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AM six forty. Good morning everyone, five am. This is your wake
up call. It's Friday. Lots of pictures floating around the socials of coffee
this morning. I don't know why. Oh, it's National Donut Day as
well. I was watching. Yeah, we don't have any in the newsroom
just yet, but I've been watching the East Coast broadcast, the morning broadcasts,
and they're all like chomping on donuts on TV, which is frankly not
okay. I mean, enjoy your donut. Sure, let the red light
go off first. Anyway, it is National Donut Day. We'll have more
on that later this hour. I'm sure. Friday, June second, I'm
in today and Monday for Jennifer Jones Lee. So, Miss Jennifer is celebrating
an academic anniversary of some note this weekend. It's a high school graduation reunion.
Is it a reunion? It's a thirty year reunion. Thirty okay,
see, I wasn't going to drop the year. I was gonna just thirty
years. Thank you, Tyler. Almost as old as me. Math on
the radio all so she hit the rodeo a few weeks ago. Now she's
going back up for a high school reunion of some well, Tyler did the
math force right there. We have a big show, so let's get to
it. Here are for you quick headlines before we get into the interviews for
your wake up call. Last night, the Senate did pass a bill that
suspends the nation's debt ceiling for two years. Potential default on paying the government's
bills has been avoided. The vote was sixty three to thirty six, with
the bill now heading to President Biden's desk. We're gonna have more than just
a few minutes from Capitol Hill and from ABC's Karen Travers on this one.
In Long Beach yesterday morning, a stranger grabbed a twelve year old girl as
she walked to school. It happened around eight thirty am near Washington Middle School.
The girl managed to escape the man who wrapped his arms around her.
Long Beach PD is searching for the suspect and has increased bike and foot patrols
in the area for this morning and for the foreseeable. I would imagine Florida
eighth grader Dev Shaw is the winner of the twenty twenty three Scripts National Spelling
b I remember when this was not such a huge deal, and then I
think ESPN picked it up, and yeah, and then and that made it
a deal. And then and then every newsperson anywhere had to start learning how
to spell better because we had to report on it. The teenager did correctly
spell this word sam a file. She or de dev Shaw, won the
ninety fifth annual competition a fifty thousand dollars grand prize, which is cool,
okay. Sam a file is an organism that prefers or thrives in sandy soils
or areas. I probably would not have spelled this one, right, I
don't know. I don't I don't know my Latin enough to know the root
word of sand, so I imagine that has something to do with this.
But it's psammo phi l e samo file. So congratulations to Devshaw, a
Florida eighth grader who is getting her at their name read all over the nation
this morning and gets a check for fifty thousand dollars as promised in just a
few minutes. Today's two inch headline is America's credit has almost full faith after
the fiscal responsibility Act past the Senate heads to the President's desk for a signature.
President Biden is expected to speak on national television later today. ABC's Karen
Travers is going to be on the line from Capitol Hill. Let's start with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two
people, including a fourteen year old, have been hurt in a shooting in
LA's mid city area. The LAPD says the shooting yesterday happened near Guthrie Avenue
and Corning Street. Officials say the teen boy and a thirty year old man
were taken to the hospital. No arrests are made. A man charged with
starting a wildfire and the tribuco Can area of Orange County has been found not
guilty. Prosecutors had alleged Forest Clark started the fire in twenty eighteen when he
set a neighbor's cabin on fire. Clark was convicted yesterday of making criminal threats.
The fire burned more than twenty three thousand acres and destroyed at twenty four
buildings. The Orange County Register says Demand's cabin was the only one of fourteen
left standing on the line with US as ABC's White House correspondent carried Travers.
The Senate got the bill from the House on Wednesday night. The Fiscal Responsibility
Act got through the Senior Chamber pretty fast. Good morning, Karen, Good
morning. Yesterday we talked about maybe at least three Senators who had some sort
of objection to the Fiscal Responsibility Act as it landed in the Senate. Seems
like they showed some restraint and got this thing through. What happened with that?
Yeah, they did. Yeah, they had about three hours of debate.
