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Speaker 1: It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Tuesday,
Speaker 1: April First. I'm Amy King. April Fool's Day got and
Speaker 1: he put good pranks planned maybe WELLS day.
Speaker 5: Maybe I didn't plan them yet.
Speaker 4: I used to like spend a lot of time like
Speaker 4: going what can I do?
Speaker 1: I remember this when I was a kid, like going
Speaker 1: what can I do? What can I do? And I
Speaker 1: didn't ever really come up with very good ones. We
Speaker 1: did do one really good one one year on the
Speaker 1: air when I was in Eugene, Oregon. Uh well, there
Speaker 1: was two. One. We said that they were canceling daylight
Speaker 1: saving time and that caught on. I think the news
Speaker 1: stations were like, what where'd you do that. And the
Speaker 1: other one was that a beer truck had crashed on
Speaker 1: the freeway and they didn't want to clean it up,
Speaker 1: so they just invited people to come down and pick
Speaker 1: it up. We kind of got in trouble for that one. Yeah, Okay. Also,
Speaker 1: I told you yesterday that I got my new ring camera.
Speaker 1: My brother got it for me for Christmas, and I
Speaker 1: finally installed it three months later because I'm well a
Speaker 1: bit of a procrastinator. The thing's driving me crazy. Look
Speaker 1: at all these alerts. I'm holding my phone up to this.
Speaker 5: Can you can turn them down? Can't you?
Speaker 1: I got to figure out how to turn off the alerts. Okay,
Speaker 1: time for creepy crawleys to hatch. That's an alert. Here's
Speaker 1: another one. Be cautious. There's a man walking a black
Speaker 1: dog in the neighborhood looking for a vet cutaneous horn recommendation.
Speaker 1: My kitten is a polydactyl and needs cutaneous horn removing.
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. Does someone have a
Speaker 1: good recommendation for a place for car detailing. There's two
Speaker 1: men trespassing with blowtorches trying to steal catalytic or steal
Speaker 1: electric motorcycles.
Speaker 5: Oh, that might be worthwhile.
Speaker 1: But yeah, is there a power outage in Frogtown? I mean,
Speaker 1: just like non stop high neighbors. Can anyone foster five kittens? Oh?
Speaker 1: I know the answer. But is there street sweeping today
Speaker 1: because of the Caesar Chavez holiday?
Speaker 4: Stop people? This is why I turned off next door.
Speaker 5: Yes, no, close out.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a way to stop the alerts. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what's ahead on wake up call. Everything costs just
Speaker 1: a little bit more in La County today, a quarter
Speaker 1: percent tax to pay for homelessness programs kicks in County.
Speaker 1: Voters approved the sales tax increase in November. It will
Speaker 1: remain in place unless it's repealed by voters. A fifteen
Speaker 1: year old girls recovering after being attacked by a sea
Speaker 1: lion off the coast of Long Beach. She was attacked
Speaker 1: on Sunday while taking a swim test for the Cadet
Speaker 1: lifeguard program. She was rescued and will be okay. Sea
Speaker 1: lions have been acting aggressively lately because of demoic acid
Speaker 1: poisoning from that toxic algae bloom. With Kid Rock by
Speaker 1: his side, President Trump assigned in executive order to protect
Speaker 1: Americans from exploitive ticket scalping in the entertainment industry. The
Speaker 1: order is designed to stop price gouging by middleman. This
Speaker 1: is a I'm so excited about this. We were just
Speaker 1: talking about it last week like that. You know, like
Speaker 1: when you make it, you buy a ticket to Disneyland,
Speaker 1: you go, it's like buying a train ticket or something,
Speaker 1: or a plane ticket. But with concerts, the scalpers snap
Speaker 1: them all up and then triple and quadruple the price
Speaker 1: for him, and you can't you can't afford to go.
Speaker 6: And I don't understand why they can't make it like
Speaker 6: an airline ticket, like someone else can't just use your
Speaker 6: air latic.
Speaker 4: When you sign up for it, you buy the ticket.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: The President says he's not joking when he floats the
Speaker 1: idea of serving a third term in office. We're going
Speaker 1: to check in with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker,
Speaker 1: who just happens to be a constitutional lawyer, so that'll
Speaker 1: come in handy. We're gonna talk to him in just
Speaker 1: a minute. Astronauts Sunny and Butch back from the International
Speaker 1: Space Station. They've held their first press conference, and ABC's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan's going to tell us how they're adjusting to
Speaker 1: life with gravity. President Trump's Liberation Day is just one
Speaker 1: day away. The host of How to Money on KFI,
Speaker 1: Joel Glar's Guard, is going to weigh in on how
Speaker 1: that will affect your money and it's Raiders of the
Speaker 1: Lost Ark come to Life. Kfi's Rory O'Neil is going
Speaker 1: to join us to tell us about the search for
Speaker 1: the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: La County's new higher sales tax is in effect starting today.
Speaker 6: Covers in the county approved the measure last November, making
Speaker 6: a permanent half cent sales tax to support homeless services
Speaker 6: and affordable housing. It replaces a quarter cent tax that
Speaker 6: was supposed to expire in twenty twenty seven. The new
Speaker 6: tax comes with the promise of more oversight and accountability.
Speaker 6: It provides sixty percent of its anticipated hundreds of millions
Speaker 6: of dollars in revenue to deal with homelessness. Fifteen percent
Speaker 6: of that is to be directed to cities depending on
Speaker 6: their homeless population, thirty five percent is for affordable housing programs.
