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Good morning, It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Tuesday,
March twenty sixth. I'm Amy King. The gang's back together. Producer
An is back after she took a day off yesterday, and Kono's back.
Welcome back, Kono, Thank you, we missed you. And Tony.
Producer Tony is very very excited that you're back. I bet he's still sleeping.
I'm hoping that he is, yes, and then I think he's taking
a vacation. But we're happy to have you back with us. Here's what's
ahead on wake Up Call. A container ship has rammed into a major bridge
in Baltimore, causing the entire bridge to plunge into the river below. Several
vehicles fell into the near freezing waters. Officials say they're looking for at least
seven people. Two people were rescued. One is okay, the other in
very serious condition. We're going to be talking with ABC's Derek Dennis to get
more details about this in just a couple of minutes. Pretty incredible. If
you haven't seen the pictures yet they have. They had a video camera trained
on this bridge. I guess it was just always on and you saw the
entire bridge come down. It's more than a mile long, crosses a river,
and it's a major shipping channel. Very very scary stuff. The La
and Miami homes of rapper Sean Ditty Combs have been raided by Homeland Security over
reported allegations of sex trafficking and sex with miners. At least two of Ditty's
sons were detained outside the home in La yesterday. The powerball jackpot is going
up to an estimated eight hundred and sixty five million dollars for the next drawing
tomorrow night. No one won the jackpot last night, continuing a winless streak
that dates back to New Year's Day. The Mega Million's jackpot for tonight's drawing
is worth an estimated one point one billion dollars. I got my tickets.
I'm ready for it at six ZHO five. It's handled on the news.
Donald Trump's truth social is going public today. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. This continues to
be a search and rescue operation. It continues to be a very dynamic operation.
As I just mentioned. Rescuers in Baltimore trying to find at least seven
people who may have fallen into a river when that cargo ship crashed into a
support on a major bridge and caused it to collapse. Fire Chief James Wallace's
several cars were reported to be on the sane the Francis Scott Key Bridge early
this morning. When the bridge came down, we were able to remove two
people from the water. One individual refused service and refused transport. Essentially that
person was not injured. However, there was another individual that's been transported to
a local trauma center. He says multiple agencies are helping to search for others
in the water. Dodger star Shohei Otani says he was lied to and betrayed
by his former interpreter. Otani broke his silence for the first time since his
friend and interpreter, Ibe Mizuhara, was fired by the Dodgers on allegations of
massive theft. Otani said through his new interpreter that Misuhara had transferred four and
a half million dollars from his account without his knowledge to pay back gambling debts.
And to summarize how I'm feeling right now, I'm just beyond shocked.
It's really hard to verbalize how I am feeling at this point. Otani said
at a press conference yesterday that he has never bet on baseball or any other
sports and only learned about Misuhara's debts last weekend after he confronted him Chris Adler
kea fin News. NASA says a new app will help them figure out the
actual shape of the Sun during the upcoming eclipse. Researchers say people should download
the Sun Sketch your app and on April eighth, shoot video of the eclipse.
After all the video clips are collected, scientists say they'll be able to
determine the actual shape and size of the Sun far better than what is currently
known. Well, we know that morning time means traffic time, so let's
check in with Nick Paulochini. Hey, we check out the drive to Spokes
to make the way in and around the south Line's on then slowing you down
pounds to fifteen on yourself on keyword ASKFI traffic going to be a busy one
for you? No big shock here. As you're making away westbound along the
ninety one riverside do Corona, are you going to be some patsy delays showing
up for your drive? And as you're making away from Well, it looks
like a delays start for you around lost Aera and that remains the case beyond
the fifteen. As you make your way through Well fifteen to the seventy one
and then to the two forty one Sol Road, you know the drill,
it's going to be stretches of slowing for you across the board westbound side out
of the sixty. As you make way through Ontario, gonna be a bit
busy for you out the fifteen, and as you make way toward Archibald and
then for the westbound on the sixteen, looks pretty good for you continuing the
Internet PI into the San Gabriel Valley westbound side of the ten, pretty decent.
Same story for the two ten south outside of the fifteen getting through HYSP
area. As you leave you about Rancher Road, it's gonna be still going
for your drivers to make right through the cone passes you're continue chard about halfway
between ken Wood and well Claig corning Kenwood and then once you make great toward
the split with the two fifteen and Divoor not looking too bad for your drive,
Kafi and this guy helps get to there faster. I'm Nick colio'keeini.
