WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:05.839 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:14.400 demand on the iHeartRadio app k f I and KOST HD two Los Angeles, 3 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:37.960 Orange County and yours Amy. Okay, that's our buddy Todd Lights Dodgers PA 4 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.320 announcer extraordinaire. He'll be busy tonight because the Dodgers are back in town. 5 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:46.679 I get to go to a game this weekend, so I'm super excited about 6 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:51.439 that. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, June eleventh. Good 7 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:55.679 morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app, and 8 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:59.960 whether you're listening on the app or you're listening on your radio, we're sure 9 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.439 happy you're here. Here's what's ahead on wake up called. Pro Palestinian protesters 10 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:07.519 have been shut down at UCLA. The group set up tents and put up 11 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:12.400 barricades in Dixon Plaza yesterday afternoon. Police moved in and ordered them to disperse. 12 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:18.040 About two dozen people were arrested. The encampment had been broken down by 13 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:22.879 nightfall. More than a year after the La City Council lifted the city's COVID 14 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:27.200 emergency declaration, Council members are expected to vote today to end the policy that 15 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:34.840 requires city employees to be vaccinated against COVID nineteen. The ordinance would establish a 16 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:40.599 pathway back to employment for workers who were fired or left their jobs voluntarily after 17 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:45.319 refusing to get the COVID vaccination. A jury is going to continue deliberating the 18 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:49.799 case of Hunter Biden today in Delaware, the President's son accused of illegally buying 19 00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.159 and having a gun while he was addicted to drugs in twenty eighteen. He 20 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.159 could get up to twenty five years in prison if he's convicted. A string 21 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.879 of small earthquakes that have recently rattled southern California have shaken some nerves. Since 22 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.799 the end of May, six quakes, the largest of three point six, 23 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:10.479 rumbled from Orange to Santa Barbara Counties. We're going to be talking with US 24 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:16.439 Geological Survey seismologist Susan Huff about whether those small quakes are anything to worry about. 25 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.759 That's coming up before the hour is up. Plus Joel Larsguard's going to 26 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.840 tell you how you can save up to one hundred thousand dollars next time you 27 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.479 buy a home. That's a lot of coin and the free trial trap I've 28 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.159 fallen into it. Have you? Joel's going to help us keep ourselves from 29 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:36.840 getting caught in that trap. At six ZH five, it's handle on the 30 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:40.840 news. Four US college instructors have been stabbed in China. Bill's going to 31 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:45.080 tell you about that. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out 32 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.639 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestinian protesters have returned to UCLA 33 00:02:50.719 --> 00:03:00.240 as finals week is underway. Sence, we're set up at Dixon Plaza yesterday 34 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.280 and the LAPD moved in to help campus security. Protesters barricaded themselves in a 35 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.199 building when an order to disperse was given. They eventually moved on, but 36 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:14.919 dozens were arrested. Some protesters carried fake bloody bodies and body parts in a 37 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:19.919 funeral type procession across campus. Earlier yesterday, a man from the San Fernando 38 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.759 Valley's been sends to nearly four years in federal prison for threatening a woman while 39 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:30.319 talking about his desire to shoot at synagogues and exterminate Jewish people in Asian Americans. 40 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:35.599 Andre Lachner pleaded guilty to stalking the woman and sending abusive text messages. 41 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:38.919 A man accused of killing a woman in Huntington Beach has been caught at the 42 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.639 US Mexico border. Officials say Christopher Mendez was trying to re enter the US 43 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:47.319 on Friday. He's being held on two million dollars bail. The woman was 44 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:52.039 murdered late last month at a home on England Street. The jury in Hunter 45 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:55.439 Biden's federal gun trial is getting said to resume deliberations. In Delaware, ABC's 46 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.919 Terry Moransas, the President's son is accused of illegally buying a gun well addicted 47 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.439 to drugs. Ask you to say this is a simple case for them, 48 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:06.680 but they will have to consider three separate chargers and a defense that asked them 49 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:11.280 to look not only at the prosecution's evidence of Hudder Biden's drug addictions, but 50 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:14.840 at the evidence that it was trying to get clean and so wasn't lying when 51 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.959 he bought that gun. Jures deliberated for about an hour yesterday. Apple has 52 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:25.439 announced its Generative AI program during the Worldwide Developers Conference in Koopertino. It's personal 53 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:30.560 intelligence and it's the next big step for Apple. Apple CEO Tim Cooks's Apple 54 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:34.000 Intelligence will be able to do things like rewrite an email to make it friendlier 55 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:41.560 and create personalized emojis and photos. Ooh, personalized emojis. Apple promises the 56 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:46.000 AI feature will be secure. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller. 57 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:50.519 Jordana, there's a lot of talk of pressure from the US to accept a 58 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:55.959 cease fire deal and the UN as well, But I'm hearing that both Israel 59 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.600 and Hamas have more or less agreed to it. Is that really the case, 60 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.160 Well, that's a good question. I think both Israel and Hamas have 61 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:14.839 responded positively to the UN Security Council resolution, But it's one of those cases 62 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:21.279 where both parties can see something positive in the deal. That doesn't necessarily mean 63 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:28.879 that we're closer to a deal that the sides are going to agree to it 64 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:34.439 and enter Phase one, which is the release of Israeli hostages, the women, 65 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:39.279 the sick, the elderly, those who are alive and those who are 66 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:46.600 dead in that humanitarian category in exchange for the release of jailed Palestinians, and 67 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.439 that will bring six weeks of quiet and an influx of aid to the Goaza 68 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:54.720 strip. Those are the terms of Phase one that both sides have long agreed 69 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.720 to. The problem is getting from Phase one to phase two, and Phase 70 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:04.560 two is where