You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. Boy, what a difference of day makes?
Huh? Yesterday driving in it was torrential downpours, and this morning it was
smooth sailing and I saw the moon. So I was like, oh nice,
And it looks like the rain that we're expected to get again at the
end of the weekend being pushed back a little bit more, might not even
get it, but they're expecting rain again on Monday. Hey, if you
were listening earlier this week, I interviewed the author of the Dream Dictionary,
a disease. She has this whole book on how to decipher your dreams and
what they mean. So I've been paying attention or trying to. So here's
my dream from last night. And if you guys, you know, right
when you wake up, write down your dreams and then go back and look
at them later. You go go, God, that was weird. And
if you don't write it down, you're probably gonna forget it. But we
were flying in a plane and it was flying really low and I was asking
the pilot, I'm like, don't you think we need to get some more
altitude. Like we were literally just like skimming the ocean, like one hundred
feet or less over waters. And then the pilot was taking us over waterfalls
and she'd go, oh, look, isn't that cool? And I kept
saying, shouldn't we gain a little altitude? Don't you think that's a good
idea. At some point the tail hit something, but we were fine.
Weird, weird dream And then there was a crazy lady who was screaming,
but we took care of her. Maybe that's because of all the weird stuff
that's been going on on planes. I don't know anyway, dreams, weird
stuff. But here's what we're finding in the wake up world on wake Up
Call Seale service is out to thousands of customers across the US. It's mostly
affecting AT and T, but we're also getting reports at Cricket, Wireless,
Verizon and T Mobile or having out it. Just almost seventy five thousand are
affected. Service went down early this morning in cities including LA Chicago, Houston,
and Honolulu, and there are reports that some nine one one service has
been interrupted as well. The La Metro Board of Directors is going to consider
approving the Environmental Impact Report for the controversial Dodger Stadium Gondola project. The three
hundred million dollar private project was proposed by ex Dodgers owner Frank McCort. The
one point two mile aerial tram would take people from Union Station downtown to the
Dodger Stadium parking lot, which McCourt still owns. Beyonce has become the first
black woman to score a number one hit on the Billboard Country charts. Her
hit Texas Hold'em, debuted at number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart yesterday.
She's now the first woman to have topped both the country and the R
and B hip Hop charts. President Biden's considering an executive order for the US
Mexico border. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour news room. A civil engineer says LA's infrastructure handled the
recent heavy rains pretty well, but maintaining the infrastructure before and during the storm
is key. We really need to be on our game, so to speak,
all hours of the night while it's raining to make sure that none of
these outlets, none of these catch basins get clage. On Abelson's with Stantech
in Pasadena and says while the entire system did handle the massive amounts of wastewater,
the system is still antiquated. Abelson says he'd like to see a more
green and eco friendly approach to drainage. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News,
a man for Minnesota has been arrested for the murder of a model in
downtown LA. Police say Melissa Mooney was beaten, bound and stuffed inside her
refrigerator back in September. They say the accused killers on probation for federal drug
offenses. He was taken into custody at his home on an unrelated federal warrant
and has agreed to be returned to LA. A two year old girl allegedly
kidnapped by her mother in Garden Grove has been found safe at a bus station
in Palm's It Brings. Polie say the girl was taken yesterday during a supervised
visit with a social worker. They say a man pepper sprayed the social worker
at the Chuck E Cheese, then he and the mom took off with the
girl. That triggered an Amber alert. The three were found about three hours
later. La Kenny Sheriff's investigators in Lancaster trying to figure out what caused the
death of a three year old boy. The child was found bleeding and not
breathing Tuesday night. There are reports he had cuts and abrasions. Investigators say
the mother's live in boyfriend was also taken to the hospital because he tried to
kill himself. He is considered a person of interest, but no arrests have
been made. House Republicans have moved forward with their impeachment investigation into President Biden
by interviewing his brother, James Old, despite the fact Alexander Smirnoff, the
man who made claims key to their probe, has been charged with lying to
the FBI when he said President Biden was connected to his son's overseas business dealings.
