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Speaker 1: For Wednesday, hump Day already, February nineteenth. I'm Amy King.
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Speaker 1: Lots of fun stuff coming up on wake up Call,
Speaker 1: Lots of informative stuff too.
Speaker 5: Here's what's ahead.
Speaker 1: The La City Council has postponed a vote on a
Speaker 1: proposal that would get tenants impacted economically by the wildfires
Speaker 1: last month, eviction protections. The council said yesterday still needs
Speaker 1: some more work, so they will address the issue on
Speaker 1: March fourth. Opponents say the burden on landlords is too great.
Speaker 1: Dozens of residents have blocked trucks carrying debris from the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire from entering the Calabasis landfill on Tuesday, residents
Speaker 1: are protesting the use of the landfill, saying the toxic
Speaker 1: waste coming from the fire zones will be too close
Speaker 1: to schools and homes and poses a health risk. Hearing
Speaker 1: with the Justice Department and lawyers for New York City
Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams is scheduled for today to talk about
Speaker 1: the motion to dismiss bribery and corruption charges against the mayor.
Speaker 1: A former US attorney who refused to dismiss those charges
Speaker 1: and then quit says they were only being dropped because
Speaker 1: Adams is now supporting President Trump's deportation policies. More hostages
Speaker 1: are about to be released by Hamas. It's not going
Speaker 1: to be a happy homecoming for all of them. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking to Abcizure Donna Miller about that.
Speaker 1: In just a couple of minutes. Facebook is going to
Speaker 1: start purging some of your content. KTLA's tech reporter Rich
Speaker 1: Demiro is going to join us to tell us about that. Also,
Speaker 1: there's a new smart watch coming to a wrist near you,
Speaker 1: a modern day pretty Woman. I'm on it, Amy's on it.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour. I
Speaker 1: think you might want to take a listen in case
Speaker 1: you haven't seen this one yet. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. The cost of the fire and Pacific
Speaker 1: palisades are piling up for the City of La.
Speaker 3: City Council when Katie Arislovsky says she's worried if there
Speaker 3: will even be a FEMA to offer reimbursement to the city,
Speaker 3: citing what she called chaos in Washington, d c.
Speaker 2: Or.
Speaker 3: She says the federal government would attach strings to the
Speaker 3: money that.
Speaker 5: Are so onerous that we may decide, you know what,
Speaker 5: we can't accept.
Speaker 3: We can't accept that the latest estimates from the city,
Speaker 3: or that it has suffered two hundred and twenty million
Speaker 3: dollars in damage from the fire and more than sixty
Speaker 3: million dollars in personnel cost. City officials say they hope
Speaker 3: most of that is covered by FEMA reimbursements. Michael monks
Speaker 3: KFI News the.
Speaker 1: La City Council is going to take up another attempt
Speaker 1: to expand eviction protections to those who claim they lost
Speaker 1: income because of the recent wildfires. Council President Marquis Harris
Speaker 1: Dawson says the issue is going to be brought back
Speaker 1: in two weeks.
Speaker 6: There are solutions to be had, and we'll work with
Speaker 6: the members of this horseshoe and with the maker of
Speaker 6: the motion to come up with something that I think
Speaker 6: accomplishes all those things and does it in time before
Speaker 6: people are facing eviction.
Speaker 1: A similar proposal was shut down last week because some
Speaker 1: members said there wasn't enough data showing that people facing
Speaker 1: eviction away from the fire areas. They also express concerns
Speaker 1: about people possibly taking advantage of the program like they
Speaker 1: did during the pandemic. California's Attorney general has charged a
Speaker 1: real estate agent and a landlord with price gouging a
Speaker 1: person who had to leave their home because of the
Speaker 1: Eton fire. Attorney General Rob Bonta says a fire victim
Speaker 1: moved into a rental property in Hermosa each and the
Speaker 1: two charged bomped up the rent by thirty six percent.
Speaker 1: The governor's emergency order limits rent increases to no more
Speaker 1: than ten percent. A judge has ruled the state's lawsuit
Speaker 1: against Norwalk over homeless housing can move forward.
Speaker 3: A judge made the ruling on Tuesday and also dismissed
Speaker 3: the Norwalk City Council as a defendant. The state is
Speaker 3: challenging the city after it passed the noordinance last year,
Speaker 3: putting a moratorium on new homeless shelters and other housing projects.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says state officials have accused Norwalk of
Speaker 1: violating state law. Egg prices are taking a beating. The
Speaker 1: USDA says wholesale egg prices have jumped forty cents over
Speaker 1: the last thirty days. A dozen eggs now cost distributors
Speaker 1: seven dollars and forty four cents. The price is expected
Speaker 1: to climb with shortages continuing and distributors passing the costs
Speaker 1: along to consumers. The rising number of bird flu cases
Speaker 1: being blamed for ongoing egg shortages. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: now to ab Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, So Jordanah. More
Speaker 1: hostages are about to be released, but for a lot
Speaker 1: of families, it's not going to be a happy homecoming.
Speaker 5: Tell us about that, please.
Speaker 7: Well. Tomorrow. Hamas says they will release four bodies of
Speaker 7: hostages that died during their captivity, and Hamas says that
Speaker 7: will include the Bebus family. The young Israeli mother in
Speaker 7: her thirties. Many people remember her specific kidnapping video where
Speaker 7: she looked terrified holding two young babies with red hair,
Speaker 7: an eleven month old Fear and her two year old Ril.
