WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.919 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with Me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:20.839 demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County 3 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:39.679 and yours Amy Kay. It's five o'clock. Good morning. I'm Amy King. 4 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:44.039 This is your wake up call for Tuesday, April twenty third. Thanks 5 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:48.880 for getting your day started with us today. Bill Handle's going to make fun 6 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:52.320 of me. There's so much going on today. We got lost to talk 7 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.320 about, but I really mean it. We have lots to talk about, 8 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:59.640 and I'm going to just say this, this is probably my favorite favorite thing 9 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:02.600 that I get to share with you today. As you may know, we 10 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:08.079 did the Wiggle Waggon Walk over the weekend. We amazingly the Humane Pasadena Humane 11 00:01:08.400 --> 00:01:12.599 raised over three hundred thousand dollars and it all goes to taking care of the 12 00:01:12.599 --> 00:01:19.040 pups at humane at the Pasadena Humane. And I got to walk a dog, 13 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:26.159 a beautiful six year old Doberman pincher named Hershey, and she was just 14 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.519 such a good girl, and she her owner had passed away and so the 15 00:01:30.799 --> 00:01:37.400 son wasn't able to take care of the dog and the two cats that were 16 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:41.799 all living with the owner. And so they took him to the Pasadena Humane 17 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:48.400 Society and after the walk her she got adopted. So or she has to 18 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.959 no home, a new home. That's just like the best best news. 19 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.599 But all the donations you make through the Wiggle Wagga Walk go to taking care 20 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.719 of Hershey's so she's ready to go and ready to find her forever home. 21 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.040 Sot so yeay, I'm just thrilled for her. Here's what's ahead on wake 22 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.599 up call. And as I said, there's a lot. An La County 23 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.120 Sheriff's deputy is recovering after being shot in the back while stopped at a stoplight 24 00:02:12.159 --> 00:02:15.599 in West Covina. The shooting happened yesterday. The deputy was wearing a bullet 25 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:20.639 proof vest and the bullet did not penetrate it. The lice are still looking 26 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:23.759 for the person who shot him and are looking for answers as to why he 27 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.960 was shot. Prosecutors in former President Trump's hush money trial introduced the case to 28 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.800 the jury, accusing the former president of falsifying business records to cover up payments 29 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:38.879 made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in twenty sixteen over an affair. Trump's 30 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:43.800 defense then said there was no such scheme and accuse Stormy Daniels if trying to 31 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.719 cash in on the allegations. The trial continues today. Steve Gregory is going 32 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:53.800 to take a look at how AI could affect the way you vote this election 33 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:57.159 season. That's coming up in about a half hour, really fascinating stuff. 34 00:02:57.680 --> 00:03:00.919 At six oh five, it is handle on the news. Of course, 35 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:06.439 testimony resumes in former President Trump's hush money trial, and you can bet that 36 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:08.159 Bill's going to run a way in on that. Let's get started with some 37 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:12.599 of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La Kenny 38 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.639 Sheriff's investigators are trying to find the man who shot a motorcycle deputy in West 39 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:21.319 Covina. Sheriff Luna says the deputy was shot yesterday in an ambush attack. 40 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:28.960 He was sitting on a marked black and white police motorcycle in full uniform and 41 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.240 he was shot in the back. Luna says the shooter may have been driving 42 00:03:32.240 --> 00:03:37.199 a white sedan with tinted windows. He says the car was last seen heading 43 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:42.080 west on the ten Freeway just after just off Baranka Avenue. The deputy is 44 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.840 in stable condition. A man accused of fatally stabbing a woman on a metro 45 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.759 train near Studio City has been arrested. Investigators have described the scene of the 46 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:54.400 killing as violent and bloody. They say the attack was unprovoked. This high 47 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:58.879 school student, who uses the train to get the school, says she's shocked 48 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.080 by the killing. I don't feel safe at all on the chain. I 49 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.639 don't want to get back on the chain ever. The attacker and woman both 50 00:04:04.639 --> 00:04:10.120 got off the train at the Universal City station. Yesterday morning. Police arrested 51 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:14.159 the suspected killer about a half mile from the station in Studio City. Blake 52 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:17.639 Chrolli KFI News. The man arrested has been booked on suspicion of murderies being 53 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.480 held on two million dollars bail. LA's proposed city budget for the next fiscal 54 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:28.519 year is seventeen point eight billion dollars. Here. Gass's proposed budget increases funding 55 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.040 for police and reduces it for homeless programs compared to this year, but she 56 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.399 says the city will do more with less. She also said yesterday LA will 57 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:40.040 continue to invest in green infrastructure, with more electric buses, ev charging stations, 58 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.879 and new city positions. In her office, a new climate cabinet is 59 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:48.199 being formed that will help guide new required climate plans at key city departments, 60 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:54.480 stakeholder engagement and action on climate justice. The city Council will take up the 61 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.279 proposed budget next week with the public hearing. Michael Monks KFI News. It's 62 00:04:59.319 --> 00:05:01.480 five oh seven on your wake up call. Time to say good morning to 63 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:08.199 ABC's Stephen portnoy So. Stephen, the case before the Supreme Court now could 64 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.120 affect how cities deal with homeless people all over the country, and the spotlight 65 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.959 is on Little Grant's Pass, Oregon, a town several couple hours south of 66 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:21.040 Portland on the five Look. This is a question of whether the eighth Amendments 67 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:28.800 Prohibition on Cruel and Unusual Punishment covers well laws that would try to prevent homeless 68 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.839 encampments. And the question is whether the city of grants Pass, population forty 69 