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Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: It is fun, fuck straight up. Good Wednesday morning to you.
Speaker 4: I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: March fifth, twenty twenty five. In case you forgot what
Speaker 1: year it was. Thanks for starting your day with us.
Speaker 1: I hope you had a RESTful evening. I stayed up
Speaker 1: a little later than normal, but I go to bed
Speaker 1: stupid early, but a little later to the normal because
Speaker 1: of the longest speech ever. I'm sort of a junkie
Speaker 1: about these things. I love watching politicians blo VI eight.
Speaker 1: It's just amazing, and it's both sides of the aisle.
Speaker 1: They just they talk and do they really say stuff.
Speaker 1: And I handles in the other room right now and
Speaker 1: I hear him talking about it, and he was like,
Speaker 1: he's just making stuff up. I'm like, Trump's like an absolutist.
Speaker 1: He just says it's the greatest ever, it's the worst ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's an absolutist. There's no middle ground with
Speaker 1: this guy. But you know he does know how to entertain.
Speaker 1: I mean I was sitting there watching it, going, Yep,
Speaker 1: he's he's a showman.
Speaker 4: He puts on a show.
Speaker 1: He announced that a kid whose late father was an
Speaker 1: la keunty sheriff's deputy was just accepted to West Point.
Speaker 4: During the speech, there were a lot of little moments
Speaker 4: like that. Yeah, he made it.
Speaker 1: That adorable young man, the thirteen year old who's survived
Speaker 1: brain cancer is now officially a Secret Service agent. I mean,
Speaker 1: and had the Secret Service director come and give him
Speaker 1: his badge. Or in the rowdy congressman, we had that too,
Speaker 1: Al Green got kicked out. Yeah, and you know what,
Speaker 1: one of my first takeaways at the very beginning of
Speaker 1: it was, for.
Speaker 4: Goodness sake, JD.
Speaker 1: Vance, button your suit coat. He's standing up there waiting
Speaker 1: for the president to come in and he just looks
Speaker 1: a little bit sloppy.
Speaker 4: Shovel to JD. Come on. Of course.
Speaker 1: The other big news still watching the new Eagles. We
Speaker 1: have chick number one and chick number two. They don't
Speaker 1: have names yet. There's gonna be a naming contest. Shannon
Speaker 1: Farren asked me about that yesterday. She's like, how do
Speaker 1: they name them?
Speaker 4: Well, they have a contest, but it's too early.
Speaker 2: Football one and Fuzzball too.
Speaker 1: Fuzzball one, Fuzzball too. They're adorable. You can watch them.
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Speaker 1: know we're all obsessed with it.
Speaker 4: Love it. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: Of course, President Trump has wowed half the crowd, the
Speaker 1: Republican side of the crowd in his first address to
Speaker 1: a joint session of Congress. During his current turn, he
Speaker 1: said he has launched the most sweeping border crackdown in
Speaker 1: American history, and the number of border crossings is at
Speaker 1: its lowest level ever. We're gonna dig deeper into that
Speaker 1: with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. That's coming up
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. The La City Council's
Speaker 1: rejected former fire chief Kristin Crowley's appeal of her firing
Speaker 1: by Mayor Karen Bass before the thirteen to two vote yesterday.
Speaker 1: Crowley refuted Bass's claims that she sent a thousand firefighters
Speaker 1: home right before the fires broke out. She said that
Speaker 1: one hundred fire engines, trucks and ambulance sat broken down
Speaker 1: because of limited funding, staffing, and resources. Ukraine's President Zelenski
Speaker 1: says his very public spat with President Trump at the
Speaker 1: White House was regrettable. In a post on X, he
Speaker 1: said he's ready to work under Trump's strong leadership to
Speaker 1: get a lasting piece and said none of us wants
Speaker 1: an endless war. We're going to be talking to ABC's
Speaker 1: Patrick reevil Moore about that before the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: We're also talking with rich de Muro. There's a new iPad,
Speaker 1: a new EV made by Sony and Honda. Interesting matchup.
Speaker 1: And there's also a new way to keep your private
Speaker 1: information from being splashed all over the Internet. And now
Speaker 1: that the Academy Award's over, I can go back to
Speaker 1: binge watching TV shows. If you haven't watched this one yet,
Speaker 1: you are missing out. I'm going to tell you about
Speaker 1: it at the bottom of the hour. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just like another day in paradise. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four our newsroom. President Trump has praised the new administration.
Speaker 1: During his speech to a joint session of Congress, he
Speaker 1: called the last six weeks successful. In his address last night,
Speaker 1: trum Trump singled out changes made to the federal workforce
Speaker 1: and changes in the US military.
Speaker 5: Our country will be worked no longer.
Speaker 1: The President's speech got off to a rough start when
Speaker 1: Democrats grumbled at his comments and held up signs in disagreement.
Speaker 1: Texas Congressman Al Green was removed from the chamber for
Speaker 1: waving his cane and shouting at Trump. And evacuation warning
Speaker 1: has been issued for people in Sierra Madre as this
Speaker 1: storm moves in. This woman says she doesn't want to
Speaker 1: repeat of what happened during the last storm.
Speaker 6: Everything that came down from the mountain Twig's branches from
Speaker 6: the fire had clogged the canal and has started to overflow.
Speaker 1: The warning starts this morning and will be in effect
Speaker 1: through Friday morning. The impacted areas border the Angelus National Forest,
Speaker 1: and the La County Board of Supervisors is backing an
Speaker 1: Assembly bill that calls for a pause in mortgage payments
Speaker 1: for people affected by the wildfires who were having financial troubles.
