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Speaker 1: It is five o'clock straight up Thursday morning.
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Speaker 1: For May first, May Day, May Day.
Speaker 5: First of May. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: Thanks for getting your day started with us. Got a
Speaker 1: busy one as always. I know I say that a lot,
Speaker 1: but I mean it. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: Police have broken up a group of pro Palestinian protesters
Speaker 1: at UCLA and have set up barriers around Royce Hall
Speaker 1: that are going to be in place today for anticipated
Speaker 1: May Day demonstrations. About one hundred and fifty to two
Speaker 1: hundred demonstrators gathered on campus last night, three of them
Speaker 1: and ended up getting arrested, one for slapping a security guard.
Speaker 1: A judge has ordered a twenty two year old from
Speaker 1: Malibu to stand trial for murder and vehicular manslaughter in
Speaker 1: the deaths of four Pepperdine University students. Following hearings, the
Speaker 1: judge set a July first arraignment. Prosecutor say, Fraser Boehm
Speaker 1: was speeding over one hundred miles an hour at times
Speaker 1: when he crashed into three parked cars, which then hit
Speaker 1: and killed the four women women. He was in a
Speaker 1: forty five mile per hour zone. President Trump has acknowledged
Speaker 1: his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in
Speaker 1: the US, but he also told his cabinet yesterday that
Speaker 1: China will suffer more in a trade war and said
Speaker 1: the US didn't really need imports from the world's dominant manufacturer.
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers is at the White House with President
Speaker 1: Trump's response to the economy shrinking for the first quarter
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. We'll be checking in with Karen
Speaker 1: in just a couple of minutes. Let's go fishing. ABC's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan joins us at five point twenty to tell
Speaker 1: us about how bad guys are trying to get your
Speaker 1: money by using celebrities or what you think are celebrities.
Speaker 5: And KASA, or.
Speaker 1: Court Appointed Special Advocates, is throwing a huge party on
Speaker 1: Friday night to raise money for their efforts to help
Speaker 1: some of the most vulnerable kids in southern California.
Speaker 5: It's a fun time, it's a good cause.
Speaker 1: We tried to hook up with the representative from KASA yesterday,
Speaker 1: had some technical difficulties, so we're hoping that we get
Speaker 1: to talk to her today and that.
Speaker 5: Is happening at about five point fifty.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Rallies are expected
Speaker 1: across LA to mark International Workers Day, also known as
Speaker 1: May Day. Thousands of union members, immigrant rights supporters, and
Speaker 1: others are expected to flood the streets of downtown LA
Speaker 1: and Boil Heights. The Service Employees International Union says in
Speaker 1: March this morning will be a show of solidarity with
Speaker 1: immigrant communities. While condemning the Trump administrations ongoing attacks on
Speaker 1: immigrants and working people. They're also demanding living wages, safer workplaces,
Speaker 1: and a future with dignity, as they say for all workers.
Speaker 1: Arraignment for a youth soccer coach accused of murdering a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old boy from Sun Valley's been postponed again.
Speaker 1: Forty three year old Mario Garcia Aquino is now doing
Speaker 1: court to enter a plea on June eighteenth. His arraignment
Speaker 1: had also been postponed back on April eighth, a man
Speaker 1: like that is.
Speaker 6: A danger to the community.
Speaker 7: He should be locked up forever, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Luis Carreo is the attorney for the victim's family. Oscar
Speaker 1: Hernandez was found dead in a ditch along a roadway
Speaker 1: in Oxnard, five days after he left home on March
Speaker 1: twenty eighth to go visit the coach in the Lancaster
Speaker 1: Palmdale area. Rick Caruso, who ran for mayor of LA's
Speaker 1: getting a say on how the city's budget deficit is
Speaker 1: being dealt with. He says the key is to cut
Speaker 1: out waste and stop wasting money on things that don't
Speaker 1: make people's lives better. Caruso spoke with kfi's Tim Conway
Speaker 1: Junior and took a job at the current administration.
Speaker 8: It's really not rocket science. It takes some political courage
Speaker 8: and backbond. But if you don't have the political courage backloine,
Speaker 8: you shouldn't be in office anyway.
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass released her proposed budget last week. It includes
Speaker 1: laying off over sixteen hundred employees and slashing several city programs.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen,
Speaker 1: the US got a not great economic report yesterday showing
Speaker 1: the economy shrunk zero point three percent for the first
Speaker 1: quarter of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: What was President Trump's response to that?
Speaker 9: He said, it's the Biden economy. Excuse me, Biden economy.
Speaker 9: He said it was the Biden stock market. It's not his.
Speaker 3: He urged the.
Speaker 9: Americans to be patients and said that there would be
Speaker 9: short term pain, essentially from his policies. We've heard the
Speaker 9: President say that there would be short term disturbances and
Speaker 9: transition costs from the trade and terrorft policies he's putting
Speaker 9: in effect. But yesterday he acknowledged for the first time
Speaker 9: that prices could go up and some Americans might have
Speaker 9: to go with less because of this standoff right now
Speaker 9: with China one hundred and forty five percent tariffs on
Speaker 9: Chinese goods, they're still in effect. There's no sign of
Speaker 9: any negotiations with China. And the President said yesterday, maybe
Speaker 9: the children will have two dollars instead of thirty dollars.