They voted on eleven amendments before final passage. All of the amendments failed,
but they moved it really quickly. I mean, there was certainly a
sense that maybe they could get it done yesterday, more likely going to still
into Friday. But all of a sudden, it was like on the fast
track, and they got it done late last night. But it ended up
being sixty three to thirty six vote, forty six Democrats on board, seventeen
Republicans supporting the bill. But you know, you did have a majority of
Senate Republicans voting against it. Some were pushing for more defense spending. Lindsay
Graham said, the people who negotiated this I wouldn't let them buy me a
car. And it's kind of notable because remember we probably talked about this a
couple weeks ago, how hands off Mitch McConnell was in the negotiating process,
saying, this is up to Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker, and President
Biden to work out the deal. The Senate Republicans, they're in the majority,
excuse me, minority, they were on the sidelines of all of this,
So it was sort of interesting to see some of them complaining pretty loudly
yesterday about the legislation. Maybe somebody should let send it to Graham. Know,
a lot of people buy cars online. They did themselves, that is
true. This is okay, Father right, Father left. Both were grousing
about this deal on Wednesday evening to Thursday. Is this as close to bipartisanship
as we've seen in a while. The math seems to bear that out,
But I'm not sure what you see absolutely in this day and age. Absolutely
it is, And you know, the White House is touting that, saying,
you know, this was, first of all, like the best everybody
could do given the divided government. The message we keep hearing from the White
House from Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader from Kevin McCarthy is that no
one gets everything they want in a negotiation, and nobody got everything they wanted
here. But this was what we could get to given the state of play,
and I think that's notable. It's sort of a managing of expectations now
that this is all done. But you're right, this is probably the most
bipartisan you could do given the high stakes, given the deep kind of consternation
for many on the different flanks, the right and the left, about this
bill. But they got it done, and they got it done was a
couple of days despair. So the President Y wants to sign it as quickly
as possible, likely will be today, but it's only June's second and it's
got until June tenth. That's good, right, exactly. Talk about brinksmanship.
Wow, this wasn't even as close as twenty eleven. But yeah,
but you mentioned right there that the president had to remind everybody that nobody gets
everything they want in a negotiation, and to have that come back up is
kind of like speaks to the tenor of politics right now. Biden is expected,
I believe to speak tonight. Is that still gone. Yes, a
rare overoffice address from the President tonight. He said he wants to talk about
averting a desault and also the bipartisan agreement, so like what's in the legislation.
He's going to deliver remarks tonight then from the White House. And Okay,
that's pretty much the upper end of that expectation. I've got about thirty
seconds left. It's National Donut Day. Do you guys get donuts in your
press room in DC? I just had to ask, why did I think
we did it yesterday at the Bureau. I saw a picture of it.
Maybe we jumped the gun a little bit because everybody was empty about the vote
and those a little overworked. But I missed it because of being over at
the White House. So he'd like to I guess I should go out today
and pick up some flour. Team here just wondering. Karen, It's always
good to talk with you. Thank you so much for your time this week,
and I hope you can have some time off this weekend. Thank you
have a great weekend. ABC's Karen Travers going to have a nice weekend.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour news room. Hotel workers in LA and Orange Counties say they are getting
ready for a strike if demands for higher wages are ignored. Co president of
the union Kurt Peterson says workers would be willing to strike as long as it
takes to get what they need. We're talking about, you know, dozens
of hotels in southern California, Los Angeles and Orange County, everything from the
Weston bonnamentor downtown to the JW marryat La Live. Peterson says workers will vote
next week on whether to authorize a strike. If approved, it would be
the largest hotel worker strike in the US in fifty years. He says workers
are asking for a forty to fifty sent pay raise and free healthcare for their
families. Keep in mind, the World Cup and the Olympics are coming to
southern California and relatively soon. A woman in Irvine is facing multiple animal cruelty
charges for using construction grade masking tape to wrap shut the snouts of several dogs.
Dogs need to pant to be able to cool their bodies down. Irvine
Police Sergeant Carey Davies says the woman admitted to taping up the dogs to prevent
them from barking and nipping at other dogs. It can be very dangerous,
especially when the weather heats up and they're not able to breathe properly. A
bet determined the dogs were otherwise okay. She is looking at three felony counts
of animal cruelty, and that's one count for each dog that had their mouth
tape shut. The woman was arrested Saturday, signed the dogs over to the
city, and bailed out in Orange County. Corbin Carson kof I News.
People using the diabetes and weight loss drug ozempic say it's helping to curb their
addictive behaviors. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health published a study recently showing
how semaglutide, the generic name for ozempic, reduces alcohol drinking in rodents.
They say it could influence interest in alcohol because the drug effects the gut and
the brain. A man who allegedly try to steal more than a thousand dollars
worth of legos has been arrested in Upland. We reported this yesterday morning.
Police say the man tried to swipe the bricks Wednesday from a target at the
Colony's crossroads. Police say someone saw him loading the legos into a shopping cart.
Police say the man is being investigated for similar crimes in other cities.
