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Homes and Rolling Hills Estates have been destroyed in a landslide. Pretty scary.
We'll tell y'all about that. President Biden has started his five day European
tour, which includes a meeting with the new King and one of the Kings
of pop Elton. John has done his very live, very last live show
in Sweden at six oh five. It's handle on the news. President Biden
says Ukraine isn't ready for NATO membership. But let's start with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA County Supervisor Janice
Hans says significant land movement overnight in Rolling Hills Estates has completely destroyed homes along
a canyon in Peartree Lane. I've never seen anything like this ever in my
career. A dozen homes were evacuated over the weekend because of a landslide that
left the area unstable. Hans says homes were pulled off their foundations. She
says her office is ready to offer any assistance it can provide. The families
and the city authorities have identified the six people killed when a business jet went
down in Riverside County, and TSB investigator Elliott Simpson says the marine layer at
the time of Saturday's crash was really heavy. It appears that the weather was
at the minimums for landing at that airport, so the visibility and ceilings allowed
for a landing, but it was right on the minimums. All six people
on board were killed. The three men and three women between the ages of
twenty five and fifty one. We're all from southern California. The plane had
taken off from Harry Reid International Airport early Sunday, crashed in Marietta near French
Valley Airport, about five hundred feet short of the runway. It was the
second deadly plane crashed near the airport in Marietta in less than a week.
The family of a missing fourteen year old girl found at Camp Pendleton says the
teen was raped by a marine on the military base. The San Diego County
Sheriff's Department says the girl's grandmother reported her missing about a month ago. The
teen was found two weeks later. The girl's aunt says she was found in
the barracks by military police and that she had been sold to a soldier for
sex. A seventeen year old boys been shot and killed near the Beverly Center
in La. Another teen and a man were hurt in the shooting yesterday outside
Barry's Cafe. The shooter ran off and has not been caught. LA police
have arrested a man they say randomly opened fire into a neighborhood. A motive
was not clear at the time the man was booked. Officers say for an
hour early Saturday morning, the man drove through the Hollaback area of East LA
and shot a rifle at different people in different locations, eventually hitting and injuring
one. Detectives say the man also aimed the rifle at several others. A
couple hours later, investigators say they were able to locate the vehicle near the
intersection of Third Street and Gertrude. No one was in the vehicle, but
moments later, a man matching the description of the shooter walked out of a
home near where the vehicle was parked. The LAPD says the rifle may have
been used in other crimes. Steve Gregory Camfine News Metro's making some repairs to
the overhead power wires on two of its lines in downtown La. Repairs are
expected to continue through Wednesday. Officials say the A and E line trains will
run every eighteen to twenty minutes during that time period. And if you've been
flying or know anyone who has been flying UNI, there have been a lot
of flight delays and that's continuing. Severe weather on the East Coast has affected
flights out of LAX and Hollywood Burbank Airport. This morning, there were eight
flights canceled, forty nine delayed a LAX. As of four thirty this morning,
three flights have been delayed at Hollywood Burbank Airport. American canceled some flights
at LAX, Delta delayed flights, United canceled a couple of flights. Alaska
has delayed flights at Hollywood Burbank. The worst of the airport delays yesterday was
at Philadelphia International Airport. They had more cancelations and delays than any other city
in the country, and nearly two thousand flights were canceled Sunday. According to
the website flight Aware, a suspected murderer has escaped from Plaster County Sheriff's deputies
near Sacramento. He believe he was last seen wearing belly chains and orange jail
pants, no shirt, no shoes. Sheriff Wayne Woo says Ericabrill got away
while being escorted back to jail from a hospital in rose Hill. I know
there's a lot of questions surrounding this case, specifically surrounding the circumstances regarding the
escape. Quite frankly, I have a lot of questions as well. Abril
is facing charges for the murder of a hostage and shooting two others in April,
and on the other side of the country, another inmate has escaped and
accused killer has gotten out of custody in Pennsylvania State Least Lieutenant Colonel George Bivens
says Michael Burham is a self proclaimed survivalist with military reserve experience. We have
located some small stockpiles or campsites in wooded areas in the general vicinity of Warren.
We believe these sites are associated with Burham. The inmate broke out of
the Warren County jail on Thursday. Authorities say they believe Burham climbed on top
of exercise equipment in the yard, got through a metal graded roof, jumped
to the ground and ran off. President Biden has traveled to the UK to
meet up with the Prime Minister and have tea with King Charles. The White
House says the meeting with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will face focus on a range
of global issues. One maybe Biden's decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine.
