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Speaker 6: Good morning, I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: Let's see what is the date today, February twentieth.
Speaker 6: We're almost to March.
Speaker 1: Can you believe it? It's going to be Christmas before
Speaker 1: we know it. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: LA Fire has pushed back on claims made by Mayor
Speaker 1: Bass that she wasn't warned in advance about the high
Speaker 1: risk of wildfires before she left town for a trip
Speaker 1: to Ghana. La Fire says it followed all standard preparation
Speaker 1: procedures ahead of the Santa Ana wind events, including putting
Speaker 1: out media advisories, notifying city officials, and doing several interviews
Speaker 1: about the predicted extreme fire weather. Developer Rick Caruso's nonprofit
Speaker 1: Fire Recovery Organization is partnering up with a construction company
Speaker 1: to provide prefab homes to low income residents who lost
Speaker 1: their homes in the wildfires. Steadfast La says the homes
Speaker 1: will be beat built by Samara. It's not yet clear
Speaker 1: how many homes are going to be provided to the residents.
Speaker 6: I went and checked out the website. Pretty cool looking
Speaker 6: little homes. Pretty nice.
Speaker 1: The IRS is preparing to lay off some six thousand
Speaker 1: employees starting today. Most of them will be probationary workers
Speaker 1: as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the
Speaker 1: federal workforce. The IRS increased its staff by thousands under
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. Let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: La City Fire has refuted acclaim by Mayor Bass about
Speaker 1: communications before the fire started around Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
Speaker 1: Bass said during an interview this week that fire Chief
Speaker 1: Kristin Crowley didn't warn her in advance about the anticipated
Speaker 1: high winds. Kfi's Mark Mayfield says the fire department put
Speaker 1: out a statement yesterday, saying they did follow procedure.
Speaker 10: The statement says prior to the Palisades fire, the LAFD
Speaker 10: emailed two separate media advisories, conducted multiple live and recorded
Speaker 10: media interviews about the addicted extreme fire weather, and notified
Speaker 10: city officials about the upcoming weather event.
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass was in Ghana when the fire started. She
Speaker 1: now says that trip was a mistake. And ocean water
Speaker 1: advisory is in place from Las Floria State Beach to
Speaker 1: Santa Monica State Beach because of impacts from the Palisades Fire.
Speaker 1: The La County Health Department says it'll remain in effect
Speaker 1: until further notice. People can hang out on the sand,
Speaker 1: but are being advised to stay away from visible fire
Speaker 1: debris and to stay out of the water during any
Speaker 1: posted ocean advisory. The La City Council has approved Emotion
Speaker 1: to start the process of designating some buildings on Terminal
Speaker 1: Island in San Pedro as historic cultural landmarks.
Speaker 11: So the last two buildings left on Tuna Street from
Speaker 11: when Japanese American families thrived in the area before being
Speaker 11: moved to internment camps. City Coultulman Timmock Oscar says it's
Speaker 11: important to remember an unjust time in American history.
Speaker 12: We can't go back in time and fix it, but
Speaker 12: we can look to the grace and the dignity and
Speaker 12: the perseverance.
Speaker 11: Japanese families on Terminal Island were forcibly removed during World
Speaker 11: War Two, and the area has since become an expansion
Speaker 11: of the Port of La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: There are growing concerns that some cities near San Francisco
Speaker 1: Bay are sinking's According to a recent NASA study, scientists
Speaker 1: examined over one thousand miles of California's coast and found
Speaker 1: that sanra Fel Court, Madera, Foster City, and Bay Farm
Speaker 1: Island are sinking the fastest, at a rate of more
Speaker 1: than point four inches a year. They say it may
Speaker 1: seem small, but it can significantly raise the flood risk
Speaker 1: in these areas. NASA is also predicting sea levels could
Speaker 1: rise by more than seventeen inches by twenty fifty. That's
Speaker 1: double previous estimates. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers. So, Karen, the close relationship between the US
Speaker 1: and Ukraine appears to be quickly deteriorating.
Speaker 13: It is and you know it all stems. At least.
Speaker 9: This latest back and forth is coming from the President
Speaker 9: recently falsely claiming that Ukraine started the war with Russia,
Speaker 9: when of course it was Putin that invaded Ukraine three
Speaker 9: years ago, Russian troops going across the eastern border into Ukraine.
Speaker 9: It was notable yesterday to see Mike Pence, Trump's former
Speaker 9: vice president, trying to set the record strate on social media.
Speaker 9: He posted, mister President, Ukraine did not start this war.
