You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. I want to say thanks to Heather Brooker and
also to Chris Little Heather for filling in for me tomorrow yesterday, and then
Chris Little for filling in for Heather because she had the flu and came to
work anyway, So hats off to Heather. I've been there before. Going
to work sick sucks. So anyway, another beautiful day on the way.
Hasn't it been spectacular? I have just loved this weather, But don't get
too used to it, because we've got more storms coming in. We'll tell
you about that coming up. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. San
Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dykas says the massacre in a remote area of the Mojave
Desert was tied to a dispute about marijuana. Five people were arrested in connection
with the shooting on Sunday. Dyks confirms six Hispanic men were shot last Tuesday
night. Four of the bodies were burned. A thirty seventh said if the
killings were cartel related, Boeing says it is withdrawing a request for a safety
exemption needed to certify a new model of its seven thirty seven Max airliner.
The announcement yesterday follows severe criticism after a door plug blew out on a different
model of the seven thirty seven Max over Oregon. Boeing had said that regulators
or had asked regulators rather to let it roll out the seven thirty seven Max
seven even though it doesn't meet a safety standard designed to prevent part of the
engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight. Probably good that they're not
asking for that exemption anymore. Elon Musk says the first human to receive a
Neulink cybernetic brain implant is recovering. Musk says he hopes the implants will help
people with diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and allow them to move again using the
implants to control electronic devices. Musk posted on that the implant was put in
a human for the first time on Sunday at six oh five. It's handle
on the news. A case of mistaken identity may have contributed to the US
service members killed by a drone in Jordan. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Five men have
been arrested for the murders of six people in high desert near Adelanto, San
Bernardino County. Sheriff Shannandicke says the six were likely shot to death in a
dispute over illegal marijuana. It certainly looks like it has a lot of the
modeling of cartel cases and things of that nature. The bodies were found last
week. Sheriff's Sergeant Michael Warwick says one of the people killed was able to
call nine one. One caller told dispatchers he was shot, but he did
not know the location he was at, and it appeared the call ended.
Investigators say all of the people killed had been shot, some were burned.
So far, four of the people have been identified. Pilly say a number
of street takeovers around LA have kept them occupied. Jip says early so day
morning, thirty cars took over the sixty three Bridge and Boil Heights, and
officers on scenes say they handed out one hundred and fifty citations and I pounded
fifteen vehicles. Later that evening, four people were shot during a takeover in
the area of Alandra Boulevard in Central Avenue, near Compton. The four were
taken to a hospital in unknown condition. No arrests were reported, and later
that night, during five additional takeovers at Century Boulevard in Western Avenue, the
LAPED says it arrested twenty four people, issued fifteen citations, and in pounded
fourteen vehicles. Steve Gregory ka Finans. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln says the
US will respond to the attack on a military base in Jordan that killed three
American service members. That response could be multi leveled, come in stages,
and be sustained over time. The Pentagon has confirmed three Army Reserve soldiers were
killed in the drawn attack over the weekend. They were stationed in Jordan in
support of Operation Inherent Resolve fighting ISIS. Forces officials say preliminary information suggests the
na I drone may have been mistaken for an American drone that was in the
air at the same time, and that's why there was no effort to shoot
it down. We're going to find out more about the attack and the US
response to it with ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers. That's coming up at
five thirty five, So just about thirty minutes from now. It's been an
amazing process. Space Shuttle Endeavor has landed in its upright position at the California
Science Center. It's the latest piece of an upright display that has the shuttle
and engines in launch ready position. Science Center President and CEO Jeff Rudolph tells
NBC four it took some maneuvering overnight to get the shuttle into place. Looked
at it horizontally for a little bit and then went to vertical, and then
very careful and slowly brought it up and over the wall and then down and
in had rotated a few times to get up between some tight spots, he
says, Now cruise, we'll start working on the building that will house the
shuttle display. They're going to build the building up around the shuttle. The
exhibit won't be open for a couple more years, at least. It's five
six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana
Miller in Jerusalem, Jordanak let's get the latest on those talks to get the
hostages being held in Gaza release. Well, we heard a lot of optimistic
remarks from US and Katari officials. But here on the ground, it looks
like not much progress has been made of The Israeli Prime Minister says that the
current proposal on the table has conditions that are not acceptable to Israel, essentially
rejecting that proposal. Hamas, you know, yesterday said that they also reject
the proposal. Today the leader of the political wing of Hamas, If ma
Hania, says, well, we have the proposal and we're studying it,
so they haven't outright rejected it again today. But it looks like there's still
very big gaps on phase two or three of this deal. But the parties
have agreed in general on phase one, which is essentially the release of the
Israeli female, elderly and sick hostages in exchange for one to two months pause
in the fighting, and the release of Palestinian criminals that are jailed here in
Israel, you know, letting them out early, and some of them who've
committed very serious crimes such as murder. So those are the but that's only
phase one, and the challenge is, you know, how do how do
the parties move forward. Perhaps the United States and cutter in Egypt, they
are going to pressure the size to just begin with phase one and say,
hey, we'll discuss phase two and phase three during phase one while it's happening,
because it seems hard for the party's to degree on the post, you
know, the final end to this deal. In other words, Hamas wants
an end to the fighting. Israel doesn't. Hamas wants every troop out of
the Gaza strip, Israel doesn't. Hamas wants to stay in power somehow.
