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You're listening to KFI AM six forty
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County. It's time for your morning
wake up call. Here's Amy King.

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It's five o'clock, straight up.
This is your wake up call for Tuesday,

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April sixteenth. I'm Amy King.
Good morning. We're live everywhere on

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the iHeartRadio app. You can listen
there anytime, you know. The skies

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in La after rain are my favorite. Last night after the showers cleared out

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and there was a beautiful sunset and
there was just enough clouds that they were

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turning this brilliant shade of orange spectacular. And we're going to be back to

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sunny skies today. So that's great
news. Here's what's ahead on wake Up

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Call. LA Mayor Bass says her
Inside Safe program is moved thousands of people

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off the streets into temporary housing.
During your second State of the City address,

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she also asked businesses, charitable organizations, and wealthy individuals to help by

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buying or leasing buildings that can be
converted into homes for homeless people. Our

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Michael Monks is going to take a
closer look at the state of the city

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in just a couple of minutes,
because she talked about a lot. Jury

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selection continues for a second day and
former President Trump's hush money trial in Lower

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Manhattan. No jurors were selected yesterday, This might take a while. At

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least fifty perspective, jurors were dismissed, saying they felt they could not be

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impartial. Have you noticed there have
been a lot of close calls at airports.

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We're going to be talking with ABC's
Jim Ryan in just a couple of

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minutes about how the FAA is trying
to fix that, and also the Wallace

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Annenberg wildlife crossing has taken another big
step forward. We're going to be talking

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with the California Regional director of the
National Wildlife Federation about what's happening now on

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the one oh one and when our
mountain lions are going to have safe passage

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to safe spaces in southern California.
At six so five, it's handled on

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the news. Well, the bidens
did pretty good last year. The President

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has released his taxes. We'll take
a look at those. Let's get started

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with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour News Room.

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More than one hundred and forty people
have been arrested during the latest round

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of pro Palestinian protests across the country. Activists chose tax Day to shut down

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traffic in California, New York,
Seattle, Chicago. In the Bay Area,

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they blocked the Golden Gate Bridge,
stopping traffic for five hours. They

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also gathered outside of Tesla factory in
Fremont. This Tesla factory is one of

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the most productive factories in the state, and so in this area we wanted

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to target a big center of production
and really cause an impact. Protesters say

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they want to use economic pressure to
bring end to the war in Gaza.

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The La City Fire Department is mourning
the death of a recruit who was hit

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by a car and killed in Studio
City. The recruit was struck when he

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got out of his car to help
people who were involved in a crash.

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LA City Fire Captain Eric Scott says
despite efforts by paramedics, the recruit was

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pronounced dead on scene, and we
did have a formal and traditional procession from

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the incident site to the La Coroner's
office. The recruit was driving to training

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when he was hit yesterday. Officials
say they want people to remember his courage

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like Charlie k if I. News
oh speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a new

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plan for foreign aid, calling for
four separate bills with funding for Ukraine,

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Israel, Taiwan, Gazen Moore.
He says, the world is watching to

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see how the US will react to
international conflicts. We have a terrorist in

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tyrants and terrible leaders around the world
like Putin and g and in Iran,

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and they're watching to see if America
will stand up for its allies and in

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our own interest around the globe,
and we will, Johnson says, instead

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of one ninety five billion dollar bill, each bill would be voted on separately.

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That's going to happen before the end
of the week, says Johnson.

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Jury selection has continued in New York
in the hush money trial against former President

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Trump. ABC's Aaron Katirsky says a
lot of potential jurors were dismissed yesterday,

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jud Van Marshaan explaining a fair juror
is a person who has no bias or

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prejudice in favor of or against a
party or witness. More than half the

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potential jurors then raise their hand,
signaling they could not be fair and impartial.

