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Thanks for getting your day started with us. Have you ever just sat there
and played video games on your phone for hours at a time. I play
this stupid version of Solitaire. I'd play like Connections and Wordle all day if
they didn't limit it to once a day. But I'll just sit there,
like while I'm watching TV and be playing Solid Hair on my phone. And
then yesterday I noticed that my pinky finger was just sore, and I was
like, what, why is what's going on with my pinky feer? Oh
my god? Am I getting arthritis? And then I figured out how I
hold the phone where the bottom of the phone rests on my pinky finger.
I'm like, oh, yeah, I see Kno you do it too.
I'm like, maybe I need to put the phone down for a little while.
Anyway, that's what I'm attributing it to, because I don't think arthritis
is in my future, at least I'm hoping not. Here's what's ahead on
wake up Call. UCLA has canceled all in person classes until further notice because
of renewed pro Palestinian protests on canvas that led to forty more arrests in a
parking structure yesterday. Instructors have been notified to hold classes online. Israel has
begun its Rafa offensive after rejecting and Hamas ceesfire agreement. Israel Defense forces say
the IDF is currently doing targeted strikes against Hamas hair targets in eastern Rafa in
southern Gaza. We'll be talking with ABC's Jordana Miller and get the latest from
Jerusalem in just a couple of minutes. The launch of Boeing's first ever crued
Starliner mission for NASA has been scrubbed. An issue with an oxygen valve caused
the launch to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral to be called off last
night. We'll find out what happens next with ABC's Jim Ryan. That's coming
up at the bottom of the hour at six oh five, it's handled on
the news. A judge has held former President Trump in contempt for a tenth
time. What could happen if he does it again? Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. More
than forty protesters have been arrested at UCLA after police rated a pro Palestinian camp
last week. Protesters were cuffed with zip ties and padded down after allegedly violating
a curfew and then refusing to provide their names to La County Sheriff's deputies.
This protester says students are fighting for a cause and police have been overbearing.
Where were the Tuesday night? So it's very like they're picking and choosing one
two step and thus unfair. Those arrested were taken to jail in Van Nuy's.
Protesters continued to rally throughout campus yesterday, demanding the university's divestment from Israeli
connections. Chris Sadler KFI News. The Governor's Office of Emergency Services has asked
local police chiefs to rent out their offices to UCLA for added security. An
email was sent over the weekend asking chiefs in Southern California for help and offering
to pay the tab. Sources who were on the email say the request was
vague and offered no detail, so the chiefs had a conference call yesterday morning
with university leadership asking for clarity. When state officials were asked about an incident
action plan or communications plan, they were told one didn't exist. Cal Oes
says it wants to hire thirty officers for two twelve hour shifts per day.
Chiefs I spoke with say the consensus as of now is not to lend out
any officers until the university has a plan and is better prepared. Steve Gregory
kaya Fine News. At least one person has been killed by a tornado that
had own Oklahoma. ABC's Jim Ryan says it caused extensive damage north of Colset,
Tulsa, in the small town of Barnsdall. Fed Well Weather forecasters on
Monday issued a rare high risk warning for much of the state of Oklahoma.
After sunset, the nine to one one calls started flowing in. He says
homes were destroyed and trees and power lines were toppled. Yesterday, the storm
system that spawned the twisters has moved east into Missouri. Man, they've been
getting a lot of tornadoes. I hope they get a break. Like normally
you have a tornado that moves out and then you see the destruction start rebuilding.
But it just seems like day after day after day. Well, this
rarely happens, but California has had its snowiest day of the year this month.
The National Weather Service says a late season storm dumped nearly two feet of
snow in parts of northern California. That happened over the weekend. Twenty six
point four inches fell on the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab in Donner Summit
on Sunday. Before that, the record was twenty three point eight inches set
in March, making Sunday the snowiest day of the season at the lab.