Speaker 1: Assembly Bill two thirty eight, introduced by Pasadena Democratic Assemblyman
Speaker 1: John Arabadian, would allow borrowers affected by the fires in
Speaker 1: January to ask for a deferral of monthly mortgage payments
Speaker 1: fro up to three hundred and sixty days. During that time,
Speaker 1: borrowers would not be assessed late fees, penalties, or additional interest,
Speaker 1: and foreclosure proceedings would be prohibited. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now to kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, who was
Speaker 1: in the room last night. As I mentioned, President Trump
Speaker 1: wowed half the crowd in the chamber.
Speaker 7: Morning, John, Yeah, it was half the crowd. Good morning
Speaker 7: to you. Amy. That's typical. That's not atypical. That's typical
Speaker 7: in this divided time that we are in right now,
Speaker 7: and you have Democrats sitting on their hands, Republicans applauding
Speaker 7: wildly for a Republican president, and just the opposite when
Speaker 7: it's a Democratic president who's in the White House. So
Speaker 7: not a surprise there. I'm always surprised when they're disruptions
Speaker 7: during this speech, and we saw that last night. Representative
Speaker 7: Al Green, he's a Democratic congressman who represents a district
Speaker 7: in Houston, Texas. He was ultimately escorted out of the
Speaker 7: chamber for disrupting President Trump's speech last night. And then
Speaker 7: on substance, we heard the President double down on the
Speaker 7: policy that he's going forward with, and that's the trade
Speaker 7: tariff's policy and acknowledge that there could be some short
Speaker 7: term pain that Americans feel as a result of this
Speaker 7: trade tariff's policy.
Speaker 1: Okay, John, I want to go back to the sort
Speaker 1: of the division thing, because you know, I watched these
Speaker 1: things and I just think you all just need to
Speaker 1: grow up. I mean, and I get it, it happens.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. When it's a Democrat standing at the podium,
Speaker 1: the Republicans are very quiet, and when there's a Republican
Speaker 1: at the podium, the Democrats are very quiet. Although as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, there was a lot of especially early on,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of jeering and shouting that we
Speaker 1: could hear, and then it just was the signs being
Speaker 1: held up, which was like, I was like, it was
Speaker 1: so childish.
Speaker 7: Well, it is childish. And also it's important to remember
Speaker 7: you don't have to be there. If you don't like
Speaker 7: the president, you don't like his policies, you can skip
Speaker 7: the speech. And some Democrats did just that. They said,
Speaker 7: I'm not showing up to this address to a joint
Speaker 7: session of Congress, but if you're going to go, you know,
Speaker 7: I think it's important I do to be respectful. And
Speaker 7: that goes for when Joe Biden was in office and
Speaker 7: Marjorie Taylor Green shouted out things at him. I thought
Speaker 7: that was disrespectful. I thought what you saw last night
Speaker 7: also was disrespectful to President Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and didn't it start like we used to be
Speaker 1: so well behaved, But I think it started. It was
Speaker 1: the first time I remember that happening. Was during a
Speaker 1: speech that President Obama gave and somebody yelled out, liar.
Speaker 1: That was the first time I remember that winning.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was a Republican congressman from South Carolina named Joe Wilson.
Speaker 7: He's still in Congress, and when the President was talking
Speaker 7: specifically about the Affordable Care Act and referencing it, Joe
Speaker 7: Wilson yelled out, you lie, which was shocking. I'd never
Speaker 7: seen that. And I've been in the chamber more times
Speaker 7: than Trump Vance and Speaker Johnson combined, and I had
Speaker 7: never seen anything like that before.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I wish that, Like I said, I wish they
Speaker 4: would just grow up. So you were in the.
Speaker 1: Room and got to be I would love to like
Speaker 1: what's the vibe of it? I mean, like we talked about,
Speaker 1: half of the room is in raucous applause. The other
Speaker 1: half is mad, what's it like in the room.
Speaker 7: Well, I think that for members there's an electricity associated
Speaker 7: with this speech. Members who've been there for many times
Speaker 7: and freshman members of the House and the Senate as well,
Speaker 7: just to be there to hear, you know, that announcement
Speaker 7: as mister Speaker, the President of the United States, and
Speaker 7: see the President go down that center aisle. You have
Speaker 7: members that are very excited about that, wanting to have
Speaker 7: a few words with the President, take a selfie something,
Speaker 7: grab his hand for a handshake. That has always been
Speaker 7: the case Democrat or a Republican, and that was the
Speaker 7: case last night. This was the first time President Trump
Speaker 7: was delivering this type of speech in five years since
Speaker 7: his first term in the White House. And you know,
Speaker 7: I think that as it relates to how he said
Speaker 7: it and what he said really ticked off a lot
Speaker 7: of the things that you would hear at a Trump
Speaker 7: campaign rally in terms of the policies that he is
Speaker 7: pursuing and will be for suing now that he's back
Speaker 7: in the White House.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just like I said earlier, I'm just a
Speaker 1: junkie for these kinds of things. And I know that
Speaker 1: they always they single out and recognize certain people. But
Speaker 1: I think Trump had a different flare about it because
Speaker 1: he is such a showman, like for example, with the kid,
Speaker 1: adorable young man who has brain cancer and he is
Speaker 1: now a Secret Service agent. And I thought that that
Speaker 1: was sweet, you know. I mean, it was more than
Speaker 1: just acknowledging somebody. It was kind of taking it to
Speaker 1: the next level. And I think he did a good
Speaker 1: job with that.
Speaker 7: I do too. I do think those are nice moments.
Speaker 7: In some cases, they're memorable moments. I can think over
Speaker 7: the years when a president calls reference to someone who's
Speaker 7: done something special or someone deserving.
Speaker 3: Of a tribute.
Speaker 7: And to me, here's the thing that always troubles me.
