Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: K f I at kost HD two Los Angeles and Orange.
Speaker 3: County, and.
Speaker 4: You haste Amy.
Speaker 5: Okay, it is five o'clock, straight up, good morning.
Speaker 6: It's Wednesday, February twenty sixth.
Speaker 1: Spring training underway at Camelback Stadium or something like that, right,
Speaker 1: Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. Yeah, the Boys in Blue
Speaker 1: didn't have a good day yesterday. They lost to the
Speaker 1: Mariners eleven to five. Spring training doesn't count, so well.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a month tomorrow that the Dodgers have
Speaker 1: their home opener, March twenty seventh, Opening Day at Dodger Stating.
Speaker 4: Very cool.
Speaker 7: They're also going to Tokyo to Tokyo series is this
Speaker 7: year March fifteen, sixteen.
Speaker 8: That's going to be pretty sweet.
Speaker 6: Well, they got to take show Hay home, that's true.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 8: Panyamamoto, yep.
Speaker 6: And there's another one too, another Japanese player, isn't there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's the second baseman.
Speaker 6: He's good.
Speaker 8: I can't remember his name.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll know as soon as the season starts, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what's ahead on wake up call. The EPA says
Speaker 1: it is ninety nine percent done removing hazardous materials from
Speaker 1: properties damaged and destroyed in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena fires.
Speaker 1: Once phase one is complete, phase two to remove debris
Speaker 1: can get underway. Local officials push to get the EPA
Speaker 1: to get the first phase of clean up done in
Speaker 1: thirty days instead of months as originally estimated.
Speaker 6: The family of Eric and Lyle Menendez Menendez will continue
Speaker 6: their efforts to get the men released from prison. They're
Speaker 6: holding a press conference today to release what they say
Speaker 6: are key facts in the case. La County DA Nathan
Speaker 6: Hoffman announced last week that he is not recommending the
Speaker 6: brothers be re sentenced for murdering their parents in Beverly
Speaker 6: Hills in nineteen eighty nine. Nearly sixty thousand UC health
Speaker 6: workers are walking off the job today.
Speaker 1: They'll be on strike for two days at UCLA, U SEE,
Speaker 1: Irvine and all other UC campuses and medical facilities in
Speaker 1: the state. President Trump's sitting down with his full cabinet
Speaker 1: for the first time. Will it be a big love fest?
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers is going to tell us in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Apple's making a huge investment in
Speaker 1: AI in the US. ABC's Mike Dbusky's going to tell
Speaker 1: us also about our favorite virtual assistant who's getting a makeover.
Speaker 6: That's coming up at five point twenty.
Speaker 1: Also, Amy's on it today as we head toward the oscars,
Speaker 1: I'm on a movie that.
Speaker 6: I'll just say is brutal. Yeah, that's a hint.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get started with some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. United Firefighters
Speaker 1: of La say criticism of former fire chief Kristin Crowley
Speaker 1: for not using one thousand firefighters the day the wildfire
Speaker 1: started in La County is misleading. Mayor Bass cited that
Speaker 1: as one of the reasons she fired Crowley last week,
Speaker 1: but union president Freddie Escobar told kfi's John Cobalt yesterday,
Speaker 1: the La Fire Department doesn't have a thousand spots for firefighters.
Speaker 10: Our budget was cut. We have one hundred engines trucked
Speaker 10: ambulances in our maintenance yards to get repaired, and we
Speaker 10: don't have the mechanics to fit them because the budget
Speaker 10: was cut.
Speaker 1: Escobar says when they did a recall, they had more
Speaker 1: firefighters waiting to be assigned to duties but nowhere to
Speaker 1: put them. More than seventeen hundred artists and arts workers
Speaker 1: around LA are getting millions in fire relief funding.
Speaker 2: The fourteen point three million dollars in immediate help is
Speaker 2: being provided to individuals who lost home, studios, archives, and
Speaker 2: more and the devastating Palisades and Eaton wildfires. Officials for
Speaker 2: the La Arts Community Fire Relief Fund say the vast
Speaker 2: majority of those receiving support are being funded at their
Speaker 2: requested amounts, which is around ten thousand dollars. Among the recipients,
Speaker 2: seventy eight percent of the submissions reportedly were impacted in Altadena,
Speaker 2: twenty two percent were impacted in Pacific Palisades. Andrew Caravella
Speaker 2: KFI news.
Speaker 1: City Hall's gotten behind a plan to get Hollywood back
Speaker 1: to work.
Speaker 2: The city Council voted to endorse Governor Newsom's proposal to
Speaker 2: increase state tax credits for movie and TV productions to
Speaker 2: seven hundred fifty million dollars each year. City council Woman
Speaker 2: Nythia Rahman says LA is where the best movie professionals are,
Speaker 2: but the city is losing work to places with better incentives.
Speaker 3: The crews here are unparalleled and we need to bring
Speaker 3: production back.