Toxic chemicals have been found in deep water fish living near a decade's old DDT
dump site off the La Coast. It's larger than San Francisco. The now
bands so called forever chemicals were legally dumped as early as the nineteen forties straight
into the ocean by the nation's largest pesticide producer, you see San Diego scripts.
Professor Lahini Alo Wajare says the hope was the DDT was staying put thousands
of feet down on the ocean floor, but decades after DDT was dumped,
but still in a location where these organisms can interact with it. She says
the next step from the study released yesterday is to confirm if the DDT from
the dump site has spread to mammals or a species eaten by humans. Corbin
Carsen kafin News Homeland Security Investigation says a guy from South Almonte has been busted
with more than sixty firearms inside his home. Investigators say during a search last
week, they found a bunch of different including ten short barreled rifles and materials
used to turn a semi automatic gun into a fully automatic weapon. Officials say
none of the firearms was registered, and the guy also had more than one
hundred ten high capacity rifle and pistol magazines. He could get ten years in
federal prison. More than three hundred thousand Californians are in for a little sticker.
Shock Travelers has been given the ok to hike rates on some home insurance
policies by an average of fifteen percent starting next month. This comes as the
company drops sixty six hundred policies across the state with the most extreme wildfire risk
travelers. Is the sixth largest insurer in the state. Looks like we have
Jordana Miller on the phone now, Good morning, Jordana. A lot has
happened in the last twenty four hours. So let's get right to it and
just let us know. Well. First of all, Hamas made headlines by
announcing that they had a read to a proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal.
And then it turned out that when Israel got that deal and had a chance
to look at it, Hamas had actually changed several sections of the deal and
without getting the consent of Israel, and so Israel said, well, this
no longer really meets our core demands. For example, Hamas said, we'll
release thirty three hostages in that first six week seafire, but they're not all
going to be living hostages. Now. The deal says we'll give you living
hostages and bodies. That didn't go over too well. Hamas also, despite
what one of its leaders told out Jazeira, in the fine print, Israel,
AMAS did not give up its demand for an end to the war,
nor the full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. So it looks like we
still have major gaps. Israel saying that it will send another delegation in to
Cairo to continue the talks, but we're not on the brink of a deal,
not yet, Okay, So what you're saying is they took the deal
that was on the table, that's been sitting there and we've been waiting for
a response from Mamasa. If I'm not incorrect on that, they changed it
and then said okay, yeah, we'll go along with this exactly. That's
exactly what they did, right, So, I mean part of it I
think was a kind of diplomatic tactic to try to put the pressure on Israel
to agree to something that Israel would be seen as the party that had refused
a deal. But pretty quickly Israel said, wait a second, this isn't
This isn't the deal we talked about, and it still has a lot of
things need to be negotiated. For example, Israel had veto power over some
of the convicted Palestinian prisoners convicted of murder that the Hamas wanted released, and
now that veto has gone from this deal. Right, So some were major
issues like full Israeli withdrawal, and some were, you know, other minor
disagreements that of thought the sides had already agreed on. So there's still work
to be done. Hamas appears to not really be ready yet to cut a
deal. And in parallel, Israel's moving forward with the Tamas with its Rafa
operation, and overnight we saw the Israeli Army go into southeastern Gaza in a
surprise raid and take over the Palestinian side of the Rafa border crossing. That's
the main crossing for humanitarian aid and for civilians to cross back and forth that
goes from Egyptian soil into the Gaza Strip. For most of the war,
it was the only entry point into the Gaza Strip. Now Israel's in control
of it. They say that intel showed Hamas was up that area around the
Gaza Strip, around the Rafa border crossing. Hamas had just launched a deadly
attack on Israeli soldiers two days before from this exact spot, so Israel's in
control of that now. It was a relatively quick and quote unquote successful operation.
