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 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:11.199 on the iHeart Radio app. It's time for your morning wake up call. 3 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:23.039 Here's Jason Middleton. Good morning everybody. Right on, This is your wake 4 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.480 up call. I am Jason. It is Wednesday, June twenty first. 5 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:31.480 I've been teasing it all week. Happy to say it's Summer Solstice. Also 6 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:37.679 producer Anne's birthday, and I'm celebrating by going to play mini golf and she 7 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:44.320 doesn't want to play to celebrate her birthday. Summer Solstice. Happy birthday. 8 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:50.359 In Summer Solstice, it officially starts at seven fifty seven this morning, La 9 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:55.759 time. The sunlight today four hours and thirty two minutes longer than the Winter 10 00:00:55.840 --> 00:01:00.880 Solstice in December. Sunrise today five two am. There's not gonna be a 11 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:03.399 quiz. I'm just letting you know. Sunrise today is at five forty two 12 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:07.840 am, Sunset is eight o seven pm, and the sun is at the 13 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:14.920 peak of its arc today at twelve fifty four pm. I don't know why. 14 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.760 I just I love summer sols. I don't know why. I think 15 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.200 it's just because it's like the year's half over, so it's like, right, 16 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.319 on the fence right like half done, half to come. It's got 17 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:26.799 a few headlines here and then we'll talk about what's coming up later this hour 18 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.120 four wake up call, the Coastguard says underwater noise has been detected in the 19 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:34.799 search for a submersible that disappeared while exploring the wreck of the Titanic. That 20 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:40.200 submersible loss contact with its support shipped on Sunday. And at the bottom of 21 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.959 the hour, we're going to get an update live from our ABC correspondent. 22 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.680 The former Air National guardsman accused of leaking classified documents online will face arraignment today 23 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:56.400 in a Massachusetts courthouse. And the National Hurricane Center says tropical Storm Brett with 24 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:00.959 one T is getting stronger as it heads towards the Caribbean. Now, we 25 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.159 have some other stories coming out of the KF at twenty four hour news room. 26 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.319 As always we do lead local La City Councilman Marquis Harris Dawson has replaced 27 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:13.840 Councilman Current Price as president. Pro ten Price stepped down as council president last 28 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.800 week and gave up his committee assignments when he was charged in an alleged paid 29 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:23.080 a play scheme. A former lawyer for former President Trump is facing disbardment in 30 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:29.000 LA for eleven charges claiming he engaged in an egregious attack on democracy. The 31 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:34.159 state bar claims former Chapman University professor John Eastman advised Trump to illegally usurp the 32 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.879 will of the people by obstructing the twenty twenty election. The bar claims Eastman 33 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:42.080 pushed bogus claims of election fraud to Trump and the protesters who stormed the capitol. 34 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:45.879 Eastman in January disputed the charges. If the election was illegal, and 35 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:51.080 it clearly was, then our constitution requires strong patriots to come to its defense. 36 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:53.520 If the state Bar court recommends disbartment after eight days of hearings, the 37 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.800 state Supreme Court would still have the final say in La. Corbin Carson k 38 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:01.560 i I News hundreds of sea animals in southern California have been poisoned by the 39 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:07.280 red tide coming in from the Channel Islands. The Marine Mammal Care Centers John 40 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.599 Warner says sea lions, dolphins, and other animals have been ingesting. Fish 41 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.520 that have eaten toxic algae can show up in whales, It can show up 42 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.360 in elephant, seals, fur seals, Harbor seals, and of course birds. 43 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:23.520 Warner says the red tide comes from warming waters caused by climate change. 44 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.639 He says if anyone sees a sick animal, don't touch it, call a 45 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.879 rescue center or tell a lifeguard. A new firefighting tool has been installed in 46 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:38.080 Rancho Pellis berdies The helo pod will help firefighting helicopters refill their water tanks faster 47 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:42.960 and without landing. Ellie County Fires John O'Brien says the helo pods portable and 48 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.919 connects to a fire hydrant and then when it reaches the top with that float 49 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:49.400 valve, it'll shut the water down until the copter comes in, drains a 50 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:53.319 thousand gallons off of it, it'll put another thousand gallons right back into it, 51 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.960 so eliminates that need for the engine company to be stationed here. It's 52 00:03:55.960 --> 00:04:02.400 like a toilet tank. Correct, It's brilliant. Pilots flew in and hovered 53 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:11.000 yesterday to demo the helo pad. O'Brien says the latest helopad makes it a 54 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:14.759 total of ten in the county and with its portability, makes it a critical 55 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.439 tool in firefighting. How many fire hydrants are there in La County, oh 56 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.879 that's a good one. Thousands, hundreds of thousands in rentals Palace Verdes Steve 57 00:04:21.879 --> 00:04:26.319 Gregory can of Fine News. I've been doing some math on that fire hydrants 58 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.959 thing in La County. I don't think it's hundreds of thousands. It can't 59 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:30.279 be. I can't find the number though, But it's more like tens of 60 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:32.480 thousands, I assume, but I don't know. It could be up to 61 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:35.839 one hundred thousand. In a couple of minutes, Aaron Katurski will join us. 62 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.879 He's an ABC correspondent. We're going to talk about the Hunter Biden plea 63 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.279 deal that went down yesterday. But first let's get back to some of the 64 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:45.879 stories coming out of the KFI twenty fire news room. Hundreds of CEA mammals 65 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.279 along the coast of southern California have been poisoned by toxic algae. The red 66 00:04:48.319 --> 00:04:53.839 tide is concentrated along the Santa Barbara coast and creeping downward to La in Orange 67 