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I am. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up
call for Tuesday, February twenty seventh. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting
your day started with us. Today. You guys watch an American Idol.
I'm still watching it. It's old, but it's like it's an oldie but
a goodie. They just started the most recent season. I think two episodes
are out now, and I get it. I don't know how you feel
about this, but the the auditions, which used to be sort of a
joke, like when Simon Cowell was on it. You know, they had
the really bad people on mixed in with a really good people. Now it's
almost like everybody's just really good. Not one hundred percent, but for the
most part, the people are really good and they have such cool stories.
I think American Idol does a really good job of highlighting some of the people
when they audition, and I and I know I'm a woosp but I'm just
brought to tears. So I'm looking forward to the season, except, like
I said, the audition part. Same with the Voice, the blind auditions
on the Voice, which is just getting underway too. I haven't watched the
first episode yet. The blind auditions are my favorite, and they just regular
auditions in American Idol are my favorite because it's kind of the most real and
after, you know, later in the season, when you get close to
the winners and stuff, it's so rehearsed it doesn't feel as raw. So
anyway, if you're thinking about watching American Idol, I highly recommend it.
Here's what's ahead. On wake Up Call. Police say a shooting in Santa
Anna that left a three year old in critical condition may have been gang related.
Really say someone ran up and started shooting at a car and an intersection
on Sunday. The girl in the backseat was hit. WILLI say the mom's
boyfriend was the intended target. The girl had several surgeries, She's expected to
make it. Voters in Michigan are casting their primary ballots for president today.
Former President Trump is leading Nicky Hayley by a four to one margin in a
recent five point thirty eight pole. Not a lot of people expected to turn
out for California's primary election, which is just a week away. As of
Saturday, just seven percent of twenty two million ballots had been returned. Experts
say voter turnout could be below thirty percent. Ballots can be dropped off until
election day and more than one hundred in person voting centers are now open.
Six hundred more we'll be opening up on Saturday. We six oh five.
It's handle on the news and we could be getting closer to a ceasefire in
the Israel Hamas war. But let's get started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour news from police in Fontana have shot and
killed a man inside a home depot. Officers were called last night about a
guy running around in the street trying to get hit by cars. When police
got there, they say the man ran into the store and armed himself with
what they called an edged weapon. As they put it, that's when the
shooting happened. Two students have been involved in a stabbing at Nogalis High School
in Lapuente. The La County Sheriff's Department responded to the call where they found
one boy with a stab wound. That boy was taken to the hospital for
a non life threatening injury, and the other boy was taken into custody.
The role in school district says there was an incident between the boys, but
what exactly led up to the stabbing is still unclear. The school was on
temporary lockdown while deputies swept the campus, and the lockdown was lifted around eleven
am yesterday. The district says additional supervision will remain on campus as needed to
support students and staff. Chris Adler kaf I News, the man who fatally
shot two teenagers during a screening of Forever Purge in Corona has been sens to
life in prison without parole plus one hundred years to life. The murders happened
in twenty twenty one. On Joseph Jimenez Junior pleaded not guilty by reason of
insanity, but a judge found him sane in December and he was convicted.
His lawyer says Jimenez suffers from schizophrenia and severe mental health problems. We were
never contesting whether or not he committed the offenses. On the other hand,
it was really what was the word cause and the cause was his mental illness.
Jimnez apologized in court after hearing from family members of the people he killed.
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the Alliance has no plans to send troops
to Ukraine. ABC's and As de la Katerra says Slovaki. As Prime Minister
Robert Fico said yesterday that some countries are weighing whether to strike bilateral deals with
Ukraine to help fight off the Russian invasion. Did not provide any additional details,
saying he was not allowed to say more. It's been just over two
years since Russia invaded Ukraine. That spacecraft that landed on the Moon last night
or not last night, last week, he is running out of power.
Initially, the engineer with intuitive machines says the Odysseus moonlander was going to be
okay after it tipped over on landing, but a new assessment yesterday determined the
sun wouldn't be able to shine on the solar panels to recharge the batteries.
NASA says Odysseus landed in a crater with a twelve degree slope, the closest
to spacecraft has ever come to the south pole of the Moon. The lander
was able to send back some photos before its batteries will be completely depleted.