Speaker 7: Hamas says they will be returned in body bags and
Speaker 7: Israel's bracing for that. Another older Israeli in his eighties
Speaker 7: is expected also to come back dead. And then on Saturday,
Speaker 7: Hamas says they will not release just three, but actually six,
Speaker 7: all the remaining live hostages, living hostages from Phase one.
Speaker 7: That will include four hostages from this current war and
Speaker 7: two Israelis that were kidnapped more than a decade ago
Speaker 7: by Hamas. So Tomorrow is going to be a very
Speaker 7: tough day for Israelis. Saturday will be a happier day,
Speaker 7: especially for some of these families. Three of the male
Speaker 7: hostages that are coming out on Saturday were young men
Speaker 7: in their twenties, kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival, which
Speaker 7: he'll remember is where Hamas gunned down over three hundred Israelis.
Speaker 1: Okay, and the release of the bodies and more hostages,
Speaker 1: why is that being stepped up?
Speaker 5: Because aren't they They were supposed to be released like
Speaker 5: three at a time, right right.
Speaker 7: The bodies, it turns out, were part of the original deal.
Speaker 7: We just didn't know about it. It had not been disclosed,
Speaker 7: so that's not a change. We can understand. It wasn't
Speaker 7: publicized because there are some bodies coming out before live hostages,
Speaker 7: but maybe to you know, to ward off criticism. It's
Speaker 7: happening literally just twenty four hours before the live hostages
Speaker 7: are coming out. And then the deal is expedited because
Speaker 7: Hamas really wants more caravans and more heavy machinery to
Speaker 7: come into the Gaza strip because a there's nowhere for
Speaker 7: many people to live. Remember, ninety percent of Gosins were
Speaker 7: displaced in the war and seventy five percent of the
Speaker 7: buildings are damaged or destroyed. So they want caravans and
Speaker 7: tends to come in and they need heavy equipment to
Speaker 7: start moving the rubble around. So Israel used its leverage,
Speaker 7: if you will, because the caravans can't get in unless
Speaker 7: this Israel inspects them and allows them in to push
Speaker 7: Hamas to let out three more hostages early, so they're
Speaker 7: coming out a week early. And then the side now
Speaker 7: amy are engaged in talks on Phase two, which we
Speaker 7: do suspect will go on for some time, and they're
Speaker 7: very complicated discussions here, negotiations a lot at stake. Hamas
Speaker 7: has to give up control of the Gaza Strip, not
Speaker 7: only you know, as a military presence, but governing the
Speaker 7: Gaza Strip, and the Israeli Army has to withdraw from
Speaker 7: the Egyptian Gaza border and take its troops out of Gaza.
Speaker 7: So there obviously those are going to be tough decisions
Speaker 7: for both sides to take. But if they don't remember,
Speaker 7: there's still dozens of hostages in the Gaza Strip, including
Speaker 7: thirty that are still believed to be alive, most of
Speaker 7: them young men, including one American.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, at least they're talking about Phase two. But
Speaker 1: where you're right, I mean it, Hamas has to give
Speaker 1: up control when they're sitting there before they when they
Speaker 1: parade these hostages before releasing them and saying one we
Speaker 1: won I mean, there are they really going to go
Speaker 1: and leave?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 7: They're showing no signs that they're going to try to
Speaker 7: you know, that they're going to give up control of
Speaker 7: the Gaza Strip. They're clearly trying to survive and hold
Speaker 7: on to power. But I don't think you at the
Speaker 7: US and Israel and its allies, even the Arab countries
Speaker 7: here in the region, you know, they don't. They don't
Speaker 7: want Hamas to maintain control of the Gaza strips. So,
Speaker 7: you know, I think it's just a matter of time
Speaker 7: before Hamas, you know, gives up its control. And it
Speaker 7: may take a few months, it may even take another
Speaker 7: round of fighting by Israel. We're going to have to
Speaker 7: wait and see, all right.
Speaker 1: ABC's j Donna Miller in Jerusalem. Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the information. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get back to some of the stories coming
Speaker 1: out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal
Speaker 1: judge has refused a request from fourteen attorneys general to
Speaker 1: temporarily block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency
Speaker 1: from accessing government data systems or laying off workers. The
Speaker 1: ags argued the power granted by A two Musk by
Speaker 1: President Trump is unconstitutional. The judge yesterday found there are
Speaker 1: legitimate questions about Musk's authority, but said there is no
Speaker 1: evidence of grave legal harm that would justify a temporary
Speaker 1: restraining order. The US and Russia say they are open
Speaker 1: to continuing discussions on ending the war in Ukraine. ABC's
Speaker 1: Britt Clinant says Secretary of State Marco Rubio stresses the
Speaker 1: goal is a fair, enduring, and sustainable end to the conflict,
Speaker 1: but delegates from the two nations have also agreed to
Speaker 1: address irritance in the bilateral relationship.
Speaker 8: It's not clear what they meant by irritants.
Speaker 1: Rubio says both nations will create high level teams to
Speaker 1: support peace negotiations. Ukraine was not included in the talks
Speaker 1: this week. The president of Ukraine's his President Trump is
Speaker 1: living in a Russian disinformation space. His comment in response
Speaker 1: to what Trump said yesterday following the meeting with Russian
Speaker 1: officials in Saudi Arabia. Zelensky complained about not being invited
Speaker 1: to the talks. Trump said Ukraine had already been there
Speaker 1: for three years, and Trump said, in his words, you
Speaker 1: should have ended it after three years.
Speaker 5: You should have never started it. You could have made
Speaker 5: a deal.