Speaker 6: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: So that brings the sales tax in La County up
Speaker 1: to nine point seventy five percent in Palmdale and Lancaster,
Speaker 1: it's ten point twenty five percent and eleven point twenty
Speaker 1: five percent, respectively create its own homeless services department. Kfi's
Speaker 1: Mark Mayfield says supervisors are said to vote today on
Speaker 1: whether to consolidate homeless services into one county run department.
Speaker 8: The vote comes as the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
Speaker 8: continues to face criticism. Several audits have revealed funding is
Speaker 8: being wasted and has shown gaps in the tracking of
Speaker 8: the services that are provided by the organization.
Speaker 1: If supervisors approve the new department, it would start operating
Speaker 1: on July. First, let's check in now with KFI White
Speaker 1: House correspondent and constitutional lawyer John Decker. John, we thought
Speaker 1: you're the perfect person to talk to today because President
Speaker 1: Trump has talked about the idea of serving a third term.
Speaker 1: First he joked about it, then he said it was
Speaker 1: no joke, and then he said in the oval yesterday
Speaker 1: there could be a way to do it. So let's
Speaker 1: break this down. Do you think you serious?
Speaker 9: Well, other presidents have mulled over this idea. Even President
Speaker 9: Eisenhower in nineteen six six mold over this idea. But
Speaker 9: the problem for each of those presidents who've thought about
Speaker 9: this is the twenty second Amendment to the Constitution. Now,
Speaker 9: there are ways around the twenty second Amendment. You can
Speaker 9: repeal the twenty second Amendment, which bar is a president
Speaker 9: from serving two terms in the White House, but that's
Speaker 9: really difficult, especially with the narrow majority that exists right
Speaker 9: now in Congress. You need two thirds of the vote
Speaker 9: in both the House and the Senate. That's going to
Speaker 9: be difficult. And then if you are even able to
Speaker 9: do that, you'd need three quarters of the states to
Speaker 9: ratify that amendment to the Constitution, and that takes time.
Speaker 9: But the president's talking about it now, he's got time
Speaker 9: before twenty twenty eight rolls around. But I just don't
Speaker 9: think the numbers are there. And we'll see where the
Speaker 9: president's popularity is around that time to see if you know,
Speaker 9: the American public would like the president to even serve
Speaker 9: for a third term in the White House.
Speaker 1: Well, and you mentioned that even if you could get
Speaker 1: the states to go along with it, with the way
Speaker 1: that the House and the senat are today today, there's
Speaker 1: no way you'd get two thirds approval.
Speaker 9: No, you'd need Democratic votes, and there's a very narrow
Speaker 9: majority in the House, just a one seat majority that
Speaker 9: Republicans have there. It's fifty three forty seven in the Senate.
Speaker 9: You're not going to get two thirds of the Senate
Speaker 9: for sure, so that's going to be difficult. Now, the
Speaker 9: President has floated this possibility running as vice president to
Speaker 9: jd Vance, for instance, in twenty twenty eight, and then
Speaker 9: have jd Vance essentially hand the keys to the White
Speaker 9: House over to Donald Trump upon winning the presidency. That
Speaker 9: I think is pie in the sky. But people always
Speaker 9: talk about jd Vance doing that scenario. What about the
Speaker 9: scenario brought up by my wife, and that's Donald Trump
Speaker 9: Junior at the top of the ticket. That's a possibility,
Speaker 9: and then he turns the keys over to the White
Speaker 9: House to his father. So you know, look, these are
Speaker 9: possibilities that are fun to talk about. Certainly, he got
Speaker 9: the press not talk about Signalgate for a day or so,
Speaker 9: and I think that was maybe one of the reasons
Speaker 9: why the President brought this idea up in the first place.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I hadn't heard the one about Donald Junior.
Speaker 1: I did hear the one about jd Vance, But so
Speaker 1: would they could they abdicate not abdicate because it's not thrown.
Speaker 1: But could they step down and appoint Trump president or
Speaker 1: would it be they would be president and Trump would
Speaker 1: be basically be the puppet master.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the way it would happen under the scenario that
Speaker 9: I just mentioned is simply if you are president resigning
Speaker 9: your office and then the vice president assumes the presidency.
Speaker 9: That's how that would work. But you know, getting someone
Speaker 9: to go along with that, like JD. Vans, who's certainly ambitious,
Speaker 9: wants to be president himself. I don't think he wants
Speaker 9: to be vice president, you know, for or forever, you know,
Speaker 9: I don't think that maybe he'd go along with that idea.
Speaker 9: That's the reason why maybe Donald Trump Junior would be
Speaker 9: the perfect person if Donald Trump wants to pursue that
Speaker 9: to run at the top of the ticket and then
Speaker 9: hand the keys to the White House over to his.
Speaker 1: Father, or he could get really power hungry and then
Speaker 1: once he gets in office, you could say forget it,
Speaker 1: the deal's off.
Speaker 5: That's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: How do you know JD.
Speaker 9: Vance isn't going to pull a fast one on Donald
Speaker 9: Trump if that happens. But you know, look, this is
Speaker 9: fun to talk about. This is a long time from
Speaker 9: now twenty twenty eight. And you know, they are presidents
Speaker 9: that certainly have been very intelligent, have or have had
Speaker 9: very bright people working around them. And you know, Ronald
Speaker 9: Reagan could have worn for a third term, and I
Speaker 9: think he would have won in nineteen eighty eight. The
Speaker 9: same thing with Eisenhower. But they realized the twenty second
Speaker 9: Amendment is problematic. They didn't want to go down that road,
Speaker 9: you know, and they certainly didn't want to defy the Constitution.