The UK is against sending those kinds of weapons. Biden and King Charles are
expected to talk about climate policy. They're hosting a forum on the issue,
and we're gonna be talking to Karen Travers in just a few minutes more about
that and what he's up to while he makes that five day trip to Europe.
Members of Congress are going back to work following the fourth of July holiday.
The House is expected to take up the eight hundred eighty six billion dollar
National Defense Authorization Act this week, which already has more than fourteen hundred amendments.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee want to work on ethics standards for Supreme
Court justices, and you don't see this every day. A woman has found
a dead bear in her front yard in Monrovia. A woman says she heard
a loud noise on Saturday night. She called police, who told her that
there was an injured and aggravated bear in the area. Officials say they believe
the juvenile bear that was found dead on Sunday is the same one that was
spotted in the area of the night before. Already say it was likely hit
by a car in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. At about twenty
we're gonna be talking with Karen Travers. As I mentioned, President Biden headed
to the NATO summit. He has some other high level meetings planned before that,
including, as I mentioned, tea with the King. I don't know
if you were like me, but I was like millions of Americans. I
hit the road for the fourth of July and I drove, which I thought
was a good idea. I had the option of flying, but but now
I'll drive this time. And I went up to Oregon to see my mom,
and I wanted to share this with you because I'm hoping that some of
you can commiserate with me, because everything best laid plans, And then there
were some little hiccups. And it actually started before the fourth of July weekend
when I was headed home from visiting one of my best friends for her birthday
and I was driving along on the five and I hit the dreaded grape Vine,
which I personally have never had a problem with. I've never had delays
on the grape Vine. I've never had it closed down because of weather.
I've never had it closed down because of crashes. But I have seen several
cars overheat on the grape Vine and I thought, oh, gosh, that'll
never happen to me. Right, So I'm driving along and right before I
hit the grape Vine, headed south on the five, and I think you
pass the exit that says Grapevine and a light comes on on my warning panel
and it's a picture of a battery and it says visit workshop. I'm like,
h what's that. So I called my mechanic and I said, hey,
what's this And he goes sounds like it could be your alternator? And
I said, oh, is that bad? And he said yep. And
I said, well, what do I do, And he said get it
into the shop. And he said where are you And I said, I'm
just about to hit the grape Vine. He goes, I don't know if
you'll make it. So I said, anything I can do. He said,
turn off anything electronic, because if the alternator is screwed up, then
you're it's not getting juice to the battery. And I don't understand it.
All right, So I'm like, okay, cool, So we get off
the phone. I'm heading up the grape fine, speeding along seventy miles an
hour. Everything's great. And then I saw some smoke coming out of my
vents, the air vents, and I went, well, that's not good.
And then I looked at the instrument panel again and it had a temperature
gauge. It said coolant level. It was red, and it said turn
off your engine. Now I'm like, oh, that's good, because I'm
going seventy miles an hour on the Grapevine. What do I do? I
think God was looking out for me that day, because right there was an
exit there. I think there's it's the Fort tahone exit. In fact,
it's number two ten. I know that only because I needed that for Triple
A to come get me. But so I got off the freeway. By
now, the whole engine is just smoking and it's coming out of the hood
and I'm freaking out and shaking, but I got off the freeway. I
was very lucky. Got off the freeway, got into a parking lot called
Triple A. Three hours later, they finally came to get me. Not
because of anything Triple A or the towing company did wrong. They were just
really busy and I had seen several cars broken down on my way up before
I broke down. So that was the start of my little journey. And
that happened the week before the Fourth of ju Amazingly got that fixed. Talk
to my mechanic, I said, I can I drive to Oregon now?
And he goes, yeah, everything should be fine. So my friend flew
down from Oregon to drive back up with me. Good friend right, and
I go pick her up at the airport and I thought, oh, it'll
be fun. It's a beautiful day. I'm gonna put the top down because
I have a cute little convertible. And as the top is going down,
and it finishes its whole thing where it puts the top down and then closes
everything down. I hear this loud crack. I'm like, oh, what's
that. Look look around, everything looks fine. I'm like, okay,
cool, We're good to go. Get to the airport. We're putting the
luggage in the trunk, and I go, well, that's weird. There's
this little flap that's pressed up against the back window and it's not supposed to
be that way. So we get home, we deal with that, We
get the top closed, we get the window down, and then the window
won't go back up again. So it's going like you hit the little electric
butt or the button that brings it up, and it goes the skinking king,
king King, but nothing's happening. So I'm like, well, I
can't take it back to my mechanic because he already has been my miracle worker
worker. And now it's Friday afternoon, before the fourth of July weekend,
so I guess we're just going to drive to Oregon with the window down.