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At a dozen potential jurors were excused
for other reasons. It's expected to

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take weeks to select the twelve jurors
and six alternates needed for the case survived

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tax Day. Yes, me too. Let's say good morning now to ABC's

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Jim Ryan. That little chuckle you
heard is our buddy, Jim. So

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Jim. There have been, or
seem to have been a lot of near

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MISSUS close calls, both in the
air, on the ground in US airport

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or at US airports recently, so
the FAA is trying to do something about

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it. They are. Yeah,
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there was an incident at San Diego
air Traffic Controller Cleared assessmental Land. Even

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though a Southwest Airlines flight already was
on the same taxiway, was on the

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same runway, there was no little
bit mess. Yeah, they managed to

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stay separated the last minute. Similar
incident in near Collis in Austin, when

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a cargo plane in the Southwest Bowing
seven thirty seven, came within about one

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hundred and fifteen feet of each other. Again, disaster averted, but barely

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so the FAA has decided to do
something about this. You know, the

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worst single aviation disaster, commercial aviation
disaster in history happened when two seven forty

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seven's on the ground collided in the
Canary Islands in nineteen seventy seven, So

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you can see how horrible this could
be. Was one landing and one taking

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off? Or why was that so
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both taxing. One was turned around
preparing to take off. That was a

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KLM plane smashed right into a pan
AM flight that was still on the runway

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in thick, thick fog. So
yeah, again, this was the Canary

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Islands tenor reef. I remember hearing
about it on the radio when I was

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a kid. But so it can
be a horrible thing. More often than

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not, you hear about wings clipping
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that happen on the ground at airport. So they just had that back in

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I can't remember which one, but
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just like in the last couple of
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I mean that's a minor thing.
It's an inconvenience that probably those passengers had

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to go onto other planes. But
the what IFFs are just staggering to consider

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amy And so the FAA has been
working on this new system which gives air

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traffic controllers up in the tower.
You know, they have to control not

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only the planes in the air coming
and going, but also the planes taxing

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on the ground, you know,
trucks that are out there. So in

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many cases it's the same person doing
that those two jobs. In a bigger

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airport, LAX has people controlling the
ground and controlling the air and departing and

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arriving and all that. But at
a smaller or mid sized airport, they

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don't have that luxury. And so
the fa has come up with this new

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system which gives those controllers a map
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field if it doesn't have technology like
LAX does to tell them where planes are,

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where trucks are and tugs. This
system is intended to fill that gap

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and perhaps reduce the number of runaway
incursions. Okay, And they're doing sort

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of a test run of it at
a few airports. They are Dallas love

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Field one of them, Austin,
Austin's Austin Bergs from Airport Nashville and Indianapolis.

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Internashville. These are all again kind
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not the biggest, they're not the
smallest, but they're somewhere in the middle,

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and they can use this kind of
technology because they don't have other means

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of really policing traffic on the ground. Okay, so this isn't replacing a

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current system. No, it's an
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it's and again I mean unfortunately,
it's something else for those air traffic controllers

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to keep an eye on. Right, But this surface awareness initiative is intended

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to sort of tap them on the
shoulder. They may use. Somebody suggested

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this morning, what if they use
artificial intelligence to watch those screens, right,

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So that if the AI catches two
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close to each other or being assigned
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same time in the same place,
it could tell the controllers, Uh,

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look over there, make sure you
don't let those two come together. Okay,

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So you said it's going to be
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to be like I don't know,
like when you are waiting for your uber

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driver, you can see where they
are. I mean, it's literally a

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digital screen that shows where all the
action is. Sure, yeah, and

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whether it's overlaid on top of their
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may be a completely separate system altogether. But they're going to roll this out

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at these four airports by July,
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If it all works out well,
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the end of next year. Well, let's hope it works so we can

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all fly the friendly and safe skies
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aprons all the rest. All right, great, well, that's cool.

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That sounds like a good plan.
Thank you Jim Ryan for the information.