Israel won't agree to that. So there's a lot of long term issues that
the gap seem very wide still, okay, and those are the phase two
and three conditions. That's right, that's right. There's a lot of disputes
about phase two and phase three. Even if there's some agreement on phase one,
you know, it's not it hasn't been. It's not enough to clinch
the deal yet. And just phase one seems pretty intricriate. Do we know
how many you said women and injured and the women and elderly, it's about
forty, between forty and forty five that group, assuming they're alive, right,
because the exchange of bodies wouldn't have until a later phase, So we're
talking about everyone who's alive, Okay, to get whoever's alive out right.
It does include several young women that is really very concerned about, including several
young Israeli soldiers. You know the testimony here from released hostages, and I
know firsthand because ABC News talked to a release tassage hostage just last week who
herd first hand accounts of the sexual assaults that's happening in the Gaza strip.
And there's a lot of fear for the well being of these young girls.
Okay, and we know that there was a lot of talk about the sexual
assaults that early on, but it sounds like it's continuing for the people who
are still being held. Correct, there were obviously a lot of reports and
evidence of sexual rape, on of rape and even mutile little mutilation on October
seventh. That was kind of systematic, we understand now weeks later, but
we were also hearing credible reports from the hostages who came out that some of
the young women are being sexually assaulted on a regular basis in captivity by Hamas
and this is you know, particularly disturbing, not only for the families,
but obviously for you know, Israel's a small country. Everyone's related to someone
somehow, so to know, they're a lot of young girls. You know
when I say girls nineteen twenty, twenty one, twenty five, twenty seven,
thirty, you know that are being regularly sexually assaulted. It's frightening.
I mean, there's a whole part of the Ministry of Health here who have
launched committees to deal with what are we going to do if some of those
girls come out and the pregnant? What do we do for those women who
are going to come out pregnant? Yeah, gosh, it's just horrifying.
It's dark. Yeah, dark. So can we shift over just to the
UN workers who Israel says collaborated with Hamas. I know this came out I
believe over the weekend. What is the status of that. Yeah, this
is another it's another dark part of this larger story. So ABC News I
have the Doosier, the document that Israel distributed to the United States and others
laying out the allegations. There are twelve workers un AID workers. They're part
of UNRA, the UN agency that aids the Palestinians and the Gaza strip.
