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Speaker 1: Well, good morning. This is your wake up call for Wednesday,
Speaker 1: June eighteenth. It's five o'clock straight up. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: Time to get up, get going. Lots of big stuff
Speaker 1: planned again today. One of not remind you, but want
Speaker 1: to let you know that we had Colonel Haig in yesterday.
Speaker 1: NASA Astronaut Space Force guardian came and visit us at
Speaker 1: the studio and then went to the Dodger game last night.
Speaker 1: Throughout the first pitch, his son was a little nervous
Speaker 1: about it. It was perfect. It was, of course perfect,
Speaker 1: he did. It's so good, I know, right, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to probably post that on my Instagram at Amy
Speaker 1: Kay King. We also have part of the interview from
Speaker 1: our time with Colonel Haig yesterday, and you can also
Speaker 1: listen to Bill Handle's interview with Colonel Haig because he
Speaker 1: was on with Bill at seven o'clock. But such a
Speaker 1: treat and he signed some pictures his official astronaut picture
Speaker 1: for us, and so we're going to give you a
Speaker 1: chance to win some So that's coming up this hour
Speaker 1: as well. If you'd like an autographed picture of Colonel
Speaker 1: Nick Haig, here's what's ahead on wake up Call. For
Speaker 1: the first time this week, there was no overnight curfew
Speaker 1: in downtown La Mayor Bass announced that the order was
Speaker 1: being lifted yesterday afternoon. She said though if there is
Speaker 1: more violence or looting, the curfew could be reinstated. Homeowners
Speaker 1: have sued the state's largest insurance company, claiming that State
Speaker 1: Farm under insured them. The lawsuit says State Farm used
Speaker 1: faulty tools to estimate the cost of rebuilding, which allowed
Speaker 1: the company to sell lower value policies that cost costs less,
Speaker 1: but that misled them about their coverage, and homeowners say
Speaker 1: they've been left with coverage limits that don't cover the
Speaker 1: cost of rebuilding. Israeli warpay planes have pounded in Iran's
Speaker 1: capital overnight and into Wednesday, as Iran launched a small
Speaker 1: barrage of missiles at Israel, with no reports of any casualties.
Speaker 1: We're going to find out the latest with ABC's Jordana
Speaker 1: Miller in Jerusalem, who's hopefully not in a bomb shelter
Speaker 1: right now, we're talking to her. In about three minutes.
Speaker 1: Metta is going all in to get super smart and
Speaker 1: a big, beautiful phone. What else could it be but
Speaker 1: a Trump phone. ABC's Mike Dubuski joins us to tell
Speaker 1: us more about Trump Mobile. Amy's on it. A new
Speaker 1: Julianne Moore movie. This woman gets into it deep, the
Speaker 1: links a mother will go to for her child and
Speaker 1: the stupid things she will also do. Really interesting show
Speaker 1: that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. And
Speaker 1: then a group of kids has gathered together to help
Speaker 1: kids affected by the Eton fire rise from the ashes.
Speaker 1: It's a really special concert. It's happening tonight. They're raising
Speaker 1: money to buy new instruments for students who lost theirs
Speaker 1: in the fire. And that's so cool. That's coming up
Speaker 1: at five point fifty. We'll tell you all about that.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The la keunny
Speaker 1: DA and the US Attorney have announced war arrests and
Speaker 1: charges against people allegedly involved in the recent anti ice protests.
Speaker 1: These weren't peaceful protesters.
Speaker 4: They weren't holding up signs expressing a political message.
Speaker 5: They were agitators.
Speaker 6: People came to do violence.
Speaker 1: US Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Assale,
Speaker 1: says his office has charged dozens of people with felony
Speaker 1: crimes since the protests began on June sixth. DA Hawkman's
Speaker 1: office has filed state charges against thirty people. Some are
Speaker 1: facing both state and federal charges. News brought to you
Speaker 1: by Sit and Sleep. Businesses in downtown have started to
Speaker 1: reopen now they're just waiting on customers.
Speaker 2: There's a restaurant here in Little Tokyo that has a
Speaker 2: handwritten sign that says open, immigrant own, and that sign
Speaker 2: is attached to the boards that are protecting the door.
Speaker 2: Without that sign, you might otherwise not know that it
Speaker 2: is open. That you have a couple of other cheeky
Speaker 2: signs saying please no destroy, support immigration, not enough insurance.
Speaker 2: It's kind of the vibe down here. There are businesses
Speaker 2: that are open, it's difficult to tell sometimes because of
Speaker 2: the plywood that's been attached to the windows to protect them.
Speaker 2: Reporting in downtown La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The biggest lottery jackpot winner in history is keeping his
Speaker 1: money close to home.
