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Speaker 1: up call for Monday, March tenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. If you're hearing
Speaker 1: my voice right now, it means that your clock automatically
Speaker 1: changed and you did.
Speaker 5: Get up this daylight saving time fairly, fairly.
Speaker 1: I woke up yesterday, and, like we were talking about
Speaker 1: last week, most of the clocks adjust themselves. My Apple
Speaker 1: watch does it, my phone does it. Even my little
Speaker 1: alarm clock automatically adjust itself. So I'm sitting there on
Speaker 1: the couch yesterday and I'm watching my news shows because
Speaker 1: I'm obsessive and I watch all the news shows on
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, and I was like, Wow, it's only eight thirty.
Speaker 1: Oh wait that clock. I have to change myself. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm behind an hour already. Hey, we got another eagle.
Speaker 1: The third eaglet has hatched. We knew that it was
Speaker 1: pipping on Friday, but he broke out over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and oh my.
Speaker 5: Gosh, the little guy.
Speaker 1: He's like so much smaller than the other ones, and
Speaker 1: you can tell he's weaker. And I'm just like, it's
Speaker 1: like breaking my heart when I'm like, Jackie, feed the
Speaker 1: little one, Jackie, feed the little one. But we you know,
Speaker 1: we know that it's it's a tough rope and they've
Speaker 1: got a fight to survive. And so we were talking
Speaker 1: over the weekend with editor Carla and I said, he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to fight hard, and she goes, I'm going
Speaker 1: to call him Rocky. Yeah, So that's what we're going
Speaker 1: to call the little one. Yep. Okay, here's what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wake up Call. A bit of a shaky start
Speaker 1: to the more, A three point three quake rumbled under Malibu.
Speaker 1: The US Geological surveyces the quake happened at two twenty three.
Speaker 1: It's near where a four point one quake rattled Malibu yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yesterday afternoon's quake was followed by several smaller aftershocks. Flames
Speaker 1: shot through the roof of a graffiti covered building in
Speaker 1: downtown la this morning. LA Fire says a fire and
Speaker 1: a commercial building spread to other units and a nearby
Speaker 1: building before firefighters put it out. By about three twenty,
Speaker 1: Israel has cut off electricity supply to Gaza. Offici'll say
Speaker 1: it's going to interrupt operations at a desalination plant that
Speaker 1: provides drinking water for part of the Strip. A Moss
Speaker 1: called it part of Israel's starvation policy. We're gonna find
Speaker 1: out what's going on with this uh with ABC Stredonna
Speaker 1: Miller in Jerusalem that's coming up in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes at.
Speaker 5: Five point twenty.
Speaker 1: Is the high price of eggs really because of bird
Speaker 1: flu or could there be something else going on. ABC's
Speaker 1: Peter Haralumbus is going to tell us and speaking of
Speaker 1: bird flu and the flu and the measles, ABC's Jim
Speaker 1: Ryan says he finally has some good news for us
Speaker 1: on those fronts.
Speaker 5: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: And EV's electric vehicles should they be mandated, they are
Speaker 1: going to be in California. A group says evs are great,
Speaker 1: but making people buy them is not the way to go.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk with the senior VP at SEMA
Speaker 1: coming up at five point fifty to find out what's
Speaker 1: up with that. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Eight people have been hurt by a guy who drove
Speaker 1: into the showroom at a CarMax dealership in Inglewood. Investigators
Speaker 1: say the driver had taken his car to the dealer
Speaker 1: for an estimate, but apparently didn't estimate, but apparently didn't
Speaker 1: like the quote that he got. He drove away after
Speaker 1: he crashed into the building, but then later drove to
Speaker 1: an LAPD station and turned himself in. An apparent trespasser
Speaker 1: is in critical condition after nearly being electrocuted at a
Speaker 1: hospital in North rich which the Fire Department says the
Speaker 1: man was hurt yesterday when he made contact with an
Speaker 1: electrical vault at Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center. He
Speaker 1: has significant burn injuries to more than half his body.
Speaker 5: La Keunty Da.
Speaker 1: Nathan Hawkman is expected to announce an update on the
Speaker 1: Menendez brother's case. Hawkman said last month his office would
Speaker 1: oppose the brother's request for a new trial. The brothers
Speaker 1: have also asked to be re sentenced, and they've asked
Speaker 1: Governor Knwsoim for clemency. In an effort to be released
Speaker 1: from prison. They're serving life sentences for murdering their parents.
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty nine. More people are taking legal action
Speaker 1: over the wildfires in LA.
Speaker 6: Twenty five more Pacific Palisades residents have joined the lawsuit
Speaker 6: filed against the City of Los Angeles and the Department
Speaker 6: of Water and Power after the January wildfires. This brings
Speaker 6: the total plaintiffs to forty eight. The lawsuit alleges the
Speaker 6: city designed a water supply system that wouldn't have enough
Speaker 6: water pressure to fight the fires. It also says the
Speaker 6: reservoir located near the Pacific Palisades had been empty since
Speaker 6: February of last year, which made it more difficult for
Speaker 6: fire crews to access water. Brigida Degastino, Okay if I new.
Speaker 1: A new study shows California is ranked fifth among the
Speaker 1: most expensive states for childcare in the US oh great.
Speaker 5: The study by Birth.
