Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2: KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3: It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4: Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1: Well, good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday.
Speaker 5: February fifth.
Speaker 1: So it's February fifth, and there's just twenty eight days,
Speaker 1: so we're like a fifth of the way through February already. Dang,
Speaker 1: it's going to be Christmas again before we know it.
Speaker 1: Nice light rain falling as we came in this morning.
Speaker 1: We'll just mention that, you know, Angelino's go crazy in
Speaker 1: the rain because we're not used to it. But the
Speaker 1: nice part is it's just it's.
Speaker 5: A light rain.
Speaker 4: It's general, it's nice.
Speaker 1: It's very peace at least right now, because we came
Speaker 1: in when there wasn't a lot of traffic. I would
Speaker 1: imagine that'll change through the morning. But may you have
Speaker 1: a nice, peaceful Wednesday. We got a lot going on,
Speaker 1: so let's get right to it. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: wake up call. As they just mentioned, it is raining
Speaker 1: lightly and it's going to be slow and steady, at
Speaker 1: least according to forecasters. They say expect the rain from
Speaker 1: the storm rolling through southern California to just peek at
Speaker 1: a quarter inch per hour, and forecasters say the chance
Speaker 1: of significant mud and debris flows in the Palisades and
Speaker 1: Eaten Fire burn areas is just five percent or less,
Speaker 1: so that's good news. The US Army Corps of Engineers
Speaker 1: has launched Phase two of its wildfire debris removal effort,
Speaker 1: beginning with two schools destroyed in the Eaten fire. Phase
Speaker 1: two involves clearing fire damaged properties of hazardous ash and debris.
Speaker 1: The EPA is still conducting Phase one of the process.
Speaker 1: That's when they remove household hazard materials from damaged homes, businesses,
Speaker 1: and other buildings. President Trump says he will recommend the
Speaker 1: US take over the Gaza Strip. If he gets his way,
Speaker 1: the US would control the strip and would be responsible
Speaker 1: for dismantling all of the unexploded bombs and other weapons there.
Speaker 1: He said, destroyed buildings would be cleared out and rebuilt
Speaker 1: into what he calls the riviera of the Middle East.
Speaker 5: We're going to find out.
Speaker 1: How that idea is being received around the world with
Speaker 1: ABC's Jordana Miller.
Speaker 5: That's coming up in about three minutes.
Speaker 1: Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Reports of ice
Speaker 1: raids in San Bernardino County been causing some concern.
Speaker 2: The Sheriff's department took to social media to clear things up,
Speaker 2: stating that illegal immigration round ups by its deputies is
Speaker 2: not true and false. The sanm Berdandino County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 2: is also reminding people that it's their First Amendment right
Speaker 2: to assemble and exercise their freedom of speech peacefully during
Speaker 2: illegal immigration protests. However, individuals who are participating in these
Speaker 2: protests are not allowed to break the law. No arrests
Speaker 2: of protesters have been made by the deputies during demonstrations.
Speaker 2: Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: For Members of the La City Council have introduced a
Speaker 1: series of proposals to offer more protections to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez says the policies are needed to
Speaker 1: fight back against President Trump and his deportation plans.
Speaker 6: We are here today because unfortunately we have a president
Speaker 6: who wants to scapegoat and attack our immigrant neighbors, and
Speaker 6: we are not going to take that likely.
Speaker 1: The plans include a citywide marketing campaign about immigrant rights,
Speaker 1: space at LAX where organizations can offer support to immigrants,
Speaker 1: and city funding for legal services. A section of Pacific
Speaker 1: Coast Highway that was just reopened after the recent fires
Speaker 1: is closed as a precaution because of the possibility of
Speaker 1: mudslides from the two storm systems moving through southern California.
Speaker 1: The road's been closed from Carbon Beach Terrace in Malibu
Speaker 1: south to Chautauqua Boulevard in La Palisades. Residents can still
Speaker 1: access their homes with appropriate pasth While the first of
Speaker 1: two storm systems makes its presence felt in southern California,
Speaker 1: parts of northern California getting slammed by a so called
Speaker 1: atmospheric river in Marin County. A local police chief says
Speaker 1: the storms could cause some really bad flooding.
Speaker 7: We do want our community members to really be vigilant
Speaker 7: of their surrounding areas, their property, and to make sure
Speaker 7: that they're taking care of their neighbors as well.
Speaker 1: A second storm is expected to bring some much needed
Speaker 1: rain to southern California starting tomorrow. Some Dallas Mavericks season
Speaker 1: ticket holders claim they're being offered refunds following the trade
Speaker 1: of Luka Doncic to the Ragers the Lakers. A lot
Speaker 1: of fans say they are devastated by the team's decision
Speaker 1: to send Doncic to La. Ticket representatives for the Mavericks
Speaker 1: have been fielding a lot of calls since the trade
Speaker 1: was announced. The MAVs are neither confirming nor denying the refunds.
Speaker 1: The team says representatives are available to take calls from
Speaker 1: members with any concerns or questions.
Speaker 5: It's five six.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 5: So, Jordana, a couple of bombshells.
Speaker 8: Yesterday, Absolutely, where do we start? I know that vers
Speaker 8: all that the President Trump saying the US is gonna
Speaker 8: take over the Gaza Strip takes you know, long term ownership,
Speaker 8: redeveloped the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 9: That was one bombshell. The second bombshell was that, you know,
Speaker 9: the Trump suggested all the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
Speaker 9: will be resettled, Right, that's almost a million Palestinians, you know,
Speaker 9: move them out to other neighborhoods, you know, may have
Speaker 9: they'll have a chance of good life and you know,
Speaker 9: to a heart for them while dozes being redeveloped for
Speaker 9: them to be in the Gaza Strip, right, so the
Speaker 9: United States will come in. Maybe the third bombshell was,
Speaker 9: We're going to turn the Gaza Strip into the Riviera
Speaker 9: of the Middle East. The beautiful land, beautiful coast. I mean,
Speaker 9: all of those really rattling the Middle East from the
Speaker 9: Palestinians have always part of their future state. They're hoped
Speaker 9: for city and state. It is part of two state solution.