Biden aby C's j O'Brien says. Democrats argue they haven't heard anything indicating
Biden had anything to do with the business ventures of brother or his son Hunter.
James Biden says the President was never involved in any of his financial deals.
Bed Bugs have been found crawling around in some big name hotels in Las
Vegas, gross at least four people staying at the Encore, the Venetian,
the Excalibur and The Mirage have reported finding the bugs in their rooms between September
and January. The Nevada Resort Association says four rooms out of about one hundred
and fifty five thousand and the city shows it is still very rare. The
group says when hotels encounter bed bugs, guests are relocated and exterminators are called,
that's reassuring. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim
tell us how much are we making in the US on average? We're doing
okay, We're doing better than they were a couple of years ago. National
average income in the last quart of last year was fifty nine three hundred and
eighty four dollars. That's across everybody, all in levels, all races,
genders, every state, it all balls up together. And the Census Bureau
says we're making fifty nine three hundred and eighty four dollars on average amien.
That's up in the last year, and in fact the rate of increase.
The average salary grew by nearly five and a half percent, a gain of
three point two percent though in the Consumer Price Index, so salaries at least
in the fourth quarter of last year, we're outpacing inflation. Oh so technically
we're making five percent, but it's only two percent because inflation is at three
percent. Yeah, but still I did the math there. That's pretty impressive,
right, pretty good, bitter and most radio folks could manage it better
if I could do. But yeah, so, I mean the key takeaway
though, is that, yeah, well you might as well reduce it by
that much, by three point two percent, it's still keeping up in a
little ahead of inflation. When you get the other direction, when you get
to the opposite, with inflation outpacing salaries, then you see an economy and
major problems. Well that's not happy news. Who's doing the best, Jim
who? Yeah, Well, let's see, folks in Massachusetts are doing the
best. I guess if you had to categorize, put the person, it's
a cardiologist living in Massachusetts. Cardiologists who live in Massachusetts are doing the best.
White males are oh, white male cardiologists in Massachusetts. Okay, And
I mean if you look across all the categories, all the occupations, medical
occupations do the best. Cardiologists do the best out of all you know,
on the average doctor living in Massachusetts, you make the more most of any
state in the country. And if you're a man, you're making about ten
thousand bucks a year more than the cpparable woman in terms of education. You
know, is that getting any better than the gender gap? It is.
It's not obviously that it's not a one for one kind of thing. Still
isn't. But and it has shrunk by about one percent over the last ten
years years. That sounds very much not much, no, but still the
average male earning or the average male gets sixty three, nine hundred and sixty
dollars. That's about ten thousand dollars per more per year more than his female
counterpart with a similar, similar occupation and similar education level. Okay, and
then according to all these numbers, because I'm sure they broke it down every
which way, what when's your prime earning time age wise? Yeah, well,
when you are kind of a middle aged earner thirty five to forty four,
When you're between thirty five and forty four years old, you're making on
average about thirteen point eight percent more than the national average. The lowest paid
group, as you can imagine, are the youngest workers, the sixteen to
twenty four year olds. But surprisingly, once you hit forty five, your
income on average starts to drop off somewhat average forty five. Really yeah,
oh see, I thought it. I thought like the prime earning years were
up until you were about fifty five. No. Not. According to Census
Bureau, thirty five to forty four are your prime earning years, and then
between forty five and sixty five you start to see a decline about eight percent
less than the national average. Okay, and does do all these studies predict
that incomes are expected to continue to increase as the salary or as the job
market stays tight or are they just reporting numbers and now they just look at
the numbers for the for Q four of last year. So no predictions,
no estimates, no expectations or a crystal ball about what might happen next.