Speaker 7: Edwin Castro's two dollars lottery ticket was the only winner
Speaker 7: for the more than two billion dollar jackpot in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty two. He ended up with about six hundred twenty
Speaker 7: nine million dollars have to take in the lump sum
Speaker 7: and taxes. With that, he's been buying real estate, including
Speaker 7: a four million dollar home in his hometown, Alta Dina,
Speaker 7: and a nearly four million dollar home in Malibu, which
Speaker 7: was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades Fire in January. La
Speaker 7: County property records shows since the fires, Castro has bought
Speaker 7: at least a dozen homes in the Alta Dina area
Speaker 7: at prices between five hundred and thirty thousand and nine
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for a total of just
Speaker 7: under nine million bucks. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1: Keeping it close. I like that, Okay, we're waiting to
Speaker 1: connect with ABC's Jordona Miller. She'll be calling us from Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Of course, things are very dicey at times there, so
Speaker 1: we don't know. She might have been into a bomb
Speaker 1: shelter or something like that if Iran has launched more missiles.
Speaker 1: But we'll wait for her, and in the meantime, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Oh, we have her,
Speaker 1: so let's go right to her. ABC's jerdonnah Miller in Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire, with Israel continuing
Speaker 1: its attacks on military nuclear development sites in Iran firing
Speaker 1: in civilian areas. How are things going this morning.
Speaker 6: Well, overnight, the Iranians fired two waves of ballistic ballistic
Speaker 6: missile strikes on Israel around twelve thirty local and one am.
Speaker 6: Those about thirty missiles were fired, according to the Israeli Army,
Speaker 6: and thankfully no one was really hurt, a few running
Speaker 6: to their bomb shelters, but no major injuries and no fatalities. Again,
Speaker 6: most of those missiles were shot down, but a few
Speaker 6: did crash down around the central Tel Aviv area and
Speaker 6: from what we understand, around the complex near the complex
Speaker 6: of some Israeli military defense and buildings. And that's not
Speaker 6: the first time that that has happened. And on the
Speaker 6: Israeli side, we heard from the spokesman of the Israeli
Speaker 6: Army a short while ago that the Israelis have carried
Speaker 6: out in ten strikes overnight on ten Iran, hitting not
Speaker 6: only factories that make most of missiles, but also centrifuges,
Speaker 6: and the IAEA appears to confirm that Israel has destroyed
Speaker 6: some centrifuge factories in the Tehran area in their reporting
Speaker 6: on the events. And of course, the big headline here
Speaker 6: really and what has preoccupied israelis not only officials but
Speaker 6: the public is the question of whether President Trump will
Speaker 6: join Israel's war against Iran's nuclear ambitions or not.
Speaker 1: Okay, And while we wait for that information, I mean,
Speaker 1: Israel is just kind of keeping on its same tack
Speaker 1: and knowing that the big thing, at least from what
Speaker 1: I've been hearing, Jordana, and tell me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: is that we can't or Israel can't get that main
Speaker 1: nuclear development site because it's down too deep. They need
Speaker 1: like a bunker buster bomb and Israel doesn't have.
Speaker 6: Them, right, Israel doesn't have them and they don't have
Speaker 6: the aircraft to carry them. So the Israelis can do
Speaker 6: some damage to for Dow. That's the nuclear facility that
Speaker 6: Israel hasn't touched yet. It's buried deep inside mountain and
Speaker 6: Quom and it was you know, it was built there
Speaker 6: of course to protect it from aerial strikes. So the
Speaker 6: Israelis can do some damage to that facility, but they
Speaker 6: can't really deal a fatal blow to that facility without
Speaker 6: the help of the United States. That is from everything
Speaker 6: we know now. Do the Israelis potentially have something up
Speaker 6: their sleeve that they are going to unleash on before
Speaker 6: Dow that we don't know about. It's entirely possible, but
Speaker 6: the conventional wisdom is that to really strike like that facility,
Speaker 6: Israel would need the United States. And Israel has been
Speaker 6: at least in these opening days, quite successful in keeping
Speaker 6: Iran in a state of kind of shock and awe
Speaker 6: and establishing a degree of superiority from the skies, and
Speaker 6: they're able to get in and out of Iran safely, right,
Speaker 6: So this is a this is a major achievement, and
Speaker 6: because they've been so successful, it appears that it has
Speaker 6: now created this kind of ripe moment where if the
Speaker 6: United States decides to join in, you know, it could
Speaker 6: be a decisive blow to Iran's nuclear ambitions, which is
Speaker 6: you know, the aim of this operation according to the Israelis, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: And of course, President Trump continues to say Iran cannot
Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapons, so we're gonna have to wait
Speaker 1: and see what happens if the US joins in or
Speaker 1: Israel does it on their own. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the information. As always, Stay safe, Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks talk soon, all right, And we're just we're also
Speaker 1: hearing word this morning that leader Komayne is saying that
Speaker 1: if the US does join up with Israel, it's going
Speaker 1: to cause irreparable harm. He said it could cause all
Speaker 1: out war. So we don't know if that's saber rattling,
Speaker 1: if Iran has something up at sleeve. So we're just
Speaker 1: going to have to wait and see. And as I
Speaker 1: was listening to Gary and Shannon yesterday, they were saying
Speaker 1: that they think something's going to happen soon, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like things are kind of heating up or moving
Speaker 1: our assets into place in the Middle East, our military
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff in a defensive posture. So
Speaker 1: we shall see. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: New figures show up to a million illegal immigrants have
Speaker 1: left the US since President Trump started his second term.