Speaker 2: The governor's plan would more than double the current tax
Speaker 2: credit in the state. Film LA says twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: production levels were the second slowest ever, behind only the
Speaker 2: COVID year of twenty twenty. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Karen Travers at the
Speaker 1: White House. Lots going on at the White House. Trump
Speaker 1: has held another press briefing in the Oval Office, and
Speaker 1: during that availability, he was asked whether Elon Musk speaks
Speaker 1: for the presidents and what did he say?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know. And it was an interesting question
Speaker 3: because there have obviously been conflicting, contradictory messages, confusing messages
Speaker 3: coming from Elon Musk's social media emails that have gone
Speaker 3: out to federal workers directions from cabinet secretaries and department heads,
Speaker 3: and federal workers are confused about what exactly they're supposed
Speaker 3: to do. Do you respond to this email saying you
Speaker 3: put your five bullet points in of what you did
Speaker 3: last week, or else you could get fired because some
Speaker 3: departments are saying you don't have to respond. Some are
Speaker 3: saying it's voluntary and you won't get fired. Others are
Speaker 3: saying no, you absolutely have to do this, So it's confusing.
Speaker 3: And yesterday the President was asked if Musk was speaking
Speaker 3: for him when Musk says you'll be terminated, and the
Speaker 3: President said, everybody speaks for me, I'm the one. I'll
Speaker 3: take responsibility. You know, the old statement the buck stops here.
Speaker 3: That was almost more confusing then saying everybody speaks for me,
Speaker 3: but I'll take responsibility doesn't exactly.
Speaker 9: Clear this up.
Speaker 3: And also the press secretary for the White House had
Speaker 3: just hours before that said it's up to cabinet secretaries
Speaker 3: to determine how their agencies and departments should respond to this.
Speaker 3: That the president is deferring to cabinet secretaries to give
Speaker 3: guidance relative to their specific workforces.
Speaker 1: Well, it sounds like it's still confusing. Were they're going
Speaker 1: so fast and furious. I think they haven't exactly figured
Speaker 1: out procedure yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean maybe, but like they did this before.
Speaker 3: They've had one term before, so I think, you know,
Speaker 3: and they've also were very well planning for potentially being
Speaker 3: back in the White House.
Speaker 9: So you know, I don't know how.
Speaker 3: Much black you give when you're running out the country,
Speaker 3: but there have certainly been a lot of confusing, conflicting messages.
Speaker 3: And you know when we've asked questions about this to
Speaker 3: the White House Press Secretary or other senior advisors, you know,
Speaker 3: they really push back and it says, this shouldn't be confusing.
Speaker 3: Asking people to give five bullet points about what they
Speaker 3: did last week shouldn't be confusing. But that's not the
Speaker 3: confusing part. I mean, I think anybody could take ten
Speaker 3: minutes and say here's what I did last week. It's
Speaker 3: the if I don't do this because my department head
Speaker 3: has told me it's voluntary. But Elon Musk is tweeting
Speaker 3: if you don't respond, you're fired. Like, who am I
Speaker 3: supposed to listen to here? That's the confusing part.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully they'll clear it up, but it didn't get
Speaker 1: any clearer yesterday because I was listening for some bital clarification. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the cabinet and the president holding his first
Speaker 1: cabinet meeting today.
Speaker 6: Now that everybody's in place, what can we expect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the President's going to have that cabinet meeting later
Speaker 3: this morning, and Elon Musk will be there. He's not
Speaker 3: a cabinet secretary. But he will be there for the
Speaker 3: cabinet meeting with the same secretaries that he took by
Speaker 3: surprise with that directive for the federal work in the
Speaker 3: email about what you did last week, you know, and
Speaker 3: because some of the cabinet secretaries push back telling their
Speaker 3: workforces don't respond or it's voluntary, we'll see what plays
Speaker 3: out in the photo op where the cameras or.
Speaker 9: In the room.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's nothing, but there will be reporters there. There
Speaker 3: will be some opportunity to ask the questions about this.
Speaker 3: It's also just notable that somebody with such outside influence
Speaker 3: right now in the efforts of the administration, who is
Speaker 3: not a Senate confirmed cabinet secretary, will have such a
Speaker 3: prominent likely place at the cabinet meeting today.
Speaker 1: Have other people who are not cabinet members been part
Speaker 1: of cabinet meetings before?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it happened before. I mean I was at one
Speaker 3: during the first Trump administration where I remember Jared Kushner,
Speaker 3: who's son in law, senior advisor, doing a PowerPoint presentation.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's not uncommon for other senior advisors
Speaker 3: to be involved. This is just very different given the
Speaker 3: significant role he is playing right now in so many
Speaker 3: aspects of their agenda.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Karen didn't Jill Biden sit in on cabinet
Speaker 1: meetings too, She did one, she was one.
Speaker 3: She didn't sit in on cabinet meetings. She appeared at
Speaker 3: one to talk about some of the policy issues she
Speaker 3: had done because that was likely to be the last
Speaker 3: cabinet meeting of the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: How often do presidents hold cabinet meetings? Is it a
Speaker 1: pretty regularly scheduled thing or uncommon?
Speaker 3: You know, it kind of depends on the administration. I
Speaker 3: would say every couple months is the regular cadence, Not
Speaker 3: every month. It's not that common. I mean, it takes
Speaker 3: a lot to get all these people together when you
Speaker 3: think about how much work they're doing back at their department.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody's confirmed now, right, there's no holdouts or
Speaker 1: are there still some pending.
Speaker 3: There's still a couple of people that are left, still
Speaker 3: a handful because of numbers issues in the House. At
Speaker 3: least Staphonic is not confirmed. I think she is cabinet level,
Speaker 3: But I think for the most part, everybody else is
Speaker 3: in now that we got Commerce and the FBI.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Karen travers at the White House. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI two twenty four our newsroom.