Speaker 9: But the United States take that land now, not even
Speaker 9: in any connection. Skal is really outrageous. So in his.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty piece, Geordana, right, yeah, yeah, you're I'm so
Speaker 1: interested in what you have to say, but your your
Speaker 1: signals breaking up a little bit.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you're on a cellar a hard line.
Speaker 10: I can't hear.
Speaker 5: Now we can sort of hear.
Speaker 1: You will muddle through it because I think what you're
Speaker 1: saying is super important.
Speaker 9: Right, So basically, you know, suddenly even though the President's
Speaker 9: own twenty twenty people plan for the region, all suddenly
Speaker 9: it's up for grabs, and the Palestinians don't want to
Speaker 9: leave the Gaza Strip. They consider it their home, it's
Speaker 9: not for sale, and is going to take in Palthinians
Speaker 9: and suddenly be part of the displacement of Palestinians from
Speaker 9: the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's interesting that he's saying, oh, well,
Speaker 1: everybody should just go live somewhere else, like go to
Speaker 1: Egypt or Jordan, and like you said that, they don't
Speaker 1: want to go there. They don't consider that they're home.
Speaker 1: And during this whole conflict, Egypt and Jordan had said no,
Speaker 1: Palestinians can't come here in the first place. I don't
Speaker 1: know how that might change.
Speaker 9: I don't think it will change. They've said that they're
Speaker 9: not going to take part in displacing the Palestinians, right,
Speaker 9: I mean for the president to suggest, in a conflict
Speaker 9: that is really based in a dispute over land, that
Speaker 9: one side should just leave part of the land, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, because somehow they'll have better opportunities abroad. Since
Speaker 9: since the gods the strip has been leveled, is you know,
Speaker 9: counterintuitive and absurd and shows either an ignorance or willful
Speaker 9: ignorance of you know, the games, the rules of the
Speaker 9: game here. If you will, no one's gonna just go,
Speaker 9: you know, and trot off to a neighborhood in Egypt
Speaker 9: or Jordan, you know, or Turkey that the United States
Speaker 9: pays to develop. But you know, I'm still trying to
Speaker 9: figure out what President Trump in visions, you know, where
Speaker 9: they're going to go. And then once the gods the
Speaker 9: strip has developed, you know why they can't come back.
Speaker 9: It was even he was asked and he couldn't even
Speaker 9: he made it appear that this would be a permanent resettlement, right, Yeah,
Speaker 9: So that's that's also troubling. The whole, the whole, the
Speaker 9: whole proposal is troubling. I mean, it has legal and
Speaker 9: moral questions as well. I think obviously the far right
Speaker 9: here in Israel are gleeful, you know, calling this miracle
Speaker 9: and mona from heaven, because the far right has had
Speaker 9: a apocalyptic and extreme solution for the Palestinians and that
Speaker 9: is just get you know, push them out of the
Speaker 9: area so that Israel can claim sovereignty over these areas,
Speaker 9: whether it's God or.
Speaker 5: The West Bank.
Speaker 9: Right, So it's ideas so shocking, right, the whole idea
Speaker 9: is so shocking.
Speaker 10: M h.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying that right now.
Speaker 1: It seems like net and Yahoo and and like you said,
Speaker 1: the far right and President Trump are kind of the
Speaker 1: only ones who think this is a great.
Speaker 9: Idea, right And I think that, you know, I don't
Speaker 9: think it takes a lot more than these two leaders,
Speaker 9: however powerful they are, to implement this kind of a plan.
Speaker 9: And it gets very murky on how you make this reality.
Speaker 9: Is the President going to send US troops to the
Speaker 9: Gaza Strip to forcefully expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip?
Speaker 9: Will Egypt and Jordan and other partners in the area
Speaker 9: that have peace treaties and normalization deals with Israel stand
Speaker 9: by and watch that and be a silent or complicit partner.
Speaker 9: I don't think so. You know, this is a pie
Speaker 9: in the sky kind of plan, and I don't think
Speaker 9: it can be actualized. You know, we might if we're
Speaker 9: if we're thinking, you know, again, out of the box,
Speaker 9: we might see that this is part of President Trump's
Speaker 9: negotiating strategy. Maybe he's trying to use this to corner
Speaker 9: us so they come up liquish control. So another maybe
Speaker 9: saying hey, I'm going to send US troops there in
Speaker 9: there and then you'll lose the entire Gaza Strip. Is
Speaker 9: that what you want for the Palestinians and your your cause,
Speaker 9: because that's the option get out or will take the
Speaker 9: gods of trip that maybe that could be it. I'm
Speaker 9: saying that, Yeah, I mean, I'm not saying that from
Speaker 9: any reportable sources, just to be clear. I'm just trying
Speaker 9: to understand where this plan is coming from, and that
Speaker 9: could be something that we need to look at.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think you're right.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are trying to figure
Speaker 1: out exactly what the endgame is here, like what is
Speaker 1: he up to? So we'll be watching it. ABC's jordonnah
Speaker 1: Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll have a better connection tomorrow because we love
Speaker 1: talking to you.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: All right, yeah, talks.