Speaker 1: Injury Lawyer dot com analyzed data from Childcare Aware of
Speaker 1: America and used the average cost of a center based
Speaker 1: in family childcare.
Speaker 5: It found in.
Speaker 1: California, center based childcare costs eighteen two hundred dollars a
Speaker 1: year that takes up fifteen percent of a married couple's
Speaker 1: income and forty eight percent of single parents. Let's say
Speaker 1: good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller. She's in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Soa Gaza just can't catch a break. Israel's now cutting
Speaker 1: off electricity.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 7: The Israeli government announced on Sunday that they would be
Speaker 7: cutting off electricity to Gaza. But we have to remember
Speaker 7: that Israel cut off almost all of its electricity supplies
Speaker 7: to the strip more than a year ago when the
Speaker 7: war first broke out, right back in the in the
Speaker 7: winter of twenty twenty three. So this is not a
Speaker 7: good sign. And it will affect about six hundred thousand
Speaker 7: Palestinians in central Gaza because it will essentially shut down
Speaker 7: a desalinization plant and that helps with you know, water
Speaker 7: supplies creating powdable water. So that is a problem, and
Speaker 7: it's going to affect the sewage systems there, but it's
Speaker 7: not going to have a dramatic impact the way for example,
Speaker 7: cutting off humanitarian aid has for the last two weeks. Right,
Speaker 7: It's another step that's you know, going to be uncomfortable
Speaker 7: for gossms. But remember they're now used to living either
Speaker 7: with fuel run generators or solar panels, and they're not
Speaker 7: as dependent on Israeli electricity anymore.
Speaker 1: Okay, So all of the awfulness has made them better prepared.
Speaker 1: Is the desalination plant has power to that been cut
Speaker 1: off before or is this a new development with that plant?
Speaker 7: The plant wasn't working for several months again at the
Speaker 7: start of the war, and then we'll put it back
Speaker 7: online during the first ceasefire deal in November December. That
Speaker 7: was one of the agreements right in the original the
Speaker 7: first seafire where we saw over one hundred hostages come out.
Speaker 7: So it had been functioning since November. There were recently
Speaker 7: some power outages with this plant, but they were fixed.
Speaker 7: Now it will not be working because the Israeli electric
Speaker 7: Company will no longer be supplying the electricity there to
Speaker 7: keep it going, okay.
Speaker 1: And now Jordana Hamas has called this the latest starvation
Speaker 1: policy by Israel, which is sort of hard to argue.
Speaker 1: But and Israel maybe trying to force Amas's hand to
Speaker 1: maybe get back and come up with a piece deal
Speaker 1: or to move forward with that phase too. But Hamas
Speaker 1: has already said, hey, we're willing to lose hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of people, So does it really force Amasa's hand.
Speaker 7: Right, I don't think it's really going to work as
Speaker 7: a pressure tactic. The issue of humanitarian aid will, but
Speaker 7: I don't think the electricity is going to make a
Speaker 7: difference at this point. And I think it's important to
Speaker 7: point out there's not starvation right now in the Gaza Strip. Remember,
Speaker 7: for forty two days over, on average, about seven hundred
Speaker 7: trucks of aid came in each and every day. Oh okay,
Speaker 7: so a Gaza strip. So yeah, they're not hungry right now,
Speaker 7: but of course those supplies will run out, you know,
Speaker 7: in several months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and didn't you say what I think in one
Speaker 1: of our conversations, you were saying that they needed an
Speaker 1: average of like three hundred a day, so then when
Speaker 1: they were getting six hundred, they were kind of stocking up.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, before the war, Gaza received about four
Speaker 7: to five hundred trucks of aid, but not all of
Speaker 7: it was food. And the difference is that there were
Speaker 7: a lot of local you know, fields, bakeries, you know,
Speaker 7: they had their own way of you know, generating food
Speaker 7: in the Gaza Strip. Now, with all the destruction, you know,
Speaker 7: Gaza is ever more dependent on aid coming in and
Speaker 7: I think that's the major difference. I mean, there's not Israel.
Speaker 7: Gaza's own production of food is not now at what
Speaker 7: it was before the war, right, Okay, so yes, so
Speaker 7: we have to be careful with comparisons. Nonetheless, I think
Speaker 7: the aid issue is something that could put pressure on Hamas.
Speaker 7: I think, Amy, we have to point out today for
Speaker 7: the first time since January, Israel Hamas, the United States
Speaker 7: and the Mediate are engaging in talks in Doha, in
Speaker 7: cutter And this is the first round of real indirect talks.
Speaker 7: And we're hoping and praying that this leads to a
Speaker 7: breakthrough where we see some more hostages come out and
Speaker 7: an extension of this ceasefire.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we will hope that that moves forward. ABC
Speaker 1: Stdana Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 5: As always, Thanks Tuckson.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. North
Speaker 1: Korea has fired several ballistic missiles into the sea. The
Speaker 1: launches happened several hours after the South Korean and US
Speaker 1: militaries began their annual Freedom Shield combined military drills. The
Speaker 1: US is the drills are routine. North Korea calls them
Speaker 1: an aggressive move and that they pose a threat. The
Speaker 1: US is expected to impose more tariffs on Canada. ABC's
Speaker 1: Selina Wang says it could happen as soon as today.
