Speaker 1: K I had kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2: It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 3: Yep, here I am at five o'clock straight up, good morning.
Speaker 3: This is your wake up call for Wednesday, May twenty eighth.
Speaker 3: I'm Amy King. At an early start to the day today.
Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, thanks to my stupid ring camera. You know,
Speaker 3: it does the little chimes when something goes past your door,
Speaker 3: and so it woke me up at two o'clock.
Speaker 2: Went past your door.
Speaker 4: Don't know.
Speaker 3: Was there a helicopter overhead? Nope, but I turned on
Speaker 3: the I turned on the you know, grabbed my phone
Speaker 3: and looked at it because I'm like, if somebody's at
Speaker 3: my front door at two o'clock in the morning, that's concerning.
Speaker 3: There was nothing there. The wind was blowing a little bit.
Speaker 3: But then last night loud bang near Dodger Stadium, Echo Park, Chinatown.
Speaker 3: What the heck was that? I get these It's NonStop.
Speaker 3: I want to turn them off, but it's it's kind
Speaker 3: of entertaining. It's kind of entertaining and addicted. Yeah, speaking
Speaker 3: of entertaining, I watched Handmaid's Tale season and serious finale.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you anything, but I will
Speaker 3: tell you that to watch the finale, you kind of
Speaker 3: have to go back to the beginning. So I did
Speaker 3: because remember yesterday, Will and I were talking yesterday that
Speaker 3: I liked the previous seasons better. So I went after
Speaker 3: watching the series finale, I went back and watched the
Speaker 3: first episode, and then I watched the second episode, and
Speaker 3: then I watched the third episode. I like the first
Speaker 3: season a lot better. It's a lot more creepy, it's
Speaker 3: a lot more interesting. Spelling Bee National Spelling Bee four
Speaker 3: kids in southern California is still in the hunt who
Speaker 3: We've got some of those words too. I'm going to
Speaker 3: share them with you. In a couple of minutes. I'd
Speaker 3: be out in the first round. You know that a
Speaker 3: lot of people are watching. Sonny and Gizmo are a
Speaker 3: little eagles and Big Bear. They're up already. This morning
Speaker 3: yesterday I was watching. Fifty thousand people were watching. Again,
Speaker 3: I think it tapered off for a while. People kind
Speaker 3: of went, oh, well, they're just eagles, they're growing up.
Speaker 3: But now that they're getting close to leaving the nest,
Speaker 3: people are gonna getting excited. So you can watch the
Speaker 3: Big Bear be beagle cam. The eagle cam all hours
Speaker 3: of the day, and like I said, the kids are
Speaker 3: already awake this morning. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 3: Thieves who cut through a roof and then through a
Speaker 3: wall have made off with more than two million dollars
Speaker 3: in cash and merchandise from a family owned jewelry store
Speaker 3: in Seem Valley. The owners say the burglars cut through
Speaker 3: the roof of a candy store next door to their business,
Speaker 3: then cut through a wall to get into their business.
Speaker 3: The burglars also cut through an eight inch safe and
Speaker 3: emptied it. La City councilors expected to finalize a revised
Speaker 3: nearly fourteen billion dollar budget after a vote scheduled for
Speaker 3: yesterday was delayed because of some paperwork issues. A new,
Speaker 3: highly contagious COVID strain has shown up in several states,
Speaker 3: including California. The strain was found as early as mid April,
Speaker 3: with infections in Washington, Virginia, and New York. The discovery
Speaker 3: comes after federal officials stated they would no longer support
Speaker 3: booster shots for healthy children or pregnant women. Coming up
Speaker 3: on Wake Up Called, President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill could
Speaker 3: be in trouble in the Republican controlled Senate. ABC Stephen
Speaker 3: Portnery's going to join us in just a couple of
Speaker 3: minutes to tell us who's pumping the brakes on it.
Speaker 3: We're talking with KTLA tech reporter Rich Demiro at five
Speaker 3: twenty what you can now get and what you still
Speaker 3: can't get on your iPad and websites that can save
Speaker 3: you money. That's always a cool thing. Amy's on it.
Speaker 3: It's a newer movie that makes you really appreciate the
Speaker 3: freedoms we have here in the US. I think you're
Speaker 3: going to like this one. And that's at the bottom
Speaker 3: of the hour. And then with summer travel season upon
Speaker 3: US Ihearts aviation specialist Jay Ratliffe is going to join
Speaker 3: us to tell us what to expect when we head
Speaker 3: to the airport, and surprisingly lax is a pretty good option.