Thank you, Nick. It's five oh five on your wake up call.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Derek Denn hysteric. Wow, this is
a This is a crazy scene in Baltimore where that bridge collapsed this morning right
If you've seen the social media video that's and posted everywhere, I mean it
looks like a toy, a scene out of a movie. A massive bridge
fan hit by a one hundred and fifty five thousand ton containership below and then
buckling collapsing into the water below the Potapsco River. There were workers on that
bridge doing overnight work, there were cars crossing over it, and authorities this
morning are saying there's an active search and rescue going on right now for survivors.
They say, so far, early on they plucked two people out of
the water, one person not injured at all, another one being sent to
the hospital in critical condition. They're saying though that so far this appears to
be just an accident, no connection to any terrorism, but the FBI is
on the scene. Okay. And do we know that if the people rescued
were workers, or if they were in vehicles or is it too early to
know? Yeah, yeah, too early to know that. We don't know.
But we do know that authorities are saying sonar equipment is being used and
they've detected so far vehicles submerged in the water. So that suggests that there
were civilians, people just driving over that bridge who were caught up in this
and went down with the bridge wreckage overnight, okay, And what time did
did it happen? Happened about one point thirty in the morning, East coast
time, so this is the middle of the night. And that may be
a bit of a silver lining here because presumably there's less traffic, less people
on the bridge at the time. If this happened during a rush hour,
even the middle of the day, the Key Bridge here in Baltimore would have
been packed vehicles, and this would be a much different scenario. It could
have been thousands of people, I mean, just absolutely yeah. They say
they say eleven million vehicles a year cross over this span, so it's a
very busy bridge, a massive bridge. Authorities are investigating it and they're doing
that search and rescue as we speak. Okay, and the container ship that
crashed into one of the supports, is it okay? Is it still floating
or is it sinking or do we know it is still floating? And authorities
said in a news conference that their workers still on that ship, so they
need to be rescued as well. We don't know how damaged that ship is,
if it's taking on water or not, but at last check, according
authorities, their work are still there. They can see them, they're in
touch with them, and they need to be rescued too. And I'm guessing
there's going to be a lot of questions for the people at the helm of
that ship because it went off course and crashed into a support. Yeah.
ABC News just learned some information that the ship apparently lost power before this crash
and notified the bridge that it might crash, and that's indeed what happened.
So there was a loss of power somehow to that container ship, causing it
to hit that support, and that caused this collapse. We know the container
ship was heading from the port of Baltimore to Sri Lanka, but it's registered
in Singapore. That's what we've learned so far about the ship, but more
investigation to come. Okay, and for the bridge itself, the span of
the bridge i've seen is about is over a mile long. And how far
is that drop for anybody who might have been up on the bridge. Yeah,
you know, we're still trying to get the answer to that. But
it was pretty high up. This bridge was built in nineteen seventy seven,
and the video of it shows it was very high up from the water,
but it went down in a matter of seconds. Yeah, the video from
it is just stunning. So and I'm sure, like you said, it's
on social media, so you're gonna be able to see it. But it's
just crazy. And the water temperatures are it's pretty chilly there, pretty chilly.
I mean, it's we're just about turning the clock to the calendar to
spring, but yeah, very chilly, water temperatures near freezing. But we
do know at least two people survived. Early on authority saying one was rescued
with no injuries, another one had critical injuries. So there is the chance
of survival from anyone else in the middle of this. Yeah, and as
we time goes by, with the hypothermia and all of that, I think
those chances are going to go down, but who knows sure. All Right,
Derek Dennis, thank you so much for making the time to join us
this morning. Very very important information and super interesting. It'll be interesting to
see what happens as this investigation unfolds. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The home of rapper
producer Diddy in West LA has been rated by federal agents. SWAT teams rolled
up to the large compound here at two hundred South Mapleton Drive. Agents dressed
in ballistic gearing, guns drawn, served search warrants just after one yesterday afternoon.
