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five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up call for April First.
I'm Amy King. Hope you had a nice easter. It was sort
of a relaxing one for me. We had lots of rain, so it's
just sort of chill and with stores closed, it's a nice relaxing date.
So if you're ready to get stressed out, it's two weeks until tax day.
If you haven't done your filing yet. I chalked to my little brother
yesterday and he's like, I haven't even started. I was like, oh
my god, I'd be freaking out. Also, it's April Fool's Day,
so keep your guard up. You never know who's going to try to get
you. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Section of Highway one in
Big sur collapsed, closing the roadway, trapping about sixteen hundred residents and tourists.
Heavy rains sent chunks of the roadway into the ocean below. The roadway
is partially reopened, but getting in and out a big sur is going to
be a challenge for a while. Israeli troops have pulled out of the Sifa
Hospital complex and the Gaza Strip following a two week raid in which officials say
two hundred Hamas militants were killed and hundreds more were detained. We're going to
be getting the latest on that and also ships taking aid that are making their
way into the Gaza Strip. With ABC's Geordana Miller coming up at five twenty.
You've heard of the leap year, Well, that's where we get an
extra day. ABC's Jim Ryan says, hold on a second. We've got
another issue with time that's coming up at five thirty five. Lots more coming
up, including getting money back from soakow Gas and SOCl Edison and answering the
age old question of how the heck do you boil your eggs so the shells
come off easily? I know, we cover the really important things here on
Wakeup Call at six oh five, it's handle on the news. The first
piece of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge has been removed from the water in
Baltimore. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. The weekend storm sets some record rainfall or rainfall records.
Rather the National Weather Services, Downtown La set a record on Saturday one
point seven three inches of rain that breaks the record of one point twenty seven
inches back in nineteen forty six. Lax got one point eight seven inches,
and Long Beach Airport set a record with one point eight six inches. Palmdale
and Lancaster also set records, and several record lows were reported in Orange County
yesterday. The storm also caused some power outages, road flooding, and caused
a tree to fall on it house in Long Beach. A man's been arrested
following a police shooting in Boyle Heights. The officers found a car stopped in
the middle of the street last night near First end Vicente Fernandez Streets with the
doors open. While they were investigating, they say they saw a man with
a gun. Shots were fired. No one was hit. The guy police
shot at ran but he was caught and arrested. A fourth Navy crane is
arriving in Baltimore to help clear the wreckage of the Francis scott Key Bridge.
Over the weekend, salvage teams hoisted two hundred tons of debris out of the
Patapsco River in a complex operation which involves cutting and removing the mingled trusses one
section at a time. Abc'sm Win says a temporary channel will be opened to
let cargo ships safely get around the collapse, but it's not clear how long
that will take. The search for for missing construction workers can also resume once
the debris is cleared. A barge has hit a bridge over the Arkansas River
in Oklahoma. State troopers closed US Highway fifty nine Saturday and diverted traffic away
from the area. A State Patrol spokesperson says the bridge will stay closed until
it can be inspected. Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered outside the Parliament
building in Jerusalem to protest the war in Gaza. Demonstrators have urged the Israeli
government to reach a deal to free the dozens of hostages still held by Hamas
in Gaza and to hold early elections. The country is largely in support of
the war, but families at the hostages say they believe time is running out.
Prime Minister Netanyahu says calling new elections before a victory in Gaza would paralyze
Israel and hinder hostage negotiations. The Powerball jackpot has grown to almost a billion
dollars. There was no grand prize winner from Saturday Nights drawing, so tonight's
jackpot is up to nine hundred and seventy five million dollars. Your odds of
striking it rich about one in two hundred and ninety two million. Let's say
good morning to ABC's Mike us eight. Mike My, How time flies?
Gmail is twenty years old today. Yeah, the Big two to oh for
Gmail, for Google's email client, launched on April first, two thousand and
four, and people actually thought that this was an April Fool's joke when it
launched, Amy because nobody believed we could have it, so sort of that
was part of it. One part of it was that Larry Page and Sarah
gay Brinn were kind of no strangers to putting out jokey press releases on April
Fool's Day, as many companies have come to do over the past twenty years
or so. But also because you're right, Gmail made a huge promise one
gigabyte of free storage. Now, in today's world, that sounds like nothing,
right, You can go buy an iPhone with a terabyte of storage if
you are so inclined. But in two thousand and four, a gigabyte of
storage just for email was unheard of. Most of its competitors, hot Mail
and Yahoo and the like really only offered about fifteen megabytes of storage that's the
equivalent of about thirty to six the emails, which meant that people had to
constantly attend to their inboxes deleting things to allow new emails to come in.