Odysseus is the first privately built Moonlander. Steve greg rickaf I News. Now,
let's take an early look at your morning commute with Nick Pauli Yochani.
We got a mess in boil Heights on the five. It's like this due
to an early morning rackad that is still a crash investigation. So heading north
and southbound along the five really gonna be a mess for you. There on
the well southbound side of the five, it looks like it's going to be
a busy one for you because the three left lanes are shut down and then
it looks like the two right lanes may be taken away. It's a little
unclear on what's going on, but having seen the coutrans cans in the area,
you got a mess on the five northbound. As you come right from
the seven to ten out of east Land commerces too make great toward downtown Land
in the one to one up outside of the five. Also busy for you
coming away from the slit with the sixty as you're making a toward the seven
ten so definitely heads up for you. There likely a good idea on the
five southbound to avoid it, take the sixty east of the seven ten south.
That'll definitely help you out and not looking too bad for your drive right
now. Same story for your northbound commute on the five northbound, take the
seven ten north of the sixty west to get into the downtown LA area or
get reconnected with the five if your travels are taking for the northbound there If
you do have an update on this anything else, solwing you down pound to
fifteen your cel phone keyword k if I traffic kay if I, and the
sky helps get to their faster. I'm Nick Pauli o'keeaney. Thank you,
Nick. Now let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers at the White House.
Karen Big meeting at the White House today, four days before a possible
government shutdown. The big sticking point order security. You know, no,
not on the government shutdown issue. That's one thing that Mike Johnson would like
to talk about with the President separately. I mean, House Republicans are trying
to use this government funding issue as an opportunity to push through some demands on
abortion and immigration. But they're non starters for Democrats, and so I don't
know if that's going to be the big hold up. They are right now
though, trying to talk about two big things at this meeting today. One
government funding, because you've got the deadline on Friday, first deadline, then
there's a second deadline next week. And from the President's perspective, the other
big issue, of course, is that National Security Bill ninety five billion dollars
that sends sixty billion to Ukraine. That bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support,
but its future is very uncertain in the House right now because it passed
in the Senate and then everybody went on recess, and Mike Johnson, the
House Speaker, hasn't really showed his cards on this yet, so we don't
know if they're going to try to add some border elements to it, just
not take it up at all, or what the President wants them to do
is just put it up for a vote and see if people will pass it.
So we'll see what comes out of this meeting today. I think you
and I talked about this last week. Mike Johnson wanted to meet one on
one with the President and talk about border and immigration. The White House was
very cool to that meeting and did not accept any invitations for it. That's
not what this meeting is. When you've got the other congressional leaders there,
especially Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer who've already passed Ukraine aid, this is not
a border negotiation meeting, certainly not from the White House perspective. It feels
and looks like it's going to be much more of a pressure meeting on Mike
Johnson to move forward on that national security bill the Senate's already passed, okay,
And just to be clear on the because there's so many bills floating around,
so many bills, right, So there's the one bill that passed,
the bipartisan one that was like a eighty twenty or seventy nine, twenty one,
seventy twenty nine I think it was. Yeah, that one had the
border security in it, and that's that one. It was taken out.
There is nothing that passed with any border security because they reached the bipartisan Border
agreement and the House said, no, we will not move forward on that
because we don't think it goes far enough. So the Senate said, fine,
we'll take it out after months of negotiating that behind closed doors Republicans and
Democrats, they took it out. That bill that then was passed was just
funding for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine and other national security issues. And
now that's what they're hoping the House passes because it has all that money for
Ukraine. Okay. So then the other issue that they're going to be talking
about today is, of course the government funding which runs out on Friday.
Does it look like they're going to come up with a plan or are they
going to kick the can down the road again. We thought they were going
to come up with a plan by Sunday night. That's what all the indications
were that they were optimistic of coming up with an agreement and they could pass
something. Now something could still be kicking the can down the road, just
another short term extension, but that at least keeps the government open. You
know, this is a really striking statistic in my book, and I've been
covering Washington a very long time, and I still think this is incredible.
