Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: Well, good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is
Speaker 1: your wake up call for Friday, February twenty first, I'm
Speaker 1: Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Ready
Speaker 1: to get your day started. It was gorgeous driving in.
Speaker 1: You know, we've had sort of the low clouds and
Speaker 1: all of that for the last few days. It was
Speaker 1: nice and clear this morning. The moon is shining bright.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a beautiful weekend. Feeling very spring light,
Speaker 1: even though it's just February. Dare I say people might
Speaker 1: be sunbathing this weekend. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: Lead levels in the area just south of the wildfire
Speaker 1: in Altadena spiked one hundred ten percent for several days
Speaker 1: during the fire. The CDC says levels have returned to normal.
Speaker 1: The South Coast Air Quality Management District says it's setting
Speaker 1: up testing sites near the fires to monitor the air
Speaker 1: make sure it's safe for those who live near the
Speaker 1: burn areas. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says California can continue
Speaker 1: to fund the state's high speed rail project, but that
Speaker 1: an audit's going to be done to see if the
Speaker 1: project will receive any more federal money. You said at
Speaker 1: Union Station downtown yesterday, the project is over budget, behind schedule,
Speaker 1: and has no completion date in sight. A federal judge
Speaker 1: says President Trump's mass firings of government employees can continue
Speaker 1: for now. Labor unions have filed the lawsuit challenging the
Speaker 1: layoff of thousands of probationary employees. Tax Day just under
Speaker 1: two months away. I know in La County we have
Speaker 1: more time because of the wildfires, but for most people,
Speaker 1: tax Day, of course, is comeing to April fifteenth. Aybc's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan is going to tell us why you may
Speaker 1: want to file early, and it has to do with
Speaker 1: DOGE that's coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: We need a lot of stuff still for the thousands
Speaker 1: of people who've lost everything in the wildfires, and this weekend,
Speaker 1: the Solo Foundation and more than fifty partners are stepping
Speaker 1: in to help those people who have been affected, help
Speaker 1: them get back on their feet and maybe have a
Speaker 1: little fun too. We're going to be talking to the
Speaker 1: founder of Solo Foundation. Coming up in about fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: The host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp, has some
Speaker 1: concrete facts for you. And also, before the hour is up,
Speaker 1: your smart home could kill you. At least that's what
Speaker 1: ABC's Will Gams is going to tell us about has
Speaker 1: to do with a new Netflix series. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is announced
Speaker 1: a federal compliance review of the California High Speed Rail Authority.
Speaker 1: He spoke at Union Station in downtown as a group
Speaker 1: of protesters shouted throughout throughout the press conference.
Speaker 4: I think there were chanting build the rail. It's been
Speaker 4: seventeen years and sixteen billion dollars and.
Speaker 3: No rail has been built.
Speaker 4: So if you want to go protest somewhere, if you
Speaker 4: want to shout at someone, go to the governor's mansion.
Speaker 1: Duffy says the high speed route planned for LA to
Speaker 1: San Francisco is billions of dollars over budget, years behind schedule.
Speaker 1: The rail authority says it's been audited before, and it
Speaker 1: welcomes the new federal review. A local congresswoman has pushed
Speaker 1: back on the Trump administration's review of the rail project.
Speaker 5: Representative Laura Friedman toward the expansion of the Metro d
Speaker 5: line with other local officials and says federal investment is
Speaker 5: necessary for mass public transit projects. She says the new
Speaker 5: federal review of the high speed rail project between LA
Speaker 5: and San Francisco could have far reaching consequences.
Speaker 6: Is just part of that same defunding mantra without thinking
Speaker 6: about whether you can just make a project or a
Speaker 6: program work better.
Speaker 5: The Democrat from Burbank says the Trump administration should work
Speaker 5: with local officials to find ways to lower costs.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Three people, including a married couple, have been charged in
Speaker 1: connection with a more than two week robbery spree that
Speaker 1: targeted a dozen businesses around southern California.
Speaker 7: Federal authorities say NoHo residents Antonio Bland and Abigail Lucky,
Speaker 7: along with Long Beach residents Ronnie Tucker, have been indicted
Speaker 7: in connection with twelve robberies across LA and OC. Prosecutors
Speaker 7: say the robberies were typically executed late at night, with
Speaker 7: Bland and Tucker entering each business, while Lucky reportedly acted
Speaker 7: as the getaway driver. The businesses included nine seven eleven stores,
Speaker 7: smoke shop, and two donut shops. If convicted, the trio
Speaker 7: could face from twenty to fifty eight years in prison.
Speaker 7: Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: Eric Menendez has opened up about his past, saying he
Speaker 1: was a spoiled brat before he killed his parents in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. He tells TMZ he thought back then
Speaker 1: that he could mask his insecurities with expensive clothes and
Speaker 1: fancy cars, but now has turned his life around. Eric
Speaker 1: and his brother Lyle are serving life sentences for their
Speaker 1: parents' murders. Both claim they were bullied in prison. The
Speaker 1: brothers are due back in court in mid March as
Speaker 1: they push to be re sentenced. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, tax Day less
Speaker 1: than two months away, a little longer for people in
Speaker 1: La count because of the wildfires, but still, oh okay,
Speaker 1: you say, getting your taxes done early is a good idea,
Speaker 1: especially this year.