Speaker 1: The House has passed a framework budget resolution. The Republican
Speaker 1: supported bill passed by a thin majority last night.
Speaker 11: The eyes were two hundred and seventeen, the nays are
Speaker 11: two hundred and fifteen, majority voting, and the affirmative the
Speaker 11: current resolution is adopted.
Speaker 1: The bill includes at least four and a half trillion
Speaker 1: dollars in tax cuts over ten years and at least
Speaker 1: two trillion in cuts to mandatory spending. Lawmakers now have
Speaker 1: to draft the details of the bill and merge it
Speaker 1: with the Senates package. The Republican budget plan is a
Speaker 1: crucial step in advancing President Trump's legislative agenda. I think
Speaker 1: they call that the one big beautiful bill in the
Speaker 1: Trump In the TRUMPA administration, federal judges have dealt President
Speaker 1: Trump some legal setbacks KFI, as Brian Shook says, one
Speaker 1: of them temporarily blocks the administration from ending the country's
Speaker 1: refugee resettlement program.
Speaker 7: Then the Trump administration was ordered once again to release
Speaker 7: foreign aid funds it ows to government contractors and nonprofit groups.
Speaker 1: He says a judge in Washington, d C indefinitely blocked
Speaker 1: the administration from freezing federal loans and grants as well.
Speaker 1: Florida Republican representative by Brin Donalds has announced he's running
Speaker 1: for governor of Florida in twenty twenty six. Governor Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis can't run again because of term limits. Donald's is
Speaker 1: supported by President Trump. Israel is confirmed it has carried
Speaker 1: out several airstrikes near Siria's capital city. Israel's defense minister
Speaker 1: said the air force is now attacking strongly in southern Syria.
Speaker 1: The new Syrian government is demanding Israel withdraw all of
Speaker 1: its forces from its country. Officials in Ukraine say they've
Speaker 1: agreed to the framework of a deal that would give
Speaker 1: the US access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals.
Speaker 12: After weeks of an intense pressure campaign by President Trump
Speaker 12: on President Zelensky, calling the Ukrainian leader a dictator and
Speaker 12: starting peace talks with Russia without Ukraine, and appears Zelensky
Speaker 12: is ready to make a major economic deal.
Speaker 1: ABC's Rachel Scott. Zelensky plans to visit at Washington d
Speaker 1: C on Friday. Health officials in Texas say there are
Speaker 1: now more than one hundred and twenty measle cases linked
Speaker 1: to an outbreak in the state. Thirty four new cases
Speaker 1: have been counted since Friday. An emergency medicine physician, doctor
Speaker 1: Stephanie Widmer, says that raises concerns about the potential life
Speaker 1: threatening illness.
Speaker 13: Getting vaccinated is one way to prevent infection with measles,
Speaker 13: So individuals who are not vaccinated are at risk, and
Speaker 13: we're really seeing that here with this outbreak, just as.
Speaker 1: Most cases are in children who are not vaccinated or
Speaker 1: whose vaccination status isn't known. Pope Francis remains in critical condition,
Speaker 1: but a statement from the Vatican says he's been sitting
Speaker 1: upright and getting therapy for double pneumonia.
Speaker 14: It says that he's had no acute respiratory episodes like
Speaker 14: the one we had been reporting on on Saturday, and
Speaker 14: also as hemodynamics continue to be stable, and that refers
Speaker 14: to as blood pressure, as heart rate, other vital signs.
Speaker 1: ABC's Marcus More says a CT scan was done on
Speaker 1: the pope last night ATTIC and says it hopes to
Speaker 1: have more information on that today. Lawmakers in Utah sent
Speaker 1: a bill to the governor to ban fluoride in public
Speaker 1: water systems. It does not allow cities or communities to
Speaker 1: decide whether to add it themselves. Fluoride is added to
Speaker 1: water to help strengthen teeth, but a few months ago
Speaker 1: a federal judge order the EPA to regulate fluoride in
Speaker 1: drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to
Speaker 1: kids intellectual development. I think we had fluoride in our water.
Speaker 8: I think we do. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Certainly improved kids' teeth, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: The La County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved increases
Speaker 1: in how much fire debris can be dumped at the
Speaker 1: Lancaster Landfill and the Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Granada Hills.
Speaker 1: The board also agreed to temporarily remove dumping restrictions at
Speaker 1: the Calabasis Landfill, allowing it to also accept fire debris.
Speaker 6: Public health officials have announced anyone.
Speaker 1: At LAX Terminal B between one and four pm on
Speaker 1: February nineteenth could be at risk of getting measles. An
Speaker 1: infant from Orange County who arrived at the International Terminal
Speaker 1: on a Korean air flight has a confirmed case after exposure.
Speaker 1: Unvaccinated people can develop measles between seven and twenty one
Speaker 1: days of exposure. Crews have started work near the future
Speaker 1: Rancho station of the twelve billion dollar bullet train project
Speaker 1: that will connect Rancho Cucamonga to Las Vegas. The train
Speaker 1: will make the two hundred and eighteen mile run to
Speaker 1: Vegas in two hours, with stops in Hisperia, Apple Valley
Speaker 1: and Las Vegas. Construction is set to finish by twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight, depending on the price.