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:58.720 County. The Marine Mammal Care Centers John Warner says sixty c animals in La 68 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:03.560 County have ingested moiic acid created by the algae, and damoic acid shows up 69 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:09.120 in our marine life sea lions, in particular dolphins, etc. As a 70 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:14.240 neurological toxin. Warner said yesterday, marine rescue centers are overwhelmed by the number 71 00:05:14.279 --> 00:05:17.399 of animals getting sick, and those numbers are going up daily. In San 72 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:23.160 Pedro, Chris Adler KFI News Milk Bar is giving away free ice cream to 73 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:28.079 celebrate the summer Solstice. The Milk Bar store on Melrose is handing out free 74 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.000 many pints of their signature Cereal Milk ice cream today in honor of the first 75 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.240 official day of summer. They come with a spoon and a lid so people 76 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:38.839 can save the treat during the longest day of the year. First come, 77 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:43.160 first served, limited to one one per person, of course. The Glendale 78 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.160 School District Board has held its last meeting of the school year with a huge 79 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:50.720 turnout of LGBTQ plus advocates and protesters. People last night spoke out about the 80 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:56.199 district's curriculum and policies related to Pride Month. One man says the board should 81 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.199 be charged with pedophilia for grooming kids to be trans I've got kids in this 82 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:02.920 community that are my siblings, that are my friends. I've got everything here 83 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:09.399 and I do not want it tarnished by your dubauchery. Another speaker said it's 84 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:14.680 important for advocates to keep promoting empowerment and inclusion. We need to love unconditionally, 85 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:17.360 and I'm here to walk that walk for those who feel too scared to 86 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:21.279 be here. She thanked the district for creating a safe environment for all students. 87 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:27.079 Rescue crews are racing against time to find a small submersible that was supposed 88 00:06:27.079 --> 00:06:30.680 to tour the wreckage of the Titanic. US Coastguard Rear Admiral John Mauger says 89 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:35.639 crews are searching an area of the size of Connecticut. We have a P 90 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:42.560 three aircraft from the Canadian Armed Forces that's been flying during the last twenty four 91 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:47.360 hours and dropping snabilis listening to this out. Officials say Canadian aircraft has detected 92 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:51.879 underwater noises during the search and relocated search efforts. The Coastguard has also sent 93 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:56.120 down an underwater robot to help find the sub We're going to talk more about 94 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:00.519 this at five thirty within as Daili Kata Right now, we have Aaron Katursky 95 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:03.199 on the Lago morning erin worrying Jason. Looks like it took five years of 96 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:06.639 investigating. There's a new chapter though in the Hunter Biden legal situation. Could 97 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:11.720 you get his caught up please? He's agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor 98 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.079 tax accounts that accused him of failing to pay taxes for the year's twenty seventeen 99 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.720 twenty eighteen, those or years when, by his own admission, he was 100 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:23.000 hooked on crack cocaine. There's also a felony gun charge from the US Attorney's 101 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:28.040 Office in Delaware that Hunter Biden more was thaw through a pre trial diversion program, 102 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.639 meaning if he abides by the terms for whatever duration, the charge will 103 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:38.120 ultimately be dropped. So after a five year investigations, it's three charges that 104 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:41.480 result, and none of them are going to result in prison time. Now 105 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:44.439 you and I both have just referred to this as a five year investigation the 106 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:49.360 Biden legal team. Legal team says the investigation's over, but is it well? 107 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:53.680 The US Attorney's Office set at a statement the investigation is ongoing, But 108 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:58.639 I think federal prosecutors kind of always say that there's no evidence that other charges 109 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:05.600 are going to be brought on any other matter, despite Republican cries and I 110 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:11.600 think the understanding from Hunter Biden's legal team is that this does resolve the investigation 111 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.319 and they do not expect other charges to follow. And I think it would 112 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:22.639 be unusual for criminal defense attorneys to arrange a plea bargain if they anticipated that 113 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.199 it was just going to be, you know, followed with additional charges. 114 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:31.759 I see has any of the GOP pushback on this plea deal, this arrangement 115 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:35.120 that has been made is a focus on the prosecuting attorney in the case at 116 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:39.799 all, No, because that's a losing argument, right. It's because he 117 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:46.879 was appointed by Trump, and this is so I think it's more effective for 118 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.559 the Republicans to just sort of say what they're going to say rather than actually 119 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:54.440 try to call him to a hearing and get get the actual answer. And 120 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.279 as it is, he's written a letter to the House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan 121 00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:03.639 to say that he was given ultimate authority over the case, that suggesting this 122 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:09.919 was his decision, not influenced by Attorney generalman Or Carland. I see. 123 00:09:09.000 --> 00:09:13.360 Okay. I guess my last question for you, Aaron, in your experience 124 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.200 covering such things, is probation typical for a misdemeanor. Please like this it 125 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.240 is, you know, to get prison time for tax violations, you really 126 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.320 have to take some doing, you know, I mean the game, right, 127 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:33.159 Your exposure is usually related to the amount of money. And here was 128 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.039 it. It might have been two million dollars a little less. Hunter Biden 129 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:41.879 paid it back. Um And I think it had he not been Hunter Biden, 130 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:43.519 he might not have even been prosecuted on the on the tax charges. 