Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3: I got in your wake up call you haste Amy?
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, hello there, good morning.
Speaker 4: It's five o'clock. Straight up.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Thursday, April twenty fourth.
Speaker 4: Ooh, that reminds me of my brother's birthdays. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: No to self, get card in mail. It'll be late,
Speaker 1: but better than never. I'm breaking a cardinal sin of
Speaker 1: fashion today.
Speaker 4: I want you to know.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing white pants. Got my white jeans out. Cona's like,
Speaker 1: what is that?
Speaker 5: Does that mean?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: Is it white pants or white shoes? You're not supposed
Speaker 1: to wear him before Memorial Day?
Speaker 4: When's Memorial Day?
Speaker 7: End of May?
Speaker 1: Okay, I got a jumpstart on it. Just no, don't
Speaker 1: be a hater. I'm creating my own fashion trend. Lot's
Speaker 1: going on today, so let's get right to it. Here's
Speaker 1: what's ahead on wake Up Call. Arrests in Alta Dina
Speaker 1: are up two hundred and fifty percent since the deadly
Speaker 1: wildfire tour through the community. The La County Sheriff's department
Speaker 1: says it's mostly looters who've been breaking into homes left
Speaker 1: empty because of evacuations. Deputy s a Thieves have also
Speaker 1: been caught trying to steal copper wires from turned off
Speaker 1: power lines. A city council committee has advanced a proposal
Speaker 1: that would put a fifteen mile per hour speed limit
Speaker 1: on streets around two hundred schools in la. It's part
Speaker 1: of continued efforts to improve safety for students. It needs
Speaker 1: full council approval before it becomes law. It would only
Speaker 1: be in effect before, during, and after school. Thousands of
Speaker 1: the faithful have filed past the open coffin of Pope
Speaker 1: Francis to pay their last respects at Saint Peter's Basilica.
Speaker 1: So many people lined up the Vatican kept it open overnight.
Speaker 1: Let people keep filing through. We're going to be talking
Speaker 1: with Chris Bakia from actually Bacia with ABC. He's in
Speaker 1: Rome and so we're going to get the latest on
Speaker 1: that in just a couple of minutes. Trenday arragua is
Speaker 1: spreading around the US. But who are they, how'd they
Speaker 1: get here? And how can we stop them? ABC's Crime
Speaker 1: and Terror analyst Brad Garrett is going to tell us
Speaker 1: that's coming about five twenty. Okay, So what's on your list?
Speaker 1: What's something that you really want to do before you
Speaker 1: leave the planet. And we're not talking about taking a
Speaker 1: space trip. We're going to be talking to the founder
Speaker 1: of National Bucket List Day, Cindy Lee. That's coming up
Speaker 1: before the top of the hour. So yes, it is
Speaker 1: National Bucket List Day, So start thinking about what's on
Speaker 1: your list. Uh, you know, I love Disney, but it's
Speaker 1: been a while since I've really been wowed at the park.
Speaker 1: I mean, I always love it, but there's a new
Speaker 1: show at the park that literally okay, didn't literally knock
Speaker 1: my socks off, but it really just knocked my socks off.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go out and about for the season
Speaker 1: of the Force, something new in the Disneyland resort. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California is pushed to
Speaker 1: keep film and TV production here in California has cleared
Speaker 1: a major hurdle.
Speaker 8: Rebecca Ryan with the DGA and the Entertainment Union Coalition
Speaker 8: says a Senate committee unanimously advanced SB six thirty and
Speaker 8: a companion bill, A one Pine three eight, passed a
Speaker 8: key Assembly committee earlier this week. The bills aim to
Speaker 8: expand and modernize the state's film and television tax credit
Speaker 8: program from three hundred and thirty million to seven hundred
Speaker 8: and fifty million dollars. She says that will stimulate the
Speaker 8: economy and create more jobs.
Speaker 7: What we know is that every other plate in the
Speaker 7: world appears to want to attract and take this work
Speaker 7: overseas and take this work out of California.
Speaker 8: The bills have a few more hurdles to overcome, including
Speaker 8: a vote in the full legislature and a budget review.
Speaker 4: Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man from Santa Anna has been arrested on suspicion
Speaker 1: of killing dozens of cats. Alejandro Acosta is also accused
Speaker 1: of stealing an expensive Bengal Linx cat. BULLI say they
Speaker 1: found evidence of dead cats while searching his home, but
Speaker 1: couldn't say how many. The Bengal links was taken from
Speaker 1: a home in Westminster in March. Police have received calls
Speaker 1: over the past several weeks about pet cats being stolen
Speaker 1: and harmed, with some residents blaming Acosta. Three people have
Speaker 1: been arrested in connection with US free of robberies targeting
Speaker 1: seven eleven's around La County. Five stores were hit last
Speaker 1: Friday in East Hollywood, Echo Park, LA's Pico Union District,
Speaker 1: Baldwin Park, and Pasadena. Billy say in each case, the
Speaker 1: robbers pulled up in a stolen blue Hyundai Sonata and
Speaker 1: one person would act as the lookout.
Speaker 4: The city of is trying to protect its trees from vandals.
Speaker 2: Almost Man Samuel Groff faces a felony vandalism charge for
Speaker 2: massacring trees in three different neighborhoods in La City. Councilman
Speaker 2: Isabelle Herado, who represents downtowns as a coalition of organizations
Speaker 2: have come together to see the trees replaced.
