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It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's
five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Friday, April fifth.
I'm Amy King. Good morning. I think I need a little extra wake
up call. I just you know, when you get one of those big
stretches, right, you get up and get out of bed. I just
got another one this So four years ago, do you remember where you were?
I got a notification on Facebook, you know how every once in a
while goes, hey, here are some of your memories. And I was
like, what, what was my memory from four years ago? And it
was right in the height of the lockdown, because the lockdown started March nineteenth,
right, so we were all sitting at home, We're all scared,
and in my neighborhood, and I know in a lot of neighborhoods in southern
California, because we couldn't gather, and we couldn't go anywhere, and you
know, you feel kind of powerless. We and I'm wondering if you did
this in your neighborhood. We would go out onto our balconies and our porches
or decks every night at eight o'clock and you would bang pots and pans,
and you would honk horns. And it was a way to say thank you
to the first responders and the medical personnel who were working so hard to save
lives during that time. And I recorded it because it was pretty powerful.
I'm not sure how well it's going to come out across the radio, but
here is four years ago what it sounded. What it sounded like at eight
o'clock every night, so people would you can hear them, like clanging pans
and yelling and honking horns. It was very cool. It was our way
to come together when we couldn't get together four years ago. Amazing. Here's
what's ahead on wake up call. A cold winter storm is bringing rain and
snow to southern California. The San Gabriel Mountains and fourteen Freeway Corridor are under
a winter storm warning until eleven tonight. Snow could fall as low as three
thousand feet and when guests are expected to blow up to forty five miles an
hour. The US Army Corps of Engineers says it hopes to get a shipping
lane open allowing access to the Port of Baltimore in the next four weeks.
President Biden's going to be visiting Baltimore today. We're going to be talking to
Karen Travers about that. In just a few minutes. Experts are warning people
about fake eclipse glasses. The American Astronomical Society so issue should only where approved
eclipse glasses specially made to block out almost all visible light for the big celestial
event on Monday. We're going to be talking about the eclipse and how it
might end up being a big bust with ABC's Jim Ryan in just about three
minutes, and a little later on Wake Up called Jason Nathanson's going to be
letting us know what's new in theaters and on the stream and what show is
ending. It's run this weekend at six oh five. It's handle on the
news. Ukraine's weapons shortage is making it increasingly more difficult for Ukraine to gain
any ground in its war with Russia. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Investigators say they're trying
to figure out who stole close to thirty million dollars in cash from a warehouse
in sil Mar, and they say they really want to know how they stole
it. Sometime Easter Sunday, official say thieves entered the Garda World armored car
facility through the roof, though aerial photos also show a section of the outdoor
concrete wall boarded up. The facility, near the intersection of San Fernando Road
in Roxford, is home to dozens of light gray armored trucks with the word
Garda in red letters on Law Enforcement sources with knowledge of the story say it
appears whoever made their way into the building was able to bypass security systems and
open the vault. It could be the largest heist in LA's history. Steve
Gregory King of I News. People in the Hollywood Hills say they're worried about
a landslide that damaged and partially buried a home. As the storm moved in,
the property damaged Wednesday night, was being renovated. The shifting mud settled
on the rear part of the home as heavy dirt pushed its way through the
back patio door, fully covered the windows in parts of the roof and wrapped
around the exterior. The home has been red tagged. The Israeli military has
dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in the drone strikes in
Gaza that killed seven aid workers. The military says a retired general's investigation into
the killings found the officers mishandled critical information and violated the army's rules of engagement.
US Postal Service is about to officially unveil the commemorative Forever honoring former First
Lady Betty Ford. A dedication ceremony is going to be held later this morning
in Rancho Mirage. The stamp design was unveiled at the White House last month.
The former First Lady focused on treating substance abuse disorders in a residential setting.
The first of many nonprofits was established in Rancho Mirage more than forty years
ago. Time to say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
is the eclipse going to turn out to be a big old nothing burger?
Well, no, I don't think so. Yeah, good checking.
