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Speaker 1: Friday morning wake up call. April eighteenth is the day.
Speaker 1: Amy King is the person that's me. But you're here
Speaker 1: to start your day and get a jumpstart on the weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I'm going to Disneyland, yep,
Speaker 1: haven't been for I don't know two weeks.
Speaker 5: You're dressed for it.
Speaker 6: You're dressed for it.
Speaker 1: I am dressed for it. I have my Spirit jersey on.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. And it's because it's the last
Speaker 1: weekend of the Food and Wine Festival at California Adventure
Speaker 1: and and we got some of those the little sip
Speaker 1: and saber passes that you buy and then you kind
Speaker 1: of it's basically you're buying coupons ahead of time, and
Speaker 1: we got to go use them because it's over.
Speaker 4: So there's seemed to be eating.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so we'll be doing that later today. But here's
Speaker 1: what's at hand. For right now, because we got a
Speaker 1: lot to get to. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: A re sentencing hearing for Eric and Lyle Menendez has
Speaker 1: been postponed indefinitely. Defense attorney Mark Gergos is expected to
Speaker 1: seek to recuse the DA's office from the case in
Speaker 1: a motion's hearing that's now scheduled for May ninth. UCLA
Speaker 1: students and faculty have protested on campus after an international
Speaker 1: grad student was detained at the US Mexico border. UCLA
Speaker 1: officials say the student was detained by Customs and Border
Speaker 1: Protection Wednesday night while trying to cross the border from
Speaker 1: Mexico into the United States. The son of a sheriff's
Speaker 1: deputy's been arrested for allegedly killing to people and injuring
Speaker 1: five others on the campus of Florida State University. The
Speaker 1: FSU police chief says the twenty year old shooter is
Speaker 1: a student at Florida State and used his mom's gun
Speaker 1: in the shooting. We'll get the latest on the shooting,
Speaker 1: more about who did it, and if we have any
Speaker 1: answers to the ever present question of why, with ABC's
Speaker 1: Josh Margolan. That's in about three minutes. The US and
Speaker 1: Russia have been talking about the possibility of peace in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: In Paris, ABC Shannon Kingston's going to join us to
Speaker 1: let us know if the US is ready to give
Speaker 1: up on talks. That's at five twenty. Everyone loves a
Speaker 1: good makeover, right well. The host of Home, Dean Sharp,
Speaker 1: joins us to give us some tips on how you
Speaker 1: can do it to your house. That's at five thirty five.
Speaker 1: And then at five point fifty ABC's Willgans is going
Speaker 1: to join us to tell us about what he calls
Speaker 1: the sweetest movie of the year, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it has to do with Easter chocolate. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. The Menendez brothers resentencing hearing has
Speaker 1: been delayed indefinitely, which means the hearing that was scheduled
Speaker 1: for today has been canceled.
Speaker 7: D A.
Speaker 1: Nathan Hawkman wants the brothers to remain in prison because
Speaker 1: he says they haven't shown remorse for murdering their parents.
Speaker 1: The defense says the brothers were sexually abused by their
Speaker 1: father and the mother knew about it. Lyell and Eric's
Speaker 1: lawyer has lashed out at the DA because of a
Speaker 1: delay and the brother's resentencing hearing.
Speaker 3: Defense attorney Mark Errago says Elie County DA Nathan Hackman
Speaker 3: is so biased against the convicted killers he'll follow motion
Speaker 3: to have the prosecutor removed from the case. Hawkman says
Speaker 3: it's not biased, just facts from the nineteen ninety six
Speaker 3: murder of the Menindez parents in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 8: The nineties fact are the ones that we're pointing out
Speaker 8: have continued all the way to this present day.
Speaker 3: The judge says he'll hear the recusal motion on May ninth,
Speaker 3: along with considering whether to admit a State Parole Board's
Speaker 3: risk assessment report that Hawkman was given, but the other
Speaker 3: side and the judge weren't. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1: News News brought to you by Simper. Solaris Lawyers have
Speaker 1: released a new video they see shows the exact moments
Speaker 1: SoCal Edison's equipment sparked the deadly fire in Altadena. Cafi's
Speaker 1: Mark Mayfield says the video presented yesterday was made from
Speaker 1: footage shot by Fortney fourteen witnesses.
Speaker 9: Flashes of light can be seen at a decommissioned call
Speaker 9: Edison Tower near Eaton Canyon, then Moulten material is shown
Speaker 9: moving downhill. Drybrush under the tower started burning twelve seconds
Speaker 9: into the initial witness video.
Speaker 1: An attorney claims Edison botched the deactivation of an idle
Speaker 1: power line, which led to the fire. In January, a
Speaker 1: motorcycle rider's been shot and killed by police in Newport Beach.
Speaker 1: Cafe's Daniel Martindale says it happened during a traffic stop
Speaker 1: last night on Pcach Your.
Speaker 3: Whole Hospital in Newport Beach.
Speaker 10: Police say the suspect became uncooperative during the traffic stop.
Speaker 10: He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Speaker 10: It's unclear what exactly prompted officers to open fire.