Speaker 8: Well, yes, especially this year because not only are the
Speaker 8: hiring freezes that have been in place for several years
Speaker 8: still in ef fact, but you also got the acts
Speaker 8: being swung at the Internal Revenue Service, now thousands of
Speaker 8: people being let go from there. Then, while we're told
Speaker 8: that these aren't people directly involved in processing of tax returns,
Speaker 8: it's likely that with those people gone, says overall, maybe
Speaker 8: slowed down somewhat long and short, it's that you should
Speaker 8: try to get your return filed as early as possible,
Speaker 8: especially if you're waiting for a refund. The other piece
Speaker 8: of advice, don't file by paper, file electronically, and if
Speaker 8: you're getting a refund, make sure that it's direct deposit
Speaker 8: and so you're not wheeling waiting for a paper check
Speaker 8: in the mail. The whole process, you know, it takes
Speaker 8: a long time, regardless and partly because the Internal Revenue
Speaker 8: Services is such an adequated agency when it comes to
Speaker 8: software and computers. They're dealing with stuff that they had
Speaker 8: in the nineteen nineties.
Speaker 1: Although you're right, the electronic fire filing my return last
Speaker 1: year got processed quick. I mean, I had my refund,
Speaker 1: which was the first time in like ten years that
Speaker 1: I got a refund. But I got my refund within
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. It wasn't a very long.
Speaker 3: Wait.
Speaker 8: Sure, that's the quickest way to do it. And by
Speaker 8: doing it now, you're going to avoid what is likely
Speaker 8: to be a bottleneck in just a month or so,
Speaker 8: and certainly a bottle length that comes on April fifteenth
Speaker 8: or whenever. The deadline in California is looking at the
Speaker 8: statistics that come from the IRS at this point in
Speaker 8: this filing season. Last year, fifteen point three returns had
Speaker 8: been filed. This year, only thirteen point one return thirteen
Speaker 8: point one million returns have been filed. That's a fourteen
Speaker 8: percent decline in the past year. Why are so few
Speaker 8: people filing? I don't know, but they kills that your favors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and I don't know if you're like
Speaker 1: me that you think I'm going to get everything done
Speaker 1: right when I have my W two's, which would be
Speaker 1: by January thirty. First you should have all that information. Well,
Speaker 1: now it's almost the end of February. I haven't even started.
Speaker 1: I thought you said you already filed no no from
Speaker 1: last year. Last year I got a refund.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I cranked mine out a week ago or
Speaker 8: so and got that thing submitted.
Speaker 1: Nice, good for you. Okay, So I want to go
Speaker 1: back to the IRS thing a little bit. So they're
Speaker 1: saying that like six thousand people are going to be
Speaker 1: laid off, and they're saying that most of them are probationary,
Speaker 1: which are people who've been working there for a year
Speaker 1: or less. Right, Okay, So were those people the ones
Speaker 1: that were hired by the Biden administration efforts to add
Speaker 1: thousands of IRS agents?
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, although again they're not involved directly in processing.
Speaker 8: They may be auditors, they could be phone answers, which also,
Speaker 8: you know, makes it more urgent that you file early
Speaker 8: or if you have to have contact with the IRS.
Speaker 8: Some of the phone lines answer or they begin at
Speaker 8: seven o'clock in the morning, and if there's short staff,
Speaker 8: then that's going to create extra delays for you. If
Speaker 8: you get on the line and they tell you your
Speaker 8: phone will be your line will be answered in seven hours,
Speaker 8: it may be longer than that this time around.
Speaker 1: Are there really that kind of wait times?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: There are.
Speaker 1: I've never called the IRS. I figure the less I
Speaker 1: talk to them, the better.
Speaker 8: I just gave up, you know. Last two years ago,
Speaker 8: I think I had to call for some reason and
Speaker 8: call the service center, and I finally just gave up.
Speaker 8: I had to go do things and it was hours
Speaker 8: hours in Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, So in La County, because of the wildfires,
Speaker 1: the tax deadline has been pushed back from April fifteenth
Speaker 1: six months, so I think it's October fifteenth. But that's
Speaker 1: only for La County. I mean we've also got you know,
Speaker 1: Orange County and the IE and everybody listening on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. So the majority of us time to get going. Kids.
Speaker 8: So October fifteenth, you file your return for twenty twenty four?
Speaker 8: Do you file any Can you file an extension from
Speaker 8: that that would take you clear into next year?
Speaker 1: I guess? But why would you?
Speaker 8: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you're affected by the wildfires, like if you
Speaker 1: lost your house, you might because I'm sure that finances
Speaker 1: are you know, up in the air a bit.
Speaker 8: But yeah, it's not a good situation.
Speaker 1: But in last year we had an extension too. I
Speaker 1: can't remember why we had an extension last year.
Speaker 8: So holiday in Washington, d c oh was that it?
Speaker 1: Well I got mine done early anyway, I didn't have to,
Speaker 1: but I was like, get it done, get it off
Speaker 1: the table, get it off of your brain, because then
Speaker 1: you're not worried about it too.
Speaker 8: The average refund about this year is nineteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: That'd be nice.
Speaker 8: That's thirty eight percent higher than last year. That's a
Speaker 8: trip to Vegas. Yeah, it is all right.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much. Seem all right,
Speaker 1: have a good weekend. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Israel has accused Hamas of handing over the body of
Speaker 1: an unidentified gosen woman instead of a hostage. ABC's Lama
Speaker 1: Hassan says four bodies were returned yesterday, including those of
Speaker 1: two young brothers, but not their mother.
