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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Thursday, June twelfth.
Speaker 3: I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a very busy day. Of course, We've got curfews
Speaker 1: and protests and all kinds of things developing there. And
Speaker 1: then we've got word of a plane crash in India
Speaker 1: that's still developing.
Speaker 3: We will get you the latest on that as it
Speaker 3: comes in.
Speaker 1: And of course the very important stuff we were talking
Speaker 1: yesterday about how I got myself locked out of my
Speaker 1: Facebook account when I tried to update the password, which
Speaker 1: I was supposed to do because there was that data breach,
Speaker 1: and even Apple was saying, hey, change your passwords. I'm
Speaker 1: back in thanks to junior producer Matt well Rich Demiro
Speaker 1: got us started down the road. And then, because I
Speaker 1: am not very techy, Matt who's in training on wake
Speaker 1: Up Call and with KNO this week. He came in
Speaker 1: and walked me through it and by golly, I'm back
Speaker 1: in business. I didn't see anything interesting, but I'm back in.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake up call. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: that plane with two hundred and forty two people on
Speaker 1: board has crashed in western India. The plane was just
Speaker 1: at six hundred and twenty five feet about a couple
Speaker 1: minutes after takeoff when it slammed into a residential area
Speaker 1: and burst into flames. The plane was a Boeing seven
Speaker 1: eighty seven to eight Dreamliner. It was headed to London.
Speaker 1: There's no word on whether there are any survivors. We've
Speaker 1: got ABC's and as De la Katara joining us to
Speaker 1: give us the latest.
Speaker 3: That's coming up in about three minutes.
Speaker 1: Dozens more people have been arrested after a sixth straight
Speaker 1: day of anti ICE protests in downtown La. Many of
Speaker 1: the arrests were for violating curfew, which is in effect
Speaker 1: from eight o'clock at night until six am, so just
Speaker 1: over an hour or under an hour left on the
Speaker 1: curfew for today. Along with the protests in downtown LA,
Speaker 1: there have been protests outside hotels where ICE agents are staying,
Speaker 1: including in Whittier and Pasadena. Forty five thousand grocery store
Speaker 1: workers at Ralph's, Vaughn's, Pavilions, and Albertson's in southern California
Speaker 1: have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The authorization doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean the workers will strike. The protests in LA
Speaker 1: have already spread to a few other cities. Are they
Speaker 1: going to go nationwide? And also, preparations are underway for
Speaker 1: the Army's two hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration. There's big
Speaker 1: parade in Washington, d C. ABC's crime and Terror analyst
Speaker 1: Brad Garrett is going to join us at FIVEOIN twenty
Speaker 1: to talk about security and how that could be an
Speaker 1: extra challenge.
Speaker 3: Tensions rising in Tehran.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jerdana Miller says, the US is getting non essential
Speaker 1: personnel and families out of the Middle East.
Speaker 3: What might that signal?
Speaker 1: Also, if you think you're eating healthy fruits and vegetables,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Two new foods have landed on
Speaker 1: the Dirty Dozen list. We're going to tell you what
Speaker 1: they are coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Many businesses in
Speaker 1: downtown LA say they're feeling the effects of the protest
Speaker 1: and curfew imposed by the city. Restaurants of the area
Speaker 1: say people are either afraid to go or can't because
Speaker 1: of the curfew. Chef Josh Espinoza of Sampa says they're
Speaker 1: doing what they can to make it work.
Speaker 4: Our business thrives probably from six to ten o'clock. Probably
Speaker 4: you can say eighty percent of our revenues from those times.
Speaker 4: I know it's temporary, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: the show must move on.
Speaker 3: Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass continues to speak out against the ice raids
Speaker 1: and the Trump administration for bringing the National Guard and
Speaker 1: Marines into the city.
Speaker 5: I posit that maybe we are part of a national
Speaker 5: experiment to determine how far the federal government can go
Speaker 5: in reaching in and taking over power from a governor,
Speaker 5: power from a local jurisdiction.