Speaker 9: And that's the reason why they just serve those two
Speaker 9: terms in the White House.
Speaker 1: Okay, hey, we were talking about amendments, and since you're
Speaker 1: a constitutional lawyer, have we have we ever taken amendments off?
Speaker 4: I know it's possible to do, but have we done it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, of course. You know, there's amendments that have repealed
Speaker 9: other amendments. So when you're talking about the voting age nationally,
Speaker 9: that's an amendment that repealed another amendment. You know, you
Speaker 9: talk about amendments that provided equality across our country, that's
Speaker 9: an amendment that repealed another amendment.
Speaker 5: So yes, of.
Speaker 9: Course we have done that, but it's done through that process.
Speaker 9: That process is lengthy, that's the reason why we don't
Speaker 9: have that many amendments to the Constitution because of the
Speaker 9: lengthy and process that we're talking about, and it's just
Speaker 9: a difficult process to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, KFI White House correspondent and constitutional lawyer, which we appreciate,
Speaker 1: especially today, John Decker, thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Have a great day, am.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour news room. President Trump
Speaker 1: is planning to move forward with a major tear of
Speaker 1: blitz on several countries, including allies. It's expected to drive
Speaker 1: up the cost of groceries, electronics, and cars in the US.
Speaker 10: A new poll from the Associated Press shows Americans aren't
Speaker 10: sold on the president's trade policies, sixty percent disapproving, with
Speaker 10: thirty eight percent approving.
Speaker 1: ABC's Mary Bruce says on Trump's handling of the economy,
Speaker 1: fifty eight percent disapprove, forty percent approve. Goldman Sachs has
Speaker 1: raised its expectation that the US will enter a recession
Speaker 1: in the next year to thirty five percent. Kfi's Brian
Speaker 1: shuk says that's not the only concern expressed by the
Speaker 1: financial firm's report.
Speaker 5: In a note two investors.
Speaker 6: Goldman also lowered its GDP forecast and predicted a rise
Speaker 6: in unemployment.
Speaker 1: The resident's mixed signals on tariffs sent stock markets on
Speaker 1: another wild ride yesterday, with the down s ANDP finishing up.
Speaker 4: The NASDAK closed down. Trump has promised new tariffs to
Speaker 4: be announced tomorrow. Five men accused of laundering money on
Speaker 4: behalf of Mexico's Sinela cartel have been charged in a
Speaker 4: pair of grand jury indictments unsealed in federal court in
Speaker 4: San Diego, US Attorney's offices. The indictments were first returned
Speaker 4: against the men in twenty twenty two. All of them
Speaker 4: are still on the run. Four of the five have
Speaker 4: also been sanctioned by the US for their alleged roles
Speaker 4: in supporting the cartel's drug trafficking activities. Officials in Iceland
Speaker 4: say a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of
Speaker 4: the country. A nearby town and the Blue Lagoon SPA
Speaker 4: have been evacuated. The community was largely evacuated a year
Speaker 4: ago when the volcano came to life after lying dormant
Speaker 4: for eight hundred years. Today, the magma flow was accompanied
Speaker 4: by an intense earthquake storm similar to previous eruptions. Well,
Speaker 4: that sounds like a fun place to be gall Lee.
Speaker 1: People could soon have the option of using an AI
Speaker 1: doctor for health advice. ABC's Michelle frands And says Apple
Speaker 1: is reportedly planning to bring an AI power doc to
Speaker 1: its health app. There are reports that human doctors are
Speaker 1: used to train the artificial intelligent agent that will act
Speaker 1: as a physician and health coach and make recommendations. She says.
Speaker 1: The revamped app is expected to be released next spring. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're going to the Dodger game tonight, it's oh
Speaker 1: tany MVP Bobblehead Night. If you're not going, you can
Speaker 1: still listen to all the action on AM five to
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports Live from the Galpin Motors broadcast booth.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are taking on the Braves. First pitch goes
Speaker 1: out at five point thirty. You can also stream the
Speaker 1: game in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports. I'd like to get my hands on
Speaker 1: one of those bobbleheads. The LA County Board of Supervisor
Speaker 1: is going to vote today on whether to create its
Speaker 1: own county run homeless services department. The vote comes as
Speaker 1: the LA Homeless Services Authority continues to face criticism for
Speaker 1: wasting money and not tracking where millions in funding has
Speaker 1: been spent. A fire burning north of Bishop in central
Speaker 1: California's grow to almost sixteen hundred acres. Firefighters continue to
Speaker 1: be challenged by strong, gusty wins, but they were able
Speaker 1: to stop the fire's forward progress and start drawing lines
Speaker 1: around At the fires, forty seven percent surrounded. Evacuation orders
Speaker 1: remain in place in parts of both Inyo and Mono Counties.
Speaker 1: There will be no USC UCLA rematch or match up
Speaker 1: in the Final four of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
Speaker 1: USC's hopes of advancing to its first women's Final four
Speaker 1: and almost forty years deflated with a seventy eight sixty
Speaker 1: four loss to Connecticut last night in Spokane, Connecticut now
Speaker 1: moves on to face UCLA in the women's Final four Friday.
Speaker 1: At six oh five, It's handle on the news with
Speaker 1: Neil Sevedra Corey Booker still talking. He hasn't stopped for
Speaker 1: like thirteen hours. Tell you what that's all about. Right now,
Speaker 1: Let's check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, Crew nine with Colonel Nick Haig, Russian cosmonaut,
Speaker 1: and then Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth.