Speaker 6: I would take that train, right, yeah, I mean think
Speaker 6: about it.
Speaker 1: You instead of going to the airport, so easy, the
Speaker 1: flights shorter, but then you have to park at the airport,
Speaker 1: and you have to check in and get there an
Speaker 1: hour early and all of that stuff.
Speaker 6: I'm excited about.
Speaker 8: Round and drink and yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this way just a big party train.
Speaker 1: At six oh five, it's handle on the news. A
Speaker 1: deputy is one of eighteen indicted in a drug smuggling
Speaker 1: operation at the La County Jail. Bill's going to have
Speaker 1: more information on that for you. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to ABC's Mike Debuski, sitting in for Rich Dmiro this week.
Speaker 1: Mike Apple's making a big investment in AI in the US.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right, this five hundred billion dollar investment that
Speaker 9: they announced earlier this week, this is going to go
Speaker 9: into a couple different buckets. So there's going to be
Speaker 9: a new server factory in Texas, just outside of Houston
Speaker 9: that's going to build these AI specific servers that are
Speaker 9: designed to basically support their next generation of artificial intelligence technology.
Speaker 9: That's one bucket of spending. Another bucket is going to
Speaker 9: go to hiring a lot of new people at Apple,
Speaker 9: about twenty thousand, they say over the course of the
Speaker 9: next four years. Those people are going to be focused
Speaker 9: on research and development, silicon investing, and of course artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, I have a question for you about these servers,
Speaker 1: because everybody's saying that, oh, the AI gobbles up so
Speaker 1: much power and all of that stuff.
Speaker 6: So what is a server?
Speaker 1: I mean, is it like a giant warehouse with a
Speaker 1: bunch of computers in it?
Speaker 6: What does it look like?
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a great question, and it's going to be
Speaker 9: a question that people are talking about a lot going forward,
Speaker 9: because you're right, these AI systems, as they become more prominent,
Speaker 9: as they get added to more and more technologies that
Speaker 9: we use, they take up a lot of energy. They
Speaker 9: require a lot of computing power, and people might not
Speaker 9: know this, but when you run a program on your
Speaker 9: laptop or you open an app on your phone, oftentimes
Speaker 9: it's not that device that's doing the computing.
Speaker 8: It's just not powerful enough.
Speaker 9: So it offloads some of that work to what's called
Speaker 9: a data center, which is as you described, basically just
Speaker 9: a big building full of computer servers, right, computers that
Speaker 9: are dedicated to supporting these technologies. And these data centers
Speaker 9: are all across the country, all around the world, and
Speaker 9: they've been building them more frequently given that these technologies
Speaker 9: that we've been sort of focused on in recent years,
Speaker 9: everything from the metaverse to cryptocurrencies to now generative artificial intelligence,
Speaker 9: require these huge outlays of computing power. So what this
Speaker 9: factory that Apple is building in Texas is designed to
Speaker 9: do is to build the servers that go into those
Speaker 9: data centers. So it's very behind the scenes. It's not
Speaker 9: like a computer that you or I would ever really encounter,
Speaker 9: but it is going to be very very important for
Speaker 9: these systems to run more smoothly, run more quickly.
Speaker 1: Okay, and why is Apple doing this investment in the
Speaker 1: US now?
Speaker 6: Does it have anything to do with Trump tariffs.
Speaker 9: It certainly does, in fact overtly so. So last week
Speaker 9: we saw Apple CEO Tim Cook meet with President Trump
Speaker 9: at the White House to discuss recent tariffs. Earlier this month,
Speaker 9: the Trump administration imposed a ten percent tariff on all
Speaker 9: goods made in China that includes things like the iPhone,
Speaker 9: the iPad, and the Mac, obviously hugely valuable products for Apple. Now,
Speaker 9: coming out of that meeting, the President said that Apple
Speaker 9: will be moving manufacturing to the US ask quote because
Speaker 9: they don't want to pay the tariffs, and then lo
Speaker 9: and behold. This week there's a half a trillion dollar
Speaker 9: investment announced from Apple. So this is as much a
Speaker 9: political move as it is a technological move. There's a
Speaker 9: lens through which you can view this as Apple hedging
Speaker 9: its bets on the future of artificial intelligence, kind of
Speaker 9: shoring up the tech infrastructure that's going to undergird that
Speaker 9: future technology. And there's a political lens saying, Hey, Apple,
Speaker 9: I want to extend this olive branch to the Trump
Speaker 9: administration saying hey, we're not quite moving iPhone production to
Speaker 9: the United States, but we are spending here and can
Speaker 9: we maybe get a break on some of the tariffs.
Speaker 9: I think that's kind of what Apple has in mind.
Speaker 9: Whether that will actually come to pass in reality, I
Speaker 9: think that remains to be seen.
Speaker 6: And we will be watching for that.
Speaker 1: And real quick before you go, Amazon's holding an event
Speaker 1: because somebody's getting a makeover.
Speaker 9: Yes, Alexa, and apologies to everyone in California who'se Alexa devices.
Speaker 9: I just activated there. But this is there is They're
Speaker 9: very popular voice assistant baked into smart speakers and an app,
Speaker 9: and there's there's web you know, sort of integrations as well.
