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Speaker 2: Good morning. This is your wake up call for Tuesday,
Speaker 2: May sixth. I'm Heatherbrooker in for Amy King this week.
Speaker 2: I hope your morning is off to a great start,
Speaker 2: and we're glad that you're here with us today.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot.
Speaker 2: Of stories we want to get to you, but first
Speaker 2: I want to say good morning to the wake Up
Speaker 2: Call crew. Good morning, producer, Anne, how are you?
Speaker 4: Good morning.
Speaker 2: It's always so nice to see you. Are you feeling
Speaker 2: more well rested since yesterday? I know you didn't get
Speaker 2: much sleep. Oh my nice love about seven hours? Ooh
Speaker 2: that's nice. That's nice. I'm a little jealous. I didn't
Speaker 2: get to sleep that much. And Cono good morning to
Speaker 2: you as well. Good morning other And we know you
Speaker 2: had no naps because you got little ones busy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I actually my four year old wanted to watch Moana
Speaker 6: and I think I passed out.
Speaker 2: You were like sleeping during a little bit during Marana. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 2: I get it. I remember those days when my daughter
Speaker 2: was the age. I would kind of drift off during
Speaker 2: during those movies Good times.
Speaker 7: Yeah, my daughter's very sweet.
Speaker 6: And then I wake up with a blanket on me.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so thoughtful. I'd love that. What a good
Speaker 2: little heart she has. And then do we have will
Speaker 2: Cole Schreiber? No, oh lord, all right, I guess we'll
Speaker 2: all just have to guess what's happening with the traffic.
Speaker 2: Then today we'll just somebody call in and tell us.
Speaker 2: We'll figure it out.
Speaker 8: Though.
Speaker 2: Once we get to that point, let's get started though,
Speaker 2: jump right in. We had a lot of news to
Speaker 2: cover today. Here's what's the head on wake up call.
Speaker 2: The woman accused of killing a star high school athlete
Speaker 2: in Manhattan Beach had a prior d UI. Jenny Belt
Speaker 2: was charged in twenty twenty three with DUI hit and run.
Speaker 2: She was reportedly driving on a suspended license when she
Speaker 2: hit and killed eighteen year old Bron Levy on Sunday.
Speaker 2: LA Animal Services may get five million dollars back in
Speaker 2: its budget, avoiding major layoffs and shelter closures. The funding
Speaker 2: helps keep adoption and Spain neuter campaigns alive. As the
Speaker 2: city council prepares to finalize the budget and its wildfire
Speaker 2: Preparedness Week in California, and officials are urging everyone to
Speaker 2: help build a fire ready future. That means clearing brush
Speaker 2: and making an evacuation plan at CalFire says now is
Speaker 2: the time to act because wildfire safety starts at home.
Speaker 2: We'll have more on that as well, and then coming
Speaker 2: up on wake up Call. At five oh five, tensions
Speaker 2: escalate in the Middle East as Israel approves a controversial
Speaker 2: plan to seize Gaza and expand its military presence, with
Speaker 2: airstrikes now reaching Yemen. We'll check in with Jordana Miller
Speaker 2: and Jerusalem to find out what this means for the region.
Speaker 2: At five point twenty, President Trump says his administration will
Speaker 2: offer migrants money and flights to encourage self deport Those
Speaker 2: who leave voluntarily may return more easily, and he says
Speaker 2: those who don't d well, they'll be barred permanently. Steve
Speaker 2: Portnoy will join us with more on that five point
Speaker 2: thirty five. Have you ever heard of chrome orbs to
Speaker 2: prove that you're human? What is she even talking about? Well,
Speaker 2: we're going to tell you a news startup is planting
Speaker 2: thousands of them across the US cities, and yes, privacy
Speaker 2: concerns are already popping up. Mike Debuski will join us
Speaker 2: to break all that down. And if I point fifty,
Speaker 2: Joel Larsgar joins us with how to money, and we're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about Warren Buffett. He's stepping down
Speaker 2: and what his legendary investing legacy means for the rest
Speaker 2: of us. That's all coming up at six oh five.
Speaker 2: It's handled on the news. LAFD union president Freddie Escobar
Speaker 2: has been suspended over allegations of financial misconduct. Escobar denies
Speaker 2: the claims, calling them politically motivated. Let's start with some
Speaker 2: of the stories coming out of the KAFI twenty four
Speaker 2: hour newsroom. Police say a woman arrested for a deadly
Speaker 2: dui crash in Manhattan Beach should not have been driving.
Speaker 4: Belt, the thirty three year old alleged DUI driver accused
Speaker 4: of killing eighteen year old Loyola High School senior Bron
Speaker 4: Levy on May fourth, was reportedly driving on a license
Speaker 4: suspended for a previous drunk driving arrest. According to the
Speaker 4: La Times, Belt's license was suspended in January twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four after she pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor hit
Speaker 4: and run with property damage.
