You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app. I have to say I'm a little bit sad
today because of the sad state of our elections. We have the ability to
do something that a lot of people just don't they don't have. We get
to choose who our leaders are, we get to choose what the government gets
to do. And projections in La County are that the voter turnout is like
thirty percent, thirty percent, And it reminds me of right after the Iraq
War when they got to they had ousted Saddam Hussein and they got to vote
in elections in a real election for the first time for many of them,
the first time in their lifetimes. And when they voted, they stuck their
thumb print in purple ink, you know, to show that they had already
voted, so they couldn't vote more than one. And there were all these
pictures and videos of people standing crowds and hundreds and hundreds of people standing there
with their thumbs up with the purple showing because they were so excited that they
got the right to vote finally, And we just don't even do. It
makes me sad. Anyway, that was my rant for the day, and
now let's move on because we got a lot going on today. Here's what's
ahead on wake Up Call. It's not a sweep, but it was closed.
Former President Trump is projected to win all of the Super Tuesday states except
for Vermont. Nicki Haley took that one, and Nicki Haley will apparently suspend
her presidential campaign when she speaks this morning seven o'clock our time. She is
not expected to endorse Trump, at least not yet, and instead encourage him
to convince the people who have been voting for her why they should vote for
him. We'll see what she has to say at seven. Democrat Adam Schiff
and Republican Steve Garvey, you're going to go head to head for the US
Senate held for decades by Diane Feinstein. They're in a pretty much tie for
the primary. That knocks Katie Porter and Barbara Lee out of contention. The
race will be decided in the November general election, and of course six oh
five it's handled on the news. Handle's going to have a lot more to
say about the election and the results from yesterday's Super Tuesday. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
As I just mentioned, Nicki Haley is said to be dropping out of the
race for president. She won just one state on Super Tuesday, it was
Vermont, and had only one Washington, d C's Republican primary before yesterday.
ABC's Stephen Portnoy says Haley is expected to announce this morning she's suspending her campaign.
We're told that in her remarks she will not endorse Donald Trump, who
becomes the presumptive GOP nominee with Haley's exit from the race. Sources say today
Haley will urge Trump to earn the votes of her supporters. Exit polls show
Hailey's support among independents in the suburbs could be a challenge for Trump. Protesters
calling for a ceasefire and Gaza interrupted Representative Adam Schiff's victory speech in Hollywood.
Several protesters were escorted out of the venue by security last night, but Schiff
still said he supports the group's right to protest. We are so lucky,
so lucky to live in a democracy where we all have the rights to protest.
We are so lucky to live in that kind of democracy. Share we
want to make sure that we keep this kind of democracy. Schiff and Republican
Steve Garvey are the projected top two finishers from last night's vote for California's open
US Senate seat. They'll face off against each other for the seat in the
November election. More than sixty percent of voters in LA have said yes to
a city measure to put La on a so called road diet. Measure HLA
would require the installation of street modifications aimed at making roads safer for pedestrians and
bicyclists. Firefighter unions in LA have been very outspoken against the measures, saying
it's slow response times. Previous efforts to narrow roads or eliminate traffic lanes have
been criticized for causing a lot of traffic congestion. Looks like we're going to
get more of it. State leaders have demanded the FEDS pay one hundred million
dollars in damages caused by a fire in Testine that destroyed a Navy blimpanger.
State Senator Josh Newman says the fire started in November and put asbestos into the
air for twenty four days. The city's doing the work on behalf of the
Navy. The big fear is that the city will run out of money.
The Navy will not have conveyed their money yet, so the work will stop
on the project. That will compound the problems but also the cost over Ton
Newman says the fire has impacted more than fifteen hundred homes, twenty nine schools,
and fifteen thousand people. He says the one hundred million dollars in damages
is more than the city's entire fiscal budget for this year. From the Southern
California Toyota Dealers Traffic Center, let's go place. Say, let's go to
Nipoliokani and take a first look at your morning commute. Good morning. I
mean it's gonna be a bit busy for folks that are making the way up
through the Riverside area and Rubudou as well. On the westbound side of the
sixty coming out of the Riverside interchange with the sixteen ninety one and two fifteen
and Split sixty westbound going to be a heavy drive for you and should make
your way out over the Rubudou area getting into pretty much the Glenavon and horupa
stretch of the sixty as you make right toward Valley Way and should make you
a little bit further westbound toward Pyrite. Looks like a better drive as you
make your way westbound along the ninety one riverside to the Corona, stretches of
slowing for you already showing up. No big shaker from Tyler as you make
ready on the fifteen and the seventy one toward the two forty one toll road,
and then it loosens up for the most part. I should make way
for their westbound on the ninety one as you continue through the Santana Canyon,
Orblanda and Anaheim Hills, continuing toward the fifty five. Kind of to something
slowing down your drive Pound two fifteen. Your cell phone keyword is KFI traffic.