Speaker 2: The President is threatening to impose steep terrace on Canadian
Speaker 2: loveber in dairy products, he says, in response to the
Speaker 2: high tax that Canada puts on American lumber and dairy
Speaker 2: to protect its own industries.
Speaker 1: President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico last week,
Speaker 1: only to pause most of them soon after that. He
Speaker 1: said the US will impose reciprocal tariffs on a whole
Speaker 1: range of countries starting April second. Secret Service agents have
Speaker 1: shot a man near the White House.
Speaker 8: An agency spokesperson says agents confronted the arm suspect, who
Speaker 8: allegedly pulled out a gun before being shot and was
Speaker 8: taken to the hospital in unknown condition. The Secret Service
Speaker 8: had reportedly been notified about a potentially suicidal individual traveling
Speaker 8: from Indiana to Washington.
Speaker 1: D c kfi's Michaelkastners's President Trump was not at the
Speaker 1: White House at the time. He spent the weekend at
Speaker 1: his resort in Florida. Fighter jets from Norad intercepted a
Speaker 1: civilian aircraft there yesterday afternoon when it entered restricted airspace.
Speaker 1: A small plane has crashed in Pennsylvania. Mannheim Township fire
Speaker 1: chief Scott Little says the plane ended up in a
Speaker 1: parking lot of a retirement community. Five passengers were on board.
Speaker 3: All five passengers were transported by.
Speaker 1: Local MS agencies to local hospitals for treatment. The plane
Speaker 1: burst into flames when it crashed yesterday, damaging several vehicles.
Speaker 1: Officials say no one in the parking lot was hurt.
Speaker 1: Former Central Bank Central banker Mark Carney is going to
Speaker 1: be Canada's next prime minister. The governing Liberal Party elected
Speaker 1: him as its leader yesterday. Carney has vowed to stand
Speaker 1: up to President Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 9: He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses and we cannot
Speaker 9: let him succeed, and we will.
Speaker 1: Carney will replace Justin Trudeau, who made the decision last
Speaker 1: month to step down as Prime minister following ongoing criticism
Speaker 1: of his leadership by the public and from within his
Speaker 1: own party. He's expected to remain Prime minister during the transition.
Speaker 1: The Southland has been rattled by another earthquake. The three
Speaker 1: point three quake hit near Malibu at two twenty three
Speaker 1: this morning. A four point one quake rattled Malibu just
Speaker 1: after one yesterday afternoon. US Geological SURVEYSS. Three smaller quakes
Speaker 1: rumbled under Malibu a short time later. Republicans have unveiled
Speaker 1: a spending bill to keep the government funded through September.
Speaker 1: The bill cuts non defense spending and boosts defense spending.
Speaker 1: The bill has to be passed by Friday to prevent
Speaker 1: a partial government shutdown. President Trump posted on social media
Speaker 1: urging all Republicans to vote yes, saying we must remain united.
Speaker 1: The third egg for bald eagles Jackie and Shadow has hatched.
Speaker 1: All three egglets are now being fed and protected by
Speaker 1: the eagles in their nest hi above Big Bear Lake.
Speaker 1: The newest eglet has been struggling to get fed, as
Speaker 1: the other two that had hatched almost a week earlier
Speaker 1: are now much stronger.
Speaker 5: But we're going to help.
Speaker 1: He's a fighter, and like I said, Carla and I
Speaker 1: have agreed that his name should be Rocky because he's
Speaker 1: going to be a fighter. At six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. China is targeting the US with
Speaker 1: tariffs of its own let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Harlambuos.
Speaker 3: Good morning Peter, Good morning Amy, Thanks so much for
Speaker 3: having me.
Speaker 1: Okay, so before we get started, I want to I
Speaker 1: want to settle this once and for all, because when
Speaker 1: we get a request for you or an availability for you,
Speaker 1: they phonetically spell out your name because it's spelled different
Speaker 1: than it looks and sounds. And then I heard you
Speaker 1: do like a lockout, which is when you say, hey,
Speaker 1: it's Amy King for k if I News.
Speaker 5: That's your lockout.
Speaker 1: I heard you say it differently than it's pronounced here.
Speaker 5: How do you say your name so you actually have
Speaker 5: it right?
Speaker 3: For the record, it's horror lamboos. It's that's how my
Speaker 3: parents have pronounced that. When I was a kid, it
Speaker 3: was just pronounced phanatically with the ch, So it's kind
Speaker 3: of a habit that's stuck in my head from elementary
Speaker 3: and middle of high school. Or sometimes I slip into
Speaker 3: say charlamboos, but the proper pronunciation, according to my parents
Speaker 3: and their parents is horror lamboosh.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I feel better now because I heard
Speaker 1: you say it the other like You've got right. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get down to business Peter Haralambus.
Speaker 5: So, we know.
Speaker 1: The elimination of millions of chickens because of bird flu
Speaker 1: is causing egg prices to go up, But is there
Speaker 1: something else, maybe something a little more underhanded going on
Speaker 1: that's leading to price increases for our eggs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right, Amy. At this point, the DOJ
Speaker 3: is looking into just that possibility. We understand the Department
Speaker 3: of Justice is Civil Division is in the very early
Speaker 3: stages of an investigation into some of the country's largest
Speaker 3: egg distributors. They're looking into the possibility that it's high
Speaker 3: price and eggs isn't just caused by this massive culling
Speaker 3: of chickens because of the bird flu, but potentially because
Speaker 3: of coordination among these companies. Again, very early stages, but
Speaker 3: they're looking into that possibility that this is something this
Speaker 3: high cost of eggs four ninety five for a dozen
Speaker 3: eggs on average by something more than just the bird flu. Again,
Speaker 3: we've seen some of the profits for these huge egg
Speaker 3: companies actually skyrocket. For example, the country's largest egg distributor,
Speaker 3: their profits are up about thirty excuse me, three hundred percent,
Speaker 3: And there was actually a similar kind of spike in
Speaker 3: profits the last time the bird flow came around.