Speaker 7: Eileen Gonzalez k a fine news.
Speaker 2: Covered California may be selling patients information. A new lawsuit
Speaker 2: says LinkedIn and Google both received health data about users
Speaker 2: who logged into coveredca dot com. The information was shared
Speaker 2: without their consent. Web trackers sent information about pregnancy prescriptions
Speaker 2: and which doctors people use. Millions of people get insurance
Speaker 2: through Covered California. A man from La County is accused
Speaker 2: of posing as an IRS agent and stealing twenty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars from a person in Riverside County.
Speaker 3: Thirty one year old Arcadia resident zeq One Oh was
Speaker 3: arrested last week following a report of fraud the Riverside County.
Speaker 3: The Sheriff's Department says Oh extorted money from the victim
Speaker 3: after telling them their financial accounts had been compromised, or
Speaker 3: arrived to pick up money while deputies from the Sheriff's
Speaker 3: Department's Norco station we're meeting with the victim.
Speaker 2: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the phony agent was arrested on
Speaker 2: the spot. Mental healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanent Day may
Speaker 2: soon sign a new contract.
Speaker 9: Nearly seven months after going on a labor strike. The
Speaker 9: union representing the workers will hold a ratification vote Thursday
Speaker 9: on a proposed new contract. The tentative deal, announced Sunday
Speaker 9: covers nearly twenty four hundred Kaiser mental health therapists, social workers,
Speaker 9: psychiatric nurses and psychologists represented by National Union of Healthcare Workers.
Speaker 9: If ratified, the agreement will go into effect immediately. Deborah
Speaker 9: mark Kffi.
Speaker 2: News Governor Newsom says the story about Californian's losing population
Speaker 2: has changed. In a new video posted to Newsom's social
Speaker 2: media pages, the governor says California is growing again.
Speaker 10: This narrative of mass exodu enough, that's old talking points.
Speaker 10: People have to give that up.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of California arrangement syndrome out there, and
Speaker 9: I think we continue to outperform it.
Speaker 10: We continued to show our critics the door.
Speaker 2: Newsom says the state added about one hundred and eight
Speaker 2: thousand residents in twenty twenty four, bringing the total population
Speaker 2: close to forty million. He says the state has the
Speaker 2: most fortune five hundred companies in over a decade. Tensions
Speaker 2: are rising in the Middle East as Israel approves a
Speaker 2: new plan to expand operations in Gaza and strike Kouthi
Speaker 2: rebels in Yemen, and with President Trump said to visit soon.
Speaker 2: ABC's Geordana Miller is live in Jerusalem with more on
Speaker 2: what's at stay. Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 11: We do have some breaking news which is just a
Speaker 11: few minutes ago, the Israeli Army ordered evacuation orders for
Speaker 11: Sauna International Airport, that is the main airport in Yemen's capital, Sauna.
Speaker 11: And it appears the Israeli armies on the verge of
Speaker 11: carrying out another wave of strikes today following last night's strikes.
Speaker 11: All of this began, of course, over the weekend when
Speaker 11: the Hutis, the rebel backed the rebel group backed by Iran,
Speaker 11: fired a ballistic missile that hit inside the grounds of
Speaker 11: Bengori International Airport, narrowly missing Terminal three packed with travelers,
Speaker 11: narrowly missing the runway with plenty of ship, plenty of
Speaker 11: aircraft on there, including some filled with travelers, and that
Speaker 11: started this latest wave. It comes on the heels as well,
Speaker 11: as you mentioned, the announcement that Israel's Cabinet Security Cabinet
Speaker 11: has approved plans to really expand in a very aggressive way.
Speaker 11: Israel's operations in the Gaza Strip. It's really another phase
Speaker 11: of this war that, if carried out, would see the
Speaker 11: Israeli army gradually take over the entire Gaza Strip, move
Speaker 11: most of Gaza's two million Palestinians south into one area.
Speaker 11: And it would also include Israel taking over They're already
Speaker 11: in southern Gaza, but creating hub there for the distribution
Speaker 11: of aid. Remember Israel's been blocking aid now for more
Speaker 11: than two months. If this war plan goes through, Israel
Speaker 11: will allow aiden, but only in very restricted areas, and
Speaker 11: apparently private companies will come in and distribute it. The
Speaker 11: UN agencies have already said they won't be a part
Speaker 11: of this plan at all. The one important thing to
Speaker 11: note is that this very aggressive plan to essentially take
Speaker 11: over the Gaza Strip will is not expected to begin
Speaker 11: until President Trump concludes his visit here in the Middle
Speaker 11: and he's coming next week for a few days to
Speaker 11: Saudi Arabia. The United Arab Emirates to cutter and the
Speaker 11: Israelis are going to wait and see if possibly the
Speaker 11: President can put pressure and get another Goza Seafire deals
Speaker 11: signed or advance a deal. Those talks have installed for
Speaker 11: many weeks and Israel using this aggressive plan as a
Speaker 11: kind of pressure tactic on Hamas. But you know, Hamas
Speaker 11: has not responded in the past to these kinds of
Speaker 11: moves and measures, so it's unlikely they will this time either.
