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whether you're listening on the app or you're listening on your radio, we're sure
happy you're here. Here's what's ahead on wake up called. Pro Palestinian protesters
have been shut down at UCLA. The group set up tents and put up
barricades in Dixon Plaza yesterday afternoon. Police moved in and ordered them to disperse.
About two dozen people were arrested. The encampment had been broken down by
nightfall. More than a year after the La City Council lifted the city's COVID
emergency declaration, Council members are expected to vote today to end the policy that
requires city employees to be vaccinated against COVID nineteen. The ordinance would establish a
pathway back to employment for workers who were fired or left their jobs voluntarily after
refusing to get the COVID vaccination. A jury is going to continue deliberating the
case of Hunter Biden today in Delaware, the President's son accused of illegally buying
and having a gun while he was addicted to drugs in twenty eighteen. He
could get up to twenty five years in prison if he's convicted. A string
of small earthquakes that have recently rattled southern California have shaken some nerves. Since
the end of May, six quakes, the largest of three point six,
rumbled from Orange to Santa Barbara Counties. We're going to be talking with US
Geological Survey seismologist Susan Huff about whether those small quakes are anything to worry about.
That's coming up before the hour is up. Plus Joel Larsguard's going to
tell you how you can save up to one hundred thousand dollars next time you
buy a home. That's a lot of coin and the free trial trap I've
fallen into it. Have you? Joel's going to help us keep ourselves from
getting caught in that trap. At six ZH five, it's handle on the
news. Four US college instructors have been stabbed in China. Bill's going to
tell you about that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestinian protesters have returned to UCLA
as finals week is underway. Sence, we're set up at Dixon Plaza yesterday
and the LAPD moved in to help campus security. Protesters barricaded themselves in a
building when an order to disperse was given. They eventually moved on, but
dozens were arrested. Some protesters carried fake bloody bodies and body parts in a
funeral type procession across campus. Earlier yesterday, a man from the San Fernando
Valley's been sends to nearly four years in federal prison for threatening a woman while
talking about his desire to shoot at synagogues and exterminate Jewish people in Asian Americans.
Andre Lachner pleaded guilty to stalking the woman and sending abusive text messages.
A man accused of killing a woman in Huntington Beach has been caught at the
US Mexico border. Officials say Christopher Mendez was trying to re enter the US
on Friday. He's being held on two million dollars bail. The woman was
murdered late last month at a home on England Street. The jury in Hunter
Biden's federal gun trial is getting said to resume deliberations. In Delaware, ABC's
Terry Moransas, the President's son is accused of illegally buying a gun well addicted
to drugs. Ask you to say this is a simple case for them,
but they will have to consider three separate chargers and a defense that asked them
to look not only at the prosecution's evidence of Hudder Biden's drug addictions, but
at the evidence that it was trying to get clean and so wasn't lying when
he bought that gun. Jures deliberated for about an hour yesterday. Apple has
announced its Generative AI program during the Worldwide Developers Conference in Koopertino. It's personal
intelligence and it's the next big step for Apple. Apple CEO Tim Cooks's Apple
Intelligence will be able to do things like rewrite an email to make it friendlier
and create personalized emojis and photos. Ooh, personalized emojis. Apple promises the
AI feature will be secure. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller.
Jordana, there's a lot of talk of pressure from the US to accept a
cease fire deal and the UN as well, But I'm hearing that both Israel
and Hamas have more or less agreed to it. Is that really the case,
Well, that's a good question. I think both Israel and Hamas have
responded positively to the UN Security Council resolution, But it's one of those cases
where both parties can see something positive in the deal. That doesn't necessarily mean
that we're closer to a deal that the sides are going to agree to it
and enter Phase one, which is the release of Israeli hostages, the women,
the sick, the elderly, those who are alive and those who are
dead in that humanitarian category in exchange for the release of jailed Palestinians, and
that will bring six weeks of quiet and an influx of aid to the Goaza
strip. Those are the terms of Phase one that both sides have long agreed
to. The problem is getting from Phase one to phase two, and Phase
two is where both sides will agree ultimately to the end of the war,
but the conditions for reaching that point are different. Right, Hamas wants an
immediate declaration of the end of the war before all the hostages are out,
and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops before the hostages are out, and Israel
is saying, well, we will agree to the end of the war.