But that Rafa border crossing is now closed, and the question is when
will it reopen? Who's going to run it? Right? This could this
could you know, negatively impact the entry of AID. So it's you know,
it comes with great responsibility that Israel's now in control of the crossing,
okay, And are there other crossings that were open? You mentioned that there
was an attack on Israeli soldiers that Hamas did and they claimed responsibility for for
so that was at the Rafa Gate. I thought that was also other part,
yes, noe, this was from right around the Rafa crossing. They
launched the short range Rocket Attack Act on Sunday on Israeli soldiers and they killed
four and injured eleven. And even today there were rockets fired from around the
area towards the Israeli towards Israeli territory. And so you know now Israel there
are other entry points of AID. Now there's an entry point in northern Gaza,
right directly from Israel into northern Gaza. The area's crossing has now been
opened. There's what's called Route ninety six another crossing there, and those have
been they're not at full capacity yet. The Aras crossing only really opened less
than two weeks ago. The ninety six crossing has been opened for maybe a
month or a little bit more. There's also aid that comes through, you
know, from the sea, but those are those are they can't really compare
with the crossings by land, which are much more effective. And then there's
other crossing that will be opened that's coming from the Ashtode port. Again that's
a maritime entry point that still has to go through one of the land crossing.
So it's very significant to you know, be in control of the Rafa
border crossing. Okay, so Jordana with taking control and sending in ground forces
to take over that crossing, does that signal the start of that ground offensive
that Israel's been talking about or is that still sort of in the wings.
That's still in the wings? I mean this is a limited operation. Certainly
Israel appears to be creating a launching pad for a larger military assault. The
Rafa crossing is still many miles away from Rafa City, the main that which
would be the main target of a massive assault in raw to move, but
there's over a million in the area, so you can see the scale of
it is smaller. Okay, all right, well we will be watching.
Thank you for bringing us the latest on what's going on there. I was
so excited when I heard, oh, cease fire deal, and then to
see that it wasn't that. Yeah, weren't we all? Yeah? Fourler
coaster? All right, thanks, Jordana Miller. Nice. Twenty twenty three
was the eighth wettest water year in fifty years in California. The Department of
Water Resources says a series of atmospheric rivers, yeah, I remember, those
helped to end the drought and also bumped groundwater levels with the first storage increase
since twenty nineteen. Donald Trump says he'll sacrifice and go to jail any day.
His comments came after the judge again find him for violating the gag order
and threatened to throw him in jail if he does it again. Stormy Daniel's
attorney has just said that she is expected to testify in Trump's hush money trial
today. Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says the company's leaders should spend more time
in stores and focus more on coffee drinks. The CEO's comments over the weekend
come as US and Chinese customers cut back on spending at Starbucks. Starbucks is
also facing boycotts and some markets for its perceived support of Israel at six,
so five it's handle on the news. The FAA is taking a closer look
at the Boeing Dreamliner and whether records were falsified in its production. Right now,
let's say good morning to the host of How to Money on KFI.
It's Joel lars Gard. Joel is the guy who makes you make sense of
your money. And here's one thing that makes a lot of sense right now,
apparently, and that is just save money. Saving money always makes sense
amy, right, like I love I just but for a while, it
just wasn't as sexy and it didn't get talked about in the same way because
rates for savers were paltry. They're a pitiful and we were talking about at
best, like four years ago, we're talking about half a percent on your
savings account. So even money that you had in savings was slowly getting eroded
by inflation, even the inflation wasn't as hot four years ago. And so
it's been this problem for savers for a long time, Like what do I
do. I know I'm supposed to save. I know I'm supposed to have
money that's liquid and accessible for emergencies and for medium term, medium to short
term goals, but my goodness, it's there's nowhere good to put my money
in the savings arena and that is not a problem anymore. There was deposit
Accounts dot Com. They reported that Americans earned four times more in savings in
twenty twenty three than they made in twenty twenty two. So something like three
hundred and fifteen billion dollars total going to people who have money in savings accounts.