A number of young men were handcuffed and detained, including Sean Combe's sons,
Justin and Christian. Law enforcement sources say the raid is connected with allegations
that Combs is part of an underage sex trafficking ring. Ryan Mendelssohn lives nearby
and says he always sees young women coming and going at all hours. Some
were wearing bikinis and they're wearing someone wearing skirts, someone wearing bikinis, some
are wearing swimwear, some are coming from clubs. SWAT teams also rated Combs
as py in Miami. Combs denies any involvement insects trafficking in Holmby Hills Steve
Gregory KFI News. Thirty four hotels in the LA area have reached agreements with
striking workers. The games for workers include pay raises and improvements to pension and
healthcare benefits. Unite Here Local eleven co president Kirk Peterson says overall, the
four year agreement is worth a round a billion dollars. We say to Los
Angeles that this fight was worth it. The tentative deal, which still hasn't
been agreed to at twenty seven hotels, expires in early twenty twenty eight,
ahead of the Olympics, Peterson said yesterday, with tens of millions of visitors
coming. If a new deal isn't reached, then a return to the picket
line is possible. Michael Monks KFI News. One of the ringleaders of a
group stealing iPhones from Apple has been sentenced in San Diego to over four years
in federal prison. The US Attorney's Office says. Alan Lieo was also ordered
to surrender to homes and one hundred twenty thousand dollars for his role in this
scamp. His two brothers and nine others were all also busted. The FEDS
say the group took more than ten thousand fake iPhones and iPads and traded them
at Apple stores for real ones, which they then sold at a premium in
China. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that bans kids younger than
fourteen in his state from getting on social media. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says fourteen
and fifteen year olds will need a parent's consent before they can join a platform.
Opponents of these restrictions cite free speech concerns, The ACLU of Florida saying
lawmakers cannot control what ideas and information parents can allow their families to access.
Social media companies will have to delete the existing accounts of those under fourteen or
face lawsuits and fines. The bill is set to take effect in January.
Former Governor Schwarzenegger says he has a pacemaker. He joked yesterday that he now
has a machine part just like his Terminator character. He says he had the
operation last week and assured fans he's having a speedy recovery. A photo shows
him in a hospital bed giving the thumbs up. Hey, if you're happy
or want to be happy, you're gonna have to move. So we talked
to you earlier about the list of happy countries, and the US fell out
of the top twenty. I think it's in twenty third place, but there
are still cities in the country that are happy. And according to wallet Hub,
Fremont, California, is the happiest city in the whole country, and
a couple other California cities made the list. Number two on the list Overland
Park, Kansas. No idea why San Jose, California is number three,
Madison, Wisconsin is four. In Irvine comes in number five on the list,
and then a couple of cities in Hawaii are on the top list or
the top ten list for happiest city. San Francisco seventh happiest in spite of
all the dirt and the drugs and the homelessness and the syringes on the street
and people pooping on the streets. But I guess they have a lot of
money, so maybe they're happy. Two people have been pulled out of the
water where the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore completely collapsed. Baltimore's fire chief
says they're looking for at least seven other people in the water. The bridge
came down after one of its supports was rammed into by a container ship.
Dodger star Shohei Otani says he had no idea his close friend and former interpreter
was involved in illegal gambling. Otani, who now has a new interpreter,
spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since the allegations against Ippy Misahara surface last
week. The sweet sixteen is set in the NCAA Women's basketball Tournament. Both
USC and UCLA won their games last night and are moving on to the next
round. USC will play Baylor. UCLA has a date with defending national champion
LSU at six oh five. It's handle on the news. We have new
information about that seventeen year old girl who shot herself with a sheriff's deputy's gun
at the City of Industry Sheriff station. Let's say now good morning to the
host of How to Money Here on KFI. It's Joel Lars Guard. Joel,
We've got investments. We've got normal investments, and now we have alternative
investments. What are they and are they a good idea? Okay, So
alternative investments are anything that just sounds a little sexier than the boring blend index
fund approach or the target date fund approach that most people should be taking inside
of their retirement accounts. And so have there have been all sorts of different
funds and different websites that have sprung up in recent years allowing you access to
invest in all sorts of things. And the typical selling point is, hey,
these funds were only available to the super rich, and now we're making
them available. I've heard that pitch. Yeah, regular individual who has no
doesn't have a stash of cash, doesn't have like Scrooge McDuck level money in
some vault somewhere, you can now invest in whiskey, wine, fine art,
and so the pitch. You can also you can invest in like literally
some of those products through websites like Veno vest, or you can invest now
in specific funds that purport to invest in quote unquote alternative investments. And so
there's this company called so Fi. It's like a fintech company, and they
have just launched a wide range of new alternative investment funds, and it's the
thing you have to be watch out for in these alternative investment funds is one,
are you actually going to outperform the general market? The typically the answer
is actually no. And there's a website actually called acre Trader where you can
invest in farmland, and investing in farmland has actually not been a terrible investment
over the years. But still the boring s and P. Five hundred just
this, investing in the stock market with regularity outperforms investing in fancy things like
farmland. So while these things are gaining traction, you have to realize is
that the boring, incredibly cheap route. By the way, too, a
lot of these alternative investment funds come with ridiculously high expensites that eat into those
returns, even if those returns are higher. So I still like the boring
approach for most people. And plus with the with the ones coming up that
like you mentioned, the Veno investments are the fund uh huh, they don't
really have the test of time, right, Yes, they are newer offerings.
