Hey, it's Jennifer Jones. Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M
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bad when they start with Jennifer Jones Late. Here she is with your morning
wake up call. God bless America. Have you? Are you one of
those people like me who actually has a summer wardrobe and a winter wardrobe.
Not that I'm not fancy pants, but I'm just saying for closet space,
right Like I like to take all the sweatshirts out, hold them up,
I put them away in the spare bedroom closet because I don't need them anymore.
It's spring, it's summer. And then we get this this cold front
that's sitting over the top of us right now. Now, remember over the
weekend, I was in my garage sweating my bohunkas off because it was like
close to ninety And this morning I get in the car and it's fifty something
at any point, and mother Nature's gonna be fickle basically all week. So
I already got some sprinkles and things on the way in this morning, so
you'll probably encounter that as well. And then the bulk of the actual rain
isn't supposed to come until tomorrow and Thursday, maybe stay into Friday and then
warm again for the weekend. But you know what, let's be honest if
this is what we have to gripe about in the world. Oh hey,
he can't put my sweatshirt away. I feel like life's pretty good, am
I right? Tyler? I like the cold, well, I do too.
I don't want to ever have to put my sweatshirt away. As what
I'm saying, I see it. I'll find a way to wear it.
Okay, it'll be that in a speedo to work or not. Let's talk
about the writers, Okay. In La they say they're going on strike for
the first time in fifteen years because the studios and the riders failed to reach
a contract. Sad story. Three people have been killed in the crash of
a small plane in Big Bear, and then two teen boys were stabbed in
front of LA High School. Five oh five. Do we have possible progress
in the debt ceiling talks? Maybe? And this follows Janet Yellen issuing a
pretty dire warning. So we'll get into that with Karen Traverse in just a
few minutes. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Writers in LA say they are going on strike for
the first time in fifteen years, as studios and riders just could not reach
a new agreement. Fifteen years has passed since the Writers Guild of America last
win on a strike that lasted one hundred days and cost the industry billions.
The union says half of its overall eleven thousand members are earning minimal wages,
and in LA it's not nearly enough to get by. The union says streaming
services I've cut down the number of episodes in a series, which cuts working
hours. The union says about ninety eight percent of its members last month voted
for a strike if an agreement couldn't be reached. Chris Adler ka FI News
okay. So, which shows will be impacted the most? Looks like immediately
the new episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live, That Tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon,
Real Time with Bill Meyer, maher I always want to call them my heart,
Late Night with Seth Myers, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. All
of those also daytime TV and soap operas will feel the impact of ongoing production
schedules. Shout out to my boy Ken. You know, Scottie Baldwin and
I are buddies. We had like ten minute conversation at the car washed over
here. I know, Tyler, I know that you're shaking your head because
you're jealous. Do you want to see me and Scottie Baldwin jj LKFI.
I wasn't weird or anything at the end of it, once I realized who
it was and that, oh my god, I'm having a conversation with Scottie
Baldwin at the car wash, and I was like, hey, before you
leave, can we take a selfie? Nicest guy ever by the way,
all right, let's get back to some of these other stories. He was
fantastic. Three people have been killed in the crash of a small plane in
Big Bear. That plane went down in a field yesterday afternoon, about a
mile east of the Big Bear Airport. Cruise arrived in minutes and they found
three people aboard the plane dead at the scene. Two boys were stabbed in
front of La High School. The students who were taken to the hospital yesterday,
School district Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says students deserve to go to school free of
fear. He says that counselors and mental health support will be provided to the
who need it. Police will be around campus today for additional security. A
man from Westlake Village has admitted to selling heroin that resulted in a fatal overdose.
