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so let's get right to it. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
The LAPD has cleared out a pro Palaceinian protest encampment from the sidewalk outside City
Hall. About twenty tenths went up late yesterday afternoon. The LAPD declared it
a non permitted demonstration last night and cleared the tents early this morning. Cal
Trends is being blamed for the massive fire in November that shut down the ten
Freeway in downtown LA and costs thirty three million dollars to fix. Remember that,
it says, infrequent and haphazard inspections led to conditions that led to the
fire. Our Steve gregor Is can tell us more about that in just a
minute. A jury has been seated Testimonies expected to begin today in Hunter Biden's
federal gun case. The twelve jurors and four alternates were selected in a Delaware
federal courtroom yesterday. The President's son is accused of illegally buying and possessing a
gun while being addicted to drugs. In twenty eighteen, we're going to get
the latest on a new ceasefire deal in Israel and the discovery of four more
dead hostages with ABC's Jordana Miller in just a couple of minutes. And Joel
Larsgard is going to tell us about a potentially financially devastating trend for homeowners facing
sky high homeowners insurance prices at six oh five right after wake up call its
handle on the news. Apparently fire hydrants or a hot ticket item, about
one hundred of them have been stolen around LA this year. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
LAPD has cleared out a camp of pro Palestinian protesters from outside City Hall.
About twenty tents began going up yesterday afternoon at Maine and First Streets. Several
had Palestinian flags and phrases like Free Palestine and Free Gaza. Police started monitoring
the area and by about nine thirty told people to clear out. When they
didn't, the department went on tactical alert. No arrests were reported overnight,
but the tent encampment has apparently been cleared. A rolling strikeover pro Palestinian protests
has moved to more UC campuses. Members of the UAWR demanding all criminal and
conduct charges be dropped against arrested students and staff. UCLA student Annie Valoria winn
It says her university is now punishing some of those protesters by refusing them access
to campus housing. It basically serves, isn't avixtra notice. If you're not
allowed to come to campus, you can't go to work and you can live
here. The strike has spread this week. Do you see Santa Barbara and
you see San Diego? With UCI workers expected to hit picket lines tomorrow.
The union, made up of researchers and teachers AID says it will strike through
June thirtieth, unless the universities meet their demands. Chris Adler KFI News A
bill has unanimously passed the California State Assembly that would ban smartphones for students in
public schools. The bill claims there is growing evidence cell phones get in the
way of education and can lead to cyber bullying, anxiety, depression, eating
disorders, and suicide. The bill now heads to the state Senate for consideration.
The bill would allow students to use their cell phones in an emergency house.
Republicans have drilled doctor Anthony Faucher Fauci in the origins of COVID nineteen and
the advice that led to lockdowns. Fauci was the top US infectious disease expert
until he retired in twenty twenty two. ABC's Stephen Portnoy says. Fauci insisted
yesterday that US funded research in Wuhan, China, could not have caused the
pandemic. It is molecularly impossible, stale. Fauci said he can't rule out
the chance that COVID did leak from a lab. I have always kept an
open mind to the different possibilities, Fauci said. Allegations that he tried to
cover up COVID nineteen's origins are simply preposterous. He also played down criticism of
his social distancing guidelines. Spotify is getting more spendy. Subscribers will pay a
dollar more a month for the ad Premium plans or AD free premium plans starting
this month. Other plans are going up to the Family plan has going up
three bucks a month. That's a twenty percent increase in two years. The
increase comes as Spotify cuts costs through layoffs and reductions to its podcast business.
Let's say good morning now to Geordana Miller with ABC. Jordana's back after some
well earned time off and time to accept her Gracie's Award here in La So
proud of you about that, Jordana. Thanks so much, Amy. It
was really fun to attend the ceremony and be part of the ABC team and
so many other great journalists and women who are doing really important work, you
know, across news and media and entertainment special well, and you are one
of them, and we appreciate you for all of your efforts. And now
you're back in Jerusalem, and a lot happened while you were gone, but
let's get right back to it. A new ceasefire deal has been put forward,
Is there any new movement on it? We know that Hamas hasn't responded,
or at least that's the last we were hearing, right well, Israel
ben is waiting for Hamas's official response. They'd said that they viewed President Biden's
remarks positively, but that doesn't necessarily mean they've reviewed and responded officially to the
deal itself. I think the same issues that have torpedoed previous efforts to read
to reach us these fire are still on the table and there are still gaps
on. For example, when would the end of the war be declared?