So we drive to Oregon with the window down. It's one hundred and ten
degrees. My air conditioners working, but not very well, and so we
made the trip and thank god my friend was with me, and then we
get to the last exit before the Oregon California border, pull over for one
last rest stop, because of course we're super hydrated, lots of Starbucks,
lots of diet cokes, lots of water. And I get back in the
car and my check engine light goes on. I'm like, oh my god,
you gotta be kidding me. So we hobble along and get into town,
get it to a dealer. He's very nice. He goes, oh,
so you need me to fix your window. I go, yeah,
but now I've got a check engine light on. So I've got apparently an
older engine, so the carbon is built up in it and so it triggers
a sensor or something like that. So the car spends most of my time
in Medford in the shop. But they fix it. They get the engine
light turned off, they service the air conditioners, so I have nice,
cool, nice cool air coming out. And they fixed the window, and
so I'm like cool, I'm ready to go back to California. So I
jump in the car on Saturday morning. Off I go in. The check
engine light goes on again. I'm like, I gotta go. And they
had told me that it's just a sensor because the carbon is built up.
But this what is going on is not going to prevent me from driving,
So I make the drive, have a great time. By the way,
stopped and saw Jennifer Jones lee at in reading for a couple of hours,
so that was really fun. On the way home, and then hit the
Grapevine again and I tell you I made it, but I was having heart
palpitations the whole time, and just to be safe, I turned the heater
on because I said, Tyler, don't look at me that. And I
was like, oh, I'm not looking at you any kind. I get
the heat off the engine and all that stuff, and saw so many cars,
at least a dozen cars were broken down. So I mean, it
was just like this comedy of errors for the last couple of weeks with my
car that's normally been a very good, reliable car. She's just having temper
tantrums. But here's my takeaways. Triple A saved my life and has several
times. And Triple A plus is what I recommend because it'll take you up
to one hundred miles instead of seven miles. Okay, so triple A.
Make sure your car is ready to go, do all the things that you
need to do to your car. Make sure that you know you got your
oil and all of that stuff. If you have good friends like my friend
who flew down to drive back up with me, that was very helpful.
And also keep lots of snacks and waters next time you make a trip.
So that's my little that's my little adventure. I hope that yours was less
eventful and that you had a wonderful time for the Fourth of July with family,
friends, all that stuff. Here are some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four Hourvenues Room. Triple digit heats headed to the South
Land and it is sticking around for a while. Severe weather on the East
Coast is affecting flights out of lax and Hollywood Burbank Airport this morning, and
the FDA has been asked to look into Logan Paul's energy drink. It has
the caffeine of six cans of coke thirty five. We're going to be talking
to ABC Steve Roberts about colleges and how they're working to make sure there's enough
diversity on campus in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that bans affirmative action.
At six oh five it's handled on the news about a dozen homes or
slip sliding away and rolling hills estates. We'll tell you about that, but
right now we're going to check in with ABC's Karen Travers. Good morning,
Karen, Good morning. President Biden's on a five day swing through Europe.
So what's on the agenda today. First, Stoff was in London where he
met with the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunach. Their first time meeting there,
but the sixth time they've been meeting in six months. This is a significant
amount of time that these two world leaders have sat down together. The President
kind of jokes that they're now basically meeting once a month, which means a
lot of conversation. This is a continuing of the time that they spent at
the White House just a couple of weeks ago, talking about the global economy,
the US UK relationship, and of course Ukraine. The President did a
brief photo up with reporters at the start of the meeting, didn't take any
questions, but said he couldn't be meeting with a closer friend and greater Ally.