Well yeah, these companies in particular do not. The truth is like
when you look at something like art. It's it is true that some of
the wealthiest people in the universe have done well investing in farmland and art like
There's a reason, and part of its tax reasons, right, that Bill
Gates owns more farmland than basically the rest of the known universe. It's there
are taxable benefits to owning a significant amount of farm land. But it's you
know, sometimes those investments that the ultra rich are making don't make sense for
us as normal folks. And because the expenses and the fees are so high
to invest in those ways, we're taking our eye off the prize, and
we're trying to eke out extra return by investing in kind of funkier asset classes,
when we'd be better off focusing our eye on the prize of increasing our
savings rate and funneling more into those tax advantage retirement accounts that we already have
at our disposal. I've got nothing against owning some rental property and investing in
different ways over time, but only if you're doing the boring stuff with ninety
to ninety five percent of your assets regularly, often dollar cost averaging into those
index funds inside of those tax advantage accounts. You get the sparkle in your
eye looking at some of these really interesting asset classes, but there's just no
need for most people to own them. Okay, so they might be a
little bit sexy, but not necessarily a good vet. Yep. Okay.
You mentioned that you saw that they're wanting to ban short rentals and that's not
going to solve the housing crisis. Yeah, so this is happening all across
the country, but it's also likely going to happen here in unincorporated La County.
So there's this short term rental ban proposal, and specifically, the only
people who would be able to have short term rentals would be people who own
a primary residence. And what does that basically mean, Well, if it's
your primary house, you can only rent it out when you're away on a
trip or something like that. I know, I saw that, and I
was like, wait a second, that sort of defeats the whole purpose of
the verbo thing, right exactly, And so basically it's it's essentially an outright
ban and often the reasoning, one of the reasons they're using is that I
guess airbnb guests are partiers and leaving a wake up destruction in their midst I
don't know how true that is. But one of the other things that is
constantly being said in cities around the country where they're trying to ban short term
rentals is that it's is that it's taking away from the housing stock of rentals,
of those year long kind of annual leases, and so it's driving up
rents. Well, Harvard Business Review just did a study to see, well,
how true is this. They ran the numbers, and they found that
Airbnb's verbos, those are such a small percentage of the overall housing stock that
it's making a negligible contribution to rising rents. So when you look at what
is the most important factor in lowering rents, it's supply. It's increasing supply.
And so while if you ban short term rentals, yes there is a
little bit more supply, the better thing to do is to build more.
And so when you look at a city like Austin, well, housing prices
and rents have fallen dramatically in the past year, and that is because they're
building something like eight or nine times more housing than we are here in southern
California. So if we cut some of the red tape, we add more
supply into the mix. That is going to be a much better solution than
trying to make it seem like Airbnb or verbo are the problem them. Well,
plus they have a lot more space and lower costs. Yes, that's
true too, Yeah, yeah, but there are ways. There are ways,
and part of it is how long it takes to get a project off
the ground. And the units being built the most in southern California right now
are adu's accessory dwelling units, and I think that's great, Like, I'm
glad that we've kind of opened the floodgates on that, and homeowners seem to
be saying, cool, I'll put one of these in my backyard. That
helps to create more density. But there are other ways too, incentivizing in
some of these single family neighborhoods. The building of duplexus, triplexis quadplexes.