Speaker 1: Police did not release other details about the shooting. They
Speaker 1: also didn't say if the rider had a weapon. Tens
Speaker 1: of thousands of music fans are expected to head to
Speaker 1: Indio for the second weekend of the Coachella Valley Music
Speaker 1: and Arts Festival. Performers this weekend include Lady Gaga, Travis Scotton,
Speaker 1: Post Malone. They're actually headlining Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Senator Bernie
Speaker 1: Sanders made a surprise appearance last weekend a lot of
Speaker 1: people complained last time about waiting for hours in long
Speaker 1: lines just to get into the camping area. Festival organizers
Speaker 1: say they've added more tool plausas for this weekend's event
Speaker 1: to avoid a repeat of those waits. We shall see.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Josh Margolan. Josh, can
Speaker 1: you give us the latest stone what happened yesterday at
Speaker 1: Florida State University with that mass shooting.
Speaker 5: Beautiful day, early early summer in Florida and a gunman
Speaker 5: that twenty years old suspect, according to police, right near
Speaker 5: the student union, squares off and fires. There's no clear
Speaker 5: We don't clearly know what the motive was. As of yesterday,
Speaker 5: they said they were still looking for it. We know
Speaker 5: the suspect has a history of mental problems, mental challenges ADHD,
Speaker 5: he had been medicated, He was the subject of a
Speaker 5: really protracted, ugly custody battle between his biological parents. But
Speaker 5: we don't know what all led to this occurring yesterday
Speaker 5: as classes for the semester are starting to wind down
Speaker 5: at one of the biggest universities in Florida.
Speaker 1: Do we know, Josh, was he on medication at the time.
Speaker 1: You'd said that he had been in.
Speaker 5: The past, so that information is not known, and it's
Speaker 5: not entirely clear whether we'll know that for sure because
Speaker 5: of privacy rules. So the first thing is the gunman.
Speaker 5: The suspected gunman was shot by police after refusing to surrender,
Speaker 5: was injured. He will survive, not like threatening injuries, so
Speaker 5: there will be a prosecution going forward'll be charged. So
Speaker 5: I don't know if we'll know that that type of
Speaker 5: medical information because that type of stuff tends to be
Speaker 5: closely held for somebody unless they die in these incidents.
Speaker 5: But we do know he has a history, and we
Speaker 5: also do know, interestingly, it's a terrible point of interest
Speaker 5: here that his stepmother is a career shriff's deputy in
Speaker 5: that community, and that one of the guns allisuedly used
Speaker 5: in the crime yesterday was one of her weapons that
Speaker 5: she had gotten from work.
Speaker 1: Okay, and so that was the stepmom and officials have
Speaker 1: already come out in support of the deputy. Could she
Speaker 1: be in trouble because her son got her hands on
Speaker 1: the gun even though he's twenty, He's.
Speaker 5: Not a kid, right, So the question will be it
Speaker 5: was not the gun that she actually uses day in
Speaker 5: and day out. Right now. It's a buyer service weapon.
Speaker 5: There's a routine in a lot of law enforcement agencies
Speaker 5: where people have a service weapon and their agency wants
Speaker 5: to get them a new one, upgraded or something where
Speaker 5: they're allowed to keep the older weapon or buy the
Speaker 5: older weapon because gun owners tend to like the comfort
Speaker 5: of a weapon they've used for a while. So this
Speaker 5: was hers. The question always is and this is no different.
Speaker 5: How did the alleged shooter get the weapon? Was the
Speaker 5: weapon properly secured? That will definitely be part of the investigation.
Speaker 5: They've already said it. They've come out in favor of
Speaker 5: the stepmother, the sheriff's deputy, which is pretty standard among
Speaker 5: law enforcement to say that she's got a good record
Speaker 5: and well regarded, and we don't have any reason to
Speaker 5: doubt that. But they will want to see where was
Speaker 5: the gun being kept in the home. Should the step
Speaker 5: son have had access? A history of mental challenges could
Speaker 5: conceivably preclude somebody from getting access to handguns, So they're
Speaker 5: going to want to look at all of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, And the two people who were killed yesterday, I
Speaker 1: had seen that they were not students.
Speaker 5: Right, so they are not students. The question, very key
Speaker 5: question that we still don't have answers to just yet.
Speaker 5: Hopefully we'll have more today. Were these people that were
Speaker 5: shot killed at and injured, were they targeted or was
Speaker 5: this a random shooting? And that's going to be critical.
Speaker 5: We don't know. We do know that the two people
Speaker 5: who died tragically were not students. Are they support staff?
Speaker 5: Are they cafeteria staff, maintenance staff, faculty administrators, We don't
Speaker 5: have that information. This occurred near the student union, so
Speaker 5: we all know how a student union operates. There's going
Speaker 5: to be restaurants, and there's going to be maybe a
Speaker 5: fitness club inside, and there's obviously going to be maintenance personnel,
Speaker 5: and professors are floating in and out, and administrators are
Speaker 5: floating in and out. So fairly, you know, densely populated
Speaker 5: portion of a big campus.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so what's next. They're going to probably scour
Speaker 1: social media and try to figure out what happened, because
Speaker 1: you said he stopped, squared up and started shooting.
Speaker 5: Right, So that's been going on since yesterday. He does
Speaker 5: not seem to have a that big a social media presence.
Speaker 5: There was some They will obviously be trying to piece
Speaker 5: together his final hours and days. Who did he interact with?
