WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:05.040 Am. I Am six forty. You're listening to wake Up Call on demand 2 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:11.119 on the iHeart Radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. 3 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:25.920 Here's Jason Middleton right on. Good Morning everybody. This is your wake up 4 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:28.800 call. My name is Jason Middleton. It's five am, it's Tuesday. 5 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:35.039 It's June thirteenth. New music bed to start today, got me chair dancing 6 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:41.719 already. We have a pretty full hour. Some cool interviews, We've got 7 00:00:41.759 --> 00:00:45.799 some a new segment we're gonna try once in a while, maybe a couple 8 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:50.320 times a week. It's called Getting in Getting business E. We're gonna do 9 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:53.359 some wrap ups today on some business news. We're gonna make him relatable. 10 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.920 I'm gonna promise that it's not gonna be sleep inducing at all, because these 11 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.159 are things that are going to affect our daily lives. We'll get into that 12 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:04.359 towards the bottom of the hour. We also have an update from Miami, 13 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:07.560 so let's go ahead and get into the headlines before we get into some local 14 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:12.319 stories as well. Former President Trump is planning to plead not guilty in federal 15 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:17.200 court today in Miami. It is a thirty seven count federal indictment. It 16 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:22.719 regards the alleged removal and storage of classified government documents after he left the White 17 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:26.120 House. We're going to speak with ABC's Aeron Katurski, who is in Miami 18 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:33.120 in just a few minutes. The Federal Reserve starts its meeting for June today, 19 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:38.519 and it's expected that we're going to get a pause in interest rate hikes. 20 00:01:38.959 --> 00:01:44.879 It's not guaranteed they have hiked raises. They've they've hiked interest rates ten 21 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.519 times in a row, so this will be the first skip in a while. 22 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.959 It's anticipated that the inflation report, which we're going to get at the 23 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.040 bottom of this hour as well, is going to enforce that idea that we 24 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:57.480 are going to get a skip. Now, I still think that a quarter 25 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:02.439 point raise in July is on the table. It's still sticky inflation, but 26 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:06.319 it is slowing, so we'll see how that plays out. I'll have that 27 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:07.800 for you at the bottom of the hour when we get the report. And 28 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:15.360 the Denver Nuggets are NBA champions. The Nuggets beat the Miami Heat last night. 29 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:20.080 Now, attention is going to turn to the NBA trade rumors, which 30 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.120 are just lighting up my social media. I see all kinds of stuff. 31 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:30.039 Is like, are the Lakers going to be adding another big that seems to 32 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:34.919 be it. All I know is that the Nuggets did not cover the spread 33 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.360 last night, and that was good news for a lot of people. Let's 34 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.479 start with some of the stories coming out of the kf I twenty four hour 35 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.599 newsroom. As always, we do lead local. An eighty four year old 36 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:49.719 doctor is suing the Santa Monica Fire Department, claiming EMTs made him a quadriplegic. 37 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.159 The doctor fell and hit his head on a bathtub last year or causing 38 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.400 a neck injury. Attorney for the family, Chris Dolan, says EMTs did 39 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.159 not stabilize the doctor's neck before transporting him, damaging nerves and his spinal cord. 40 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:05.919 He went from a very self sufficient man to now somebody who's bedridden, 41 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:09.680 very expensive to be in twenty four hour care. Dolan yesterday said the fire 42 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:15.280 department has not responded to the lawsuit or taken responsibility. The lawsuit claims the 43 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.719 doctor has suffered loss of intimacy and emotional distress in Santa Monica. Chris Adler 44 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.439 KFI News. A grand jury report in Orange County has raised concerns about OC 45 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:31.240 animal cares management and practices. Animal advocate Liz Huig says the shelter's appointment only 46 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:37.159 adoption system is just not working. The shelter needs to be open. People 47 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:40.199 need to be able to walk through the shelter make connections with a pet. 48 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:46.120 The adoption rates are down significantly because people cannot walk through the shelter. The 49 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.400 shelter has been closed to visitors without an appointment since the start of the pandemic. 50 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:55.400 The report claims euthanasia rates have spiked one hundred and eighty seven percent since 51 00:03:55.439 --> 00:04:00.280 then. OC Animal Care says it will formally respond to the report within ninety 52 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:03.719 days. Walking through does make a lot of sense because often it's the pet 53 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:10.000 that adopts the would be owner in those situations, opening statements are set for 54 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:14.080 this morning in the trial of a man from Riverside County accused of fatally shooting 55 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.519 the mother of his infant son. The man is also accused of hurting his 56 00:04:16.600 --> 00:04:20.160 dad, who tried to intervene during the attack in twenty nineteen. He's charged 57 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:25.439 with first degree murder, domestic violence, child cruelty, and being a felon 58 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:29.160 in possession of a gun. A prosecutor alleges the man would use his fists 59 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.839 and a baseball bat to hurt the woman on different occasions. Small amounts of 60 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:39.560 alcohol could be good for your heart. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospitals say they're 61 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.959 not advertising for people to drink because alcohol can raise the risk of cancer, 62 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.040 but do say a small amount of alcohol could benefit your heart because it eases 63 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.439 stress in the brain. A study published in the Journal of the American College 64 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:55.360 of Cardiology suggests by understanding the benefits, researchers could find other healthier ways to 65 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.160 get the same benefit, like through meditation or exercise. Other studies have shown 66 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:01.360 moderate drinkers have a lower risk of heart attacks than those who drink a lot 67 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:06.680 or don't drink alcohol at all. Amy King KFI News The IRS is trying 68 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:12.120 to clear up confusion for California at taxpayers or ray for the Golden State. 