You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
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good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for
Thursday, March twenty eighth, Major League Baseball season's opening day. I'm Amy
King and of course happy Dodgers Opening Day. Got my Dodger blue on Producer
An has Her San Diego Padres gear on. We love that song. I
hope I get to hear it this afternoon. The first Bitch goes out at
one ten, and it's going to be a beautiful day for baseball. Here's
what's a head on wake up call. The cargo ship that caused the Baltimore
Bridge collapse was reportedly carrying hazardous materials, including corrosives and flammables. We're going
to be getting the latest on the spill and the cleanup with ABC's Sam Sweeney
coming up in about four minutes. Former LA Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan has been
found guilty of twelve charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, and lining
to federal agents. Dury only took about three hours to come to a decision
yesterday in the case that accused Chan and others of giving favorable treatment to developers
who gave them bribes. We're also going to be talking about the proposed road
diet for a stretch of roadway that cuts right through Burbank. Residents and business
owners are worried that it's just going to jam up traffic. We'll be talking
to the co owner of the tally Rand at five point fifty and show hey,
Otani is a real giant. We told you that a mural is being
created for the Superstar Player, and the giant mural is finished and has been
unveiled in Little Tokyo at six oh five. It's handled on the news.
Israel will send a delegation to Washington, d C. After canceling the trip
last week. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A former deputy mayor of La has been found
guilty of racketeering and bribery. It took a jury in downtown La less than
two hours to return the guilty verdict against sixty seven year old Raymond Chan.
Federal prosecutors argued Chan was a key player in what the FBI called casino loyal
a scheme involving bribes and influence peddling at La City Hall on behalf of wealthy
real estate developers downtown. The investigation already secured guilty verdicts or please from others,
including ex councilman Jose Weezar, who's set to begin a thirteen year prison
sentence. Chan says he'll appeal. He's to be sentenced in June. Michael
Monks KFI News. A twenty year old man who walked away from a halfway
house in Orange County has been caught in Mexico. Ikes Sauser was found in
ros Rito. He was arrested by US Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials
acting on an alert from the Orange County DAS Undercover AB one oh nine Task
Force. Sauser had disappeared a week ago. He has a long criminal record,
including the murder of his mother when he was thirteen. Orange, Huntington
Beach, and Newport Beach have voted to leave the League of California Cities because
of a mental health proposition. Couver living homes have over concentrated themselves all across
the coastal California. Newport Beach Mayor Will O'Neil says CAW City supported Prop one,
which forces cities to accept more sober living homes. You're essentially operating businesses
within neighborhoods, which he says brings crime, but also a lot of times
they get what's called kurb meaning once the insurance runs out, they're kicked out
and now they're homeless on the streets of the city that they don't know.
Caw City says it represents all of its four hundred and eighty two cities,
but sometimes the consensus cannot be reached on which laws to support. In Orange
County, Corbin Carson kf I News, a new mural in Little Tokyo is
celebrating Dodger's pitch show Hey Otani. Fans flocked to First Street yesterday for the
unveiling of the mural by artist Robert Vargas. He says he wants it to
reflect optimism for the new baseball season. I like that. He also says
it's to get past the recent controversy involving Otani's interpreter and sports gambling bets,
and I hope that this mural is a way that we can move forward and
be positive like we all have been today and leave what someone else did behind
us. The murals on the side of the Miaco Hotel on First Street between
sam Pedro and Central and it's huge. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Sam Sweeney. Sam. Two days after that cargo ship crashed into the bridge
support collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge, we have some sad news and some
bad news. Yeah, Rescuers last night told us that they were able to
recover a red pickup truck with two bodies inside believe be those construction workers that
were on the bridge during that collapse. We're also getting an update from the
National Transportation Safety Board that there were fifty six containers of hazardous material on board
that ship, and some of them have fallen into the water. Others have
been breached. But it is so difficult. The conditions there are so difficult
that it's hard for them to actually see the full scope of what they are
dealing with. There are containers that are not you know, tied in correctly
anymore because of the impact of the ship. Some of them, again,
as I said, are breached and in the water. They've ordered booms around
the ship, but this is going to be a very long process to get
this cleaned up and that port reopened. Yeah, I was just looking at
pictures of the collapse and how that ship is just you know, it's got
the steel beams from the bridge on top of it and some of the containers
kind of dangling off it, and I was like, how are they even
going to get the bridge off of the ship. It's going to be a
long process. Eventually, the Army Corps of Engineers will come up with a
plan. They're going to have to bring in heavy equipment, cranes, tugboats,
barges, and they're going to have to chop this up piece by piece.
