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Speaker 2: wake Up Call. More than twelve hundred Waymo driverless vehicles
Speaker 2: are being taken off the streets, at least temporarily. The
Speaker 2: right hailing company that's started operating in La late last
Speaker 2: year says a software defect has caused the autonomous cabs
Speaker 2: to crash into things. The crashes have been minor, no
Speaker 2: one's been hurt. Weimo says it has a fix for
Speaker 2: the issue. I'm going to hold off on taking those
Speaker 2: Weymos just for a little while longer. La Counties DA
Speaker 2: says signs are going to be posted in windows and
Speaker 2: businesses around the county warning bad guys that they'll be
Speaker 2: arrested for stealing. The yellow and red stickers say thieves
Speaker 2: will be arrested and prosecuted for retail theft.
Speaker 3: D A.
Speaker 2: Hoffman says since mid December, under Prop thirty six, which
Speaker 2: makes some shoplifting thefts felonies, more than one thousand people
Speaker 2: have been arrested. The President continues his WorldWind overseas trip.
Speaker 2: He's spending some time with US troops serving at the
Speaker 2: largest US military base in the Middle East. It's in Cutter.
Speaker 2: We'll find out what else is on the agenda for
Speaker 2: President Trump today with ABC's Jordana Miller. That's coming up
Speaker 2: at five twenty. Are you a napper? We know what
Speaker 2: the ideal amount of time you should rest your eyes
Speaker 2: is for maximum benefit and share that with you at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour. Birth right citizenship lands before
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court today ABC. Stephen Portnoy's going to tell
Speaker 2: us what's on the line and what to expect. That's
Speaker 2: coming up at five point fifty. So our show is packed.
Speaker 2: You don't want to miss any of it, So let's
Speaker 2: get started. With some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Workers at hotels and
Speaker 2: the airport in la have won first approval from the
Speaker 2: city council to get a big raise.
Speaker 4: The minimum hourly wage goes up in July to twenty
Speaker 4: two fifty and will grow each year till it's thirty
Speaker 4: dollars an hour in twenty twenty eight. But for now,
Speaker 4: ELI Tourism CEO Adam Burk says businesses could suffer because
Speaker 4: people aren't visiting or spending money here.
Speaker 5: We've seen a reduction of twenty five percent from Canada,
Speaker 5: twenty one percent from South Korea, sixteen from India.
Speaker 4: The workers say they deserve to make more as the
Speaker 4: city prepares to host the world for the Olympics. The businesses,
Speaker 4: including the ones who protested against the rays, will also
Speaker 4: have to pay more for employee healthcare. Mikeel monks KFI.
Speaker 2: News it's not a final it's not finally done yet.
Speaker 2: The city council is going to have to take another
Speaker 2: vote on it that's coming up in the next couple
Speaker 2: of weeks. Governor Newsom has announced a twelve billion dollar
Speaker 2: budget shortfall for next fiscal year. He blames economic uncertainty
Speaker 2: from President Trump's policies and expected Medicaid cuts.
Speaker 6: California is under assault. United States of America in many
Speaker 6: respects is under assault because we have a president that's
Speaker 6: been reckless in terms of assaulting those growth engines. Has
Speaker 6: created a climate of deep uncertainty.
Speaker 2: Newsom has proposed a temporary pause on free healthcare for
Speaker 2: illegal immigrants to help deal with the budget shortfall. He
Speaker 2: also wants to increase savings in the state's eighteen billion
Speaker 2: dollar emergency fund. The state's budget has to be approved
Speaker 2: by June fifteenth. Two people have been found dead at
Speaker 2: a homeless camp in LA's Westlake area. One of them
Speaker 2: is a mother who had recently been reported missing. This woman,
Speaker 2: who lives in the area, says the deaths should serve
Speaker 2: as a wake up call for the city to get
Speaker 2: people off the streets.
Speaker 1: Drogs around here.
Speaker 7: This new if he have for seven years, this never
Speaker 7: happened to before, never never, never, never saw how would
Speaker 7: somebody do something? The city have to know about.
Speaker 2: This prolim The deaths were discovered on Monday. The woman's
Speaker 2: body was in a tent that was locked from the inside.
Speaker 2: She had apparently been mauled or even partially eaten by
Speaker 2: some dogs. The man's body was found nearby. Family members
Speaker 2: say they weren't able to get a hold of the
Speaker 2: woman for several days. A Metro committee has signed off
Speaker 2: on a plan to study a water taxi between San
Speaker 2: Pedro and Long Beach for the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
Speaker 2: Supervisor Jennis Hans says it would make moving around during
Speaker 2: the Olympics safer, more fun, and less dependent on buses
Speaker 2: and trains. Supervisors are going to vote on the plan
Speaker 2: at the end of the month. I can tell you
Speaker 2: we took some sort of a water taxi thing when
Speaker 2: we were in Paris along the Sene River to go
Speaker 2: see stuff. It was very cool and Jenni's Han's right,
Speaker 2: it was fun, kind of a fun different way to
Speaker 2: take it around. Let's say good morning to ABC's Peter
Speaker 2: Harlambus's reader. Sean Combe's sex trafficking trial continues in New
Speaker 2: York today, so we want to take a little look
Speaker 2: back at what happened on day three when Combs's ex
Speaker 2: Cassie Ventura took the stand for a second day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good morning. It was really an intense thing of
Speaker 3: testony Yesterday, we saw Ventura continue to testify about how
Speaker 3: this relationship really turned violent and toxic, as she feared
Speaker 3: that she would basically have blackmail released against her if
Speaker 3: she ever turned on Combs, and how she was kind
Speaker 3: of perpetually subject to violence. Dura's actually got to see
Speaker 3: a bit of that blackmail evidence. They were able to
Speaker 3: show still images of videos of these so called freak offs.
