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Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, April fifteenth.
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Speaker 1: Day Radio Day on the radio app. What dasy It's Tuesday,
Speaker 1: April fifteenth, tax day. Unless you live in La County,
Speaker 1: we get six months. But I got my taxes done,
Speaker 1: or at least I got them off to my person
Speaker 1: who does my taxes, and she's like, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get to it until I get back from vacation. Like, okay,
Speaker 1: but that's okay, it's okay, it's okay. Hey, did you
Speaker 1: know that there's a six percent higher chance of being
Speaker 1: killed in a car crash on tax Day?
Speaker 4: Great?
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently a lot of people stressed out, So let's
Speaker 1: spread a little kindness today. And if somebody is really
Speaker 1: freaking out on the roads, that might be why very stressleuls.
Speaker 3: So they might live in Orange County or Ventura County exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, here's what's ahead on WACA call. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: for most of America, today is tax Day, but La
Speaker 1: County residents get a six month reprieve because of the
Speaker 1: wildfires in January. The deadline to file for La County
Speaker 1: taxpayers is eighth October fifteenth. The irsays payments on any
Speaker 1: outstanding tax do still has to be paid by today's deadline.
Speaker 1: Movie and TV makers have continued their exodus out of La.
Speaker 1: Film LA released a report yesterday showing on location production
Speaker 1: of film, TV shows, and commercials declined twenty two percent
Speaker 1: for the first three months of this year compared to
Speaker 1: last year. A lot of productions have moved out, attracted
Speaker 1: by tax credit programs outside the state. Harvard University says
Speaker 1: it will not accept conditions proposed by the Trump administration
Speaker 1: in order to keep its federal funding. In response to
Speaker 1: federal government has frozen more than two billion dollars in
Speaker 1: grants for Harvard. ABC's Peter Harra Lumbus joins us to
Speaker 1: tell us more about that in about three minutes. Got
Speaker 1: the latest on tariffs, who's coming to the table to
Speaker 1: make a deal, who's holding back ABC's Karen Travis will
Speaker 1: tell us at five twenty tens of millions have waited
Speaker 1: until the last minute to file those taxes. ABC's Jim
Speaker 1: Ryan has the numbers on this tax Day twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: That's at five thirty five and if I point fifty.
Speaker 1: Joel Larsgard says, recession rumblings are getting stronger and with
Speaker 1: that panic pre buying is a thing, but it is
Speaker 1: Is it a good thing? Joel's going to tell us,
Speaker 1: grab your coffee, hold on tight, We got a good
Speaker 1: ride for you today. It is Tuesday. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. La County is out with its
Speaker 1: new budget and there will be cuts.
Speaker 3: The county government is in a tough financial position. It's
Speaker 3: agreed to pay four billion dollars to thousands of child
Speaker 3: sex abuse victims at probation facilities. The cost of the
Speaker 3: January wildfires could be over a billion dollars unless money
Speaker 3: is coming in. The Board of Supervisors today will take
Speaker 3: up the proposed forty seven point nine billion dollar budget
Speaker 3: in It County CEO Fecia Davenport has recommended a three
Speaker 3: percent cut across all departments and the elimination of hundreds
Speaker 3: of vacant positions. She says there will be no layoffs,
Speaker 3: but some county programs could be scaled back. Michael monks
Speaker 3: KFI News.
Speaker 4: Really everything's doing pretty badly right now.
Speaker 1: A new report shows film and TV production in LA
Speaker 1: drops significantly in the first quarter of the year. Philip
Speaker 1: so Kulowski with Film LA says or tells KFI there
Speaker 1: have only been about fifty two hundred filming days in
Speaker 1: LA so far this year. TV production has been hit
Speaker 1: the hardest.
Speaker 4: Well, we saw across the board slow down in film production.
Speaker 4: The very worst happened in television, which fell to thirty
Speaker 4: point five percent.
Speaker 1: Overall production down fifty eight percent since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has proposed a seven hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars tax credit expansion to try to lure more jobs
Speaker 1: back to LA. Some critics argue the costs outweigh the benefits. Well,
Speaker 1: the chance is slim, but it's there. Elizabeth Cochrane with
Speaker 1: the US Geological Services, following yesterday's five point two earthquake
Speaker 1: in San Diego County, there is a chance of a
Speaker 1: larger quake.
Speaker 5: There is about a five percent chance of an earthquake
Speaker 5: larger than what we had, so an earthquake of magnitude
Speaker 5: five point two or larger. So anytime we have an
Speaker 5: earthquake of this size, folks should just realize that there
Speaker 5: is some chance of a larger earthquake occurring, so one
Speaker 5: in twenty chance.
Speaker 1: The quake near Julian was followed by dozens of aftershocks,
Speaker 1: including a four point zero about seventy minutes or seventy
Speaker 1: five minutes after the initial jolt. Only minor damage has
Speaker 1: been reported. We know to drop, cover and hold when
Speaker 1: in earthquake hits, thanks to groups like California Earthquake Authority,
Speaker 1: but it turns out elephants already know what to do.