Is it in phase one? Is it in phase two? Uh? The
Israelis want the option to restart the war if talk stall or they feel Hamas
is playing games. How would that work? What is the role of Hamas
at the end of this war? Israel? The United States don't want must
have any role in governing the Gaza Strip or obviously any military role. Hamas
still wants to have a foot, you know, a hand in the game
after this war. That's a problem. And then, of course, the
issue of the Israeli military withdrawal or redeployment. You know, are there still
going to be troops that the along the perimeter of the Godza strip. Hamas
wanted every troop out. These are the same issues that have again torpedoed previous
efforts, and they seem to still be in this They still seem to be
hovering above this deal. So I can't report any great optimism from Jerusalem about
this deal. Okay, and now we know that President Biden kind of surprisingly
announced, hey, we've got a new deal and it was from Israel.
But Israel's pushing back on that a little bit. And Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke
publicly about the deal for the first time. What did he have to say
specifically? That's right. President Biden emphasized in his remarks that he's looking to
end the war. You know, it's time to end the war and get
a permanent ceasefire. That was one of his main points. And Ntania,
who felt the need to, you know, publicly respond and say, you
know, we're working to get our hostages out, and you know, we
will only agree to the end of the war if Hamas has been quote unquote
eliminated, if we get our hostages out. He felt the need to say
publicly that Israel's not agreeing to end the war before its war aims are met,
and so, you know, pushing back a little bit on the President's
main point in his remarks on Friday. Okay, And while all of this
goes on, Israel says, it's discovered four more hostages are dead. What's
that? What's going on with that? That's right? Right? They announced
last night four hostages that the Israeli Army believes were being held together in the
Communists, that large city in Gaza South. They believe these four were killed
some months ago, and the Israeli Army left open the option that friendly fire,
part of Israel's offenses against Hamas, may have killed these hostages. They
said that the circumstances of their death will raise many questions, and they're going
to look into those questions and report back to the families. So the circumstances
of their death, you know, remains unclear. They didn't squarely blame Hamas,
and Israel didn't also, but didn't squarely take responsibility either. Of course,
this speaks to the danger of these hostages are in day after day after
day, and this is part of the reason why the families of the hostages
have been so vocal stepping up their protests and their criticism of the government,
because they say it is a fallacy to claim that you can both pursue the
end of Hamas and the release of the hostages, because the heavy assault on
Hamas actually in dangers the lives of the hostages, and that may have been
the case with these four. It leaves another eighty or so hostages that Israel
believes could be alive, forty more than forty than are now declared dead,
among them several Americans, and unfortunately it's not even clear if the eighty you
know that many hope are alive, are really alive. That's why I was
going to ask you, because aside from a video of a couple of them,
there has been no contact. Red Cross hasn't been allowed in. Nobody's
been able to check on them. So they really don't know. They really
don't know how they're doing. You know. The only hints that Israel gets
are from well, there's two sources, one from the DKSE that they take
from the Gaza strips. From some of those interrogations, they learn about the
fate of the hostages. They get new intel and the other is from Hamas
itself who out videos, right, and those are signs of life when they
can try to figure out how, you know, authenticate the videos and figure
out when they may have been filmed. So, you know, it's very
difficult to know. You know, these are eighty hostages that are likely spread
out again into smaller groups across the gods Strip, and right now they're fighting
really across the Godless Strip from the north to central, to the to the
to Rafa. So it is a dangerous situation for those hostages. Yeah,
okay, jor Dana Miller, thank you as always for the information and glad
to have you back and appreciate the information. We'll talk again soon, tox
fin All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new report shows Caltrans was negligent in
the oversight of rental properties under the ten Freeway in downtown LA. The report
from the California Department of Transportations Inspector General also shows Caltrans ignored warning signs in
the month leading up to that destructive fire last November, which not only shut
down the freeway for days, but caused thirty three million in damages. The
sixty plus page report outlines a number of deficiencies within Caltrans, including shoddy record
keeping and a failure to do required inspections on least properties, many of which
contained hazardous materials. Investigators say the fire under the freeway was arson, though
no one's been arrested. Caltrans says it's implemented new oversight measures. Steve Gregory
take a fine news. A ride share driver has shot a twenty year old
man who was allegedly attacking a sixty year old woman who'd just gotten out of
his car. THEOC Sheriff's Department says the driver saw the woman being assaulted,
so he intervened Sunday night on Custer Way. He did stay at the scene
and called deputies. The man shot is in the hospital. Well apparently,
Cindy Laufer is about done having fine. She's announced her final tour, the
Girls Just Want to Have Fun Farewell Tour. It kicks off October eighteenth.