Speaker 9: Maybe the two dollars will cost a couple of bucks
Speaker 9: more than they normally would.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Karen, you've been following the White House for
Speaker 1: quite a while. All presidents blame their predecessor, but in
Speaker 1: your experience, like, how long can they get away with
Speaker 1: doing that before people say now it's yours?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, and it's an important question because I
Speaker 9: think people are already starting to blame this president. We
Speaker 9: saw that in polls over the weekend that came out
Speaker 9: ahead of the one hundred daymark. Our poll found that
Speaker 9: the president had a thirty nine percent approval rating, fifty
Speaker 9: five percent disapproval. Seventy two percent say they're concerned and
Speaker 9: they feel that his policies will cause a recession. This
Speaker 9: is significant, you know, this is not like outside forces
Speaker 9: are giving people concern and fears about what could come next.
Speaker 9: They're saying it's because of what the president is trying
Speaker 9: to do with trade and tariffs. They're directly tying it
Speaker 9: to his policies, so he can say it's the Biden
Speaker 9: economy and it's because of what Biden had done. But
Speaker 9: Americans in poll after poll over the last week, are
Speaker 9: saying it's because of what he is trying to put
Speaker 9: in place. And I think it's also important to note
Speaker 9: that before this report, there had been thirty three straight
Speaker 9: months of growth. Now, whether or not Americans still feel
Speaker 9: that way in a couple of months, you have to
Speaker 9: see and the President has said be patient, things will
Speaker 9: turn around. But you know, the only thing you're hearing
Speaker 9: from economists right now is that given where this stands
Speaker 9: with China, is there's no positive outlook that this is.
Speaker 9: Companies right now are scrambling to get ahead of tariffs.
Speaker 9: They are concerned about what the Christmas supply could look
Speaker 9: like because of the timeline of importing goods. This is
Speaker 9: the time when companies start doing that and the prices
Speaker 9: of things are going to be significantly higher.
Speaker 5: Right and then, and you mentioned the prices are going up.
Speaker 1: Are we seeing those price increases now or are they?
Speaker 5: Are they about to hit?
Speaker 9: It's about to hit. I mean the other thing too,
Speaker 9: is that like there's essentially little trade being done right
Speaker 9: now with China because companies have stopped importing. The Treasury
Speaker 9: Secretary has acknowledged this. There's like almost a trade embargo
Speaker 9: because companies have to figure out another way to bring
Speaker 9: in goods. Of all of a sudden, you are importing
Speaker 9: product X, and now there's one hundred and forty five
Speaker 9: percent additional cost to that. You're going to figure out
Speaker 9: a different way if you can some small businesses can't.
Speaker 9: That's how they rely on China for their goods, and
Speaker 9: this is going to be very challenged for those small businesses.
Speaker 1: Okay, and before we let you go any other revelations
Speaker 1: from the cabinet meeting yesterday, you.
Speaker 9: Know, I think the big thing was the President talking
Speaker 9: about the economy. I also asked him about whether he
Speaker 9: expected that President Bukel about Salvador would if he were
Speaker 9: to request the return of Kilmar Abragio Garcia, would he
Speaker 9: expect Bukela to go along with that? And the President
Speaker 9: again deferred to lawyers on that, but said that they
Speaker 9: have a good relationship. So to stay tuned on that.
Speaker 9: Wee anticipating some news potentially on that great we.
Speaker 5: Will be paying attention.
Speaker 1: Karen Travers, ABC's White House correspondent, Thanks so much. Let's
Speaker 1: get back now to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ukraine and the
Speaker 1: US have signed in agreement allowing America to access the
Speaker 1: European nation's rare earth minerals. Treasury Secretary Scott Beiscent announced
Speaker 1: the deal yesterday, saying it establishes an economic partnership.
Speaker 7: I am glad to announce the signing of today's historic
Speaker 7: economic Partnership agreement between the United States and Ukraine, establishing
Speaker 7: the United States Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration says the deal also addresses the one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five billion dollars in aid the US
Speaker 1: has given Ukraine since the start of its war with Russia.
Speaker 1: Bessince says the deal is a message to Russia that
Speaker 1: the White House is committed to a peace process centered
Speaker 1: on a free and prosperous Ukraine. The British militaries joined
Speaker 1: the US in launching air strikes targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Speaker 1: It's the first time the UK has fired on the
Speaker 1: Iran backed group during the current US campaign. The Columbia
Speaker 1: University student, ordered released from federal immigration custody, says he
Speaker 1: never advocated for violence. Motion Madawi was arrested by Department
Speaker 1: of Homeland Security agents last month during his naturalization interview.
Speaker 1: A judge in Vermont ordered him freed.
Speaker 3: Yes, for anybody who's doubting justice, this is a life
Speaker 3: of hope and faith in.
Speaker 10: The justice system in America.
Speaker 5: Federal officials say.
Speaker 1: Mdowi has admitted in the past to his involvement in
Speaker 1: anti Semitic acts of violence. President Trump says, historically, black
Speaker 1: colleges and universities don't have to worry about federal spending cuts.
Speaker 11: During a town hall event with News Nation, Trump said
Speaker 11: he took care of the black colleges and HBCUs and
Speaker 11: that he got them more money than they ever dreamt possible.
Speaker 6: They were going out of business.
Speaker 12: They came to me about fifty people that headed up,
Speaker 12: and they came to me the first year, and I
Speaker 12: took care of them.
Speaker 11: Last week, Trump signed an executive order that will ensure
Speaker 11: HBCUs get the maximum funding they're entitled to. Tammy Trio
Speaker 11: KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man in North Carolina has been charged with driving
Speaker 1: a city dump truck into utility crew working on a
Speaker 1: power line. The State Highway Patrol says the drivers facing
Speaker 1: four counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle. He allegedly
Speaker 1: ran stop sign last month when he plowed into the workers.
Speaker 1: VISA wants to give artificial intelligence agents your credit card.