We'll pull our troops even out of the Strip entirely, but only after Hamas
had been dismantled, where it is no longer governing the Gods and Strip or
in military control of the Gods with Strip, and when we have all of
our hostages, including the bodies back. So you can already see that there's
a lot of headlines that both sides are positively, you know, reacting to
the Ousecurity Council, and that the Secretary of Anthony Blincoln and the Biden administration
are urging the sides to agree to it, especially Hamas. But God is
in the details here, as they say, and the details have not dramatically
changed. There are still gaps here, and the sides don't necessarily have enough
trust both sides to agree to phase one and negotiate through phase two. Right,
So I'm not very optimistic unfortunately. Yes, Okay, So if I'm
hearing you right, Jordina, you just said that they could like say,
okay, we're going to move forward, We're going to do phase one,
and while phase one is going on, they're still negotiating on phase two,
which it sounds like they're very far apart on exactly right, exactly and right,
that is right. The United States has for months been urging the sides
to agree to phase one and then talk about Phase two, while while they're
in Phase one. Hamas is a party that is least willing to do that
because Hamas is their position is well, you know, that gives Israel the
option to restart the war against us if they believe we're not negotiating in good
faith or it takes too long. Right, at the base of this,
there's a general contradiction, which is that the United States and Israel is asking
Hamas to relinquish control of the Gaza strips and want to do that. Yeah,
They've made it clear for months. They want to survive the war,
they want to declare victory, and they still want to be in control of
the Gaza strips. So all of these efforts, you know, are you
know, we we have to endorse them, and and and really see they
are the good faith efforts of President Biden and the American administration. But you
see how difficult They're not going to do that. It may take many more
months of war unfortunately. Okay. And then then shifting over to the kind
of political side of all that, Netan Yahoo is in a sort of a
precarious position now because as we were talking about, Benny Gainst, one of
his rivals in the war cabinet or political rivals, and has resigned from the
war cabinet. Right now, this does not in any way really endanger Nataniell's
government because he has a sixty four seat majority. But what it does,
But what it does is that it will ope the vacuum that has been left
by General Benny Ganz, who was leading this war. He was one of
three members of the war cabinet. N Tanielle's far right ministers are going to
try to swoop in and take more control of the war's direction, influence Nttenielle
more. And that's going to create a problem because it's a problem for the
United States and those who are interested in the seafire because n Taniel's far right,
they are ultnationalists. Their interests did in continuing the war, putting the
hostages, second, ruling out any role for the Palestinian authority, and if
it comes to a military reoccupation of the Gaza Strip will so be it for
these far right ministers. And you can see what a problem those positions are
for not only the United States but the West and people like General Benny gonz
who said I'm not going to be a part of this government. N'taieo is
mismanaging the war too many considerations from the far right are preventing him from making
critical decisions, That's what Gance says, and he's now going to be likely
more on the streets helping to put pressure on Attaniell's government and the partners he
still has to peel away and go to early elections. That can only happen
if other members of Natagnell's government bolt from the government and the key you know,
the weak link for Natannielle is the Defense Minister, joev Gallant, who
has stood up to Nataniel in the past and doesn't agree with Nataiell on many
issues. But does see eye to eye with Daunce and the US and others.
So we're going to watch closely. But this is a political setback for
Natannielle and also for the United States who saw gone for the partner. Okay,
there's just nothing easy about this whole this whole war. No, yeah,
oh no. It is layers and layers of complications, all right,
and we have you to help us peel back those layers, and we appreciate
it. Thank you, jor Dana Miller. We'll talk to you soon.
Thanks touching. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. With California now the main crossing point for illegal
immigrants, homeless officials in San Diego say twenty percent of the people living in
homeless shelters in the city are now illegal immigrants. People aren't the only ones
crossing the US Mexico border. Border patrol agents say they found thirty eight million
dollars worth of drugs at ports of entry just last month. That includes more
than five hundred pounds of fentanyl and more than sixteen thousand pounds of meth one
of the drug bus at the o TI mesa commercial port of entry was the
second largest myth bust on record in San Diego and La County. Deputy Da
says Rebecca Grossman's fifteen year sentence for killing two children in Westlake Village could be
cut short by parole. I think she got off way too easy. Fourteen
year old Austin Wallace is one of many who pleaded for the max thirty four
year sentence for running over He has been his brother's best friends in twenty twenty,
killed in a car crash by someone who's reckless, driving and drinking and
making awful decisions, and then to not admit it and try to cover it
up. So wrong. The judge said the pain of the kid's deaths is
unimaginable, but a max sentence is what he gives to someone who intends to
kill. DA Ryan Gould says he's disappointed. Typically you can get a third
of your time off, so parole board would be looking anywhere from seven to
ten years of when she's first eligible for parole. The boy's mother, Nancy
Iskandor, after the hearing yesterday, rejected Grossman's sobbing apology. Sis Rossman never
said I am sorry for what I did. She only said I'm sorry for
what happened to you. That is not an apology at van I's courthouse.