69 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.120 Notices have been mailed out saying they owe a balance within three weeks, despite 70 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:20.240 an extension for most of the state. The agency apologized and assured those covered 71 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:25.360 by the disaster declaration that they do not have to file or pay until October 72 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:29.879 the sixteenth. The notices were sent automatically again, though it doesn't apply to 73 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:32.279 fifty five counties affected by severe winter storms that we just came out of. 74 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:36.959 Also in state news, relief is one step closer for public transit agencies in 75 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.160 California that are struggling to survive. They could soon be getting money under the 76 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.600 state's new budget. Lawmakers were able to make a deal over the weekend that 77 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.519 brought back two billion dollars in funding that would have been cut to transportation. 78 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:54.759 This will especially help San Francisco and La. The budget must be finalized and 79 00:05:54.800 --> 00:06:00.319 approved by Thursday of this week. However, and a restaurant rome dubbed the 80 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:05.759 World's smallest restaurant still carries a big price tag. Dig This solo Perdue or 81 00:06:05.959 --> 00:06:11.839 just for two in Italian, has fireworks, specially designed dishes based on your 82 00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:14.879 taste, which is good because there's two people at the table, a silver 83 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.519 bell to summon the waiter, and just one elegantly set table that overlooks an 84 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:21.959 ancient Roman villa. The owners say they wanted to give people the chance to 85 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:27.959 have an intimate, fairy tale like experience after becoming frustrated by crowded restaurants with 86 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:31.000 long waits and poor service. I guess after COVID a lot of revenge in 87 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:34.519 restaurant dining was happening all over the world. Rome's a great place to eat. 88 00:06:34.879 --> 00:06:41.680 Dig this. A meal for two at Solo Perdue costs more than five 89 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.040 hundred dollars. Champagne, top wides and floral decorations cost extra. I haven't 90 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:48.480 been to Rome in a while. That seems still a price you for Rome. 91 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:55.639 Even today is Tuesday, and it's also the day that former President Trump 92 00:06:55.639 --> 00:07:00.720 will wind up in Miami to plead not guilt to the federal indictment. So 93 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:04.759 we have ABC's Eric Katurski on the line with us to make sure that we 94 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:08.759 understand what's happening on the ground there. Eric Aaturski, you are live in 95 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:11.560 Miami. Thank you so much for giving us a heads up of what's going 96 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.600 on there. And a matter of fact, let's start right there. What 97 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.519 is it like in Miami this morning. Well, there's a big crowd of 98 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:21.079 reporters. Of course, so far, there's no sign of any demonstrations like 99 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:26.560 the ones the former president has called for, and online there have been some 100 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:30.560 calls for people to come out and protest against the indictment and the special counsel, 101 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.959 and some of those invitations are echoing the former presidents and sendiary rhetoric about 102 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:41.120 the case and about special counsel Jack Smith. So the police are on alert 103 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:45.360 for any sign of trouble, but they say that's not the Miami Way, 104 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:50.160 and they're taking this seriously, preparing for a crowd of five thousand to fifty 105 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:55.000 thousand. They just don't know what's going to materialize. And if it was 106 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.519 going to materialize, it seems like it would be materializing as you and I 107 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:01.079 speak right now, right. I mean, it just seems like they're they're 108 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.199 prepping for something that doesn't seem to be coming through, even though Florida is 109 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:07.480 a lot trumpier as a state than New York was. Oh, I think 110 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.240 that's true. You know, he has a much more natural base of support 111 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:13.879 just here in South Florida, and so it's possible that, you know, 112 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.240 when he arrived this afternoon, there is a crowd of supporters waiting to try 113 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:24.639 and see him and to demonstrate against an indictment that he has denounced and denied. 114 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.240 We just don't know. But the concern, I think has been some 115 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:33.440 of the rhetoric that analysts have seen online. But so far we're told there 116 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.039 are no credible threats of any violence or trouble. It's my understanding that a 117 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:41.159 magistrate is going to handle the arraignment this morning, and not Judge Eileen Cannon, 118 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:45.799 who was a Trump appoint e. Has there been any talk about that 119 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:50.720 for many officials there. Well, in that way, it's just standard. 120 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:54.240 You know. The Judge Goodman is the duty magistrate, so he'll handle the 121 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.399 initial appearance here. We think this is also going to be an arrangement. 122 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.440 He would take the not guilty plea from former President Trump and the case was 123 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:11.080 then randomly assigned to Judge Alien Cannon. We don't believe the prosecutors are making 124 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:15.600 any moves, at least at this stage to try and for search or recuse, 125 00:09:15.759 --> 00:09:18.279 but we don't know how they may handle that going forward. Thank you 126 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.120 for the pronouncer correction on the fly right there, Aaron, it's Alien Canon, 127 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.759 my mistake. What are you being told as far as the motorcade coming 128 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:28.559 in there going to go right underground and we're not even going to see the 129 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:31.559 president or is he going to maybe take a little bit of a tour Impulse 130 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:35.840 control is not his number one priority. Well, and that's just it. 131 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.000 You know, I think that the preference from the secret Service is to drive 132 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.799 him straight in an underground The preference from the former president would be to you 133 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.919 know, be visible walking in the front door. So I think it's all 134 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.559 probably a negotiation. But for safety and security, I think the preference is 135 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.799 certainly to keep him largely out of public view. Once he gets here, 136 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.600 he will be in the custody of the FBI. I mean, he's not 137 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.559 going to be in handcuffs, but neither will he be free, and he'll 138 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.399 go through processing, you know, fingerprints, possibly a mug shot, and 139 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:13.279 then you know that all is expected to unfold fairly quickly. Aaron, I 140 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.799 know you're outside the courthouse right now, and I was listening and watching another 141 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:20.600 network this morning as I was prepping for this interview with you, and there's 142 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:26.480 mention of some roosters roaming about. Have you seen the reported rooster thing? 