This is now the fourth time this fiscal year, so since October one,
the fourth time that we are looking at a potential imminent government shutdown. They
have now kicked the can three times already since October first, since the end
of September, and we're looking at them probably doing it again into maybe early
April, and as the longest they can do it three months? Is that
why they're doing it in three month incremental? Oh, you could do a
two day short term extension, you could do one week, you do whatever
you want. It's just kind of what they keep coming up with. Now.
One thing, this is going to get so wonky. I'm not going
to do it to you, but mark on your calendar April thirtieth. That
is a very important date because last year they set April thirtieth as a day
when very steep cuts would go into effect if they didn't get the full budget
done, because they thought, oh, no way, we would still be
dealing with this by April thirtieth. We're going to make ourselves, you know,
kind of like give yourself a hard, hard, terrible deadline. And
it's getting closer to April thirtieth suddenly, and the way things are going,
you and I will probably be talking. I know we're going to remember this
conversation, all right. Karen Trevors, thanks so much for your time today.
Thanks all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Researchers have learned more about the tens
of thousands of barrels dumped in the ocean between LA and Catalina Island, but
forever chemical DDT was first thought to be inside the barrels, discovered in twenty
twenty by UC Santa Barbara professor David Valentine. But he says a now closed
company was actually pouring that DDT straight into the ocean, but also they were
accepting radioactive waste from different companies within LA and disposing those to the seafloor in
the same area. Radioactive waste findings were released last week, and many of
the barrels are now thought to be navy munitions dumped during World War Two.
Still, I am much more concerned about the DDT. He says. The
DDT may have nearly eradicated bald eagles on Catalina Island at the time, and
may be the cause for a serious cancer found in twenty five percent of local
sea lions. And you can just imagine if twenty five percent of all human
deaths was caused by the same cancer. What kind of epidemic that would be?
He says. DDT can bio magnify or spread through the food chain from
sea life to humans. Valentine's team is trying to survey the spread of d
DTS he which already covers an area the size of San Francisco, and the
FEDS are working on possible clean up solutions. Corbin Carson k f I News.
An oil field worker in Long Beach has been seriously hurt by a dereck
that collapsed. Firefighters responded yesterday and found a worker had a workover unit had
collapsed into a pumping unit. They say the man was about fifty feet up
when it fell over. He was pulled out of the derek and taken to
the hospital. He's in stable condition. A second person suffered minor injuries.
Prosecutors in former President Trump's hush money criminal case in New York have asked a
judge to impose a gag order on Trump. They say it's for his long
history of making public and inflammatory inflammatory remarks about people in his legal cases.
Jury selection in the case is scheduled to start March twenty fifth. Trump is
already subject to a gag order in his case in DC that charges him with
trying to overturn the results of the twenty twenty presidential election. Police in Houston
have released bodycam footage showing off duty officers taking down the woman who shot up
a mega church earlier this month. It shows the woman going too the church
with her young son with an ar style rifle strapped across her chest. Officers
can be seen firing back at her until she collapses. The boy can be
seen covering his ears and reaching for his mom. The woman was dead at
the scene. Two people were heard, including the boy who was shot in
the head. ABC's Mariah via Rial says the seven year old has been through
at least six surgeries so far, but a bit of good news from his
grandmother. She says, as of right now, he is off the ventilator
and he is finally breathing on his own. Police are still trying to figure
out what the woman's motive was. I love that theme song. The Mandalorian
and Grogu film is getting one of the largest tax incentives ever in the history
of the California Film Commission. In exchange for it, the production is going
to be done entirely in California. The twenty two million dollar tax break will
help hire five hundred crew members, fifty four cast members, and thirty five
hundred extras for ninety two days of filming. The projected payrolls around one hundred
and sixty six million. The last Star Wars movie filmed in California was Return
of the Jedi in the early nineteen eighties. You're listening to a wake up
call on demand from KFI Am six forty. I'm Amy King. Here's what
we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom says he will
fight yet another recall effort. He beat another attempt to kick him out of
office lists and three years ago. The group Rescue California launched the campaign yesterday,
saying the governor spending too much time on a national issues and isn't doing
enough in California to fight high homeless rates, crime and taxes. The last
of nine LA firefighters injured when a truck exploded in Wilmington earlier this month has
been released from the hospital. Dan Gowen was treated at a special burn center
following the explosion of the truck's compressed natural gas tanks on February fifteenth. His
injuries are not considered career ending, but doctors say he's got a long way
until he's fully recovered. A wintertime heat waves sweeping across the country, forecasters
say hundreds of records could be broken today, about two hundred and fifty million
people experiencing higher than average temperatures. Fifty eight cities broke record his yesterday,
including Dallas where it was ninety four degrees. Yeah, it's February at six
oh five. It's handle on the news. Speaking of Texas, both President
Biden and former President Trump are headed there. They're making their appearances on Thursday.