Speaker 7: Amy I look over when the president's referencing some of
Speaker 7: those people that are great Americans in the first Lady's box,
Speaker 7: and you have to say they're great Americans. You know,
Speaker 7: whether you're a Republican and Democrat, independent, And I look
Speaker 7: over to the Democratic side of the House of Representatives
Speaker 7: and I see members not applauding a little boy who
Speaker 7: recovered from cancer. I mean, I don't get that. You know,
Speaker 7: It's just it's not a partisan thing. You can certainly
Speaker 7: applaud and it's not showing that you're supportive of President Trump.
Speaker 7: You're supportive of that little boy and the fight that
Speaker 7: he's been undergoing for so many years. So that's a
Speaker 7: head scratcher to me.
Speaker 3: Amy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and John Decker, You're gonna be talking with Bill
Speaker 1: Handle a little bit later, so I know you're going
Speaker 1: to dive even deeper into this during the Handle show.
Speaker 4: So thanks for sharing your experience.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm always fascinated by the way that
Speaker 1: politics plays out in front of our eyes and appreciate
Speaker 1: your insights.
Speaker 7: Thanks again, Thanks again, Amy, have a great day. Talk
Speaker 7: to you real soon.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former
Speaker 1: la fire chief Kristin Crowley has lost her appeal to
Speaker 1: be reinstated.
Speaker 2: The city council voted down Crowley's appeal by a vote
Speaker 2: of thirteen to two, but the ousted chief did get
Speaker 2: the chance to speak her peace. She says Mayor Bass,
Speaker 2: who fired her last month, has spread misinformation about the
Speaker 2: circumstances surrounding her removal.
Speaker 8: I did not refuse to conduct an after action report,
Speaker 8: and let me be clear, this is a false accusation.
Speaker 2: Crowley says her department has been underfunded and understaffed, and
Speaker 2: that it would have been better for the city to
Speaker 2: partner with the state. In its after action report in
Speaker 2: downtown La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Target's CEO is warned that price increases could be coming
Speaker 1: in the next few days because of President Trump's tariffs
Speaker 1: son goods from Mexico. Brian Cornell told CNBC that Target
Speaker 1: relies heavily on Mexican produce during the winter. He said
Speaker 1: the twenty five percent tariffs may force Target to increase
Speaker 1: prices on things like avocados, bananas, and strawberries.
Speaker 4: I'm having a banana this morning. I didn't know we
Speaker 4: got bananas from Mexico.
Speaker 1: A divide yep, Nope, I didn't know that A divided
Speaker 1: Supreme Court has ruled in favor of San Francisco in
Speaker 1: a case involving the EPA's attempts to limit untreated sewage overflows.
Speaker 1: ABC Stephen Portnoy says the five to four decision curbs
Speaker 1: the EPA's efforts to control water pollution when heavy rains
Speaker 1: cause sewage systems to spill over.
Speaker 9: The city of San Francisco, which empties its discharge into
Speaker 9: the Pacific Ocean, argued the EPA exceeded its authority under
Speaker 9: the Clean Water Act. Conservative Justice Samuel Alito wrote the
Speaker 9: majority opinion ruling in the city's favor.
Speaker 1: Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the descent in which the
Speaker 1: court's three liberals joined. Israel has rejected the adoption of
Speaker 1: an Egyptian plan for the future of the Gaza Strip
Speaker 1: during an emergency summit. The plan is an alternative to
Speaker 1: the Trump administration's proposal for the mass displacement of Palestinians.
Speaker 1: Israel says the Arab leader's reconstruction plan for Gaza is
Speaker 1: entrenched in perspectives that are no longer relevant. Post October seventh,
Speaker 1: health officials in Texas have opened vaccination clinics to help
Speaker 1: stop a measle's outbreak from spreading further. As if yesterday,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty nine people were positive for the
Speaker 1: highly contagious illness. Twenty two were in the hospital. Last week,
Speaker 1: an unvaccinated child died from the flu. Houston Health Commissioner
Speaker 1: doctor David Purse says the suffering is not necessary since
Speaker 1: a vaccine has been available for decades.
Speaker 3: Up to twenty percent of people are ill are going
Speaker 3: to get sick enough that they require hospitalization.
Speaker 2: Well, the other eighty percent are going to still be
Speaker 2: really sick. High fever, body aches, feeling miserable in bed.
Speaker 1: Measles has an incubation period of twelve days to three weeks,
Speaker 1: meaning someone can have it long before symptoms show and
Speaker 1: they can infect others without knowing it. The La City
Speaker 1: Councils voted thirteen to two to not reinstate fired fire
Speaker 1: Chief Kristin Crowley to her position. The former chief says
Speaker 1: she will remain with the department in a different role.
Speaker 1: Wall Street has taken up pounding as tariffs against Mexico, Canada,
Speaker 1: and and China take effect. All three countries announced tariffs
Speaker 1: would be imposed on the US in response. At the
Speaker 1: closing bell, the Dow was down six hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: points yesterday. We're going to be finding out what we're
Speaker 1: expecting for today when we get in your business with
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 4: That's coming up at five point forty.
Speaker 1: Lebron James has become the first player in NBA history
Speaker 1: to score fifty thousand combined points in the regular season
Speaker 1: and postseason. He hit the milestone with a three pointer
Speaker 1: in the opening minutes of last night's win against the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans. This is James's twenty second season with
Speaker 1: the NBA. Let's say good morning now to the host
Speaker 1: of rich On Tech KTLAS tech reporter Rich Jimmuro.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we got some new things that we want
Speaker 1: to share. First of all, I'm I'm actually kind of
Speaker 1: jazzed about this one. New iPads from Apple, and I'm
Speaker 1: jazzed about it because you said there's more memory in it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So a couple of new iPads.