Speaker 9: Into our beautiful DTLA constituents that identify the.
Speaker 7: Problem Northeast Trees, LA Conservation Corp.
Speaker 4: Who's helping us come up with solutions.
Speaker 2: Ferrado has also introduced a motion that would increase penalties
Speaker 2: for damaging city trees, implementing tiered financial charges based on
Speaker 2: the age of the tree as well as the extent
Speaker 2: of the damage. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: If you head to the beach Inventura County, you'll probably
Speaker 1: see thousands of tiny sea creatures washed ashore. They're called valela's,
Speaker 1: nicknamed by the wind sailors. The lelas are related to jellyfish,
Speaker 1: and they have this blue purplish color.
Speaker 4: They're actually pretty cool looking.
Speaker 1: They're typically washed ashore by the winds in early spring
Speaker 1: or summing summer. I don't think they can sting, but
Speaker 1: they're weird life and they're like everywhere on the beaches. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's five oh seven on your wake up call and
Speaker 1: we're trying to connect with ABC's Chris Machia.
Speaker 4: He's in Rome.
Speaker 1: That I was telling you about the pope and it's
Speaker 1: it was amazing to watch it, and some things are
Speaker 1: being done differently with the death of this pope compared
Speaker 1: to others. And in fact, they were saying that it's
Speaker 1: so busy the Vatican. Let's see, where's the story. Kept
Speaker 1: Saint Peter's Basilica open all night because so many people
Speaker 1: were lined up to say goodbye to Pope Francis. It
Speaker 1: was expected to stay open until midnight, but they said, nope,
Speaker 1: we're going to keep it open even longer. It looks
Speaker 1: like the viewing is going on through Thursday. Okay, while
Speaker 1: we wait for Chris, let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: A massive wildfire in southern New Jersey has caused evacuations,
Speaker 1: power outages, and road closures. ABC's Trevor Alt says the
Speaker 1: fire and Ocean County started late Tuesday morning.
Speaker 10: Quickly spreading to neighboring communities. The flames jumping the Garden
Speaker 10: State Parkway during rush hour, Officials forced to shut it
Speaker 10: down for miles overnight, and authorities cutting power to some
Speaker 10: twenty five thousand homes in businesses.
Speaker 1: New Jersey Forest Fire Service officials say the fire has
Speaker 1: burned over thirteen thousand acres. It's about fifty percent surrounded.
Speaker 1: Officials are warning the fire could still grow due to
Speaker 1: dry conditions and strong winds. News brought to you by
Speaker 1: Simper solaris the man who carried out a mass shooting
Speaker 1: at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago area
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two scheduled to be sentenced today. Robert Cremo,
Speaker 1: the Third pleaded guilty to killing seven people and wounding
Speaker 1: dozens of others. The twenty four year old man is
Speaker 1: expected to get life in prison. Secretary of State Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio says Iran must give up all nuclear enrichment if
Speaker 1: it wants to make a deal with the US. He
Speaker 1: says the United States is aiming for a peaceful resid
Speaker 1: Iran insists its nuclear program is for civilian energy use,
Speaker 1: not to build atomic bombs. India has revoked all visas
Speaker 1: issued to Pakistani nationals following a deadly attack in Kashmir
Speaker 1: in which twenty six people were killed. Police in India
Speaker 1: said Tuesday that at least four men with guns opened
Speaker 1: fire on dozens of tourists. The Indian government didn't produce
Speaker 1: evidence connecting the attack to its neighbor, but said it
Speaker 1: had cross border links to Pakistan. Officials in Pakistan responded
Speaker 1: to India's action by canceling visas for Indian nationals, closing
Speaker 1: its airspace for all Indian owned or operated airlines, and
Speaker 1: to suspending all trade with India. A unique celestial event
Speaker 1: is about to be visible in the early morning skies,
Speaker 1: Sherry Preston says, at about five thirty tomorrow morning, not
Speaker 1: this morning. If you go outside and the skies are
Speaker 1: clear and you look east, you might see Venus below Venus.
Speaker 11: On the other side of the Moon, you might catch
Speaker 11: a glimpse of Saturn, and as the sun rises and
Speaker 11: the sky brightens, it'll become clearer, creating something technically known
Speaker 11: in the scientific community as the smiley face planet alignment.
Speaker 1: Ooh, the smiley place face planet. I have never heard
Speaker 1: of that. The smiley face planet alignments. Preston says, you
Speaker 1: might need to turn your head a little sideways and squint,
Speaker 1: but it'll be there for about an hour. The planets
Speaker 1: will make up the eyes, and the crescent Moon creates
Speaker 1: the mouth.
Speaker 4: Okay, we're I'm going to be on the air, but.
Speaker 1: So I need you to go out and then send
Speaker 1: me a note on Instagram and let me know if
Speaker 1: you see it, because that sounds kind of fun.
Speaker 7: Mam yo by here yo by that.
Speaker 1: China has sent three astronauts to replace its crew on
Speaker 1: the Chinese Space Station. They will stay up there for
Speaker 1: roughly six months and do experiments in space medicine and technology,
Speaker 1: as well as makeup make improvements to the space station.
Speaker 1: Improvements always a good thing. Jina's ultimate goal is to
Speaker 1: send a crew to the Moon before twenty thirteen. California's
Speaker 1: economy is huge and growing.