Speaker 1: San Diego Zoo has released a video of its five
Speaker 1: African elegant elephants reaction to the earthquake yesterday. After the
Speaker 1: initial shaking and what appeared to be some confusion, the
Speaker 1: elephants formed what's called a protective circle. It's done to
Speaker 1: protect the herd and younger elephants when there's danger. They
Speaker 1: stood there for about five minutes or so, and then
Speaker 1: they went back to their normal routines. Pretty amazing to
Speaker 1: watch though. Yeah, yeah, if you want to see it,
Speaker 1: does San Diego Zoo put the video out and it's
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool to watch. All right. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: five seven on your wake up call. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Peter Haralamboos. Peter, the Trump administration has
Speaker 1: said get rid of d or else, and Harvard says,
Speaker 1: we'll take the or else.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Harvard at this point is putting its money where
Speaker 6: its mouth is. Last night, Harvard University was informed that
Speaker 6: the Terms administration was actually freezing more than two billion
Speaker 6: dollars and responds to this decision. It really marks the
Speaker 6: first time a major college or university has decided to
Speaker 6: stand up to the Trump administration. This comes after we
Speaker 6: saw other schools like Columbia buckle last month.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the two billion dollars, that is how much
Speaker 1: is Harvard's funding And it's in grants. So is it
Speaker 1: each year or is it a total?
Speaker 6: So the two billion dollars is a multi year deal,
Speaker 6: and you know, in total, they received more than nine
Speaker 6: million dollars in grants over the next few years from
Speaker 6: the federal government. This goes to support things like medical research,
Speaker 6: for example, you know, Harvard is one of our leading
Speaker 6: research institutions in the entire country, and they rely on
Speaker 6: the federal government in many ways, so it's worth noting
Speaker 6: in a unique position. While they do get a lot
Speaker 6: of money from the federal government, they're also one of
Speaker 6: the wealthiest colleges in the universities in the entire world.
Speaker 6: They have an endowment of over fifty billion dollars. So
Speaker 6: to a certain degree, they have the ability to kind
Speaker 6: of take the high road here and tell the Trump
Speaker 6: administration that they're going to deny these terms, whereas smaller
Speaker 6: college universities that might be more dependent on the federal
Speaker 6: government might not have that luxury.
Speaker 1: Okay, and what, Peter are the terms specifically of what
Speaker 1: the Trump administration wants Harvard to do.
Speaker 6: So on Friday, the Truman administration sents Harvard a letter
Speaker 6: with kind of a series of demands. They include everything
Speaker 6: from changing governance so that you know, more less activist
Speaker 6: professors have power, removing race based admissions for both students
Speaker 6: and faculty, and even ensuring viewpoint diversity and doing audits
Speaker 6: of the student bodies kind of general viewpoint to make
Speaker 6: sure that it's not too liberal or at our genius,
Speaker 6: So all things consider, Harvard at this point is arguing that,
Speaker 6: you know, they're they've made changes to fight back and
Speaker 6: anti Semitism and improve the school. But these changes recommended
Speaker 6: by the Trump administration simply go too far. They violate
Speaker 6: the First Amendments, and they're simply not worth taking. And
Speaker 6: if it means giving up two billion dollars, it's worth
Speaker 6: it for Harvard.
Speaker 1: Okay. So then a question for you, Peter, being a
Speaker 1: legal guy, you know, you mentioned race based admissions. Aren't
Speaker 1: those illegal because of anti discrimination laws?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I mean that's right.
Speaker 6: I mean, over the last few years, we've seen the
Speaker 6: Supreme Court take a different stance when it comes to
Speaker 6: affirmative action. Harvard and other schools, though, have have taken
Speaker 6: kind of a unique stance and that while they're abiding
Speaker 6: by those kind of decisions, they've still considered kind of
Speaker 6: holistic emissions as one of their main things. So, you know,
Speaker 6: while they're strictly not you know, making a decision based
Speaker 6: on race or ender, they're they're considering the full picture
Speaker 6: of a candidate and what makes them compelling, based on
Speaker 6: kind of the hardships they might have had growing up. So,
Speaker 6: you know, in a way, they're still considering them, even
Speaker 6: if they're still following the letter of the law when
Speaker 6: it comes to affirmative action.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this is not a funny subject, but
Speaker 1: it reminds me of l Well was there. It was Witherspoon.
Speaker 5: What was the.
Speaker 1: Legally Blonde?
Speaker 6: It's hard?
Speaker 1: Yes, what a great movie. Okay, so the cuts are are.
Speaker 1: The cut in the endowments is in place. So what
Speaker 1: what does Harvard do next?
Speaker 6: So at this point they're in a bit of a stalemate.
Speaker 6: The Trump administration can can continue applying pressure. There's more
Speaker 6: money that they could theoretically threaten to freeze. We've also
Speaker 6: seen a lawsuit from Harvard faculty challenging these cuts. I
Speaker 6: assume you might even see a similar lawsuit from the
Speaker 6: school itself challenging this move. You know, the Trump administration
Speaker 6: is right and that these funds are necessarily a guarantee,
Speaker 6: they're a little bit of a privilege, but there is
Speaker 6: a process for canceling them. It doesn't appear that Trump
Speaker 6: administration actually followed that process. So we might see a
Speaker 6: legal challenge and we'll really just see what this means
Speaker 6: for the didday operations for a school like Harvard and
Speaker 6: if the Trump administration decides to challenge other schools we
Speaker 6: had no of at least seven other major universities that
Speaker 6: have had their funding threatened.
Speaker 1: Okay, and I bet that those major universities will be
Speaker 1: watching what happens here. ABC's Peter Harlumbo's thank you so
Speaker 1: much for your time and information this morning.
Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Iran's
Speaker 1: Supreme Leader, Ayatola Ali Hamani says nuclear talks with the
Speaker 1: US went well. He says officials in his country are
Speaker 1: neither radically optimistic about the talks nor radically pessimistic about them.
Speaker 1: He also urged officials not to tie the country's affairs
Speaker 1: to the talks, which are expected to continue this coming weekend.