Well, now Google is offering a gigabyte of storage that's the equivalent of about
thirteen thousand, five hundred emails, so that you didn't really need to do
that. Email became this much more casual communication style, to the point where
Google on its original launch didn't even have a delete button on sort of the
main menu of Gmail because they thought you didn't really need it if you had
this much storage. Isn't that weird? How time had times have changed?
I can't imagine not having a couple thousand emails in my inbox right, And
when was the last time you went through and deleted emails? In your inbox,
because for me, at least, it was a really long time ago.
I don't really need to do that because I just have seemingly infinite storage.
And just to speak to how much has changed over the past twenty years
or so, Gmail, the free tier of Gmail at least offers fifteen gigabytes
of storage now, which just speaks to exactly how much more we're doing over
email and how much more we're sending to each other using this service. Again,
it kind of just goes back to how Gmail changed how we communicate online.
It allowed email to become this much more casual service. You could chat
with your friends without having to be concerned about these emails taking up too much
space. And interestingly enough, in the intervening twenty years, those conversations are
now taking place on social media or in group chats. So while Google did
sort of shake up the communications game online twenty years ago, it has since
been shaken up by other companies like Google, like Facebook and you know,
Snapchat and what have you. Yeah, So I do remember once when email
kind of caught hold that that's how you did communicate if you weren't going to
be on the phone. And now I almost never do personal emails on my
email, Right, it's kind of weird to communicate with your friends using just
email. Now, it's kind of like, why aren't you texting me?
But that is not to say that, you know, email is not useful
anymore. As people have now sort of drafted off of email as a casual
communication service, it has allowed services like Gmail to become a much more formalized
and business sort of centric service, and many people have taken to it.
One point eight billion people or users use Gmail in some capacity. That is
one seventh of the global population. So it is a hugely popular product for
Google. That's really weird because I think I have a Gmail account. I
never use it, I never open it, and I don't know anybody.
I know one person who uses Gmail on a regular basis interesting. Well,
so I would say that's that's interesting to hear, because in talking to people
about Gmail this morning, I found that people use it for a whole host
of different things. Right. ABC Disney gives us an Outlook account, which
is, you know, competitor to Google. Of course, that's where I
put all my work emails. My personal emails, which now amount to pretty
much just newsletters, go to my Gmail account, so that's what I use
it for. But the person I live with that her office runs on Gmail.
It is nothing but Google software products in that particular workspace. My parents
like to send themselves things over Gmail just so that they can have a record
of them, recipes and places to go in that sort of thing. These
were never sort of what Gmail was intended to be. It was meant to
be a communication service, of course, but people have found that use case
and again it's just a sort of testament to the changing nature of communication online,
and it of course brings up what the next twenty years of Gmail are
going to look like. Google itself has played around with bringing artificial intelligence features
into Gmail, allowing their large language model Gemini, to draft emails for you,
which of course brings up some questions about you're a c and misinformation and
what have you. But it does seem like that is where the industry is
going as we talk about the future of email. Yeah, the AI think
freaks me out because I know you can do like an automated response, but
I think we were talking with our tech guy about that, and I was
saying that I was worried that if you had the AI respond for you.
You wouldn't necessarily know what it was, what was in it, or you
wouldn't remember because you didn't compose it yourself. Sure, you're certainly less close
to the product. And many have complained that having AI draft anything creates this
level of impersonality, which is particularly in ironic given that Gmail, again at
its origin, was sort of meant to be this very personal means by which
to communicate with your friends. So it's interesting. It is just one particular
avenue that Google could go down with its email client, but it is you
know, certainly something that they're focused on, something that entire tech world is
focused on. Microsoft, for example, is bringing co pilot, which is
its artificial intelligence service, to its suite of software products. It's office products,
things like Outlooks. So that is just another sort of element to this.