Speaker 1: Census data shows they've been dropping out of the workforce
Speaker 1: at a high rate. Art Arthur from the Center for
Speaker 1: Immigration Studies tells kfi's John Cobalt it's about one hundred
Speaker 1: ninety thousand people per month.
Speaker 4: ICE admit that it's deported about just over two hundred
Speaker 4: thousand people. Those other people had to gone somewhere, and
Speaker 4: they went home.
Speaker 1: He says, most illegal immigrants who come to the US
Speaker 1: end up working blue collar jobs. At least one member
Speaker 1: of Congress has canceled a scheduled town hall after learning
Speaker 1: that their name was included on the hit list of
Speaker 1: an accused killer in Minnesota.
Speaker 8: Authority say fifty seven year old Vans volt Or had
Speaker 8: a hit list of at least forty five state and
Speaker 8: federal elected officials, most or all Democrats.
Speaker 1: ABC's Faith Abu bass Hiss. Members of Congress want the
Speaker 1: divisive political rhetoric on all sides to be toned down.
Speaker 1: A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were shot and
Speaker 1: killed over the weekend. A state senator and his wife
Speaker 1: were also shot, but they survived. Americans have been warned
Speaker 1: not to travel to Iran under any circumstances. The warning
Speaker 1: comes mid reports at the White House is considering an
Speaker 1: offensive strike against Iran. State Department spokesperson Tammy bursas the
Speaker 1: department's working to help US citizens in the Middle East
Speaker 1: stay informed as tensions escalate. Civil aviation officials in India
Speaker 1: have met with Air India officials to go over the
Speaker 1: airline's operations following a crash that killed more than two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty people.
Speaker 5: Following the inspections of the airline's Boeing seven to eighty
Speaker 5: seven fleet, no major safety concerns were found. The aircraft
Speaker 5: and associated maintenance systems were found to be compliant with
Speaker 5: existing safety.
Speaker 1: Standards ABC's and As Delacataire says it's still not known
Speaker 1: what caused the crash last week. One man survived. The
Speaker 1: Food and Drug Administration says it'll offer faster drug reviews
Speaker 1: to some companies.
Speaker 8: The FDA says the sped up process will go to
Speaker 8: those companies that align with Trump administration priorities for Americans' health.
Speaker 8: The new program aims to review select drugs in just
Speaker 8: one to two months. The FDA already has a variety
Speaker 8: of programs designed to speed up drug reviews, but they
Speaker 8: all have fairly strict medical criteria, debor Mark Kafi.
Speaker 1: News celebrity chef Anne Burrell has died. TMC says she
Speaker 1: was found unresponsive in her home yesterday in Brooklyn, New York,
Speaker 1: and paramedics couldn't revive her. Burrell, with her signature bleached blonde,
Speaker 1: spiky hair, was best known for her appearances on the
Speaker 1: Food Network. She was fifty five years old. Tom Cruise
Speaker 1: and Dolly Parton will be honored by the Academy of
Speaker 1: Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year's Governor's Awards. Cruz
Speaker 1: is going to get an Honorary Oscar for what the
Speaker 1: Academy calls his incredible commitment to our filmmaking community, to
Speaker 1: the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community. Of course,
Speaker 1: he does its own stunts. Parton is getting the Gene
Speaker 1: Herschalt Humanitarian Award. The board says the country music legend
Speaker 1: exemplifies the spirit of the award with unwavering dedication to
Speaker 1: charitable efforts. She does so much. The sixteenth annual Governor's
Speaker 1: Awards will be held in November in LA. The Trump
Speaker 1: administration has activated another two thousand California National Guard troops
Speaker 1: to send to LA as immigration enforcement efforts in the
Speaker 1: area continue. The troops are stationed in northern California. Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom's office criticized the announcement yesterday. The governor has requested
Speaker 1: a six month delay in the implementation of a new law,
Speaker 1: which requires large employer health plans to cover in vitro
Speaker 1: fertilization and infertility treatments. If no change is made, the
Speaker 1: law will start on July first. Carson's been declared a
Speaker 1: fireworks free zone ahead of the fourth of July. Violators
Speaker 1: face finds up to five thousand dollars. People who report
Speaker 1: illegal fireworks can earn rewards up to five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: At six oh five tandle on the news, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be taking a look at all the hot topics for
Speaker 1: the day. Right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: tech reporter. It's Mike Debusky. Morning, Mike, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 2: How are you good.