Speaker 1: Take care, But let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 1: A Hollywood producer has been convicted of first degree murder
Speaker 1: in la for the drug overdose deaths of a model
Speaker 1: and her friend. He was also found guilty of sexually
Speaker 1: assaulting seven other women. The jury deliberated for about two
Speaker 1: and a half days before finding David Pierce guilty yesterday.
Speaker 1: The women who died were taken to separate hospitals about
Speaker 1: two hours apart. In twenty twenty one one, Pierce is
Speaker 1: looking at a maximum one hundred and forty eight years
Speaker 1: to life in state prison when he's sentenced next month.
Speaker 1: A fifty seven year old man who grew up a
Speaker 1: twelve year old girl near a bus stop in Pasadena
Speaker 1: in November, It's been sentenced to three years in state prison.
Speaker 1: Ferris to Let of Palmdale was also ordered to register
Speaker 1: as a sex offender after he pleted no contest to
Speaker 1: charges of lewd and lascivious.
Speaker 5: Acts on a child.
Speaker 1: Officials in DC say the bodies of all sixty seven
Speaker 1: people killed in a midair collision between a commuter plane
Speaker 1: and an army helicopter have now been recovered from the
Speaker 1: Potomac River. As of yesterday, all but one had been identified.
Speaker 1: ABC's Sam Sweeney says it's been a hard job for
Speaker 1: crews on the scene.
Speaker 2: They are seeing the human element and they've had the
Speaker 2: work with that now for almost a week.
Speaker 11: It has been really difficult for them and the fire chiefs,
Speaker 11: saying that they will get counseling for the rest of
Speaker 11: their lives.
Speaker 5: He says closing the painful recovery process will now allow
Speaker 5: for faster removal of the wreckage. Most of the plane
Speaker 5: has been recovered. Pam Bondi has been confirmed by the
Speaker 5: Senate as the next Attorney General. Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John
Speaker 5: Fetterman was the only Democrat to vote in favor of renomination.
Speaker 5: Bondi was the attorney general in Florida and also a
Speaker 5: former Trump attorney. President Trump says he wants a relationship
Speaker 5: with Iran, but he says he can't let the Iranian
Speaker 5: government get a nuclear weapon. And he says if there
Speaker 5: was ever an Iranian attempt to assassinate him, there would
Speaker 5: be a powerful response from the US.
Speaker 9: That would be called total obliteration. And I can't imagine
Speaker 9: they do that.
Speaker 1: Trump says he's given his adviser's instructions to obliterate Iran
Speaker 1: if it assassinates him. The NFL's removing the end racism
Speaker 1: message that would have been in one of the end
Speaker 1: zones during the Super Bowl on Sunday. Instead, the NFL
Speaker 1: is replacing the message with the phrase choose Love. This
Speaker 1: Sunday will be the first Super Bowl since twenty twenty
Speaker 1: without one of the end zones, saying and racism. An
Speaker 1: eleven year old boy who fell through the ice on
Speaker 1: a frozen pond is alive thanks to a New Jersey
Speaker 1: police officer who jumped in to save him.
Speaker 7: He was yelling that he couldn't feel his feet or arms.
Speaker 7: You know, I just told him that I was on
Speaker 7: my way to get him and that everything was going
Speaker 7: to be all right.
Speaker 1: West Long Branch officer Dave Brazonski used his knees to
Speaker 1: break up the ice to get to the boy who'd
Speaker 1: fallen into about four feet of water.
Speaker 7: Doesn't matter how old you are, how young you are,
Speaker 7: It doesn't matter the level of experience you are was swimming.
Speaker 7: When you're in ice, cold water, you have minutes before
Speaker 7: his hotothermy starts setting in.
Speaker 1: The boy was taken to the hospital and is expected
Speaker 1: to be okay. Hundreds of high school students have walked
Speaker 1: out of class and marched through downtown LA to protest
Speaker 1: President Trump's cracked down on illegal immigration. Students converged on
Speaker 1: the main street overpass of the one oh one before
Speaker 1: continuing to march through downtown and onto City Hall yesterday.
Speaker 1: Children's Hospital of LA has put a pause on initiating
Speaker 1: hormone therapy for patients under nineteen. It follows President Trump's
Speaker 1: executive order that bans puberty blockers, hormones, and and other
Speaker 1: medical procedures for transgender kids. People under nineteen already receiving
Speaker 1: the so called gender affirming care will continue to get it.
Speaker 1: The first US flight carrying illegal migrants has arrived at
Speaker 1: Guantanamo Bay. A US official says the C seventeen took
Speaker 1: off from El Pasa, El Paso, Texas and arrived last
Speaker 1: night at the naval station in Cuba. The Department of
Speaker 1: Homeland Security says ten people on the flight are suspected
Speaker 1: members of a Venezuelan street gang.
Speaker 5: At six oh.
Speaker 1: Five's handle on the news. Everyone at the CIA has
Speaker 1: been made an offer. Go ahead and quit. Bill's gonna
Speaker 1: have something to say about that. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to the host of Rich on Tech ktalized text reporter.
Speaker 1: It's Rich Demura. Hey, Rich, I hear, congratulations are in order?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 10: Yes, my weekend show that started on KFI is expanding
Speaker 10: to New York City this weekend. We'll be on wo
Speaker 10: R in New York City now in addition to KFI.
Speaker 5: As long as you're not leaving KFI.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with this, but you know what, not leaving
Speaker 1: I think I know what put it over the top.
Speaker 5: Not only that you are extremely.
Speaker 1: Talented and knowledgeable about tech things, but also I remember
Speaker 1: you went to New York not too long ago and
Speaker 1: you told us about how you bought a digital billboard
Speaker 1: for yourself.