Speaker 10: We've got two, so the iPad AIR and then of
Speaker 10: course the iPad I call it the standard one. So
Speaker 10: with the iPad AIR, the main thing is that's the
Speaker 10: expensive one. It's not the pro. But they're getting a
Speaker 10: better chip, which means it has support for Apple Intelligence. Now,
Speaker 10: this one starts at six hundred dollars for the eleven
Speaker 10: inch model. Thirteen inch model is eight hundred twelve.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: No, this is for like, you know, people who want
Speaker 10: like a really high end iPad. I'll be honest, most
Speaker 10: of the people that are asking me about an iPad
Speaker 10: they want the other one, which is the eleventh generation,
Speaker 10: and this one has a pretty standard chip inside, so
Speaker 10: it's not going to support the Apple Intelligence. But it
Speaker 10: starts at three hundred and fifty dollars. And the cool
Speaker 10: thing about this one is that it now has double
Speaker 10: the storage at the same price. So if you bought
Speaker 10: this a couple of days ago, you'd pay three fifty
Speaker 10: for sixty four gigs. Now you pay three fifty for
Speaker 10: one hundred and twenty eight and you're getting a better processor.
Speaker 1: I'm amazed that the iPads that I've had had things
Speaker 1: like sixteen gigs and that kind of stuff. They just
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of memory, when the phones have
Speaker 1: you know, a half a terabyte.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and here's the deal with the iPad. Nobody is
Speaker 10: actively like I mean, yes, people want an iPad, they
Speaker 10: go get one. But most of the time with the iPads,
Speaker 10: people aren't tracking the new models. They just go into
Speaker 10: the store when they need a new one. And by
Speaker 10: the way, these things last forever, so it's not like
Speaker 10: you're buying these things every couple of years. This might
Speaker 10: be a six year cycle on these things.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so here's something else that's new. Sony
Speaker 1: and Honda have teamed up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the Have you heard of this car,
Speaker 3: the afila Ev. I have never new?
Speaker 10: Okay, well it's their new joint venture. I mean Sony Entertainment, right,
Speaker 10: Honda definitely knows cars. So they have teamed up for
Speaker 10: this new afila Ev and it's on display at Westfield
Speaker 10: Century City, so they've got a little pop up shop
Speaker 10: there for the next six months. I headed over there
Speaker 10: to check it out. Now, I've seen this car kind
Speaker 10: of percolating at all the different tech events for the past,
Speaker 10: you know, a couple of years.
Speaker 3: But this is not a concept.
Speaker 10: This is actually going to be hitting California roads by
Speaker 10: twenty twenty six. So they're going to deliver these cars.
Speaker 10: And it's an it's expensive, it's ninety thousand dollars, but
Speaker 10: you know, it's very entertainment focused.
Speaker 3: Amy.
Speaker 10: It's got this giant screen inside, three screens inside, one
Speaker 10: huge screen across the whole dashboard, two screens in the
Speaker 10: back for the passengers, and every app you can imagine,
Speaker 10: so everything from like.
Speaker 3: Spotify to Audible to movie apps.
Speaker 10: I mean, your passengers can watch the same movie while
Speaker 10: you're driving, and they can play PlayStation. So your PlayStation
Speaker 10: at home works with this car.
Speaker 1: I'm always nervous about big screens in front of a
Speaker 1: driver's face.
Speaker 10: Good call, and I would one hundred percent understand that.
Speaker 10: But as you and I know, if you look around LA,
Speaker 10: every single driver is has their phone in front of
Speaker 10: them at every minute of the way, which, by the way,
Speaker 10: don't do that please.
Speaker 3: But this is safe.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this is safe because it's got polarizing glass. So
Speaker 10: it's got this neat feature on theshboard where when the
Speaker 10: car is in motion, all of a sudden, the screen polarizes,
Speaker 10: which means if you've ever looked at one of those
Speaker 10: privacy screens on an iPhone, from the angle, you can't
Speaker 10: see it.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool. That's cool. And I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: picture of it right now. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: eds are not that cool looking. This one is pretty
Speaker 1: cool looking.
Speaker 10: I mean, look, this is two really nice companies that
Speaker 10: know their stuff and they came up with a really
Speaker 10: good looking car. I think it's expensive, so it's not
Speaker 10: gonna appeal to everyone, but three hundred miles on the
Speaker 10: charge deliveries next year in California, two hundred dollars refundable deposit.
Speaker 10: I mean, I really think this is a very nice
Speaker 10: looking car, and it's got a lot of fun features
Speaker 10: for the techi like myself. And it's got a lot
Speaker 10: of sensors, so talk about self driving down the line.
Speaker 10: This has got forty sensors in it, so it's gonna
Speaker 10: be able to do a lot on its own. Let's
Speaker 10: put it that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the steering wheel looks like a what do
Speaker 1: you call it in an airplane?
Speaker 4: An airplane throttle? You don't call it a sta.
Speaker 3: Like a yoke or whatever. Yeah, it's like the half
Speaker 3: steering wheel. It's like cut in half.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 10: So I didn't get to drive it because no one's
Speaker 10: driving it just yet, but I said, please get me
Speaker 10: on that list as soon as I can drive it.
Speaker 3: I want to see what this thing's like.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, then we'll talk to you once you get
Speaker 1: to drive it too, since you'll for sure be doing
Speaker 1: that before it's actually on the roads. Will Cole Schreiber
Speaker 1: heard you talking with Bill Handle about Google's new privacy
Speaker 1: tool and said, oh my god, my information's out there,
Speaker 1: So tell us how we get our information not out there?
Speaker 10: Yes, So go to google new feature if you search
Speaker 10: for your name and something like your phone number or address.
Speaker 10: You know, all those people finder sites come up. So
Speaker 10: look for the three dots next to the search result.