Speaker 2: So what prompted this sudden surge in this plan, Like
Speaker 2: it seems like they have been you know, there's been
Speaker 2: fighting going back and forth for quite some time, but
Speaker 2: this seems particularly aggressive and sudden. What prompted this.
Speaker 11: Well, we have to understand that since Israel broke the
Speaker 11: seafire in mid March, that was done with a new
Speaker 11: security and de fense, established a new crew of leaders, right,
Speaker 11: a new defense minister, a new head of the Israeli Army,
Speaker 11: and though those leaders have had, along with the Israeli
Speaker 11: Prime Minister, a much more aggressive idea of what needs
Speaker 11: to come next in Gaza. And the truth is, since
Speaker 11: the ceasefire broke now about you know, more than a
Speaker 11: month ago, the Israelis have been telling us on and
Speaker 11: sometimes in even their public remarks that the next phase
Speaker 11: of Gaza will look very different, the next phase of
Speaker 11: the war, different than what we saw in the first year.
Speaker 11: When we asked about that, they were already indicating that
Speaker 11: Israel was gearing up for a much more intense plan
Speaker 11: to take over the entire Gaza strip and hold territory
Speaker 11: and hope that that will somehow bring Hamas to its knees.
Speaker 11: You know, there's a big question about whether this will
Speaker 11: even work, along with all the eagal issues it raises
Speaker 11: about international law, humanitarian law. What will happen the two
Speaker 11: million Palestinians. Will they be now under some kind of
Speaker 11: military occupation. I mean, we'll have to wait and see,
Speaker 11: but this is a very aggressive plan that many will
Speaker 11: are already it's already drawing criticism in Europe and at
Speaker 11: the UN.
Speaker 2: And unrealistically, what difference will it make, you know, before
Speaker 2: or after Trump's visit. I know that they are saying
Speaker 2: that they're delaying implementing the full you know plan until
Speaker 2: after he visits, But if they're just going to do
Speaker 2: it anyway, what is what's the difference?
Speaker 12: Why wait?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 11: First, I think these I think the Israelis do want
Speaker 11: to wait and see if Trump can exert pressure and
Speaker 11: help advance the ceasefire talks that are stalled right now.
Speaker 11: I think Israel would prefer to sign a deal for
Speaker 11: six weeks get out eight or ten hostages, right, and
Speaker 11: instead of going to this very aggressive plan, which we
Speaker 11: have to say, I mean, it really could endanger the
Speaker 11: lives of the hostages, right, They could be moved, they
Speaker 11: could be killed out of revenge or anger.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 11: So there's a clear risk and there's a lot of
Speaker 11: public opposition to the plan. But the other reasons that
Speaker 11: the Israelis are going to wait or first of all,
Speaker 11: they've called up all these reservists. They have to train
Speaker 11: them in the south of the country before going into Gaza.
Speaker 11: That will take at least two weeks. And there are
Speaker 11: very sensitive talks going on between the United States and
Speaker 11: Iran and talks about a normalization deal between Israel and
Speaker 11: Saudi Arabia. And the Israelis don't want to divert attention
Speaker 11: away from this moment that Trump is going to have
Speaker 11: in the Middle East. They don't want to mar it
Speaker 11: with a major, a major aggressive ground operation in the
Speaker 11: Gaza strip.
Speaker 2: They want to wait and just sort of see what happens. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll definitely be watching this closely. Jondona Miller in Jerusalem,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 11: Welcome Tuxon.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, let's get back to some of
Speaker 2: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: Wildfire Preparedness Week in California is underway through May tenth.
Speaker 9: The state is focusing on the theme building a fire
Speaker 9: ready future, strengthening our defenses together. Residents are encouraged to
Speaker 9: take steps to protect their homes. Key recommendations from cal
Speaker 9: Fire include clearing the first five feet around your home
Speaker 9: and using fire resistant materials on and around your place.
Speaker 9: CalFire says people should create an evacuation plan and prepare
Speaker 9: a go bag in case you have to evacuate quickly.
Speaker 9: Deborah mark Kffi.
Speaker 2: News Actress Lisa Lou has become the oldest recipient of
Speaker 2: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She says
Speaker 2: she first turned down a star in nineteen sixty because
Speaker 2: she couldn't bear the thought of people walking on her name.
Speaker 13: Today it's ninety eight years old. I embraced the star
Speaker 13: as a testament.