A murder trial could be postponed again in the hit and run crash that killed
two brothers in a crosswalk in Westlake Village. The boy's mom says says it's
been almost three years since the Grossman Burne Foundation co founder killed her sons.
It would certainly be easier to forgive if the person ask for forgiveness or says
I'm sorry. I am required to eventually forgive because of my faith, but
the lack of responsibility is making it much much harder. Defense lawyers have challenged
claims the driver was doing eighty miles an hour and even suggested another car hit
the ways. They say the crash was a tragic accident, not murder.
Okay. The main jobs report is going to land later this hour, and
it should show an increase in hiring across the country. The monthly payroll report
from the Labor Department comes out this morning, projected to show a hiring increase
of about one hundred and ninety thousand jobs last month. Economists also expect the
report to show a slight bump in the unemployment rate to three point five percent.
It's now been a month since the Writer's Guild of America strikes started,
and it shows no signs of reaching a conclusion. Hollywood screenwriters called a strike
for the first time in fifteen years after negotiations stalled over increased pay for some
eleven thousand, five hundred union members. Artificial intelligence concerns are also on that
list of issues, among others. President Biden is joking about the fall he
took yesterday during the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. Biden staffers say the president
tripped on a sandbag that was holding up a teleprompter on the stage in Colorado
Springs. After returning to Washington, DC, Biden joked with reporters in one
of those chopper talks that he got sandbagged while walking across the stage. Hey,
you got to own it, right when the video's floating around, you
have to own it. Former President Trump is taking aim at President Biden and
rond Santists in the Fox News town hall. Trump fielded questions in Iowa last
night at a town hall hosted by Fox News. Sean Hannity and told the
crowd he's not only attacking to Stantists because he's in second place in the GOP
polls and he thinks he'll be third or fourth before too long. And by
he I'm pretty sure that the President was talking about Rond Santists. So let's
look at a couple of more stories from the KFY twenty four hour news room.
Officials say people who use Venmo, PayPal and cash app should deposit their
money as soon as possible, rather than letting it sit in their app accounts.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the money may not be safe during a
crisis. Money stored in Venmo or other similar apps may not be protected by
the FDIC since they are not traditional bank accounts. Apple Cash can be insured
through Green Dot Bank, but requires a user to verify their identity to get
deposit insurance. Of course, Apple Cash and the rollover Savy's account came out
last month. That is from through Goldman Sacks. I gotta check and make
sure that that's verified. I'll have that for you later this hour. Police
in West Palm Beach, Florida, are stepping up security efforts for the first
weekend of Pride month. The city is celebrating its fourth annual Pride on the
Block event from the Westbalm Basis weekend. Enjoy yourself. We're going to make
sure we do everything we possibly can to make this a safe event for you.
Police Chief Frank Adderley says officers responded to a threat last year. Officials
say police in uniform and undercover will be at the event, as well as
hiring EMTs from the Fire Department. We have our own Pride stories coming up
later this morning on KFI. Blake Trolley will be out reporting live. A
man has been arrested in Laguna de guel for allegedly duping investors and using their
money to his lavish lifestyle. Amalu Diallo, who's from Senegal, is accused
of telling investors he was one of the wealthiest men in Africa. Prosecutors say
Diallo used two Newport Beach based businesses to get people to invest in bogus business
opportunities, then use their money on himself. During Diallo's arrest yesterday, investigators
took a range Rover, Ferrari and Rolls Royce from his home. Investigators say
Dialu stole one point eight million dollars from at least eleven people. Blake Trolley
Kafy News. Well, the Senate has passed that debt limit bill. We
just talked with ABC's Karen Travers about the sixty bote threshold having been achieved.
