WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.200 You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.439 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. 3 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:14.119 K f I at kost HD two Los Angeles and Orange. 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:20.320 County, and. 5 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:24.640 You haste Amy. 6 00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:35.600 Okay, it is five o'clock, straight up, good morning. 7 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:40.000 It's Wednesday, February twenty sixth. 8 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:46.759 Spring training underway at Camelback Stadium or something like that, right, 9 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.640 Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. Yeah, the Boys in Blue 10 00:00:52.679 --> 00:00:55.200 didn't have a good day yesterday. They lost to the 11 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.159 Mariners eleven to five. Spring training doesn't count, so well. 12 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:05.599 You know, it's a month tomorrow that the Dodgers have 13 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:09.799 their home opener, March twenty seventh, Opening Day at Dodger Stating. 14 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:10.400 Very cool. 15 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.840 They're also going to Tokyo to Tokyo series is this 16 00:01:12.920 --> 00:01:14.640 year March fifteen, sixteen. 17 00:01:14.840 --> 00:01:15.760 That's going to be pretty sweet. 18 00:01:15.799 --> 00:01:18.040 Well, they got to take show Hay home, that's true. 19 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:18.439 Yep. 20 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:19.879 Panyamamoto, yep. 21 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:23.879 And there's another one too, another Japanese player, isn't there. 22 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:26.400 Yeah, he's the second baseman. 23 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:26.760 He's good. 24 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:27.640 I can't remember his name. 25 00:01:27.719 --> 00:01:30.640 All right, we'll know as soon as the season starts, right, Okay, 26 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:33.359 here's what's ahead on wake up call. The EPA says 27 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:37.079 it is ninety nine percent done removing hazardous materials from 28 00:01:37.079 --> 00:01:42.200 properties damaged and destroyed in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena fires. 29 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.560 Once phase one is complete, phase two to remove debris 30 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.519 can get underway. Local officials push to get the EPA 31 00:01:49.640 --> 00:01:51.319 to get the first phase of clean up done in 32 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:54.560 thirty days instead of months as originally estimated. 33 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:59.799 The family of Eric and Lyle Menendez Menendez will continue 34 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:03.040 their efforts to get the men released from prison. They're 35 00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:06.079 holding a press conference today to release what they say 36 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:09.319 are key facts in the case. La County DA Nathan 37 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.520 Hoffman announced last week that he is not recommending the 38 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.400 brothers be re sentenced for murdering their parents in Beverly 39 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.840 Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Nearly sixty thousand UC health 40 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:20.240 workers are walking off the job today. 41 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:22.879 They'll be on strike for two days at UCLA, U SEE, 42 00:02:22.960 --> 00:02:27.000 Irvine and all other UC campuses and medical facilities in 43 00:02:27.039 --> 00:02:29.960 the state. President Trump's sitting down with his full cabinet 44 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.319 for the first time. Will it be a big love fest? 45 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:34.919 ABC's Karen Travers is going to tell us in just 46 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.080 a couple of minutes. Apple's making a huge investment in 47 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.159 AI in the US. ABC's Mike Dbusky's going to tell 48 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:46.360 us also about our favorite virtual assistant who's getting a makeover. 49 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:48.919 That's coming up at five point twenty. 50 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:52.520 Also, Amy's on it today as we head toward the oscars, 51 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:54.280 I'm on a movie that. 52 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.919 I'll just say is brutal. Yeah, that's a hint. 53 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.520 Okay, let's get started with some of the stories coming 54 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:03.879 out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. United Firefighters 55 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:08.439 of La say criticism of former fire chief Kristin Crowley 56 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.400 for not using one thousand firefighters the day the wildfire 57 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:15.439 started in La County is misleading. Mayor Bass cited that 58 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:18.199 as one of the reasons she fired Crowley last week, 59 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:22.360 but union president Freddie Escobar told kfi's John Cobalt yesterday, 60 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:26.560 the La Fire Department doesn't have a thousand spots for firefighters. 61 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:30.719 Our budget was cut. We have one hundred engines trucked 62 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:34.199 ambulances in our maintenance yards to get repaired, and we 63 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.360 don't have the mechanics to fit them because the budget 64 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:37.840 was cut. 65 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.599 Escobar says when they did a recall, they had more 66 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:45.039 firefighters waiting to be assigned to duties but nowhere to 67 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:49.120 put them. More than seventeen hundred artists and arts workers 68 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:52.199 around LA are getting millions in fire relief funding. 