Speaker 6: Governor Gavin Newsom says his state's economy has overtaken Japan
Speaker 6: to become the world's fourth largest economy. Newsom cites two
Speaker 6: new reports for the International Monetary Fund and the US
Speaker 6: Bureau of Economic Analysis. The reports say that California's GDP
Speaker 6: reached four point one trillion dollars, surpassing Japan's four point
Speaker 6: zero two trillion. California is now only behind the United States, China,
Speaker 6: and Germany and global rankings. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1: Defen Secretary Pete Hegseth is now being criticized for allegedly
Speaker 1: putting the signal app on a computer inside his office
Speaker 1: at the Pentagon.
Speaker 9: Eg Seth was already under fire for allegedly using signal
Speaker 9: to share military attack plans in Yemen. The administration has
Speaker 9: said nothing that Hegseth's shared was classified. We also know
Speaker 9: his wife, Jennifer, former Fox News producer, was a mon
Speaker 9: those on a signal thread discussing the attack plans.
Speaker 1: ABC's Nicole D'Antonio says a statement from the Pentagon says
Speaker 1: hegseth use of a communications systems and channels is classified.
Speaker 1: It says he has never used and does not currently
Speaker 1: use signal on his government computer. So it looks like
Speaker 1: chimpanzees enjoy a good happy hour.
Speaker 12: New video recorded by scientists in West Africa shows wild
Speaker 12: chimps eating fermented breadfruit together. It's the first time the
Speaker 12: shared behavior has been caught on film. Researchers suggest using
Speaker 12: the alcohol for social bonding could explain why humans evolved
Speaker 12: the ability to metabolize alcohol. The findings were published Monday
Speaker 12: in the journal Current Biology. And while the chimps were
Speaker 12: eating fermented breadfruit together, they weren't observed making a toast.
Speaker 12: Mark Roenner caf I News.
Speaker 1: All right, Jack in the Boxes, it's going to close
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty to two hundred underperforming stores as
Speaker 1: part of an aggressive financial plan called Jack on Track.
Speaker 1: The CEO says the company is focused on accelerating cash
Speaker 1: flow and paying down debt. Jack in the Box has
Speaker 1: about twenty two hundred stores across twenty two states. It
Speaker 1: also operates Del taco I Love a good Jack in
Speaker 1: the Box, and Jack in the Box is the one
Speaker 1: that has the sour dough instead of a regular bun.
Speaker 4: They put it on sour dough. It's so good Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers are back in La taking on the Pirates,
Speaker 1: with the first pitch going out at seven o'clock. You
Speaker 1: can listen to all Dodger games on AM five to
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth,
Speaker 1: and you can stream all the Dodgers games all season
Speaker 1: long HD on the iHeartRadio app. The keyword is AM
Speaker 1: five seventy LA Sports. Three smoke shops in the San
Speaker 1: Fernando Valley have been targeted by thieves in just a
Speaker 1: matter of hours. Police say the first one was hit
Speaker 1: in Sherman Oaks shortly after four am yesterday. Not kidding
Speaker 1: when I said hit. They crashed a Hyundai a Lantra
Speaker 1: into the store. A group of at least four people
Speaker 1: in dark clothing, grabbed their loot and took off. A
Speaker 1: second break in happened less than an hour later in
Speaker 1: Granada Hills, and then a third shop was hit in
Speaker 1: Gnada Hills at about six thirty am. The La City
Speaker 1: Council's voted eleven to two in favor of expanding a
Speaker 1: policy that prohibits homeless people from sleeping in public spaces.
Speaker 1: The policy which makes it ilegal to sit lie down
Speaker 1: or keep belongings in some areas of the city's been
Speaker 1: expanded to a Superior Street and Deering Avenue in Chatsworth.
Speaker 1: California's economy has surpassed Japan. It's now the fourth largest
Speaker 1: in the world. Governor Newsom says the Interstate Monetary Fund
Speaker 1: and the US Bureau of Economic Analysis puts the state's
Speaker 1: GDP above four trillion dollars. The US, China, and Germany
Speaker 1: have the top three economies in the world.
Speaker 4: It is five twenty two.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to our friend, terror and crime
Speaker 1: analyst for ABC, Brad Garrett.
Speaker 13: Morning Brad, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've heard a lot lately about this vicious
Speaker 1: gang Trende Arragua, and for a while it took me,
Speaker 1: well it took me a while to figure out how
Speaker 1: to say it, but now I'm it just rolls off
Speaker 1: your tongue. We don't know much about them, so can
Speaker 1: you tell us tell us more about who Trendy Arugua is.
Speaker 13: So it's a Venezuelan gang, excuse me, that was originally
Speaker 13: started in a prison in northeast Venezuela. And apparently at
Speaker 13: the time when this gang was developing, they controlled the prison,
Speaker 13: and it's been reported that inside this prison was a nightclub,
Speaker 13: a bank and if you can imagine that, and apparently
Speaker 13: got raided at some point a number of people killed
Speaker 13: the guy escape that started this gang. Excuse me, but
Speaker 13: what happened, Tomi, is that in the last decade a
Speaker 13: number of people have fled Venezuela and they have gone
Speaker 13: to various parts of the world. It's like seven point
Speaker 13: seven million, and they think that's an underestimate. Three quarters
Speaker 13: of a million thereabouts came to the United States, and
Speaker 13: certainly eight eight percentage of those I'm going to say
Speaker 13: a low percentage joined this gang or came and was
Speaker 13: already in this gang and are now in several states
Speaker 13: around the country.
