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wake up Call. Eight people with suspected ties to ISIS have been arrested in
La and several other cities. Immigration and Customs enforcement arrested the group from Tajikistan
who crossed the US Mexico border illegally last year. They were initially cleared to
come into the country after being vetted. Federal officials are now in the process
of deporting them. The US Board of Regents will meet to discuss the appointment
of a new UCLA chancellor. Chancellor Gene Block, who will retire on June
thirty first, has come to a rather controversial end to his career at UCLA
after several weeks of violence, hundreds of arrests and allegations of anti sematism tied
to campus protests against the Israel Hamas War. Joey Chestnut's been banned from the
annual July fourth Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog eating Contest. The sixteen time winner
of the contest won't be allowed to participate this year because of a deal he
signed with vegan food brand Impossible Foods. Also coming up on Wake Up Call,
we're going to be talking with ABC Stephen Portnoy about what's next for Hunter
Biden now that he's been convicted. Rich Demiro is all about Apple today and
why if you're into AI, you're going to need to get a new phone.
Probably. Also, later this hour, we're going to be talking about
a new and innovative program that may actually help homeless people. Also, Amy's
on it. I'm on a show about a civilized man and an uncivilized time.
I think you're going to want to hear about it. At six five,
it's Handle on the news. Four years later, the city of la
has voted to end COVID vaccine requirements for workers. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Authorities in
three cities, including Los Angeles, have arrested eight people with suspected ties to
ISIS. ABC's Aaron Katirsky says the group came across the southern border illegally.
Individuals from the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan came to the US since the end
of last year. They were vetted at the time. Arrests were also made
in New York and Philadelphia. Several people have attacked a Ralph's worker in Encino
who stopped a woman from shoplifting. The worker says he caught the young woman
trying to walk out with bags full of groceries, and hours later she came
back to the store with two men. Footage shows one of those men throwing
a punch at the worker, and the employee says at one point a shopping
cart was shoved into him. He says the group assaulted him and then took
off. Laped responded to the attack Monday afternoon, but no injuries were reported.
Police say they're still looking for those involved. Ralphs has not yet responded
to requests for comment. Chris Adler KFI News A Riverside County Sheriff's deputy has
shot and killed a woman in Corona. The Sheriff's department says the shooting yesterday
happened as the woman was assaulting the deputy and a guy with her fought the
deputy and tried to take the officer's gun. Witnesses helped detain the guy until
other officers in paramedics arrived. The woman shot died at the hospital. The
guy was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder of a peace officer,
mayhem, and resisting an officer with violence. The COVID nineteen vaccine mandate for
La City employees has ended. More than a year after the city's COVID emergency
declaration expired, the city council has voted to no longer require vaccinations as a
condition of employment. Former LAPD sergeant Enginein Badard, who was fired after twenty
four years for refusing to get the JAB, said yesterday she's still working to
get her job back. I am not here to blame you for the chaos
employees have endured over the last three years, but I am here to ask
that you used your authority to end this ridiculous mandate. The city implemented the
vaccine mandate in the fall of twenty twenty one. In downtown La Michael Monks
KFI News, police and city officials are noticing new burglary trends in the San
Gabriel and Crescenta Valleys. Much more sophisticated criminals are using Wi Fi jammers to
basically bypass any type of security system that you may have to make it so
that it's not any alerts that doesn't go through cameras can capture them. Director
of Administrative Services for La Kenyada flint Ridge, a Robo Parsigian, says when
the Wi Fi jammers work, residents don't even get notified that they've been robbed.
The city's recommending homeowners update firewalls and firmware for their home security devices,
and install glass detectors on doors, which can also send alerts to phones.
In response to the high tech home burglaries, more deputies are patrolling both visibly
and undercover. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Steven Portnoy.