The bill is past. President Biden says both parties demonstrated America pays its bills
and meets its obligations. He added that he'll sign the bill into law as
soon as possible. He also said no one gets everything they want in the
negotiation. Biden's signature averts a debt default ahead of the so called xtate,
which was basically Monday. All right, good morning everybody, twenty one minutes
after five o'clock. This is your wake up call, right now, let's
walk. Come in ABC analyst and law enforcement reporter Luke Barr. We've all
seen the porch pirate videos before from doorbell security, Luke, things like rain
cameras. But something went down with allegations from the FTC and Amazon. Can
you catch us up on what happened? Yeah, So thanks for having those
ring security cameras. You know, there's an expensive security camera that people can
hook up in their houses or on their doors, will not fully secure for
years. According to the FTC, the Video doorbell company allegedly gave every employee
full access to every customer video before twenty seventeen and failed perpetch bugs in their
system which allowed hackers to access cameras and scare consumers. The FTC says in
a federal complaint files here in DC so, Luke, you mentioned there that
the employees internally had access or unauthorized or immoral access to videos created by consumers,
But there's also a cyber attack opportunity in coming from outside too. Did
ft FTC address that they sure did so. Basically, the company also allegedly
systematically failed to control two types of cyber attacks and failed to patch those system
vulnerabilities before January twenty twenty. DFTC says because Ring allegedly did not take appropriate
security measures despite knowing about the problems, the attacks quote continued to succeed through
December of twenty nineteen. And of course then you saw those media reports even
going into early in the pandemic of Ring doorbells getting excuse me, ring cameras
in the house getting hacked. So those videos of people getting talked to by
hackers in their houses while they're watching TV while they're sleeping. Really scary stuff,
Yeah, it really is. Does this set a new standard? Does
I know Amazon did not admit to any wrongdoing necessarily, but is this going
to set a standard within the security camera category for consumers or has that already
been set? Well? The company says they disagree with some of the FTC
finings. They didn't go into sort of what they disagree with. They did,
however, pay a fine to the FTC amost six million dollars, and
they say that the issues are promptly addressed years ago and the focus sort of
remains for Ring on delivering products in the features that customers love. But it's
important to note that, you know, some of these issues happened before twenty
seventeen, or sort of that access and unauthorized access happened before twenty seventeen,
and Ring was purchased by Amazon in twenty eighteen, and ever since then they
sort of started to clean up their their their act a little bit. Yeah,
you're right, and boy, as a culture, we sure have matured
over the last five years when it comes to video access and files that just
drifted around on servers. You mentioned that they bought Ring back in April of
twenty eighteen, if I remember correctly. Amazon also bought I Robot just last
year, actually in twenty twenty two, late summer twenty twenty two. Is
Amazon on the hook or are they just the two witch headline here because they
are the big dog with market cap and presence in the consumer space when it
comes to this, well, I think certainly, because they're sort of the
big dog, they draw a lot more scrutiny, right, They're a lot
bigger, they have a lot more you know, visibility for consumers, right,
And really, when you think about home video systems, the first thing
you sort of think about is ring. Not many people know, of course
it's owned by Amazon, So I think that sort of led to FTC's a
sort of inquiry about this, and then obviously the subsequent complate and then you
know, when you looked at sort of the hacking of it all right,
the ability for hackers to get into their sort of systems, and you know,
the FTCs at at one point hackers were in the system for up to
a month and some consumer systems up to a month. So you know,
when those complaints that are started coming in to the FTC, they sort of
started to investigate and look into these and then ultimately we had this week was
a complaint filably federal court by the FCC. I guess I have one more
question for you on this one. We're speaking speaking with ABC's legal analyst and
security analyst Luke Barr, the FTC Commissioner. After this came out this week,
he said in a statement that this is a very clear, clear signature
other tech signal to other tech companies that collect data. Do you think writ
large this has any impact on the collection of data and the security of data
or is this just part of the piece. Well, I think that it
certainly sends a message. As the FTC Commissioner said too. You know all
companies that don't secure their systems right and they make their their devices vulnerable.
It certainly puts them on notice that, look, these things can happen.
Protecting consumers is important and so allowing for consumers to be safe, especially when
it's like you know, the the access is so personal right in your in
your bedroom, talking to your kids, right Like, I think it puts
these companies are noticed that that hey, pactor systems make sure things are up
to snuff and uh and and you know we won't investigate you. Yeah.
I mean we talked about the porch pirate videos at the top, because we've
all seen those rerun on television news and whatnot or on our social media feeds.
But there was an add on cameras you could just post up anywhere in
your house. And I think one of the allegations was that a male employee
was looking at females in the restroom or in their bathroom, are getting ready
for work in the mornings. I mean that that's intensely private stuff. Well,
that's exactly right. And and in fact, the ftc alleges that not
only were were were the stickup cameras targeted the most. Virtually none of the
doorbell cameras were even looked at by one employee at least of the company.
So and you know, it just sort of shows how what what broad access?
Right, there's that there's an adage that one bad apple right in the
company. Uh, you know, you could have nine hundred and nine good
employees and then you know with unfettered access or you know, unauthorized to authorized
actis to all the sort of consumer video. But them, of course,
is that won that apple that you know puts things, uh, you know,
into into perspective for all the people. Yeah, you're right. It's
a reminder that our data lives need to be protected just like our physical lives.