He's now meeting with King Charles at Windsor Castle and that's notable because there
had been some grumbling in the press over there about maybe the President snubbing King
Charles by not attending his coronation, by not meeting with him in Northern Ireland
when he was there in April. But now he's doing a big sit down
with him where they're going to talk about the USUK relationship as well as climate
issues, because that is something very important to King Charles. Tonight, the
President heads the Lithuania for the NATO summit two days where Ukraine's fronting center a
chance for the President to continue that strengthening of the alliance, showing support for
Ukraine against Russia's war, and also talk about the new member Finland just got
accepted in April. Sweden's membership is still lingering because of objections from Turkey,
but the US is significantly showing support for Turkey's membership or excuse me, for
Sweden's membership and really trying to push that across the finish line, but not
pushing for Ukraine. We all know that Ukraine really wants in, but I
can just said over the weekend they're not ready yet. Yeah, and we
saw the White House again emphasizing that Jake Sullivan said, NATO will not excuse
me, Ukraine will not be joining NATO coming out of this summit, but
there will be a discussion of what steps are necessary as it continues along that
path. President also had said that in an interview over the weekend that he
doesn't think Ukraine is ready for membership in NATO, that there are still certain
reforms that would need to be done in that country, and he also warned
that if Ukraine joined now, that would thrust the US and its allies into
war with Russia. That is, of course, not something the Biden administration
wants to do, so there are a lot of things that would have to
happen first. But you know, notable that there's using a conversation about it
happening down the road, likely after the war ends. Okay, And now
is Biden expected to get some pushback for the cluster bombs that they're that the
US is now providing the Ukraine. I think this is something that he will
hear about in his meetings with allies or he will likely have on the sidelines,
perhaps even during the summit. The White household the weekend with defending this,
saying that this is necessary right now because of how quickly the Ukrainian forces
are using up artillery. John kirbyan national security folksman, said they're doing it
at a clip of many thousands of rounds per day, so that this is
something that's necessary. He said that the US is sending me because the Ukrainians
don't or the US doesn't have enough of the kind of munitions that the Ukrainians
need right now, gotcha? All right? Well we'll be watching and see
what comes out of it. Karen Travis, thanks so much for taking a
couple of minutes with us this morning. Have a great day. Thank all
right, YouTube, Now let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man from West la is set
to be sentenced for fraudulently getting more than seven million dollars in COVID nineteen relief
money. Andrew Marnell pleaded guilty in twenty twenty one to bank fraud and money
laundering force submitting bogus federal tax filings and employee payroll records. He's looking it
up to forty years in federal prison. Amazing how many people scammed the system
during a worldwide pandemic News brought to you by American Vision Windows. Investigators in
Riverside say they're trying to find other people who may have been sexually assaulted by
a local doctor. Sam Zenoofi, was arrested late last month, released on
bail, and then re arrested on Friday when more people accused him of assault.
Zanofi is the owner of Timeless Skincare, laser clinic and primary care family
practice on Rockton Avenue. LA City firefighters they've spent more than an hour putting
out a fire in the Westlake district that damaged three buildings. The fire early
this morning started in a building that has businesses below and apartments above. The
flames spread to an attached building and a four story apartment building. About one
hundred firefighters worked to put the flames out. No injuries were reported, and
that's always good news. Arson investigators are now looking to find the cause of
the fire. Police in Ohio are trying to find whoever opened fire on a
group of people in Cleveland. Ticlar individual started shooting and forced the crowd.
As you all noticed that nine individuals. Cleveland Police Chief Wayne Drummond says people
were gathered in a larger group outside a group of Mars yesterday when the shooting
started. Investigators say they're not quite sure what led up to the shooting.
SpaceX has launched twenty two Starlink satellites into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Force
Base in Floridas. And it's so amazing these things are going off all the
time. Like it used to be like such a big deal because the launch
has only happened like once a year or something, and now it seems like
they're going off like every week. This was SpaceX, oh, speaking of
that. This was SpaceX's forty six mission this year. The Starlink satellites spread
broadband internet around the world. Heavy rain has caused severe flooding in New York's
Hudson Valley, killing at least one person and forcing road closures. Orange County
Executive Steve Newhouse says some roadways looked like rivers, and more rain is expected.
I talked to the governor a dot. Everybody's working their hardest to get
here. We're handling all the calls on a priority basis. He says.