Speaker 1: President Trump assigned an executive order intended to reduce the
Speaker 1: cost of in vitro fertilization. The order says Americans need
Speaker 1: reliable access to IVF and more affordable options. It says
Speaker 1: the cost per cycle can range from twelve to twenty
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. Trump's order calls for a list of
Speaker 1: policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and reducing out of
Speaker 1: pocket and health plan costs within ninety days. Aviation experts
Speaker 1: say investigators will consider weather conditions, possible human error, and
Speaker 1: maybe an aircraft malfunction as they try to figure out
Speaker 1: what caused a Delta Airlines plane to crash in Toronto.
Speaker 1: ABC's Geobanitez is the plane came down fast on Monday
Speaker 1: and landed hard.
Speaker 9: It's landing gear appearing to collapse, the right wing striking
Speaker 9: the ground, sparking flames, the plane flipping onto its back.
Speaker 1: At the time of the landing, winds are gusting up
Speaker 1: to forty miles per hour. All eighty passengers and crew survive.
Speaker 1: Pope Francis has pneumonia on both lungs. The Vatican updated
Speaker 1: his condition yesterday. Francis has been in the hospital since Friday.
Speaker 1: All of the Pope's plans have been canceled for the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the week.
Speaker 1: The US has created Space Force, and now China says
Speaker 1: it's recruiting for a planetary defense force to deal with
Speaker 1: a thread of asteroids colliding with Earth. Sixteen people are
Speaker 1: going to be hired to do near Earth asteroid monitoring
Speaker 1: and to research early warning systems. China's State Administration of Science,
Speaker 1: Technology and Industry for National Defense Mouthful says applicants have
Speaker 1: to be under thirty five and maintain a firm political
Speaker 1: stance in line with the ruling Chinese Communist Party and
Speaker 1: its leader. NASA says there's a three hundred foot wide
Speaker 1: asteroid that could actually collide with Earth Earth. There's about
Speaker 1: a two and a half percent chance of it hitting
Speaker 1: Earth in December of twenty thirty two. Okay, here's something
Speaker 1: sweet to eat. Krispy Kreme and Hulu. I just found
Speaker 1: out about this, so partnered up for a movie theater
Speaker 1: snack donut. Actually, there's a bunch of them, and they're
Speaker 1: available now for a limited time. And of course Krispy Kreme,
Speaker 1: they don't do any advertising. They just go and deliver
Speaker 1: donuts to every radio station in the market and then
Speaker 1: we all fall for it and we all talk about it.
Speaker 1: But so there's a blue raspberry slush donut, I know
Speaker 1: that sounds really There's the cookie dough Superstar donut that
Speaker 1: sounds like it could be kind of good. So it's
Speaker 1: the unglazed shell filled with chocolate butter cream filling dipped
Speaker 1: in chocolate flavored icing in the top with gold glitter
Speaker 1: sprinkles and cookie dough bites.
Speaker 4: Can't go wrong.
Speaker 1: Can't go wrong with that one. Yeah, there's the candy
Speaker 1: double feature donut. That is, it's a white icing on
Speaker 1: it and it's got you know, little mini Eminem's many
Speaker 1: chocolate chips.
Speaker 5: That sounds okay, okay.
Speaker 1: And then the one I think sounds gross but looks
Speaker 1: really cute is the caramel popcorn donut. So it's a
Speaker 1: donut and then it's got the white frosting with red
Speaker 1: stripes on it, so it looks like a popcorn bucket.
Speaker 1: And then it's got pieces of popcorn, and then it's
Speaker 1: got a caramel popcorn cream filling.
Speaker 5: I have that one.
Speaker 1: I'm going to taste it, but anyway, Krispy Cream Hulu
Speaker 1: Movie Theater Snack Donuts available for a limited time. A
Speaker 1: new app is helping people in southern California track immigration
Speaker 1: and customs enforcement activity in their neighborhoods. The apps creators
Speaker 1: say it aims to increase awareness and safety by allowing
Speaker 1: a limited number of users to report and view ice sightings.
Speaker 1: Critics say it interferes with federal immigration efforts. A state
Speaker 1: review board has rejected recent updates to California's low carbon
Speaker 1: fuel standards that are expected to spike gas prices by
Speaker 1: as much as fifty cents a gallon. The Office of
Speaker 1: Administrative Law said parts of the regulations are unclear and
Speaker 1: need to be revised. KARB has one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: days to revise and re submit the updates. Nicole Kidman
Speaker 1: and Keith Urban's home in Beverly Crest has been broken into.
Speaker 1: The person got in by smashing a glass door Friday night,
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day and then apparently ransacked the home. It's not
Speaker 1: clear if anything was taken. The couple wasn't there at
Speaker 1: the time. No arrests have been made. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to the host of Rich on Tech on
Speaker 1: KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 4: Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to Amy.
Speaker 5: So we got a lot to get to.
Speaker 1: So we're going to start off with a I tell
Speaker 1: us what humane is and who now has control of it?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So Humane was kind of one of the biggest flops
Speaker 10: of last year. This company was a startup. They made
Speaker 10: this cool little AI pin. So it was kind of
Speaker 10: a wearable computer, ambient computing. You stick it to your clothes.
Speaker 4: It has a camera on it.
Speaker 10: You can ask it questions, it can translate stuff, it
Speaker 10: can take pictures of things, kind of like everyone's figuring
Speaker 10: out what the anti smartphone is. And this was expensive
Speaker 10: six hundred ninety nine dollars and at least a twenty
Speaker 10: dollars monthly fee. Anyway, it all flopped, didn't really do
Speaker 10: well because it was just not ready for primetime. HP
Speaker 10: has acquired that company. Humane they're going to shut down
Speaker 10: that pin. And really they acquired this company for all
Speaker 10: of the AI smarts, and so I expect to see
Speaker 10: a whole lot of AI and all of the new
Speaker 10: HP products like printers and laptops and computers.