Speaker 10: You can tap that and now there's a new option
Speaker 10: that says remove result. And in a few clicks you say,
Speaker 10: I don't want this here, it's my personal information. Google
Speaker 10: takes a couple hours to review it. They will typically
Speaker 10: remove it. Doesn't remove it from the original website, but
Speaker 10: it does remove it from Google where ninety nine point
Speaker 10: nine percent of people are going to find this stuff
Speaker 10: full details on my website.
Speaker 3: Rich on tech dot TV. Do it? Do it? Do it?
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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm going to do that right after the show.
Speaker 1: It is KTLA's tech Guy and our tech guy too,
Speaker 1: the host of Rich on Tech every Saturday from eleven
Speaker 1: to two right here on KFI. You can watch them
Speaker 1: on KTLA. You can follow him on Instagram at rich
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Speaker 1: on his website, rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Rich, Thank you, Amy.
Speaker 4: All right, talk to you next week.
Speaker 1: A woman in her forties has been fatally shot inside
Speaker 1: a car in Anaheim. Police say shots were reported last
Speaker 1: night on North Vine Street near La Palma Avenue and
Speaker 1: Northeast Street. It's not known if the woman was targeted
Speaker 1: or if it was a random shooting, and investigations underway
Speaker 1: after a fetus was found in a dumpster in northern California.
Speaker 1: It was found outside of business in Modesto on Monday,
Speaker 1: and autopsy is being performed to determine the gestational age
Speaker 1: of the remains. A person of interest has been identified
Speaker 1: and police are going to question that person. The Stanis
Speaker 1: Stanislaus Sheriff's Office has reminded residents that there are safe
Speaker 1: surrender options available for those who are not able to
Speaker 1: care for a newborn. Mexican consulates are telling immigrant families
Speaker 1: in California to be prepared. Consul General in San Jose
Speaker 1: Alejandra Bologna says many immigrant families are currently facing difficult
Speaker 1: conversations about what might happen to children if their parents
Speaker 1: get deported.
Speaker 12: People needs to be prepared because it's a reality and
Speaker 12: it could happen, so it's better to have a plan
Speaker 12: and to designate the person that they want to be
Speaker 12: in charged temporarily of their kids.
Speaker 1: She says she understands the fears families have due to
Speaker 1: recent immigration policies by President Trump. A human cannon ball
Speaker 1: stunt performer is expected to make a full recovery after
Speaker 1: he was shot out of a cannon, hit a safety net,
Speaker 1: and then bounced out of it onto the pavement. It
Speaker 1: happened at the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival
Speaker 1: in Indio over the weekend. Elia Ramirez saw the Daredevil
Speaker 1: live performance go wrong.
Speaker 4: Andan God, he did make it to the nat atlast,
Speaker 4: you know, but we did see him bounce off and it.
Speaker 3: Was kind of scary.
Speaker 1: The cannon shoots the Daredevil sixty five feet into the
Speaker 1: air at a speed of fifty five miles per hour.
Speaker 4: No thank you.
Speaker 1: People who live in Sierra Madre have been warned they
Speaker 1: may have to leave their homes as another rainstorm moves
Speaker 1: into southern California. There are concerns of mud and debris
Speaker 1: flows from the eaten fire burn scar. An evacuation warning
Speaker 1: for residents near the border of the Angelus National Forest
Speaker 1: has been issued for six o'clock this morning through at
Speaker 1: least six Friday morning. Congressman Al Green had to be
Speaker 1: escorted out of the President's addressed to a joint session
Speaker 1: of Congress last night. He had repeatedly yelled at Trump
Speaker 1: that the president had no mandate to cut medicaid. President
Speaker 1: Trump has repeatedly promised he would not cut benefits to Medicaid, Medicare,
Speaker 1: or Social Security recipients. More than rain could be headed
Speaker 1: to southern California. The National Weather Services the storm could
Speaker 1: spawn tornadoes as the storm moves through, and the heaviest
Speaker 1: rain is expected tomorrow, with snow possible above thirty five
Speaker 1: hundred feet.
Speaker 4: It's six so five. It's handled. On the news.
Speaker 1: Apparently US aviation is no longer the gold standard.
Speaker 4: We'll tell you who's saying that.
Speaker 6: Amie's on it. Aami's on it.
Speaker 3: AMI's on it.
Speaker 6: Aami's on it?
Speaker 4: What am I?
Speaker 1: I'm on streaming and movies and documentary, sometimes even books,
Speaker 1: but mostly streaming shows. And I had to kind of
Speaker 1: take a break from streaming shows because it was Awards
Speaker 1: season and we had movies to watch.
Speaker 4: But now that that's over, I'm back to binging.
Speaker 1: I love a good binge, and now you can binge
Speaker 1: this show because the season finale just dropped yesterday.
Speaker 4: The show is called Paradise. It's on Hulu. There's only
Speaker 4: eight episodes, you.
Speaker 1: Know, so weird I started watching or I went back
Speaker 1: and watched an old show. Actually, Paradise kind of prompted
Speaker 1: me to watch an old show, which I'll tell you
Speaker 1: about later.
Speaker 4: But they used to.
Speaker 1: Do twenty two twenty three episodes in a season and
Speaker 1: now they're like eight episodes. But I'll tell you these
Speaker 1: eight episodes were action packed and fabulous. Paradise is like
Speaker 1: my favorite favorite show of the season on the drama
Speaker 1: suspense side. On comedy, it's definitely Man on the Inside.
Speaker 1: That's a Ted Danson show. If you haven't watched that,
Speaker 1: we talked about that. But anyway, so Paradise is about
Speaker 1: secret service agent Xavier Collins that stars Sterling K.
Speaker 4: Brown. Love him.
Speaker 1: He's on the presidential detail. His president is James Marsden.