143 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:30.679 I mean, can you hear him in the background. I thought that's what 144 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:35.840 they were downtown Miami. Is that I've never been to Miami accept a flight 145 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:37.039 through the airport, so I guess, I guess that's just news to me. 146 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:41.879 You're missing out. Eric at Turski, thank you so much for your 147 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.440 time. It's morning. Good luck today thank you. We'll have more from 148 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:48.799 Aaron and others throughout the day, no doubt today a quick update on something 149 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:52.320 we covered yesterday and was all over the news as well, and that's the 150 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.759 accident and collapse at Philadelphia. Please have recovered a body from that section of 151 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:03.000 ninety five were gas tanker crack caught fire over the weekend. The inferno that 152 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:07.080 came after that led to the collapse of an elevated portion of the interstate. 153 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.679 That happens Sunday morning. Detectives have not released a victim's identity. Governor Josh 154 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.720 Shapiro has since declared an emergency declaration with the goal of accelerating repairs to the 155 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.399 heavily traveled roadway. Of course, all eyes right now are on former President 156 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:24.000 Trump ahead of his scheduled arraignment today in Florida. He's expected to be in 157 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.919 federal court around noon Pacific. The former president wasn't dited last week on thirty 158 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:35.559 seven felony counts connected to the handling of classified documents. A now former cal 159 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:41.080 Fire Riverside County battalion chief is retiring and entering an alcohol rehabit program. The 160 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.120 move comes after fifty one year old Terran Mark League is facing sentencing related to 161 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.000 a November twenty twenty one arrest for misdemeanor sexual battery. Former South Carolina Governor 162 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:56.120 Nicky Haley quite busy hosting fundraisers in southern California all this week. Haley, 163 00:11:56.159 --> 00:12:01.080 he was running for the Republican nomination for next year, will host a fundraiser 164 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.720 in Newport Beach this afternoon and at five thirty three ish, we're going to 165 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.720 do a getting business segment, and for this one, we're gonna look at 166 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.320 anti trust news. And the anti trust news is going to land on stuff 167 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:16.159 that we all know, names that we all know, Google, Microsoft, 168 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.559 and the PGA. So we can't sleep on antitrust. I know that word 169 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:26.360 might be like whatever, but these cases often shift how business is done period, 170 00:12:26.559 --> 00:12:28.840 very macro kind of effect. This leads to policy, so we're gonna 171 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.679 look at that too. A couple of stories from the newsroom before we talk 172 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:37.120 with mister Dubuskie. Anaheim must decide to either boost the minimum wage for hotel 173 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.159 workers to twenty five bucks an hour or send the question to voters. They 174 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:46.159 are one paycheck away from homelessness. You're not here. Local eleven co President 175 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:50.039 Otto Bersanio says workers also face sexual harassment and unfair workloads. Many of them 176 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:54.200 are CouchSurfing or they're living in their cars. She says the hotel industry has 177 00:12:54.240 --> 00:12:58.840 surpassed pre pandemic profit levels. We've seen Los Angeles, Long Beach Stand, 178 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:05.799 Monica, Glendale, West Hollywood adopt laws guaranteeing fair pay and we have seen 179 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.759 no fallout. Critics say the ordinance would increase hotel rates, threatened jobs, 180 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:15.360 and be detrimental for small hotel owners in Anaheim. Corbin Carson, k if 181 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:18.759 I News. Ten people in Denver have been hurt in a shooting close to 182 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.639 the arena where the Denver Nuggets won their first NBA title. ABC's Jim Ryan 183 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.200 says the shooting happened as fans were celebrating the team's win early this morning. 184 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.960 Police say the crowds were thinning up when there was some sort of altercation and 185 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.720 gunshots were fired. Three of the injured were in critical condition, and the 186 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:39.799 alleged shooter has been arrested. Now we're going to get an update on this 187 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:43.080 Reddit situation. Okay. Reddit, just for background, is an online community 188 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.559 site that has thousands of what's called Subreddit's niche communities for news and chatting things 189 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:54.799 ranging from everything from the climate crisis to macromay. ABC's Mike Debusky is with 190 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:58.399 us to talk down to help us break down why parts of Reddit are not 191 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:01.360 working today. Good morning, Mike, Good morning. Yeah. So this 192 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:05.360 actually goes back to a decision that Reddit made back in April. They said 193 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:11.240 they were going to reshuffle pricing for their API, or their Application programming interface, 194 00:14:11.279 --> 00:14:13.000 which is a very technical way of saying, this is the code that 195 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:18.000 third parties app developers can come in and build their apps off of. So 196 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.600 if I wanted to make an iOS app out of Reddit, I would need 197 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:26.039 to access their API. And what has also happened in recent months is we've 198 00:14:26.039 --> 00:14:31.559 seen an explosion in AI programs. Chatbots like chat, GPT and Google's Bart 199 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:37.240 have soared in popularity in part they are trained on Reddit's data, right, 200 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:41.679 they access Reddit's API. So Reddit looked at this and they said, these 201 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:43.960 guys, you know, can afford it, right, We're going to reshuffle 202 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:48.879 our pricing and they're going to pay their fair share. But those original third 203 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:52.120 party app developers, a lot of them, just sort of independent little guys, 204 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:54.440 have said these changes are too expensive for us. This could knock our 205 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.360 app offline when they go into effect, which is June thirtieth, is when 206 00:14:58.360 --> 00:15:01.120 they say it's going to go into effect. Well yeah, so, well 207 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:05.559 I was going to ask you right there, because Reddit is planning on an 208 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.080 IPO, right, not an IPO, but they're planning to go public, 