Some are teachers, some are social workers, and there were twelve that are
alleged to have taken part either on October seventh, in the attacks or in
the days following. And I'll give you just two examples. There's one one
UN worker who is suspected of taking part in the massacre on Kibbutzbeiri where over
ninety Israelis were killed, a lot of evidence of sexual assault there as well
another UN worker suspective taking part in helping to kidnap Israelis and others that provided
arms on the day of on the day of October seventh to Hamas Terras,
and then there were others who provided logistics stuff like cars, etc. So
the un has fired nine of the twelve, Two of the twelve are dead,
one is missing. And this prompted the US and the UK and France
and several other countries of Austria, Germany to freeze their funding of UNRAH until
the investigation, you know, is complete and they know what happened, but
the pretty serious allegations. Israel has long claimed that UNRA has turned the blind
eye to employees that have links to terror groups in the Gaza strip. So
the Israelis aren't surprised by this, but I think the world is yeah,
yeah, and there must have been some at least credible information for the you
know, for several countries to say Okay, we're gonna we're gonna hold off
on funding. Yeah, exactly, exactly is all provided, right, They
provided evidence, including like geolocating some of the some of the suspects on October
seventh, for example inside Israel. Right, so yeah, the evidence seemed
credible. And now I mean, Unrah, they're warning they could run out
of money in February, and they provide food, eight shelter, they run
the schools in the Gaza strips. So you know, these bad actors are
going to you know, they're going to what they did will end up harming
again. You know, innocent civilians and Gaza have nothing to do with them
us, right, Yeah, Okay, Jordana, thank you so much for
the update. I think it's so important that we keep sharing the information.
So we're going to keep talking to you. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty for our newsroom.
Hope you've enjoyed our warm sunny weather. Because a series of storms is headed
toward the Southland Thursday should pack a punch along the coast. We think most
places will receive one to two inches of rain locally up to three because of
thunderstorms and the instability and the banding along the system could bring some local rainfall
rates even higher. The National Weather Services Alex Tarti says the rain will continue
with snow possible about five thousand feet on Friday, rains possible against Sunday,
and then a heavy rain of rain is expected to arrive on Monday. Ten
counties have teamed up to stock by a stockpile a ninety day emergency supply of
PPE to serve all of southern California during the next pandemic. We would within
a couple of years have it all produced locally. LA Care Health CEO Don
Beachus says PPE is mostly produced overseas, which created a bidding frenzy as prices
skyrocketed during the last pandemic. He says, the goal here is build a
plant in southern California to produce the polypropylene, taking the pellets and making it
into the sheet material that goes into globes, counts, and masks, so
that we would not have to depend on that. The plant would cover routine
PPE consumption, search capacity, and the emergency supply all at a set price.
Corbin Carson, KFI News. When we come back, we'll be checking
in with Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money on KFI, about
how the banks may not be looking out for your best financial interest. You're
listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty is what we're
following in the KFI twenty four hour news room. Malibu is adding a dedicated
task force to patrol a dangerous section of Pacific Coast Highway. There have been
several violent crashes in the area in recent years, highlighted by a crash that
killed four Pepperdine University students last year. The man accused of crashing into the
young women was apparently driving at least one hundred four miles an hour. More
than two thousand homeowners in Redlands are losing their fruit. State agriculture officials say
they're going to work to eradicate the invasive oriental fruit fly by stripping the fruit
off trees. Workers are going door to door and we'll be removing the fruit
from all citrus trees and other fruit producing plants now through February. The Illinois
State Board of Elections is going to vote today on whether to kick former President
Trump off the twenty twenty four ballot for participating in an insurrection. A Republican
judge says the board doesn't have the authority or the time to consider the matter
before Illinois primary on March nineteenth. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments
next month on whether Colorado can remove Trump from the ballot. At six of
five, it's handle on the news. Marijuana is likely behind the massacre in
the Mojave Desert that left six people dead last week. Let's say good morning
now to the host of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel lars Guard.
Joel, banks are not necessarily looking out for your best interest. Literally,
Yeah, two puns right there, right, And yes, banks,
I've always had a problem with the big banks. Just the biggest banks in
the country don't pay rates that are competitive in any way, form or fashion.
They fee us to death. That why people stay with the big banks,
even though they kind of use us and abuse us. Has always bothered
me. And so I'm constantly seeing the praises of online banks, some of
my favorites, who have better customer service, better user interface, they pay
competitive rates, and especially now the rates have gone significantly up for savers.
There's a massive gap there between what you can get paid at the big banks
versus the online banks. But there was something that happened recently. And Capital
One is one of my favorite online banks. I speak of them highly.