Speaker 1: All right, And okay, so you said it's a low
Speaker 1: percentage because when you said seven point seven million Venezuelans, well, first,
Speaker 1: that's a huge amount of people coming from Venezuela up here,
Speaker 1: and they that's all illegal immigration.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so let's be clear, seven point seven million fled
Speaker 13: the country. It's probably a bigger number, but perhaps three
Speaker 13: quarters of a million or thereabouts came here. Oh okay,
Speaker 13: these things, Amy are all estimates, because who knows, right,
Speaker 13: I mean, people are here illegally. Ice doesn't know who
Speaker 13: they are, which also creates a year huge problem obviously
Speaker 13: in id them to figure out are they part of
Speaker 13: this gang or are they just here? And you know,
Speaker 13: that's obviously the big debate now with President Trump's movement
Speaker 13: of folks that allegedly belong to this gang to L.
Speaker 13: Salvador and I think also to Guantanamo Bay. But you know,
Speaker 13: the you know, the one concern about people like me
Speaker 13: who study this stuff is that are they a problem?
Speaker 13: Sure they are a problem. Are they the biggest gang
Speaker 13: problem in the US? The answers, No, there are other
Speaker 13: gangs that are far bigger, more organized.
Speaker 2: You know, your.
Speaker 13: City in particular is sort of a hub for gangs, right,
Speaker 13: I mean it always has been MS thirteen, you know,
Speaker 13: between the Long Beach in Los Angeles, there's a lot
Speaker 13: of gangs that started here and are continuing to grow.
Speaker 13: So gangs are just a big problem in the US.
Speaker 13: There's thirty three thousand estimated number of gangs now. Granted,
Speaker 13: a vast majority of those are local, controlling certain communities
Speaker 13: or certain streets in a given city. And I'm sure
Speaker 13: you have some of those. Two in La besides bigger gangs,
Speaker 13: they're very difficult for law enforcement to investigate, to figure
Speaker 13: out actually who is part of this gang, what is
Speaker 13: their real name? And Venezuelan's in particular, the Venezuelan government
Speaker 13: doesn't communicate with the US about who they are, doesn't
Speaker 13: provide any background information, criminal history, whatever it might be.
Speaker 13: And so whatever they do here is sort of the
Speaker 13: starting point as far as US law enforcement is concerned
Speaker 13: as to who they are and what they've done. But
Speaker 13: id I will you know, I can't say this more
Speaker 13: than enough that id in who people really are is
Speaker 13: a huge problem.
Speaker 1: Well, and Brad, like we know that MS thirteen gang members,
Speaker 1: they a lot of them from what I've seen, have
Speaker 1: the distinctive tattoos.
Speaker 4: Is does trende Aragua follow that too.
Speaker 13: Well, they apparently do have some tattoos. The problem is
Speaker 13: amy that in some of these tattoos that ICE and
Speaker 13: DHS are attributing to this Venezuela gang also have other
Speaker 13: meetings that other people have, those particularly from Latin America,
Speaker 13: have those tattoos just because they represent something totally non
Speaker 13: gang related. So hanging your hat on, oh he's a
Speaker 13: gang member because he's got a certain tattoo. You know,
Speaker 13: it's kind of like saying circumstantially that somebody committed a crime,
Speaker 13: but you don't really have the evidence that they actually did,
Speaker 13: even though you think they did, and they may well have,
Speaker 13: but you don't have the evidence. Well then what so
Speaker 13: I think that's go ahead.
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, like, why would you get a tattoo
Speaker 1: that is indicative of a gang if you weren't in
Speaker 1: the gang, Like, it isn't that like putting a target.
Speaker 13: On you cultural, culturally, whatever it represents, whether it's a
Speaker 13: flower I'm just making this up or whatever it might be,
Speaker 13: it means something else to everybody else that's not in
Speaker 13: a gang. And I think the problem with this particular
Speaker 13: gang is is there may be variations about what is
Speaker 13: considered a gang member tattoo for this group. Not to
Speaker 13: say they don't have it, but it's it's a big problem.
Speaker 13: And like I said, just to hang your hat on
Speaker 13: because somebody has a tattoo, I mean, that's not enough
Speaker 13: to charge anybody. Yeah, Now, apparently DHS is using it
Speaker 13: to id people in this gang, and maybe some of
Speaker 13: them got sent to El Salvador because they had tattoos.
Speaker 13: There may be more to it than that. I'm being
Speaker 13: you know, a bit facetious here, but it's a big problem.
Speaker 13: It's a big problem actually, id as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 13: who some of these folks are, and you know, how
Speaker 13: connected are they to other gang members and other cities.
Speaker 13: This gang's been more described as or are loosely affiliated
Speaker 13: versus other gangs that are very well organized as far
Speaker 13: as how they move you know, prostitution, drugs, guns, from
Speaker 13: you know, one jurisdiction to another in a more much
Speaker 13: more organized fashion maybe than this gang does.
Speaker 1: Well, they're still here and there's still a huge problem,
Speaker 1: and hopefully they'll figure out how to doubt rid of them.
Speaker 1: So ABC's crime and Terrorism analysts. So Brad Garrett, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for your time.
Speaker 4: You're welcome, right, gurious, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: It's now far cheaper to rent than to buy a
Speaker 1: home in all of California's largest cities.