Speaker 3: This is really central evidence in this case. Ventura argues
Speaker 3: that really she was compelled to do a lot of
Speaker 3: this because basically, if she ever disobeyed Combs, he threatened
Speaker 3: to release those videos and basically destroy her reputation.
Speaker 2: Okay, and then today the defense is going to take over,
Speaker 2: So Cassie's on the stand again today, correct.
Speaker 3: That's right, So it can be the first day of
Speaker 3: cross examination. The sense lawyers are hoping to repaint this
Speaker 3: relationship is one defined by kind of mutual jealousy and
Speaker 3: disdain for each other, so kind of painting this as
Speaker 3: a money grab. Yesterday we actually learned for the first
Speaker 3: time that that civil settlement, that civil lawsuit that Mentora
Speaker 3: filed in twenty twenty three, the thing that really led
Speaker 3: to this criminal investigation was actually selled for twenty million dollars.
Speaker 3: I expect that to kind of be a key theme
Speaker 3: that Sense attorneys are going to bring up time and
Speaker 3: time again during today's cross examination.
Speaker 2: Well, and I would imagine they'll also be talking about
Speaker 2: the ten years that their relationship went on. You know,
Speaker 2: if things were so bad. You can see prosecution I'm
Speaker 2: just you know, guess, guestimating right now, but you can
Speaker 2: see the prosecution kind of ramping up saying, well, if
Speaker 2: it was so bad, why'd you stay for ten years?
Speaker 2: And you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: I think that's exactly right. I think, you know, they're
Speaker 3: going to say this was a relationship that was fueled
Speaker 3: by things like jealousy an underlying love, and this is
Speaker 3: a thing they kind of brought up in their opening statement.
Speaker 3: They kind of suggest here that Ventura at the end
Speaker 3: of the day really just wanted to be married to Combs,
Speaker 3: and that things turned really sour at the end because
Speaker 3: she realized that was never really a possibility. They're trying
Speaker 3: to paint this not as a story of you know,
Speaker 3: a toxic cycle of violence and threats, but or they're
Speaker 3: rather one of jealousy an unrequited love at the end
Speaker 3: of the day. That might be difficult after what the
Speaker 3: jury just heard for the last two days, but that
Speaker 3: seems to be their goal today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Peter, the prosecution of course presented a very
Speaker 2: harsh picture of Comb's and his kind of sex, drug
Speaker 2: and rock and roll lifestyle, and us putting it mildly.
Speaker 2: But are they making the case to convict him of
Speaker 2: sex trafficking charges?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's at the end of the day
Speaker 3: the question everyone is asking here that you know, of course,
Speaker 3: Combs at this point has been painted as a pretty
Speaker 3: terrible individual, someone who's admittedly committed acts of domestic violence,
Speaker 3: according to his defend attorneys, who had a drug problem,
Speaker 3: who was not, by any means a saint. But they're
Speaker 3: saying none of this necessarily equates the six track if
Speaker 3: singing or racketeering. And to a certain degree, the testimony
Speaker 3: of Ventura herself doesn't go to the heart of those
Speaker 3: criminal charges. It's laying the foundation for this entire case.
Speaker 3: The story that kind of drives this, I think later
Speaker 3: testimony from people who witness this, who enabled this kind
Speaker 3: of abuse, people who worked for Comes, for example, or
Speaker 3: prevented her from being able to get help. I think
Speaker 3: those people are really going to be the witnesses that
Speaker 3: allegibly help paint this picture of a criminal enterprise.
Speaker 2: Okay, and how long is do we know how long
Speaker 2: the trial's expected to last.
Speaker 3: It's expected to go about six to eight weeks, so
Speaker 3: it could go all the way until July fourth, So I.
Speaker 2: Would imagine it's going to get very ugly as we continue.
Speaker 2: Peter Harlamus from ABC, thank you so much, appreciate the information.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ongoing
Speaker 2: problems at the Newark Airport have the FAA and airlines
Speaker 2: meeting to try to figure out solutions. One problem is
Speaker 2: a lack of air traffic control. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
Speaker 2: says offering incentives to controllers may keep them from retiring
Speaker 2: or leaving. We're going to give them twenty percent of
Speaker 2: their bonus up front.
Speaker 6: Again, you've got to pay people to stick around and
Speaker 6: ru in an emergency situation.