Speaker 4: What have they been doing for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 11: Getting used to gravity, getting used to food and seeing
Speaker 11: their families and being on the ground essentially, you know,
Speaker 11: So it's been kind of a reacting process. They've been
Speaker 11: in quarantine essentially, mainly for their own protection because there's
Speaker 11: a clean environment up there aboard the International Space Station.
Speaker 11: They haven't been exposed to things like the common cold
Speaker 11: or measles or anything else that's going around on this planet.
Speaker 11: So they gradually reacclimate to the Earth's environment and the
Speaker 11: potential threats that are out there. To that, they've also
Speaker 11: been building up their physical endurance. Now. Sunny Williams did
Speaker 11: two hours worth of exercise aboard the International Space Station
Speaker 11: every day and has managed to maintain her conditioning. So
Speaker 11: she said that she went on a three mile run
Speaker 11: yesterday before giving the first interview that she had Wilmore
Speaker 11: had given since they got back from the Issamy.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that running after running in space, because
Speaker 1: I've seen some of the video of her on the
Speaker 1: space station. They've got her like sideways, just running away,
Speaker 1: but they're strapped down to hold them down, so they
Speaker 1: don't just float around. I would imagine running now just
Speaker 1: feels like really heavy.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah I did.
Speaker 11: But she did three miles, so she's kind of back
Speaker 11: up to it now, she says. Sonny said that as
Speaker 11: they were aboard the space station, they really didn't know
Speaker 11: about all the love and support they were getting in
Speaker 11: concern from people down here on Earth about this extended
Speaker 11: stay they were going through on the ISS.
Speaker 7: I don't think we were aware to the degree, pretty
Speaker 7: honored and humbled by the fact of when we came home, like, wow,
Speaker 7: there's there are a lot of people who are interested,
Speaker 7: very thankful, very amazed that we could hopefully be one
Speaker 7: positive element to bring people together.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love that. And I watched part of it because
Speaker 1: it was on and I was on the air, and
Speaker 1: so I wasn't able to pay attention to all of
Speaker 1: what's going on. But they were talking about some of
Speaker 1: the things that they missed while they were up in space.
Speaker 11: Yes, well, Sonny, the first thing she did for her
Speaker 11: first meal, it wasn't lobster, it wasn't a trip to
Speaker 11: the buffet. It was a grilled cheese sandwich. Just simple
Speaker 11: things like that, you know, that you take for granted
Speaker 11: here on Earth and when you're off in the International
Speaker 11: Space Station. I don't know if they're eating Pillsbury space
Speaker 11: food snacks or what exactly, but so they missed just
Speaker 11: those common little things like that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 11: The reason they were up there so long, of course,
Speaker 11: is that the Boeing star Line of that took Williams
Speaker 11: and Wilmore to the ISS had a technical issue. NASSA
Speaker 11: brought it back down to Earth. It was fine, there
Speaker 11: wasn't a problem with it, but in an abundance of caution,
Speaker 11: it was brought back without the crew board. So who
Speaker 11: gets the blame for all of this? Butch Wilmore, who
Speaker 11: was the crew flight test chief, puts it this way.
Speaker 12: Responsibility with Boeing, yes, Responsibility with NASA yes.
Speaker 11: And he says that he, too, amy bears some responsibility.
Speaker 11: He says that there are things that he should have
Speaker 11: asked before they left, asked about this new Boeing Starliner
Speaker 11: that he didn't ask, and so he takes some of
Speaker 11: the blame for that too.
Speaker 4: Imagine that taking responsibility. What a what a novel?
Speaker 1: Idea.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow. So aside from the getting to see their families
Speaker 1: and grilled cheese sandwiches and say that they were not
Speaker 1: quite aware of how much support they were getting down here.
Speaker 1: Did they have any other kind of revelations or anything
Speaker 1: that they shared surprising things?
Speaker 11: Well, listening to during the news conference they took, there
Speaker 11: was a phone bridge and so they were taking questions
Speaker 11: from all over the place. An Indian reporter asked Sonny Williams,
Speaker 11: who is of Indian descent, what it was like to
Speaker 11: fly over India, and she talked and she had a
Speaker 11: really great description of it. To the himalay Is on
Speaker 11: one side, you could see them, you know, jutting up
Speaker 11: off the planet, off the surface, and then this vast
Speaker 11: flat expanse. And she could pick out cities at night
Speaker 11: based on the lights, and pick out communities during the daytime.
Speaker 11: And so that was kind of an interesting thing. You
Speaker 11: know that they're up there as scientists, they're up there
Speaker 11: doing these experiments and keeping the iss and repair, but
Speaker 11: also in a way they're tourists. Wilmore took hundreds of
Speaker 11: photographs while he was up there.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. What an amazing experience, And think about
Speaker 1: when we got to talk to Colonel Haig, he was
Speaker 1: like talking about just every once in a while he'd
Speaker 1: take a break and just look out and see the
Speaker 1: world and just go wow, you know, just like, oh,
Speaker 1: inspiring is so cool? All right? How long are they
Speaker 1: in quarantine?
Speaker 3: Jim? Do we know?
Speaker 11: They've wrapped it up and they should be able to
Speaker 11: go home now, home being you know, their homes in Houston.
Speaker 11: They do all their training and work at Johnson Space Center.
Speaker 11: They both said, you know, if we could go back
Speaker 11: into space, we would do it again. But he is
Speaker 11: sixty two, she's fifty nine. I think so their time
Speaker 11: as actual astronauts might be an end, but I suspect
Speaker 11: NASA we'll have jobs for them for the rest of
Speaker 11: their lives.