Speaker 1: Character's name is cal Bradford. And then there's also on
Speaker 1: the show is Chris Marshall from For All Mankind. Love
Speaker 1: her Sarah Shahee or Shahizh, not sure how to pronounce
Speaker 1: her last name. She's a psychologist on the show. And
Speaker 1: then Julianne Nicholson plays Samantha. She's a tech billionaire who
Speaker 1: has the ear of the President and others and she
Speaker 1: is fantastic in this role. So it starts in an
Speaker 1: idyllic looking little city. The skies are blue, the streets
Speaker 1: are clean, people look happy, and it moves fast. So
Speaker 1: you got to pay attention because it turns pretty quickly
Speaker 1: that he goes something's wrong here, and within the first
Speaker 1: ten minutes of the show, when you have it on,
Speaker 1: you go, oh crap, like something big happens within the
Speaker 1: first ten minutes, and then towards the end of the
Speaker 1: first episode you see that there's a bigger oh my
Speaker 1: god moment like and through the series there are several
Speaker 1: of those, and I love that. I love when the
Speaker 1: writers can figure out a way to shock you and
Speaker 1: not like in a horror way, not in a scare way,
Speaker 1: but just like, oh my god, I didn't see that coming.
Speaker 1: I love when they do that. Like I said, it
Speaker 1: moves really fast. You've got to pay attention. People who
Speaker 1: appear to be good may not be. People who appear
Speaker 1: to be bad may not be, or maybe they are,
Speaker 1: you don't quite know. And it takes these winding twists
Speaker 1: and turns where you see the present and then they
Speaker 1: tell the story through flashbacks and there's a ton of them,
Speaker 1: and they start piecing things together, and again I love
Speaker 1: that when you go, oh, that's why that happened. Oh
Speaker 1: that's why that happened. So you get these revelations throughout
Speaker 1: the whole show, and the season finale does not disappoint.
Speaker 1: So many fun and frightening twists and turns. It's just
Speaker 1: surprise after surprise. And the music. The music is familiar
Speaker 1: and it's perfect and it's powerful. Especially Gosh, in the
Speaker 1: season finale, the music was so just perfect. That's an
Speaker 1: other word that I can think of, but it was
Speaker 1: really great.
Speaker 4: I think you like this show. I do.
Speaker 1: And the only thing that I have left to say
Speaker 1: is when a season two like I can't Wait, I
Speaker 1: can't wait. It's called Paradise, It's on Hulu. I'm on it,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna want to be on it too. Okay,
Speaker 1: time to get in your business with Courtney Donaho, who
Speaker 1: is with Bloomberg and Courtney? You know what, It has
Speaker 1: been so crazy today that I haven't even had a
Speaker 1: chance to look at your notes, But I'm going to
Speaker 1: say I'm guessing that we're going to start with Wall
Speaker 1: Street because we had a crappy day yesterday.
Speaker 6: Oh of course, and we are seeing a recovery this
Speaker 6: morning after two brutal days of trading. Good morning, and
Speaker 6: this report a sponsor by Fidelity Wealth Management. So Commerce
Speaker 6: Secretary Howard Latnik, he came on Bloomberg and he spoke
Speaker 6: to us and he said the President might give some
Speaker 6: relief on tariffs, and that decision is expected this afternoon.
Speaker 6: That's giving a bit of relief to investors. Stocks were
Speaker 6: looking at a higher open earlier. But we did get
Speaker 6: a report on employment leading up to the big government
Speaker 6: jobs report that's coming up on Friday. Everybody watches this,
Speaker 6: and this showed companies added seventy seven thousand jobs, but
Speaker 6: that was the smallest gain since July. It's making people
Speaker 6: worried on Wall Street about jobs. That's why we're seeing
Speaker 6: stock index future steady, their little change, but they're not lower.
Speaker 6: After that frantic day in the markets that we had yesterday,
Speaker 6: the volatile session where we finished with heavy losses, the
Speaker 6: Dow plunged six hundred and seventy points, and I want
Speaker 6: to put this all in perspective. The two day drop
Speaker 6: total more than thirteen hundred points. That is one big drop,
Speaker 6: and the S and P five hundred fell one point
Speaker 6: two percent. That brought the benchmark back to where it
Speaker 6: was before the election. So the rally that we saw
Speaker 6: after the election when it came to stocks, yeah.
Speaker 1: That's gone now, okay, and we'll see what happens next
Speaker 1: because we're hearing rumblings that there might be some compromises
Speaker 1: coming on the tariffs.
Speaker 6: So yes, And one thing that's important to point out
Speaker 6: and that we should keep in mind is the president
Speaker 6: usually uses the stock market as a report card, kind
Speaker 6: of like my middle schooler, but it means that he
Speaker 6: might take a second look at any policy because anything
Speaker 6: that rattles investors makes him worried. And during his first term,
Speaker 6: President Trump tweeted one hundred and fifty six explicit mentions
Speaker 6: of the stock market, so you know it is on
Speaker 6: his radar. And companies too, are starting to warn investors
Speaker 6: and consumers, and again he's hearing this. Target says that
Speaker 6: shoppers could see tariff driven price increases very quickly, especially
Speaker 6: with things like fresh produce, and right now, we always
Speaker 6: talk about the prices in the grocery store and how
Speaker 6: expensive it is. A best buy came out yesterday another retailer,
Speaker 6: saying that increases are highly likely on gadgets and appliances
Speaker 6: that it sells.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And with Target, I think of like clothes and household supplies.