Speaker 3: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 3: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The La County
Speaker 3: Assessor's Office is urging wildfire survivors to update their mailing addresses.
Speaker 3: Some property tex refund checks that are being mailed out
Speaker 3: have been returned as undeliverable because the homes that once
Speaker 3: stood at the original addresses have been destroyed, Residents need
Speaker 3: to update their information with their current location to get
Speaker 3: those checks. Nearly five months after they eat and fire,
Speaker 3: many in Altadena and Pasadena are still without long term housing.
Speaker 1: Judy Chu, who represents parts of Los Angeles County including
Speaker 1: Pasadena and Altadena, is calling on FEMA to launch a
Speaker 1: direct leasing program. She says fire survivors are struggling to
Speaker 1: find housing in LA's tight and expensive rental markets. Community
Speaker 1: leaders agree, saying many available units are out of reach
Speaker 1: due to high income and credit score requirements. Now urging
Speaker 1: the federal government to step in. Brigida Dugastino KFI News.
Speaker 3: News brought to you by American Vision Windows. New laws
Speaker 3: now in play allowing the FEDS to arrest illegal immigrants
Speaker 3: in jails in southern California. US Attorney Bill Assie tells
Speaker 3: kfi's John Cobalt, the city made the situation worse by
Speaker 3: not adhering to the original ice detainer.
Speaker 5: Now what they're forcing me to do is criminally prosecute
Speaker 5: the alien before they're deported. So not only are they
Speaker 5: going to get deported, but they're probably going to serve
Speaker 5: a couple of years.
Speaker 2: In federal prison. Before their deportation.
Speaker 3: LA City Council voted last year to officially become a
Speaker 3: sanctuary city so that city resources could not be used
Speaker 3: to help enforce federal immigration laws. And a sick dog
Speaker 3: has caused a flight from Detroit to Los Angeles to
Speaker 3: make an unscheduled stop in Minneapolis. A dog in the
Speaker 3: cabin became ill during the flight on Monday night. The
Speaker 3: captain decided to land the plane so the dog and
Speaker 3: its owner could get off and get medical care. The
Speaker 3: stop caused a two and a half hour delay. A
Speaker 3: passenger told KTLA that the captain told them the dog
Speaker 3: is going to be okay your morning commute. Not okay.
Speaker 3: We got a nasty crash, really bad.
Speaker 6: It's a jack Knife's big rig that has shut down
Speaker 6: all westbound lanes of the ninety one Freeway. The ninety
Speaker 6: one Freeway completely closed westbound. Excuse that team in the
Speaker 6: background at Lake at Lakeview, all lanes completely shut down
Speaker 6: as they work to clear this huge mess. Traffic is
Speaker 6: backed up, as you can imagine all the way to
Speaker 6: the seventy one. Take if you can, Imperial Highway. That's
Speaker 6: one good way to get around this to the north
Speaker 6: or to the south. You can take the two forty
Speaker 6: one as an alternate. We'll keep you updated. But again,
Speaker 6: the ninety one westbound closed at Lakeview with Southern California's
Speaker 6: most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 3: I'm Will Cole Schreiver. Yeah, that sounds like a nasty one.
Speaker 3: Will's going to help you get around that and other
Speaker 3: problems on the roads all morning long. It's five oh
Speaker 3: seven on your Wednesday morning wake up call. It's say
Speaker 3: good morning to ABC, Stephen Portnoy. Stephen. The House has
Speaker 3: passed the President's so called Big Beautiful Bill, but now
Speaker 3: it heads to the Senate, and with very narrow margins,
Speaker 3: it could be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, we'll see.
Speaker 7: It doesn't help that over we learned that Elon Musk
Speaker 7: says he's disappointed by the Big Beautiful Bill and it
Speaker 7: doesn't cut enough. That the whole idea of a doge
Speaker 7: was to shepherd in cuts, and this bill doesn't cut it.