Interestingly enough, because of AI concerns and how you know, companies train
large language models, Disney, which is the parent company of ABC News,
does not allow us to use Copilot on our business accounts. So again something
that companies need to reckon with as they confront this new sort of very AI
centric future. Yeah, so for now, happy birthday to Gmail. And
here's to the next twenty years. Absolutely have birthday Gmail. Thank you so
much, Mike Debuski, appreciate it. Figure right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Fast food workers in California are going to be paid at least twenty dollars an
hour starting today. Several fast food chains say they're going to hike prices immediately.
Everything, even the tator thoughts everything. The price is going to increase
in that that guy owns a catering business and says he has to raise price
is to keep workers. This worker say she needs the raise. Our cost
of living is rising too fast and we just can't catch them. Other companies
have announced plans to automate, layoff workers or reduce hours. Pizza Hut already
laid off all of its delivery drivers because of the anticipated pay increase. Two
people have been killed in a crash of a single engine plane in northern California,
ABC's Jacqueline Lease as the plane went down in a wooded area on Saturday.
The plane crashing while attempting to land at Trucky Tahoe Airport. Light snow
falling in the area at the time. Silicon Valley fund Up West says their
senior advisor and his wife were killed in the crash. Both were well known
tech entrepreneurs. Godzilla and Kong have destroyed the competition at the box office.
The new Empire opened with eighty million dollars this weekend. Godzilla and Kong demolished
the second place finisher, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. It took in just under sixteen
million dollars in its second weekend of release. Dune Part two was number three.
All of the top three. We're like remain maybe not remakes. Well,
what's that called sequel prequels, sequels, prequels whatever, not originals.
Let's just say that, Hey, we've got the Wiggle Waggle Wark coming up
on April twenty first, so just three weeks away, and I hope that
you will join me and the wake Up Call crew. We're going to be
walking at Brookside Park in Pasadena for the Wiggle Waggle Walk to benefit humans Pasadena
Humane and of course any money raised helps Pasadena Humane care for thousands of animals
that they take in every year. So it's a great cause. So you
can come on down, bring your friends, bring your dog, and take
a walk with us. You can also see adoptable pops. We've got booths,
costume contest, games, demonstrations, food, and a whole lot more.
And as I mentioned, would love for you to join our team,
the Wake Up Call Wiggle and come out and walk with us. If you
can't join us, you can still donate to help us reach our goal and
we would appreciate anything that you can spare. Kfiam six forty dot com slash
Wiggle for all the information. About a half million fast food workers are getting
a big raise today a new state law to increase the minimum wage from sixteen
to twenty bucks an hour goes into effact. We're going to be paying higher
prices almost immediately, including at McDonald's, Chipotle, and a lot of workers
are going to get laid off. All state offices are closed today for the
observance of Caesar Chavez Day. That includes DMV offices and LA Superior courts.
LA schools are also off today. LA City and County offices are going to
be open because they observed the holiday last Monday. The iconic Tropacana resort on
the Las Vegas Strip is closing. It's been open for sixty six years,
but it'll close its doors tomorrow and then we'll be demolished to make room for
a new baseball stadium. The Oakland A's have announced plans to move tow Las
Vegas at six o five. It's handle on the news. Getting to Big
sur is pretty difficult right now unless you're a resident, still going to be
kind of hard. Bill's going to tell you why. Right now, let's
say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. We've got a couple of big things,
Jordana. One is some help is on the way for Palestinians, and
the others that Israeli troops have pulled out of the Sifa Hospital Complax after two
weeks. So first let's talk about, hopefully the positive news, and that
is getting aid to the Palestinian people. That's right, Let's start on a
positive note. There was a three ship flotilla that left Larnaca, the port
in Cyprus, this weekend and has set sail for Northern Gaza. It's expected
to arrive tomorrow, possibly early Wednesday morning. It's going to dock at a
temporary jetty that's been built there and it's carrying four hundred tons of food that
is right, some flour, canned protein, proteins and vegetables. The eight
Ship is being funded by the United Arab Emirates and it's being run by the
World Central Kitchen. This is their second maritime aid mission. They say they're
going to be able to make about a million meals. That sounds like a
huge number, but you consider there's two hundred and fifty thousand people in Northern
Gaza alone that are starving or close to it. That's only a few meals
actually, and a few days worth of food. Still the best way to
get food in is by land. You know, if Israel would open its
crossings directly from its territory into northern Gaza, that would be a huge help.