Speaker 8: A new bank Rate study shows in San Francisco, average
Speaker 8: mortgage payments are more than one hundred and ninety percent
Speaker 8: higher than rent, with San Jose close behind at one
Speaker 8: hundred and eighty six percent. LA and San Diego also
Speaker 8: made the top ten with monthly mortgage costs nearly double
Speaker 8: that of rent. Experts say high interest rates, taxes, and
Speaker 8: insurance continue to push home ownership out of reach, especially
Speaker 8: in pricey coastal areas. Nationwide, renting is now thirty eight
Speaker 8: percent cheaper than buying on average. Heather Brooker Kafie News.
Speaker 1: Southern California, Edison's removing an old power line from the
Speaker 1: area where the deadly eaten fire began in January. Cruise
Speaker 1: could be seen dismantling the Masis Silmar line as part
Speaker 1: of the ongoing investigation. The fire killed eighteen people and
Speaker 1: destroyed over nine thousand homes and other buildings. Videos show
Speaker 1: flames near Edison equipment, but so far note direct link
Speaker 1: has been confirmed. La County is suing Edison over the damages.
Speaker 1: Attempted murder and other charges have been filed against a
Speaker 1: guy accused of stabbing a brother and sister on the
Speaker 1: beach in Santa Monica. The attack happened early Saturday. Ivan
Speaker 1: Plankart was arrested Monday. Policers still trying to find a
Speaker 1: second guy who was with him. California's getting more electric
Speaker 1: school buses despite a federal freeze.
Speaker 14: The state is spent eading five hundred million for one
Speaker 14: thousand additional electric school buses and charging infrastructure. Meanwhile, a
Speaker 14: federal freeze has stalled plans in other states. In California,
Speaker 14: efforts are mostly funded by proceeds from the state Cap
Speaker 14: and Trade program, which requires polluters to get permits for
Speaker 14: each ton of carbon they release. Aileen Gonzalez Kfine.
Speaker 1: News LA Mayor maass assigned two executive orders to speed
Speaker 1: up the rebuilding process after the wildfires. The first allows
Speaker 1: architects to self certify that they meet building plans state standards.
Speaker 1: The second authorizes the use of AI to use artificial
Speaker 1: intelligence to help support city staff in reviewing project plans
Speaker 1: against zoning and building codes. South the Southern California Representative
Speaker 1: Robert Garcia has visited El Salvador to advocate for Kilmar
Speaker 1: Abrego Garcia a Brago. Garcia is deported on what the
Speaker 1: White House said was an administrative error, but has since.
Speaker 1: The White House is saying he's a member of the
Speaker 1: MS thirteen gang. A day after the La Zoo announced
Speaker 1: plans to relocate its last two remaining Asian elephants to
Speaker 1: a preserve in Tulsa, Oklahoma, City Council and Bob Blueman
Speaker 1: Field has introduced emotion calling for the zoo to hold
Speaker 1: off on the move until additional options are explored. Animal
Speaker 1: rights activists are saying the expanded preserve still too small
Speaker 1: for the forty and fifty eight year old elephants.
Speaker 4: At six o five.
Speaker 1: It's handled on the news, so just about a half
Speaker 1: an hour away. Trump is signaling a shift in tone
Speaker 1: on the Chinese tariffs.
Speaker 4: It's going to weigh in on that. Lots of Star
Speaker 4: Wars music today. It's been a while since I've really
Speaker 4: been wowed at the Disneyland resort. Like I always love it,
Speaker 4: I always.
Speaker 1: Love being there, but I was just surprised at what
Speaker 1: we got to see when we went to Disneyland, went
Speaker 1: out and about last weekend with Nick Pouliochini.
Speaker 4: Morning Nick, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 3: How's it going.
Speaker 4: It's going great. So we went to a galaxy far
Speaker 4: far away.
Speaker 1: We did our normal thing, wandered around and finished up
Speaker 1: because it was the end of the food and Wine festival,
Speaker 1: so we did all that and then we went over
Speaker 1: to this to the park to Disneyland and headed over
Speaker 1: to Galaxy's Edge.
Speaker 4: And I mean.
Speaker 1: I know that we were talking about this and I
Speaker 1: just kept looking at you going wow, wow, Nick.
Speaker 4: That was really great. So what it is.
Speaker 1: Is that Disney has two new nighttime shows and it's
Speaker 1: four Season of the Force, and that's all because they
Speaker 1: do their Star Wars after dark events, but this is
Speaker 1: Season of the Force where it's just sort of a
Speaker 1: light overlay around the park.
Speaker 4: That's Star Wars leading up to May the fourth.
Speaker 3: Right, so you got that back on Galaxy's Edge and
Speaker 3: then that all is happening. Plus, so this is kind
Speaker 3: of the cool thing. There is a park takeover, as
Speaker 3: you said, and it runs not just through May the fourth,
Speaker 3: it runs through May eleventh, so it's kind of a
Speaker 3: nice as you said, like a light overlay. But those
Speaker 3: two shows that we saw specifically are exclusive to Basu
Speaker 3: or Galaxy's Edge. One would be a Rise of Fire
Speaker 3: of the Rising Moons, which is very unique because it's
Speaker 3: using the existing Disneyland Fireworks show that you can see
Speaker 3: from anywhere in the park, but when you are off
Speaker 3: Galaxy or off planet actually on Bough two at Galaxy's Edge,
Speaker 3: it's a completely different show, including a lot of the
Speaker 3: music from the Star Wars franchise, so you hear a
Speaker 3: lot of those John Williams songs that you're very, very
Speaker 3: familiar with. And then the newest thing is you said,
Speaker 3: Shadows of Memory a Skywalker Saga is a brand new
Speaker 3: projection show that happens on the spires at Batu or
Speaker 3: at Galaxies Edd. Really really incredible with holograms and everything else,
Speaker 3: something that you've never seen before at Disneyland and very unique.