Good morning, Stephen, Well, good morning to you. So Hunter Biden
guilty on all three counts. Can you tell us a little bit about the
specifics of what he was found guilty of. Well, he was found guilty
of knowingly lying on a background check form about his drug use when he bought
a cult revolver in twenty eighteen. Two of the three counts are related to
that. He was also found guilty of using drugs while he had possession of
that gun, which is a third count. So in total, the charges
carry a maximum sentence of twenty five years in prison, but legal experts say
that would be unlikely given the lack of any prior convictions and the fact that
it's a non violent offense. And so what are the other options for him,
like he could get fined, is that one of the options. Sure,
fine, probation. I mean, look, it'll be entirely up to
Judge Mary Ellen no Reika whenever she decides to set the sentencing. She did
not set a sentencing date yesterday. And you know, the prosecutors will make
their recommendation, the defense will have a chance to respond, and the judge
will make a sentence. Okay, and the jurors are already talking. This
has been really remarkable. The jurors emerged from the courthouse yesterday and essentially dove
for the cameras, some of them willing to identify themselves, others refusing to,
but otherwise sharing insights into what happened. One juror who we spoke with
said that initially the vote on Monday, when the jury first got the case,
was six to six. That the jury was split down the middle,
six in favor of conviction, six leaning toward acquittal. But by the end
of the third hour of deliberations late yesterday morning, the jurors who were skeptical
of convicting Hunter Biden came around. They were convinced, and largely were told
by jurors it was because of the text messages that around the time he's buying
the gun, he's text messaging his dealer or talking about a dealer named Muki.
And they just couldn't believe and didn't find it credible that Hunter Biden,
after years of using drugs, was suddenly clean and not an addict and didn't
believe himself to be an addict when he bought the gun. So they convicted
him, okay. And then when he was the verdicts were announced, what
was his reaction, Well, at first he appeared to be stone faced,
and then he seemed to acknowledge and take it in that he was being found
guilty. He turned to his legal team and embraced them. He looked back
at his mother, the First Lady, and his wife who was sitting there,
and emerged from the courthouse holding Jill Biden's hand, holding his wife Melissa's
hand, and in the end of the day yesterday, the President of the
United States set aside affairs of state and flew to Wilmington, Delaware, and
gave his son a hug. The President issued a statement saying he stands by
his son and also respects the jury's verdict. Last week, in an ABC
News interview, the President told David mure that he has ruled out a pardon
of Hunter. And remember this is just one of the two cases being brought
by the Special Council. The other case will be heard in your neck of
the woods in Los Angeles later this year. And this could be a case
that could be very embarrassing to Hunter Biden and to his family because it involves
the allegation that for years he failed to pay his federal income taxes on time
and instead, you know, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on drugs and
escorts and cars and clothes, all while evading the IRS. So he's going
to be a facing trial for that in September, if that doesn't get pushed
back again. But he's he's now paid those taxes, right, that's right,
But he still has to pay the piper, right, and he has
to own up to the fact that for years he did not pay his taxes
on time. Okay, all right, I know that you are a man
in demand today with the verdicts coming in and coming in so quickly, so
we're going to let you go. Thank you so much for the insight,
Stephen Portnoy, appreciate it, you bet, all right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
La may spend more than a million bucks to rent new offices downtown for city
workers. The city's housing department has four hundred employees who've been working at home
since a previous lease had another building expired at the end of February. Now,
the city is lo looking to spend one point three million dollars for rent,
parking, and improvements for a one year sublease from Nordstrom at seven hundred
South Flower Street, near the Block Shopping Center. The city Council's Government Operations
Committee approved the proposal at yesterday's meeting. The rent is five hundred and thirty
seven thousand dollars for twelve months, and one hundred and thirty parking spaces is
another half million dollars for the year in downtown La Michael Monks KFI News LAPD
gang officers have shot and killed a guy with a gun in Pacoima. The
officers had stopped a black BMW last night, when they say the front passenger
got out and ran. The shooting happened during the chase. Police say a
gun was recovered at the scene. No officers were hurt. A chiropractor in
Valencia has been arrested for allegedly hiding a small camera in a restroom in his
office. The camera was discovered by an employee about a month ago. It
was taped inside a cabinet facing the toilet. Nicholas vander Hay was arrested last
week. He was booked on a fellon account of possession of obscene mattered depicting
a minor and a misdemeanor count of photographing a person in a restaurant. Actually,
a restroom restaurant would be a totally different thing. Sonic booms have been
rattling Santa Barbara County residents and wildlife as SpaceX keeps up with its busy launch
schedule from Vandenberg Space Force Space. There is currently no plan to deal with
the matter, and more rocket launches are scheduled through this year and beyond,
including one scheduled for tomorrow night. The Navy plans to do a final cleanup
of the massive World War two blimp hanger in Tustin that was destroyed by fire.
The Navy promised another twenty seven million dollars to complete a commitment to reimburse
the eighty eight million dollars test and spent to clean up after a fire that
started in November. Tustin Mayor Austin Lombard says the final cleanup includes removing tons
of debris and eight needs to come in and clean that up, deconstruct the
rest of the hangar, and decide what to do with four seventeen story columns.