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Thanks you me. All right,
take care. Let's get back to some

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of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA Mayor

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Bass has delivered her annual State of
the City address. The mayor touched on

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current issues and future opportunities. In
her second address is Mayor, the state

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of our city is stronger today because
we have made change and we have disrupted

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the status quote. The subject that
got the most of the Mayor's time last

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night was homelessness. Now, I
refuse to hide the fact that it's forty

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six thousand people. Now. We
will not hide people, but what we

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will do is house people. She
says the cost of homelessness is not just

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the billions in government spending to address
it, but also the harm done to

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businesses and tourist destinations where people have
become too afraid to visit. I just

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will not accept this, and our
city can't afford to accept it. Bass

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announced the new initiative she calls La
for La, and she hopes to attract

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wealthy philanthropists to join the government in
raising funds to acquire more properties to develop

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as housing for the homeless. La
for La can be a sea change for

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Los Angeles, an unprecedented partnership to
confront this emergency. The mayor is also

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expected to release her proposed budget for
the next fiscal year in the coming days.

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She offered some of her priorities during
last night's speech. She says staffing

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goals that the LAPD will be maintained
after new contract guaranteed pay raises. As

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a result, we're attracting record numbers
of applicants to the Police Academy, and

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my budget for next year maintains our
LAPD staffing goals also says she's working collaboratively

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to find the police department's next permanent
chief, and this isn't the closed door

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conversation. I've been meeting with officers, business organizations, community leaders, community

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members to ask them directly what they
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While she wants to fill the police
chief's position, Bass expressed her support for

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the elimination of nearly two thousand vacant
city jobs, saying, with the savings,

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the city will be well positioned to
review how its departments operate in a

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lean period, so we can take
advantage of the tough times to determine how

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departments can function in a more efficient
and effective manner. The mayor says addressing

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LA's most pressing issues will determine how
millions of visitors coming for the World Cup

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in twenty twenty six and the Summer
Olympics in twenty twenty eight view the city

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and that LA should position itself to
maximize the economic potential of the events.

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The Games will mean more than five
million visitors pumping billions of dollars into our

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economy in our hotels, eating in
our restaurants, visiting our museums, and

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exploring our neighborhoods. Michael Monks KFI
news and clogging up our roadways. Okay,

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she didn't include that part. So
much going on in LA and I

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don't know about you. I'm excited
for the Olympics to be here. My

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hope is to get to to get
to see gymnastics in person. A teenage

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boy has been fatally shot in South
LA. He was on Western Avenue near

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one hundred and eighth Street yesterday afternoon
when he was shot. Investigators say when

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deputies got there, they saw a
large group of kids breaking up. The

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injured teen was lying on the sidewalk. He died at the hospital. Investigators

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said there were several fights before the
shooting and that a person of interest has

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been detained. The armorer on the
set of the movie Rest has been sentenced

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in New Mexico to eighteen months in
prison for the deadly shooting of cinematographer Helena

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Hutchins. Hannah Gutiera's Reid was found
guilty of involuntary manslaughter last month. She

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cried in court yesterday as she asked
the court for probation, saying her heart

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aches for Hutchins, her family,
and her friends. I am saddened by

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the way the media sensationalized our traumatic
tragedy and portrayed me as a complete monster.

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The judge wasn't swayed. I find
that what you did constitutes a serious

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violent offense. It was committed in
a physically violent manner, a fatal gunshot

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done with your recklessness, the judge
said. Reed did not accept responsibility for

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her actions and has not shown remorse. On a happier note, it's free

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cone Day at Ben Jerry's. Ben
and Jerry's free cone Day tradition goes back

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to its origins in nineteen seventy nine, when it gave away cones to thank

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its customers during its first year of
business in Burlington, Vermont. Now it

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is global. Ben and Jerry says
it's hoping to give away a million free

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scoops today, and to reach to
that goal, they're encouraging customers to invite

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family, friends, and neighbors to
come along and get a free scoop and

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feel free to get in line more
than once. The State of California has

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filed a lawsuit against Huntington Beach challenging
the legality of a voter id measure recently

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approved by residents. The lawsuit claims
it conflicts with and is preempted by existing

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state law. The voter approved measure
amended the city charter to authorize the city

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to implement a requirement for voters to
show ID when casting ballots in person.

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Lawmakers in California are working to make
it illegal to make child porn using artificial

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intelligence. The bill was introduced after
several reports of AI generated photos circulating in

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public schools including Long Beach, Beverly
Hills, LA, and Laguna Beach.