Totally. ABC analyst and law enforcement reporter Luke Barr Luke always a pleasure.
Thank you so much for joining us this morning. Thanks man, having
a good weekend. Absolutely, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour news room before he hit the bottom of
the hour. And eighth grade teacher in Sherman Oaks has been charged with molesting
and grooming students. Ela County DA George Gascon says kids deserve to feel safe
and it's up to adults to protect them. The teacher, Kareem Span,
taught at Louis Armstrong Middle School. Investigators say he sexually assaulted two students in
April. They say one happened during lunchtime at school. The teacher has pleaded
not guilty. Former Dodger and Padres first baseman Steve Garvey says he might run
for the US Senate seat held by Dianne Feinstein. He says he's been approached
to run for office and is exploring the idea. Garvus seventy four years old.
He spent eighteen years in the major leagues and was National League MVP in
nineteen seventy four, and I had that top spaceball card. He retired from
baseball in nineteen eighty seven, just a year shy of well, we all
know what happened in nineteen eighty eight. Cooling centers and overnight shelters are opening
up around Riverside County so people can keep cool this summer. The Community Action
Partnership of Riverside County is providing twenty daytime centers so people can also reduce their
home utility cost and conserve energy. Centers have started opening in Idlewild, Coachella
Valley Cities, the Blithe Community, and in Desert Center. A former Playboy
playmate has accused Bill Cosby of drugging and raping her in nineteen sixty nine.
Attorney Stacy Benson for Victoria Victoria Valentino says her client and a friend were drugged
at Cosby's home after having dinner out. Victoria voiced her concerns and wanted to
go home. Her Cosby escorted them out and under the guise of bringing them
home brought them to an undislowsed locatione Court papers filed in LA say when Valentino
woke up, she thought Cosby was about to sexually assault her friend. She
says she intervened and was assaulted instead. Prince Harry is set to testify in
a UK court next week, the first senior British royal to do so in
one hundred and thirty years. The cases over a lawsuit he and dozens of
other celebrities have brought against tabloid publisher Mirror Group Newspapers four, among other things,
hacking and unlawful activity to get information. The last senior royal to give
testimony in court was Edward the Seventh back in eighteen ninety one, in a
slander trial over a card game. A mother swan stolen from a pond in
New York has been killed. Officials say her four babies were found, but
the mom was eaten. Three teenagers were arrested Tuesday on theft and mischief charges
in connection with the swan napping. Please say two teams were released to their
parents because they are minor. Governor Gavin Newsom has written to counties and school
districts across the state to warn against handing down book bands. The governor says
any district or library that removes books from shelves will be asked to provide the
state with documentation about those policies. More than a dozen witnesses have testified for
the prosecution in the first three days of the Tree of Life massacre trial.
Robert Bowers faces over sixty federal charges in the mass shooting at Pittsburgh Synagogue that
killed eleven people in October twenty eighteen. Former President Trump is dismissing reports that
the DJ has recordings of him talking about a classified document he took from the
White House. CNN says in the audio recording, Trump acknowledgist holding onto a
classified document regarding a potential attack on Iran, and that he would like to
share the information, but is aware of limitations with declassifying records. News is
brought to you by American Vision Windows. At fifty, we're going to close
the Wake Up Called with ABC's Jim Ryan. This morning's topic, Jim is
here to talk about Hurricanes season. It officially kicked off yesterday. Right now
on Wake Up Call is kfi's very own Dean Sharp. Dean is not only
the House Whisper. He's also the host of that show. He's a killer
website over at house Whisperer dot design and if you on the Graham, his
handle is at home with Dean. National Pollinator Week starts June nineteenth. I
think I think we should preview that, don't you, Dean? Uh,
you know what it's news to me, So yeah, let's bring breaking stuff
all over the place with these dates and anniversaries. Dean, um, thank
you for joining us. First of all, as always a pleasure. Second
of all, our bees. Cool bees are the coolest and that's what I
think too. I like beet shirts. Why why are you bringing up how
why is the House Whisperer bringing up bees this week with us? Well,
okay, so it's not by the weekend, but I am bringing them up
because it's relevant. They've been in the news. We've had some attacks that
are kind of high profile, some bee incidents in the last couple of weeks.
I am a beekeeper, you know, so you know, novice beekeeper,
amateur beekeeper. So I'm sitting here, I've got about forty thousand young
ladies just you know, probably twenty five feet away from my studio here whoah,
Yeah, that's you know, that's just a typical hive quantity and a
hive. But the point is this, Uh, it has relevance to our
homes because this time of year, people find unwelcome bees in their yards.