Let's say good morning now to the host of How to Money on KFI,
Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel. Morning Amy. So credit card
report complaints or credit rod report complaints are surging. Let's talk about what's going
on and why. Oh yeah, so nobody really likes the credit bureaus.
It's kind of this necessary evil of modern life. None of us really signed
up to do business with Equifax, Experience or TransUnion, but we're all kind
of forced to. It's this, it's this system by which we're able to
get credit. You know, we're able to essentially figure out whether we're financially
trustworthy. This is this is how the what the credit scoring system is all
about. But it's run so poorly in the three big bureaus don't do a
great job. And so people are reporting in record numbers complaints to the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, which is essentially the arm of the federal government which is
supposed to help individual consumers out if they're having an issue with a financial services
company. Complaints have tripled in just two years. Almost half a million people
filed the complaint last year against one of the bureaus for incorrect things on their
credit report, and the credit bureau seemed to take the stance of it's your
fault, not ours. They're pointing the finger back at us and saying,
well, you're filing disputes for stuff that it's not actually incorrect, and depending
on who you believe, the reports, and that's something. But somewhere between
thirteen and twenty five percent of credit reports contain an error. So I think
the credit bureaus are in the wrong here, and it turns out they're not
really doing much to help us out on that front. Okay, And so
first of all, how do we know if there's credit reports, we can
go check our credit reports. Now, that's right, that's right, So
there is one site. Do not go to the individual credit bureau websites and
try to buy your credit report because you're legally entitled to a free one at
annual creditreport dot com. And once after the pandemic began, the credit company
the credit bureaus made our credit reports free, not just once a year,
but once a week, so you can check your credit reports every single week
if you want. That might be overkill, but it's nice to know that
it's there. So I would say, get your credit reports from each of
the three bureaus for free from Annual credit report dot com. Take a look
and see if there's anything on there that looks incorrect and challenge challenge that thing.
With the bureaus, there's a process that you can you can challenge something
that you think is incorrect on your credit report. So that's really important thing
to do. The problem is the credit bureaus have essentially said, well,
they've got an automated system now that kicks back and says, well, your
challenge, we don't think it's we don't think it's valid. So usually the
first round, they just say, no, no harm, no foul.
This isn't a real problem. What you're seeing on your credit report is supposed
to be there, so you have to keep at it. It's kind of
frustrating, but you have to be your own advocate here fighting the credit bureaus
tooth and nail over what something that might be incorrect on your report. And
again, that report influences your score, and your score influences the rate you're
going to pay for a mortgage, the rate you're going to pay for a
car loan. It can affect whether or not you get the apartment you're trying
to get. If there's something that's wrong on your credit report weighing down your
score, it can impact your life in a whole ways. Okay, annual
credit report dot com because I remember, if you checked your credit too often,
it used to ding your credit. So checking your credit report and your
credit score are two different things. And the cool thing is there's a lot
of ways to get your score for free. Now. Most credit card issuers
will offer it. You can sign up for a site like credit Karma and
it's not giving you. The thing is, there's like dozens of credit scores
out there, so it's really hard to figure out, well, what is
my exact score. Well, every single one of the bureaus has a bunch
of different scores on you, so you're kind of getting a ballpark estimate by
signing up for something like Credit Karma or by using it. And sometimes the
standard is the FIGHTO score, the newest FIO score. So maybe your credit
card offers your credit score for free every single month. It used to be
a score. This credit score was shrouded in mystery, and that's kind of
changed. Fortunately, we have a little more access to understanding what's going on
with our credit our credit score. And if you sign up for Credit Karma,
it's cool because they get this like credit report card essentially and they'll tell
you, well, here are the areas where you're messing up, and here's
how you can improve your credit score. So I really like that because again,
credit score is a really important part of your modern financial life and it's
another good way to keep tabs. Is something messed up on your credit report
that shouldn't be there, well you'll notice if you're tracking your credit score there's
a drop. If there's a significant drop in your credit score and you didn't
do anything different, like you didn't forget to pay your credit card bill or
you didn't pay late. Well, that's a sure sign that something fishing might
be going on. And its credit card a free or is that a paysafe?