That's another way to increase some of the density without completely changing the flavor of
a neighborhood. Okay, now let's talk about kids and how they're going to
make more money through their life. Okay, so here, I like that,
right. I want young people learning the ropes of personal finance, because
the problem is most of the time you get into your thirties and a light
bulb turns off. Wait a second, I haven't really thought about this very
much, and you've got credit card tet to overcome, and you're already kind
of behind the eight ball, and so you've got to, like, you've
got to get the fire hose of information, and then you have to start
making changes, and it just takes a lot longer to do it after you've
made some mistakes. Well, California is likely to very soon require personal finance
classes in high school and half this is beautiful. Half of the states around
the country now make this a requirement, and California is hopefully soon it looks
like going to going to also join in with and now we'll have a majority
of states offering personal finance classes. I think it's going to start in twenty
twenty six, is going to be the first year when if this bill passes,
when students will be required to take one semester of personal finance class in
high school. The cool thing is next Gen personal Finance. Ran some numbers
and they found and it's you know, this is kind of hard to actually
determine specifically, but they said one semester of personal finance class in high school
makes a one hundred thousand dollars difference in those young people's lives because of the
things they're learning about credit score, about avoiding bad kinds of debt, those
things. And you think, oh, well, yeah, how important is
this or how big of a deal is it. Well, I think for
a lot of kids, a lot of young people, it's going to make
a massive difference in their financial future. I want people to be lot lifelong
learners too, because some of the some of the specifics of personal finance they're
shifting and morphing and changing, but a lot of those most important base level
things don't change. And those those classes in high school I think make a
big are a big deal. So I say, then instead of one semester,
let's have them do two semesters. No, ar, I mean you're
preaching to the choir. Okay, I'll sign off on that, all right,
Joel Larsguard, thank you so much. You can listen to more smart
money advice from Joel Larsgard on Sundays on KFI from noon to two. You
can also follow them at how to Money. Joel. Thanks again, Joel,
Yeah, thanks Amy, be sure to join me and the Way Cup
Crew. On Sunday, April twenty first, we're getting ready for the Wiggle
Waggle Walk. We're going to be at Brookside Park in Pasadena and all of
the money raised is going to benefit Pasadena Humane to help them care for thousands
of animals they take in every year. You can come out. You can
see adoptable pops Pops, how about pups? Adoptable pups. We're gonna have
booths, there's going to be a costume contest, games, demonstrations, food,
and you can join our team, the wake Up Call Wigglers. I
love that name, and come out and walk with us. You can also
visit the KFI booths. We're gonna have cool KFI swag bags. And if
you can't join us, you can still donate to help us reach our goal
at KFI am six forty dot com slash Wiggle. That's where you can find
out how to sign up, what the information is, make a donation.
It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk coming April twenty first, and we do hope you'll
join us. It's going to be a fun day. A container ship is
rammed into a bridge in Baltimore, causing the entire bridge and some cars on
it to plunge into the river below. Officials say they're looking for at least
seven people. Two were rescued from the water. One's okay, the others
in serious conditions. The Los Angeles and Miami homes of rapper Sean Ditty Combs
have been rated by Homeland Security over reported allegations of sex trafficking and sex with
miners. At least two of Ditty's sons were detained outside the home. About
ten thousand hotel workers in La County have been on strike since July. Well.
A lot of them are going to get a forty to fifty percent raise.
A new contract has been ratified for workers at thirty four of the hotels.
The contract includes a ten dollars per hour pay raise At six oh five,
It's handle on the news. Bars in California will soon offer drug kits
so people can make sure their drinks aren't spiked with anything besides booze. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Brian Clark. Brian, you have some more
information for us on Shoho Tani finally speaking out over the gambling and theft scandal
that's circulating. Good morning, Yeah, and it's obviously you guys have the
local approach, but this is such a national and really international story because of
show Hey's status. And I think the big surprise was how direct he was
yesterday that he had no knowledge of what he says his interpreter was doing,
that he was stealing money from him, that he was lying to him,
and because I think it was met with some skepticism as to how could you
be taken for four million dollars and not know and to see show Hey come
out and be so direct, I think that did surprise some people nationally.