It includes a stop in la at the intwint Dome on November twenty third.
The tour will wrap up in December in Chicago. Pre sale tickets are available
starting at ten this morning. The public on sale is set for Friday.
The Dodgers take on the Pirates this afternoon in Pittsburgh, with the first pitch
going out at three forty. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers
game on AM five seventy LA Sports and stream all the games NHD on the
iHeartRadio app keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all
of LA. President Biden's expected to take executive action to limit asylum seekers when
the number of migrant crossings surge. The restriction would kick in once daily border
crossings hit twenty five hundred. We're going to be talking more about this with
ABC's Karen Travers coming up at the bottom of the hour. Hawaii's kill Away
a volcano is a right upting. The volcano has seen increased seismic activity for
the past month. Officials say islanders can expect to see volcanic gas that looks
kind of like fog it's called vog, and may experience earthquakes that can create
cracks in the ground and rock falls. It's the first time the volcano is
erupted since nineteen seventy four. The San Diego Zoo is working on its permit
to host giant pandas that will be on loan from China. The application for
the permit includes a million dollars in operating costs and a habitat twice the size
as the last one. It also requires any cubs born while the pandas are
here to be sent back to China when they're two to four years old.
If everything gets approved, the pandas could be headed to the San Diego Zoo
as soon as this month. At six oh five, it's handled on the
news. A jury's been seated. Now it's time for testimony in Hunter Biden's
federal firearms trial. Right now, let's say good morning to the house,
the houst the House, the houst of how to Money. How about the
host of How to Money? Joel Larsgard. Joel, you can call me
whatever you want. Amy. Oh, you're so sweet. Good, because
I'm really good at messing up people's days. Okay, So we were out
at lunch on Saturday or Sunday, and we went to this nice restaurant and
we got our bill and we gave our credit card and we came back and
then the service said to us, oh, the twenty percent service charge is
added to your bill right there, and we went okay, and so my
friend went, well, that's the tip and didn't tip. I don't think
that's what it was, but I'm not sure. It's so hard to know
in this environment. And so I think what people assume is what your friend
assumed at this point, that a service charge equals a tip, because it's
a service. It's a charge for the service exactly. And this is something
we've had to deal with that's proliferated in a meaningful way since COVID right and
restaurants coming up with all sorts of ways. And in the beginning, we
all kind of rallied together and we bought takeout because hey, there wasn't,
you know, much else to buy, and we couldn't go to our favorite
storts. Dude were to go, right, So it's like takeout, like
we're and it felt like we were in it with our local restaurants, wanted
to help keep them afloat. And now it feels like these some of these
sneaky fees, these pervasive fees, have abounded, They've come up with new
names, and now there's like an antagonistic relationship that we have with restaurants that
have these fees around. By the way, I'm curious, did did you
see anything that told you that this fee existed before you, like, anywhere
on the table or did anyone tell you about that before you ate? No,
and it wasn't on the bill. But when we when he brought back
the receipt, you know, for for her to sign, that's when he
said the service charge is on there. Wow. Okay, yeah, that
feels really bold, And honestly it's I would be willing to talk to a
manager about that, and I would ask, hey, what what is this
fee for? Why is it so why is it so opake? Why aren't
you telling you about this upfront? It's something I would be willing to push
back. Again. It's not because I'm I'm I don't love restaurants, or
not because I'm not interested in hipping servers, but you want that to be
above board, and you want to know what you're getting into, and you
want to know whether you should be tipping. On top of that. It's
also one of those things where people are increasingly revolting against restaurants who are doing
that. I think they're saying, like, okay, cool, this is
the last time you're going to get me like that. I think for restaurants,
raise the prices on the menu and make clear ahead of time to people,
like at least the transparency to say, hey, listen, we're charging
an extra five percent right now in our prices because this and this and this
one. People understand the reality of inflation, and people also understand the especially
right now in California with what's going on with wages for service workers. I
mean, the costs are going up, and I think people are willing to
pay the increased costs as long as they don't feel blindsided by it. Yeah,
And we kind of feel bad now because we started talking about it later
and we're like, I think you stiffed him because I think that was a
service charge tacked on even though it says service charge and the server provides service.
