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Speaker 9: This is your wake up call for Thursday, May twenty ninth.
Speaker 9: As you get up today, still feeling like is it Tuesday?
Speaker 6: Is it Wednesday?
Speaker 9: Still behind thanks to the short work week, But that's okay.
Speaker 9: It just means we're closer to the weekend. Looks like
Speaker 9: it's gonna be a pretty nice one. I'm gonna get
Speaker 9: a little hot.
Speaker 6: But not not not horrible hot.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And of course we've got May Gray hanging around exactly.
Speaker 6: That's what it is like. You're waiting for it to
Speaker 6: burn off.
Speaker 9: It's just that weird, hazy kind of whatever that at
Speaker 9: least at my house, yesterday, it didn't completely burn off,
Speaker 9: which let me curl up on the couch and dive
Speaker 9: deeper into Handmaid's Tale. I told you that I watched
Speaker 9: the season and the series finale and wanted to go
Speaker 9: back and watch the first episode, and then went, oh,
Speaker 9: I'll watch the second episode. I'm in season two now, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 9: and it's season one. I think was the best one.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Familiar, and
Speaker 9: there's so much that I forgot because I think the
Speaker 9: first one came out like five years ago or something crazy,
Speaker 9: so there's so much.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 9: So it's kind of fun to rewatch it, especially when
Speaker 9: you have a bad memory like I do.
Speaker 6: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 9: The largest shopping complex and Pacific Palisades, plans to reopen
Speaker 9: in twenty twenty six. Officials made the announcement yesterday. Palisades
Speaker 9: Village is owned by billionaire developer Rick Caruso. The union
Speaker 9: representing more than thirty thousand grocery workers in SoCal planning
Speaker 9: a strike authorization vote next week. Workers at Ralph's, Albertson's, Vaughn's,
Speaker 9: and Pavilions claimed the grocers have surveilled members campaigning for
Speaker 9: a new contract, interrogated employees, and retaliated against union activity.
Speaker 9: A federal trade court has blocked President Trump's tariffs. Trump
Speaker 9: says he has the power to act because the country's
Speaker 9: trade deficits amount to a national emergency, but the three
Speaker 9: judge court found the nineteen seventy seven International Emergency Economic
Speaker 9: Powers Act does not authorize the use of tariffs. We're
Speaker 9: going to dig a little deeper into that with ABC
Speaker 9: Stephen Portnoy. He's going to join us at five fifty
Speaker 9: to tell us what that ruling means and then what's next.
Speaker 9: Always fascinated with prison escapes, I am authorities are now
Speaker 9: looking for the so called Devil of the Ozarks. ABC's
Speaker 9: Crime and Terror analyst Brad Garrett's going to join us
Speaker 9: in just a couple of minutes to tell us who
Speaker 9: he is, what he did, why he did it, and
Speaker 9: where he could be hiding. Israel has taken out the
Speaker 9: leader of Hamas in Gaza. ABC's Jordonna Miller is going
Speaker 9: to tell us why that could actually complicate hopes of
Speaker 9: a ceasefire in Gaza. Sleep of course, very important if
Speaker 9: you just can't get enough because of noise pollution. Who's responsible, Well,
Speaker 9: we're going to tell you at bottom of the hour,
Speaker 9: but a guy Hollywood who is suing because he can't
Speaker 9: get a good night's sleep.
Speaker 6: Really interesting story.
Speaker 9: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 9: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The largest shopping
Speaker 9: complex in Pacific Palisades, has committed to reopening in twenty
Speaker 9: twenty six. Billionaire Rick Caruso, who owns Palisades Village, made
Speaker 9: the announcement yesterday.
Speaker 10: I am not a patient guy.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be waiting around years for this
Speaker 4: to get reborn.
Speaker 3: I want the community to come back.
Speaker 9: The shopping complex has been closed since the wildfire in January.
Speaker 9: Caruso says improvements will be made without using city money.
Speaker 9: He plans to use his own money to improve sidewalks, lighting,
Speaker 9: and landscaping in the area. Officials at several high schools
Speaker 9: in Orange County say they're upset over the transgender athlete
Speaker 9: policy in California.
Speaker 11: We wanted to register our concern with CIOF regarding their
Speaker 11: policies which allowed that to up to the transgender athlete
Speaker 11: compete at the same level.
Speaker 9: Doctor Mary Scott with Orange Lutheran High and others sent
Speaker 9: a letter to the California Interscholastic Federation or CIA, weeks
Speaker 9: ago asking the organization to ban biological males from competing
Speaker 9: in girls' sports.
Speaker 11: I would love for them to find an opportunity to compete.
Speaker 11: I just think it's a distinct advantage to have a
Speaker 11: genetic makeup of a male competing in a female competition.
Speaker 9: The White House has gotten involved in the DOJ is
Speaker 9: investigating where the California's law that allows transgender athletes to
Speaker 9: compete in girls high school sports violates the federal Civil
Speaker 9: Rights law. A seventh grader at the Merman's School in
Speaker 9: bel Air is one of nine spellers still standing at
Speaker 9: the Script's National Spelling Bee. Oliver Halcat advanced to today's
Speaker 9: finals by correctly spelling five words and also answering two
Speaker 9: vocabulary questions yesterday, a speller from Los Angeles County has
Speaker 9: never won the bee. A couple of the words that
Speaker 9: he spelled gob gobbe, I don't even know if I'm
Speaker 9: pronouncing it right. Polymorphism mashlum a alite sure and op
Speaker 9: opi he OPI Hi.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't do well with a vocabulary part either. Let's
Speaker 9: see if you're going to do well as you head
Speaker 9: out the door and hit the roads this morning. Good morning, Will,
Speaker 9: Cole Schreiber.
Speaker 3: Good morning. Now, we have some slow spots.
Speaker 2: One of the slowest would be in the northbound side
Speaker 2: of the five right before Valley View crash in lanes there.
Speaker 2: There's also something northbound side of the five before Rosecrans.
Speaker 3: These might be one and the same.
Speaker 2: It's kind of hard to tell, but that's listed as
Speaker 2: an overturned vehicle. I'm thinking that crash is the same
Speaker 2: as the other one five northbound before Rosecrans. We also
Speaker 2: have problems up to the north in the new Hall
Speaker 2: Pass five northbound right around the old road. Three vehicles
Speaker 2: involved in a crash there. We also have issues I
Speaker 2: fifteen northbound in Main Street. That's an accident in lanes
Speaker 2: and it is just closed on the fourteen northbound between
Speaker 2: Avenue L and Avenue F.
Speaker 3: That's for cal transwer.
Speaker 2: It will reopen at six o'clock with Southern California's most
Speaker 2: accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 3: I Will, Cole Schreverer, thank you, Will.