There is a sentiment in the community that they could be part of a
future memorial, which I think is nice. But if they're not structurally sound,
those columns will have to come down. The Navy's year long clean up
project could start this summer in Orange County. Corbin Carson kf I News.
The House is said to vote on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in
contempt of Congress. The House Rules Committee decided last night to let the full
House decide whether Garland should be charged. Circle report to total nine yeas,
four nays, and the eyes have it. The emotion to report is agreed
to. Garland has refused to give Republican lawmakers the audio recordings of President Biden's
interview with the Special Council investigating alleged mishandling of classified documents. The transcripts have
been made public, but Garland will not release the audio recordings. The World
Bank says the US economy is powering the rest of the world. The Bank's
latest outlook estimates a two point six percent global economy expansion, which is up
from two point four percent predicted for the year. The group says the economy
seems to be reaching a soft landing for twenty twenty four, avoiding a global
recession. Good news. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Texas Rangers in
LA with the first pitch going out at seven o'clock. Going to be a
beautiful night for a Dodgers game, and you could listen to every play of
every Dodger's game on AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games
in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports powered by
La Care for all of La. LA City councils voted to boost its ability
to monitor and potentially regulate driverless vehicles in the city. State regulators gave Waimo
permission to operate its driverless ride haling service in a sixty three square mile area
stretching from Santa Monica and Venice to downtown LA. A former USC linebackers agreed
to plead guilty to felony mail fraud for plotting to fraudulently get more than a
million dollars in COVID nineteen unemployment benefits. Abdul Malik McLain was charged with multiple
counts of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in twenty twenty one. In twenty
twenty, during the pandemic, Kila Day organized and helped a group of USC
teammates file phony claims for unemployment benefits. Classy, Irvine has been ranked the
third best city in the US to raise a family. The wallet hub survey
looked at forty five key metrics of one hundred and eighty cities. Fremont is
number one on the list based on things for overall wealth, health, and
access to activities at six oh five. It's handling the news HMAS has responded
to as ceasefire plan for Gaza. Apparently they've made some changes. Right now,
Let's say good morning to the host of Rich on Tech on KFI.
It's Rich Demiro, fresh off a trip to Cooper Tino. Good morning,
Rich, Hey there, good morning, Yes, I'm back you're back and
where were you? Just so everybody knows. Apple had their big event this
week called Worldwide Developers Conference, so that the keynote was on Monday yesterday.
Obviously a lot of sessions and developer sessions and things like that and back now.
So at the Worldwide Developers Conference, I know, they make a lot
of announcements which we're going to talk about. But then you said they have
sessions, So they have like software developers come and it's a big conference and
they all get together in pow wow and plan and stuff. Yeah. So
I mean the main keynote kicks off the entire conference that is geared towards you
know, consumers and also investors and just the general public. Developers are in
the audience obviously, but the rest of the week are all these sessions where
if you want to create an app for the iPhone, that's where you go
because you want to learn about the key features and tools that Apple creates that
can help you make a great app and help you, you know, get
your app on the iPhone and also use the features that take advantage of different
sensors and you know, health Kit and all these different things that Apple has
built. Oh, Okay, so it's a working conference, not only a
conference to tell us about all the cool new things that Apple is unveiling,
like Apple Intelligence. It's not artificial intelligence, it's Apple Intelligence. No,
only Apple could rename an entire genre of technology from AI to Apple Intelligence.
It took me a little bit to get that. But Apple's doing this kind
of differently. So they're doing it in three different ways. Number One,
on your device, so the iPhone fifteen pro and up will be able to
take advantage of their on device, you know, kind of their own version
of chat GBT built in, And so when you ask Siri things, it
will look in your email, will look in your text messages, it will
look in your photo library, and you can get really good answers theoretically about
the stuff that is already on your phone. Then if it needs a little
bit more computing power, Apple has built these private servers that will do the
same thing. And as soon as they use it for their AI Apple Intelligence
to get your answer, they will delete all the data. So let's say
you need to like look through your email in a big way, they might
put all those emails on the server for a second, look through them,
come up with the answer and then delete all that information. And then finally,
if they can't come up with an answer those two ways, they might
say, hey, this might be a better answer for chat GBT. Would
you like us to hand your question off to chat GBT. And they're also
doing that in a very private way as well. So three different flavors of
AI on the new iPhones coming soon, wow and will all will all of
them work together, play in the sandbox together or are they separate functions?