69 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.680 The fourteen point three million dollars in immediate help is 70 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:59.479 being provided to individuals who lost home, studios, archives, and 71 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:03.479 more and the devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires. Officials for 72 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.560 the La Arts Community Fire Relief Fund say the vast 73 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.520 majority of those receiving support are being funded at their 74 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.560 requested amounts, which is around ten thousand dollars. Among the recipients, 75 00:04:13.639 --> 00:04:17.319 seventy eight percent of the submissions reportedly were impacted in Altadena, 76 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.600 twenty two percent were impacted in Pacific Palisades. Andrew Caravella 77 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:22.680 KFI news. 78 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.199 City Hall's gotten behind a plan to get Hollywood back 79 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:25.560 to work. 80 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.560 The city Council voted to endorse Governor Newsom's proposal to 81 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.439 increase state tax credits for movie and TV productions to 82 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:34.399 seven hundred fifty million dollars each year. City council Woman 83 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:37.560 Nythia Rahman says LA is where the best movie professionals are, 84 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.600 but the city is losing work to places with better incentives. 85 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:45.600 The crews here are unparalleled and we need to bring 86 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:46.360 production back. 87 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.040 The governor's plan would more than double the current tax 88 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.759 credit in the state. Film LA says twenty twenty four 89 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.920 production levels were the second slowest ever, behind only the 90 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:58.639 COVID year of twenty twenty. Michael Monks KFI News. 91 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:01.879 Let's say good morning now to Karen Travers at the 92 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.920 White House. Lots going on at the White House. Trump 93 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.279 has held another press briefing in the Oval Office, and 94 00:05:08.920 --> 00:05:13.120 during that availability, he was asked whether Elon Musk speaks 95 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:16.120 for the presidents and what did he say? 96 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.000 Yeah, yeah, you know. And it was an interesting question 97 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:24.600 because there have obviously been conflicting, contradictory messages, confusing messages 98 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:29.000 coming from Elon Musk's social media emails that have gone 99 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.879 out to federal workers directions from cabinet secretaries and department heads, 100 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.560 and federal workers are confused about what exactly they're supposed 101 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.040 to do. Do you respond to this email saying you 102 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.040 put your five bullet points in of what you did 103 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:44.399 last week, or else you could get fired because some 104 00:05:44.439 --> 00:05:47.079 departments are saying you don't have to respond. Some are 105 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.839 saying it's voluntary and you won't get fired. Others are 106 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:53.439 saying no, you absolutely have to do this, So it's confusing. 107 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:56.879 And yesterday the President was asked if Musk was speaking 108 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.360 for him when Musk says you'll be terminated, and the 109 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.319 President said, everybody speaks for me, I'm the one. I'll 110 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.040 take responsibility. You know, the old statement the buck stops here. 111 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:12.160 That was almost more confusing then saying everybody speaks for me, 112 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.399 but I'll take responsibility doesn't exactly. 113 00:06:14.959 --> 00:06:15.639 Clear this up. 114 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:18.079 And also the press secretary for the White House had 115 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.519 just hours before that said it's up to cabinet secretaries 116 00:06:21.519 --> 00:06:25.560 to determine how their agencies and departments should respond to this. 117 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:29.079 That the president is deferring to cabinet secretaries to give 118 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.040 guidance relative to their specific workforces. 119 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.920 Well, it sounds like it's still confusing. Were they're going 120 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:38.519 so fast and furious. I think they haven't exactly figured 121 00:06:38.519 --> 00:06:39.639 out procedure yet. 122 00:06:41.439 --> 00:06:44.519 Yeah, I mean maybe, but like they did this before. 123 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.240 They've had one term before, so I think, you know, 124 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.160 and they've also were very well planning for potentially being 125 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:51.199 back in the White House. 126 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.040 So you know, I don't know how. 127 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:55.800 Much black you give when you're running out the country, 128 00:06:55.879 --> 00:07:01.199 but there have certainly been a lot of confusing, conflicting messages. 129 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:03.399 And you know when we've asked questions about this to 130 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:06.319 the White House Press Secretary or other senior advisors, you know, 131 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.240 they really push back and it says, this shouldn't be confusing. 