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:39.480 thousand, can find people who are setting up tents and public parks and sleeping 70 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:43.439 there overnight because they have nowhere else to go. The backers of the law 71 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:47.120 say that this is for health and safety and it's the appropriate role of local 72 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:51.639 government to police these sorts of things. The opponents of the law say, 73 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.000 and the ninth Circuit upheld this that these people who are in the circumstance have 74 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.199 nowhere else to go, that there's a case going back to nineteen sixty two 75 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.639 that said that the law can't ban, for example, drug addiction as a 76 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:06.800 status, and homelessness is similarly in their mind of status, and therefore it's 77 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.560 cruel and unusual because they're in a catch twenty two. There aren't enough shelter 78 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:15.439 beds in this town, and therefore these people are being fined just for existing 79 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.480 there, and that that's against the constitution. That's the argument. Yesterday, 80 00:06:18.560 --> 00:06:21.519 the Supreme Court heard two and a half hours of this back and forth, 81 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:27.079 and it seemed to me and most other observers that the court majority, the 82 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.399 conservative majority, was interested in figuring out a way to keep the law alive 83 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:35.160 in Grant's past. The question is exactly how and to what extent. And 84 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:42.160 at the same point the justices kept stressing, the conservative ones did that it's 85 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.439 not for the nine men and women in robes here in Washington, d c. 86 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.759 To be settling this question. It's for the individual police and local officials 87 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:54.079 in each of these cities in America to figure out how to solve this problem 88 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:58.279 and as the Chief Justice put it, municipalities have competing priorities, but it's 89 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:01.439 on them to figure out how to house the unhoused, how to build enough 90 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:05.360 shelters, and how to figure it out, not the Supreme Court. Okay. 91 00:07:05.399 --> 00:07:10.600 And so do they just hear the testimony for just that one time or 92 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.319 will there be more? No? So, the way it works is the 93 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:19.759 Supreme Court cases rise to the level, the argument is heard, and if 94 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.839 the decision is made, a final decision is made, that's the final decision. 95 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:28.199 But if there's a reason that the Court has to not make a final 96 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.680 decision, it will send court the case back down to lower courts if necessary, 97 00:07:32.160 --> 00:07:34.399 and then it's possible that it'll come back. But no, there's no 98 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:40.000 there's no rehearing, there's no second opportunity for argument before the court. If 99 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.160 the court reaches a final conclusion on the merits and sets a new precedent, 100 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.279 okay, And then when do we think we might expect a decision or is 101 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:48.360 it just kind of up in the air and they'll get to it when they 102 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.160 do. Well, No, we know an answer to that. We don't 103 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:56.120 know exactly when, but we know that this is the final week of the 104 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:59.360 term. Oh, the term starts in October. There'll be a couple of 105 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.959 more important case is that the court will hear through the end of the week. 106 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:05.879 There's are scheduled oral arguments, an abortion case tomorrow and of course the 107 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:11.040 big Trump immunity case on Thursday, and the case. When the court here's 108 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:13.879 cases this late in the term, we expect that they won't release the opinions 109 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.040 until the end of June. So that's what I would expect we'll hear from 110 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.199 the court all this homelessness question. Okay, man, it's gonna be a 111 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:24.920 big one because it could affect kind of every city in the country. You 112 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.519 bet all right, Thank you, Steven Portnoy, you got okay. Former 113 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:33.440 President Trump's criminal Hushmany trial resumes this morning in New York City, and I 114 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.639 have to tell you a little pull back the curtain. We had a little 115 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:41.360 technical difficulty this morning, so we weren't able to hook up with Peter Harralumbus 116 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.799 right now as we had planned. But I did get to talk to him 117 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.840 a little bit right before wake up started because I wanted to kind of get 118 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.879 a feeling of what it was like in the court room. Because it was 119 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:56.480 the first day of testimony, you know, the jurors, which seated yesterday 120 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:01.679 or last week, And so I was Peter tell us what it was like, 121 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:05.120 and he said it was really tense. He said the courtroom was packed, 122 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:11.159 and he said that it was interesting because with as full as the courtroom 123 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.960 was, and it's not that big that at some times it was hard to 124 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.519 even see Trump because there were so many Secret Service agents in the court with 125 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:26.519 him. But he said it was tense. He said that he gets the 126 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:31.399 feeling that Trump doesn't like other people to talk for him, and of course 127 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.120 his attorneys are speaking for him right now, and so he said he looked 128 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:41.679 frustrated, a little bit uncomfortable. And then they said that during part of 129 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:48.320 the introductions or the opening statements, that the prosecutors read that the transcript from 130 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:52.399 the Access Hollywood tape. That kind of made everybody a little squirmy. And 131 00:09:54.039 --> 00:10:01.080 they also noticed that the jurors who are intently watching were offered notebooks in case 132 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.480 they wanted to take notes, and everybody raised their head. They're like, 133 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:05.960 yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to take notes keep track of this. 134 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.320 So that's that I thought was really kind of interesting. Then they said 135 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.360 that the guy who was the first on the stand, was the former head 136 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:22.200 of the National the National Enquirer, right, and they said that David Pecker's 137 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.080 testimony was kind of awkward. He said he was kind of trying to make 138 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:31.559 jokes and it was really just this sort of uncomfortable feeling. And then he 139 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:35.679 kind of delved into what the tabloid world is like and how they, you 140 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.320 know, they pay for their stories, unlike a regular newspaper which goes out, 141 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:43.720 investigates and does it that the tabloids do pay so people, the jurors 142 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:48.799 are learning more about the tabloid world. And then they broke and apparently they 143 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:54.200 had one of the jurors had a dental emergency, so they broke early. 