Speaker 1: A second US aircraft carriers up in Mid East Waters
Speaker 1: ahead of those talks. The company that operated a helicopter
Speaker 1: involved in a deadly crash on the East Coast is
Speaker 1: going out of business.
Speaker 8: The Federal Aviation Administration says, New York Helicopter Tours is
Speaker 8: calling it quits. It's helicopter crash last Thursday. Six people
Speaker 8: on board were killed This comes after New York Senator
Speaker 8: Chuck Schumer called on the FAA to suspend the company's license.
Speaker 8: Schumer is asking the FAA to conduct surprise inspections on
Speaker 8: all helicopter companies in New York.
Speaker 1: Deb remark KF I knew. The president of El Salvador
Speaker 1: says he will not return a man to the US
Speaker 1: who was deported to his home country. Could I return
Speaker 1: them today?
Speaker 9: That is just like I smuggle him into the United
Speaker 9: States or whether it do.
Speaker 5: Of course, I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 1: The president and President Trump's chop advisors say they have
Speaker 1: no basis for the small Central American country to return
Speaker 1: the man, who was living in Maryland. Officials say kill
Speaker 1: maar Abrego Garcia is a member of the notorious MS
Speaker 1: thirteen gang. The Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administe
Speaker 1: stration to facilitate the man's return to the US. The
Speaker 1: Trump administrations continued to bar ap journalists from the Oval
Speaker 1: office despite a court order saying he can't.
Speaker 2: Last week, of federal court ruled the Trump administration couldn't
Speaker 2: punish the Associated Press for refusing to call the Gulf
Speaker 2: of Mexico the Gulf of America. As President Trump won
Speaker 2: it as a First Amendment issue and must reinstate access.
Speaker 2: But Monday, an AP reporter and photographer were barred from
Speaker 2: a news conference with Trump and El Salvador's president. Since
Speaker 2: mid February, the AP's been blocked from events in the
Speaker 2: Oval Office and Air Force One. The US Court of
Speaker 2: Appeals for the DC Circuit has set a Thursday hearing
Speaker 2: on the matter. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1: President Trump is honored the Ohio State Buckeyes for winning
Speaker 1: the college football National Championship.
Speaker 10: This was a historic year in college football. Standing together today,
Speaker 10: these men in the first college think of that are
Speaker 10: the first college football players in history who can proudly
Speaker 10: call themselves twelve team playoff championship.
Speaker 1: During the ceremony yesterday, Vice President Van Nants, who went
Speaker 1: to Ohio State, fumbled the national championship trophy. The base
Speaker 1: fell out of his hands while someone else held the
Speaker 1: actual trophy. Vans jokingly posted on social media that he
Speaker 1: didn't want anyone getting the trophy after Ohio State, so
Speaker 1: he just broke it. I'm thinking that that trophy wasn't
Speaker 1: very well put together. Have you seen the video of
Speaker 1: it just kind of comes apart. Fans love Luca. The
Speaker 1: Laker is Luka Doncic, who's from Slovenia, had the top
Speaker 1: selling jersey for the twenty twenty four twenty five season.
Speaker 1: It's the first time an international player has topped the
Speaker 1: league in Jersey sales. Steph Curry or Lebron James had
Speaker 1: been top sellers since the twenty twelve thirteen season. They
Speaker 1: were second and third place in Jersey sales this year.
Speaker 1: Dozens of aftershocks of rattled San Diego County following a
Speaker 1: magnitude five point two quake near Julian. The quake yesterday
Speaker 1: just after ten am, was felt up in La and
Speaker 1: Orange Counties. I got a shake alert. Did you get
Speaker 1: a shake alert?
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: Most of the after shocks were small, one hit of
Speaker 1: four point zero. The US Geological surveyces there's a five
Speaker 1: percent chance of a larger quake following yesterday's five point
Speaker 1: two shaker. A bill's been introduced that would allow homeless
Speaker 1: students to sleep in their cars on campus. It would
Speaker 1: require universities to set up safe parking spaces on campus.
Speaker 1: Democratic Assembly Member Corey Jackson says Long Beach Community College
Speaker 1: set up a program like this three years ago, and
Speaker 1: he wants to create programs like it all over California.
Speaker 1: Former President Biden's making his first public appearance since he
Speaker 1: left the White House. He's speaking tonight at the Advocates,
Speaker 1: Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled Conference in Chicago. The
Speaker 1: last time he was in the Windy City was for
Speaker 1: the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last August. At six
Speaker 1: oh five, it's handle on the news. Trump says, Nope,
Speaker 1: not bringing him back. We're talking about the guy accidentally
Speaker 1: swept up in an ice raid. He's in El Salvador.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC. Karen Travers. Karen on
Speaker 1: the ever changing on again, off again, paused again tariffs.
Speaker 1: What's the latest from the Trump team?
Speaker 11: So a couple of things. The latest is the President
Speaker 11: yesterday was still insisting he doesn't change his mind. He said,
Speaker 11: I'm a very flexible person. I don't change my mind.
Speaker 11: But he also was saying that he had spoken with
Speaker 11: Apple Tim Cook about all of the TIFFs recently. And
Speaker 11: this comes after over the weekend there was an exemption
Speaker 11: given to some electronics products on that stiff one hundred
Speaker 11: and forty five percent tariff on Chinese imports that is
Speaker 11: now on pause for at least a couple of weeks
Speaker 11: as the administration considers what they're going to do about that.