Speaker 1: Okay, so here's the question then, is their profits are up.
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, well, of course they're making more
Speaker 1: because they're charging more, but the supply is down. But
Speaker 1: you're saying, even though the supply is down, they're still
Speaker 1: making more money than before the bird flu.
Speaker 3: That's correct. So if you look at their profits, they're up.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you look back, for example, in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three, the last time the bird flu got really
Speaker 3: quite bad, they saw their profits. They made more than
Speaker 3: one point two billion dollars. That's triple what they made
Speaker 3: the year prior. And you know, there's nothing illegal about that.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong in the United States with making more
Speaker 3: money when their supply for something goes down and the
Speaker 3: demand states high. That's something that's inherent eggs. People continue
Speaker 3: to buy them. But what the concern is from the
Speaker 3: Department of Justice, according to a source with direct knowledge
Speaker 3: of this, is that there might be some kind of
Speaker 3: coordination among these companies to keep these prices high for longer,
Speaker 3: to basically continue making money despite the fact that the
Speaker 3: natural market conditions would have brought those prices down.
Speaker 4: We'll have to.
Speaker 3: See again, we're in the middle of this, so you know,
Speaker 3: in a way that DJ is looking to something as
Speaker 3: it's happening to see if that's going on. But if
Speaker 3: that's the case, it's really that would be very concerned
Speaker 3: and corporate behavior for something that Americans buy and rely
Speaker 3: on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And you said that they're in the early
Speaker 1: stages of this investigation, So can we expect to find
Speaker 1: anything out anytime soon or does this take months and
Speaker 1: months to play out?
Speaker 3: I think we're talking about months and months, I understand
Speaker 3: in terms of where we are when th're reporting. Is
Speaker 3: there at the basically the subpoena stage, the civil subpoena
Speaker 3: is being sent by DOJ's Anti trust divisions and begins
Speaker 3: figuring out more information about this in order to get
Speaker 3: from that to a finding or a criminal finding of
Speaker 3: a civil finding of liability. That's months, if not years.
Speaker 3: But in a way, it is exerting some pressure on
Speaker 3: these egg companies to basically, you know, if there is
Speaker 3: something happening that's below board, fix it now that they
Speaker 3: know there's a spotlight being shined on them again, the
Speaker 3: country's egg distributors are pushing back strongly on this claim.
Speaker 3: That there might be price fixing. They're saying that American
Speaker 3: farmers are hurting, distributors are hurting, and the idea that
Speaker 3: these prices are they you know, are driven by something
Speaker 3: other than just the bird flu is completely wrong and misguided.
Speaker 1: And I guess the numbers will show us if they
Speaker 1: really are getting record profits. That you know, paints a
Speaker 1: little different picture than what they're saying.
Speaker 3: It's written for what it's worth. Counting foods in the
Speaker 3: country's largest distributor and distributor and producer of eggs. I
Speaker 3: believe their profits so this quarter are three hundred forty
Speaker 3: two percent compared to last year. That's in their SEC filings.
Speaker 3: They've disclosed that, but not hiding that fact.
Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Haralambus, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much, Avery thinking.
Speaker 1: Do you know how long it took me to learn
Speaker 1: how to say his name?
Speaker 5: About as long as col Shriver. If you've been listening
Speaker 5: to Wake Up Call, you know.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5: More rain is in the forecast this week.
Speaker 1: The National Weather Services two systems are going to be
Speaker 1: moving through southern California. Meteorologist Mike Wafford tells KFI the
Speaker 1: first system could bring some light rain tomorrow.
Speaker 10: The strongest period for US is going to be Wednesday
Speaker 10: night and the Thursday morning. That's when we'll see the
Speaker 10: heaviest rain and potentially some rain rates that could be
Speaker 10: a problematic for some of the burn areas.
Speaker 1: Colder temperatures are also in the forecast this week. The
Speaker 1: head of the LA Department of Water and Powers asking
Speaker 1: for seven hundred thousand dollars for security.
Speaker 11: The Chief Meditan, the chief Engineer, cited threats made against
Speaker 11: her since the Palisades fire earlier this year. Her department's
Speaker 11: been criticized over the state of water infrastructure in the
Speaker 11: city at the time of the fire and the manner
Speaker 11: in which it responded to the crisis.
Speaker 1: K if Ice Tammy Trujillo says the utility board is
Speaker 1: set to vote tomorrow on a security contract for general manager.
Speaker 1: General Manager Jennie Kinyonis. A fourteen year old boy has
Speaker 1: been stabbed in a parking lot during a carnival in Anaheim.