Speaker 9: Israel's Prime Minister this morning is promising revenge after officials
Speaker 9: in Israel say one of the four bodies handed over
Speaker 9: by Hamas was not that of shri BBAs. Israel officials
Speaker 9: say they don't know whose remains they are. In his statement,
Speaker 9: Prime minist of Benjamin Nettigna, who says the cruelty of
Speaker 9: Hamas knows no bounds.
Speaker 1: The Israeli military says bibots, nine months and four year
Speaker 1: old boys were brutally murdered by terrorists in captivity in
Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty three, Israeli police have reported a
Speaker 1: series of explosions in what they're calling a terrorist attack.
Speaker 1: ABC's Martha Radit says three out of five bombs exploded
Speaker 1: on parked buses yesterday.
Speaker 5: US intelligence sources say the size and number of devices
Speaker 5: indicates this was well resourced, saying they are military grade,
Speaker 5: sizable explosives.
Speaker 1: No one was hurt. Officials say they believe the bombs
Speaker 1: were meant to explode during the Friday morning rush hour.
Speaker 1: A note was recovered indicating the attackers were seeking revenge
Speaker 1: for Israel's ongoing operations in the West Bank. The man
Speaker 1: who admitted to shooting a black teenager on his front
Speaker 1: porch in Missouri has died while awaiting his sentencing. Remember
Speaker 1: this case. Eighty six year old Andrew Lester pleaded guilty
Speaker 1: last week, even though he had maintained that he was
Speaker 1: innocent of the shooting for quite a while. But he
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty last week to the shooting of the team
Speaker 1: who went to Lester's house by mistake in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: The teen survived but has a traumatic brain injury. Lester
Speaker 1: was scheduled to be sentenced on March seventh, the Senate
Speaker 1: has confirmed Cash Patel as the director of the FBI.
Speaker 1: The vote yesterday fifty one to forty nine. Senators Lisa
Speaker 1: Murkowski and Susan Collins were the two Republicans who voted
Speaker 1: against the nomination. Democrats, including California's Adam Schiff, say Patel
Speaker 1: will not put the public's best interest first. The US
Speaker 1: is reportedly refusing to co sponsor a UN resolution backing
Speaker 1: Ukraine as the war with Russia enters its third year.
Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson was adamant during an interview at
Speaker 1: the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday that Republicans will not
Speaker 1: be working on any funding for Ukraine.
Speaker 3: Look, there's no appetite for that.
Speaker 10: What do you think.
Speaker 3: I know, Yeah, we got our answer there.
Speaker 8: We have to bring it to and in and I
Speaker 8: can tell you that our European allies understand the necessity
Speaker 8: this as well. It's drug on too long.
Speaker 1: The UN resolution backs Ukraine's territorial sovereignty and demands Russia
Speaker 1: with Drawid's troops. The Trump administration is ending an extension
Speaker 1: of the temporary protected status of Haitian immigrants. Former President
Speaker 1: Biden announced in June that Haitians would get temporary protections
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty six because of violence in their home country.
Speaker 1: Homeland Security Secretary christinoam announced yesterday that it will end
Speaker 1: those protections in August. A survey shows most Americans are
Speaker 1: worried about cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOZE.
Speaker 11: They're concerned about how those cuts will impact programs like
Speaker 11: student financial aid and Social Security payments. In a new
Speaker 11: Writer's Ipses poll, fifty eight percent of Americans say they're
Speaker 11: worried about delays to those payments.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Tammy Truhiosa. As President Trump named Elon Musk to
Speaker 1: lead DOGE, but the White House said this week that
Speaker 1: he is technically not part of the group. A court
Speaker 1: filing shows Musk is considered an employee of the White
Speaker 1: House Office. Crenshaw High School had to be locked down
Speaker 1: following a stabbing across the street from campus lapds's. A
Speaker 1: couple of kids came on to campus yesterday morning and
Speaker 1: got into a fight with a student. The student's father
Speaker 1: ended up getting stabbed. Two people were taken into custody.
Speaker 1: A woman from Venezuela who lives in Culver City, sued
Speaker 1: the Trump administration because she's losing her protected status. Trump
Speaker 1: signed an executive order to revoke an eighteen month extension
Speaker 1: of temporary protected status granted to about three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty thousand Venezuelans by the Biden Biden administration. A movie
Speaker 1: you probably haven't heard of has surpassed Inside Out Too
Speaker 1: as the highest grossing animated movie of all time. It's
Speaker 1: Chinese movie Naja two. It has now grossed one point
Speaker 1: seven billion dollars worldwide. Inside Out hit one point six
Speaker 1: y nine billion last summer. The movie in the US
Speaker 1: has grossed just eight million dollars since it was released
Speaker 1: on Valentine's Day. Let's say good mourning now to Sola
Speaker 1: Foundation's founder, Sheery Francis. Good morning, shery.
Speaker 12: Amie. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: So so happy to have you here because you guys
Speaker 1: are doing some great work. Before we dive into the
Speaker 1: event that's happening this weekend called Together We Rebuild, can
Speaker 1: you tell people a little bit about what Sola Foundation
Speaker 1: is and does.