Speaker 10: The agent can fined and buy close groceries, airplane tickets,
Speaker 10: and other things on your behalf. All you'd have to
Speaker 10: do is set a budget and some preferences, and the
Speaker 10: AI assistant can make the purchases. Visa announced its new
Speaker 10: AI credit card plan yesterday after months of working behind
Speaker 10: the scenes with leading AI chatbot developers. Pilot projects are underway,
Speaker 10: but it could take some time before average credit card
Speaker 10: users can ask an AI assistant to order their weekly
Speaker 10: grocery lists. Deborah Mark KFI News.
Speaker 4: The Joint Resolution fails.
Speaker 1: Passage I, measuring the Senate to undo President Trump's tariffs,
Speaker 1: has failed. The vote yesterday ended in a forty nine
Speaker 1: forty nine tie, with three Republicans joining Democrats in support
Speaker 1: of the resolution. Vice President Vance broke the tie.
Speaker 12: The Ya's are forty nine, the nays are forty nine.
Speaker 12: The Senate being evil divided, the Vice President votes in
Speaker 12: the affirmative.
Speaker 5: The motion to table is agreed to.
Speaker 1: The measure needed a simple majority to pass. Former Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris has criticized President Trump in her first major
Speaker 1: speech since leaving the White House.
Speaker 13: The American people deserve leaders who make their lives better
Speaker 13: and make our country stronger. But sadly, we have seen
Speaker 13: quite the opposite.
Speaker 1: Harris spoke in San Francisco yesterday. To emerge America, it
Speaker 1: recruits the Democratic women to run for office. She says
Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs aren't clearly inviting a recession. Thousands of union members,
Speaker 1: immigrant rights supporters and others are expected to take to
Speaker 1: the streets of downtown LA and Boyle Heights today to
Speaker 1: mark International Workers' Day, also known as May Day. The
Speaker 1: first rally starts at nine at Olympic Boulevard and Figaroa
Speaker 1: in downtown. Customs and Border Patrol agents have found more
Speaker 1: than seventeen pounds of liquid methamphetamine hidden in dog shampoo
Speaker 1: bottles at Lax. In a press release, CBP officials say
Speaker 1: the shipment, on its way to Australia, was intercepted back
Speaker 1: on April first. It had an estimated street value of
Speaker 1: one point eight million dollars. A man's been arrested at
Speaker 1: the O Tai Mesa port of entry for allegedly trying
Speaker 1: to smuggle parakeets stuffed inside his boots and inside the
Speaker 1: seat of his car. Border agents say three of the
Speaker 1: parakeet parakeets were found wrapped in pantyhose tucked into his
Speaker 1: boots on Tuesday, and then others could be heard crying
Speaker 1: inside his jeep the next day, so they went and
Speaker 1: dug them out. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan. So, Jim, the bad guys strike again, and
Speaker 1: this time they're appealing to our love of celebrity.
Speaker 8: Yeah, celebrities and specifically sports fans. Okay, So let's say
Speaker 8: you're a Steph Curry fan and you're constantly posting online
Speaker 8: at Facebook and X and Instagram your love of you know,
Speaker 8: of of Steph Curry and and all the rest, and
Speaker 8: so suddenly Steph Curry reaches out to you on Facebook.
Speaker 8: You get a message, Hey, thanks for supporting us. We're
Speaker 8: really doing our best here. We love your your fandom.
Speaker 8: By the way, do you do you have a Steph
Speaker 8: Curry Fan Club membership card? And you say, I don't, Steph,
Speaker 8: but it's great to meet you. Okay, it's only one
Speaker 8: thousand dollars, and with that you'll get you know, uh
Speaker 8: signing opportunities, you'll get autographed material, you get you know,
Speaker 8: one on one and then even even a cruise with
Speaker 8: me Steph Curry. Well it's not Steph Curry, but people
Speaker 8: are falling for it, unfortunately, and it seems that the
Speaker 8: bigger a team gets and the farther they get into
Speaker 8: the playoffs. For example, I'm seeing it happen right now
Speaker 8: in Oklahoma City. Right The Oklahoma City Thunder are in
Speaker 8: Round two of the NBA playoffs now, and some of
Speaker 8: the the fans of that team are getting spooked by
Speaker 8: like the likes of Chet Holmgren, who's reaching out to
Speaker 8: them and urging them to join his fan club and
Speaker 8: get his membership card and pay him for stuff. So
Speaker 8: it's just the latest way, the latest scam that people
Speaker 8: are using to spoof others and to trick fans or
Speaker 8: normal people.
Speaker 1: Well, the good news in all of this, Jim, is
Speaker 1: that nobody can be or is probably going to be
Speaker 1: scammed by someone appearing to be a Laker fan because
Speaker 1: the Lakers are out of the playoffs.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 8: I bet there are some diehard fans of course, yes, yeah,
Speaker 8: who you know, they're super fans, and they might still
Speaker 8: get targeted. And in fact, kind of it's it probably
Speaker 8: wouldn't be a Steph Curry type it. It might be
Speaker 8: a lower level player like a Chet holmgrum of the
Speaker 8: Oklahoma City Thunder, because that's almost believable. I think even
Speaker 8: the die ist of die hard fans of Steph Curry
Speaker 8: would be shocked to get a text message from from
Speaker 8: Steph Curry or an Instagram message, but somebody like Holgrum
Speaker 8: Holmgren rather, you know, they may they might believe that
Speaker 8: it's like it's not super duper star, he's a big
Speaker 8: star on the on the thunder, but you know, and
Speaker 8: that may be one tip off.
Speaker 5: But just kind of watch out tips off.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 8: And by the way, even even that the blue check
Speaker 8: mark on X doesn't mean much anymore because you can
Speaker 8: buy that, right, it doesn't really mean that you're verified anymore, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Jim, you you mentioned like text messages and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then you mentioned X.
