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Speaker 4: wake up call for Friday, May twenty third. Good morning,
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Speaker 4: Lots going on today as usual, this day before Memorial
Speaker 4: Day weekend. Looks like the weather is going to be
Speaker 4: absolutely fantastic for Memorial Day. I love that when it's
Speaker 4: not too hot, not too cold. It's a Goldilocks moment.
Speaker 5: It's just right. Here's what's the head on wake up call.
Speaker 4: The FAA says six people on board the small plane
Speaker 4: that crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood presumably died.
Speaker 4: Two deaths have been confirmed. Music agency Sound Talent Group
Speaker 4: said three of its employees were killed in the crash,
Speaker 4: including the co founder, Dave Shapiro. The FAA says the
Speaker 4: plane was headed to Montgomery Gibbs Executive Airport when it
Speaker 4: went down early yesterday morning. PCH fully reopens this morning
Speaker 4: at eight am, more than four months after being closed
Speaker 4: because of the wildfire in Pacific Palisades. The road's been
Speaker 4: mostly limited to residents, businesses, and repair crew since January.
Speaker 4: Drivers are still expected to encounter a heavy security President's
Speaker 4: presence because of restricted access to the Palisades fire burn area.
Speaker 4: Gas prices for this holiday weekend the lowest we've seen
Speaker 4: since twenty twenty one, averaging four to eighty a gallon.
Speaker 4: In La County, prices have dropped eleven of the last
Speaker 4: twelve days. In Orange County, gas is averaging four to
Speaker 4: seventy two a gallon. The national average for gas is
Speaker 4: three twenty a gallon. Isn't that just crazy? Like a
Speaker 4: dollar fifty difference? And then we've got another tax probably
Speaker 4: kicking in in.
Speaker 5: July, so brace yourselves for that.
Speaker 4: Speaking of bracing yourselves, the twenty twenty five hurricane forecast
Speaker 4: is out. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us in
Speaker 4: just a couple of minutes to let us know what
Speaker 4: to expect. Medical advance is being made every day, we
Speaker 4: know that, but we don't always hear about them. We
Speaker 4: are going to hear about a couple of big ones
Speaker 4: that have come out in just the last week with
Speaker 4: futurist Kevin Surilli. That's coming up at five twenty. Looking
Speaker 4: forward to hearing what new advances have been made. We
Speaker 4: also have an update on a couple of the animals
Speaker 4: rescued from the fires by Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 5: Good news. I love this stuff.
Speaker 4: And then also that the viral video of the stray
Speaker 4: dog that fended off the pack of coyotes. Guess who's
Speaker 4: found himself as forever Home. We'll tell you the latest
Speaker 4: on that coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 4: And then it is a blockbuster weekend to Tom Cruise
Speaker 4: and Stitch or hitting the theaters. Abec's Will Gans is
Speaker 4: gonna give us a little preview that's coming up before
Speaker 4: the top of the hour. And if you don't feel
Speaker 4: like going to the movie theaters, turn on the sirens.
Speaker 4: There's a new limited series coming to Netflix. I want
Speaker 4: to hear about that one. Let's get started with some
Speaker 4: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 4: hour newsroom.
Speaker 7: There's playing everywhere.
Speaker 4: Six people are presumed dead following the crash of a
Speaker 4: private jet into a neighborhood in San Diego. Those killed
Speaker 4: are said to include three employees of the music agency
Speaker 4: Sound Talent Group. The plane went down in heavy fog
Speaker 4: early yesterday morning. The pilot had asked air traffic Control
Speaker 4: about the weather.
Speaker 6: Picked out there a little better, but hireman about the show.
Speaker 8: But I believe not a great oute either.
Speaker 4: The plane hit home sin set cars on fires. No
Speaker 4: one on the ground was seriously hurt. Officials say the
Speaker 4: debris field was so wide it's going to take the
Speaker 4: NTSB a long time to investigate. San Diego fire officials
Speaker 4: say the military members who live in the neighborhood stepped
Speaker 4: up to help.
Speaker 7: I can tell you this, the military families did a
Speaker 7: phenomenal job as as firefighters were getting on scene to
Speaker 7: help one another, get people out of houses and going.
Speaker 5: I cannot commend them enough.
Speaker 4: The housing development is in San Diego, but it is
Speaker 4: contracted by the Navy. LA has closed it's nearly one
Speaker 4: billion dollar budget deficit and saved some of the jobs
Speaker 4: that were scheduled for layoffs.
Speaker 9: It took about six hours of debate at city Hall,
Speaker 9: but the thirteen point nine billion dollar budget was adopted
Speaker 9: by a twelve to three vot It restores about one
Speaker 9: thousand jobs from proposed layoffs, but hundreds could still be cut.
Speaker 9: Councilman Bob Bluomenfield says some civilian jobs at the LAPD
Speaker 9: have been restored so officers won't be pulled off the
Speaker 9: street to do, in.
Speaker 7: Some cases, jobs that they don't have the training for
Speaker 7: or the license to do that would have been very
Speaker 7: damaging for public safety.
Speaker 9: The budget calls for a slow down in police hiring.
Speaker 9: Council members park Lee and Rodriguez opposed the budgets, citing
Speaker 9: public safety concerns. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4: The decline in the number of students enrolled in schools
Speaker 4: in California is slowing. A California Department of Education report
Speaker 4: shows enrollment dropped by just under a half percent for
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty four to twenty five school year from
Speaker 4: the previous year. Enrollment is still well below pre pandemic levels.