And I don't just mean the honey bees bopping around on the flowers. I'm
talking about you could wake up and find a whole massive bees moving across your
yard unexpectedly, a cloud of bees. You could find a large clump of
bees hanging from a wall or a tree or a fence. And given the
high profile incidents that happened what in Encino this last week and before that in
Pasadena, I just want to make sure that everybody's getting the straight scoop on
this because we've worked very very very hard in Southern California. A lot of
people have worked very very hard to get bees back in their rightful place here.
A lot of folks worked very hard to get backyard beekeeping as a part
of Southern California culture again, which it is in many many municipalities. Now,
what we don't want to do is kind of embrace the hype of certain
I would say, loosely responsible headlines and get so afraid that if you're going
to walk outside and if there are a couple of bees around, that we're
going to go ahead and get back on a track that we were a quarter
century ago, which is destroying every miscellaneous a colony that there is out there.
That is not the way to go. Now, there's going to be
a lot more bee activity this spring, especially because we're in a super bloom.
We've had a wet, long winter, We've had a mild spring.
The flowers are loving it, and so are the bees. But with that,
they're gonna be some incidents of the africanized more aggressive bees, you know,
getting on people's nerves. Okay, that's fair. Now, sometimes depending
on circumstances at homes, I understand that artificial turf should be installed in some
places. I get that meadows are also pitched as things. What are something
if you have a meadow, if you're wildflowers, if you're doing that California
poppy thing, and you have that super bloom. What are some typical things
that might come up for homeowners when it comes to bees, and how should
we prep for it? Because I'm listening hard here, Well, you know
what really nothing, I mean, you're just gonna you know, you're gonna
have bees. Bees on wildflowers. That's what they are. They're a keystone
species. Without them, we lose easily, almost instantly, a third of
our food supply. And so they're out there doing their job. They're interested
in the flowers, not you. That's the most important thing that everybody needs
to realize that bees. Yes, people get stung by a bee, you
know, every day, you know, somewhere. But bees are not on
the attack. They really really are not. When bees get aggressive, all
they are doing is defending their own colony and their own interest in that sense.
So I just want everybody to realize that, and a lot of things
get to you know, pushed in these stories like man attacked by a swarm
of bees. Actually, that's just patently or technically untrue. A swarm everybody
should know, Yeah, in beekeeping parlance is a very very specific biological thing.
It is not simply a word that we use to describe a group of
bees. A swarm, and we're talking about twenty thousand plus bees. Is
a colony that has divided, that's multiplying, and half of that colony has
now left its safe home and is out there unprotected, looking for a new
home. Because they are doing that, you may see a massive cloud of
bees move across your property temporarily just for a few minutes. They are not
interested in you. Swarms do not attack people. Now, if you find
yourself standing in the middle of one, just stand still, walk away calmly.
If you start swatting at them, yeah, and you might get some
reactions. But I have actually stood in a cloud swarm before. I've had
bees literally bouncing off my chest, in my shoulders, not a single sting.
And the reason is they have other things on their mind. All they
want to do is find a new home. That's a swarm. What people
see in the news is what we call a little attack party, which is
when a hive sends out a small group of bees to defend the hive from
a perceived threat. Now European honey bees, the attack parties are about men.
Maybe you have to maybe four to six bees at the most. It's
that's it. The Africanized aggressive Africanized colonies, that's the problem. When they
get disturbed, you could send out fifty two, one hundred bees and that's
what we saw an Encino is what we saw in Pasadena the week before.
These are incredibly rare. I just want to remind everybody the reason they're in
the news is because they're amazingly rare. That's why their news worthy. Because
they're rare, you don't have to panic about it. You knew I was
going to nerd out on the nomenclature there, but I was going to go
with clatch or huddle of bees. You nailed it thirty seconds. When you
see these colonies or you have them near your house, who should you call
and why? Well, okay, so there's two different things. As quickly
as I can say, if you see bees moving in and out of a
strange area or structure, like maybe the corner of your roof or something like
that, then you've actually got a hive that's forming. Okay, that's a
home that's forming where it shouldn't be. You should call a bee removal service,
not a pesticide company, not a pest control company. You want to
call a removal service because a humane one, one that's interested in rehoming those
bees. But also they're going to clear them out. They're going to take
away all of the hive, all of the honey, so that you don't
have further structural problems with an unattended bees wax and honey in your walls.
However, if it's just a clump of bees outside somewhere, hanging on a
tree, hanging on a wall, do nothing. In about twenty four to
forty eight hours, they will be gone. That is that swarm that I
was talking about. There's a new queen in the middle there. That's swarm.