It's free. It's free. So they'll try to sell you stuff.
They'll try to sell you. You know, they want you to sign up
for a credit card via their side or something like that. And that's fine
if it's a great credit card offer, I guess, but just know that
they're trying to sell. That's how they're trying to make money. But it's
a free site to be able to dig in and learn more about your credit
score. Okay, then let's move on to college graduates. Half of them
aren't using their degrees. Yeah, that's true. There was this new study.
It's not just a phone survey of like a thousand people, it's literally
a study of ten million people, so it's very very thorough and it found
that roughly fifty percent of college graduates ended up in a job that didn't require
the degree that they worked really hard to get. And to me, that's
really revealing. It doesn't necessarily mean that you got a degree in engineering and
you're a barista. But basically a lot of people are working outside of their
intended career path, and it does, for a lot of people reduce the
amount of pay that they get. It reduces job satisfaction for a lot of
people. And it turns out that the key to making sure that you are
working inside of the career path you want to work in once you graduate,
and that your career is and that first job is so crucial. If you
get the wrong first job, it can really change your career trajectory in a
big way. Getting an internship, even if that internship that's what I did
out of school. I wanted to work in radio, and so my first
internship was at a radio station. It didn't pay anything, but that is
for a lot of people the right stepping stone to make sure that that first
job then is also in the industry you want to be in. I think
some people are like internship. The internships have fallen by the wayside a little
bit. But the study found that more and more people who get the internship
they end up working in and pursuing the career that they want. So a
college degree still is a good idea, but I mean that's a good question.
I don't know, because like, I don't think that everybody needs to
go to college. I don't think everybody wants to go to college. So
I don't think that they should just have to go to college. Because if
everybody goes to college, like literally, who is going to be the plumbers?
Who's going to be the electricians? And those are good jobs that don't
require a college degree. No, you're spot on, and we have kind
of made college the end all be all in this country, and it's like,
well, you don't. And the truth is that the average college graduate
out earned the average high school graduate, but that in a significant way over
their lifetime earnings. But the value proposition has also changed, right as college
costs have soared and interest rates on that college debt have gone up too,
and then there's a diminishing return on the college degree as well. So so
much depends on well, what are you going to do instead? And you're
totally right. If you have this idea to build a business or you know,
be a service provider locally, you know, in some sort of HVAC
school or something like that, if you want to work in that industry,
or if you want to apprentice under a plumber. That can be a much
better way for a lot of people to go, avoiding six figures of student
loan debt, making money earlier, and potentially being able to start and create
your own, your own small business. I think it's important for us to
distinguish college degrees, and getting the right college degree can matter for a whole
lot of people, but then there's a whole bunch of people who are not
served well by going to college. Okay, Joel, As usual, we're
out of time way too quickly, and you have so much more great advice
to share, and so people will be able to hear that when they listen
to How to Money. It's on Sundays right here on KFI from noon to
two. You can also follow Joel at how to Money. Joel, thanks
so much, Joel. Thanks Amy. All right, take care. You're
listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Good morning.
I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Three men have been arrested in a social media car rental vehicle theft
scheme. The La County Sheriff's Department says the guys would rent a car,
advertise it for sale on Facebook marketplace, make the sale, then steal the
car and return the rental. The Sheriff's department says they pulled it off in
several counties and are looking for victims. Michigan voters are casting their primary ballots
for president today. Voters unhappy about President Biden's support of Israel are being urged
to mark uncommitted on their ballots. Not a lot of people expected to turn
out for California's primary election, which is just a week away. As of
Saturday, seven percent of the twenty two million ballots mailed out had been returned.