131 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.080 I mean, you usually have to go and try and hide money or or 132 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:54.279 or otherwise do for the authorities. Um. Here he didn't pay his taxes, 133 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:56.679 he admitted it, didn't pay them, paid them back, and still 134 00:09:56.720 --> 00:10:01.600 got prosecuted. And we can't think of another instance in modern American history when 135 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.600 a president, a sitting president's son has been brought up on these kinds of 136 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.919 criminal charges. You know, Billy Carter was certainly investigated. And there was 137 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:16.960 some shenanigans with Neil Bush and the George Delbody Bush's daughters. Weren't they called 138 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:22.279 drinking at a bar in Houston or something so like? But like this is 139 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.080 the whole whole other thing. I think you and I were both in Houston 140 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:28.399 when that went down. As I recall, interest. Maybe yeah, I 141 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.559 think we were anyway, Aaron, thank you so much for joining us this 142 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:35.639 morning, and thanks for the context around the Hunter Biden deal. Much appreciated. 143 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:39.080 Thank you, Jason, ABC's Aaron Katurski. There, let's get back 144 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:41.480 to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. 145 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:46.080 A proposed Wildlife District Ordinance has been approved by LA's Planning and Land Use 146 00:10:46.120 --> 00:10:48.759 Management Committee. It's a subcommittee of the LA City Council. The ordinance would 147 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:56.159 impose land use regulations intended to balance wildlife habitat and private property development. Council 148 00:10:56.320 --> 00:11:01.799 Woman Katie Yaroslavsky says it's our responsibility to take care for wildlife by giving it 149 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:05.720 space to flourish and recognize its positive benefits. She says, if the proposed 150 00:11:05.799 --> 00:11:09.399 ordinance is passed by the full Council, it would first be enacted in the 151 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:13.200 western Santa Monica Mountains and Hollywood Hills. More on this with Bill handle On 152 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.919 Handle on the News. And for the fourth time in the last forty years, 153 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:20.519 people in the US are giving less. Charitable giving is declined in twenty 154 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.200 twenty two. The Giving USA report just released shows total giving down three point 155 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.320 four percent, a drop of ten and a half percent when adjusted for inflation. 156 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:31.080 The decline comes at a time when many nonprofits report an increase in requests 157 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.600 for help. The drop came after two records setting years for charitable giving during 158 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:39.360 the pandemic. A nonprofit soup kitchen and food pantry in Brooklyn says inflation has 159 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:41.120 played a big role. It says as prices go up, people need more, 160 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:45.440 so they donate. Less four hundred ninety nine point three billion dollars was 161 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:48.759 donated in the US in twenty twenty two. Amy King KFI News. The 162 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:54.200 Garbani fire is burning in Metapee, but it's sixty five percent contained as of 163 00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:56.879 this morning. The forty three acre fire forced a brief evacuation order when it 164 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.440 started yesterday afternoon, and accused of making a false report of an active shooter 165 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.919 at Ontario Mills Mall, is now behind bars. Police say the forty four 166 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.080 year old man from Rancho Cucamoga caused a panic May twenty ninth when he ran 167 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.519 through the mall yelling gun he has a gun. It's the first day of 168 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.440 summer, hitting the beach may not be great today, though. There's a 169 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:22.080 bacteria warning for Malibu Lagoon at surf Ryder Beach to Panga Canyon Beach in Malibu, 170 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.600 the Santa Monica Pier and Mother's Beach in Marina del Rang. At Fight 171 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:30.159 thirty, we're gonna check with ABC's Inez Delikata and get an update on the 172 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:35.279 rather fascinating search for the submersible that lost contact about nine hundred miles due east 173 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:37.480 from Boston in the Atlantic Ocean. But right now on the line, we 174 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:41.759 have CNBC show host, an anchor, and veteran journalist John Fort. Good 175 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:48.519 morning, John, Good morning. What a transition, right, I'm doing 176 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:50.200 great. Thank you and thank you for jumping on. I know you're slamming 177 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.799 this morning and getting prepped for you the day I want to start with. 178 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.200 Let's start with a surprise for you. Chair J. Powell is going to 179 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.519 be at the Senate Banking Committee. Lady later this morning, get around seven 180 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.799 am our time here in La What are we expecting to hear from Chairman Powell. 181 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:11.200 We are expecting to hear him say the same thing that he's been saying 182 00:13:11.720 --> 00:13:16.000 over and over again. But we will read the twitches in his eyes or 183 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:22.679 the tone of his voice to try to figure out whether the market should panic, 184 00:13:22.799 --> 00:13:26.639 right, I mean, what's been going on here is people really watching 185 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:31.960 what the how the Fed feels about inflation. Whether we're near the end of 186 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:37.080 this rate height cycle that seems to be the case, But in inflation has 187 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.399 been pretty stubborn, right, It's just been hanging in there. We have 188 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:43.559 that CPI number, you know, just a few days ago that was a 189 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:48.279 little on the hotter side. The consumers continuing to go, so you know, 190 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.840 people will be listening to hear what he says about that. Okay, 191 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:56.159 that makes sense, And right now I'm looking at in the futures markets are 192 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:58.399 pretty much flat because they're all waiting to hear what Jay might stay on the 193 00:13:58.440 --> 00:14:01.320 hill, but you're right, he's not going to say anything like revolutionary. 