You're listening to Wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Lee on demand from KA five
a m. Six forty. Good morning everyone, Monday, June fifth.
Stocks are flat. I know we're not actively trading in a pre market trading.
Stocks are flat. Everything seems seems kind of flat. We had a
nice Saturday around the south Land. I think saw some sun for the first
time in a while in the morning, and then Sunday Marine Layer was back.
That happens today is June the fifth. By the way, nineteen sixty
eight, Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel here
in Los Angeles. That hotel no longer exists. Also today, I was
looking up hound Dog. Elvis Presley launched hound Dog today on the Milton Burrows
Show, and I don't know why that struck me, as like I hadn't
thought about Milton Burrow in a long time. I don't think anybody has,
except for my fourteen year old daughter who's fascinated with him for some reason.
So I can't just describe. We're gonna check everything we have. I was
just looking through the stack for a handle on the news at six o'clock,
and we have a full stack of news to get into, so let's start
with some headlines and then we'll get into some of our wake up call interviews.
Labor disruptions continue today and are effectively shutting down the ports of LA and
Long Beach. Now combine, those two ports handle about forty percent of the
maritime loads in and out for the United States. Oakland is also being disrupted
right now, as well as a couple of other smaller ports. LA unified
schools are extending the school year and restoring a three week winter break. Been
reporting that over the weekend and just in time for the summer travel and driving
season. Crude oil prices are soaring this morning because Saudi Arabia says it will
cut production of an extra one million barrels per day starting in July. That's
going to be the lowest production daily level in several years. Today is the
day when the federal government would have defaulted on its debts and not pay the
bills. ABC's Karen Travers will join us in just a few minutes lie from
Capitol Hill to discuss winners and loos from the Fiscal Responsibility Act. Let's start
with some of the stories coming out of the KFY twenty four hour newsroom and
of course, as always, we lead local. As the WGA enters its
thirty fifth day of striking, the Director's Guild of America has reached a tentative
deal with Hollywood Studios. The three year agreement was made Saturday between the DGA,
Hollywood Studios, and major streaming companies. The directors say they wanted global
streaming residual payments based on subscribers watching content. They also wanted wage increases and
an agreement on artificial intelligence usage. Contract negotiations between the WGA and the studios
start again on Wednesday. Some residents and actins say they're against the proposed construction
of a lithium storage facility near their town. They say the battery farm would
be the largest in the world, imposes a danger to the residents of acting
in Agua Dulci. They'll be all located on the east side of our town,
near the Vincent See substation. Ruthie Brock heads up a task force aimed
at stopping the project. She led her alley of about two hundred on Saturday.
She says the batteries would provide backup power to the grind and we'll receive
none of that power, yet we're being asked to shoulder all the burden.
Rock says. The battery farms have been known to spark fires and release toxic
chemicals in the air and in the water table. Steve Gregory, King of
Fins, rescuers say they have not found any survivors from an unresponsive plane that
flew over the country's capital and crashed. US officials say a military fighter jet
scrambled to respond to the small plane and caused a loud sonic boom yesterday heard
across the DC metro area. It's unknown why the plane crashed or how many
people were inside. The FAA says the plane took off from Tennessee and was
headed for Long Island. Researchers that you see San Diego say they've uncovered a
groundbreaking process that accounts for up to twelve percent of the oxygen on Earth.
Here's the science. He part you see San Diego researchers combined cutting edge microscopy
techniques and genetic tools to uncover how a proton pump enzyme promotes photosynthesis and several
species of phytoplankton. Huh. Here's the cool part. Take ten deep breath.
Researchers say one of those breasts was made possible by tiny cells in the
ocean carrying out minute chemical reactions for millions of years, shaping the trajectory of
life on Earth. This could improve biotechnical approaches to photosynthesis, carbon sequestration,
and biodiesel production. Corbin Carson kf I News on the line with this ABC's
White House correspondent Karen traversed. Okay, first the House did it, then
the Senate did it, and then President Biden got hands on the Fiscal Responsibility
Act. The country's going to pay its bills after all. Good morning,
Karen, Yeah, good morning. Today would have been the x state June
fifth, where the Treasury Department said they would not have been able to pay
their bills unless the Congress and the presidents and to law legislation to raise the
debt limit. That did happen. The President signed it over the weekend,
no great fanfare, didn't bring in reporters to do it, but they did
release a video about it, So that's it. The debt limit now is
suspended through January first, twenty twenty five, which means we will not be
talking about this during the presidential election year, which is a good thing.