But folks in California should be pretty happy. I mean, yes, the
cost of most things is higher than in the rest of the country, but
yeah, rich, salary high. Yeah, my brother lives in San Francisco
and oh gosh, that's even higher than here. Right. Eighty four four
hundred and forty eight dollars is the average salary in California. Surprisingly, Washington
State has a slightly higher. Course, it's kind of weighted up by a
lot of all the tech firms up there in the Pacific Northwest. But eighty
five thousand, seven forty eight in Washington State, and where Massachusetts has the
highest average income, right, Massachusetts, Yeah, what's it there? That's
consistently about what you can expect. Eighty six thousand, eight hundred and forty
So there are a couple of thousand dollars per year higher than you folks in
California, okay. And who makes the least minutes rather Mississippi. Mississippi's average
is forty eight thousand and forty eight. That's way below the national average.
And that that whole southern strip there in the Deep South there see some of
the lowest incomes in the whole country. Alabama's is down there. Georgia does
a bit better, and then Florida does. Okay, but yeah, that
whole the Mississippi, the Arkansas, Louisiana, they're all consistently near the bottom.
The cost of living is so much lower, so probably that compensates for
it too well. Yeah, still, okay, so we want to be
a eight male cardiologist in Massachusetts. Ill, Yeah, that in mind,
if you can arrange that, if you can make that possible. Good luck.
All right, thank you, Jim, I appreciate it. Jem.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jurors in Van Nuys can choose manslaughter or murder
if they reach a verdict to convict Rebecca Grossman. Prosecutor cited a speeding ticket
as proof Grossman knew speeding could kill seven years before she allegedly killed two children
in a crosswalk in Westlake Village in twenty twenty. The prosecution said during closing
arguments yesterday that ticket and some text messages from Grossman are proof of the implied
malice necessary for a murder conviction. The defense asked jurors, where is the
other driver who Grossman's lawyers alleged hit the kids first? And why was his
car never investigated? The defense says that should be all jurors need for reasonable
doubt. At Vanni's Courthouse, Corbin Carson KFI News jury deliberations are expected to
start today when closing arguments are complete. Lawyers for former president and Trump have
asked for a delay of enforcement. In New York on the three hundred and
fifty five million dollar judgment in his civil fraud trial. The verdict this week
gives Trump a month to pay the penalty. His team asked for a thirty
day extension yesterday, saying New York Attorney General Letitia James is in a rush
to enforce the verdict. James says she'll go after Trump's assets if he doesn't
pay up. A hospital in Alabama's paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care
providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are legally children.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System says it has to evaluate whether
its patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages for undergoing IVF treatments.
And James Hong will place his hand prints and footprints in the cement on
the court of the TCL Chinese Theater Imax in Hollywood today. It's to celebrate
Hong's ninety fifth birthday. In his seven decade long acting career, Hongs appeared
in more than six hundred movies and TV shows, including the award winning Everything
Everywhere, All At Once, He's also the voice of mister Ping in the
Kung Fu Panda movies. Kung Fu Panda four premieres March eighth. When we
come back, we're going to check in with ABC's Karen Travers. We're talking
student loan debt, forgiveness, and a possible executive order for the border.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. President
Biden has one more fundraising event before he leaves California. His appearance today in
San Francisco following fundraisers and a speech in southern California Tuesday and yesterday. The
boyfriend of the mother of a three year old boy who was found unresponsive in
a home in Lancaster and later died has been named a person of interest in
the boy's death. The boy had a cut on him when he was found.
Officials say the boyfriend tried to kill himself. He's in the hospital.
No arrests have been made. Lucky the Horse is a very lucky horse.
He was rexecued yesterday after falling into a sinkhole in the backyard in Lakeview Terrace.
Gala. Firefighters a couple hours to dig him out of the mud.