Speaker 11: The President said they're going to shift those products into
Speaker 11: a different tariff bucket, and that's likely to be under
Speaker 11: the umbrella of semiconductors. And we learned last night that
Speaker 11: the administration has started an investigation, if you will, into
Speaker 11: a semiconductor tariff on national security grounds. They're also considering
Speaker 11: a tariff on pharmaceuticals on the same reason, and essentially
Speaker 11: they're looking to say, you know, we can't rely on
Speaker 11: countries overseas for these critical spies. And that would likely
Speaker 11: be a couple weeks to maybe a few months away,
Speaker 11: but that's maybe the next big step in this ongoing process.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then there's also he's been hinting about but
Speaker 1: I don't think correct me if I'm wrong. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's done anything about it yet. But he's been
Speaker 1: hinting about putting taxes or tariffs on pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he is. He's talked about this quite a bit.
Speaker 11: And that's what we learned last night with this new bulletin,
Speaker 11: if you will, where the administration indicated that they are
Speaker 11: moving forward into an investigation into the national security grounds
Speaker 11: that they could do a tariffs on pharmaceuticals. You know,
Speaker 11: they'll say, like, there are components of drugs that come
Speaker 11: from China, India, Ireland, other countries in Europe, and the
Speaker 11: President has said that American companies here should be making
Speaker 11: those components here, not just importing them and then making
Speaker 11: the actual drugs here. But you know, you and I
Speaker 11: might have talked about this. This is kind of similar
Speaker 11: in a very broad sense that like the auto acspect too,
Speaker 11: of making the things here but bringing in parts from overseas,
Speaker 11: and what the President is trying to do. But experts
Speaker 11: are warning that if you starts putting tariffs on the
Speaker 11: components of drugs, it's going to drive up the cost
Speaker 11: of something like ibuprofen and over the counter drugs.
Speaker 1: And we need our ibuprofen to stay cheap because I
Speaker 1: need it a lot. Okay, there you go, Karrett Travers,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the information. We'll continue to
Speaker 1: watch this and of course continue to talk to you
Speaker 1: to help sort it out.
Speaker 12: Have a great day, all right, you too.
Speaker 1: Today is the last day for people affected by the
Speaker 1: wildfires and Pacific palisades and Altadena to opt in to
Speaker 1: the government's free fire debris removal program. Residents have been
Speaker 1: asked to file a form to either opt in or
Speaker 1: opt out of the program. Those who opt out will
Speaker 1: have to hire private contractors to do the removal work,
Speaker 1: and they will have to pay for it. There will
Speaker 1: also be required or they will be required to have
Speaker 1: the debris removed, or they could have their properties declared
Speaker 1: a nuisance. People who lived in areas affected by the
Speaker 1: wildfires in January getting a break on filing Texas.
Speaker 13: The IRS often postpones deadlines for taxpayers in areas that
Speaker 13: have been hit by natural disasters, and for victims of
Speaker 13: the recent wildfires, the IRS will automatically give.
Speaker 1: Filing and penalty relief.
Speaker 13: IRS officials say individuals and businesses must have an address
Speaker 13: of record in the disaster area to qualify, and they
Speaker 13: will have until October fifteenth to file and pay. Heather
Speaker 13: Brooker cafe Ie.
Speaker 1: News Governor Newsom has announced a special election will be
Speaker 1: held August twenty sixth to replace former state Assemblyman Bill Assie.
Speaker 1: He was named US Attorney for California's Central District earlier
Speaker 1: this month. Assie's former assembly district includes half of Corona
Speaker 1: and some surrounding parts of the Inland Empire. The son
Speaker 1: of an Orange County Superior Court judge charged in the
Speaker 1: shooting death of his wife in Anaheim Hills, has returned
Speaker 1: to testify at his father's retrial. He was called to
Speaker 1: the stand yesterday. After opening statements, prosecutors told the jury
Speaker 1: judge Jeffrey Ferguson is a gun expert who'd been drinking
Speaker 1: the day his wife was shot and killed in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. Ferguson claims it was an accident. The first
Speaker 1: jury deadlocked eleven to one last month in favor of conviction,
Speaker 1: so a mistrial was declared and the retrial is underway.
Speaker 1: LA radio personality Jed the Fish has died.
Speaker 13: The LA Rock radio staple, whose real name was Edwin
Speaker 13: gould Iid, was renowned for his work behind the microphone
Speaker 13: for kara Q. When he was hired as an on
Speaker 13: air DJ in nineteen seventy eight. He worked the afternoon
Speaker 13: drive time slot until twenty twelve. His voice became synonymous
Speaker 13: with alt rock and his famous interviews with artists like
Speaker 13: U two, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, and Sting. His family
Speaker 13: says he died from a fast spreading form of cancer
Speaker 13: at his home in Pasadena.
Speaker 1: He was sixty nine.
Speaker 13: Heather Brooker Ko Fine News.
Speaker 1: The La Urban Policy round Table says it's time the
Speaker 1: city fire department did something to address the increasing number
Speaker 1: of street burnings in South LA. The group's president, Earl
Speaker 1: of Fari Hutchison, says there's been a rash of people
Speaker 1: burning trash and combustible materials.
Speaker 12: The solar fires in South LA now and whole Missing campains.
Speaker 7: People are doing what they do.
Speaker 1: He says. The fires are dangerous for people, homes, and businesses.
Speaker 1: Egg prices are up again, just as each your Easter
Speaker 1: is approaching. The average price for eggs hit a record
Speaker 1: high this week, an average of six twenty three a dozen.
Speaker 1: Trey Bodge, who operates a smart shopping website, says wholesale
Speaker 1: egg prices have dropped, but shoppers aren't seeing it yet.