And there was only three of us too, like a lot of times,
you know, on six parts party of sex, the more they automatically
add the tip. So we weren't sure. But so I guess what we
take from this is watch for it and then, like you said, you're
free to question it. Yeah, ask the question, and I ultimately I
think probably all of us feel this way is why can't we function more like
Europe in this regard where servers just get paid a normal wage and we don't
have to have to think about the tipping thing. That's just a much more
ideal way to do it. So and it's I kind of like rewarding people.
I love like being super generous if we have a great server or we
have incredible service. It's really fun to get to do that. But man,
this all these extra like fees coming out of nowhere kind of makes it
a lot less fun. Yeah. So, speaking of prices going through the
roof, homeowners insurance prices are going up when you can even get them,
and that's kind of created this disturbing new trend. Well, it's a homeowner's
insurance market in California has a mess. Is a complete mess. It's a
complete mess, and it's super sad to watch. And surance has gotten significantly
more expensive. We're talking about just twenty plus percent increases year over year and
four and that's nationwide and in California it's worse than that for so many people.
And not only are insurance rates climbing rapidly, but payouts on claims are
diminishing too, So the value proposition of homeowners insurance has declined. But it's
also one of those things where, for the most part, most people have
to have it, right, especially if you have a mortgage, you literally
have to have it or your mortgage company is going to say no, no,
we're going to buy that policy for you, and then we're going to
bill you for it, and then it's really really expensive insurance policy. It's
going to cost you more than if you had shopped for that policy yourself.
And so the Wall Street Journal just wrote an article about the increase in people
who are choosing to go without insurance altogether. And you're saying, well,
who is that and who can do that? Well, surprisingly, something like
forty percent of homes in this country, our own, free and clear people
don't have a mortgage. You're like, who are these people? I don't
know? These people who I know? But that's great, Yeah, credible,
But it's also I'm shocked every time I hear that stat because how are
these people like own their homes completely free and clear. But a lot of
those folks are choosing to ditch homeowners insurance completely. In twenty nineteen, only
five percent of Americans didn't have homeowners insurance, and now it's twelve percent of
Americans who don't have any homeowners insurance. And I get why if you have
a paidoff home you might choose to forego it. You're also putting yourself at
incredible risk, and so you have to make sure that you are either one,
okay if the home does something happens to the home, like a severe
destruction of the home, that you're like, hey, listen, I'm just
not going to rebuild. It's worth the money, it's worth the savings.
Now I can barely afford to keep the insurance. And you just have to
make sure that you've got your ducks in a row before you decide to forego
homeowners insurance. And if you have a mortgage, that's not even really an
option for you. Yeah, so plan, plan, plan, and evaluate,
and yeah, because what if you cancel your insurance and like your mortgage
company doesn't know about it, right, How's I mean? Yeah, that'd
be a huge problem. I have a friend who owned a home in Florida
and there was a massive storm that came through and basically completely demolished his home,
and he didn't have homeowder insurance. And I remember him telling you that,
and I was like, oh my gosh, well, I'm so sorry.