both sides will agree ultimately to the end of the war, 71 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:10.639 but the conditions for reaching that point are different. Right, Hamas wants an 72 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:15.319 immediate declaration of the end of the war before all the hostages are out, 73 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:19.839 and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops before the hostages are out, and Israel 74 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:23.279 is saying, well, we will agree to the end of the war. 75 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.680 We'll pull our troops even out of the Strip entirely, but only after Hamas 76 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:33.319 had been dismantled, where it is no longer governing the Gods and Strip or 77 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:38.680 in military control of the Gods with Strip, and when we have all of 78 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:43.600 our hostages, including the bodies back. So you can already see that there's 79 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:48.079 a lot of headlines that both sides are positively, you know, reacting to 80 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:54.240 the Ousecurity Council, and that the Secretary of Anthony Blincoln and the Biden administration 81 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:58.480 are urging the sides to agree to it, especially Hamas. But God is 82 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:02.279 in the details here, as they say, and the details have not dramatically 83 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:08.959 changed. There are still gaps here, and the sides don't necessarily have enough 84 00:07:09.560 --> 00:07:15.079 trust both sides to agree to phase one and negotiate through phase two. Right, 85 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:23.279 So I'm not very optimistic unfortunately. Yes, Okay, So if I'm 86 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:26.680 hearing you right, Jordina, you just said that they could like say, 87 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.360 okay, we're going to move forward, We're going to do phase one, 88 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:35.439 and while phase one is going on, they're still negotiating on phase two, 89 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:41.959 which it sounds like they're very far apart on exactly right, exactly and right, 90 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:45.439 that is right. The United States has for months been urging the sides 91 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:49.560 to agree to phase one and then talk about Phase two, while while they're 92 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:54.800 in Phase one. Hamas is a party that is least willing to do that 93 00:07:55.160 --> 00:08:00.519 because Hamas is their position is well, you know, that gives Israel the 94 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.000 option to restart the war against us if they believe we're not negotiating in good 95 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:09.839 faith or it takes too long. Right, at the base of this, 96 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:18.199 there's a general contradiction, which is that the United States and Israel is asking 97 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:24.120 Hamas to relinquish control of the Gaza strips and want to do that. Yeah, 98 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.000 They've made it clear for months. They want to survive the war, 99 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.759 they want to declare victory, and they still want to be in control of 100 00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:35.399 the Gaza strips. So all of these efforts, you know, are you 101 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:41.679 know, we we have to endorse them, and and and really see they 102 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.759 are the good faith efforts of President Biden and the American administration. But you 103 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:52.600 see how difficult They're not going to do that. It may take many more 104 00:08:52.639 --> 00:09:00.720 months of war unfortunately. Okay. And then then shifting over to the kind 105 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:05.720 of political side of all that, Netan Yahoo is in a sort of a 106 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:11.320 precarious position now because as we were talking about, Benny Gainst, one of 107 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.679 his rivals in the war cabinet or political rivals, and has resigned from the 108 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:22.519 war cabinet. Right now, this does not in any way really endanger Nataniell's 109 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.759 government because he has a sixty four seat majority. But what it does, 110 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:33.120 But what it does is that it will ope the vacuum that has been left 111 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:35.399 by General Benny Ganz, who was leading this war. He was one of 112 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:39.799 three members of the war cabinet. N Tanielle's far right ministers are going to 113 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:46.399 try to swoop in and take more control of the war's direction, influence Nttenielle 114 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:50.559 more. And that's going to create a problem because it's a problem for the 115 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:56.720 United States and those who are interested in the seafire because n Taniel's far right, 116 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.120 they are ultnationalists. Their interests did in continuing the war, putting the 117 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:07.200 hostages, second, ruling out any role for the Palestinian authority, and if 118 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:13.879 it comes to a military reoccupation of the Gaza Strip will so be it for 119 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:20.000 these far right ministers. And you can see what a problem those positions are 120 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.279 for not only the United States but the West and people like General Benny gonz 121 00:10:24.320 --> 00:10:28.600 who said I'm not going to be a part of this government. N'taieo is 122 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.679 mismanaging the war too many considerations from the far right are preventing him from making 123 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:39.799 critical decisions, That's what Gance says, and he's now going to be likely 124 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:45.639 more on the streets helping to put pressure on Attaniell's government and the partners he 125 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:50.559 still has to peel away and go to early elections. That can only happen 126 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:58.639 if other members of Natagnell's government bolt from the government and the key you know, 127 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.039 the weak link for Natannielle is the Defense Minister, joev Gallant, who 128 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.879 has stood up to Nataniel in the past and doesn't agree with Nataiell on many 129 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:11.519 issues. But does see eye to eye with Daunce and the US and others. 130 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.080 So we're going to watch closely. But this is a political setback for 131 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:20.320 Natannielle and also for the United States who saw gone for the partner. Okay, 132 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.480 there's just nothing easy about this whole this whole war. No, yeah, 133 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.399 oh no. It is layers and layers of complications, all right, 134 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:31.600 and we have you to help us peel back those layers, and we appreciate 135 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:35.200 it. Thank you, jor Dana Miller. We'll talk to you soon. 136 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.879 Thanks touching. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the 137 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:43.960 KFI twenty four hour newsroom. With California now the main crossing point for illegal 138 00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:48.080 immigrants, homeless officials in San Diego say twenty percent of the people living in 139 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:54.240 homeless shelters in the city are now illegal immigrants. People aren't the only ones 140 00:11:54.279 --> 00:11:58.080 crossing the US Mexico border. Border patrol agents say they found thirty eight million 141 00:11:58.120 --> 00:12:01.039 dollars worth of drugs at ports of entry just last month. That includes more 142 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.639 than five hundred pounds of fentanyl and more than sixteen thousand pounds of meth one 143 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:09.679 of the drug bus at the o TI mesa commercial port of entry was the 144 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:15.360 second largest myth bust on record in San Diego and La County. Deputy Da 145 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:20.440 says Rebecca Grossman's fifteen year sentence for killing two children in Westlake Village could be 146 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.440 cut short by parole. I think she got off way too easy. Fourteen 147 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.000 year old Austin Wallace is one of many who pleaded for the max thirty four 148 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:31.919 year sentence for running over He has been his brother's best friends in twenty twenty, 149 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:35.519 killed in a car crash by someone who's reckless, driving and drinking and 150 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.679 making awful decisions, and then to not admit it and try to cover it 151 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.360 up. So wrong. The judge said the pain of the kid's deaths is 152 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.639 unimaginable, but a max sentence is what he gives to someone who intends to 153 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.159 kill. DA Ryan Gould says he's disappointed. Typically you can get a third 154 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:56.840 of your time off, so parole board would be looking anywhere from seven to 155 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:01.120 ten years of when she's first eligible for parole. The boy's mother, Nancy 156 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:05.440 Iskandor, after the hearing yesterday, rejected Grossman's sobbing apology. Sis Rossman never 157 00:13:05.559 --> 00:13:09.399 said I am sorry for what I did. She only said I'm sorry for 158 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.639 what happened to you. That is not an apology at van I's courthouse. 159 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.720 Corbin Carson k if I News. Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman and his wife 160 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:22.720 have been in a car crash in Maryland. Police say Fetterman was driving a 161 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:28.399 Chevy Traverse on Sunday that hit the back of a Chevy Impala. Two people 162 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:31.399 in the Impala were taken to the hospital. Fetterman's office is He and his 163 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:33.639 wife were also checked out. At the hospital, Fetterman was treated for a 164 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:37.960 bruised shoulder, and then both were released. A new report says the higher 165 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.159 cost of well everything is causing a lot of people in southern California to plan 166 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.799 less extravagant trips for this summer, or to just stay home altogether. The 167 00:13:46.840 --> 00:13:52.799 personal finance website Wallethub released its report on twenty twenty four's Best and Worst Cities 168 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.200 for staycations. It ranks La forty fifth on a list of one hundred and 169 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:01.679 eighty cities. The report compares things like haiki trails, bike rentals, restaurants, 170 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:05.279 and nightlife options. A wallet Hub analyst says, in the current economic 171 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.559 climate, a staycation can save people a lot of money, no kidding. 172 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:13.840 The search continues for a new head coach for the LA Lakers. Yukon head 173 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:18.759 coach Dan Hurley is turned down and offered to take the job. He rejected 174 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:22.320 a six year contract worth seventy million dollars. He's going to stay at Connecticut 175 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:28.399 to chase a third consecutive national title. Hurley would have been one of the 176 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:33.440 NBA's six highest paid coaches. Malawi's vice president and nine others have died in 177 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:37.600 a plane crash. The president confirmed the lost yesterday or actually today, a 178 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:41.679 day after radar contact with the plane was lost during a short flight in the 179 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:48.720 southeast African country. A woman has filed a class action lawsuit against Coldstone Creamery 180 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:52.639 over pistachio ice cream. The woman from New York says she bought pistachio ice 181 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:58.200 cream reasonably believing that it had pistachios in it, but then learned on the 182 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:03.200 company's website that there were no pistachios in the ice cream, but rather pistachio 183 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.360 flavoring. She's seeking five million dollars. At six oh five, it's handle 184 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.919 on the news. The jury sits down for day two of deliberations in Hunter 185 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.360 Biden's federal gun trial. Right now, let's say good morning to the host 186 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:18.840 of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel Larsgard. Joel, I have 187 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.879 an update for you. Bring it okay. So, a couple weeks ago, 188 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.679 you and I talked about how I was dumb and made an online purchase 189 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.240 and didn't really know the company that I was ordering from. I would never 190 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.399 call you dumb, Amy, Well, I'll call myself dumb. But so, 191 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.480 and we talked about, you know, do I have any is there 192 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.000 anything that I can do? Because they wouldn't refund my money. They wanted 193 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:43.360 me to send the jacket back in order to issue a refund, and that 194 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.720 was going to cost like two hundred dollars If I did it FedEx to have 195 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:50.759 it tracked like they wanted. It was sixty seven dollars, I believe if 196 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:56.799 I just did UPS or US Postal service. Anyway, and we went back 197 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.000 and forth and they finally said, oh, we'll give you thirty percent company 198 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.200 and I said, are you issuing me a refund? But they wouldn't say 199 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.799 so. I'm thinking it was like a thirty percent off coupon or something. 200 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.639 If I wanted to bunch something else. Anyway, you said, Amy, 201 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:14.919 you can go to your credit card company and dispute the charge, and so 202 00:16:15.080 --> 00:16:18.960 I did. I have filed my claim. I don't have a resolution yet, 203 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.919 but I did file the claim and just wanted to give you guys an 204 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:26.440 update because I'd never done this before. And they were very nice about it. 205 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.120 They said, of course, you can dispute it, and they'll go 206 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.759 and they go and talk to the vendor now apparently to try to get the 207 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:36.799 issue resolved. It's like having an advocate on your behalf and you have to 208 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:38.919 answer a few questions. Then the credit card company goes and they hold this 209 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:42.200 company's feet to the fire. And so it's nice to have some protection like 210 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.960 that. And that is one of the upsides of using credit cards to buy 211 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.320 things, because you pay cash for something on the street, guess what, 212 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:52.080 you don't have that right or a debit card, you're trying to call your 213 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.200 own money back. But with the credit card and the way