Speaker 4: Dual language immersion programs those are growing. There are now
Speaker 4: more than one thousand such programs. A thirty nine percent
Speaker 4: increase from twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. Time to say
Speaker 4: good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, we've got more
Speaker 4: storms on the horizon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. Over a dozen is the expectation this year.
Speaker 6: Amy Noah yesterday released its prediction for the hurricane season
Speaker 6: twenty twenty five, the Atlantic hurricane season I should say,
Speaker 6: I should say then the expectation thirteen to nineteen storms
Speaker 6: are expected to form in twenty twenty five. The hurricane
Speaker 6: season kind of officially begins on June first, although we've
Speaker 6: had hurricanes earlier than that and much later than they
Speaker 6: cut off date of November first. And so, yeah, thirteen
Speaker 6: to nineteen name storms, six to ten of which could
Speaker 6: become hurricanes. Three to five of those, according to Noah,
Speaker 6: are expected to reach category three status are stronger, making
Speaker 6: them major hurricanes.
Speaker 7: Amy.
Speaker 4: Okay, Now, just because we might see major storms, that
Speaker 4: doesn't mean they're going to make landfall, right or are
Speaker 4: they predicting that they do make landfall?
Speaker 6: Oh, you're right. Yeah, these could just swirl around out
Speaker 6: there in the Atlantic, but some percentage of them are
Speaker 6: expected to make landfall as well. So yeah, it's a
Speaker 6: good point because many these storms. They look dangerous, they
Speaker 6: look huge and powerful, and eventually just peter out out
Speaker 6: in the Atlantic or die in the middle of the Gulf.
Speaker 4: I think it's interesting that they can predict when a
Speaker 4: storm is going to whip up months out of ahead
Speaker 4: of schedule.
Speaker 6: Even they can't, No, they can't, they can't, but they just.
Speaker 5: Think the conditions are right exactly.
Speaker 6: They can look at the weather, the water temperature, and
Speaker 6: that has a lot to do with it. The surface
Speaker 6: water temperatures warmer, cooler, that's going to impact the likelihood
Speaker 6: of storms in the future. So they put all these
Speaker 6: the data into a big computer and then run the model.
Speaker 6: They let the thing advance and kind of determine exactly
Speaker 6: what's going to happen or what might happen in the
Speaker 6: coming weeks or months, and to come up with this prediction,
Speaker 6: and it's pretty dark accurate. They use a tool called
Speaker 6: the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System HALFS, and last year
Speaker 6: it was quite accurate. The prediction was for and above
Speaker 6: normal season a range of seventeen to twenty five name
Speaker 6: storms and that's pretty much what we got last year.
Speaker 4: Okay, and what about those surprise storms? Remember that one
Speaker 4: that's spun up off of Mexico and about twenty four
Speaker 4: hours went from nothing to a really strong storm and
Speaker 4: slammed into the coast.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's become more and more common, you know, these
Speaker 6: ones in the golf that explode out of nowhere. And
Speaker 6: yesterday during the presentation, National Weather Service forecasters said that
Speaker 6: all of the big major hurricanes that we've had in
Speaker 6: the last thirty forty years began as tropical storms three
Speaker 6: days earlier. So it's just a three day process of
Speaker 6: ramping up from a thirty nine mile an hour tropical
Speaker 6: storm to a major hurricane. So yeah, you're right. These
Speaker 6: explosive storms seemed to becoming more common, and last year
Speaker 6: we had so many of them in the golf, not
Speaker 6: off the Atlantic.
Speaker 4: All Right, ABC's Jim Ryan batting down the hatches. Got
Speaker 4: another busy season coming up. Thank you so much, see
Speaker 4: you all right, have a great weekend. All right, all right,
Speaker 4: let's get back to some of the story coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump has
Speaker 4: threatened to slap a twenty five percent import tax on
Speaker 4: Apple unless iPhones are made in the US. That story's
Speaker 4: just hitting the newsroom, so we'll get more information on
Speaker 4: that as it comes in. Senator Adam Schiff has urged
Speaker 4: Secretary of Homeland Security Christy Noam to restore funding for
Speaker 4: earthquake retro fitting that's been canceled by the Trump administration.
Speaker 4: The thirty three million dollars caught would go to strengthen
Speaker 4: seven hundred and fifty to fifteen hundred apartment buildings that
Speaker 4: are vulnerable to collapse in an earthquake. FEMA canceled the
Speaker 4: Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program back on April fourth.
Speaker 4: Another eleven hundred troops are headed to the southern border.
Speaker 4: The Trump administration approved the additional soldiers for deployment as
Speaker 4: part of its crackdown on illegal immigration from Mexico. The
Speaker 4: new troops will bring the total number of service members
Speaker 4: to nearly ten thousand. About half of the new troops
Speaker 4: will be put to work on concer instruction. China has
Speaker 4: a drone mothership, but a lot of people say they're
Speaker 4: not worried about that.
Speaker 10: China says it's Jotan drone will be able to launch
Speaker 10: a one hundred small drones like bees from a hive.
Speaker 10: China says it's also modular for civilian or military use
Speaker 10: and able to be used for electronic warfare, strike and support,
Speaker 10: or emergency rescue. The drone mothership is a range of
Speaker 10: more than forty three hundred miles with an eighty two
Speaker 10: foot wingspan, which experts say makes it a big target.