Speaker 5: So you were like on Times Square and I think
Speaker 5: they said, hey, who's that tech guy? We need them here.
Speaker 10: I think so they finally noticed me because of that.
Speaker 10: That was a cool thing. I might have to, you
Speaker 10: know what, maybe I'll get another billboard just to commemorate
Speaker 10: the new show.
Speaker 4: But I'm excited.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm from New Jersey, so it's kind of fun,
Speaker 10: you know, for my parents to be able to listen
Speaker 10: to me, and of course, you know, to bring the
Speaker 10: tech news that LA has enjoyed for so long, that
Speaker 10: helpful information to the folks of New York City.
Speaker 4: I think it's going to make it a better city.
Speaker 5: I love it. And speaking of apples, let's get to it.
Speaker 1: Apple launched a new app that's supposed to arrival evite.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well it's certainly much more modern than Evite.
Speaker 4: So it's called Apple Invites.
Speaker 10: And this is for iPhone. You make little invitations for
Speaker 10: parties through the app. They're very simple.
Speaker 4: I made one this.
Speaker 10: Morning, a mock super Bowl party invitation, and you know,
Speaker 10: the interesting thing is that it's very apply. So it's
Speaker 10: very simple, it's very clear, very easy to do. It
Speaker 10: puts your address in there, automatically puts the weather for
Speaker 10: the event. You can share photos and videos with a
Speaker 10: shared album, so that's interesting. And then you can use AI.
Speaker 10: So you know, Apple has built AI Image generation into
Speaker 10: their latest phone, so now you can use that. So
Speaker 10: I generated an image of a super Bowl party and
Speaker 10: it was pretty good. The main thing to know here
Speaker 10: is that this, of course is iPhone only, but anyone
Speaker 10: can respond to an invite even if they have Android.
Speaker 4: And you do need an.
Speaker 10: iCloud Plus subscription, which you know, that's basically if you're
Speaker 10: paying for iCloud.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I'm gonna try it out, but
Speaker 1: I don't pay for that subscription, so oh well.
Speaker 4: Well there there. I'll send you my rs VP.
Speaker 1: You could just check it out, Okay, but it is
Speaker 1: a mock invitation, so I promise I won't show up
Speaker 1: at your house.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't show I put the wrong time.
Speaker 1: Okay, and speaking of Super Bowl, Uh, we all want
Speaker 1: to feel like we're there, and you kind of can
Speaker 1: if you watch it in four K, but it costs usually,
Speaker 1: but now we can see it for free.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 10: This is as far as I know, this is the
Speaker 10: first time they've broadcast the Super Bowl in four K
Speaker 10: uh streaming for free. So this is through two B
Speaker 10: t Ubi. This is Fox's free streaming app. It's got
Speaker 10: all kinds of like old and free TV shows on there. Oh,
Speaker 10: I guess new TV shows and movies and stuff. But
Speaker 10: they're going to be showing it in four K. But
Speaker 10: the trick is you have to have two things. You
Speaker 10: have to have a TV that's four K, and you
Speaker 10: also have to have a streaming device that is four K.
Speaker 10: So that's pretty much any Android TV by Sony, tc
Speaker 10: L High Sense brands like that. Then you have to
Speaker 10: have a Roku four K streaming stick or a box
Speaker 10: an Amazon Fire TV four K, you know, like one
Speaker 10: of those like sticks that they have has to be
Speaker 10: four K, Apple.
Speaker 4: TV four K. So those are the main requirements.
Speaker 10: You download the app, it'll tell you, hey, you can
Speaker 10: get this in four K boom. You do have to
Speaker 10: put in your email address. So my advice is to
Speaker 10: do this Amy before Super Bowl Sunday. Don't wait until
Speaker 10: folks come to your house right to try to download this.
Speaker 4: Like I already did this and you know, get the
Speaker 4: two b app up.
Speaker 10: And running, make sure it works, put in your email address,
Speaker 10: and you can.
Speaker 4: Watch the Super Bowl for free. I do have one
Speaker 4: person ask me, Amy, are.
Speaker 10: There are the commercials going to be the same on
Speaker 10: streaming because they tune in for the commercial and I
Speaker 10: think at least the big ones will be. But you know,
Speaker 10: there may be some local spots that are filled with
Speaker 10: something else.
Speaker 4: But you'll you'll be able to watch the big commercials
Speaker 4: through this.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, No, good to know. And then your segment
Speaker 1: today very timely because of the wildfires. So if people
Speaker 1: fuller checking out your segment on KTLA this morning, what
Speaker 1: are they going to see yet?
Speaker 10: Two interesting new ideas for fighting fires.
Speaker 4: Hybertech. This is a company out of Orange County.
Speaker 10: They are working on get this Amy, retractable homes. They
Speaker 10: literally lower into the ground and have like a cover
Speaker 10: that goes over the top like a pool cover.
Speaker 5: Oh that's going to be nice and affordable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, So we'll see what you know.
Speaker 10: These are in development. They've been developing for five years.
Speaker 10: They're trying to make a prototype, okay. And then the
Speaker 10: second one is out of Israel, inspired by Israel's Iron Dome,
Speaker 10: which like blocks missiles. This is a system that detects
Speaker 10: fire and then launches like almost like a missile, like
Speaker 10: fire retardant or water at the flames up to a
Speaker 10: quarter mile away. That's called fire Dome. And again they're
Speaker 10: trying to build a prototype here in California in the.
Speaker 4: Next two years.
Speaker 5: That one sounds more doable.
Speaker 10: I'm all about the house. I just want it for
Speaker 10: an evil layer, you know. I don't forget the fires situation.