Speaker 9: Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion. The road to
Speaker 9: peace must be built on the truth. And that sparked
Speaker 9: a pushback from President Zelinski, who has said that the
Speaker 9: president President Trump is engaging in Russian talking points, Kremlin
Speaker 9: talking points, and that he lives in a disinformation space
Speaker 9: when it comes to what is happening there no surprise
Speaker 9: President Trump is not like that, and he has now
Speaker 9: referred to Zelensky multiple times as a dictator and said
Speaker 9: that if he doesn't.
Speaker 13: Move fast, he's not going to have country left.
Speaker 1: Is Zelensky helping his case to keep money coming in
Speaker 1: from the US by speaking out about against Trump this vocally?
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't think that's for me to say
Speaker 9: I think, you know, he's trying to do what he
Speaker 9: thinks he needs to do for his country right now,
Speaker 9: and you know they're not happy to not have a
Speaker 9: seat at the table in conversations that the United States
Speaker 9: is having with Russia, those conversations that took place in
Speaker 9: Saudi Arabia earlier this week with Secretary of State Mark
Speaker 9: or Rubio and other senior officials. The White House has
Speaker 9: sent an envoy to Keith who is engaging with the Ukrainians.
Speaker 9: But you know, these are separate tracks, and that is
Speaker 9: something that has bothered the Ukrainians right now. Doesn't bother
Speaker 9: the Europeans to not have a part of this conversation,
Speaker 9: given what they say they have been doing over the
Speaker 9: last three years on this. Notably, the President next week
Speaker 9: is going to meet with the British Prime Minister Starmer,
Speaker 9: and I'll also meet with French President Macrone at the
Speaker 9: White House. Separate conversation, separate meetings. But the White House
Speaker 9: will say, look, we are engaging with.
Speaker 13: The Europeans on this.
Speaker 9: He's invited them to the White House next week, and
Speaker 9: this is going to be a big topic on the agenda.
Speaker 6: I would imagine.
Speaker 1: So so Trump has been skeptical of the money going
Speaker 1: to Ukraine and that kind of stuff. He's been vocal
Speaker 1: about that, but not on this kind of attack, you know,
Speaker 1: in un right, So it's a it's a weird kind
Speaker 1: of change for him.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's one thing to say, you know, we're
Speaker 9: going to suspend AID, we're going to do things differently
Speaker 9: than the Biden administration.
Speaker 13: This was surprising to start personally.
Speaker 9: Attacking Zelenski and also on the line of like calling
Speaker 9: him a dictator and not saying anything similar about Vladimir
Speaker 9: Putin when, of course, you know, Putin has targeted political
Speaker 9: rivals and people who challenge him in his own country
Speaker 9: and has overseen elections there that have been widely recognized
Speaker 9: as not being free and fair. Ukraine has not had
Speaker 9: elections since the war started. They are under martial law,
Speaker 9: the constitution had said, can't have elections right now. And
Speaker 9: also just from a practical standpoint, they say, you know,
Speaker 9: people are displaced because of the war, because of the fighting,
Speaker 9: and people are fighting the fight, you know, doing the
Speaker 9: war effort right now, so it would be very difficult
Speaker 9: for them to have an election at.
Speaker 1: This point, Okay, And Putin says he's willing to meet
Speaker 1: with President Trump. Do we have any idea of when
Speaker 1: that might happen and where we don't?
Speaker 9: I mean, the President had said maybe in the near
Speaker 9: future in Saudi Arabia, but no details yet on when
Speaker 9: that could be. The President had also said last week
Speaker 9: he would likely mostly deal with him on the phone
Speaker 9: to start. I asked the White House Tuesday when they're
Speaker 9: going to have their next phone call. This was after
Speaker 9: the Ruvio meetings with the Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 13: The White House said they didn't have anything.
Speaker 9: Scheduled just yet, but the President looked forward to having
Speaker 9: another conversation.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Karen Travers, our White House correspondent, We
Speaker 1: appreciated a ton.
Speaker 6: Have a great rest of your day, you two.
Speaker 13: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two people been
Speaker 1: killed in a mid air collision involving two small planes
Speaker 1: in southern Arizona. Federal investigators say there were two people
Speaker 1: on board each plane yesterday when they collided at Marana
Speaker 1: Regional Airport outside Tucson. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says one of
Speaker 1: the planes hit the ground and caught.
Speaker 8: Fire, emergency crews reaching the scene in less than a minute.