I've had a bank account with them for a lot of years. And they
pulled this sneaky little maneuver where they have multiple different savings accounts. One of
them is a highly competitive savings account and the other one pays something similar to
what the big banks pay, and they kind of tricked some of their customers
into being in the account that pays less. They're loyal, long time,
long term customers, and to me, that's a problem too. I don't
really like that sort of behavior. How did they trick people into taking the
lower interest Well, basically what they did was they launched this new savings account
called the Performance Savings Account. But they didn't really they didn't automatically bump up
current customers into that higher paying account. They didn't raise interest rates on the
account that they've been in for years, and they didn't really do a good
job notifying them that, hey, guess what, now we have a better
product that exists, you should migrate over here and make sure that you're taking
advantage of the higher interest right now. So there are a lot of people
for multiple years that were like, as interest rates were skyrocketing on this other
account, they were in the old paltry one that was paying next to nothing,
earning you know, essentially pennies on the money that they had in savings.
And so there were a lot of Capital one customers who are frustrated by
that. I do want to say Capital one is not the only bank that
does this. A lot of banks have multiple different savings accounts that have kind
of different fee structures and different minimum account balances that you have to maintain and
stuff like that. Most of the online banks have done away with all that
stuff. But this is this is a rare chance, a rare opportunity essentially
where I can say something somewhat negative about an online bank because most of the
time they're doing right by their customers. And it's the big banks that are
the ones that are usually in hot water with me. But this is kind
of frustrating to see that people who have been with Capital One for years and
years and years didn't get rewarded for that loyalty and they weren't even really told
about this new account where they could earn a whole lot. More So,
then moving forward, and as we're looking about how do we find the places
that have the best interest for us? And and what you know, how
do we how do we find it? I don't even know where to start
looking. Yeah, so there are two really good websites for this bank rate
dot com and there's one called Doctor of Credit dot com, and those both
highlight the banks that pay the highest rates right now on like CDs. On
savings, there are I will say Capital One, the performance saving product is
really good and they have their overall do right by their customers. This was
one instance where there is a problem here. But I name regularly on the
show a few banks that I like that I've done business with that really meet
kind of all my requirements in the ways that i've vet banks. And Capital
One, ally, Discover and c I T are kind of four of the
top ones. There are other great online banks too, but online banks really
do for most people. It's great to have a relationship with a local credit
union also, but online banks typically hit a lot of those other things for
savers in particular, they're a boon, They're a great place to land,
Okay, So I think that like for me, I always think, oh,
I just keep everything at one place, uh huh. And I stay
with the bank that i'm with because there's a bank branch that I used to
go into but now actually they're closing it. And I always felt like because
it was a big bank, it might be better. So if you're educating
me, as hopefully you are, what can I just transfer everything over one?
And I think a lot of people feel like you. They feel bigger
is better. And I think especially in spring of last year when we had
three bank failures, there was kind of a push for a lot of people
to go to take their money and move to the big banks instead of the
regional banks because they're like, well, wait a second, my money's at
risk here. But the truth is FDIC insurance is an amazing invention that protects
all of us, whether our money is at a big bank or an online
bank. Make sure the bank that you're doing business with is FDIC insured,
and you can find that out at FDIC dot gov. But that is a
massive protection. So I think sometimes people are like, ooh, but is
the online bank reliable, Is it trustworthy? Is my money actually protected?
Yes, up to two hundred and fifty grand, which is you know,
a lot of money to have in savings. Your money is protected, So
don't worry about that. Go with the bank that pays the best rates,
has good customer service, has a good interface. And yeah, when it
comes to migrating your account, Amy, it's not as hard as you would
think. You open up the new account, put some money in that account,
and then just make sure you're changing your bill, pay those automatic ach
transfers or whatever that you have going on, transfer those over to the new
bank. Actually, there's legislation or a proposal that might actually help us as
Americans change banks much easier where some of those things will be automatic. I'm
curious to see if that passes, because it'll really grease the wheels and make
it a lot easier to switch banks in the future. Okay, And if
I do business with an online bank like Capital One, yeah said that that's
one of the good ones. Can I still talk to someone if I need
to? Yeah, that's what you're saying. Okay. Yeah, And to
be honest, most of these online banks don't have brick and mortar locations,
which is why they prioritize other things. I can't tell you the last time
I went into a brick and mortar location for a bank. And maybe that's
just a function of age, but I do think that millennials and Gen Z
they feel very comfortable doing everything online. Think about what we would have said
about car buying a car side unseen online fifteen years ago. People would have
said, you're crazy. And now you know CarMax Carbana. They've really crushed
it with that model. And I think the next generation feels comfortable doing almost
everything online, and banking is one of them. So I don't think most
people are going to miss the brick and mortar locations. If you're a small
business owner, that's different. You're depositing cash, that kind of thing.