Speaker 1: So Meta is making moves to make itself really really smart.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 9: So.
Speaker 3: Meta is investing in what's called a super intelligence lab,
Speaker 3: and they are making this major investment more than fourteen
Speaker 3: billion dollars in this company called Scale AI in order
Speaker 3: to do that So what Scale AI is is they
Speaker 3: are a human verified AI research firm. Essentially, they're a
Speaker 3: picks and shovels company. They're a company that gives the
Speaker 3: larger large language models, right the Googles and the open
Speaker 3: Ayes of the world, the material they need to train
Speaker 3: their chatbots and AI systems. So they're kind of behind
Speaker 3: the scenes, but they're really important in the AI space.
Speaker 3: Meta is making a more than fourteen billion dollar investment
Speaker 3: in this company. They are making a forty nine percent
Speaker 3: acquisition stake in this company, and they're getting their CEO
Speaker 3: in the process, a guy named Alexander Wang, to head
Speaker 3: up this new super intelligence lab with the goal of
Speaker 3: creating technology that they say will be smarter than the
Speaker 3: human brain, that will go beyond the capabilities of what
Speaker 3: we can do as humans and usher in this new
Speaker 3: era of technology. Amy. I can already tell that your
Speaker 3: eyebrow is raising, but there is reason to be skeptical here.
Speaker 3: But that is what they say they are doing, and
Speaker 3: Meta seems very committed to the idea because fourteen billion
Speaker 3: dollars is nothing to sneeze at.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Mike, is is it to catch up to
Speaker 1: like open AI or is it to go beyond.
Speaker 3: Them both essentially. So Meta has found itself sort of
Speaker 3: behind in the AI race right Their large latest large
Speaker 3: language model, it's known as LAMA four, kind of you know,
Speaker 3: failed to meet expectations. It doesn't do quite as well
Speaker 3: on some of the tests that we subject these large
Speaker 3: language models to. And Open AI and and some others
Speaker 3: out there Anthropic Google are kind of at the head
Speaker 3: of this, and Meta doesn't want to be left behind
Speaker 3: because they see this as again kind of the next
Speaker 3: turn of the screw, the next evolution in the world
Speaker 3: of technology, and they think that scale AI are the
Speaker 3: kind of guys to help do this. So that is
Speaker 3: part of this. There are again some reasons to be
Speaker 3: skeptical of this idea of a superintelligence that's gonna you know,
Speaker 3: change our lives and let us all go on vacation
Speaker 3: and you know, computers handle things. For example, Apple recently
Speaker 3: put out a reportant Apple itself is very much in
Speaker 3: the AI race that found that the current cutting edge
Speaker 3: of large language models, known as large reasoning models, have
Speaker 3: quote fundamental limitations that they're not quite as smart as
Speaker 3: we think they are, that they're not really reasoning in
Speaker 3: the way that our human brains do. Reports from Arizona
Speaker 3: State University and others sort of back that claim up.
Speaker 3: Even still, this is a hot topic in Silicon Valley,
Speaker 3: with Sam Altman, who's the CEO of Open Ai, telling
Speaker 3: President Trump recently that they are going to achieve this
Speaker 3: super intelligent computer that matches or surpasses the capabilities of
Speaker 3: the human brain by the end of his term. Dario Amiday,
Speaker 3: who's the head of Anthropics, said that we could see
Speaker 3: major disruptions from this type of technology in the next
Speaker 3: two to three years.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's exciting and scary al at the same time. Okay,
Speaker 1: so cool job. Yeah, let's talk about this big, beautiful phone.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 3: So on Monday here in New York City, the Trump
Speaker 3: Organization announced that they are making a major move into
Speaker 3: the world of telecom. They are announcing Trump Mobile, which
Speaker 3: is what's known as an mv and O, a mobile
Speaker 3: virtual network operator, which is essentially a small cell phone
Speaker 3: provider that kind of piggybacks off the networks of the
Speaker 3: larger providers.
Speaker 1: So it's like Mint Mobile, It's.
Speaker 3: Exactly like Mick Mobile. These two companies are going to
Speaker 3: compete with one another. Cricket Wireless is another one that
Speaker 3: is in this space. And as part of this, despite
Speaker 3: the fact that they say Trump Mobile will work with
Speaker 3: pretty much any modern smartphone, they are launching their own
Speaker 3: proprietary device. It's called the T one. Technically its full
Speaker 3: name is the T one eight thousand and two Gold version,
Speaker 3: and that name is not a missover. It is gold.
Speaker 3: It is trimmed in gold leaf for or some sort
Speaker 3: of gold.
Speaker 1: Effect it has to be if it's tied to Trump,
Speaker 1: oh of course.
Speaker 3: And it has a big T on the bag an
Speaker 3: American flag as you would expect, and it appears to
Speaker 3: be a pretty standard Android device. They are saying that
Speaker 3: this is going to go for about five hundred dollars
Speaker 3: and that you know, runs Android fifteen. It has a
Speaker 3: six point eight inch screen, one hundred and twenty hertz
Speaker 3: for fresh rate, what you would kind of expect from
Speaker 3: a phone at that price point in the Android ecosystem.