But that just hasn't happened yet. Okay. And we've talked to your
Dana before about the challenge of actually delivering the aid so it gets to people
and keep keeping the people who are delivered it or making the meals keeping them
safe. Have they kind of figured that out? Well, it looks like
the World Central Kitchen its workers are working essentially with the Israelis and some local
some local personnel who are helping to safely deliver and distribute the aid. So
far, there haven't been problems with There were no problems with the first AID
mission that carried about two hundred tons of food, So there's you know,
some hope that what was working then will work again. But it remains one
of the trickiest parts of getting food into people's hands, and that is safely
unloading the aid and then safely distributing it. Because we've seen so much aid
looted, convoys coming under attack. Sometimes that leads to the death of people
who are around these convoys trying to get food, So that still remains a
major challenge. Yeah, and even the civilians who are so desperate to get
food going and basically attacking the trucks to get to the food. I mean,
they they're starving. You know, it's really these are desperate scenes and
they're heartbreaking scenes. And there's also a lot of bad actors in God that
we have to you know, we have to report on every part of this
story. And that's one of the ugly truths is that Hamas and it's supporters
and also just gangs are taking over convoys, killing people, stealing aid.
You know, it's not new to conflicts. This happens in every conflict where
AID goes in, so you know, but Hamas has a certain hold over
the Gods Strip because it ran every aspect of life there. And people are
afraid to even work with NGOs anything related to the Israeli security forces because they
will be labeled as collaborators by Hamas and can lose their lives. That's one
of the problems. Yeah, like we'll talk about so often. It's everything
so complicated. There's just no easy solution, even if on the surface it's
like just get the food in, but it's so much more complicated than that.
Israeli troops have pulled out of the Israeli troops are now pulling out of
the Shifa hospital complex. We're just getting that word and what's going on with
that. That's right, the idea ISA. It's wrapped up what began as
a surprise raid on the hospital where the Idea says hamasen regrouped and then it
lasted two weeks. They have just pulled their troops out overnight. Now for
Israel, this is being touted as one of the most successful operations of the
war. In one location, they were able to kill several senior HAMAS commanders
and dozens of fighters. They were also able to arrest five hundred militants that
they say are on their list of you know, identifiable members of Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They got a lot of intel. They also confiscated piles
of weapons three million dollars in cash. There was intense combat in the maternity
wards, in the emergency wards. I mean, this hospital has been very
damaged and it was only partially operative before the raid. But as the ideas
has pulled out and we see Palestinians returning to the area, there is literally
a ring of destroyed and flattened buildings around the Al Shifa Medical complex. And
you know, we had heard from Palestinians during the operation that they were being
asked to leave buildings that were right near the hospital complex. And it peers
that is real. You know, fought with militants in some of these buildings
and then destroyed them. And they're also finding body strewn you know, in
the outside area of the hospital, the courtyard inside, I mean really just
pictures of you know, horrible pictures of destruction and war as the IDF leaves.
Yeah, and that is what war is and so yeah, I think
we should fixate on the positive and hope that that gets in and gets some
food to the Palestinians and then they figure this out and get it ended.
Thank you, Jordana, appreciate all the information. Talk soon. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. All the rains caused part of Highway one in Big Sur
to collapse. Officials say as many as sixteen hundred people were left trapped and
isolated by the damage. On Saturday. Linda Molinari says she and her boyfriend
had lunch in Big Sur and then had to spend the night in their camp.
It was really hard when the firefighters said, oh, you get to
sleep here tonight. Sorry, it's not going to open. Some cars were
escorted out yesterday afternoon. Caltrends says convoys will lead mainly residents through the closure
area each day at eight am and four pm. A trip to Tokyo has
inspired an LA City Council member to see new potential for the metro system.