I get why you need a local relationship, But I do think more and
more folks are going to individual consumers are going to be more and more comfortable
with online banking as things move forward. Okay, one of these days,
like all this great advice that you get to that you give me is actually
going to sink in and I'm going to do something like migrate my money.
It just just give me a second. It takes a minute for me to
accept change. I'm like the angel or the devil on your shoulder, trying
to be know exactly with always such great advice. Okay, real quick,
because of course we're running out of time, as we always do. And
I know I say that to you every week, Joel, but that's because
I like to talk to you. Remote workers are more likely to get fired
than they're hybrid or in office peers. Yeah, fascinating new study. And
this is one of those things where we've already seen real evidence and anecdotal evidence
from CEOs, from managers about how guess what if you if you work from
home full time, if you're not you're out of sight, out of mind,
you're more likely to not get the raise, to not get the promotion.
Well, on the flip side, is also true, you're also more
likely to get asked if there's downsizing. Fortunately, unemployment still at record lows,
but if the economy does tighten and layoffs increase, at home employees are
going to feel it the most. Okay, out of sight, out of
mind, keep that in mind. Yeah, exactly, it's gonna be a
problem for some of those folks. And so being in the office, even
just one day a week if you can, okay, or just at least
saving up more knowing that you are, you're at greater risk should the economy
see some tightening. I think that's a really important thing for work, for
work from home workers. Okay. Joel Larsgard the host of How to Money
right here on KFI. You can listen to great advice from Joel every Sunday
noon to two right here on KFI, and you can follow Joel at how
to Money. Joel, Joel, thank you so much. We'll talk to
you again next week. Sounds good. Thanks Amy. All right, Hey,
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another winning season at Broadway in Hollywood dot Com. When we come back,
we're going to be checking in with ABC's Karen Travers to find out how and
when the US may respond to the drug attacks that have killed three US service
members. South Land weather from KFI. Another beautiful sunny day on the way
with hies in the low seventies at the beaches, mid seventies to near eighty
Inland. Sixties for the Anealote Valley. About five degrees cooler tomorrow than cloudy
on Wednesday, with rain possible. Overnight, heavy rain at times possible on
Thursday. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI Am six
forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Sam
Bernardino County Sheriff Shennandikas says the massacre in a remote area of the Mojave Desert
was tied to a dispute about marijuana. Five people were arrested in connection with
the shooting. Dykas confirms six Hispanic men were shot last Tuesday night and four
of the bodies were burned. Authorities havn't said, or actually haven't confirmed,
if the killings were cartel related. Boeing says it is withdrawing a request for
a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of its seven thirty six seven
thirty seven Max airline. Boeing had asked regulators to let it roll out the
seven thirty seven Max seven, even though it does not meet a safety standard
designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight.
Elon Musk says the first human to receive a neurolink cybernetic brain implant is
now recovering. Musk says he hopes the implants will help people with diseases like
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's use the implants to control electronic devices, which would enable them
to move again. Musk posted on X the implant was put in a human
for the first time on Sunday at six oh Five's handle on the news or
Republican led Committee. We'll be moving forward with the articles of impeachment against Homeland
Security Secretary Alexander Majorkis for the way he handled or didn't handle, the massive
influx of illegal immigrants into the US. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's White House correspondent to Karen Travers. Good morning, Karen. The
US says it will respond to the drone attacks that killed three US service members.
Any insight from the White House on what that response might be or when
it might happen, No surprise, the White House is not telegraphing punches,
as John Kirby, the National Security spokesman, put it yesterday, but saying
that the President is considering options. He met with his National security team on
Monday in the Situation Room as he looks to respond to the deadly attack on
American troops in Jordan, and the White House says that there are no easy
answers to this, but that this attack was escalatory and requires a response.