Corbin Carson k if I News. Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman and his wife
have been in a car crash in Maryland. Police say Fetterman was driving a
Chevy Traverse on Sunday that hit the back of a Chevy Impala. Two people
in the Impala were taken to the hospital. Fetterman's office is He and his
wife were also checked out. At the hospital, Fetterman was treated for a
bruised shoulder, and then both were released. A new report says the higher
cost of well everything is causing a lot of people in southern California to plan
less extravagant trips for this summer, or to just stay home altogether. The
personal finance website Wallethub released its report on twenty twenty four's Best and Worst Cities
for staycations. It ranks La forty fifth on a list of one hundred and
eighty cities. The report compares things like haiki trails, bike rentals, restaurants,
and nightlife options. A wallet Hub analyst says, in the current economic
climate, a staycation can save people a lot of money, no kidding.
The search continues for a new head coach for the LA Lakers. Yukon head
coach Dan Hurley is turned down and offered to take the job. He rejected
a six year contract worth seventy million dollars. He's going to stay at Connecticut
to chase a third consecutive national title. Hurley would have been one of the
NBA's six highest paid coaches. Malawi's vice president and nine others have died in
a plane crash. The president confirmed the lost yesterday or actually today, a
day after radar contact with the plane was lost during a short flight in the
southeast African country. A woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Coldstone Creamery
over pistachio ice cream. The woman from New York says she bought pistachio ice
cream reasonably believing that it had pistachios in it, but then learned on the
company's website that there were no pistachios in the ice cream, but rather pistachio
flavoring. She's seeking five million dollars. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. The jury sits down for day two of deliberations in Hunter
Biden's federal gun trial. Right now, let's say good morning to the host
of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel Larsgard. Joel, I have
an update for you. Bring it okay. So, a couple weeks ago,
you and I talked about how I was dumb and made an online purchase
and didn't really know the company that I was ordering from. I would never
call you dumb, Amy, Well, I'll call myself dumb. But so,
and we talked about, you know, do I have any is there
anything that I can do? Because they wouldn't refund my money. They wanted
me to send the jacket back in order to issue a refund, and that
was going to cost like two hundred dollars If I did it FedEx to have
it tracked like they wanted. It was sixty seven dollars, I believe if
I just did UPS or US Postal service. Anyway, and we went back
and forth and they finally said, oh, we'll give you thirty percent company
and I said, are you issuing me a refund? But they wouldn't say
so. I'm thinking it was like a thirty percent off coupon or something.
If I wanted to bunch something else. Anyway, you said, Amy,
you can go to your credit card company and dispute the charge, and so
I did. I have filed my claim. I don't have a resolution yet,
but I did file the claim and just wanted to give you guys an
update because I'd never done this before. And they were very nice about it.
They said, of course, you can dispute it, and they'll go
and they go and talk to the vendor now apparently to try to get the
issue resolved. It's like having an advocate on your behalf and you have to
answer a few questions. Then the credit card company goes and they hold this
company's feet to the fire. And so it's nice to have some protection like
that. And that is one of the upsides of using credit cards to buy
things, because you pay cash for something on the street, guess what,
you don't have that right or a debit card, you're trying to call your
own money back. But with the credit card and the way the credit card
companies use this charge back in order to try to get your monda, it's
like it's a beautiful process and it's one of the reasons I do like and
encourage people to pay with credit cards if they can handle them responsibly. So
fingers crossed for you on this one. Yeah, I'll let you know.
But I just, you know, I was like, oh, this was
not an awful experience like I was expecting it to be. They were very
nice, like you said, They asked some questions, we filled out a
form, They sent me the you know, a confirmation and said, well,
we'll have some sort of answer for you in the next week or so.
All right, So I can't wait to hear me too. Okay,
so let's move on. Then I have been caught up in this too.