A woman in her thirties drowned when she was swept away trying to get out
of her home two other people escaped. New York's governor has declared a state
of emergency for Orange County, and heavy rains have caused severe flooding and mudslides
in southwest Japan, killing at least two people. At least six people are
still missing. The flooding and mudslides have also closed roads, canceled into laid
trains, and cut the water supply in some areas. Here are some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Homes and Rolling
Hills estates have been destroyed in a landslide. Not great news. President Biden
has started his five day European tour, which includes a meeting with the new
King. Apparently had tea with King Charles today. Elton John has done his
last live show in Stockholm, Swedom. He would did his last live show
in America at Dodgers Stadium and somebody was there, right, somebody was lucky
enough to, oh my gosh, it was so great. So it's weird
that it's like nine months later and he's doing his last live show. He
says he's been doing it for fifty years. Unbelievable. I think he deserves
a vacation at six oh five, it's handle on the news. A suspicious
fire has broken out at LA City Hall. Will tell you about that,
but right now it's time for us to talk to ABC's Steve Roberts, the
news political analyst in Washington, d C. Hey, Steve, how you
doing, Good morning, Good morning, Hi there. So institutions are looking
for new ways to guarantee diversity in the student body in the wake of the
Supreme Court decision that bans affirmative action. So how are they going to go
about that? Steve? Well, diversity is very important, and anybody in
LA knows this to be true. I've taught college at George Washington University for
over thirty years, and I can tell you that a diverse classroom is so
much richer, so much more vibrant. And it's not just about the kids
who represent diversity. It's about everybody else who benefits from them in the classroom,
including, by the way, the professor. I can't tell you how
any important things I've learned over the years from my diverse students, and so
race has been a useful metric, but it's never been perfect. I've got
one student who Hispanic student from Florida, her very successful journalists. Her dad's
a cardiac surgeon in Miami. She doesn't need any help. But I got
a white student from New Jersey's first generation the college who's dad's a truck drivers.
He needs a lot of help. So race has been useful, but
it's not the only way of guaranteing diversity, and the colleges are moving rapidly
towards figuring out other ways. Of course, in California, for years,
you've had to do that, and colleges have had to do that because the
explicit use of race, you can ban there for a long time. And
so focusing on socioeconomic status. Finding these first generation camps of any race is
is it's an important and effective substitute them and absolutely essential for a healthy college
environment. So how do you find these students? Because you like you You
gave the example of the the Hispanic student whose dad is a cardiac surgeon,
so he's good to go, like he can he can make the do the
applications, he's going to get in. But then there's the white the white
girl whose dad is a trucker, and they probably don't have the money.
But you know, you want you want to mix, you want the Hispanic,
you want Black, you want Asian, you want what, you want
to a little bit of everybody, and if they're under or less advantaged financially,
maybe they're not even going to apply to the schools. True, and
this means recruitment efforts. It means advertising, It means working through college counselors
in high schools, including those from disadvantaged areas. It means doing a great
deal of outreach. But it also means understanding that recruiting students from disadvantaged backgrounds
is only the beginning of the process. I see this on campus every day.
You can't just focus on recruiting kids. You've got to focus on retaining
them, because once these kids get to campus, they can be pretty fragile.
You know, comfortable middle class families. If something goes wrong in the
family, they have resources, they have savings, or they have an uncle
who can help them. A lot of these first games families, they don't
have this elasticity or these sources, and if one thing goes wrong, someone
loses a job, the family truck breaks down, they can be in crisis
overnight. And so you've got to focus on retaining them and not just recruiting
them, and one of the key variables, there's something called the Pelgrands.
This is a marvelous federal programs, one of those federal programs that really works,
been around for fifty years and now the maximum of my student can get
in a grant is about seven thousand, four hundred dollars. Well, that
covers the community college in la but it doesn't house very much a USC or
UCLA, and you need there needs to be a significant increase in my view
of the annual rate because the pelegrands have really lost purchasing power. The cost
of college is basically doubled in many places over the last twenty years, but
the power of pelgrands only increased about thirty percent. So it's not just recruiting
these disadvantage kids, these first ten kids, these immigrant kids. It's also
focusing on keeping them in college and helping them make the most of their college
experience. Yeah, and looking at increasing the funding. Where is that in
the process, Like it is that just an idea at this point to increase
the pell Grand opportunities or is it really kind of pushes on to get that
done. That's a good question, and there is a push to get it
done. Now, last year in the federal budget, there was an increase
of five hundred dollars in the maximum a lotment for pell grand and that was
helpful, but there's still way way behind, and there's a movement. There's
a long consocium, large consocium of education advocacy organizations now pushing something called doublepell
double the pelgrands. I think it's a good idea from my perspective as a
teacher, because you know, kids when they get to college and they look
I think everybody should make some of their own money. I think everybody,
no matter how wealthy of families, you contribute to their own education. But
if you're working two or three jobs to get through college, you can't begin
to make the most of that college experience. And what pelgrams can do is
help buy kids some freedom to make the most of college. And it would
be one of the best investments this country could ever make. And do you
have any kind of an idea of a timeline since it pushes on, like,
do you think that's something that they can make happen in the next year
or so, or is it kind of down the world. And you know,
budgets are always tight, you know, budgets are always tight amy and
there's always a competing, many competing demands for federal money. But the value
of this idea is that cuts across political line. This is not a part
as an issue. It should be and can be an issue that both parties
can get behind. But you know, you know, right now people are
talking about cutting the federal budget, not increasing at it. But when you
talk about the investment of federal money that brings the maximum return on the taxpayers
investment worse for taxpayer dollars, it's got to be right at the top of
the list. Yeah, investing in education never a bad idea. Thank you
so much, Steve Roberts for your insight and your time this morning. We'll
talk to you again soon. Okay. So, if you're looking to sell
your home in Orange County or the Ie, the near future might not be
looking so bright for you. There's a couple of new stories out about that
home buying in LA and Orange Counties fell twenty four percent in a year,
and a big reason is that the house payments are scaring away potential buyers.