When the President gave remarks Friday night and talked about the bipartisan nature of this
and also said, you know, not everybody got everything they wanted in Washington,
but the American people got what they needed. He said, we averted
an economic crisis and an economic collapse. Let's talk about the politics about this
for a second, because you said right there that they released a video.
This should have been a bit of a victory lap. According to some media
reports, it is not having a reporter scrum, something this White House seems
to be using as a policy. I think for this, well, first
of all, the President delivered remarks Friday night in the Oval Office, so
significant to do it like that, and that was his first Oval office addressed,
and I think they wanted to show the magnitude of this legislation and averting
this type of crisis. But in terms of a victory lap, I think
it was notable last week that the White House was going to great lane to
not take a victory lap. We were all trying to get them to weigh
in on that. I asked the Budget Director last week if the President felt
he came out ahead and negotiations and she said, you don't know. The
American people won in the negotiations, and when you start talking about Republicans and
Democrats winning, then you've already lost. Now that was before the vote,
and I think there was certainly a very careful effort to not disrupt any fragile
vote counting. If the President was seemed to be spiking a football ahead of
the vote, you might end up having more Republicans, and maybe there some
Democrats say forget it, we're out, because everybody the tone would have changed.
But even afterwards that didn't change. From the President. There was no
I won this. I got McCarthy. In fact, he went to IoT
very notable length to talk about the relationship that he and McCarthy had, that
his team had with McCarthy's team. The thing we don't hear a lot in
Washington talking about how they got along, how straightforward, honest, and respectful
both sides were. The President said, both sides operated in good faith and
kept their word. It seems like a temporary reprieve when it comes to partisan
politics. Any other what are you watching for this summer? Any political potholes
that we might want to keep an eye on as we go into the summer
months. Yeah, I think the next big thing, big big thing is
the government funding bills. Now, Congress has to do that by September thirtieth.
We will be talking about it in September because most likely they will not
do it by September thirty if they never do it anymore. September thirtieth is
like these vague deadlines these days. That's the fiscal year. But they'll punt
it short term thing and get it till December, and then we'll be talking
about it again in December and whether or not they can avoid a government shutdown.
I mean, I'm predicting all of this, but I feel like this
is how we will likely play out. And this will be the next big
test then of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker and keeping his Republican caucus together. It
will be a test of this bipartisan feeling that we had after last week and
the President's relationship with McCarthy, because that's the next really significant thing that Congress
would have to do. A lot of things the White House would like them
to do, and Congress will do, but that's the big one. Right
on maybecs, White House Correspondent Karen travers. Always a pleasure to speak with
you. Hope we can do it again soon. Have a great day.
Thanks, Thanks, Thanks Karen. Let's get back to some of those stories
coming out of the KFI at twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom and Attorney
General Banta are investigating a private jet that landed in Sacramento with sixteen migrants on
board. Officials say the migrants were deceived into getting on the plane's Saturday after
crossing the border into Texas. Bonta says he thinks the plane came from Florida.