132 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:11.920 Asking people to give five bullet points about what they 133 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:14.720 did last week shouldn't be confusing. But that's not the 134 00:07:14.800 --> 00:07:17.199 confusing part. I mean, I think anybody could take ten 135 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:19.800 minutes and say here's what I did last week. It's 136 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:23.920 the if I don't do this because my department head 137 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:27.079 has told me it's voluntary. But Elon Musk is tweeting 138 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.600 if you don't respond, you're fired. Like, who am I 139 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.279 supposed to listen to here? That's the confusing part. 140 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.879 Well, hopefully they'll clear it up, but it didn't get 141 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:39.920 any clearer yesterday because I was listening for some bital clarification. Yeah, 142 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.519 you mentioned the cabinet and the president holding his first 143 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:43.639 cabinet meeting today. 144 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:46.360 Now that everybody's in place, what can we expect. 145 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:49.519 Yeah, the President's going to have that cabinet meeting later 146 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.279 this morning, and Elon Musk will be there. He's not 147 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.959 a cabinet secretary. But he will be there for the 148 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:57.519 cabinet meeting with the same secretaries that he took by 149 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.600 surprise with that directive for the federal work in the 150 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:03.000 email about what you did last week, you know, and 151 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.879 because some of the cabinet secretaries push back telling their 152 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.480 workforces don't respond or it's voluntary, we'll see what plays 153 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:11.959 out in the photo op where the cameras or. 154 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:12.439 In the room. 155 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.279 Maybe it's nothing, but there will be reporters there. There 156 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.720 will be some opportunity to ask the questions about this. 157 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:21.680 It's also just notable that somebody with such outside influence 158 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.240 right now in the efforts of the administration, who is 159 00:08:25.399 --> 00:08:29.000 not a Senate confirmed cabinet secretary, will have such a 160 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.839 prominent likely place at the cabinet meeting today. 161 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:35.200 Have other people who are not cabinet members been part 162 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:36.600 of cabinet meetings before? 163 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.399 Yeah, it happened before. I mean I was at one 164 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:43.039 during the first Trump administration where I remember Jared Kushner, 165 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.039 who's son in law, senior advisor, doing a PowerPoint presentation. 166 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.679 So you know, it's not uncommon for other senior advisors 167 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:52.639 to be involved. This is just very different given the 168 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.440 significant role he is playing right now in so many 169 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:57.840 aspects of their agenda. 170 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.600 Yeah, and Karen didn't Jill Biden sit in on cabinet 171 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.120 meetings too, She did one, she was one. 172 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.159 She didn't sit in on cabinet meetings. She appeared at 173 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.200 one to talk about some of the policy issues she 174 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:11.200 had done because that was likely to be the last 175 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.600 cabinet meeting of the Biden administration. 176 00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:16.399 How often do presidents hold cabinet meetings? Is it a 177 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:18.519 pretty regularly scheduled thing or uncommon? 178 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:23.000 You know, it kind of depends on the administration. I 179 00:09:23.039 --> 00:09:26.720 would say every couple months is the regular cadence, Not 180 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:28.879 every month. It's not that common. I mean, it takes 181 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.639 a lot to get all these people together when you 182 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.000 think about how much work they're doing back at their department. 183 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.679 Yeah, and everybody's confirmed now, right, there's no holdouts or 184 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:38.679 are there still some pending. 185 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:41.559 There's still a couple of people that are left, still 186 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:44.679 a handful because of numbers issues in the House. At 187 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:47.960 least Staphonic is not confirmed. I think she is cabinet level, 188 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.000 But I think for the most part, everybody else is 189 00:09:50.039 --> 00:09:52.600 in now that we got Commerce and the FBI. 190 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:55.279 All right, ABC's Karen travers at the White House. Thank 191 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:55.840 you so much. 192 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:57.279 Thank you. 193 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:58.960 All right, let's get back to some of the stories 194 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.039 coming out of the KFI two twenty four our newsroom. 195 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.519 The House has passed a framework budget resolution. The Republican 196 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.759 supported bill passed by a thin majority last night. 197 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.120 The eyes were two hundred and seventeen, the nays are 198 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:14.840 two hundred and fifteen, majority voting, and the affirmative the 199 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.559 current resolution is adopted. 