And that is just like, again, something that didn't happen for a
long time. It's a new ish phenomenon, and I'm kind of glad it's
here because savers have kind of been getting pounded for a long time and finally
savers are outpacing inflation and they're earning real money. Okay, Joel, And
is that the upside of the interest rate hipes? It is exactly yes,
And so I think the anomaly. A lot of people are like, well,
the one are these low interest rates coming back on mortgages? And I
understand that we kind of got used to that cheap money. That was the
rarity. That was the unicorn, I think, and I don't know that
we're heading back there anytime soon. And so there's been a lot of chatter
about, well, yeah, buy this home, but guess what, you'll
be able to refinance out a couple of years. And that might be true,
but it also might not be true, like rates might not go down
in the same way, and so it's bad for borrowers, is good for
savers. Savers might continue to see inflated rates paid on savings certificates to deposit
money market accounts. I mean this is this is really good news for people
who are parking dollars. And you have to be a little careful because I
think some people can overemphasize savings in maybe under emphasize investing because they get super
comfortable with four and a half to five percent rates, And so you definitely
want to make sure you're not neglecting investing because savings rates are so good,
but still enjoy those rates. And the other thing, I think something like
three quarters of Americans any haven't moved their money to an account that pays a
reasonable rate of interest. A lot of people are still have the majority of
their savings with the big banks, and guess what, most of them pay
point zero one percent. I may be one of those three quarters. Oh,
Amy, you're crushing my soul right now? Hekay, where do I
need to put my money? Okay, So there are a lot of options
now, but I really love the big online banks. So there's Capital One,
there's Discover. Ciit is one of the best because Ciit has been paying
five percent or higher for a long time now, and they're FDIC ensured.
They're wonderful banks, and so it's really easy to set up a new account.
You don't even have to ditch your old bank completely. You can just
move your savings over and then you know, you can always like funnel money
back and forth between the accounts. But given how much more you can get,
it's worth it, especially if you have any meaningful amount of money in
your savings, which hopefully most people listening to this hopefully you do have a
decent chunk in savings. If not, that's something we need to work on.
But yeah, the taking advantage of these higher rates is something a lot
of people have done sadly, as you know, interest rates of skyrocketed.
Okay, and then you also you mentioned be careful of oversaving. What what
do you mean oversaving? I mean, that's that's what I mean. When
what I'm saying you need to be an investor too, because when you look
at people of saying, oh, hey, five percent, this is great,
I can this chillax and keep my money in savings and I'll just kind
of forget about the four oh one k. I won't really think about my
roth IRA too much, and I'll rest on my laurels. Because savings rates
are solid. Well, I get the impulse, and it's really nice to
be able to earn five percent risk free, But then you look back at
what the stock market's done over the past, you know, twelve to eighteen
months, and you're like, oh, well, five percent's good, but
it's certainly not what happened in the market, right. And for people in
the wealth building phase of their life, they need to have market exposure.
They need to be continually socking money into their four oh one k into their
iras. I like it in a dollar costs averaging way, like every two
weeks or every month however you like to do it, but keep it on
a regular cycle, and don't just get get comfy with these high savings rates.
Enjoy them, and you want to have some of your money in savings,
of course, but don't neglect investing just because savings rates are high.
Okay, so we're going to go then from saving over to borrowing. And
you say that credit unions are probably the best place for you to borrow money.
Yes, that's exactly right. So I love and it's like a different
institution for different purposes. Right. So the online banks that I just mentioned
are wonderful for saving, and you might want to check them out. When
you're looking to do some borrowing, you at least get a quote. But
the truth is, when you look at the statistics, the best place to
borrow money is your local credit union on average, And so that doesn't mean
that you don't necessarily need multiple quotes. Let's say you're buying a home and
you want to get a mortgage. Yeah, you might want to reach out
to a mortgage booker. You might want to reach out to a local lender,
and at the same time reach out to a local credit union or too.