We think that because there's documents that were given to the migrants to sign
with the name of the state of Florida on it. It's there their voluntary
transportation program. Banta says it's the same program used when migrants came to Martha's
Vineyard in September twenty twenty two. Banta says the migrants are receiving legal aid
services. Another drugs and weapons bust in San Bernardino. A San Bernardino Police
Department traffic stop led to a search of a car that allegedly turned up two
pounds of meth and some ammunition. SPD's Marijuana Enforcement team also searched home connected
to the traffic stop that resulted in the seizure of more than a kilo of
coke, eleven pounds of marijuana, and multiple weapons. A team for Burbank
is attempting to become the youngest player to qualify for the US Open at Hillcrest
Country Club. Thirteen year old Jadensung has earned one of the last two spots
in the thirty six whole qualifier by shooting an even par seventy two at a
qualifier last month in Brentwood. The seventh grader at Thomas Starr King Middle School
could break the record set by a fourteen year old who broke the record in
twenty twelve. The Hillcrest final qualifier is one of ten hell today in the
US and Canada of the US Open begins June fifteenth. Many of California's beaches
could disappear because of climate change. A new report from the US Geological Survey
says between twenty five and seventy percent of the state's beaches could be eroded by
the year twenty one hundred. The report also says up to two thirds of
California's coastline could be lost by twenty one hundred as well. Consumers in the
US could see prices hikes again the summer in stores, online, and at
the pump. ABC's Andrew Dinburt says Saudi Arabian announced it's significantly cutting the amount
of crude oil it contributes to the global economy each day. Meanwhile, a
labor dispute could drive up prices for other goods. Some terminals at the ports
of Long Beach and Los Angeles were effectively shut down after contract talks seemed to
have broken down between the ports and the union representing dock workers. Dinburt says
the oil regulations going to effect next month, and he says shipments from clothes
to furniture and cars could be impacted by the port disruption, So that sticky
inflation we've seen for the last eighteen months or so seems to be sticking around
through the summer. Heavy rains, flooding and landslides in Haiti have killed at
least fifteen people, while officials search for eight others. Officials say nearly thirteen
thousand, four hundred people were forced to leave as water cover hundreds of homes
around the country. Haiti's Civil Protection Agency says more than seven thousand families reported
damage over the weekend. Officials are assessing the damage to homes and crops.
A Florida businessman says his family was on the crashed plane that caused chaos in
Washington, DC. The plane sparked panic yesterday after it violated restricted airspace and
forced the military to scramble f sixteens at supersonic speeds, and that caused a
sonic boom that led to phone calls to police and news desks and lots of
coverage this morning as well. Senator Joe Mansion is not saying if he is
planning on a third party presidential run. Speaking on Fox News yesterday, the
West Virginia Democrat did say that people want to be governed from the middle rather
than from the far left or the far right. And your friendly neighborhood Spider
Man is back on top of the box office. Spider Man Across the Spider
Verse earned one hundred and twenty and a half million dollars in its first weekend
in theaters across the US and Canada. The latest installment in the Spidy franchise
scored the second biggest opening since the Super Mario Brothers movie and coming up in
a little bit, we're going to talk about what's happening with a canine flu.
But first right now on the line. In a few hours, Apple
is going to begin its annual Developers Conference, and the rumors have Apple finally
launching its ARVR headset. ABC's Mike dubuskies online with us to discuss Apple and
what we can expected. Morning sir, Good morning. Yeah, So this
is WWDC. It's their Worldwide Developer Conference where they bring in developers from around
the tech space to show off their latest wares. And you know we are
going to get a look at some softwares. iOS seventeen is expected to be
announced today, which is going to underpin the next iPhone. We're going to
get a sort of bigger MacBook Air, we're thinking, but as you alluded
to there, Jason, yes, we're gonna get their long awaited VR headset.
We're pretty sure today is the day. They originally thought they were going
to launch this thing in twenty twenty, but obviously it has been pushed back
and back many times. But today it seems like it's going to be the
day, and that's going to be a big deal for Apple. It's a
new product category for them. We're expecting to be a big deal for the
VR space as well. Yeah, no doubt, and we can unpack some
of this, but it seems like as a new product line when one of
your fans is the CEO, like Tim Cook, seems to be of this
because he sees it as long term survival of the company. Do you think
this is getting significant coverage or I mean hype? I guess are going to
go into another hype cycle around this, I you know, that is the
question. Right, Like, if you take a look at the VR space
in twenty twenty three, it's a far cry from what it was even two
years ago. Right. Meta kind of kicked off this most recent hype cycle
in twenty twenty one. They've renamed themselves from Facebook. They said everyone's going
to exist in this Metaverse VR sort of world. Microsoft also invested in Active
Vision Blizzard, you know, for almost seventy billion dollars. There was all
this money flying around, but in the years since it has kind of stagnated.
Meta has not sold as many of its VR headsets as it thought it
was going too. Microsoft and Disney, the parent company of ABC News,
have walked back their Metaverse plans. Another interesting status that last year, in
the first five months of twenty twenty two, metaverse startups raised just under three
billion dollars in VC funding. This year over that same period as about six
hundred and sixty four billion, So not as much hype around VR in the
metaverse as it once was. Right, So, there's a way to look
at this as like Apple showing up really late to the party here. But
also, when Apple jumps into a segment, they kind of legitimize it in
some ways, right Apple. You know, smart watches and such existed before
the Apple Watch, but people started thinking about them in different ways after Apple
got into that market. Right. That became a fashion statement in some ways.