Speaker 5: They have his vehicle, so cars have a wealth of
Speaker 5: information now because they're so high tech. Where did he go,
Speaker 5: who did he talk to? Was there some type of
Speaker 5: triggering event? You know, we've seen in the past that
Speaker 5: triggering events could be anything from a small blow up
Speaker 5: at home with the parents, could be financial problems, could
Speaker 5: be a loss of a job. I mean, this is
Speaker 5: all just hypothetical, but these are the kind of things
Speaker 5: they're looking at. They so they want to see what
Speaker 5: all led up. Now, remember that in a lot of cases,
Speaker 5: especially with people that are in severe psychiatric crisis, a
Speaker 5: triggering event to them might not be a triggering event
Speaker 5: to us, because you and I are thinking, you know, logically,
Speaker 5: and have linear thought, and so a small slight would
Speaker 5: not lead us to shoot people. But they want to
Speaker 5: figure out what all went on, And in so many
Speaker 5: of these cases they find two things. One is that
Speaker 5: the breadcrumbs are there, so when they look back they
Speaker 5: can see what occurs. Two that they often find that
Speaker 5: it's not just one thing, that there could be a
Speaker 5: ramping up, so one thing on top of another thing
Speaker 5: on top of another thing, and you add in some
Speaker 5: type of small flight or triggering event, and then you
Speaker 5: have the explosion.
Speaker 1: Kind of like the straw that broke the camel's back,
Speaker 1: exactly right. ABC's chief investigative reporter, Josh Margolan, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the information. Appreciate it. Have a good weekend.
Speaker 5: Have a great weekend.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal appeals
Speaker 1: court has rejected an effort by the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: block in order directing it to facilitate the return of
Speaker 1: the man from Maryland who was deported to El Salvador
Speaker 1: by mistake. The court ruled the administration was trying to
Speaker 1: claim a right to stash away residents of this country
Speaker 1: in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process. That's quote.
Speaker 1: Ki Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador. He
Speaker 1: was allowed to meet yesterday with Maryland Maryland Democratic Senator
Speaker 1: Chris van Holland, who went to the prison where Abrigo
Speaker 1: Garcia is being held. Before the meeting, Van Holland had
Speaker 1: complained that he and his staff were not allowed to
Speaker 1: enter the prison. After the meeting, the president of El
Speaker 1: Salvador posted a photo of Van Holland with Abrigo Garcia.
Speaker 1: He wrote on X again in his words, kilmar Abrego
Speaker 1: Garcia miraculously risen from the death, camps and torture, now
Speaker 1: sipping margaritas with Senator Van Holland in the tropical Pairaradise
Speaker 1: of l Salvador. Yemen's Houthi rebels say air strikes targeting
Speaker 1: the rose Isa oil port have killed seventy four people
Speaker 1: and wounded almost two hundred others. In a statement, Central
Speaker 1: Command said US forces took action to eliminate a source
Speaker 1: of fuel for the Iran backed Huthi terrorists terrorists to
Speaker 1: deprive them of illegal revenue that has paid for Hoothi
Speaker 1: efforts to terrorize the entire region for over ten years.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration is asked the IRS to revoke Harvard's
Speaker 1: tax exempt status. The request follows President Trump freezing more
Speaker 1: than two billion dollars in federal funding for the Ivy
Speaker 1: League University because it has refused to comply with Trump
Speaker 1: administration policies on DEI, merit based admissions, anti Semitism, and
Speaker 1: other issues. Tax Exempt status prohibits organizations from engaging in
Speaker 1: certain political activities. A man wearing a security guard uniform,
Speaker 1: has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man he was
Speaker 1: arguing with at a Metro rail station in Pasadena. The
Speaker 1: man attacked was stabbed several times yesterday on the pedestrian
Speaker 1: bridge leading to the Sierra Madre Villa station. Senator Chris
Speaker 1: van Holland from Maryland's been allowed to meet with the
Speaker 1: illegal immigrant who mistakenly got swept up in an ice
Speaker 1: raid and was sent to a prison in El Salvador.
Speaker 1: His attorneys are fighting to force the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: facilitate his return to the US. The administration so far
Speaker 1: saying he's not coming back. Christians around the world are
Speaker 1: observing Good Friday, today, marks the crucifixion of Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: ahead of his resurrection on Easter Sunday. Stock markets are
Speaker 1: closed for the Good Friday holiday. Today. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's Handle on the News. A judge has ruled that
Speaker 1: Google is operating an illegal ad monopoly. What could that
Speaker 1: mean for Google? Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Shannon Kingston. Shannon, the Secretary of State, Marco rub Ruby,
Speaker 1: Special Envoy Steve Whitcott, and Keith Kellogg all in Paris,
Speaker 1: not to see the Eiffel Tower, but to talk about
Speaker 1: ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Speaker 8: That's right. They wrapped up that round of talks today,
Speaker 8: Amy and by all measures, things went pretty well. The
Speaker 8: main focus was really getting the European allies up to
Speaker 8: date on the latest US framework for a peace deal.
Speaker 8: But before he left France, Secretary of Rubio he said
Speaker 8: that basically the US is going to have to move
Speaker 8: on soon unless they see some action. And now his
Speaker 8: comments come as officials directly involved in the talks. Everyoney
Speaker 8: just mentioned and the President himself have grown increasingly frustrated
Speaker 8: over the kremlins apparent lack of commitment to reaching peace
Speaker 8: in Ukraine and refusal back down from effectively unmeetable demands
Speaker 8: like sanctions relief that would involve the US and all
Speaker 8: of its European allies as well.