The clouds are going to be a problem here in Texas. Every forecast I
think now is calling for a lot of cloud cover around the States. Which
is disappointing, I think to the potentially millions who are coming here from elsewhere
to experience the eclipse at one point thirty eight in the afternoon for most of
it. So yeah, it's it's disappointment. But even if it's cloudy,
even if it's raining, it's going to get much darker for those minutes that
the eclipse is happening. I'm going to be in Hillsboro, Texas, which
is renamed itself Eclipse Borough. They're totally into it. For the last two
years, that community has been planning for the arrival of the eclipse with music
festivals and carnivals and lecturers, all sorts of things going on there leading up
to the eclipse in the event itself. So it's sort of like Woodstock or
something, yeah, for the eclipse. Eclipse Stock, eclipse Stock. Okay,
And where where is the path of totality? Like, I know that
it passes through Texas, but what's its path up it does? Well,
it begins, if you will, down in the southern part of Texas,
down around Eagle Pass, that part of the US Mexico border we've heard so
much about lately. It comes through there and up through San Antonio and through
central Texas to Dallas Fort Worth, then the northeast part then Arkansas, Missouri,
a little tiny clip of Oklahoma. But from here in Texas, I
mean looking you know a map now of the forecast for clouds. It goes
from Texas all the way up to Indiana. Some level of clouds, and
you know, the best viewing at this point appears to be in New England,
way up in the northeast of Maine and Vermont and those places western New
York even and for people in California, we're expecting sunny skies, but we
don't get a full eclipse. We are going to get a partial though.
Yes you'll see some change and you know, some darkening. And I suspect
that eclipse glasses are being sold out there as well to folks to get them
ready for that. You can't just wear regular sunglasses. It's the highest of
the high end sunglasses. Your ray bands or whatever it might be. They
don't worry. They're not going to work in the eclipses. You co'd spend
seven hundred dollars on a pair of sunglasses. They're not going to protect your
eyes from the eclipse. Don't look at the sun wearing those things, the
eclipse glasses, which can be as little as a buck and a half or
two dollars made of cardboard. They are a thousand times darker than the highest
of high end sunglasses, and they will protect your eyes from the UV of
the eclipse. So don't look at the sun without those. Yeah. And
in fact, the American Astrological Society astronomical astronomical, not astrological. Okay,
there's they've put out warnings too, and they do have a list of reputable
eclipse glass makers on their website, yes, at aas dot org. I
looked it up this morning. Correct, you're right, And I know a
lot of convenience stores, a lot of the big box stores, home improvement
stores, they are stocking and selling these things for discount rates. They're not
expensive at all, but certainly worth the investment. It's worth your eyesight at
least. Yeah. Okay, So you mentioned that in Texas it's going to
hit totality at one thirty eight, So I think that's eleven thirty eight hour
time. And when does it start, Well, it's it starts at about
one o'clock central, so eleven o'clock your time. That it begins in Texas,
and of course the movement of the Sun of the moon together in this
case, they'll sort of dance and paint this stripe from southeast Texas all the
way up to the northeast part of the United States. That's why this is
such a big deal. This time around, it covers a much longer stretch
of the country, and it has a much wider path of totality. We're
talking about a twenty five hundred mile stripe from South Texas all the way up
through northeast Maine, one hundred and fifteen miles wide, total of totality,
total darkness, and then of course wider than that move out you get ninety
percent eighty percent. But the total path is huge, and so people are
willing to travel to be in that path of totality to experience it. So
in totality, which lasts a few minutes, if the skies are clear,
is it going to look like a regular night sky like you would see stars
and stuff. Yes, you'll see start it's going to get much colder,
I'm told, Oh wow, animals start acting weird's birds you know, fly
home to roost because they think it's nighttime. It's going to be an unusual
situation, and of course, you know traffic lights. You hope traffic lights
come on because it will be dark. The highway information signs here in Texas,
a lot of them say if they're in the path of in fact,
the whole stage is going to experience something. The highway traffic signs say do
not stop on the freeway or the shoulders to look at the eclipse. There's
a potential for some traffic nightmares around here. Amy. Yeah. So if
I'm remembering from the last eclipse, because we had a partial one last one
because it was total up in Oregon. It's different than sunset because you know,
at sunset you still have the full sun even though it's setting. And
this I just remember everything just having not like a haze, but almost like
a almost like a haze, like like you just dim the lights. It
was so bizarre. So I'm so looking forward to this. Yeah, it's
going to be it'll be very, very cool. And if you've got the
sunglasses, if you've got the proper eclipse viewing glasses and you're looking at this
thing, you know you'll see this corona. You'll see this sort of ring
around the moon, you're looking at the moon, but the sun is,
you know, in relative terms, behind it, and it's going to be
very very interesting to see that. And again, but it's going to be
pretty much like nighttime, the middle of the night. Okay, Well,
Jim Ryan, let's hope that the forecast in time is so wrong and you
get to see some eclipse. Me too. I'm going to go down to
Hillsboron and watch her from there. One of the longest periods of darkness in
the whole country at four minutes twenty two seconds. All right, either whether
it's sunny or cloudy, I'm sure it's going to be spectacular. Yeah,
Jim Ryan, thank you so much. Have a great weekend. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
RV's may be banned from parking overnight in certain parts of La. RV
camps are found on city blocks across La, and neighbors have said they are
unsightly dangerous. LA City council Woman Heather Hutt agrees. She got the Transportation
Committee on Wednesday to vote to ban the large vehicles from parking between two and
six am on various blocks in her district, primarily north of the ten Freeway.