Prosecutors say Bradford Shepley and two other men were cut on security cameras in
a target parking lots selling the heroin. US Attorney spokesman Karen McAvoy says the
man who bought the drugs in twenty seventeen overdose the next day. The victim
was twenty three years old, an overdose in the heroine in his bedroom at
his parents' house. Shepley will be sentenced in August. Prosecutors have agreed to
recommend no more than fifteen and a half years of prison. Bloy Trolley,
k if I News, Karen Travers, Good morning to you from the White
House correspondence dinner to right back into all right, let's talk about the debt
ceiling now. So how are things? Do we have any progress in the
debt ceiling talks? It was a really busy day yesterday and there was a
flurry set off when Janet Yellen, the Treasury Secretary, released a letter that
she had sent to congressional leaders saying that the new date now the warning that
the US could default on its debts as early as June first. This moves
up the timeline slightly, and it's also the most firm date we have seen
from the Treasury Secretary. And what this means now is that the US is
essentially one month away from a potential economic catastrophe if Congress doesn't act. She
sent this letter and said that the lawmakers need to raise the debt feeling as
soon as possible or risk severe hardship to American families and harm to our global
leadership position, the US position. And this has sparked some actual action.
Now we'll see what it does. But the President yesterday, we have learned,
has invited congressional leaders to the White House for talks on May ninth.
Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, has accepted that invitation and they will then
sit down and talk about things. They're not budging on their positions on this
based on what they were all saying last night, but at least there's a
conversation taking place and we'll see where that goes next week at the White House
when we are at loggerheads like this, but we have a fall off the
cliff impending? What is it? Or what typically or should I say maybe
who typically has to break or bend a little bit more than the other side.
Yeah, that's the great question. And you know, you start looking
at politics here and there's always a blame game, and who looks like they're
going to get more of the blame and who the politics reflect badly on,
and everybody starts sizing up how this might work for them. The talking point
that the White House keeps hitting on is that Republicans, when they were in
charge of Congress during the Trump administration, raised the dead ceiling three times without
any conditions, and they should do the same thing now, but they're doing
it with strings attached, or that's what they want to do right now,
with strings attached, and they're saying that is pure politics. Republicans are saying
enough is enough. That is why we're trying to do it with strings attached.
Because spending is out of control and we have to draw a hard line
here because we need to reign in federal spending. The President's response to that
is sure, let's have that conversation, but only when a threat of a
desault is taken off the table and the US economy is no longer in jeopardy.
Okay. And I feel like that threat is not even not taken off
the table. It was put on the table by Janet Yellen. So somebody's
got a break at some point here. Yeah, Yeah, that threat,
it's still very much on the table. That threat is coming on June first,
and until Congress passes legislation to raise the dead ceiling, it will still
be on the table. And that's an important point here too. The president
can't just raise the debt limit himself. Congress has to pass legislation, then
he has to sign it. The House did pass legislation last week that raised
the debt limit, but it had all those other things attached to it that
the president would not sign. It was also dead on arrival in the Senate.
They weren't even history so much and might help to do is just sit
as they have done before. All right, Karen, thank you so much.
That was good timing when we were starting to lose. You have a
great day, see you later. Thanks bye. That's ABC's Karen Travers,
it was all going so well until the end. So we'll see what happens
today. So it's um the President having Kevin McCarthy, Chuck Schumer, I
saw Mitch McConnell. So you've got all the big boys coming in to try
and talk, and it'll be interesting what concessions are made. I do feel
like they're not going to let us default, and so honestly, with Kevin
McCarthy saying like, hey, I'm not going to move, I'll agree to
meet with you as of right now that we're in the you know, May
second, we have until June one in political time, or in Washington,
DC time, that's eons. So I have a feeling they'll get something hammered
out. Don't mark my words or anything, but I just have a feeling.
Let's get back to some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. California's Department of Water Resources has done its fifth snow survey
of the season near Lake Tahoe so the stick. The manual survey yesterday recorded
fifty nine inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of thirty inches,
which is two hundred forty one percent of average for that location. On May
first, electronic greetings from one hundred thirty snow sensors that were put all around
the state, So the statewide snowpack is now equivalent of forty nine point two
inches. That's still two hundred and fifty four percent of average for the date.