Speaker 10: I just want, like you know, I want to Okay, Sorry, guys,
Speaker 10: I'm seeing it or I'm retracting into the ground. Bye,
Speaker 10: all right, that don't one bother me.
Speaker 5: That'll be fun, okay.
Speaker 1: Kfi's tech reporter and actually KTLA's tech reporter and the
Speaker 1: host of Rich on Tech. On KFI, you can listen
Speaker 1: to him every Saturday from eleven to two right here
Speaker 1: in LA and also in New York, So if you're
Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app, you can listen to him in
Speaker 1: New York starting on the weekend. And also you can
Speaker 1: follow him where can we follow you.
Speaker 10: Rich at rich on tech on Instagram is the best place,
Speaker 10: all right?
Speaker 1: Perfect, Rich Demiro, thank you so much and congrats on
Speaker 1: the New York dig gig.
Speaker 4: Thanks, Amy, really appreciate it. Have a great day, all right.
Speaker 1: The Army Corps of Engineers has officially begun it's Phase
Speaker 1: two wildfire debris removal at two schools in Pasadena destroyed
Speaker 1: in the Eton Fire. Phase two involves clearing fire damaged
Speaker 1: properties of hazardous ash and debris. Officials say the Phase
Speaker 1: two operations will expand in the coming weeks to include
Speaker 1: holmes destroyed by the Eton and Palisades fires. The maximum
Speaker 1: penalty for price gouging in La County could increase to
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars per violation if the Board of Supervisors
Speaker 1: approves the idea next week. Supervisor Lindsay Horvath says there
Speaker 1: have been several instances of gouging since the wildfires.
Speaker 9: One report by a coalition called the Rent Brigade found
Speaker 9: thousands of potential violations throughout La County, not just an
Speaker 9: areas adjacent to the fires.
Speaker 5: In the first eleven days.
Speaker 1: Alone, Supervisors have also voted to request state and federal
Speaker 1: assistance with the removal of ash, sediment and debris from
Speaker 1: the beaches, and to support state legislation that would freeze
Speaker 1: rents for fire victims. And speaking of state legislation, Republican
Speaker 1: state lawmakers have announced eight bills related to wildfire recovery
Speaker 1: and fire prevention.
Speaker 2: The bills have all rolled out recently, with a focus
Speaker 2: on speeding up underground utilities without lengthy environmental reviews, incentivizing
Speaker 2: fire prevention by residents at their homes, and increasing water storage.
Speaker 2: Senator Kelly Said Artill from the IE says he hopes
Speaker 2: the recent wildfires in La County lead a lasting change
Speaker 2: because others in the past haven't as much as they should.
Speaker 10: It seems like we start with some legislation and then
Speaker 10: we kind of run out of we run out of.
Speaker 2: Momentum, so ARCTO says, some of the wildfire related bills
Speaker 2: from both sides of the political aisle have bipartisan support.
Speaker 2: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The theme has been announced for the twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: Rose Parade. Gosh, it seems like the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: Rose Parade just stepped off it's called the magic in teamwork.
Speaker 1: The new tournament president says it was chosen months ago
Speaker 1: and was supposed to be announced a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: but was delayed because of the fires in La California.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom headed to Washington, d C. He's hoping to
Speaker 1: meet with President Trump and also is planning to meet
Speaker 1: with members of Congress. He'll be talking with lawmakers about
Speaker 1: federal disaster aid in response to the wildfires. The governor's
Speaker 1: office is the trip will give Newsom a chance to
Speaker 1: discuss the details of the state's request for aid and
Speaker 1: water policy with the FED. President Trump's idea to have
Speaker 1: the US take over the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians
Speaker 1: who've lived there somewhere else is being rejected by Egypt, Jordan,
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia and others. Turkey's foreign minister says even thinking
Speaker 1: about it is, in his words, wrong and absurd. A
Speaker 1: number of all I say they support a two state solution.
Speaker 1: Researchers say there's been an alarming rise in the number
Speaker 1: of advanced prostate cancer diagnoses across California. The Journal of
Speaker 1: the American Medical Association says the study shows from twenty
Speaker 1: eleven to twenty twenty one, prostate cancer cases increased nearly
Speaker 1: seven percent each year. At six oh five Handle on
Speaker 1: the news, the use of hormone blockers is being blocked
Speaker 1: at children's hospital.
Speaker 5: La amis on it.
Speaker 9: Aami's on it, Aami's on.
Speaker 12: It, Dami's on it.
Speaker 5: What am I on?
Speaker 1: I'm on streaming shows, movies, TV shows, document I just
Speaker 1: found about a new documentary that I got to start.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to tell you what it is yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a brand new documentary, but
Speaker 1: I hadn't heard about it before, so new to me.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be new to you too. This week, I
Speaker 1: am on a on a nominated movie. We have award
Speaker 1: season coming up, and in fact it's already won a
Speaker 1: Golden Globe Award. It's called A Real Pain. You can
Speaker 1: see it on Hulu. It is streaming. A lot of
Speaker 1: the movies that are nominated haven't been released on streaming
Speaker 1: for free yet, like you have to pay for them.
Speaker 1: This one is included on Hulu, which is one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I watched it because I didn't have to
Speaker 1: pay for it. It's Kieran Colkin as Benji Kaplan and
Speaker 1: Jesse Eisenberg as his cousin David. And the premise of
Speaker 1: the story is that they go on this pilgrimage to
Speaker 1: Poland if they want to honor their grandmother who's recently died,
Speaker 1: and then they end up they go on a Holocaust tour,
Speaker 1: so they decide to fly across the world together. They
Speaker 1: don't seem to really know much about each other that
Speaker 1: they are, except that they are very different and they
Speaker 1: drive each other a little bit crazy. Well, mainly Kieran
Speaker 1: playing Benji drives Jesse crazy because Kieren Kieren's just sort
Speaker 1: of a freak.