194 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.360 I don't think. Do you think this bull market that we just tipped into 195 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.039 just very recently is for real or is this kind of a bubble? Well, 196 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:13.600 I mean bull markets are funny, right, because the definition of a 197 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:18.200 bull market, that kind of classic definition is your twenty percent off the lows, 198 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.840 right, So we hit that. It's been an amazing rally, saying 199 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:28.080 the SMP this year, but we know that last year in the market was 200 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:31.279 horrible, right, but we might forget that there was a period where we 201 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:37.799 were nineteen percent up off the lows, so it was like almost a bull 202 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:43.000 market in the middle of the year, rise from mid June into August, 203 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.799 and then that all went away. So I think we're in this time where 204 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:54.440 investors have to go back to the original playbook for equities and for bonds, 205 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.879 which we kind of forgotten because the market wasn't playing by the rules because there 206 00:14:56.919 --> 00:15:01.440 was this easy money from the Fed that kind of flooded it. And really 207 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:05.840 think about fundamentally, how long do you have to a retirement, What are 208 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:09.519 your goals when you're investing, you know, how do you judge value in 209 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:15.039 stocks? What kind of waiting do you want to or to fix the income 210 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.679 or bond portfolio? What kind of yield are you trying to get? And 211 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:22.240 it's hard to shift mindset, but really, you know, the folks who 212 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:28.240 I talked to are on CNBC every day about portfolio construction and diversification. That's 213 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.799 what they're saying is, hey, you got to go back to basics. 214 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:35.399 Here we're speaking with CNBC host and anchor John Ford, and I've noticed John 215 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:37.519 that on CNBC, you guys cover the tech sector once in a while. 216 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.039 I want to pivot over to AI for a second. I was watching Brian 217 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.320 Chesney, who was Airbnb CEO. He was on Calicanus's podcast this weekend, 218 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:52.399 and Chesney's point was AI is going to create more jobs than it than it 219 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:56.320 kills because of disruption. What's your take on that. You've been covering AI 220 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:03.639 for years. Yeah, I mean Brian Chesky is very rich and he's a 221 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:10.519 very smart guy. The problem with this storyline about AI creating more jobs than 222 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:15.759 it kills is it won't necessarily create more jobs for the same people, right 223 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.799 that the jobs get killed for. Right. And so that's where I think 224 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:23.279 we have to look and say, well, where where am I sort of 225 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:29.080 in the space? Am I the horse and buggy driver, right? Or 226 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:34.600 am I the car manufacturing worker in this next era of AI? So I 227 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:40.440 think panicking doesn't make sense right as we look at AI's effect. But it 228 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:45.000 really is going to affect that knowledge worker, that white collar worker, more 229 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:52.120 than previous technology revolutions and advances that have affected the blue collar worker. Yeah, 230 00:16:52.159 --> 00:16:55.240 it seems like the clickbait headlines are all about job destruction and stuff, 231 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:57.879 but it seems like actually the main concern is the speed at which AI is 232 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:03.840 rolling out to the the consumer level. Do you think that the tech sector 233 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.880 is going to continue to ask for regulation. Is that just virtue signaling or 234 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:10.599 are they really hoping to get some regulation that's a little bit of a tar 235 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:15.279 baby effect. I mean, do they really want regulation to some extent? 236 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.480 But I think they want to be on record having asked for it, right. 237 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:22.640 They want they want to be able to say later, hey, well 238 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:26.599 we said we wanted regulation and somehow Congress wasn't able to figure it out. 239 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.880 Um, you know, so don't blame us, right, And I think 240 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.880 they know that once again, this is a technology that's going to have some 241 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:40.799 runaway impact. It's going to have some impacts that we can't foresee, kind 242 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.400 of like you know, the Internet social media did, And they don't want 243 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:48.039 to be in position of saying, hey, this is going to be all 244 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:55.119 good. So I think really the way that you protect kind of your future 245 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.720 when it comes to AI is not to try to stop AI, because we 246 00:17:57.799 --> 00:18:03.400 have a really bad trek record of stopping powerful technologies, especially when there's global 247 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:10.359 competition to develop capability there. But one are the human institutions, what are 248 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:17.920 the democratic institutions, things like voter participation and civic awareness and just basic liberal 249 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:21.039 arts education. What are the things that we can do to be better humans? 250 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:27.039 Right to counterbalance the software becoming better software? John, thank you so 251 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:30.640 much for joining us this morning. Next time you're doing a remote from southern 252 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.119 California, let me know. I'll bring the donuts to set. Okay, 253 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:37.240 all right, just as long as they're not jelly donuts. For some reason, 254 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.119 I'm not I'm not into jelly donut. I'm not either. It's anyway, 255 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:44.519 it's a mouth field thing. I get you. John, Thanks a 256 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:48.079 lot, take care of this The NBC show host anchor John Fort. John 257 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.519 and I shared some newsroom space in Silicon Valley for a few years before he 258 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:56.039 went back east to start some new shows. It's the NBC. Let's check 259 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.759 some more stories coming out of the kf I twenty four our newsroom before we 260 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.680 get to the bottom of the hour. Orange County is planning to open a 261 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:07.079 one hundred nineteen bed healthcare facility following an eighty nine percent spike in homeless seniors 262 00:19:07.160 --> 00:19:11.839 needing treatment. These are individuals that are unhoused for the first time after the 263 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.359 fifty calopt them a Health Medical director Kelly Bruno Nelson says the forty nine million 264 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:21.480 dollar hospital like facility will be able to house three hundred additional seniors receiving elder 265 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:25.240 services until they find housing. With the housing crisis the way it is, 266 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:29.160 you find many older adults who are in an apartment now because they've lost the 267 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:32.079 equity in their homes, and then they break a hip or they get the 268 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:36.119 flu and they can't be in their apartment. They need someplace to recover. 