But he has been a diligent saver and he owned the home free and
clear, and so he has rebuilt it on his own time. There aren't
many people who can do that. So the other thing to do, by
the way, as home insurance prices are going up, raise your deductible For
normal people out there who still have a mortgage on their home. I love
the idea of having more money in savings and then raising your deductible, which
is going to lower that premium ount. It's going to reduce the shock of
the outgoing homeowners insurance premium every single year. You again have to make sure
you have the savings to back it up, because I found this out the
hard way last year when a tree fell through my home and I had a
really high deductible, but guess what, I had the cash on hand to
cover it. That's one way to kind of mitigate and minimize the impact of
rising homeowners insurance rates. It's not a fail safe, but and you have
to make sure you have the cash on hand to pay the deductible if something
happens. But that can be a way to save a significant amount of money
every year on that insurance. Okay. For more great money advice, you
can listen to how to Money with Joel Larsguard right here on CAFI on Sundays
from noon to two. And next time we talk, because we didn't we
ran out of time. But I want to talk about inflation and how we're
kind of getting it wrong. But that's going to have to wait for another
day. Okay, sounds good, next week, all right, Joel Larsguard,
thank you so much for the information. Again, how to Money with
Joel Larsguard Sunday's noon to two. You can also follow him. I'm at
how to Money Joel. Have a great week. Thanks Amy, you too.
All Right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The first excessive heat warning of the season's
been issued for the valleys and desert areas. Temperatures are forecast to go into
the high nineties and low one hundreds today. National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Sarad
says it's because of an upper level of high pressure moving into southern California.
I wo'll not to say it's early. Sometimes I do get some May heat
waves, if you will, But this year it's been quite cool through May
and early June so far, so it's going to be quite a shock for
people to experience the heat building in. He says temperatures should be back to
normal by Sunday. Show Hey. Otani's former interpreter, Ibe Mizuhara, is
due in court in Orange County to plead guilty to federal bank fraud charges.
He pleaded not guilty last month as a formality while he negotiated with prosecutors on
a deal involving a wide ranging illegal sports betting investigation. Mitsahara is accused of
stealing about sixteen seventeen million dollars from Otani to cover gambling debts. Okay,
I do also feel quite so bad now, But a lot of younger Americans
are just passing on artificial intelligence. A New York survey shows just four percent
of fourteen to twenty two year olds say they use it daily, fifty percent
say they have tried AI, forty one percent say they've never used generative AI,
and eight percent say they don't even know what AI tools are. Caltrans
is being blamed for the massive fire in November that shut down the ten Freeway
in downtown LA and costs thirty three million dollars to fix. A new report
says caltrans ignored warning signs at the property under the freeway that was leased to
private parties. Voters will decide today whether to recall the president of the Temecula
Valley School District over his support of a policy that requires teachers to notify parents
if their child asked to be identified differently from his or her birth gender.
Supporters of the recall say the policy is forced outing for kids. Close to
one hundred fire hydrants have been stolen in La County so far this year.
AUTH already say thieves are selling them at metal recycling yards. At six oh
five, TENDL on the news, and so it begins. A heat dome
is forming over California. Our first big heat wave of this year is arriving
right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, immigration
polling is one of the most important is choose of the twenty twenty four election.
Yeah, And after saying for a really long time that Congress needs to
fix the problem, President Biden appears to be ready to fix it on his
own. Yeah. And you know, they'll still say that Congress should have
taken a lead on this and that it would be better done through a legislative
path. But at this point, the President and the White House is looking
to do something now. I should note this has not yet been announced yet
for the President's schedule today. The White House is not confirming that this executive
action is coming, but sources tell us that the President is going to is
getting ready to unveil what would be his most aggressive action on immigration. He
will sign an executive order soon that would effectively end the asylum process, shut
down the border for asylum seekers when migrant crossings surge. The threshold that they're
looking at is when daily illegal encounters reach twenty five hundred between ports of entry.