Speaker 13: Sola Foundation is the affiliated nonprofit of Sola Impact, which
Speaker 13: is an affordable housing developer throughout LA and essentially we
Speaker 13: work towards providing access to education, to opportunity to jobs
Speaker 13: to really just elevate and assist with overall wellbeing of
Speaker 13: the communities, the most vulnerable communities rather in La.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're already doing great work and have been
Speaker 1: doing it for several years, and then the wildfires, and
Speaker 1: so while you continue to do all of that great work,
Speaker 1: you're also shifting focus to help the people who've been
Speaker 1: affected by the wildfires. So tell us about what you've
Speaker 1: been doing, and then what you're doing this weekend.
Speaker 13: To help out well through the campaign. Together we rebuild.
Speaker 13: We feel that we need to be committed to working
Speaker 13: to help rebuild LA. We started unanticipated with a phone
Speaker 13: call from a Altadena school called Rosebud Academy that was
Speaker 13: desperate to find a home temporarily after the devastation of
Speaker 13: losing their school. They called us and said, hey, we
Speaker 13: hear that you have a tech center at the Behad campus.
Speaker 12: Is there any way that you could house us for
Speaker 12: a while. And we took in one.
Speaker 13: Hundred and fifty kids transform the space and overweeken and
Speaker 13: from pre k all the way through eighth grade, and
Speaker 13: we had the kids in the space for a little
Speaker 13: just about two weeks, and fortunately they were able to
Speaker 13: find a more.
Speaker 12: Permanent home, closer home.
Speaker 13: But that really ignited the idea that we should be
Speaker 13: and could be doing a lot more. We are still
Speaker 13: standing and so we decided that this weekend we would
Speaker 13: put out an SOS. So tomorrow we're bringing together over
Speaker 13: sixty partners who including the Red Cross, BMO core Master.
Speaker 13: It's bigger than us, and we're providing a day for
Speaker 13: folks who've been affected by the fires to come to
Speaker 13: the Behot campus not only to have a good time
Speaker 13: with all the experiences for adults and kids, but also
Speaker 13: take home both tangible really needed resources like brand new clothes, essentials,
Speaker 13: gift cards, furniture, but also what I think vital is
Speaker 13: education and information on how to navigate and receive financial
Speaker 13: assistance and housing support. So we have housing support of
Speaker 13: housing providers who are ready to sign people up. We
Speaker 13: have organizations like the Red Cross and Better Angels who
Speaker 13: are going to be on the spot providing financial assistance, checks,
Speaker 13: gift cards. And we really wanted to be a holistic experience,
Speaker 13: so we've were setting up a spa for massages and
Speaker 13: haircuts and beauty treatments, a kid's carnivals so kids can
Speaker 13: come and win great prizes, we have toys for tots
Speaker 13: and Mattel donating a lot of toys for kids, and
Speaker 13: so we really expect the day to be a day
Speaker 13: of reprieve, a day of recovery, a day of resources,
Speaker 13: and we invite any families or individuals who've been impacted
Speaker 13: by the fires to come to the behive. It takes
Speaker 13: place from ten am. We're kicking it off with a
Speaker 13: gospel brunch, which is a lot of fun, and then
Speaker 13: the vendor villages and the shopping experiences, the food court,
Speaker 13: all of that opens at eleven o'clock till four, and
Speaker 13: at four for those that want to stick around, we
Speaker 13: have a benefit show that includes comedians, artists, musicians to
Speaker 13: wrap up the day.
Speaker 1: I love that, So not only are you having a
Speaker 1: productive day, but also maybe a break because again we've
Speaker 1: said several times that it feels like a lot of
Speaker 1: us are moving on who weren't directly affected by the fires,
Speaker 1: but for you know, ten twelve, thirteen thousand homes, their
Speaker 1: lives are not back to normal and won't be for
Speaker 1: a very long time. And I'm imagining that it's incredibly
Speaker 1: stressful trying to navigate where you go and what you
Speaker 1: do even though we're a month and a half out.
Speaker 1: It's a long road.
Speaker 13: It's a long road and years right for that matter.
Speaker 12: But if we can provide this day. One of the
Speaker 12: things that we've heard from multiple people, it's been a
Speaker 12: while since I've smiled.
Speaker 13: We want to bring smiles to their faces, to the
Speaker 13: kids' faces, And this is the first mini we plant.
Speaker 12: We've got.
Speaker 13: It's a good problem to have, but we've had so
Speaker 13: many partners who want to come out and help throughout
Speaker 13: La and so we know that we have to continue
Speaker 13: this because there's a lot of opportunity and.
Speaker 12: A lot of work to be done.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, Okay. So it's a day of recovery and resilience.
Speaker 1: Together we rebuild and it's tomorrow starting at ten am
Speaker 1: from ten to four at the Beehive, which is at
Speaker 1: one thousand East sixtieth Street in La. So, if you
Speaker 1: know anybody affected or if you are directly affected by
Speaker 1: the fires, what a great place to go and spend
Speaker 1: your Saturday. And then I also wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: real quick, Sherry, what do you guys still need and
Speaker 1: how can we help?
Speaker 13: We would love more volunteers. We've got a lot of
Speaker 13: great folks who are signed up on our website Thesolo
Speaker 13: Foundation dot org. Anyone who's interested in volunteering or supporting.