144 00:10:54.440 --> 00:10:56.000 So they're going to get back to it today and we will be talking to 145 00:10:56.519 --> 00:11:01.440 David Moore about or not David, but to Peter Moore about what it's like 146 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.039 in the courtroom and some of the insights that he gets because there's not that 147 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.000 many of us who get to really get an inside look at the courtroom because 148 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:13.279 obviously no cameras. So super interesting and we will be talking with Peter again 149 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.519 with ABC. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the 150 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:20.639 KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man from Santa Anna has been arrested for 151 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.799 allegedly stabbing his roommate to death during a fight. Police were called to the 152 00:11:24.840 --> 00:11:30.000 home on Sunday. They found one man dead, the other gone. David 153 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.879 Espinoza had left the home on a bicycle. He was found a few blocks 154 00:11:33.879 --> 00:11:37.080 away. And La County Sheriff's K nine is recovering from being shot on the 155 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.399 job. Four year old Belgian Malinois was helping find a guy who had been 156 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:45.159 threatening people with a gun in Compton on the evening of April seventeenth. Keld, 157 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.480 also known as Kid, found the guy under a tarp. The guy 158 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.759 opened fire, hitting Kid in his protective vest and shoulder. Kid was immediately 159 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.679 transported to VCA Lakewood Animal Hospital, where I am very thankful to say he 160 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:03.240 received exceptional veterinary. Sheriff Luna says the dog had a two inch gash and 161 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:07.039 received six stitches and is expected to go back to full duty. Steve Gregory 162 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:11.399 kay off I News. A judge in Arizona has declared a mistrial in the 163 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.360 case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant on his property near the 164 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.279 US Mexico border. Jurors yesterday could not reach a verdict. Prosecutor say George 165 00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.000 Kelly shot at a group of men who arrived in the US looking for work. 166 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:28.720 Kelly claims he fired warning shots into the air, not directly at anyone. 167 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.679 Court records show the migrant killed had entered the US illegally several times and 168 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:39.000 had been deported most recently in twenty sixteen. President Biden's going to Florida to 169 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:43.360 talk about reproductive rights. ABC's Karen Travers says he'll be in Tampa later today 170 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.279 ahead of a new abortion band set to take effect in the state. Biden 171 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:52.159 campaign officials say he'll again blame former President Donald Trump for abortion bands. Since 172 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:56.440 the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Florida's law will ban all abortions 173 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:00.679 after six weeks, except to save the life of the mother. She says, 174 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:05.039 there are also exceptions for rape and incest. The Budweiser Clydesdale's are headed 175 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.720 to Palm Desert to make some beer deliveries before the Stage Coach Country music Festival 176 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:15.639 begins. The iconic courses will arrive at the L Paseo Shopping District tomorrow where 177 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:18.759 they'll drop off Budweiser to restaurants along the Pesseo Path. The horses will then 178 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:26.360 make their annual appearance at stagecoach. I love the Budweiser Clydesdales so great that 179 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.600 they're back. Here's something else. I love American Idol. So it's on 180 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.039 Sunday nights. They're down to like the top twelve, I think, and 181 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.759 I think I've picked the winner. I have no doubts that this woman is 182 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.399 the most talented of all of them, and every time she sings, she 183 00:13:41.480 --> 00:13:46.240 makes me cry. Her name is Abby Carter. Listen to her performance from 184 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:56.960 this week, So good bye world, where's the Dogs of Society? You 185 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:09.679 came? I'm gone, but oh I could listen to her voice all day. 186 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.279 Her name is Abby Carter. If you're not watching American Idol, you 187 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:16.480 might want to tune in for her. She is spectacular. Ellie Mayor Bass 188 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.600 has released her proposed twelve point eight billion dollar city budget for the twenty twenty 189 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.679 four to twenty five fiscal year. The new budget is two hundred and forty 190 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.360 two million less than this year's spending plan by Bass says the proposal is a 191 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:35.039 reset and includes sixty five million dollars in cuts to her signature inside Safe Program, 192 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:37.360 an increase of more than one hundred and thirty eight million dollars for the 193 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:43.519 LAPD and twenty three million dollars less for the LA Fire Department Death Row. 194 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:48.519 Inmates from San Quentin are being transferred to a prison in San Bernardino County, 195 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.399 and locals are not happy. So the official say the California Institution for Men 196 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:56.120 in Chino is in poor condition, and they're worried and inmate with nothing to 197 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.200 lose could escape. The aging facility sa Quenton will eventually be converted into a 198 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:07.840 rehab facility. The Angels have played and lost their ten thousandth game. The 199 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:13.519 Angels played their first game April eleventh, nineteen sixty one, coincidentally, also 200 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:18.519 against the Baltimore Orioles. The Angels have a four nine hundred and sixty seven 201 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:24.080 to FIVEY twenty nine record. The Angels lost game number ten thousand, four 202 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:26.320 to two at six oh five. It's handled on the news. We got 203 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:31.320 homeless, violence, and metro, all three big issues in LA wrapped up 204 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.440 into one. Right now, Let's say good morning to the host of How 205 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:41.279 to Money on KFI. It's Joel Larsgard Joel goals the gold is the hot 206 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:45.000 item right now. Oh yeah, it really is. It's so hot and 207 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.679 so hot. The cost is so hot right now makes you think of a 208 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:52.879 line from the movie Zoolander back in the day. But yeah, even Costco 209 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.039 is selling gold bars, and Costco is selling out almost immediately every time they 210 00:15:56.039 --> 00:16:00.919 put them up for sale on their website. So there is an intense interest 211 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.000 in gold right now. And when you actually look at kind of recent returns, 212 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:07.840 gold is kind of up there with the overall stock market in recent years. 