So, you know, there's a couple different ways to think about this.
I think it's it's going to be a high stakes moment for Apple at
the very least. Okay, that that makes sense, And you're right.
Apple's corporate culture seems to be hurry up and wait. But you're right,
it legitimizes things when it launches a product within a space. Now, one
of the ways to look at this too is we just reported last week.
I think you and I may have discussed it on the air if not on
email. One point one trillion dollars through the app store last year for Apple,
So when they create an ecosystem, it's kind of a big deal.
But consumer adoption of this what we anticipate to be a headset from Apple.
The price point there's three thousand bucks. Yeah, yeah, that's what we're
expecting. That's a lot of money. Yeah, there's no way around that.
I mean, this is basically so today's launch is basically for developers to
get them hyped up so they'll start building stuff, right, And that is
a big part of this, Right, they're launching this at their developer conference.
It's not an iPhone event, it's not a VR event. This is
the thing where developers sit there and think, here's how my app is going
to work with this platform. Right, and Apple's never been in the VR
space before. We don't know what their take on VR is going to look
like. Are you going to put this thing on and is it going to
be a grid of apps. We just don't know until I believe ten am
your time today what their expectation of that is going to be. But I
think it's going to be sort of bought and sold on what those apps look
like specifically the third party apps, right, you know, does an email
client just exist as sort of a floating box in front of you in VR?
That seems like sort of a waste of this three thousand and taller piece
of technology. Maybe it's a different experience. I think we're just gonna have
to wait and see. And the big question is going to be how quickly
developers are able to get on board and whether they even want to, whether
they see a future in this space. So, yeah, that's going to
be a big part of it. You have to think that with Apple's install
base that they have at least enough audience to get developers thinking about this.
How does Meta position itself with its headset and what can differentiate? How can
Apple differentiate? Right? So Meta has two headsets right now, right last
week and potentially an attempt to get ahead of this announcement from Apple. This
week, they announced a new Quest headset, the Quest three, which is
their entry level device. It's five hundred dollars. They're keeping the Quest two
around at a lower price point. So they have sort of like lower end
devices that work well that have passed through and you know, some of the
features that people in the VR space really appreciate and like, and they've really
focused these devices. People seem to like them. They also have the Quest
Pro, which is launched at fifteen hundred dollars. It was intended to be
this sort of future of work device, but they haven't sold nearly as many
as they thought they were going to, and recently knocked the price down to
a thousand dollars. I think three thousand dollars is sort of an open question.
There are headsets that exist in the sort of high range. Valve is
one of them that offers like a super high premium headset, but they're very
specific devices, and I think the positioning of this is ultimately going to,
you know, be something that Apple reveals today hopefully, you know, is
this going to be an enterprise device? Is this going to be something that
people use for work and video calls, or is this going to be a
gaming thing? Is this going to be something that they're pitching as like a
replacement for a Mac or an iPhone. We just don't know yet, but
yeah, it's an open question, one that I'm really curious about. Yeah,
me too, And I know, well you and I are contributing to
the hype cycle right now talked about this, but do you well, go
ahead, Well, I'm just gonna say, you know, we are contributing
to it. But this hype cycle has been going on for so long.
They started development of this thing in twenty fifteen, right, that's the rumors
about this for a long time, and obviously the pandemic delayed it somewhat.
But when you compare that to the iPhone, when Steve Jobs got up and
launched that piece of technology, I think it's safe to say changed the world
in a lot of ways. He said he had been looking forward to that
day for two and a half years. The iPhone took two and a half
years to develop. This took eight. Like that. That's an interesting thing
to put in context, you know, and you know leadership changes in the
pandemic play into that, but you know, this is something that they've been
focused on for a while. There's also been dissent within Apple about the success
of this device. People walking away from projects or being fired from certain teams
because they didn't believe in the success of this. That's something we haven't heard
about an applet product, and we haven't heard leak out of Apple in a
very long time. Yeah, that's true. If ever really yeah, so
if I mean, especially if you go back to Steve's days, I haven't
covered a WWDC in a while. Are we going to get anything else today
other than the ARBR headset that we want to keep an eye on. Yes,
And I think we are probably going to get the VR headset at the
end of this presentation, because there's some questions about whether it's going to launch
soon or whether this is just going to be like a preview for later launch
in the fall. Maybe, But we are going to get other stuff today.