And then hoist him up. Yesterday afternoon, Lucky was not injured. At
six oh five, it's handle on the news. The head of the seven
thirty seven Max program is out. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen
Travers. So, Karen, one hundred and fifty three thousand people got an
email from the President. What did it say. Yeah, yesterday, one
hundred and fifty three thousand Americans got word that all or a portion of their
student debt has been relieved. The administration says the total number of Americans approved
for some kind of student debt relief is now nearly three point nine million people.
Now, the people who got that word yesterday hand have been enrolled in
the President's student loan payment man called the Save Plan. This is something they
rolled out last summer. There's about seven and a half million people enrolled in
that. There are many more who qualify, so look it up and see
if you can get into that. And those people who got that relief yesterday
started with an original balance of less than twelve thousand dollars in their student debt,
and they've been paying down their loans for a debt decade or longer.
So the White House says that this is just the first round of borrowers to
benefit from this aspect of the Save Plan, and moving forward, anyone else
who enrolls in that plan and meets the criteria can also get debt relief.
Don't have a timeline on when that next round will come and how many people
it'll apply to, but they say it will be coming. And Karen the
Supreme Court said that he couldn't just do this blanket student loan debt forgiveness.
So how are they doing it? Yeah, you know, he couldn't do
that big sweeping student debt relief for millions of Americans ten to twenty thousand for
most people, even more for others who were pelgrant recipients. That was struck
down last year by the Supreme Court. So they've been doing this in a
piecemeal approach through different methods, and this so far has been working for them.
Again, this is part of a payment plan. So you enroll as
a federal student debt holder, you had federal student loans, you enroll in
the payment plan called the Safe Plan. Can go online and look it up,
and then when the administration goes through and sees how you started with your
original balance how many payments you've been making over the course of a decade consistently.
Then they're determining if you're eligible for some relief. Now, the balances
on a lot of these accounts are probably pretty low, given that you started
with less than twelve thousand and you've been paying them for a decade or more.
But still it's clearing it out for so many people, which the President
said yesterday is significant. It's not just helping these individuals and their families,
he says, it's helping the broader economy because these people then can now make
different financial decisions, buy a house, maybe start a business, make other
choices for their community that can help the broader economy. Okay, and then
I know that you have to run, but real quick. When it comes
to immigration, Yeah, he said just last week or a week before,
I can't do anything. Congress has to do it. And now he's saying,
maybe I'm going to do an executive order. They're going to try.
That's what we're told that he's looking at a wide range of options. No
final decision has been made, but considering taking executive action that could possibly bar
migrants from seeking asylum if they cross illegally between US ports of entry. Now,
the White House still says to us today they want Congress to act that
that's the best way to do it, the best way to have policy reforms
and resources at the border. But they're looking to take potential action where they
can. This will likely face legal challenges, as anything and a president does
with executive action when it comes to border and immigration policy. But this shows
that they're trying to do something on an issue that Americans say is a big
priority for them. Okay, avc's Karen Travers, thank you so much,
have a great day. Thanks. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man
from Santa Anna has been charged with attacking a man in his late sixties in
Newport Beach. Police say it happened Monday near Crystal Cove, but it's not
clear what provoked the assault. The alleged attackers facing several felony charges, including
assault, was forced likely to cause great bodily injured, resisting arrest, and
assaulting an officer. The guy pleaded not guilty yesterday. Lawyers for the eighteen
year old accused of plotting to shoot up a school in Ontario. Says he
has cognitive issues and never planned an attack. Lise Sebastian Villa, senor was
obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and plotted to kill classmates at Ontario Christian High.
He's being held without bail on five counts of attempted murder and one count
of attempted criminal threat. City officials trying to relocate homeless people living in the
La Grand Hotel. The la Homeless Services Authority wants to move at least three
hundred people as part of Mayor Bass's Inside Safe program. LASA director Miguel Fernandez
says on February seventh, there were four hundred thirty three participants at the La
Grand, and as of February fourteenth, there were four hundred forty. The
discrepancy in number stems from the Mayor's office request to continue rolling individuals at the
La Grant with the stated intent that the Mayor's office would be responsible for connecting
additional people to other resources. LASSA says the remaining homeless will be moved starting
May first. Chris Adler k I News, the man accused of killing an
eleven year old girl in Texas is facing capital murder charges. Polk County DA
Shelley Sitton says that could mean the death penalty. Until we get all of
the evidence and all the autopsy reports, we're going to have to hold and
work with law enforcement to determine what is the best solution to this case.