213 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.159 So there's I think a reason, like when the number goes up, 214 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:15.279 it piques more people's interests. Is the same thing that happens with bitcoin. 215 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.039 When bitcoin's on the rise, everyone's like, oh, should I invest in 216 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:21.720 bitcoin? And so yeah, I think it's on the minds of a lot 217 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:25.480 of people. And you know, whether or not you should invest in gold 218 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:27.720 depends, I think on a variety of factors. But the one thing you 219 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:32.559 have to be at least aware of when you invest in gold, specifically when 220 00:16:32.600 --> 00:16:37.120 you invest in physical gold, like you're buying those gold bars on Costco's website, 221 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:42.240 is the friction in selling that gold, and so not just how difficult 222 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.919 it might be. You you can just list that thing on Facebook marketplace, 223 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.360 right, right, I mean I guess you could, right exactly. Yeah, 224 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.639 I'm selling gold bars, come on over here. It's like a target 225 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:57.480 on your back, right. But the friction and then the cost to you, 226 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:03.079 the inefficiency of buying and selling gold makes it especially physical gold makes it 227 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:07.839 less attractive of an investment. In my opinion. I get why some people 228 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.920 want to hold a little bit of gold in their portfolio, but the way 229 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:12.559 gold has been performing and the way people have been talking about gold, I 230 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:15.680 think is getting a lot more people interested, like ooh, I probably should 231 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:22.359 have a lot more exposure to gold in my investments, and that might not 232 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.839 be the case, so pass on it. Ors. Again, it depends 233 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.559 on what your goals are and what you're trying to do with your portfolio. 234 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.200 I think, especially for younger investors, gold is a distraction. The truth 235 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:37.640 is, gold is a shiny gold rock in many ways, right, And 236 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:41.200 it's not that it doesn't have any value. But if you are a younger 237 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:45.559 investor with many decades left in your time horizon, I would much rather have 238 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:52.319 you invested in most league stocks and businesses that are creating the next wave of 239 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:59.519 technology and innovation. I would rather have my future tied to those companies than 240 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.079 I would eyed to gold. But if you are, you know, in 241 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:06.319 those retirement years or getting close to those retirement ears, having some exposure to 242 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:11.279 gold can you can can at least help you as a as a as an 243 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:14.759 investor with with different needs. Right, So, so much depends on where 244 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:18.319 you're at in your investing horizon. But again it's important to note the frictional 245 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:22.599 cost and the friction and the cost associated with buying and selling gold. If 246 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.160 you want to have exposure to gold, I prefer people buy gold inside of 247 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:29.519 like a low cost ETF. That's the other thing is some of these ETFs 248 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.960 the race to especial so in exchange traded fund So it's it's basically you're owning 249 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.599 gold, but you don't actually have to keep it on premises, right, 250 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:42.400 which means less likely getting a less likelihood of getting robbed for that gold. 251 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.480 But also just it's easier to buy and sell. It's like you can buy 252 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:48.480 it and sell it just like you're trading a stock. Gotcha. Okay, 253 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:55.960 And as you were talking about getting closer to those that retirement age. You're 254 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.279 saying, if you're if you're getting ready to retire, you might want to 255 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:02.519 think a stick in an out just a little bit longer. So yeah, 256 00:19:02.559 --> 00:19:06.119 there's this dual edge sword of one more year syndrome, right, And it's 257 00:19:06.119 --> 00:19:08.039 like, oh, if I just work one more year, then all of 258 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:11.720 these great things will happen, and then I can retire in style. And 259 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:17.680 sometimes what that leads people to do is to working longer than they probably needed 260 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:21.640 to because they're too conservative. But I do think it's important to think about 261 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.039 the trade offs of working one more year. So first, you end up 262 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:29.119 saving more because you let's say you're working that year and you continue to toss 263 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.359 ten, twelve, fifteen percent into your retirement account. Boom, that's a 264 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.640 win, right, another year of contributions that can work for you. And 265 00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:38.480 second, you need to save less for retirement because you've got one less year 266 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:42.400 to fund, which is a great news. And then you can die, 267 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:48.279 right, yes, exactly. Well yeah, well, let's say you're gonna 268 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.039 die at the same age. Right, it's not going to change the age 269 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:52.680 you die, but you've got one less year to fund because you wouldn't you 270 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.000 didn't take that year off. Then You've got more time for your investments to 271 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.920 compound, which is great. So you've got another year of hopefully market gains 272 00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:03.599 that are allowing your investments to continue to grow. You can delay taking Social 273 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:06.200 Security a little bit longer, which means you're going to get a bigger check. 