Speaker 5: So are is it.
Speaker 1: All like just words or are people are they using
Speaker 1: AI images of these people?
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're using pictures wrote about celebrities, you know, being
Speaker 8: spoofed in the past, that AI generated images of celebrities,
Speaker 8: and they're being posted to somebody's Facebook pages, and you know,
Speaker 8: these really unlikely relationships are built between celebrities and their fans,
Speaker 8: and then eventually at some point the celebrity says, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm really strapped for cash right now, can you help
Speaker 8: me out? I mean we're friends now, so but obviously
Speaker 8: you've never spoken to that person you've never dealt with
Speaker 8: them one on ones, You've never seen them, You've only
Speaker 8: seen images on Facebook. And unfortunately, I mean now with
Speaker 8: AI you can generate videos, and so I could you
Speaker 8: can generate a video. Here's Brad Pitt talking directly to me,
Speaker 8: and you see his mouth moving in his eyes and
Speaker 8: his face. But you know that's not Brad Pitt. That's
Speaker 8: that's that's AI Brad Pitt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of times you can tell, although,
Speaker 1: like you said that the.
Speaker 5: AI is getting so good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lot of times you can tell because
Speaker 1: like you see their mouths moving, but it doesn't quite
Speaker 1: match up, and that kind of thing.
Speaker 8: It's tough to spot. And I've seen, you know, an
Speaker 8: online ad the Sylvester Stallone sitting there talking about male
Speaker 8: enhancement drugs. I guess it is then, which isn't far.
Speaker 1: Fast because they I mean, like, there are celebrities who
Speaker 1: actually endorse those products.
Speaker 8: Right, but this one and if you look at it carefully,
Speaker 8: you can tell that's not really him talking that it
Speaker 8: is AI generated And you know, why would he be
Speaker 8: doing that. It doesn't do him any good, It doesn't
Speaker 8: do him any any favors. And so yeah, it's just
Speaker 8: got to be very careful, and it's almost impossible anymore
Speaker 8: to believe what you see. I think.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Jim, one last question. Do law enforcement people
Speaker 1: ever catch these guys or are they just out there?
Speaker 8: They're pretty much out there. You know, they're staying one
Speaker 8: step ahead, I suppose. And the FBI has been working
Speaker 8: on this for a long time. They put out warnings
Speaker 8: all the time that they just warning on spoofing about scams,
Speaker 8: and you know, it's just they managed to stay step
Speaker 8: one step ahead of law.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, let the buyer beware exactly.
Speaker 1: I think we say that when we talk a lot
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks Jim, see 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. LAPD
Speaker 1: chief Jim McDonald has pushed back on LA Mayor Bass's
Speaker 1: proposal to cut more than four hundred workers.
Speaker 14: McDonald says the civilian workers play critical roles in investigations
Speaker 14: and bringing justice to victims of crime. He says the
Speaker 14: proposed cuts would put the public at risk.
Speaker 8: These professionals undergo years of specialized training and their expertise
Speaker 8: is irreplaceable.
Speaker 14: McDonald says further proposed cuts to police overtime would hurt
Speaker 14: patrols at places like Venice Beach and MacArthur Park, and
Speaker 14: some facilities may have to close. The City's estimated one
Speaker 14: billion dollar budget shortfall prompted the mayor's proposal. Michael Monks
Speaker 14: KFI News.
Speaker 1: President Trump has reportedly been looking at putting a new
Speaker 1: immigration detention center at Travis Air Force Base in northern California.
Speaker 1: Congressman John Gyrimendy says he's against that idea.
Speaker 4: No way know how.
Speaker 15: Should the ICE folks be able to build a detention
Speaker 15: center at Travis, it will seriously disrupt operation and become
Speaker 15: a major problem for our national security.
Speaker 1: Garamendy says an ICE facility would inhibit the military's ability
Speaker 1: to be ready for action. I says only confirmed that
Speaker 1: it is looking at all options in California to meet
Speaker 1: detention needs. A man has been arrested on suspicion of
Speaker 1: animal cruelty after police found five dead kittens in a
Speaker 1: trash bag outside of home in Cathedral City. Orgy Ramirez
Speaker 1: was allegedly seen on security video tossing the trash bag
Speaker 1: over a Homespence on Friday. The police recalled when the
Speaker 1: bag was found Tuesday afternoon. Police a Ramirez admitted to
Speaker 1: putting live kittens in the bag before throwing it in
Speaker 1: the yard. I have an idea or two of what
Speaker 1: we could do with that guy, I bet you do.
Speaker 1: Students at UCLA who were arrested during on campus protests
Speaker 1: are finally getting their phones back. Authorities have had them
Speaker 1: since the forty students were arrested during pro Palestinian protests
Speaker 1: last spring. Acting Chief Scott Schleffer. Scheffler tells the La
Speaker 1: Times that the phones are no longer evidence because the
Speaker 1: La City Attorney has decided not to press charges against
Speaker 1: most of the students arrested.
Speaker 13: Pray Pray, and.
Speaker 1: A rally has been held in West Hollillywood and support
Speaker 1: of a Venezuelan makeup artist deported to a maximum security
Speaker 1: prison in El Salvador. Community activists and local leaders in
Speaker 1: West Hollywood say Andre Romero had no criminal history and
Speaker 1: was escaping persecution when he came to the US and
Speaker 1: asked for asylum.
Speaker 14: Believing in the promise of safety and dignity. Instead, he
Speaker 14: was met with detention to humanization and ultimately.
Speaker 1: Deportation supporters are urging federal officials to step in and
Speaker 1: bring Romero back to the US. Internet topics are looking
Speaker 1: more like drunken conversations in a bar.