Speaker 1: Police are trying to figure out what led to the
Speaker 1: attack last night. They say the teen's injuries are not
Speaker 1: believed to be life threatening. He was taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1: One person was detained. A Hindu temple in Chino Hills
Speaker 1: has been vandalized. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says
Speaker 1: the graffiti was discovered on Saturday. The messages, disparaging the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister of India, among other things, were political in nature.
Speaker 1: The at taggers spray painted a marble sign, a brick
Speaker 1: wall and the sidewalk. The graffiti had been removed by
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. Ukrainian President Zelenski's arrived in Saudi Arabia for
Speaker 1: talks on ending the war with Russia. Ross Cullen reports
Speaker 1: Zelensky is meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salmon.
Speaker 9: And that attention will turn to the crucial face to
Speaker 9: face meetings scheduled for Tuesday between the United States and
Speaker 9: Ukraine looking at a possible framework for a truce, ceasefire,
Speaker 9: and potential future peace negotiations with Russia.
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going to lead the
Speaker 1: US team. President Trump says he expects a lot of
Speaker 1: progress to be made this week. Many states in the
Speaker 1: US are in a race to get new power plants
Speaker 1: built as a way of keeping electricity prices down. Some
Speaker 1: of them dangling financial incentives. Others are loosening up regulations
Speaker 1: to attract power companies. The Electric Power Supply Association, which
Speaker 1: represents power plant owners, says it hasn't seen anything like
Speaker 1: this before. Big Tech is buying up real estate to
Speaker 1: build power plants to generate electricity for artificial intelligence data centers.
Speaker 1: Our very own Jim Bryan was telling us that those
Speaker 1: the data centers need a lot a lot of power. Hey,
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Speaker 5: They do such great work for our furry friends.
Speaker 1: It starts at eight o'clock and then the run and
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Speaker 1: It is Sunday, April sixth at the Rose Bowl. The
Speaker 1: deadline to apply for FEMA assistance for wildfire victims has
Speaker 1: been extended. Residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in
Speaker 1: the fires and Pacific Palisades and Altadena. We're facing a
Speaker 1: deadline of midnight tonight, but that has been pushed back
Speaker 1: to March thirty.
Speaker 5: First.
Speaker 1: FEMA grants can be used to pay rent, pay for
Speaker 1: temporary housing, home repairs, property losses, and other things. The
Speaker 1: FEMA grants do not have to be paid back. Republicans
Speaker 1: have unveiled the spending bill to keep the government funded
Speaker 1: through September. The bill cuts non defense spending and boosts
Speaker 1: defense spending. The bill has to be passed by Friday
Speaker 1: to prevent a partial government shutdown. The sci fi comedy
Speaker 1: thriller Mickey seventeen has landed in first place at the
Speaker 1: box office. The Robert Pattinson movie about a guy who
Speaker 1: dies over and over and then his remade, took in
Speaker 1: just over nineteen million dollars. It cost one hundred and
Speaker 1: eighteen million to make. At six o five Tendle on
Speaker 1: the news, why the head of DWP wants the city
Speaker 1: to spend seven hundred thousand dollars on her? Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning too, ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, you
Speaker 1: have some good news for us in spite of all
Speaker 1: this weird bad health news about I did bird flu
Speaker 1: and measles.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I saw Mickey seventeen yesterday. He did pretty good.
Speaker 5: Was it really a little long?
Speaker 12: They could have lopped it off in a few places,
Speaker 12: But it's it's a pretty cool movie. I like it.
Speaker 12: It's fun.
Speaker 5: It's supposed to. I heard it's a comedy.
Speaker 12: It is. It's a I'd call it a black comedy.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 12: So there we go. Good news about seasonal flu, not
Speaker 12: bird flu, not measles.
Speaker 5: I thought we had good bird flu news.
Speaker 12: Not really. Well, yeah, I think they're they're Yeah, we're
Speaker 12: still lost. I mean, look at egg prices. They're at
Speaker 12: record highs. They went down a little last week, but
Speaker 12: still they're historically high. The good news is that flu
Speaker 12: season appears to have peaked around the country. The CDC
Speaker 12: is reporting fewer cases to your positive tests. Clinical lab
Speaker 12: tests are nineteen percent lower than they were the week before,
Speaker 12: and that's good. There are still some places around the
Speaker 12: country that have a higher than normal flu rate. Oregon
Speaker 12: to your North Washington state, Idaho still pretty high. Yeah,
Speaker 12: it is low levels in Nevada and California somewhere in
Speaker 12: the middle with a moderate caseload of influenza, and even
Speaker 12: there it's beginning to go down. So now we appear
Speaker 12: to have made it through another flu season.
Speaker 1: So traditionally, is this about the time of year that
Speaker 1: flu season kind of winds down or is it earlier
Speaker 1: late this year.
Speaker 12: A little bit late, just a little bit late before
Speaker 12: it starts to back down just a bit. A couple
Speaker 12: of years with twenty one twenty two, it didn't peak
Speaker 12: until May, it didn't go up until May, and then
Speaker 12: it went down pretty dramatically from there. But yeah, this year,
Speaker 12: we're just a little little behind schedule in terms of
Speaker 12: when it normally peaks. But I mean, we worry about
Speaker 12: the measles, the West Texas measles outbreak. Almost two hundred
Speaker 12: people have gotten sick from that and two people have died,
Speaker 12: you know, the avian flu. I think only one person
Speaker 12: that has died from avian flu, you know, beyond all
Speaker 12: the birds that have been destroyed and the cows that
Speaker 12: have gotten sick. But look at flu seasonal flu. It's
Speaker 12: one we kind of don't think about forty million influenza
Speaker 12: cases this year, according to the CDC, forty million, including
Speaker 12: more than five hundred thousand hospitalizations. Twenty two thousand people
Speaker 12: have died of flu this year.