Speaker 4: That's what's happening here.
Speaker 1: Okay, So they acquired all of that AI, so they
Speaker 1: basically it's already been developed and now they can apply
Speaker 1: that to their products.
Speaker 4: Is that how that happens.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they're like, we don't need this little pin thing
Speaker 10: because it didn't really do well. But we'll take all
Speaker 10: the you know, they've got like three hundred patents, they've
Speaker 10: had all this other stuff. The employees, we'll take all that.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, we can, you know. They so they'll make
Speaker 10: use of all the smarts that this company figured out.
Speaker 10: They just don't need that little pin. The sad part
Speaker 10: is if you bought one of these pins, not many
Speaker 10: people did, it's going to stop working February twenty eighth,
Speaker 10: And it's the bigger issue we've seen in the tech
Speaker 10: world of when you buy something that is like one
Speaker 10: hundred percent dependent on the Internet to function. When those
Speaker 10: cloud servers shut down, that's it. It's done.
Speaker 4: You can't use it anymore.
Speaker 10: It's not like a VCR where it'll still play a tape,
Speaker 10: you know, twenty years later.
Speaker 4: These things just won't function.
Speaker 5: You know what bugs me about all this tech.
Speaker 1: It's things like, well, I'm going to there's the humane
Speaker 1: pin and I was like, oh, is that a personal
Speaker 1: identification number? There's all these new words, and you don't
Speaker 1: know if that it's actually I'm like, oh, it's actually
Speaker 1: a pin. You know how like a mouse used to
Speaker 1: be a little rodent, Now a mouse is something different.
Speaker 1: Pins are different too, So anyway I.
Speaker 10: Should come up with the whole story of those like
Speaker 10: words that used to mean something else.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned that it was sort of like the
Speaker 1: anti smart watch er anti phone.
Speaker 5: But we do have another smart watch coming out right.
Speaker 10: Yes, So smart watches, you know, they have a place
Speaker 10: in this world. People love the Apple Watch. This is
Speaker 10: from a company called one Plus. We've talked about them before.
Speaker 10: This is their new version. Last year's watch was excellent.
Speaker 10: This is the new version of it. It's called the
Speaker 10: one plus Watch three. I'm wearing it right now. It's great.
Speaker 10: It's got a nice big screen. It runs the Android
Speaker 10: ware operating system, so it works really nicely with Android phones.
Speaker 10: It's got great battery life, which people love about it.
Speaker 10: And the big change this year from last year a
Speaker 10: little bit of a price increase thirty dollars more three
Speaker 10: hundred and thirty dollars. And the other thing is that
Speaker 10: people didn't like that the crown was not you couldn't
Speaker 10: rotate it. So there's a button that looks like a
Speaker 10: crown that you press, but you couldn't actually rotate it
Speaker 10: last year.
Speaker 4: This year you can actually rotate it.
Speaker 11: It looks great.
Speaker 10: I mean, I think the downside is there's no cellular available.
Speaker 10: And there's a cool feature called the sixty second Health
Speaker 10: Checkup that does not work in the US sadly, which
Speaker 10: I thought was like the coolest feature.
Speaker 4: On this whole thing. They're like, oh, not in the US.
Speaker 10: I'm like, oh, I did check my vascular health this morning, Amy,
Speaker 10: And how is your vascular health.
Speaker 4: My artural stiffness is good.
Speaker 5: You can check that on the watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just did. Took sixty seconds.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I don't know what that means, but clearly
Speaker 10: I'm gonna trust my watch and not go to the
Speaker 10: doctor for the next like five years.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: I think that might not be the goal of that stuff, but.
Speaker 4: That's okay, okay.
Speaker 5: Facebook's going to purge some of your content.
Speaker 10: Yeah, just a small note starting, well, now, if you
Speaker 10: do a Facebook Live, they're going to delete that video
Speaker 10: after thirty days.
Speaker 4: They're not going to linger forever.
Speaker 10: And I think that, you know, Facebook says most people
Speaker 10: watch live videos within the first couple of weeks, so
Speaker 10: this is not a big deal. But if you want,
Speaker 10: you can download all your old live videos before they
Speaker 10: delete them, transfer them to Google driver, Dropbox. You can
Speaker 10: convert clips, like if you say something really cool, you
Speaker 10: can convert it to a real and if you need
Speaker 10: extra time, you can go through on that individual video
Speaker 10: and get an extra six months by you know, tapping
Speaker 10: the little menu icon and say I need more time
Speaker 10: postpone this.
Speaker 1: Okay, so just so you know, be unnoticed. You got
Speaker 1: thirty days. Is that starting now?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Starting now?
Speaker 10: So that's fine because I when I search for my
Speaker 10: you know, old stuff on Instagram or on Google, I'm like,
Speaker 10: why is this old live video still lingering? It's like
Speaker 10: it's live, you don't need it there anymore. It was
Speaker 10: like in the moment.
Speaker 5: Okay, So they're just doing a little house cleaning.
Speaker 10: That's not a bad thing, right, Yeah, it doesn't cost
Speaker 10: them as much to store all those nonsense live videos.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: So for more information on this, you can go to
Speaker 1: Rich's tech website Rich on tech dot tv right absolutely,
Speaker 1: and you can listen to Rich right here on every
Speaker 1: Saturday from eleven to two. Rich Demiro, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: appreciate the information as always.