Speaker 3: You really haven't seen any other theme park around the world.
Speaker 1: No, and if you've been to the Disneyland for their
Speaker 1: fireworks shows, they've gotten really good at putting the projections
Speaker 1: up on the castle and the Matterhorn and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So it's along those vein or along that vein.
Speaker 1: But this show, it's it's like fifteen or twenty minutes song, right,
Speaker 1: and it encompasses the six Star Wars movies, so episode
Speaker 1: one all the way up through six, which is a
Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi, and it's Luke Skywalker's you know,
Speaker 1: it's while he's part of the Star Wars universe, and
Speaker 1: it's sort of like a comic book come to life
Speaker 1: but not. And it's just so cool with it. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I was just absolutely wowed by it
Speaker 1: because what they're doing with those projections on these spires
Speaker 1: in BA two is just it's so amazing, Like they
Speaker 1: turn from rock and then the rock crumbles and it
Speaker 1: looks like the rock is actually crumbling on the off
Speaker 1: the spires, and then they turn it into waterfalls and
Speaker 1: look like water is actually flowing down the side of
Speaker 1: these spires. The technology that they've come up with is
Speaker 1: so amazing. And then the sound with the music and
Speaker 1: they've got narration and it was just fabulous. And that
Speaker 1: one happens like at eight thirty. And then as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the fireworks, and the fireworks blew my socks off too,
Speaker 1: because I love the fireworks at Disneyland, but this was
Speaker 1: a different viewpoint or a different vantage point, and it's
Speaker 1: a whole different show. Even the fireworks are exactly the
Speaker 1: same as when you're sitting in front of the castle,
Speaker 1: but they're different because they're in Galaxy's Edge.
Speaker 3: Correct, And so I mean, if you're familiar with the
Speaker 3: existing Disneyland fireworks show, there's a hidden mickey at one
Speaker 3: point that's coming up near the end. You can even
Speaker 3: see that, but because of the angle being different at
Speaker 3: that back of the park, you almost miss it. So
Speaker 3: it's a completely new and completely different experience something that
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's a very clever use of a
Speaker 3: very large theme park to be able to really lean
Speaker 3: into something different. But again, like you've already said, using
Speaker 3: an existing event, using an existing entertainment piece that Disney
Speaker 3: already had built in, Yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a whole new entertainment show for me. So again,
Speaker 1: that's going on through May eleventh at least, Although I
Speaker 1: talked to a cast member, I said, how long are
Speaker 1: you guys going to do this? And they were like, well,
Speaker 1: it's we've had such a great response to it that
Speaker 1: we might keep it indefinitely. So we don't know, because
Speaker 1: Galaxy's Edge is you know, that's going to be there
Speaker 1: indefinitely or forever, right, So yeah, So if you get
Speaker 1: next time you go to the park, I would definitely
Speaker 1: carve out some time in the evening to head to
Speaker 1: Galaxy's Edge to see these two shows, the Shadows of
Speaker 1: Memory at Skywalker Saga, and then that's followed a short
Speaker 1: time later by the Fireworks show that both just spectacular,
Speaker 1: just spectacular.
Speaker 3: And there's still four more nights of Star Wars Night available,
Speaker 3: including tonight that is not sold out, So tonight the
Speaker 3: twenty fourth, the twenty ninth, the first of May, and
Speaker 3: the sixth of May. So those are also four nights
Speaker 3: that are exclusive after hours events for Disney Ran after
Speaker 3: Dark that you can also check out an even more
Speaker 3: intense version of what we've already talked about, something that's
Speaker 3: exclusive to that, to the special event, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Usually that sells out, So we don't know if
Speaker 1: that means that we've all been, like the super fans
Speaker 1: have all been, which gives you an opportunity to go.
Speaker 1: But it's a cool, it's a fun thing. And whether
Speaker 1: you go to after Dark or you're just going to
Speaker 1: the park, seriously, go to Galaxy's Edge and check out
Speaker 1: the new shows from that vantage point.
Speaker 4: Absolutely stunning. Thank you, Nick, pauli.
Speaker 3: Okee and you got it.
Speaker 1: No worries, all right, go back to sleep now, I
Speaker 1: will promise.
Speaker 4: All right, It is time.
Speaker 1: To get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 1: We got to weight Watchers, another business that's just not
Speaker 1: making it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a rough out there. Good morning.
Speaker 5: Well, weight Watchers needs to slim down, not when it
Speaker 5: comes to pounds, but with its debt load. Sources tell
Speaker 5: us the Die company is preparing to file for bankruptcy
Speaker 5: within weeks. Weight Watchers has definitely struggled under one and
Speaker 5: a half billion dollars of debt, but they've had lots
Speaker 5: of issues keeping customers with this meteoric rise that we've
Speaker 5: been seeing with weight loss shots like ozepic for example.
Speaker 4: But they did say that Chapter eleven.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't impact the day to day operations if they filed
Speaker 5: for it, okay.
Speaker 1: And have they seen is like are their costs just
Speaker 1: going up or are their enrollments just really going down?