Kirby said it was fundamentally different, and so the response will be different too.
We've heard from the Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln yesterday who said that the
US will respond decisively to any aggression and will hold responsible the people who attacked
US troops, and Blincoln gave a little bit more of a hint than what
the White House was saying by saying that it's likely to not just be one
show of force, but multi leveled, as you put it, and come
in stages and be stained over time. Where that is targeting who it's targeting
when it starts, the White House Secretary of State, nobody is right now
saying, because the President, they say, is still considering his options.
Okay, and it seemed inevitable that something horrible like this would happen, given
that there have been so many attacks. Does the deaths of the service members
really change the US's approach to what the yeah. I mean, the questions
were coming up yesterday about you know, is this different now? And the
White House has always said if US service members were killed, then that obviously
changes the calculations. And Kirby did say that yesterday that this attack was fundamentally
different where it came and obviously the outcome because it ended in tragedy. Notably,
the new information we had yesterday is that this strike that came at this
remote outpost in the Jordanian desert, were learning that it was an explosives laid
and drone that bypass US air defenses. Officials tell us that the initial reports
indicate nobody tried to shoot it down, that it was mistakenly believed to be
a US surveillance drone that was coming back and that's why it was not taken
out. Wow, so we didn't we just didn't do anything about it because
we didn't recognize that it wasn't a friendly drone. Okay. So, and
officials are saying that all these attacks are Iranian proxies. Of course Iran is
denying that. But is there any talk of going directly after Iran to try
to slow down or stop the attacks. There were questions yesterday about this about
a strike inside Iran. The White House wouldn't confirm or deny that a response
like that is under consideration. John Kirby said that the US is not looking
for war with Iran. That's by not seeking conflict with Iran. But a
US official tells us that the President has deep misgivings about a strike inside Iran,
fearing a wider war. Okay, Karen Travers, thank you so much
for the information. Have a wonderful day. Let's get back now to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The LAPD
and La County Sheriff's Department have received a grant to help keep track of violent
people ordered to give up their guns. Grant will fund an online portal accessible
by multiple agencies, including the court system, to notify officials when a firearms
relinquishment order has been violated. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says the portal will
only target people with domestic violence restraining order. This grant will allow our team
to expand its efforts to confiscate firearms from people prohibited by our courts from possessing
firearms and ammunition. LAPD Chief Michael Moore says those who do not give up
their guns as ordered could face felony charges. Chris Sadler Kaffi News News brought
to you by one eight hundred got junk. California lawmakers are taking steps to
protect kids online. State Senator Nancy Skinner has introduced a bill that would ban
social media from showing miners the more addictive algorithmic feed without getting consent from parents
or guardians first. Also prohibits social media platform where from sending notifications to kids
while they should be sleeping and or during the day while they're at school.
Social media platforms would have to set a default time limit of an hour a
day for miners. Another bill would prohibit businesses from collecting, using sharing,
or selling personal data of anyone under the age of eighteen without informed consent.
A House committees expected to vote for two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Alejandro
Mayorchis. Republicans accuse him of failing to secure the border. New York Democratic
Congressman Dan Goldman says Mayorcis needs Congress to pass stronger laws to enforce border safety.
This is a rushed sham impeachment that is purely being done for political purposes.
Texas Republican Congressman Mike McCall, who's chairing today's hearing, says nobody deserves
impeachment more than mayorchists. The FBI has found schools are the third highest place
for hate crimes in the US. The report published yesterday says preschools, elementary,
middle and high schools saw the highest amount of hate crimes from twenty eighteen
to twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty two, there were more than thirteen
hundred reported hate crimes at schools and on college campuses. Hate crimes at school
rated behind hate crimes at home and on the road. Members of the US
Olympic figure skating team will be getting gold medals since Russian skater Camilla Valievo was
disqualified for doping. She's also been banned for four years for doping at the
twenty twenty two Winter Games in Beijing. She was fifteen at the time,
and man, her performance was so spectacular, So sad to see this.