Speaker 1: That's crazy and you know what, and I know that,
Speaker 1: like we get a usually we'll find out, hey, the
Speaker 1: first flu death of the year happened. But then it
Speaker 1: just happens apparently so often, and it's so common that
Speaker 1: we just kind of don't even it doesn't even hit
Speaker 1: like the newswires.
Speaker 12: I know, you know it's true, and it's kind of
Speaker 12: the forgotten problem out there, the health problem. So it's
Speaker 12: so important to get your flu shot. It's one that
Speaker 12: affects primarily middle aged, older people with the serious consequences.
Speaker 12: I mean, if the twenty two thousand people who have
Speaker 12: died during this flu cycle, according to the CDC, one
Speaker 12: hundred and fourteen have been pediatric desk so children. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 12: mainly older people, mainly older.
Speaker 5: What is it that kills you?
Speaker 12: It's the lung stuff that follows it, the lung infection,
Speaker 12: the potential pneumonia, the things that come with the flu
Speaker 12: that affect older people in a much more severe way
Speaker 12: than younger people.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're happy about the good news that the
Speaker 1: flu seasons. He'll take it, and then we'll look forward
Speaker 1: to talking to you when you tell us that bird
Speaker 1: flu and mesos are going away too.
Speaker 12: It could be a little while.
Speaker 5: All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much to you.
Speaker 1: All Right, time to get in your business as we
Speaker 1: do every day on wake up Call with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 4: Morning, Courtney, good Monday morning to you.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get started with stock markets, because it was
Speaker 1: quite the roller coaster ride even on Friday, with stocks
Speaker 1: bouncing up and down, and because of all this tariff talk.
Speaker 1: Are we expecting the wild ride to continue this week?
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt about it, and we're seeing it this morning.
Speaker 4: So traders all last week they were trying to make
Speaker 4: sense about a number of headlines around tariff. So on
Speaker 4: Friday we did see stocks hire. The Dow rose two
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty three points. But even though Friday saw games,
Speaker 4: it was the worst week for stocks in September. Now
Speaker 4: this morning, we are seeing S and P futures tumbling
Speaker 4: one percent. Dow future is down four hundred and eighty
Speaker 4: five points at this hour. So if it opened up
Speaker 4: right now, if the Dow, if the markets were open
Speaker 4: right now, it'd be down about four hundred and eighty points.
Speaker 4: So we are racing for this tough start to the week.
Speaker 4: Not only the tariffs, but the federal workforce job cuts.
Speaker 4: That's raising the prospect of a slowdown in economic growth.
Speaker 4: And President Trump over the weekend scared the nervous Nelli's
Speaker 4: here on Wall Street. He told Fox News that the
Speaker 4: economy faces a period of transition, and nobody on Wall
Speaker 4: Street they like certainty here on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, here's something that's for certain I go to
Speaker 1: CVS a lot and get a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 5: And you said that they're kind of changing.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're preparing to open these smaller formats stores. So
Speaker 4: Shakeup's going to be coming. It's going to be a
Speaker 4: focus on pharmacies. So according to the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 4: the downsize locations, they're still going to have health products
Speaker 4: like first aid, kids, cough syrup. However, grocery and beauty
Speaker 4: items from milk to nail polish that's going to go.
Speaker 4: Greeting cards gone. So the new stores, they're about half
Speaker 4: the size of the typical CBS location, but they're starting small.
Speaker 4: Twelve of these small format stores will open over the
Speaker 4: next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, so they're not closing the ones that they have,
Speaker 1: they're opening this new sort of streamline pharmacy centered store.
Speaker 4: Well, CBS is closing a bunch of stores, and not
Speaker 4: all of them, not every single one, because they're trying
Speaker 4: to downsize their footprints. Real estate is expensive, and they've
Speaker 4: struggled in recent years from a number of things, including
Speaker 4: competition from discount retailers Amazon, and also you can't forget
Speaker 4: about the surge and theft where we see everything locked up.
Speaker 4: So they plan to close. Oh it's hard, and especially
Speaker 4: here in New York too. We see them all the time,
Speaker 4: just as I'm sure you guys see in LA. But
Speaker 4: they planned to close about two hundred and seventy locations
Speaker 4: they planned, they planned this year. Eight hundred have been
Speaker 4: closed over the past three years, so a lot of
Speaker 4: local CBS's are shutting down.
Speaker 1: All right, Bloomberg, Scortney, Donaho, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 1: Let's get in your business again tomorrow, same time.
Speaker 4: Definitely. I'll see you then.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jurors in the
Speaker 1: trial of an Orange County judge accused of killing his
Speaker 1: wife are due back today for another day of deliberations.