274 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.759 So all of these things would push you towards saying, yeah, maybe 275 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.079 I will stick it out for one more year. And depending on where you're 276 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:15.000 at kind of in the nest egg you've been able to build up, that 277 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:17.759 might be the right move. But but then the other thing you have to 278 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.880 factor in is life right, and so you have to say, well, 279 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:22.279 what do I want it? So maybe part time is a better way to 280 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.200 go. And I think that's a reasonable way for people to kind of back 281 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:29.519 off slowly from work instead of making it this all or nothing proposition. I 282 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:32.559 think the way we've talked about retirement in this country, it's not necessarily the 283 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:34.960 most helpful, the most healthy, And so maybe it's not either work full 284 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:40.519 time or not work at all. Maybe it's this gradual decline in how much 285 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:42.400 we work, allowing us to kind of maintain some of those connections and some 286 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:45.559 of that purpose that work can give us. While also saying I don't need 287 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.720 like a full size paycheck, and then it gives us maybe the best of 288 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.960 both worlds. Okay, so many decisions, so many decisions when it comes 289 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.319 to money, and you know, like there's a lot of times I wish 290 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.000 everything was just very cut and dry, but it's not. There's so much 291 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:04.000 nuances and that's why we appreciate you to help us, to help guide us 292 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:10.240 through these things. You're right, it's complex and sometimes it does feel overwhelming. 293 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:12.799 So anytime we can cut through the clutter with hopefully some good information and 294 00:21:12.839 --> 00:21:15.160 wisdom, that's what that's what the goal is. And Joel is going to 295 00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:18.319 help you cut through the clutter this weekend on how to Money with Joel. 296 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:22.519 It's Sunday from noon to two right here on KFI. You can also follow 297 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:26.559 him at how to Money Joel. Thank you, Joel. Thanks Amy. 298 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.920 The Dodgers are going to take on the Nationals this afternoon in Washington. The 299 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.599 first pitch goes out at three forty five. You can listen to every play 300 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:38.680 of every Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA Sports Live from the Galpin Motor 301 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.960 Broadcast Booth, and you can stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio 302 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.599 app keyword AM five seventy LA Sports Go Blue. A man has been booked 303 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:52.079 on suspicion of murder and connection with the stabbing death of a woman on a 304 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:56.279 metro train in Studio City. Please say the man repeatedly slashed the woman in 305 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.799 her sixties after stealing her purse early yesterday morning on the Universal City B line. 306 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:04.680 At least say the forty five year old man arrested is homeless. Express 307 00:22:04.759 --> 00:22:10.039 is closing one hundred stores across the US as it files for Chapter eleven bankruptcy. 308 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:14.680 The retailer said it received a non binding letter of intent from a group 309 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:18.720 of investors to purchase it. The company has over five hundred stores worldwide. 310 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:23.759 The world famous Budweiser Clydesdales are getting ready for their annual appearance at Stagecoach. 311 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:27.319 The Country Music Festival is this weekend in the Coachella Valley. It's headlined by 312 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:33.720 Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Morgan Wallen. A Dalmatian coach dog will accompany 313 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.519 the eight horse hitch and red Budweiser beer wagon to protect the horses and guard 314 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:41.240 the beer. Of course, at six oh five, it's handle on the 315 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:44.599 news. One hundred and fifty arrests have been made honor around a college campus 316 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:49.079 in New York as pro Palestinian protests continue and spread. At five point fifty, 317 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.319 ABC's Jim Ryan's gonna bring our headskun out of the clouds. When it 318 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:56.680 comes to our dreams of winning big with the Lotto jackpot, I'm buying my 319 00:22:56.680 --> 00:23:04.319 ticket anyway. KFI Steve says artificial intelligence may decide what news stories you'll be 320 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:08.920 exposed to in the upcoming presidential election. AI has become all the rage, 321 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:12.839 and as society tries to decide how it fits into our daily lives, there 322 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:18.119 is an industry that wonders if it could change democracy. That industry journalism, 323 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:21.359 I think, especially with news and reporting, as an area to tread lightly. 324 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:23.200 So we've talked a little bit about on the editing side. As you're 325 00:23:23.319 --> 00:23:26.279 you know, you already have the story you want to come in and pull 326 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.680 the relevant clips. That process can be easier if you're starting a little earlier 327 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.799 with the like story creation and trying to do research. I think that's an 328 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.359 area for cautions. Rachel Joy Victor is the co founder of fabric Ai, 329 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:40.799 a group that helps companies understand how to use AI and what to watch for. 330 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.160 I caught up with her at the annual convention of the National Association of 331 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:47.880 Broadcasters here in Las Vegas, and I wondered, as a journalist, should 332 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:51.119 I dabble in AI for research and storytelling. A lot of the models that 333 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:52.880 we're working with right now, if we're talking about chat GPT, we're talking 334 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:56.759 about these large language models are generative only, right, So they're based on 335 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:03.079 probability, they're based on kind of the system is scraping up all this information 336 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.920 from online and going in and finding patterns. So often we have enough data 337 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:10.119 