Got some issues for your drive? Are right around the five one thirty
four and the two. Looks like that's overnight coltrans work that's been wrapping up
from the overnight in early morning hours. A little slow going for you on
the eastbun side of the one thirty four and all so seeing a few the
lace for you around the two. Can't find this guy helps get to there
faster. I'm Nick Poli o'kiney. Thank you, Nick. Now it's time
to say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers at the White House. Karen,
So, President Biden is coming off his big Super Tuesday win. He's going
after shrink flation. Okay, so any he brought out the big guns to
help him with this one. I assume you're talking about one of our favorite
muppets. Okay, yes, the Cookie Monster. Yeah. I never thought
I would be recording a piece where I had to quote Cookie Monster, but
I did that yesterday. And I never thought we would be talking about Cookie
Monster at the White House press briefing, or have the President of the United
States also be quoting Cookie Monster. But here we are very strange times in
twenty twenty four. Cookie Monster. For those who might not know this story
from the other day, Cookie Monster is getting in on the economic news and
was talking the other day on x the platform formerly known as Twitter about how
his cookies are getting smaller and he's noticing this, but he's paying the same
price. As the President put it, So, shrink flation. This concept,
so called shrink flation, where you know, you look at your bag
of chips, and you're paying more for it, but the bag is now
half empty as opposed to being full. And the President has talked about this
often and is trying to target some of these big companies, the corporation snack
companies for raising prices and thinking that consumers aren't going to notice. And he
said, you know, well, you know who is noticing. Cookie Monster
is noticing. And the President got a kick out of this, saying he
was actually stunned that this was real, that the cookie Monster actually had tweeted
about this the other day. But this is a part of the administration's effort
to bring down cost for Americans. You know, they're trying to go after
junk fees, whether that's for hotel bookings, airline bookings, tickets for concerts
and things like that. They're not doing something necessarily on the price of your
potato chips or how you know, cookie Monster is getting cookies. But they're
trying to call out companies for what they're doing on this. But yesterday they
did take some action. They closed a loophole and issued a new rule for
credit card late fees, and it's going to bring down the typical credit card
late fee from about thirty two dollars to eight dollars a cap now at eight
dollars, and the White House says this is going to save collectively families ten
ten billion dollars a year in late fees and the average family is going to
save them about two hundred and twenty dollars for people who have typically have to
pay late fees. So it's not, you know, insubstantial for people and
something that they can have one less worry about. So here's my question.
I'm wondering if anybody asked about this yesterday. On the face it sounds great
you instead a thirty two and average of thirty two sometimes higher, it's eight
dollars, But then does it become less of a deterrent to make late payments
because it's only eight dollars and so the financial bite isn't as much, So
it's sort of like getting a tiny little snap on the wrist. Is yeah,
Like it's a great question, and it didn't come up yesterday at the
briefing. But the idea then, you know that the punishment, if you
will quote unquote, is you know less now, so why not? But
you know, I think the idea though, is that for people who are
carrying this that you know, forty one is a lot, thirty two is
a lot, and even eight is a lot. So that two hundred and
twenty dollars that they're saving, it's substantial for people if you know, you're
really working around the margins here. But that's it's not a bad point,
and it's not something that the administration addressed specifically yesterday, but I'm sure it's
something that people are considering. Yeah, and I'm wondering in the whole scheme
of junk fees, which there are a lot of them. Yeah, like
if if baggage fees are going to come under fire because I just heard the
Delta is increasing their baggage fees, why are they doing that? Are there
costs higher? Are they just trying to make money? That one seems more
like it's a less punitive one and more just fee. So it'd be interesting
to see what other things that they roll out. Yeah, Yeah, and
it's you know, it could be something that's being considered. It's not clear.
You know, they're certainly trying to do those things where you know,
companies can obviously charge certain things for products or for services, but you know
where they've been trying to really go after some of the companies, or like
the hidden cost where you're checking out and all of a sudden you get to
the end of the process and you're like, wait a minute, I thought
this was seventy five dollars and suddenly it jumps up to one hundred dollars and
you didn't know that throughout the whole process. And that's not necessarily a junk
fee, but it's a hidden fee. It's a hidden cost that you didn't
realize. They've been really pushing for greater transparency in payment processes, and I
think that's something that most people can certainly get behind. We all appreciate that
when you're booking a hotel or an airline ticket or concert tickets of course too.