Speaker 1: Bass says the White House is out of line. Governor
Speaker 1: Newsim has called on President Trump to get the National
Speaker 1: Guard and Marines out of LA. A federal court hearing
Speaker 1: is scheduled on whether the Trump administration can use the
Speaker 1: National Guard and Marines to assist with immigration raids. In
Speaker 1: La Governor newsim as Im engine filed an emergency motion
Speaker 1: requesting the court's intervention after Trump ordered the deployment of
Speaker 1: four thousand National Guard members and seven hundred marines. The
Speaker 1: hearing is scheduled for this afternoon in a federal court
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Let's take a first look at your
Speaker 1: morning commute. We've got Mike and I'm not sure what
Speaker 1: we've got, but we'll check in with Mike Morris.
Speaker 3: What you got.
Speaker 6: Maybe unfortunate lay a big hot spot in San Bernardino.
Speaker 6: Two fifteen southbound before Palm Avenue. One of the middle
Speaker 6: lanes taken away. It's the number two lane. It's going
Speaker 6: to be closed for a while because of a clean
Speaker 6: up operation in connection with an earlier big rig fire.
Speaker 6: That rig was engulfed in flames. It was a serious
Speaker 6: problem here meantime, two fifteen southbound very slow from the
Speaker 6: fifteen and devor down two Palm Avenue. Also in the
Speaker 6: Inland Empire two ten westbound before Iola Drive, it's a
Speaker 6: multi vehicle accident clearing from the left hand lane. You
Speaker 6: do have reduced speeds from State Street on the west
Speaker 6: two ten onto the seventy one southbound just before Mission Street,
Speaker 6: A two vehicle collision is over on the right hand shoulder.
Speaker 6: You do have delays though, between the ten and sixty
Speaker 6: freeways as you head to Chino Hills. Ninety one westbound
Speaker 6: just before Lakewood Boulevard. It's a free vehicle crash and
Speaker 6: one of those vehicles facing the wrong direction in the
Speaker 6: carpoo lane. You might find delays here ninety one eastbound
Speaker 6: to the six to five southbound. That connector road is
Speaker 6: closed for Caltrans repairs for another hour. One I went
Speaker 6: northbound the Hollywood Freeway before the ten is installed, pickup
Speaker 6: truck blocking lanes with Southern California's most Accura traffic reports
Speaker 6: Mike Morris.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mike.
Speaker 1: Mike's going to keep you up to date on how
Speaker 1: you can get around easily hopefully today, and whether the
Speaker 1: protests are going to continue to affect traffic.
Speaker 3: We're waiting to connect with Inez.
Speaker 1: De la Catera, who's going to have the latest for
Speaker 1: us on that crash in India. Again, it happened this morning,
Speaker 1: just a couple hours ago, and it looks just horrific.
Speaker 1: I mean, the crash scene, it looks like it crashed
Speaker 1: into a residential area, and as we wait for Inez
Speaker 1: to come through, we will get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 1: news room. Anti ice protests have spread from LA to
Speaker 1: several other cities. Protests have broken out in New York, Chicago,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Denver, Saint Louis, and Washington, d C. Ahead
Speaker 1: of possible protests, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has deployed the
Speaker 1: National Guard to.
Speaker 3: Ensure peace and order.
Speaker 1: Some parents of students at an elementary school in Amityville,
Speaker 1: New York, say they are outraged after a staff member
Speaker 1: dressed as an ice agent for Hero Day. It happened
Speaker 1: yesterday at Northwest Elementary School. The Amityville Union Free School
Speaker 1: District says the faculty member in question has been reassigned
Speaker 1: to a non school setting pending a review of what happened.