Speaker 10: Its maximum altitude is about the same as a commercial aircraft,
Speaker 10: which is also well within the range of air defense
Speaker 10: systems like the US Patriot missile. Jotan makes its first
Speaker 10: test flight at the end of June, and the US
Speaker 10: Defense Department says it's aware of the behemoth.
Speaker 5: Michael Krozer KFI News the Behemoth.
Speaker 4: The Trump administration has barred Harvard University from allowing international
Speaker 4: students to enroll since the school has lost its ability
Speaker 4: to use the student and Exchange visitor program. The administration
Speaker 4: says Harvard lost the privilege for perpetuating an unsafe campus
Speaker 4: environment that's hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro Hamas sympathies,
Speaker 4: and employees racist diversity, equity and inclusion policies. Harvard says
Speaker 4: the move by the Trump administration is not legal. The
Speaker 4: man accused of stalking actress Jennifer Aniston and ramming his
Speaker 4: car into the front gate of her home in bel
Speaker 4: Air has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial.
Speaker 8: Jimmy Wayne Carweile is from Mississippi and is accused of
Speaker 8: showing up at Jennifer Aniston's house in bell Air crashing
Speaker 8: his car into her front gate. He's also accused of
Speaker 8: harassing her with voicemails, emails, and social media messages for
Speaker 8: about two years.
Speaker 4: He was arrested after the crash earlier this month. ABC's
Speaker 4: Alex Stone says Carwile has demanded a second opinion on
Speaker 4: his competency. Those really Those results are expected next week.
Speaker 4: And ACE Hardware is giving away one million American flags
Speaker 4: to honor members of the US Armed Forces ahead of
Speaker 4: Memorial Day.
Speaker 11: The flags are eight x twelve, but size doesn't matter.
Speaker 11: It's the message of honor and mourning military members who
Speaker 11: while serving our country. The flags will be available Saturday
Speaker 11: at participating ACE Hardware stores. No purchase necessary, one flag
Speaker 11: per customer while supplies last. There are nearly six thousand
Speaker 11: ACE Hardware stores coast to coast Free Tennis KFI News.
Speaker 4: And there's an ACE Hardware in my neighborhood. I think
Speaker 4: I know what I'm going to do. First thing, tomorrow morning. Tonight,
Speaker 4: the Dodgers take on the Mets in New York, with
Speaker 4: the first pitch going out at four o'clock. You can
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Speaker 4: and Final. All six people on board of private jet
Speaker 4: that crashed into a military housing neighborhood in San Diego
Speaker 4: are presumed dead. Music agency Sound Talent Groups said three
Speaker 4: of its employees were killed in the crash, including co
Speaker 4: founder Dave Shapiro. The crash sparked several fires and forced
Speaker 4: about one hundred people out of their homes. Eight people
Speaker 4: on the ground suffered minor injuries. A memorial outside city
Speaker 4: Hall in Paramount has been vandalized. The city says vandals
Speaker 4: ripped a bronze rifle from the Battlefield Cross and Soldier
Speaker 4: Art memorial. The sculpture depicts a soldier honoring a fallen colleague.
Speaker 4: The memorial was just unveiled last November, the city of
Speaker 4: Burbank has been recognized as a Tree City USA by
Speaker 4: the Arbor Day Foundation. This is the forty eighth year
Speaker 4: the city's gotten the distinction, the title given to cities
Speaker 4: committed to effective urban forest management. Burbank's Parks and rec
Speaker 4: Department manages about thirty three thousand trees. At six oh five,
Speaker 4: it's handle on the news and other judges blocked another
Speaker 4: of Trump's executive orders. Right now, let's say good morning
Speaker 4: to futurist Kevin So really, good morning, Kevin.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Thank you for having me. You know, a
Speaker 7: big reason why I founded Meet the Future was because
Speaker 7: there's all of this technology that's happening and changing our lives,
Speaker 7: and I want to try to help translate it for people.
Speaker 7: And there's some great news stories. I think I come
Speaker 7: bearing good news.
Speaker 3: Now I'm not a.
Speaker 7: Doctor, but I'm sorry about your cough, but there is
Speaker 7: a very good news story about Alzheimer's disease. The FDA
Speaker 7: just approved of the blood tests, just a standard blood
Speaker 7: test that detects Alzheimer's early. So previously, if if you
Speaker 7: have any experience with Alzheimer's or Huntington's or Parkinson's disease
Speaker 7: or dementia that you would have to typically get a
Speaker 7: spinal tap or a pet scan, but this test just
Speaker 7: makes it cheaper and faster and way more accessible before
Speaker 7: any of the symptoms even come on.
Speaker 4: Okay, So, Kevin, then the question is because that is
Speaker 4: that's a big thing, because I mean, we get, yes,
Speaker 4: I had a health issue, and so I get blood
Speaker 4: tests like every six months, and they're kind of no
Speaker 4: big deal. But with that detection ability, knowing that there's
Speaker 4: really there's still no cure anything for Alzheimer's, are there
Speaker 4: things that can be done if people find out that
Speaker 4: they have or will be getting Alzheimer's or is it
Speaker 4: still this is just helping people to identify it.
Speaker 7: So it's a great question because the technology, the artificial
Speaker 7: intelligence which is training on these massive data seens, it
Speaker 7: gives people the choice of whether or not to know.