Speaker 13: It's all there, but we really want to make sure
Speaker 13: we get the word out and get to them that
Speaker 13: have been most affected. And we also are providing free
Speaker 13: transportation from the Altadina and Pasadena areas, So all of
Speaker 13: that information lives right now on that website, the Solo
Speaker 13: Foundation dot work.
Speaker 1: Doing great work. Sola Foundation founder Sherry Francis, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for coming on and tell your friends because
Speaker 1: it's a day of recovery and resilience and a whole
Speaker 1: lot of fun too. Tomorrow ten to four. Thank you, Amy,
Speaker 1: Thanks Sherry. The IRS has started to lay off more
Speaker 1: than six thousand new and newly promoted employees across the country.
Speaker 1: That's about six or seven percent of the agency's one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand person workforce. The cuts are part of President
Speaker 1: Trump's plan to shrink the federal government. Tax experts like
Speaker 1: Sarah Spodik are encouraging people to file early and electronically
Speaker 1: to avoid any long term delay.
Speaker 8: I think that getting help via an individual or through
Speaker 8: a correspondence is going to be very difficult Over the
Speaker 8: course of twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Five, Thers increased its staff under the Biden administration in
Speaker 1: an effort to increase audits of corporations and the Wealthy
Speaker 1: News brought to you by Premier West Credit Union. The
Speaker 1: California Department of Justice has decided not to press charges
Speaker 1: against officers involved in the fatal shooting of a bystander
Speaker 1: in Norwalk. Pedro Lopez, known as Pee Wee, was shot
Speaker 1: in the head in twenty twenty two as deputies were
Speaker 1: pursuing a man wanted for a carjacking and assault three
Speaker 1: days earlier. The Department of Justice found that because it
Speaker 1: was dark and cluttered in the yard, the officer who
Speaker 1: fired likely had no ability to know that Lopez was there,
Speaker 1: and therefore no further action would be taken in this case.
Speaker 1: The Dow has taken a strong head, closing off four
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty points yesterday, and trading analysts say the
Speaker 1: drop was caused by Walmart's forecast for twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: which shows the company plans to increase sales, but not
Speaker 1: by as much as it had hoped. Costco and Target
Speaker 1: Shall shares dropped, as well. A plot of land that
Speaker 1: was once The site of a home in Pacific Palisades
Speaker 1: has sold for one point two million dollars. The home
Speaker 1: was destroyed in the Palisades fire last month. The real
Speaker 1: estate listing calls the property a blank canvas, saying it,
Speaker 1: in its words, offers a rare opportunity to create your
Speaker 1: dream property. CHP's investigating reports of cars being hit by
Speaker 1: rocks along Downtown LA Freeways overnight. One driver has been
Speaker 1: hurt as a large rock smashed through the windshield. New
Speaker 1: York Governor Kathy Hochel says she will not remove New
Speaker 1: York City Mayor Eric Adams from office for now. She
Speaker 1: was considering it because of the federal corruption charges against
Speaker 1: him and for allegations that he made a deal with
Speaker 1: the Trump administration to back his immigration policies in exchange
Speaker 1: for getting the DOJ two drop those charges. At six.
Speaker 1: So five, it's handle on the news. The Menendez brothers
Speaker 1: have something to say. And guess what. There are podcasts,
Speaker 1: so they're talking. Let's say good morning now to the
Speaker 1: host of Home on KFI, the house whisper Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: Good morning.
Speaker 10: Dean, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: So this week on Home on KFI, we're going to
Speaker 1: be sharing concrete facts.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, nice one.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're talking about concrete.
Speaker 10: Sunday, we're talking all about concrete. I'm going to have
Speaker 10: a special in studio Guest, one of the finest concrete
Speaker 10: contractors in southern California, and we're just going to be
Speaker 10: talking all things concrete. It's something that affects everybody. Homeowners
Speaker 10: have all sorts of questions about their concrete in all
Speaker 10: its various forms around their house. So we're going to
Speaker 10: try and elucidate some interesting facts about concrete, also teach
Speaker 10: you a few things about where it goes, how it works,
Speaker 10: and then answer all those pesky questions about what's wrong
Speaker 10: with the concrete house.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, I had a really good friend,
Speaker 1: in fact, we called him Concrete Dave when I lived
Speaker 1: up in Oregon, and he obviously did concrete work. And
Speaker 1: it's really an art, like you can be good at
Speaker 1: concrete or you can be bad. So hopefully you're going
Speaker 1: to be giving tips on how to do it good.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, for sure. It absolutely is an art. It's
Speaker 10: one of those things where you know, I've understood the
Speaker 10: steps and the science of it and the processes and
Speaker 10: the prep work, but I never. I have never in
Speaker 10: my career gotten involved in the actual finishing and forming
Speaker 10: of concrete because it's truly a craft and it takes that.
Speaker 10: It takes that ten thousand hours of just you know,
Speaker 10: hand dexterity and in order to get it right, and
Speaker 10: it makes all the difference in the world.
Speaker 1: And because if you don't do it right, what are
Speaker 1: some of the bad things that are going to happen?
Speaker 10: Well, the thing about concrete is that it's kind of
Speaker 10: like baking in a strange web. Concrete is a recipe.
Speaker 10: It's a mixture of four things, essentially of basically cement
Speaker 10: Portland cement aggregates two kinds of aggregates rocks like gravel
Speaker 10: and sand, and then water, and the ratio of those
Speaker 10: ingredients put together. As soon as you mix them together,
Speaker 10: there's this thermogenic process in which it heats up and
Speaker 10: it starts to activate and bind together. And the timing
Speaker 10: of it, just like putting a mixture of dough in
Speaker 10: the oven is or cake batter probably a better analogy.