Speaker 12: A big debate online right now is whether one hundred
Speaker 12: men could win a battle against a single Silverback gorilla.
Speaker 12: The question was first posed online years ago, but about
Speaker 12: a week ago some random person posted the gorilla would lose,
Speaker 12: but everyone would have to be dedicated. From there, it
Speaker 12: was people saying the gorilla would go out to the
Speaker 12: club after smoking a hundred dudes, to some saying I'm
Speaker 12: with the gorilla. Wildlife experts say one hundred men could
Speaker 12: beat a silverback guerrilla while suffering massive damage, including deaths,
Speaker 12: but most silverbacks would much rather take a nap, eat
Speaker 12: some food, and play with the kids. Michael Krozer kf
Speaker 12: I News.
Speaker 5: I think the gorilla would win.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow, the Dodgers take on the Braves in Atlanta. The
Speaker 1: first pitch goes out at four fifteen, and even though
Speaker 1: they're not here in LA to play, you can listen
Speaker 1: to all Dodger games on AM five seventy LA Sports,
Speaker 1: and you can stream all the Dodger games all season
Speaker 1: long and HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy.
Speaker 1: LA Sports zench handcrafted sushi made fresh daily at roups
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Speaker 5: And it's good stuff.
Speaker 4: I eat that.
Speaker 2: It's really good.
Speaker 6: It is really good.
Speaker 5: Go Dodgers okay.
Speaker 1: A three day effort to clear homeless camps in LA
Speaker 1: continues in Guardina today. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says
Speaker 1: homeless people have been offered housing services and mental and
Speaker 1: physical healthcare for about a year. Those who've refused are
Speaker 1: now being moved out. Homeless camps will also be cleared
Speaker 1: in other parts of the county. Police are looking for
Speaker 1: a student who brought a gun to school in Marina
Speaker 1: del Rey. The gun, hidden in a backpack, discharged in
Speaker 1: a classroom at the west Side Global Awareness Magnet yesterday.
Speaker 1: When the backpack was dropped on the ground, the bullet
Speaker 1: apparently ricocheted around the classroom and then fell to the ground.
Speaker 5: No one was hurt. The Lakers season is over.
Speaker 1: LA lost their series against Minnesota four games to one
Speaker 1: following last night's Game five one oh three ninety six loss.
Speaker 1: The timber Wolves now move on to the second round
Speaker 1: of the NBA playoffs to play the winner of the
Speaker 1: Rockets Warriors series.
Speaker 5: At six oh.
Speaker 1: Five, it is handle on the News, Kamala Harris rails
Speaker 1: on President Trump and her first big speech since leaving
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 14: T Lively.
Speaker 5: On jetmen do when I do know when I'm coming back.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so doing doing a big trip, having done
Speaker 1: one in quite a while, and you know, we were
Speaker 1: talking to Rich DeMuro and we have talked to Joe
Speaker 1: lars Guard about how people are traveling and getting their
Speaker 1: summer plans and stuff.
Speaker 5: So I'm getting my spring plans in place.
Speaker 1: So we're heading to Paris, and I've never been to
Speaker 1: Paris before. And I got to tell you just a
Speaker 1: couple of things. One it takes a lot more planning
Speaker 1: than I thought. The other the other big trips that
Speaker 1: I've gone on, I've gone on some fabulous trips, but
Speaker 1: other people planned them. And this time, my best friend
Speaker 1: Amy and I are planning it ourselves. So that's taken
Speaker 1: a lot. But we've got everything kind of booked except
Speaker 1: then we are going.
Speaker 5: To the louver, because you have to go to the louver, right.
Speaker 1: Actually, I don't even care so much about what's inside
Speaker 1: the louver. It's more that I want to see that
Speaker 1: glass pyramid thing on the outside, because it's so spectacular,
Speaker 1: even though people say it's an eyes so on.
Speaker 5: Delfund constantly shot, but I think it looks really cool.
Speaker 1: And Amy wants to see the Mona Lisa and the
Speaker 1: sculpture of David, and so we were talking and I said, Amy,
Speaker 1: I think I've seen the Mona Lisa. I And so
Speaker 1: then I was talking to somebody else about it, and
Speaker 1: I go, I think it was at the Getty and
Speaker 1: I think I saw it. I just googled it. It's
Speaker 1: never been at the Getty. I created the memory. I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but I made up. I made up fake,
Speaker 1: a fake memory.
Speaker 5: You would have been so happy if you'd never questioned it.
Speaker 2: You did your whole life. You would have thought you'd
Speaker 2: seen the Mona Lisa.
Speaker 1: I know, you know what I think it was. It was, uh,
Speaker 1: it was I think it was van Go. I think
Speaker 1: it was the Irises. I did see a van Go
Speaker 1: at the Getty and maybe that was it, and there
Speaker 1: was a big crowd around it. And maybe that's why
Speaker 1: I thought, because a lot of people say when you
Speaker 1: go to the Mona Lise, it's it's a little tiny picture,
Speaker 1: and there's huge crowds around it all the time, so
Speaker 1: even getting a good look at it, and you can't
Speaker 1: just walk up to it and stare at it like
Speaker 1: you can at the Norton Simon Museum or something like that. Along,
Speaker 1: So we're and we might not be able to go
Speaker 1: anyway because we're seeing that they're sold out for the
Speaker 1: days that we wanted to go. But you know whatever, Okay,
Speaker 1: so packing, I'm done. I have a few tweaking things
Speaker 1: to do. My suitcase is full, I got it shut,
Speaker 1: and now I'm thinking I need to edit it because
Speaker 1: I want to leave room because what if I want
Speaker 1: to buy something.
Speaker 5: While I'm there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so and again the packing is taking a lot longer.