Speaker 7: But to your point, and it's a great question, there's
Speaker 7: still no cure. But I would argue that the choice
Speaker 7: of whether or not you want to find out before
Speaker 7: the symptoms take hold arms the individual with the information. Now,
Speaker 7: obviously everyone has to make the decision that's best for them,
Speaker 7: and they should talk to their doctor. I am not
Speaker 7: a doctor. I am just trying to translate as a
Speaker 7: journalist what the doctors are saying. But I will tell
Speaker 7: you that if you are able to plan for things,
Speaker 7: that would give you more information and more knowledge for you,
Speaker 7: for your family, for your loved ones, and that there
Speaker 7: are more treatments that are becoming more and more readily
Speaker 7: available to offset some of the symptoms. So separately from that, Similarly,
Speaker 7: in the UK, scientists are using DNA sequencers, which are
Speaker 7: during brain surgery to find brain tumors. Now, typically diagnostics
Speaker 7: for brain tumor could happen in two months. Now it's
Speaker 7: happening in two hours. So it's just underscores that artificial
Speaker 7: intelligence is helping to make all of this happen way
Speaker 7: more quickly, and two hours versus two months, especially when
Speaker 7: you get into cancer treatment, is a big, big deal.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I want to ask you about that because
Speaker 4: I was a little i read your notes on that
Speaker 4: I was a little confused. So normally, if you are
Speaker 4: looking to diagnose a brain tumor, it could take up
Speaker 4: to two months to figure it out.
Speaker 7: Well, well, just think of all of the tests that
Speaker 7: you have to undergo and everything in the detection and
Speaker 7: so all of the processes and the procedures. But now
Speaker 7: because they're if they're doing nanopor sequencing, which reads the
Speaker 7: DNA in real time. Because of this new technology, the
Speaker 7: patient's still on the table, so it shrinks the diagnostic
Speaker 7: times from again eight weeks to two hours. And then
Speaker 7: there's another major development that's happening. And this happened in Philadelphia,
Speaker 7: which I grew up outside of the city. This is
Speaker 7: one of my favorite ones of this week. I'm not
Speaker 7: sure if you guys saw it, but it did make
Speaker 7: it did get some national attention. But for the first
Speaker 7: time ever, not just in America but anywhere around the world,
Speaker 7: doctors rewrote a baby's genetic code as a one off
Speaker 7: therapy that was tailored exactly to a child's rare disease.
Speaker 7: So this was not necessarily a cure, but it was
Speaker 7: a personalized DNA fix. This baby had a very rare
Speaker 7: genetic disorder and they were able to literally correct the
Speaker 7: DNA sequencing and all for a tailor fixed to save
Speaker 7: the baby's life. Why is this important Because when we
Speaker 7: talk about things like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or Huntington's or
Speaker 7: als as the science continues to evolve. If the technology
Speaker 7: is able to identify which genes or where in the
Speaker 7: DNA sequencing that code is to be able to fix,
Speaker 7: that could really be a massive, massive leap forward. And
Speaker 7: in one specific case in Philadelphia, they were able to
Speaker 7: save this child's life.
Speaker 4: Okay, so all this stuff just catches my brain on fire.
Speaker 4: I'm like, how do you do? How do you go
Speaker 4: in and change a little tiny piece of DNA? So
Speaker 4: the baby had some sort of a rare condition or
Speaker 4: the baby was going to develop the situate the condition
Speaker 4: is it?
Speaker 7: You know, is it like in this case the child
Speaker 7: had the rare disease? But it's a great question because
Speaker 7: it is. It makes my brain on fire too, and
Speaker 7: I totally hear you. But essentially, if you think of
Speaker 7: DNA as a code, like a computer code with all
Speaker 7: of that, you know, the like the M dashes and
Speaker 7: the slashes, and you know the code and that's written
Speaker 7: in a computer system. If you think of it like that,
Speaker 7: the scientists and the technologists and the doctors, if they
Speaker 7: are able to identify where in that code there's an
Speaker 7: error or where in that code there isn't ability there
Speaker 7: is something that would cause it to be in this case,
Speaker 7: for this particular child, a rare genetic disease or disorder.
Speaker 7: If they can zap that and get that out, then
Speaker 7: they can think they can prevent it from from happening,
Speaker 7: which is a huge deal. And so obviously this is
Speaker 7: a great use case that happened in Philadelphia, but there
Speaker 7: are ethical conversations that come of that as well, and
Speaker 7: that's where meet the future. And what I'm really interested
Speaker 7: in is, you know, policy makers, I'm based in Washington,
Speaker 7: d C. Are they even having these types of conversations
Speaker 7: as the technology advances? Is our healthcare system? Are our
Speaker 7: regulations keeping pace? And I'm not sure the answer is yet.
Speaker 4: Well, I remember that we were talking about this, not
Speaker 4: you and I, but we we'd been talking about this,
Speaker 4: I don't know, a year or two ago, and they
Speaker 4: were talking about the DNA sequencing and being able to
Speaker 4: fix it. And then people were saying, because what you're
Speaker 4: going to do is you're going to get people who
Speaker 4: have money and they're going to make baby designer babies.
Speaker 5: Basically they're gonna say, I want.