Speaker 9: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Crime and Terror
Speaker 9: analyst Brad Garrett Brad. We just talked a couple of
Speaker 9: weeks ago about the escape of those ten guys in
Speaker 9: New Orleans, and now we've got another high profile prison escape,
Speaker 9: this guy called the Devil of the Ozarks. Tell us
Speaker 9: about him. Hello, Brad not working, Okay, Well, we're going
Speaker 9: to try to get Brad back. Shoot, I really want
Speaker 9: to talk about this because this guy, I know they've caught.
Speaker 9: I think they've caught eight of the ten in New Orleans.
Speaker 6: But this guy.
Speaker 9: Was a school teacher in Rogers, Arkansas, and then he
Speaker 9: became the police chief, and then they found out later
Speaker 9: that he raped a couple of people, and then now
Speaker 9: he's broken out of prison. So we're going to try
Speaker 9: to get Brad back. But while we're waiting, let's get
Speaker 9: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 9: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Speaker 9: says the US will begin revoking visas of some Chinese students,
Speaker 9: in his words, including those with connections to the Chinese
Speaker 9: Communist Party or studying in critical fields. In the twenty
Speaker 9: twenty three twenty four school year, more than two hundred
Speaker 9: and seventy thousand international students were from China. That's about
Speaker 9: a quarter of all foreign students in the US. A
Speaker 9: federal court in New York has blocked President Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 12: It's a sweeping opinion from a three judge panel of
Speaker 12: the New York based US Court of International Trade. President
Speaker 12: Trump has invoked emergency powers to impose his global tariffs,
Speaker 12: but the judges say his orders quote exceed any authority
Speaker 12: granted to the president under the law that he cited.
Speaker 9: ABC Stephen Portnoy says the judge has ruled the constitution
Speaker 9: squarely gives Congress the power to set taxes on imports.
Speaker 9: The Trump administration has appealed and could ultimately take the
Speaker 9: case to the Supreme Court. Republican Congressman Mike Flood says
Speaker 9: he supports the president's trade policy.
Speaker 2: First administration of Donald Trump, he used terrassd very successfully
Speaker 2: to help us, especially Nebraska farmers and ranchers, with trade
Speaker 2: deals with Canada, Mexico, and China.
Speaker 3: We're in this thing now. He's doing what he knows
Speaker 3: how to do. This is going to come together.
Speaker 9: He says, now is not the time to pull back,
Speaker 9: but that the process is going to have to play
Speaker 9: out in court. Elon Musk has announced his scheduled departure
Speaker 9: from the Trump administration after leading the Department of Government Efficiency,
Speaker 9: or DOGE. ABC's Perry Russem says Musk posted about his decision.
Speaker 13: On X, Musk saying the DOZE mission will only strengthen
Speaker 13: over time as it becomes a way of life throughout
Speaker 13: the government. But it comes after a Musk publicly criticized
Speaker 13: trumps so called Big Beautiful Spending Bill for not doing
Speaker 13: enough to cut spending.
Speaker 9: As a special government employee, Musk was limited to a
Speaker 9: one hundred and thirty day appointment. That's a limit that
Speaker 9: could hit as early as Friday. The Department of Health
Speaker 9: and Human Services is canceling a contract with Moderna to
Speaker 9: create a bird flu vaccine.
Speaker 8: A contract with the drugmaker worth five hundred ninety million
Speaker 8: dollars was announced before President Trump took office to develop
Speaker 8: a vaccine against the bird flu, which normally infects birds
Speaker 8: but has also spread to humans. Maderna said Wednesday an
Speaker 8: early trial of its vaccine in about three hundred adults
Speaker 8: showed a rapid and durable immune response. HHS said, however,
Speaker 8: that after a rigorous review, they concluded that continued investment
Speaker 8: in the vaccine was not scientifically or ethically justifiable, Mark
Speaker 8: Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 9: Harvard University has agreed to give up some of the
Speaker 9: earliest photos of slaves. Harvard reached a settlement with a
Speaker 9: woman from Connecticut who says she's a descendant of two
Speaker 9: of the slaves shown in the one hundred seventy five
Speaker 9: year old pictures. One hundred and seventy five years didn't
Speaker 9: know that photos went back that far. The photos are
Speaker 9: being moved to the International African American Museum in Charleston,
Speaker 9: South Carolina. Actor and director Kevin Costner's being sued by
Speaker 9: a stunt double over what's been called a violent, unscripted,
Speaker 9: unscheduled rape scene.
Speaker 10: Devin Lobella is a stunt double and Costner's film series Horizon.
Speaker 3: Another man I met was on his way to kill
Speaker 3: everyone in that house. Hee might as well have been
Speaker 3: walking up to get the mail for all bothered him.
Speaker 10: She claimed she was unexpectedly required to be in a
Speaker 10: sexual violence scene that left her with severe emotional distress. Labella,
Speaker 10: the stunt double for actress Ella Hunt in the film,
Speaker 10: claims she was not told that Hunt refused to do
Speaker 10: the scene and walked off the set. She's suing for
Speaker 10: unspecified damages, an apology, and a requirement that the defendants
Speaker 10: undergo anti sexual harassment and violence training. Jim Roup KFI News.
Speaker 6: The original Chucky actor Ed Gail has died.
Speaker 3: Her warn Chuckie Want to Play.
Speaker 14: TMC reports he passed away in hospice Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Speaker 14: Gaale played the iconic killer doll Chucky in nineteen eighty
Speaker 14: eighth Child Play and also appeared to two other films
Speaker 14: in the franchise. Gail also had roles in numerous other
Speaker 14: movies and TV shows, including Howard the Duck, Spaceballs, and Baywatch.
Speaker 14: In a social media posts, as niece said her uncle
Speaker 14: has taken his final bow and is now headlining in
Speaker 14: the Afterlife Mark Mayfield KFI News.
Speaker 6: Ed Gail was sixty one, Spaceballs and Howard the Duck.
Speaker 6: All Right.
Speaker 9: TikTok video with hundreds of thousands of views glorifies the
Speaker 9: health benefits of water based cooking.
Speaker 4: The video shows simmering pots of veggies, noodles, and meats,
Speaker 4: with a caption that says, you started water based cooking
Speaker 4: and now your skin is clear, your stomach is thriving,
Speaker 4: and you recover from illness overnight. Other videos talk about
Speaker 4: how water based cooking methods like blanching, steaming, or poaching
Speaker 4: can help wind back Father Time like a gastronomic Benjamin Button.
Speaker 4: Critics countered with this is every day in Asian cultures
Speaker 4: that go as far back as five thousand BC and congratulations,
Speaker 4: gen Z, you've discovered soup.
Speaker 3: Michael Krozer, KFI News.
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Speaker 9: When we come back, Israel has taken out the leader
Speaker 9: of Hamas in Gaza, We're gonna be joined by ABC's
Speaker 9: Jordannah Miller to tell us why that could complicate any
Speaker 9: hopes of a ceasefire in Gaza. Five point fifteen now
Speaker 9: on the wake up call's supposed.