Speaker 1: But Best Buy that's like, you know, big TVs and
Speaker 1: washing machines and big ticket items.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's still too early to predict which items
Speaker 6: will get more expensive and when. But we have to
Speaker 6: think that anything that's going to come across in a
Speaker 6: shorter supply chain. Obviously talking about fruits and vegetables, we're
Speaker 6: going to see that first before we see it for
Speaker 6: other items.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then really quickly because we're talking about money
Speaker 1: and people are worried about it. Families are rethinking spring break.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're choosing to stay home, unfortunately, but the kids
Speaker 6: are happy about that. Well, I think some of my
Speaker 6: my kids want to travel, but some kids they definitely
Speaker 6: want to stay home. And sentiment has started to shift
Speaker 6: with consumers weigh down by tariffs, inflation, and of course
Speaker 6: these federal job cuts that we hear about all the time.
Speaker 6: But rise and costs are pushing lower income consumers to
Speaker 6: delay their upcoming trips or figure out another way to
Speaker 6: get there. Forget about a plane, We're going to start
Speaker 6: driving instead. But the Wall Street Journal points out that
Speaker 6: wealthy folks continue to spend on international travel. They're going
Speaker 6: to a lot of far flung locations.
Speaker 4: Okay, well for me, it sounds like it's going to
Speaker 4: be a car trip.
Speaker 6: Yes for me too.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about that one. Courtney Donaho with Bloomberg. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for get in your business every day
Speaker 1: at five point forty. We'll talk to you tomorrow, See
Speaker 1: you later, oh Kidoki. Former LA Fire Chief Christian Crowley
Speaker 1: needed ten votes from the council's fifteen members to be
Speaker 1: reinstated as chief. She only got two to support her
Speaker 1: at yesterday's La City Council meeting, and her appeal to
Speaker 1: be reinstated was rejected. La Mayor Bass fired Crowley for
Speaker 1: her response before and during the Palisades fire. A compromise
Speaker 1: on tariff's may be coming. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says
Speaker 1: deals with Mexico and Canada could mean twenty five percent
Speaker 1: tariffs could be scaled back. He says the agreement could
Speaker 1: come as soon as today. The toxic algae illness that's
Speaker 1: making sea lions sick and malibu is spreading. The Marine
Speaker 1: Mammal Care Center says it has now reached as far
Speaker 1: south as Redondo Beach. The public is being warned to
Speaker 1: stay away from six Sea lions and to call wildlife
Speaker 1: officials if you see one. The number of six Sea
Speaker 1: lions is tripled over the last week. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Patrick Revel just back from Kiev. Patrick,
Speaker 1: following the dust up between Presidents Trump and Zelensky and
Speaker 1: the Oval, the US announced that it was pausing a
Speaker 1: to Ukraine, and it looks like that might have done
Speaker 1: the trick.
Speaker 11: Good morning.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I mean, we've certainly seen an impact already from President
Speaker 11: Trump's order to freeze all US military aids Ukraine. In
Speaker 11: the President Zelenski has now expressed regret for what happened
Speaker 11: in the Oval office during that blow up between President
Speaker 11: Trump and Vice President jd Vance with Zelenski. But I
Speaker 11: think it's important to say, well, we're seeing a change
Speaker 11: in tone. In reality, the Ukrainian position hasn't changed, because
Speaker 11: the Ukrainian position has always been that they wanted ender
Speaker 11: this war, obviously because their country is being destroyed. But
Speaker 11: what they want is security guarantees from the US and
Speaker 11: from European countries. That means that the war cannot restart again.
Speaker 11: And I think that remained the Ukrainian position, but the
Speaker 11: tone is certainly one of repentant basically saying I apologize
Speaker 11: for what happened, and President Trump and Is addressed to
Speaker 11: Congress last night saying that he appreciated that from volodma
Speaker 11: Zelenski and suggesting that he believes a piece deal is possible.
Speaker 11: We've also seen something important, I think from European leaders
Speaker 11: basically say that they've been floating an idea of a
Speaker 11: one month temporary partial truce on a long range strikes
Speaker 11: from the air and the sea. There would basically basically
Speaker 11: be a confidence building measure towards trying to get to
Speaker 11: a longer term ceasefire. But there are big doubts whether
Speaker 11: that's possible. But I think on next is at the
Speaker 11: moment we are hearing that potentially British Prime Minister Kiss
Speaker 11: Starma and French President Emmanuel Macron could even come with
Speaker 11: Voladimirsky to DC next week and present some of their
Speaker 11: ideas for how to try and end the war. I
Speaker 11: think there are big, big questions that are in reality
Speaker 11: world Russians accept any of that, and do they actually
Speaker 11: even really want a real cease fire in the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we know that Kiev is saying, or Zelenski
Speaker 1: is saying that they want the fighting to stop, but
Speaker 1: we really don't know the temp purture of Russia aside
Speaker 1: from what President Trump has said that he said Putin
Speaker 1: wants to stop too, but we don't really know that.
Speaker 11: I think what we know from the Russians is that
Speaker 11: they absolutely suffering. They have lost a huge number of troops,
Speaker 11: Their economy is definitely in trouble as well, and they're
Speaker 11: not making rapid advances on the battlefield, you know, that's
Speaker 11: suffering thousands of losses a week to try and move forward,
Speaker 11: usually just a few hundred meters. And so certainly they
Speaker 11: would like to try and gain what they've been seeking
Speaker 11: throughout this war, which is the subpordination of Ukraine through
Speaker 11: other means. So they're hoping they can achieve that through
Speaker 11: talks through President Trump. They believe that the Americans have
Speaker 11: swung dramatically round to their view of the conflict, and
Speaker 11: the President Trump essentially doesn't care that much about Ukraine
Speaker 11: but would like to have better relations with Russia. But
Speaker 11: at the moment, or from everything we hear from the
Speaker 11: Russians is they're still demanding the same maximalist demands that
Speaker 11: they were making at the beginning of the war, and
Speaker 11: so I think there are questions and whether that would
Speaker 11: be acceptable even to President Trump, but it certainly won't
Speaker 11: be acceptable to European allies. It won't be acceptable to
Speaker 11: the Ukrainian Ultimately, we keep fighting even if they were
Speaker 11: to have all USA permanently suspended.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and Patrick, you were just in Kiev. I
Speaker 1: know you're in London now, but you just got back
Speaker 1: from Kiev. I'm curious since you were just there, what
Speaker 1: is it like there today three years into the war?