Speaker 9: But this is a voice assistant that, despite its name recognition,
Speaker 9: has kind of fallen behind other competitors in the voice
Speaker 9: assistant space, namely Google Assistant. And Amazon is planning to
Speaker 9: unveil an all new version of Alexa later today here
Speaker 9: in New York City, and they say that it's going
Speaker 9: to be competitive again with an infusion of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 9: This is another AI story, the same way that we
Speaker 9: talk to you know, Alexa. Now it's kind of stilted, right,
Speaker 9: you have to use these sort of very specific words
Speaker 9: and phrases. It's kind of awkward given that large language
Speaker 9: models are designed to replicate human speech. The idea is
Speaker 9: that your Alexa will be a lot easier to talk to.
Speaker 9: You can just talk to it like we're talking right now,
Speaker 9: in natural language. That's the promise. Whether that actually works
Speaker 9: in reality, you know, we'll we'll have to wait and see.
Speaker 9: I certainly hope that they're is a live demonstration component
Speaker 9: to this event later today that we can look at
Speaker 9: to see if it actually does work in the real world,
Speaker 9: because something that we have to talk about every time
Speaker 9: we bring up generative AI does have a tendency to
Speaker 9: go wrong. It makes things up, it gets things wrong,
Speaker 9: and that means Amazon is taking on a pretty big
Speaker 9: risk by baking it into one of their most recognizable technologies.
Speaker 6: We'll be asking, Alexa, are you lying to us now?
Speaker 9: Alexa, what are you talking about?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and again, apologies for the name.
Speaker 1: ABC's Mike Debuski, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 6: Appreciate it, of course, Amy ticcare all right.
Speaker 1: Man from Bell Gardens has disappeared in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield says the guy was last seen two
Speaker 1: weeks ago.
Speaker 11: More than a week later, his vehicle was found crashed
Speaker 11: about two hundred feet down a steep hillside in an
Speaker 11: area about five miles west of Mount Baldy. The vehicle
Speaker 11: was found after several inches of rain had prounded the area.
Speaker 1: He says authorities reported not finding any blood in the
Speaker 1: car and said it didn't look like the man had
Speaker 1: been thrown from the vehicle. Three American tourists have been
Speaker 1: found added a luxury resort in Belize. ABC's Matt Rivers
Speaker 1: says security video shows the women in their twenties returning
Speaker 1: from a tour Thursday night.
Speaker 14: Please are now saying that they are retracing this group's steps,
Speaker 14: seeing where they went, what they ate, all while waiting
Speaker 14: for autopsy results.
Speaker 1: So lease say they're testing the room for carbon monoxide
Speaker 1: and that they found alcohol and gummies in the women's room.
Speaker 1: A Southwest Airlines flight landing in Chicago had to pull
Speaker 1: up at the last second to avoid hitting a business
Speaker 1: jet that was crossing its path on the runway. ABC's
Speaker 1: ran On Alley says air traffic control had told the
Speaker 1: smaller plane yesterday to hold short of the runway.
Speaker 6: Reportedly issuing the warning nine times.
Speaker 13: It's unclear why the pilot did not follow those instructions.
Speaker 1: The Southwest plane eventually landed safely. Wow scary Federal judge
Speaker 1: has ordered the Trump administration a second time to release
Speaker 1: frozen foreign aid funds. Trump ordered the usaid funds frozen
Speaker 1: shortly after he took office. Lawyers for aid groups say
Speaker 1: they can't access the money in spite of a judge's
Speaker 1: ordered to do so earlier this month. The judge gave
Speaker 1: the Trump administration till midnight tonight to release those funds.
Speaker 1: President Trump has a proposed new immigration policy.
Speaker 12: Saying the US will sell gold cards for five million
Speaker 12: dollars to wealthy foreigners who want to live here.
Speaker 6: ABC Smarry Bruce's.
Speaker 1: The gold card would replace the current EB five visa
Speaker 1: or Immigrant Investor program, which was created by Congress in
Speaker 1: the early nineties makes people eligible to apply for a
Speaker 1: green card if they invest a certain amount in the
Speaker 1: US and create at least ten permanent, full time jobs.
Speaker 10: By goodbye the Little Riding.
Speaker 1: The Altadena Little League is going to play this season
Speaker 1: with a little help from their friends. Players lost their
Speaker 1: home field at Farnsworth Park to the wildfires. Park was destroyed,
Speaker 1: so the West Pasadena Little League is opening its field
Speaker 1: to Altadena to play its games there. Several of the
Speaker 1: players lost their homes in the fire in Altadena last month.
Speaker 6: I love that. That's great.
Speaker 1: It's once again safe to drink the water in about
Speaker 1: two thousand homes and businesses in Pacific Palisades. La mare
Speaker 1: Baths says, DWP crews have flushed the system and are
Speaker 1: still testing the water. Some areas are still under do
Speaker 1: not drink notices. DWP officials say they're working to restore
Speaker 1: service to all The FAA says it's investigating what caused
Speaker 1: an Asiana Airline's flight headed to San Francisco to do
Speaker 1: what's called a go around. The FAA says the plane
Speaker 1: from Seoul was warned by the tower on Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: that it was too low on final approach, so it
Speaker 1: had to go around. It landed safely about fifteen minutes later.
Speaker 1: The poppies aren't expected to be very spectacular this spring.