Speaker 6: To be playing commercials right now. We're having some issues.
Speaker 3: It was a nice calming moment, though.
Speaker 6: It was a nice calming moment. Hey, guess who's up already?
Speaker 6: The birds.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I was watching Sonny and Gizmo yesterday, Conor
Speaker 9: just give me a single signal whenever I can do whatever,
Speaker 9: and they they've gone out onto the farther reaches of
Speaker 9: the of the nest, so they're out of the actual
Speaker 9: nest and out onto the branches. And then the people
Speaker 9: who are making comments and the people at Friends of
Speaker 9: Big Bear Valley are watching everything and they're like, okay,
Speaker 9: so Sonny is out on the front porch. Now I'm like,
Speaker 9: what the heck does that mean? Well, that means that
Speaker 9: there's a branch that is out from the actual nest.
Speaker 3: It's really small too, Well, it's a twig.
Speaker 6: It appears to be a twig.
Speaker 9: But remember these eagles have you know, like five or
Speaker 9: six foot wingspans, so it's probably you know, like at
Speaker 9: least as thick as your arm.
Speaker 6: I mean, I think it's bigger than it looks.
Speaker 9: And then there's also a place called the attic, which
Speaker 9: is just a higher branch that's above the nest. So
Speaker 9: they're like, oh, Sonny is out on the attic. Well,
Speaker 9: one of them, I think it was Sonny because she's
Speaker 9: she's or he's older. We don't know if it's a
Speaker 9: boy or girl, is like four days ahead of the
Speaker 9: younger one, and was flappin' and hoppin' and just flapping
Speaker 9: in At one point was flapping and had its wings
Speaker 9: extended and just like well, letting the breeze carry it
Speaker 9: or you know, blow against it. And I was like,
Speaker 9: he's gonna jump. He's gonna jump. He's gonna jump, because
Speaker 9: they were in the official fledging time and it could
Speaker 9: happen any second.
Speaker 6: But we don't know when.
Speaker 3: We'll probably not at night, right, probably not at night.
Speaker 9: But now it's daylight and one of them's in the
Speaker 9: bowl of the nest, and then the other one is
Speaker 9: out flapping on the front porch, flapping and like really
Speaker 9: really far out as far out as you can go.
Speaker 9: It's probably I would say at least six or seven
Speaker 9: feet off the nest.
Speaker 6: So it's really fun to watch.
Speaker 9: And as we were talking about yesterday, you know, like
Speaker 9: at first there was almost like one hundred thousand people
Speaker 9: when they first hatched, and then the numbers watching on
Speaker 9: YouTube sort of dwindled, and yesterday I was watching and
Speaker 9: it was up again to like sixty thousand. Like people
Speaker 9: are really just waiting for waiting for the big moment. Yep,
Speaker 9: it's kind of it's freaky. It's sad, it'd be sad
Speaker 9: about it. I am. I'm gonna have to go to
Speaker 9: EA meetings Eagles Anonymous because I'm telling you, they just
Speaker 9: they're they. I've become very attached, and I don't think
Speaker 9: I'm the only one. But it's it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 9: It's on YouTube. We can go to the Friends of
Speaker 9: Big Bear Valley website and take a look at that.
Speaker 6: Are we still in like no mode?
Speaker 7: Yeah, for some reason the board isn't cooperating. Okay, we
Speaker 7: can't play spots and we can't get guests, and so
Speaker 7: we can't.
Speaker 6: Get Jordana on the film or on the on the
Speaker 6: phone either.
Speaker 3: Well, you can't do anything.
Speaker 6: We can't do anything.
Speaker 3: No, like we had Brad.
Speaker 6: I know when we wait to him, he couldn't hear programming. Okay, okay,
Speaker 6: so let's talk about spelling me again for a second.
Speaker 3: Did you watch it? I didn't. Can't just talk about it?
Speaker 3: Did you watch it?
Speaker 9: I didn't because I was I told you I got
Speaker 9: sucked in the Handmaid's Tale and I'm just binging it
Speaker 9: right now.
Speaker 7: Well, one of them is way more exciting, I'll say.
Speaker 7: And it's not Handmaid's Tale, it really is, but it's fun. Well,
Speaker 7: spelling Bee is so much fun. Okay, Well, the finals
Speaker 7: are today. There's nine spellers left and guess who one
Speaker 7: of them? Miss Your phone is ringing, by the way,
Speaker 7: we think it's Jordanna. We're not going to be able
Speaker 7: to talk to you. Okay, we can't eat, we can't
Speaker 7: bring up with the phone either. An epic technological fail.
Speaker 7: It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 9: So anyway, there's nine spellers. It started with a couple
Speaker 9: hundred and they've been eliminating. So now today is the
Speaker 9: finals and uh Oliver Halkat he's the kid from Merman
Speaker 9: School in bel Air, Brentwood, h And he's the one
Speaker 9: that's left. We had four or five from southern California,
Speaker 9: but they are got eliminated yesterday. And they are pretty
Speaker 9: impressive when you think about it, because like the Aolite,
Speaker 9: it's a e O l I g h T I
Speaker 9: don't mean, I don't know, I don't know. There's mashlum
Speaker 9: and these are words that I've never even heard of, gobby.
Speaker 6: Or go b g o b b e uh opaheh
Speaker 6: or op he o p i h I.
Speaker 9: And then polymorphism I've at least heard that, I have
Speaker 9: no idea what it means, but polymorphism p O l
Speaker 9: y m O r F p h I s M.
Speaker 9: And then along with spelling, they had to quickly uh
Speaker 9: or and correctly identify vocabulary words too, so they have
Speaker 9: to know what they mean. I would think that studying
Speaker 9: for that you just all you do is just read
Speaker 9: the dictionary.
Speaker 3: Instead of going out playing soccer.
Speaker 6: Read the dictionary. You read the dictionary.
Speaker 9: Or you could use the new AOL that rich Damiro
Speaker 9: was telling us about yesterday, where you put your notes
Speaker 9: into the AI and then it spits back a podcast
Speaker 9: for you.
Speaker 6: That might be a way to study who knows, who knows?
Speaker 9: Hey coming up in about fifteen minutes, of course, could
Speaker 9: be shorter than that.
Speaker 7: We're still dead on the board. I will let you
Speaker 7: know as soon as anything happens. Our engineers are running
Speaker 7: around and what I heard is not good is when
Speaker 7: an engineer leaves and says this is weird, this.
Speaker 9: Is weird, and walked out of the room, ran ran
Speaker 9: out of the room. Okay, So that means he's going
Speaker 9: to like Engineering Central. There's this huge room in the
Speaker 9: middle of the building. It's got all the servers and
Speaker 9: all that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is getting worked on. I wait in there once.
Speaker 3: It's very like every station has a box of some
Speaker 3: sort in there, and it's just creepy. Okay.