200 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.120 The bill includes at least four and a half trillion 201 00:10:19.159 --> 00:10:22.639 dollars in tax cuts over ten years and at least 202 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.639 two trillion in cuts to mandatory spending. Lawmakers now have 203 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:28.799 to draft the details of the bill and merge it 204 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.720 with the Senates package. The Republican budget plan is a 205 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.440 crucial step in advancing President Trump's legislative agenda. I think 206 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:38.320 they call that the one big beautiful bill in the 207 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:44.200 Trump In the TRUMPA administration, federal judges have dealt President 208 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.799 Trump some legal setbacks KFI, as Brian Shook says, one 209 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:51.200 of them temporarily blocks the administration from ending the country's 210 00:10:51.320 --> 00:10:53.000 refugee resettlement program. 211 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:56.080 Then the Trump administration was ordered once again to release 212 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:00.480 foreign aid funds it ows to government contractors and nonprofit groups. 213 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.559 He says a judge in Washington, d C indefinitely blocked 214 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.519 the administration from freezing federal loans and grants as well. 215 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.759 Florida Republican representative by Brin Donalds has announced he's running 216 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.799 for governor of Florida in twenty twenty six. Governor Ronda 217 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:17.919 Santis can't run again because of term limits. Donald's is 218 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:21.879 supported by President Trump. Israel is confirmed it has carried 219 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:26.519 out several airstrikes near Siria's capital city. Israel's defense minister 220 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.240 said the air force is now attacking strongly in southern Syria. 221 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:34.559 The new Syrian government is demanding Israel withdraw all of 222 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:38.320 its forces from its country. Officials in Ukraine say they've 223 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:40.240 agreed to the framework of a deal that would give 224 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:44.200 the US access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals. 225 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:47.120 After weeks of an intense pressure campaign by President Trump 226 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:51.200 on President Zelensky, calling the Ukrainian leader a dictator and 227 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:55.000 starting peace talks with Russia without Ukraine, and appears Zelensky 228 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:57.399 is ready to make a major economic deal. 229 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:00.799 ABC's Rachel Scott. Zelensky plans to visit at Washington d 230 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.360 C on Friday. Health officials in Texas say there are 231 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.519 now more than one hundred and twenty measle cases linked 232 00:12:07.559 --> 00:12:10.399 to an outbreak in the state. Thirty four new cases 233 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:14.120 have been counted since Friday. An emergency medicine physician, doctor 234 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:18.159 Stephanie Widmer, says that raises concerns about the potential life 235 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:19.159 threatening illness. 236 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:23.039 Getting vaccinated is one way to prevent infection with measles, 237 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.159 So individuals who are not vaccinated are at risk, and 238 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.200 we're really seeing that here with this outbreak, just as. 239 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.320 Most cases are in children who are not vaccinated or 240 00:12:32.360 --> 00:12:37.039 whose vaccination status isn't known. Pope Francis remains in critical condition, 241 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:39.200 but a statement from the Vatican says he's been sitting 242 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.720 upright and getting therapy for double pneumonia. 243 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:44.600 It says that he's had no acute respiratory episodes like 244 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.480 the one we had been reporting on on Saturday, and 245 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:51.120 also as hemodynamics continue to be stable, and that refers 246 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:55.240 to as blood pressure, as heart rate, other vital signs. 247 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.639 ABC's Marcus More says a CT scan was done on 248 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.039 the pope last night ATTIC and says it hopes to 249 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:04.000 have more information on that today. Lawmakers in Utah sent 250 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.879 a bill to the governor to ban fluoride in public 251 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:10.240 water systems. It does not allow cities or communities to 252 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:14.480 decide whether to add it themselves. Fluoride is added to 253 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:16.799 water to help strengthen teeth, but a few months ago 254 00:13:16.840 --> 00:13:19.759 a federal judge order the EPA to regulate fluoride in 255 00:13:19.879 --> 00:13:23.320 drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to 256 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:28.440 kids intellectual development. I think we had fluoride in our water. 257 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:29.600 I think we do. Yeah. 258 00:13:29.679 --> 00:13:31.759 Certainly improved kids' teeth, that's for sure. 259 00:13:32.159 --> 00:13:36.000 The La County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved increases 260 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:38.679 in how much fire debris can be dumped at the 261 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:42.639 Lancaster Landfill and the Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Granada Hills. 262 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.720 The board also agreed to temporarily remove dumping restrictions at 263 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.840 the Calabasis Landfill, allowing it to also accept fire debris. 264 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:53.159 Public health officials have announced anyone. 265 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:57.080 At LAX Terminal B between one and four pm on 266 00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.600 February nineteenth could be at risk of getting measles. An 267 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:04.399 infant from Orange County who arrived at the International Terminal 268 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:08.200 on a Korean air flight has a confirmed case after exposure. 