Speaker 2: Duffy says he wants the airport to return to twenty
Speaker 2: eight arrivals and twenty eight departures each hour. Newark Airport
Speaker 2: has been dogged by delays and flight cancelations. The FAA
Speaker 2: says it's in need of technology upgrades. President Trump has
Speaker 2: asked Katar to help ease tensions with Iran. At a
Speaker 2: state dinner yesterday, Trump said the situation is perilous and
Speaker 2: in his words, we want to do the right thing.
Speaker 2: Earlier in the day, Trump said he wants to make
Speaker 2: a deal to end Iran's nuclear program. We're going to
Speaker 2: be talking with George Doannah Miller with ABC in just
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes to find out what else is
Speaker 2: on the agenda for today as he makes his way
Speaker 2: to the UAE. The Supreme Court is set to hear
Speaker 2: arguments this morning over President Trump's executive order to end
Speaker 2: birthright citizenship.
Speaker 8: The case before the High Court isn't directly about the
Speaker 8: constitutionality of the order, but the scope with which lower
Speaker 8: courts can issue nationwide injunctions. Trump's order to end birthright citizenship,
Speaker 8: which is generally accepted as the law under the Constitution's
Speaker 8: fourteenth Amendment, drew immediate lawsuits, and three lower courts have
Speaker 8: issued injunctions. Now it's up to the Supreme Court to
Speaker 8: decide if the lower courts really have that kind of authority.
Speaker 8: Mark Mayfield, Kofi News.
Speaker 2: A woman in Texas has been accused of buying ammunition
Speaker 2: and tactical gear for her son, who was allegedly planning
Speaker 2: what investigators say was mass targeted violence at his middle
Speaker 2: school in San Antonio, ABC's Alex stones As. The mom
Speaker 2: was arrested Monday.
Speaker 7: Her son was found earlier this year to have had
Speaker 7: a map of the school labeled suicide route. At the time,
Speaker 7: authorities found he had a fascination with mass killers. It
Speaker 7: was his grandmother who called police on Monday. They say
Speaker 7: y had ammunition, body armor, and in his bedroom even
Speaker 7: an explosive device.
Speaker 2: The boy had been staying with his grandmother and told
Speaker 2: police that his mom had guns and ammo at her house.
Speaker 2: We've learned to make gold, just not very much of it.
Speaker 9: Alchemists from medieval times would dream of turning lead into gold,
Speaker 9: but modern scientists have done just that. The basic difference
Speaker 9: between lead and gold is that an atom of lead
Speaker 9: has exactly three more protons than gold does. Physicists working
Speaker 9: at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland were smashing lead
Speaker 9: atoms into each other at near light speed, where they
Speaker 9: produced gold turns out. The atoms didn't smash into each other,
Speaker 9: but just missed each other, creating an electrical field, causing
Speaker 9: the atoms to kick three protons off, turning the lead
Speaker 9: in two small amounts of gold. Very small as in
Speaker 9: twenty nine trillions of a gram. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 2: Not exactly a gold rush.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: The Mary Tyler Moore collection is up for auction, featuring
Speaker 2: memorabilia from both her show and the Dick Van Dyke Show.
Speaker 10: The auction features nearly three hundred pieces of artwork, memorabilia,
Speaker 10: and decorative objects from Mary Tyler Moore's Greenwich, Connecticut home.
Speaker 10: They include the wall mounted m from Mary Richard's apartment,
Speaker 10: portraits by Peter Max, and an unused ticket that the
Speaker 10: MTM series finale in nineteen seventy seven. Doyle Auctioneers and
Speaker 10: appraisers will have select items on display at Doyle Beverly
Speaker 10: Hills May sixteenth to the twentieth and Doyle, New York
Speaker 10: starting May thirtieth, before a live auction June fourth. Dude,
Speaker 10: Mark Ronner, hay FI News.
Speaker 2: I had forgotten about Mary's M that she had in
Speaker 2: her apartment time. I'm wondering if that's what inspired my
Speaker 2: mom Because my mom has k's and she likes to
Speaker 2: collect things, so she now she has a lot of k's,
Speaker 2: and then she started giving me a's. So I have
Speaker 2: several a's around my house. I do have a W.
Speaker 2: You do have a W.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's kind of fun, kind of fun. On
Speaker 2: a twelve to three vote, the La City Council's given
Speaker 2: first approval to a plan to raise the minimum wage
Speaker 2: for hotel and airport workers to thirty dollars an hour
Speaker 2: by twenty twenty eight. Hotel owners and businesses are warning
Speaker 2: that that's going to raise labor costs and force some
Speaker 2: businesses to shut down. They say tourism numbers are already down.
Speaker 2: City council is going to take a second vote on
Speaker 2: the plan. May twenty third, John Comb's ex girlfriend will
Speaker 2: take stand again today as the rap mogul's federal sex
Speaker 2: trafficking trial resumes. The defense will begin its cross examination
Speaker 2: of Cassie Ventura, who detailed yesterday how she says Colmbs
Speaker 2: raped her in twenty eighteen. Men are twice as likely
Speaker 2: as women to die from what is called broken heart syndrome.
Speaker 2: New research out of the University of Arizona studied what
Speaker 2: is officially called Taco Subu cardiomyopathy. The studied it for
Speaker 2: four years. The condition is fatal for eleven percent of
Speaker 2: men compared to five percent of women. At six oh
Speaker 2: five Tandle on the news, President Putin is a no
Speaker 2: show for peace talks with Ukraine's President Zelenski in Turkey.