Speaker 6: So you want to make your brain fry if you
Speaker 6: think about that we have.
Speaker 9: It's a big room full of electronics about AI because
Speaker 9: they keep talking about how much power AI takes and
Speaker 9: how these servers. It probably looks like something out of
Speaker 9: the movies, like these massive warehouses just filled with servers. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and you got to keep them going and you got
Speaker 9: to keep them cool, which probably takes even more energy.
Speaker 3: All needs air conditioning, heavy air conditioning, yep.
Speaker 9: Or they should just build them in Alaska. Hey, I
Speaker 9: think they're building them like Texas.
Speaker 6: Is that ridiculous?
Speaker 3: Yes, where it's warm?
Speaker 9: Uh huh okay, uh five point twenty two on your
Speaker 9: wake up call. Ooh, here's something can you tell we're scrambling.
Speaker 9: I've got some newsy stuff, but I want to, you know,
Speaker 9: pepper it in with some other fun stuff. I mean,
Speaker 9: since we're we're in this together, I hope your alarm
Speaker 9: went off and is working, unlike our radio station, which
Speaker 9: is broken.
Speaker 3: We didn't pay the bill.
Speaker 6: That's probably what it was. I already didn't pay the bill.
Speaker 6: Gosh darn it.
Speaker 9: Okay, you know that I recently went traveling, had a blast,
Speaker 9: got to go, so just had the most amazing time.
Speaker 9: Got to go to Paris and to London, and I'd
Speaker 9: never been there before. I'd've been to London for like
Speaker 9: six hours just on a quick little stopover thing, but
Speaker 9: had never been to Paris or spent any time in Europe.
Speaker 9: So he saved up a lot and got to go,
Speaker 9: and it was absolutely amazing. And then I was I
Speaker 9: saw a story earlier this week. I don't know if
Speaker 9: you saw it about a guy who's like twenty nine
Speaker 9: years old. He quit his job, cashed in his four
Speaker 9: oh one K, and decided to sail across the ocean
Speaker 9: and he went, yeah, from I think it was at
Speaker 9: southern California and he went to Hawaii and it took
Speaker 9: him almost a month, and he took his pet cat
Speaker 9: with him, which, yes.
Speaker 3: Sailing with pix Phoenix. I don't know, I've seen it.
Speaker 9: Yes, I don't know how I feel about the cat
Speaker 9: having to go along, because if anything happened, I mean,
Speaker 9: you know, the cat's kind of dead in the water literally.
Speaker 9: But anyway, so anyway he did that, he just went,
Speaker 9: you know what I'm going to do it I have
Speaker 9: to go explore the world.
Speaker 6: So good on him.
Speaker 9: But how much money would you have to have in
Speaker 9: the bank to cuss to really feel comfortable quitting your
Speaker 9: job and going and traveling the world? Of course, somebody
Speaker 9: has done a survey about this. Here's the new magic number.
Speaker 9: Two hundred eighty seven, seven hundred and thirty one dollars.
Speaker 9: That's the average amount that Americans say they need in
Speaker 9: the bank before they'd feel comfortable leaving their current life
Speaker 9: behind to go and explore the world. The survey was
Speaker 9: done by Talker Research. They asked two thousand people what
Speaker 9: it would take to make their travel dreams of reality.
Speaker 9: And the other thing that's kind of interesting is that
Speaker 9: different generations have different ideas about the cost of so
Speaker 9: called freedom. So gen z Ers would take that leap,
Speaker 9: quit their jobs and just go travel the world for
Speaker 9: two hundred eleven thousand dollars in the bank. Baby boomers
Speaker 9: want a more substantial cushion, which makes sense because they
Speaker 9: have more life experience and they know that stuff costs
Speaker 9: a lot, So three hundred and thirty five thousand is
Speaker 9: what they would they would consider trading their current lifestyle
Speaker 9: in for a world of adventure. Some people are ready
Speaker 9: to take the leap right away, even on a tighter budget.
Speaker 9: One in six Americans, or eighteen percent, say they'd packed
Speaker 9: their bags with less than fifty thousand dollars available.
Speaker 6: Wow, I don't think that would you know?
Speaker 15: That would like?
Speaker 9: Well, it depends on how you travel, because we spent
Speaker 9: we did. We splurged a little bit on our trip,
Speaker 9: but we stayed within budget. But that fifty thousand would
Speaker 9: only last us about ten weeks.
Speaker 2: See, when I was young, young, I thought, ah, ten,
Speaker 2: I have ten grand I'm disappearing for six months?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: The survey found that seventeen percent of Americans would not
Speaker 9: leave their current life behind for any amount of money.
Speaker 9: For these folks, the comforts of home and their established
Speaker 9: routines matter more than the allure of a far off destination.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 9: After traveling it was just like it was fun to
Speaker 9: be out of the routine, yes, and not have the
Speaker 9: same stuff and be able to do different things and
Speaker 9: see different things and not water the plants.
Speaker 6: I mean I missed the cats.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I had somebody to take care of
Speaker 9: the animals. So I guess that would be the hardest
Speaker 9: part for me, would be leaving the pets behind it.
Speaker 9: And I would imagine if you have family, leaving the
Speaker 9: kids behind might be kind of hard to do for
Speaker 9: any length of time. I guess you could take them.
Speaker 9: But other than that, I would I would welcome the
Speaker 9: freedom and the spontaneity of that. About eighteen percent say
Speaker 9: they would try to slow travel, which means they would
Speaker 9: spend several months in each location instead of just going
Speaker 9: from one place to another, which I think would be
Speaker 9: totally cool too, Like you could go there really immerse
Speaker 9: yourself in the culture. You'd have to learn the language, obviously,
Speaker 9: and then go and go to the next place. But
Speaker 9: I was wondering too, like, if you did that, could
Speaker 9: you just go and not work or would you have
Speaker 9: to find work? And how would you find work? Do
Speaker 9: you have to get a visa to work.
Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of countries will not let you
Speaker 2: stay for very long unless you have either proof that
Speaker 2: you can completely support yourself with money already in the bank,
Speaker 2: or that you have a job sponsored of some sort.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so, okay, luxury isn't off the table. There are
Speaker 9: a lot of respondents say they would take it the
Speaker 9: high end way.
Speaker 6: That's how that's how I would do it.
Speaker 9: Seventeen percent want to splurge on fancy hotels and resorts,
Speaker 9: but twelve percent said they would use their travel budget
Speaker 9: to volunteer or give back to communities, which is also
Speaker 9: another interesting thing. We went to Africa and we did
Speaker 9: it kind of the five star way, and we went
Speaker 9: and stayed in nice hotels and then went out on
Speaker 9: safari and stuff. And then I've got a friend who's
Speaker 9: going there and she's like, oh, I'm going to go
Speaker 9: there and help build houses.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, okay, well.