All right, and if you all listen to the president, maybe you'll
listen to the cost. Somebody has to a right. Karen Drivers, thank
you so much for your information this. Thank you. All right, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. LA County Supervisor Catherine Barker has been re elected to a third and
final term. Supervisor Janis han Appiers also to be headed for a third term.
She's leading over former sheriff alex Vinaweva and the mayor of Rancho Palace Verdies
and Supervisor Holly Mitchell has easily won a second term. Of course, these
are all preliminary results. We're not going to have final callies until all the
mail in votes are counted, and that's going to be sometime next week.
Exit polls show Republican primary voters in California think the economy is the top issue
when choosing which presidential candidate to vote for. Coming in a close second is
immigration. Fifty five percent of the Republican voters in the NBC poll say the
economy is in poor condition, and seventy eight percent say they think Donald Trump
would handle the economy better than Nikki Hayley or any other presidential candidate. Voters
in California appear to be almost evenly split on a measure to update the state's
mental health system. Governor Newsom has campaigned heavily for Proposition one. He says
it's needed to address the state's homelessness crisis by boosting investments in housing and substance
use programs. Social providers say they're worried it would threaten programs that are keeping
people from becoming homeless in the first place. Prop one had just over fifty
percent of the vote this morning. It could take days to tallly the final
results. A bill being considered in the state Assembly would force detectives to take
a second look at unsolved murders. Written by local Democrat Mike Gibbson, the
bill directs a review of a murder case if requested by an official representative of
the victim. If during the review, new evidence or leads are discovered,
then investigators would legally have to reinvestigate the case. Only cases older than a
year from the official request would be eligible, and the original detective would be
prohibited from investigating it twice. The bill does allow agencies to be reimbursed by
the state for any costs associated with the investigation. Steve Gregory King of Fine
News, police are looking two or for whomever posted on social media suggesting guns
would be taken to Paul High School in Riverside. Police are trying to trace
the Instagram account that posted photos of guns after several fights broke out at the
school last week. Riverside PDS Ryan Railsback says the threats have not been proven
credible and says students have done this in the past to create a disruption.
Well, that's what it is. It's basically, you know what we've been
terming it is, you know, online swatting or cyber swatting. Railsback says
the school and the police are taking the situation seriously and have had police on
campus since they were informed of the threats. The school released a statement on
Instagram Monday saying everything was going smoothly and students were being monitored. Chris Adler
KFI News. Amtrak is set to resume service through San Clemente, where cliff
side erosion has forced several shutdowns of rail operations since last year. The tracks
have been closed for the last six weeks. Metrolink service is not ready to
yet restart service. Construction crews have been building a wall at Mariposa Point to
keep debris from falling on to the tracks, and they're going to continue to
do those operations. There will be two Amtrak trains running each day. A
children's hospital and Long Beach Airport have worked together to make traveling easy for kids
with neurological conditions. It's kind of cool. The airport hosted an event last
weekend where kids immerse themselves in airport culture by traveling through TSA, walking out
onto the tarmac, checking out baggage claim and also watching planes take off.
The hosts of the events say everyone, regardless of ability, should be able
to navigate the world. When we come back, we're going to be talking
with KTLA's tech reporter Richdmiro about what the heck happened with Facebook and Instagram yesterday
and how Ways is going to start alerting you to more hazards on the roadways.
You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI Am six forty.
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. With less than
half the votes counted in La County, DA, George Gascone is lee the
pack with twenty two percent of the vote. Nathan Hackman has eighteen percent.
In Deputy DA, Jonathan Hatommi is in third place. Eleven people are challenging
Gascon, who has been criticized for being too soft on crime. Looks like
we're going on a road diet. Measure HLA is passing with more than sixty
percent of the voter saying yes to the measure that we'd add hundreds of miles
of bus and bicycle lanes and take away traffic lanes for cars. Amtrak will
resume service between San Diego and Orange County for the first time in six weeks.
Trains are going to run through San Clementy two times a day in the
morning and the evening, and then in between the trains cranes crews are going
to be spending the rest of the day working on that barrier wall to help
protect the tracks from landslides that have closed the tracks at six oho five.
It's handle on the news. Seventy percent of Americans don't want it, but
it looks like we're going to get a rematch of the twenty twenty presidential election
between Biden and Trump. Let's say good morning now to the host of richon
Tech on KFI and KTLA's tech reporter, Rich DeMuro. Rich, we got
a mega meltdown or a meta meltdown. Yeah, good morning to you.