Speaker 1: The State Department is telling all non essential staff to
Speaker 1: leave the embassy in Iraq as tensions flare between the
Speaker 1: US and Iran. Staff members are also being told to
Speaker 1: leave the embassies in Kuwait and Bahrain. The order came
Speaker 1: Wednesday after Iran threatened to target US military bases in
Speaker 1: the Middle East. The US and Iran I reportedly reached
Speaker 1: a stalemate in their nuclear negotiations, and President Trump is
Speaker 1: threatened to strike Iran if the talks fail. Yesterday, Iran's
Speaker 1: defense minister responded to Trump's threats by saying it will
Speaker 1: target without hesitation, US bases within its reach. Veteran ABC
Speaker 1: correspondent Terry Moran has been fired after posting on x
Speaker 1: that President Trump and advisor Stephen Miller are world class haters.
Speaker 7: This is an unprecedented time.
Speaker 1: USC journalism expert Christina Bellantoni says Moran's firing raises questions
Speaker 1: about personal expression versus objectivity in the digital age. ABC
Speaker 1: said Moran's comments violated its strict neutrality and professionalism policies.
Speaker 6: We've seen Twitter becomes sort of a personal platform.
Speaker 1: Moran's contract is not being renewed, though some claim they
Speaker 1: bowed to pressure from the White House. President Trump was
Speaker 1: greeted with a mixture of booze and cheers at the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Center for a performance of Les Miz last night.
Speaker 1: Some cheered when Trump entered the theater. Others booed, shouted expletives,
Speaker 1: and called him a felon. Jump took control of the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Center and named himself the board chair earlier this year. Okay,
Speaker 1: looks like we've connected with ABC's and as de la Kata.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on with us so last minute. So
Speaker 1: we know that this just happened. It's still developing and
Speaker 1: there's a lot we don't know, but let's tell it.
Speaker 1: Tell us please, what we do know so far about
Speaker 1: the crash of the Air India passenger plane.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning Amy. Yeah, I mean lots of moving
Speaker 2: parts here. So we know that the plane was heading
Speaker 2: from a Metabad in India to London's Heathrow Airport. There
Speaker 2: were two hundred and forty two passengers on board. Of
Speaker 2: those two hundred and forty two passengers, one hundred and
Speaker 2: sixty nine were Indian nationals, fifty three are British nationals,
Speaker 2: one is a Canadian and there were also seven Portuguese
Speaker 2: nationals on board. This was a Boeing seven to eighty
Speaker 2: seven eight Dreamliner. That's important because there has never been
Speaker 2: a crash on this type of aircraft before. There has
Speaker 2: never been a fatality due to an incident on a
Speaker 2: seven eighty seven, and this is the first destroyed seven
Speaker 2: eighty seven. The pictures coming out of the crash site
Speaker 2: are really dramatic. I mean, smoke billowing off in the
Speaker 2: distance were the first pictures we saw. And then a
Speaker 2: picture came out showing the tails the plane that had
Speaker 2: kind of crashed into a building. The big question is
Speaker 2: whether there are any survivors. We are not sure at
Speaker 2: this point. There were images circulating showing patients kind of
Speaker 2: being wheeled into a hospital, but it's unclear who those
Speaker 2: people are really and you know what condition they're in, Okay.
Speaker 1: And as part of the confusion too, is because the
Speaker 1: plane crashed into a residential area, so we don't know
Speaker 1: if it was people on the plane or people on
Speaker 1: the ground who might have been injured.
Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Yeah, crashed in a busy area. We
Speaker 2: understand it crashed into or on top of a medical center.
Speaker 2: So it's unclear, Yeah, who these people being brought to
Speaker 2: the hospital are, if they are survivors, or if they
Speaker 2: were people who were nearby. And we'll just have to
Speaker 2: wait and see, you know, as more details emerged just
Speaker 2: what happened here. We understand the plane went down about
Speaker 2: a minute after takeoff, so you know, something must have
Speaker 2: gone wrong with the takeoff itself. As far as the investigation,
Speaker 2: how that's going to unfold. You know, India will lead
Speaker 2: the investigation. The NTSB will likely be requested, so we're
Speaker 2: waiting to find out, you know what they have to say.