Speaker 7: If you will, So, you have Republican senators such as
Speaker 7: what Ron Johnson of Wisconsin Ran Paul of Kentucky who
Speaker 7: are already saying that they're going to make they're going
Speaker 7: to insist on tweaks to this bill, and you have
Speaker 7: House Speaker Mike Johnson this week in an interview with
Speaker 7: punch Bowl News describing it as trying to cross the
Speaker 7: Grand Canyon on a string of dental flaws. That's how
Speaker 7: difficult it was to get conservatives and moderates behind this big,
Speaker 7: beautiful bill that would make some cuts to some programs,
Speaker 7: also significantly ramp up spending, extend and expand the Trump
Speaker 7: era tax cuts. And so that's why you know there
Speaker 7: are concerns because this would, according to Republican opponents, expand
Speaker 7: the deficit and the debt by four trillion dollars over
Speaker 7: the decade, and they don't want to see that. In fact,
Speaker 7: they want to see further spending cuts. The question becomes,
Speaker 7: all right, where do you cut Because Josh Hawley, if Missouri,
Speaker 7: is one Republican who says you better not touch medicaid
Speaker 7: anymore than this proposal seeks to do.
Speaker 3: And we know that President Trump has said several times
Speaker 3: don't touch medicaid. So he's not he's not behind any
Speaker 3: of the cuts to Medicaid.
Speaker 7: Well, right, so it raises the question, Look, you have
Speaker 7: a couple of options. You could raise taxes. The President
Speaker 7: has indicated he would not oppose a new tax rate
Speaker 7: for millionaires at a certain threshold. But will Republicans get
Speaker 7: on board behind that, We'll see so far in the
Speaker 7: House they didn't. And you know, the other way would
Speaker 7: be to further cut spending. This bill proposes to increase it,
Speaker 7: particularly on the defense and border priorities of this president.
Speaker 3: Okay, So and Stephen, are they discussing it now? Is
Speaker 3: it on the floor for discussion or where does the
Speaker 3: bill stand for in the Senate?
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, as you know, last week, by a
Speaker 7: single vote, the House passed the bill and sent it
Speaker 7: into the Senate. So right now it'll go to the
Speaker 7: committees of jurisdiction in the Senate and they'll take a
Speaker 7: look and try to propose their own tweaks. The Speaker's
Speaker 7: warning against that because anything that the Senate does to
Speaker 7: change the bill has to go back over to the
Speaker 7: House for ratification before it goes to the President. And
Speaker 7: there's a concern that any tweaks the Senate might make
Speaker 7: might make it difficult to.
Speaker 2: Pass in the House.
Speaker 7: So the deadline that has been set by leaders is
Speaker 7: July fourth. To have this big, beautiful bill on the
Speaker 7: President's desk. It's not just the symbolism of having it
Speaker 7: happen on that holiday, it's the idea that the embedded
Speaker 7: in the bill is an increase in the debt ceiling,
Speaker 7: and if that's not addressed by July, the Treasury Secretary
Speaker 7: has warned the US would be in default of its obligations.
Speaker 3: Okay, and we'll be watching at ABC. Stephen Portinoy, thanks
Speaker 3: so much for the information. As always, we appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You bet.
Speaker 3: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich
Speaker 3: on Tech Saturdays from eleven to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 3: It's KTLA Tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2: Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning, is you amy?
Speaker 3: Okay, So we got the iPad and we've got something
Speaker 3: that they finally have on the iPad and something that
Speaker 3: they still don't have on the iPad.
Speaker 8: Well, it's only taken about fifteen years to get this application,
Speaker 8: but it is finally there. And that app is WhatsApp.
Speaker 8: That is the app. That's basically the entire story. People
Speaker 8: love WhatsApp all over the world. They use it to communicate.
Speaker 8: It is fully encrypted end to end, which people really like.
Speaker 8: It is owned by Meta, but it's on the iPad now,
Speaker 8: so you can have it on multiple devices, your phone,
Speaker 8: your Mac, your iPad. Messages do stay in sync and
Speaker 8: the end to end encryption stays intact across all devices.
Speaker 3: Okay, so go get it. I have a question, and
Speaker 3: that is that WhatsApp has been available on the iPhone
Speaker 3: but not on the iPad. Is there a reason for that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 8: I think part of it was the encryption situation, because
Speaker 8: when WhatsApp was first available, the reason I didn't use
Speaker 8: it is because you can only use it on one device,
Speaker 8: so the time, it had to be linked to a
Speaker 8: phone number on a phone, and then they sort of
Speaker 8: expanded that over the years. I don't know what the
Speaker 8: reason for the iPad lag was, but it's there now.
Speaker 8: The only other app that Meta needs to make for
Speaker 8: the iPad is Instagram, which people are baffled why there's
Speaker 8: not an official Instagram app.