Speaker 7: Well, they're doing it with dogs. Yeah, they're doing it
Speaker 7: with dogs. I mean Paris Hilton has been out there
Speaker 7: and she actually had and and I mean I'm taking
Speaker 7: a sharp left turn, but to your point, I mean
Speaker 7: there are companies out there where if you have a
Speaker 7: beloved pet that they will you know, recreate that pet.
Speaker 7: And so you know, we're welcome to the future where
Speaker 7: you can where that's the thing. You know, there's a
Speaker 7: company in Texas. There's another company in the UK, hey,
Speaker 7: that's doing that, and so it is super expensive, but
Speaker 7: it is a conversation that's happening. Until your point, the
Speaker 7: ethical cultural conversations around that are equally as important. But
Speaker 7: I can tell you this much. In Philly, the parents
Speaker 7: of that baby, that child just had their life saved.
Speaker 7: But that's a good news story.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And I love like what I was saying before
Speaker 4: we started talking was telling wake up call listeners that
Speaker 4: they're making these kinds of breakthroughs all the time, we
Speaker 4: just don't necessarily hear about them. So I'm so excited
Speaker 4: that we got the opportunity to talk to you, and hopefully,
Speaker 4: thank you, we'll have another conversation soon about the future.
Speaker 5: Sure, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 9: I Holpe.
Speaker 5: You feel better all right, Thanks so much.
Speaker 4: Kevin Surally futurist on the future of medicine. Very isn't
Speaker 4: that exciting? I mean like crazy, and yes, my brain
Speaker 4: does explode with that. Okay, let's get back to some
Speaker 4: of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
Speaker 4: hour newsroom. The man accused of starting a more than
Speaker 4: forty thousand acre fire in San Bernardino County has been
Speaker 4: found guilty of arson. Thirty four year old Justin Halstenberg
Speaker 4: was convicted yesterday of seven counts related to the Line
Speaker 4: fire in Highland in September and two counts related to
Speaker 4: another fire. He's facing life in prison. Thousands of residents
Speaker 4: were displaced during the Line fire. Six firefighters were injured.
Speaker 4: A former deputy la mayor has agreed to plead guilty
Speaker 4: to making a fake bomb threat.
Speaker 9: Federal prosecutor say Brian Williams has admitted to lying about
Speaker 9: a bomb threat to city hall, where he was deputy
Speaker 9: mayor of Public Safety. The Department of Justice says Williams
Speaker 9: was in a virtual meeting when he used a Google
Speaker 9: phone app to call his own city issued phone and
Speaker 9: then left the meeting to call LAPD. He says an
Speaker 9: unknown man made the threat over the city's perceived support
Speaker 9: of Israel. The felony count against Williams could lead to
Speaker 9: a ten year prison sentence. The mayor's office says it
Speaker 9: was surprised by the allegation and saddened by the outcome.
Speaker 9: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4: Contact in the Desert is about to get underway in
Speaker 4: Indian Hill, Indian Wells. What's being dubbed the Coachella for
Speaker 4: a Lovers is a five day event featuring more than
Speaker 4: sixty leading voices in UAPs and UFOs. They'll be talking
Speaker 4: about life beyond Earth and more. The event starts next
Speaker 4: Thursday and runs through the following Monday. The founder of
Speaker 4: the fertility clinic and Palm Springs targeting the last weekend's
Speaker 4: car bombing, has offered to pay for the bomber's funeral.
Speaker 4: He says he forgives the man and has been in
Speaker 4: contact with his family. Twenty five year old Guy Barcas
Speaker 4: was killed in the attack that also injured four other people.
Speaker 5: A fifth round of.
Speaker 4: Talks between Iran and the US over Tehran's nuclear program
Speaker 4: have begun in Rome. Metro's Board of directors has approved
Speaker 4: a nine point four billion dollar spending plan for twenty
Speaker 4: twenty six. The plan is a two percent, or over
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty million dollars increase over this year's budget.
Speaker 4: The board sided public safety and more frequent transit services
Speaker 4: for the rise in spending. Okay, wanted to give you
Speaker 4: a quick update on some pups. First of all, you've
Speaker 4: probably seen the video. How can you not, but the
Speaker 4: video of that dog, a stray dog in Brea that
Speaker 4: spent about forty five minutes fending off a pack of
Speaker 4: coyotes the other day. So, this beautiful, young one year
Speaker 4: old German Shepherd lab mix is described as a healthy,
Speaker 4: happy dog that officials said before his adoption could be
Speaker 4: an ideal companion and of course a good guard dog
Speaker 4: because he was ably able to successfully fend off five coyotes.
Speaker 4: His name is Duke and he has been adopted. He
Speaker 4: was taken to Orange County Animal Care Shelter and Duke
Speaker 4: has a new home. Isn't that so great? The other
Speaker 4: thing that came out of this is that animal experts
Speaker 4: were talking about this and they said that the coyotes
Speaker 4: were not trying to attack and kill the dog, because
Speaker 4: he said, they're not like cannibals by nature. They don't
Speaker 4: attack other dogs. They're kind of doing a territory thing,
Speaker 4: and it's kind of their way to communicate. So if
Speaker 4: you watch the whole video and see how Duke reacted,
Speaker 4: it's a little bit different than what we initially thought.
Speaker 4: But still Duke spend forty five minutes keeping himself safe,
Speaker 4: So kudos to Duke. Okay, we know that hundreds, actually
Speaker 4: more than a thousand animals were rescued by Pasadena Humane
Speaker 4: following the Eaton fire in Alzadina and Pasadena, and we
Speaker 4: went out and about and if you want to see
Speaker 4: I would highly recommend that you go to my Instagram
Speaker 4: at Amy K.