Earned experts say voter turnout could be as low as or below thirty percent.
Ballots can be dropped off until election day. More than one hundred in
person voting centers are already open in six hundred more will open up Saturday at
six oh five. It's handled on the news. You might lose your access
to Netflix if you pay via the Apple app. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy Steven. The question before the Supreme Court is
whether social media content can be regulated, Whether social media content can be regulated
by states and in the case of yesterday's argument, it was the states of
Florida and Texas that have passed laws in the aftermath of January sixth aimed at
curbing what critics say is a politically motivated online censorship. The Texas law says
that essentially social media companies can't pull down posts based on the politics of the
poster, and the Florida laws, I understand it says that if if you're
a candidate, you have the right to post, and the social media company
can't pull down your post. The conservatives on the Court yesterday were in the
lead questioning the legality of these laws, the conscertionality. John Roberts, the
Chief Justice, started this four hour oral argument yesterday by saying that the primary
concern of the court really ought to be whether the state has the power to
regulate the modern public square. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, told
an attorney defending Florida's law that he was essentially misreading the right to free speech.
That he left out the idea that the First Amendment protects the individual from
the government, not a third party company, and its decisions to decide what
is appropriate or inappropriate for a particular platform. The Justice Amy Cony Barrett,
another Trump appointee, asked why these platforms Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok
can't decide for themselves what's inappropriate to post the way that newspapers decide what's inappropriate
appropriate to publish. I will say, despite all these the back and forth
over the merits, a great deal of time was spent yesterday with the judges
probing whether it's even ripe for the for the justices to consider this case at
this moment, because there are a number of areas where there is not a
fully established record. This is a facial challenge of the law and not an
as applied challenge, which is to say that the opponents of the laws,
the companies, brought suit right away and sought a preliminary injunction to prevent these
laws from going into effect. And so there's not an example of a particular
case that the justices can look at and say, here's the record of how
this law was applied, and here's here's a real life example of how you
know it was it was enforced. And so instead, what the justices have
to do is sort of envision in their minds how it could be enforced and
how it could be applied. And a couple of justices yesterday raised the question
of what about sites unlike social media but at Sea or Uber? Could they
be targets of this law? And the answer is well, maybe because Etsy
allows for individuals to sell items, and doesn't ets have the right to say,
well, that crosses a line for us, we don't want that item
sold on our page? Right? And then you have Uber. Could Uber
decide that it doesn't certain Uber drivers want to discriminate for a variety of reasons,
or could users be told that they're not allowed to comment on the quality
of drivers. Then you have an example that was raised by Justice Alito,
what about Gmail? Does Google have the right to go into people's emails and
discriminate against or otherwise censor what people are saying in private communications? That was
something that I think a lot of the lawyers had trouble answering. And so
the point is there's so many unanswered questions here that it might not be appropriate
for the justices to issue a final ruling at this point without a more established
record in the courts. So could they say, we, like you just
said, we don't have enough information that it hasn't been tested, yet we're
going to put this on the back burner and decide in two years, well
send send it back to lower courts and say, you know, either keep
the law on pause or let it go into effect to allow for an example
of injury that could be the subject of further litigation. So I'm not sure
what path the courts will take, but the court will take. But it
seems to me that the justices are interested in further establishing a record before making
a final decision on this. And it is pretty interesting that they start going
down down that the rabbit hole. Basically, well, this could happen,
and that could happen, and that could happen. I mean, it's it
could be very far reaching, so interesting case, and that's the role of
the justices to probe those hypotheticals to see, you know how if they have
to make a final ruling on this, they want to explore as many possible
outcomes as they can. Okay, and we will be watching. Thank you
so much for helping us unpack it, Stephen. It helps a lot.