Speaker 1: Well, if it's their last strip to space. They got
Speaker 1: their money's worth.
Speaker 11: Right, two hundred and eighty six days worth.
Speaker 1: Instead of eight. Yep, all right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for the information. We always appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Thanks Amy, all right.
Speaker 1: A multimillion dollar jewelry heist has landed a man from
Speaker 1: Long Beach in federal prison.
Speaker 6: The group of guys scouted and then robbed luxury jewels
Speaker 6: in Beverly Hills three years ago. They got away with
Speaker 6: two point seven million dollars in loot, but they left
Speaker 6: lots of clues at the scene. The car they stole
Speaker 6: to take them there, one of the guy's phones, and
Speaker 6: then laddel Tharp posted photos of the stolen jewels on Instagram.
Speaker 6: He pleaded guilty to his role in the crime back
Speaker 6: in September. He was just sentenced to seven years in
Speaker 6: federal prison. The others have already pleaded guilty. They've been
Speaker 6: sentenced also for their roles in the heist. Michael Monks
Speaker 6: KFI News.
Speaker 1: Legislation that would give home buying assistant to descends of
Speaker 1: slaves in California's moving forward. The bill made it through
Speaker 1: a committee, but there are concerns over whether it's legal
Speaker 1: and who qualifies for it. The bill's author says it
Speaker 1: would not be limited to just black Californians. Her grandson
Speaker 1: is mixed race, and under the bill, he'd qualify. The
Speaker 1: bill moves on to another committee next. A group of
Speaker 1: mostly illegal immigrants has been rescued from a boat off
Speaker 1: the coast of southern California.
Speaker 12: The US Coast Guard, along with a navy were able
Speaker 12: to pluck seventeen migrants and one American from a vessel.
Speaker 12: It happened Sunday morning. That boat, which officials say was
Speaker 12: taking on water, was fifty miles off the coast of
Speaker 12: San Diego.
Speaker 1: Kay if Ice Phil Farars's. All eighteen people were transferred
Speaker 1: to the custody of Homeland Security. The Hooter's restaurant chain
Speaker 1: has filed for bankruptcy. ABC's Alex Stones's. The chains known
Speaker 1: for wings, beer and friendly staff.
Speaker 10: CEO says a company will reinvent itself in what he
Speaker 10: has called Rehooterization. They plan to get rid of the riskue,
Speaker 10: male clientele, image and things like MKINI amid changing customer preferences.
Speaker 10: They want to make Hooters and more family friendly restaurant.
Speaker 1: I love that Hooters closed forty restaurants last year as
Speaker 1: it tried to improve its finances. Paris Hilton is helping
Speaker 1: victims of the Eton fire. Her nonprofit has begun giving
Speaker 1: out more than a million dollars in grants to women
Speaker 1: owned small businesses impact by the Eton fire in Altadena.
Speaker 1: The grand program is expected to provide twenty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars grants to about fifty recipients. Two schools in Anaheim
Speaker 1: are taking steps to keep kids from vaping on campus.
Speaker 1: Cyprus High School and Laara High School have installed vape
Speaker 1: detectors in bathrooms and locker rooms. If the device detects
Speaker 1: vape smoke, it'll alert school staff through an app. The
Speaker 1: devices also monitor loud noises, which could help staff members
Speaker 1: quickly respond to fights. The snowpack is pretty close to
Speaker 1: where it needs to be for this time of year.
Speaker 1: The California Department of Water Resources sy snow levels are
Speaker 1: at ninety percent of normal. Recent storms have helped boost
Speaker 1: water levels. The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about a third
Speaker 1: of the state's water on average at six o five.
Speaker 1: It is handle on the news. Everything costs more in
Speaker 1: La County starting today, and it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with Trump's tariffs plan. It again, because I love this thing.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to kfi's Rory O'Neill. Rory,
Speaker 1: we thought it was just a movie, but the CIA
Speaker 1: search for the Arc of the Covenant is real.
Speaker 2: It has been, and in fact, this is all because
Speaker 2: of a New York Post story that got floated last week.
Speaker 5: It's kept the Internet on fire. This is not a hoax.
Speaker 2: But this is a report that was declassified in two
Speaker 2: thousand talking about an event that happened back in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty eight when they were using remote viewers psychics to
Speaker 2: try to find these mysterious objects. Now, in this report
Speaker 2: from December fifth to nineteen eighty eight, one of these
Speaker 2: so called psychics claims that they have sort of found
Speaker 2: the area where they could discover the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 2: It was described as a gilded box with some angels
Speaker 2: on the top of it, and it was being kept
Speaker 2: in a dark, damp, wet place. They talked about hearing
Speaker 2: Arabic voices around it, seeing buildings with domes, and then
Speaker 2: an energy field that was protecting this object of an
Speaker 2: unknown origin.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, so the psychic said they saw it, but
Speaker 1: then did anybody actually see it?
Speaker 2: Well, that may be a different CIA report that hasn't
Speaker 2: been declassified yet. But the psychic or the person who
Speaker 2: was doing the remote viewing number thirty two, by the way,
Speaker 2: didn't get much more specific than saying it was in
Speaker 2: the Middle East, So.
Speaker 5: Not a whole lot of help and that description.
Speaker 2: You know, let's be right part of the world at
Speaker 2: least right sort of, but you know, there are some
Speaker 2: tales of the Ark of the Covenant that could be
Speaker 2: as far away as Ethiopia. It may have been destroyed
Speaker 2: in some of the wars that were happening at the time.