Speaker 2: Lou's long career in entertainment has included roles in the
Speaker 2: movies The Last Emperor, The Joy Luck Club, and Crazy
Speaker 2: Rich Asians. A suspended Newport Beach attorney has been sentenced
Speaker 2: to nearly two years in federal prison for stealing close
Speaker 2: to nine million dollars in a loan fraud scheme. Prosecutors
Speaker 2: say Sarah King use the money to fund a lavish
Speaker 2: lifestyle and a gambling addiction. She pleaded guilty in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. Her attorney said she was addicted to xanax
Speaker 2: and drinking heavily while gambling in Vegas. Jury selection is
Speaker 2: underway in Sean diddy Combe's criminal trial for sex trafficking
Speaker 2: and racketeering nineteen. Prospective jurors advanced after answering questions about
Speaker 2: media habits, music tastes, and backgrounds. Trial is expected to
Speaker 2: last about two months. A former Homeland Security official claims
Speaker 2: President Trump is using government power to silent critics. The
Speaker 2: ex official alleges the administration is targeting political opponents and
Speaker 2: civil society groups. This raises concerns about free speech and
Speaker 2: democratic norms. At six oh five, it's handled on the news.
Speaker 2: The Trump administration is offering undocumented immigrants one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: and travel assistants to voluntarily leave the US. The Department
Speaker 2: of Homeland Security says this self deportation program facilitated through
Speaker 2: CBP home app through the CBPOM home app aims to
Speaker 2: reduce deportation costs way up to seventy percent. Critics argue
Speaker 2: it may mislead migrants about future re entry options. Let's
Speaker 2: say good morning to Stephen Portnoy, where we are going
Speaker 2: to be talking about President Trump. He's unveiled a controversial
Speaker 2: new plan encouraging those migrants like I just said, to
Speaker 2: self deport offering financial incentives and a flight home. Good morning, Stephen,
Speaker 2: Good morning to you. All right, what exactly is the
Speaker 2: administration proposing with this self deportation program and how did
Speaker 2: it work in practice?
Speaker 14: Well, I think you laid a lot of it out.
Speaker 11: Look.
Speaker 14: The bottom line is this administration wants to incentivize migrants
Speaker 14: in the country illegally to take it upon themselves to leave.
Speaker 14: You may have seen TV commercials with the Homeland Security
Speaker 14: Secretary of Christy Nome warning migrants that if they don't
Speaker 14: do it themselves, well they're going to face much harsher
Speaker 14: treatment from the US government with ice arresting and detaining
Speaker 14: and ultimately deporting them. So yesterday the announcement was made
Speaker 14: that the incentive will be a free plane ticket and
Speaker 14: one thousand dollars cash stipend. On top of that, if
Speaker 14: migrants register with the government through the CBP Home app.
Speaker 14: Used to be the CBP one app, which was used
Speaker 14: by the Biden administration to facilitate the entries of people
Speaker 14: who wanted to register their asylum claim and make an
Speaker 14: appointment to show up at the border. Well, that service
Speaker 14: is no longer in use, and now the app is
Speaker 14: being used by the Trump administration to people for their
Speaker 14: own self deportation. The argument is that this costs the
Speaker 14: government a lot less to pay people to do it
Speaker 14: on their own than to have law enforcement arrest, detain,
Speaker 14: and deport individuals. So they say it's seventy percent cheaper.
Speaker 14: The average cost for deportation, according to officials, is seventeen
Speaker 14: thousand dollars per migrant. You can see the math. So
Speaker 14: the first person to do it took this flight from
Speaker 14: Chicago to Hunduras. We have no estimates as far as
Speaker 14: I know, as to how many people will take advantage,
Speaker 14: and I don't know that there's necessary a cap, necessarily
Speaker 14: a cap or a limit on how many people can
Speaker 14: or whether there's fine print that might reduce eligibility.
Speaker 11: We'll see, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So has the White House released any specifics on
Speaker 2: how much will be paid out and where that funding
Speaker 2: is coming from. You know, how many people are going
Speaker 2: to be able to self deport? Do we have enough
Speaker 2: money for all of them?
Speaker 14: I just answered that question when I said that there
Speaker 14: are no estimates that I've seen. Ah okay, But it
Speaker 14: raises substantial questions because not only the ones you ask,
Speaker 14: what about what kind of protection is there against fraud?
Speaker 14: What the government says is that the app will be
Speaker 14: used once a person lands in their home country to
Speaker 14: register their arrival, and then the cash will be dispersed.
Speaker 14: So there's a great deal of trust that is being
Speaker 14: dependent on here on both sides. The migrants have to
Speaker 14: trust that the money will come, and the government has
Speaker 14: to trust that the migrants will actually leave and have left.