Speaker 2: Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's Jordana Miller
Speaker 2: in Jerusalem. Jordana, President Trump is continuing his world win
Speaker 2: trip around the Middle East. He didn't go to Syria,
Speaker 2: but Syria's interim president came to him and the two met.
Speaker 2: Tell us what happened.
Speaker 11: That's right, for the first time in twenty five years,
Speaker 11: an American president sat down face to face with the
Speaker 11: leader of Syria. And you know, this leader, just several
Speaker 11: months ago, was basically labeled one of the worst terrorists
Speaker 11: right in the region. He used to be part of
Speaker 11: al Qaeda, and then he you know, he led a
Speaker 11: kind of a group that broke off from al Qaeda
Speaker 11: and was part a very active part of the civil
Speaker 11: war in Syria for years and years, and then managed
Speaker 11: to lead the final the final campaign that brought down
Speaker 11: President Basha Assad just several months ago, and he is
Speaker 11: well now many people call him a Jihattist, but in
Speaker 11: a suit right, and he's faced with many challenges, and
Speaker 11: it feels it appears that President Trump wants to, you know,
Speaker 11: give it a break, give him a chance to try
Speaker 11: to really create a new kind of Syria, one that
Speaker 11: is not aligned with Iran and Russia and China right,
Speaker 11: which was the case for decades, right, but one that's
Speaker 11: aligned with the West, and that means obviously with America,
Speaker 11: but ultimately down the line also aligned with the Gulf
Speaker 11: countries and with Israel. So strategically, what the President seems
Speaker 11: to be doing is smart move countries step in and
Speaker 11: try to take over and have alliances and interests in Syria.
Speaker 11: Whether it will work, I think, is an open question,
Speaker 11: and maybe whether it's being done a little too fast.
Speaker 11: Some will say nonetheless, it's an absolute change in US
Speaker 11: policy and could really shift things here in the Middle
Speaker 11: East in the long, long term.
Speaker 2: Interesting Jordana that you say that he was considered, you know,
Speaker 2: the worst of the worst, but still apparently better than
Speaker 2: Bashar al Asad. You know, it's sort of an enemy
Speaker 2: of my enemy is my friend kind of situation.
Speaker 11: It sounds like, right, I mean, Basha al Asade was
Speaker 11: a butcher, right, I mean he you know, we are
Speaker 11: so focused on what happens in Gaza or Ukraine. You know,
Speaker 11: there's just no comparison to thousands of civilians in Syria
Speaker 11: that the regime killed to stay in power over a decade,
Speaker 11: by the way, and I'm not sure anyone realized how
Speaker 11: weak the Siran regime was until al Sharha led that
Speaker 11: last campaign. And obviously he's not only ruthless, but pretty
Speaker 11: smart because he looked at what was happening in the
Speaker 11: region Russia was distracted with its warn Ukraine, because Russia
Speaker 11: really propped up the Syrian regime for many years. Right
Speaker 11: after the after the Year of Strip Spring started in
Speaker 11: twenty eleven, he saw that Iran was weakened, right, which
Speaker 11: was another huge backer of theory, and he charged forward
Speaker 11: and very quickly the Syrian army fell and Bashar al
Speaker 11: Assad got on a plane to Russia.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 11: So he you know, he's smart, and he's vowing to
Speaker 11: create a Syria that protects minorities and you know, is
Speaker 11: friendly to women. I think all of those promises found
Speaker 11: because he is again he comes from the ilk of
Speaker 11: a very hard line Islamis's background, which we've seen around
Speaker 11: the world, is not friendly to Christians, Drus, other minorities
Speaker 11: or Jews. And then of course uh has a lot
Speaker 11: of problems with women. Right, So we're gonna have to
Speaker 11: wait and see. The president is taking a gamble, really yeah,
Speaker 11: but maybe it will pay.
Speaker 2: Off and we will be watching that one. Today he
Speaker 2: met with the troops, the US military troops and Qatar.
Speaker 2: I've watched part of that speeches. I was getting ready
Speaker 2: for work and then he's off to the UAE in
Speaker 2: about Abu Dhabi today, So what's what's on the agenda
Speaker 2: for today?
Speaker 11: That's right, He'll be meeting with the with the leaders,
Speaker 11: the Amaranthi leaders in Abu Dhabi, right, And the UAE
Speaker 11: has really become one of the most prominent and important
Speaker 11: golf countries. And the UAE made you know, signed a
Speaker 11: normalization deal with Israel at the end of Trump's first term,
Speaker 11: and so Trump has a long standing relationship already with
Speaker 11: the UAE. There are more business deals there to cut,
Speaker 11: whether that's with Boeing or others. And again we see
Speaker 11: the president trying to really strengthen his alliance with the
Speaker 11: Golf countries, and it couldn't come at a better time.