Speaker 4: Thanks Amy, I great day.
Speaker 5: You too.
Speaker 1: A man who was throwing rocks at passing cars in
Speaker 1: Riverside County has been shot and killed by CHP officers.
Speaker 1: CHP says they confronted the man yesterday afternoon east of
Speaker 1: State Route seventy nine in San Jacinto. Officials or officers
Speaker 1: used verbal commands and non deadly force, but the guy
Speaker 1: wouldn't stop coming toward them.
Speaker 5: That's when the shooting happened.
Speaker 1: A CalFire captain has been fatally stabbed in San Diego County.
Speaker 1: A sheriff's lieutenant says the murder is being treated as
Speaker 1: a possible case of domestic violence.
Speaker 11: Rebecca Marodi was found in Hermono home late Monday night
Speaker 11: with multiple stab wounds. Deputies got a call about an
Speaker 11: assault with the deadly weapon in the area. When they arrived,
Speaker 11: paramedics tried to save her, but she was pronounced dead
Speaker 11: at the scene.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Phil fararsas Marodi worked in Riverside County. She also
Speaker 1: served in the San Diego and San Bernardino areas.
Speaker 7: I'm guilty.
Speaker 1: Ands of rapper acep Rocky burst into screams of joy
Speaker 1: in court as a jury in La acquitted him in
Speaker 1: a shooting case. Rocky was found not guilty yesterday on
Speaker 1: two felony counts of assault with a semi automatic weapon.
Speaker 1: His lawyer, Joe Tacopina, says it was a just result.
Speaker 2: We said from.
Speaker 7: Day one he was innocent.
Speaker 12: He turned down a plea for almost no jail time
Speaker 12: because it was innocent.
Speaker 1: Ed Meyer's been found guilty. It could have been sentenced
Speaker 1: more than twenty years in prison. California has a bee problem.
Speaker 1: There aren't enough of them. The bee population is declining
Speaker 1: and that has led to an increase in beehive thefts
Speaker 1: as farmers scrambled to get enough bees to pollinate their crops.
Speaker 1: Central Valley almond farms need the bees to pollinate one
Speaker 1: and a half million acres of almond trees, and it's
Speaker 1: just about a flowering season for those almond trees. Experts
Speaker 1: say bees are dying off. They're not exactly sure why,
Speaker 1: but it could be because of pests, chemicals, diseases, or
Speaker 1: climate change. Rapper Asap Rockies been found not guilty of
Speaker 1: felony assault charges for shooting at a former friend in
Speaker 1: Hollywood in twenty twenty one. Prosecutors say the gun involved
Speaker 1: was a semi automatic weapon. Asaps defense contended the gun
Speaker 1: used was a prop gun that had blanks in it
Speaker 1: and firing it wasn't a crime.
Speaker 5: Doge has scored a win in court.
Speaker 1: A federal judge has declined to request or declined a
Speaker 1: request by fourteen state attorneys general to temporarily ban Elon
Speaker 1: Musk from accessing data at seven federal agencies and from
Speaker 1: laying off workers. The judge said the attorneys General had
Speaker 1: not shown proof that DOGE would cause irreparable harm to
Speaker 1: the States. More Americans have been socking away cash. Nearly
Speaker 1: a third of the adults surveyed by bank Rate say
Speaker 1: they have more in an emergency fund now than they
Speaker 1: did a year ago. Over half also reported having more
Speaker 1: savings set aside than credit card debt. Bank Rates CFO
Speaker 1: says people have been able to save more as inflation
Speaker 1: has come down. I bet that'll make car Joel Larsgard
Speaker 1: very happy. I'll have to tell him about that. At
Speaker 1: six oh five, its handle on the news. One of
Speaker 1: the main players has been left out of the mix
Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia. Can bet Bill's going to have something
Speaker 1: to say about that. Amy's on Itami's on it, AMI's
Speaker 1: on it, Gamie's on it.
Speaker 5: What am I on?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 1: I'm on the stream because we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: movies to watch before the awards shows. Actually a lot
Speaker 1: of award shows have already happened, but the big ones
Speaker 1: still coming up. Of course, the Academy Awards on March second,
Speaker 1: and the SAG Awards which I believe are this Sunday,
Speaker 1: I need to go check my dates, which reminds me
Speaker 1: I need to vote. So I'm watching those movies and
Speaker 1: the movie that I A lot of times, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys are this way, but a lot
Speaker 1: of times the list of movies, you go.
Speaker 5: What, what's that? Who's that you like?
Speaker 1: The actors, the actresses, because a lot of them are
Speaker 1: very obscure. They're not like Wicked, where everybody kind of
Speaker 1: knows what it is. So I wanted to watch some
Speaker 1: of those, and a lot of times I don't like
Speaker 1: them very much. This season has been different. I do
Speaker 1: like a lot of the nominated movies, but so this
Speaker 1: week we're focusing in on a Nora. It's nominated for everything,
Speaker 1: and it's winning lots of awards. It's streaming for rent
Speaker 1: or purchase right now, and let's see, it's on Netflix,
Speaker 1: it's on Disney Plus YouTube Prime Video, and I think
Speaker 1: it's right in about five ninety nine to rent it
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 5: The interesting thing about.
Speaker 1: This this movie is the way that it starts and
Speaker 1: then quickly changes, because it starts with this song.
Speaker 5: It's this great hopeful song.
Speaker 3: Good's the Greatest Day?
Speaker 5: Yeah, gonna be the greatest day of our life.