Speaker 1: So interesting that they're saying they might just walk instead
Speaker 1: of continuing to try to hammer out a deal. And
Speaker 1: so far does it appear that Ukraine is kind of
Speaker 1: on board with most stuff and Russia is the one
Speaker 1: that's resisting or is there resistance on both sides?
Speaker 8: You know, it's mostly aimed at Russia here to kind
Speaker 8: of dial up the pressure, of course bringing Ukraine along.
Speaker 8: It's also important. Rubio did say that, of course the
Speaker 8: Ukrainian representatives are going to have to head back to
Speaker 8: Kiev and Blalok to Ukraine's President's Lenski make sure he's
Speaker 8: on board here. But really, you know, things have been
Speaker 8: going a little bit better than they were at least
Speaker 8: a couple of weeks ago with Ukraine. We're also seeing
Speaker 8: progress towards a mineral deal with the country. The President
Speaker 8: said yesterday he expects that to be signed in this
Speaker 8: upcoming week, but of course negotiators are still hammering out
Speaker 8: some details on that end, okay.
Speaker 1: And then to refresh everybody's memories, I mean, what does
Speaker 1: Ukraine get for giving the US access to go in
Speaker 1: and mine rare earth minerals, which of course they're going
Speaker 1: to be worth you know, millions and billions of dollars.
Speaker 8: Well, of course, if you ask the Trump administration, Ukraine
Speaker 8: gets the opportunity to pay back the United States for
Speaker 8: all of its support through the years of this war.
Speaker 8: But really what this is about for Ukraine as security guarantees.
Speaker 8: They say that this economic partnership having American investment interests
Speaker 8: is going to guarantee that any peace agreement reached is
Speaker 8: upheld going forward, because you know, to put it, put
Speaker 8: it in an idiom, it's that the US will have
Speaker 8: a dog in the fight that economic stimulus it gets
Speaker 8: from this kind of mineral deal.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then there was also some talk that there
Speaker 1: was some discussion about Iran during this trip to Paris.
Speaker 1: Did that happen?
Speaker 8: That's right, That was really kind of like a side
Speaker 8: dish here if Ukraine was the main course. But negotiators
Speaker 8: here from American delegation, they're talking to the European allies
Speaker 8: who have always played a very key, very central role
Speaker 8: in negotiating with Iran. And that's another front where the
Speaker 8: Trump administration is expecting to see action and they want
Speaker 8: to see it fast. I just think that the patients
Speaker 8: here has already warmed in with Iran. Some more talks
Speaker 8: will happen this upcoming weekend in Rome.
Speaker 1: In Rome, okay, And at this point it still just talks.
Speaker 1: We're not to the point where we think we're going
Speaker 1: to get a deal.
Speaker 8: You know, we know that doesn't seem to be directly
Speaker 8: in the offing here. Anything could happen, but at this
Speaker 8: point yes, they're just warming up to each other.
Speaker 1: Okay. ABC News State Department correspondent Shannon Kingston, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for the info. We appreciate it. Thank you all right,
Speaker 1: have a good weekend. And amber alert's been issued in
Speaker 1: Riverside and San Bernardino Counties for an eight year old
Speaker 1: girl less seen in Desert Hot Springs. Authority say they
Speaker 1: believe Nova Landeros was taken by a man named Oscar
Speaker 1: Landero's not clear how they're related. The girl was last
Speaker 1: seen last Thursday night on Ostrella and Mesquite Avenues in
Speaker 1: Desert Hot Springs. She's four foot five, about sixty pounds,
Speaker 1: with brown hair and brown eyes. Oscar Landeros is thirty
Speaker 1: three years old, five to eleven, about two hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: He may be driving a gold two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: Toyota Tacoma truck. UCLA students and faculty have protested the
Speaker 1: detention of one of the university's international grad students at
Speaker 1: the US Mexico border.
Speaker 9: UCLA officials saying the student was detained by US Customs
Speaker 9: and Border Protection on Wednesday night while trying to cross
Speaker 9: the border from Mexico into the United States. UCLA Vice
Speaker 9: Chancellor Mariosako confirmed the detention on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Ky if i's Mark Mayfield says US Customs and Border
Speaker 1: Protection did not confirm the student was being held. The
Speaker 1: Anaheim Chamber of Commerce is shutting down.
Speaker 2: Orange County's most populous city, with two major sports teams,
Speaker 2: more than one hundred and fifty hotels, and about fifteen
Speaker 2: thousand bills. Businesses, including Disneyland, won't have a Chamber of
Speaker 2: Commerce now. Interim Chamber President and CEO Jerry Jordan says
Speaker 2: the Chamber's been unable to recover since the fraud and
Speaker 2: corruption scandal three years ago involving then Chamber president Todd Ahmant.
Speaker 2: Several businesses left the chamber after that scandal. A vote
Speaker 2: next week will determine how to shut it down. Mark
Speaker 2: Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1: A sixth horse has died this year at the Los
Speaker 1: Alamitos Race Course. A three year old Philly named Non
Speaker 1: Compliant was hurt while galloping early yesterday morning and has
Speaker 1: since died. She was trained by legendary horse trainer Bob Baffort.
Speaker 1: Farm Workers, migrant or otherwise are closer to being a
Speaker 1: thing of the past.