They're looking for a home. They're only temporarily parked in your yard.
Fascinating stuff, it really is. Dean. Thank you so much for the
time every week. I love talking with you on Friday. Thank you so
much. Love it, buddy, Take care. That's Kfi's house, whisper
Dean Sharp And if you're not following him on the Graham, go ahead.
It's at home with Dean of course KFI am six forty dot com if you
want to find him there. Just a few minutes ago, the job's report
came in and it came in way hotter than expected. Employers added three hundred
and thirty nine thousand jobs in May. That's the latest sign that this booming
labor market could help keep the country from slipping into a recession. I'm on
the fence with that one. We all expected one hundred and ninety thousand jobs.
We got three hundred and thirty nine thousand. Now, the unemployment rate
did rise to three point seven percent last month. That's up from three point
four percent. That's not as bad as it may sound. That just means
that there are more people looking for work. The labor participation rate is up.
Last night, the Senate passed a bill that would suspend the nation's debt
ceiling for two years. Potential default on paying the government's bills has been avoided.
The vote was sixty three to thirty six, with the bill now headed
to President Biden's desk. And the head of Twitter's trust and Safety team is
resigning. Ella Irwin oversaw content moderation for the social media platform until yesterday,
when she told Reuters that she had stepped down and declined to give an answer
as to why it is five fifty one On your wake Up Call. We're
going to wrap up today's wake Up Call with ABC's Jim Ryan. We're gonna
talk about the hurricane season, those storms that roll into the US on the
East and Gulf coast, but the ripples those go across the country. Good
morning, Jim, They really do, Jason. Even here in land lockdowll
Is, Fort Worth, we occasionally get tropical storm for US winds and heavy
heavy rain coming from those storms that come ashore way down in Houston or Corpus
Christi, or or far far away from Texas, even in Louisiana. So
yeah, it's something that the millions of people have to be concerned about,
have to be watching, even if they don't live right along the coast.
Jason. So, Jim, what are the expectations coming into I think that
if I remember correctly tomorrow we start yesterday, we reported that hurricane season began
June June first, right, So what are we expecting. Yes, well,
the expectation from noise that we'll have as many as seventeen total named storms
this year, which is pretty average. It's fairly typical, at least for
the last few years. The number has gone up pretty dramatically in the last
few decades. Used to be that if you heard twelve to seventeen total name
storms, that'd be kind of a freak out factor. Five to nine could
become hurricanes, and as many as one to four could become major hurricanes.
Those are the ones with winds of one hundred eleven miles per hour or more.
And in fact, on this second day of hurricane season twenty twenty three
Atlantic hurricane season, we have had two tropical depressions. One popped up yesterday
in the Gulf, the other one popped up there today in the Gulf of
Mexico. It's not expected that either of these is going to grow into anything
like a hurricane, but that's how these storms start. They start as tropical
depressions out there, or tropical waves or disturbances, and eventually could grow into
hurricanes. So these two are just going to putter out and not do anything.
But it's a reminder that people need to be aware. I get you.
And then here on the West coast, we're thinking about the marine layer
and you've already got tropical depressions or something close to a tropical depression coming in.
On June the second Jim, the National Hurricane Center apparently has some new
products. Now this surprised me. What are these new products that are supposed
to help people in danger zone? Well, they callum products. I mean
it's Tropical Weather Outlook graphic is something that no Way issues all the time.
It gives you some warning, a five day warning the tropical weather it might
be coming. Well that's been expanded now, it's been refined somewhat, and
now that that forecast will go out seven days. So people who live along
the coast or live out there and the Florida Keys, they can watch this
and know in plenty of time, a week's time that they need to heed
the warnings. Or if you live in Los Angeles and you're planning on going
out to Orlando, you know, for a vacation or something, you can
watch that and you know that that way you won't lose a week of your
vacation time if it looks like there's going to be a hurricane there, change
your plans. Very good call right there. And if I remember, Jim,
are you based out of Texas? I know you travel the country in
the world, but you're based in DFW, right, correct. So how
long have you been dealing with these hurricane seasons and how does your family cope
with them? Well, I mean I've been covering them since nineteen eighty nine.
The first one was Hurricane Gilbert down on the Texas coast, and there
have been thirty since then that I've covered. But yeah, I mean,
it's just a matter of being ready for the torrential rain that can come with
these storms if they turn into tropical depressions and had inland, and very often
they do. Like these storms that come through at New Orleans, We'll do
a lot of damage there, but then they weaken down to tropical depressions.