Speaker 1: But you know it's it's fine. I've got I've got
Speaker 1: another twenty four hours to go. And then here's here's
Speaker 1: my other thing. We're taking a night flight. We leave
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock, we get in like two forty five,
Speaker 1: which is six forty five in the morning. So I'm like, great,
Speaker 1: that's prime sleeping time. I don't sleep on planes.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You can't force it. You really can't force it. It's
Speaker 2: like I fall asleep. If I fall asleep if I don't,
Speaker 2: I'm going to be tired.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and my friend we'll probably be asleep before takeoff.
Speaker 1: Totally snoozes. She sleeps through landing. She almost missed getting
Speaker 1: off the plane in South Africa.
Speaker 5: She can drive in you guys land, No.
Speaker 1: We're taking trains day but uh, yeah, so I'm worried
Speaker 1: about that. So seriously, if you have any ideas, and
Speaker 1: I'm not taking ambient because will you said that you went.
Speaker 2: With friends, said too, we went to South America actually,
Speaker 2: and I had some extra ambient and I thought I
Speaker 2: was being helpful and giving them out to my friends,
Speaker 2: and yeah, one of them went sleepwalking, ended up in
Speaker 2: the cruise quarters.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Apparently there's some alcohol involved too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so I'm not doing ambient and I'm
Speaker 1: wondering does melatonin work.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: But if you have an idea for me, and you
Speaker 1: want to send an email, like, go to the wake
Speaker 1: Up Call page on our website and you can find
Speaker 1: my email or DM me on Instagram or send me
Speaker 1: a message on Facebook if you have any great ideas
Speaker 1: for how I might be able to sleep on this plane. Again,
Speaker 1: it's an overnight flight and I know, I'm just going
Speaker 1: to sit there with my eyes open all night long.
Speaker 2: Do you have one of those goof pillows that goes
Speaker 2: around your neck?
Speaker 5: I do not have a goofy pillow.
Speaker 2: I see those everywhere, those weird little horseshoe pillows.
Speaker 5: You'll see.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, wish me luck. I'll let you know how
Speaker 1: it goes. But I'm serious. If you have a great
Speaker 1: idea on like a relaxation technique or if melatonin works
Speaker 1: or something like that for how you can sleep on
Speaker 1: planes again, you can message me at Amy K.
Speaker 5: King. I would love to hear or send me an
Speaker 5: email or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, it's time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 16: Actually I'm going to send you my kids because they
Speaker 16: will make you so exhausted you'll sleep anywhere.
Speaker 5: And can I leave them at the airport before I
Speaker 5: buy the plane? There you go.
Speaker 1: That's that would be good.
Speaker 16: They'll be a little disappointed, but that will be good.
Speaker 16: But Paris, you're gonna have a great time verside. Just
Speaker 16: blew my mind. And of course the bread everywhere is
Speaker 16: so awesome.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: That's what my brother said.
Speaker 1: He goes when you get there, go to a bread
Speaker 1: store and get a bag it and just carry it
Speaker 1: around and eat it.
Speaker 16: And I was like, okay, we cherie. And but it's funny.
Speaker 16: I grew up in New York and Paris was the
Speaker 16: only place I was ever pickpocketed.
Speaker 1: So watch yeah, we're planning for that too. We have
Speaker 1: our little cross body bags and yeah, okay, all enjoy
Speaker 1: your time, Thank you, Courtney. But right now, let's get
Speaker 1: in your business and talk Tesla. We're getting rumbling that
Speaker 1: Tesla's board wants to boot elon Musk.
Speaker 16: But now they're coming out and they're denying it that
Speaker 16: they were looking to get rid of him. Chair Robin
Speaker 16: Denholm called the claims false and said that the Carmaker's
Speaker 16: directors are highly confident in Musk's ability to continue executing
Speaker 16: on its growth plans.
Speaker 5: Well, the Wall Street Journal they came out.
Speaker 16: They reported earlier that Tesla's board members had contacted executive
Speaker 16: search firms to look for a successor to Musk earlier
Speaker 16: this year. But as we all know, Musk said last
Speaker 16: week that he's going to pull back significantly from his
Speaker 16: government work, which we.
Speaker 1: Knew because it was always supposed to be for like
Speaker 1: three months and then he said I'm going back after that.
Speaker 16: So yeah, but of course they are earnings kind of
Speaker 16: kind of pushed the matter along a little bit further.
Speaker 16: Exactly been doing as well when it comes to sales.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Uber, I love this idea has launched a simpler
Speaker 1: version of its apps.
Speaker 5: Why do they do that?
Speaker 16: Yes, my parents are very excited about this. So they're
Speaker 16: doing this for seniors. So it's going to be a
Speaker 16: streamline version. It has larger texts, easier to find, save destinations.
Speaker 16: It also has fewer home screen buttons than the regular
Speaker 16: Uber app. That's my dad's biggest complaint about using any
Speaker 16: of those apps, all these buttons. It's first going to
Speaker 16: be piloted in Orlando and Phoenix. That's going to start today,
Speaker 16: but more cities are following in the coming weeks, and
Speaker 16: no word yet on when we're going to see it
Speaker 16: in Los Angeles. But by the way, Lift is also
Speaker 16: preparing to launch a similar feature earlier this year.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's good because I mean
Speaker 1: I'm not super tech savvy and sometimes you're like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: did I did I order the car?
Speaker 6: Wait?
Speaker 5: Did I finish it? Wait? What's this what's that option?
Speaker 5: Do I have to do that one? Yeah? I mean
Speaker 5: just it's too many choices. I feel all of that.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, lots of big earnings reports are coming out today.
Speaker 5: What are we looking for?