Speaker 5: In this movie.
Speaker 1: In fact, he's very neurotic, sort of an interesting character,
Speaker 1: but it reminds me too much of his role in Succession,
Speaker 1: Like it's almost the same character, you know how some actors,
Speaker 1: And again he's a really good actor. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to dismiss that at all, but some actors they stay
Speaker 1: the same person Like Meryl Streep is fabulous, but she's
Speaker 1: kind of the same you know a lot of her movies.
Speaker 1: She just has those characteristics that are so familiar and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it felt a little bit like that, and even
Speaker 1: the character felt a little bit like that, because like
Speaker 1: in Succession, you know how at least I felt this way,
Speaker 1: I kind of I didn't like any of the characters,
Speaker 1: and I tried to, but they just were so icky
Speaker 1: that it was hard to like root for them. This
Speaker 1: one it's the same where people like him, but he's
Speaker 1: he's he's a little he's an odd ball a little bit,
Speaker 1: and he's not that likable. So that I have a
Speaker 1: little problem with because they keep saying, oh, everybody loves you,
Speaker 1: everybody loves you, but you see him a lot where
Speaker 1: there's nothing lovable about him. So it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a disconnect there. It is a little bit slow going,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's not action packed, but it's an
Speaker 1: interesting There's there's no real revelation in the movie. I mean,
Speaker 1: they have some little things, but it's just sort of
Speaker 1: this quiet journey. So like so many movies that come
Speaker 1: out of Hollywood, I don't feel like the characters really
Speaker 1: learn anything, and I don't feel like there was any redemption.
Speaker 1: But the movie does come to sort of a logical conclusion.
Speaker 1: It's a good watch. It's not a great one, but
Speaker 1: if you have Hulu, I'd say go ahead and watch it.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't put it on the top of my list,
Speaker 1: so it's a real pain. It's on Hulu. I'm on it,
Speaker 1: but I'm not that excited about it. So okay, hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll get a better one for next week to share
Speaker 1: with you again.
Speaker 5: If you have some time, go ahead right.
Speaker 1: Now, let's say good morning to Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, heard
Speaker 1: on stations all over the US and now heard every
Speaker 1: morning at five point forty right here on wake up Call.
Speaker 5: Good morning Courtney, Good morning. Okay.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to cover this morning, so so
Speaker 1: much from busy Okay, I want to start with something
Speaker 1: that I love, happy news, and that is that Disney
Speaker 1: had a good quarter thanks to Muwanatu.
Speaker 12: Yes, the box office smash, giving Disney investors a reason
Speaker 12: to celebrate this morning.
Speaker 11: We'll play a little.
Speaker 5: Music to pump us up.
Speaker 10: Finally, we're womens.
Speaker 12: That's what Disney is pretty much saying. Well, the entertainment
Speaker 12: giant reporting quarterly earnings the top expectations due to the
Speaker 12: movie and improving performance from its streaming business. Recently, Disney
Speaker 12: raised the price of its Disney Plus and Hulu streaming
Speaker 12: services buy as much as twenty five percent and by
Speaker 12: the way, this report is sponsored by Fidelity Wealth Management.
Speaker 12: Have to point that out the good people at Fidelity.
Speaker 1: Okay, so then I'm going to move on to other
Speaker 1: things that make people happy and that. But this might
Speaker 1: not make you happy because you're talking about raising prices.
Speaker 1: Mattel is considering raising prices.
Speaker 12: Yes, so, I guess when Barbie wakes up in her
Speaker 12: own pink world, she also sees the tariff's going to
Speaker 12: affect her too. It looks like Barbie might actually have
Speaker 12: to take out a second mortgage for her dream house.
Speaker 6: Mattel.
Speaker 12: I know this sounds so sad, but Mattel is considering
Speaker 12: raising the price of Barbie Dolls other toys. It's a
Speaker 12: way too off set the cost of potential tariffs. The
Speaker 12: toymaker says it's going to first look at its supply chain,
Speaker 12: then it may move some production before deciding whether to
Speaker 12: pass on these added expenses to consumers.
Speaker 1: Do we know our Barbie's made in the US? Are
Speaker 1: they made in China?
Speaker 12: Oh? Actually, when Mittel looks at it's sourcing, about forty
Speaker 12: percent of its products are from China and ten percent
Speaker 12: are from Mexico, and overall, the company to report earnings too,
Speaker 12: and it did top Wall Street expectations and the big
Speaker 12: driver there and of course there's a pun here hot wheels, gotcha.
Speaker 1: And of course Mattel is based right here in El
Speaker 1: Segundo exactly. Okay, stocks, how are they looking today?
Speaker 12: Well, Google parent company Alphabet, they are tumbling in the
Speaker 12: pre market. They report it also disappointing earnings results on
Speaker 12: the other hand from Mattel, So investors are concerned about
Speaker 12: the billions of dollars the company has been spending on
Speaker 12: artificial intelligence. So this is why we're seeing a weight
Speaker 12: on the overall market. We talk about those futures. DAL
Speaker 12: futures are down seventy five points s and P futures
Speaker 12: falling four tenths of a percent. But yesterday stocks finished
Speaker 12: the day higher after President Trump gave that last minute
Speaker 12: reprieve to Canada and Mexico.
Speaker 1: We love that, Okay, Courtney Donaho with Bloomberg. We appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you again tomorrow morning.