I seem to be the victim of a lot of the things that we talk
about. The free trial trap. Yeah. This was an article in the
Atlantic and it just hits every if you have subscribed to anything in your life,
you know exactly how this feels like you got whether it was seven days
or whether it was a month long free trial. You signed up because you
were curious, and you're like, I don't know, maybe I'm in this
streaming service or this coffee bean subscription to my life is going to make me
happy and it's in the Ultimately at the end of the day, lots of
times we forget about the things that we sign up for, but we keep
paying for them. And so maybe we still have an Apple TV Plus whatever
subscription, but we're not watching any of the shows on there, and yet
it's still we're still paying Apple for the privilege of having it, even though
we're not watching anything. And it's yes, it is streaming services, but
it goes so far beyond that, because when you think about almost every company,
what they ideally want from you is recurring revenue. They don't want you
to make the choice of whether or not you want to buy it in the
moment. What they want is for you to sign up for some sort of
subscription so you'll continue to pay them month in, month out, whether or
not use the product at all. And it's I mean, The Atlantic did
a great job talking about that, but it's just clearly true that we as
humans are terrible at canceling things after the free trial ends. So the free
trial acts as almost like a gimmick to get us to do the thing that
we wouldn't otherwise do. Maybe we watched the thing or two, maybe we
did enjoy that first month of coffee, and now we've got stale coffee sitting
on the shelves, whatever it is. So we just have to be really
careful about signing up for anything in the first place, even if it comes
with a free trial. Yeah, and I think that you know, they
don't oh, they don't alert you. They say, oh, you have
a seven day free trial, and then the next time you hear from they
go, oh, we charged your card. But I will tell you that
I did get a notification from Apple Music because I signed up for a free
trial about three months ago and it says you have three months free and they
sent me a notification saying, hey, by the way, we're going to
start charging your card on June thirtieth, and so I canceled it and I
was like, oh, my gosh, that's the first time that's happened,
because normally they just charge your card and then tell you about it. Yeah.
Yeah. And how you can tell the free trials or chripping people up
and they're keeping people on services they otherwise would have abandoned is let's say your
credit card is about to come out. It came out of date, right,
so you get a new credit card from the credit card company. Well,
then the service provider emails you and they say, hey, can you
update your payment information? And when that email comes through, that's when a
lot of people end up canceling because they didn't realize they were paying for it,
and now that they have to update their information with a credit card that's
not expired, that's when they decide to cancel. So I think it's really
crucial to when you sign up, whether it's for a free trial, seven
days, thirty days, whatever it is, make sure at the moment of
sign up that you factor in how many days leave a couple days of leeway
and cancel that free trial before or cancel that service a couple of days before
the free trial is over. And you know what, guess what you might
find Actually, you know, this subscription really makes sense in my life.
I don't want to cancel. I want to keep it around. That's great.
At least it's on your calendar as a reminder to cancel it just in
case, and it makes you reassess. The other really crummy thing is,
let's say you sign up via the app or something like that. Lots of
times you can't cancel through the app. You have to like remember your log
in information and go into Google Chrome on your laptop or your desktop, and
you've you've got to cancel that way. So it's really kind of annoying and
frustrating that companies are allowed to do that. Allow us to sign up one
way and then we can't cancel them the same way. But you got to
jump through the hoops and you got to put yourself put a reminder in your
calendar. The other thing is to pour over your credit card statements whatever method
of payment you typically use for these things, and I would say, use
the same method for everyone. Then you can go back and you can look
through your credit card statement and say, wait a second, am I being
charged for these things? Because most people don't actually look. We used to
keep check ledgers and you could go through there and you could see what you
spent money on. Well, the credit card statement is kind of the modern
day check ledger for most of us, but we don't actually go back and
look and reconcile and see what we've been spending money on. So I would
say pour over that statement every month or every other month, just to kind
of see what is going on. Wait that's an error charge, or wait,
look at this thing. I didn't think I kept that around and that's
when you can start to go back and cancel those things too, when you
see that you are being charged for something you don't actually want. You know,
we're talking about how our memories aren't as good because we don't we don't
write stuff down. And like you said, that check Luedger thing, like
you write down when you spend something, but with the credit card and these
auto pay things, you're not writing it down, so you're not consciously aware
that you're actually spending. So I think that's a good reminder too. You
used to feel the pain more when you wrote the check and you wrote down
to the ledger. You were like, Okay, there's money coming out of
my account right there. And you don't feel it the same way with the
credit card. So I do think that there's like behavioral tricks you should incorporate
so that you do feel it a little bit more. And you know,
one of those things is checking out your credit card statement every month and you'll
be like, oh, I spend in some ways that don't necessarily align with
my values or don't you know, are at least aren't the most optimized.