But you have to look at the entire picture. When you cut one
piece, is it going to affect another piece. It's a very risky operation.
You know, think about nine to eleven when we saw those firefighters struggling
to get through that mangled steel and the wreckage of the towers. That's what
they're doing. But most of that is underwater, and this water is not
exactly you know, the Caribbean. This is murky, muddy, cold water
with about one foot of visibility. Yeah, and I mean, like they
are they going to have to pull ships up beside the ship and start to
do the cutting because they don't have solid ground to work on. I mean,
it's just it's just going to be a crazy undertaking. So that being
said, And because it's a mess and there's so much debris, the port
is still closed. Do they have any kind of idea of how long it's
going to be before that they start moving traffic again. No, No one
has been able to give any sort of timeline, but it is likely going
to be weeks, probably months though, before they can get ships in and
out of there and that area cleared. It's a very narrow spot and the
deepest that gets there is about fifty feet, so you have to keep the
ships right in the center where that bridge was. And then as far as
traffic cars moving across another bridge, that could be years. That original bridge
took five years to build, probably won't take that long to rebuild it,
but it's going to be years before traffic is crossed and the air again.
Yeah, and then Sam, I'm not familiar with the area, but the
bridge that goes over there, is there a way around there are alternates.
Now, Baltimore is in the city around the Baltimore Harbor. There are tunnels
that go underneath the city, but this particular bridge was the outermost area and
it carries fifteen percent of the traffic on the north east I ninety five corridor.
It also handled all the hazmat material. So if they can't go through
the tunnels moving, they can't. After nine to eleven, they said,
you can't come through the tunnels anymore. So it'll be interesting to see how
they how they work with that. But there's gonna be a lot of congestion
in this area, oh my goodness. And then going back to the recovery
of the two bodies, So they were found in a pickup truck. Does
that suggest that they had gotten the warning to get off the bridge. It's
unclear exactly what happened. We were, you know, some some theories are
that they were on a break and they were inside the truck when it happened,
and other employees were outside of the truck. One employee, we heard
from Governor Wes Moore yesterday, heard the police alarms and shouting saying get off
the bridge, and he ran and was able to get onto the portion of
the bridge that did not fall, saving his life. Another person we know
did fall but was able to swim to safety. But there are still four
bodies that are missing, and they believe that they are in taste in that
steel structure, and it is simply too dangerous right now to go in and
retrieve them. So they've said that its switched from it was a search and
rescue and then it became a recovery, and now I think are they calling
it a salvage effort at this point? Yeah? I mean, they still
obviously are going to want to recover those bodies and do the best that they
can, but yes, this is a salvage operation, and they're going to
need to cut up all of that steel to eventually be able to find those
other bodies that they believe are in case in there. And again, this
is going to be a lengthy process. You don't just have this heavy type
of machinery sitting around for this type of operation to move a bridge out of
a harbor. It's going to take time to source it, Okay. And
then just one last question for the cargo that normally goes into the port,
which I think it's the eleventh busiest or ninth busiest port. But it's also
a big port for cars. So do they just go to different ports and
make up the truth that way? That's the question. You know, the
automakers are trying to come up with solutions. Does it go to Norfolk,
does it go to Philadelphia, does it go to Delaware. That's what they're
trying to figure out. How they're going to reroute this. But as you
said, it is the biggest port for bringing in cars into the United States.