Speaker 5: You see you later.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La
Speaker 1: City Hall may soon extend further protections to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2: The mayor and city council have already declared LA to
Speaker 2: be a sanctuary city. Now some council members have introduced
Speaker 2: more legislation. Councilwoman Unsices Hernandez says it's to fight against
Speaker 2: President Trump's deportation policies.
Speaker 8: Los Angeles is a city of immigrants, and we won't
Speaker 8: stand as the backward administration tries to dismantle the very
Speaker 8: things that make our city great.
Speaker 2: The plans call for city funding for legal services, space
Speaker 2: at LAX for organizations to help immigrants, and a citywide
Speaker 2: marketing campaign about immigrant rights. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: FBI agents have sued the Justice Department over in order
Speaker 1: to turn over a list of agents and employees who
Speaker 1: worked on the cases of people involved in the capital riots.
Speaker 1: ABC's Pierre Thomas says the agents claim they're being targeted
Speaker 1: by their own department.
Speaker 7: Two federal lawsuits are asking the court to stop collection
Speaker 7: and dissemination of information about all these employees, and also
Speaker 7: calls for the Justice Department to pay the legal bills
Speaker 7: for FBI personnel.
Speaker 1: The agents say they believe the order is a totally
Speaker 1: unfair prime. President Trump says he's planning to investigate California's
Speaker 1: controversial high speed rail project.
Speaker 9: The train that's being built between Los Angeles and San
Speaker 9: Francisco is.
Speaker 2: The worst managed project I think I've ever seen, and I've.
Speaker 9: Seen some of the worst.
Speaker 1: Trump also says it's impossible that something could cost so much,
Speaker 1: especially since it's no longer going from San Francisco to
Speaker 1: LA as it was sold to voters. Governor Newsom is
Speaker 1: expected to meet with Trump today at the White House,
Speaker 1: and the LA Zoo is getting ready to open a
Speaker 1: new vulture exhibit. The Cape vulture is a large bird
Speaker 1: with a wingspan of up to eight and a half feet,
Speaker 1: so that's bigger than a bald eagle, and it stands
Speaker 1: about three feet tall. Cape vultures are named for their
Speaker 1: South African range, which includes the Cape region. The exhibit
Speaker 1: in LA opens on Friday. Pasadena Humane Society says it
Speaker 1: has reunited more than fourteen hundred animals with their owners
Speaker 1: following the wildfire in Altadena. Pasadena Humans Kevin McManus says
Speaker 1: they are committed to caring for animals at the shelter
Speaker 1: until people affected by the wildfires can get back on
Speaker 1: their feet and are ready to take them home.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 1: UC Berkeley is one of five universities being investigated because
Speaker 1: of rising anti semitism on campus. The Department of Educations
Speaker 1: investigating the universities after President Trump signed an executive order
Speaker 1: calling on the federal agencies to take action against reports
Speaker 1: of widespread anti Semitic harassment on college campuses. The US
Speaker 1: Postal Services announced it will no longer accept packages from
Speaker 1: China or Hong Kong until further notice. Letters and flat
Speaker 1: envelopes will still be accepted. The news comes after President
Speaker 1: Trump announced additional tariffs against China and after China imposed
Speaker 1: retaliatory tariffs. We're just minutes away from handle on the
Speaker 1: news this morning. The big question for Sunday will be
Speaker 1: is President Trump wearing red and gold or green? Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to ABC's Peter Harralambus.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 4: Good morning Amy. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Hey, birthright citizenship front and center today and in the
Speaker 1: hands of a federal judge. So break it down for us.
Speaker 1: What is the judge looking at?
Speaker 11: Yeah, so at this point this judge is considering weather
Speaker 11: basically to permanently block Trump's executive order that sought to
Speaker 11: get rid of this idea of birthright citizenship for the
Speaker 11: children of undocumented immigrants. Now, Judge, this executive order has
Speaker 11: already been temporarily put on hold, but this hearing in
Speaker 11: Maryland today is really vital in terms of Trump's appeal.
Speaker 11: If she issues a preliminary injunction, that could be the
Speaker 11: end of potential enforcement of that executive order for now,
Speaker 11: and it could begin the process of Trump's inevitable appeal.
Speaker 11: Source as close to the president tell us that his
Speaker 11: team understood that this executive order was likely to get
Speaker 11: challenged and potentially ruled against, and that the plan here
Speaker 11: is to appeal it upwards and potentially go to the
Speaker 11: Supreme Court, where they could rewrite law basically regarding the
Speaker 11: Fourteenth Amendment.
Speaker 5: Okay, and so tell us how.
Speaker 1: They're making their argument, because the birthright citizenship is in
Speaker 1: the constitution.
Speaker 11: Yeah, So the argument that Trump's doj is making here
Speaker 11: is kind of twofold one. They're saying that this idea
Speaker 11: of birthright citizenship, and then again, this is something that
Speaker 11: is well settled in the Constitution. It's been settled by
Speaker 11: the Supreme Court for over one hundred years. Actually, coming
Speaker 11: from a case out of California, Juan Kim ark that
Speaker 11: they're now saying is basically a misinterpretation of the Constitution.
Speaker 11: They're arguing that a few phrases within the citizenship clause
Speaker 11: of the fourteenth Amendments are misunderstood and that they're actually
Speaker 11: right about their interpretation of things. That's an argument that
Speaker 11: legal experts are skeptical of, but it's an argument they're making.
Speaker 11: They're also saying that the people who pass the Fourteenth
Speaker 11: Amendment never envisioned it being used to basically have a
Speaker 11: misincentive for illegal immigration. Again, these are arguments that are
Speaker 11: very political in natere not necessarily legal. So it's going
Speaker 11: to be hard to see how a district court is
Speaker 11: receptive to them. Though the Supreme Court could be a
Speaker 11: different question. We have a conservative majority there and Trump's
Speaker 11: appointees make up three members of that court.