Speaker 11: Researchers in Japan had developed a navigation system that allows
Speaker 11: agricultural robots to move between crop rows as they pick
Speaker 11: stuff as small as strawberries. The farm bots use way
Speaker 11: points in lasers to get close enough without damaging small
Speaker 11: scale farm crops. Current systems are much more expensive, use
Speaker 11: less reliable GPS and special markers on the fields, and
Speaker 11: they can't get to those smaller spaces. Farmers are looking
Speaker 11: more to automation as rural population's age and tighter immigration
Speaker 11: policies make finding labor harder. Michael Krozier KFI News.
Speaker 1: On one hand, I think that that's so cool, and
Speaker 1: the other hand, I go, you know what, pretty soon
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna have a job.
Speaker 4: Our job's lost. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The National Park Service is waiving entrance fees to sites
Speaker 1: like Yosemite and Sequoia National Park to celebrate National Park Week.
Speaker 1: People can visit any of California's nine national parks for
Speaker 1: free Tomorrow, April nineteenth. This only covers entrance fees, not
Speaker 1: other costs for activities like camping and voting. National Park
Speaker 1: Week runs across the country until Sunday, April twenty seventh. Okay,
Speaker 1: guess who's entering the Star Wars Universe woo.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: Brian Gosling, free time Oscar nominee made the announcement yesterday
Speaker 1: at a Star Wars convention in Tokyo. He says the
Speaker 1: new film is called Star Wars Starfire. It's going to
Speaker 1: be directed by Sean Lovey, who just had a worldwide
Speaker 1: hit with Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Star Wars Starfighters schedule to hit theaters in May of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. I'm on board for this.
Speaker 4: I like everything Star Wars.
Speaker 3: I mean, some people complain about series, certain series and things, but.
Speaker 1: Because the movies are horrible, but I still love them.
Speaker 4: Oh exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I love it, and I love that Ryan
Speaker 1: Gosling's joining the Star Wars universe. That's fun. Tonight the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are taken all the Rangers. They're in Texas. The
Speaker 1: first pitch goes out at five o'clock. You can listen
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Speaker 1: AM five seventy LA Sports Go blue. The re sentencing
Speaker 1: hearing for Eric and Lyle Menendez has been postponed indefinitely.
Speaker 1: A May ninth motions hearing has been set to address
Speaker 1: a state Parole Board report on whether the brothers would
Speaker 1: be a danger to the public if they're released. No
Speaker 1: new resentencing date has been scheduled. The State of California's
Speaker 1: filed the lawsuit against the US Department of Education. The
Speaker 1: lawsuit claims California schools could lose nearly two hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars in pandemic relief for kate to twelve schools that
Speaker 1: has already been allocated. Attorney General Rob Bonta says the
Speaker 1: Trump administration overstepped its authority again when it cut the funding.
Speaker 1: The La RAMS are taken over La Fires Air Operations
Speaker 1: Base in Van Euy's temporarily. Team president Kevin Demoff says
Speaker 1: it'll be the RAMS base for the NFL Draft, which
Speaker 1: gets underway next Thursday. Themof says it's one way the
Speaker 1: NFL can express gratitude to first responders for their work
Speaker 1: during the wildfires in January. The RAMS have the twenty
Speaker 1: sixth overall pick in the first round. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to mister sleepyhead. The host of Home on KFI.
Speaker 1: Our house whispered Dean Sharp morning.
Speaker 4: Dean, good morning.
Speaker 1: So glad we could connect with you because we got
Speaker 1: to talk makeovers. I always love a good makeover, but
Speaker 1: we're going to take it beyond our faces and go
Speaker 1: all the way to our houses.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, uncertain times, that's kind of where we're
Speaker 4: at right now, and a lot of people not knowing
Speaker 4: where to go with their money. And there's been a
Speaker 4: change in the wind. People are wondering, is this the
Speaker 4: year to do my remodel? Our price is going to soar,
Speaker 4: our tariffs going to affect the prices of materials, And
Speaker 4: I'm getting that question a lot, and the simple, simple
Speaker 4: answer is don't know. And so as a result, we're
Speaker 4: helping folks spend their time and attention for those who
Speaker 4: want to move forward with certainty on the makeover. And
Speaker 4: the difference between a makeover and a renovation and a
Speaker 4: remodel is some money money really, I mean when you
Speaker 4: think remodel, what we're really literally taught talking about is
Speaker 4: moving around bones on the house, and there's a lot
Speaker 4: of money.
Speaker 7: In the pad.
Speaker 4: A renovation is taking what's there and giving it a refresh.
Speaker 4: But a makeover is the most potent and yet least
Speaker 4: expensive approach to your house, and that is changing colors,
Speaker 4: changing materials, and without having to move around major elements.
Speaker 4: And something that a lot of people look over at
Speaker 4: times is how powerful a makeover can be in changing
Speaker 4: the vibe of the house and if you know how
Speaker 4: to approach it, it can really have a big impact.
Speaker 4: So that's what we're spending the weekend, focusing on the makeover,
Speaker 4: the magic makeover.
Speaker 1: The magic of makeovers. And you're going to be covering
Speaker 1: everything from bathrooms to bedrooms, to living rooms to kitchens
Speaker 1: and even whole house projects and looking through some and
Speaker 1: the exterior too. Some looking through your list and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I've done that. Oh my mom did that to her
Speaker 1: house in the bathroom. There are some things you can
Speaker 1: do that don't cost a ton of money, but are
Speaker 1: really going to update the look. Like instead of having
Speaker 1: that whole mirror that covers the wall, bring that up
Speaker 1: to date, how.