Speaker 1: California State Park's officials say below average rainfall this winter
Speaker 1: means that the poppy bloom may not be that great.
Speaker 1: January was the ninth driest in California since nineteen eighty five,
Speaker 1: at six oh five. It's handle on the news Apple
Speaker 1: as you just heard Mike Deubuski's say, kind of trying
Speaker 1: to make nice with the Trump administration to avoid tariffs.
Speaker 1: But someone might want to talk to Apple programmers about that,
Speaker 1: because it's dictation feature apparently has been typing out racist
Speaker 1: when people say the word Trump.
Speaker 6: Will Cole Schreiber no laughing at that.
Speaker 10: Damie's on it, Damie's Damie's on it, Damie's on it.
Speaker 6: What am I on?
Speaker 1: I'm on the stream movies, documentaries, TV series and right
Speaker 1: now I'm on movies because we are heading up to
Speaker 1: Hollywood's biggest night, of course, the Oscars, uh this Sunday.
Speaker 1: So I've been kind of cramming as many movies in
Speaker 1: as I could to share with you.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: And this week I'm on The Brutalist stars.
Speaker 1: Adrian Brody, Nominated Stars, Full of City, Jones, stars guy
Speaker 1: named Guy Pierce, and uh, I was like, what is
Speaker 1: this movie about? What is a Brutalist? And I was like,
Speaker 1: is this a brutal man?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 1: And I didn't know until I looked it up this morning,
Speaker 1: even after watching all three hours of the movie. So
Speaker 1: it's Adrian Brodie plays a man who comes to the
Speaker 1: US from Hungary following World War Two. The outline for
Speaker 1: the movie says that he's a holocaust Survivor. You don't
Speaker 1: get that in the movie. I don't think it ever
Speaker 1: really says that. You know that he's Jewish, you know
Speaker 1: that he's coming from Hungary, you know that there's discrimination
Speaker 1: against Jewish people as he comes to America, that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, But I don't know where the Holocaust survivor
Speaker 1: came through. He wants to rebuild his life, obviously comes
Speaker 1: for the American dream. He stays with a relative that
Speaker 1: falls apart. Not exactly sure what the heck.
Speaker 6: Went on there.
Speaker 1: It was weird and uncomfortable, the relationship between him and
Speaker 1: his relative and the I think it was his cousin's wife.
Speaker 1: So then he can't stay with them anymore. So then
Speaker 1: he's kind of on the streets and he's hungry, and
Speaker 1: he's working crappy jobs. And then suddenly he meets this
Speaker 1: wealthy guy played by Guy Pearce and discovers that Adrian
Speaker 1: Brodie's character is actually an architect, and a really good
Speaker 1: one and a kind of famous one from Hungary. And
Speaker 1: so then the story takes a turn as he starts
Speaker 1: architecting againting architecting. Yeah, so the movie is kind of long, meandering.
Speaker 1: There are things that are insinuated but not explained. There
Speaker 1: are storyline, storylines that seem to appear out of nowhere
Speaker 1: for no reason, and some of them don't go anywhere,
Speaker 1: and others do.
Speaker 6: And then I didn't love this movie, and it was
Speaker 6: three hours long.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: I will say that it was beautiful. I mean, like
Speaker 1: some of the some of the scenes, a cinematography beautiful.
Speaker 1: And I think Adrian Brody is is great. He's a
Speaker 1: great actor. It seems like it's all the other Adrian
Speaker 1: and Brody characters though he kind of it seems to
Speaker 1: me like he plays the same character. But and if
Speaker 1: you want to see in the movie, it's still in theaters.
Speaker 1: But again, it's over three hours, one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: eight minutes. And it's not like it's an Oppenheimer that
Speaker 1: it's this amazing, amazing epic movie.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 6: I just I don't know. I didn't get it. Why
Speaker 6: the name. It's not the person is the brutalist. It's
Speaker 6: about what he does.
Speaker 1: Brutalist apparently means raw concrete and the use of unadorned
Speaker 1: concrete services, so that's surfaces.
Speaker 6: So that's why they call it the brutalist. Quite literally
Speaker 6: what it is.
Speaker 1: I was on it.
Speaker 6: I didn't love it.
Speaker 1: I think if you watch it on the stream, which
Speaker 1: is you still have to rent it right now, maybe
Speaker 1: wait until it's not gonna cost you twenty dollars. Like
Speaker 1: I said, parts of it are beautiful, but it was
Speaker 1: not my favorite movie by any stretch. Okay, time to
Speaker 1: get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney donnah.
Speaker 6: Birthday, Courtney, Happy Birthday, Bay Birthday, Happy Birthday, Courtney.
Speaker 13: I love it. I'm nineteen again, aren't we all, Courtney,
Speaker 13: aren't we all? But it's so nice to be able
Speaker 13: to be allowed to drive for the first time. I
Speaker 13: don't think anybody's buying this, Courtney. Oh, trying to make
Speaker 13: myself feel better about all of it.
Speaker 1: Well, happy birthday. We're sorry you have to work, but
Speaker 1: we're glad that you get to spend a little bit
Speaker 1: of time with us today.
Speaker 6: So else, I love being with you.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about spring break, because we're talking about business
Speaker 1: money and it's going to cost a lot if you
Speaker 1: want to go anywhere this spring break.