Sales of houses and condos, both existing and new, were about just under
seventy five hundred for May, for both for LA and Orange Counties. That's
up seventeen percent for the month, but down twenty four percent for the year.
So it's it's interesting when you kind of dig in the numbers, but
you look at the rising interest rights plus the sky high costs of real estate
here in southern California, and it's just like, how are you ever going
to afford a home? And so a lot of people aren't even trying.
But it was the second slowest May for sales in records dating back to nineteen
eighty eight. What are the thirty five years board years. It's the forty
seventh smallest sales total for any month in over thirty five years, thirty nine
percent below the average May sales pace since nineteen ninety eight, and the inland
empire, the home buying picture is not looking a lot better. It's not
a thirty five year low, but it's a seven year low. And again
they're saying these mortgage rates are keeping people up from buying, which is it's
too bad because it's fun to own a house. I've had one. I've
been renting here in LA for a long time, and I would love to
buy a house here there's just no way for me to afford at the down
payments, and then you look at the the interest rates and all that stuff.
So for right now, I'm just going to be a happy little renter.
Here are some of the stories coming out of the twenty four hour k
FI newsroom. Triple digit heat is headed to the Southland and is going to
stick around at least through the weekend. Severe weather on the East Coast is
affecting flights out of lax and Hollywood Burbank Airport this morning, and the FDA
has been asked to look into Logan Paul's Energy drink, which packs the caffeine
of six cans of coke. We're just minutes away from Handle. In the
news this morning, President Biden says Ukraine is not ready for NATO membership.
We'll be diving into that, but right now it's time for us to talk
to ABC's Jim Ryan about vampire facials. Good morning, Jim, Good morning.
Yeah. Vampire facial also known as the protein rich plasma treatment. Those
facials. What is that? Yeah, Well, what they do here,
it's in the longer short here. They pull a little blood out of a
patient, right, a client, a customer, somebody in a spa.
They then use in Apharies's machine or some kind of device to spin out the
platelets and the plasma from that blood, and then they reinject that back under
the skin. What it does, or what it's intended to do, is
to encourage the growth of cellar cellulose, you know, and chlagen under the
skin to make it look firmer, plumper, or younger. It's the same
theory as you know, you work out by lifting weights and when you liftwits,
you're actually damaging your muscles a little bit. Your body responds by building
new muscle on top of that stuff, and you keep doing it and you
get bolt up. The theory here is that as you reintroduce the plasma the
platelets under the skin, yes, you're committing a little bit of damage,
which are also encouraging the growth of new skin, new calagen. And it's
got some pretty high profile supporters, the Kardashians among them. And you know,
you can have it done all over the place. I see that in
Los Angeles and Hollywood. You can get it done for about fifteen hundred dollars.
Oh, it's a bargain. Well, so you're taking the blood like
if I was getting a vampire facial done, you would take my blood,
spin it out, and then reinject it. Correct. Yeah, that's that's
right. Yeah, you're reinjecting the patient's own blood and I couldn't call them
patient, you know, client or customer or whatever, and reinjecting it back
under the skin the same blood except spun out so that you have these plasm
and platelets that are being introduced. And you know, it's perfectly fine.