All right, Sam Sweeney, thank you so much for all the information.
We appreciated a ton. Thanks for having me. All right, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The group behind the latest recall efforts against California's governor has received approval
to start collecting more than a million signatures across the state. We're at the
top of every dad list and at the bottom of every important list. We're
at the bottom and educating our students. We have the highest crime, the
highest homelessness, the highest summer of homeless veterans, and dunsmore with Rescue California
says the governor has been ignoring his state its popularity is below fifty percent.
He's out detaining for people all around the country, including President Biden, and
I would say for himself on a national level. Attorney's Clean Dunsmore says they've
all read he received seventy five thousand requests from people who want to help gather
signatures for the recall effort. The former CFO of an LA based development company
has been accused of embezzling money that was supposed to go towards building housing for
low income and homeless people. A lawsuit says Cody Holmes used the millions of
dollars he took to pay for exotic cars, expensive handbags, jewelry, private
jets, concert tickets, and a mansion in Beverly Hills. Attorneys for the
Church of Scientologists say they want a new judge to preside over a civil suit
filed by actress Lea Remedy. The attorney's claim Judge Randolph Hammock is prejudiced against
their clients, though they wouldn't offer any details to support that claim. Remeny,
an outspoken critic of the church, filed a lawsuit in August with claims
of harassment, stalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress and defamation. Remeny left
the church in twenty thirteen after being a member for nearly forty years. The
church has already claimed victory in the case because of the judge's previous rulings.
The lawsuit also includes the church's leader, David ms Gavin Steve Gregory kay Off.
I News former Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman has died. His family says
he died yesterday of complications from a fall. Lieberman nearly won the vice presidency
with Democrat Al Gore in the disputed two thousand election. Eight years later,
he came close to being John McCain's running mate. The Democrat turned Independent left
the Senate in twenty thirteen. He was eighty two. It is time for
Opening Day Dodger Baseball from Dodger Stadium. As you know, big game today.
The Dodgers take on Saint Louis this afternoon at one ten. You can
listen to the game on AM five seventy LA Sports and in HD on the
iHeartRadio app keyword. AM five seventy LA Sports brought to you in part by
LA Care for all of LA. Today is Dodgers Opening Day and the debut
of Superstar Show Hey Otani at Dodger Stadium. The Boys in Blue opened their
home schedule with four games against the Saint Louis Cardinals. First pitch goes out
at one ten. Manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can
load or unload cargo. While the main operations at the Port of Baltimore remain
closed because of the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the port
is the busiest for so called roll on roll off cargo, things like cars
and construction and agricultural vehicles. Former cryptomogul Sam Bankman Freed faces the potential of
decades in prison when he sentenced for his role in the twenty twenty two collapse
of FTX. A jury found in November that bankmin Freed illegally used money from
x FTX depositors to cover his expenses. Is lawyers say he is not the
evil genius depicted in the media. At six oh five, It's handle on
the news, Disney and Florida Governor Ronda Santis have made nice at least settled
a two year fight over who gets to govern Disney property. Let's say good
morning now to KTLA's tech reporter and the host of Rich on Tech on KFI.
It's Rich de muro Rich. So my friend and I were just talking
about phones and the fancy new cameras because she just got the brand new Samsung
is it the twenty four correct twenty four and so she's like, look at
in this camera and these lenses, and the guy at the store said,
you got to be really careful and don't damage them. And I was thinking,
my iPhone has the same thing. It's got the three lenses, but
I never even think about it, and I don't think they're very protected.
Well, you know, look, here's the thing. First off, yes,
they're very similar. The lenses get bigger and bigger every year. And
do some people crack the lenses, Absolutely, it happens. But here's the
thing. I have had many many phones over the years, testing them,
bringing them everywhere in my bag, out of my bag, falling out of
my pocket, and I have yet to crack a lens. And I rarely
have even cracked a screen on my phone. So my advice. A lot
of people try to get these like lens protector things that go over the lenses.