All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A three year old girl who was shot in
a car and Santa Anna is expected to survive. The child was in the
back seat where her four year old sister when at least three shots were fired
at the car, one bullet going through the younger girl's back. Santa Annipdes
Natalie Garcia says the girl's mother was sitting in the front seat with her boyfriend
and that boyfriend was the gang related target. The shooter was on foot and
at this time we know that the suspect is a male adult and that's all
the information that we have at the moment. Garcia says. The girl had
several operations at Children's Hospital, Orange County Sunday night after the shooting. End
is in critical but stable condition. No arrests have been made. Chris Sadler
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The so called Thomas Fire in twenty seventeen, burned more than two hundred
and eighty thousand acres, including over one hundred and fifty thousand acres of National
forest land. Investigators say the fires were caused by power lines touching and sparking,
so cal Edison agreed to the settlement without admitting fault. Local grocery workers
have joined state Attorney General brob Bonta in La to try to stop the proposed
Kroger Albertson's merger. California has joined the federal government and seven other states ensuing
to block the twenty four point six billion dollar deal. As union workers like
Grace Garcia remember the store closures and job losses following the Albertsons Safeway merger a
decade ago, it was devastating for workers like myself, of many who live
paycheck to paycheck. Garcia lost her job at Safeway, but was later hired
at a Vaughan's for two bucks an hour less. The Grocery Workers union said
yesterday workers and customers would suffer if the Albertsons Kroger deal goes through. The
grocery giants say they'll fight in court because the merger is necessary to compete against
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to get back to San Jose has been arrested for allegedly stealing an Amazon deliveryvan
to get herself there. Police say she jumped into the van when the driver
jumped out to deliver a package in Palo Alto. All the packages in the
van were accounted for when she was arrested. Following an Oscar tradition, last
year's winner of Academy Awards will be presenting awards this year. So Michelle Yo,
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Kwan won Oscars for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and then Brendan
Fraser also won for the Whale. They're all going to be presenters at the
ninety sixth Oscar Awards on March tenth. Lots of other big stars are going
to be presenting, including Mahersha Ali, Nicholas Cage, Jessica Lang, Matthew
McConaughey, Lupidia, Nyango, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Rockwell,
and Zendaia. The Academy Awards will air on ABC and They're going to start
an hour earlier than normal. They usually start at five on the West Coast.
They're going to start him at four this year. All at the Dolby
Theater in high Allwood. Jimmy Kimmel is the host. You're listening to a
wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The last of nine LA firefighters injured
when a truck exploded in Wilmington earlier this month has been released from the hospital.
Dan Gohen was treated at a special burns center following the explosion of the
truck's compressed natural gas tanks on February fifteenth. His injuries are not considered career
ending, but doctor says got a ways to go for a full recovery.
Three people have been arrested in connection with an early morning burglary spree and Marina
del Rey and Venice police responded to a smashed window at an Alta beauty shortly
after one this morning and found at least six businesses had been burglarized at a
shopping center, Fox eleven saying a person caught one of the guys as he
ran out of a business in Venice. Five hundred and sixty three million dollars
is on the line for tonight's Mega Millions jackpot. No one matched all six
winning numbers from last night's Powerball drawing, so the drawing on Wednesday night for
that one, it'll be worth four hundred twelve million dollars. Got to go
buy more lottery tickets. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this
morning, and both President Biden and former President Trump are head into the US
Mexico border. They're both going to be there on Thursday. Right now,
let's say good morning to Captain Freddie Escobar. He is a captain with the
LA Fire Department and also the president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
Thanks for joining us this morning, Freddy, Good morning, Amy. I'm
proud to be the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City President. I'm also active.
I'm coming on my thirty fifth year on the LAFC and I'm actually finishing
off the shifts here at fire Station eleven between Burnington and Bonnie Gray on Seventh
Street. And i got a heads up from our technical producer that since you're
still on duty, if you get a call, you're going to have to
go, so let's get right to it. Absolutely, let's do this,
okay. So one of the things the voters are going to be voting on
in on their ballots next Tuesday, or maybe they're already doing it with all
the mail in ballots out there is Measure HLA and your union is against it.