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Caitlin Clark is still number one.
She was picked first in last night's twenty

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twenty four WNBA draft. The Iowa
guard will be playing for the Indiana Fever.

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In her senior season, Clark became
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and women scoring leader at six so
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Nike's taken some heat for their new
US Women's Olympic uniforms. Let's just say

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they're a little skimpy. Let's say
good morning now to the host of How

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the Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel, morning Amy.

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credit cards because I saw a story

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about canceling them and how it could
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makes sense to cancel those accounts.
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paid off some debt. Time to
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Why, Well, so it's all
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of the way the credit scoring model
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significantly by closing a credit card.
Do you want to keep that card open

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even if you're not using it?
Okay? So, like I have a

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yearly fee, So it's still I
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credit score up there, that's exactly
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and you're not getting the value for
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the case for you? Yeah,
it's one that I just I've had forever

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and I just don't use it ever. Yeah. Yeah, And so if

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that's the case, sometimes you might
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want to cancel that card. But
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can call your credit card issuer.
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something known as your credit utilization rate. And so the credit Bureau's factor in

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let's say with a ten thousand dollars
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So don't cancel those credit cards.
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a vacation that maybe you're I'm there
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right, Like, so a few
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there, And let's be honest,
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so if you're not planning ahead for
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and saving money consistently. It's just
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be paying off that concert of that
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makes Johnny a dull boy. Yeah, so it's not about not doing fun

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there I think sometimes there is a
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are people who are kind of like, so, don't have any fun and

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save all your money for your retirement
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never know how long you're going to
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enjoy your life, but you want
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though, to have debt hanging over
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dollars a credit card? Yeah exactly, But that's the way the average person

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lives. Stressed to the max.
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on the everyday things, shop around
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margin in your budget. That will
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pay cash for those things that matter, for the fun stuff. Okay,

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but keep the credit card just because
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Don't need the credit card. And
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people don't use credit cards particularly well. I want you to pay the balance

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off on full in time every single
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credit. Well, but keeping the
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your credit score perspective. Yeah,
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to use it wisely and we don't
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biting off more than we can choow
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more about how to use your credit
cards wisely, we're going to get great

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financial advice from Joel Larscard. He's
got a show here on KFI Sundays from

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noon to two, always packed with
great advice. You can also follow Joel

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on at how to Money. Joel. Thank you, Joel. Thanks Amy.

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the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A marine's been sentenced to nine years in

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prison for throwing a Molotov cocktail at
a planned parenthood clinic incost to Mesa.

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If that's called chance Brandon with banned
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and writings declaring an unbelievable desire to
murder journalists. We will not tolerate violent

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acts of hate in our country.
US attorney Martinez Strada says Brannan and two

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others bragged about bombing the clinic in
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the ideology to commit these attacks,
but had the ability to carry out these

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attacks because of his training as a
marine. The other two men are set

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to be sentenced next month at the
federal courthouse in Santa Anna. Corbin Carson

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KFI News a construction worker trapped under
a forklift in bel Air has died.

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Fire officials say the worker was carrying
steel rebar yesterday afternoon when the forklift fell

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over. The man died at the
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hundred and thirty nine million dollars over
twenty five years for its groundwater replenishment project

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in the San Fernando Valley. The
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that will purify recycled water to recharge
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the Dodgers are taking on the Nationals
tonight. First pitch goes out at seven

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o'clock. It's Hello Kitty Night ticket
pack Ooh always love a good Hello Kitty.