Well, the new chief of CalFire says despite all the rain and snow
and so cal it will be a very active wildfire season. Joe Tyler says
the first quarter of this year has already been a busy one. CalFire in
the California Fire Service has already responded to more than one hundred and sixty three
thousand emergencies across the state. End of those, he says, six hundred
forty were wildfires, with one hundred thirty five of those in just the last
week. Tyler said yesterday, as they kickoff Wildfire Awareness Week, people need
to realize it's not if, but when they'll be impacted by a wildfire.
In Chino Hills, Steve Gregory Koff, I knew, see that's what I
was telling you about my firefighter buddy. He was telling me that those fires
that had popped up already in sam Ernardino and the Riverside counties. I believe
the thing is that, yeah, we had a great season of water.
It was wonderful, but then it caused all this fuel to grow and then
it dried out. So you know, I'm grateful for this little bit of
rain. Maybe it's going to push you know, the fire season at least
by a few days. Anything would help, but it makes sense that this
could be a real humdinger of a season. At least six people have been
killed in the highway crash in Illinois that happened during a severe dust storm.
The pile up yesterday involved more than seventy cars, trucks, and tractor trailers.
One woman says she was driving toward the crash when a guy on a
motorcycle warned her to stop. His motorcycle was covered with the dust. He
was covered with the dust, and he said had he had had to bust
out a couple of one of those in a ladies car to pull her out.
Another driver says it felt like a war zone. The National Weather Service
says newly plowed farm fields contributed to all that dust. I heard a cut
from a guy today, A SoundBite from a guy who said it looked like
He said, all I could tell you is imagine you're driving along and you
see, oh yeah, there's some dust ahead of you, and then somebody
takes a brown blanket and throws it across your windshield. Thought that was the
best description. Writers in LA have rejected a last ditch offer from production companies
allowing for a strike for higher pay. The Writer's Guild of America West is
striking for the first time in fifteen years. The WGA says about half of
its eleven thousand members are writers who say their work is devalued. The contract
between the writers and production companies expired last night. At midnight, the guild
told its members all script riding is to immediately cease. We had three people
killed in a crash of a small plane in Big Bear. That plane went
down in a field yesterday afternoon, just about a mile east of the Big
Bear Airports, so close. Crews arrived in minutes, but found all three
people aboard the plane dead at the scene. Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Aeron Katursky, So let's get the latest. If you'd give that to
us on a Former L magazine columnist Ejene Carroll, who was accusing former President
Trump of sexual assault. So what was the latest in this, And a
lot of people had wondered. I know, the line of questioning that you
and I were discussing yesterday was Joe Tacapino talking about the defense attorney talking about
why she hadn't come forward, And now maybe we're getting that answered. Yeah.
She says she never came forward because she's a member nearly eighty years old
now of what she called the silent generation women of that era who were taught
and trained, she said, to keep their chins up and to not complain.
And she also said that Donald Trump was powerful. A friend advised her
that she had we had like two hundred lawyers and would bury her. So
she never thought the police would take her seriously. She also says Jim that
she felt shame and she just didn't she would have done anything but go to
the police. So that just wasn't in her head, she said. But
good Offense seemed to suggest that not going to the police was part of a
series of behaviors that, to the defense, seemed out of step with someone
who had suffered the kind of trauma she claimed to. Not only did she
not go to the police. She didn't seek any medical or psychological help.
She didn't throw away the dress she wore, she didn't stopped shopping at Burgdor's.
There was a list of some two dozen purchases from two thousand and one
to twenty eighteen. She said she watched Donald Trump on The Apprentice because she
said she thought it was a good show. So all of these things to
the defense, you know, it seemed to infer that maybe this didn't happen
because Carol didn't act like it happened. See, and that's that's where we
start to split hairs over how should a victim of rape behave? Who the
hell knows? I mean that everybody's going to react differently. And that's what
the redirect her attorney suggested. You know, is there a prescribe to set
a behavior that a you know, a rape victim should behave like and that
you know, egene, Carol said, no, some women scream, some
don't, some go to the pullies, some don't, I mean, And
so she had even told the defense attorney at one point, and you can't
beat up on me for not screaming. He raped me, she said,
whether you know, I screamed or not. So she has an answer for
every every question or inference the defense raised. It's just a matter of what,
you know, how the jury sees her, because she did describe a
kind of a public persona the magazine advice columnist who always said her life was
fabulous because she didn't want to burden anyone with her problems, versus the private
person who says she suffered because of this attack from the mid nineteen nineties.