The chances are, though, when you look at the statistics, that
the credit union is going to have the most competitive offering. So there was
a graph in the Wall Street Journal this week showing like banks, mortgage companies,
and credit unions, and credit unions on average offer the lowest rates on
mortgage loans, and it's true of car loans as well. I mean,
my ideal is for people to pay cash for their cars. But if you're
going to finance a car, don't finance it at the dealership, don't finance
it at the used car lot. Get your financing at the credit union,
because you're likely to save multiple points. You're going to get a much better
rate typically going through a credit union than you are through one of those other
routes. Okay, and for more great advice on how to save and spend
and invest your money, listen to how to Money with Joel Larsguard right here
on KFI Sundays noon to two. You can also follow Joel at how to
Money as usual. Well, we've run out of time and you've given us
so much great advice, so listen to more this weekend noon to two on
KFI. Thanks Amy, Thank you, Joel. Talk to you next week.
Okay. Here are some stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our
newsroom. A lot of parents of students in the La School District are calling
for the return of on campus police officers. At today' school board meeting,
a parent group is planning to present petitions calling for officers to be placed on
campuses again. Most school police officers were taken off LAUSD campuses because of calls
to defund the police in twenty twenty. Following the killing of George Floyd in
Minneapolis, LA's proposed elimination of two thousand city jobs is creating some challenges for
department managers. The Fire department, public Works, city Controller's office are all
seeing cuts in Mayor Bassi's proposed budget for the new fiscal year, but smaller
departments are feeling the pressure too. El Pueblo General Manager Arturo Chavez says the
proposal won't leave enough money to pay utility bills or properly host major events on
Olvera Street. These are events that happen with tons of thousands of people showing
up, and we have to do a lot of support systems for that.
The City Council's Budget Committee finishes its public hearings on basses proposal tomorrow. Michael
Monks KFI News helicopters have been brought in to say the cherry crop in northern
California. This has got a novel. A cherry orchard in Lowdie, which
supplies cherries across the US's recent rains have put the cherries in jeopardy. Apparently
too much water causes the cherries to crack and that could ruin the crop,
so a helicopter was brought in to hover over the crops and dry off the
fruit. UCLA is canceled all in person classes until further notice because of renewed
pro Palestinian protests on campus that led to more than forty arrests in a parking
structure yesterday. Instructors have been notified to hold classes online. San Bernardino Police
say the person shot by Long Beach police in a home invasion robbery was seventeen
years old. Long Beach police responded to a robbery call in April twenty six.
The robber had a gun, and after about an hour of trying to
talk him out, he was shot. Not clear yet what prompted the shooting.
The go broke dates for benefit programs for Medicare and Social Security have been
pushed back. The annual Social Security and me Care Trustees Report says and improving
economy means Medicare won't run out of money until five years later than the last
projection, so in twenty thirty five, and Social Securities Trust funds will be
able to pay full benefits until twenty thirty five instead of last year's estimate of
twenty thirty four. I guess that's a little bit of good news and six
so five it's handle on the news. Uber Rich Warren Buffett says he's worried
we let the genie out of the bottle with AI. Right now, let's
say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, we were supposed to be
talking about the successful launch and what a beautiful thing it was when the Starliner
lifted off from Cape Canaveral last night, but didn't happen. Yeah, it
happened. Galaxy Quest is one of the most underrated movies ever. I love
that show. It's absolutely one of my favorites. I've watched it dozens of
time. Good Okay, think of your water heater in your house and the
little valvelets on there. You pull the thing and it hisses and the pressure
is released. Well, it's that kind of valve that is used on the
Centaur stage of the Atlas five rocket built by United Launch Alliance. The Centaur
stage. That sounds like something from Galaxy Quest, the Centaur stage. You're
right, anyway, that thing failed or it looked like it was gonna fail.
An alarm was saying that there was something wrong with this oxygen relief valve,
and so two hours before they scheduled launch time, it was scrapped.
So a Boeing Starliner is still sitting there on the launch pad in Florida.
Friday is the next possible launch for it. But boy, this program's been
snake bit. They've tried and tried to get a crude, you know,
mission off the ground for a Boeing star Liner, and they just can't.