Speaker 13: Well, first of all, I have to play this before
Speaker 13: because this is going to get us in the spirit
Speaker 13: of everything. Okay, exactly, But unfortunately it's never been more
Speaker 13: expensive to go on spring break this year. The average
Speaker 13: trip from March twelfth to the twenty first. They came
Speaker 13: up saying, all right, this is the peak time that
Speaker 13: schools are off. It's expected to cost more than eighty
Speaker 13: three hundred dollars. That's double the period in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 13: same period in twenty nineteen, and twenty six percent more than.
Speaker 6: It did last year. That's twenty six percent.
Speaker 13: Yep, that's going to travel insurance company square Mouth.
Speaker 6: Okay, so everything's up.
Speaker 13: Yeah, hotels have been on the rise since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6: There's still no sign of that stopping.
Speaker 13: Domestic flights for spring break trips are now averaging two
Speaker 13: hundred and eighty bucks. That's about four percent higher than
Speaker 13: last year.
Speaker 6: I just flew last weekend, and yeah, it was not
Speaker 6: inexpensive by any stretch. No, not at all.
Speaker 13: And you have to look at different hacks in order
Speaker 13: to try to make it a little less expensive. You
Speaker 13: can go at a different time, obviously earlier is supposed
Speaker 13: to be a little bit better, or wait a bit
Speaker 13: to April. But another thing you could do is leave
Speaker 13: on Saturday and return home midweek, and that could shave
Speaker 13: about one hundred dollars off your ticket.
Speaker 1: Okay, good good tips as you try to get away
Speaker 1: from it all for a little bit. Anything exciting happening
Speaker 1: on Wall Street today that we should be looking at.
Speaker 13: Yes, everybody's looking at in Vidia today. They're going to
Speaker 13: be focused on their earnings after the closing bell. Now,
Speaker 13: the quarterly report card from the leader in artificial intelligence chips.
Speaker 13: It's definitely become the big event for Wall Street every
Speaker 13: quarter when they come out with this information. That's a
Speaker 13: knockoff go for my water because I'm so excited talking
Speaker 13: about Nvidia, but the promise of AI that powered the
Speaker 13: rally that we saw last year in the markets. But
Speaker 13: these results may be the most critical yet for them
Speaker 13: because we just had Chinese startup deep Sea. They came
Speaker 13: out saying, okay, well we need less computing power than
Speaker 13: a lot of the American rivals.
Speaker 6: So what does this mean for the future of Nvidia.
Speaker 13: Everybody's going to be looking at that, and that could
Speaker 13: change the direction and the trajectory of the markets. Right now,
Speaker 13: we are looking at a higher open s and P futures.
Speaker 13: They're up about half a percent down, futures rising one
Speaker 13: hundred points.
Speaker 1: All right, Birthday girl, Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, thanks so much
Speaker 1: getting your business again tomorrow. Yes, I'll be filled with
Speaker 1: cake all right, Thanks so much, Courtney. The La County
Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors has approved rental protections for renters and
Speaker 1: small businesses affected by the wildfires. The protections cover people
Speaker 1: who've signed up for relief programs and benefits and have
Speaker 1: lost at least ten percent of their monthly income. The
Speaker 1: House has narrowly passed a budget resolution. The vote was
Speaker 1: two seventeen two fifteen, with Kentucky's Thomas Massey the only
Speaker 1: Republican voting against it. Now they have to put the
Speaker 1: House bill and the Senate bill together to present a
Speaker 1: bill to the President to sign. Star Wars fans are
Speaker 1: going to get to see one of the franchise movies
Speaker 1: in theaters again this spring. Star Wars Revenge of the
Speaker 1: Sith returns to theaters April twenty fifth to mark its
Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary. It'll be in theaters for just one week.
Speaker 6: Let's say good morning to ABC's Steven portnoy So.
Speaker 1: Stephen, Yesterday we talked about the judge allowing the White
Speaker 1: House to continue blocking the ap from participating in press
Speaker 1: pools at least for now, but now there are changes
Speaker 1: to the way the White House is going to decide
Speaker 1: which reporters will be in the press pool.
Speaker 8: This takes it to a whole other level.
Speaker 7: And it's interesting because I sat in that court hearing
Speaker 7: on Monday where the judge turned to the government lawyer
Speaker 7: and said, why do you folks deal with the White
Speaker 7: House correspond Association at all? And I guess, I don't
Speaker 7: know if that planted a seed or was it trigger
Speaker 7: or whatever, but you know, fast forward less than twenty
Speaker 7: four hours later, and the White House yesterday announced that
Speaker 7: it would no longer maintain the relationship with the WHCA,
Speaker 7: where the Press Court chooses among itself who is representing
Speaker 7: the broader press corps to go into these tight spaces
Speaker 7: such as the Oval Office, the Roosevelt Room, the Cabinet
Speaker 7: Room today to document the presidens meetings and activities and
Speaker 7: ask him questions. The Cabinet meeting today is an important
Speaker 7: one because it's the first one at this current term
Speaker 7: and Elon Musk.
Speaker 8: Is going to be in the room.
Speaker 7: Where will he be seated, Will he have a seat
Speaker 7: at the table or will it be off to the side.
Speaker 7: Will he be addressing the Cabinet secretary's giving them direction.