You know, I think in just hearing this and kind of a lot of
the things would then go to a he said, she said, or a
how should a rape victim ac kind of thing. The only thing that I
think is a little bit strange that I feel like Tacopino can kind of hang
his hand on for a little bit was the fact that she watched The Apprentice.
And again it's not to say how a rape victim would act, but
it just seems like for her to call it what she call it, like
a witty competition show or something like that. For her to enjoy it that
way, I guess is a little bit strange. I mean, I guess
maybe he could kind of pick that apart, like you had an opportunity not
to see the guy that you claim raped you, yet you continually watched his
show. Maybe that's a little bit weird. Well, that that I think
was the whole point of the cross examination, Like she did all these weird
things. You saved the dress, you didn't burn it, you know,
she said, oh, it's a lovely dress. You asked the apprentice.
But I thought it was a very good TV show. I enjoyed the competitions.
You know, she did other things. She kept shopping at burnt Or.
She said it's not a place I'm afraid to enter, and that there
was a list of like two dozen purchases that totaled more than thirteen thousand dollars.
So, you know, there's some quirky things about her her story that
the defense tried to exploit. And again, you know, she's got an
answer. It's just whether the jury, you know, use it or sees
it as evidence that she made something up as the defense suggests, to sell
a book. All right, thank you so much, Aaron for the update.
Thanks all right, see you later. ABC's Aeron Katursky, Im,
that is not a jury I would want to sit on, I think because
the reason that I would would hesitate to want to be on that jury.
Is there is a question about the timing of her coming forward and it coinciding
with the book. On the other hand, you never want to try and
I guess dissect or split hairs on how or when a victim of rape should
act. If Donald Trump did those things to her, who is like,
you know, we should be ashamed. If we're trying to say that,
there's some I don't know guideline, check the boxes. This is how a
rape victim is supposed to act. You know what, until you're raped,
what do we know? How do I know I would act? How do
you know you would act? I don't know. But the social media part
and the why I'm watching Donald Trump on the Apprentice part, that's a little
that's a little odd. And the part about the timing with the book and
the allegations maybe stick to those, But yeah, dissecting how a rape victim
should act. No. Seven bodies have been found at a rural property in
Oklahoma during the search for two missing teenagers. Parts go out to the families
and friends, school mates and everyone else, and it's just a tragedy.
Sheriff Eddie Rice says. The remains found yesterday are believed to include the two
teens and a convicted sex offender. Police were also looking for the teens had
apparently been traveling with him. The bodies were found near the town of Henrietta,
which is about ninety miles east of Oklahoma City. Singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot
has died. His family, says the Canadian Folks. Singer died of natural
causes yesterday at a hospital in Toronto. He was known for songs like That
One, Carefree, Highway, Sundown, and The Wreck of Edmund. The
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald got. He received five Grammy nominations. Over the
years. He won seventeen Juno Awards. Gordon Lightfoot was eighty four Suddendown's My
Favorite Not that you care, but I love that song. A United Airlines
passenger on a flight from San Francisco to Houston had to be restrained after he
apparently got mad because they asked him to move seats. Naya Jimenez, who
was also on the flight Sunday, says the man was combative with airline staff
and nearly jumped out of the plane at one point. After he paused for
a minute, he ran towards where the like the pilot area is where the
emergency exit doors are, and attempted to open it. Successfully opened the emergency
exit, She says, a bunch of people pulled the guy back. Are
we really at that point in society where hi, sir, can you move?