The LA Community Action Networks Daniel Telllton says the ban is wrong. We
need to concentrate on building and providing places for people to be, not creating
more places where it is illegal to be. The full Council will now take
up the issue. Michael Monks KFI news. LA's so called mansion tax has
raised two hundred and fifteen million dollars by taxing multimillion dollar home sales to fund
housing projects, and two million of that raised in the first year is expected
to go towards a one hundred eighty seven unit affordable housing project already underway.
Special education teacher Gloria Martinez says that measure ULA will be crucial in helping to
provide homes for homeless children. There is no escaping the trauma many of our
students face outside of our schools. They bring in that trauma into the classrooms
every day across the city. Developer said at a press conference yesterday. The
complex will offer studios one, two in three bedroom apartments and can house up
to five hundred people. Chris Adler kf I News. A thief disguised as
a trash bag has been caught on camera stealing a package from a home in
Sacramento. The home owner says he got a notification that a package had been
delivered on March twenty ninth, but it wasn't there when he went to check
for it, so he checked his door camp. He says. The door
cam shows a person crouched underneath a black garbage bag, creeping towards the front
door, then stealing the package. Three homes in Newport Beach have been yellow
tagged because of a partial cliff collapse. The homes aren't damaged from the landside
yesterday, but officials say residents need to get out just in case. A
landslide that happened in the same neighborhood last year led to the demolition of a
home. Israel says it's going to open more pathways for food to get into
gaza for thousands and thousands of Palestinians who are facing starvation. The announcement comes
after President Biden had a call with Trime Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO yesterday. We're going
to be talking more about that call and what may come from it with ABC's
Karen Travers in just a minute ninety nine cents stores are going out of business.
The company says it will close all three hundred and seventy one of its
stores in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. It says it's because
of financial difficulties that stem from the pandemic, from changing consumer demand, theft,
and rising inflation. At six oh five, a handle on the news,
President Biden's headed to Baltimore to take a look at that bridge collapse.
I'm sure he's going to have lots to say about that, but let's also
check in now with ABC's Karen Travers, who has something to say about that.
So the President's headed to Baltimore today, Yeah, he is, and
he'll first do an aerial tour of the Franciscott Key Bridge collapse site from Marine
one. He'll fly from the White House right to Baltimore, take that tour
in the air. I'm actually heading up there with him today and we'll also
get that aerial tour from a helicopter. Then the President will land nearby and
get a briefing on the response and recovery efforts so far, a check in
on how things have been working from the federal side of things, and hear
from state and local officials about what they need and what can be done still,
how long this recovery is going to take, and how things are working
so far. First responders will also be there. The President wants to thank
them for their work that day and what they've been doing in this process.
We expect he's going to deliver some remarks mid afternoon, and then the White
House has set aside a good block of time, about an hour and a
half. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being more for the President
to meet privately with loved ones of the workers that were killed in the bridge
collapse. The White House says he wants to show support, hear their stories.