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Listen to all the action on AM
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from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth and
you can stream the game in HD on

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the iHeartRadio app keyword AM five to
seventy LA Sports. Anti Israel protests of

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shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for
five hours. Southlown southbound lanes were closed

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yesterday when protesters parked cars and basically
chained themselves to their vehicles. Similar protests

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were held in Long Beach, on
New York's Brooklyn Bridge, on Wall Street,

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and at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. USC's
valedictorian will not be permitted to deliver

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a speech at the university's commencement because
of security concerns. It apparently stems from

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complaints of anti Semitic views posted by
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Andrew Guzman said, in his words, while this is disappointing tradition must

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give way to safety. Commencement is
May tenth. Jury selection continues for a

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second day and former President Trump's hush
money trial in Lower Manhattan. No jurors

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were selected yesterday. This could take
a while too. At least fifty perspective

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jurors were dismissed, saying they felt
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oh five, it's handle on the
news. Eleemir bass Is asking rich,

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pace full nonprofits and others to buy
up old buildings so we can provide more

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housing for the homeless. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Tom Rivers.

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Tom, we've got the war raging
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about it as much because all the
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still fighting and it's getting more and
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a nuclear power plant or near them. Exactly has happened around the seventh of

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April, and there were three different
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power plant in Europe, and of
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facility along with Russian forces as well. The Russians took it over about two

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months after their incursion over two years
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the fore, came to the Security
Council yesterday, pointing of fingers in both

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directions. Therussian Ambassador to the un
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last few months such at texts have
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flip side of the coin. The
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the world from its invasion of its
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did it. Quit trying to,
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a neutral referee in this and and
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are where we are, and of
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we don't want to see that again. So in essence, the bottom

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line is, and we've heard this
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but don't fight by the nuclear power
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they wouldn't want to fight by a
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and again it depends which side you
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hard to imagine Russia bombing its own
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line of scrimmage, so to speak. So we've seen more asymmetrical attacks,

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drone strikes far into the territory of
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could be you know, drone attacks
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drag other players into the conflict.
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pretty dicey right now. And as
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a different part of the world than
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is the Zapparisha power plant. It's
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they did have some direct hits on
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worried about it and the power going
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that. But are we looking at
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could it be worse it could be. Well, it is probably not that

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bad. As all of the six
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of the story. They still have
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to cool those nuclear rods down,
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have backup generator supplies to do that
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active if you will, nuclear plants. But anytime you drop explosive material on

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up through Ireland, the UK,
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although it was much much diminished by
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You really are playing with fire.
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can do to make sure that they
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besides saying don't do it. That's
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don't growth speaking Yeah, GROSSI says, look, you see, put in

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the simplest language, don't fight here
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Update, don't fight here. And
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and a half ago, and I
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we had these these three drone incidents
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well, we will continue to watch
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you're there watching it. Since like
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the attention that it probably should because
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right, thank you, Tom Rivers, appreciate it. Take care. All

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of the stories coming out of the KFI

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twenty four hour newsroom. Charges have
been filed in La against aman accused in

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two separate attacks on women walking in
Venice. Will we see Anthony Jones knock

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the women out before raping them within
an hour of each other. He was

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arrested last week near San Diego,
days after the April sixth attacks in the

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Venice Canal's neighborhood LAPD Interim Chief Dominic
Choice as business owners and residents offered surveillance

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video helping investigators identify Jones. This
is a prime example of public, private

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or law enforcement partnership working together to
create a safer community. Jones faces multiple

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charges, including attempted murder. One
woman is still in the hospital in a

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coma. Michael Monks KFI News.
The body of a fourth construction worker has

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been recovered at the site of the
Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. Unified Command

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says the man's body was found Sunday
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Two of the six people presumed killed
in the collapse last Monther still missing.

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The Department of Justice is getting ready
to file a federal antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster's

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parent company, Live Nation. The
move is over allegations the company has leveraged

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its market share to undermine the competition
for tickets. Ticketmaster currently holds more than

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eighty percent of the market for primary
ticket sales in the US. The laws

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soup could be filed as early as
next month. And we have an Eggs

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Benedict update for you. So I've
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talked about that. It's it's Eggs
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our daily calendar, which is on
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Neil Savager weighed in and says it
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the sauce. And he says,
and it's delicious. Isn't it like a

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like a egg and ham McMuffin.
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I wrong? Is that it's a
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and ham McMuffin because they it doesn't
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whatever the Hollandai sauce on it.
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it's still it is. It's good. But like, yeah, I'd

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take a good omelet any day.
Nick. Oh, No, I'm down

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for both. I mean you think
about it hypothetically, all right, Yeah,

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I was like, no, you
could do an omelet or a folded

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egg kind of to go with Kono's
idea of something for McDonald's, But predominantly

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it's going to be that poached egg. But you could easily do a folded

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egg or an omelet on top of
that eggs. Benedict and I've seen everything

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from salmon as your protein to you
know, all sorts of salmon and eggs.