Speaker 2: Boeing will be a party to the investigation as the
Speaker 2: manufacturer here of the plane and the UK. We are
Speaker 2: expecting the UK to be involved as well, because the
Speaker 2: plane was heading there and because the UK did have
Speaker 2: citizens on board.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you said that it crashed literally a minute
Speaker 1: after takeoff, and I had heard reports earlier that it
Speaker 1: was only at an elevation of about six hundred feet
Speaker 1: I mean, so it was really soon after takeoff.
Speaker 3: And do we know if there was a mayday call?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So we have that same reporting that
Speaker 2: this happened at ten eight am local time at six
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five feet and yeah, even our reporting
Speaker 2: is less than a minute after takeoff. So yeah, happened
Speaker 2: very quickly. It was very sudden. But again we just
Speaker 2: don't know what happened yet. Yeah, there's gonna be questions
Speaker 2: as to you know, the calls that were made. They're
Speaker 2: going to try and retrieve the black boxes, as they
Speaker 2: always do when there's a crash, so just waiting for
Speaker 2: more information there on just what happened here. Just really
Speaker 2: a dramatic, dramatic moment and very sad day.
Speaker 1: They're in India, okay, and with five million people in
Speaker 1: that area, that in just in that city. I would
Speaker 1: imagine that somebody is going to have video of the
Speaker 1: crash and I don't know if that might provide some insight,
Speaker 1: but hopefully hopefully that will help us they try to
Speaker 1: piece together what happened.
Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, I mean we are starting to see
Speaker 2: so I haven't seen the video of the actual crash yet,
Speaker 2: but we are starting to see more and more video
Speaker 2: coming outs. It was first we saw just the billowing
Speaker 2: smoke in the background, taken by passenger who had just
Speaker 2: gotten off a plane at the airports. Two smoke billowing
Speaker 2: in the distance, and then you know, we're starting to
Speaker 2: see more and more of the actual crash site. I
Speaker 2: haven't yet seen any images of the actual you know,
Speaker 2: crash itself, but of course in the you know, recent months,
Speaker 2: we have seen you know, you think back to the
Speaker 2: South tragic moment in South Korea when that plane crashed
Speaker 2: and there's actually video of the plane landing on the
Speaker 2: runway and then crashing into that wall. So yeah, in
Speaker 2: this day and age, you know, it's very easy for
Speaker 2: people to whip out their phones and capture those moments.
Speaker 2: So we'll have to see if that video comes out.
Speaker 1: Okay, AB season ESDA, look at Sara. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: for getting us the information on this. We'll keep watching
Speaker 1: for more. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 1: So tragic and interesting that boeing the Dreamliner. There's never
Speaker 1: been any fatalities until now, and since it happens so
Speaker 1: close after takeoff. They're also talking about where were the
Speaker 1: flaps set properly?
Speaker 3: Was everything on the plane?
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, it's a little early to talk about
Speaker 1: whether anything nefarious was going on, but they'll be watching
Speaker 1: when we come back. The protests in LA have already
Speaker 1: spread to a few other cities. Will they go nationwide.
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking with ABC's crime and Terror
Speaker 1: analyst Brad Garrett about that and also the Army's two
Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration parade that's happening in DC.
Speaker 3: I just love their music.
Speaker 1: I don't listen to it very often, but I was
Speaker 1: watching I think I was watching ABC last night and
Speaker 1: they did.
Speaker 3: A whole Oh no, it was one of the local channels.
Speaker 1: It was Channel five, and the entertainment reported to this
Speaker 1: whole feature on Brian Wilson and it was just amazing,
Speaker 1: Like go back and listen to the music.
Speaker 3: It's just astounding.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime and Terror
Speaker 1: analyst Brad Garrett. Of course we're talking about the protests
Speaker 1: which now are not only in LA but seemed.