Speaker 5: King.
Speaker 4: You can also see it at KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 4: We show some of the animals that Pasadena Humane has
Speaker 4: treated and continues to treat. And it's four months later, right, Well,
Speaker 4: there's finally Skinny Minnie, which I think we have video of.
Speaker 4: I'm not one hundred percent sure, but she's this beautiful
Speaker 4: cat who was burned in the fire and needed a
Speaker 4: lot of rehab And finally, more than four months later,
Speaker 4: Pasadena Humane put out a press release and said Skinny
Speaker 4: Minnie was finally able to come home to her family
Speaker 4: or go home with her family, and they said it
Speaker 4: was a day of tears and joy and all that stuff,
Speaker 4: because you've become very attached to these animals as you're
Speaker 4: caring for them, and you know they when they're burned,
Speaker 4: they have to make sure that their little faces are
Speaker 4: okay and their ears are okay, and their paws get singed,
Speaker 4: and they treat all of that. And some of them
Speaker 4: had like smoke inhalation and other things that they had
Speaker 4: to be treated. And it took about four months to
Speaker 4: get skinny, many healthy enough to go home, but she
Speaker 4: got to go home, and so that's so great. Then
Speaker 4: one other one and I if you get a chance,
Speaker 4: go to Pasadena HU Means website and check out this dog.
Speaker 4: His name is Riley. He is absolutely stunningly beautiful. It's
Speaker 4: a big he's white, and he looks like he's got
Speaker 4: some shepherd in him, but just beautiful. And Riley was
Speaker 4: taken in less than twenty four hours after the eating fire.
Speaker 4: He was exhausted, covered in soot and ash, had burns
Speaker 4: all over, including on all four of his paws. He
Speaker 4: had smoke inhalation, dehydration, and the Pasadena Humane Veterinary Group
Speaker 4: they went and they started taking care of him and
Speaker 4: it's been like four months. It's been a long haul
Speaker 4: because he doesn't have an owner. They don't know who
Speaker 4: owned Riley before, and he had some pretty severe injuries
Speaker 4: and so they've had to nurse him back to health.
Speaker 4: And also as they're treating him, you know, they're treating
Speaker 4: his paws and changing his bandages, and that doesn't feel good.
Speaker 4: So he's kind of developed this a little bit of
Speaker 4: an aversion to people touching him, which is really kind
Speaker 4: of non intuitive for dogs because they're you know, they
Speaker 4: love to be touched and petted. He is very good though,
Speaker 4: once he gets to know you, and he is absolutely
Speaker 4: like I said, he's just a beautiful, beautiful dog. And
Speaker 4: four months later he's ready to be adopted. So if
Speaker 4: you are at all interested in adopting a dog, Riley
Speaker 4: might be the one for you. That he does have
Speaker 4: a couple of special things because of the injuries and
Speaker 4: the rehab and all of that stuff, so they want
Speaker 4: to make sure that they place him in the right home.
Speaker 4: But if you're looking for a new dog, whether it's
Speaker 4: Riley or any of the dogs at Pasadena Human or Cats,
Speaker 4: go check him out because they're so gorgeous and Riley
Speaker 4: kind of becas the face of Pasadena Humane after the fires,
Speaker 4: and I just again, we work really closely with Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 4: You know that we do all kinds of stuff with them,
Speaker 4: and we love what they do and are so thankful
Speaker 4: for everybody who works to help save the animals. They're
Speaker 4: still caring for animals. They're still sheltering and boarding animals
Speaker 4: because their families don't have a home to go back to.
Speaker 4: So Pasadena Humane love what you're doing. Okay, time to
Speaker 4: get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Courtney, I
Speaker 4: was watching the stock market today and it was like
Speaker 4: it's a little bit down, no big deal, and all
Speaker 4: of a sudden it dove about five hundred points.
Speaker 12: What happened exactly, It was all quiet here on Wall Street,
Speaker 12: good morning. First of all, everyone was scared enough for
Speaker 12: the holiday, dreams of a long weekend of summer fun.
Speaker 5: And then President Trump posted on hun truth social and
Speaker 5: all hell broke loose.
Speaker 12: So we are looking at a sell off today with
Speaker 12: Apple and the European Union in the President's crosshairs. He
Speaker 12: threatened fifty percent terrifying goods for the European Union starting
Speaker 12: on June first, saying the discussions with them are going nowhere. Meantime,
Speaker 12: he also said he would hit Apple with tariffs of
Speaker 12: at least twenty five percent if it doesn't make its
Speaker 12: iPhones in the US. So right now, SMP futures they're falling.
Speaker 12: They're down one point three percent down. Futures are tumbling
Speaker 12: four hundred and eighty points. So you never know what's
Speaker 12: going to happen when you wake up here on Wall Street.
Speaker 4: All right, we will see how that all plans out.