What happened? This happened yesterday morning. It came fast and furious. I
started getting the texts from folks saying, Rich, I can't log into my
Instagram or my Facebook, mostly Facebook, but couldn't scroll Instagram and yes,
it turned out to be a pretty major outage for Facebook, Instagram, and
threads. They were down globally for about two hours starting yesterday around seven am.
A lot of people, like I said, could not log in,
they couldn't refresh their feed, They just had trouble overall accessing the platforms.
A lot of people were worried that they were hacked because they didn't do anything
differently except just open up their app. Facebook said that this was a let's
see what they say. They said it was a technical issue, and we
quickly resolved the issue as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any convenience.
Does not sound like it was a major hack. Sounds like some sort
of software update. They did update the messaging capabilities on Instagram, but we're
not sure if that took down the whole system. Okay, And so when
I tried to log into my Facebook yesterday right after I heard about it,
I went, oh, well, go check mine, and it said that
I needed to log in again. And you need to be careful when you
see that message. Why, oh yeah, because you never know if that's
fishing, so be very careful, especially it could be two things. Number
One, it could be you know, if the site was under a hack
attack, that could be scary to be submitting your information during that time.
But generally when you see that hey, log in again when you don't expect
it, always be a little bit careful, or very careful, I should
say, because if you're not expecting something, that's when the trouble starts.
Okay, So then how do you know when it's okay to log in again?
Because after they said, oh, we've got it fixed, I went
and it said log in, and I went, wait a second, I
don't want to do that. So I turned the phone off and turned it
back on, and it logged me in automatically. Yeah, exactly. See,
their systems were back up, and I think you know a lot of
people were sitting there just like refreshing and refreshing and logging in a bunch of
times. When something like that happens, if you're not expecting it, like
I said, and I'm reporting that there's some sort of outage, it's best
to just sit back and wait until you get the all clear to get back
in because you just don't know what's happening in that time. If someone's intercepting
these logins, or if there is something malicious going on. So it's always
best to just kind of sit back. Like I said, if you're not
expecting it and something's kind of odd, then you know, that's when you
want to wait. We get that caveat emptor thing with so many things in
life today, and now Facebook and Instagram are that too. You just have
to be skeptical. That's the thing. It's really, you know, with
all these scams that are happening out there. Again, if it's not expected
and you're like, wait a second, this works every single time I go
here, except right now, let me pause, let me take a break,
and let me see what's going on. And we all survived without Facebook
and Instagram for two whole hours yesterday. I'm very proud of It wasn't easy.
Okay, let's move on. So we've got iOS seventeen point four.
Anything new and exciting in this new update. Not a whole lot that you
need to know, But they're setting themselves up for these big changes happening over
in the European Union, where now people get a choice of a default browser,
which is kind of interesting. I also noticed that they by default will
ask you if you want to turn on this stolen device protection security, so
I enabled it. It's probably a good thing to enable. Basically, if
someone gets your pass code to your phone, they can't do as much damage
as they were able to do before. So that's now an option right when
you update. And then Apple Podcasts now has automatic transcriptions in sync with the
audio, and that's going to make it easier to find things that people mentioned
in a podcast. And of course, Amy there's some new emoji. I
don't get excited about the new emojis, but you know there's a couple like
a lime slice a mushroom. I mean, I don't know what does that
mean? A lime slice and a mushroom? Okay, whatever, Yeah,
yeah, I too do not get excited about emojis, but every once in
a while you go, oh, that one's kind of cute. So whatever,
Yeah, if you find the right one, it's great. Okay.
So, speaking of finding things, if you need to find where you go
or you need to go a lot of times you turn to Ways, and
Ways has some new enhancements. Yeah. Ways is interesting because you know,
they're just really continuing to evolve their offering. So first thing that's interesting is
that they've got this this feature that will let you know when there's a first
responder up ahead. So that's something that we're seeing in the auto industry more
and more, both built into cars and also these apps where it will tell
you, like, hey, heads up, there might be a disabled vehicle
up ahead, and also a you know, first responder so that you understand
that and you can slow down before you get there. Right, right,
Because the way it is now, it'll tell you if there's a car like
on the side of the road, and it'll tell you if there's police ahead,
but it doesn't really specify what's going on, right, And this is
more of a system that is they're partnering with a third party company and there's
two of them out there that are doing this, that are trying to get
these alerts into the cars from other cars. So like basically if you put
your flashers on, that would signal to other cars and send this message to
other systems like ways and also other car dashboards. So it's kind of like
a little bit more involved than like people reporting it. It's like self reporting.