They've had plenty of satellites put into space, and in fact, the folks
at United Launch Alliance, which built the rocket, they say that if this
had just been a satellite going up, they were a little launched it anyway.
But this time we're dealing with human beings, and so nah, they
put it off. How much does one of these things cost? Do we
know? If you get on a home depot. I think they're about six
bugs something like that. I'm just curious because I think, like you said,
I if it didn't have people on it, it'd be okay to throw
away the fifty billion dollars. But if people are on it, not so
much well, and I think that, you know it, maybe it fits
a fairly easy fix. They'll just resume the countdown Friday and lift off.
But you know, Boeing has taken a big head and Boeing Aerospace and Boeing
Aircraft Company are kind of separate things that are under the same big umbrella.
But this program years behind schedule, and the Boeing Aircraft issues with the you
know, the the seven eighty seven and the problems they're having with their pro
their issues, you know, it's it's kind of a punch in the eye.
So Boeing was quick to point out last night after the scrub that this
is not Boeing's issue. This is you know, I did launch Alliance and
their rocket and their valve that failed or went wrong. It wasn't the Boeing
Starliner. Starliner is fine, okay. And you mentioned the seven eighty seven,
which there the FA is going to investigate because they might there's ar is
that they may have falsified reports to get them, you know, to get
them approved and certified in all of that. But so there's the Dreamliner,
which is the seven eighty seven, and then this thing is called the star
Liner, so when I think of it, I think of a big old
luxury plane. But what does it I mean, does it look like a
regular rocket or does it look is it sort of a hybrid y looking thing.
It's kind of it looks like a modern day rocket. It's fairly similar.
This is the you know, the starliner part is the crew capsule.
It's the capsule that sits on top of the rocket. The rocket looks pretty
much like any other, but it's it's more similar to probably a SpaceX unit
or it's a SpaceX capsule than it is to the old Gemini program or those
rockets are those capsules. Then there's more room. It looks pretty cool.
I mean, it's something that is probably much more comfortable than those work and
it should be very well more. Sunny Williams the two astronauts who are strapped
in and ready to go last night. Sudny Williams is fifty eight years old,
butch will More he is sixty one. These are experienced astronauts, kind
of you know, encouraging to see that that were the older folks, if
you will, were chosen for this mission. Very cool. Okay, So
next next chance is Friday, so we'll be watching to see if then we
can talk again about the wonderful successful launch and how beautiful it was. Yeah,
next Monday, all right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much.
Seamy. All right. You know, we know somebody who's going to be
headed up to the International Space Station this summer. It's Space Force colonel and
NASA astronaut Nick Haig. He is just wrapping up his latest round of training
for the mission, and we get to talk to him again on Thursday.
We've had an opportunity to talk to him a couple of times and thought it'd
be really cool to talk to him periodically as he gets ready for his mission
to the International Space Station. So we need your help on this. So
I'm going to be posting on Instagram and Facebook a little later this morning,
and if you have any questions that you would like to ask an astronaut like
that, can it in the comments section and then be listening for your question.
When we talked to Colonel Haig on Thursday on wake up call, always
looking forward to it. He's so so interesting. I love learning about space.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. Graduation at Pomona College could face some setbacks because of more
pro Palestinian protests. Protesters have set up a camp where the college is set
to hold its graduation ceremony on Sunday. This protester says the group could disrupt
other events on campus. They're no longer colleges and universities in Gaza, and
so they're you know, we think that there should not be any colleges here
in the United States that go without being interrupted. The camp was set up
yesterday morning. Last month, nineteen protesters who police say stormed into a school
administration building up Pomona College were arrested in Claremont Blake Trolley k if I knews.
Cal State LA has condemned acts by pro Palestinian protesters on its campus.