Speaker 11: Good for you.
Speaker 9: I think it's wonderful. I think it's wonderful, but that like,
Speaker 9: that's not the way that I want to travel. So anyway,
Speaker 9: if you've got an extra two hundred and eighty seven,
Speaker 9: seven hundred and thirty one dollars. You just may want
Speaker 9: to take the leap, quit your job and head out. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I would like to take the leap to moving on
Speaker 9: to the next segment, but we are still in case
Speaker 9: you're just joining us and getting your day started. We're
Speaker 9: having some technical difficulties. So we were going to talk
Speaker 9: to Brad Garrett ABC about the guy who escaped from
Speaker 9: prison and he's called the Devil of the Ozarks. Really
Speaker 9: bad character, but I bet it would make a really good.
Speaker 3: Movie show Ozark. He's character from that show.
Speaker 2: This guy ex police chief, fool the guards, knows how
Speaker 2: guards act, fooled the guards into letting him out, letting
Speaker 2: him out.
Speaker 9: You know, yeah, didn't he dress up like a guard
Speaker 9: or something like that. And then there were he was
Speaker 9: the small town's first police chief. There's like four hundred
Speaker 9: people in the town, and so they kind of voted
Speaker 9: it in. But then they found out that he was
Speaker 9: responsible for some rapes and some murders before. And now
Speaker 9: he's serving time and now he's just out and he's
Speaker 9: been out and who knows where he might be, and
Speaker 9: then the guy's in a Louisiana.
Speaker 6: I'm still I'm just amazed.
Speaker 9: That all ten of those guys broke out by busting
Speaker 9: out a wall behind a toilet. They had some help
Speaker 9: from the inside, but they've caught eight of them. I
Speaker 9: just don't see how they think long term they can
Speaker 9: just disappear, especially with how technology and everything, and because
Speaker 9: they have people helping them. Eventually we're going to figure
Speaker 9: out who is you know, who's helping them. Okay, we
Speaker 9: got really good news for you. We're going to come
Speaker 9: back in just a minute. We're going to give you
Speaker 9: some more news. Let you know what's been going on
Speaker 9: while you were sleeping, and we're gonna get you some
Speaker 9: traffic because apparently we're up and running again. Sort of Yeah,
Speaker 9: we're not up and running sort of again.
Speaker 7: There's a workarounds. I would play commercials. Oh okay, other
Speaker 7: than that, no, okay, Well, we're going to be back.
Speaker 7: We've got lots more information. We're still hoping to talk
Speaker 7: to ABC Stephen Portnoy at the top of the hour. That's,
Speaker 7: you know, twenty minutes from now. We might have everything
Speaker 7: fixed by that.
Speaker 6: Otherwise, we're just.
Speaker 9: Going to fill you up with news. Let you know
Speaker 9: what happened while you were asleep. Glad you're getting your
Speaker 9: day started with us. Hope it's running a little more
Speaker 9: smoothly than it is here. But we're gonna to continue
Speaker 9: to go and try to piece things together and hopefully
Speaker 9: we're gonna get fixed. We're still hoping that we're going
Speaker 9: to get to talk to ABC Stephen Portnoy in a
Speaker 9: few minutes because this a court, a three judge court,
Speaker 9: has decided that Trump can't impose those tariffs. He's got
Speaker 9: sweeping tariffs as you know, that have been making the
Speaker 9: stock markets dive and rise and you know, just a
Speaker 9: huge roller coaster ride, and now they're saying, Nope, you
Speaker 9: don't have the authority to do that. So I wanted
Speaker 9: to talk to Stephen to find out, you know, well,
Speaker 9: who does have the authority and how is it supposed
Speaker 9: to do? And of course the term administration is already appealing,
Speaker 9: so we'll see what happens with that.
Speaker 6: But, like I said, hoping that we'll get to talk
Speaker 6: to him.
Speaker 9: Let's let's talk about some more of what's going on
Speaker 9: on wake Up Call and what we're following in the
Speaker 9: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A former stylists for both
Speaker 9: Sean Combs and his ex girlfriend Cassie Ventura say he
Speaker 9: thought Cassie was going to hurt herself when she ran
Speaker 9: off after a bad argument meant with the mogul, the
Speaker 9: rap mogul. Deonte national jurors in his sex trafficking trial
Speaker 9: in New York that he didn't report Comb's violence to
Speaker 9: police because he was afraid of retaliation. The trial continues today.
Speaker 9: Governor Newsom has proposed ending a program that increased juror
Speaker 9: pay in California from fifteen to one hundred dollars a day.
Speaker 9: The program was supposed to help juries better represent their communities,
Speaker 9: but after eight months some communities started opting out because
Speaker 9: of Newsom's budget cuts. Ending the program could save the
Speaker 9: state more than twenty seven million dollars. A runaway laborator
Speaker 9: retriever is alive and well thanks to a fast responding
Speaker 9: Weymo vehicle. Home surveillance video in Santa Monica shows the
Speaker 9: self driving car slam on the brakes, stopping just short
Speaker 9: of hitting the eight year old lab who had gotten
Speaker 9: out of his yard. Weimo says its vehicles have three
Speaker 9: types of sensors to give them a three dimensional view
Speaker 9: of their surroundings. We're going to is she on the phone. Now, Oh, well,
Speaker 9: you know what, we are having lots of technical difficulties,
Speaker 9: but we are able to talk to Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 9: We got to business. Lots of things to get in
Speaker 9: your business. So let's say good morning.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 6: That's why you are, That's why you can hear me.
Speaker 4: You are.
Speaker 9: We always wonder what happens, what happens if all the
Speaker 9: computers go down and all the boards go down. Well
Speaker 9: apparently it has, but we're still gonna We're gonna muddle through,
Speaker 9: and thank goodness we have you to talk to. Because
Speaker 9: there's lots of stuff on the business front. So let's
Speaker 9: dive right into it. First of all, the Texas legislature,
Speaker 9: and this effects us in California is debating a bill
Speaker 9: to provide about one and a half billion dollars over
Speaker 9: ten years to try to lure film, TV and video
Speaker 9: game makers to Texas, which is a big thing in
Speaker 9: LA because we're trying to fight to keep.
Speaker 16: Them here exactly. Texas seems like it's coming for Hollywood. Also,
Speaker 16: New York has been rising in the film industry. Same
Speaker 16: goes for Georgia. So they're just targeting all of these
Speaker 16: But there is a condition here. And this is the
Speaker 16: interesting part of it all. Texas also wants to police
Speaker 16: the content of the movies and the show is getting made,
Speaker 16: so that's a big difference. This is where Hollywood can help,
Speaker 16: so productions that want a grant can't portray the state
Speaker 16: in a negative light, and judgment calls are up to
Speaker 16: a film commissioner that's appointed by the governor.
Speaker 6: Well that sounds a little bit like censorship, doesn't it.