You know, this is a thing he does often after disasters or other
tragic moments, just spending time with people who are going through something so horrible,
experiencing loss and just telling them, hey, he gets it and helps
them get through it. Yeah, and you mentioned he's going to be talking
to some of the first responders. Does that include the people who immediately made
the call to shut down traffic on the bridge. The White House did not
say specifically, So we should get a sense today, maybe get a list
of the people who are there, but those three different Highway patrol officers who
did make that Mayday call and were able to turn traffic around. They were
of course honored at the Orioles home opener last week and are being credited for
just incredibly quick thinking to make that happen. But we'll see if they're part
of the events for today for the President. Yeah, and they're making some
pretty decent project in getting the shipping channel reopened. Yeah, that's you know,
they announced that they're trying to get it open by May. I mean,
they're really trying to move quickly, but as we've talked about it,
it's just such a painstakingly complicated process. The other thing they're trying to do
now is the White House officially today ahead of the President's visit, sent to
Congress the formal request for the federal government to cover the full cost of the
rebuilding and the Budget Director Shalan de Jung said that that type of authorization will
be consistent with what Congress has done in the past when there's been a catastrophic
bridge collapse. Back in two thousand and seven, you might remember there was
that downtown Minneapolis highway bridge that collapsed and very quickly, like within days,
Congress, with bipartisan support, passed hundreds of millions of dollars to start the
rebuilding process there. It's what the White House wants to see. Now.
Now, this could likely cost billions. There's no estimate yet on it.
It's going to be a lot of money. But the White House said that
the federal government will fully cover the cost at least to start, and that
once the investigation is complete, any party responsible will be held accountable, and
that they're going to pursue all avenues to recover costs. Okay, all right,
now let's shift gears real quick. President Biden yesterday had a call with
Benjamin NETANYAHUO what came of that? Yeah, the President on this call more
stark warnings and making it clear that the United States expects big changes from Israel
to address humanitarians suffering in Gaza or else there would be a change in US
policy. What that change in policy looks like. Nobody will say just yet,
not the National Security spokesman, not the Vice president yesterday, but the
President demanded that Israel dramatically increased humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza, open additional crossings,
and take big steps to reduce violence against civilians and aid workers. The
White House wants to see change in hours or days, like immediately. Well,
I think they're getting it though, because they did Yeah, yeah,
they saw overnight the Israel agreed to open a port and a major border crossing.
The White House is saying that was because of the President's request, and
now that they did that, it has to be fully and rapidly implemented,
Like basically, let's see how this goes before we say that this is fully
a success. Well, getting more humanitarian aid in is always going to be
a good thing. ABC's Karen Travers, thank you so much for the information.
Have a great weekend, you two thinks. A winter stormwarning is in
effect until eleven tonight in the San Gabriel Mountains and the Antelope Valley Freeway Corridor.
Forecasters are predicting up to ten inches of snow above six thousand feet,
three to six inches as low as five thousand feet, and up to three
inches at three thousand feet. It's also really windy. A less severe winter
storm advisory will be in effect until eleven tonight for the Annealote Valley Foothills and
the Golden State Freeway Corridor. Those areas could also get up to three inches
of snow. A San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy from twenty nine Palms has been
arrested for alleged gun and gang crimes. The department says the investigation into Deputy
Christopher Bingham and his association with an outlaw motorcycle gang began in January. Officials
say he was seen riding with two other gang members last month and the three
were pulled over. Bingham allegedly had a loaded, unregistered gun on him.
Jury selection has started in the trial of a former school safety officer charged with
killing a young mother in Long Beach. Eighteen year old Mona Rodriguez was shot
and later died when the school's officer fired at a moving car after an alleged
fight outside of Millken High School. Attorney Michael Coreo says he's advising the family
to sit out for portions of the trial that would force them to relive her
murder. It's been very difficult, but they want to see this thing through.
They want justice, They want the process to play out, but they're
hopeful for a conviction. Rodriguez family filed a wrongful death lawsuit after the shooting
in twenty twenty one, and received a thirteen million dollars settlement from the Long
Beach School District. Trial is expected to start early next week. Chris Adler
kf I News, a man from Redondo Beach has been sentenced to thirty five
days in jail or time served for punching a journalist in the face during a
Trump rally in Huntington Beach. The guy pleaded guilty in October for the assaults
seven years ago. He was fined two thousand dollars. He's barred from associating
with any white nationalist groups, and he's gonna have to enroll in drug treatment
and mental health programs. And STD Awareness nonprofit says they are not gonna reevaluate.
Get It a billboard urging fans to get tested after the Coachella Music festival.