Speaker 10: It's just critical as to when it happens, how it happens,
Speaker 10: and all the conditions around it, including the weather and
Speaker 10: the temperature on that day, and you got one shot
Speaker 10: at getting it right because it's a synthetic stone, and
Speaker 10: when it sets, it's pretty much done and there's no
Speaker 10: turning back from it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the other thing that's cool about concrete is
Speaker 1: I think more and more people are using but it's
Speaker 1: not only a utilitarian thing like for driveways but in
Speaker 1: house foundations. But now they're using it to make your
Speaker 1: house and to use it. I've seen some beautiful like
Speaker 1: concrete countertops and that kind of stuff too.
Speaker 10: Oh. Absolutely, there's an entire world of esthetic concrete. Concrete countertops.
Speaker 10: For a while, you know, a few years back, we're
Speaker 10: just kind of a novelty. Now they are just simply
Speaker 10: one of the options that any homeowner could embrace as
Speaker 10: far as you know, redoing a kitchen or a bathroom
Speaker 10: or anything like that. But they still are largely sort
Speaker 10: of in the dark as to mystery of how you
Speaker 10: get that thing finished just the right way.
Speaker 1: Okay, the world of concrete is the focus of Home
Speaker 1: on KFI this Sunday, and on Saturday you're going to
Speaker 1: be talking about this is something that's affecting thousands right now,
Speaker 1: and that's builders being allowed to permit their own projects
Speaker 1: so you can listen to Dean Sharp this weekend six
Speaker 1: to eight on set Saturday, nine to noon on Sunday
Speaker 1: right here on kf I always great information. Thanks so much, Dean.
Speaker 10: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman. Dan, Good morning, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 3: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm great. Some people didn't have a great day because
Speaker 1: of the stock market yesterday dove like four hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty points, and it was because of Walmart.
Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of a strange story, because Walmart had you know,
Speaker 2: they made a bowload of money. Their year over year
Speaker 2: sales were up significantly. They made a ton of profits,
Speaker 2: so you thought, okay, they hit their quarterly estimates for
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, so why would the market drop. It's
Speaker 2: because of what they forecast for this year. Now, Walmart's
Speaker 2: shares overalling, you have risen about seventy two in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four.
Speaker 3: They even hit a record high last week.
Speaker 2: But what's happened is with high interest rates out there,
Speaker 2: and of course inflation still out there, and there's the
Speaker 2: uncertainty of tariffs and the geopolitical situation, what they did
Speaker 2: was they they're forecast for sales and profit for this
Speaker 2: year was actually less than what Wall Street estimates were,
Speaker 2: and that's why people, I think freaked out a little bit.
Speaker 3: Investors freaked out, and that's why they had that drop.
Speaker 1: Okay, so are we expecting another drop today or thanks
Speaker 1: for right now?
Speaker 3: It's mixed.
Speaker 2: The Dow is up then, ASDAK and the S and
Speaker 2: P are kind of down right now, so probably going
Speaker 2: to be a mixed end to the week on Wall Street.
Speaker 3: Kind of a strange situation.
Speaker 2: The texcodocs are down right now, but again the textocks
Speaker 2: are up, but the Dow overall is down right now
Speaker 2: in the future, so you know, these days, it's so strange.
Speaker 3: Amy, your guest is good as mine right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll just have to watch it. Tell us now.
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball and ESPN been together for a long time,
Speaker 1: but apparently they're about to get divorced.
Speaker 2: Thirty five year marriage between Major League Baseball and ESPN
Speaker 2: ESPN and they're going to be ending their broadcast relationship.
Speaker 2: At the end of this season. ESPN had scaled down
Speaker 2: its baseball coverage in the last contract and they were
Speaker 2: just you know, broadcasting thirty games a year. The wild
Speaker 2: Card round of the playoffs, the All Star home under
Speaker 2: be in ten spring training games. Baseball is also unhappy
Speaker 2: with ESPN's recent demands to reduce what they paid to
Speaker 2: broadcast games. They called it, quote unacceptable, but you know
Speaker 2: what Apple's paying Major League Baseball and other streaming services.
Speaker 2: If I'm ESPN, I do understand why I'd be a
Speaker 2: little upset with how much I've been paying compared to
Speaker 2: what the newer contracts seem to be.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: It could be a negotiating ploy who knows, or it
Speaker 2: could be again a divorce after thirty five years.
Speaker 3: We're going to see.
Speaker 1: Either way, it's probably gonna be harder now for me
Speaker 1: to watch baseball.
Speaker 2: But oh well, I'm sure you sit down every night
Speaker 2: to watch your Dodgers and Angels, right.
Speaker 1: Gotta love my Dodgers. That is Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman, right, there,
Speaker 1: been filling in for Courtney Donajo all week. Thanks so much, Dan,
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll get in your business on Monday, same time,
Speaker 1: same place, don't miss it. Let's get back to some
Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 1: hour newsroom. A plane carrying one hundred nineteen illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: has left Marine Corps air Station Mirramar in San Diego County.
Speaker 1: Kfi's breed to Tennis says adults and kids were on
Speaker 1: the flight yesterday, with most from Asia, Africa and the
Speaker 1: Middle East.