Asylum Seekers at that point would be turned away, immediately sent back to
their country of origin to wait until the daily average goes down, and once
it does go down, they would then be able to come back and claim
asylum. This could have an immediate impact. Say he signs this today,
migrant crossings have been averaging thirty five one hundred a day thirty five hundred a
day in recent weeks, so that is above that threshold. And that means
they could put that trigger in place and shut down the border for the asylum
process. Okay, and Karen, so you said that's if they're coming across
illegally. Does it affect the ones who are going through the ports of entry?
No, that would not. I'm waiting to see the exact details of
it, but that's a great question because this is between the ports of entry
where it is not legal to be coming through. Now this is complicated though,
because technically the asylum process is where you come in and claim asylum.
You can claim asylum, but they're making a distinction here, and we again,
we don't have this yet. The executive order hasn't been released, so
we're waiting to see what this looks like and how they're drawing that legal line
there. Okay, And we don't know for sure, but your sources are
saying we'll find out today. So today, hopefully we get some mayors from
Texas is coming to the White House today for an event that is not yet
on the President's schedule, So tuned. Okay, Well, hopefully we can
talk to you tomorrow and get more details. Yeah, all right, Karen
Travers, thank you so much for the information. Appreciate it. All right,
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Opening statements are set to begin. In Hunter Biden's federal
gun case in Delaware, a jury was seated yesterday. First Lady Jill Biden
was in the courthouse for that. ABC's Stephen Portnoy says one prospective juror was
excused because she'd read Hunter Biden's book, which may be used by prosecutors as
evidence. Other would be jurors were sent home because they'd heard news about the
case, including one man who knew a plea deal had dissolved last year.
Another man was dismissed because he said he couldn't be impartial in a case involving
gun law violations. That guy said he thinks owning a gun is a God
given right. I think I'm going to change teams. Riverside County Sheriff Chad
Bianco says he is all in for Donald Trump for president. In a social
media video that's gone viral, he called out Democrats in California for going soft
on criminals and says he has no choice but to join the other team.
And I think it's time that instead of letting them out of jail and giving
them alcohol and drugs and everything else, I think it's time we put a
felon in the White House. He says he'll vote for Trump in twenty twenty
four to make America great again. More than one and a half million people
have viewed the video. More than fifty alleged street racers have been busted.
In the high desert city of Atlanto, thirty seven adults and nineteen miners who
allegedly went onto a private property for the event were arrested. Samatdardino County Sheriff's
Corporal Sarai Evans says investigators have noticed a trend of drivers sneaking onto properties to
hold side shows, and Victorville is trying to curtel similar meats like this,
like I said, due to the danger it poses to the community. Guns
were recovered at the side show. Investigators say they were monitoring one of the
groups at the meet up ahead of the bust. Over the weekend in Samadardino
County, Blake Trolley k if I news Doctor Pepper just Be came more popular
than pepsi. It's now the country's second favorite soft drink behind coke. Data
from Beverage Digest showed the soda with twenty three flavors had a slight lead over
pepsi last year. Doctor Pepper's been around since nineteen eighty five. It's been
experimenting with new flavors and social media trends to gain traction. I love me
a good dr Pepper, although I have to say I haven't had any in
years. Okay, so, uh, have you ever just called somebody and
not made a plan to call people? That's kind of how I do it,
but apparently I'm doing it wrong. So as more and more people are
more and more entrenched with texting, you're not supposed to call people without first
making an appointment. I know. Cono's like what, so they're saying that
it calls that are unannounced really not socially acceptable anymore. Now. I know
that like Nick and I talk, we text all the time, but I
think we do sort of make appointments to talk on the phone. But that's
probably just because you're so busy. Well that and I was gonna say,
it's just the quick hit of like hey you got a minute, as opposed
to you, you know, because we didn't have that luxury not that many
years ago. So I mean, well, I guess now it's been enough
time. But it's always been that way. It's like, what are you
up to? You got a second to talk. But I do have to
say even I experience a certain level of anxiety when I look at the phone
and go, I didn't know somebody was going to call me, And you