Speaker 2: You know, you can put the phone app on.
Speaker 8: There, but there's no official sort of like big screen
Speaker 8: Instagram app for some reason.
Speaker 2: So maybe that will be next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even know that because I have an iPad,
Speaker 3: I rarely use it because I just use my phone
Speaker 3: so often. But that's just crazy that the IG isn't
Speaker 3: on the iPad.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you would think there would be, but you know,
Speaker 8: I think at some point Instagram had like a reason
Speaker 8: for it, like oh, we want to keep it, you know,
Speaker 8: more intimate with your phone versus like your iPad. But
Speaker 8: you know, it's like, come on, give us options.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: So I think that we've talked about this before about
Speaker 3: how you can turn your when take notes and stuff,
Speaker 3: you can turn it into a podcast, and now that's
Speaker 3: available in more places.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so we talked about this a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 8: Notebook LM is the tool. So this sort of was
Speaker 8: an experiment at Google, just like a small thing. It
Speaker 8: went viral because of this audio overview feature, which basically
Speaker 8: allows you to toss any information you want into this
Speaker 8: notebook LM app and it will convert it into a
Speaker 8: podcast basically with two hosts kind of talking about the information.
Speaker 8: But you can put anything in there, so you can
Speaker 8: you can, you know, put PDFs in there, you can
Speaker 8: put a website, YouTube, video, anything you want to learn
Speaker 8: more about. And what's neat about this is that it's
Speaker 8: only using that information, so it's kind of like a
Speaker 8: little bit cleaner than it would be if you just
Speaker 8: use like straight up AI because it's trying to pull
Speaker 8: just from your info. But the other thing is amy
Speaker 8: you can also ask questions. You know, you can sit
Speaker 8: there and like type in questions about things that you
Speaker 8: want to ask about the information you.
Speaker 2: Put in there.
Speaker 8: So anyway, it's a really cool learning feature available through Google.
Speaker 8: And now they finally came out with an app on
Speaker 8: iPhone and Android. This only took them like two years,
Speaker 8: so that's not too yet. But the cool thing is
Speaker 8: you can listen to those audio overviews anywhere basically.
Speaker 3: Okay, So my question is if it's taking your information,
Speaker 3: it's not going out searching the web. It's taking your
Speaker 3: information and making the podcast. Is this for like your
Speaker 3: own edification or to share with like, is it to
Speaker 3: help you study or is it exactly to share?
Speaker 2: No, I think it's I mean, you could share it.
Speaker 8: You could download the podcasts and share it out, but
Speaker 8: it's not meant to like make podcasts for you that
Speaker 8: you can like share with friends and family. That's not
Speaker 8: really the idea. The idea is that you're going to
Speaker 8: a foreign country. You want to learn everything you could
Speaker 8: possibly learn about it, and so you drop that information
Speaker 8: into notebook LM.
Speaker 2: It generates a podcast.
Speaker 8: I'm doing a panel discussion today, so they gave me
Speaker 8: a whole briefing book. I dropped that into notebook. I
Speaker 8: listened to that in my car, and now I'm briefed
Speaker 8: on all the things that everyone wants to talk about,
Speaker 8: the panelists, the background, whatever. But it's only that information.
Speaker 8: So it's really just you know, you want to learn
Speaker 8: a new law, you know, throw it in there. That
Speaker 8: Take it Down Act that they passed a couple of
Speaker 8: weeks ago. You can throw that in there and you
Speaker 8: can learn about that. So it's just a different way
Speaker 8: to learn. A lot of college students use it, a
Speaker 8: lot of lifelong learners.
Speaker 2: It's just a.
Speaker 8: Really different and convenient way to learn. Thanks to AI.
Speaker 3: Okay, and let's talk phones. Because you have been playing
Speaker 3: with the brand new S twenty five Edge for the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks and you said you we talked
Speaker 3: to you about it, or we talked to you when
Speaker 3: you first got it, and you said, I'm gonna play
Speaker 3: with it for a while. Well now you have.
Speaker 8: Yes, So it's been about three weeks. I've been using
Speaker 8: it on a daily basis. This is Samsung's thinnest phone
Speaker 8: yet it goes on sale on Friday. It's super thin,
Speaker 8: it's super light. I do love that aspect of it.
Speaker 8: I don't love the fact that there's no dedicated zoom lens.