Audrey Cunningham was reported missing last week when she didn't show up at her school
bus stop. Her body was found in a river six days later. The
man arrested, Don McDougall, lived behind the family's home and would sometimes drive
the girl to school if she missed the bus. The IRS is offering tax
help this weekend for people in La County. Walk ins are welcome. Phil
Filers can get help resolving issues with returns, understanding tax obligations, and finding
other IRS resources. Extended hours are from nine am to four pm at tex
Centers in downtown La and also Elmonte. When we come back, we're going
to be talking with the executive director of the Music Forward Foundation and about how
a passion for music could pay off ten thousand dollars worth. I'll tell you
about that next. You're listening to a wake Up Call on demand from KFI
AM six forty. Glad you're waking up with us. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Sale services out to thousands of customers
across the US, and the carriers seven said why. It's mainly affecting AT
and T, but also Cricket, Wireless, Verizon and T Mobile. About
seventy five thousand were affected at last count. Service went down early this morning
in cities including LA Chicago, Houston, and Honolulu. Some nine one one
service has apparently been interrupted as well. A United flight bound for Lax from
New Jersey had to be diverted to Chicago when a bomb threat was found in
the bathroom. Two hundred passengers on board were taken off the plane. In
Chicago, a bomb sniffing dog found what's been called a specific a what a
suspicious bag on board the plane. Getting Panda's back so excited. China is
going to loan to pandas to the San Diego Zoo, about five years after
the last two pandas were returned to China. It's part of the Panda Diplomacy
program. Zoo official say if everything goes as planned, the pandas will arrive
at the Zoo as early as the end of this summer. At six oh
five, it's handle on the news President Biden's considering an executive order to deal
with the border. See how I rhyme that. At five point fifty,
we're going to get an update on King Charles the Third from ABC's Tom Rivers,
who is in London right now. You know, I like to talk
to people who give away money, and that's why we're talking to the executive
director of the Music Forward Foundation, Narite Smith. Good morning, Narite,
Thank you so much for having me. And I think this is a perfect
match because I love giving away money. Oh that's perfect, and so tell
us Narit what you have and who the money is going to and how they
get it right. So we're the Music Forward Foundation celebrating thirty one years of
empowering the next generation and making the music industry and live entertainment available and accessible
to all. And we do this a number of ways, including through these
scholarships. We're looking for college students who have a passion for music and lives
and need that extra help to pull them through their education. This is for
existing college students who are saying, you know what the music industries that's where
I want to go and I need a helping hand exactly. We give them
to juniors and seniors rising juniors and seniors. So this is not to enter
college, but this is to help you continue and drive you through to that
completion point. Okay, and Nari I thought this was really fascinating as I
was looking at what the scholarships are because there's five ten thousand dollars all the
ships. But they're not just for like a person who plays music and wants
to be an artist, because the music industry is so much bigger than that.
So can you tell me really quickly about the Stephen J. Finkel Service
Excellent Scholarship and who's that one is for? So the Stephen J. Finkel
is named after someone who has was really instrumental in the concerts world, right,
and so we're really looking for someone who is interested in that customer service
experience, that understands that fan experience. So the hundreds of thousands of audience
members that come into venues, how do we make that experience more accessible,
easier for them and engaging? And so that is someone who wants to go
into live and really excite about that audience fan experience. Okay. And then
you have another one that's designed specifically to support women who want to get into
a career in live entertainment exactly. You know, this is a very young
industry, and it's a lot of guys that just learned on the job and
has been driving and building this spectacular, multi billion dollar industry. We want
to make sure that this industry is also available to young women, okaight.