Speaker 13: What we're seeing here is a lag of retailers are
Speaker 13: taking a little bit of extra time unexpectedly to reduce
Speaker 13: those prices for consumers.
Speaker 1: Chocolate prices are also up. Some shoppers are looking for
Speaker 1: Easter alternatives. They say they plan to die marshmallows and
Speaker 1: wait it gets better and hide potatoes instead of eggs.
Speaker 9: Oh I can't wait to find a potato sink my
Speaker 9: teeth into that.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I haven't heard that. Ben far Okay.
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier that today is Jackie Robinson Day across
Speaker 1: the country. All major league players are going to be
Speaker 1: wearing the number forty two to honor the day in
Speaker 1: nineteen forty seven when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier
Speaker 1: for major League baseball. They're doing a jersey giveaway at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. I have one from a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Love it. The Dodgers take on the Rockies tonight at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. The first pitch goes out at seven. You
Speaker 1: can listen to every play of every game on AM
Speaker 1: five to seventy LA Sports Live from the Gallpin Motors
Speaker 1: Broadcast Booth, and you can also stream all the games
Speaker 1: in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five to
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. I think today is a good day
Speaker 1: to watch forty two. In fact, I looked it up
Speaker 1: yesterday and it is still streaming on Netflix. Chadwick Boseman
Speaker 1: fabulous movie really a good one. So I think I
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing this afternoon, of course, Today the
Speaker 1: deadline for wildfire affected residents to opt in to the
Speaker 1: US Army Corps of Engineers Free Fire Debris Removal Program.
Speaker 1: Residents impacted by the fires have to file the forms
Speaker 1: to either opt in or out of the US Army
Speaker 1: Corps of Engineers Free Debris Removal Program. Those who opt
Speaker 1: out are going to have to pay for it themselves
Speaker 1: and must do the work. Thieves have stolen millions of
Speaker 1: dollars worth of jewelry from a family owned jewelry store
Speaker 1: in downtown, LA. Police say the burglary happened overnight Sunday.
Speaker 1: The son of the shop owners says the burglaries are
Speaker 1: The burglars rather cut through a wall to get in
Speaker 1: and then stole as much as twenty million dollars in merchandise.
Speaker 1: A group of elephants that the San Diego Zoo has
Speaker 1: responded to the five point two earthquake in San Diego
Speaker 1: County by forming what's called a protective circle. It's done
Speaker 1: to protect the herd and the young when there's day.
Speaker 1: The elephant circled and it was all caught on video
Speaker 1: that has been released by San Diego Zoo. The elephants
Speaker 1: went back to their normal routines. A few minutes later,
Speaker 1: at six oh five, it's handled on the news. The
Speaker 1: US Army could soon be deployed to the US Mexico border.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Dunk
Speaker 1: dun dum. It's tax day for most of US.
Speaker 12: I recognize that sounder, that's the taxman sounder. Yeah, done,
Speaker 12: dun dun. Just three notes. I'm surprised that California is
Speaker 12: known the declared disaster area and getting an automatic extension.
Speaker 12: We did, we did, Oh, you did well in La, Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Oh,
Speaker 12: LA County.
Speaker 1: Right, so it's not the whole state, but LA County
Speaker 1: got the automatic six month extensions. So taxes are technically
Speaker 1: due until October fifteenth.
Speaker 12: Okay, but we have a file now, sure, exactly.
Speaker 1: We have our editor, Carla, who's in San Bernardino. She
Speaker 1: lives in San Bernardino County, so she's done hers. So
Speaker 1: just LA County gets the reprieve.
Speaker 12: Gotcha. Well, let me say it, all of the North Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Speaker 12: those states which had disasters, the entire state is getting
Speaker 12: this automatic extension. Procrastinators about thirty percent of US. Thirty
Speaker 12: one percent of Americans have not yet filed. They're waiting
Speaker 12: until today to either file their returns or to file
Speaker 12: an extension if you're in a place that you have
Speaker 12: to file that, but it largely depends upon where you live.
Speaker 12: Procrastinating is a state by state kind of thing. Californians
Speaker 12: are number thirteen on the procrastination list. Number one is Wyoming.
Speaker 12: People in Wyoming tend to wait until the very day
Speaker 12: or after that day, which doesn't make much sense because
Speaker 12: the average refund in Wyoming is thirty seven hundred and
Speaker 12: twenty dollars per tax return. I mean, that's among the
Speaker 12: highest in the whole country. Yet those people put it
Speaker 12: off until the last minute. Don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because they're busy on the ranch.
Speaker 12: Which and they would have a lot of ranch expenses too,
Speaker 12: that's true.
Speaker 1: Whatcha Yeah, that's interesting that it's different. I'm a total procrastinator,
Speaker 1: although I did do my taxes, or at least I
Speaker 1: got everything to my person who prepares the taxes. But
Speaker 1: I've been going I'm going to do this, I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this, I'm going to do this. I've been
Speaker 1: saying that for about two months, and I did it
Speaker 1: on Sunday because I too am a procrastinator.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Well, Californians also can do the free file the direct
Speaker 12: file program. California is one of twenty five states where
Speaker 12: that's being made available. The IRS has been rolling this
Speaker 12: out for the last couple of years. So if you
Speaker 12: have a fairly straightforward tax situation, you know, one W
Speaker 12: two maybe two, maybe A ten ninety nine, and your
Speaker 12: household income is under two hundred and fifty thousand, you
Speaker 12: can use the free direct file program if you're in
Speaker 12: California and twenty four other states. So yeah, I consider
Speaker 12: yourselves lucky there.