Speaker 3: To be catching.
Speaker 7: So that actually shouldn't surprise anybody.
Speaker 4: Amy.
Speaker 7: I mean the approach that ICE seems to be using.
Speaker 7: And I get while they're using this approach because it
Speaker 7: appears they have to by mandate arrests a lot of
Speaker 7: people every day, that it's going to cause disruptions. I mean,
Speaker 7: you're you're basically going after people who are keep many
Speaker 7: communities together together from a work standpoint, And I mean,
Speaker 7: think about the number of jobs is at a Los
Speaker 7: Angeles salone that are worked by immigrants. Obviously some of
Speaker 7: them are you know, they go, but it touches a
Speaker 7: lot of nerves, That's what I'm saying. And so when
Speaker 7: you have such a large law enforcement, but in particular
Speaker 7: military presence, I think it creates a lot of anxiety
Speaker 7: and rage in people that probably have exacerbated your demonstrations
Speaker 7: and riots.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then the other thing I think that comes
Speaker 1: into play, and correct me if I'm wrong, but is
Speaker 1: that it seems that they've spread so quickly, but now
Speaker 1: everybody sees everything, whether they're watching it on TV and
Speaker 1: so many or on social media, and you can organize
Speaker 1: these things quickly.
Speaker 7: There is no doubt. And then you of course have
Speaker 7: the element of people that show up that are just
Speaker 7: there to incite problems in trying to get the crowd
Speaker 7: to do things that they normally wouldn't do, like throw
Speaker 7: things at the police or try to harm the police
Speaker 7: or whatever it might be, or destruction of property. So
Speaker 7: you have to sort out those folks and figure out
Speaker 7: who they are. These things are so complicated, as you
Speaker 7: well know, and it's so layered some of the things
Speaker 7: I mentioned earlier that the emotions play into this, history
Speaker 7: plays into this. You know, it's still for many of
Speaker 7: us sort of baffling that the military is there. I mean,
Speaker 7: it looked like to me lapd Is Scott a pretty
Speaker 7: good handled on this, And my concern is that what
Speaker 7: is going on in Los Angeles a version of that
Speaker 7: that may well go on in other cities where they
Speaker 7: bring in a large military presence maybe when it's not needed,
Speaker 7: and it you know, potentially exacerbates the situation and can
Speaker 7: make it much worse than it should be.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so then we were talking about some of
Speaker 1: the people who were there who are just instigators.
Speaker 3: Like so when we say mostly peaceful, but then.
Speaker 1: It's sort of a I don't know if it's completely
Speaker 1: accurate because you see mostly peaceful, but then you see
Speaker 1: people getting in the face of police officers and blocking
Speaker 1: traffic and that kind of stuff and not following the rules,
Speaker 1: like people just seem to want to get into a fight.
Speaker 7: Well, you also have to look at it. There's a
Speaker 7: psychology of groups of moms of people, and let's just
Speaker 7: use an example of people who are there to just
Speaker 7: incite wrongdoing. Basically, they can have an infectious impact on
Speaker 7: people that are around them that they all of a
Speaker 7: sudden feel like maybe justified to do something they normally
Speaker 7: wouldn't do. So you can actually turn a crowd into
Speaker 7: you know, your own needs and desires if you're the
Speaker 7: person there to start some sort of unlawful act and
Speaker 7: so there's that problem, and you know it's happened time
Speaker 7: and time again. It tends to be of a nature.
Speaker 7: But you know, nobody could do anything about that other
Speaker 7: than trying to figure out who the instigators are and
Speaker 7: then go after them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we've got a parade coming up this weekend
Speaker 1: to celebrate the Army's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and
Speaker 1: we know there's a big military display, and it's something
Speaker 1: that President Trump had wanted. Is that you would mentioned
Speaker 1: there's a security risk with that? Is that because of
Speaker 1: the protesters just in general?