that those patterns are accurate, but not always. Victor says the technology can 338 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.880 be fun, interesting and very useful, but when it comes to journalism, 339 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.400 she says, AI still needs a bassline. After all, how would AI 340 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:21.839 decipher the ethics of a story, protect a source, calculate the nuances of 341 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:25.119 the human condition. So if you go in and like actually start playing with 342 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:27.480 chat GBT or these kind of models and look for things around dates, around 343 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:33.079 specific names of people or places or books or things like that, it gets 344 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:36.200 the facts almost right, but not quite. So it's easy to feel like 345 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.319 confident and saying like, great, this generated output looks great, but that 346 00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:42.839 little piece of that accuracy can be kind of really thrown off. I was 347 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:47.799 curious about other applications for AI in my world, so Victor referred me to 348 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:52.440 Audio Shape and their head of engineering Jonathan Lott, use AI to separate audio 349 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:56.880 in different formats. So we music space, we separate vocals, drums, 350 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:00.440 bass, guitar, different instruments, and now on the film space, we 351 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:04.799 have models that can actually separate dialogue from the music and effects. And then 352 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:08.720 we also do music removal as well, so those are the main offerings we 353 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:12.640 have. We also work on a model that actually can separate speakers, like 354 00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:17.000 if you're doing interviews, you can actually isolate the two speakers if they're talking 355 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.039 over each other. That says they're now working on projects for the NFL and 356 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:23.079 the BBC. In fact, they've been separating tracks from old episodes of Doctor 357 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:27.359 Who so the series audio tracks can be recorded in other languages. So in 358 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:32.240 this case, AI can be an amazing Workhourse and speaking of the BBC, 359 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.000 Director General Tim Davie recently said the network will embrace AI, but only on 360 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:41.000 their terms. As we move to an Internet only world, we can shape 361 00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:44.640 this tipping point to act for the benefit of the British public. We can 362 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:48.519 choose not to realize solely on US and Chinese tech companies who may not have 363 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:53.759 the interests of a shared British culture and our democratic, tolerant society at their 364 00:25:53.799 --> 00:26:00.640 heart. This will require us to create unique algorithms to serve all that for 365 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.200 good, olgorithms and AI that bring us closer, not drive us apart. 366 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:11.480 Personalization of course, but not driven by a narrow commercial return. Judy Parnell's 367 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.559 the head of the BBC's Standards and Industry and says AI cannot be avoided, 368 00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:18.680 but it can be harnessed for good to improve the process of news gathering and 369 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.559 to increase trust in the truth of their reporting. Here at KFI, we're 370 00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:26.359 still exploring how AI may even work for what we do. We're certainly keeping 371 00:26:26.359 --> 00:26:30.240 an eye on how other news organizations might use AI, and if it fits 372 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:33.319 for us, we may consider it. But for now we're doing news the 373 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:40.200 old fashioned way, personally checking, rechecking and verifying. Steve Gregory KFI News. 374 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:41.960 Thank you, Steve, it's one of the best in the business. 375 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.079 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four 376 00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:49.279 hour newsroom, and eleven year old boys been reported missing in Compton. Irvin 377 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:56.279 Diaz was last seen yesterday morning on North Bradfield Avenue near East Pixley's Street. 378 00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:59.599 He's Latino, four foot eleven, about one hundred and twenty pounds, with 379 00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:03.240 brown, brown eyes and brown hair. He was wearing a black shirt, 380 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.839 gray Dicky's pants, and black Nike shoes. The family of a man fatally 381 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.880 shot by La County Sheriff's deputies in Carson has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit 382 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:17.559 alleging excessive force. Deputies confronted the man at a gas station last summer after 383 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:21.519 a worker saw him yelling at the gas pumps. Attorney Michael Correo says the 384 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:26.279 Sheriff's department initially told Arturo Sernaz family that the deputies fired because they believed he 385 00:27:26.359 --> 00:27:29.359 had a weapon. Now come to find out later that there's a very clear 386 00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:33.440 video that shows that he was shot four times in the back. They're furious 387 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.680 angry. Coreo said yesterday. He's also calling on Da Gasconne's office to file 388 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:42.160 criminal charges against the deputy who fired the fatal rounds. The Sheriff's department has 389 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:48.480 not yet responded for comment. Chris Adler KFI news, a state senator from 390 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:52.839 Huntington Beach, wants animal shelters to post the number of animals they euthanize each 391 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:56.759 month. Surely they know the numbers, so what are they hiding? State 392 00:27:56.839 --> 00:28:00.559 Senator Janet Wins says her two new bills would require a month report on euthanasia's 393 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:04.319 deaths, adoptions, and other animal treatment stats that are often kept hidden from 394 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:08.640 the public, and posing intakes, outtakes, and utilization numbers on website and 395 00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:14.440 hosts shelters accountable. This then creates pressure for shelters to do venerians. When 396 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:18.240 also told the committee yesterday, legalizing trapped newter release programs would reduce cat populations 397 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:22.400 and euthanaser rates by neutering then returning cats to a community in which they were 398 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.759 already thriving in Orange County Corbin Carson k if I news. The Senate is 399 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:32.160 expected to vote today on a ninety five billion dollar foreign aid bill that includes 400 00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:37.000 more than sixty billion dollars for Ukraine. Republican Congressman Tom Keane, who was 401 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.079 in Ukraine's capital yesterday, says he supports the bill. I'm confident though the 402 