Speaker 14: I suppose will be some sort of GPS technology with
Speaker 14: the app to ensure that the phone is physically present
Speaker 14: in the other country. And while there are VPNs and
Speaker 14: other ways to sort of create the idea that you're
Speaker 14: in another country, I don't know, you must have the
Speaker 14: location or some sort of other trigger turned on your
Speaker 14: phone where it'll actually say where you are. The bottom
Speaker 14: line is that this is something that government is doing
Speaker 14: and wants highly publicized, and they've succeeded in that to
Speaker 14: get migrants to do it on their own. And it's
Speaker 14: part of the overall effort of mass deportations that the
Speaker 14: Trump administration's undertaking. Now they've reported that about one hundred
Speaker 14: and fifty thousand migrants have been deported so far, and
Speaker 14: that's a significant number, but not nearly as high as
Speaker 14: the President boasted about in the campaign.
Speaker 2: Are those self deported? Are those just overall deportations?
Speaker 14: Those are overall deportations conducted by the government.
Speaker 2: Has the White House clarified if there's going to be
Speaker 2: a set timeline or deadline for migrants to take advantage.
Speaker 3: Of this offer, not that I've seen.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Stephen Porton only thank you so much,
Speaker 2: you back, bye bye. The head of LAX says a
Speaker 2: minimum wage increase could run off lots of businesses at
Speaker 2: the airport.
Speaker 12: LA World Airport's CEO, John Ackerman says neither he nor
Speaker 12: his board have a position on the proposed Olympic wage
Speaker 12: for hotel and airport workers in LA He says, how however,
Speaker 12: every airport concessionaire has told them it would be devastating
Speaker 12: and some would close.
Speaker 10: I think it's going to be challenging to replace them
Speaker 10: with someone who is miraculously going to do better coming
Speaker 10: in new.
Speaker 12: The city is considering an incremental increase in the hourly
Speaker 12: wage for some hotel and airport workers, all the way
Speaker 12: to thirty dollars an hour by twenty twenty eight. A
Speaker 12: city council committee is set to vote on that issue today.
Speaker 12: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 2: A Hepatitis A outbreak has been declared in La County.
Speaker 2: The Department of Public Health says it's confirmed twenty nine
Speaker 2: cases so far this year. The total number in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four was triple the number in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: The Health department says residents should consider a vaccine if
Speaker 2: they don't already have one. Appetitis A is a highly
Speaker 2: contagious liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus. It
Speaker 2: can range from a mild illness lasting a few weeks
Speaker 2: to a severe illness lasting several months. The Animal Services
Speaker 2: Department in La appears close to having five million dollars
Speaker 2: restored to its budget, and our director at Neett Ramirez
Speaker 2: says even the department's public relations team was slated for layoffs,
Speaker 2: which would have cut down awareness campaigns for adoptions, spanying
Speaker 2: and neutering, and other initiatives.
Speaker 8: It would, I think have a huge negative impact on
Speaker 8: our live outcomes. I think it would actually have a
Speaker 8: direct impact on increasing youth in Asia rates.
Speaker 2: Mayor Bassa's original budget proposal called for a nearly five
Speaker 2: million dollar reduction in the department's budget, which would have
Speaker 2: closed three shelters and laid off dozens of workers. The
Speaker 2: city council will finalize the budget in the coming weeks.
Speaker 2: Mental health workers at Kaiser Permanente are about to vote
Speaker 2: on a new contract after nearly seven months on strike.
Speaker 2: The tenative deal announced yesterday covers about twenty four hundred therapists,
Speaker 2: social workers, and psychologists in southern California. The union has
Speaker 2: been pushing for higher pay, more patient more time for
Speaker 2: patient care, and pension benefits for newer hires. A vote
Speaker 2: on the proposed contract e set for Thursday. Some pro
Speaker 2: Palestine protesters have sued LA and the state of California
Speaker 2: over the police response to college protests. Demonstrators liked demonstrators
Speaker 2: like David Ramirez, say they suffered injuries last year after
Speaker 2: being shot with rubber bullets as a camp was forcefully
Speaker 2: cleared by police.
Speaker 6: That night, I found myself on my hands and eath
Speaker 6: knees with excruciating pain above my temple, realizing I'd been hit.
Speaker 2: The suit charged targets, the LAPD and the California Highway Patrol.
Speaker 2: Some demonstrators say they were sent to the hospital because
Speaker 2: of their injuries. A suspended attorney from Newport Beach has
Speaker 2: been sensceinnarily two years in federal prison for stealing nearly
Speaker 2: nine million dollars in a loan fraud scheme. Prosecutors argue
Speaker 2: Sarah King used that money to keep her lavish lifestyle
Speaker 2: and gambling habit, but King pleaded guilty in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Her lawyers said she was suffering from an addiction to
Speaker 2: xanax and was having ten drinks a day, and she
Speaker 2: played slot machines in Vegas to maintain her lifestyle. An
Speaker 2: effort by the US to in the war in Ukraine
Speaker 2: appears less likely to succeed. ABC Karen Travers says President
Speaker 2: Trump you issued a deadline last week, giving Ukraine and
Speaker 2: Russia two weeks to make a deal.