Speaker 1: And it's a catchy little tune and you're like, this
Speaker 1: is great, and then it goes you're in a strip
Speaker 1: club in New Jersey, and of course there's lots of
Speaker 1: dancers and lots of nakedness. It's built as a story
Speaker 1: about the romance between a stripper from New Jersey and
Speaker 1: a Russian oligarch's kid, So it sounds a little bit
Speaker 1: like Pretty Woman, but it's darker, with a lot more
Speaker 1: nudity and sex. And then I watched it and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is pretty Woman. They even have
Speaker 1: this negotiation on her being his girlfriend for a week.
Speaker 1: Again this is he's like twenty one years old, but
Speaker 1: he's a Russian oligarch's kid. And the negotiation where she's like, well,
Speaker 1: I want this much and he's like, no, I'll give
Speaker 1: you this month, and they much and they settle somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle and she goes, well, I would have
Speaker 1: done it for less, and he's like, I would have
Speaker 1: paid more. I'm like, hello, Richard Gear and Julia Roberts.
Speaker 1: It's like straight out there. Aside from that, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really follow along that track, but It reminded me of
Speaker 1: that a lot, instead of the guy being a businessman.
Speaker 1: Though like Richard gear was, he's a rich kid, lives
Speaker 1: in his dad's house, plays video games, does lots of drugs.
Speaker 1: And here's what I found about this guy. There's nothing
Speaker 1: really charming about this kid. He has money, and he
Speaker 1: does have an affection for the character Annie, which is
Speaker 1: short for a nourra and she obviously desperately wants that
Speaker 1: affection and that attention. So without telling you what happens
Speaker 1: because they don't want to spoil it, it is a
Speaker 1: very interesting show. Mayhem ensues when his family finds out
Speaker 1: that he's in a relationship with Annie, and at first
Speaker 1: I was worried that it was going to be violent
Speaker 1: and devastating stuff was going to happen, just because of
Speaker 1: the whole setup with the Russians or the bad guys
Speaker 1: and the oligarchs and all that stuff. But it sort
Speaker 1: of turns out to be a Keystone Cops scenario as
Speaker 1: everyone's trying to figure out what to do about this relationship,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of fun. It's really foul mouthed, but
Speaker 1: it's also funny, and it's violent, but in a charming way.
Speaker 1: So there's lots of inconsistencies.
Speaker 5: But it works.
Speaker 1: I can see why it's nominated and if the directors
Speaker 1: and producers guilds are any indication why it might actually
Speaker 1: win an Academy Award or several. I think it's nominated
Speaker 1: for like fourteen. It's called a Nora, a modern day
Speaker 1: pretty woman, just dirtier and darker but also fun.
Speaker 5: I'm on it.
Speaker 1: I think you should be on it too, and then
Speaker 1: I'd love to hear what you think about it. I
Speaker 1: don't know, because it's a very weird movie, but it's
Speaker 1: a good one, all right. Time to get in your
Speaker 1: business with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzmann in for Courtney Donaho all
Speaker 1: week long.
Speaker 3: Good morning Dan, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 7: How are you? Oh?
Speaker 5: Just fabulous?
Speaker 1: Because I got my Krispy Kreme donuts that I'm about
Speaker 1: to eat, so you know, it's always a good day.
Speaker 2: So the way to eat, the way to handle that, Amy,
Speaker 2: real quick is if your mind believes it has no calories,
Speaker 2: your body will digest.
Speaker 7: It that way.
Speaker 4: Really, I tell myself that.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's dive into your business. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about X first, of course, formally known as Twitter.
Speaker 5: I wonder if we're ever going to drop the formerly
Speaker 5: known as Twitter.
Speaker 1: Part they're looking to raise billions of dollars in funding.
Speaker 5: What's up with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the probably they get it to look at
Speaker 2: raise forty four billion dollars from investors. Now that's the
Speaker 2: same amount amy that owner Elon Musk paid for the
Speaker 2: social media company, which is back in twenty twenty two. Now,
Speaker 2: the funding round would be a turnaround for the company,
Speaker 2: which we remember saw massive loss in its value after
Speaker 2: many of the advertisers and users fled the platform after
Speaker 2: Musk's purchase. So they have apparently rebounded in terms of
Speaker 2: value and they're going to probably raise a ton of
Speaker 2: money here.
Speaker 1: Really, because but didn't they lose money?
Speaker 2: It lost a ton of You remember at one point
Speaker 2: it went down to where people thought it his value
Speaker 2: for like less than ten billion dollars and people laughed
Speaker 2: at Elon Muska, he paid all this money for this company.
Speaker 2: Well apparently it wasn't that crazy because everybody's back on it, right,
Speaker 2: Who doesn't use X World leaders put out messages, Our
Speaker 2: president puts out messages on X. So you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's still something that a lot of people go to
Speaker 2: and advertisers apparently are coming back to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I think it is interesting though, because like there was
Speaker 1: all this backlash and everybody's like, we're going to this.
Speaker 1: I don't and I don't even remember the names of
Speaker 1: the places that people were going. I know Threads was one,
Speaker 1: but what what is one? Will blue Sky? But I
Speaker 1: don't hear anybody talking about it. And I never hear
Speaker 1: people say, oh, I saw that post on Blue Sky.
Speaker 1: But you do, like you said, you hear them say
Speaker 1: I saw that on X So Okay. A car maker
Speaker 1: is cutting some bonuses for workers.
Speaker 5: Why is that? And which one?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, Amy, it's Ford. They're eliminating stock art bonuses to
Speaker 2: roughly half of their thirty three hundred middle managers. Now.