And so this is dedicated specifically for a young woman who is looking at operations
production and music engineering and other related fields that align with music and lives.
Okay. And then there's another one, and I love this one because this
one is specifically for someone who has already overcome some just huge obstacles because they've
either had been homeless or been in the foster care system. So think about
how much they've already had to overcome to get into college. Exactly. This
is a partnership with an amazing nonprofit called Inherit the Music, and we've been
running this scholarship for the last five years. And you know, with college
costs continuing to increase, a lot of young people are often forced to cut
basic needs expenses food and housing, and so this not only reaches some of
our most vulnerable young people who are trying to achieve more in their lives,
but it really helps to cut the cost of education down. And you know,
I mean when you look at most scholarships range around twenty five hundred.
With these ten thousand dollars scholarships, we're really saying we believe in you.
Yeah. I love it, and I love that. This is like it's
not a handout, it's a hand up and I like that. Yeah.
Okay, And you know, these scholarships that we've been telling you about are
just kind of the tip of the iceberg. For the Music Forward Foundation,
who I was just reading this narate to date has provided more than forty two
million dollars in scholarships. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. We want to
continuously transform young wives, inspire careers, and chapion a much more inclusive music
industry, and with these scholarships, we hope to make that a reality.
Okay, So if this sounds like something that is interesting to you or to
your kids and you want to take advantage of it, you have until March
thirty first, and Nouri where can they find out all the information and applications
and all that stuff. Music Forward Foundation dot org. Okay, music affects
all of our lives in such a wonderful way, So I love that you're
looking to the next generation. Nari Smith, thank you so much for your
time. Thank you, and that's the love to all the applicants. Yes,
yes, why thanks Narita, appreciate it. The Musicforward Foundation dot org
five ten thousand scholarships are available if you're interested in have a passion for music.
Love that. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Metro's Board of directors is set to consider
the environmental impact report for a gondola project that would take baseball fans to Dodger
Stadium. The board's also expected to consider emotion today, establishing an agreement that's
intended to address the concerns of the communities that would be impacted before any construction
starts. The three hundred million dollars private project would create a one point two
mile system to connect Union Station and the stadium. The project also needs approval
from the city and several state agencies. A former LAPED officers facing several charges
for allegedly stealing credit and debit cards from people who were visiting inmates at a
detention center in downtown La Qa. DA's office has the officers charged with three
felonies and a misdemeanor count of unlawful use of credit cards. He's facing up
to five years and four months in prison if convicted. Officials say California should
make cuts to temporary and one time spending to close the state's growing budget deficits.
The Legislative Analysts Office says California can save around sixteen billion dollars with the
cutbacks. California Senate Budget Committee Vice Chair Roger Nilo says he thinks the state
should pause on offering health care to illegal immigrants. The Governor's not going to
remove it. I'm a realist, but to delay it to our years when
revenues start to recover, I think would make good fiscal sense. The Legislative
Analyst Office is projecting a seventy three billion dollars shortfall through June of twenty twenty
five. Blake Trolly k if I News. Police in China have opened an
investigation into an unauthorized dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the
country's top policing Agency and other parts of its government. The documents from i
SOON reveal apparent hacking activity and tools despite both the Chinese and foreigners. Targets
include ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have been have seen significant anti
government protests. I SOON has ties to the Ministry of Public Security. Vandals
have damaged a monument to doctor Martin Luther King Junior in Denver. Doctor Vern
Howard, who helped create the monument in two thousand and one, saw the
damage yesterday in Denver's City Park and said, it's sad out of the project
manager and this was like attacking one of my children. A three pound bronze
panel that depicted Black War heroes was removed from the monument, so were two
decorative emblems on the side. Howard says it had to be a coordinated effort
and it's obvious that tools were used. Florida Governor Ronda Santis is he supports