Speaker 5: The President has not answered questions about what would happen
Speaker 5: at the end of that two week period which is
Speaker 5: quickly approaching, and what that means for the peace deal
Speaker 5: going forward. It's also important to note that the United
Speaker 5: States has been working with Russia and with Ukraine, but
Speaker 5: those two sides have not yet engaged on a meaningful
Speaker 5: conversation about reaching a peace settlement.
Speaker 2: Overnight, Russia said it intercepted more than one hundred Ukrainian
Speaker 2: drones fired at almost a dozen of its regions. Coming
Speaker 2: up tonight, the Dodgers will take on the Marlins at
Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium, with the first pitch at seven. Listen to
Speaker 2: all Dodgers games on AM five seventy LA Sports and
Speaker 2: stream all Dodgers games in HD on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Zenschi handcrafted sushi made
Speaker 2: fresh daily at Ralph's near the deli counter. Three leaders
Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles Firefighters Union have been suspended after
Speaker 2: a forensic audit uncovered a eight hundred thousand in undocumented
Speaker 2: credit card charges. The International Association of Firefighters has placed
Speaker 2: the local union under conservatorship, citing financial malpractice. Union president
Speaker 2: Freddie Escobar denies the allegations, calling them politically motivated. A
Speaker 2: hepatitis A outbreak has been declared in La County, with
Speaker 2: cases already tripled last year's total. Artificials are urging unvaccinated
Speaker 2: residents to get the shot as the virus is highly contagious.
Speaker 2: An elementary school in West Hills went on a brief
Speaker 2: lockdown after a man tried to kidnap a toddler on
Speaker 2: campus Monday afternoon. The child's family fought him off and
Speaker 2: ran into a Nadia Way elementary for help. Police responded
Speaker 2: quickly and gave the all clear. Then at six ZH
Speaker 2: five its Handle on the News. Tensions are escalating as
Speaker 2: President Trump meets Canadian tensions are expected to escalate, I
Speaker 2: should say, as President Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark
Speaker 2: Carney amid a growing trade war, Trump's tariffs and annexation
Speaker 2: talk have strained relations, while Carney seeks to defend Canada's
Speaker 2: sovereignty and reset ties. So we'll keep a close eye
Speaker 2: on that, and I'm sure we'll have a lot to
Speaker 2: say coming up on Handle on the News. Let's get
Speaker 2: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 2: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom has criticized the
Speaker 2: Republican controlled House for trying to use the Congressional Review
Speaker 2: Act to challenge California's Clean Car Act.
Speaker 7: The Act allows the state to set its own clean
Speaker 7: vehicle standards. He argues that the move contradicts tradition and
Speaker 7: expert opinions. Newsom noted that California has been focused on
Speaker 7: improving air quality since the Nixon era, achieving a twenty
Speaker 7: percent reduction in greenhouse gass e mission since the year
Speaker 7: two thousand, while the economy grew by seventy eight percent.
Speaker 7: According to Newsom, last year, California power at its grid
Speaker 7: with clean energy for fifty one days. Tammy Trio KFI News.
Speaker 2: California Democratic Congressman Dave min says he wants more details
Speaker 2: from the FEDS about a raid by US Immigration and
Speaker 2: Customs Enforcement in a neighborhood of Irvine. He says he
Speaker 2: is deeply concerned about reports that ICE agents raided a
Speaker 2: home in the city. Agents served a warrant Thursday as
Speaker 2: part of an investigation into alleged doxing attack targeting federal
Speaker 2: immigration officials. They were apparently looking for the son of
Speaker 2: the couple that was home during the raid from Shiny
Speaker 2: Chrome orbs meant to verify your human to social media
Speaker 2: feeds filled entirely with AI generated content. The digital landscape
Speaker 2: is shifting fast and now OpenAI has announced it will
Speaker 2: stay a nonprofit, reversing it will stay a nonprofit, reversing
Speaker 2: earlier plans to go for profit and joining us to
Speaker 2: unpack all of this, which I'm like, what did I
Speaker 2: just say? What am I saying?
Speaker 10: Is?
Speaker 2: ABC needs tech reporter Mike Debuski, Good morning, Mike, Good morning,
Speaker 2: Heather A good I feel like I'm speaking another language.
Speaker 2: Chrome orbs. What is this? What are they supposed to do?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we can start with the Chrome orbs. This
Speaker 6: comes from a new startup called World and last week
Speaker 6: in San Francisco, they had an event announcing that they're
Speaker 6: coming to the United States. They've been operating around the
Speaker 6: globe for a few years now, and this company's whole
Speaker 6: goal is to provide a way to prove your humanity online.
Speaker 6: Something that you can use in banking, something that you
Speaker 6: can use in e commerce, science and technology fields, on
Speaker 6: social media. This is a way to definably prove that
Speaker 6: you are human, World says, and it's necessary, they say,
Speaker 6: because in the future, everything's going to be dominated by
Speaker 6: AI generated content. It's going to be very difficult to
Speaker 6: suss out what's real and what's not, what's made by
Speaker 6: a person and what is generated by an artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: So we're going to.