Speaker 1: This comes out they had previously said they were at
Speaker 1: an m pass but might be able to break the
Speaker 1: deadlock with more deliberations. They told the judge Friday they
Speaker 1: were exhausted and asked to be excused at lunch. Jeffrey
Speaker 1: Ferguson has charged with second degree murder for fatally shooting
Speaker 1: his wife at their home in Anaheim Hills in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. He says it was an accident. The search
Speaker 1: is on for a forty five year old inmate who
Speaker 1: walked away from a re entry program facility in La
Speaker 1: herber Ramaswara is serving a three year sentence for robbery.
Speaker 1: Officials say they were alerted yesterday that he'd walked away.
Speaker 1: He was last seen near Wiltshire Boulevard in South Bonnie
Speaker 1: Bray Street in Westlake. Four LA County Sheriff's deputies have
Speaker 1: been heard in an attack on the men's Central Jail Downtown.
Speaker 1: They were assaulted yesterday during what the Sheriff's department called
Speaker 1: a routine inmate movement. All four deputies were taken to
Speaker 1: the hospital. One has a puncture type injury. Officials say
Speaker 1: the inmates involved were also medically evaluated and remained in custody,
Speaker 1: and that a jail made weapon was recovered. Eight people
Speaker 1: have been hurt when a car crashed into a carmac
Speaker 1: showroom in Inglewood. Bully say a customer had taken his
Speaker 1: car in to get an estimate on Saturday, apparently didn't
Speaker 1: like the quote that he got didn't have the value
Speaker 1: he expected, so he got upset and drove it right
Speaker 1: into the showroom, sending customers and workers scrambling. The guy
Speaker 1: drove away, but then ended up turning himself in a
Speaker 1: short time later at an LAPD station. After pausing most
Speaker 1: tariffs against Mexico and Canada until April second, the President
Speaker 1: says he could be ready to impose tariffs on Canadian
Speaker 1: dairy and lumber as soon as today. He says it's
Speaker 1: in response to the high tax Canada puts on American products.
Speaker 1: A man's been arrested after leading police on a chase
Speaker 1: through several cities in Orange County and ramming at least
Speaker 1: two police cruisers. Bully said the chase started yesterday and
Speaker 1: Garden Grove when police tried to pull a guy over
Speaker 1: who was driving a suspected stolen car. A Canite unit
Speaker 1: had to be called dan when the guy refused to surrender.
Speaker 1: We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning.
Speaker 1: Republicans have a plan to keep the lights on in Washington.
Speaker 1: Can they get it passed without the Democrats? That's the
Speaker 1: big question right now.
Speaker 5: Let's say good morning too.
Speaker 1: The senior VP for Public and Government Affairs at the
Speaker 1: Specialty Equipment Marketing Association, it's Karen Bailey Chapman.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Karen, Good morning, and happy Monday.
Speaker 5: If you can call it a happy Monday. I agree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So Karen, before we dive in, because we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about EV's and EV mandates, I really
Speaker 1: quickly just to familiarize people with what your group does.
Speaker 5: What does your group do?
Speaker 13: So we are the Specialty Equipment Market Association, probably best
Speaker 13: known for the SEMA Show, which is the largest automotive
Speaker 13: gathering that takes place in Las Vegas every November. What
Speaker 13: we do is we represent the manufacturers, retailers, and distributors
Speaker 13: of aftermarket seculty, aftermarket automotive parts. So everything you do
Speaker 13: to your vehicle after you've bought it because you want
Speaker 13: to make it faster, improve the engine performance, or make
Speaker 13: it cooler looking, list it, lower it, all of the
Speaker 13: fun stuff people love to do to customize their vehicle.
Speaker 13: Those are the parts that we make. We represent fifty
Speaker 13: two billion dollars in retail sales annually as well as
Speaker 13: employee one point three million Americans.
Speaker 1: Okay, so now that helps us a lot as we
Speaker 1: jump into this. So your group is for moving to
Speaker 1: a cleaner car industry, but your group is not for
Speaker 1: EV mandates? And which are there are several that are
Speaker 1: you know they're looming? And why why are you against
Speaker 1: the EV mandates?
Speaker 13: We believe that government should remain technology neutral when it
Speaker 13: comes to our vehicles, not only because we believe that innovation,
Speaker 13: as it's already been proven, can continue to improve emissions
Speaker 13: out of our vehicles just based on the technology and
Speaker 13: innovation that we have, but also to protect consumers so
Speaker 13: that they have the ability to purchase and have available
Speaker 13: to purchase the vehicles that best suit their needs. Whether
Speaker 13: you live in the rural community or you live in
Speaker 13: an urban or suburban areas, So all consumers have different needs,
Speaker 13: and we have the ability to do things with our
Speaker 13: vehicles and innovate to cleaner emissions. But government, we believe,
Speaker 13: should stay stay out of telling us what to do
Speaker 13: and allow the marketplace and the innovators to accomplish accomplish
Speaker 13: the goals.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you're basically saying that the private sector is
Speaker 1: going to get there, but you've got to give You've
Speaker 1: got to let them do it on their own timetable
Speaker 1: and not force it by saying you must do like
Speaker 1: California has done saying new cars have to be electric
Speaker 1: or hybrid by twenty thirty five.
Speaker 6: Exactly.
Speaker 13: I think we've as an automotive industry, have proven that
Speaker 13: we've been able to do more with less over the
Speaker 13: over one hundred years that the internal combustion engine has
Speaker 13: been around in the marketplace. So I think we have
Speaker 13: a track record to prove that we're able to do that.