Speaker 4: Do you do that exactly? So you know, you might
Speaker 4: have a nineteen seventies or nineteen sixties circa large frameless
Speaker 4: mirror that's sort of plastered across the wall above the
Speaker 4: vanity in the bathroom and you know, which is fine
Speaker 4: and if you love it great. A lot of people
Speaker 4: are like, I don't know about this thing, but what
Speaker 4: do I do instead? Well, that mirror can be removed,
Speaker 4: and mirrors from a glass shop not that expensive. Also,
Speaker 4: sometimes you can remove the mirror and preserve it and
Speaker 4: have it cut into a smaller mirror and then a
Speaker 4: frame placed around it, replace it in place, so that
Speaker 4: now we've got a full sized mirror framed that has
Speaker 4: this modern contemporary look to it, as if you've just
Speaker 4: hung a framed mirror on the wall.
Speaker 1: Okay, I love I love that. A lot of these
Speaker 1: projects that you have, I'm like, oh, my mom has
Speaker 1: done that to her house, so when I go home,
Speaker 1: I always am watching for stuff that she's done. Here's
Speaker 1: one we're moving over to the living room that I
Speaker 1: actually did. That a fireplace, I think is one of
Speaker 1: the most fabulous things you can have in your house.
Speaker 1: But sometimes they are really dated and ugly. But you
Speaker 1: can update it and what I did, and you can
Speaker 1: tell me whether this was a good decision or not.
Speaker 1: Was I painted my fireplace and I retiled the hearth myself.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's a fantastic idea. Fireplaces are a funny thing.
Speaker 4: I mean they were designed to be the centerpieces of rooms.
Speaker 4: A lot of people find them in the way, and
Speaker 4: a lot of folks, I would say, I think the
Speaker 4: current number is like eight out of ten homeowners don't
Speaker 4: really use their fireplace, and yet it's there. And the
Speaker 4: point is, if you're not going to get rid of it,
Speaker 4: which of course is expensive, then acknowledge the fact that
Speaker 4: it is something to look at, that it's a show piece,
Speaker 4: that it's a view piece, and yes, tile over the hearth.
Speaker 4: Paint the firebox. And when people say paint, When I
Speaker 4: say that, people are like, what do you mean? Paint
Speaker 4: the firebox. You know you may have dated, stained, sooty
Speaker 4: ugly firebrick inside the firebox. Go down ten dollars worth
Speaker 4: of high heat barbecue paint at the hardware store will
Speaker 4: allow you to paint out the entire firebox so that
Speaker 4: it's black dark, doesn't show any soot stains anymore. And
Speaker 4: yet if you decide to have a fire in there,
Speaker 4: it can handle that heat no problem. And it's like
Speaker 4: a jeweler's cloth behind a jewel And even if you
Speaker 4: don't use the fireplace, find something to put in there,
Speaker 4: a bouquet of flowers, a pile of fire wood. I mean,
Speaker 4: the list can go on and on and on, but
Speaker 4: use the fireplace for what it should actually be, which
Speaker 4: is a visual showcase of something most of the time
Speaker 4: when we're not actually using the flames.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I can tell you from my personal experience,
Speaker 1: it made a world distance. I did do the firebox,
Speaker 1: plus I did the front, the facade or whatever you
Speaker 1: call it, and the hearth, and it was just like
Speaker 1: the whole room like was lit up and it looked
Speaker 1: so much better. It was it was just and it
Speaker 1: was a quick fix. It wasn't easy. It took a
Speaker 1: weekend and it was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's the point of the makeover. A little
Speaker 4: elbow grease, just a tiny bit of money invested and
Speaker 4: a big change.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then one last one before I let you
Speaker 1: go in the kitchen. I love this idea. And that's
Speaker 1: just putting some lighting under the kitchen cabinets.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I mean, and I think everybody understands that.
Speaker 4: It's just that that most people are waiting, like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'll do that when I replace my kitchen cabinets, because
Speaker 4: that's an expense and it's probably really expensive, and I
Speaker 4: don't want to mess with that with my existing cabinets.
Speaker 4: But the fact of the matter is LED lighting. We're
Speaker 4: in the golden age of LED strip lighting. And if
Speaker 4: you just take a peek online, you'll realize that strip
Speaker 4: lighting comes in role and self adhesive roles. It is
Speaker 4: so inexpensive and it looks so good. I'd yet to
Speaker 4: have somebody say to me anything other than, oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: If I realized that it was as inexpensive as it is,
Speaker 4: I would have done this years ago. And so take
Speaker 4: a look windows shopping is free. Do your research. You'll
Speaker 4: find that some of these moves you can make right now.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I love it and your whole show this weekend.
Speaker 1: Your shows this weekend are going to be focused on this.
Speaker 1: And those were just a couple of the really easy
Speaker 1: quick fixes. There's so many more good ideas, so be
Speaker 1: listening this weekend six to eight on Saturday, nine to
Speaker 1: noon on Sunday. The show is called Home on KFI.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much to our house whisper Dean Sharp.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to hear more tips.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: A memorial service has been held for San Bernardino County
Speaker 1: aff's deputy killed in the line of duty. Deputy Hector
Speaker 1: Quavas Junior was killed in a crash March seventeenth during
Speaker 1: a police chase in Victorville. Video from the scene showed
Speaker 1: the patrol SUV split in two. Captain Randy Jerman remembered
Speaker 1: Quavs yesterday as a kind person and a hard worker.