the credit card 214 00:16:56.200 --> 00:17:00.559 companies use this charge back in order to try to get your monda, it's 215 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.119 like it's a beautiful process and it's one of the reasons I do like and 216 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:07.640 encourage people to pay with credit cards if they can handle them responsibly. So 217 00:17:07.079 --> 00:17:10.519 fingers crossed for you on this one. Yeah, I'll let you know. 218 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.039 But I just, you know, I was like, oh, this was 219 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:17.640 not an awful experience like I was expecting it to be. They were very 220 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:18.920 nice, like you said, They asked some questions, we filled out a 221 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.039 form, They sent me the you know, a confirmation and said, well, 222 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.599 we'll have some sort of answer for you in the next week or so. 223 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:29.319 All right, So I can't wait to hear me too. Okay, 224 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.400 so let's move on. Then I have been caught up in this too. 225 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:36.079 I seem to be the victim of a lot of the things that we talk 226 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:41.680 about. The free trial trap. Yeah. This was an article in the 227 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.599 Atlantic and it just hits every if you have subscribed to anything in your life, 228 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:51.400 you know exactly how this feels like you got whether it was seven days 229 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.880 or whether it was a month long free trial. You signed up because you 230 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.039 were curious, and you're like, I don't know, maybe I'm in this 231 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:02.200 streaming service or this coffee bean subscription to my life is going to make me 232 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:07.160 happy and it's in the Ultimately at the end of the day, lots of 233 00:18:07.200 --> 00:18:10.440 times we forget about the things that we sign up for, but we keep 234 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.559 paying for them. And so maybe we still have an Apple TV Plus whatever 235 00:18:14.599 --> 00:18:17.960 subscription, but we're not watching any of the shows on there, and yet 236 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.240 it's still we're still paying Apple for the privilege of having it, even though 237 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:23.880 we're not watching anything. And it's yes, it is streaming services, but 238 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:30.119 it goes so far beyond that, because when you think about almost every company, 239 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.119 what they ideally want from you is recurring revenue. They don't want you 240 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:37.039 to make the choice of whether or not you want to buy it in the 241 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.279 moment. What they want is for you to sign up for some sort of 242 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:42.359 subscription so you'll continue to pay them month in, month out, whether or 243 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.480 not use the product at all. And it's I mean, The Atlantic did 244 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.039 a great job talking about that, but it's just clearly true that we as 245 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:53.359 humans are terrible at canceling things after the free trial ends. So the free 246 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.480 trial acts as almost like a gimmick to get us to do the thing that 247 00:18:56.519 --> 00:19:00.119 we wouldn't otherwise do. Maybe we watched the thing or two, maybe we 248 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:03.240 did enjoy that first month of coffee, and now we've got stale coffee sitting 249 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:04.359 on the shelves, whatever it is. So we just have to be really 250 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.599 careful about signing up for anything in the first place, even if it comes 251 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.519 with a free trial. Yeah, and I think that you know, they 252 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:14.359 don't oh, they don't alert you. They say, oh, you have 253 00:19:14.359 --> 00:19:17.240 a seven day free trial, and then the next time you hear from they 254 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:19.319 go, oh, we charged your card. But I will tell you that 255 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:23.119 I did get a notification from Apple Music because I signed up for a free 256 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:27.680 trial about three months ago and it says you have three months free and they 257 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:30.119 sent me a notification saying, hey, by the way, we're going to 258 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:33.960 start charging your card on June thirtieth, and so I canceled it and I 259 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:36.039 was like, oh, my gosh, that's the first time that's happened, 260 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:38.279 because normally they just charge your card and then tell you about it. Yeah. 261 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:41.680 Yeah. And how you can tell the free trials or chripping people up 262 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:47.119 and they're keeping people on services they otherwise would have abandoned is let's say your 263 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:51.039 credit card is about to come out. It came out of date, right, 264 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:52.880 so you get a new credit card from the credit card company. Well, 265 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.160 then the service provider emails you and they say, hey, can you 266 00:19:56.200 --> 00:20:00.240 update your payment information? And when that email comes through, that's when a 267 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:03.559 lot of people end up canceling because they didn't realize they were paying for it, 268 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:06.759 and now that they have to update their information with a credit card that's 269 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.559 not expired, that's when they decide to cancel. So I think it's really 270 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:14.599 crucial to when you sign up, whether it's for a free trial, seven 271 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.519 days, thirty days, whatever it is, make sure at the moment of 272 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:22.839 sign up that you factor in how many days leave a couple days of leeway 273 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:29.920 and cancel that free trial before or cancel that service a couple of days before 274 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.599 the free trial is over. And you know what, guess what you might 275 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.240 find Actually, you know, this subscription really makes sense in my life. 276 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.839 I don't want to cancel. I want to keep it around. That's great. 277 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:42.319 At least it's on your calendar as a reminder to cancel it just in 278 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:45.759 case, and it makes you reassess. The other really crummy thing is, 279 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:48.680 let's say you sign up via the app or something like that. Lots of 280 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:52.079 times you can't cancel through the app. You have to like remember your log 281 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:56.839 in information and go into Google Chrome on your laptop or your desktop, and 282 00:20:56.880 --> 00:21:00.880 you've you've got to cancel that way. So it's really kind of annoying and 283 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:03.160 frustrating that companies are allowed to do that. Allow us to sign up one 284 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:07.319 way and then we can't cancel them the same way. But you got to 285 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.079 jump through the hoops and you got to put yourself put a reminder in your 286 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:14.680 calendar. The other thing is to pour over your credit card statements whatever method 287 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:17.119 of payment you typically use for these things, and I would say, use 288 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.440 the same method for everyone. Then you can go back