But here's the thing. Why would you want to ruin all of the
beautiful glass work that Apple and Samsung have spent so much money engineering. By
putting some sort of cheap plastic or other piece of glass in front of that
lens, you're putting something between you and your pictures. Yeah, So I
typically don't recommend that, but I would recommend a case that has raised edges,
because those are going to protect you the most in a fall. Yeah.
I think mine has raised edges, but if I look at it,
you know, crossview, I think the lens still sticks out a little bit.
Well, I would look at a different place that does not allow that.
Yeah, because I always have a case that has a raised lip around
the lenses so that they are protected when you put it face down on the
desk or I guess down on the desk. Yeah, just something to think
about. I know, we think about the front of the screens and a
lot of people put that film across the front of it, But I've never
even really thought about the camera that I'm okay with. I do always recommend
some sort of screen protector, and quite honestly, if you have a good
screen protector on your phone and a good case on your phone, that's going
to protect you in like ninety nine percent of issues and drops and things like
that. It's when you don't have your phone protected from that, that's when
you're gonna have problems. Okay, so we've got moving on to streaming.
You're saying that Disney Plus has added Hulu. I already have Disney Plus and
Hulu, so what's changing. So the big change is that now Hulu is
going to be integrated into Disney Plus, so one app on your TV screen
for both services. Yes. Now, a lot of people have been testing
this over the past couple of months. It makes a lot of sense.
You know, Disney purchased Hulu and that's part of their you know, catalog
at this point, and so why have people jump between apps? And also,
if you search for a Hulu show inside Disney you wouldn't find it and
you'd be like, oh, that's annoying, I don't have access. Now
it'll all be integrated, so it's fully searchable. You can watch those Hulu
shows inside Disney Plus. The trick is you do have to have a subscription
to both still, So whether you have the bundle with Hulu and Disney or
whether you subscribe separately with the same email address. That's the only way you
can't access Hulu shows for free through Disney unless you pay for Hulu. Can
you still get just Hulu if you don't want Disney or are they are?
They just kind of a package deal now and that's deal with it. At
this point. You can still get Hulu by itself, but who knows if
that'll change. I don't expect that to change anytime soon, but you never
know. Okay, So Google Maps has added best restaurant lists for cities,
and they'll also help you find the good ones. Yeah, well, you
know Google is leaning heavily into AI, and as is Samsung, and of
course we're going to hear about what Apple's going to do with AI coming up
in June at their Worldwide Developers Conference. But you know, it's the buzzword,
you know, it's, you know, the thing everyone's talking about.
And so I thought this was pretty cool because Google has a ton of information
and sometimes it could be tough to find what they have, you know,
versus their search. But now they're going to do this cool thing in Google
Maps. When you search for a city, it will give you lists based
on their data. So you'll see a trending list, and this is updated
weekly with places that have seen a spike in popularity. This is for discovering
the latest hot spots. Then they're going to show the awards list. This
is the top list, and this is stuff that everyone just loves over and
over. So if you go to a city, this is like guaranteed these
are the best places. And then you've got the gems. This is the
Gems list, and these will be sort of the best kept secret in different
neighborhoods. But you search for a city. Yeah, I think this is
just a great use of information that, by the way, Google Maps already
has. It's just like how do you figure it out? And they're also
going to highlight the best dishes to order at a restaurant using AI because they'll
see what people review the most and post pictures of the most and they'll say,
okay, that makes sense, here's the most popular things to order.