iOS seventeen early On, which is the software that's going to underpin the
next generation iPhone. A couple interesting little tools here. A Personal Voice tool
is expected, where you can create a synthetic version of your voice with just
fifteen minutes of talking to it, which is kind of interesting. Also,
if you turn your phone sideways when it's locked, it can become sort of
a smart home device. So little things like that that sort of ease of
use updates to the way you use your iPhone, which is going to matter
to a lot of the people who use iPhones, which is a lot of
people. And we're also probably going to get a larger version of the MacBook
Air, a fifteen inch version of the MacBook Air. The thirteen inch version
already exists. It's gonna, you know, pretty much be what we expect
a MacBook Air to be in twenty twenty three, which means M two processor,
really nice screen, that new sort of more squared off design that they've
been employing. And Apple has actually been working on a bunch of reef freshed
max as well, although we don't expect to see these today, um,
but we you know, down the line, we are probably going to get
a refreshed iMac with a newer processor, and then refreshed thirteen inch MacBook Pro,
which has kind of been sort of the odd duck of the mack line.
But um, they are working on their computers as well. We talk
a lot about the VR headset, but I think the Mac and sort of
the updates to their iOS is kind of going to be the thing that people
see most of and interact with most of them. I'm with you on that
one. I think the fifteen inch Air is a significant upgrade, not just
not just with the screen size but also with the processors that that the M
two is a really, really well reviewed chip, as was the M one.
I mean it's Apple's internally developed processor. They control the whole widget.
Now. Um, it's it's just been like kind of the gold standard in
terms of reviews when we were talking about sort of entry level laptops. But
you know, still a very expensive device at that I know, but I'm
going to get in line for that one. I'm not going to get in
line for the headset, not at three not a three grand man. I
mean, the book is going to be what about twelve hundred if you trick
it out right. I think the base uh like thirteen inch starts at a
thousand dollars. It's the cheapest way into an Apple computer, I believe,
outside of the yeah, outside of the Mac Minium. But yeah, so
we're expecting maybe you know, tack on a couple hundred dollars. Twelve hundred
dollars I think is safe to assume. But you get a really nice processor.
It runs you know, your phone's apps, it runs iPad apps,
it's really fast. Um, just just a really nice user experience. Not
gonna, you know, set the world on fire. I don't think that's
like it's going to be a completely unexpected device or something that you know,
does something that we're not used to it doing. But it's going to just
work really well and work with your other suite of Apple problem because I hope
you buy because because that one that lands you between an iPad pro and between
a MacBook Pro. It's right right middle, and I think that that could
be your workhorse kind of laptop if you're into that, right, and it
does put the sort of thirteen inch MacBook Pro that exists now that has the
M two in a weird slot, right, it's got the older sort of
design mine, it's got the you know, not as nice screen, like
what is that thing for? Right? That's kind of like with the existence
of these bigger, sort of like targeted it's like lower end computers. It's
like, I don't know why they're keeping that that computer around, but you
know, we'll see. I don't know about what their plans are for the
thirteen ch MacBook pros. The larger MacBook Pros are very nice computers, more
computing power than I need. But you know the people who use them are
really excited about that. Oh yeah, I love mine. I have to
admit I do love mine. So yeah, anyway, Mike it's always a
pleasure to nerd out with you. Thank you so much for your time this
morning. It's always really it's a good time, of course. Yeah,
I appreciate it. Take care of it. Enjoy ww DC. That's ABC's
Mike Tobuski. Ukraine's ambassador to the US is not giving an exact timetable,
but she does say a counter offensive against Russia will happen soon. The ambassador
told CBS's Face a Nation yesterday that Ukrainian President Zelenski will not make an official
announcement when it occurs. The Miami Heat put together a strong fourth quarter on
the way to a one eleven to one oh eight victory over the Nuggets at
Ball Arena in Denver. Miami outscored Denver thirty six to twenty five in the
last quarter to even the NBA foundals at one game apiece. And it turns
out that bam Adebaio remembered that he is bam Audebaio. The Barbie movie is
causing a pink emergency. Director Gretti Girwerg says to create that creating Barbie Land
caused an international shortage of the signature pink. So out of luck if you
were looking for that one for the summertime. At five fifty, we're gonna
close our wake up call with ABC's Jim Ryan. There's a dog flu breakout.