Speaker 7: Well just in general, But if you listen to the
Speaker 7: to the folks in charge here, like the police chief
Speaker 7: of d C, I mean she said there is no
Speaker 7: credible threat. That's probably true. I mean, if you think
Speaker 7: about the level of security and the number of events
Speaker 7: that occur in this city where you have hundreds of
Speaker 7: thousands of people coming in for various events, inaugurations or
Speaker 7: whatever it might be, that you know, this is another
Speaker 7: large gathering. I think they think two hundred thousand plus,
Speaker 7: but they put up nineteen miles of barricades to give
Speaker 7: you an idea, that's a lot. They're already telling that's
Speaker 7: a lot, and they're telling you know, DC is not
Speaker 7: a big place, and they're telling people you're going to
Speaker 7: see drugs flying around. So that's how they're going to
Speaker 7: keep track, and you know you can get a great
Speaker 7: picture as you well know, in a real time, you're
Speaker 7: going to have agents, detectives, officers probably playing close to
Speaker 7: the crowd. They're going to have CCTV and so you know,
Speaker 7: it'll be all hands on deck for probably every federal
Speaker 7: agent in DC and the surrounding area that have some
Speaker 7: security involvement in this. So it's a you know, it's
Speaker 7: a huge, huge expense to pull this off. I mean,
Speaker 7: can you imagine. I mean there's going to be like
Speaker 7: one hundred and fifty military vehicles, which include seventy ton
Speaker 7: Abrams tank.
Speaker 1: Well, I would think because of that that people would
Speaker 1: be less likely to get riled up if there's all
Speaker 1: that firepower.
Speaker 7: There, you would think. And obviously they're not going to
Speaker 7: be able to walk up to those tanks. Yeah, it's
Speaker 7: because of the fencing along the way. But I think
Speaker 7: that the mayor is concerned about what it's going to
Speaker 7: do to the roads in DC.
Speaker 3: We'll have to watch.
Speaker 1: And see what happens, and hopefully it'll be a nice
Speaker 1: celebration and there won't be any problems, but we'll have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. ABC's Crime Terror analyst Brad Garrett,
Speaker 1: thank you so much.
Speaker 3: As always, you alcome when we come back.
Speaker 1: Two more foods that you thought were really good for
Speaker 1: you have been put on the list of the Dirty Dozen.
Speaker 3: I hate this, don't.
Speaker 1: You hate when you think that you're eating something good
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, yay, I'm being healthy and then
Speaker 1: you find out maybe not so much.
Speaker 3: There is a list called the Dirty Dozen.
Speaker 1: It's compiled from government testing on non organic produce by
Speaker 1: the Environmental Working Group or EWG, and they put out
Speaker 1: a list of what they call the Dirty dozen, and
Speaker 1: that again is foods that you think are healthy but
Speaker 1: may not be because of pesticides.
Speaker 3: And on the.
Speaker 1: Dirty Dozen lists for this year there's two new ones, blackberries,
Speaker 1: which I love, and potatoes.
Speaker 3: Here's the whole list.
Speaker 1: Spinach tops the list with more pesticide residue by weight
Speaker 1: than any other produce tested. Also strawberries, tale grapes, peaches, cherries, nectarines, pears, apples, blackberries, blueberries,
Speaker 1: and then again potatoes. So be careful and this is
Speaker 1: somebody they're they're promoting organic produce. There's another group that said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know what, you should have a choice when you're
Speaker 1: shopping for fruits and vegetables, but you shouldn't have your
Speaker 1: choices be influenced by this list because they're pushing an agenda.
Speaker 3: So you can take it for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: But the Dirty does and now has blackberries and potatoes
Speaker 1: on it. Time to get down and dirty and get
Speaker 1: in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 3: Morning, Courtney, good morning. Okay, so this.
Speaker 1: Is not healthy at all, but it's probably fun. Gummy
Speaker 1: snacks and Tom Brady now have a new relationship.