Speaker 3: But once you dive a little deeper into the specs
Speaker 3: that we have on the website, which is pretty much
Speaker 3: all we have on this phone, no one's really gotten
Speaker 3: a chance to play around with it, it gets a
Speaker 3: little confusing. Under the storage section, they say that it
Speaker 3: has twelve gigabytes of RAM, and RAM and storage are
Speaker 3: two different things. There's no information about a processor, and
Speaker 3: a processor is pretty important to the world of smartphones
Speaker 3: and up until recently, on the website, they claimed it
Speaker 3: had a five thousand milliamp hour camera, but milliamp hours
Speaker 3: are used to describe batteries, so there were some typos
Speaker 3: on the website, it seems like. And the photo that
Speaker 3: they have, again the only photo that we have of
Speaker 3: this device, appears to be a rendering, a computer generated
Speaker 3: image or some sort of photoshopped deal. Because it has
Speaker 3: a three camera array. It looks sort of like an
Speaker 3: iPhone trimmed in gold, but there's no flash on that
Speaker 3: camera array, which is what you would expect to see
Speaker 3: on something like that. So maybe reason for pause if
Speaker 3: you're thinking about purchasing a t one, but you still
Speaker 3: can put down one hundred dollars deposit if none of
Speaker 3: that is enough to dissuade you.
Speaker 1: Do we have any idea of a timeframe, like when
Speaker 1: they're going to launch the service and start telling the phones.
Speaker 3: So on the website it says coming soon. There's also
Speaker 3: other reporting out there that says that it could be
Speaker 3: as soon as the fall. But a real wrench in
Speaker 3: all this, Amy, is that the Trump organization says they
Speaker 3: plan to build this phone in the United States. There
Speaker 3: is no major smartphone that is built in the United States.
Speaker 3: We don't really have an infrastructure to do it. And
Speaker 3: that would mean that, you know, if they are serious
Speaker 3: about this, they would have to spin up a factory,
Speaker 3: they would have to hire workers, they would have to
Speaker 3: train workers. We don't train workers to build smartphones here,
Speaker 3: set up supply chains and suppliers and what have you.
Speaker 3: It would be really a monumental task that we have
Speaker 3: not seen undertaken in the United States. And at five
Speaker 3: hundred dollars, that is I think a big reason for
Speaker 3: skepticism because, especially within that timeframe, that's that's kind of unrealistic.
Speaker 3: So it is possible that they're going to import a
Speaker 3: phone from elsewhere, but also that would run counter to
Speaker 3: the Trump organizations kind.
Speaker 1: Of made in America thing.
Speaker 3: Attempt to get yeah, manufacturing back to America. But we'll
Speaker 3: just have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: All Right, ABC's tech reporter Mike Debuski, thanks so much,
Speaker 1: of course, Amy too. All Right, Tucson and off duty
Speaker 1: LA Kenny Sheriff's deputy has been killed in a crash
Speaker 1: on the one to one freeway in Studio City. Thirty
Speaker 1: one year old Marcos Pana Junior was a passenger in
Speaker 1: a ride share car that was involved in a crash
Speaker 1: near the one seventy and one thirty four interchange yesterday.
Speaker 1: That was a crash that Will was telling you about
Speaker 1: all morning. Another passenger in the car was also killed.
Speaker 1: A man in Santa Monica has been arrested for allegedly
Speaker 1: trying to sexually assault an eighty four year old woman.
Speaker 1: Police say she was grabbed June fifth and dragged into
Speaker 1: an alley near sixth Street and Wilshire Boulevard. People heard
Speaker 1: screaming and called for help. The man named Pope Tall
Speaker 1: was arrested nearby. He's facing charges that include kidnapping, an
Speaker 1: assault with attempt to commit rape, and also a probation violation.
Speaker 1: A former receptionist to music and dance school in her
Speaker 1: Mosa Beach has been arrested for allegedly putting cameras in
Speaker 1: several bathrooms at the school. Jordan Godoa is facing several charges,
Speaker 1: including invasion of privacy and possession of child pornography. Law
Speaker 1: enforcement in California is warning about fake parking tickets.
Speaker 9: In Santa Cruz. Fake tickets are now showing up for
Speaker 9: the third summer in a row. Fake tickets were recently
Speaker 9: placed on cars near beaches. Police advised checking any ticket
Speaker 9: details carefully. The scams often include QR codes on the
Speaker 9: tickets that lead to fake payment websites. It's unclear how
Speaker 9: many fake tickets have been issued or how many people
Speaker 9: have been tricked into paying. Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1: KFI News oh that Security Secretary Christy Nome has been
Speaker 1: taken to the hospital in Washington, DC. ABC's Kana Whitworth
Speaker 1: says it turned out to be just as a precaution.