Speaker 6: Need a way to sort of figure that out to
Speaker 6: definably prove one's personhood. And that makes some degree of sense, right,
Speaker 6: But what is dividing opinion here is how world is
Speaker 6: going about doing that. You mentioned the orbs. This is
Speaker 6: where the orbs come in. The imagine a sort of
Speaker 6: small bowling ball sized device. It's chrome, and it has
Speaker 6: a small screen on the front of it. The idea
Speaker 6: is you approach this ORB as a person, you look
Speaker 6: into that screen, it scans your eyeball, and then from
Speaker 6: that scan, it generates a specific biometric identifier that you
Speaker 6: are supposed to use in your online life. In fact,
Speaker 6: it's already being used in Japan. Tinder, the dating service,
Speaker 6: is using these biometric identifiers to verify whether people are
Speaker 6: real on that platform or not. But as you can imagine,
Speaker 6: this is raising some privacy concerns as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk a little bit about that. What other
Speaker 2: kind of data are they collecting? I mean, is it
Speaker 2: just your email and shopping habits or what are they collecting.
Speaker 6: Well, for one, they are taking a picture of your eye, right,
Speaker 6: that is a piece of your body.
Speaker 10: Right.
Speaker 6: People are a little discomforted by that. There's also sort of,
Speaker 6: given the chrome orbiness of this whole thing, a little
Speaker 6: bit of a sci fi black mirror element to this
Speaker 6: that people are a little uncomfortable with. World, for its part, says,
Speaker 6: it doesn't store the iris scans internally, right, it deletes them.
Speaker 6: It just uses that sort of piece of your body
Speaker 6: to general generate this identifier. Right, that's a string of
Speaker 6: code that is you know the result of this. But
Speaker 6: you can imagine, you know, if there's a data breach
Speaker 6: involved here, if there's a hack or anything like that,
Speaker 6: you know, you're not just losing a password, You're losing
Speaker 6: you know, a crucial picture of your human hood, right,
Speaker 6: your person hood, And that is raising some concerns. People
Speaker 6: are a little trepidacious about that, it seems. However, for
Speaker 6: what it's worth, World says since it launched globally two
Speaker 6: years ago, twelve million people have been scanned so far,
Speaker 6: and they plan to have seventy five hundred orbs in
Speaker 6: the US by the end of the year, starting in
Speaker 6: San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Nashville.
Speaker 2: All Right, so Meta is saying that they're experiment with
Speaker 2: AI only social media feeds and do people do we
Speaker 2: really need that? I mean, honestly, I that is the
Speaker 2: big question with this.
Speaker 6: So they have a new app out. They had a
Speaker 6: big conference last week about their AI technology. This new
Speaker 6: app is a place to centralize their AI. So you
Speaker 6: may have interacted with metas ai in Instagram already or
Speaker 6: on Facebook. They prompt you to do that pretty aggressively.
Speaker 6: Now this is a standalone app that's just for its
Speaker 6: AI stuff. And what sets this apart from other AI
Speaker 6: apps is that there's a discover tap, basically a social
Speaker 6: media feed that you can scroll see the pictures that
Speaker 6: people have generated using AI. You can look at questions
Speaker 6: that people have asked metas ai and the responses that
Speaker 6: that AI has given back. It's a really interesting feed
Speaker 6: to scroll through because there's not really a lot of
Speaker 6: people there. It's just AI generated stuff. And as you
Speaker 6: alluded to in the beginning there, that has raised a
Speaker 6: lot of questions about why people would want to hang
Speaker 6: out there. If you are really following your friends, you're
Speaker 6: just following sort of computer generated content. But it's notable though,
Speaker 6: just because a few weeks ago open ai, the maker
Speaker 6: of chat gpt, announced that they are working on a
Speaker 6: social network. So it seems like this is Meta's attempt
Speaker 6: to get ahead of the game a little bit and
Speaker 6: get people excited about their own AI tools.
Speaker 2: Okay, quickly, before I let you go, open ai is
Speaker 2: going to stay a nonprofit and I guess that surprised
Speaker 2: a lot of people. So what does this really mean
Speaker 2: for you know, it's business model and any future innovation.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so for a long time, open ai had been
Speaker 6: trying to transition from a nonprofit into a for profit company.
Speaker 6: Right now, they have a sort of weird structure where
Speaker 6: a nonprofit board controls a for profit LLC company, and
Speaker 6: that's the company that makes chat, gpt and all these
Speaker 6: other services that you can pay money to use. They
Speaker 6: wanted to basically get rid of the nonprofit piece of it,
Speaker 6: and they faced a lot of opposition to that plan,
Speaker 6: people saying that, you know, this is an attempt by
Speaker 6: them to shed all of the sort of good hearted
Speaker 6: goals of the nonprofit to create AI for the good
Speaker 6: of humanity, to not necessarily put profits first, but rather
Speaker 6: to develop technology in a safe way. They say getting
Speaker 6: rid of the nonprofit would basically take the shackles off
Speaker 6: of open AI and allow them to create any manner
Speaker 6: of potentially very dangerous technologies. Now they say they're they're
Speaker 6: abandoning the plan to transition into a for profit company.