and you can look 289 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.759 through your credit card statement and say, wait a second, am I being 290 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:25.880 charged for these things? Because most people don't actually look. We used to 291 00:21:25.960 --> 00:21:29.480 keep check ledgers and you could go through there and you could see what you 292 00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:32.400 spent money on. Well, the credit card statement is kind of the modern 293 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.599 day check ledger for most of us, but we don't actually go back and 294 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:37.759 look and reconcile and see what we've been spending money on. So I would 295 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.480 say pour over that statement every month or every other month, just to kind 296 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.960 of see what is going on. Wait that's an error charge, or wait, 297 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.759 look at this thing. I didn't think I kept that around and that's 298 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:52.519 when you can start to go back and cancel those things too, when you 299 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.519 see that you are being charged for something you don't actually want. You know, 300 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:00.559 we're talking about how our memories aren't as good because we don't we don't 301 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:03.000 write stuff down. And like you said, that check Luedger thing, like 302 00:22:03.039 --> 00:22:07.680 you write down when you spend something, but with the credit card and these 303 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:10.920 auto pay things, you're not writing it down, so you're not consciously aware 304 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:15.079 that you're actually spending. So I think that's a good reminder too. You 305 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:17.559 used to feel the pain more when you wrote the check and you wrote down 306 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:18.839 to the ledger. You were like, Okay, there's money coming out of 307 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:22.160 my account right there. And you don't feel it the same way with the 308 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:26.440 credit card. So I do think that there's like behavioral tricks you should incorporate 309 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:30.279 so that you do feel it a little bit more. And you know, 310 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:33.160 one of those things is checking out your credit card statement every month and you'll 311 00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:37.359 be like, oh, I spend in some ways that don't necessarily align with 312 00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.759 my values or don't you know, are at least aren't the most optimized. 313 00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:42.680 Well, the pain is a good thing in this case, yes, exactly, 314 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:45.680 Okay, we're almost out of time, but I wanted to hit this 315 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:49.000 one because you just said that you could save like one hundred thousand dollars buying 316 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:52.759 your next home. Oh yeah, so this is huge. This is like 317 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:57.880 a massive new data from lending Tree, and they found that across the country 318 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:03.240 you would save a ton of mone just by shopping for around for mortgage rates. 319 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:04.160 And it's a lot more than you would think. Like, when we 320 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:07.880 think about shopping around, we're talking about buying something on the internet or something 321 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:11.559 I might save ten, fifteen, twenty bucks by buying from a different retailer 322 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:15.160 or finding a coupon code, and some of us will spend an ungodly amount 323 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:18.319 of time to save those few dollars. Well, but then when it comes 324 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.319 to the biggest purchase we'll ever make, buying a home, we don't shop 325 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:23.240 around. We go with the lender maybe that our real estate agent recommends, 326 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:26.079 or we go with a friend or something like that. So it's not mortgage 327 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:30.880 rates or mortgage rates, and they're the same. And if somebody comes out 328 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:33.839 and says this week they're seven percent, that's not necessarily the case for everyone. 329 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:37.039 That's exactly right. That's the average. That's the average, and so 330 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.119 might you might find local banks or credit unions that are saying, now we've 331 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:44.480 got a six and a half percent rate for you with lower fees or something 332 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:48.599 like that too. And over the span of thirty years of having that mortgage, 333 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.680 those dollars add up. And so yeah, in California in particular, 334 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:56.160 we're talking about one hundred and thirty plus one thousand dollars average savings for shopping 335 00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:59.960 around, which is incredible. It's mind blowing. That comes out to like 336 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.599 three hundred and forty something dollars every single month. And so when we're talking 337 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.039 about shopping around, this is the number one thing you should be shopping for. 338 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.079 Shop at the local credit union, call a mortgage broker, talk to 339 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.559 a local bank lender like that. You want to make sure you cast your 340 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.839 net wide when you're shopping for a mortgage, because the savings can be ridiculous. 341 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.160 Okay, As always, such great advice Joel Larsguard, and you can 342 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:26.680 get more great advice on how to money with Joel Larsguard right here on KFI 343 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:29.319 Sundays from noon to two. Thanks so much. I look forward to talking 344 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.480 to you and finding more money saving tips next week. All right, next 345 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:36.759 week. Thanks Amy, All right, thanks Jill. You always have such 346 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:40.680 great, like relatable information for us. I love it. The co founder 347 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:45.079 of the Grossman Burne Foundation has been sentenced to fifteen years to life in prison 348 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:49.000 for crashing into and killing two young brothers in Westlake Village. Rebecca Grossman's lawyers 349 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:53.039 had asked for probation. The Port of Baltimore is back in business. The 350 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.319 port, which is a major commercial hub for cars and other items into the 351 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.519 US, closed when a container ship crashed into to and cause the collapse of 352 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:06.599 the Francis Scott Keybridge on March twenty sixth. It's now open for transit, 353 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.759 and in and out double double with fries and a drink now costs more than 354 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:14.319 ten dollars before tax. The president of In and Out says she tried to 355 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:18.240 keep prices down but had to raise them because of the state's new twenty dollars 356 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.680 minimum wage law for fast food workers. At six so five, it's handle 357 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:25.559 on the news. The UN Security Council has adopted a ceasefire resolution for the 358 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:30.680 Israel Hamas war. The question is will either side listen right now? Let's 359 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.920 say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim, We've got another reason 360 