The first two are sort of together. They're very seamless. The third they're
very clear about making sure anything that is sent to chat GBT you are clear.
So if you get a document a PDF and you say, hey,
can you tell me the key you know, items out of this document,
it will say, yeah, that's something that chat GBT can do pretty well.
Would you like us to send that document over there to analyze? And
they will do that in a very private way. They made a separate deal
with chat gbt to you know, make this data, hand it over privately.
And Apple made a big deal about that because AI, you know,
all the information you feed into it. It's generally training the AI with your
information and data to make it better. And then I'm wondering if as Apple
Intelligence develops, as chat GPT has developed over the last year or two,
if they'll stop referring as much to chat GPT because Apple Intelligence will have caught
up. Yeah, I think that's that's an interesting thought and something that could
happen. I think that it depends. It depends. You know, everyone
has always thought that Apple's going to get in the search engine game, you
know, take over Google, make its own search on the iPhone. It
still has yet to do that. It's got a lot of information, but
it hasn't completely gone and done its own things. So they could do that,
but I think right now they're focusing on just making their products really intelligent
and smart. So when you're looking for that document or you say, hey,
when's my flight tomorrow? Or hey, you know, what are the
three things my boss told me I need to answer this week, you know
questions, it'll give you all those answers really easily and private manner. Okay.
And then I have a question about photo Library because I run into this
a lot because I'm probably like you guys, I have like five thousand pictures
on my phone, and you said that you can that the AI will help
with answer questions about photos. Will it help find photos or will it say
hey when was I at Disneyland? No, it could do. I mean,
it's it's pretty incredible actually, So you can say something as specific as
find the photo of me taking a dive into that lake in Utah, and
it will literally bring you to the moment in that video where you dive into
the lake in Utah. And so, yeah, it's coming up with this
index of everything that's on your phone. I mean, you know, we
saw some demos yesterday. It's quite incredible. You know, it's not gonna
be perfect at the beginning, but it is. The idea that they have
is pretty far reaching. Okay, So then my question is, because I
do have the fifteen so I can get it on that, do I have
to download an app? Or is it just going to be there? You
have to have the fifteen Pro that is the one with the three cameras on
the back, So if you have that fifteen Pro or fifteen Promax, those
will be the first phones to get these features. Apple is being a little
coy about when these AI features will come out. So iOS eighteen, which
is, you know, the new version of the software that's going to launch
right now, developers are playing with that. Then it's going to launch as
a public beta next month in July, and then there will be the final
release in the fall, usually with the coordination of the iPhone. But they
haven't said if the intelligence features are going to launch on the first day.
They kind of won't nail down that date just yet because a lot of this
stuff is still being worked out. So, but your phone will be among
the first. The iPhone fifteen Pro models plus the iPhone sixteen models will be
among the first to get access to all these smart features. Okay, So
if you have a thirteen or fourteen year out of luck and you have to
get a new phone, if you want to play with Apple Intelligence. Yeah,
which, by the way, I mean think about it. What does
Apple want to do the most? They want to sell hardware and software,
and that's going to sell a lot of phones. People want AI, they
want they have that AIV okay, aib okay. So you mentioned the iOS
eighteen and some of the new things that are coming out. What are some
of the new toys and tricks that are going to be with that? Sure?
Sure, very kind of a nice upgrade. You're going to be able
to place icons. Basically, this upgrade is all about customizing your phone.
You can place icons anywhere you want on your screen. You can colorize them,
make them any color you want. You can have multiple control center panels,
so if you want to control your home stuff, if you want to
control your audio, so you can swipe through that sort of control center.
Hidden apps this is a big one. You can require a passcode to unlock
apps. You can also put apps in a hidden folder that nobody can see
when they look at your phone, which is pretty cool. They have a
dedicated passwords app, so it'll keep track of all of your passwords now on
your iPhone. And there's a neat feature where you can send your messages over
satellite. So if you don't have Wi Fi or cellular, your text messages,
your I messages, they will default to satellite, which basically means you
are now in touch anywhere you can go, pretty much in the US and
sometimes out of the US as well. And finally, OURCS messaging support.
This means that you can finally send full resolution or at least high resolution pictures
and videos between iPhones and androids. That is going to be a huge,
huge, wind. That is going to be cool because my Android friends cannot
send me cool videos. No they look horrible, Yes they do. They're
little, teeny tiny and pixelated. So is does it get rid of the
blue green messaging thing? Or is that still going to be a thing?