209 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.799 that's right. And this has been sort of bandied about for a little while, 210 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.840 and you can imagine that this decision factors into that they would want to, 211 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:18.440 you know, find a nice revenue stream for themselves to perhaps boost some 212 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.480 valuation, and you know, all the all the rest of it. But 213 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.639 this has had sort of an unintended consequence, which is that these third party 214 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:31.360 apps, you know, among them names like Apollo and Sync, you know, 215 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:35.840 these are relied upon by a lot of Reddit users, power users in 216 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.480 a lot of ways, and they've staged this Reddit blackout. So what that 217 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:43.559 means is that moderators are very popular Reddit communities. The subreddit dedicated to sports, 218 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:48.080 the subreddit dedicated to music, you know, funny, which is memes 219 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.600 and jokes and that sort of thing. They have set themselves to private, 220 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:54.360 which means that if you're not subscribed to them, you can't see them, 221 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.519 and that has a big impact on not just the Reddit community, but sort 222 00:15:56.559 --> 00:16:00.559 of the broader Internet conversation. Jason, Yeah, that was the question I 223 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.720 was going to follow up. This might have knock on ripples for other sites 224 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.679 on the rest of the Internet. That's absolutely right. So the conversations that 225 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:11.159 we have, whether they be political or cultural or what have you, that 226 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.039 we have on Twitter and on Facebook, a lot of those conversations start on 227 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:22.159 Reddit. The broader Internet discourse exists downstream of this website in a lot of 228 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:25.159 ways. And I'll just give you a small example of that. Elon Musk 229 00:16:25.200 --> 00:16:27.519 a former CEO of Twitter, one of the richest people in the world. 230 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:33.080 He gets the memes that he posts on Twitter from Reddit. So a small 231 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.759 example, but like you can imagine, you know, if one of the 232 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:38.879 richest men in the world, Elon Musk is is hanging out on Reddit, 233 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:41.879 and then you can imagine a lot of other people are too. Well. 234 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:44.559 I'm not necessarily trying to be you know, guilty by association, but I 235 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:48.519 use Reddit a lot when I'm doing show prep. Yeah, to do deep 236 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:52.200 dart deeper. It's very narrow and deep these subreddits, and that gets at 237 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:59.240 sort of an interesting conversation about exactly where Reddit exists in the broader Internet ecosystem. 238 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.919 Right, Facebook, Twitter, even Google are you know they serve you 239 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:07.000 algorithmically, you know, preferred results to whatever you're searching for, whether it 240 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:11.599 be a conversation or a website or whatnot. In some way, what you're 241 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:15.440 looking at is influenced by the algorithms that those companies have fed, right, 242 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:18.599 and Reddit has its own algorithm and what have you. But a lot of 243 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:22.960 what those communities that you see there, whether it be about music or macromay 244 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:26.799 as you mentioned, uh, you know, they are user generated, which 245 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.119 is in part why when you go to Google something now, a lot of 246 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.200 what you'll see is if I'm googling, for example, you know, birdwatching 247 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.559 in New York Central Park, I will first see Google. I will first 248 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.359 see you know, birdwatching in Central Park, and then the word Reddit because 249 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:44.200 a lot of people want to go to that human conversation, right. They 250 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:47.400 don't want to go to something that Google has predetermined for me. They want 251 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:49.920 to see what the actual people are talking about. So it's a really influential 252 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.720 platform. I don't really think that people think about it that way, but 253 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:56.640 I think it's it's important to talk about and you know, an event like 254 00:17:56.640 --> 00:17:59.480 this where a lot of it is cut off from the broader Internet community is 255 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:03.480 signal. All right, We're speaking with ABC's tech analyst Mike Debuski. A 256 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:06.440 couple of quick questions before I have to let you go. Let's go back 257 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:11.160 to the developers. Are developers? Is this an unreality for them? I 258 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:12.799 mean, should they have an expectation that these are going to have to go 259 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:17.839 up for this or are they just pushing back against an existing culture. That's 260 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:19.680 a really good question. I think, you know, in part yes, 261 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:23.039 they should, you know, have baked in, you know, a certain 262 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:26.839 amount of uncertainty when it comes to Reddit's API pricing. Of course, Reddit's 263 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.640 API pricing is completely up to Reddit. They can charge whatever they want for 264 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:34.079 it. But one of the developers you know who I talked to yesterday, 265 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:38.759 Christian Selik, who is behind the iOS app Apollo, basically a Reddit style 266 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.960 app. Right if you wanted to get on Reddit on your iPhone, Apolo 267 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.519 is a pretty good option that a lot of people use. Um. He 268 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:51.039 said that the pricing change would cause them to have to pay twenty million dollars 269 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:53.440 annually for access to this API. And again, like we're talking about, 270 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:56.279 these are not big apps, right, This isn't the Facebook app or the 271 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:00.079 grubhub app or the Spotify app. These are kind of small, niche products 272 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.920 that a lot of people use. That pricing change, you know, really 273 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:08.000 directed at like the Googles and the Microsoft and the open aiyes of the world, 274 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.480 that has a really big impact on these kind of smaller third parties. 