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:45.519 stringent oversight and accountabuilding measure in place to ensure that our aid is not subject 403 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:48.039 to fraud, corruption, or diverse and once on the battlefield, we know 404 00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:52.519 that US provide weapons, will we put to good use. The bill, 405 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:56.039 which passed the House on Saturday, also has billions in funding for Israel and 406 00:28:56.359 --> 00:29:03.880 Taiwan. A neutrality review of a UN agency helping Palestinian refugees has found Israel 407 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:08.400 never expressed concern about anyone on staff lists. It comes after Israel claimed a 408 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:15.039 dozen employees of UNRAW participated in the October seventh Hamas attack. The report found 409 00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:21.640 that UNRAW has robust procedures to uphold neutrality, but also found some staff had 410 00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:27.799 publicly expressed political views and certain textbooks contained problematic content. It says from twenty 411 00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:33.319 twenty two to twenty four there were one hundred and fifty one allegations of neutrality 412 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:40.440 being breached at the agency. So yesterday they broke ground on the high speed 413 00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:45.440 rail. It's going to go from Las Vegas to Rencho Cucamonga, and apparently 414 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:48.359 it's going to get you there in two hours, about half the time it 415 00:29:48.359 --> 00:29:49.839 would take you to drive and you don't have to deal with traffic jams. 416 00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:56.240 But it made me think, so here's something to chew on. It's a 417 00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:00.240 funded brightline is the company who's building the tracks. Two hundred and eighteen miles 418 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:07.359 track is going to run along the fifteen The cost for California's high speed rail 419 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:12.759 project, which voters approved with ten billion dollars in funding in two thousand and 420 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:18.079 eight. The costs have absolutely exploded and that project has just barely started. 421 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.319 The full cost of putting in a train that would run from San Francisco to 422 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:27.160 La was originally estimated to be about forty billion dollars, but now those costs 423 00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:32.400 have skyrocketed. So now they're saying it's going to cost between eighty eight and 424 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:36.440 one hundred twenty eight billion dollars to get this project completed. And guess what, 425 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:38.240 it's not going to be done until well, the first section of it. 426 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:41.440 It's not going to be done until twenty thirty. They're saying the first 427 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:48.920 one hundred and seventy one miles connecting Merced to Bakersfield, which why would anybody 428 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.759 ride that because it doesn't take you anywhere? Has gone up from twenty five 429 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:59.920 point seven billion dollars to at least thirty two billion dollars and again their whole 430 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:04.079 to have service begin in twenty thirty. The Bright Line project from Rancho Cucamonga 431 00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:08.160 to Las Vegas twelve billion dollars. It's going to be two hundred and eighteen 432 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:12.119 miles, right. So the other one's one hundred and seventy one miles from 433 00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:18.720 Bakersfield to Merced and it's going to cost like up to thirty two billion dollars. 434 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.359 This one is two hundred eighteen million dollars or two hundred and eighteen miles 435 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:27.480 twelve billion dollars. Construction is now begun and it's expected to be done in 436 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:33.720 time for the Summer Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Private versus public just something 437 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:40.079 to think about. La Mayor Bass has released her proposed multi billion dollar city 438 00:31:40.079 --> 00:31:42.720 budget for twenty twenty four and twenty five. The new budget's two hundred and 439 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:48.119 forty two million dollars less than this year's spending plan. Bass says the proposal 440 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:52.200 is a reset and includes sixty five million dollars and cuts to her signature. 441 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:56.480 Inside Safe Program, a man's been convicted of ripping off seniors by getting him 442 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.440 involved in a fake community in Belize. Prosecutors say the guy I got two 443 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:04.279 couples and a woman to buy into a luxury resort community that was supposed to 444 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.440 have a hospital with US doctors, a championship golf course, a casino, 445 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:10.720 hotel, airport, marina, and a village with high end boutiques, restaurants, 446 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:14.759 cafes, and a grocery store. Well there was a development, but 447 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.920 none of those amenities, and the investors all lost their money. He's going 448 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.880 to be sentenced in May. And so much for the super bloom. Lots 449 00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:27.319 of rain has colorful wildflowers covering southern California's deserts and bluffs, bluffs and open 450 00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:31.039 spaces, but a lot of scientists say this year's flowers are not spectacular enough 451 00:32:31.079 --> 00:32:36.799 to be called a super bloom. The scientists say that a true super bloom 452 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.200 is a once in a lifetime event. We're minutes away from handle on the 453 00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:43.640 news this morning. It's up to the Senate now to pass or not to 454 00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:47.240 pass a ninety five billion dollar foreign aid bill. The votes coming up. 455 00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.079 And since we're talking about big money, let's talk to ABC's Jim Ryan. 456 00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.839 I got my lotto ticket for Powerball, Jim one hundred and fifteen million dollars. 457 00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:00.960 Megabut or Mega Millions is two hundred two million dollars to night. Yeah, 458 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.799 I'll probably win, huh probably. Yeah. The next drawing, I 459 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:07.640 think power Ball is tomorrow and it's one hundred and thirty million. I believe. 460 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:08.599 Oh was it up tow one hundred and thirty nowe yeah, because nobody 461 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.079 won last night. Okay, but plenty of people played. Plenty of people 462 00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.880 do play. In fact, even if you didn't say I never play a 463 00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:20.559 lottery, fifty percent of Americans buy at least one ticket every year, right, 464 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.319 So, whether it's an office pool or they're doing it on their own, 465 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.279 about half of Americans do play the lottery at least once a year. 466 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:32.799 Well, and I think of it as like it's two dollars. So if 467 00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.000 I get one Mega Millions and one power Ball, that is a cup of 468 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.079 Starbucks coffee, and I can make my own coffee. So it's sort of 469 00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.519 you know, it's not like I'm investing a lot in it, right, 470 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:49.119 So why do it anyway because I'm going to win? Okay? Right? 