SmartLess is headed to SiriusXM. My name is Jason Bateman, my name is
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excited for Super Bowl? Maybe want to go to the big Game, Well
it's going to cost you. So the Super Bowl prices are the most expensive
in history for Super Bowl fifty eight. They're averaging this is the average price
twelve thousand, eighty two dollars, And that's for the tickets plus all the
fees and that kind of stuff. And there are people who are tracking which
has the quote cheapest seats available and the least expensive, which is still crazy
stupid expensive is on the tick pic. They have tickets going for four hundred
and fourteen dollars that includ fees. And this is of course as of yesterday
afternoon, so those prices could have changed. But the interesting thing to me
too, is not only the crazy high price of these tickets but the fees.
So like on seat geek, you can get a ticket for the bargain
price of seven seven hundred and eight dollars, but with the fees it's over
ten thousand dollars. Three thousand dollars in fees. Interesting, Ticketmaster has them
for just under ninety eight hundred dollars with fees. And these aren't even the
good seats. The good seats will cost you a lot more. These are
for like end zone seats and the ones over in the corner. And the
people who are watching this are saying the demand is so high not only because
my nine ers are in it, but also because of the location, because
it's in Las Vegas and people love Las Vegas. Me included most expensive Super
Bowl on record. And for people wanting to go to the game, an
analyst says, if you are comfortable with current prices, than just buy the
ticket because unlike in other years where tickets were expected to drop shortly before the
game, they're not necessarily expected to do that this year, So good luck
if you want to go. I think I'll just be watching it on TV.
When we come back, we'll be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan on
how a lot of Americans are literally betting on the economy. In twenty twenty
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newsroom. A statewide computer outage affecting the Department of Motor Vehicles does not appear
to be fixed yet. The DMV said yesterday was experience network interruptions. What
that means is customers can't get their driver licenses or real ID cards processed.
Other services are still available online. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US
will respond decisively to any aggression against US troops in the Middle East. Comments
following the attacks by Iranian backed militants in Jordan that killed three US service members
and injured dozens. Blinken said the US response against Iran could be multi leveled
and sustained over time. Team USA is going to be getting some gold medals.
The US figure skating team finished second at the Winter Olympics in Beijing,
but the International Limic Committee has stripped Russian skater Camilla Villa Villieva of her gold
for doping. That puts Team USA in first place, and the IOC says,
the team's going to get those gold medals. We're just minutes away from
handle. On the news this morning, Elon Musk says the first neurolink implant
has been put into a human brain, which allow paralyzed and severely impaired people
to move just by thinking right now. Right now, I'm thinking that it's
time to say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, Americans are literally
betting that the economy is plugging along, betting billions that the economy is going
to be better this year than it was last year and may be better next
year as well. Because things are reflected in some of these numbers coming from
the American Gaming Association about casino gambling. People are spending more and individually spending
or placing bigger bets at casinos around the country. Also have, of course,
the increase in online betting that's happening in some parts of the country.
But yeah, if you look at a state by state breakdown, it's not
an across the board kind of thing. Right the November of twenty twenty three,
the commercial gaming revenue, so California isn't factored in here because those are
Indian casinos there, But if you look at some of the others in the
neighboring states, you'll see a pretty dramatic increase in casino gambling. For example,
in Main forty one percent increase, Massa Chusett saw fifty six percent increase.
Nebraska is gaming and you know, it's just kind of catching hold there,
but it rows one hundred percent from one November to the next. And
that's just whoever's watching these numbers are saying that when people are more willing to
sort of throw away their money, it's because they had because the economy's plugging
along. Well, yeah, I mean that's one there. The other theory,
of course, is that if you're feeling insecure about your finances, your
funds. You know, maybe you go out and try to gamble to make
up some of the losses, but at the same time, you have to
have time off of work to do something like that, right, or maybe
you're unemployed in taking what little you have your your unemployment check to the gaming
establishments. I think the jury is still out on exactly what this all means,
whether it's a good thing or suggests that the economy is strong, or
whether it suggests that things are kind of in trouble, that people are feeling
insecure about their funds. If you look at a new survey from News Nation
Decision detskhe Q, about ninety percent of voters say they are very concerned or
someone concerned about inflation for the rest of twenty twenty four. So it may
point in the opposite direction from what some economists are saying. So it may
actually be that people are super desperate and just grasping at straws to try to
make hans meet. That's not great. Well, that are going on collecting
cans or doing something. You know, it's not a sure thing by any
stretch. Collecting cans is, but gambling isn't. So you know, I
don't know what it says about the American psyche. Yeah, so, and
you mentioned that more states are allowing commercial gambling. Does who benefits from that?