275 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:15.440 So yeah, I think it's a balance, certainly, but I think a 276 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.880 lot of them maybe we're not expecting quite such a dradic shift. Yeah, 277 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.720 well, I think that's that's fair, and I appreciate the context on that 278 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.400 too. I guess my last question is going to have to kind of shift 279 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:29.000 because I want to talk about artificial intelligence. I cover that on my other 280 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:33.480 show a lot, and it's disrupting a lot of places. So artificial intelligence 281 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:38.000 learns from the rest of the Internet. And it seems that this fee increase 282 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:44.240 from Reddit plays into charging others to train their aies. Is that is that 283 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:48.160 in play here as well as as Reddit gets ready to go public? Right, 284 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:53.000 So the you know question of like the AI companies that use Reddit's data 285 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.279 to make their to train their systems right. A lot of that comes back 286 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:00.480 to the fact that the human conversations that are had on Reddit are from humans, 287 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:03.799 right, and the responses that we get from the chat GPTs and the 288 00:20:03.839 --> 00:20:07.720 google Bards of the world, they sound pretty human. So it's not to 289 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.160 say that, you know, it's a like if losing Reddit would completely disrupt 290 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.319 chat gpt. I don't think that's exactly the conversation that we're having, but 291 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.000 it certainly played a huge role in learning what humans sound like on the Internet, 292 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.319 both for good and for bad. Right. Not all the conversations that 293 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:26.319 are happening on Reddit are great ones, and that has shown up in AI 294 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:30.319 chat bots as well, but it certainly played a significant role, right. 295 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:33.440 These AI chat bots, these these AI systems, these large language models are 296 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:37.640 trained on huge swaths of the Internet. And one of the bigger questions about 297 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.000 the AI space right now is exactly what that looks like. We know it's 298 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.119 in part trained on Reddit, but we don't know a ton of specifics about 299 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:47.440 that. We know it's in part trained on you know, websites like KFI 300 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:49.559 dot com or The New York Times or ABC News, and like, we 301 00:20:51.039 --> 00:20:53.119 just need to kind of drill down on exactly what that looks like if we're 302 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:57.160 going to get a better understanding of exactly what these systems know, and at 303 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:00.799 that at this moment, we just don't have that. The latest data I 304 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:04.680 see is seventy seven hundred subreddits have gone dark and how long will this last? 305 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:08.480 Mike? So some of the subreddits signed up for this and they said 306 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.200 it's going to be a forty eight hour blackout. So it started yesterday, 307 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.200 it's going to go into tomorrow. But others, like the ar Music subreddit 308 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:19.759 again, hugely popular subreddit dedicated to music, millions of followers, they say 309 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:25.319 they're closed indefinitely for Reddit's API policy change protests. So if you go to 310 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.039 that page, you're not going to see anything about music. You're gonna learn 311 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:32.799 about application programming interfaces and that sort of thing. So, yeah, big 312 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:36.079 moment here for Reddit ABC's Mike Dbuskie. It's always a pleasure to nerd out 313 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:37.279 with you. Thank you so much for giving us so much time this morning. 314 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:41.279 Of course, take care. Let's get a couple of quick stories before 315 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:45.440 we go into the next segment where we're going to get business. Nearly two 316 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:49.359 dozen US service members are injured after a helicopter accident in Syria. The military 317 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:52.759 did not provide many details about the incident that happened over the weekend, but 318 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:57.079 stead ten of the twenty two injured were sent to medical facilities outside the region. 319 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:02.480 It also reported no enemy fire was involved. There are around nine hundred 320 00:22:02.599 --> 00:22:06.799 US troops in Syria to fight the remnants of the Islamic State in Iranian backed 321 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:11.440 militias as well. And A bus driver in Australia that rereported on yesterday has 322 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.920 been arrested for a crash that killed ten wedding guests at injured twenty five others 323 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:19.319 have been and has been released on bail. Police say the driver was speeding 324 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:22.799 before the bus rolled over at a roundabout this past weekend. He's charged with 325 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:27.000 ten counts of dangerous driving and one count of negligent driving. It was Australia's 326 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:33.160 deadliest road accident since nineteen ninety four. New figures show the toll fentanyl has 327 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:38.200 taken on the US Army. The Washington Post reports data it obtained shows one 328 00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:42.599 hundred and twenty seven soldiers were lost to fentanyl between twenty fifteen and twenty twenty 329 00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:48.079 two. That's more than the number killed in combat in Afghanistan during that same 330 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:52.200 span. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the use of affirmative action 331 00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:57.519 in college admissions any day now. A pair of cases, one at the 332 00:22:57.599 --> 00:23:03.200 University of North Carolina and the other at Harvard allege that the practice harms white 333 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.839 and Asian students. And at five fifty or around there, we're going to 334 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:11.559 move into the summer travel season discussion. There's an ugly angle to that summer 335 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:15.920 travel and that's road rage. Air rage is also a thing, unfortunately. 336 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:21.279 So at five fifty we're gonna close wake Up Call Interviews at least with a 337 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:23.920 chat about road rage road rage with ABC's Jim Ryan. Right now, we're 338 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:27.119 gonna get business e and let's do an economic heat check, and then we're 339 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:32.799 gonna talk about some anti trust. So yesterday on the Bill Handle Show, 340 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:36.720 we talked about stock markets moving out of a bear market and into a bull 341 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:40.480 market. Technically speaking, now it's a bull just by a nose, but 342 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.880 that's often enough on Wall Street to build momentum. If you ever follow those 343 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:48.519 headlines, almost anything can change the winds on Wall Street. And this kind 344 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:52.039 of positivity is probably going to have a little bit of an effect, especially 345 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:53.799 when we talk about the next story, which is inflation. But here's some 346 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:59.759 let's do some math on the radio. The Nasdaq is up twenty eight percent 347 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.599 year to date, the SMP five hundred is up thirteen percent year to date. 348 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.720 And a few weeks ago it was popular I said it too to say 349 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:11.759 that big businesses were carrying the markets upward because they have huge market caps. 350 00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:17.480 But those gains are actually spreading to small cap stocks as well. So a 351 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:21.119 skip from the Fed on interest rate hikes this month, even if they bump 352 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:23.039 it up a little bit in July, means we could start to steer towards 353 00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:26.839 slow, steady gains on least on Wall Street for the rest of the year. 354 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:32.400 Part two of the heat check is that we have three data drops today 355 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:37.200 which will move markets. And first up is the Small Business Optimism Report. 