Oh? Come on, this is Apple, Come on, still going to
be of course, they need to delineate their products, which are far superior
to everyone else's, And so yes, it will be. And I'm saying
that sarcastically. It will be green blue, but a lot of the issues
that you have with the green blue are all going away, which to me
is a big, big win. Absolutely. And then so now you get
us all excited about all these new features and now we just get to wait
because they're not available yet. Yeah, there will be a public beta next
month that is for the very adventurous because it could break key functionality on your
phone, so I don't recommend that most people download that. But yeah,
you'll be hearing a lot about these features as all the tech folks like myself
start to play with them and show them off and all that stuff. But
in the fall you'll be able to access all this stuff. And I bet
for you a tech guy, it's like being a kid in a candy store.
Oh, just to be up at Apple and to see the work that
goes into this and to actually talk with their executives and learn more about these
features. Like kind of from a technical standpoint, it's really really fascinating how
much thought they put into this stuff. Yeah, well, we appreciate you
sharing it with us, and you've got lots more to share coming up this
weekend. You are the host of rich on Tech right here on KFI,
and you can listen to Rich every Saturday from eleven am to two. You
can also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech, and his website is
rich on Tech dot TV. Thank you Rich, and welcome home, all
right, Amy, Thank you all right. Talk to you next week,
friends and family. A former General Hospital actor Johnny Wector, will gather in
downtown LA nearly three weeks after he was shot confronting a group trying to steal
the catalytic converter from his car. The group is calling on the city to
find the person who shot and killed the actor. They're also offering a twenty
five thousand dollars reward. Eight people with suspected ties to ISIS have been arrested
in Los Angeles and several other cities. Immigrations and Customs enforcement arrested the group
from Tajikistan who crossed the US Mexico border illegally last year. They were initially
cleared to enter the country after they were vetted by authorities. Federal officials are
now in the process of deporting them. San Francisco has followed the lead of
West Hollywood and Sacramento in declaring itself a sanctuary city for transgender people. The
resolution declaring San Francisco a Safe Place for those who you are also gender non
conforming, intersex, and two spirit was approved yesterday at five point fifty.
We're gonna be talking with Brett Feldman with usc Street Medicine. They're doing something
new and innovative that may actually help helmless people who have severe mental illness.
Going to be really interested, looking forward to that conversation. Amie's on it,
AMI's on it, Aami's on it, Aamie's on it? What am
I on? I'm on the stream, movies, books, sometimes even theater.
But with everything out there, how do you know what to watch?
So I take a lot of recommendations for friends, and I do a little
digging myself and hopefully, hopefully can give you some good recommendations on what to
spend your time on when you're streaming or watching things and maybe even save you
sometime if it's really bad. This one is not really bad. Uh I
watched The gent A Gentleman in Moscow. What was the name of that Michael
Jackson song Stranger in Moscow? Okay, well, he was sort of a
stranger in Moscow, but anyway, it's A Gentleman in Moscow. It's on
Paramount Plus. The show is based on a novel from twenty sixteen called A
Gentleman in Moscow. This one is starring Ewan McGregor Love Him. He plays
Count Alexander Rostoff and the show, which is again a streaming series, is
set in nineteen twenty two in a post revolutionary Russia. So Count Rostov is
stripped of his title and of his money, so he's kind of like almost
royalty, right. They strip him of all that after the war, and
they don't put him in jail, but instead they put him on house arrest
and he's basically sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. Not
at a house, but at a ritzy hotel in Moscow, so that's where
he has to live out the rest of his life. He's a prisoner in
a really opulent world because it's a really nice hotel that and the world is
changing around him, but it's sort of like time stands still inside the hotel
and the Communists are taking hold and continuing to change his way of life.
Ewan McGregor is fantastic in this show. You like him immediately, and then
you like him even more as the series progresses, because you know, as
good stories do, there's character arcs, and there's conflict and that kind of
stuff, and Ewan McGregor's just fantastic. He finds and loses love. He
befriends a young girl whose family is staying at the hotel, and that little
girl ends up impacting him for the rest of his life. He's, as
I mentioned, he's staunchly civilized in a world that's becoming more and more uncivilized.