Okay, well, that's cool. We love improvements and anytime I have
more information when I'm driving, it makes me happy. Because it's like,
why am I slowing down? And if you have at least an idea of
it, then you know, I don't know. I guess that would freeth
a little easier or something. I always get mad when traffic starts speeding up
after you've been going two miles an hour and there's nothing there. There's nothing
there, and you're like, what just happened? But it was probably like
a you know, tire in the road or something that someone moved out of
the way, or a car that just kept going. But my kids love
when we use ways. They love doing the reports, like Dad, police,
report it car ditsabled in five four three two, Yes, it's still
there, report it, it's still there. I love that. And then
I like when you get to the end of your drive and then it tells
you, hey, you you helped one hundred and fifty wazers today. I'm
like, I did something good today. Yeah, all right, I should
reward myself with a Starbucks. Well, we did something good today. We
got to talk to you. And you can hear lots more from Rich Demiro
because he has his very own show right here on KFI and it is on
Saturdays from eleven to two. It's called rich on Tech on KFI. You
can also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech and his website is rich
on tech dot tv. So much great information. Thank you so much.
Rich all right, thanks for having me. Have a great, great afternoon.
It's not even a morning yet. We got to get through the morning
for I know, all right, I'm just jumping ahead. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Nikki Hayley is getting out of the race for president. She's expected to
announce later this morning that she is suspending her campaign, which leaves former President
Trump is the last major candidate standing for the twenty twenty four Republican nomination.
Hayley has called him diminished and unhinged, and said recently that she is not
obligated to endorse him. North Carolina is Republican Lieutenant governor Mark Robinson has won
the primary for governor. One of Robinson's campaign promises is to abolish abortion rights
and crack down on LGBTQ legislation. Robinson, who is black, previously called
the civil rights movement crap and called the existence of the Holocaust hogwash. Former
President Trump endorsed Robinson over the weekend, calling him Martin Luther King on steroids.
Nearly two hundred and thirty people have been arrested in an eight day human
trafficking operation in Florida. Sheriff Grady judds as a teacher, coaches, medical
professionals, and active military members were among those arrested. So was a former
Polk County detention deputy. What are you doing? You went from being a
speller employee to committing morals crimes? Judge or Judd Rather announced yesterday. Twenty
one of those arrested are believed to be in the US illegally. He says.
Of the sixty six prostitutes arrested during the investigation, thirteen were identified as
possible human trafficking victims. California is coming for New York's title for best pizza.
A poll from Pizzello ranked the best pizza in the country over the past
year. While New York still holds the number one spot, cities in California
showed up on the top two hundred and fifty more than thirty times. The
study says La ranked third with an average score of four point five to nine,
and its pizza scene is as diverse as its population. Fullerton ranked six.
When we come back, Amy's on it. Yep, that's me.
I'm going to be taking a look at one of the Academy Award nominated movies
and I'll just say that I'll see if I can stay composed for it.
At your hint, you're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am
six forty. Here's what we're following this Wednesday morning in the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. It wasn't a suite, but it was close. Former President
Trump is the projected winner in all the Super Tuesday states except for Vermont.
Nikki Haley won that one, and apparently that's one of only two that she
will ever win because she is planning to suspend her presidential campaign. She's speaking
this morning around seven o'clock. She is not expected to endorse Trump, at
least not yet, and instead will encourage him to convince the people who have
voted for her why they should vote for him. LA City Councilman Kevin D.
Leone may have successfully weathered the storm that followed the release of that racist
audio tape that led to the resignation of former Council President Nuri Martinez da Leone
is leading the race for the fourteenth district seat twenty nine percent of the vote.
Miguel Santiago is in second with twenty two percent. At six oh five,
it's handle on the news. Hamas has accused Israel of stalling when it
comes to an exchange of prisoners and a ceasefire deal in Gaza. At five
point fifty, it's a gold rush and we've got ABC's Jim Ryan to tell
us all about it. Aamie's on it, Aami's on it, Aami's on
it, Damie's on it. What am I on? I'm on streaming shows.