00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:37.839 to be leary of time shares. What's up? Yeah, let's say you 361 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:41.960 let's take an example here, imy, you own a time share, it's 362 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:47.559 in Kozomel, okay, and you've had it for some years. Maybe you 363 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:48.599 want to get rid of it. Maybe don't you visit it once or twice 364 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.079 a year. But suddenly you get this email or a letter in the mail 365 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:55.799 saying hey, or a phone call saying hey, I've got a buyer for 366 00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:57.519 your time share. You want to sell your time share? Then you say, 367 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.640 yeah, okay, well let's explore that. And they say, okay, 368 00:26:00.640 --> 00:26:03.359 well the buyers I have a buyer and they're willing to pay twice what 369 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:07.640 you paid for it. And all you need to do is pay a fee 370 00:26:07.720 --> 00:26:11.680 for an esciral account. Then we'll pay a fee for the title transfer, 371 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:15.079 the fee for the Mexican government, et cetera. These fees then start to 372 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:19.519 mount. Before you realize it, you're out several thousand dollars in the sale 373 00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:22.680 still has not been made, and it's months later and you're still in touch 374 00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:26.880 with this person who's promising to make a sale. That is it's a scam. 375 00:26:27.359 --> 00:26:30.720 I'm not even to say it might be it is a scam because the 376 00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:37.640 FBI says there should never be upfront prices or upfront costs or fees related to 377 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:40.000 a sale like that. That's what it's going to say, Like that should 378 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:41.720 be your first red leg boom. Well, first of all, getting an 379 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.880 unsolicited phone call or an email from somebody saying I want to buy your time 380 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:48.599 share if you didn't put it out there that you either have one or want 381 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.480 to sell it, that's another one, okay. So second right, okay, 382 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:59.240 So who's doing this? The Kalisco New Generation Cartel, the Golf Cartel, 383 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:06.119 the Sinaloa cartels, these ultra violent Mexican drug cartels are very often responsible 384 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:08.119 for this kind of thing, and increasingly responsible. According to the FBI, 385 00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.240 the scam has been going on for ten or twelve years. I've been listening 386 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:18.240 back to stories from the two mid two thousands or nine twenty ten about this 387 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:22.400 kind of scam being carried out even back then by the cartels. But they've 388 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.720 found that it's so lucrative that they've really stepped it up. So now the 389 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.799 FBI says that at least six thousand people over the last five years have lost 390 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:37.039 a total of three hundred million dollars, but undoubtedly both categories are much higher 391 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.279 than number of victims than the amount they've lost, because people don't want to 392 00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:45.079 admit that they've been scammed, and especially by a violent drug organization like these 393 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.799 cartels. Yeah, drugs and smuggling people just wasn't enough for the cartels. 394 00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:55.319 Okay, So are the people being coerced or just kind of convinced in the 395 00:27:55.359 --> 00:27:59.039 beginning, it's it's a sales job, right, It's like, hey, 396 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.000 why don't you go ahead, you can look at you You don't have to 397 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:03.640 sell your time share, you know, but I have a buyer. I 398 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.359 have a buyer who's ready to go, So let's get this thing going. 399 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.559 And then later on down the road, if you say I'm not interested anymore, 400 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:11.720 you've taken enough of my money. I'm not going to do this anymore, 401 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:15.400 they might say, Okay, well we're in touch with the FBI and 402 00:28:15.440 --> 00:28:18.640 you better pay or you're going to go to jail. So then it becomes 403 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.000 coercion, it becomes threats that go with it, and you know, it's 404 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:29.000 the whole goal is to keep the money flowing in and to groups like these, 405 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:32.400 Okay, And how do we protect ourselves against something like this. Watch 406 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.200 out for those red flags, first of all, And there's also kind of 407 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:41.319 a clearing house a group, an industry organization called the American Resort Development Association. 408 00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:45.519 And you probably have commercials on KFI from companies saying hey will help you 409 00:28:45.519 --> 00:28:48.559 get out of your time share. And you know those are legitimate companies and 410 00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:53.759 they most likely belong to this association, the ARDA, and they can help 411 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.319 you to deal with this situation or let you know what's real and what isn't 412 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:02.079 real. And if you do get scam, contact the FBI. I'd sell 413 00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:07.119 the quote from the FBI special agent the folks in New York saying, don't 414 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.279 be embarrassed if you get scammed, reach out to us. Let's try to 415 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.759 get these people behind bars. Absolutely. Okay, thank you so much for 416 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:18.119 the information. I didn't even know this was a thing, Jim, I 417 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.680 did neither before yesterday. Okay, have a great day. We'll talk to 418 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:25.119 you again soon. See you. All right, let's get back to some 419 00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:27.519 of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA 420 00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:33.359 School District says students and teachers data is for sale in the dark Web Superintendent 421 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.279 Alberto Carballo says the data was stolen in a cyber attack in twenty twenty two 422 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:42.880 and is showing up now being sold for one thousand dollars per small lot. 423 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:49.640 Experts say that data includes home addresses, relative contact information, and homelessness and 424 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:56.720 disability status. Hermosa Beach police are asking parents to educate their children about safety 425 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.279 before letting them hop on an e bike. Police have compared to some of 426 00:30:00.279 --> 00:30:03.039 the e bikes to electric motorcycles that are being ridden by miners on streets without 427 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.599 a license. Chromosa Police Chief Paula Baron says new city rules will allow police 428 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.240 to seize the bikes if kids are being reckless and won't be released until a 429 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:15.640 parent goes to the station. And that's important because we want the parents to 430 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.960 be aware, and many times they're not that their kids are behaving irresponsibly and 431 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.119 dangerously on the bikes. Le Baron says many of the e bikes exceed the 432 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:26.519 speed limit and it isn't just kids, but also adults who are breaking the 433 00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.920 law. Chris Adler kf I News filling up for a summer road trip is 434 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:36.519 getting cheaper. ABC's Alex Stones's gas is now seventeen cents a gallon, less 435 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.119 than a year ago. That's according to new data from the Energy Department. 