Speaker 8: But you know what, he's very big on health, and
Speaker 8: this is one of the factors that's going to set
Speaker 8: this gummy product apart. So Tom Brady has launched this
Speaker 8: new line of fruit gummies called, of course, Goat Gummies.
Speaker 8: The snack contains no artificial sweeteners, dies and it's actually
Speaker 8: made with real fruit, it's organic, it's vegan, and it
Speaker 8: comes in three flavors.
Speaker 3: But gummies are a really hot item right now when
Speaker 3: you think about it.
Speaker 8: In the snack Aisle, Grandview Research tallied it up and
Speaker 8: they said the mare gets expected to grow close to
Speaker 8: twelve percent each year. So you can get these go
Speaker 8: gummies right now. The only place you can get it
Speaker 8: is through delivery platform Go Puff if you're looking for that.
Speaker 8: But of course, as a New York fan for life,
Speaker 8: I don't want to buy them with their rivalry obviously.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk about Amazon's grocery business.
Speaker 3: There's some shaking going on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so big changes coming to that business. Mainly they're
Speaker 8: going to exert more control over Whole Foods. So Amazon
Speaker 8: acquired Whole Foods close to eight years ago and the
Speaker 8: grocer has pretty much been running independently from the mothership.
Speaker 8: But now Amazon says, we're going to restructure the business.
Speaker 8: We're going to integrate Whole Foods corporate staff under the
Speaker 8: Amazon umbrella, along with the Amazon Fresh supermarkets and the
Speaker 8: Amazon Go convenience stores. But the main goal here is
Speaker 8: to streamline their grocery operations, cut down on duplicate efforts.
Speaker 8: But this is pretty big for a lot of Whole
Speaker 8: Foods customers. They say that Whole Foods is going to
Speaker 8: continue to adhere to its quality standards that.
Speaker 3: Sets it apart from other grocers.
Speaker 1: Okay, but the big question that I have, Courtney, is
Speaker 1: is it going to bring the prices down so it's
Speaker 1: no longer called whole paycheck?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 8: But Amazon has been having some issues within this business.
Speaker 8: It's funny because any business it seems to go in,
Speaker 8: it overtakes, but it seems with the grocery business they've
Speaker 8: had a lot more struggles with it.
Speaker 3: But Whole Foods is a little bit run, a.
Speaker 8: Little bit stronger than some of the other business some
Speaker 8: of their upstarts, the other ones that I mentioned, the
Speaker 8: Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go markets, So they're hoping in
Speaker 8: a way, I think what's happening at Whole Foods is
Speaker 8: going to rub off on the rest of the rest
Speaker 8: of the grocery business.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have a victorious secret had a hack, so
Speaker 1: many companies have, and now they have unveiled how much
Speaker 1: they lost because of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, twenty million dollars. That's going to be the hits
Speaker 8: of sales this quarter. So the security incident, in case
Speaker 8: you didn't hear, people didn't hear, it disrupted the retailer's
Speaker 8: website and some store services especially was really down for
Speaker 8: about three days.
Speaker 3: So they do say that.
Speaker 8: Their critical systems are now fully operational. Management also added
Speaker 8: that it's well in the recovery phase from the issue,
Speaker 8: including finalizing the investigation. Another thing that's a big worry
Speaker 8: for the retailers right now is tariffs, and they expect
Speaker 8: the impact from tariffs will be about fifty million dollars
Speaker 8: for the year.
Speaker 3: That's not a great year for Victoria's Secret.
Speaker 8: Okay, no, and it's not a great year for a
Speaker 8: lot of retailers because of that.
Speaker 1: All right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, Donaho,
Speaker 1: as we do every day, and we'll do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Thanks Courtney.
Speaker 1: Definitely see you later, okay when we come back. Tensions
Speaker 1: arising in Tehran. ABC's Jodannah Millers is the US is
Speaker 1: getting non essential personnel and families out of the Middle East.
Speaker 1: What might that signal. We'll let you know. That's coming
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