Okay, and did he say how that four and a half million dollars that's
a lot of money to just be missing from your bank account. I would
agree with you. I think everybody would agree with you. And that he
did not say. That's the big unanswered question still in all this that once
shohe said that once media outlets began asking questions last week about these wire transwers
because O'tanni's name was on them, o'tani is saying essentially that if they mount
Mizuhara, his former interpreter never gave him those messages, so he's saying there
was a right down there, and then he said, once Misuhara spoke to
the Dodgers when they were in Soul, South Koreel last week, he then
began to realize, he said, that something was going on, but no,
we don't know how he was able to four million dollars allegedly without a
tani knowing. Okay, well, I would imagine that a lot more information
is going to start flowing about this. Brian Clark, thank you so much
for your time this morning. Thank you all right. Wish we had more
time with him. He was on a hard deadline. Busy, busy people.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Four homes in the Hollywood Hills have been red tagged because
of a landslide. One home was completely crushed, where mudd and debris flowed
into the house, knocking down walls and breaking windows. This man has lived
in the area for five years and says he and his neighbors should be more
prepared. That's pretty upsetting being moved out of your home and not being able
to move back in. It's tough on the residence, on us having a
place here. It's kind of scary. Neighbor said he was eating breakfast Sunday
when he watched the hillside run into the back of the homes. Geologists say
the land has been oversaturated by recent rainstorms, than that it could be moving
for years. Chris Adler KFI News News brought to you by Simper Solaris.
An eighteen year old woman charged with a pair of shootings in the San Pedro
area that killed one person, has pleaded not guilty. Astraya Rojas was arrested
earlier this month. She's charged with one count of murder and three counts of
attempted murder for the shootings in January. She'll be back in court May seventh.
The California Department Officient Wildlife is offering up some advice on how to stay
safe from mountain lions following a fatal attack in El Dorado County. Captain Patrick
Foy says, while attacks are rare, people should be cautious. First of
all, stay together. It's approached by a mountain lion, standtalli shot,
aggressively fight back at attack voyces. Mountain lions are typically more interested in seeking
out deer as prey, so if you see a lot of deer in an
area. You can be assured that there are mountain lions that live in the
vicinity line that attacked to two brothers on Saturday, killing one of them was
found and shot a few hours later. The last fatal attack before that happened
in Orange County in two thousand and four. Two men in Orange County have
been charged with a kidnapping, but the guy taken from outside his home in
Midway City still hasn't been found. One of the men, non Win,
was convicted of murder in two thousand. OCI Sheriff'sergeant Matthew Paris says a witness
and other evidence confirmed what happened to Tony Lamb. He was confronted in his
driveway by a masked mail shortly thereafter, and he was assaulted and driven away
in a vehicle that was not his own. Paris says the last time friend's
family or co workers saw Lamb was almost two weeks ago at LV Restaurant and
Lounge in Westminster and the one seven to one Sky Restaurant in Garden Grove.
He says the two men who were arrested have refused to tell police where Lamb
is in Orange County. Corbin Carson Kafie News Court in London has delayed the
extradition of Wiki League's founder, Julian Assage to the US on espionage charges.
The government claims he stole and in the discriminate, published classified documents that endangered
innocent lives. Massalge has spent five years arguing he would suffer in humane treatment
in the US. Two High Court judges in the UK say they would grant
Assange a new appeal unless US authorities give him further assurances within three weeks about
what's going to happen to him. They say he should have had or he
should have the same First Amendment protections as a US citizen, and that the
death penalty should not be imposed. The Department of Justice has challenged a California
corrections policy on Beard's The DOJ is asking a federal court in Sacramento to halt
a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation policy related to facial hair. Eight officers
filed federal employment complaints over the policy, and the state refused to accommodate the
religious based request for exemptions. The federal government says the policy discriminates against Muslims,
Seeks, and other religious officers who wear beards as an expression of their
faith. The Corrections Department says it bans beards due to the need to wear
some tight fitting resciperids. Michael Monks KFI News. You can catch Opening Day
live coverage from Dodger Stadium this Thursday morning. Started at nine am. The
first pitch goes out at one ten. The Dodgers are hosting the Saint Louis
Cardinals on Opening Day at the Chavez Ravine. You can stream every play in
HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword is AM five seventy LA Sports Live from
the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. Two people have been pulled from the waters where
the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore completely collapsed. Baltimore's fire chief says they're
looking for at least seven other people in the water. Water temperature is about
forty seven degrees. The bridge came down after one of its supports was rammed
into by a container ship early this morning. Dodgers star show Hey Otani said
he had no idea his close friend and former interpreter was involved in illegal gambling.
Otani, who has a new interpreter, spoke publicly yesterday for the first
time since the allegations against Ippy Mizuhara surfaced last week. Shohy is going to
play at Angel Stadium as a Dodger for the first time tonight in the conclusion
of the three game exhibition Freeway series. So far, Otani is hitless in
seven at bats against his old team. We're just minutes away from handle.