Speaker 16: It seems to be, but you know what, there's they're
Speaker 16: trying in every way to be able to bring the
Speaker 16: entertainment industry to Texas. And in a couple of ways,
Speaker 16: the president has been trying to He met with John Voight,
Speaker 16: you know, the actor, and he's trying to get more
Speaker 16: tax incentives for the film and TV production. So this
Speaker 16: is something that you know, there's money available and people
Speaker 16: want it, but Texas is trying to come up with
Speaker 16: different ways to be able to get people here.
Speaker 9: It is really interesting when I mentioned and censorship, you
Speaker 9: think about like when we have big movies go over
Speaker 9: to say China, and then China pushes back against it
Speaker 9: and says, you know what, that does not paint us
Speaker 9: in a positive light, and so they'll make them or
Speaker 9: some of the movie makers will actually make changes to
Speaker 9: the movie to accommodate that. It's kind of interesting to
Speaker 9: see that Texas might be trying the same thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 16: So the bill, when you dig a little closer into it,
Speaker 16: it's going to offer special grants for productions that promote
Speaker 16: family values, use historic sites, and promote workforce development. But
Speaker 16: the family values, that's an interesting point there. There's also
Speaker 16: similar offerings for faith based projects, rural filming, and productions
Speaker 16: with a certain percentage of military veterans involved.
Speaker 9: Okay, Tinder, we all know it's a hookup site, but
Speaker 9: they don't like that.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so gen Z seems to be ghosting Tinder. That
Speaker 16: changed the dating game for millennials. By younger folks pretty much,
Speaker 16: it's a bit of accessible. I think we all think
Speaker 16: it's a bit of accessible. So if they're looking for love,
Speaker 16: they're just not swiping right. So here's the problem. The
Speaker 16: reputation is it's a place for hookups. Everybody has talked
Speaker 16: about that. So the Wall Street Journal is reporting that
Speaker 16: Tinder's team is trying to create low pressure ways for
Speaker 16: people to meet. So one example, Tinder has been testing
Speaker 16: a double dating feature in Europe where users can team
Speaker 16: up with friends and match with other pairs for dates.
Speaker 16: So that's going to be rolling out globally this summer,
Speaker 16: so a lot of people are going to be looking
Speaker 16: for that at least to get some changes. But you know,
Speaker 16: the dating game has changed over time and what worked
Speaker 16: for each generation.
Speaker 6: You know, gen X, it was the bar culture.
Speaker 16: We saw the rise and apps, and now younger folks
Speaker 16: are looking for different ways to be able to just
Speaker 16: have that emotional connection with somebody.
Speaker 6: They say, when.
Speaker 16: Tinder was going through some of the information that they
Speaker 16: were finding, they said, you know, it's not about numbers,
Speaker 16: it's about the quality of the type of meetings that
Speaker 16: people are having right now, and that's the big difference
Speaker 16: with gen Z.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Okay, so a little trip to Victoria's Secret or maybe
Speaker 9: you want to you know, buy something because you got
Speaker 9: a special date come on up or something you might
Speaker 9: maybe you left out on Tinder, But that's going to
Speaker 9: be an issue because Victoria's Secrets having just like caf I,
Speaker 9: having some technical difficulties.
Speaker 16: Yeah, so if you want to buy a little something today,
Speaker 16: you definitely can't do it online. So the retailers website.
Speaker 16: If you go to it, it's still down due to
Speaker 16: what it calls a security incident. It actually has something
Speaker 16: big that pops up if you bring it up that
Speaker 16: says they're working on it, and it has been offline
Speaker 16: for a number of days. They said this actually started
Speaker 16: over the weekend in certain cases, right after their Memorial
Speaker 16: Day sales. So sources tell us some employees have been
Speaker 16: locked out of their email accounts and Victoria's Secret has
Speaker 16: halted customer care operations and some distribution center operations. However,
Speaker 16: they say the stores remain open, but it is a
Speaker 16: problem if you go in there. They said some store
Speaker 16: services aren't available either when you walk in the door.
Speaker 16: So they say that the recovery is going to take
Speaker 16: a while. They really haven't disclosed what the extent of
Speaker 16: this incident is, but the fact that they're not able
Speaker 16: to get any online sales, which is a big bulk
Speaker 16: of the sales that they do. This is going to
Speaker 16: be a problem for them and going to definitely be
Speaker 16: an issue coming up when it comes to their earnings.
Speaker 16: Reports that Wall Street's going to be watching.
Speaker 9: Okay, and speaking of potential problems, I always get very
Speaker 9: nervous when I hear about new partnerships, and we've got
Speaker 9: United in Jet Blue teaming up.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 16: So this is something that Jet Blue has been trying
Speaker 16: for ways to be able to grow its business. It's
Speaker 16: basically focused mostly on the East Coast. They went through
Speaker 16: some failed mergers and failed partnerships and they've been blocked
Speaker 16: by the Justice Department. But today United and Jet Blue
Speaker 16: says they're teaming up. They're agreeing to a partnership that
Speaker 16: will allow travelers to use loyalty points and book flights
Speaker 16: across the two carriers. So they're calling it the Blue
Speaker 16: Sky Alliance. It's not a merger, definitely want to point
Speaker 16: that out. But the agreement is subject to regulatory reviews,
Speaker 16: so it may not end up happening, but some elements
Speaker 16: of the venture can begin as early as the swall
Speaker 16: Jeff Blue and United they're going to continue to manage
Speaker 16: and price their flights independently, and they're also going to
Speaker 16: launch a bunch of new routes. It's actually going to
Speaker 16: be a big deal here. We've been watching in New
Speaker 16: York because you can't fly out of JFK, which is
Speaker 16: our major airport here, out of United. You have to
Speaker 16: go to Newark Airport, and the other day I was
Speaker 16: driving to Philadelphia and it took me three hours to
Speaker 16: get to drive from my house to Newark Airport. So
Speaker 16: if there was something closer for a lot of New Yorkers,
Speaker 16: a lot of people would be happy. But unfortunately, you
Speaker 16: have a lot more of us traveling to you.
Speaker 6: Guys. You might want to not get not get us
Speaker 6: all on a flight and send it all over to you.
Speaker 9: Absolutely stay where you are, No, just kidding. Okay, what
Speaker 9: are we expecting in the stock market today? Because we
Speaker 9: had that big up day and then we had a
Speaker 9: down day. What are we looking for today?
Speaker 16: Yeah, so it's looking like an update. Stocks are looking
Speaker 16: at solid gains this morning. Well, first of all, a
Speaker 16: trade cord block President Trump's tariff. So anytime there's a
Speaker 16: blocking of tariffs, we do see the markets cheer a bit.
Speaker 16: We were much higher earlier. Today we're seeing a big
Speaker 16: rally now it's come off. DOUT futures are only up
Speaker 16: about forty points, but SMP futures they're up six tens
Speaker 16: of a percent. Another thing that we're watching too is
Speaker 16: Nvidia is seeing a nice pop in the pre market.