We're gonna unpack that, and because Jennifer would probably do that story for
sure. Right now, we have ABC political Analysteve Roberts on the line.
Former President Trump has some competition for the GOP presidential nomination. We're gonna unpack
that right now. Or does he have that? Would you say that he's
in a scrum so far with the GOP presidential Well, look, you've got
two people jumping into the race this week, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
former Vice President Mike Pence. They are in the race because they're making a
bet. They're making a bet that the nomination is worth something, that Donald
Trump is not invulnerable and Joe Biden is not invulnerable, and they're right on
both counts. Right now, it looks like Trump, of course, is
leading the polls strongly. But they're making a bet here, which is that
Trump's legal problems are only going to get worse, that he's going to be
indicted from this handling of classified documents. He could be indicted in Georgia for
trying to manipulate the electoral count there in twenty twenty. So they're thinking that,
you know, if we've got to get in now, that if Trump
is wounded, we got to be ready to step into that breach. And
that's the gamble they're both making this week. I know, I have to
let you go. Prevailing thinking is that Trump has control of the Republican base,
which candidate can peel off some base as it exists right now. Well,
it's up in the air. You know. Right now you've got to
say Trump's a favorite, but if he's weaker, you've got Governor de Santis
of Florida out there saying, look, it's time for new generation of leadership.
Ronda Santras is thirty two years younger than Trump. Everybody focuses on Biden's
age, but people don't focus on Trump's age. He's only four years younger
than Biden. And we know throughout our history that argument of a new generation,
whether it was Jack Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, it's a
very powerful idea. And Ronda Santis has got that argument, and so he's
got to be the favorite. If Trump stumbles but these these other Republicans are
in there because they think Trump can't win, and because they think Biden is
vulnerable. And after Biden fell off the stage at the Air Force Academy last
week and only reinforce the feelings in the Republican ranks that Biden is beatable.
But Trump might not necessarily be the guy to do that. That's why they're
looking at some other options. I appreciate your takes. Do you thank you
for your time? That maybec's political analy Steve Robberts. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI at twenty four hour newsroom.
A man who jumped off a cliff and into a river in Mount Baldy has
been killed. The La County Sheriff's Department says the thirty thirty three year old
was hiking with a friend when he jumped about fifteen feet deep off Barrett Started
road. The man's friend found him downstream and called nine to one one yesterday.
The friend and forced officials performed CPR until firefighters arrived, but he did
not survive. LA ranks at the top of the list for highest number of
dog attacks against US postal workers over fifty three hundred employees were attacked by dogs
while delivering mail last year. The Postal Services Natashi Gargan says, even with
the best intentions, some dog owners don't properly secure their pets. Sometimes they
get aggressive and they make their way out the front door, they make their
way out the gate, and that has caused some serious injuries to many of
our terrier Scurgan says customers can help mail workers by keeping dogs inside the house
or behind defence and away from wines during delivery times. Chris Adler Ka Fine
News. President Biden has signed the debt ceiling Agreement into law, averting a
default by the Treasury Department's deadline of today. ABC's Elizabeth Schultz says the newly
agreed upon rules go into effect, including student loan payments. This three year
pause that's been in place during the pandemic on federal student loan payments will now
formally and at the end of August. Schultz says as many as forty five
million borrowers are going to have to start paying back those loans this summer.
The Federal student aid website says interest will also start again, but the rate
will stay the same. Yellow Yellowstone National Park rangers are warning visitors again to
stay away from the wildlife. The tourist was find more than a thousand dollars
last week and pleaded guilty to intentionally disturbing a newborn bison calf who had to
be euthanized last month. Animal expert Jeff Corran says wild animals are unpredictable,
so if people should just leave them alone. If you're getting in the way,
not only you get injured, could the animal get injured or in trouble,
but you're actually impeding or hurting their chances for survival. Artificials say visitors
actions have led to the endangerment of people and wildlife. The group representing shippers
say operations at some marine terminals at the ports of la and Long Beach have
been shut down following actions from the union representing doc workers. Ports were disrupted
on Friday. It's unclear ports will be disrupted today. Looks like that is
happening. The two parties have been negotiating an agreement which would cover more than
twenty two thousand workers at twenty nine West Coast ports. There are a previous
agreement expired in July of twenty twenty two. The union says it's committed to
bargaining a fair and equitable contract. We're going to wrap it up with ABC's
Jim Ryan. Today's topic is a flu that is threatening dogs around the country.