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For me, I mean I just
went to the bois and berry brunch

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over not it's berry farm and they
had an eggs benedict that had a boisonberry

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hollandaise sauce, So okay, we'll
sweet. It was savory, was fun,

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yeah, all right, And maybe
today's a good day to explore and

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sample since its eggs benedict day.
You know what today is, It's also

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five days until the Wiggle Waggle Walk. And I just want to say,

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take us a moment because we've been
talking about this, and of course we

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want you to join our team,
and we want you to donate. I

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know that the price of everything is
higher, we know that everybody's asking you

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to give, so it is even
more special when you choose to give to

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the Wiggle Wagglewalk and Pasadena Humane Special
shout out to De d and stare It

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who made large contributions which we sow
so so so appreciate. But we'll take

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any size contribution. I mean,
if it's five bucks, if it's a

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price of a Starbucks, if it's
twenty bucks, if it's fifty bucks,

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we don't care. We just want
to raise money because what Pasadena does is

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they take care of thousands of animals
and get them ready to get into a

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new home like my Alexander the Great
the Cat. So we're asking you to

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join us. We're going to be
walking with the wake Up Call Crew on

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Sunday, April twenty first. It's
at Brookside Park in Pasadena, right by

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the Rose Bowl and we're gonna wiggle
and waggle our way around the Rose Bowl

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to benefit the Pasadena Humane Society.
And we've got so much great stuff,

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So bring your pups and dress them
up. We've got a dog costume contest,

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there's some game. James, the
Pasadena Canine Group is going to be

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out there and they're going to be
doing demonstrations. There's an agility course,

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there's food, there's a whole lot
more. We would love for you to

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join our team, the wake Up
called Wigglers. And if you can't join

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us, you can still donate and
you can find out all the information on

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how to come walk with us,
where to donate. All of that is

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at KFI AM six forty dot com
slash Wiggle. We hope you'll make your

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plans to join us this Sunday morning, April twenty first, for the Wiggle

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Waggle Walk. Law enforcement in southern
California continues to do increased patrols around places

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of worship following Iran's military strikes on
Israel over the weekend. The LAPD says

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there are no credible threats at this
time. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says

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they are watching closely to ensure the
safety of our communities. LA Fire Department

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is mourning the loss of one of
its recruits killed in that crash on the

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one oh one in Studio City that
messed up traffic all morning yesterday. He

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was apparently trying to give aid to
victims of the crash when he was hit

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and killed. The recruit was the
son of an active duty firefighter. The

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Olympic plane flame has been lit.
The fire was ignited early this morning in

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Greece at the ancient birthplace of the
Olympics. The ceremony starts a torchury lay

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that will end in Paris, just
in time for the summer Games, which

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start on July twenty sixth. We're
just minutes away from Handle. On the

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news this morning, how Speaker Mike
Johnson says that instead of one big bill,

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they're going to try for four smaller
bills to get aid approved for Israel,

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Ukraine, Taiwan and others. Right
now, let's say good morning to

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Beth Pratt, California's regional director or
executive director of the National Wildlife Federation.

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Good morning, bath mon Ami.
Thanks for having me on. Oh thanks

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for getting up early and coming on
to share the great news, and that

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is that it's a big week for
the Wallace Aanenburg Wildlife Crossing. It truly

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is. You know, the construction
has been going on and people who drive

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by know that the vertical supports have
been being built. They're quite big.