Speaker 16: The artificial intelligence chip giant it's big. Bell Weather delivered
Speaker 16: a solid forecast for sales this year. So this is
Speaker 16: good news for artificial intelligence because in Nvidia dominates in
Speaker 16: components that help run AI models. But it was a
Speaker 16: different story yesterday for stocks. They fell on reports that
Speaker 16: the Trump administration is moving to restrict the sale of
Speaker 16: chip design software to China, and the Doubt fell two
Speaker 16: hundred and forty five points. But one other story that
Speaker 16: we're watching for you today is model Hailly Bieber winning
Speaker 16: the Billionaire Beauty Club.
Speaker 3: She did it.
Speaker 16: She her beauty brand, which is called Road, was sold
Speaker 16: to Road that's her middle name, and it's been sold
Speaker 16: to Elf Beauty for a billion dollars. Road has grown
Speaker 16: rapidly since she launched it back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 16: It has beauty skincare products. The big thing that it's
Speaker 16: known for is this peptide lip treatment. My daughter was
Speaker 16: actually talking about this yesterday when I said, oh, you
Speaker 16: know there, this sale actually happened. She's like, yeah, she's
Speaker 16: got this lip treatment, and then she was My daughter
Speaker 16: who's eleven, was explaining all of that. But it's supposed
Speaker 16: to like plump and moisturize your lips. This is what
Speaker 16: she was saying, but it just shows the power of
Speaker 16: influencers and celebrities. I mean, the fact that my eleven
Speaker 16: year old daughter knew about this just shows how much
Speaker 16: these celebrity brands have really come to fruition. Like look
Speaker 16: at Rihanna and her beauty brands, Kylie Jenner, Selena Gohman
Speaker 16: and her Rare Beauty. They all have now these successful labels.
Speaker 16: But again, a lot of it came from the social
Speaker 16: media and reaching out to people in order to be
Speaker 16: able to get them on.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's getting in your business.
Speaker 9: The extended version with Bloomberg's Courtney Dono because she's the
Speaker 9: only person we could talk to today.
Speaker 6: Courtney, thank you.
Speaker 16: So much, good luck today.
Speaker 6: Thank you Harry about that anything. They're going to be fine.
Speaker 6: As soon as handle gets here, they just leave us
Speaker 6: playling on wake up call. But it's all good. Thanks.
Speaker 6: We'll talk to you tomorrow, Okay, see you later, all right,
Speaker 6: Thanks Cortney.
Speaker 9: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 9: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ice has been
Speaker 9: taking people into custody from courthouses in Northern California. Three
Speaker 9: people were taken into custody on Tuesday at the Sacramento
Speaker 9: Immigration Court in downtown and three from courthouse in San Francisco.
Speaker 9: Public defender Louis Reyes sal Savalza says it violates due process.
Speaker 15: It is unclear to us exactly who it is that
Speaker 15: they are targeting. Whoever they are targeting, These are people
Speaker 15: who are in court proceedings, already in immigration court, who
Speaker 15: are applying for relief in this country lawfully.
Speaker 9: Recent attentions have risen as President Trump intensifies deportations. A
Speaker 9: six four year old from Mexico may be deported despite
Speaker 9: her family saying she needs life saving care here.
Speaker 5: The girl has been called Sophia to protect her identity.
Speaker 5: She suffers from short bowel syndrome and spends fourteen hours
Speaker 5: a day hooked up to an IV feeding system. Attorney
Speaker 5: Rebecca Brown says her mother and Sophia came to the
Speaker 5: US legally on parole, but their protected status has been
Speaker 5: reversed by President Trump.
Speaker 9: All that Daisy wants is for her child to continue
Speaker 9: to receive the amazing care that Sofia is getting at
Speaker 9: Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: The family is settled in Bakersfield, where Sofia is reportedly
Speaker 5: getting better, but the family says without the American medical team,
Speaker 5: Sofia could die within days. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 9: A thirty two year old therapist is pleaded not guilty
Speaker 9: to charges he molested an autistic boy in his home
Speaker 9: and Garden Grove. Prosecutors say Salvador Ariaga was working for
Speaker 9: Behavioral Health Works the time he's accused of molesting the
Speaker 9: boy in September during a session in the client's bedroom.
Speaker 9: A free mobile service that offers showers in hygiene products
Speaker 9: to homeless people in LA could be going away. Funding
Speaker 9: for the program, called the Shower of Hope, is not
Speaker 9: included in the cities revised nearly fourteen billion dollar budget.
Speaker 9: The program provided more than thirty seven thousand showers during
Speaker 9: the past year, about twenty three thousand of those in
Speaker 9: skid row. The program costs the city seven hundred and
Speaker 9: fifty thousand dollars a year. Metrolink is offering rides a
Speaker 9: new or a rider's rather a new way to stay
Speaker 9: updated on service alerts.
Speaker 17: Metrolink says the new tool creates a much needed way
Speaker 17: to let riters know about track changes, line closures and delays.
Speaker 17: Those who opt in will no longer need to search
Speaker 17: for updates through a variety of online channels or at stations,
Speaker 17: and will instead get the infocent directly to them. When
Speaker 17: signing up for Metrolink alerts, customers will be asked to
Speaker 17: customize how they prefer to get them, either by text, email,
Speaker 17: or both, which trains and stations they want in about,
Speaker 17: and days and times they would like to get the notifications.
Speaker 17: Deborah mark Koffi News. Some mother's been arrested for a
Speaker 17: drunk driving crash in Upland. She had her two kids
Speaker 17: in the car with her at the time.
Speaker 5: The woman crashed into a parked bright green colored jeep
Speaker 5: on Monday night. The Upland Police Department says she managed
Speaker 5: to crash into the brightest parked vehicle on the road.
Speaker 5: The woman suffered minor injuries, her two kids were not hurt.
Speaker 5: The mother is accused of DUI and child endangerment. The
Speaker 5: kids were released to a relative. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 9: A mother bear and her cub have taken a dip
Speaker 9: in a backyard swimming pool in northern California. Video shows
Speaker 9: a playful little cub jumping into the pool in Auburn,
Speaker 9: Auburn the Mama bear coaxed it out of the water.
Speaker 6: Then must have thought, hey, a swim sounds like a
Speaker 6: good idea.
Speaker 9: Because then she jumped in and swam around, showing her
Speaker 9: cub how it's done. Governor new Simpson's President Trump's tariffs
Speaker 9: are negatively impacting dock workers, warehouse employees, and local businesses.