Speaker 1: Well, but they I think that I think that they've
Speaker 1: shown that they'll go against what the president wants if
Speaker 1: it's what they think the Constitution says.
Speaker 5: I think they've demonstrated. I think that'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 9: That's exactly right.
Speaker 11: Amy. At the end of the day, the Supreme Court
Speaker 11: is comprised of people who are deeply fond of the Constitution,
Speaker 11: and the Constitution in this case is pretty clear about
Speaker 11: who is entitled to birthright citizenship, and that's anyone basically
Speaker 11: in the United States, undocumented or not, with a few
Speaker 11: very narrow exceptions like the children of diplomats.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you mentioned the political leanings of this whole issue.
Speaker 1: Obviously Trump brings it up and someone's immediately going to sue.
Speaker 1: Who is bringing the case against.
Speaker 11: This, Yeah, that's a great question. This case is actually
Speaker 11: brought by five pregnant undocumented women who are suing the
Speaker 11: Trump administration. It's different than that case we saw in
Speaker 11: Seattle a few weeks ago, where there are multiple cases
Speaker 11: brought by state attorneys general. In this case, these women
Speaker 11: are coming from all different kinds of countries and arguing
Speaker 11: that their children will effectively become stateless if this executive
Speaker 11: order is carried out. Their children from parents who immigrated
Speaker 11: from Russia who were saying that they can't return to
Speaker 11: Russia because they fear political prosecution. There are multiple plaintiffs
Speaker 11: here from Venezuela, a country that's going through political and
Speaker 11: economic turmoil, and their argument here is that if this
Speaker 11: executive order is carried out, their children will be unable
Speaker 11: to get American citizenship and they're unable to get Venezuelan citizenship.
Speaker 11: It's this idea of statelessness that we've never really had
Speaker 11: before in the United States that this court's going to
Speaker 11: have to wrestle with.
Speaker 5: Very compelling argument.
Speaker 1: Interesting and I hadn't known that part of the case before,
Speaker 1: So very very interesting. ABC's Peter Hairalumbo's thank you so much,
Speaker 1: appreciate the information.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 5: Are great, takes care. So the law is so interesting.
Speaker 1: I love that we get to talk to people and
Speaker 1: they kind of get to peel back the onion for
Speaker 1: us a little bit and help explain it. But I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that they're pregnant women who are here
Speaker 1: illegally but Venezuela and Russia and going we can't go back.
Speaker 5: I mean, so compelling.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman has
Speaker 1: been found dead inside a home in the Santa Clarita area.
Speaker 1: The only County Sheriff's Department's deputies were sent to the
Speaker 1: home in New Hall last night to do a welfare check.
Speaker 1: They say the woman was found unresponsive, no other information
Speaker 1: was given. News brought to you by Simper Solaris. An
Speaker 1: elementary school employee in Orange County is facing charges of
Speaker 1: sexual assault for an alleged dating relationship with a sixteen
Speaker 1: year old girl. The man was arrested yesterday by officers
Speaker 1: responding to reports of possible sexual activity in a parked car.
Speaker 1: The pair was found in the back seat police. They
Speaker 1: both admitted to meeting at Foothill High School and being
Speaker 1: in a dating relationship for a few weeks. The Only
Speaker 1: City Attorney's office has filed civil and criminal cases against
Speaker 1: people and businesses accused of price gouging after the fires.
Speaker 1: Attorney Heidi Feldstein Soto says in one case, a home
Speaker 1: rental company bumped up rents by as much as fifty
Speaker 1: percent over what was advertised before the fires. She says
Speaker 1: that's not only illegal, it's unconscionable to try to take
Speaker 1: advantage of people when they are at their most vulnerable.
Speaker 1: The largest federal government employee union has sued the Trump
Speaker 1: administration over its buyout offer for workers. The union called
Speaker 1: the buyouts an arbitrary, unlawful, short fused ultimatum which workers
Speaker 1: may not be able to enforce. Employees have received an
Speaker 1: email saying if they quit, they'll be paid through September.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest tech firms in the world is
Speaker 1: reported at disappointing fourth quarter. ABC's Mike Debuski says the
Speaker 1: earnings of Google parent company Alphabet felt slightly short of expectations.
Speaker 1: During the last three months of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3: Revenues for the tech company rose to just under ninety
Speaker 3: six and a half billion dollars, but analysts were predicting
Speaker 3: just over ninety six and a half billion. Experts blame
Speaker 3: a tough digital advertising market.
Speaker 1: He says Microsoft also missed expectations in cloud computing when
Speaker 1: it reported earnings last week. And a quick update on
Speaker 1: the story I just told you about. The US Postal
Speaker 1: Service had announced that it would no longer accept packages
Speaker 1: from China or Hong Kong until further notice. Well, that
Speaker 1: further notice has come. The US Postal Service has reversed
Speaker 1: its course and now says it will continue to accept
Speaker 1: all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: And tens of thousands of eggs have been poached in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 2: And that's no yoking matter. The burglars snatched them from
Speaker 2: the back of a trailer over the weekend, cracking the
Speaker 2: case wide open. State police in Pennsylvania say about one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand organic eggs were stolen, which comes to a
Speaker 2: sizzling forty thousand dollars in product. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: the average price of a dozen eggs in the US
Speaker 2: sword by fifty percent. The increase appears to have accelerated
Speaker 2: since President Donald Trump was elected in November, according to
Speaker 2: data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists and
Speaker 2: market analysis say the bird flu is also driving the
Speaker 2: price hike. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
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