Speaker 8: It has become not a issue, but it's definitely not
Speaker 8: ideal if you're coming from like a phone that has that.
Speaker 2: But if you don't really care the phone, the camera.
Speaker 8: Is excellent on this device, like, really really impressive. I've
Speaker 8: used it in all kinds of different situations and it's
Speaker 8: a great phone. The battery life was my other question.
Speaker 8: I would say that the battery life is fine. If
Speaker 8: you have a charger, you're going to be fine. I
Speaker 8: would say it's not going to have as good battery
Speaker 8: life towards the end of the day as some of
Speaker 8: the main other phones, but still overall, I really like
Speaker 8: this device.
Speaker 3: Okay, So Samsung Galaxy S twenty five Edge available in
Speaker 3: stores now right Friday, Available in stores Friday. And how
Speaker 3: much does it cost?
Speaker 8: It starts at eleven hundred dollars, but there are many
Speaker 8: many deals out there, so be on the look out.
Speaker 8: If you pay full price for that thing, you're doing
Speaker 8: something wrong.
Speaker 3: Okay, speaking of not paying full price, just real quick
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Speaker 3: Definitely going to check that out. The simply codes, especially
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Speaker 3: It Okay, thanks, that's so great to know. This is
Speaker 3: the host of Rich on Tech on KFI. It's our
Speaker 3: very own Rich Demiro. Also, you can see him weekdays
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Speaker 2: Have a great one, all right, you two.
Speaker 3: I'm excited about that one. I gotta go do a
Speaker 3: little perusing, save some money, especially the Amazons. Save a
Speaker 3: buck on every Amazon order. I could save thousands of
Speaker 3: dollars a year. That's the point, all right, Amy, on
Speaker 3: it as on it? What am I on? Well, I'm
Speaker 3: on the stream movies, TV shows, you name it. And
Speaker 3: as you might have noticed by now, I tend to
Speaker 3: jump down rabbit holes and when I start watching one thing,
Speaker 3: it takes me on to more things. And that's kind
Speaker 3: of what happened with this one. This week. I'm on
Speaker 3: the Diplomat. It's not the Carrie Russell TV series, The Diplomat.
Speaker 3: It's a movie. It's on Netflix and it's based on
Speaker 3: true events. I always love movies about true events. So
Speaker 3: here's the gist of it. An Indian woman shows up
Speaker 3: at the Indian embassy in Pakistan and she runs up
Speaker 3: to the window and says, I need asylum. She tries
Speaker 3: to get in. Of course, they're very skeptical of why
Speaker 3: she's trying to get in, and what unfolds is a
Speaker 3: pretty horrifying tale of betrayal and deceit and a diplomat
Speaker 3: who tries to figure out if the woman is telling
Speaker 3: the truth, is she tries to get out of the country,
Speaker 3: or if she's just playing them, and of course someone
Speaker 3: from Pakistan trying to keep her there, and you're figuring
Speaker 3: out what's going on there, how she got to be there,
Speaker 3: and the story unfolds. They don't want to tell you
Speaker 3: much about it, even though it's based on a true story,
Speaker 3: but it is a very very interesting story. It reminded
Speaker 3: me of Argo, remember Argo. Totally different circumstances, but still
Speaker 3: a story about a foreign citizen trapped in another country
Speaker 3: and a brutal regime that's trying to keep them there.
Speaker 3: It has you wondering one if she's telling the truth
Speaker 3: or she's just a terrorist trying to get it into
Speaker 3: the embassy. There are no known actors in this movie.
Speaker 3: It's not I'm trying to think, now, is there anybody?
Speaker 3: I don't think there was anybody, which I love because
Speaker 3: then you don't have the kind of preconceived notions of
Speaker 3: the actors. You just get to really enjoy the story.
Speaker 3: Another takeaway from this movie, and maybe it's because of
Speaker 3: a lot of movies, is that the soundtrack can really
Speaker 3: help advance the movie and have a really powerful impact
Speaker 3: on your viewing experience. This soundtrack is not great. It
Speaker 3: sounds like something out of a cheap seventies movie's. It
Speaker 3: was distracting to me at times, but it makes you
Speaker 3: appreciate really great music and movies, you know, like a
Speaker 3: John Williams or something like that. It's a good watch.
Speaker 3: It's riveting. It makes you think about the world we
Speaker 3: live in and how lucky we are to be where
Speaker 3: we are with our freedoms, and also what happens when
Speaker 3: there's deception and those freedoms get snatched away from you.