First, can you tell us what it is and then we'll go into
why you're against it? Absolutely First, that's the only measure on the ballot,
and it's titled the Healthy Streets of Los Angeles, and we've actually titled
it Hazard Streets of Los Angeles. I want to first start off by saying
we want to support good pedestrian access to all Angelinos across the city of Los
Angeles. But the reason we are against it is that it is going to
provide a safety hazard to the residents of Los Angeles when we get called out
on a nine one one call. They currently exist today throughout this As I
mentioned earlier, I'm working today finishing off the twelve hour shift at fire Station
eleven and just east of us from figure Out all the way to skid Row
on Seventh Street, they put these road diets in and it affects the response
times that we respond to when we get called to these certain addresses and we
have to divert our response times and every single second counts. Yep, when
the residents of Los Angeles down nine one one, And imagine if you're calling
and we have to take a different route to your emergency and we don't have
a successful outcome. Okay, so Captain Escobar, So just so people are
familiar with it, we're talking about where they've restricted lane access, they've put
bike lanes in, which has cut down traffic lanes, and also put up
those bullards that I've got them in my neighborhood and I'm just worried that I'm
a run into them every day and kind of feel like you have to,
like Bob and weave around them. And I didn't even think about like firefighters
trying to respond to a fire and how you guys have to weave in and
out of traffic sometimes to get to where you're going, and how this could
really hurt your efforts. Oh. Absolutely, I mean they've already I mean
they've been tried and they have failed. They've tried them in Northern California has
failed. They've tried them in different states, they have failed. They've tried
them here in the city of Los Angeles they failed. And also with the
l A measure, one of the other issues is they've purposely omitted having our
fire department command staff are fire chief, her command staff, and the police
to opine on this measure. And they did that purposely because they knew they
would be violating laws that currently exists. This measure is misleading. This measure
needs to everybody needs to vote on it. And what we need to do
is address it with our city Council at the horseshoe, with the fire chief,
with the police chief and come up with something that is going to work.
And there's also as also a liability unfunded three hundred million a year for
ten years, three billion liability for the residents of Los Angeles because they want
to make the changes to like is is it two hundred and fifty miles of
road or something like that. There it's a lot a lot of roads that
are going to be affected. It's not just a few in a neighborhood.
Correct, anytime you resurface an eighth of a mile of road, then it's
going to say, Okay, what are we going to do to add pedestrian
lanes and bike lanes. So, like I said, I'm currently on Seventh
Street between Bonnie Bray and Burlington. I think they were if they're scheduled to
resurface Seventh Street all the way to figure out the engineers, everybody's going to
say, Okay, what's this going to look like on already a heavy congested
street where there's parking on both sides. They're going to have to add bike
lanes, They're might have to add bus lane, and we're already delayed leading
out of quarters. It is just not a good plan moving forward for the
residence of Los Angeles. Okay, so Captain Eskerbar, for me, it's
a pain because there are fewer traffic lanes and you've got to dodge those bullards.
For you and for the firefighters, it's a safety issue. And for
actually for us, it's a safety issue because if our house catches on fire,
there's a bad accident and it takes you guys longer to get to us.
That puts lives at jeopardy too. Yes, and it's occurring today,
right. So you go down to the west side, you go down down
to the valley, here in downtown LA. Anytime you down nine one one
in certain districts, the drivers understand where these road diets exist, so they
have to take a different route to when they dial nine to one one,
and there are unfortunate outcomes that come from that. Because you know, what
we do is we always critique ourselves. What can we have done better to
have a better outcome for the incident we went on and for the residents we
serve. We love protecting the city of Los Angeles. We go on over
half a million emergency calls every single year, and then we also deal with
the aftermath of it, the behavioral side of an outcome, and our members
that we represent as UFLAT, we want the best opportunity for them to enjoy
retirements after a twenty five thirty year career, not only physically but mentally as
well. Okay, Cavitain Escobar, thanks so much for your time and explaining
things to us. So your message now a week out of the election,
My message is vote no on HLA. We need all the Angelinos to come
out and vote. You got your voting registration at home, if you haven't
sent it in, send it in. If you want to come down there's
a lot of polls that are currently opening. Come out and vote, make
a statement, join your LAFP, your first responders, and vote no on
HLA. Okay, thank you, Captain Escobar. Appreciate it. Amy,
thank you, and have a great morning. And hello and good morning to
all the brothers and sister's driving into work. You got it. Thanks so
much. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me, Amy King.
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