Wah? Is that where we are now? Oh? This story so
bizarre, such a one in a million kind of thing. Family members of
a bride killed on her wedding night in South Carolina are raising awareness about the
dangers of impaired driving. Samantha Miller was killed Friday when she and her new
husband, Eric were leaving their wedding in a golf cart. Police say the
twenty five a twenty five year old woman, rammed the cart from behind.
Miller's mom says her daughter's alleged killer made a terrible decision that changed lives forever.
She literally ran into my daughter going sixty five miles an hour because Sam
and Eric were on the back of the golf cart, and so she basically
just ran my child. Oh my god. The family says. The groom
is recovering from a brain injury and numerous broken bones after the golf cart rolled
over several times he was thrown a hundred yards. The woman driving has been
charged with three counts of felony dui and one count of reckless homicide. Television
and movie riders are headed to the picket lines. The WGA voted to strike
last night for the first time in fifteen years. Chris Escobar is the executive
director of the Atlanta Film Festival and says the strike will hurt Georgia as well
as New York in LA anything that could put a halt into people being able
to work and to be able to get to work, and for businesses to
be able to supply. I mean, that's obviously a huge concern. The
sag AFTER National Board says it stands in solidity with the union as well as
the Director's Guild of America and the IATs. Negotiations between the studio and the
riders in March, that's when they started, and we still have nothing.
On the second of May, and the US military says, hey, look
up in the sky, it's a bird. It's a plane. It's another
mysterious balloon. This one's been seen over parts of Hawaii. But they say
it poses no threat to aerial traffic or national security. But They say it's
not clear who it belongs to or what exactly it is. The military has
been tracking the balloon since late last week. Officials say it did not go
over any sensitive areas. A Chinese spy balloon flew over parts of the US
in February February before it was shot down. Jim Ryan, Good morning to
you. So let's talk about you know, a lot of times these an
elderly person sometimes won't shoot Anybody who gets caught in a scam oftentimes just doesn't
say anything because they don't want to look like, oh gosh, I was
that dummy who got caught. Not scam. That's what they're afraid people will
think of. But there's a gentleman eighty years old who's a Navy veteran,
and I love that he's bucking a trend like, hey, I got caught.
You easily could too. Yeah, And that's the warning he's trying to
put out there. His name is John McKendrick. He lives in West Palm
Beach. As he said, he's a Navy veteran, got his master's degree.
Smart guy, he's tech savvy, but he still fell for this scam.
The Norton Security Protection scam. You get a note from Norton Security saying,
hey, your subscription for your computer security is about to expire. Do
you want to renew it or do you want to cancel it? So you
get in touch with the company. What's really frightening to me, Jen is
that John McKendrick had the presence of mind to say, no, I don't
know about this. So instead of relying on the phone number that was provided
to him by quote Norton Security Protection unquote, he googled Norton Security Protection,
went out, found the website, and called the phone number that he found
there. He still was connected to scammers. Because these scameras are able to
spoof a website, they can make one very similar to what the actual company
website is, so that makes it extra difficult to try to thwart this kind
of thing. These people are unscrupulous, and you might think, well,
they say, well, this guy's eighty years old, he's living on his
retirement, he's just got a little level. Let's leave him alone and move
onto the knocks. No, no, no, no, they were.
They play on that the guy's age, They play on his unfamiliarity with how
the scam wight work. And they know that he's got a pile of money
that he's sitting on to live on, and they don't mind taking it away
from him, So that's what they do. You gotta be careful because companies
like or the scammeras will use a name like Norton or Microsoft or geek Squad
or Amazon in their pitches to try to buy some confidence from you, to
get you to buy into it and say, hmm, this looks legitimate.
Even the phone number on your caller ID might say Microsoft, and you know
it's They're able to spoof just about anything, including websites and phone numbers.
Tyler in my ear while you were talking and said, wait a minute,
he googled it. And and then does Google. Is there any responsibility or
on us on them to make sure that all of the stuff that's on their
website is legit? Well not really, but as soon as they find out
something like that this has happened, they'll yank that website off of there.