Speaker 2: It may have been buried somewhere, so a lot of
Speaker 2: different folklore is out there. So much so they made
Speaker 2: a movie about it in nineteen eighty one, I.
Speaker 4: Know, one of the best movies ever.
Speaker 2: Right, absolutely, although I think the third one is better
Speaker 2: than the first one.
Speaker 5: But that's another one.
Speaker 1: Oh, the one with his dad John Connick.
Speaker 5: That's a good movie.
Speaker 1: The second one was my least favorite.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, and then the new ones we don't really discuss.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, they kind of don't count a nice idea,
Speaker 1: but anyway, okay, so here's a question for you, Rory.
Speaker 1: So it was declassified in two thousand. This happened in
Speaker 1: eighty eight or twelve years later. But why did it
Speaker 1: pick ups seem just now? I mean, you said the
Speaker 1: Washington Post people wrote an article about it, But what happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the New York Post, And yeah it was the
Speaker 2: most that they did the article. And I don't know
Speaker 2: why they picked up on it last week of all weeks.
Speaker 2: I think it was talking about the CIA and some
Speaker 2: of the document sharing and stuff sort of half related
Speaker 2: to the whole signal app business, the fact that the
Speaker 2: CIA director was queued in on that group, and I
Speaker 2: think it was some scrutiny there, But yeah, it certainly
Speaker 2: has everyone talking again about the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 2: And I've been hearing that theme song now play every
Speaker 2: day in my head, dozens of times a day.
Speaker 1: And we extended it because we were actually supposed to
Speaker 1: talk to you earlier this week, but you weren't available,
Speaker 1: so we just extended your Raiders of the Law, Stark,
Speaker 1: So are there any is there any talk of looking
Speaker 1: for this now that we've heard of?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not particularly, but it is remarkable that this whole
Speaker 2: remote viewing thing was being taken so seriously by the
Speaker 2: CIA in the nineteen eighties. Again, the nineteen eighties, Ronald
Speaker 2: Reagan was leaving the White House.
Speaker 5: He was a lame duck by the time this happened.
Speaker 5: In December of that.
Speaker 2: Year, George Bush, the first Bush President, was about to
Speaker 2: come in and.
Speaker 5: Still we had remote viewer number thirty two.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I was just saying. At number thirty two,
Speaker 1: how many there?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they didn't get any more specific about this
Speaker 2: whole operation that they had been running.
Speaker 5: And that's also part of it.
Speaker 2: I mean, was it just a phone call to a
Speaker 2: nine hundred called a miss Cleo back in the day
Speaker 2: that that qualify.
Speaker 5: As being remote viewer number two?
Speaker 2: But it's pretty remarkable the scope of this investigation and
Speaker 2: what they would do is they would just sort of
Speaker 2: give the psychic some basic requests of you know, we're
Speaker 2: trying to find a special object, and then this is
Speaker 2: what they came back with, this description of the gilded
Speaker 2: box and its approximate size and how it was decorated
Speaker 2: and where it might be.
Speaker 1: Right, well, before we leave, this is what I'm going
Speaker 1: to say. That great as the last art came out
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty one, right, yep, so nineteen eighty eight, and.
Speaker 4: She goes, oh, it's this bucks and it's in the
Speaker 4: Middle East.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, she just watched the movie or.
Speaker 2: It could have been The Ten Commandments. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: it was December. Maybe they were showing that again. You know,
Speaker 2: back when we watched TV movies, it was.
Speaker 4: All right, well we'll play this for you one more time.
Speaker 5: Great, thank you.
Speaker 1: Kfis worry O'Neil. Have a great day all right, Time
Speaker 1: to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Courtney.
Speaker 1: Amazon is bringing back screening its warehouse workers because yeah,
Speaker 1: they're stealing.
Speaker 13: Yes, good morning Amazon. Those metal detectors were going to
Speaker 13: see them. They want to screen the workers leaving the warehouses.
Speaker 13: So this theft prevention measure, it was suspended during the pandemic,
Speaker 13: but here's a new measure that they're going to try
Speaker 13: to implement. Sources are telling us here at Bloomberg that
Speaker 13: Amazon's asking employees to register their personal phones so security
Speaker 13: knows they aren't stolen. So the company's starting to inform
Speaker 13: certain locations about this phone policy this week, but Amazon
Speaker 13: aims to roll out both measures to all its facilities
Speaker 13: sometimes throughout the year.
Speaker 4: How how much theft are we talking about?
Speaker 1: Did they did?
Speaker 13: They say, they didn't say how much. But for them
Speaker 13: to bring this back, I'm sure this is a major
Speaker 13: issue for them. They said in this phone registration issue
Speaker 13: that employees are going to have to share the last
Speaker 13: six digits of the serial number and then they're going
Speaker 13: to receive a sticker to place on the device so
Speaker 13: it lets security personnel knows it belongs to the worker,
Speaker 13: and it will help to screen up the process, screen
Speaker 13: the process, and we can move along a little bit safter.
Speaker 13: Because there was an issue a couple of years ago
Speaker 13: where there were a lot of log jams at the
Speaker 13: facilities because workers complained that they were stuck in line
Speaker 13: for as long as twenty five minutes without compensation, waiting
Speaker 13: to be screened on their way out of the warehouse.
Speaker 13: So this has been a pretty big point of contention
Speaker 13: between Amazon and its hourly warehouse workers for a long time.
Speaker 13: So this is it was stopped during the pandemic, and
Speaker 13: now it seems to be these security lines are going
Speaker 13: to be coming back.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's too bad, but I guess it's good
Speaker 1: that they're going to cut down on theft.