term limits for members of Congress. This is something that the people in the
states have the ability. The proposed changes to discipline Washington, the founding father
structure of the constitution like that for a reason. DeSantis was in Indiana and
South Carolina this week pushing for the change. He says term limits are supported
by most Americans, and it's time to make it happen. It rained so
much in Death Valley. How much did it rain? Well? It rains
so much that the bad Water Basin and Death Valley now has enough rain water
in it that visitors can go kayaking on a temporary lake. It's called Lake
Manly. It's about six miles long, three miles wide, and just one
foot deep. Visitors must be t oka bring their own kayak now once the
water dries up. Are we going to get another super bloom from all of
this rain that we've received? Park officials say the potential for the wildfire wildfire
the wildflower super bloom is uncertain. I guess we're just going to have to
wait and see. But man, they're spectacular. Listening to Wake Up Call
on demand from KFI AM six forty, good Thursday morning to you, I'm
Amy King Boy. The hour just went by so fast. Again. If
you missed any of wake Up Call, you can always go back and listen
on an iHeartRadio app any old time you want. Here's what we're following in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom the head of Boeing's seven thirty seven Max program,
is out ed. Clark had been with Boeing for nearly two decades.
The seven thirty seven to nine Max fleet was grounded last month after a door
plug blew out on an Alaska flight. Several other issues have been found since
then, including loose and missing bolts on several planes. The boyfriend of the
mother of a three year old boy who was found unresponsive in a homean Landcaster
and later died, has been named a person of interest in the boy's death.
The boyfriend apparently tried to kill himself. He's in the hospital. No
arrests have yet been made. California's nut industry is under attack by invasive almond
by the Beatles, apparently bore holes into developing nuts and then eat the kernels
out inside. In a letter to the Department of Agriculture, Central Valley Congressman
Josh Harder requested emergency funding to fight the little bugs, which he says are
a major economic threat. California's almond and pistachio crop worth six point three billion
dollars in twenty twenty two. We're just minutes away from handle. On the
news this morning, cell phone service is out to about seventy five thousand AT
and T Cricket, wireless, Verizon and T Mobile customers across the US.
The carriers have not said why. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ballots in La County will be
counted and processed at a single location this March. The one hundred and forty
four thousand square foot warehouse in the city of Industry has eliminated the need to
transport ballots to several different sites. Officials say the warehouse as live streaming capabilities
to increase election integrity. When mail in voting was first expanded during the pandemic,
ballots were processed at the Pomona County Fairgrounds, counted at an office in
Downey, and then stored at a center in Santa Fe Springs. The La
Kenny Sheriff's Department says it would like access to people's home security cameras. The
request is part of a new program where homeowners would register their cameras through the
department's website. Doing so would allow investigators to see where cameras are located to
help solve crimes or assess the situation in real time. The department would not
have live access, but if you wanted to go the extra mile, you
could buy an adapter for around three hundred and fifty dollars from a private company
that would allow investigators to see your camera's live feed. Officials say they're interested
in areas like Calabasas at Goura Hills and Malibu. Steve Gregory KAA FINOS.
Closing arguments have ramped up in the murder trial of Rebecca Grossman, who's charged
with killing two kids in a crosswalk in Westlake Village. The fence lawyers told
jurors investigators never bothered to investigate the six other cars that went through the intersection
with Grossman that night in twenty twenty, including the suv they say hit the
boys first. Grossman's lawyers say that's enough reasonable doubt for a not guilty verdict.
Prosecutors say eight witnesses a boy's body imprinted by Grossman's SUV, only pieces
of that SUV at the scene, SUV data alleging she hit eighty one miles
an hour, and a prior speeding ticket where Grossman was warned speeding could kill.
Prosecutor say that's plenty of evidence to find Grossman guilty of murder. At
van I's Courthouse, Corbin Carson kaf I News, jury deliberations are expected to
start today when closing arguments are complete. A civil engineer based in Pasadena s's
the water drainage infrastructure in the LA area did what it was designed to do
during recent storms. The overall flood control system is in relatively good capacity.