Well, the pain is a good thing in this case, yes, exactly,
Okay, we're almost out of time, but I wanted to hit this
one because you just said that you could save like one hundred thousand dollars buying
your next home. Oh yeah, so this is huge. This is like
a massive new data from lending Tree, and they found that across the country
you would save a ton of mone just by shopping for around for mortgage rates.
And it's a lot more than you would think. Like, when we
think about shopping around, we're talking about buying something on the internet or something
I might save ten, fifteen, twenty bucks by buying from a different retailer
or finding a coupon code, and some of us will spend an ungodly amount
of time to save those few dollars. Well, but then when it comes
to the biggest purchase we'll ever make, buying a home, we don't shop
around. We go with the lender maybe that our real estate agent recommends,
or we go with a friend or something like that. So it's not mortgage
rates or mortgage rates, and they're the same. And if somebody comes out
and says this week they're seven percent, that's not necessarily the case for everyone.
That's exactly right. That's the average. That's the average, and so
might you might find local banks or credit unions that are saying, now we've
got a six and a half percent rate for you with lower fees or something
like that too. And over the span of thirty years of having that mortgage,
those dollars add up. And so yeah, in California in particular,
we're talking about one hundred and thirty plus one thousand dollars average savings for shopping
around, which is incredible. It's mind blowing. That comes out to like
three hundred and forty something dollars every single month. And so when we're talking
about shopping around, this is the number one thing you should be shopping for.
Shop at the local credit union, call a mortgage broker, talk to
a local bank lender like that. You want to make sure you cast your
net wide when you're shopping for a mortgage, because the savings can be ridiculous.
Okay, As always, such great advice Joel Larsguard, and you can
get more great advice on how to money with Joel Larsguard right here on KFI
Sundays from noon to two. Thanks so much. I look forward to talking
to you and finding more money saving tips next week. All right, next
week. Thanks Amy, All right, thanks Jill. You always have such
great, like relatable information for us. I love it. The co founder
of the Grossman Burne Foundation has been sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison
for crashing into and killing two young brothers in Westlake Village. Rebecca Grossman's lawyers
had asked for probation. The Port of Baltimore is back in business. The
port, which is a major commercial hub for cars and other items into the
US, closed when a container ship crashed into to and cause the collapse of
the Francis Scott Keybridge on March twenty sixth. It's now open for transit,
and in and out double double with fries and a drink now costs more than
ten dollars before tax. The president of In and Out says she tried to
keep prices down but had to raise them because of the state's new twenty dollars
minimum wage law for fast food workers. At six so five, it's handle
on the news. The UN Security Council has adopted a ceasefire resolution for the
Israel Hamas war. The question is will either side listen right now? Let's
say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim, We've got another reason
to be leary of time shares. What's up? Yeah, let's say you
let's take an example here, imy, you own a time share, it's
in Kozomel, okay, and you've had it for some years. Maybe you
want to get rid of it. Maybe don't you visit it once or twice
a year. But suddenly you get this email or a letter in the mail
saying hey, or a phone call saying hey, I've got a buyer for
your time share. You want to sell your time share? Then you say,
yeah, okay, well let's explore that. And they say, okay,
well the buyers I have a buyer and they're willing to pay twice what
you paid for it. And all you need to do is pay a fee
for an esciral account. Then we'll pay a fee for the title transfer,
the fee for the Mexican government, et cetera. These fees then start to
mount. Before you realize it, you're out several thousand dollars in the sale
still has not been made, and it's months later and you're still in touch
with this person who's promising to make a sale. That is it's a scam.