Speaker 1: And what are some tips to make sure that your
Speaker 1: return gets processed and doesn't kind of get lost in
Speaker 1: the shuffle.
Speaker 12: Make sure everything is accurate, that's the main thing here.
Speaker 12: Make sure all the t's are crossed, eyes are dotted,
Speaker 12: and that you signed the darn thing. That's one of
Speaker 12: the main reasons they get kicked back, either if they're
Speaker 12: filed electronically or whether you send in a paper return.
Speaker 12: It wasn't signed and so they're going to kick that
Speaker 12: thing back. So just make sure that everything is accurate.
Speaker 12: Check your math, check your the return against your W
Speaker 12: two make sure it's all accurate. So, I mean that's
Speaker 12: the best way to ensure that you don't face delays,
Speaker 12: because there are likely to be delays this year. Amy
Speaker 12: consider the DOGE cuts into IRS payroll. There they're staffing
Speaker 12: and staffing levels have been low with the IRS for
Speaker 12: some time. The computers are kind of clunky and broken down,
Speaker 12: so there may be delays. But don't think that just
Speaker 12: because you have fewer IRS auditors on staff that you're
Speaker 12: not getting get audited if you don't send in a
Speaker 12: return or you do something funny on your on the
Speaker 12: return that you do send in, because if you do
Speaker 12: get caught, I mean, there are serious consequences. Not only
Speaker 12: do you owe the taxes that you owed before, and
Speaker 12: there are may V fees on top of that, there
Speaker 12: could be potential criminal charges brought against you. So just
Speaker 12: be very careful about that, all right, all.
Speaker 1: Right, So do it once, do it right. It's not
Speaker 1: worth the risk, right.
Speaker 12: Raise or twice cut once?
Speaker 1: Accellent? Absolutely, are your taxes done? Yes, very good, of
Speaker 1: course they are. Jim Ryan mister reliable.
Speaker 12: Plus I was getting a little refund back too, so.
Speaker 1: That always helps that always helps. All right, we seize
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan, thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Scott Carr,
Speaker 1: who's in for Courtney Donaho this week. So Scott, we're
Speaker 1: expecting prices on a lot of things to go higher
Speaker 1: because of tariffs and all that. But I didn't think
Speaker 1: of this one. Tomatoes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning, Amy. This report sponsored by Total Wine
Speaker 7: and more. If you notice the costs that tomatoes going up,
Speaker 7: here's why. A lot of tomatoes come from Mexico, and
Speaker 7: the US commerce departments they got plans now for a
Speaker 7: new nearly twenty one percent tariff on most tomato shipments
Speaker 7: from Mexico and that is set to start in mid July.
Speaker 1: So we have some time. Eat a lot of tomatoes
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, buy them up. Wish you could freeze them.
Speaker 1: I know, well you can make sauce out of them.
Speaker 1: My friend makes them being costa sauce.
Speaker 7: There's some taking outside the box, all right.
Speaker 1: Are there other vegetables that we're expecting to see hikes on?
Speaker 7: Well, not in particular is being targeted, but the price
Speaker 7: of spices. The Spice Conference, one of the big spice Conferences.
Speaker 7: Trade Conference has just had their big annual meeting. In
Speaker 7: the talk of the whole conference was the new tariffs,
Speaker 7: because that's going to hit the cost of a lot
Speaker 7: of spice ingredients, especially from China, and spices, as you know,
Speaker 7: are used in just about everything in the grocery store.
Speaker 1: That's that is right, So some China, and I would
Speaker 1: imagine where else de spices like from India? Would I
Speaker 1: would imagine as.
Speaker 7: A very India. Sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The largest producer of cinnamon in the world, I believe
Speaker 7: is Vietnam.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we'll be watching I think. Isn't Vietnam
Speaker 1: at the table with the US right now?
Speaker 2: We'll see they are?
Speaker 7: They are, and we should mention it that if you're
Speaker 7: skipping the coloring of Easter eggs this year, Amy, because
Speaker 7: their prices are so extravagant, well you're not alone. A
Speaker 7: new survey from wattub this morning shows I had to
Speaker 7: get it in there, shows about forty seven percent of
Speaker 7: Americans say they're going to pass over. There's another pun
Speaker 7: for you that pass over the tradition this year. It
Speaker 7: shows we were already spending a chunk of change on Easter,
Speaker 7: about one hundred and eighty nine dollars they estimate per
Speaker 7: person on average, and amy to wrap things up, future
Speaker 7: is all pointing lower. The down features are down one
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty points.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, and we had but we had an update yesterday.
Speaker 1: We did okay, so we'll see if we can get
Speaker 1: back into positive territory today. Getting in your business with
Speaker 1: Bloomberg Scott car Thanks so much. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 7: Have a good day.
Speaker 1: We do get in your business every day at five
Speaker 1: forty am. Something to look forward to. I always love
Speaker 1: I love the little business nuggets that we get on
Speaker 1: this Let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Some one
Speaker 1: hundred year old homes in LA blocked off from the
Speaker 1: public for decades now have a special designation.
Speaker 3: The Maycrest Bungalows and El Serrento have been fenced off
Speaker 3: since nineteen ninety one. Cal Trans planned to tear them
Speaker 3: down to expand the seven ten Freeway. The LA Conservancies
Speaker 3: Lindsay Mulkay He says the eight Tutor Revival style homes
Speaker 3: could teach us a lesson.