There's so much out there, whether it's brand new or older, or
it's a series or it's a documentary, there's a lot, a lot,
a lot of content out there. So I take recommendations from friends and co
workers and relatives too sometimes, although mom doesn't do a very good job recommending
stuff, and then I pass those recommendations along to you. So here's what
I'm on this week. It's a movie called Maestro, and it is nominated
for an Academy Award. Of course, the Academy Award's coming up this Sunday
and it stars Bradley Cooper, Carrie Mulligan, Sarah Silverman didn't know she was
in just good job. So the movie opens with an older Leonard Bernstein and
it's a story of his life. It is a amazing how real Bradley Cooper
looks. He's obviously it's an older person. So who He's got a ton
of makeup on. But I think he should win Best Makeup because Bradley Cooper
looks like he's I don't know, forty years older and they do an amazing
job. They also show him in the movie playing the piano. I don't
know if he plays the piano, but impressive. If he does, maybe
it's a I I wonder if that's a thing. But anyway, Okay,
So the bulk of the story set at least the start of the story is
set in the forties because of I'm guessing that because of Hitler references. And
Bernstein gets his big shot to conduct the Philharmonic Symphony at Carnegie Hall because the
scheduled conductor is ill and I think that is based on a true story.
But when I sit back and watch the movie, it feels less like the
hyper real movies of today, and it feels more like an old Hollywood movie,
both in the acting, in the dialogue, and the cinematography. The
when the there was a black and white section of the movie and I kept
thinking, well, this looks like a set from It's a Wonderful Life.
It was. It was weird visually interesting, and it didn't but it just
it gets you thinking, you know. And one of the things that I
like to do when I watch a movie is not think, because if I'm
thinking about the sets and this and that and looking at technical issues of it,
it means that I'm not as engaged in the story. And in this
movie, I wasn't as engaged in the story. It is a love story
between Bernstein and Felicia Montelegra. I think I said that right, And it's
also a tragedy at the same time because he's not really able to live his
full full his real truth or is he guess that's a question that you can
answer for yourself. And also it was very funny to see people smoking all
the time all the time, like Bernstein had a cigarette in his hand.
Most of the movie. Thought that was weird. Okay, so the movie's
interesting, but it didn't really grab me. And it's just over two hours,
and I found myself wondering when is this thing going to be over?
By contrast, like watching Oppenheimer that was over three hours and I was just
enthralled with it the whole time. So it just it didn't have that mph
that really got me to get into the story and love the characters and love
what was happening. I mean, even with Barbie, I was anxious to
see what was going to happen next, and this one kind of just was
there, which is probably why it's not getting as much buzz, although Bradley
Cooper's his performance was getting a lot of Oscar buzz, So we'll have to
see what happens. I'm not expecting it to win much, but I do
think it should win. Makeup. It's a good stream worth a watch,
which I'm glad I didn't spend the money to go see it in the theaters.
Okay, that's Amy's on it for it this week. And as I
mentioned, it is an Academy Award nominated movie, and Nick and I were
talking earlier this week that the Academy Awards, of course are this weekend and
they do start at four o'clock this year, which is it's a boom for
me because I go to bed super early and if you're listening to this now,
you probably go to bed a little bit on the early side too.
But so there's a ton of movies that have one Best Actor or Best Movie,
and apparently there are some that should not have Apparently al I'm not going
to say apparently anymore, but according to The Independent, there are seventeen movies
that should have never won Oscar for Best Picture. And I just want to
share a few of these and see what you think and whether you agree,
and Nick, you can chime into a beautiful mind. That was in two
thousand and one. I thought it was okay, but it wasn't my favorite
movie. Here's another one, Cherriot's a Fire. I have to admit I
never saw it really and well, no, I was gonna say, that's
from the eighties. And this list is really interesting because I was going to
say, like you and I, as you said, we've talked back and
forth about it, but it's pretty wild. And some of these I'm not
gonna lie. As you go down the list, I was like, I
don't even remember that it was nominated. I didn't even remember that it won,
So that says a lot right there, right, And some of them
are they date way back so we wouldn't even know what they are. But
okay, so remember Coda that one in twenty twenty one. It was with
Marlee Mattlin, and I thought that that was of what was out there that
year. I did think it was the best movie, but I didn't think
it was spectacular. But you know, when you're comparing it, like this
year, there's some really good movies that are up for it, and some
years there just aren't. Cold Mountain in two thousand and three I remember with
renee Zelwigger and was that Nicole kidman? I think, so I didn't think
that was a great movie. It won, and then this one. So
in two thousand and four, Broke Back Mountain was up for Beck's picture and
it didn't win. Which movie one Crash and the Independent said that should have
never won, It should have been Broke Back. I strongly disagree. Crash
is one of my favorite favorite movies, and actually I feel like we are
living in Crash right now. Do you do you remember it? It was
like all these people and it was based in la and the whole premise of
the movie is that everybody was just strung, you know, wired so tight,
and everybody's on edge and they're just basically waiting to just crash into each
other. They're waiting for that straw to break the camel's back and they're going
to just lose it. And I feel like we're kind of living that now.