Speaker 11: And it's related to the negotiations that are happening with Iran, right,
Speaker 11: because what unites everyone in this region is their desire
Speaker 11: to curb around nuclear ambitions, curb their support of terror,
Speaker 11: and curb their geopolitical aspirations to control this region.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 11: The Iranians want to be the leader of the Middle East, well,
Speaker 11: the Gulf and Katar and the Saudis of course, and
Speaker 11: of course Israel. They have different ideas, right. They want
Speaker 11: this to be an integrated and stable region and not
Speaker 11: one that is dominated by Iran.
Speaker 2: Right. And we will be watching and see what comes
Speaker 2: out of it. ABC's Jordanah Miller in Jerusalem. Thanks so
Speaker 2: much for the info. Appreciated as always, tux Enemy yep,
Speaker 2: all right. Santa Monica College has confirmed that a student
Speaker 2: has been taken into custody by Ice and is being deported.
Speaker 2: Officials say the student was picked up near his residence
Speaker 2: in West LA last week. The school added there has
Speaker 2: been no federal Immigration enforcement presence on any of its campuses.
Speaker 2: A new report suggests LA's financial troubles could end if
Speaker 2: more housing is built in some areas. Streets for All.
Speaker 4: Is an organization advocating for more housing built near transit
Speaker 4: stops like for buses and trains. The group's josh of
Speaker 4: Vredevoged says these areas tend to be off limits because
Speaker 4: of zoning limitations, but it would be a windfall for
Speaker 4: LA It would.
Speaker 2: Increase property tax income by around one billion dollars. Just
Speaker 2: under one billion dollars.
Speaker 4: A bill in the state Senate would allow for more
Speaker 4: up zoning, as they call it, paving a way for
Speaker 4: more homes with access to public transportation and more money
Speaker 4: for the city coffers, which are about a billion dollars
Speaker 4: short this year. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: A former DoorDash delivery driver from Newport Beach, has pleaded
Speaker 2: guilty to stealing two and a half million dollars in
Speaker 2: a delivery scam. The guy allegedly got the company to
Speaker 2: pay for deliveries that were never made. He pleaded guilty
Speaker 2: in federal court to a single count of conspiracy to
Speaker 2: commit wire fraud. He admitted to working with three others
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty and twenty one to defraud DoorDash one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand illegal cigarettes have been seized from
Speaker 2: a cruise ship that arrived in Long Beach. US Customs
Speaker 2: and Border Protection agents say two women traveling together from Ensinata, Mexico,
Speaker 2: had seven hundred and forty nine cartons of illegal cigarettes
Speaker 2: in ten pieces of luggage. The two were arrested after
Speaker 2: they failed to prove that they were permitted to import
Speaker 2: the tobacco products that are worth about sixty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Cases of whooping cough in California have risen, with five
Speaker 2: hundred and ninety reported by the end of April. Doctor
Speaker 2: Don Bucklin says that's a thirty five percent increase from
Speaker 2: this time last year, and infants are especially at risk.
Speaker 7: Do you cough hard enough that you whoop, and that's
Speaker 7: where the name comes from, whooping cough, because you cough
Speaker 7: until you can't breathe.
Speaker 3: And then you can kick a bigger than they call
Speaker 3: out a whoop.
Speaker 2: Whooping cough can spread between people within three to six feet.
Speaker 2: It begins like a cold, but then the cough intensifies.
Speaker 2: Buckland says the best protection is vaccination, especially for the
Speaker 2: very young and the elderly. More than twelve one hundred
Speaker 2: Starbucks workers across the country have gone on strike to
Speaker 2: protest a new dress code. Starting this week, Baristas have
Speaker 2: to wear a solid black shirt with khaki, black or
Speaker 2: blue denim bottoms. Starbucks says the new code will make
Speaker 2: their green aprons stand out. A union group says the
Speaker 2: company unilaterally enacted the policy without bargaining. It's a black
Speaker 2: shirt for goodness sakes, well, who pays for it? I
Speaker 2: don't know, but I have lots of black shirts. I
Speaker 2: can wear black shirts, and they're right. It does make
Speaker 2: the green pot of course it does, all right. HBO
Speaker 2: Max is back.
Speaker 12: HBO became HBO Max, then it became Max. Well, now
Speaker 12: it's going to be HBO Max again. Warner Brothers Discovery
Speaker 12: has announced its renaming its streaming platform this summer, after
Speaker 12: ditching the name two years ago. The change comes as
Speaker 12: Warner Brothers Discovery looks to scale back its volume of
Speaker 12: content and focus on quality programming and storytelling.
Speaker 2: Deborah mark Koffi News internews SO says the States facing
Speaker 2: a twelve billion dollars state budget deficit for the next
Speaker 2: fiscal year. In his presentation of his revised three hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty two billion dollar budget, he said the deficit
Speaker 2: is because of what he calls the Trump slump caused
Speaker 2: by tariffs. It's the third year the state is faced
Speaker 2: a deficit and we'll have to reduce funding for state programs.
Speaker 2: US Applications for jobless benefits held steady last week as
Speaker 2: layoffs stay low despite uncertainty over Trump tariffs. Three sixth
Speaker 2: graders in Fountain Valley been found with a semi automatic
Speaker 2: handgun and ammo on campus. Police say two of the
Speaker 2: three were arrested. The third was taken to the hospital
Speaker 2: was suspected mental health issues. The gun was found Monday
Speaker 2: at VISTAVW Middle School at six o five. Its handle
Speaker 2: on the news thirty bucks an hour for hotel and
Speaker 2: lax workers could be just around the corner. It's time
Speaker 2: to talk about nap time.