It'll be interesting to see too how much that affects the individual businesses that I'm
guessing that somebody might track that, but like you know, if it ends
up on a trending list, maybe they see a huge spike in business and
then the next week there's a different one trending, and so that one that
just spiked might see a huge drop off, and I would think it would
lead to more volatile I don't know, customers. Yeah, no, I
one hundred percent agree. I mean I think that these restaurants really live and
die by a lot of social media. I mean it's a huge factor in
things, and I think that this does add another dimension to that. The
one other feature I do want to add on Google Maps. If you're not
using it, I highly recommend it. It's called the lists. So if
you tap your profile, there's a little area called your saved places. Why
am I not seeing it right now? Oh? Here? It is your
places, Okay? And so I make lists for everything, like whatever city
I'm visiting, places I want to go, and they're actually making these lists
easier to organize and kind of rearrange. But I just always have a like,
if someone says, hey, Rich, if you ever come to Pomona,
you got to check out this restaurant, I like, literally put it
in this little list, and then you can when you're in Pomona, you
can tap this list and it will show you all the stuff ordered by distance
from you. And so you're like, oh, yeah, there's that restaurant
I wanted to go to, so use that feature on Google Maps. Okay.
And then one last thing. We've got a solar eclipse coming up on
April eighth, and it's not going to be We're not going to see it
here in California, right, No, sadly, we'll see a partial hopefully.
Okay, but you're going to be doing this on KTLA tomorrow morning,
talking more in depth about it. But what are Where are some places that
people can get more information and maybe watch it even though you won't see it
when you step outside. Well, here's the deal. A lot of people
are traveling. They're expecting like four million people to travel. It's April eighth,
and I'm just kind of obsessed. I did an interview with a NASA
scientist and he got me like really into this because the next total solar eclipse
doesn't happen until twenty forty four. So if you're thinking of traveling, the
closest places are in Mexico and in Texas, San Antonio, Austin. But
you know the place to look. There's a there's an eclipse app called the
Eclipse App that's excellent. But I really love this website eclipsetracks dot org and
if you go on there, it'll show you the path of totality and all
the little ideas and it's just, I don't know, the more you kind
of look into this, the more you're like, oh, I really need
to experience this, because I the last one was in twenty seventeen and I
really didn't care. Now I'm like all about it. Yeah, the last
one passed through Oregon and I have still have a lot of friends up there
because I'm from there, and they just said it was just one of the
coolest things that they've ever experienced and was very kind of surreal and freaky.
Yeah, like moving like it and I didn't experience it, but yes,
anyway, So if you can do it, check out some of these resources
and see if you can get there, because it'll it'll be neat all.
Right, Rich Tamara, thank you so much, and again you're going to
be talking more about the eclipse tomorrow on KATE And of course Rich is our.
Did I just call you Rick again? I think I did. Kfi's
tech reporter is Rich DeMuro. He's the host of Rich on Tech right here
on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. You can follow him on Instagram at
rich on Tech and his website is rich on Tech dot tv. And it's
your website where people can sign up for your newsletter. Correct, Okay,
perfect, thank you rich all right, have a great one, Amy,
all right. The cargo ship that caused the Baltimore Bridge collapse was reportedly carrying
hazardous materials, including corrosives and flammables. Federal officials are also monitoring nearly two
million gallons of fuel in the cargo ship for its spill potential, although they
say there's no sign that any fuel has spilled into the water. Former LA
Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan has been found guilty of twelve charges, including racketeering,
conspiracy, bribery, and line to federal agents. A jury quickly reached a
verdict yesterday in the case that accused Chan and others of giving favorable treatment to
developers who gave them bribes. President Biden's going to be joined by former Presidents
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for a fundraiser tonight at Radio City Music Hall in
Manhattan. Tickets for the events start at two hundred and fifty bucks. The
highest donors paid about five hundred thousand dollars at five point fifty. We're going
to be talking with the co owner of the tally Rand, whose restaurant is
right along the path of a new road diet plan. We're going to find
out if she's happy about that one. You know, my two favorite things
are D and D not Dungeons and Dragons, Dodgers and Disneyland. So I
got to go to Disneyland for the Food and Wine Festival a couple of weeks
ago, which is going on through April twenty second. But now it's time
to head to Dodgers Stadium, and you know, we have opening day planned
and so we want to make sure that we are ready for the game.