And you know, but it's too late then for a lot of folks,
And it would have been for McKendrick if he had not you know, gotten
And in fact it was too late for him because he got pulled in the
scammers and had hold of him. They were able to gain access to his
computer, gain his trust. First of all, they call it an a
con because it relies on your confidence. That's what con is short for,
right, And so you know, it's just it's horrific. And I just
hate too that he was planning on using some of this money to go to
London, I guess, to have the what celebration of life for his wife,
right that really I don't know why that part just it kills me.
Yeah, I mean, ninety four thousand dollars right out the window. And
this was money, you're right, for this tribute to his wife that I
think it was in France actually, but and money that he was going to
live on and now it's gone. So I think he's relying. He's hoping
the bank and maybe the bank will take mercy on him. They've got insurance
and maybe they'll be able to make him whole again. But catching the scammers
almost impossible. Well, I just again give this guy kudos. I mean,
obviously he's a war hero and now he's a hero probably for a lot
of other elderly people, just to give them shoot and not even elderly people.
For me, I appreciate this guy coming forward right here. Whether you're
eighty or eighteen, it's possible to fall for something like this. And because
the scammers are geniuses in a way, evil geniuses. Yeah, exactly,
evil genius. Yeah yeah, I like that. That's better big jerks.
All right, Jim, thank you so much. I appreciate it too.
Yeah. Well, I think that just proves that, you know, it
can happen to anybody, anybody, and you know it now. I don't
know if you're like me, I just assume everything is a scam until you
go to use your credit card and they say that, you know, like
it'll get declined, and you're like what And you call the company and they
say, we called you five days ago because we suspected fraud, and you
never called us back. I thought that was spam. I didn't think it
was actually you guys that might have happened to one of us. They turn
it right back on, you know, they just go through that did you
make this purchase? Yes? Did you make this purchase? Yes? But
now, in the assumption that I'm going to get, you know, screwed
over by something, I just don't do anything anymore, tell us you're a
shopoholic, gen without telling us that you're a shopoholic, A bit of a
shopoholic when your credit card company says there's irregular activity on your account because you're
shopping so much. You know what, though, But if they looked,
it would probably be like what, she didn't go to Target or Goodwill or
eBay. She actually went to a real store. She went to a Nordstrom
rack. What cause for concern? I'm telling you. Former President Trump will
be on CNN again. CNN says the former president has been confirmed for an
appearance at a CNN town hall. Caitlin Collins will moderate the town hall at
Saint Anselm's College in New Hampshire next week. The booking may be a sign
that Trump is trying to reach beyond Republicans to find more votes for the twenty
twenty four election. CNN has been trying to get more Republicans to appear on
its network since new management took over. This would be Trump's first official appearance
on CNN since the twenty sixteen presidential campaign. Amy King KFI News, all
Right, you've heard us talking about AM radio being removed from new cars and
trucks. Yeah, that's a possibility right now. And if you remove access
to the very AM radio stations that millions of Americans count on, like this
one for local emergency information, especially when your cell phone is down, you've
now lost power and then AM is the lifeline. Right THEEMA and first responders
across the country rely heavily on AM radio to deliver public warnings and emergency because
of AM's unmatched reach resiliency. And don't forget it's free now. This hits
home for most of us. And do you think it's right for you to
lose access to KFI when you're on the road. I didn't think. So.
You need to make your voice heard on this issues. How can you
do that? Text the letters AM to five to eight eight six and tell
Congress to keep AM radio in all cars and trucks. That's the letters AM
to five to eight eight six and tell Congress. Hey, Congress, people,
keep AM radio in all our cars and trucks. Standard messaging and data
rates apply. Michelle Steinberg joins us this morning the director of the Wildlife Division
of the National Fire Protection Association. Michelle, Good morning to you. Good
morning, Jennifer. You know I was just doing a story. One of
my reporters had filed something about how this fire season, specifically CalFire was talking
about this fire season. Yeah, the rain was awesome, but then all
that rain turns into fuel, that fuel dries out and look at all the
potential for wildfires we have. And so that just perfectly coincided with what you're
talking about today, right, we're talking about Wildfare Community Preparedness Day, which
is this coming Saturday, May sixth, and it's a chance for people to
get ahead of when those fuels will dry out and get prepared for wildfire.