436 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:44.599 Prices have gone down as gas demand has declined and oil prices have been lower. 437 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:48.720 The average price for regular unlet Eddy in La County is for eighty nine 438 00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:59.359 a gallon. Well Pattie LaBelle and Gladys Knight. We're among the guests that 439 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:03.079 in early Juneteenth celebration at the White House President Biden. The First Lady, 440 00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:07.799 along with the Vice President and her husband, hosted the event last night on 441 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:11.079 the South Lawn. The federal holiday on the nineteenth commemorates the day the last 442 00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:17.079 slaves in Texas learned they had been emancipated. With a possible strike looming, 443 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:22.680 Food for Less is presented what it calls its best offer to six thousand workers. 444 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.240 The new contract offer includes payhikes up to three twenty five an hour over 445 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:30.079 the next three years. Six thousand union members are voting. The union plans 446 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:36.279 to announce whether workers have voted to authorize a strike on Friday. Couple NASA 447 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:41.559 astronauts who caught a ride to the International Space Station on the first Crude Boeing 448 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.039 Starliner spacecraft are going to be staying in space at least for an extra week. 449 00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:48.519 NASA says their return to Earth has been delayed so engineers can keep an 450 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:53.480 eye on three small helium leaks on the spacecraft. Tom bergeron, former host 451 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.039 of Dancing with the Stars, one of my favorites, will be the inaugural 452 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:02.079 recipient of the Critics' Choice as Sociation's Sam Rubin Award. The award given in 453 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:07.640 memory of KTLA entertainment reporter and longtime member of the Critics' Choice Association Board of 454 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:09.880 Directors, who died last month of a heart attack at the age of sixty 455 00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:14.680 four. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, 456 00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:19.799 you could soon be getting two vaccines for the price one. Moderna says it's 457 00:32:19.839 --> 00:32:25.279 got a new COVID flu vaccine right now. Let's say good morning to geological 458 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.519 survey in Pasadena seismologist Susan Huff. Good morning, Susan, Good morning. 459 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.759 So we wanted to talk to you today, Susan, because we've had several 460 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:39.039 small earthquakes in southern California in the past week. I've felt a couple of 461 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:44.599 them. We had the two near Pasadena, then several others around Newport Beach. 462 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:49.559 The largest of that was a three point six. Is this normal activity 463 00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.480 or is it a sign of things to come? Well, yes and no. 464 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:58.200 So if you look over the long terms, that for an answer. 465 00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:02.559 Over the long term, there there's a couple of magnitude threes somewhere in California 466 00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:08.039 every day on average over the long term. A lot of them are out 467 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:13.839 in the remote areas. They're off of the Cape Mendocino up near Eureka, 468 00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:17.799 they're in the desert. They're central California, so they're not really noticed, 469 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.400 and it's just if they happen to land in Elserina, which is also quite 470 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.319 close to my house, we notice them because there's a lot of people around 471 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.119 to feel them. So threes aren't that unusual. There was kind of a 472 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:37.240 little flurry of events over the last couple of weeks that got people's attention. 473 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:43.359 There was a four point five up near the geysers where there are earthquakes associated 474 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:50.240 with the geothermal plant up there, and sometimes that happens to just get more 475 00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:55.079 little earthquakes than normal, and there's no connection at least that we understand right 476 00:33:55.079 --> 00:34:01.599 now when things like that happen. Okay, we know that big earthquakes do 477 00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:07.319 happen periodically, but there is still no way to really predict about the next 478 00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:10.679 one, right, Yeah, I mean that's what everyone wants to know when 479 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.559 the big one's coming, and that's what we really science just can't do. 480 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:20.639 We do know that every little earthquake, every earthquake, raises the odds slightly 481 00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:25.159 of more earthquakes, so typically you get after shock. So there was a 482 00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:29.960 three point four in near El Serrino, and then there was the two point 483 00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:31.800 eight two days later, so that was an aftershock, and that's something we 484 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:37.079 understand. There is a chance, a small chance that an earthquake will be 485 00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:42.559 followed by something bigger, and it's usually about one in twenty that something bigger's 486 00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:46.039 going to happen within a few days. If something bigger happens, it's usually 487 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:49.639 not a whole lot bigger. So if you have a four, there's a 488 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.400 one in twenty chance of something a little bit bigger than four. Oh there's 489 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:58.119 a lot to unpack with earthquake statistics, but basically, if you feel shaking, 490 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:01.039 it's reasonable to take that as a heads up. You know that you 491 00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:06.559 just a reminder that we live in an earthquake country. That big earthquakes are 492 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.679 always possible, and when you feel shaking, that makes them a little more 493 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:15.599 possible. Doesn't mean the big one is definitely coming, but you know, 494 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.239 just just a heads up. Okay. So if when you there is an 495 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.119 earthquake and then there's a one in twenty chance that there's going to be another 496 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.079 one, does each successive one increase the chances or is it still the same 497 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.639 odds? So, as far as we know, every earthquake has its own 498 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:37.760 odds of triggering something, so it's you know, and it doesn't depend on 499 00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:40.119 the magnitude. So say you have a magnitude five, there's a one in 500 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:44.639 twenty chance of something bigger than a five. Say you have a six, 501 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:47.719 there's a one in twenty chance of something bigger than a six. So the 502 00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:53.880 odds of a strong earthquake in California are never higher when a strong earthquake has 503 00:35:53.960 --> 00:36:00.960 just happened, which is kind of it's kind