Following a trip to Paris with a delegation led by Mayor Karen Bass as preparation
for the twenty twenty eight Olympics, three LA City Council members went on to
another previous host city, Tokyo. Councilwoman Katie Arslovsky, describes the transit in
the Japanese capital as incredible. What struck me was how active, safe and
clean the stations were. Some of the best food we ate was underground in
the Tokyo station. Yarslovski said it last week's Metro Board of Directors meeting that
she and fellow council members Paul Kerkryan and Tracy Park were moved to envision how
to activate stations in LA like the ones they saw in Tokyo in time for
the twenty twenty eight Games. Michael Monks KFI News AT and T says a
data breach has exposed information of more than seventy million customers. ATNT says that
ninety percent are former accounts. The data appears to be from twenty nineteen or
earlier. ATNT says they're reaching out to those former customers, resetting the passcodes
for current account holders, and working with cybersecurity experts. ABC's Mary Alice Park
says customer information, including social security numbers, has been found on the dark
web and TNT says it's not known if the data originated from the company or
one of its vendors. President Biden and the First Lady are welcoming about forty
thousand people to the White House for the annual Easter egg Roll. It's a
tradition that dates back to eighteen seventy eight. The American Egg Board has donated
about sixty four thousand eggs for the event on the South Lawn. You know,
tax Day is just one week away. But here's something that's kind of
interesting. There are a lot of people who have money just kind of waiting
to be refunded by the IRS. It's temp typically low income earners who are
eligible to get taxes withheld from their paychecks, but they don't get the money
back unless they file a return, and they might not file the return because
they didn't think that they had to because they didn't make enough money that year.
About eighty eight thousand, two hundred Californians who didn't file returns in twenty
twenty have just a little while left to reclaim their ninety four point two million
dollars. It's about eight hundred and thirty five dollars per filer on average,
and of course these as I mentioned, these are people who didn't file tax
returns for twenty twenty. And I believe the deadline is like May seventeenth to
get that and if you don't file the return to get the money back,
I RIS keeps it. A section of Highway one in Big Sur has collapsed,
closing the roadway trapping about sixteen hundred residents and tourists. Heavy rains sent
chunks of the roadway into the ocean below over the weekend. Israeli troops have
pulled out of the Shifa hospital complex in the Gaza Strip, following a two
week raid in which officials say two hundred Hamas militants were killed and hundreds more
were detained. The military Mary has described the raid on Shifa as one of
its most successful of the nearly six month war. Seven eleven has launched a
new collection of sparkling waters. The flavors include lemon, lime, green apple,
sweet orange, and one more hot dog hot dogs expected to launch today.
Seven eleven says you can experience it's iconic big bite hot dog. They
say it's a refreshing beverage ketchup and mustard included. But remember today is April
first, at six oh five, it's handle on the news our weekend storm
has moved out. But for fifty million people from Texas to Virginia, wild
weather is just getting started at five point fifty. Getting that shipping channel cleared
is a major priority at the White House. We're going to be talking with
ABC's Karen Travers about what is going on in the waters right now, about
progress being made. But right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim
Ryan. Jim, this is going to take a second, yeah, idiot,
and more of a second than it did the few years ago. Yeah.
Okay, So what is the deal is we need to catch up to
time because something's going on with the Earth's rotation, well, or let time
catch up to us. More specifically, since I mean since the dawna time,
people have been measuring time by the Earth's rotation, right from the time
that the sun is at a certain spot in the sky until it's that that
spot again is one day, right, twenty four divided by sixteen divided by
sixteen, you get the length of a second. Okay, that's pretty simple
math, and they've been doing it for centuries and centuries. But when we
started having atomic clocks. Back in the seventies, somebody noticed something that was
that our seconds were that the Earth was starting to slow down just a bit,
right, According to these atomic clocks, the Earth was getting a little
slower. And so scientists or the folks at the and get this, the
Internal Earth Rotation and Reference System Service started adding one second to universal coordinated time.
Since nineteen seventy two, that's been done twenty seven times. Twenty seven
leap seconds have been added to universal coordinated times Zulu time since nineteen seventy two.
So this is nothing new. It's nothing new, but it's going in
reverse this time because the Earth enigmatically has begun to turn a little bit faster.