356 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.480 That one's pretty much self explanatory, so I'll have to unpack that one next 357 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:44.279 hour when we have that in hand. And then we have the inflation report 358 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.160 for May, which is about to drop or at least be published out any 359 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:49.480 minute. I'll have that soon, probably at the top of the hour, 360 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:53.039 I would imagine, so it looks like Wall Street in pre market trading right 361 00:24:53.079 --> 00:24:56.000 now is pretty quiet. It's going to stay that way until the inflation number 362 00:24:56.039 --> 00:25:00.400 gets processed. If inflation comes in close to zero, we're expecting point one 363 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:06.160 percent increase. It comes in close to that, then the FED meeting that 364 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:10.799 starts today ends tomorrow may get the pause in interest rate hikes that we are 365 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:15.400 expecting. Okay, So now let's turn a little bit to some other business 366 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.359 stuff, and it's antitrust. And this is about how Google, Microsoft, 367 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:25.200 and basically Golf conduct their businesses, and the challenges right now for these businesses 368 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:30.000 is anti trust. So government's watch for monopolies or business not collusion, but 369 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:36.279 the business contraction or when big big businesses gobble up smaller ones and that chokes 370 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:40.640 open the open market competition. So let's start with Google and this go to 371 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:42.759 the EU about this. No, Google is set to be hit with a 372 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:49.319 formal antitrust complaint from the EU today that could pave the way for massive finds. 373 00:25:49.480 --> 00:25:53.880 The EU, under its own rules, can find a company up to 374 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:59.119 ten percent basically of its annual revenue, which for Google is not small. 375 00:25:59.160 --> 00:26:03.000 We'll get to that number just a second two. But what they're focusing on 376 00:26:03.079 --> 00:26:07.880 is the core of Google's business, which is advertising, advertising technology. That's 377 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:12.440 eighty percent of Google's bottom line. The charge sheet that's coming out of the 378 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:18.240 EU, which should land later today, it could it could be delayed till 379 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.200 tomorrow. It targets the core of alphabet right, the ad tech business model. 380 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:27.480 Google's advertising business is its most successful business. It's not great at hardware 381 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:33.759 the pixel. Notwithstanding, Google's advertising business eighty percent of its annual revenue, 382 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:37.920 and that amounts to two hundred and twenty five billion dollars, So the fine 383 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:42.400 could be up to twenty two point five billion dollars. This is one of 384 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:51.559 the biggest antitrust regulatory look ats from the EU. Ever, and Google already 385 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:57.000 has appending eight billion dollar fine from a previous ruling. So I've been covering 386 00:26:57.039 --> 00:27:03.880 the EU coverage of the tech industry for years, and the impetus here is 387 00:27:03.880 --> 00:27:07.440 a little bit cultural, and it's a little bit more that European tech companies 388 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:11.160 just aren't as advanced as what we're getting out of silicon value, have been 389 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.359 getting out of silicon value for the last twenty five years, and so this 390 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.599 is a little bit of slowdown so we can catch up. It's not all 391 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:22.319 about that, though, there isn't a real antitrust issue happening here that needs 392 00:27:22.359 --> 00:27:26.400 to be examined, at least that's what the EU thinks. Now Here in 393 00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:32.799 the United States, the FTC has filed to block Microsoft from buying Activision. 394 00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:34.680 This goes to cloud gaming, which is a small market right now. But 395 00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:40.720 if you think about AI coming the aar VR headsets that Apple has introduced, 396 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:45.359 which is their biggest product drop since you know, well the watching the AirPods, 397 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:49.359 I gas, but it goes back to almost potentially iPhone big if it's 398 00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:52.400 adopted, not at this price point of thirty five hundred, but it's still 399 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:57.000 a big deal. In a filing in California, the FTC has sought an 400 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:04.160 order to block the transaction from going through between Microsoft and buying Activision Blizzard. 401 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:10.880 One of the reasons is it's a seventy billion dollar deal. Another reason is 402 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:15.640 the Biden administration. This is their jam. And it seems to be that 403 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:19.240 Microsoft actually wants this to go to court because they think that they can prove 404 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.920 that this is good for business around the world and especially here in the United 405 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:27.759 States, and it will give them, of course the lead because they'll own 406 00:28:27.799 --> 00:28:33.039 call of duty and others for cloud gaming moving forward, which has yet to 407 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:40.000 really be capitalized monetized. It's a small market right now, but when you 408 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.759 have Microsoft getting in at this level of investment, you can imagine they're not 409 00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:47.839 going to let that go very easily. And then, of course the PGA 410 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:52.640 and the Live liv Golf deal. Senate Democrat Richard Bloemahal has opened an investigation 411 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:57.200 into that merger that was basically a surprise last week. They want to look 412 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:00.480 at the records of how this is going down. One. This is a 413 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:04.200 little bit political as well, but it's also antitrust politics. Part of it 414 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:08.519 is because Live Golf through a whole bunch of money from the Saudi Empire and 415 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:14.680 try to make a competitor to the PGA, and instead of competing, looks 416 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:17.880 like they're trying to be a merger here. But just out this morning, 417 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.319 the PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has written in a letter to Congress that this 418 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.000 is not a merger, so he's going to have to explain that pretty