Speaker 7: So I am a.
Speaker 2: Napper just because of the weird hours. My dad was
Speaker 2: a huge napper, come home from work every night, sit
Speaker 2: down in his recliner and sleep for half an hour.
Speaker 2: Codo you nap.
Speaker 1: Today?
Speaker 2: I will? Yes, today, you will? Did the baby keep
Speaker 2: you up last night or something? Just during the week,
Speaker 2: Thursdays is usually when I get hit the hardket kind
Speaker 2: of hit critical mass. Yeah, yeah, will what about you?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 4: Every day, every day.
Speaker 13: Literally.
Speaker 2: Okay, So here is if you are a napper, here's
Speaker 2: the best time, according to talker research, to take a
Speaker 2: nap one forty two in the afternoon, which I think
Speaker 2: is weird because who can nap at one forty two
Speaker 2: in the afternoon, But that's what they say is the
Speaker 2: best time, and the best amount of time that people
Speaker 2: aim for is a fifty one minute nap that actually
Speaker 2: seems a little bit long. Researchers say that if people
Speaker 2: nap the wrong way, they end up feeling groggy instead
Speaker 2: of refreshed. And if naps last longer than an hour
Speaker 2: and twenty six minutes, which is thirty five minutes over
Speaker 2: that ideal time, you enter what they call the danger zone.
Speaker 2: Not going to kill you, but you feel more groggy
Speaker 2: and disoriented instead of refreshed. So the other thing that
Speaker 2: the researcher says that even that fifty one minute ideal
Speaker 2: nap time might be a little too long. A twenty
Speaker 2: minute nap is perfect for a recharge without you know,
Speaker 2: getting overtired. I have found that too, Like if I
Speaker 2: A'll lay down, shut my eyes and stuff, and then
Speaker 2: I'll kind of wake up on my own, I go, oh,
Speaker 2: I feel better and look at the clock, I'm like,
Speaker 2: only twenty or thirty minutes is passed. So it's a
Speaker 2: true power nap.
Speaker 4: I guess literally powernap like I can pass out for
Speaker 4: five minutes and be a little more fresh, which is weird,
Speaker 4: but I can do it if I have to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the benefits of a well time nap are clear.
Speaker 2: Fifty five percent of people in the study said they
Speaker 2: felt more productive right after waking up from a nap
Speaker 2: one forty two in the afternoon. Everybody, everybody's gonna leave
Speaker 2: their desks and put their heads down like naptime you
Speaker 2: did in kindergarten. Okay, time to get in your business
Speaker 2: with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho morning, Courtney, I know what I'm
Speaker 2: doing at one to.
Speaker 5: Today, taking a good and alf That's right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 5: exactly with these hours getting up the two forty five
Speaker 5: every day.
Speaker 7: Who I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, So the tariffs are kind of on hold for
Speaker 2: right now, but Walmart says, guess what, we're hiking prices.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so tariffs and all the increasing market turbulence means
Speaker 5: that they can't hold off on the price hikes, and
Speaker 5: they can't hold off on price hikes forever. This report
Speaker 5: is sponsored by Total Wine and more So. Walmart gave
Speaker 5: its earnings update earlier, and the retail giant delivered another
Speaker 5: quarter of solid results. Sales rows four and a half
Speaker 5: percent last quarter that topped Wall Street expectations. Walmart says
Speaker 5: it will do its best to keep prices as low
Speaker 5: as possible, but given the magnitude of the tariffs, they
Speaker 5: aren't able to absorb all of the pressure. A lot
Speaker 5: of their items obviously are coming from China. So Walmart, though,
Speaker 5: tends to serve as a big barometer.
Speaker 2: For the economy.
Speaker 5: So the fact that Walmart performed well but still warning
Speaker 5: investors of a lot of pain ahead when it comes
Speaker 5: to tariffs is not such a good sign for the
Speaker 5: other retailers.
Speaker 2: So we'll be reporting shortly, okay. And Walmart has toys
Speaker 2: and a lot of them do come from China. But
Speaker 2: what about the Hess toy truck? Is that the big
Speaker 2: yellow one?
Speaker 5: No, the toy trucks, the green and the green and
Speaker 5: white ones that everybody sees and we all know the
Speaker 5: jingle that we hear usually.
Speaker 2: Around the holidays. So I got that in your head
Speaker 2: all day today. But says a lot j Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: So Hess has a huge toy hustle.
Speaker 5: Not only do they have those trucks that we get
Speaker 5: during the holidays, but they also sell miniature trucks which
Speaker 5: are rolled out late spring every year. They're small scale
Speaker 5: replicas of the previous holiday toys. Has says the tariffs
Speaker 5: are delaying the release of the mini collection this year.
Speaker 5: It was originally scheduled for June second, but a new
Speaker 5: release date will be announced as soon as possible. No
Speaker 5: word yet on the holiday truck for later this year,
Speaker 5: and I know a lot of collectors are going to
Speaker 5: be looking for that. We actually have a nice little
Speaker 5: collection of hes trucks in our.