Speaker 1: She suffered an allergic reaction, adding that she was brought
Speaker 1: to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. That
Speaker 1: she is alert and recovering. She says Gnome is not
Speaker 1: expected to be in the hospital for law. Hey, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers beat the Padres a to six last night at
Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. We'll try to make it three in a
Speaker 1: row when the Dodgers take on the Padres at Dodger
Speaker 1: Stadium again tonight. First pitch goes out at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM
Speaker 1: five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 1: Asahi super Dry, discover Japan's number one selling beer at
Speaker 1: your favorite part or grocer. Who will have control of
Speaker 1: California's National Guard remains up in the air. Governor Newsom
Speaker 1: Scissors should be him. President Trump, who federalized troops to
Speaker 1: protect federal buildings and ice agents around La, says he
Speaker 1: has the authority. The ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
Speaker 1: heard arguments in the case yesterday and is expected to
Speaker 1: make a decision this week. President Trump may be considering
Speaker 1: an offensive strike against Iraq. The President met with his
Speaker 1: national security team yesterday and also called for Iran's unconditional surrender.
Speaker 1: Israel has already dealt a significant blow to Iran's nuclear program,
Speaker 1: but doesn't have the weapons to take out sites buried
Speaker 1: in the mountains the US does. You'll be seeing more
Speaker 1: way mos around LA. I should say you'll be seeing
Speaker 1: way more way moos around La. The autonomous ride hailing
Speaker 1: service is expanding starting today into Plya, del Ray, Ladera Heights,
Speaker 1: Echo Park, Silver Lake and along Sunset Boulevard. Weymos will
Speaker 1: also be taking writers from mid City to Inglewood and Westchester.
Speaker 1: It'll now be operating in more than one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty square miles of La County.
Speaker 9: Aami's on it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 4: AM's on it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 1: What am I? I'm on the stream because there's always
Speaker 1: new movies and TV shows and I love a good binge. Actually,
Speaker 1: this one I didn't even have to binge because it
Speaker 1: was a movie, so it was just, you know, just
Speaker 1: like Under two Hours just dropped on Apple TV. It's
Speaker 1: trending now, right behind Stick, which we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about another time. But it is a movie again, so
Speaker 1: it's not a whole show. It stars Julianne Moore. It's
Speaker 1: called Echo Valley. So she is she owns a farm
Speaker 1: or a ranch. It's a ranch more than a farm,
Speaker 1: and she's got horses and she gives riding lessons and stuff.
Speaker 1: But she's devastated because she recently lost her partner, so
Speaker 1: she's super depressed. And then she's got this daughter played
Speaker 1: by Sidney Sweeney, who's a drug addict and is incredibly manipulative.
Speaker 1: But Sidney Sweeney, you might know from anyone but you
Speaker 1: and White Lotus. I was like, well, where do I
Speaker 1: place her? Anyway? So the movie kind of dips a
Speaker 1: toe into addiction, but it really focuses more on the
Speaker 1: way the mother reacts to her daughter's addiction and the
Speaker 1: lengths that she's going to go to to protect her
Speaker 1: baby girl. And it's kind of heartbreaking from the get
Speaker 1: go because you see how Kate or Julianne Moore is
Speaker 1: being manipulated by her daughter, and she tries harder and
Speaker 1: harder to keep that relationship with her daughter. She falls
Speaker 1: deeper and deeper into a bad place, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to tell you anymore, but you just go, boy, Kate,
Speaker 1: You're making stupid decisions. So it's really interesting to watch.
Speaker 1: I don't think it got a great Rotten Tomatoes score,
Speaker 1: but that generally means I'm gonna like it. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of cringe worthy at times, but there's some really
Speaker 1: good twists and turns, and I say it's a good ride.
Speaker 1: Although without telling you anything, the ending feels more like
Speaker 1: a cliffhanger than the end of a movie. So that
Speaker 1: was a little bit weird, But I'm on it, and
Speaker 1: if you find yourself on the couch. I think you
Speaker 1: should be on it too. It's Echo Valley on Apple
Speaker 1: TV just dropped to very recently, so it's brand new.
Speaker 1: Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney,
Speaker 1: good morning. Okay. So pharmaceutical ads I hate them, You
Speaker 1: hate them, and maybe President Trump hates them too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, it's a background of our lives. I mean, pharma
Speaker 10: ads seem to be everywhere. You know, we all know
Speaker 10: this one, donn It is really some a little pell
Speaker 10: with a big story.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I even caught my kid humming this one. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: So the trumpet industry the favorite songs.
Speaker 10: I love that it exactly, and it's everywhere, all of them.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could go through a list of different
Speaker 1: ones every single day.