Speaker 4: So in the stock some people may be losing money,
Speaker 4: but Ryan Reynolds hauled in some cash yesterday.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 12: He made a little money because shares of advertising platform
Speaker 12: mountains or it's sixty five percent in its first day
Speaker 12: of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. What is
Speaker 12: someton so mountain it's spelled MNTN, and it helps small
Speaker 12: and mid sized businesses advertise on streaming networks. And Ryan
Speaker 12: Reynolds is the chief creative officer for the company. They
Speaker 12: say that is just a big area where people forgot
Speaker 12: about these companies. A lot of them are investing on
Speaker 12: social media, but not really on streaming networks. So this
Speaker 12: kind of fill that gap, so he actually is pretty involved,
Speaker 12: the CEO of the company, says, Ryan Reynolds has a
Speaker 12: big role in the overall branding of the company.
Speaker 5: He's just not a name being attached with it.
Speaker 12: He actually sat down with bankers last week in the
Speaker 12: run up to the company's initial public offering. But it
Speaker 12: definitely was a good day yesterday for that company, for Mountain.
Speaker 4: Interesting that Ryan Reynolds has you know, is involved in that,
Speaker 4: and then also with Mint Mobile, which is getting lower
Speaker 4: cost phones to people, and then again working to get
Speaker 4: streaming advertising to people who might not know about it
Speaker 4: or I might not be able to afford it.
Speaker 12: Ryan Reynolds, Yeah, but no matter what, like a lot
Speaker 12: of athletes, a lot of actors, a lot of folks
Speaker 12: in creative industries are looking at other ways to be
Speaker 12: able to make money, you know, things like an acting career.
Speaker 12: Sometimes you know, there's there's not many people like George
Speaker 12: Clooney have the lasting and staying power of how many years,
Speaker 12: and sometimes it's a little harder for somebody branded as
Speaker 12: an action star. So a lot of these companies, a
Speaker 12: lot of these people are looking at other ways to
Speaker 12: be able to set up revenue streams for their future
Speaker 12: in case they do have to step back from acting
Speaker 12: or step back from the playing field.
Speaker 4: All right, okay, so real quick, because we had a run.
Speaker 4: But before we let you, Top Gun Attraction is coming
Speaker 4: to Vegas.
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 12: And we all love a little top gun. So I'm
Speaker 12: going to play this for you, hopfield.
Speaker 8: Paid paid first fed.
Speaker 5: Yes, So this Top Gun Attraction.
Speaker 12: It's going to include fighter jets, stimulations, and other immersive experiences,
Speaker 12: as well as a bar with live piano singalongs.
Speaker 13: Maybe we can hear this one.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 12: But it's expected to debut in the summer of twenty
Speaker 12: twenty eight next to the Strat Hotel, casino and Tower.
Speaker 12: But like a lot of film and TV studios, Paramount
Speaker 12: has been looking for new ways to cash in on
Speaker 12: well known.
Speaker 5: Characters and stories.
Speaker 4: Just like that, you just reminded me that this is
Speaker 4: a perfect weekend to go watch Top Gun again.
Speaker 5: I think I'll do it.
Speaker 12: Oh, that sounds like a good idea. Maybe I'll do
Speaker 12: that too, Hi, right bloomber yeh. By the way, I'm
Speaker 12: not here on Monday.
Speaker 5: I know you're le holiday. That's markets are closed. But
Speaker 5: we'll see you on Tuesday.
Speaker 4: You betcha and we'll be here. Kono's going to be here,
Speaker 4: AND's going to be here. I'm going to be here.
Speaker 4: Neil Sevader's going to be here. Courtney Donaho in your business.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to you tuesday. Yes, I'll see you then,
Speaker 5: all right, take care.
Speaker 4: La City Council's approved at thirteen point nine billion dollar
Speaker 4: budget for fiscal year twenty twenty five twenty six.
Speaker 5: The vote was twelve to three.
Speaker 4: Yesterday, the council approved several changes to Mayor Bas's original
Speaker 4: budget that would have included more than sixteen hundred layoffs
Speaker 4: and a nearly billion dollar gap. Harvard University has sued
Speaker 4: the Trump administration over a new ban on enrolling foreign students.
Speaker 4: About twenty five percent of Harvard students are from other countries.
Speaker 4: Two time Oscar winning actress Hillary Swank is tonight's commencement
Speaker 4: speaker at Chapman University. University president Danielle Strupa says Swank
Speaker 4: embodies the resilience, integrity, and transformative spirit Chapman strives to
Speaker 4: instill in its students. We're just minutes away from handle
Speaker 4: on the news this morning. All kinds of good stuff
Speaker 4: to talk about. So you want to stick around for
Speaker 4: that starts at six oh five. Right now, let's dig
Speaker 4: into the movies and say good morning to ABC's Will
Speaker 4: gans Will.
Speaker 5: We got a couple of blockbusters.
Speaker 3: That's right, and it could be a potentially record setting
Speaker 3: weekend at the Memorial Day box office this weekend, thanks
Speaker 3: in large part to Tom Cruise and what could be
Speaker 3: the final installment question mark of the Mission Impossible franchise.
Speaker 4: It's like those farewell tours that people that all that
Speaker 4: like Share keeps doing right.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent, except when it's Share, I'm like, yes,
Speaker 3: please keep going on tour. We never want to say goodbye.
Speaker 3: But yeah, So this movie is massive. It's epic in
Speaker 3: scale and in length. It's two hours and forty nine
Speaker 3: minutes long. But you know, it's action packed and it
Speaker 3: seems like a fitting send off to Ethan Hunt and
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise and this tenth movie in the franchise. So
Speaker 3: it's big and it's explosive, and he does all his
Speaker 3: own stunts, which is just insane, but fans are loving it.