Speaker 7: All of these things will I suppose we'll see, But
Speaker 7: the way we'll see it is through the lenses of
Speaker 7: cameras that are now being.
Speaker 8: Selected by the government. And that's the trouble here, I think.
Speaker 7: I mean as a former president of the WHCA myself,
Speaker 7: I served from twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two,
Speaker 7: I can give you some sense of this, and that
Speaker 7: is that the pool is a weird amalgamation of a
Speaker 7: variety of different outlets. By my rough back of the
Speaker 7: envelope calculation, there are more than sixty outlets that cover
Speaker 7: the White House that take part in pool rotations. In
Speaker 7: the print pool, the radio pool, the television network pool,
Speaker 7: there's a foreign pool that I wonder whether they'll continue
Speaker 7: to have access now. And all of it is in
Speaker 7: service to a variety of different audiences. And the WHCA
Speaker 7: has tried over the decades to expand its membership ranks
Speaker 7: to involve new and emerging outlets. For example, of the
Speaker 7: thirty newspaper and online outlets that take part in our
Speaker 7: regular print rotation, there are emerging outlets such as The
Speaker 7: Daily Caller, the Grio, Huff, Post, which today has been
Speaker 7: excluded from coverage, and more traditional outlets like the Los
Speaker 7: Angeles Times. They have a slot in our pool, but
Speaker 7: you have to wonder whether they're going to be able
Speaker 7: to keep it. We don't know the answer. But today
Speaker 7: outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters and Huffington Post,
Speaker 7: which would have been in the pool have been excluded.
Speaker 6: Hmmm. In AP and Reuters.
Speaker 7: That's interesting because traditionally the wires are seen as historic
Speaker 7: and first among equals. So you have AP Reuters in Bloomberg,
Speaker 7: which is admitted to everything. They spend the money and
Speaker 7: they have the resources to cover every event the president has,
Speaker 7: and so they are allowed to cover everything. But now
Speaker 7: the White House as well, only one wire reporter and
Speaker 7: it'll only be today Bloomberg, which means that Reuter's will
Speaker 7: sit alongside on the bench alongside.
Speaker 8: The AP today.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the White House Press Secretary announced during her
Speaker 1: first briefing that they were going to start letting different
Speaker 1: organizations in and that kind of stuff that they were
Speaker 1: kind of planning to do this.
Speaker 7: Well, I look, the White House has under Donald Trump,
Speaker 7: sought to add additional reporters to the pool.
Speaker 8: We don't have an objection to that principally.
Speaker 7: I mean, look, you might argue it's not fair because well,
Speaker 7: these people are favored, and what about everybody else who's disfavored.
Speaker 8: And that's why the WHCAA is an elected body.
Speaker 7: Remember I was the president the association because I put
Speaker 7: myself forward to my colleagues and I won an election. Yeah,
Speaker 7: and with that, you have the responsibility to be fair
Speaker 7: and judicious as you make tough decisions. You're always going
Speaker 7: to wind up disappointing somebody in the press court among
Speaker 7: your constituency.
Speaker 8: But you have to make sure.
Speaker 7: I always believe, and I know that my colleagues who
Speaker 7: currently serve on the board have it in mind that
Speaker 7: the public interest is paramount. And again, the public is
Speaker 7: what we're focused on here, not the individual rights of reporters,
Speaker 7: although of course we can't discount that, But we have
Speaker 7: to focus on what our objective is, and that's to
Speaker 7: help the American people and the people of the free
Speaker 7: world understand what's happening, to represent them in our questions,
Speaker 7: you know. And the idea here is the government should
Speaker 7: not be able to make these decisions because when it does,
Speaker 7: this door swings both ways.
Speaker 6: Folks, Well, and eliminates the free press thing.
Speaker 8: Well, certainly the independence of a free press.
Speaker 7: I mean, I understand the idea that this White House
Speaker 7: believes that it's a privilege to stand before the Resolute
Speaker 7: Desk to be invited in. Well, I take that for
Speaker 7: what it is, which is inviting in a group of
Speaker 7: reporters to conduct news gathering, which is a First Amendment activity.
Speaker 7: And once you do that, the government should not be
Speaker 7: in the business of picking and choosing winners and losers,
Speaker 7: excluding outlets today they've already done it.
Speaker 6: Before I let you go. Can anyone challenge this?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, one of the issues that came up in
Speaker 7: the court on Monday was why does the White House
Speaker 7: have to deal with the WHCA at all? But it
Speaker 7: doesn't discount the idea that you're still talking about admitting
Speaker 7: in a group of reporters, and when the government is
Speaker 7: choosing it. There are Fifth Amendment implications about due process.
Speaker 7: What was the process used to decide?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 8: Was it arbitrary? If it was arbitrary, is that actionable?
Speaker 8: I don't know. That's going to be up to lawyers.
Speaker 8: I'm not one. I play an uptight reporter on the radio.
Speaker 6: No, you're a fabulous reporter on the radio.
Speaker 1: In fact, you're so fabulous that you're going to be
Speaker 1: joining Bill Handle at seven o'clock to talk more about
Speaker 1: this ABC.
Speaker 8: I'm total. He plays a lawyer on the radio.
Speaker 6: He does, he does.
Speaker 1: So much great information. As always, Thank you, ABC. Stephen Portnoy,
Speaker 1: you're back. All right, Let's get back to some of
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