269 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:40.519 A planning commission still has to approve. In Tustin, Corbin Carson ko find 270 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.319 News, the Los Angeles City Council is ordering a study on the possible formation 271 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:47.599 of a public bank. Yesterday, the council moved forward with a vote to 272 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.920 start paying consultants. Six Flags Magic Mountain is planning to use the sun to 273 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.240 power all of its roller coasters. The theme park in Valencia will first turn 274 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:59.920 its thirty acre parking lot into a solar farm. Construction of a solar carport 275 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.559 and energy storage systems will start later this summer. And in the Bay Area, 276 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:07.359 the Diocese of Oakland is trying to keep the names of accused abusers a 277 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:12.400 secret. During a hearing yesterday, attorneys argued that confidentiality will protect priests and 278 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:18.880 other staff from identity theft and harassment. ABC's tech expert and journalist Mike Dbuski 279 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.680 is going to join us a little bit later this hour to talk about charging 280 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:26.319 stations and who's winning the standardization war. I believe it starts with the T 281 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.960 is the brand. Right now, we have ABC's inz Delicatea on the line 282 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.200 to update us on the submersible that has been lost in the Atlantic Ocean since 283 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:37.240 Sunday. Good morning, Good morning, So can you just give us the 284 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:41.720 latest. Let's just go from the top. Yeah, So, the Baker 285 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.920 headline this morning is that, according to the US Coat Guard, Canadian aircrafts 286 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:52.200 have detected underwater noises its remote operated vehicle operations, where then relocate to that 287 00:20:52.279 --> 00:20:56.039 area to try and figure out where those noises were coming from what those noises 288 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:59.440 could be. So far, no vessel has been detected, but the hope 289 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.400 is that these noises are coming from the submersible. The data has also been 290 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.799 shared with US Navy experts for additional analysis, and according to some reports, 291 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:14.319 surge crews have been hearing banging sounds at thirty minute intervals. So Rolling Stone 292 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:18.559 magazine was setting internal government mecos saying that banging had been detected, that additional 293 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:22.920 devices had then been deployed four hours later, and that four hours later those 294 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:27.319 noises were still being heard. It's not clear when the banging was exactly her, 295 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:30.960 for how long, whether they're still hearing it, but that is certainly 296 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.839 getting people hope, and in fact the Explorers Club, which was founded by 297 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:40.359 one of the billionaire passengers on board the submersible, they're saying that there is 298 00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:44.559 cause for hope based on field data, since likely signs of life have been 299 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.960 detected at the site. We'll say that we are hearing from some officials from 300 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.839 the Coast Guard this morning who are making the rounds on various media outlets, 301 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:56.480 and they are causing people, I guess, getting too excited. That they 302 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.640 are reminding people that this is happening, of course at these types of wreckage 303 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.519 site, and that there are plenty of metal objects down there and so the 304 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:07.680 banging could be coming from anything. Really wow, it's my understanding. And 305 00:22:07.880 --> 00:22:12.519 we've been reporting that the submersible loss contact with its support ship on Sunday, 306 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:15.319 and most of the stories that you read say the clock is taking etc. 307 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.240 Running down and stuff. Do do you have any updates on any kind of 308 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:23.960 time frame the Coast Guard is targeting for this search. Yeah, I mean 309 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:26.920 it really is a race against time. So they had about four days worth 310 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:30.359 of oxygen when this whole thing began. They first went down on Sunday morning. 311 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:34.400 They were reported missing on Sunday night. They are believed to have just 312 00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:41.279 about thirty eight hours of breathable air left as of this morning. And and 313 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.279 and so that, you know, is really the main challenge here is getting 314 00:22:45.680 --> 00:22:48.480 figuring out where they are and then getting help to them in time before the 315 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:53.000 oxygen runs out. They have a bunch of ships that are on the way. 316 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:59.759 I will say that if the vessel is you know, we tangled in 317 00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:03.599 the Titanic wreckage, or if it is on a seabed down there, then 318 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.240 there are very few vessels around the world that actually have the capability to help 319 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:11.759 with anything. And the challenge is getting all those different ships to the SEC 320 00:23:11.960 --> 00:23:15.160 in time before the oxygen runs out. But they're trying their best to get 321 00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:18.240 help there. So, for instance, there is a Canadian vessel with a 322 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.720 mobile decompression chamber that is on the way. There's also a French research ship 323 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:27.720 that has an underwater robot that can descend deep below the seed. The US 324 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:33.000 Navy is also sending a system designed to recover heavy undersea objects. The US 325 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:38.400 Military is sending an unfustified adsect, but again that the challenge is getting all 326 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:44.200 that aid to the site in time before the oxygen runs out, right right, 327 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:47.920 I know all this focuses on the search and rescue, justifiably, but 328 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:51.400 a common question that comes up as regulation or oversight, is there any kind 329 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:56.960 of coastguard oversight on a vessel like this submersible, so you