Speaker 16: Yeah, so we had a lot coming out that's really
Speaker 16: impacting trading today. First, first of all, shares of Facebook
Speaker 16: parent Meta jumping in early training. They reported quarterly revenue
Speaker 16: that topped Wall Street expectations. They said that they're responding
Speaker 16: to the trade war by rethinking their suppliers. Facebook is higher,
Speaker 16: Microsoft too. They reported stronger than expected quarterly sales and
Speaker 16: profit growth. However, McDonald says diners are facing uncertainty. Sales
Speaker 16: at the fast food giant fell one percent in the
Speaker 16: first quarter that missed Wall Street expectations, and General Motors
Speaker 16: says tariffs will cost the company as much as five
Speaker 16: billion dollars this year. But we are seeing stocks higher,
Speaker 16: to have futures up two hundred and fifty points this morning,
Speaker 16: so we're looking at a rally ahead.
Speaker 5: And we had a good day yesterday too.
Speaker 16: Yeah, seven days in a row, so this would be
Speaker 16: number eight of gains. A good way to kick off
Speaker 16: the new trading month.
Speaker 5: All right, that's.
Speaker 1: Getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donald. Oh, let's
Speaker 1: do it one more time tomorrow, shall we?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 16: And Oh looking forward to your vacation too, where you're
Speaker 16: gonna have a great time.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have such short timers disease, But let's do
Speaker 1: We'll stick with it and we'll talk to you tomorrow,
Speaker 1: see you later. Okay, let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: A driver who allegedly killed four college students in a
Speaker 1: crash near Pepperdine University has been ordered to stand trial.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield said Fraser Boem is charged with murder
Speaker 1: and vehicular manslaughter for the crash in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6: Boem was accused of speeding along Pacific Coast Nghway in
Speaker 6: Malibu and crashing into three parked vehicles. We were sorority
Speaker 6: sisters between the ashes of twenty and twenty one. We're
Speaker 6: walking along the highway, were hit and killed.
Speaker 1: A prosecutor says a device in Boem's BMW showed the
Speaker 1: vehicle accelerated from ninety three to one hundred four miles
Speaker 1: per hour just two and a half seconds before the
Speaker 1: first of three impacts were detected airport officials in San
Speaker 1: Diego state travelers should arrive early, as the TSA says
Speaker 1: real ID requirement is about to kick in. The id
Speaker 1: ID or another acceptable form of identification will be needed
Speaker 1: to board a domestic flight starting next week. Remember that
Speaker 1: starts on May seventh. Officials say more than forty thousand
Speaker 1: passengers fly out of the San Diego Airport each day,
Speaker 1: and with the beginning of real ID enforcement, they are
Speaker 1: anticipating delays. So can you imagine what it's going to
Speaker 1: be like at lax I think we have a few
Speaker 1: more than forty thousand. The LAPD will be out in
Speaker 1: full force this weekend ahead of Sinco Demayo on Monday.
Speaker 1: Police will have DUI checkpoints and saturation patrols from tonight
Speaker 1: through Monday. Officers are looking for drunk and drugged and
Speaker 1: distracted drivers. A first time DUI could cost more than
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand dollars and a suspended license. The FBI is
Speaker 1: looking for four men they say stole more than two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars in EBT funds from three hundred victims
Speaker 1: around southern California. The FBI says they did it by
Speaker 1: installing skimming devices on gas station pumps, ATMs and point
Speaker 1: of sale terminals. Visas rolled out a new artificial intelligent
Speaker 1: agent that can find and buy clothes, groceries, airplane tickets,
Speaker 1: and other items on your behalf. All it needs is
Speaker 1: your credit card information. Visa says, once fully up and running,
Speaker 1: you can set a budget and preferences and the AI
Speaker 1: assistant will just make those purchases for you.
Speaker 5: We're just a few.
Speaker 1: Minutes away from handle on the news this morning. You
Speaker 1: were going to want to stick around for that starts
Speaker 1: just after six o'clock. But right now, let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to kasa's doctor Charity Chandler Cole.
Speaker 5: Good morning, doctor Chandler Cole, Good.
Speaker 3: Morning Amy, thank you for having me on this morning.
Speaker 5: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: We wanted to talk to you about this because this
Speaker 1: one caught my eye because my parents have been COSA
Speaker 1: donors for years, and when my dad passed away, our
Speaker 1: family requested in lieu of flowers that dad's friends donate
Speaker 1: to CASA, and that's when I kind of really found
Speaker 1: out what it was.
Speaker 5: It means.
Speaker 1: Court A pointed, special advocates and what they do is
Speaker 1: so important for children. So let's start with the big
Speaker 1: party Friday night that you're holding to raise money for
Speaker 1: this organization cancer.
Speaker 3: Forgive me, I'm a little under the weather, so if
Speaker 3: I sound a little weird, that's why. But we are
Speaker 3: having our thirteenth Reimagine Gala this Friday at the Billboard
Speaker 3: Hotel to raise much needed funding to support the children
Speaker 3: in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. It's our
Speaker 3: largest fundraiser that we count on independent on every year
Speaker 3: to continue our advocacy efforts here in Los Angeles County, Okay.
Speaker 5: And are their tickets still available?
Speaker 3: There are tickets still available, so you can go to
Speaker 3: KASA la dot org. You know, we are tightening the ship.
Speaker 3: It's our event is tomorrow, but we still have seats available,
Speaker 3: so folks want to join us. It's a night to
Speaker 3: remember with entertainment, fun or derves, drinks, great networking opportunities,
Speaker 3: and it's when the who in the advocacy space and
Speaker 3: the social justice space comes out to have a good
Speaker 3: time and support of our community. So we definitely would
Speaker 3: love to see more people there and we do not
Speaker 3: offer tickets at the door, but if you purchase your
Speaker 3: tickets today, we can make sure you have a seat.