If you have a house that's got I don't know, any space around it,
I know, we talk about defensible space and if you're on a property
that's got some land about around it, what is the proper defensible space area
that you should have? Right, so we talk about preparing your home and
working your way out into that so called defensible space, and really what it's
doing is working in this area that can help prevent your home from igniting from
a wildfire. So these colncepts are very similar, and what we try to
focus on is getting people to take a look at their roof, walls,
windows, vents, any place ember can catch and ignite or enter the home
to try to prevent that, and then working out starting with the first five
feet away from your house, and that extent could go out to about one
hundred feet. It really depends on the property parcel itself, but even in
that first five feet you can make a real difference in the safety of your
home. And you know, one thing that we all hate to do is
clean out our gutters. Nobody likes that. But if you think about all
of the fuel that's in those gutters and God forbid an ember come along like
that boom, you've got an attic fire and forget your house right. Cleaning
your gutters seems like such a kind of ordinary, boring thing to do,
but it's really effective. And if you notice that you're getting a lot of
material onto your roof and guard as you might think about working whether it's a
tree specialist or a landscape or to see can we trim back some of those
overhanging branches that could also pose an issue, or trying to reduce some of
that debris that comes down onto your house and right around your house. That's
real important to rake out. Also at the base of the house, to
get that kind of material away from your siding, away from the edge of
your home, just within about that five feet. And you know one thing
that a lot of us, You sit on your couch, you look out
the window, you see the grass is a little high in the yard.
But you don't you think yourself, I'll get it next weekend, and maybe
next weekend is going to be a little too late. Well, that's the
thing. What we're trying to do with this Welfare Community Preparedness Day is a
reminder, in a rallying call to say, hey, let's get out there
now. Hopefully it's good weather and you can go take care of things.
And sometimes working with your family, working with your neighbors, that can make
as that are pretty mundane a little bit more enjoyable. So that's another great
aspect of our having our prep day happen on May six. So that's that's
just something we recommend that people kind of stay on that maintenance. That's one
of the most important things you can do and really really effective. And one
of the things that I never even thought about, but was that a lot
of people store stuff under their decks or porches and those things might ignite I
never even kind of thought about that. I thought, oh, they're under
there. It's kind of wet and moist, you know, damp underneath your
deck. But I guess that can just as easily ignite as anything else.
Sure, and so a lot of times if you've got an elevated deck,
what we would recommend is think about some screening or as you say, remove
some of those items that might be flammable if embers, if debris is blowing
in there, say like pine needles or other things are collecting there, you
know that embers are going to go there too. So that's where that's where
we try to pay attention and too. That is, anything attached to your
house is part of your house. When fire is concerned, it will have
that path of ignition right to the home. So that's why we recommend to
clear out those areas as much as you can for anything that could catch fire.
Where can people go for all this information. We have a great website
at Wildfire prep day dot org. It's part of NFPAS websites that gives tips
and tools. It's got some great little videos to actually show you some of
the things you can do. Project Toolkit. If people are excited about what
they're going to do on May six, they can share that on a map
and tell the world about it, and that's just a great place to start,
all right. Thank you so much for your time, Michelle, and
hopefully people me heed this warning and go around the house and just see,
you know, what could catch fire, and you know, just do a
tiny little bit of maintenance might be you know, a big help in the
future should a wildfire ever start around you. Thanks Michelle, Thank you,
Jennifer, See you later. That is Michelle Steinberg. She is director of
the Wildlife Division of the National Fire Protection Association. Some one of my parents
lived up in the Sticks in Shingletown, literal sticks. I think they were
on like I don't know, maybe two acres or something like that, and
they are like, oh my gosh, I know my dad listens to the
show sometime. Dad. I love you, but holy Cannoli, are you
anal about fire protection? Good for you, dad, see Tyler's in the
will now stay safe out there, dad. Yes, I'm not anymore.