Speaker 2: That move is being made to boost performance as profits
Speaker 2: have declined and costs continue to rise. Ford is forecasting,
Speaker 2: listen to this losses around two billion dollars or more
Speaker 2: this year. They're looking to cut a billion dollars in
Speaker 2: costs just in twenty twenty five. Look, the investment heavily
Speaker 2: in electric cars. They haven't been selling obviously, so that
Speaker 2: was not a good investment in that of kind of
Speaker 2: reaping the sadly they are, you know, paying for that
Speaker 2: because they're losing money, tons of money.
Speaker 1: Makes sense with the bonus thing, though, I remember we
Speaker 1: used to get bonuses at work, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: like years and years ago, like everybody would get them.
Speaker 1: But they said, hey, if the company does well, then
Speaker 1: you're going to do well too. But the companies, a
Speaker 1: lot of them just aren't doing as well. So and
Speaker 1: then people scream, I didn't get my bonus. Well, the
Speaker 1: company didn't make money this year, so may.
Speaker 2: We don't care. That's the thing, you know, people just
Speaker 2: care about like their own wallets, like well, I think
Speaker 2: I did well this year. I think you know, I
Speaker 2: came to work every day. I only took one sick day,
Speaker 2: so I deserve to be compensated. But you're right, it's
Speaker 2: like you compensated based on how the company does that
Speaker 2: the company is losing their shirt, like ford is, what
Speaker 2: kind of bonus are you going to get? It's not
Speaker 2: like you did well enough for the company to make money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, all right, Well that's I mean, it's too bad,
Speaker 1: but it's kind of the reality of business these days.
Speaker 1: Dan Schwartzman, We're going to get in your business again
Speaker 1: tomorrow with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman.
Speaker 5: This time, so Dan, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Anytime, Amy, All right.
Speaker 1: Well, anytime It'll be tomorrow at exactly this time. Appreciate
Speaker 1: his his insights and stuff. That sucks about the bonus thing.
Speaker 1: But I understand it, you know I do. So let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Protesters have blocked trucks
Speaker 1: carrying debris from the fire in Pacific Palisades to the
Speaker 1: city landfill in Caliber.
Speaker 3: That led to a brief standoff, but the trucks did
Speaker 3: eventually arrive at the landfill. The US Army Corps of
Speaker 3: Engineers in Los Angeles County Public Works says the landfill
Speaker 3: is designated to safely accept disaster related waste.
Speaker 1: Caf i's Daniel Martindale says officials also say the landfill
Speaker 1: is not taking in hazardous materials. People who live in
Speaker 1: the aresa the debris is still too close to their homes.
Speaker 1: The Only County Sheriff's Department says a woman reported kidnapped
Speaker 1: in Bellflower has been found safe and the alleged kidnapper
Speaker 1: has been arrested. Deputies had been called Sunday about a
Speaker 1: man assaulting a woman. Witnesses said the man pulled the
Speaker 1: woman out of a car and forced her into an suv,
Speaker 1: and then another person in the woman's car followed. The
Speaker 1: Sheriff's department said yesterday both vehicles have been found. Border
Speaker 1: patrol agents in San Diego have been seeing a different
Speaker 1: kind of contraband.
Speaker 9: General officials say an egg shortage in the US due
Speaker 9: to the bird flu is causing many to try to
Speaker 9: smuggle Mexican eggs into the country. Customs and Border Protection
Speaker 9: says food is not allowed to cross into the US
Speaker 9: where fear could harm American agriculture.
Speaker 1: Britennis says anyone who does have eggs while trying to
Speaker 1: cross the border should declare them.
Speaker 5: She says they won't.
Speaker 1: Get to keep the eggs, but they probably won't get
Speaker 1: in trouble either. LA has opened four new recovery centers
Speaker 1: where wildfire victims can get assistance with employment, family and
Speaker 1: business needs. The centers are open Monday through Friday. They're
Speaker 1: in Culver City, Silmar Hyde Park, and Boil Heights. President
Speaker 1: Trump assigned three more executive orders. One requires what the
Speaker 1: order calls radical transparency for government departments and agencies. Another
Speaker 1: sets up oversight at the Office of Management and Budget,
Speaker 1: and the third directs the Domestic Policy Council to examine
Speaker 1: ways to make in vitro fertilization more affordable for Americans.
Speaker 1: For the six month in a row, home prices in
Speaker 1: southern California have ticked down. The average price of a
Speaker 1: home is still over eight hundred and sixty two thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: More homes are on the market, and interest rates remain high,
Speaker 1: which Zillo says will most likely keep prices pretty flat
Speaker 1: over the next year. We're just minutes away from handle
Speaker 1: on the news this morning, Doze scorers a win in
Speaker 1: court when it comes to access and layoffs.
Speaker 5: Bill's going to tell you about that.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's State Department correspondent Shannon Kingston. Shannon,
Speaker 1: we might be just a small step closer to ending
Speaker 1: the war in Ukraine, but is Ukraine going to have
Speaker 1: a say in it?
Speaker 8: That is a big question. Yesterday we saw US and
Speaker 8: Russian high levels allegation sit down together at a table
Speaker 8: in Saudi Arabia, and just weeks ago this kind of
Speaker 8: meeting would have been really unthinkable, But officials came out
Speaker 8: of that saying that it was positive, upbeat, and really
Speaker 8: that it went just as well as it could have gone,
Speaker 8: So that was really remarkable. But yes, Ukraine was cut
Speaker 8: out of the negotiations. European leaders have also been sidelined.