Bill board says catch more than vibes. It's just a lighthearted way for
us to appeal to people that were going to the festival, AIDS Healthcare Foundations
to Jason Farmer says Coachella demanded the sign be taken down. No, we're
not taking it down. He says the billboard will stay up during the two
weekends of the festival this month in Indio on the IT in westbound. It's
just kind of interesting that that's the one thing that they would have gone after,
is this one buildboard that's promoting sed testing, which would go back to
the fact that people are probably having sex at your festival. Coachella has not
responded for comic Corbin Carson. Kf I News. Rescue teams in Taiwan have
been searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rock slide following that
massive quake this week. At least twelve people were killed during the seven point
four quake early Wednesday morning. The family was hiking in the Torocco National Park
after visiting ancestral sites for the traditional grave sweeping observances. In a city near
the quake's epicenter, crews have been working to demolish a five story building that
was left leaning at a very severe angle. Hellow going up I wonder Heading
Climate TA two thousand, Climatas two thousand, two thousand. The FAA is
investigating a CLI call at LaGuardia Airport. Officials say a Southwest plane got dangerously
close to the air traffic control tower last month. They say the flight had
attempted to land several times during bad weather. It was eventually redirected to Baltimore
before it returned to LaGuardia. No one was hurt. The governor of Louisiana
has pushed for a policy requiring student athletes to be present during the national anthem
in order to keep their scholarships. Governor Jeff Landry's request to the state's Board
of regents was made after the Louisiana State University women's basketball tea game on Monday,
where viewers criticized the team for not being out on the court during the
anthem. Landry says, to truly have civics and civility, they must be
united under one flag and respect the anthem. I'm going to respect you.
A lot of you will join me and walk with us for the Wigle Waggle
Walk. Okay, I'll respect you anyway, but I'd still love for you
to join us. The wake Up Call Crew is headed out to Brookside Park
on Sunday, April twenty first, in Pasadena. It's right by the Rose
Bowl for the Wiggle Waggle Walk. It benefits Pasadena Humane and of course any
money raised is going to help Pasadena Humane take care of the thousands of animals
they take in every year. You can come on out, take a walk,
bring your dog. You can see adoptable pups. Maybe you're looking to
expand your family. You can check out booths and they've got demonstrations and they've
got food samples and costume contests and games and as I mentioned, wou'd love
to have you join our team. We're called the Wake Up Call Wigglers.
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out more about the event again at Sunday, April twenty first. Put it
on your calendar. Please, we'd love to have you join us. A
cold winter storm, springing rain and snow to southern California. The rain started
falling. Roads were a little slick on my way in The San Gabriel Mountains
and fourteen Freeway Corridor are under a winter storm warning until eleven tonight. The
Annealoe Valley Foothills and five through the Grapevine are under a winter weather advisory.
Up to three inches of snowfall possible. Experts are warning people about fake eclipse
glasses ahead of Monday's celestial event. The American Astronomical Society says you should only
wear approved eclipse glasses specially made to block out almost all visible light. You
can find a list of reputable eclipse glassmakers on the website aas dot org.
That's for the American Astronomical Society. The Women's Final four tips off tonight in
Cleveland. Tickets are averaging about one thousand dollars, and this year tickets to
see the women are going for more then for the men's Final four. Those
are averaging about seven hundred dollars. The Men's final fource tomorrow in Glendale,
Arizona, at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Elon Musk
is gonna stop charging for that blue check mark. If you have enough followers
on X at five point fifty. What's old is new when it comes to
streaming, an actor who's stepping behind the camera and the end of an era
on TV. It's all coming up with ABC's Jason Nathanson. Right now,
let's say good morning to the house whisper and the host of Home on KFI,
Dean Sharp. Dean, we have a particular warnings that may be very
apropos for today because of the rain. Lots of rain. It is raining
outside right now, I know, so uh. And rain means water running
along the surface of our yards and out on our property, and that means
drainage. Drainage is something I don't know what it is Amy Southern Californians.
Maybe it's the fact that the last few years have been so dry and and
we've just gotten lazy about it. I think maybe it's just that we figure
out here, you know what, we can do whatever we want to our
property. But the rains always, no matter how much we warn people,
they always catch people kind of flat footed when it comes to their yards.