Before it was slowing down. Now it's turning a little bit faster than
it was before for a lot of reasons, and here are some of them,
just boiled down to a non science person like I am. So the
ice caps are melting. Everybody knows that, right, We all know that
the globe is getting warmer. Who's responsible is a whole different debate. But
so the Earth is getting warmer, the ice caps are melting, that water
is flowing down toward the equator. But the polar ice caps of the Earth
neath the polar ice caps is elongating, So Earth is getting more like an
egg shape and oval shape as opposed to a sphere. And picture an ice
skater tucking her arms and legs in it and spinning faster and faster because she's
tucked her arms like, well, we're getting our Earth is doing the same
thing in her much slower pace, and so the Earth is going a little
bit faster. So what scientists and the folks at the Internal Earth Rotation Reference
System Service will have to do is to take a second away, perhaps as
early as nineteen as twenty twenty nine, next five six years. Well,
here's what I'm thinking. If it was going slower but now it's going faster,
Yeah, we're just going to cancel out all those other changes. And
it's totaling what twenty seven seconds over a course of fifty years, So what's
the big deal? I suppose, Right, we're not doing it all at
one time, but we're doing it incrementally, taking that second back, taking
it back, take it back, And what does it all matter? Does
it really matter at all? That's my question? What does it matter?
Because the phone in your GPS is telling you how to get to in and
out burger using satellites. Wait, how do you know that, Jim,
Because the satellite and the satellite has to know first of all, where it
is in reference to your smartphone, also in reference to another satellite, one
or two other satellites, maybe more, and it has to know precisely the
exact time that it is on Earth. Okay, So without that, if
there's some mismatch between the time on those satellites, for example, and the
time that we have on our universal Coordinator clock, then that's going to screw
things up a little bit in a big way. First of all, you'll
miss in an out burger by a few blocks potentially, but satellites, you
know, the missiles would fly off in the wrong directions. Everything that relies
on satellites, navigation systems will be messed up. So it's an important thing,
but it kind of happens behind the scenes. Okay, Well, we'll
give you that. And when are they going to do this little reset?
Well, the Earth is wobbling too, so it may be twenty twenty nine,
it might be twenty thirty five. It's going to happen in the next
few years. But we don't know when, and a lot of that has
to do with the inner core of the Earth, and I'm not going to
go into that. Okay, good, but I'm sure that when it does
happen, they're going to make a big to do about it, and we're
all going to go, we just lost a second. Yeah, well,
except that since nineteen seventy two they've added a leap second twenty seven times.
Nobody really paid attention. Yeah, all right, Jim Ryan, thank you
so much. All Right, it's all about time give me surprisefully over there
in and out by the way, I'll fix them up for you. Thanks.
All right. Okay, So we cover it all here on Wake Up
Call. We cover obviously time, the rotation of the Earth. We talk
about wars, and you know, Jim just mentioned that the egg the Earth
is now becoming more like an egg, and so we're going to talk about
hard boiled eggs. I don't this is ridiculous, but we came across this
story and it I guess it's more relevant because there are a lot of people
eating hard boiled eggs right now because Easter hello, and I personally love a
good hard boiled egg. I have one with me today because I think they're
a nice little protein punch, not a lot of calories, quick pick me
up. But I hate peeling them, as I'm sure many of you are,
And so I found an article that says how to do it, and
do it correctly and just real quick. The article says, put baking soda
in the water before you add your eggs. Shock them after you take them
out of the boiling water, because that helps peel or pull the membrane back.
And it says like gently tap the egg on a hard surface to make
little cracks before you peel it off. And also it says during the peeling
process, if you dip it in water, that helps. But then Michelle
Keube says, oh, no, they got it all wrong. Well,
they have some of it right. I've been doing this for twenty years and
my grandma taught me how to do this more than twenty years now, and
I believe your grandma over this article anytime from USA today. So for me,
like it always, you gotta start with the eggs being at room temperature.
So if they're in the refrigerator, you got to take them out and
leave them. Okay, that's the first thing I'm doing. Ye on to
boil. Let the water boil first. Don't put the eggs in first.
Oh, I put the eggs in first. Yeah. No, And then
when the water boils, I add like a tablespoon of kosher salt to the
egg to the water. And then you put the eggs in one or two,
one or two at a time with a slotted spoon. You kind of
drop them in, you know, slowly into the boiling water so they don't
crack, so they don't well, so they don't. And then don't crowd
them. You can't put too many in at the you know, you don't
want to put a whole bunch in there. One it when it boils again,
because as you put the eggs in, the boil will probably stop.
It'll boil up again. Once it boils again, put a cover on it
and turn off it. Yeah, cover it and doing it all wrong.
Cover it and turn off the heat and let it sit for twenty minutes.