know, when 330 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.160 it comes to specifically coast guard oversight, I don't. I don't know the 331 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:03.680 specifics of that. I know this is really a joint search and rescue operation 332 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:07.039 coordinated by the US Post Guard and what helped from the US Navy and the 333 00:24:07.079 --> 00:24:14.160 Canadian Coast Guards of multiple countries involved here, multiple units involved, and when 334 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:17.160 it up to oversight the company, I think it's interesting to note that the 335 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:22.240 company. There are questions that are being raised about the company's kind of track 336 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:26.559 record and safety record, with the Associated Press reporting that the company had been 337 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:33.839 repeatedly warned that there could be catastrophic safety problem posed by the way the submersible 338 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:38.480 was developed, and in fact there was a lawsuit. So according for the 339 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:45.480 LAWSROO filed in the US District Court in Seattle with a director of Marine Operations 340 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:51.599 fult the company writing in an engineering report in twenty and eighteen that the craft 341 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.960 needs and more testing and that passengers might be endangered when it reached extreme depths. 342 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:02.319 The company then sued this man and accused him of preaching a disclosure agreement. 343 00:25:02.359 --> 00:25:07.079 He filed the counterclaims that there's things back and forth in courts here regarding 344 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.599 that the company's safety records right. Thank you, okay, well, thank 345 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:14.319 you for the update and for your time this morning, and as much appreciated, 346 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:19.359 thank you. Abc'son as delicatea there. Last night KFI Show host Tim 347 00:25:19.359 --> 00:25:25.039 Conway Junior talked with retired NASA astronaut Colonel Terry verts Vertus, a good friend 348 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:29.480 to Hamish Harding. Harding is on the submersible, so Colonel Vertz is one 349 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:33.200 of the last people. Harding texted it before he went on the Titans submersible. 350 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:36.240 So we pulled a little sound from last night show. The submersible that 351 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.599 they're in. The Titan has an automatic system that should be you know, 352 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.839 if the communication dies, it's supposed to drop some weights and goes straight up 353 00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:47.720 to the surface. And that didn't happen. And of course a Colonel Vertz 354 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:51.880 is you know, he's positive and optimistic. There is hope. And here's 355 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.559 the biggest reason why we haven't gotten any bad news yet. Like we haven't 356 00:25:55.599 --> 00:26:00.480 seen wreckage, we haven't seen debris looating, we haven't heard the sonar. 357 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.240 We haven't heard you know, the crushing or explosion of a serious failure. 358 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:10.039 That's a retired NASA officer, Colonel Terry Urtz on the Tim Conway Junior Show 359 00:26:10.200 --> 00:26:11.319 last night. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the 360 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:15.839 KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Striking writers in la are planning a large marchin 361 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:19.119 rally as they're now in the eighth week of their job action with no deal 362 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:23.480 insight. Allies and supporters are expected to join the writers this morning at Pan 363 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:27.160 Pacific Park near the Beverly Center. They planned to march to the Great Lawn 364 00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:32.039 of the La Brea Tar Pits. The Coast Guard has suspended its search for 365 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:36.240 a sailor in southern California who went overboard about fourteen miles off the coast of 366 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:40.079 Santa Barbara. Crews searched by air and C for nearly fifteen hours, covering 367 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:42.279 more than two hundred square nautical miles, and when the Long Beach Command Center 368 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:47.839 got the report yesterday of that man going overboard, and we need to get 369 00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:51.279 ready for FED Chair Jerome Powell. J. Powell to those of us who 370 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:57.119 cover my guests, his semi annual monetary policy testimony happens today on Congress at 371 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:00.839 Congress, at the Senate, actually in Capital. It's going to take an 372 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:06.039 additional importance this time around because as investors are sizing up what happened last week's 373 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:08.920 meeting when they paused the interest rate hike program they've been on for the last 374 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:15.559 sixteen eighteen months. There's an additional two hikes telegraphed for later this year. 375 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:21.920 Last week, pal said nearly all policymakers felt similarly about monetary tightening, and 376 00:27:21.960 --> 00:27:26.319 then Pale portrayed the skip as an opportunity for the Central Bank to evaluate how 377 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:30.119 policy direction was impacting the overall economy. Basically, when he says data driven, 378 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.920 that's what they're talking about. They're taking a breather for the month of 379 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.640 June to look at the data and see if the sticky inflation is getting less 380 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.200 sticky. Disbarment hearings have started in LA for a lawyer for former President Trump, 381 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:48.000 who faces eleven disciplinary charges tied to the twenty twenty election. Former Chapman 382 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:52.000 University professor John Eastman disputed the allegations in January as a violation of the sixth 383 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.920 Amendment, the right to every citizen to competent and Zella's advocacy of a lawyer. 384 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:02.079 The bar actually imposes that as a duty, and now for exercising and 385 00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:04.599 fulfilling that duty, they are accusing me of things that are simply false. 386 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:10.160 The State Bar claims Eastman gave Trump a strategy unsupported by facts or law to 387 00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:15.079 obstruct the legitimate results of the election. JP Morgan Chase says financier Jeffrey Epstein 388 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:19.880 got more than three hundred million dollars in tax incentives from the US Virgin Islands. 389 00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:23.279 The Bank says in a court filing that the government of the US territory 390 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:29.839 also waived sex offender monitoring requirements shielding Epstein as he gave cash and gifts to 391 00:28:29.839 --> 00:28:33.759 top officials. The Coastguard says underwater noises have been detected in the search for 392 00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:38.240 a submersible that disappeared while exploring the wreck of the Titanic. They lost contact 393 00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:42.240 with their support ship on Sunday. Amazon Prime Day is coming up next month. 