Good morning, Jim, Good morning. And there are a few states
that are more susceptible than others. There's a site actually called dog flu dot
com Jason, and it shows that since two thousand and seven, California,
Texas, Florida, New York. The big states are the ones that have
been dealing with this more than smaller states. This canine flu that originated with
horses, one strain of it did. The other one originated in birds.
So you have these two strains now that are infecting dogs. The center's that
is these control and prevention, the one for the human for human people beings
is watching this on the off chance that at some point in the future one
of these flues might mutate itself. We've seen that happen with COVID, that
it made mutate such that it could infect humans. So far that has not
happened, but it's certainly something to watch out for. In the meantime,
keep an eye in your dog for symptoms of canine flu. Yeah, and
what are those symptoms, Jim, I mean, I understand that there's an
appetite aspect to it, any others appetite also a lot of what you're going
to see in human flu, you know, watery eyes and a cough,
fatigue, those sorts of things that affect human beings when they have the flu.
Same thing with influenza in your dog. I have a family member who
happens to be a vet here in LA I asked to her about this last
night. She said, the last time they saw something like this was in
July of twenty twenty one. Do you have any indication if we're prepared for
if something like accelerates with the contraction of canine flu, I mean, do
we have enough you know, vaccinations? Well, yeah, I mean the
vets again are handling that sort of thing. But there are little outbreaks going
on around the country right now. The City Annimal Welfare Shelter in Oklahoma City
has had to close down for the second time since March because of this kind
of infection that's floating around with dogs. It's highly infectious. It's something that
if you have your dog in a kennel setting or in doggy daycare or even
at the dog park that your dog could come into contact with this. So
in the same way that isolating yourself from other people will help to prevent you
getting the flu, same with dogs. And so yeah, social distancing if
you will, to try to prevent the speed of this. But yeah,
there are almost all outbreaks going on somewhere in North Carolina, Oklahoma right now.
A couple of states have never had a problem with it at all.
North Dakota, Nebraska, they don't have an issue with this. That seems
interesting. You mentioned I'm going to circle back before I have to let you
go to the top. You mentioned a website right there. Can we revisit
that so people can look up their own data. Sure, dog flu dot
com. Okay, dog flu dot com and it'll show the outbreak map.
It has frequently asked questions and ways that you can help to protect your dog.
All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for your time this
morning. Take care. ABC Senior reporter, Jim Ryan. I did ask
my sister in law, who was a veterinarian here in LA. She used
to be a vent for a couple of horse tracks in the area as well,
and she says that the biggest problem we face now is a shortage of
vaccinations due to manufacturing supply chain issues at her particular hospital, which is in
Burbank. We have enough for puppies to start their series of two flu vaccinations
and to continue annual vaccinations for adult dogs who have obviously gotten the vacs,
but they are not able to give adult dogs a start on that vax because
of the low volume and inventory that they have, and she says hopefully the
producers will be able to get it together soon and get back out there.
Most boarding facilities and groomers are requiring those vaccinations these days, so checkout dog
flu dot com and you'll get some more information there as well. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Investigators have called the death of a man near a bus stop in downtown
LA suspicious. Officials say the man's body was found on the ground near the
Civic Center Grand Park metro station last night. They say a bus was seen
park next to the man, but he was never on the bus. They
are waiting for a corner report to determine if he suffered from some kind of
energy injury. Wallet hub has ranked the ten best places for young people to
start their careers, and it skipped over LA New York and DC wallet Hubs
twenty twenty three best and worst list compared availability of jobs, income, and
cost of living in one hundred and eighty two six across the US. It
says is the best place for young people to start their post graduate ready Atlanta.