It's working well. John Abelson with Stantec says while the system is pretty robust,
it's still pretty old. He says, when it's time to upgrade the
infrastructure, he'd like to see a more eco friendly approach to drainage. A
plan to move the homeless from the La Grand Hotel to the Mayfair is moving
forward. Miguel Fernandez with the La Homeless Services Authority says LASA will continue to
submit bi weekly reports to the city Council to make sure the public can track
its progress. The report will include remaining participants, housing resources offered, planned
exit exit outcomes, and pertinent data. He says they're trying to move about
three hundred people starting May first. The city has extended the lease through July
thirty first, Hey have you ever been to Colorado, and well, if
you've been to Colorado, you haven't gotten a Bucki's. But apparently BUCkies is
a huge station convenience store combo, and it's in other areas of the country.
I don't think we have them here, but Colorado is getting their first
one. It's at the twenty five and County Road forty. It's going to
have a grand opening next month. Operations District manager Michael Buie says it's going
to be the premier destination stop in Johnstown. You go down the highway,
you see this big old Bucky's logo and it feels like it's an oasis.
You families appreciated, clean facility, an you know, we've added on to
that. We've added some amazing food offerings. We have a cult following.
It's like a modern day rest stop. Right. Bucky's stores are known for
their size. The Colorado location is going to be the biggest one yet,
seventy five thousand square feet. They're hiring more than two hundred workers. China
has plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo,
renewing its long standing gesture of friendship towards the US. Nearly all of
the pandas on loan to US zoo's were returned years ago as tensions grew between
the two countries. San Diego Zoo officials say if all the permits and other
requirements are approved, the bears could arrive at the San Diego Zoo as early
as the end of this summer. Hey, remember two dollar bills. I
haven't seen one in years, But if you have one lying around and you're
probably not going to spend it, it could be worth five thousand dollars to
you. So US currency auctions say that uncirculated two dollar bills from back in
eighteen ninety could sell up for two about forty five hundred, and then other
old uncirculated bills are worth like one thousand dollars. But newer bills have a
lot of value. And remember when they started reprinting them again, I think
the early two thousands. A two dollars bill printed in two thousand and three
recently sold at auction for twenty four hundred dollars. Interesting, I don't have
any two dollar bills. Did you know your coworkers can help you lose weight?
It's true. They can also hinder. You have you ever worked at
a place. We go in spurts here at the radio station, but you
go and you know, everybody's eating healthy food, and then somebody starts bringing
in stuff, and then there's like donuts, and then there's cupcakes another day,
and somebody else brings something else sweet. Not helping, but apparently it
turns out workers are more likely to eat fruit and vegetables and then exercise when
their colleagues encourage them to do so. Coworkers have the potential to contribute to
creating a culture of health within the workplace. Instead of opting for pizza every
Friday, I still prefer pizza every Friday, but I think that's true.
It's the people around you. It's like at home, if your a boyfriend
or girlfriend or husband or wife is hitting the ice cream every night and you're
trying to have salad, it makes it harder. But studies show that creating
a healthy lifestyle has a lot to do with the influence of family and friends
and neighbors and even co workers. Good to know and speaking of food and
going out, I hate this, but we're going to be seeing higher menu
prices because of a new law that takes effect, and here's why. Under
a law that was signed by Gavin Newsom in October of last year, it
goes into effect in July. The law prohibits junk fees across different businesses including
restaurants, bars, and delivery apps. So what that means is you're going
to know how much you're going to be charged at the outset as opposed to
having something tacked on at the end. And the practical result of this law
is that instead of like putting on fees at the end, that diners are
going to get charged upfront. So you can expect basically menu prices to go
up. Something to look forward to as you head out and about and go
out to dinner. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King.
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