Speaker 4: It's too bad that people are sealing from their players.
Speaker 1: Tinder trying to win over gen z daters.
Speaker 4: What are they doing.
Speaker 13: Yes, they're rolling out a game where you flirt with
Speaker 13: a chatbot. I don't know how I feel about that one.
Speaker 13: But users can accumulate points for warmth and curiosity, receive
Speaker 13: real time feedback on their responses, and ultimately win the
Speaker 13: game if their AI character verbally agrees to a date,
Speaker 13: so plays are limited to about five a day. You
Speaker 13: can only play this five times, but Tinder says the
Speaker 13: goal is to give users the space to build a
Speaker 13: little more confidence before diving into those real conversations with
Speaker 13: other daters. Okay, I go, I don't know about this one,
Speaker 13: you know. I mean, I'm I'm a single lady. I
Speaker 13: don't know how I would feel about playing a pretend game.
Speaker 13: I mean, well, I mean your guys. I don't know. Well,
Speaker 13: if it might make other guys a little bit better
Speaker 13: communicating on the app, well then maybe in my work.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you flirt with the chatbot, you get this
Speaker 1: great quote relationship, and then you meet the real person.
Speaker 13: You go, oh, exactly, It's like I thought it was
Speaker 13: so good at this. Okay, they say it's going to
Speaker 13: be it's fun and judgment free.
Speaker 4: Nothing is judgment free, Courtney.
Speaker 14: Come on, I know, well that's what they say. I
Speaker 14: did not say that. I'm just And they called the
Speaker 14: chatbot the game game. They call the game game the
Speaker 14: game game.
Speaker 1: When you're looking at the stock market game.
Speaker 4: What's going on with that today?
Speaker 13: So yeah, well, taking a look, we've been seeing a
Speaker 13: lot of volatility overall, it's it's gripped the markets. Yesterday,
Speaker 13: stocks are actually erased earlier losses and managed to finish
Speaker 13: the day higher. So we're expected to maybe see the
Speaker 13: same thing again today. Yesterday the down jump four hundred
Speaker 13: and eighteen points. We have to keep the mind it's
Speaker 13: the worst month and quarter for the S and P
Speaker 13: since twenty twenty two. Now this morning, we are kicking
Speaker 13: off April on a down note.
Speaker 5: But it was a switch.
Speaker 13: We were higher earlier, maybe about two hours ago. But
Speaker 13: the confusion about whether the President's going to be leaning
Speaker 13: or tough when it comes to tariffs is making a
Speaker 13: lot of investors less willing to make those risky bets,
Speaker 13: and stocks are definitely a risky bet. Down futures right
Speaker 13: now are down two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is going to be interesting when the tariffs actually
Speaker 1: kick in, Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 13: And especially for the fact that we really don't know
Speaker 13: what's in place. And again, what Wall Street does not
Speaker 13: like is uncertainty, and we're getting a lot of uncertainty
Speaker 13: every single day here.
Speaker 4: Absolutely that's getting in your business.
Speaker 1: With Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, Thanks so much, Courtney let's do
Speaker 1: it again tomorrow.
Speaker 13: Shall we exactly see you later?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Gas prices are getting closer to five dollars a gallon again.
Speaker 1: The average price for regular unletted was up for the
Speaker 1: tenth time in eleven days to just under four eighty
Speaker 1: seven a gallon. Prices are up about twenty cents, actually
Speaker 1: more than twenty cents in the last ten days, and
Speaker 1: Orange County gas is just under forty five. The La
Speaker 1: City Council plans to vote today on an ordinance that
Speaker 1: would set up a right to Council program, providing legal
Speaker 1: defense to renters who were facing eviction. It would also
Speaker 1: require landlords to inform tenants about their rights. The La
Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors approved a similar policy last year.
Speaker 1: A missing painting of President George Washington's been recovered by
Speaker 1: Colorado police. The painting is two hundred years old. It
Speaker 1: was reported stolen in January of twenty twenty four. It
Speaker 1: was found in a hotel room in Denver. Police are
Speaker 1: investigating the theft or just minutes away from Handle on
Speaker 1: the news this morning. It is election day in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: and Florida. While a lot of people around the US
Speaker 1: are watching those closely. Let's say good morning now too.
Speaker 1: The host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard, Joel,
Speaker 1: Liberation Day is tomorrow. What is that going to mean?
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, that's like what everyone's this rush on everyone's
Speaker 15: mind because we don't really know. The Liberation Day talk
Speaker 15: has been kind of sort of specific but also intentionally vague,
Speaker 15: and so I guess like the great unveiling will come
Speaker 15: tomorrow and we'll all find out what thatck we're talking about.
Speaker 15: But certainly it's going to mean increase tariffs on other
Speaker 15: countries who the President feel that the President feels like
Speaker 15: we don't have a reasonable trading balance with And so
Speaker 15: I think what that means for consumers at the end
Speaker 15: of the day is higher prices on certain goods, and
Speaker 15: it means right now a lot of uncertainty for businesses.
Speaker 15: And so it's been I would say it's been a
Speaker 15: tough start to the year economically and on the macro perspective,
Speaker 15: just because of the severe uncertainty in the fact that
Speaker 15: businesses are just like, where's this going, and the lack
Speaker 15: of clarity, which maybe we'll get more tomorrow has been
Speaker 15: one of the toughest things the tariff part is tough,
Speaker 15: but the uncertainty part is tougher.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then and I guess these are questions that
Speaker 1: we won't know because you just said we kind of
Speaker 1: don't know until we know. But you know, like, are
Speaker 1: they going to start passing those increases along immediately?