And then we get all these reports of flooding. There's water coming in my
house. My slab is too wet, all sorts of stuff like this,
all of it avoidable. So if you're having trouble with it right now,
obviously today not the day to get out there and fix it. But yeah,
we really need to talk about drainage, and drainage is something that most
people, again in southern California, don't understand. We are not trying to
get all the water that comes from the sky off of our property. We
actually want it to stay as much as possible on our property, but we
do want to get it away from our house. And there's a huge difference
between those two things. Okay, So what are some things to keep in
mind as you make your plans and execute your plans to keep the water away
from the house. Well, what you're looking for is about a four or
five foot perimeter around your home in which water that falls in that zone right
there from the edge of your house out wants to move away from your house,
not just sit there and definitely not slope toward your house. And there's
a number of techniques that you can use in order to get that done.
Of course, you can just change the level of the soil if that's possible,
get it moving at about a quarter of an inch per foot, that's
what we want. A drop of about a quarter of an inch per foot
away from your house, don't so sometime really really really gentle, almost not
noticeable slope exactly exactly. I tell you what a quarter of an inch per
foot is. It is not, it's super gentle. In fact, a
quarter of an inch per foot is the slope inside your shower when you're standing
in your showers. That's what your shower pan is sloped at. There's a
slope in your shower. That's what makes the water head towards the drain.
And that's the goal. Okay, okay. And then as far as to
do that, are you talking about putting in like rocks and stuff or how
do you do that or is it just with the ground that you make the
slope. Well, yeah, you can do it with the ground. If
you can do it with the ground, that's fantastic. Now, some people
have inherited homes where there's already concrete in place that doesn't have a slope on
it, or there's mounds, or the contour of the landscape is starting to
convey water towards the house. Every house is different, but that's the goal.
The goal is to move the water away, and so maybe it's just
a matter of getting out there and reshaping the land. Maybe there are some
trouble spots that you're not going to be able to reshape, and you're going
to think about actual drainage like drain pipes. And my favorite of all to
any kind of a house anywhere is what we call a French strain, a
French strange, a French drain these days, it has changed over the years
because it's about one hundred and fifty plus years old now, but a French
strain these days is a large white PVC landscape drain inch pipe that has holes
in it. You see little holes along the side. And basically what we
do is we dig a small trench again I say small trench just the width
of the pipe, and we drop a little gravel in the bottom, set
the pipe on the gravel so it's never directly in the mud, and then
we pile a gravel on top of it and fill up the rest of the
trench. Now you can fill it all the way up to the very tip
top, or you can stop about six inches short, and you know,
plant grass or flowers or whatever across the top. But what's going on down
there is that water in the soil that is headed towards your house, hits
that kind of slot trench and it drops in through the gravel down into the
drain and the drain woop carries it away and it no longer has to,
you know, surcharge the sides of our foundations, which is not good for
our flooring inside, it's not good for our wall materials, and it's not
even good for our house protecting it against earthquakes. Because the weather the soil
is under our house, the more subject our house is to moving on that
foundation if there's an earthquake. Okay, And those are just a couple of
the tips that you need to know about your house and how to improve the
drainage around it. And also on Home with Dean Sharp this weekend, you're
going to talk about some things that you might not know about water that can
help you probably make your planning, and then things to know about your house
as well. Absolutely, all right, it's coming up six to eight on
Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday, it's Home with Dean Sharp. Thank
you so much for your time today. Thank you, Amy. All Right,
have a great weekend. Let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI where our newsroom. The City of La could increase starting
pay for bus drivers, mechanics and other transit workers. The city's Department of
Transportation says it's doing better at recruiting drivers and filling vacancies. The real challenge
now is keeping them through a contract with MV Transportation. Drivers and mechanics servicing
the DASH and other lines are the lowest paid in the regent. Drivers like
Carlos Romero say a pay raise would help. Org is origently asking for the
city support to please increase current wages and motor pros to support families. The
city Council votes today about increasing the hourly rate from twenty to more than twenty
four dollars. Next fiscal year would go up to over twenty five. Michael
Monks KFI News. Jury selection is underway in the trial of a former school
safety officer in Long Beach charged with fatally shooting an eighteen year old mom.
Attorney Michael Correo says he's warned the family to sit out during parts of the
trial that would force them to relive the day Mona Rodriguez was shot. They're
struggling emotionally to revisit this issue. I mean, it's something that they think
about every day. They pray. They prayed to her memory every day.