know, twenty years ago didn't even factor in, Oh my god, I'm
so excited somebody's calling. Now it's like, oh my god, what do
I do? I have to answer it? So I feel you like this
is a wild story. Well apparently it's the thing. And here's my here's
a couple of my pet peeves. Is one. I think it's fine for
me. It's fine if people call without telling me they're going to call first
mm hmm. But when they call and then don't leave a message, you're
like, wait a second, did you mean to call me? Did you
what dial me? What do you want? Do I need to call you
back? Or was it just a high hello? So if you call me,
please leave a message. Well, and on top of that, and
usually most of those messages are transcribed. So even if you you know,
people always complain about the inky means of having to check the voicemail half the
time. You don't need to anymore because your phone carrier already transcribes it for
you and just sends it to your phone. So okay. Well, and
apparently apparently there are some factors that come into play on whether you can call
unannounced or not, and that depends on the relationship best friend's family, member's
husband's wives, that kind of thing. But it's okay to call friends and
family without texting first, but not strangers. And I do kind of agree
with that one. If it's somebody that I'm not expecting a phone call from,
I would appreciate a heads up first, just to make sure you had
time, you know. Yeah, all right, the new rules, I
don't know if I can get on board with these. I might. I
might still just call you right out of the blue. President Biden's expected to
take executive action to limit asylum seekers when the number of migrant crossings surge.
The executive order is expected today. It would allow border authorities to turn away
migrants seeking asylum who crossed between legal ports of entry. A lunar lander loaded
with rocks from the far side of the Moon is already on its way back
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Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
hackers are everywhere, they are, they are, They're everywhere, all
right. And Ticketmaster was one of the recent very very high profileigh profile Yes,
yeah, well the parent company was Anyway Live Niche, which is the
parent a Ticketmaster acknowledged that, yes, there was a breach five hundred and
sixty million customers, not just in this country but around the world. Clearly
the little five hundred and sixty million pieces of data out there that was leaked
out in this breach. But at the same time or around the same time,
a bank called Santander. I don't know if you have those there,
but Santander announced that it too had a bridge. What do they have in
common? They're a cloud hosting company called Snowflake. I think the thinking is
that perhaps the hackers got into both Live Nation Ticketmaster and into Santander through some
you know, vulnerability at Snowflake, and so that's where this all is going.
But I was surprised this whole underground economy. You know Facebook. You've
probably used Facebook Marketplace to sell something, right or you've seen it there at
least, I mean friend of uses it all the time. Yeah, I've
used it, sold a car on there in fact once. But instead of
selling lawn tools or a car or a washing machine, folks go on to
places like Exploit is the name of one of another one called breach forums.
These are sort of like dark web platforms where people go and sell items and
bid on items and purchase and you know, it's really a shady kind of
business anyway. So as somebody went on there, they opened up a new
account on exploit and they said, I've got one point three terabytes of Ticketmaster
data, including five hundred and sixty million people's information. So we assume that
those are the actual hackers who got into Ticketmaster. They for those names,
addresses, email, some credit card details. These hackers wanted five hundred thousand
dollars for that whole database. Don't know if they actually sold it, but
it was up for sale. So hacking more and more, not just for
the sake of hacking and causing laos, but because there's a big money in
it. Yeah, yeah, there is. There's that profit motive out there
to doing this, and you know clearly what happens then once that data is
sold, once your credit card information is sold, your name, your your
birthday, people can piece it together and start opening up accounts in your name,
credit card accounts, and who knows what they're buying, you know,
and the concern or maybe the suspicion, perhaps it's even certain that there are
terrorist groups that are using your data to buy weapons and whatnot. So it's
it's scary stuff and it's pretty widespread. So what do you do. Let's
say you bought that next question. Yeah, so you bought tickets to something
from Ticketmaster in the last few months, which I have. Okay, go
in there whatever, whether it was the app or there, the website,
whatever, you probably had to open a littleccount there to make the purchase.