Speaker 6: The nonprofit is going to remain in charge. The LLC
Speaker 6: will become what's known as a public benefit corporation, which
Speaker 6: changes around some things with regard to equity, but for
Speaker 6: the most part, the structure is remaining the same.
Speaker 2: All right, very cool stuff, Mike, Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time this morning.
Speaker 6: Of course, take care.
Speaker 2: All right, it's time to get up in your business.
Speaker 2: I think I added the get up in your business
Speaker 2: part of it. Maybe maybe maybe it's just get in
Speaker 2: their business. Bloomberg's Courtney Dono is here. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 10: You know sometimes when I get up and I look
Speaker 10: at the markets and I look at the trading screen,
Speaker 10: it looks like I'm getting up in a flight. There
Speaker 10: you go, there you go getting rough on certain days.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about four. They're the latest big
Speaker 2: name to warn that the trade war is about to
Speaker 2: do some significant damage. Tell me about that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, the car maker has suspended its full your
Speaker 10: financial guidance, pinning the blame in part on tariff's. Ford
Speaker 10: also says that duties are going to take a toll
Speaker 10: on profit, reducing earnings by about one and a half
Speaker 10: billion dollars. But you have to put all of this
Speaker 10: in perspective because Ford's tariff exposure is a lot less
Speaker 10: than its Detroit rivals. We're talking Chrysler, We're talking GM,
Speaker 10: and that's because eighty percent of the cars that it
Speaker 10: tells in the US are built here. But shares of
Speaker 10: Ford are definitely taking a hit in the pre market
Speaker 10: this morning.
Speaker 2: All right, And it looks like it's the end of
Speaker 2: the road for Write Aid. What's going on?
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, and this is important. I even call my
Speaker 10: parents about this one because they go with you write it,
Speaker 10: and I know there's a lot of people out there
Speaker 10: who have a lot of questions. So, less than a
Speaker 10: year after emerging from bankruptcy, the pharmacy chain has filed
Speaker 10: for Chapter eleven once again. So the company wasn't able
Speaker 10: to secure more money from lenders in order to continue
Speaker 10: running the business. So sources telling us that all Right
Speaker 10: Aid stores will either be closed or sold, and right
Speaker 10: Aid is working with several regional and national buyers who
Speaker 10: might be interested in parts of the company, but executives
Speaker 10: didn't name which firms they were, so big question, what
Speaker 10: does this mean for your prescription? So for now, you're
Speaker 10: still going to be able to get your medications if
Speaker 10: you go to the store, if you're online. However, right
Speaker 10: Aid does say it's going to work to smoothly move
Speaker 10: them to other pharmacies.
Speaker 2: And Mattel plans to buy less toys from China. Why
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 10: Yes, they have to. They have to figure out what
Speaker 10: to do with tariffs. A big Los Angeles company, else Agundo,
Speaker 10: actually the Barbie and Hot Wheels owner, manufacturers about forty
Speaker 10: percent of its toys in China. So the company's plan
Speaker 10: is to buy less than fifteen percent from the nation
Speaker 10: next year and fewer than ten percent by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 10: But the tariffs are weighing on the industry that's already
Speaker 10: been flowing down. Remember it's surged during the pandemic lockdowns.
Speaker 10: All these parents are up this saying, all right, I
Speaker 10: need to get toys entertain my children. Well, when that'll
Speaker 10: when everybody came back out again after the pandemic, toy
Speaker 10: sales ended up becoming a lot less. So between the
Speaker 10: tariffs and that, it's this is a big issue for
Speaker 10: the company, so they're taking a lot of actions. And
Speaker 10: one of the things that they are doing, which is
Speaker 10: unfortunate for a lot of parents out there, they're planning
Speaker 10: to increase the prices on some toys.
Speaker 2: No, that's definitely news that we don't want to hear. Cortney,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time, and we'll check
Speaker 2: it with you in tomorrow.
Speaker 10: Definitely see you later, Bye bye.
Speaker 2: I did not know that they had phones. Is that you, guys?
Speaker 2: Am I totally out of touch? But I did not know.
Speaker 2: I guess I just assumed they were all very like
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know why. Yes, I guess
Speaker 2: maybe I was.
Speaker 3: Those are two different parts of the world.
Speaker 2: You're right, you are correct. I don't know why. I
Speaker 2: was thinking, Wow, they have phones. They're very very modern
Speaker 2: of them. Yeah, yeah, all right, you guys. That's going
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