CSULA says over the weekend, protesters vandalized world buildings, defaced state property with
graffiti, and through fireworks. The protesters are also accused of blocking access to
campus. Cal State LA says it unequivocally supports free speech, but these actions
are not that Fewer federal dollars this year could be bad news for some LA
women's shelters. The US government has made less money available through the Victims of
Crime Act, and that means a reduction of six and a half million dollars
or forty five percent for efforts to support victims of domestic violence in La Abiguel
Marquez, manager of the city's Community Investment in Families Department, says their staff
should be larger and better funded in the new budget as a growing number of
women call for help. This misalignment underscores their urgent need for additional personnel to
sustain our workload, Marquez told the city Council's budget committee yesterday. Without city
money to replace the loss federal dollars, three women's shelters could close and other
services could be impacted. Michael Monks KFI News the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Centers
asking for the public's help to treat stranded brown pelicans. The center's medical director,
Elizabeth Woods, says more than eighty pelicans have been treated in the last
month, but only about thirty survived. So the majority of the ones coming
into care are emaciated, extremely hypothermic, they're cold, they're dehydrated, and
severely anemic. Birds have been found in Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino
Counties. In Woods Say's rescue teams are running out of supplies to treat them.
The Anaheim City Council is going to take a final vote today on Disneyland's
expansion plans. The Council's already approved the nearly two billion dollar forty year plan,
but it still needs that final vote today. Disneyland Forward has new attractions,
shops, and restaurants that will be built in Disney's current footprint, including
building out what is now the Toy Story parking lot. Hey, the Dodgers
are taking on the Marlins tonight, with the first pitch going out at seven
o'clock. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on AM five
seventy LA Sports and stream all games in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM
five to seventy LA Sports powered by Lacare for all of La USC is getting
ready for graduation ceremonies. A pro Palestinian encampment was cleared over the weekend,
and USC says the University Park campus is now open to students, faculty,
staff, registered guests, and working vendors. The commencement ceremonies, minus the
traditional main stage ceremony that was canceled, will start tomorrow and continue through Saturday.
As protests continue on college's campus or college campuses in California and almost every
other state. President Biden will deliver the keynote address at the Days of Remembrance
ceremony honoring the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust that's happening this morning on
Capitol Hill. The Anti Defamation League says acts of anti Semitism in the US
have reached an all time high. Just getting word that Stormy Daniels is expected
to testify today at Trump's hush money trial that continues in Manhattan, and we're
just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, Marjorie Taylor Green's
gunning for House Speaker Mike Johnson. What's her latest move right now? Well,
let's say good morning to ABC's Steven portnoy So, Stephen. President Biden
signed that law that provides ninety five billion dollars in aid to Ukraine, Israel,
and Taiwan and bans the TikTok if it's not sold. So how do
people feel about this? Well, generally people feel I think, look,
a majority supports this. It's it's why the Congress put it in the bill,
and it's why it's law. When the question is asked, do you
favor the forced sale, there's a five point spread, and fifty one percent
say yes they favor This is our ABC News IPSOS poll. But when asked,
if TikTok is not sold over the course of the next year, whether
they would favor a ban, Argent Widen's fifty three percent would favor a ban
of TikTok if it's not sold in the next year, forty four percent would
oppose it. Now that forty four percent is a sizable number, of course,
and as a whole, users of TikTok generally strongly overwhelmingly oppose a ban
of the app. Now, who uses TikTok, generally younger people, Our
poll finds a slim minority actually uses the app. Only twelve percent in our
survey say they use TikTok often, Ten percent more say they use it occasionally.
On the twelve percent say they use it rarely. About thirty four percent
in our survey say they've ever used TikTok, sixty six percent two thirds say
they never have. So when you look at people who use the app,
they very much oppose the idea of any kind of forced sale. Or ban
TikTok users who use the app most frequently, eighty four percent would oppose a
ban if TikTok is not sold. This falls along generational lines and it falls
along ideological lines. Younger people you'd imagine a pose a forced sale or ban
of TikTok. Trump supporters, however, are far more likely to support a
ban if TikTok is not sold. Biden voters are split. That's interesting,
and you say that there's all the people who are using it. A big
argument behind not banning TikTok at least that we're seeing and hearing and seeing the
ads on is because people make money, They make their livings off TikTok.