Speaker 10: But the Trump administration is said to be discussing policies
Speaker 10: that would make it harder and more expensive for pharma
Speaker 10: companies to advertise directly to patients. Banning pharma ads outright
Speaker 10: could make the administration vulnerable lawsuits. So they said, we're
Speaker 10: going to go in a different direction. This is what
Speaker 10: our sources are telling us. They're focusing on cutting down
Speaker 10: the number by adding all these legal and financial hurdles.
Speaker 1: By the way, pharma is the third highest spending industry
Speaker 1: for TV ads.
Speaker 10: I actually thought it'd be number one, but apparently it's
Speaker 10: a little more down the line.
Speaker 1: And I've heard that the doctors hate it because then
Speaker 1: people go, hey, I want to try this one, even
Speaker 1: though it doesn't necessarily fit with their condition.
Speaker 10: Yeah, an RFK junior has said this is the reason
Speaker 10: why the United States spends as much as it does
Speaker 10: on drugs compared to other countries. You know, we are
Speaker 10: the only other country besides New Zealand that allows advertising
Speaker 10: television advertising for pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty countries to allow it. Interesting, Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't care about high prices when it comes to
Speaker 1: our morning jolt, oh exactly.
Speaker 10: And this report, by the way, a sponsor by Fidelity
Speaker 10: Wealth Management, coffee fanatics are drinking the most high end
Speaker 10: java in fifteen years. More than forty five percent of
Speaker 10: Americans drank a cup of specialty coffee in the past day.
Speaker 10: That's according to the National and Coffee Association. That includes lattes,
Speaker 10: frozen drinks, cold brew, any other beverage made with premium beans.
Speaker 10: But people are still spending on these fancier drinks, even
Speaker 10: as a price of coffee hit a record in February. However,
Speaker 10: I do want to point out that coffee futures are
Speaker 10: down about twenty percent since that peak. The production forecast
Speaker 10: has gotten a little bit better out of the top grower,
Speaker 10: which is Brazil.
Speaker 1: That's improved recently. Okay, And speaking of things looking a
Speaker 1: little bit better, markets are looking a little better today.
Speaker 10: Yes, a little better than yesterday. See yesterday week economic data.
Speaker 10: Wait on stocks. We had retail sales that felt for
Speaker 10: a second straight month in May. Industrial production also declined,
Speaker 10: but that retail sales number kind of an indication that
Speaker 10: people are pulling back on their spending in light of tariffs.
Speaker 10: So the Dow fell two hundred and ninety nine points.
Speaker 10: Now this morning, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 10: The Central Bank's policy decision is out this afternoon. Officials
Speaker 10: are expected to keep interest rates on hold. To be
Speaker 10: on the lookout for that. But we do also have
Speaker 10: a focus on whether the US is planning to get
Speaker 10: directly involved in the Middle East conflict. Right now, we're
Speaker 10: seeing just light moves higher. Dow futures are up twenty
Speaker 10: five points all.
Speaker 1: Right, get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow. Let's see you later, all right.
Speaker 1: La Counties DA's announced more charges against anti ice protesters.
Speaker 1: Nathan Hockmins says those charged to include people who attacked
Speaker 1: police through fireworks at them, spit on them, and set
Speaker 1: patrol cars on fire. A hospitality union is pushing to
Speaker 1: expand Elly's upcoming thirty dollars an hour minimum wage for
Speaker 1: hotel and airport workers to include all industries across the city,
Speaker 1: and the studio that has been the TV home of
Speaker 1: shoes shows like All in the Family, Dancing In with
Speaker 1: the Stars, and The Price Is Right is evolving. The
Speaker 1: historic Television City Studio Complex has announced a partnership to
Speaker 1: offer boutique production space to social media influencers and digital creators.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Michael gertz Is with
Speaker 1: the with the Benefit concert Out of the Ashes. Michael,
Speaker 1: good morning, thanks for joining us this morning.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Michael, this I love this because we we
Speaker 1: a lot of times we see kind of the worst
Speaker 1: of the worst and see kids misbehaving, but sometimes kids
Speaker 1: rise to the occasion, and the at a Gora Hills
Speaker 1: certainly did. They're showing that they are the best of
Speaker 1: the best. Tell us about what out of the ashes is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, you know, this is an idea that really
Speaker 4: came out of a conversation with a few parents and
Speaker 4: some band kids from a girl high school who two
Speaker 4: years ago had formed a jazz band that was going
Speaker 4: around and playing at local senior centers and nursing homes
Speaker 4: and really just you know, just really for the love
Speaker 4: of music and sharing it with the community. After the
Speaker 4: LA fires, a few of them came to your parents
Speaker 4: and said, why don't we try and do something to
Speaker 4: help the music programs for some of these other high
Speaker 4: schools whose music programs don't exist anymore. They were burned
Speaker 4: down and they lost instruments, and they don't have a
Speaker 4: place to practice, and they really don't have, you know,
Speaker 4: much support. And we thought, wow, this is a fantastic idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know how we're going.