soon. 419 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:30.880 Inflation did ease in May, but it's still unclear whether the economy can 420 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.440 slow just enough without causing pain to families. What I mean by that is, 421 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.319 whether we're going to get a short shallow recession later this year, no 422 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:41.960 matter what. Inflation did come in point one percent, which is right at 423 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:47.000 expectations, which gives the doves those who don't want to raise rates on the 424 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:49.960 Federal Reserve Board, those who vote gives them a reason to go ahead and 425 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:55.240 skip this one. Doesn't mean they won't come back in July and raise again 426 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.559 a quarter of a point, but one thing at a time. Looks like 427 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:03.119 we might get a pause by tomorrow this time, or actually by the end 428 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.519 of business tomorrow when the Fed meeting ends it starts today. A few stories 429 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:10.799 here before we talk about road rage. The trends for illegal street takeovers and 430 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:15.079 street racing in LA are changing. New data from the Board of Police Commissioner 431 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:21.119 shows overall complaints from the public declined by thirty six percent between twenty twenty one 432 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:26.759 twenty twenty two, and the most common areas for street takeovers are now downtown 433 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.839 and South LA. It used to be West LA and the San Fernando Valley. 434 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.880 Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped an alternative custody placement facility in 435 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:40.279 Paris. Forty eight year old Robert sta Rica escapes the facility sometime on Monday 436 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.960 yesterday. He is known to spend time in Riverside Lake Elsinore and Burietta and 437 00:30:44.079 --> 00:30:48.279 Miami police are racing for that influx of people ahead of former President Trump's arraignment 438 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:51.920 in federal court today. Just how big that crowd is going to get is 439 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:56.359 unknown. We talked with ABC's Aaron Katurski about forty five minutes ago and the 440 00:30:56.599 --> 00:31:02.160 crowd has yet to form. Trump is expected at the courthouse at noon today. 441 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:03.880 Fifty on your wake up Call, and ABC's Jim Ryan is on the 442 00:31:03.920 --> 00:31:07.240 line with us talk about road rage, summer travel, and we might even 443 00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:11.599 get dip into some air rage. Good morning, Jim. Yeah, road 444 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:15.200 rage is certainly on the rise, and it has been really since the end 445 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:19.240 of the pandemic. Jason. These numbers reflect that eighty two percent of people 446 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:23.279 admit to committing an active road rage in the past year. Road rage, 447 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:26.079 Maybe aggressive driving would be a better way to put it, until you get 448 00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.079 off into the violence end of it all. But yeah, honking the horn, 449 00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.359 flashing a gesture, cutting somebody off, speeding up, tailgating. But 450 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.839 then you get into incidents like pulling over and forcing somebody out of a car, 451 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:44.079 and about thirty times every year it leads to a homicide, according to 452 00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.119 the American Psychological Association. I've kind of rolled together a bunch of different reports 453 00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.720 from the TRIPLEA, from NITZE, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Sixty 454 00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:57.599 six percent of this was the stat that really shocked me. Sixty six percent 455 00:31:57.599 --> 00:32:04.200 of traffic fatality are caused by aggressive driving, according to NETSA. And that 456 00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.880 would be things like speeding. It may include something you know, at least 457 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:13.519 careless driving and involves drunk and driving. Right, So, yeah, it's 458 00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:15.960 sixteen. I was shocked to see that more than half of the fatalities on 459 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:21.559 the highways are caused by aggressive driving or road rate. And you said, 460 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:24.039 you combined these, you roll these together, and so they're all showing this 461 00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:28.960 trend across the board. They really are. Yeah, And if you look 462 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:32.039 back over the past decade, we've seen a five hundred percent increase in reported 463 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:36.440 cases of road range. So the numbers are rising. I think universally, 464 00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.960 the numbers went down during the pandemic when people were working or going to school 465 00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:44.079 from home. Now we're back on the road and we're venting on other drivers. 466 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.119 Is this mostly personal vehicles or is over the road stuff being covered by 467 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:52.119 this data as well? Well, it's mainly personal vehicles, because you know, 468 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:57.960 I know professional truck drivers people like that, and they all about that 469 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.559 sort of thing because they could lose their license. So I think if the 470 00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:04.519 rest of us drove like professional truck drivers, if you act like you have 471 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.839 your commercial driver's license, you'd probably be a lot more careful on the road. 472 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:13.799 You'd let stuff go instead of engaging somebody who's expressing themselves to you. 473 00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:17.319 You'd kind of back away physically and emotionally from the scene. There is a 474 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:21.519 state by state breakdown, Jason, you won't be too surprised to see that 475 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:25.839 California is third in the number of road rage cases involving a firearm in the 476 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.079 last four years or so. Oh, that's not great. And I mentioned 477 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:35.599 over the road types because I know a lot of those guys are and people 478 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.119 are drivers are listening to this show. I've met a couple at an event 479 00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:40.279 recently. Dodger stated, very cool. I just want to make sure that 480 00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:45.160 we called them out for being such good drivers. Do you have any personal 481 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.920 tales from road range? Way too many? I'm in Texas, the state 482 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.400 that leads the country road rage cases involving a firearm. Haven't had a gun 483 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:58.279 pulled on me. But you know the folks going to PA, they're blown 484 00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:01.920 past you cyclist cutting it. I know this is fairly common in California that 485 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:07.640 they can kind of ease between cars and but you know, my daughter had 486 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:10.599 her mirror knocked off by a motorcyclist who went past. And did he stopped? 