Change the password to that today. Go in there the next commercial break and
change the password to that. Right, check your credit card account, check
your statement, whatever credit card you use to make those purchases. Watch for
anything fishy. Get in touch with your credit card. If you think that
your data was lost there, then contact the credit card company and you know,
try to get a new account open or a new card sent to you.
You got to try to avoid the old ones so you don't lose anything.
I just memorize this credit cards number, okay, memorial. Wow,
you mustn't use that thing a lot. I know I use it too much.
Okay. So you're talking about things that have been hacked, so like
in this one, it sounds like they got everything, because a lot of
times we hear about a hack and they go, oh, they got your
name and they got your phone number, but they didn't get credit card information
or social security numbers. Well, in this case, they got some credit
card details, at least according to the people who posted this on exploit.
They said, we had we have some credit card details, maybe the last
four digits. Who knows uh? Information on ticket sales, you know,
the orders that you place through Ticketmaster. But hackers are really wily, and
they have all sorts of technology at their disposal that a lot of people have,
right, so they can start generating numbers. If they have the last
four of your credit card, they can start spinning out literally trillions of possible
numbers to go with those last four numbers, right and anyway, once they
piece together all this information and build a profile of you, then they can
go out in your name and with your data and crime in all sorts of
mayhem. Here's my big question, Jim, why would a company name itself
snowflakes? Nothing? There's no good connotation with snowflake. Well, it's like,
are they running out of names? We haven't had a good name for
a car in a long time, right, I mean they're all numbers and
letters now jumbled together. They don't mean anything. It's not like a Jaguar
or a same with drugs I've noticed that the more drugs that are put on
the market, the weirder the names become. Well, gov we're govy ling
virik licks. You know, they seem to just be throwing letters in a
hat, pulling them out and say, oh, here's what we're going to
call our new irrectile dysfunction drug. All right. So the lesson we learn
out of this is if you have a ticket Master account, check your credit
card and probably change that password right now, and then, you know,
just keep an eye on stuff. Yeah, And unfortunately this may just be
the tip of the eyes and Snowflake has all sorts of clients, including MasterCard.
So oh I got one of those two. Yeah, keep an eye
on it. Just keep change all your passwords or just try to stay ahead
of it as best you can. That's the other thing that you know,
they say, don't use things that you know. I mean, obviously don't
use one, two, three, four, five, but like, don't
use things you know. But you've got so many passwords. I've got fifty
sixty seventy different passwords. I don't know how you're supposed to remember them.
If you're not supposed to one write them down or use something familiar. Well,
you can use a password generator and a password wallet in your phone or
you know, in your on your laptoping and computer, and it will generate
a new password and put that in. You know, it won't make any
sense to you. Don't bother trying to memorize it. As long as your
your phone or your laptop can remember it, then great, You're in good
shape there. All right, I guess I'm gonna have to look into that
now. More digits the better. Okay, thank you, Jim Ryan,
all right, talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County Board
of Supervisors will vote on whether to ask the state for more help with black
bear encounters in the San Gabriel Mountains. Supervisor Catherine Barger says communities like Siera
Mantre I've seen more bears than usual in recent years, sometimes in people's homes.
The bears are going to be looking for trash because they want to feed
themselves, so it's important to keep the public who live and visit these foothill
communities safe. Barger says the state is better equipped to educate and protect the
public and could also assist local police in answering bear related calls. LA County
buildings in Downey have raised the Pride flag despite the city voting against it.
The city Council in Downey weeks ago voted to stop putting a Pride flag at
city Hall. Mayor Mario Trujillo, who's openly gay, joined officials yesterday at
the County Office of Education to raise the flags elsewhere. So today I want
every kid in Dawn to know, yeah, you're safe. County Supervisor Jennis
Han organized the Pride flag event. She says all eight of the county's buildings
and facilities in the city would have rainbow flags waving above them. Michael Monks
KFI News. Today is National Cheese Day. The magic of making cheese is
thought to have started somewhere around eight thousand BC, shortly after the domestication of
animals, and now there are thousands of different types of cheeses. Thank goodness.
I love cheese. The most popular of all mozzarella, though half of
all cheese consumed in the world is Gudha. I think most all cheeses are
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