I mean, like three hundred and twenty nine billion dollars in economic activity?
Does that translate to a bunch of extra tax revenue or who's who's making
the money on this? Well? Yeah, indipodial owners. Yeah, I
think a lot of it. And it depends upon which legislature you're talking about
and how those funds are allocated. I know here in Texas when the lotter,
we don't have casino gambling here, might never have it in Texas.
But when the lottery first was coming about, the big concern, the promise
at least was that funds would go toward education. Well, during the next
legislative session, the budget was way down. They needed money for the general
fund, and so it was diverted from education into the general fund. So
I guess it benefits somebody, whether it's education or some other program or what.
But yeah, that's again sort of a state by state kind of thing,
depending upon where you live where that casino money goes. But I mean,
at least to hear the American gaming Association and consider it the source.
Of course that it's a big revenue generator for states, it's a big employer.
We know that thousands of people work in the industry, But what does
it say about the overall economy. It's hard to say. Well, all
I know, Jim, is all this talk about gambling makes me really want
to go to Las Vegas. I haven't been there for a while. I've
got a little money to burn. Yeah, not much, but you know,
yeah, my brother blows a lot of money at the Indioe casino.
He lives in San Francisco. Oh yeah, yeah, he drops a bunch
of change there every weekend. You know what. It's interesting that I love
to gamble on occasion, but I don't really like to do it at the
Indian gaming casinos. I like to go to Vegas, like. I don't
like that it's available close to me, that I have to go somewhere far.
Yeah. Right, maybe that's a good philosophy, a good way to
look at it. We'll see, all right, gambling, but I hate
losing, I know, right, Jim Ryan, thanks so much for your
time this morning. I appreciate it. All right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
woman in downtown la is offering a reward for whomever can help return her stolen
French bulldog, Onyx. Ali Zacharias tells the John Cobalt Show that someone grabbed
her dog Whole Foods on January eighteenth, so she went after the thief by
jumping onto their car. She says she held onto the wipers as the car
sped off. It was about two long blocks, which felt like ten miles,
and then she fell off, shot up, and I was whimpering,
and I felt defeated, and I felt so confused, and I felt so
sad my dog was gone. Police are looking for a white Kia Forte with
a missing hubcap. Onyx is black with a spotted coat and two different colored
eyes. The mother of an Almonte police officer killed in an ambush says a
nine to one to one dispatcher failed to warn her son he was approaching a
man with a gun. Oga Garcia says her son, Officer Joseph Santana,
would still be alive if the dispatcher had done her job. I'm very upset,
especially that the Chief Fisher comes out and says that he supports the dispatcher's
actions like that's like a disgrace to US officers. Santana and Michael Parades were
killed in twenty twenty two responding to a stabbing. Elmonte. PDE says it
has reviewed body cam footage and call logs and has found no wrongdoing. Well,
this feels wrong. Amazon Prime has started to air commercials on its streaming
service. Users who did not agree to pay an extra two ninety nine a
month for the ad free option started to see the limited ads on Monday.
The company said in September. The extra charge will allow them to continue investing
in compelling content. I went to turn on my Amazon Prime last night,
got the little pop up message and I said, not now, But I
didn't see any ads yet. I would imagine they'll be popping up any old
time. Hey, very excited. Jackie has laid another egg. Of course,
she's one of Big Bear's famous bald eagles. The couple has its second
egg of the winter. Jackie laid that second egg on Sunday afternoon. The
first one was dropped on Thursday. Now. For the past several years,
Jackie and her partner Shadow have been on a twenty four to seven live stream
run by friends of Big Bear Valley. You can watch it on YouTube.
It's being watched by tens of thousands of people, including me. None of
Jackie's eggs hatched last year, so we're hoping for a better result this year,
and we'll be watching. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me,
Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am
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