487 00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:15.039 Of course not. But it's it's it's annoying, and it's kind of 488 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.400 a daily occurrence. When I was living in Oakland, I actually had I 489 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:20.679 was in the Bay Area, actually, I think I was just driving through 490 00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:23.599 Oakland and I had somebody did show me a gun in the in lanes, 491 00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:27.079 which was a little bit scary. I think I think I shrugged though, 492 00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:29.880 and I think I just pissed him off more. But um, but then, 493 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:31.679 but but have you seen anything about the air rage. I've been watching 494 00:34:31.679 --> 00:34:35.239 that as well, because those reports are up to and you may not have 495 00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:37.199 this in front of you, but I was reading a Bloomberg report and I 496 00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.880 just wanted to kind of lump it in because we are getting into the summer 497 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:45.840 travel season. M A air rage road rage, anything we can do about 498 00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.519 it. Back off, just back off, you know, don't let your 499 00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:52.559 emotions get ahold off. You leave early, not so much for air rage, 500 00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:55.159 but for road rage. Certainly leave a little early so that you're not 501 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:00.360 putting yourself under the added pressure as if you board an aircraft, if you're 502 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.159 headed out somewhere, why not avoid going to the airport bar before you going, 503 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.239 before you board your flight down It just kind of a bite or something, 504 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:09.599 bottle of water, climb on board and keep it peaceful. I know 505 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:14.559 that the union that represents flight attendance is asking for people to be prosecuted for 506 00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:17.000 just those kind of things, getting on board intoxicated and then being belligerent, 507 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:21.480 and that's just as dangerous, right yeah. I think you know the the 508 00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:24.639 new announcement that all the airlines are making before you take off you may not 509 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:28.599 drink alcohol that you brought on board, and you start thinking, well, 510 00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:30.320 they're just trying to charge us eight bucks for a drink or something. Well, 511 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.960 at the same time, they're trying to keep people from getting drunk on 512 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.079 board and being belligerent and dangerous. Right. ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you 513 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:40.880 so much for this and save travels out there. Thanks Jason. Let's get 514 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:45.039 back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom 515 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.480 as we get towards the bill Handle show. The OC Transportation Authority Board has 516 00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.239 voted to declare an emergency just beat up construction of a wall to support a 517 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:58.679 sliding hillside in San Clementi. County. Supervisor Katrina Foley says the declaration could 518 00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:01.920 be folded into the county's ergency declaration to get FEMA funding for storm damage. 519 00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.719 A mud slide near Castle Romantica first happened in April. Rail service was shut 520 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.679 down and resumed again in late May, and then another slide caused roads to 521 00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:15.159 be closed again. Former President Trump is scheduled to appear in court in Miami, 522 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:20.440 Florida, where he faces thirty seven felony accounts related to charges of illegally 523 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:23.480 having classified documents. When he arrives here at federal court, he's going to 524 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:29.000 go through the usual protocols for a federal defendant. He is going to be 525 00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:32.280 placed under arrest by the FBI. Eric Katurski says the US marshals could take 526 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:36.320 Trump's fingerprints and have a mud shot taken. He says Trump will also be 527 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:40.599 asked to enter a plea also this morning. Regarding President Trump, he is 528 00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:45.480 expected to be back in New Jersey later today following this historic arraignment on federal 529 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:49.679 charges. Trump was indicted, of course, last week, it was unsealed. 530 00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:52.719 He calls the indictment of witch hunt, and after noon today, when 531 00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:55.599 he's expected to peer at Pacific time, he'll be flying back to his golf 532 00:36:55.599 --> 00:37:00.760 club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Judge and Utah has ruled a woman accused 533 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:06.159 of killing her husband then writing a children's book on grief will stay in jail 534 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.760 as she awaits trial for murder defending Corey Garden Richards shall continue to be tamed 535 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:14.920 without bail. The woman is accused of killing her husband last year by putting 536 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.320 fentanyl in his drink. New evidence was presented, including how the woman allegedly 537 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:23.599 searched online about life insurance if poisoned. And Denver police now say ten people 538 00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:28.039 are injured after an early morning shooting. Three of the victims are reportedly in 539 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:34.199 critical condition after what investigators are calling an altercation involving several individuals. Police initially 540 00:37:34.239 --> 00:37:37.239 reported that nine people were wounded, but said a tenth person was discovered after 541 00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.639 seeking treatment at a local hospital. The shooting took place about a mile from 542 00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:44.679 Ball Arena, where the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat last night to win 543 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:49.320 the NBA Championship, and a suspect who was also wounded is reportedly in custody. 544 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:52.960 Southern California weather from KFI mostly cloudy in the morning and then partly cloudy, 545 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:57.679 high in the upper sixties to mid seventies today for inland and valley areas. 546 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:00.840 That's for La and Orange Counties at beaches, Cloudy in highs into the 547 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.280 low seventies. Tonight, partly cloudy early, then clouds and fog, lows 548 00:38:06.280 --> 00:38:08.199 in the mid fifties to lower sixties, and a tomorrow pretty much the same 549 00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:12.519 forecast as today and for the rest of the work week. A bit of 550 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:15.519 a warming pattern starts on Saturday across the south Land. At the moment, 551 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:21.159 your Belinda is at sixty degrees, Doheni State Beaches at sixty two, Hollywood 552 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:23.719 sixty one, and Long Beaches also at sixty two degrees. We lead local 553 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:28.239 live from the KFI twenty Farm News Room. I'm Jason Middleton. You've been 554 00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.440 listening to Wake Up Call. You know you can always listen live KFI Am 555 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:37.119 six forty weekdays from five to sixty am, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app