Speaker 1: Because like, what's it because of the glps and Oprah
Speaker 1: is no longer part of it because she's on the GOLP,
Speaker 1: so she doesn't need weight Watchers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they a couple of things are going on, and
Speaker 5: they have said it's one of it is just they
Speaker 5: are just buried under debt and they just can't get
Speaker 5: themselves out of it. They're not getting people on board
Speaker 5: for their diet plans because a lot of people are saying, well,
Speaker 5: why am I going to take a longer road when
Speaker 5: I could do something a lot easier and take one
Speaker 5: of those shots. So one of the things though that
Speaker 5: weight Watchers, they have made no comment about this, they
Speaker 5: still intend to be a publicly traded company. A lot
Speaker 5: of companies when they're undergoing problems like this, they end
Speaker 5: up trying to go private so they can fix some
Speaker 5: of the problems and then come back again to be
Speaker 5: a publicly traded company. But they say, you know what,
Speaker 5: we're going to stay in the public eye. We're going
Speaker 5: to work on some of these issues. But what they
Speaker 5: really need to do is get this debt down, and
Speaker 5: one of the ways that they need to do it
Speaker 5: is by getting more people on board.
Speaker 1: All right, and speaking of weighing, economic concerns are weighing
Speaker 1: on airlines.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's looking like a tough day for the airlines.
Speaker 5: A couple of airlines have come out and their forecasts
Speaker 5: out so good. So Southwest said that it's seeing softness
Speaker 5: in the number of bookings, especially when it comes to
Speaker 5: leisure travel, and the airline says that that's expected to
Speaker 5: continue this quarter with flyers dealing with this unpredictable economy
Speaker 5: that we've been seeing. So Southwest says it's going to
Speaker 5: offer fewer flights and it expected in the second half
Speaker 5: of this year because there seems to be a lot
Speaker 5: less demand and American airlines. They pulled their financial outlook
Speaker 5: for the year due to all the economic worries, the
Speaker 5: trade war, the government job cuts, that stapping travel demands.
Speaker 5: You're not going to travel when you worried about your job,
Speaker 5: when you're worried about what you have to pay coming
Speaker 5: up in the next couple of weeks and months, and
Speaker 5: you're gonna worry about those high prices. We are going
Speaker 5: on a trip and our airfare was stupid expensive. Okay,
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I told you my trip to Florida. Pooh
Speaker 5: it was and I even I even flew Spirit and
Speaker 5: it was wildly expensive.
Speaker 4: Yike.
Speaker 1: So shop around, book early and before we let you go.
Speaker 1: Markets today looking like they're a little bit down.
Speaker 4: Yes, So we have.
Speaker 5: Been flipping between gains and losses all throughout the morning.
Speaker 5: The stock rally definitely hitting a speed bump this morning.
Speaker 5: So China's demanding that the US revoke all unilateral tariffs,
Speaker 5: and they said that there are no talks right now
Speaker 5: in reaching a trade deal. So we are seeing SMP
Speaker 5: futures a little change down, futures all lower.
Speaker 15: But this comes off.
Speaker 4: Two days of big gains.
Speaker 5: We had two back to back gains because the president
Speaker 5: from The President said that he had no intention of
Speaker 5: firing Federal Reserve Chair J.
Speaker 4: Powell.
Speaker 5: He was kind of toning down some of the harsh
Speaker 5: rhetoric that he had toward the Federal Reserve and also China.
Speaker 5: So we saw the dow rise of four hundred and
Speaker 5: twenty points yesterday.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for getting in your business with Bloomberg's
Speaker 1: Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 4: We'll do it again tomorrow at the same time. Thanks
Speaker 4: so much. Definitely see you later, all right.
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom says the state's going to turn over a
Speaker 1: convicted killer who's being released from prison in California early
Speaker 1: to ICE agents. President Trump assigned seven executive orders centered
Speaker 1: on education. They include introducing a new college accreditation process,
Speaker 1: increasing empowerment to HBCUs, and improving education for AI technology.
Speaker 1: Tennis legend Andre Agassi is about to make his pro
Speaker 1: debut in another racket sport. He's playing in the US
Speaker 1: Open Pickleball Championships.
Speaker 4: I love this.
Speaker 1: He's going to face number one ranked player in the sport,
Speaker 1: eighteen year old Anna Lee Waters.
Speaker 4: On April thirtieth, Let's say.
Speaker 1: Good morning now to the founder of National Bucket List Day.
Speaker 4: It's Cindy Lee Morning.
Speaker 7: Cindy, Helloha, how are you?
Speaker 4: We're great?
Speaker 1: So I think we all know what a bucket list is,
Speaker 1: but how did national I mean, like, what took it
Speaker 1: to the level where we said we need to make
Speaker 1: a National bucket List Day.
Speaker 7: Well, actually it started at age sixteen. It was Princess
Speaker 7: Diana's wedding and I sent her a card and that's
Speaker 7: where my whole love for gratitude began because this national holiday,
Speaker 7: it all resonates from gratitude. And then I started doing
Speaker 7: a lot of stuff that she was doing, giving back,
Speaker 7: doing orphanage work, stuff like that. In twenty twenty, I
Speaker 7: became an ambassador with National Day Calendar where I share
Speaker 7: a national holidays, and just about three years ago, I
Speaker 7: became the founder of National bucket List Day. And it's
Speaker 7: important to live your death. So we have the day
Speaker 7: we're born and the day we passed away. Yet to
Speaker 7: live that in between times.