He creates alliances, he finds enemies, and it's kind of a relaxing
ride. It's not an edge of your seat kind of show, but it's
intriguing and it keeps you engaged episode after episode, and there's only eight episodes,
and it's a beautifully shot series, so visually it's very nice to watch.
The story spans more than thirty years, but the show is just one
season. It was released weekly, but now all of the series has dropped.
The finale is out, so you can watch it as you go,
or you can do like I do and binge the thing. Of course,
I was forced to watch it weekly because they were doing it one time a
week, and that drives me crazy. But it's called a gentleman in Moscow.
I am on it, and I think you should get on it too.
It's really really a good show. And then, like I said,
you and McGregor is just fantastic. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Southern California, Edison is
using drones and helicopters to prevent wildfires. The drones and helicopters will be hovering
over high risk fire areas throughout multiple counties looking for faulty equipment that could start
fires. I see eas Reggie Kumar says the drones will have to comply with
the state's privacy policy. Southern California, as also has strict confidentiality policies and
complies with all SAA policies, regulations and restricted air spaces. See says the
drones will take about thirty minutes to an hour to complete inspections. Drones will
be used through the end of fire season this fall, and shooting them down
is illegal. Chris Adler K Fine News. A judge in LA has approved
a tentative one hundred thousand dollars settlement for the four year old son of an
Almonte police officer who was killed in a shooting in twenty twenty two. Two
officers had responded to a reported stabbing at a motel when they were fatally shot.
The judge approved a similar settlement on Friday on behalf of the boys eleven
year old sister. The San Bernardino County sheriff is urging state lawmakers to cancel
so called poison pill amendments to public safety bills. The expected amendments would nullify
several retail theft bills. If voters pass a measure to repeal Prop forty seven,
Sheriff Shannondika says both the measure and bills would help police. He says
it's not just organized retail theft affecting his county, but also simple shopliftings.
These persons may receive a citation. For instance, the problem is is a
right back out in the streets, and we hear from our retailers that the
same people are coming in within hours. Democratic lawmakers say the amendments are being
added because there would be conflicts with both sets of laws passing Bloke Trolli kaf
I news. Lawmakers in California are rethinking a plan to charge digital companies for
using news content. The plan was to get Google, Facebook, and others
to pay news outlets based on the impressions that they got, but that plan
is being scrapped. A new plan being considered would charge a fee based on
how many journalists a news outlet employees. Google and other big tech companies have
said that they would stop providing news content to users in California if the original
plan became law. Animal shelters in la are adjusting some policies after a staff
member was mauled by a dog last month. Officials say the city is getting
rid of a so called red list for animals that need immediate adoption because they're
in danger of being euthanized and will replace it with a needs rescue list for
animals who are not only at risk of being euthanized, but are also might
be suffering. Rescue groups will still be able to take animals on the euthanasia
list. Oh goodie. More places where you can get advertising. United Airlines
customers are going to soon see ads specifically targeted to them on their seat back
screen. The airline has announced its selling ads using customer data, which will
create personalized advertising. The Chicago based carrier has ad deals with brands like Norwegian
Cruise Line, Macy's, and Chase. That'll be interesting. So I guess
it's going to be like Facebook, but on the back of your seat on
an airline. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says mediators are going to continue
to try to close this deal. After Hamas asked for changes to a ceasefire
plan for now, Blincoln said the war in Gaza will go on because of
the numerous changes proposed by Hamas. He said some of them are workable,
some are not. Inflation numbers are just out. The consumer price Index has
shown a slight slowdown in the rate of inflation. It's at three point three
percent year over year. That's down slightly from last month. Could be assigned
inflation as slowing after increasing at a three point four percent year over year rate
for the last couple of months. The LA City Council today is expected to
designate the house that once belonged to Marilyn Monroe in Brentwood as an historic cultural
monument. Efforts have been going on for months after the property owners got a
permit to demolish it to expand their current home, which is adjacent to the
property. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning. What
does Chikida have to do with a terrorist organization in Columbia? Bill's going to
tell you right now. Let's say good morning to the director and co founder
of usc ST Medicine, Brett Feldman. Good morning, Brett, Good morning.
So I saw this story and was very intrigued and wanted to talk to
you because you are doing something pretty new and innovative that may actually provide some
more long term help to homeless people in LA who are suffering from mental illness.