Speaker 1: I mean, is are people out and about? Is it
Speaker 1: business as usual or is it just like this war
Speaker 1: torn scarred surface.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 11: Look, I think it's a very interesting question, right. I
Speaker 11: think most people picture war zones as being just, you know,
Speaker 11: sort of World War two style ruined buildings everywhere. Kiev,
Speaker 11: because they succeeded in pushing the Russians away in the
Speaker 11: first months of the war, has been spared heavy fighting there,
Speaker 11: but it is bombed pretty much every night. And certainly
Speaker 11: one big change when we were there was that at
Speaker 11: night we would see dozens of drones attacking all across
Speaker 11: Ukraine be in particular also now Kiev, and we would
Speaker 11: see heavy air, the sense going up, you see trade,
Speaker 11: the fire and search lights. And basically that was a
Speaker 11: big change from six months ago where essentially you would
Speaker 11: see Russian strikes you know, once a month or so.
Speaker 11: In Kiev, life is relatively normal, but at night. Now
Speaker 11: where you have normal life in the city during the day,
Speaker 11: at night, you have something here that reminds people more
Speaker 11: of like the Blitz during World War Two. So I
Speaker 11: think we are seeing things getting worse there as Russia
Speaker 11: begins to produce more and more drones. And then certainly
Speaker 11: it depends where you are. If you're in the east
Speaker 11: of the country and it is nightmarish, you know, it's
Speaker 11: quite heavy bombing every day. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 1: ABC's Patrick REvil in London. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information and the update. We appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA
Speaker 1: County Public Works says it is closely monitoring a series
Speaker 1: of storms expected to bring light to moderate rain to
Speaker 1: the region through Friday. Officials say isolated debris and mudflows
Speaker 1: are possible in the burn areas and not just in
Speaker 1: Altadena and Pacific Palisades. They say residents are being encouraged
Speaker 1: to stay informed. Public Works is going to be doing
Speaker 1: storm patrols to monitor vulnerable communities and to make sure
Speaker 1: that flood control systems are in place. Former La Fire
Speaker 1: Chief Kristin Crowley's appeal to be reinstated has been soundly
Speaker 1: defeated at city Hall.
Speaker 2: Prior to the thirteen to two vote upholding Mayor Bass's
Speaker 2: decision to fire Crowley, the former chief spoke to the
Speaker 2: city Council. She says her department has been woefully underfunded
Speaker 2: and undermanned for years.
Speaker 8: Lack of long term investments in the LAFD. Budget cuts
Speaker 8: have led to increased response times, lack of available fire engines,
Speaker 8: trucks and ambulances.
Speaker 2: Bass fired Crowley for what the mayor says, we're deficiencies
Speaker 2: and the response and preparation for the Palisades fire. Crowley
Speaker 2: would have needed the support of ten council members to
Speaker 2: reverse the Mayor's decision. In downtown La, Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Homeless man has been sentenced to more than four years
Speaker 1: in prison for punching an Asian woman in the head
Speaker 1: as she walked to work in Culver City.
Speaker 4: The assault happened in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: Jesse Allen Lindsay asked the woman for a cigarette or
Speaker 5: a lighter, then when she said she didn't smoke, Lindsay
Speaker 5: punched her in the head, knocking her to the street,
Speaker 5: and stood yelling racial slurs at the woman.
Speaker 1: Kay if i's Jim Rup says the guy pleaded guilty
Speaker 1: in December to a hate crime, which could have gotten
Speaker 1: him ten years in prison. Congress has until a week
Speaker 1: from Friday to avert a government shutdown. ABC's j O'Brien
Speaker 1: says the short timeline means Speaker Mike Johnson might have
Speaker 1: to turn to Democrats for help.
Speaker 2: I've pressed Democrats, would they really be willing to support
Speaker 2: a government shutdown to protest Elon Musk, Doge and Trump's
Speaker 2: backing of those efforts.
Speaker 4: None of them have said yes to that. He says.
Speaker 1: Democrats aren't just going to give their votes to Republicans
Speaker 1: for the mere idea of averting a shutdown. Catholics around
Speaker 1: the world are marking the beginning of Lent quite literally.
Speaker 1: It's ash Wednesday, and a lot of them are going
Speaker 1: to church to have a priest smear ash crosses on
Speaker 1: their foreheads. The ashes symbolize morning and penance the first.
Speaker 4: Day of Lents.
Speaker 1: Also when Catholics give something up, it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: one of their favorite things for the next forty days.
Speaker 1: This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland.
Speaker 1: Weather from KFI. Clouds with a slight chance of some
Speaker 1: rain this morning and then rain likely this Afternoons will
Speaker 1: be around sixty at the beaches Metro La and inland
Speaker 1: O c fifties for the valleys in i e forties
Speaker 1: and fifties in the Anaelope Valley. Showers continue tonight, then
Speaker 1: rain off and on Tomorrow, with the chance of thunderstorms
Speaker 1: and snow's possible above thirty five hundred feet. It'll become
Speaker 1: sunny again Friday and stay mostly sunny through the weekend.
Speaker 1: It's forty eight in Anaheim, fifty two Redondo Beach, forty
Speaker 1: four in Palmdale, fifty one in Inglewood.
Speaker 4: We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4: I'm Amy King.
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