Speaker 11: To Deportees were then moved to a hotel in Panama
Speaker 11: and are now awaiting the next step. Lasma to other
Speaker 11: deportation flights from Mehramar headed to Colombia but were denied landing.
Speaker 1: She says each military plane used for deportations costs taxpayers
Speaker 1: about twenty eight thousand dollars a flight. The man accused
Speaker 1: of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a sidewalk
Speaker 1: in New York is doing court. Luigi Mangioni is pleaded
Speaker 1: not guilty in the shooting in December. He released a
Speaker 1: statement last week expressing gratitude for all of the support
Speaker 1: he's received. Supporters have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars
Speaker 1: to his defense. Elon Musk says America is going to
Speaker 1: go bankrupt unless the federal deficit is brought under control.
Speaker 10: The country is or different from an individual and that
Speaker 10: of an individual overspends.
Speaker 3: An individual can go backrupt and so kind of country.
Speaker 1: Musk Cold Fox told Fox News is Sean Hannity, inflation
Speaker 1: will not be cut until they first tackled tackle wasteful spending.
Speaker 1: President Trump blamed the Biden administration for the federal deficit.
Speaker 1: The first modern day school shooter in the US is
Speaker 1: up for parole. In nineteen seventy nine, Brenda Spencer shot
Speaker 1: and killed two adults and injured eight students at Cleveland
Speaker 1: Elementary School in San Diego. Spencer, who was sixteen at
Speaker 1: the time, says she did it because she didn't like Mondays.
Speaker 1: This will be her seventh parole hearing. A bill introduced
Speaker 1: in Sacramento would make it illegal to sell or distribute
Speaker 1: new or refurbished disposable vapes to help reduce plastic waste
Speaker 1: in California. Fines would start at five hundred bucks and
Speaker 1: go up from there. If passed, the band would go
Speaker 1: into effect in January of next year. The Israeli military
Speaker 1: says the remains of two young children returned to Israel
Speaker 1: have been identified, but the woman or the body of
Speaker 1: a woman released by Hamas was not their mother or
Speaker 1: any other hostage. The Israeli military says this is a
Speaker 1: blatant violation of the agreement and are demanding that Hamas
Speaker 1: return Sherry Bebus's remain. We're just minutes away from Handle
Speaker 1: on the news, first day of spring training and a
Speaker 1: Dodger's pitcher gets beaned by a one hundred and five
Speaker 1: mile per hour line drive. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Will Gans. Okay, so, Will, is your smart
Speaker 1: home out to get you?
Speaker 14: I hope that mine is not. My Alexa has been
Speaker 14: behaving lately, but this new series, this new series on
Speaker 14: Netflix has me a little bit worried that she might
Speaker 14: go haywire soon.
Speaker 1: Okay, so what is it? What is it?
Speaker 14: It's called Cassandra, and it is about a family that
Speaker 14: moves into a vintage smart house. So all the tech
Speaker 14: in the house looks like it's from the eighties almost,
Speaker 14: and it's it's kind of cool. It's like a it's
Speaker 14: a fun concept to give that sort of eighties horror
Speaker 14: movie vibe. But this family moves into this house and
Speaker 14: of course, on the first night while they're there, you know,
Speaker 14: the the AI wakes up and there's a robot that
Speaker 14: you know, it sneaks into the room and you know,
Speaker 14: she's like, oh, I was just checking on the children,
Speaker 14: so immediately you're like, uh, oh, you know something's gonna
Speaker 14: go wrong here, and the tension starts to build. It's
Speaker 14: a mini series on Netflix, so it's only six episodes.
Speaker 14: They're all an hour or less, so it's an easy
Speaker 14: series to binge. And it's fun. It's silly and it's
Speaker 14: fun and that eighties retro vibe is just sort of
Speaker 14: a fun aesthetic too.
Speaker 1: Okay. So it's creepy, but not in a horror creepy
Speaker 1: really like a court sort of a camp be fun creepy.
Speaker 14: Yes, that's that's how I would classify it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, can't be fun creepy. And it's called Cassandra, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: So here's something else and it's just it's a movie
Speaker 1: on Peacock and it's our old friend Bridget Jones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're on the street.
Speaker 14: Is you have seen this as well? Right?
Speaker 1: I haven't? It was okay, okay, it was on my
Speaker 1: list and I didn't get to.
Speaker 14: Okay, well I'm here to tell you that it's You
Speaker 14: should watch it.
Speaker 12: Really, okay, yes, I mean it is.
Speaker 14: It's so fun to see Renees Elweger back as Bridget
Speaker 14: Jones and this is a Bridget Jones mad about the boy.
Speaker 14: So she is a widow now and of course her friends,
Speaker 14: who are just like an incredible cast of characters, are
Speaker 14: you know, encouraging her to Oh I signed you up
Speaker 14: for Tinder? Oh I think you should.
Speaker 12: You know, you know these types of things.
Speaker 14: But it's also touching because you know it deals with
Speaker 14: family and with loss, and it's just if you are
Speaker 14: craving an escape from the troubles of the world. It's
Speaker 14: so fun to see Renees Elweger gets stuck climbing a
Speaker 14: tree and have to be rescued by the hot guy
Speaker 14: from White Lotus season two. You know, it's just like
Speaker 14: it's it's silly and it's sweet and she's just so
Speaker 14: good in this role.