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But boy, this week we are
looking at the first horizontal structures called girders

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being placed, and that's going to
make it start really looking like the bridge

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it will become. So for those
of us who've been working on this for

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so long, it's a pretty big
moment. Okay. And of course we're

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talking about the one to one freeway
and the girders. There's like eighty two

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of them that have to go across
the freet Yeah, there's eighty two of

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them, and they are enormous.
They're over one hundred tons each. They've

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been manufactured off site for a while
and they will be trucked in each night

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and placed and cal Trans is estimating
about four to five a night, okay,

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and so how long is this phase
of the project going to take because

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we know it. Luckily it's happening
in the middle of the night, so

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it's not affecting traffic too badly,
but it is shutting down the one on

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one for like, yeah, five
we are trying to you know, obviously

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we're celebrating this milestone, but also
recognizing it comes with another milestone, which

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is we are closing at least half
of the freeway for the first time,

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and we know that comes with disruption
for people, even though it is in

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the middle of the night every night, but we know it. I think

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most people are putting this in perspective
that it's for a good cause. If

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there is ever a good cause for
a closure, this is it closure for

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cougars, closure it closure for cougars, or is another news outlet put it

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Critter Dead and I thought that was
a good one. But yeah, it

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is going to be going on for
about thirty to forty five days and eleven

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to each night to four am.
There are alternate all freeway routes that Calchans

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has posted. So we just thank
everybody for their patients as we moved through

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this first closure. Okay, and
then Beth, let's talk a little bit

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more about the wildlife crossing, just
in case people don't know or are not

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that familiar about it. Once you
get those girders across, then you're gonna

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put all of everything else that needs
to go, because this isn't going to

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be an overpass. It's going to
be a wildlife crossing. So what's a

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going to look like. Yeah,
we just released some new images last night

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which people can check out on ptree
two's Facebook page and other places, and

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yeah, this is not just an
overpass. It is not just a bridge.

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It is literally putting the living landscape
on top of the freeway. And

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you can see from these images it
is really green space, which comes with

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a lot more challenging design considerations than
if you were just putting a bridge over.

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But it really is a hopeful project. It is going to reconnect the

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Santa Monica Mountains to the rest of
the world and make for a healthy ecosystem

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and ensure a future especially for mountain
lions, but for all wildlife. I

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like to say this is being designed
for everything from monarch butterflies to mountain lions,

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it's a really hopeful project. Okay. And then, Beth, I

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know we've talked about this before,
but I want to ask you about this

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again. How do the animals know
to go to that crossing because there's it's

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not like you can put a sign
up and say cross here, Mountain Lion.

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I don't know why not? No, I mean you could, but

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who knows if you'll read it.
Yeah. No, it's a really good

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question. And what we know wildlife
crossings are nothing new. I mean,

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and where you look at these over
the decades, they are enormously successful.

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You're looking at eighty ninety ninety seven
percent success rates. The wildlife really seek

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them out. They do not want
to cross our freeways, but we also

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know a few ways to ensure that
they do. One is what we call

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exclusionary fencings. You basically fence off
their options and lead them to it.

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But we know from this site,
from the National Park Service research over decades

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that the wildlife we're already trying to
cross here. It's kind of a funnel.

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It's the last sixteen hundred feet of
protected green space and they get to

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the freeway and they're like uh uh
and turn around. So we we'll naturally

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look for a safer place, naturally
look for it. Yeah, so the

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wildlife themselves are pretty savvy. Okay, Well, I'm just excited that they're

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going to have a safer place to
cross in. And like we've heard before,

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if you build it, they will
come, they will come exactly.

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Okay, all right, well we'll
we'll be watching, and completion time is

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still sometime next year. Well with
twenty end of twenty twenty five was our

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original, but with the two record
of you know, Wet Springs, it

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looks like it may be flipping into
twenty twenty six. Okay, all right,

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Beth Pratton, thank you so much
for your time and your information.

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We'll be watching because we got to
give those mountain lions a place to go.

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Thank you so much. Yep,
you have a good day. Talk

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again soon. Take care. This
is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles,

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Orange County. We lead local live
from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom

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for producer and and technical producer Cono. I'm Amy King. This has been

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your wake up call, and if
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can listen to any old time on
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