394 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:47.359 The annual sales event for Prime members is actually a two day event and 395 00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.799 normally includes some of the best deals of the year on Amazon. So there's 396 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.720 a free ad for a company that doesn't need it. And the largest newspaper 397 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:59.200 publisher in the country is suing Google. The Ganet Publishing company alleges that Google 398 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.039 holds a monopoly over digital advertising markets. I think Wayne Resnick would call that 399 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:07.759 prima faction. I believe Ginette, which publishes USA Today and more than two 400 00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:11.240 hundred other newspapers, filed the lawsuit in a New York federal court yesterday. 401 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.440 It is five fifty on your wake up Call, ABC's Mike Dbuski is on 402 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:21.039 the line. Today's technology topic is charging stations and electric vehicles. Good morning, 403 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:23.519 Mike, Good morning, Yeah, and a big move in the EV 404 00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:29.960 infrastructure space Jason Yesterday. On Tuesday, Rivian, which is an EV startup. 405 00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:33.119 They make a pickup truck and an suv and they have a contract with 406 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:37.440 Amazon to make electric delivery vans. They said that they're going to adopt the 407 00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:42.400 North American Charging Standard for their future vehicles, otherwise known as NACS. This 408 00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:48.799 is the Tesla plug. This is the thing that Tesla invented that supports their 409 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.960 supercharger stations across the country. Rivian says, starting in twenty twenty five, 410 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:57.200 their new electric trucks are going to be compatible with this system. And Jason, 411 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:02.160 it's kind of the last doomp or the latest domino to fall in Tesla's 412 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:04.319 favor here, because Ford made a similar announcement at the end of May, 413 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:08.079 and General Motors followed that up a few weeks later with the same announcement. 414 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.640 All of those vehicles starting in twenty twenty five, those evs are going to 415 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:17.039 be combatible with Tesla's charging network. So a pretty significant move here, absolutely. 416 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:18.359 I mean say what you will about Elon Muskin, I sure have. 417 00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:23.000 But boy, building this infrastructure is a return on investment for sure. I 418 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:26.480 mean this is all be paying off for a while for Tesla. Is this 419 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:30.039 this is a recurring revenue stream? Right? Yes it is. And you 420 00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:33.319 can imagine from kind of a couple different ways here, Right, all these 421 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:36.839 that we don't have specific numbers on this, but you can imagine that, 422 00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:38.400 you know, the General Motors and the Fords and the Rivians of the world 423 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:41.880 have some sort of contract with Tesla in order to do this. And also 424 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:45.960 you, as an EV driver going up to a supercharger station do need to 425 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.079 pay some amount of money to charge your vehicle. So this is a big 426 00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:53.200 deal for Tesla, and you're absolutely right that this has been a big success 427 00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:56.799 for them. The supercharger network has been around for many years, I believe 428 00:30:56.880 --> 00:31:02.119 more than ten years when it first rolled out. To demonstrate its sort of 429 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:06.920 broad capabilities, Elon Musk actually did a road trip in one of his cars 430 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:10.759 across the United States, proving that you can do across country road trip in 431 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:15.400 an electric vehicle using public charging stations. And they have been broadly well received 432 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.359 too. There's more than twelve thousand supercharging stations across the country. People really 433 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.759 like them, and that's significant when you compare it to non Tesla EV charging 434 00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:27.519 stations. Things like electrify America and ev Go. JD Power put out a 435 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:33.720 report earlier this year that found that more than one in five EV drivers who 436 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.200 used public charging experience some kind of malfunction or failure, meaning that they were 437 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:41.319 not able to charge their vehicles. So you can see why a lot of 438 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:47.279 these big EV manufacturers, despite the fact that Tesla is their competitor, would 439 00:31:47.319 --> 00:31:51.000 want to get into their charging network to sort of smooth this EV transition. 440 00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:53.519 Yeah, because the capital investment on building infrastructure like this was pretty big, 441 00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:56.440 and now he's getting a return on the investment because of the network. He's 442 00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:02.279 mentioned twelve thousand stations tech companies of recurring revenue model. They sure do monthly 443 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:07.640 subscriptions and the like. So you mentioned Rivian, gm Ford right there, 444 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.559 of any other I'm on the waiting list for a Fisker because we have to 445 00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.960 do adoption here in California a little bit more rapidly than the rest of the 446 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:19.160 country, at least so far. What's the next stage or domino as to 447 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:22.039 use your word, that might fall here. I think that's a really interesting 448 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.480 question, and we don't really know. I was talking to some experts about 449 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.960 this yesterday and kind of in the wake of the GM announcement as well, 450 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:34.400 and they kind of pointed me towards the German brands as potentially being the next 451 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.839 major domino to fall in Tesla's favor here. Volkswagen has a lot of electric 452 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:43.079 vehicles that they have in the pipeline, including a sedan called the ID seven, 453 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.799 And of course we can't forget about their their re ducks, their resurrection 454 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.680 of the microbus as an electric vehicle, of a vehicle called the ID Buzz, 455 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:52.759 which we're expecting to get here in the States pretty soon. Also, 456 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:59.119 BMW, Mercedes Benz have a pretty wide swath and growing swath of electric vehicles. 