Okay, I'm doing that right. Yeah. So once you're once the twenty
minutes is up, get a big bowl with some water and pack it with
a bunch of ice, and then you put the eggs in the ice bath,
one by one or two by two, However, you do it with
the spoon and let it sit in that ice bath or ten minutes. That'll
shock the membrane away from the egg itself. Okay, and Nick POULIOCHANI do
you know this technique already? It was funny because I was gonna say so,
I have a derivative of what Michelle was taught, the same thing.
But I start out with the eggs in the cold water, and that's wrong.
But it's funny because then I bring that to a boil. But I
do do the same thing that she said. I put the lid on it
and leave it for twenty minutes. So you take it off the heat and
you leave it for twenty minutes. At that point, once it comes to
a boil, and then it does the whole thing. And then I do
the ice bath and all that for the second member. Once they're done in
the ice path, you take them out, dry them off, and then
let them sit on, you know, for another ten minutes or so before
you put them in. Okay, and now bring them back to some temperature.
Right exactly here is the most amazing thing. Michelle says, I'm gonna
let you say it, yes, because I sit here and pick at my
eggs and lose half of the egg because it doesn't come off right in the
morning. Yeah, and you say you can do it. Yeah, usually
in two pieces, like once, once they're done. Once I'm ready to
crack the egg, I cracked it hard. I just take it and crack
it hard. I don't do a little crack thing. I crack it hard
and then just you know, start to separate it. And normally two or
three pieces and everything's off and the egg is fully intact. I am trying
this today because I'm eating my last hard boiled egg that I have done.
So I'm trying this today. Alrighty, all right, two pieces remains to
be seen, but cool if it works. See, I told you we
cover the very very relevant important things here on Wake Up Call. About a
half million fast food workers are getting a big raise today, and that is
no April Fool's joke. A new state law to increase the minimum wage from
sixteen to twenty dollars an hour goes into effect today. All state offices are
closed today for the observance of Caesar Shavez Day. That includes DMV offices and
LA Superior courtrooms. LA schools are also closed La City and county offices,
though, are going to be open because they observed the holiday last Monday.
The USC women's basketball team's going to face Yukon in the Elite Eight in Portland
this evening on the line for the top seed Trojans a spot in the final
four. Led by freshman Juju Watkins. This will be USC's first appearance in
a regional final in thirty years. Go Trojans. We're just minutes away from
handle. On the news this morning, a week after a cargo ship crashed
into a bridge in Baltimore, a barge has hit a bridge in Oklahoma.
Well, let's go back to that barge, or the not the barge,
the bridge in Baltimore and say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So,
Karen's been a week since that cargo ship crashed into the support causing the Francis
Scott Key Bridge to collapse. Where are we at in getting things cleaned up
and getting the waterway open again? It continues as a twenty four to seven
operation, and the work is meticulous, it's painstaking, and it's complex.
According to the Transportation Secretary Pete Buddha Judge, as well as state and local
officials. Boudah Judge was on ABC's Good Morning America yesterday and he said there's
no timeline for when the wreckage will be completely cleared and when the port can
reopen. He said they just don't want to speculate on a timeline because the
operation is so complex, and you know, he said, it's also it's
not just removing the wreckage. You see that image of the ship with the
metal on top of it, they're working on that. They brought in massive
cranes to try to lift the debris off of it. They're sawing it off,
trying to get it away from the ship. But he said they also
have to do it in a way that doesn't cause portions of the bridge that
are still across the water to shift. So you know, if you zoom
out away from the image of the ship, you've got the two sides left
and right of the bridge that are still there where it went down. And
he said that there's a lot of compression intension and those parts of the bridge
could behave like a spring if not properly expertly managed. So that is very
complicated. He also said the ship itself is still an issue. It's a
two hundred and forty eight million pound shipping vessel. That still poses a problem
because they want to make sure it doesn't swing into the channel, and they
also don't want to make maybe want to make sure it doesn't tilt over and
drop containers into the water. So so many things that they're trying to pay
the extra careful and make sure don't happen as they're trying to clear that wreckage
off of the top of the ship. And last week they were saying initially
that the weight of the bridge pushed the ship down onto the floor, you
know, the basically the bed of the river. And I can see where
you're saying where if they lift that off and it pops up that right would
cause problems too, problems too. So it's like you've got all of these
moving not moving, but they don't want them to be moving parts. Really
if they start lifting some of that metal up, of what that might release
from a tension point. So everything is being so carefully managed. It's a
dangerous operation. You know, it's very high risk for the crews that are
there that are coming in on these temporary things that are being put into the
water. These massive thousand, six hundred ton cranes that are being brought in
to clear the twist and debris away. It is incredibly complex and it's going
to take a lot of time, okay, And while that remains closed,
they're moving cargo to other ports. And is that working so far so far?