Speaker 3: It's a glamorous night, dress up formal attire and have
Speaker 3: a good time in support of children.
Speaker 1: Okay, So now, doctor Chandler Cole, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about KASA. Dig into that a little bit and why
Speaker 1: the money are raising at the gallop on Friday night
Speaker 1: and through the year is so so important. Tell us
Speaker 1: about the Court appointed Special Advocates and what they specifically
Speaker 1: do for children and what children they serve.
Speaker 3: Absolutely so, KASA court Appointed Special Advocates. We essentially organize
Speaker 3: the community to show up in life and in court
Speaker 3: for children impacted by the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
Speaker 3: KASA stands through side hundreds of children in the foster
Speaker 3: care and juvenile justice systems who have already faced unimaginable hardships,
Speaker 3: have been separated from their families and their communities, and
Speaker 3: our advocates are often the only consistent adult support in
Speaker 3: their lives. In addition, we fill an overwhelming gap and
Speaker 3: relieve a huge burden on our court partner such as DCSs,
Speaker 3: our children's attorneys. Our system is just over innundated with children,
Speaker 3: most of which don't need to be in the system,
Speaker 3: have many complex needs, and we come in and really
Speaker 3: show up to support them and make sure that they're
Speaker 3: not just in a system, not being supported, not being heard,
Speaker 3: not having good voice, but that they're supported while in
Speaker 3: the system, and that when they leave, they don't fall,
Speaker 3: you know, to the dire outcomes that await them of
Speaker 3: being incarcerated, experiencing poverty, homelessness, and helplessness. We really show
Speaker 3: up for youth, and we serve children from zero all
Speaker 3: the way up to twenty one years old to make
Speaker 3: sure that they were not their voice, for weir a
Speaker 3: vehicle for their voice. I personally experienced the foster care system,
Speaker 3: and I remember firsthand how no one saw me. No
Speaker 3: one asked me what I needed or you know, how
Speaker 3: I was feeling, or what type of support I needed.
Speaker 3: All the adults in my life had all the answers
Speaker 3: for what should happen to me, and as a result,
Speaker 3: I experienced the extraordinary consequences of just being a number
Speaker 3: in the system or a name on a piece of paper.
Speaker 3: So we show up, and we show out by providing
Speaker 3: one on one, specialized tailor support to our young people
Speaker 3: so they feel seen, they feel hurt, they feel valued,
Speaker 3: and most importantly, they leave the system as successful agents
Speaker 3: of society.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 1: And you know you mentioned that they go to court,
Speaker 1: and I mean, can you can you imagine having to
Speaker 1: do that as a child. I mean I can't even
Speaker 1: I went in to do a traffic ticket and I
Speaker 1: was completely overwhelmed by the court system. And that's not
Speaker 1: even That is not anything dealing with some of the
Speaker 1: really horrific situations that some of these kids are facing.
Speaker 3: Exactly, and they don't know what's going on. They don't
Speaker 3: know the lingo or you know, how to articulate what
Speaker 3: they feel, what they want, and what they need. And
Speaker 3: I can imagine it because I've been there, and we're
Speaker 3: literally told not to say anything, and we have to
Speaker 3: rely one hundred percent on the attorney assigned to us
Speaker 3: or the person that's supposed to speak up for us folks.
Speaker 3: So we've never probably met before that moment. And there's
Speaker 3: hard working people in the system, from social workers to attorneys,
Speaker 3: even the judges, but our system is so overwhelmed with
Speaker 3: young people that there is not enough time or effort
Speaker 3: to really put into doing a full comprehensive understanding of
Speaker 3: what that child's life was like and what they need.
Speaker 3: We're always focused on the moment. So that's where Kasta
Speaker 3: comes in. We get to go in really dig into
Speaker 3: their history, understand the complexities of why they're there, and
Speaker 3: write trauma inform and culturally responsive court reports that our
Speaker 3: judges rely on to make very serious decisions about their
Speaker 3: child's life.
Speaker 11: Right.
Speaker 1: So the cause of volunteers are not lawyers. They're literally
Speaker 1: they are advocates for the children to go and make
Speaker 1: sure that they've got the kids backs exactly.
Speaker 3: They're average people like you, like me. They could be teachers,
Speaker 3: they could be gardeners, they could be anyone in the world.
Speaker 3: And we train folks. We train folks that have zero
Speaker 3: experience on the system about who our kids are, how
Speaker 3: to show up and advocate for them see the zero experience.
Speaker 3: But you do need to have a heart, you do
Speaker 3: need to be willing to show up could advocate for
Speaker 3: our youth. And we are actively recruiting Costs of volunteers.
Speaker 3: So you're interested in being a volunteer, please go to
Speaker 3: our website at costla dot org and we would love
Speaker 3: to sign you up.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, we always need an adult in the room to
Speaker 1: help kids who you know, don't have somebody. It's such
Speaker 1: important work, and I can see you know why my
Speaker 1: parents got so into it, Doctor Charity Chandler Cole, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for your information and we're so happy
Speaker 1: to hear your success story too that you know, that's
Speaker 1: like talking to somebody who's been through it and has
Speaker 1: come out the other side. Always is so important. Tickets
Speaker 1: to the gala are still available, and again, what are
Speaker 1: the website address for tickets to the gala? And also
Speaker 1: if you want information on becoming a volunteer.
Speaker 3: Yes, thank you so much, Amy, it's a CASS c A.
Speaker 1: S A l A dot org. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: doctor Charity Chandler Cole, goodlue with the gala.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and thank you to your parents for being supporters.
Speaker 5: All right, take care.
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