Speaker 4: To pull this off, but let's let's sit down, let's meet,
Speaker 4: and let's see if we can bring on some partners
Speaker 4: that can help us make this happen. And you know
Speaker 4: that was only four months ago, and fortunately we met
Speaker 4: up with two major partners. One was the Pasadena Educational Foundation,
Speaker 4: which is at five o' one C. Three that's already
Speaker 4: exists to be able to fund arts and music programs
Speaker 4: in the areas affected by the Eaton fire, and they've
Speaker 4: partnered with us to you know, help collect funds. And
Speaker 4: then the Sagebrush canteena a local restaurant venue, came along
Speaker 4: and donated this space so that we could set up
Speaker 4: a benefit concert there.
Speaker 1: And that benefit concert is tonight.
Speaker 4: And that benefit concert is tonight. There will be over
Speaker 4: fifty musicians participating, four bands, and the venue holds up
Speaker 4: to five hundred people. So we're really hoping to generate
Speaker 4: quite a bit of funds and donations to help support
Speaker 4: music programs that were affected by the public schools and
Speaker 4: the Eaton fires.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then all of the money, Michael, that's raised
Speaker 1: from the admission to the concert tonight or the donation
Speaker 1: to the concert tonight is going right to the kids
Speaker 1: and instruments and that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 4: Correct, It is going directly to support the music programs
Speaker 4: in public high schools in the Pasadena school districts.
Speaker 1: Are you so proud? Of the kids who are coming
Speaker 1: up with this and saying, hey, we want to help.
Speaker 4: I am completely flabbergasted and really just humbled to be
Speaker 4: a part of a part of it, and humbled to
Speaker 4: know these kids.
Speaker 2: They're they're pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so what can you say to our wake
Speaker 1: up call listeners that's going to make them get out
Speaker 1: of their homes on a Wednesday night and come see
Speaker 1: a show.
Speaker 4: Well, look, it's going to be a beautiful night. There's
Speaker 4: plenty of seating. It's five hundred five hundred seats, it's outdoors,
Speaker 4: it's going to be shaded.
Speaker 2: There's four bands.
Speaker 4: You can come down, grab a burrito and a margarita.
Speaker 4: Obviously drink responsibly, but come down and enjoy a night
Speaker 4: of music from thirty five pm to nine thirty pm
Speaker 4: at the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas and you'll have a
Speaker 4: great time and you'll be doing a great thing for
Speaker 4: the community.
Speaker 1: I love it. Michael Gertz, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the time this morning. I hope your event tonight is
Speaker 1: wildly successful. Again. It's tonight at the Sagebrush Cantina two
Speaker 1: three five two seven, Calabasas Road in Calabasas. It's called
Speaker 1: out of the ashes, and it's supporting music programs. It's
Speaker 1: going to buy instruments for kids who lost them in
Speaker 1: the fires. Who could ask for anything more than that.
Speaker 1: That's great, Thank you so much, Michael, appreciate it all right,
Speaker 1: isn't that great? I love her when kids do good things.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Customers have been
Speaker 1: slow to return to businesses in downtown LA.
Speaker 2: When the anti ice protests turned violent and when criminals
Speaker 2: looted stores, businesses here started to close or at least
Speaker 2: add protective wooden boards to windows and doors, and a
Speaker 2: few calm nights later, business is not as usual. This
Speaker 2: man was one of the few eating outside in the
Speaker 2: fashion district.
Speaker 3: It's sad, you know, because there's still out here, but
Speaker 3: they still don't make no money off he says.
Speaker 2: Many customers are staying away still, not because of the demonstrations,
Speaker 2: but because of what inspired them, the federal immigration enforcement
Speaker 2: efforts in downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man suspected of driving to a crowd of protesters
Speaker 1: in Riverside seriously injuring. One of them has been arrested,
Speaker 1: along with a woman suspected of helping him get rid
Speaker 1: of the evidence. She allegedly took the car to the
Speaker 1: High Desert. The driver was in an suv Saturday when
Speaker 1: he encountered marchers taking part in one of the many
Speaker 1: No King's rallies. Video shows he floored his suv when
Speaker 1: the protesters started hitting the car. A young woman who
Speaker 1: couldn't jump out of the way got run over. Kraft
Speaker 1: Heine says it's pulling artificial dies from its products.
Speaker 8: The company says starting in twenty twenty seven, it will
Speaker 8: also no longer roll out new products with the dyes.
Speaker 8: The move comes nearly two months after US health officials
Speaker 8: said that they would urge food makers to phase out
Speaker 8: petroleum based artificial colors in the nation's food supply. The
Speaker 8: company said in a release that about ten percent of
Speaker 8: its items in the US use FD and C colors,
Speaker 8: the synthetic additives that make many foods more visually appealing.
Speaker 8: Depor Mark KOFFI News brown ketchup.
Speaker 2: You know what if it tastes the same, I'm down exactly,
Speaker 2: I don't care.
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