Speaker 1: I love that. And so because a lot of times
Speaker 1: I think when they bring characters back, like for a
Speaker 1: third and four of the iteration, sometimes that the actors there,
Speaker 1: it's like they're over acting, like they've they've settled into
Speaker 1: the character so much that it's it becomes like a
Speaker 1: caricature of the character. Does that make sense?
Speaker 14: Yes, I mean I will say, like there are moments
Speaker 14: in this movie where you're like, what kind of real
Speaker 14: person would actually you know, be this flustered or whatever.
Speaker 14: But that's sort of what Bridget Jones. Bridget Jones is
Speaker 14: so if you like the character, and you know, Hugh
Speaker 14: Grant is in it and he's just like smug and
Speaker 14: the worst person ever, but it works because he's just
Speaker 14: brilliant that way. So you know, it's yeah, it's it's great.
Speaker 14: I had a lovely time watching it.
Speaker 1: Nice. And is Colin Firth in it? Is he the guy?
Speaker 14: Who?
Speaker 1: Is he your husband who dies?
Speaker 14: He is her husband who dies? And I will say
Speaker 14: he has a presence in the film for sure.
Speaker 1: Oh I love it. Okay, Yeah, that's and Bridget Jones
Speaker 1: and that's mad about the Boy on Peacock. All right, well, Ganz,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. I've got stuff to put on
Speaker 1: my list. I'm gonna watch it this week.
Speaker 10: Great.
Speaker 14: Great, we'll have to circle back next week.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, have a great weekend. Thanks will you too.
Speaker 10: Take care Bye.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Trump administration
Speaker 1: has announced a review of the California High Speed Rail
Speaker 1: Authority and it's La to San Francisco project.
Speaker 5: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy came to LA and spoke
Speaker 5: at Union Station to announce the follow through on President
Speaker 5: Trump's call for an investigation.
Speaker 4: This is going to help determine whether billions of dollars
Speaker 4: in tax payer money should remain committed to California's high
Speaker 4: speed rail, and we're going to look at whether California
Speaker 4: High Speed Rail has actually complied with the agreements that
Speaker 4: they've signed with the federal government.
Speaker 5: Duffy says the project is billions over budget and likely
Speaker 5: decades behind schedule. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Democratic Congresswoman Laura Friedman says she disagrees with President Trump's
Speaker 1: plan to investigate the rail project. She says too much
Speaker 1: work has already been put into it for it possibly
Speaker 1: not to proceed.
Speaker 6: I would love to be able to write this. I
Speaker 6: don't think that it's money wasted if we have a
Speaker 6: project at the end of the day that delivers on
Speaker 6: the promise of having better rail connectivity between our cities.
Speaker 1: Friedman says she'd like to see the Trump administration work
Speaker 1: with local officials to find efficiencies and cost savings in
Speaker 1: building out the route between LA and San Francisco. Investigators
Speaker 1: in San Diego County are trying to find the wife
Speaker 1: of a CalFire captain murdered in her home. CAAFI's Daniel
Speaker 1: Martindale says the woman they're looking for is Yolanda Morodi.
Speaker 15: Authorities believe the suspect, also known as Yolanda Olanichek, may
Speaker 15: have fled to Mexico. Olani Check was sentenced to eleven
Speaker 15: years in prison in two thousand and four after pleading
Speaker 15: guilty to stabbing her then husband to death.
Speaker 1: Rebecca Morodi was found stabbed to death Monday at the
Speaker 1: couple's home in Ramona. Officials say the two had been
Speaker 1: married for a little over two years. Accord in Argentina
Speaker 1: has dropped criminal negligence charges against a friend and two
Speaker 1: hotel employees indicted in connection with the death of singer
Speaker 1: Liam Payne. The former member of One Direction, fell from
Speaker 1: a third floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last October.
Speaker 1: The court ruled there was nothing the three could have
Speaker 1: done to save him. Two others charged are still in
Speaker 1: jail awaiting trial. Most of the movies nominated for Oscars
Speaker 1: this year have ignored climate change and the environment. The
Speaker 1: consulting firm Good Energy has released its second annual Climate
Speaker 1: Reality Check, which asks whether climate change exists in a
Speaker 1: movie and whether at least one character acknowledges it. The
Speaker 1: report says just one of eleven movies set on the
Speaker 1: planet Earth and nominated for an OSCAR this year qualifies,
Speaker 1: and it is the Wild Robot Cute Movie. This is
Speaker 1: KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland
Speaker 1: Weather from KFI nothing but sun today and through the weekend.
Speaker 1: Gusty winds in the valleys in Ie will be in
Speaker 1: the low to mid seventies at the beaches, mid to
Speaker 1: upper seventies for Metro La and Inland Orange County, seventies
Speaker 1: to low eighties in the valleys and Inland Empire sixties
Speaker 1: for the Antelope Valley. Heights will be in the mid
Speaker 1: seventies to mid eighties Saturday and Sunday, and then we'll
Speaker 1: cool down five to ten degrees but still sunny. On Monday.
Speaker 1: It's fifty five in Los Alamitos, fifty five in Santa Clarita,
Speaker 1: fifty six in Seal Beach, and fifty seven in Claremont.
Speaker 1: We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 1: newsroom for producer Michelle Infra Am and technical producer KNO
Speaker 1: and also traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King. This has
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