457 00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:01.039 Volkswagen just to go back to them. Let's not forget they also own 458 00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:06.079 Audie and they have sort of a involvement with Porsche as well, and both 459 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:09.519 of those companies have evs as well. Something that I thought was interesting is 460 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:14.440 that they kind of pushed me away from the Korean brands as being the next 461 00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:17.519 people to sort of jump on this bandwagon, which was surprising to me because 462 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:23.279 both Hundai and Kia have very well received evs in the Ionic five and the 463 00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.799 Kia EV six. They have more in the pipeline that people are really anxiously 464 00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:31.720 anticipating. Let's not forget the Hyundai Ionic six sedan that is electric won the 465 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:36.640 North American Car of the Year this year and I was at the announcement as 466 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:39.480 a matter of fact, the New York International Auto Show. But those vehicles 467 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:43.559 use and this kind of gets a little technical, but they use eight hundred 468 00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:45.839 volt batteries, which they told me, you know, might not play well 469 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:51.000 with the current infrastructure because they're a little like too heavy duty. So they 470 00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:54.160 might need to do some sort of reworking of their systems before that domino falls. 471 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:58.319 Yeah, but you know that that's kind of the size of it. 472 00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:01.960 I mean, it seems like perhaps Volkswagen, but you know, we really 473 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.079 just don't know yet. Well, it seems like, I mean, I 474 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:08.280 have a USBC to a adapter. You'd think you'd be able to put an 475 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:12.920 adapter on this and that that's kind of how it stands right now for people 476 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:19.000 who currently own like Rivan products or Forward evs or General Motors evs. Is 477 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:23.400 that they say, people who bought into the current vehicle with the old CCS 478 00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:29.599 Combined Charging System chargers, they will give you, or at least the plan 479 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:31.480 is right now, they will give you for free an adapter that will work 480 00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:36.280 with the new supercharging plugs. So you know, even if you don't buy 481 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:38.360 a new EV, if you have one already you're not going to be left 482 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.599 behind. So they say, that's how it stands right now. That could 483 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:44.800 look different in twenty twenty five, but that's that's kind of how it is. 484 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.639 I think the comparison to the cell phone market, though, is smart 485 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:51.280 because if you look at, you know, the current charging landscape with smartphones, 486 00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.960 you buy one plug for the iPhone and you buy a different plug USBC 487 00:34:54.119 --> 00:35:00.280 for pretty much everything else. But coming this year on the next generation iPhone, 488 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:04.280 it is going to transition over to USBC and we're seeing that broadly happen 489 00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:07.800 in the EV space as well. It's it's funny how those two markets overlap. 490 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:09.599 So yeah, all right, well I'm gonna I'm gonna throw a curveball 491 00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:13.360 at you before I have to let you go. You've been covering tech for 492 00:35:13.400 --> 00:35:15.880 a long time. We were talking about Elon Musk a second ago. Have 493 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.760 you heard anything from the boring company in the last several years. Oh, 494 00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:22.199 let me think about that. Uh yeah, not exactly right. They're they're 495 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:27.679 digging tunnels under Las Vegas the last I checked on them, and I believe 496 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.440 that right now. It's just Tesla's the drive back and forth through them, 497 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:35.559 which I guess is maybe a new ability solution, but like, yeah, 498 00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:38.599 the hyper loop you know that was that was kind of does not seem to 499 00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:42.920 be coming together, at least within the timeframe that they predicted. I have 500 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:45.639 a ball cap that says a boring company. I went to an event and 501 00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:47.280 they gave it to me. I'm just filling nostalgic for it these days. 502 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:51.440 Did you buy the flamethrower? You didn't get the no, no, but 503 00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:53.360 I haven't. I have been. I have watched that video of Musk making 504 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:57.360 a full of himself. Um, Mike, always a pleasure to talk to 505 00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:59.199 me. Thanks a lot for your time, you two. Jason, take 506 00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.920 care Sees Technology and news reporter Mike Dbuskie right there. A couple of quick 507 00:36:02.920 --> 00:36:06.320 headlines before we get to the top of the hour and handle on the news. 508 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.800 Workers looking for the cause of a thirty thousand gallon sewage discharge from a 509 00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:15.239 manhole in Rancho palas Verti's manhole earlier this month have discovered human remains. The 510 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.239 remains were found last week in some overgrown brush. No information has been given 511 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.719 about the conditions of the remains or how long they had been there. Attorney 512 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:28.320 General Rob Bonta says the state is working with online retailers to combat retail theft. 513 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:32.119 Organized retail theft cost the state billions of dollars each year, Bonta says. 514 00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:36.440 To tackle that, the DOJ has created a portal for the public to 515 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:42.360 report any suspected retail theft activity, and online marketplaces doing business in California are 516 00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:46.320 required to link to that portal, Bonta said yesterday. Retailers like CBS at 517 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:52.039 Cnebay have been pivotal in helping to identify retail theft. Online marketplaces have signed 518 00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:58.360 an information sharing agreement to help with the effort. Chris Adler KFI News we 519 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:00.119 lead local live from the case if I twenty four hour News. We're MM 520 00:37:00.119 --> 00:37:04.000 by Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening 521 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:07.199 to wake up call. You know you can always listen live on k f 522 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.880 I Am six forty weekdays from five to six am, and anytime on demand 523 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:13.480 on the iHeartRadio app