Speaker 2: House because how old is your son? My son is nine?
Speaker 2: See perfect people have that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, people started to give them their old hest trucks,
Speaker 5: and so we have a big collection.
Speaker 2: I've been heer attic right now. So they're all nicely displayed.
Speaker 6: Though.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk stops stocks. I know we just got
Speaker 2: unemployment numbers or jobless applications and those seem to be
Speaker 2: holding steady. Is that going to help or hurt or
Speaker 2: make no difference?
Speaker 5: Well, it seems that a lot of people are exhausted
Speaker 5: when it comes to what's been happening with stocks, We've
Speaker 5: seen an epic rebound since all of the volatility in August,
Speaker 5: so we are seeing stocks heading for a lower open.
Speaker 5: SMP futures they're down about eleven points and Dow future
Speaker 5: is down eighty four points. Yesterday, the SMP managed to
Speaker 5: eat out slide gains, rising six points. However, the Dow
Speaker 5: fell eighty nine. But what's a big deal on the
Speaker 5: radar today for Wall Street? Dick's Sport Goods is buying
Speaker 5: Footlocker for two point four billion dollars, so a lot
Speaker 5: of people kicking around that acquisition this morning.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: Dix expects to operate Footlocker as a standalone business and
Speaker 5: maintain the Footlocker brand. Both rely heavily on selling sneakers,
Speaker 5: but when you look at their business model, Footlockers made
Speaker 5: up mostly of smaller locations in cities around the world.
Speaker 5: On the other hand, Dix has a lot of big
Speaker 5: box stores in the suburbs.
Speaker 2: It's a ginormous store all right.
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, But tariffs have been a major headache for
Speaker 5: both companies.
Speaker 2: And for foot Locker. I would imagine a lot of
Speaker 2: shoes come from China, so we'll have to wait and see. Yes,
Speaker 2: and a lot of items too from Vietnam. Yeah, Bloomberg's
Speaker 2: Courtney Donahoe getting in your business every single day. We'll
Speaker 2: do it again tomorrow. Thanks Cortney, definitely see you later,
Speaker 2: all right. The LACD Council is given preliminary approval to
Speaker 2: hike the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to
Speaker 2: thirty bucks an hour in time for the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eight Olympics. The plan would start with a bump to
Speaker 2: twenty two to fifty this July and gradually increase each year.
Speaker 2: Council votes a second time on the increase next Friday.
Speaker 2: LA County DA Nathan Hoffman says Proposition thirty thirty six
Speaker 2: is making a big impact, saying more than one thousand
Speaker 2: retail theft arrests have been made since mid December. The
Speaker 2: voter approved measure reduced the threshold to make some shoplifting
Speaker 2: theft's felonies instead of misdemeanors. Max is becoming HBO Max again.
Speaker 2: Warner Brothers Discovery has announced it as changing its name
Speaker 2: of its streaming service back to HBO Max. It dropped
Speaker 2: the HBO in twenty twenty three. The company says it
Speaker 2: is bringing it back to represent the highest quality in media.
Speaker 2: We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning,
Speaker 2: Starbucks workers are protesting. They've walked off the job over
Speaker 2: black shirts. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen,
Speaker 2: American birthright citizenship gets an audience before the Supreme Court today.
Speaker 2: What are we expecting to hear?
Speaker 13: A high stakes oral argument that gets not just at
Speaker 13: the question of whether the president has the power to
Speaker 13: decide for himself with the Fourteenth Amendment means and how
Speaker 13: it should be applied. They're judges in cities such as
Speaker 13: Los Angeles or San Francisco or Sacramento should have the
Speaker 13: power to restrain a president and prevent him from carrying
Speaker 13: out his actions as he would. The issue is whether
Speaker 13: judges have the power to issue nationwide injunctions or whether
Speaker 13: judges should only have jurisdiction over there geographic areas. And
Speaker 13: that's the issue. It happens that it comes and it
Speaker 13: calls into question the presence Executive order on birthright citizenship.
Speaker 13: But this could have broader spillover implications. The Court very
Speaker 13: rarely here's oral argument in mid May it's a very
Speaker 13: late part of the term, which generally ends in late June.
Speaker 13: So this speaks to the significance of the question and
Speaker 13: the importance of getting a fast answer because so many
Speaker 13: of the president's executive actions have been hung up in
Speaker 13: the courts by judges who have issued these nationwide injunctions.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Stephen, then if I'm hearing you correctly, because
Speaker 2: I remember that from our conversations, like we think the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court is ruling on one thing, but they're actually
Speaker 2: ruling on something kind of different that might be a
Speaker 2: more technical thing. So while we're hearing about American birthright citizenship,
Speaker 2: is it's really, if I'm understanding you, about whether judges
Speaker 2: have the authority to issue the injunctions like have been
Speaker 2: issued against birthright citizenship, not the birth right citizenship itself.