Speaker 1: He was thirty six years old and worked for the
Speaker 1: Victorville station for the past three years. People impacted by
Speaker 1: the fire that started in Eaton Canyon are demanding a
Speaker 1: formal investigation into State Farm Insurance.
Speaker 10: They say State Farm has mishandled claims filed by policyholders
Speaker 10: who lost property in the wildfire. Altadena and Pasadena residents
Speaker 10: held a rally on Thursday in front of State Farm's
Speaker 10: catastrophe claim tent on Colorado Boulevard. They say wildfire survivors
Speaker 10: are in financial trouble after State Farm delayed and denied
Speaker 10: a series of claims.
Speaker 1: Hey if i's Daniel Martindale says last week, State Farm
Speaker 1: asked state officials to approve a seventeen percent emergency rate hike.
Speaker 1: A recent poll show's former Vice president Kamala Harris has
Speaker 1: the most support so far if she were to run
Speaker 1: for governor of California in twenty twenty six. The poll
Speaker 1: of one thousand registered voters, done by Inside California Politics
Speaker 1: and Emerson College, included eighteen hypothetical candidates. It found thirty
Speaker 1: one percent of voters would support Harris. Democratic rival Katie
Speaker 1: Porter got eight percent support. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco,
Speaker 1: who's a Republican, got four percent. The Army Corps of
Speaker 1: Engineers is finished clearing fire debris from the Palisades Library.
Speaker 1: The completion clears the way for the La County Library
Speaker 1: branch to be rebuilt. The Corps finished its work in
Speaker 1: six days, twenty four days ahead of schedule. La merbass
Speaker 1: Is LA's recovery effort from wildfires one hundred days ago
Speaker 1: is on track to be the fastest in modern California history.
Speaker 1: The man accused of killing the CEO of United Healthcare
Speaker 1: has been officially charged with murder. A for count indictment
Speaker 1: was returned against Luigi Mangioni yesterday. The charges are murder, stocking,
Speaker 1: and a weapons offense. Mangioni allegedly shot and killed Brian
Speaker 1: Thompson in front of a hotel in Manhattan on December fourth.
Speaker 1: Tens of thousands of music fans are headed to Indio
Speaker 1: for the second weekend of the twenty twenty five Coachella
Speaker 1: Valley Music and Arts Festival. Headliners for the second weekend
Speaker 1: that include dozens of performers are Lady Gaga, Travis Scott,
Speaker 1: and Post Malone. Organizers say they have fixed issues that
Speaker 1: led to ten to twelve hour waits for fans to
Speaker 1: get into campgrounds last weekend. Let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: ABC's Will Gans, our multi platform reporter.
Speaker 4: I like that title me too.
Speaker 6: It makes me feel like I don't know, Beyonce or something.
Speaker 7: It's called the multi Platinum So I'll.
Speaker 1: Take it all right, So Will, I've been talking about
Speaker 1: this all morning. You have for us the sweetest movie
Speaker 1: of the year.
Speaker 7: I honestly, it was such a surprise and such a delight. Yes,
Speaker 7: it's called The Ballad of Wallace Island, and it's like,
Speaker 7: you know, it was sort of off my radar. I
Speaker 7: think probably just because it's not one of these huge,
Speaker 7: big budget movies. There's not any like huge, huge stars
Speaker 7: playing a huge role in it. Carrie Mulligan is in it,
Speaker 7: but you know, she's just a supporting character here. So
Speaker 7: it is a really sweet movie. It's about this like
Speaker 7: quirky man who lives alone on this remote island called
Speaker 7: Wallace Island, and we find out that he has won
Speaker 7: the lottery not once, but two times.
Speaker 6: And what is he doing with his money.
Speaker 7: He is reuniting a couple members of a band that
Speaker 7: he loves. Unbeknownst to each other, they had split up
Speaker 7: and they haven't spoken in like ten years or whatever,
Speaker 7: and he is paying for a private concert for each
Speaker 7: of them, and then they show up and realize that
Speaker 7: the other one is there.
Speaker 6: So basically, this very very wealthy, quirky.
Speaker 7: Millionaire is reuniting a band, his favorite band, on this
Speaker 7: remote island, and it's sort of about those two reconnecting
Speaker 7: and dealing with this very strange millionaire. And it's it's
Speaker 7: laugh out loud funny, and it's also really really heartwarming. Like,
Speaker 7: you know, I went with a couple of friends this
Speaker 7: week and we walked away and we were like, oh
Speaker 7: my god, I just feel so good about the world.
Speaker 6: When we were leaving the theater, it was really happened very.
Speaker 7: Often, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so the Ballad of Wallace Island. Never
Speaker 1: heard of it before, but it's on my radar.
Speaker 6: Now, good good, Yeah.
Speaker 7: So it's in theaters and you know, I'm sure it'll
Speaker 7: come to streaming probably in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Too, okay. And for you dark people, there's also something scary.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 7: So this is Sinners and it is on the complete
Speaker 7: other end of the emotional spectrum.
Speaker 6: But this is Michael B.