269 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:12.679 Unvaccinated people can develop measles between seven and twenty one 270 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.559 days of exposure. Crews have started work near the future 271 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:20.159 Rancho station of the twelve billion dollar bullet train project 272 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.360 that will connect Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas. The train 273 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:25.759 will make the two hundred and eighteen mile run to 274 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:29.720 Vegas in two hours, with stops in Hisperia, Apple Valley 275 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:32.440 and Las Vegas. Construction is set to finish by twenty 276 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.159 twenty eight, depending on the price. 277 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.559 I would take that train, right, yeah, I mean think 278 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:37.879 about it. 279 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.840 You instead of going to the airport, so easy, the 280 00:14:40.879 --> 00:14:43.440 flights shorter, but then you have to park at the airport, 281 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:45.120 and you have to check in and get there an 282 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:46.600 hour early and all of that stuff. 283 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:48.080 I'm excited about. 284 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:49.600 Round and drink and yeah. 285 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:51.799 Yeah, this way just a big party train. 286 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:53.879 At six oh five, it's handle on the news. A 287 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:57.519 deputy is one of eighteen indicted in a drug smuggling 288 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:01.240 operation at the La County Jail. Bill's going to have 289 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:04.039 more information on that for you. Let's say good morning 290 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:08.799 to ABC's Mike Debuski, sitting in for Rich Dmiro this week. 291 00:15:09.159 --> 00:15:14.000 Mike Apple's making a big investment in AI in the US. 292 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.240 Yeah, that's right, this five hundred billion dollar investment that 293 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:21.600 they announced earlier this week, this is going to go 294 00:15:21.639 --> 00:15:24.279 into a couple different buckets. So there's going to be 295 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:27.919 a new server factory in Texas, just outside of Houston 296 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:31.679 that's going to build these AI specific servers that are 297 00:15:31.720 --> 00:15:37.080 designed to basically support their next generation of artificial intelligence technology. 298 00:15:37.399 --> 00:15:40.120 That's one bucket of spending. Another bucket is going to 299 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:43.200 go to hiring a lot of new people at Apple, 300 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.600 about twenty thousand, they say over the course of the 301 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.000 next four years. Those people are going to be focused 302 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.720 on research and development, silicon investing, and of course artificial intelligence. 303 00:15:52.919 --> 00:15:55.120 Okay, Mike, I have a question for you about these servers, 304 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.960 because everybody's saying that, oh, the AI gobbles up so 305 00:15:58.039 --> 00:15:59.679 much power and all of that stuff. 306 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:01.480 So what is a server? 307 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:03.600 I mean, is it like a giant warehouse with a 308 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:04.840 bunch of computers in it? 309 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:05.600 What does it look like? 310 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:08.399 Yeah, that's a great question, and it's going to be 311 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.399 a question that people are talking about a lot going forward, 312 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.200 because you're right, these AI systems, as they become more prominent, 313 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:17.919 as they get added to more and more technologies that 314 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:20.559 we use, they take up a lot of energy. They 315 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:24.039 require a lot of computing power, and people might not 316 00:16:24.120 --> 00:16:26.639 know this, but when you run a program on your 317 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.360 laptop or you open an app on your phone, oftentimes 318 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.639 it's not that device that's doing the computing. 319 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:35.240 It's just not powerful enough. 320 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.159 So it offloads some of that work to what's called 321 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:41.080 a data center, which is as you described, basically just 322 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:44.360 a big building full of computer servers, right, computers that 323 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:49.320 are dedicated to supporting these technologies. And these data centers 324 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:52.320 are all across the country, all around the world, and 325 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:56.360 they've been building them more frequently given that these technologies 326 00:16:56.399 --> 00:16:58.679 that we've been sort of focused on in recent years, 327 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:03.679 everything from the metaverse to cryptocurrencies to now generative artificial intelligence, 328 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:07.759 require these huge outlays of computing power. So what this 329 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.759 factory that Apple is building in Texas is designed to 330 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.599 do is to build the servers that go into those 331 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.440 data centers. So it's very behind the scenes. It's not 332 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.160 like a computer that you or I would ever really encounter, 333 00:17:19.720 --> 00:17:21.759 but it is going to be very very important for 334 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.880 these systems to run more smoothly, run more quickly. 