But he would get and I'm not joking you. He would cut down trees
himself, like the digger pines, the ones that you know are kind of
the skinny. They're the skinny ones that fall in our big fire danger.
He'd cut those down himself. He'd go rent man lift. There's Bob and
the man lift cutting down tree limbs and whatever. Y'all ever have a fire?
No, thankfully. However, the properties on the not the one side
of them, but the property on another side of them. Holy cow.
I don't think they ever raked a pine needle or a whatever. And no,
no, there were no There were no fires on their street, Tyler.
So nobody had a fire. Nobody had a fire. However, I'm
trying to make a point, but now he just walked away from the mic.
The point is, you gotta encourage your neighbors to do the same,
because if the house on the other side of them had done some actual fire
prevention, maybe if there was a fire, Tyler, that house wouldn't have
caught fire. I'm just saying, there was no fire on the street,
Tyler. Shout out to Shingletown this morning. Good for you, Shingletown.
Five environmental and cultural heritage groups are suing the FAA over the recent SpaceX launch
in Texas that ended with that big boom. Now, the groups accused the
FAA of approving the test launch without a comprehensive environmental review. Remember all of
the dust and things that everybody was talking about in that area right after the
rocket exploded four minutes after liftop on April twentieth, But it was actually the
launchpad that went you know, also kapui and that concrete metal rained down over
a six mile area once you had the blowup. That on top of all
the damage that was done from the launch pad, it was tough. The
FDIC has recommended the US rethink it's decades old policy of ensure up to two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bank deposits. It recommends replacing it with an
overhaul that would let regulators cover higher amounts on a targeted basis. Interest rates
are going up. That's creating challenges in managing interest rate risks. That's a
basic thing that any bankers should be able to do. There are a few
banks out there that have not managed their risk will. Former FDIC director Sheila
Bears says when she worked for the organization, she did not have enough examiners
and had deep cutbacks, and she says she's sad to see the problem still
exist. The proposal comes as we were talking about yesterday, first to a
public bank failed to be the second largest bank collapse in US history. They
say, good fences make good neighbors, right, but the internet makes neighbors
worse. Any study says the average person is not spoken to their neighbor in
three weeks, but they still enjoy posting passive, aggressive stuff about those same
neighbors on social media community pages, researchers saying more than half of those surveyed
enjoyed the sniping and mud slinging and local online groups, with thirty four percent
saying it's pure entertainment. Many won't deal with their neighbors face to face to
resolve issues like loud dogs or parking issues, but they'll post about it online.
About ten percent said they'd like to get to know their neighbors, but
they're unsure how to go about doing so. Michael Krozer k if I News,
All right, not only am I friends with my neighbors? Tyler is
now friends with my neighbors neighbor? Well, yeah, you know him,
You know Cupcake, just the one you haven't met every shot. Okay,
see's word. Hey, that's how quickly Tyler and Cupcake became friends. By
the way, if you want to see Cupcake, he's on my Instagram jjlkfive.
We all went to a Dodgers game together a couple of weeks ago.
But Phila Noreen, So if you're looking at my house, Phila Noreen or
on the right, we just had a conversation over the weekend. I have
Norma down the street who's worked at Michael's for I think she said thirty seven
years. That's right, Chuck and Shelley across the street, Jerry Arabella and
Madaline who just moved into the house directly across from me, and then there's
Cupcake and Pink Cheeks. I love my neighbors, and I'm not dumb enough
to snipe about them on the community website that they too might be on.
I feel like that's on you if you do something stupid like that. Nick
Paliochini knows everybody. I think you've met half the people that I even talked
about. Nick specifically, say I know all those neighbors in the Cold Side.
Yeah, yeah, Nick's been over the shoot, We've all sat around
for hours. At knows them, a king, A king knows them.
Yeah, I mean it's that's how see I'm a good neighbor, or I
just have really good neighbors. That's more the case. It's Kopi and KOSHD,
two Angeles, Orange County. This has been your wake up Call.
I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. You've been listening to your wake up Call with me,
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