I think I'm gonna go watch the movie again. But I thought that
was a fabulous movie. What about Dances with Wolves? Great movie, but
it was in the same year that Goodfellas was nominated, and so the Independent
is saying that should have won, not the Dances with Wolves. And then
I loved this movie jumping around Green Book in two thousand and eight with more
was it. Mahershaw, Ali and Vigo Mortensen loved it. I thought it
was so cool. But then I talked to some people afterward because I was
seeing it as you know, it was back. I think it was set
in the fifties and it's when there's race tensions and and how you know,
black people and white people learned to get along and become friends and all this
stuff when that wasn't very common. And I thought it was this beautiful story
and people are like, oh, it's pandering. It's just it was.
It was whitewashing what really happened. And I was kind of sad about that,
but I thought, I thought it was a good movie. And then
the other one that I thought was a spectacular movie that they're saying should not
have won is The Imitation Game. And that's with our own doctor Strange Ben
whatch this his name? Cumberbat? Benjamin Cumberbat. I can't remember his name.
Benedict's come right, Meredict, thank you, not Ben. I knew
it wasn't Benjamin. See that's why I rely on Nick because he knows all
the details. But I just think it's interesting that. And then other movies
that they say should not have won Shakespeare in Love because that was in the
same year as Saving Private Ryan was out. I would agree with that one,
and then slum Dog Millionaire two, which I thought was a fun,
fun movie, but it came out the same year as The Dark Knight,
and I do think The Dark Knight was a better movie. So and then
what about do you have any movies that didn't win that you think should have
I got one, I'm trying to think, but like, yeah, no,
I mean going through this list and how we kind of talked offline about
it because there was even going my way in nineteen forty four, which sounds
silly to talk about something from that long ago, but like that was also
one of my favorite movies. The Bells of Saint Mary's came out a couple
of years later, was nominated, but like anyway, that didn't get it.
So anyway, so mine was Lala Land because I think for that year,
I think Laala Land was the best movie. And remember they even announced
that it had won, and then they took it back. They go,
no, no, it didn't win. It was is a called Midnight Another
mars Ali was there just a fine movie. But I think Lala Land just
for as the spectacle of what it was, and I just thought that was
a much better movie. So we will see what happens this Sunday when they
announced the next winners of Academy Awards Sunday at four o'clock. In fact,
they're rolling out the red carpet today. When we come back, we're going
to be checking in on We've got a gold Rush. So we've got ABC's
Jim Ryan. He's gonna tell us all about it. You're listening to a
wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty make up calls almost over
means they're getting ready to move on to the next phase, which is handle
it on the news. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four our
newsroom. With less than half the votes counted in La County, DA George
Gascone is leading the pack with twenty two percent of the vote. Nathan Hackman
has eighteen percent. Deputy d A Jonathan and Tommy is in third place.
Eleven people are challenging Gascone, who has been criticized for being too soft on
crime. Well, it looks like we're going on a road diet measure HLA
is passing with sixty five percent of the voter saying yes to the measure that
would add hundreds of miles of bus and bike lanes and take away traffic for
cars. It's all apparently being done in an effort to reduce pedestrian deaths.
The lake that formed in Death Valley because of all the rain this winter is
drying up thanks to high winds blowing through the desert. Visitors to the area
were able to kayak around on the foot deep lake for about a month,
but the winds have sped up evaporation and now it's too shallow, so the
National Park Service has closed it to voting. We're just minutes away from Handle
on the news. Think crime is out of control here? Well, in
Haiti, thousands have broken out of prison and are running around killing people as
gangs also try to take over control of the main airport. Right now,
let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, we should be going
for the gold. Somebody should be because a lot of people we missed the
boat. Yeh, no, not necessarily. In fact, yesterday when I
wrote this for you to read this, pot price for gold was a twenty
one to forty one por tray ounce. That was yesterday. Well it's already
risen a little bit today. The futures are up to twenty one forty four
per troy ounce. So what's a troy ounce? It's how that happened from
an ounce, I'm really not sure, but that's that's how they measure the
stuff. That's all you need to know. And by the way, rarely
do people buy gold and actually hold it in their hands, right, It's
an investment. You never really see it. It's out there in the market,
and you purchase it, you sell it, you purchase it. It
doesn't pay a dividend. There's no yield to it other than when you sell
it and you get either your money back a little bit more or a lot
less in some cases. So yeah, troy ounce is how they measure it.
So we have the answer, Nick Paul Jochini's let me the update.
Troy ounce is a system of ways use for precious metals and gems based on
a pound of twelve ounces as opposed to a traditional sixteen so it makes it
about ten percent heavier. Okay, nice, Yeah, thanks Nick. Yeah.