Then they might park themselves over Tennessee and sit there and rain themselves out for
days or even weeks and cause horrific flooding. Flooding is the major threat from
hurricanes every time. And there is a new a flood inundation map that it's
going to be released this year, and that will show you the greatest flood
risk that's going on. Well, I lived in Houston for sixteen or seven
years and then Corpus Christie and everything like, and so flood map makes a
ton of sense in the Bayou City. Sure, you've been covering, as
you said, you've covered thirty storms, seventeen expected this year for name storms.
How does that rank as far as a yearly supply. It's pretty typical.
It's pretty typical at least these days. I mean a couple of decades
ago that would be very high. But the forecast now is fairly average for
the last few years, with twelve to seventeen total name storms and as many
as one before major hurricanes somewhere in between. We could get five to name
five to nine hurricanes. Then that's you know, we've already had a couple
of tropical depressions. On this second day of hurricane season, they're just gonna,
you know, peter out there in the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.
ABC's Jim Ryan based in DFW, thank you so much for your time and
for sharing some contacts there with your expertise and covering these storms. Jim.
Thanks Jay. Absolutely. Let's crank out a couple more stories before we get
to Bill Handle on the news. Let's check on a proposed reduction of corrections
officers at a state mental hospital in Highland, and it's causing concerns for local
law enforcement. Same Bernardino County Sheriff Shannondika says the patent hospital sits next to
a densely populated neighborhood with an elementary school and the Yamava casino, and the
sheriff says on July third, the state wants to reduce the number officers from
seventy one to forty four and replace them with technology. So losing the security
officers on the perimeter is one of the concerns I have just for the overall
safety the community, Dicas says, people who are unfit for trial or in
the hospital, along with murderers and rapists. Dicas, politicians, and casino
owners have all sent letters to the state. Steve Gregory knafin cal State Fullerton
police say parents are being targeted in a new scam for cash. Three cases
of attempted scams have been reported in the last week where people tried to trick
parents into sending cash to bail their kids out of jail. Student Tristan Zelden
says his peers it should stay vigilant around campus. Yeah, there's the people
who would go around campus and promoting different things or wanting you to sign petitions
and stuff like that. I see it clear to that just because I don't
know those people don't they could be genuine, they could not be. Campus
police say the scammers have done their homework and the department is still investigating how
the parents numbers were retrieved. Polices. Police say officers will never call asking
for money canines can keep their jobs in California for now. A bill in
the state of that would have banned the use of the police dogs has been
put into the so called inactive file. Assembly Member Corey Jackson says the bill
did not have enough support. Police officers argued against it because they say dogs
help de escalate situations and prevent more serious violence or deaths. Now, more
Americans plan to spend more this summer at topcashback dot Com survey shows fifty six
percent of those polled will be dolling out more cash this summer than in twenty
twenty two. Forty eight percent say they'll be spending their money on trips,
Forty six percent will spend it on clothes, happy hours, barbecues, and
other social activities. About a third or planning to do home improvement. Of
those traveling, thirty seven percent say they'll spend a thousand dollars or more.
About a third will travel over the Fourth of July holiday, twenty five percent
over Labor Day. The survey also shows forty one percent plan to start their
holiday shopping in the summer. Fourteen percent already have. Amy King KFI news
Okay Nicola Yokich posted his ninth triple double of the postseason last night, as
the Nuggets defeated the Heat one oh four to ninety three. That was Game
one of the NBA Finals. The two time MVP Yokich finished with twenty seven
points, ten rebounds, and fourteen assists in his NBA Finals debut, and
Jamal Murray poured in twenty six as well. They led it by many as
twenty four in that win in Game one. I know, I'm just keeping
an eye on it because the Lakers aren't in it, the Warriors aren't in
it, and I still want to see if the Nuggets can win their first
NBA Finals channel. I think it's great. I think it's great. Southern
California weather from KFI starting out today and once again it's low, clouds in
fog later today, partly cloudy skies, highs around seventy for Inland, LA
and OC. Farther inland, the highest could hit the mid seventies. Highs
it the beaches in the mid to high sixties today. Tonight, It's gonna
be a little cloudy at sundown and then some fog moves in overnight. Lows
in the mid fifties tomorrow, partly cloudy skies and slighting warmer temperatures. Pretty
steady out there right now. Seal Beaches at fifty nine degrees, Anaheim Hills
is at sixty towards also at sixty and Hollywood is at fifty eight degrees.
We lead local live from the kf I twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Jason
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