And there's a familiar voice that you're going to hear every time you go to
Dodger State, and we got to catch up with him. Say hello to
Todd Lights, Hello, Todd Lights. That's a T O D D L
E I t Z pronounced lights harvict. So Todd is the PA announcer.
So when the batters come up to the batting box, Todd's going to say
something like leading off the bottom of the first ditty for the Dodgers, number
fifty hookie bets. Oh my god. So what we're trying to do today,
Todd is just kind of give people a little bit of a behind the
scenes look. So we got to go down on the field, and of
course it wouldn't be complete if we didn't come up and see you, because
you're such an integral part of the game. So how long have you been
doing this? How long have you been the Dodgers. PA got the start
in twenty fifteen, and it's been quite a ride. We've been very,
very successful ever since I got here. So coincidence, I'm not sure.
Oh, I think it's tied to it. And actually it's funny that you
mentioned that that the Dodgers have done well since you got here, because my
best friend is also Amy, and we come to games a lot. We
have season tickets, and we tend to lose more when we're at the games.
I was gonna have to ask you to leave, but now it's okay.
Oh, if you were going to eject me from the stadium, what
would you say. Anybody who's cursed cannot be sitting in the stands of this
time, So please make your exit, eat a hasty retreat so that the
Dodgers can continue their winning waste. So is this the most fun job ever?
Well, it is a job. It is worth it's work. It
requires me to be away from home a lot, working weekends and nights and
so forth. But I mean to have this as your office, and the
view from your from your little catbird set over there in the PA booth is
fantastic. I love it when I walk through the gates here Dodgers Stadium,
I just feel happy. It's a happy place. People are happy to be
here. The people that I work with are happy to work here, and
I work with some of the best best professionals in this type of job that
you can that you can have. Plus I get to see people like Fernando
and Oral Hers every day. I used to get to see Vince Scully every
day. Rick Monday and Charlie Stein are our radio guys at AM five seventy's.
It's just a wonderful place to be. And as I as I gain
more traction here, more time behind the mic at Dodgers Stadium, I feel
like I'm becoming more a part of the fabric of the family of the Dodgers.
And you know, the people that I work with know who I am
and what I do, and that feels nice to be a part of something
bigger than myself. And now we know who you are too, and I
can't now you know why they put me behind a mic and get out of
town. I tell you it is such like you said, it's just an
integral part of the game. There's so many different elements and so many things
that have to come together to make this spectacle that is a game at Dodgers
Stadium. It's a small it takes a small city. Yeah, I mean,
there's thousands of people who work here, and even late into the night
they're cleaning the steep seats and the rows and everything of the peanuts and spilled
beer and stuff. You know. It's it's just amazing how they're able to
do it. And I remember watching it after a double header or in the
middle of a double header. They came in and within an hour they had
this place cleaned up and ready to go for the next the next crowd to
come in. It's it's it's simply amazing the type of logistics that go into
making this place work. Yeah, and for the fans, you know,
one of the cool things about it, of course, there's there's expensive seats,
there's mid level seats. But you can come to a Dodger game for
you know, twenty five thirty bucks, you know, and like it's not
everywhere that you can do that. You can come and hang out for the
afternoon and you just never know how somebody might give you a fabulous introduction.
Could you do that for me? Yes? You hope you can edit this
so you got it, give me the give me what you want exactly.