It also named cities in Florida, South Carolina, Utah, Texas,
Pennsylvania, and Minnesota another workplace. When don't ask me to come into the
office more often or all quit. That's the view of more than half of
the sixteen hundred professional and retail investors surveyed by Bloomberg. They prefer a hybrid
arrangement, while only about twenty percent favor working from the office. Now,
that sets finance workers up for a battle of remote working with Wall Street types
who've been pushing for a return to the office. You probably saw JP Morgan
had ended arrangements for remote work, asking its managing directors in April to come
back in full time. Fans are saying see you down the road to the
star of one of the all time great car Chase movies, actor Barry Newman
became sort of a household name in the seventies when he started in the legal
drama Petric Shelley. He was nominated for an Emmy for it in nineteen seventy
five, but he was best known for Vanishing Point Occupation Driver, transporting a
Supercharge Dodge Challenger from Gender to San Francisco. The nineteen seventy one movie became
an existential and highly influential cult classic. Newman's wife told The Hollywood Reporter he
died of natural causes at a hospital in New York. He was ninety two.
Mark Ronner KFI News. Hundreds of workers at Dodger Stadium could go on
strike next month if a contract is not negotiated by the end of the month.
The union representing the workers say more than eighty people protested outside the ballpark
Saturday. The union says the workers are asking for a wage raise and added
healthcare benefits. Union officials say they've been negotiating with the Dodgers since November over
a contract that expired in January. The union represents around five hundred workers,
and the two groups are expected to talk again later this week. The US
Military has released a video of what it calls an unsafe maneuver in the Taiwan
Strait by China. Officials say one of China's navy ships cut sharply across the
path of a US destroyer Saturday, forcing the ship to slow down to avoid
a crash. The maneuver was happening while the US and Canada were conducting what
they call freedom of navigation transit. China claims the strait is part of its
exclusive zone, while the US says the waters are international. And reportedly,
those two ships, those two huge ships, came within one hundred and fifty
yards of each other. The next time you go to the drive through for
lunch, double check and make sure you didn't get an extra side of coke.
A worker for Sonic Drive In has been arrested by police in New Mexico.
His bag of cocaine allegedly ended up in the hot dog of a female
customer, and the woman noticed that the drugs were there when she took a
bite of her hot dog. Police say that security videos shows the fast food
worker frantically looking for something that he lost. The worker admitted to authorities that
the coke belonged to him and he bought it from someone in the parking lot
of the Sonic. The customer who discovered the drugs and her food, when
interviewed by local media, clearly indicated that the incident was an unhappy meal.
Andrew Caravella KFI News, Well, Spider Man Across the Spider Verse has made
one hundred and twenty point five million dollars this weekend to lead all films at
the North American box office. My name smiles Morally, I'm Brooken's one and
only Spider and things are going great. I'm going to be adding to that
total later today or tomorrow. Industry estimate say Sony's Spidy sequel scored the second
biggest opening this year, behind the Super Mario Brothers movie, which made one
hundred and forty six million in its first weekend. The first Spider Verse movie
opened in twenty eighteen to just thirty five and a half million dollars. It
went on to win an Oscar though for Best Animated Feature, which kind of
ups the game when it comes to you know what's going to happen when you
get the version two, Version three, couple more before we get to the
top of the hour and handle on the news. A driver on the ninety
one Freeway has been seen on video standing straight out of the driver's side window
as it drives down the road in Corona. The man who was standing up
with his arms stretched out was wearing a green shirt, dark pants, and
a red bandanna as he stood on the ledge of the open window yesterday.
Unclear if anyone was in the car with him or how he was able to
steer or keep the car moving. Southern California weather, Do not try this
at home. Southern California weather from KFI, mostly cloudy as we get moving
this morning, twenty percent chance of showers. Also this morning, high should
reach the upper sixties for inland and beach areas of LA and OC. Tonight,
mostly cloudy again and the chance of rain stays at twenty percent. Overnight
lows in the fifties. Tomorrow, the chance of rain dissipates and the high
should be a little bit warmer. Right now, Sewel Beach is at fifty
nine degrees, Anaheim Hills is at fifty five degrees, Torrents at fifty nine,
and Hollywood you are at sixty two degrees at five fifty eight. This
morning, we lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour news Room.
I'm Jason Middleton. This has been your wake up Call. You've been listening
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