Speaker 11: Bungalow courts were created to respond to a housing crisis
Speaker 11: and to help connect neighbors and to make people feel
Speaker 11: like they had a sense of community even if their
Speaker 11: housing was smaller.
Speaker 3: La City Council has approved a Historic Cultural Landmark designation
Speaker 3: for the bungalows, preserving them. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A criminal case has been dismissed against a former LAPED
Speaker 1: officer who touched a dead woman's while on duty. David
Speaker 1: Rojas testified in twenty twenty one that he did it
Speaker 1: as part of an investigation into her death. He denied
Speaker 1: it was sexual or meant to humiliate or degrade the
Speaker 1: dead woman. The judge yesterday noted that Rojas has complied
Speaker 1: with everything asked of him and has successfully completed an
Speaker 1: eighteen month judicial diversion program. Rolling Stones lead singer Mick
Speaker 1: Jaggers getting married again. He's engaged to his longtime girlfriend
Speaker 1: Melanie Hamrick. She told a French magazine that Jagger proposed
Speaker 1: two or three years ago, but they just went public
Speaker 1: with it. Hamrick is thirty seven, Jaggers eighty two. This
Speaker 1: would be his second marriage and they've already been engaged
Speaker 1: for two to three years. I think maybe it's time to,
Speaker 1: you know, pull the trigger on that one mick. Eighty
Speaker 1: nine million dollars in cuts are included in La County's
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five proposed budget. The CEO of La County
Speaker 1: said it does not include personnel cuts, but more than
Speaker 1: three hundred vacant jobs are going to be eliminated. County
Speaker 1: Commissioner is going to get a first look at it today.
Speaker 1: After county tests found elevated levels of lead in soil
Speaker 1: in and near the Eton Fire burn area. The Board
Speaker 1: of Supervisors is going to consider emotion today to allegate
Speaker 1: three million dollars to help affected property owners do more
Speaker 1: detailed testing. Apparently there's a lot of lead there because
Speaker 1: homes built before nineteen seventy nine had lead based paint.
Speaker 1: All Major League players are going to be wearing the
Speaker 1: number forty two today. It's Jackie Robinson Day, which marks
Speaker 1: the day in nineteen forty seven Robinson debuted with the
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color barrier. Players, managers, coaches, and
Speaker 1: umpires will also wear a special number forty two patch
Speaker 1: on their caps. Today. We're just minutes away from a
Speaker 1: handle on the news. Honda says it's headed north and
Speaker 1: south to avoid tariffs. Bill's going to tell you about that.
Speaker 1: Let's say, good morning now to the Most of Money
Speaker 1: on KFI. It's Joel lars Guard.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Joel, morning Amy.
Speaker 1: So the recession rumblings are getting a little louder. What's
Speaker 1: the latest and how do we get ready for it?
Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean, it's one of those words that gets
Speaker 14: thrown around and people see it in headlines they start
Speaker 14: freaking out a little bit. And interestingly enough that Golden
Speaker 14: Sacks increased its recession odds twice in one week, so
Speaker 14: different you know, different financial firms are saying, hey, it's
Speaker 14: more likely, just just like putting this red flag up
Speaker 14: in the air, let you know. And the truth is
Speaker 14: it is more likely, right because of some of the
Speaker 14: governmental policy we've seen, specifically tariffs, the likelihood that that
Speaker 14: hurts businesses and increases inflation. So, yes, the odds of
Speaker 14: our session just have gone up. Clearly, will we experience
Speaker 14: the recession? Are we potentially in one?
Speaker 7: Right now?
Speaker 14: Maybe the truth is too that recessions happen when you
Speaker 14: look at the data something like every six and a
Speaker 14: half to seven years, So it's not one of those
Speaker 14: things where it's like this is a once in a
Speaker 14: lifetime sort of thing. Recessions are kind of part of
Speaker 14: how the economic climate and how economies work, So recessions
Speaker 14: also shouldn't be this thing that just freaks you out
Speaker 14: to no end. But there are certain things that I
Speaker 14: want people to do in advance of a potential recession,
Speaker 14: and just kind of personal finance hygiene in general, Like
Speaker 14: the emergency fund.
Speaker 6: That's a huge one.
Speaker 14: Especially right now. Some people, and we can talk about
Speaker 14: this too, are like pre buying more stuff because they're
Speaker 14: worried about prices going up. I see the wisdom in that,
Speaker 14: maybe in small bits and pieces for certain things that
Speaker 14: you were going to buy anyway. But having if it
Speaker 14: means eliminating some of that all important emergency fund and
Speaker 14: not having as much in cash, well, if you lose
Speaker 14: your job, you can't eat the stuff you just bought.
Speaker 14: So I want you to make sure that you have
Speaker 14: a really solid emergency fund, at least that three to
Speaker 14: six months of expenses stashed in a liquid savings account.
Speaker 1: Okay, and that doesn't count for like a what are
Speaker 1: those short term things like a three month and six
Speaker 1: month that you can't get a CD. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: get your hands on it. For a few months, or
Speaker 1: can you do that one? And if you have to
Speaker 1: tap into it, you can you can.
Speaker 14: Here's the thing I think, don't put money in a
Speaker 14: CD that you might need. Right So, a CD can
Speaker 14: be a great place for like medium term savings, but
Speaker 14: when it comes to that emergency fund, you probably don't
Speaker 14: want that in a CD. And if you have to
Speaker 14: tap it early, it means you're going to give up
Speaker 14: some of that interest. You would have been better in
Speaker 14: a high old savings account with one of my favorite banks. Anyway,
Speaker 14: something else I want people to do in advance of
Speaker 14: a recession. I just want people to do this anyway,
Speaker 14: is create something that I call a bare bones budget.