Speaker 9: A Cow Matters report shows the court had seventeen ships
Speaker 9: canceled deliveries in May the Port of Los Angeles I'm
Speaker 9: speaking about. That's compared to twelve during the same time
Speaker 9: last year. Ten have already been canceled for June. The
Speaker 9: US Justice Department says it will investigate whether a California
Speaker 9: law allowing transgender athletes to compete on female sports teams
Speaker 9: violates the Title nine Civil Rights Law. A seventh grader
Speaker 9: at the Merman School in bel Airs one of nine
Speaker 9: spellers still standing in the script's National Spelling Bee in Maryland.
Speaker 9: Oliver Hawkett advanced to today's finals. A speller from La
Speaker 9: County has never won the bet. We're just minutes away
Speaker 9: from handle on the news, but we are very excited
Speaker 9: because we get to talk to ABC Stephen Portnoy this morning.
Speaker 9: Stephen We're so excited because we've been having technical issues
Speaker 9: and have been able to talk to anybody today, so.
Speaker 3: By what an hour?
Speaker 9: It's well, yeah, I feel bad for everybody who's listening
Speaker 9: to Wake Up call, but appreciate them hanging with us.
Speaker 9: But I've been talking about hopefully talking to you all morning.
Speaker 9: Because President Trump lost another round in court. This one
Speaker 9: could be a big one.
Speaker 12: What happened, Yeah, I mean, look, remember, tariffs are are
Speaker 12: part of the President's agenda here because he wants to
Speaker 12: accomplish a number of goals. He wants to rebalance trade
Speaker 12: in America's interest, he wants to exact concessions from foreign countries,
Speaker 12: he wants to boost domestic manufacturing, he wants to raise revenue. Well,
Speaker 12: the court in New York, the US Court of International Trade,
Speaker 12: which here's such disputes, came in and said, uh, sir,
Speaker 12: remember that clause in the Constitution that says that Congress
Speaker 12: shall lay and collect duties, taxes, imposts excises all that,
Speaker 12: not the President. And therefore you have claimed unbounded authority
Speaker 12: that you simply don't have under the law, that you've
Speaker 12: exceeded any authority granted to you under the law, and Therefore,
Speaker 12: all the tariffs, well most of the tariffs you've imposed
Speaker 12: since you took office, those will have to be taken
Speaker 12: off the books.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 12: The administration obviously appealing this to the US Court of
Speaker 12: Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which is here in DC,
Speaker 12: a little known court that deals with the actions of
Speaker 12: federal agencies. The administration the small is asking the three
Speaker 12: judge panel in New York to pause its own order,
Speaker 12: saying that not doing so would cause a foreign policy
Speaker 12: disaster scenario, destroy a carefully negotiated agreement with China, shatter
Speaker 12: other negotiations now ongoing. Well, we'll see what happens, but
Speaker 12: you know, ultimately will be this appeal. It could wind
Speaker 12: up before the Supreme Court. And the question is whether
Speaker 12: the President of the United States himself has the power
Speaker 12: to declare an emergency and under a law that's fifty
Speaker 12: years old, say that he has the power to regulate
Speaker 12: trade and therefore impose tariffs, picking a number essentially at
Speaker 12: a thin air ten percent global baseline, and then this
Speaker 12: formula based on what he perceives as a trade in
Speaker 12: balance with respect to goods, not services. And this mathematical
Speaker 12: form that they invented without the people's representatives in Congress
Speaker 12: taking an up or down vote on any of it.
Speaker 9: Okay, So Stephen in if everybody kind of followed traditional
Speaker 9: letter of the law, didn't make emergency declarations and all
Speaker 9: that kind of stuff, if President Trump wanted to impose tariffs,
Speaker 9: he would have to go to Congress and ask them
Speaker 9: to put together a bill and pass the idea.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I mean, look, we make a lot of the fact
Speaker 12: that Congress doesn't do much these days. But Congress can
Speaker 12: pass a law. Congress can pass alaw any time it chooses.
Speaker 12: It's just this is a particularly unpopular idea in Congress.
Speaker 12: It'd be very difficult to get a majority in the
Speaker 12: House and send it to back tax on imports to
Speaker 12: this country because a lot of Republicans and a lot
Speaker 12: of Democrats disagree with the idea. So the president simply says, well,
Speaker 12: I was elected, I campaigned on this, I won, and
Speaker 12: therefore I will. That's typically not how our system works,
Speaker 12: and sometimes courts have to remind the president of that.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: So what's next the appeal?
Speaker 12: Yep, we'll find out whether the three judge panel agrees
Speaker 12: with the President that there's a reason to pause disorder
Speaker 12: didn't seem to me in reading the opinion last night,
Speaker 12: that they're inclined to do it.
Speaker 3: But we'll see, all.
Speaker 9: Right, ABC, Stephen portnoy As always, thank you so much
Speaker 9: for helping us make sense of the sometimes very senseless
Speaker 9: things going on in DC. All right, let's get back
Speaker 9: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 9: twenty four our newsroom. People who work for La City
Speaker 9: council members will not be getting a pay increase that
Speaker 9: was promised.
Speaker 5: The Ely City Council has voted to council a scheduled
Speaker 5: four percent pay bump in June because of the city's
Speaker 5: dire financial condition. Council aids have been scheduled for three
Speaker 5: races next month, in December, and again next June. Mayor
Speaker 5: Bass also says she'll take a pay cut. Her office
Speaker 5: hasn't said how much, but a spokesman says workers in
Speaker 5: the office are for going their raises too. The city
Speaker 5: council was given first approval to a new budget, closing
Speaker 5: a billion dollar budget gap, leaving hundreds of workers facing layoffs.
Speaker 5: Final vote is scheduled for tomorrow. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 9: News California Energy Commission will take public comments on a
Speaker 9: proposed lithium battery storage facility in Orange County. If approved,
Speaker 9: the facility would be built near the five Freeway in
Speaker 9: San Juan Capistrano. It would collect excess energy from the
Speaker 9: grid and then, during peak demand, would discharge enough energy
Speaker 9: to power about one hundred thousand homes. Astronomers have discovered
Speaker 9: a new celestial object in the Milky Way.
Speaker 17: The object is emitting X rays around the same time
Speaker 17: it's shooting out radio waves. Located fifteen thousand light years away.
Speaker 17: Signed to say this object could be a star, pair
Speaker 17: of stars, or something else entirely. The findings were published
Speaker 17: yesterday in the journal Nature. NASA spotted the X ray
Speaker 17: emissions by chance last year while focusing on a super
Speaker 17: nova remnant or the remains of an exploded star.
Speaker 6: Deborah Mark KFI News. Yeah, all that stuff just makes
Speaker 6: my head explode.
Speaker 9: This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 9: I want to say thank you for hanging with us,
Speaker 9: and it today was a wonky little day because we
Speaker 9: were having some technical difficulties and it always is jarring
Speaker 9: to me when you throw your schedule off, and so
Speaker 9: hopefully we didn't mess your schedule up too Bad, Live
Speaker 9: from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom, I'm Amy King.
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