Now batting for a wake up call, Amy King. Okay, now batting
for wake up call. Your host, Amy King, Tod likes. Thank
you so much, Thank you, Amy. Pleasure. Looking forward to hearing
Todd booming around Dodger Stadium this afternoon. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Maryland Governor Wes Moore
has requested emergency relief funds from the Biden administration following the collapse of the Francis
Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Moore says the port closure is not just a
local problem. The national economy and the world's economy depends on the Port of
Baltimore. The port handles more cars and more farm equipment than any other port
in the country. More says the state is determined to rebuild the bridge as
soon as possible. He says they're also focused on recovery efforts to bring closure
and comfort to families who lost loved ones. Divers recovered the bodies of two
workers yesterday. The search for four others is on hold because officials say it's
not safe for divers. Crews are starting salvage operations. LA County District Attorney
Gascone is expected to announce charges against two people for a murder at LA Live.
Men are accused of shooting Sydney Morris last year as he ate at a
restaurant counter. A woman also eating at Fixon's Sole Kitchen was hurt. Hunter
Biden's defense team has asked a federal judge in LA to drop the tax charges
against the president's sun. The defense team said the charges should be dropped because
they violated a version agreement reached in a Delaware case against the president's son.
Hunter Biden, who lives in Malibu, didn't attend yesterday's motion hearing in downtown
LA, where US District Judge Mark Scarzy is set to preside over a June
trial. Federal prosecutors say Biden didn't pay one point four million dollars in taxes
between twenty sixteen and twenty nineteen and instead spent that money on drugs, homes,
cars, and women hunter Biden faces up to seventeen years in prison if
convicted. Michael Monks KFI News Dollar Tree is raising its prices again. Dollar
Tree says it's raising the maximum prices on items from five dollars to seven dollars
this year. ABC's Michelle Fransin says the company claims its growing customer demographic is
making a yearly salary north of one hundred twenty five thousand dollars a year.
The Dollar Store already raised the price of its lowest items to a buck twenty
five earlier this year. The higher cost items will include food, pet and
personal care items. Speaking of pets, I hope you will make plans now
to come join me and the wake Up crew on Sunday, April twenty first.
It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk that benefits the Pasadena Humane Society. We're going
to be at Brookside Park in Pasadena and hopefully raise a lot of money to
help Pasadena Humane take care of the thousands of animals that they take in every
year. We're gonna have adoptable puts pups that you can pet. You can
check out some boothe there's the costume contests and games, demonstrations, some food
and other stuff. You can join our team too, the wake up Call
Wigglers come out, walk with us, stop by the KFI booth. Might
get an exclusive KFI swag bag. It's going to be a whole lot of
fun. It's happening again on April twenty first at Brookside Park. It's the
annual Wiggle Waggle Wwak to benefit Humane Society of Pasadena. You can find out
all the information about how to donate, how to join the team, and
what's going to be going on that day at KFI AM six forty dot com
slash Wiggle Hope you'll make plans to join us. Today's Dodgers Opening Day and
the debut of superstars Shohi Otani at Dodgers Stadium. The Boys in Blue open
their home schedule with four games against Saint Louis. First pitch goes out at
one ten manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or
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jury quickly decided that the former deputy mayor of La was doing dirty business.
Right now, let's talk to the co owner of the tally Rand in Burbank.
It's Karen ros Good morning, Karen, Good morning, Amy. Okay,
so we got you up nice and early this morning, although you're probably
dirty up getting ready for business today, but La voters are The city council
has approved a plan to work with Metro to put a road diet on all
of Avenue, which if you're familiar with the Burbank area. That's the one
that goes diagonally pretty much cuts through the whole city. And they want to
take away one lane of traffic in each direction to put in dedicated bus lanes.
And apparently that is something that affects you because the tally rand is on
ali value. And how what's your response to this? Do you think it's
a good idea, bad idea? I'm guessing that yeah, I think it's
a really poor idea. You know, I knew nothing about it until two
and a half months ago. And this is the main problem. There is
zero transparency out there. I walked the streets of Olive Avenue this last month,
not one business I came across nooning about the BRT. So I think
in order for anybody know what's going on, it makes be some major information
process going forth at this point. Now, I sat in the council meeting
another night for seven and a half hours. I left there confused as to
what even happened at the end of the night. And so, yes,
we're being voted to have a cooperative agreement with Metro, but they're still going
forth with mixed flow, which means buses would run with the existing two lanes
of traffic in each direction for that two mile stretch that goes from Buena Vista
to Glen Oaks, which is what we are so much fighting for because there's
so many cars on Olive Avenue at any given hour of the day and to
think about it being reduced to one lane in each direction concerns me greatly.