Yes, Pete Butta Judge says, it's a major priority obviously to reopen
the port, but that's going to take a while. And the other East
Coast ports that have been absorbing container traffic had been doing that because the Port
of Baltimore is the one that handles the bulk of automobiles that come into the
US on the East coast. So you guys know this from the West coast
when we have those supply chain disruptions and what that means with Long Beach and
Los Angeles, and there's been a lot of ships sitting there right there off
the coast. Yeah, and if you suddenly can't go to one and you
have to go to another, Yeah, you can bring a ship in.
But if a particular court is built to handle cars and now suddenly you can't
go to Baltimore and you've got to send it to somewhere else, well,
that one might not be built to handle cars and offload them quickly and make
sure they can get to dealerships and all across the country. So go buy
your car now. Yeah, in a few weeks it might be an issue.
It could be an issue. So they say it's a little complicated,
but for now they haven't seen major issues. But they're trying to absorb that
container traffic at other ports. All right, Karen Travis, thank you so
much for the information. Appreciate it. Have a great day. All right,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour news room. More than three hundred inches of snow has fallen in
Mammoth so far this season, and that as of last week before the latest
storm, so we probably have more now. The snowfall totals will allow Mammoth
ski season to remain open through at least Memorial Day, which is May twenty
seventh. A man from San Bernardino County who supplied the fentanel that killed a
fifteen year old girl's been sentenced to twelve years in prison. The girl from
Banning was found dead in a car early last year. James Daily pleaded guilty
recently to voluntary manslaughter under a plea agreement with the DA's office. In exchange,
prosecutors dropped charges of second degree murder and child cruelty. Daily was sentenced
on Friday. Democratic Senator Chris Van Holland says the Biden administration is making the
wrong move in sending more weapons to Israel. Met Yeah, who continues to
essentially give the finger to the President United States, and we're sending more bombs.
That doesn't make sense. He says. President Biden needs to be as
serious about ensuring more humanitarian aid gets into Gaza as Netan Yahoo has been in
making his demands. The Biden administration says the shipment of fighter jets in two
thousand pound bombs is fulfilling long standing agreements with Israel. Pope Francis has presided
over an Easter mass despite his health concerns. He led about sixty thousand people
in Easter celebrations yesterday in Saint Peter Square and made a strong appeal for a
ceasefire in Gaza and a prison swapped between Russia and Ukraine. Okay, here's
something that you're probably going to notice on your utility bills. In April,
so Cal Edison customers are going to see an eighty six dollars credit automatically,
and so cal Gas customers are going to get a seventy three dollars credit.
So what is this and why are you getting it? It's called climate credits.
These were started about a decade ago to offset how electricity and gas bills
might otherwise be affected by costs that some companies are playing are paying to comply
with California's cap and trade program. So these are actually you may have seen
smaller ones in years past. These are the largest credits that you're going to
see in the program's ten years history, and they may get even larger as
we move down the road. So we'll have to wait and see on that.
But then I was thinking, even if you get a rebate, it's
sort of like the inflation thing. Inflation is slowing, but the inflation is
up by twenty thirty percent. Well that's the case here. The cap and
trade isn't inflating utility rates, but electric and gas bills are much higher.
And Edison's rates are up ninety one percent in the past decade, and they
now average two hundred and twenty dollars a month and more than one in five
Edison customers have overdue payments because those gas and electric bills have gone so high.
But look for the rebate. It's coming. Hopefully more are on the
way. We've got handle on the news on the way. This is KFI
and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. We lead local live from
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
wake up call, and if you missed any wake up Call, you missed
a lot. We covered a lot of ground today, from Gmail's birthday,
to road collapses to changing time to peeling an egg with the help of producer
Michelle Lots of fun stuff and you can listen to it anytime on the iHeartRadio
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