Is that a very large percentage or is that an even smaller percentage of the
users? Well, I imagine it's a small percentage of the users. You
have to have more people buying than selling in order for it to make sense.
I think that ultimately what you see here is an effort on the part
of the company to draw public attention to their own interests, and they obviously
Bite Dance does not want to sell TikTok. They have talked about suing the
US government as a result. Of this law being passed. So far,
I've not seen any kind of filing, but I think we all expect it's
coming. The question is whether it will withstand scrutiny. The law written by
certainly the leadership of the Congress, but also in part reportedly by officials in
the Justice Department who were cognizant of the fact that there had been prior attempts
to try to fight in court on behalf of TikTok, particularly four years ago
when Donald Trump tried to ban it as president, he signed an executive order
well that was held up in the courts, and ultimately the executive order was
reversed by Joe Biden. And now fast forward a few years later, he
signed a law that requires Byte dance to the best of TikTok or face that
ban. So the question is, all right, will the company sue it
on what grounds? The argument in favor of the ban slash forced sale is
that there are national security risks that the intelligence community has identified that Congress has
supported and backed, and now it is in the law. The question is
whether individual rights are violated, either of the company or of the users,
or both, and that may be something that the courts will have to decide.
But the argument for the sale and not the idea that minds go to
mush per se when you sit there and scroll through videos all day, because
that's the right of the user and the right of the company to turn minds
to mush. The question is who's doing it and what is their ultimate intent.
Now, look, if byte Dance were to divest of TikTok and sell
it to an American company or a group of investors that would pass muster with
the Congress, that would be fine, even if the content didn't change.
The fear is twofold one that the Chinese government, by forcing byte Dance to
turn over information, could use the app as a surveillance mechanism for Americans.
The other fear is that it could use it as a propaganda for the Chinese
government. That if byte Dance has continued to operate under Chinese law, that
is, Chinese control, byte Dance could be directed by the Chinese government to
put certain message in the minds of Americans. So as those minds go to
mush, who's doing the mush, who's doing the mushing? Who's doing the
mushing? Right? And isn't TikTok in in China is a lot different than
here. Well, certainly, I mean because the Chinese government is cognizant of
the risks of their young people staring at screens all day, much more so
than our society seems to be concerned about it, and so they prevent certain
kinds of messages from going in. Now, we obviously live in a free
society. You want to have your child's mind turn to mush, that's your
right, because it might be a way to prevent them from bothering you.
I'm guessing that you're not into TikTok. TikTok person, I do not have
the device on my phone. I do not either. So oh and by
the way, I'll tell you why. Yeah, it's been reported that TikTok
has spied on journalists. They're probably very disappointed if they look in my accounts.
It's an accusation the company denies, but you can google it for yourself.
Okay. So you were talking about the people who use TikTok, and
you know who's against it, who's for it, and all that stuff and
the generational differences. Do the people who are against the sale or the banning
of TikTok realize that it's owned by China and that there's a good chance that
they are spying on their information. Well, that question didn't appear in our
surveys, thought, I can tell you that when it comes to the political
debate here in Washington, that's the essence of it. It's not the idea
that there is such an app, because there are other apps. There's Instagram,
there's Snapchat, and no one's talking about that. There are other concerns,
of course, across all those apps, mental health concerns, privacy concerns,
child exploitation concerns, and those are likely, I think, to be
addressed by Congress later this year in other forms of legislation. This particular concern
is about this unique app, its ownership structure, and the national security risks.
Okay, so we're just sort of in a holding pattern though, because
we got to wait to see if Byte Dance is gonna sue or sell,
and if they don't, then the band would kick in in like a year.
It's now less than a year. The clock. The clock is ticking
as it were on TikTok. So you know, but we'll see. I
mean, look, we all expect bike Dance will file a lawsuit to try
to stop that clock. It hasn't happened yet. All Right, we'll be
watching Steven Portnoy. Thank you so much for the information. All right,
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