Speaker 13: So let us keep doing that. We believe that evs
Speaker 13: are part of our future, but they're not the only future.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: And Karen, you say that small businesses might not be
Speaker 1: able to shift to the EV industry fast enough. Which
Speaker 1: small businesses are you talking about the ones who trick
Speaker 1: out the cars?
Speaker 13: Well, that's actually our industry. Ninety five percent of our
Speaker 13: membership is small businesses. And so when you think about
Speaker 13: small business that makes parts for engines, that modifies engines,
Speaker 13: or any part of that powertrain it's not simply just
Speaker 13: shifting over. So many people like to say that, oh,
Speaker 13: you should just transition. Well, if you make mufflers, or
Speaker 13: you make intakes, or you make pistons, or you make
Speaker 13: anything that's in that powertrain, those don't exist on an EV.
Speaker 13: And so you know, you're looking at entire swaths of
Speaker 13: the us E commune, especially the autumn motive sector, simply
Speaker 13: just going away.
Speaker 1: Right, Because we were talking about I can't remember what
Speaker 1: it was, it Hurts or something got a huge fleet
Speaker 1: of electric vehicles, and they said because they don't have
Speaker 1: any maintenance.
Speaker 13: Right, But then that's same. I don't know if it
Speaker 13: was Hurts or one of the other rental car agencies
Speaker 13: have also now been divesting of the vehicles as well,
Speaker 13: for a couple of different reasons. But yeah, they've also
Speaker 13: been divesting of that fleet.
Speaker 1: And I think part of that was because if there
Speaker 1: was damage, you have to basically replace the car. You
Speaker 1: can't fix the car like a mechanic can fix the car.
Speaker 1: That's not really an option.
Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly, Okay, exactly, And even look at what just
Speaker 13: happened in the wildfires in the LA area. How many
Speaker 13: people that were in those impacted areas saw evs that
Speaker 13: were burned up on the side of the road that
Speaker 13: law enforcement and emergency services couldn't just simply tow it away.
Speaker 13: They had to have special handling in order to remove
Speaker 13: them from the affected areas. So I think that right
Speaker 13: there is a proof and point in the LA area.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're lobbying Congress to like say, hey, you guys,
Speaker 1: hands off, just let us get there on our own.
Speaker 1: Don't slap these mandates on.
Speaker 10: Exactly.
Speaker 13: So you've got California that passed a rule that is
Speaker 13: putting this in place, the twenty thirty five ban on
Speaker 13: the gas and diesel vehicles. But the thing is, but
Speaker 13: under federal law, they have to get approval by the EPA.
Speaker 13: So in the days before the Biden administration left, their
Speaker 13: EPA went and signed off on this waiver. The issue
Speaker 13: that we really have with California's rule is the fact
Speaker 13: that eleven other states have signed on to follow it,
Speaker 13: and that's about forty percent of the American marketplace that
Speaker 13: are going to be under California's rule. California's exemption that
Speaker 13: was given to them in the Federal Claim Air Act
Speaker 13: was supposed to be for California only not California plus
Speaker 13: forty percent.
Speaker 1: So well, California always says it sort of leads the nation.
Speaker 1: So are you going to Congress then to basically try
Speaker 1: to get something passed so that they can't do these mandates.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 13: So one of the things there's always, obviously in Washington,
Speaker 13: there's always a million different procedur rule ways to do things.
Speaker 13: And so one of the things that we're pushing for
Speaker 13: right now is with called the Congressional Review Act and
Speaker 13: what it does that allows Congress to issue an approval
Speaker 13: or disapproval of a federal agency's rule.
Speaker 4: So in the case of.
Speaker 13: The EPA approving the California van, it has been transmitted
Speaker 13: by the current EPA to Congress, which starts a sixty
Speaker 13: day window for Congress to issue a disapproval or what
Speaker 13: that's what we're asking them to do, is to issue
Speaker 13: a disapproval of this rule that California has put in place.
Speaker 13: Not only will it stop this internal combustion engine ban
Speaker 13: that California has put forward for forty percent of the country,
Speaker 13: but also it's going to be one of the first
Speaker 13: times in a very, very, very long time that Congress
Speaker 13: is going to be able to really kind of tell
Speaker 13: California what is not allowed under federal law.
Speaker 1: Okay, Karen Bailey Chapman with SEMA. I would love to
Speaker 1: check in with you as we get closer and to
Speaker 1: hearing a decision on this, because I mean, it affects
Speaker 1: so many of us, you know, so hopefully.
Speaker 13: Letely absolutely would.
Speaker 1: Love to all right, well, we'll plan on talking to
Speaker 1: you again and we'll be watching what happens. Sema, Senior
Speaker 1: Vice President of Republican Government Affairs. Karen Bailey Chapman, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: So interesting, right, because so many people are getting them
Speaker 1: and then but it's like the sales have sort of
Speaker 1: leveled off as people are like maybe I don't want that,
Speaker 1: and hybrids are becoming the thing. But I didn't even
Speaker 1: think of the residuals of that of banning the EV's
Speaker 1: or not banning EV's, but banning the gas powered engines,
Speaker 1: and how that literally could put just hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of mechanics out of businesses.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna have them because you'll have the
Speaker 1: old cars, but as that phase is out, where are they?
Speaker 5: Where do they go? All Right, Innovation, it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 5: Isn't it hey?
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