Speaker 3: I love a story that makes you think, and this
Speaker 3: one does because I kept going, oh my gosh, how
Speaker 3: did she get into the situation and what would I
Speaker 3: do if I found myself in that situation, So it
Speaker 3: kind of helps you suspend reality, even though it's based
Speaker 3: on a real story. Definitely on The Diplomat and I
Speaker 3: mentioned it reminded me of Argo, which I think was
Speaker 3: a spectacular movie had Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Brian Cranston,
Speaker 3: Alan Arkin, Tate, Donovan, Victor Garber. I've watched it several times,
Speaker 3: and even though I know how it ends, and it's
Speaker 3: based on a true story, so before I even saw it,
Speaker 3: I knew how it ended, it's just a nail bier
Speaker 3: for me every time. So Argo is soundtrack too. Argo's
Speaker 3: soundtrack is fabulous. So this week I'm on both The
Speaker 3: Diplomat and Argo, and I think you should be too. Okay,
Speaker 3: time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 4: Good morning. How are we today?
Speaker 3: Well, we're doing good, but apparently you're not doing great
Speaker 3: if you like to shop at home. Yes, there is
Speaker 3: a company called at home. Is that the shop the
Speaker 3: one that does the home parties or is it a
Speaker 3: different company.
Speaker 9: It's a different company. They have a lot of furniture
Speaker 9: they have. It's it's kind of like a competitor to
Speaker 9: Home Goods, but it's actually a little more focused on furniture.
Speaker 4: It's actually kind of neat.
Speaker 9: There's one actually not that far away from me, but
Speaker 9: there's also one in Long Beach too. But they're raising
Speaker 9: their concerns about tariffs, they say sources are telling us
Speaker 9: that they're preparing to file for bankruptcy in the coming weeks.
Speaker 9: So they've been facing a cash crunch in recent months,
Speaker 9: and tariffs are further complicating the situation. But at Home
Speaker 9: has been trying to shift away from sourcing a lot
Speaker 9: of its products in China and has been recently ramping
Speaker 9: up efforts to engage with suppliers from other countries, including India.
Speaker 9: I hope it sticks around. It's a great little store.
Speaker 9: I love it when you find great little homes stores.
Speaker 3: There's a couple that used to be here that aren't
Speaker 3: here anymore, and it just I'm like, so where am
Speaker 3: I going to go when I need this now? Because
Speaker 3: exactly like sometimes I just want to shop and I
Speaker 3: don't want to do it on Amazon.
Speaker 9: Yeah. I got a nice little table from them recently,
Speaker 9: so it was It's cute. It's It's again feels a
Speaker 9: lot like being in home goods finding a lot of
Speaker 9: different deals. They have a lot of nice lighting too.
Speaker 9: It's a little bit different because if you go into
Speaker 9: home goods it has just more small items like napkins
Speaker 9: and things like that. You're going to find more furniture
Speaker 9: and at home location.
Speaker 3: Okay called at home and they're in Long Beach okay.
Speaker 3: Staying with retail, not everybody's bailing on shopping at malls.
Speaker 3: Apparently no.
Speaker 9: And Macy's is one company that's doing quite well because
Speaker 9: they're shaking up their strategy and it seems to be
Speaker 9: paying off. So we all know department stores that has
Speaker 9: changed so much in recent years because people are going
Speaker 9: to Amazon, they're shopping more online, and luxury brands are
Speaker 9: increasingly selling directly to consumers, so they're not sending their
Speaker 9: stuff to department stores. So macy said, we have to
Speaker 9: change our strategy. They prioritize closing some struggling locations, but
Speaker 9: focusing on the one hundred and twenty five stores that
Speaker 9: they have that the retailer beliefs has the most potential.
Speaker 9: As a result, Macy's reported better than expected quarterly results.
Speaker 9: This turnaround seems to be paying off. They also kept
Speaker 9: their financial forecast for the year the same, which is
Speaker 9: very different from what we heard from a lot of
Speaker 9: other retailers who said, you know what, tariffs are really
Speaker 9: going to hit us. So investors are rewarding them shares
Speaker 9: of Macy's. Seeing a pretty nice pop in the pre market.
Speaker 9: So it's looking like a good day for Macy's and
Speaker 9: trading of that stock.