Speaker 7: Jordan and he is playing twins in this movie. And
Speaker 7: it's directed by Ryan Coogler, who directed Black Panther, Wakonda Forever,
Speaker 7: and he directed Creed, so he's worked with Michael B.
Speaker 6: Jordan before. But this movie is.
Speaker 7: About two twins played by Michael B. Jordan who come
Speaker 7: back to the South from Chicago and they are gonna
Speaker 7: been a juke joint in the nineteen thirties, and so
Speaker 7: they round up some of the best musicians in the
Speaker 7: Mississippi River Delta.
Speaker 6: And they they open this juke joint.
Speaker 7: But what happens while they're there is the place basically
Speaker 7: becomes under siege by vampires. So yeah, it's an allegory
Speaker 7: of you know, the other types of evil that you know,
Speaker 7: were pervasive in the area in the nineteen thirties and
Speaker 7: and you know, of course they're still around today. But
Speaker 7: the way they use music in the movie is just incredible. Obviously,
Speaker 7: the cast is amazing with Michael B.
Speaker 6: Jordan.
Speaker 7: You also have Hailey Steinfeld in there. It's it's scary,
Speaker 7: it's like unnerving, but it's so good and I think
Speaker 7: right now it has like ninety eight percent on Rotten Tomatoes,
Speaker 7: so critics love it. It's it's definitely worth seeing, but
Speaker 7: it is not relaxing by any means.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yeah, I'm gonna leave that off my list.
Speaker 1: And if you don't feel like going to theaters, there's
Speaker 1: there's a show that's taken you way, way way North.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's North of North in fact, and that's the
Speaker 7: name of the show. It's on Netflix, and it's a
Speaker 7: sweet little sitcom that you know, it's very simple. It's
Speaker 7: about a community of indigenous people who live in the
Speaker 7: Arctic Circle. And the main character is is a woman
Speaker 7: who is you know, basically leaving her deadbeat husband and
Speaker 7: how she's navigating getting a job and you know, her
Speaker 7: relationship with her mom and her own child, and it's
Speaker 7: just sort of a.
Speaker 6: Glimpse at what life is like in modern.
Speaker 7: Times for you know, these communities that live basically where
Speaker 7: it's winter all the time, and it's you know, it's
Speaker 7: really sweet. It's very funny, and it's not very You're
Speaker 7: not gonna have to spend a lot of you know, brain,
Speaker 7: We're trying to figure out what's going on. It's very simple,
Speaker 7: and yes, exactly, and.
Speaker 1: It's a series. It's not a movie, right.
Speaker 6: A series, yes, yes, and episodes okay.
Speaker 1: And Netflix, so it's probably is the whole thing out
Speaker 1: or half the season out.
Speaker 6: Whole thing's there?
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I got a new binge?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And will have we both failed our assignment again. I
Speaker 1: still haven't seen the penguin lessons.
Speaker 7: I know, I'm starting to feel like, well, I did
Speaker 7: watch North of North, which takes place in the Arctic Circle,
Speaker 7: so that's as close as I've gotten to the penguins.
Speaker 6: I still haven't. You're right, You're right, all right. I
Speaker 6: thought I might get partial credit.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, i'll give you partial credit. I'm going to
Speaker 1: give thank you ABC's Willgans. Thanks so much. We'll hopefully
Speaker 1: do it again next week.
Speaker 6: Huh, all right, sounds like a plan. Amy, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two
Speaker 1: people have been killed at least six others hurt in
Speaker 1: a shooting at a Florida State University in Tallahassee. Leon
Speaker 1: County Sheriff Walter McNeil says the twenty year old alleged
Speaker 1: shooter is the son of a sheriff's deputy.
Speaker 9: Unfortunately, her son had access to one of her weapons
Speaker 9: and that was one of the weapons that was found
Speaker 9: at the scene.
Speaker 1: The shooting yesterday happened near the crowded student union building.
Speaker 1: The two people killed were not students. Officers who arrived
Speaker 1: on campus almost immediately shot and injured the shooter. A
Speaker 1: US veteran has been shot and killed after he hijacked
Speaker 1: a small passenger plane in Belize. Officials say the man
Speaker 1: stabbed several people on the plane before he was shot
Speaker 1: by another passenger who was licensed to carry a gun.
Speaker 1: The plane circled for hours and then was able to
Speaker 1: land safely yesterday. Those stabbed were taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1: President Trump assigned an executive order extending the federal hiring
Speaker 1: freeze for another ninety days. The freeze does not apply
Speaker 1: to the military or positions related to immigration and enforcement.
Speaker 1: The order means no federal government positions will be filled
Speaker 1: until mid July, and no new jobs will be created
Speaker 1: until it's okayed or unless it's okayed by the administration.
Speaker 1: Home prices in California are up for March, but overall
Speaker 1: home sales have dipped a bit.
Speaker 12: Statewide sales fell two point three percent from February, but
Speaker 12: we're still up four point nine percent compared to last year.
Speaker 12: LA and Orange County saw strong local sales increases, though
Speaker 12: prices in both areas dip slightly. The state wide median
Speaker 12: home price rose six point seven percent to more than
Speaker 12: eight hundred eighty four thousand. Ongoing economic uncertainty and fluctuating
Speaker 12: mortgage rates are causing weaker housing demand and slower pending sales.
Speaker 1: Deborah Mark, KFI News, What does that all mean? I
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