I'm not even to say it might be it is a scam because the
FBI says there should never be upfront prices or upfront costs or fees related to
a sale like that. That's what it's going to say, Like that should
be your first red leg boom. Well, first of all, getting an
unsolicited phone call or an email from somebody saying I want to buy your time
share if you didn't put it out there that you either have one or want
to sell it, that's another one, okay. So second right, okay,
So who's doing this? The Kalisco New Generation Cartel, the Golf Cartel,
the Sinaloa cartels, these ultra violent Mexican drug cartels are very often responsible
for this kind of thing, and increasingly responsible. According to the FBI,
the scam has been going on for ten or twelve years. I've been listening
back to stories from the two mid two thousands or nine twenty ten about this
kind of scam being carried out even back then by the cartels. But they've
found that it's so lucrative that they've really stepped it up. So now the
FBI says that at least six thousand people over the last five years have lost
a total of three hundred million dollars, but undoubtedly both categories are much higher
than number of victims than the amount they've lost, because people don't want to
admit that they've been scammed, and especially by a violent drug organization like these
cartels. Yeah, drugs and smuggling people just wasn't enough for the cartels.
Okay, So are the people being coerced or just kind of convinced in the
beginning, it's it's a sales job, right, It's like, hey,
why don't you go ahead, you can look at you You don't have to
sell your time share, you know, but I have a buyer. I
have a buyer who's ready to go, So let's get this thing going.
And then later on down the road, if you say I'm not interested anymore,
you've taken enough of my money. I'm not going to do this anymore,
they might say, Okay, well we're in touch with the FBI and
you better pay or you're going to go to jail. So then it becomes
coercion, it becomes threats that go with it, and you know, it's
the whole goal is to keep the money flowing in and to groups like these,
Okay, And how do we protect ourselves against something like this. Watch
out for those red flags, first of all, And there's also kind of
a clearing house a group, an industry organization called the American Resort Development Association.
And you probably have commercials on KFI from companies saying hey will help you
get out of your time share. And you know those are legitimate companies and
they most likely belong to this association, the ARDA, and they can help
you to deal with this situation or let you know what's real and what isn't
real. And if you do get scam, contact the FBI. I'd sell
the quote from the FBI special agent the folks in New York saying, don't
be embarrassed if you get scammed, reach out to us. Let's try to
get these people behind bars. Absolutely. Okay, thank you so much for
the information. I didn't even know this was a thing, Jim, I
did neither before yesterday. Okay, have a great day. We'll talk to
you again soon. See you. All right, let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA
School District says students and teachers data is for sale in the dark Web Superintendent
Alberto Carballo says the data was stolen in a cyber attack in twenty twenty two
and is showing up now being sold for one thousand dollars per small lot.
Experts say that data includes home addresses, relative contact information, and homelessness and
disability status. Hermosa Beach police are asking parents to educate their children about safety
before letting them hop on an e bike. Police have compared to some of
the e bikes to electric motorcycles that are being ridden by miners on streets without
a license. Chromosa Police Chief Paula Baron says new city rules will allow police
to seize the bikes if kids are being reckless and won't be released until a
parent goes to the station. And that's important because we want the parents to
be aware, and many times they're not that their kids are behaving irresponsibly and
dangerously on the bikes. Le Baron says many of the e bikes exceed the
speed limit and it isn't just kids, but also adults who are breaking the
law. Chris Adler kf I News filling up for a summer road trip is
getting cheaper. ABC's Alex Stones's gas is now seventeen cents a gallon, less
than a year ago. That's according to new data from the Energy Department.
Prices have gone down as gas demand has declined and oil prices have been lower.
The average price for regular unlet Eddy in La County is for eighty nine
a gallon. Well Pattie LaBelle and Gladys Knight. We're among the guests that
in early Juneteenth celebration at the White House President Biden. The First Lady,
along with the Vice President and her husband, hosted the event last night on
the South Lawn. The federal holiday on the nineteenth commemorates the day the last
slaves in Texas learned they had been emancipated. With a possible strike looming,
Food for Less is presented what it calls its best offer to six thousand workers.
The new contract offer includes payhikes up to three twenty five an hour over
the next three years. Six thousand union members are voting. The union plans
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got a new COVID flu vaccine right now. Let's say good morning to geological
survey in Pasadena seismologist Susan Huff. Good morning, Susan, Good morning.
So we wanted to talk to you today, Susan, because we've had several
small earthquakes in southern California in the past week. I've felt a couple of
them. We had the two near Pasadena, then several others around Newport Beach.
The largest of that was a three point six. Is this normal activity
or is it a sign of things to come? Well, yes and no.
So if you look over the long terms, that for an answer.