Speaker 14: And it's essentially a budget that boils down what you
Speaker 14: could get by on every single month. So it's the
Speaker 14: bear essentials and nothing more. And I don't want people
Speaker 14: to live on a bare bones budget in perpetuity. But
Speaker 14: let's say you do lose your job or something comes
Speaker 14: down the pike. The fact that you have created this
Speaker 14: barbones budget and you know what you can cut and
Speaker 14: you can kind of start to pair back almost immediately,
Speaker 14: that just creates not only a financial backstop, but in
Speaker 14: some resiliency. But it also just helps you to realize that,
Speaker 14: wait a second, maybe I am spending more than I
Speaker 14: thought on some extra luxury items that I don't necessarily
Speaker 14: have to have, and so to think that barebones budget
Speaker 14: in addition to the three to six months worth of expenses,
Speaker 14: and some financial folks out there are saying, oh, no,
Speaker 14: you need twelve months worth of expenses. I think that's
Speaker 14: just too much. I think most people one can't have
Speaker 14: a hard time saving up that much. And then two,
Speaker 14: that's overkill for most people when it comes to cash
Speaker 14: on hand. But if you have those two things in order,
Speaker 14: it's going to help you with if we do encounter
Speaker 14: more trying financial times.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the two takeaways is get that bare bones budget,
Speaker 1: sit down, put the numbers down, figure it out so
Speaker 1: you know, because that gives you power. Knowing what you
Speaker 1: have gives you power. And then the other thing is
Speaker 1: start stashing your cash because you want to build up
Speaker 1: that emergency fund that's right, just in case we might
Speaker 1: not have a recession.
Speaker 14: And that's the thing too, like we really might not.
Speaker 14: And the other thing is a personal recession can happen
Speaker 14: at any time. This is something I want people to
Speaker 14: be well aware of whether it's some sort of medical
Speaker 14: emergency or it's Hey, I just work in a sector
Speaker 14: that had a tough time. The American economy is booming
Speaker 14: unemployments of four percent, but my personal job took a
Speaker 14: hit and I lost that, right, So there's always the
Speaker 14: potential for personal financial difficulties even when the economy as
Speaker 14: a whole is doing well. So I think that's why
Speaker 14: I call this like personal finance hygiene. I want people
Speaker 14: to practice these things anyway, because hey, even if the
Speaker 14: economy as a whole is crushing, there's always the potential,
Speaker 14: right that your personal life experiences some sort of recession
Speaker 14: that the other the rest of the economy isn't feeling
Speaker 14: all right.
Speaker 1: See great advice as always, and you can hear more
Speaker 1: great advice just like this and a whole lot more
Speaker 1: every Sunday from noon to two on how to Money
Speaker 1: with our very own Jewel Lars Guard. You can follow
Speaker 1: Joel at how to Money. Thank you so much for
Speaker 1: this great information.
Speaker 9: Joel got it Amy, Thank.
Speaker 1: You all Right. Before we get out of here, I
Speaker 1: got to talk about the girls in space, just for
Speaker 1: so we know that the six women took a ride
Speaker 1: on a rocket yesterday, a Blue Origin rocket and it
Speaker 1: was Katie Perry and Gail King and Jeff Bezos's fiance
Speaker 1: and then like a rocket scientist and a couple other
Speaker 1: legit people. I got to just say this first of all,
Speaker 1: cool that they got to do it. What an amazing experience.
Speaker 1: It's sort of like, uh, I don't know, maybe Guardians
Speaker 1: of the Galaxy times a billion, right, like a really
Speaker 1: cool ride. What I'm grumpy about on this is that
Speaker 1: they're talking like they did something historic. Yes, they were
Speaker 1: all women. Good for them. They didn't do anything. They
Speaker 1: took a ride on a rocket and they spent three
Speaker 1: minutes in weightlessness, which super cool. I wish we could
Speaker 1: all do it. The reality is we can't because it
Speaker 1: costs probably a couple I don't know, it costs at
Speaker 1: least millions of dollars to do that launch, right? And
Speaker 1: did they pay for it? Maybe Jeff Bezos paid for
Speaker 1: it because his girlfriend or his fiance was going up.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, so again, I don't disrespect them for
Speaker 1: doing it. I think it was and amazing opportunity, but
Speaker 1: come on, both Gail King and Katy Perry kissed the
Speaker 1: ground when they got back they were gone for ten minutes.
Speaker 1: And then Gail's talking about it, of course on CBS Mornings,
Speaker 1: as she should, because what a cool experience. But then
Speaker 1: she said, oh, reuniting with my friends and family, who
Speaker 1: were all wearing yellow when we got back to Earth
Speaker 1: was the best part. You were gone for ten minutes.
Speaker 9: Gail King felt pain from what returning? She said, she
Speaker 9: felt pain like.
Speaker 1: So it was painful to return to the earth, like
Speaker 1: in her heart.
Speaker 9: Like on the ride back. Oh well, probably bumpy. So
Speaker 9: you guys are just downplaying how important.
Speaker 1: This is, how important this is, how significant it is
Speaker 1: that girls took.
Speaker 9: A ride women.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about Sonny Williams who just spent nine months
Speaker 1: on the International.
Speaker 6: Space with her?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, are you Bill Handle? Are you channeling
Speaker 1: Bill Handle right now? All right? Anyway, I think it's
Speaker 1: great that they got to a ride to go on
Speaker 1: a ride. But ladies, you didn't change the world. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm you just didn't. But you did a very cool thing,
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