There is a governing but sort of the Cellular Medicine Association says that it's perfectly
safe if it's done properly. They have the needles that are used, the
micro needles or standard needles that are used are sterile. If not, you
can get into problems. That's what's happened in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Okay,
tell us about there's a medical spa in New Mexico that has now been
closed down because apparently they didn't follow all those safety protocols. Yes, and
what's more, the owner is sitting in prison. The VIP Beauty salan salon
and spa in Albuquerque. It's been closed for five years almost after a couple
of clients tested positive for HIV after they had had this procedure done. Well,
now other clients have tested positive as well. Yeah, about one hundred
customers have been tested and I think total at least five now have tested positive.
And I think it raises it should raise the alarm level or raise the
concern among people who are having this done anywhere, just to make sure that,
yeah, the conditions are sterile. So so five people have tested about
so somewhere along the line someone got it done the needle, So maybe there's
like a patient zero who might have had HIV, but then they didn't sanitize
and sterilize everything the way that it should be, and then it got to
the next person. Yes, exactly, they told two friends somebody else to
tell two friends, you know, and it's sort of grows exponentially, or
it can if it's not stopped. And so that's what the Health Department and
New Mexico is trying to do to track down everybody who might have had contact
with those original needles or with that original patient zero and try to stop this
in its tracks. But you know, it's not just HIV, but also
hepatitis B, hepatitis C, could be other infections that people would come down
with if those needles had not been sterilized, that's just crazy. Okay,
So here's the question then, So like, how do you know You go
into a place, you assume that they're going to be nice and sterilized,
But is there anything a patient can do to protect themselves? Well, yeah,
you can look at the you know, the state records. If it's
a regulated business, then you can take a look and see if there have
been other complaints about it. Better Business Bureau is a good source of that
sort of thing. Do a little bit of research because you're dealing with your
health here. But you know there's also just kind of eyeballing and walking and
sitting down and take look is it. Does it appear to be clean?
Is the staff, you know, well groomed, are they wearing they have
proper documents on the walls, and are they prepared for this kind of thing?
So yeah, I mean there's a gut instinct I think that people have.
But also you can go in and look at records. And I think
the point you made too as you're saying you should research that, and I
think that's a lovely idea, But I think that a lot of us at
least speaking for me, I wouldn't even think to go, I'm gonna go
look. I mean, I'm gonna go check out reviews online. But I
wouldn't look at like official stuff and say does he have these certifications or are
there any violations? Like I wouldn't even know where to look for if there
were as a violation. Sure, yeah, well, I think you're right.
People they shop around, they try to find the best price, but
they also try to find the place that either has the best reputation or also
is the most qualified or suited to do this sort of thing. I mean
again, it's it's said to be perfectly safe unless right Yeah, Okay,
So the owner is of the VIP Beauty salon and Spawn Albuquerque is in jail
right now. Oh so and she what charges is she facing? Well,
she did. She was charged, you know, with negligence related to the
HIV infection. So it wasn't just a regular it wasn't just a civil problem,
it wasn't a regulatory issue. These were criminal charges that she was up
against. And I'm wondering like if somebody, you know, hopefully with the
treatments and everything, the people who were infected are going to be okay,
but what if one of them died? I mean she would she face murder
charges or potentially sure homicide charges or manslaughter charges were possibly negligent homicides something like
that. You know, if you knowingly didn't maintain procedures that were sterile in
there and somebody got sick, possibly died, then yeah, it could be
a very serious thing. And again we're not just talking about HIV, but
the potential for heppitaitis a thing that you're up against. If you get a
tattoo or get botox, just then be very careful anytime somebody's poking it with
an eedle. Okay. Oh, And the difference between the vampire facial and
the botox is like the botox freezes you, the vampire facial doesn't do that,
right, Yeah, I mean different substance serves that are injected under the
skin, you know, right, So whereas with botox it's one I think
it's an organism actually, and with this it's blood that's been spun out to
get the platelets in the plasma and that's what's reinjected. Okay, Jim Ryan,
thank you so much. So the price of beauty is it worth it?
If you want to be a VM buyer, maybe it is okay.
One thing before we take off, I want to just mention that today is
the first day that McDonald's is offering a spicy new tree. McDonald's is turning
up the heat on one of its signature menu items, the quarter pounder with
Cheese. So starting today, they're officially going to serve a cheesy Halla pain
bacon QPC quarter pounder with cheese for a limited time, two beef patties,
bacon palapeeno slices, and two slices of American cheese and cheddar cheese sauce.
I might have to give that one a try. Just say we lead local
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