Speaker 3: So Mission Impossible Final Reckoning is in theaters this weekend.
Speaker 4: Okay, and then we're going from heart Throb to I
Speaker 4: don't know, a little rodent you looking thing who I love.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's a cute little roaded do you looking thing.
Speaker 3: Leelo and Stitch, the live action remake, is surfing into
Speaker 3: theaters this weekend too, and this thing, I mean, the
Speaker 3: numbers that it's posting are crazy, like this could be
Speaker 3: Disney's biggest Memorial Day weekend since one of the Star
Speaker 3: Wars movies and Pirates of the Caribbean movies. And you know,
Speaker 3: they knew that families were going to be really into this,
Speaker 3: but the demographic that's tracking like huge is women gen
Speaker 3: Z and millennial women who I guess must have you know,
Speaker 3: loved the movie the first movie from two thousand and two,
Speaker 3: and now they're going back to see it again. And
Speaker 3: you know, fans are really really raving about this movie,
Speaker 3: so you know, critics like it. Fans I think are
Speaker 3: loving it. So we'll have to see where we land
Speaker 3: on Monday. But yeah, it seems like a lot of
Speaker 3: people are super excited about Leelo and Stitch.
Speaker 4: Kind of have a far cry from Snow White, which
Speaker 4: pretty much tanked at the box office for one of
Speaker 4: Disney's live action.
Speaker 3: Movies exactly exactly, so hopefully you know, this one will
Speaker 3: be a little bit more kinder to fans than that
Speaker 3: one was.
Speaker 5: I think it'll be fun.
Speaker 4: I loved Leelo and Stitch, and with all their funky
Speaker 4: little characters, they're alien characters.
Speaker 5: They might be able to get away with all the.
Speaker 3: Cg exactly exactly. I mean, they're aliens, so you know,
Speaker 3: it's who's to say, like, you know, oh, that doesn't
Speaker 3: look like a realistic alien. You know, I'm sure it does.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that'll be great. And what I love too
Speaker 3: is Lelo and Stitch is directed by Dean Fleischer Camp,
Speaker 3: who also was the writer and director of Marcel The
Speaker 3: Shechell with Shoes on. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 3: that in twenty twenty one, but that's one of my
Speaker 3: all time favorite movies. So I trust him to put
Speaker 3: together a really sweet story.
Speaker 5: Okay, Marcel the Show.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh my god, I love it so much.
Speaker 5: I'm going to put that on my list. And we're
Speaker 5: totally out of time.
Speaker 4: But if you don't want to go to the movies,
Speaker 4: Netflix has a new short series that's coming.
Speaker 3: Out five episodes. It's called Sirens. Julianne Moore is in it.
Speaker 3: She plays a really creepy way too possessive boss and
Speaker 3: Megan say. He plays the sister of that boss's assistant,
Speaker 3: coming to get her out of the clutches of this
Speaker 3: overbearing boss. Five episodes, creepy, kind of funny, all on Netflix.
Speaker 4: Now, Okay, wait, who's Megan Fahey? Why do I know
Speaker 4: that name?
Speaker 3: She was in White Lotus season two. She was the
Speaker 3: blonde girl who was married to THEO James. Yeah, she's
Speaker 3: she's sort of like an up and coming star.
Speaker 4: But she's oh, oh, oh, okay, I just I just
Speaker 4: googled her. Now I know who it is. Okay, very cool. Yeah,
Speaker 4: ABC's willgans, thank you so much. Have a wonderful Memorial
Speaker 4: Day weekend.
Speaker 3: All right, you too, any take care?
Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 4: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5: We can squeeze in a couple more before we head out.
Speaker 4: Medicaid may soon require prior approvals for hospice care under
Speaker 4: California's new state budget plan that would potentially save twenty
Speaker 4: five million dollars over two years and over fifty million
Speaker 4: long term. Some experts say this could prevent some hospices
Speaker 4: from accepting medical patients especially in rural areas, and could
Speaker 4: lead to more costly er visits. Among other things, LA
Speaker 4: Metro's nine point four billion dollar budget for the next
Speaker 4: fiscal years been approved.
Speaker 9: It includes an increase in spending on public safety, now
Speaker 9: more than three hundred and ninety two million dollars, as
Speaker 9: the transit agency prepares to bring law enforcement in house.
Speaker 9: Board chair and LA County Supervisor Janis Han says the
Speaker 9: new budget responds to writers' wishes.
Speaker 8: Really having a budget that looks for to our own
Speaker 8: security public safety department.
Speaker 9: Various transit expansion projects like the lax Metro Transit station
Speaker 9: and the San Fernando Valley lightrail project are funded, and
Speaker 9: ten million dollars is for cleaning up train stations and
Speaker 9: adding some restrooms. Michael monks KFI News and.
Speaker 4: Before you hit the waves this weekend, be sure to
Speaker 4: check the water quality Heal the Bay's latest report ranks
Speaker 4: the Santa Monica Peer as California's second most polluted beach
Speaker 4: because of high bacteria levels from urban runoff and bird waste.
Speaker 4: Other hotspots include Imperial Beach and Linda mar Beach. For
Speaker 4: the full list, you can check out Beach report Card
Speaker 4: dot org.
Speaker 5: Good to know, good to Check.
Speaker 4: This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
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Speaker 4: who's in for An and technical producer Cono, also traffic
Speaker 4: specialist Will. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake
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