Speaker 3: Okay, And speaking of a pop, we had quite a
Speaker 3: pop in the stock market yesterday.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, no doubt about it.
Speaker 9: Wall Street kicked off the shortened trading week yesterday with
Speaker 9: a rally the US the UK taking steps to speed
Speaker 9: up their trade negotiations that supported stocks. We saw the
Speaker 9: Dow jumping seven hundred and forty one points. Now this morning,
Speaker 9: we're losing a bit of steam. We are just slightly higher.
Speaker 9: SMP futures are up to tenths of a percent, DOWT
Speaker 9: futures are a little change. But attention turns to Nvidia.
Speaker 9: They report earnings after the closing bell today, and of
Speaker 9: course their chips are vital to artificial intelligence.
Speaker 4: They are a bell weather of a lot of stuff.
Speaker 9: So we're going to be watching what's going on with
Speaker 9: them after the bell today.
Speaker 4: We're going to be talking about that tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, personally i'd be okay with a calm day
Speaker 3: on Wall Street. My goodness, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: I know, it's been a rollercoaster.
Speaker 3: It's may.
Speaker 4: Anytime we hear.
Speaker 9: The word tariff on Wall Street, everybody either gets excited
Speaker 9: when they're getting pulled back, or they're a little upset
Speaker 9: when we hear that there's tariffs coming, or they're large tariffs.
Speaker 4: Look at what happened on Friday, yep.
Speaker 3: Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks so much for getting in your
Speaker 3: business like we do every day. Let's do again tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Shall we see you later? All right, take care. Let's
Speaker 3: say good morning now to Ihearts Aviation specialist Jay Ratliffe,
Speaker 3: Morning Jay.
Speaker 5: Hey, pleasant, good morning.
Speaker 3: He wanted to talk to you because a lot of
Speaker 3: people finalizing their summer travel plans. We thought it would
Speaker 3: be fun to give them a little insight into what
Speaker 3: they can expect. And surprisingly, when it comes to traveling
Speaker 3: through an airport, LAX is looking like a pretty good option.
Speaker 5: You know it is, and you know we're seeing some
Speaker 5: surprising numbers of travelers of the TSA. Let us know
Speaker 5: that as we kicked off the summer travel season, which
Speaker 5: goes loosely from Memorial Day to Labor Day. On Friday,
Speaker 5: we had across the country more than three million people
Speaker 5: that were screened. And it's only been I think two
Speaker 5: other times that we've been over three million in a
Speaker 5: day last July seventh and December first, also of last year,
Speaker 5: so three times in the last year and a half
Speaker 5: that we've had more than three million people that have
Speaker 5: been screened. So we've kind of kicked off the busy
Speaker 5: summer travel season, and as long as the weather cooperates
Speaker 5: and computers do what they should do and people show
Speaker 5: up for work, we should be in pretty good shape.
Speaker 5: But one thing that we're going to be impacted with
Speaker 5: this summer that we've not more in the past is
Speaker 5: the shortage of bear traffic controllers. We have about thirty
Speaker 5: four hundred thirty five hundred that were short across the country,
Speaker 5: and we've seen in Austin, we've seen in newer we've
Speaker 5: seen in Denver and Orlando and other places where they've
Speaker 5: actually scaled back the number of flights or initiated ground
Speaker 5: stops when need be if they have too much traffic
Speaker 5: and they need to slow things down based on the
Speaker 5: number of controllers that they have, and that's certainly going
Speaker 5: to be a headache if we encounter much of this
Speaker 5: busy summer travel season.
Speaker 3: Okay, so Jay, when you talk about scaling back flights,
Speaker 3: do they just full out cancel flights that are already
Speaker 3: scheduled or do they just as you said, when they
Speaker 3: scale back, do they just slow them down to make
Speaker 3: sure that there's not too many planes in the sky
Speaker 3: at any given time.