So anyway, so the price is up now, it's gone up about
five and a half percent in the past month, sixteen percent in the past
year. Why yeah, Why, Well, a lot of it has to
do with the interest rates. Investors are looking at the possibility of the Fed
lowering interest rates maybe in June. That's what some people are speculating right now
that rates are going to come back down, and that's given some investors confidence,
right But at the same time, gold has traditionally been a hedge against
uncertainty, so it really doesn't make a lot of sense right now, except
that with this election year going on, we don't know what's going to happen
in November. A lot of uncertainty out there, and so gold provides kind
of a safe haven for US investors who are looking for that for looking for,
if not a sure bet, then at least a place that may be
safer than the stock market. Well, and I yeah, I think that
it makes sense because the stock market is way up now, but it's volatile
and it could take a pretty steep tumble too. You did, Yeah,
I mean yesterday and I think the Dow was off four hundred points, So
you can't really count on anything, and so this is one way at least
that you know that you can hedge against some of that some of that uncertainty.
But yeah, it's been going up. We're still nowhere near the all
time high. Back in nineteen eighty that gold had been on kind of a
nine year run. There was turmoil in the Middle East, oil prices were
way up, inflation was out of control. The all time high adjusted for
inflation was thirty three hundred and fifty five dollars per troy ounce, compared to
now the twenty one to forty one. So yeah, we're not really near
that high, but it's creeping up there, and a lot of investors suddenly
are raising their eyebrows a bit. I need to go look through my jewelry
box. I know I've got a gold necklace in there somewhere. Yeah,
there you go, and note to self, call financial advisor. Might be
a good time to buy, all right, but dangally Yeah, Jim Ryan,
thank you so much for your information. I appreciate it. For the
clarification on a Troy ounce. Absolutely, he's like my personal encyclopedia. I
love it. One twelfth of abound good. Thanks. Huh. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
President Biden and former President Trump are closer to a rematch following victories on
Super Tuesday. ABC Steve Roberts's voters can expect to hear plenty of attack ads
leading up to November. Put it this way, it's aged versus crazy,
and those are the two arguments dominate this election going forward. Biden and Trump
each one. California, Texas, Alabama, Colorado, Main Oklahoma, Virginia,
North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts. Biden also won
Democratic primaries in Utah, Vermont, and Iowa. An appellate court has upheld
the triple murder convictions of a man in Anaheim who said Kylie Jenner told him
to kill Demand said he was communicating with Jenner, who told him someone was
after his life and in order to protect himself, he needed to take someone
else's. Marvin Maggianis then stabbed two homeless people and strangled his cell made between
twenty six, sixteen and seventeen. He was convicted of two counts of first
degree murder and one count of second degree murder. Prior to the killings,
he went to Jenner's home and when staff wouldn't let him in, he crashed
his car into the security gate. Attorneys from Maggiana say he's severely schizophrenic and
believed he was being instructed by Jenner. He was sentenced in twenty twenty two
to life in prison without parole in Orange County. Chris Adler KFI News.
The state Supreme Court has ruled eighteen to twenty five year olds can be sentenced
to life in prison with no possibility for parole. The case was brought by
Tony Harden, who strangled and robbed a sixty six year old woman in roll
In Heights in nineteen ninety when he was twenty five years old. Harden was
sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, but said state law was unfair
to him because other convicts between the ages of eighteen and twenty five get a
parole hearing at the fifteen, twenty and or twenty five year mark of their
sentence, and appeals court agreed, but the state Supreme Court overturned that in
a five to two decision Monday, arguing those convicted of multiple murders or murder
during a rape or robbery, or as a gang member can stay in prison.
For Michael Monks KFI News, the FDA has signed off on the first
over the counter glucose monitor ABC. Sandyfield says it's good news for people with
diabetes. The new no prescription needed blood sugar monitors for anyone over eighteen who
does not use insulin. That could include the nearly twenty five million Americans with
type two diabetes who don't require insulin. The FDA says the gluecose monitors can
also be used by people without diabetes. Who just want to understand how their
diet and exercise affects their blood sugar. The monitors should hit store shelves this
summer. Marilyn Monroe's former house in Brentwood is a step closer to being named
a historic cultural monument. Attorney George Milston says the current owners want to tear
it down because there's not much benefit to the public. Importantly, this house
is not visible to the public. It is at the end of a small,
dead end street, and it cannot be accessed at all from the public.
And La City Council Committee approved the historic monument designation yesterday. It now
heads to the full Council for consideration. You've been listening to Wake Up Call
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