of intuitive, but that's yeah, 504 00:36:01.159 --> 00:36:07.559 because earthquakes can trigger they release stress, but they can trigger other earthquakes 505 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.320 on adjacent faults. So yeah, I just you know, we all know 506 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.280 the things we're supposed to do. When you know, to prepare for earthquakes, 507 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.320 and so the earthquakes that we feel are reminders, they're also and if 508 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:24.440 you start to feel shaking, we want people to drop cover and hold on. 509 00:36:25.079 --> 00:36:30.920 That's the best protective action. So you get under a table or desk 510 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:34.239 if you can, or if you can, prop and protect your head. 511 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:39.360 If you're disabled, try to duck and protect your head as best you can. 512 00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:45.239 So if you feel shaking, that's basically a drill to you know, 513 00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:50.920 to put that into action and hopefully it won't be anything big, but if 514 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:55.199 it's still that that drill and that practice, and always a good reminder too 515 00:36:55.239 --> 00:36:58.119 that when you feel a little jilt, you go, do I have a 516 00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:02.000 earthquake? Kick? Ready? Know? Exactly? Yeah? Yeah? Okay. 517 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:08.360 Is it frustrating Susan as a seismologist that you guys can't kind of crack 518 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:15.440 the nut of how to figure out when earthquakes are going to hit because you're 519 00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:20.760 trying, right well, seismologists have been trying for one hundred years. And 520 00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:24.199 the network was installed first in southern California. It was the first time that 521 00:37:24.280 --> 00:37:29.559 people were really even monitoring local earthquakes, and there was a whole lot of 522 00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:36.159 innovation that came out of the Pasadena Seismology Lab. The idea was to track 523 00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:38.800 the little earthquakes and you'd see patterns and you'd know where the big earthquakes were 524 00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:44.519 looming. And that just it hasn't panned out. The little earthquakes pop off 525 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:50.559 on their own time with no rhyme or reason that we understand, and yet 526 00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:54.599 the big earthquakes are. They're out there looming and we don't know that they're 527 00:37:54.760 --> 00:38:00.400 coming. And one of my colleagues pointed out is actually recently, the way 528 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:05.800 I'll lend we can predict earthquakes in the sense that matters that we know which 529 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:09.599 areas are prone to big earthquakes. We have seismic hazard maps, so we 530 00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:14.639 can't say exactly what it's going to happen, and that frustrates everybody, but 531 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:19.800 we know they're inevitable, so we know that we need to build the buildings 532 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:23.360 and the infrastructure appropriately to wish them them. We know, and take all 533 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:30.320 those preparations, and that really does. It reduces the loss of life enormously 534 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:36.079 in earthquakes, and that's what's important. So a good reminder when you feel 535 00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:38.960 a little shaking, first drop cover and hold on, and then make sure 536 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.400 that you're set with your earthquake kick for when the big one does happen, 537 00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:47.599 because we're in a prone area that we are. Yes, all right, 538 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:51.880 Susan Huff. Thank you so much for your information. I feel much better 539 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.360 after talking to you because I will say things have been you know, our 540 00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:59.760 nerves are a little rattled after several earthquakes in a week, so to speak. 541 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:02.199 All right, Thank you so much, Susan. Take care, Thank 542 00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:05.800 you. All right, Let's get back to some of the stories coming out 543 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.400 of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Four people from Norwalk have been arrested 544 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:15.000 for allegedly stealing a whole lot of avocados from a ranch in Ventura County. 545 00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:19.559 The four were pulled over Sunday afternoon, leaving the ranch. Ventura County Sheriff's 546 00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.920 deputy to say they discovered hundreds of pounds of stolen avocados in the vehicle, 547 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.440 which were returned to the owner. Officials say the four arrested are part of 548 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:31.639 an agricultural theft group that may have also targeted businesses in the Santa Clarita Valley. 549 00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:37.079 LA's new plan to fight nuisance hotels has been delayed. Instead of going 550 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:39.960 into effect on July first, a planned requirement that hotels have a police permit. 551 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.039 It's been sent back to a city council committee for further discussion. Raye 552 00:39:44.079 --> 00:39:47.760 Hotel of the Northeast LA Hotel Association said Friday, pushing the permits on good 553 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:52.960 hotels is a heavy burden. To have the special interests weaponize our police department 554 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:58.280 in a permitting process is unacceptable. The permit requirement is part of a sweeping 555 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.159 effort to further regulate nuisance hotel in short term rentals while also preserving affordable housing 556 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:07.119 in downtown La. Michael Monks KFI News closely watched. Alzheimer's drug for people 557 00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:13.760 with mild dementia has been endorsed by Federal Health Advisors. If the FDA agrees 558 00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:17.159 with its advisors, the drug by Eli Lilly would be just the second Alzheimer's 559 00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:23.320 drug approved to slow cognitive decline. Despite discrepancies in how Eli Lilly studied its 560 00:40:23.360 --> 00:40:28.360 drug, the panel says it should be approved broadly for various patients with the 561 00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.800 disease. People who own pools and hot tubs in southern California are going to 562 00:40:31.840 --> 00:40:36.039 have to switch to electric heaters because of a new law. The rules have 563 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.920 been approved by the South Coast air Quality Management District to help protect the environment 564 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:44.519 from harmful emissions. Owner of Abstract Pool Designs, Mike Jones says electric heaters 565 00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:46.840 take longer to heat poles, but there are some benefits. They are more 566 00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:51.920 efficient if you want to maintain your pool temperature for a long period of time, 567 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:53.880 like all summer long, and it is a lot cheaper to run than 568 00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:58.719 a gas heater. The rule approved Friday would require electric heaters for new homes 569 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.039 starting January first, twenty twenty eight. The switch for existing homes would start 570 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:06.960 on January first, twenty thirty one, while allowing heaters to reach the end 571 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.840 of their age as defined by the AQMD. Chris Adler KFI News. Tonight, 572 00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.400 the Dodgers take on the Texas Rangers in LA. The Boys in Blue 573 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:17.480 are back at home. First pitch goes out at seven. 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