On the news this morning, Sean Diddy Combs got raided by Homeland Security tied
to US sex trafficking investigation. Right now, let's say good morning too.
The director of Cribs for Critters in Lake Elsinor Jude Ferguson, Good morning,
Jude, good morning. So Easter is coming and that makes us think of
not only the real meaning for Easter, but also eggs and bunnies and baby
chicks. And that's a problem. That's a big problem. Okay, tell
us why it's a big problem. What are people doing? Well? Oftentimes
parents will on a whim get an Easter buddy or two for their children and
don't real the care that is involved with them. Once they grow up and
aren't so cute and little anymore, they get hormonal and they are not an
easy pet. They're not a starter pet, and they require an exotic veterinarian,
and it's often more than people are prepared for, especially if they do
not rescue a rabbit or adopt a rabbit from a rescue group or a shelter
and get the proper education that they need for the lifespan of a rabbit,
which can be ten plus years. Oh, I didn't know they live that
long. So it's probably good that you and I are having this conversation.
The old host of this program, Jennifer Jones, is freaked out by rabbits.
I personally think they're adorable, but so you said that they don't stay
cute little bunnies for long, And how is raising a bunny and caring for
a bunny as a pet different from like a dog or a cat. Well,
buddies will all pray animals, so they will hide their illnesses, so
you have to be very keen at picking up on subtle cues if they're not
feeling well, and they can die very rapidly without veterinarian intervention, or if
you're experienced enough, something that you can do at home to keep them alive
in a pinch, And people just don't realize how delicate they are okay?
And are they Are they friendly and lovable like cats and dogs or not so
much? Every rabbit is different. If they are lucky enough to be born
into a home or a rescue or location where they can receive socialization from an
early age, then the chances of them being a friendly and cute and cuddly
are better than not. But as a general rule, rabbits don't really like
to be picked up or held and cuddled, but there are there are a
few exceptions, but just like a cat or dog or human, they all
have their unique personalities. Okay, So then at Easter time, which I
still I always think it's crazy that people go, oh, a bunny is
a good idea? Like it just it doesn't make sense to me, like
maybe get a stuffed animal or a chocolate rabbit or something like that. We
advocate that people do that instead of a live being that will end up being
neglected or dumped in a park or a public location or you know, at
a shelter or whatever. So how many more bunnies are gifted to people around
Easter time compared to the rest of the year. Do we have stats on
that? Ah, that's a good question. There is definitely an uptick in
the requests for a buddy without proper education. There are some rescue groups or
shelters that won't even adopt out, you know, a week or two prior
to Easter, kind of like black cats at Halloween, right, that is
true. You know, there's always the exception, especially if you're doing your
diligence and properly screening a potential adopter that they're truly wanting a rabbit, not
because it's Easter. But the big problem comes a couple of months down the
road, once their cuteness wears off, and then we're into the heat of
the summer months, and that's when they start getting dumped at parks and other
publications, which is what I specialize in, and going out to rescue them
from these outdoor locations that they've been dumped at, because I don't take owner
surrenders and I don't pull from the public shelters. I only rescue from outdoor
locations. Okay, And then when you rescue them, I would imagine you
have to get them fixed right away, because rabbits will be rabbits. Yes,
you get them fixed, provided they're old enough, which is usually about
four months for the males and approximately six months for the females, And yes,
do you get them spaded and neutered and vaccinated. Okay, so,
if you really have your heart set on a rabbit, make it a like,
do your due diligence, learn about it, that kind of stuff.
But as far as making a snap decision because you think it's a cute idea,
better to hold off on that much better. And a rescue group will
do a great job generally in educating and screening potential applicants to make sure that
they are prepared for the commitment that it requires. Okay, Well, Jude,
you're doing important work with Cribs for Critters, and where can people find
out more about what you're doing because you're saving bunnies. Thank you for asking.
You can find me on Facebook and Instagram and Petfinder. Cribs for Critters
spelled with kves Cribs for Critters with great Jude Ferguson, Thank you so much.
We appreciate it. I think it's a good reminder to say the chocolate
bunnies or peeps, the bunny peeps are a good present, better idea than
you're rowing, better than a live living being that you're not prepared for exactly.
All right, Thanks again, Jude, appreciate it. Thank you.
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