Speaker 4: Is there going to be some lag time?
Speaker 15: So typically I would say the lag time isn't long.
Speaker 15: It's it's interesting because consumers have if you look at
Speaker 15: the numbers, already said but we're looking down the line
Speaker 15: and we're seeing the fact that prices are going to
Speaker 15: go upon cars potentially significantly, and so I'm going to
Speaker 15: go buy a new car. Now you and I have
Speaker 15: talked about that, and how well if it wasn't already
Speaker 15: on your plan, Like you don't want to go out
Speaker 15: and buy a car just because prices are likely to
Speaker 15: go up. But it's true, like consumers are changing behavior
Speaker 15: and their front loading purchases because of the reality of
Speaker 15: tariffs coming in, especially when they know in advance it's
Speaker 15: not going to be long before because of the way
Speaker 15: the supply chain works and the economy functions, it's not
Speaker 15: going to be too long before we see rises and
Speaker 15: prices on some of the things where tariffs are implemented,
Speaker 15: and so the Yale budget predicts that if there are
Speaker 15: like twenty percent broad based tariffs, the average household is
Speaker 15: going to feel the pain between like three and four
Speaker 15: thousand dollars in lost purchasing power per year.
Speaker 5: So that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can add that on to the twenty percent
Speaker 1: inflation we've seen in the last couple of years. That's
Speaker 1: another just keep piling.
Speaker 15: On, right, And it's I think it's exactly the opposite
Speaker 15: of what they were hoping for in a lot of
Speaker 15: ways when they opted for President Trump at the ballot box.
Speaker 15: Was hey, like, lower prices is a huge part of
Speaker 15: the reason I'm going in this direction. And then lower
Speaker 15: prices and tariffs, well, you just can't really utter them
Speaker 15: in the same breadth because they're they're going in opposite directions. Again,
Speaker 15: I think there are geopolitical reasons for certain specified tariffs,
Speaker 15: but I think for the most part this is this
Speaker 15: isn't great policy, at least from a consumer standpoint.
Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of consumers and money and having it or not.
Speaker 1: We have tax stage is two weeks away, although in
Speaker 1: La County you do have the extension because of the fires.
Speaker 1: It's everybody in La County has an extra six months,
Speaker 1: So October fifteenth is the deadline. But that means that
Speaker 1: probably fewer people have filed at this point.
Speaker 15: That's exactly because of natural disasters California and North Carolina
Speaker 15: other parts of the South, when Hurricane Helene came through,
Speaker 15: some people have extra time, and so the IRS did announce, Hey,
Speaker 15: we're actually seeing we've had fewer filings so far than
Speaker 15: we did last year. But I think that makes sense
Speaker 15: because of the number of people overall who don't have
Speaker 15: to file yet, who have essentially the ability to file
Speaker 15: in October and not pay any sort of penalty, which
Speaker 15: is great. If you don't live in La County, it's
Speaker 15: time to get on it, right, You got two weeks left,
Speaker 15: And I just want to say, like one of my
Speaker 15: favorite places for people to consider filing their taxes, it's
Speaker 15: cash app Taxes, and cash app is is typically like
Speaker 15: a peer to peer payment service. They bought this service
Speaker 15: from Credit Karma and it's the only legitimate free service
Speaker 15: I know of for federal and state filing, and it's
Speaker 15: pretty robust, like they do a pretty good job. So
Speaker 15: that's one to consider, especially if you have a not
Speaker 15: very complex tax return that you need to file. If
Speaker 15: you have a very complex tax return, it's typically a
Speaker 15: good idea to hire somebody to help you with that.
Speaker 15: And just know that you're probably at this point, even
Speaker 15: if you find somebody who says I'm willing to do
Speaker 15: your taxes, you're likely filing extension if you don't live
Speaker 15: in La County in order to in order to have
Speaker 15: longer two file. That still doesn't mean that you don't
Speaker 15: have to pay estimated taxes if you're going to owe money,
Speaker 15: but you might still need to file extension anyway. You
Speaker 15: might not be able to get it done in time
Speaker 15: if you're finding someone else to help you with that
Speaker 15: with your taxes.
Speaker 1: Okay, Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money every
Speaker 1: Sunday from noon to two on CAFI, always such great
Speaker 1: advice and we appreciate it. I hope you get a
Speaker 1: big refund this year.
Speaker 15: Thanks you too.
Speaker 5: Hate me?
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Speaker 1: A judge in New Mexico's denied the release of certain
Speaker 1: court records. They show the bodies of Gene Hackman and
Speaker 1: his wife, Betsy Arakawa. The couple's estate fought against making
Speaker 1: the records public, which include an autopsy report. Hackman and
Speaker 1: Arakawa died inside their home in February. Authorities announced last
Speaker 1: month that Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer's,
Speaker 1: about a week after his wife died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
Speaker 1: San Diego Republican Assemblyman Carl Demyo says a Democrat member's
Speaker 1: response to his comments about Caesar Chavez were way out
Speaker 1: of line.
Speaker 16: The Mayo was addressing the state Assembly on Friday when
Speaker 16: he said Chavez opposed illegal immigration and supported a secure border.
Speaker 16: He tells kfi's John Cobel. Democrat Cory Jackson lashed out
Speaker 16: at those comments.
Speaker 13: I'm calling on the Democrats who run the show up
Speaker 13: in Sacramento.
Speaker 12: Don't allow this sort of behavior.
Speaker 16: To Mayo, says, Jackson had to be restrained by Assembly security.
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Speaker 1: A sixty three year old woman in me and Maher,
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