Rodriguez was killed in twenty twenty one when the former Millican High School officers shot
at a moving car she was in following a fight with two other people.
Testimony is expected to start next week. Day trippers visiting Venice, Italy who
don't pay the city's entry fee are going to face fines ten times higher.
A test program starts this month after the city was placed on the UN's list
of Endangered Heritage Sites. Officials say the roughly five dollars fee will help combat
the impact of over tourism. Visitors will be met by stewards who will remind
them to pay using a QR code. Three homes in Newport Beach have been
yellow tagged because of a partial cliff collapse. The homes weren't damaged in the
landslide yesterday, but official save residents need to get out just in case.
A landslide that happened in the same neighborhood last year led to the demolition of
a home. A federal judge has denied former President Trump's request to dismiss his
classified documents case. Trump says the Presidential Records Act allowed him to keep the
documents. The judge says the statute doesn't apply in the charges against him.
Ninety nine Cent stores are going out of business. The company says it's going
to close all three hundred and seventy one of its stores in California, Arizona,
Nevada, and Texas. They're going to start liquidating as early as today.
And Bill's going to be talking more about this in Handle on the news.
It's just a few minutes away. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's entertainment guru. It's Jason Nathanson. Hey, Jason, I'm sad
about the ninety nine cent stores. I am too. I don't shop there
often, but I do shop there, Yeah, growing up. I did
growing up in La I mean, those have been a staple all my life.
So so onto entertainment stuff. So I love dev Patel from Some Dog
Millionaire, and I loved him in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, one of
my favorites. Yes, well, now he's going behind the camera and he's
going to direct. He is. He's behind and in front of the camera
for monkey Man. This is is his directorial debut and the man Monkey Man.
Yes, it's based on a Hindu god and old kind of story of
a of a Hindu god that he he plays a character named Kid who's kind
of a young man who he's he does these fight clubs every night to make
money and he gets just beat up. He wears a gorilla mask and that's
where the name monkey Man comes from. Uh. He gets beat up every
night and he has rage. There are things happened in his past, very
traumatic. And this is a movie, you know, kind of like Slumdug
Millionaire was. This is set in India, by the way, about the
cast system and about class and things like that and overcoming those things and also
revenge, take getting revenge against the people who wronged you. This is a
man who's full of rage and he's kind of blinded by that and and consumed
with getting revenge for people who destroyed his family. It's very kind of East
meets West filmmaking. It's a it's a mix of all that you have.
It's flashy with a rocking soundtrack and a lot of violence, but also times
spiritual and meditative. And for me, well, it didn't always stick the
landing. I think it was an impressive debut from a first time filmmaker who
clearly has a lot to say and a and a big point of view.
Okay, and also behind the camera or in the business office is very powerful
and creepy producer Jordan Peel, Yes, Jordan Peel, he came on board.
I believe after this was done, this was going to be Originally it
was intended for Netflix. Jordan Peele came along and saved it from streaming and
put it on the big screen, which is I think where it deserves to
be. Not that it couldn't, you know, I think you could have
enjoyed it on streaming, but seeing it on the big screen again, because
this is a big, loud, bright movie that it really it plays very
well on the big screen. Okay. Good to know, because a lot
of times there movies out and I go, you know, that was good,
but I it'd be fine right my TV on the TV. There's one
of those. And I actually forgot to put the on my list, which
is out this week called Wicked Little Letters, which stars Olivia Coleman and Jesse
Buckley. Really kind of funny. It's a small movie about you know,
Poison Pen Letters from the nineteen twenties in England really about like kind of the
first trolling and you know how you can see how it went from that to
online trolling. Basically, it's very funny. But does it need to be
seen on the big screen? Not necessarily, could probably wait for streaming.
But I really liked it and I enjoyed it, and that is out.
It was out in limited release last week and it's out across the country this
week. Okay, and you said it was Poison Pen Letters. So is
it set in the nineteen twenties. It is set in the nineteen twenties.
It's based on a true story of a real scandal of somebody in a town
in England who was writing letters to like these really horrible letters to to the
townspeople, and it became this really big scandal and then the police had to
investigate and it became this whole big thing. Sounds scandalous, like it's maybe
like Bridgerton a little bit. It's very scandalous. And you get to see
Olivia Coleman swear in a way that you would not expect her to swear.