Speaker 8: So the question is if and how they'll be folded
Speaker 8: into talks going forward, and.
Speaker 1: Does it look like And I think I heard yesterday
Speaker 1: that Trump held like a question and answer sen session
Speaker 1: at mar A Lago, and I think he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course Europe's going to be involved in this.
Speaker 8: That's right, because the US is looking to Europe to
Speaker 8: provide security guarantees the sector of defense. Is made pretty
Speaker 8: clear that he doesn't want to see American military playing
Speaker 8: any part here. But that is a really hazy part
Speaker 8: of the picture. How any peace would be reinforced because
Speaker 8: Russia has said, you know, putting troops from NATO countries
Speaker 8: in Ukraine right up against his borders is a non starter.
Speaker 8: So there's still, even though there's been this kind of
Speaker 8: massive reset on the relationship between the US and Russia,
Speaker 8: figuring out how Europe is going to factor in and
Speaker 8: the actual terms that both sides will agree to Ultimately,
Speaker 8: there's a lot of work to be done there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they haven't set a date for Trump and
Speaker 1: Putin to actually sit down and talk yet, have.
Speaker 2: They They have not.
Speaker 8: But they made a lot of progress towards that summit.
Speaker 8: You know, Sopecist, I've talked. You said they were listening
Speaker 8: to see if Russia was ready to move forward with this,
Speaker 8: if they're ready to negotiate on the end of the
Speaker 8: war in Ukraine in good faith and work towards other
Speaker 8: areas of bilateral interest between the countries. And they said
Speaker 8: they heard everything they needed to, So they are plowing
Speaker 8: ahead with plans and that summit could take place really
Speaker 8: as soon as next month. Is expected to be hosted
Speaker 8: in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 1: And obviously the elephant that was not in the room
Speaker 1: was Ukraine, and President Zelenski had some choice things to
Speaker 1: say about that, didn't he.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 8: For years, under Thevine administration, the refrain was really a platitude.
Speaker 8: There was nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. So the Trump
Speaker 8: administration has already proven they're not going to play by
Speaker 8: that rule. But it's become an increasingly intense between the
Speaker 8: President Trump himself and President's Vilensky. Up until this point,
Speaker 8: we saw Zelenski kind of trying to walk a fine
Speaker 8: line stand the Trump administration's good side. For the president.
Speaker 8: Yesterday basically claimed that Lenski's approval rating is in the
Speaker 8: single digits in his country. He also falsely claimed that
Speaker 8: Ukraine started the conflict. So this morning, Zelenski is calling
Speaker 8: for more truths from the White House and also claiming
Speaker 8: that Trump is living in a world of Russian misinformation.
Speaker 1: And he's got to be panicking a little bit because
Speaker 1: the US has supplied them with a lot of money
Speaker 1: to help them fight this war, and if that money
Speaker 1: dries up, they're in a world of hurt.
Speaker 8: So absolutely, and that's the reality check here. Without the
Speaker 8: US standing behind Ukraine, they really cannot continue fighting this fight.
Speaker 8: That something's going to have to give.
Speaker 1: Okay, ABC's Shannon Kingston, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
Speaker 8: Thank you. Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Consumer
Speaker 1: advocates have raised concerns about home insurance policies in California.
Speaker 3: The Consumer Watchdog says it believes state insurance Commissioner Ricardo
Speaker 3: Laura has not acted in the best interest of policy holders.
Speaker 3: Executive director Carmen Baulber says Laura's plan to create more
Speaker 3: policies likely won't work.
Speaker 7: The part of the rule change that was supposed to
Speaker 7: make them sell again doesn't have any teeth, and those
Speaker 7: loopholes will mean Californians will pay more but not get more.
Speaker 2: Access to coverage.
Speaker 3: The state has pushed the insurance industry to offer more
Speaker 3: policies in wildfire prone areas in exchange for loosening some
Speaker 3: state regulations, a move consumer watchdog says isn't good enough.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5: The murder of a Border patrol agent during a shootout
Speaker 5: in Vermont last month has been linked to California. ABC's
Speaker 5: Jim Ryan says authorities have connected the killing with five
Speaker 5: more in California and Pennsylvania.
Speaker 12: The common thread in all of them is a cult
Speaker 12: like group whose members call themselves Zizians, headed by a
Speaker 12: transgenderal woman named Jack Lysoda. Now Lesta and two others
Speaker 12: will be questioned about the six homicides now connected to
Speaker 12: the Zizians.
Speaker 1: Authority to say the Zizians' goals aren't clear, but their
Speaker 1: online posts have ranged from radical veganism to gender I
Speaker 1: identity and artificial intelligence. A new app is making it
Speaker 1: easier to hire a personal security guard.
Speaker 3: It's as simple as finding an uber now. The app,
Speaker 3: called Protector will soon launch of the public and a
Speaker 3: promise is to be an on demand bodyguard service for
Speaker 3: the general public. The app charges two hundred dollars an
Speaker 3: hour for a bodyguard and a driver, with prices climbing
Speaker 3: based on the customer's needs. Now the bodyguards are said
Speaker 3: to be elite professionals with backgrounds in Air Force, Pair
Speaker 3: of Rescue, SWAT, Navy Seal teams, and special forces. You
Speaker 3: can even customize the bodyguard's attire from business formal, business casual,
Speaker 3: or tactical casual. The app can also customize your ride
Speaker 3: between Cadillac Escalades and Chevy Suburbans. Andrew Caravella KFI News Escalate.
Speaker 5: I definitely would take the Escalate.
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