For people deciding to do them elsewhere, well, local streets are going to
be so congested because of it. Yeah, and I I mean you see
buses going up and down. And the plan here is they want to increase
the bus service or the kind of the availability to get between different areas.
And one of them is over at Pasadena, right, But there's a bus
that runs every ten minutes and they want to have it dedicated. Yeah,
they want to have a dedicated lane and cut off traffic for everybody else so
a bus can go through every ten minutes. Right. And part of our
concern as just the look of community is what is the ridership And they don't
have to do a secret study that they're exempt from that, and that's an
issue to us because ridership is not what they're claiming to be And We're not
against BRT at all or for it, but let's look and see what the
need is correct in Los Angeles at this moment or in Burbank specifically right now
or in twenty twenty seven when the roll is out, And what the twenty
twenty two council agreed upon was until the writership's got to be seventeen thousand,
five hundred writers, it would remain mixed flow, which is what we are
all for. All of the people that are that came on Tuesday night,
they are probably eighty something speakers that spoke. Some were for it, some
were against. It was very much two different sides. But I think that
so many of us are against it. Going down Olive Avenue to remove a
lane, yeah, it just would not work. You know, they overflow
into all the small streets, would be significant. Residents would not be happy.
All the business owners were concerned that, hey, you know what,
people are going to choose good to business elsewhere because it's not easy to get
done all of it. It's a major They're out there in Burbank and you're
saying that. Pretty much everybody that you've talked to is saying the same thing.
Yes, yes, I mean, the population of b Bank is one
hundred and five thousand. On a given day it grows to two hundred and
forty thousand. Well, those people are not trying to go from Burbank to
Pasadena. They're coming into work in the entertainment industry, that sector, you
know, post production, take your kids to school, et cetera. And
then it goes away again. It's an influx of vehicles that that will not
change. Okay, And if is there anything that the people can do,
like to kind of join a cause or you part of a group now that's
fighting this, or how are you moving forward? Well, I met individually
with all the city council people and the member and the mayor, and we
had great conversation. I would say, do you look a Burbankian. Get
involved, Write your city council, show up to meetings when metros on the
agenda. We need to have a voice. They need to know where we're
coming from and to hold stead acts as to what Burbankians want for our city.
Yeah, and we've seen I remember, you know, John Cobalt railing
against this in other areas and the business owners they're talking about how they're being
businesses get affected. And again, if the bus ridership was there, if
we were a city like New York City, it would make sense. But
LA is such a different animal. It's just I don't know, there's a
different name, and we don't have the mass transit in place. Sadly,
we really needed it, but here we are today you can't force it.
And the thing is also means like there's no transparency. Metro was there saying
that they had talked to people that in twenty eighteen. We never heard a
thing. We didn't hear a thing until I got brought into a meeting two
months ago forty people who are passionate about not having this coming to Burbank,
and it was like wow, it was just like where where has this been?
How where's the conversation been to present residents and business owners? Yeah?
All right, so yes, get out there, talk to city council.
Okay, And Metro did say that they are going to continue public outreach and
will hold community meetings as they continue to develop this plan. So hopefully that's
true, and they will keep you guys in the loop and keep that traffic
moving exactly and have us in loop as far as just as the design goes.
Let's have conversation about what will work and how we started. Correct,
all right, Karen Ross, thank you so much for getting up early and
sharing that information with us, and they got it. Have a great day,
all right, and we're looking forward to Thanksgiving dinner at Teleyrand against Okay,
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