Over the long term, there there's a couple of magnitude threes somewhere in California
every day on average over the long term. A lot of them are out
in the remote areas. They're off of the Cape Mendocino up near Eureka,
they're in the desert. They're central California, so they're not really noticed,
and it's just if they happen to land in Elserina, which is also quite
close to my house, we notice them because there's a lot of people around
to feel them. So threes aren't that unusual. There was kind of a
little flurry of events over the last couple of weeks that got people's attention.
There was a four point five up near the geysers where there are earthquakes associated
with the geothermal plant up there, and sometimes that happens to just get more
little earthquakes than normal, and there's no connection at least that we understand right
now when things like that happen. Okay, we know that big earthquakes do
happen periodically, but there is still no way to really predict about the next
one, right, Yeah, I mean that's what everyone wants to know when
the big one's coming, and that's what we really science just can't do.
We do know that every little earthquake, every earthquake, raises the odds slightly
of more earthquakes, so typically you get after shock. So there was a
three point four in near El Serrino, and then there was the two point
eight two days later, so that was an aftershock, and that's something we
understand. There is a chance, a small chance that an earthquake will be
followed by something bigger, and it's usually about one in twenty that something bigger's
going to happen within a few days. If something bigger happens, it's usually
not a whole lot bigger. So if you have a four, there's a
one in twenty chance of something a little bit bigger than four. Oh there's
a lot to unpack with earthquake statistics, but basically, if you feel shaking,
it's reasonable to take that as a heads up. You know that you
just a reminder that we live in an earthquake country. That big earthquakes are
always possible, and when you feel shaking, that makes them a little more
possible. Doesn't mean the big one is definitely coming, but you know,
just just a heads up. Okay. So if when you there is an
earthquake and then there's a one in twenty chance that there's going to be another
one, does each successive one increase the chances or is it still the same
odds? So, as far as we know, every earthquake has its own
odds of triggering something, so it's you know, and it doesn't depend on
the magnitude. So say you have a magnitude five, there's a one in
twenty chance of something bigger than a five. Say you have a six,
there's a one in twenty chance of something bigger than a six. So the
odds of a strong earthquake in California are never higher when a strong earthquake has
just happened, which is kind of it's kind of intuitive, but that's yeah,
because earthquakes can trigger they release stress, but they can trigger other earthquakes
on adjacent faults. So yeah, I just you know, we all know
the things we're supposed to do. When you know, to prepare for earthquakes,
and so the earthquakes that we feel are reminders, they're also and if
you start to feel shaking, we want people to drop cover and hold on.
That's the best protective action. So you get under a table or desk
if you can, or if you can, prop and protect your head.
If you're disabled, try to duck and protect your head as best you can.
So if you feel shaking, that's basically a drill to you know,
to put that into action and hopefully it won't be anything big, but if
it's still that that drill and that practice, and always a good reminder too
that when you feel a little jilt, you go, do I have a
earthquake? Kick? Ready? Know? Exactly? Yeah? Yeah? Okay.
Is it frustrating Susan as a seismologist that you guys can't kind of crack
the nut of how to figure out when earthquakes are going to hit because you're
trying, right well, seismologists have been trying for one hundred years. And
the network was installed first in southern California. It was the first time that
people were really even monitoring local earthquakes, and there was a whole lot of
innovation that came out of the Pasadena Seismology Lab. The idea was to track
the little earthquakes and you'd see patterns and you'd know where the big earthquakes were
looming. And that just it hasn't panned out. The little earthquakes pop off
on their own time with no rhyme or reason that we understand, and yet
the big earthquakes are. They're out there looming and we don't know that they're
coming. And one of my colleagues pointed out is actually recently, the way
I'll lend we can predict earthquakes in the sense that matters that we know which
areas are prone to big earthquakes. We have seismic hazard maps, so we
can't say exactly what it's going to happen, and that frustrates everybody, but
we know they're inevitable, so we know that we need to build the buildings
and the infrastructure appropriately to wish them them. We know, and take all
those preparations, and that really does. It reduces the loss of life enormously
in earthquakes, and that's what's important. So a good reminder when you feel
a little shaking, first drop cover and hold on, and then make sure
that you're set with your earthquake kick for when the big one does happen,
because we're in a prone area that we are. Yes, all right,
Susan Huff. Thank you so much for your information. I feel much better
after talking to you because I will say things have been you know, our
nerves are a little rattled after several earthquakes in a week, so to speak.
All right, Thank you so much, Susan. Take care, Thank
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