Speaker 4: I love that you have to. It's the dash in between.
Speaker 1: I've seen that like on people's headstones before, and it's
Speaker 1: so true. The day you're born is one thing, the
Speaker 1: day you leave is another. But it's what you do
Speaker 1: in between. And so for National bucket List day, Like,
Speaker 1: what are you encouraging.
Speaker 4: People to do?
Speaker 1: Does it have to be huge pie big things like
Speaker 1: going to space?
Speaker 7: No, and it's not just travel. So here's some examples.
Speaker 7: So you want to give back to your community, learn
Speaker 7: to skill, like, for instance, if you want to start
Speaker 7: a new business or start a podcast, be a guest
Speaker 7: on a radio show. Start creating lists with your friends.
Speaker 7: That's actually going to help you keep accountable. And of
Speaker 7: course follow national decolendar. There's over sixteen hundred national days
Speaker 7: throughout the year, and today it's also National Pigs in
Speaker 7: a Blanket Day. Also promote a local restaurant. We have
Speaker 7: a lot of local restaurants. I'm based here in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 7: I want to do a shout out to Masala Waves,
Speaker 7: which is a Nepaal restaurant. There's also a karaokei place
Speaker 7: called Yama's. Okay, and then if you like pastrami, then
Speaker 7: got a whole bunch of stuff in La as well.
Speaker 7: So so many different things to do for today.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Cindy, let's talk more about bucket lists though,
Speaker 1: because you know, like you said, it could be something
Speaker 1: like a small goal. But how do you encourage people
Speaker 1: then to get to some of the bigger ones, because
Speaker 1: like I'm going, I get to go to Paris.
Speaker 4: I've never been to Paris.
Speaker 1: I don't know that it was a bucket list thing,
Speaker 1: but it definitely is like to travel internationally again, I
Speaker 1: want to do that more as before I, you know,
Speaker 1: before I leave the planet, because it's an amazing planet.
Speaker 1: So how do you start like thinking of those things
Speaker 1: that you want to do and then making them turning
Speaker 1: in into reality.
Speaker 7: It all starts with having that accountability and just finding
Speaker 7: people who have the same likes and interest in just
Speaker 7: keeping each other accountable and that hey, we should mark
Speaker 7: off the Northern Lights, or we should go to Paris,
Speaker 7: and it's just a great way to get everybody together
Speaker 7: and create life experiences together.
Speaker 4: What are some of the wackiest ones you've you've heard?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Wow, Well, I want to say that the most scariest
Speaker 7: fear bucket list would be jumping down of an airplane
Speaker 7: or skydiving. And once you do those two fear bucket lifts,
Speaker 7: you pretty much can do anything for three weeks after
Speaker 7: doing that, especially people who are afraid of heights. It's
Speaker 7: just super crucial to overcome that fear it's going to
Speaker 7: help you overcome a lot of different things in your
Speaker 7: personal life as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so there's a fear bucket list. I think
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick to the fun bucket list. National
Speaker 1: Bucket Day Found Bucket Lists Day founder Cindy Lee, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for your time. Go and live your dreams.
Speaker 1: It's a good thing to do, right, Thank you. All right,
Speaker 1: take care. Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: Vatican has kept Saint Peter's Basilica open all night as
Speaker 1: thousands of mourners line up to say goodbye to Pope Francis.
Speaker 1: It was expected to stay open until midnight.
Speaker 15: But more than fifty thousand from all walks of life
Speaker 15: under realm of world waiting for in massive lines from
Speaker 15: morning till deep into the night. The Vatican keeping church
Speaker 15: doors open till five point thirty in the morning to
Speaker 15: allow as many people as possible.
Speaker 1: In ABC's James Longman says the church was closed for
Speaker 1: just an hour and then reopened. The funeral for Pope
Speaker 1: Francis is going to be held on Saturday. The cardinals
Speaker 1: are meeting at the Vatican again this morning to talk
Speaker 1: about choosing a new pope. The city of La wants
Speaker 1: drivers to slow down in school zone. City council committees
Speaker 1: advanced a proposal to lower speed limits to fifteen miles
Speaker 1: per hour on three hundred and forty three streets near
Speaker 1: about two hundred schools in the city. The full council
Speaker 1: will need to sign off on the plan, but the
Speaker 1: new speed limit signs could be installed in the next
Speaker 1: six to ten weeks if approved. Police in northern California,
Speaker 1: you're warning about a rise in car thefts using technology
Speaker 1: that can break through keyless ignition systems.
Speaker 3: We notice that the vehicles are being stolen, but they're
Speaker 3: not being storn just for your writing that they're being
Speaker 3: stolen for other serious.
Speaker 7: Crimes such as burglaries, robberies, and more violent crimes.
Speaker 1: San Jose Police Deputy Chief Brandon Sanchez says the devices
Speaker 1: can be bought online. He says car owners should install
Speaker 1: security alarms, ignition kill switches, and a GPS tracker to
Speaker 1: protect their cars. He says a steering wheel lock like
Speaker 1: the club also a good idea. Round one of the
Speaker 1: NFL draft kicks off today in Green Bay. The Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans have the top pick. They're expected to select Miami
Speaker 1: quarterback cam Ward. The LA Chargers have the twenty second
Speaker 1: pick in the first round, and the Rams have the
Speaker 1: twenty sixth pick in round number one. This is KFI
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Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 4: I'm Amy King.
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