335 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:29.039 Okay, and why is Apple doing this investment in the 336 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:30.079 US now? 337 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:32.400 Does it have anything to do with Trump tariffs. 338 00:17:33.160 --> 00:17:36.160 It certainly does, in fact overtly so. So last week 339 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:39.480 we saw Apple CEO Tim Cook meet with President Trump 340 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:43.319 at the White House to discuss recent tariffs. Earlier this month, 341 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:46.799 the Trump administration imposed a ten percent tariff on all 342 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:50.279 goods made in China that includes things like the iPhone, 343 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:55.400 the iPad, and the Mac, obviously hugely valuable products for Apple. Now, 344 00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:58.119 coming out of that meeting, the President said that Apple 345 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:01.599 will be moving manufacturing to the US ask quote because 346 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:03.960 they don't want to pay the tariffs, and then lo 347 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:07.079 and behold. This week there's a half a trillion dollar 348 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.559 investment announced from Apple. So this is as much a 349 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:13.279 political move as it is a technological move. There's a 350 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.640 lens through which you can view this as Apple hedging 351 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:19.279 its bets on the future of artificial intelligence, kind of 352 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:23.680 shoring up the tech infrastructure that's going to undergird that 353 00:18:23.759 --> 00:18:27.920 future technology. And there's a political lens saying, Hey, Apple, 354 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.200 I want to extend this olive branch to the Trump 355 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.880 administration saying hey, we're not quite moving iPhone production to 356 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:38.279 the United States, but we are spending here and can 357 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:40.079 we maybe get a break on some of the tariffs. 358 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:41.880 I think that's kind of what Apple has in mind. 359 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:44.880 Whether that will actually come to pass in reality, I 360 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.200 think that remains to be seen. 361 00:18:46.119 --> 00:18:47.599 And we will be watching for that. 362 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.759 And real quick before you go, Amazon's holding an event 363 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:52.279 because somebody's getting a makeover. 364 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:57.279 Yes, Alexa, and apologies to everyone in California who'se Alexa devices. 365 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.359 I just activated there. But this is there is They're 366 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:04.319 very popular voice assistant baked into smart speakers and an app, 367 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:08.839 and there's there's web you know, sort of integrations as well. 368 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.880 But this is a voice assistant that, despite its name recognition, 369 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:16.400 has kind of fallen behind other competitors in the voice 370 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.920 assistant space, namely Google Assistant. And Amazon is planning to 371 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.160 unveil an all new version of Alexa later today here 372 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.000 in New York City, and they say that it's going 373 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:30.319 to be competitive again with an infusion of artificial intelligence. 374 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.759 This is another AI story, the same way that we 375 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.960 talk to you know, Alexa. Now it's kind of stilted, right, 376 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:39.319 you have to use these sort of very specific words 377 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:42.680 and phrases. It's kind of awkward given that large language 378 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.799 models are designed to replicate human speech. The idea is 379 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:49.039 that your Alexa will be a lot easier to talk to. 380 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:51.279 You can just talk to it like we're talking right now, 381 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:56.359 in natural language. That's the promise. Whether that actually works 382 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.039 in reality, you know, we'll we'll have to wait and see. 383 00:19:59.039 --> 00:20:01.839 I certainly hope that they're is a live demonstration component 384 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:03.759 to this event later today that we can look at 385 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:05.640 to see if it actually does work in the real world, 386 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:07.839 because something that we have to talk about every time 387 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:10.519 we bring up generative AI does have a tendency to 388 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:12.839 go wrong. It makes things up, it gets things wrong, 389 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:14.920 and that means Amazon is taking on a pretty big 390 00:20:15.039 --> 00:20:18.519 risk by baking it into one of their most recognizable technologies. 391 00:20:18.799 --> 00:20:21.279 We'll be asking, Alexa, are you lying to us now? 392 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:24.559 Alexa, what are you talking about? 393 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:26.599 Yeah, and again, apologies for the name. 394 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:30.000 ABC's Mike Debuski, thanks so much for the information. 395 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:32.759 Appreciate it, of course, Amy ticcare all right. 396 00:20:32.839 --> 00:20:36.119 Man from Bell Gardens has disappeared in the San Gabriel Mountains. 397 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:39.000 Kfi's Mark Mayfield says the guy was last seen two 398 00:20:39.079 --> 00:20:39.599 weeks ago. 399 00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:42.160 More than a week later, his vehicle was found crashed 400 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:44.920 about two hundred feet down a steep hillside in an 401 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.200