Okay, good to know. And then the other movie coming out, the
First Omen, Yes, a prequel, a first Omen, the prequel to
the Omen. This is I think the sixth in the Omen movies over the
years. Religious horror not really my thing. I didn't get a chance to
see it, but it's getting very good reviews eighty three percent from critics on
Rotten Tomatoes, which for a horror movie is like a million percent. Okay,
And it's amazing how long these movie franchises go on. The first movie
came out in nineteen seventy six. Yeah, I mean, and that's with
horror. It's just it's so cheap to make. And you know this movie.
There are a couple of name actors in some smaller roles, but for
the most part, you don't know any of the people in it. Okay,
These movies are very cheap to make and good turn on the money for
studios. Okay, let's shift over to the stream. Another remake or whatever.
Ripley, Yeah, that's on Netflix. This is it's based on the
book which the movie from nineteen ninety nine was based on the book, The
Talent Mister Ripley. You might remember that starred Matt Damon as Tom Ripley.
You had Jude log Gwyneth Paltrow in that as well, and of course the
wonderful Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is great in that. Everybody's great in that.
I love that movie. I thought it was a great, great movie.
And this is kind of tells the same story but in a different way.
And you have let's see here. Andrew Scott stars as Tom Ripley,
kind of a sad sack, kind of con man type guy who goes to
Europe to find He's commissioned by the father of Dicky Greenleaf to go to Europe
and find his son, who is kind of living an extravagant life and just
enjoying himself. And Tom Ripley kind of starts to take over the lives of
these people and try to get into these kind of rich people's lives where he
does not clearly belong. This has done really really well and really interesting,
especially if you were a fan of the original movie this and you think,
Okay, they're going to redo this, and yes, it does tell the
same story but in a very different way. It's black and white, which
I wasn't sure if I was going to like or not, but it's directed
really, really well. It has some beautiful shots and some really kind of
funny dry stuff as well. I'm into what I've seen so far of Ripley
on Netflix. You know what this sounds like to me, Jason. It
sounds like a more recent film with a very dark movie that I found out
by watching it with Saltburn. Did you see that? I did see Saltburn?
Nothing. I mean yeah, in terms of, yes, you have
somebody who's trying to infiltrate to the uppercross life that he where he does not
belong. It kind of goes a similar themes but very very different stories.
Okay, and then we would be remiss if we did not talk about the
end of an era. Yes, Curby Your Enthusiasm is ending on Sunday.
This is the final episode. If you've been watching this season, which I've
been mixed on this season. I've been mixed on the show. It's been
up and down over the twelve seasons that it's been on. Last season was
fantastic, but seasons before that, you know, sometimes you're like, Okay,
this is the same stick over and over again. We get it.
Larry David is curmudgeon and he hates everything, and sometimes it's very funny.
Sometimes it's very uncomfortable. But this show has been on since nineteen ninety nine.
They first did a special, right, that's what Curby Enthusiasm was.
It was Larry David Special, and then that was in nineteen ninety nine,
and then the next year they turned it into a series. Was that when
was Seinfeld still on at that time? Seinfeld was off for a year at
that point. Okay, so I think a lot in a lot of people's
minds, there's a big separation between the two like it came much later,
but it was really only a year after Seinfeld. Now, Larry David had
had left Seinfeld at that point. He did come back for the finale,
but he had left Seinfeld at that point, so his his connection was a
little severed. But it's you know, it's amazing a that he was able
to do Seinfeld and then this right to have two hits like that is pretty
remarkable. In its twelve seasons, it's been nominated for Best Comedy at the
Emmys ten times and this season hasn't even been eligible yet, so it could
be eleven for twelve. That's remarkable as well. And the fact that it's
been on for twenty five years. I mean, you know, the show
pre dates nine to eleven, which is pretty nutty. And a lot of
things right have happened since in the past twenty five years, and I think
it maybe not seem that long for some people because it is twelve seasons over.
You know, it hasn't been a season every single year. They've taken
big breaks between seasons. But it's pretty remarkable what Larry David has been able
to do and how he's been able to get into the kind of public zeitgeist
and seep into the American consciousness over the years. Yeah, the end of
an era. So lots of great choices for this weekend, both in theaters
and at home. Thank you so much. Jason Nathanson, Sure thing tare
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