Speaker 13: The law is a complex thing, and the way it
Speaker 13: works slowly, methodically is difficult sometimes to understand. And when
Speaker 13: it comes to the procedure here, that's what's an issue
Speaker 13: because this is playing out, this litigation is playing out
Speaker 13: in a variety of federal courtrooms across the country. There
Speaker 13: are actually three judges in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington State
Speaker 13: that quickly issued injunctions preventing this executive order from taking effect.
Speaker 13: The issue for the High Court now is not whether
Speaker 13: the President has acted properly. It's whether the judges have
Speaker 13: acted properly at this stage of the litigation, issuing injunctions,
Speaker 13: universal nationwide injunctions that the president from taking the actions
Speaker 13: that he would. And the question becomes, all, right, if
Speaker 13: you have hundreds of federal judges, are each one of
Speaker 13: them as powerful as the president?
Speaker 2: That's the issue, okay? And because you mentioned the three Maryland, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and Washington, But then injunctions have also been issued for
Speaker 2: immigration orders that have been made too during this presidency.
Speaker 13: Correct, well, sure, I mean right, and let's not conflate
Speaker 13: these things. I mean, you know each but but they're
Speaker 13: also injunctions having to do with, for example, the firing
Speaker 13: of agency employees, right, and you know, a variety of
Speaker 13: other things where the courts are saying, look, the president
Speaker 13: has taken this action, I judge whatever believe that he's
Speaker 13: exceeded his authority, and I'm going to issue a temporary
Speaker 13: restraining order or preliminary injunction that applies all over the
Speaker 13: country so that the president cannot take this action. The
Speaker 13: issue is whether judges have that authority, okay, and conservatives
Speaker 13: believe that judges are using this authority that they've taken
Speaker 13: upon themselves to an unprecedented degree, and it has raised
Speaker 13: alarm in the conservative legal community. Now, it's really interesting
Speaker 13: that this is the case that arises because the implications
Speaker 13: are tremendous.
Speaker 3: Think of it.
Speaker 13: If the High Court says, a majority of the High
Speaker 13: Court says that judges do not have the power to
Speaker 13: issue injunctions beyond their geographic area, their federal district, well,
Speaker 13: then that could mean that the Justice Department would have
Speaker 13: to go into court to defend the present's actions in
Speaker 13: every single one of the federal districts in the country,
Speaker 13: and there are hundreds of them, and you could have
Speaker 13: judges in different jurisdictions issuing different rulings one way or
Speaker 13: the other. It could be very confusing for the country,
Speaker 13: for the citizens to understand what their rights are. It
Speaker 13: could be very expensive for the Justice Department to make
Speaker 13: its argument everywhere in the country, and ultimately for the
Speaker 13: real people, who are the children yet to be born
Speaker 13: in this birthright citizenship case. It can mean thousands of
Speaker 13: children would be so object to deportation or even rendered
Speaker 13: stateless unable to access passports. So security numbers other benefits
Speaker 13: that Americans enjoy, and that's why legal experts are really
Speaker 13: eyeing this case high stakes and hard to predict, certainly
Speaker 13: before or a argument which starts an hour from now.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're so thankful that we have you, Steven Portnoer,
Speaker 2: to help explain all this because, as you said, it is,
Speaker 2: it's tedious and intricate and detailed and confusing as all
Speaker 2: get out for me. So thank you, Steven. You bet
Speaker 2: all right, let's get back to some of the stories
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Speaker 2: Nearly a third of the inmates released in California during
Speaker 2: the pandemic have landed back in prison. A Calmetters report
Speaker 2: shows that between April of twenty twenty and December of
Speaker 2: twenty one, nearly fifteen thousand prisoners were released, and as
Speaker 2: of January twenty twenty five, about forty six hundred we're
Speaker 2: back behind bars. Mainly for things like gun possession, assault
Speaker 2: in burglary. More serious crimes like murder made up less
Speaker 2: than one percent of the total reincarcerations. The Fountain Valley
Speaker 2: Police Departments released video of a deadly officer involved shooting.
Speaker 14: Twenty six year old Ocean McClintock was shot after a
Speaker 14: foot pursuit. The video shows McClintock wrestle a gun away
Speaker 14: from an officer who was still in her patrol vehicle.
Speaker 14: At one point, the officer can be heard begging for
Speaker 14: her life over The officer's partner then arrived on foot
Speaker 14: and shot McClintock, who had climbed into the police cruiser
Speaker 14: by then. McLintock, who was initially wanted following a carjacking attempt,
Speaker 14: died at the scene. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 2: A real life treasure chest has been found in San Francisco.
Speaker 9: An anonymous group buried a twenty two pound chest somewhere
Speaker 9: in the city five weeks ago. They said the chest
Speaker 9: was worth ten thousand dollars, with half of it in gold.
Speaker 9: The group posted clues online, including to trace the true
Speaker 9: route and venture only at night. To be certain of bearing,
Speaker 9: you'll need to pack a light. The group said Tuesday,
Speaker 9: someone who describes themselves as a value investor in tech
Speaker 9: guy from Europe found the chest and posted a pick
Speaker 9: of the silver box. The group said that was fast
Speaker 9: and gave the answers to their clues. They say they
Speaker 9: paid for it all themselves and would do it again
Speaker 9: if any deep pocketed collaborators were interested. Michael Krozer, KFI News.
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