471 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:53.480 What if you're not going to win? There there are millions of cases of 472 00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:58.440 people, billions maybe of people who tried to win, they didn't win, 473 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:00.880 and you know, at least scratch it all, and they go, okay, 474 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:02.880 well let's let's give it a shot. Some folks though to decide that, 475 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.000 yeah, you know, I didn't want I bought two tickets, but 476 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:09.559 neither one of them won. The tickets, the numbers didn't they didn't manche 477 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:13.719 the power ball or the whatever state lottery they're in, right, So this 478 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:15.840 woman says, I do have two tickets, but if I got them apart 479 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:19.599 right down the middle of then tape them together, it comes out as a 480 00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:22.400 million dollar winning ticket. So the police say that's what she did. Her 481 00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:27.599 name is Kira Enders, thirty six years old, lives in Pensacola. Went 482 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:32.519 to the Escambia County Lottery office there and presented this ticket and then swore she 483 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:37.199 wrote, you know, she filled up paperwork which swears that the ticket is 484 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.920 real in order to get her a million dollar winnings. But the Florida Lottery 485 00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:45.199 officials immediately spotted the forgery and said, you know what, this isn't real, 486 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:46.800 and she said, sure, it's real and signed the paper and now 487 00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:51.039 she's in jail, or she was in jail last week. Her boyfriend too, 488 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:54.199 Dakota Jones. Both of them were arrested in connection with this scheme. 489 00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:58.119 Even though it didn't work. You know, they couldn't just walk away say 490 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.599 okay, you got me all right, so we won't do it again, 491 00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:05.119 and they left. That's not the case. They faced serious charges, including 492 00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:08.320 theft of one hundred thousand dollars, even though they didn't collect anything. How 493 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:13.119 are they facing the theft chargers? Well, it's forgery for one thing. 494 00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:17.119 It's forgery that goes with that. And yes, even though they didn't they 495 00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:21.760 were not able to pull this thing off. They tried to pull this thing 496 00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:27.320 off, and so that constitutes theft, grand larceny and what are some of 497 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.599 the other things that people have tried to do. Well, there's a couple 498 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.760 last week in Iowa, roommates. Actually they're not married. They're not going 499 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:38.559 together, I guess, but roommates. The one roommate, his name is 500 00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:45.280 Lars and Alvin hands Larson. The third he's got some legal problems there in 501 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:49.599 Iowa and he would have to pay back I suspect child support or something. 502 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:52.480 So that if you want a bunch of money, the state officials are going 503 00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:53.679 to see that. They're going to say, hey, we're going to take 504 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:58.199 this money from you because you have to pay your whatever debt you owe. 505 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.920 So he says, tell you what, once, you go and cash this 506 00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:05.360 in Sandy his roommates. So Sandy Crow goes and cashes it in, and 507 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:08.519 there's a picture of her grinning with the oversized check for thirty thousand dollars. 508 00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:13.800 Well, you know, it turns out that then they got into a fight, 509 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.800 Candy in a roommate and the police were called. The police figured out 510 00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:22.679 that it was all over this lottery ticket that Larson won, but that Sandy 511 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:27.440 turned in that too, is fraud in the lottery. It's not as serious 512 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.559 an offense as trying to turn in a million dollar ticket. So they lost 513 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.679 the thirty thousand dollars plus had to pay five hundred bucks on top of that. 514 00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:37.880 Maybe they should change his last name to larceny. That's perfect. Why 515 00:36:37.880 --> 00:36:43.199 didn't I think of that? Lars and need. There was a case last 516 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:47.599 year in Boston this father and son who ran a scheme for ten years, 517 00:36:49.400 --> 00:36:53.880 ten years, millions of dollars worth of fraud. Committee they would purchase people. 518 00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.000 Let's say that you were like mister larceny, and you had some debt 519 00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:02.199 to the stage child's or for example. So this guy Ali Jafar and his 520 00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:06.119 son Yusef, they would buy the ticket from you at a discount. Let's 521 00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:08.199 say it's a million dollar ticket. They'd buy it from you for seven hundred 522 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.119 and fifty dollars, and then they would they would submit it for the full 523 00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:15.199 million dollars. And they were doing this for a year after you. I'm 524 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:19.360 not sure how they were never caught, but eventually they were. It's crazy 525 00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.079 that they even were able to get away with it in the first place. 526 00:37:22.119 --> 00:37:23.360 Well, I'm gonna just do it the right way. I'm going to buy 527 00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:27.000 my two dollars ticket and hope for the best. I know my odds are 528 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.559 like one in two hundred and ninety two. You went fantastic. If you 529 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:31.719 lose, you know, you lick your wins and save up another couple of 530 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:35.320 bucks and go buy it next time. Right, you got it. ABC's 531 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.599 Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the info. Jammy. All right, 532 00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:45.239 this is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We 533 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:50.400 lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer and and technical 534 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.239 producer KNO I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call. 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