mister,
are you driving, Ashley, I'm pulling into my doctor's office. Actually,
he suspended and he's just driving. That is correct, your anna. Okay.
So it was a very funny story and it's still pretty much is because
the judge after that little interaction, said, you know what, you need
to turn yourself in, and he did and he spent two days in jail.
But it was really much ado about nothing and really a big misunderstanding because
there was a clerical error and the suspension on the license was lifted in twenty
twenty two. But he said he went along with it because the judge said,
you know, turn yourself in, so he did, but he actually
wasn't driving on a suspended license. It was a big misunderstanding. Still pretty
funny, but glad it all turned out well for mister Harris. This is
KLST and KFI AM six forty, Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead
local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer in and technical producer
Kno and also traffic specialist Nick. I'm Amy King. This has been your
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