Can you tell us about the program that you're now doing. Sure,
yes, we do street Medicine, which is the idea that people experiencing unsheltered
homelessness can access healthcare the way the rest of us do. And so we
go to them in a very assertive way to deliver care under the bridges and
the river beds, behind the dumpster wherever they are, with love and also
the same quality that you'd expect in a brick and mortar clinic. Okay,
And so you go and seek them out, they don't come to you,
Yes, that's right. Okay. And how many people are on Do you
have a team of people is it just you and one other person? Oh?
Yeah, We we have a team that's made up well, we have
five full time teams that go out every day. Each team has either a
doctor or a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner who can actually not just prescribe
medications, but dispense them while we're on the street with the people. A
nurse, two community health workers who are people with lived experience and homelessness to
act as our street guide to make sure we don't lose people and and track
them as they, you know, move around the city. And we have
social workers, a psychiatrist, an HIV specialist, and care coordinators. Okay.
So then once you've treated somebody. If I'm hearing it correctly, because
you probably out there with your iPads and stuff, you can you take their
information down and then you know, when you run into them again, you
can say, oh, we treated you for this last month, or how
are you doing with you know what we you were dealing with? Then?
Is that correct? Yeah? So the kind of optics of it are We
don't use a mobile van because we want to be able to suspend our reality
and meet them in their reality where they feel most comfortable in their environment.
So we have pickup trucks and backpacks and go out on foot and see them
where they live. We sign them up as patients of USC just like any
other patient, so in their medical record you would never know that the visit
was done under a bridge. And we also know that healthcare is more than
an office, is it, even if that office is under the bridge,
So we bring them other things that they can't access, such as medications.
We draw labs in the field, do ultrasounds. Everything is done outside on
the street where that's the only way we know for sure that they'll be able
to get it okay. And one of the things that you guys now are
doing is there. As we know, there are a lot of people on
the streets who have pretty severe mental illness, and one of the ways to
treat that is with medications. But taking a daily bill for someone who's a
pill who's living on the street can be challenging, and so you guys have
come up with a workaround that seems to be really working. Yeah, So
we know that about thirty percent of people who are unsheltered experience a severe mental
illness, and in like really kind of a mean twist, the people who
are most severe mental illness are least likely to be able to access our very
complicated system. And so we know that we can't wait for beds because beds
aren't opening up quick enough, and so we've made the decision that rather than
wait and allow people to suffer on the street, we would just begin treatment
where they are. We started years ago doing this with the pills, but
when you live outside, especially with severe mental illness, pills get lost and
stolen, degraded by the elements, all kinds of things happened to them.
So in the last few years they came out with long acting injectable antipsychotics.
So we will begin with a few days of oral pills to make sure that
they tolerate it well. And we actually do what's called direct observed therapies who
will come out every day and actually give them the pill and then switch them
to these long acting injectibles where we give one injection. It can last one
month or three months. It's never lost or stolen or degraded. We give
it to them and it's in there. And we've just seen really tremendous results
with it. People are able to get organized enough to complete housing paperwork,
seek employment, and and it's really been astonishing to watch. And so it's
actually helping people get off the street because they're able to function. Yes,
yep, because when when you're scared, things like hostess, you know,
even just things like about they meet me at your encampment. All you have
to do is not leave on Tuesday. I'll come see you, But they
don't remember when Tuesday is. Then they're out and about doing things or even
like giving me things that that we need to get them into housing, like
remembering maybe their Social Security number, going to the DMV to get their ID
so that we can complete their housing paperwork. None of these things might have
been possible before that that's pretty amazing, and especially like you said, I
didn't realize that you had the some of the injectibles in available that last up
to three months. And then, as you were saying, once you have
them and you're treating them, then you follow along, so you're not like
you don't run into somebody that you're not familiar with and maybe give them a
double dose or something like that because you're tracking everything. Yes, they've become
patients of ours, just like you and I have have a doctor that followed
us. Okay, really interesting stuff. Thank you so much for the information,
Brett. And if people are interested in finding out more about USC Street
Medicine, is there anywhere that they can go and look and get more information.
Yep, we have a website. If you just start to USC Street
Medicine, you can see all the different things that we offer clinically and and
we also do a lot of research and workforce development because we want to trade
and equip others to do this work too. Awesome, awesome Brett Felman Feldman,
director and co founder of USC Street Medicine, Thank you so much for
your time and your information today, and best of luck and continuing to help
these people. Who you know, a lot of them need it, and
I think it's great that they're getting it. Thank you very much, and
thanks for being interested enough. All right, take care. Let's get back
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