Speaker 5: That's it. And you've traveled enough that you know that
Speaker 5: they had these ground stops where your flight schedule to
Speaker 5: leave at seven am, but you're under a ground stop
Speaker 5: headed to your airport and you're on the plane, but
Speaker 5: they can't leave until seven thirty five. And the reason
Speaker 5: for that is the congestion at whatever air corridor is
Speaker 5: a little bit congested, and they want to find it
Speaker 5: out a bit before they're going to introduce more airplanes
Speaker 5: into that traffic pattern. So the FAA, who I give
Speaker 5: them a hard time, rightfully, so when need being, they
Speaker 5: do a very good job of traffic management, making sure
Speaker 5: that their air traffic controllers don't have any more than
Speaker 5: they should. Now, the problem is these men and women
Speaker 5: are using technology that is decades old, that goes back
Speaker 5: forty and fifty years some of the technology, so they
Speaker 5: don't have anything as far as the latest and greatest
Speaker 5: technology to do their job. They're also overworked. Many of
Speaker 5: are exhausted, so it's very problematic and stressful for these
Speaker 5: air traffic controllers. So I'm glad that the FAA is
Speaker 5: doing what they can to maybe minimize some of that
Speaker 5: a bit by the number of flights that they're tracking
Speaker 5: at a given time. But look, the challenges are full
Speaker 5: and if it's technology or the number of air traffic controllers,
Speaker 5: it's going to take us years, years to correct both
Speaker 5: of those. So this is going to be a topic that, sadly,
Speaker 5: you and I are going to be talking about on
Speaker 5: and off for the next few years until both of
Speaker 5: those situations get resolved.
Speaker 3: Okay, And recently, Jay, they there was a report put
Speaker 3: out about some of the airports that are faring better
Speaker 3: than others have fewer flight disruptions, and so we have
Speaker 3: our tops and San Francisco actually has the fewest disruptions
Speaker 3: of any of the major airports in the country.
Speaker 5: Which was surprising to me. I will I won't lie
Speaker 5: to you there, because look, the weather situation being one,
Speaker 5: but it's also the idea of surrounding airports and how
Speaker 5: much flight activity you have coming in and out of there,
Speaker 5: and as a result, I mean a lot, so many
Speaker 5: times the West coast cities can fare rather well as
Speaker 5: opposed to perhaps another airport, let's say, smack dab in
Speaker 5: the middle of the Northeast, which is just it's problematic
Speaker 5: on a good day getting flights in and out on time.
Speaker 5: If you're talking about LaGuardia and Newark and sometimes JFKVE
Speaker 5: and Philadelphia and Boston. You throw in some bad weather
Speaker 5: and all bets are off. So but you know, people
Speaker 5: that are going to be traveling this summer are going
Speaker 5: to be seeing a lot of different things as they fly.
Speaker 5: And there have been some changes. Airlines have changed some
Speaker 5: of their check in times with some of the carriers,
Speaker 5: where it used to be forty five minutes you had
Speaker 5: to be there, Now with some of them, you've got
Speaker 5: to check in an hour beforehand. So make sure if
Speaker 5: you've not flown your airline in a while, go to
Speaker 5: their website. Make sure that you're aware of what that
Speaker 5: check in time is, the cutoff time, because if you're
Speaker 5: supposed to be checking in your bags an hour before departure,
Speaker 5: and you get there an hour and fifteen minutes, but
Speaker 5: the line is twenty minutes. So you're checking in now
Speaker 5: forty five or fifteen minutes before departure. There's a good
Speaker 5: chance your bags aren't going to make the flight. You might,
Speaker 5: but the bags are going to be on a flight
Speaker 5: behind you. So knowing that stuff before you fly, and
Speaker 5: obviously getting there two hours before departure is always the
Speaker 5: best way to go about it, so you don't run
Speaker 5: into that. But airlines, you're tweaking how they do business,
Speaker 5: and they expect us to keep up on it, and
Speaker 5: that's the last thing we keep up on. But you know,
Speaker 5: it's a good thing to keep in mind. If we
Speaker 5: head to the airport. They go to six flags or
Speaker 5: amusement parks and I tell them, you know, get to
Speaker 5: the airport two three hours in advance, and they look
Speaker 5: at me like I'm crazy. But these same people will
Speaker 5: go stand in a summer sun for three hours to
Speaker 5: ride a two minute ride and think nothing of it.
Speaker 5: So getting to the airport early, believe me, is very
Speaker 5: very critical during this busy summer travel season.
Speaker 3: Well, Jay, we want a thrill ride when we're at
Speaker 3: an amusement park. We do not want a thrill ride
Speaker 3: when we're at an airport and on an airplane. Jay Ratliffe,
Speaker 3: Ihearts Aviation Specialist, Thanks so much for the tips and
Speaker 3: information as we head into the busy summer travel season.
Speaker 5: Always good to talk to you.
Speaker 3: All Right, you too, We's talk soon. You've been listening
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