Speaker 8: Officials say one person was pronounced dead on arrival. Two
Speaker 8: others were immediately taken to local hospitals, one of them
Speaker 8: in critical condition. One passenger was trapped in the wreckage,
Speaker 8: crews working for hours to free them.
Speaker 1: The collision happened more than a week after a plane
Speaker 1: crash in Scottsdale killed one of two pilots of a
Speaker 1: private jet owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking with ABC's Jim Ryan coming up
Speaker 1: in just a few minutes about all these crashes and
Speaker 1: of what you can do if you're feeling a little
Speaker 1: too freaked out to fly. Amas Is handed over the
Speaker 1: bodies of four Israeli hostages to Israel. The group says
Speaker 1: they are the remains of a woman and her two
Speaker 1: young children, and a man who was eighty three when
Speaker 1: they were taken. The terrorist group claims all four were
Speaker 1: killed in Israeli airstrikes. A federal judge in New York
Speaker 1: has yet to decide whether corruption charges against Mayor Eric
Speaker 1: Adams will be dropped. The Justice Department argued at a
Speaker 1: hearing yesterday that they should be.
Speaker 14: Federal Judge Delay Ho says he'll take everything that was
Speaker 14: said in Wednesday's hearing under careful consideration. Poe had ordered
Speaker 14: Adams and Department of Justice officials to appear at the
Speaker 14: hearing to discuss the reasoning behind the DOJ order to
Speaker 14: dismiss the case for now.
Speaker 1: Kfi As Kristin Marx says, it's not clear when a
Speaker 1: decision will be made. Adams has denied any wrongdoing. Defense
Speaker 1: Secretary Pete Hegseth has told the military to get ready
Speaker 1: to make cuts. All military branches will be required to
Speaker 1: create a plan to cut eight percent of their budgets
Speaker 1: over the next five years. The only exception to the
Speaker 1: budget cuts will be for border security. An appeals court
Speaker 1: in San Francisco has ruled President Trump cannot end birthright citizenship,
Speaker 1: at least for now.
Speaker 2: The US Constitution says anyone born in the United States
Speaker 2: becomes a US citizen, an amendment Trump has been trying
Speaker 2: to overthrow with an executive order. When a judge in
Speaker 2: Seattle banned that order, the DOJ filed an emergency request
Speaker 2: to lift the ban and end birthright citizenship. The Ninth
Speaker 2: Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that birthright citizenship will
Speaker 2: remain the law while the case moves forward, with arguments
Speaker 2: scheduled for June. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: Some US senators are calling for better ethics enforcement at
Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve. Republican Rick Scott and Democrat Elizabeth Warren
Speaker 1: wrote a letter to FED Chair Jerome Powell saying they're
Speaker 1: concerned about a culture of corruption at the FED. They
Speaker 1: urged Powell to reform the Fed's ethics policy. They blame
Speaker 1: him for an improper response to a twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: report about inappropriate trading, investment and disclosure by the president
Speaker 1: of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. A judge's ruled
Speaker 1: critical evidence will be allowed against the man qu's of
Speaker 1: killing four college students at a home near the University
Speaker 1: of Idaho in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 12: Judge Stephen Hipler denied a motion that using DNA to
Speaker 12: identify Brian Coberger did not violate his Fourth Amendment rights.
Speaker 12: Search warrants for cell phone location data were lowfully obtained.
Speaker 12: Hippler also denied a request for a Frank's hearing to
Speaker 12: determine if investigators line or omitted information to obtain warrants KFI.
Speaker 1: As a brad Ford says, Coburger's trial is set for August.
Speaker 6: Haven't heard that for.
Speaker 5: A while, have you?
Speaker 1: That's the theme from the Last of Us and prepared
Speaker 1: to be zombiefied. HBO has announced the second season of
Speaker 1: its hit series The Last of Us, drops April thirteenth.
Speaker 1: I'm so putting this on my heck on my calendar.
Speaker 1: The series, based on the video game, is HBO Max's
Speaker 1: most watched show ever, averaging thirty million viewers per episode.
Speaker 1: Season two spends five years after season one and follows
Speaker 1: Joel and elliots they face more fungus infected clickers than
Speaker 1: other creatures. Okay, we're going to be talking before the
Speaker 1: top of the hour with the principal of a school
Speaker 1: who has already successfully put a cell phone band in
Speaker 1: place at his school in the Palmdale Unified School District,
Speaker 1: And in honor of LAUSD's new cell phone band, we
Speaker 1: turned to our buddy Eric Lesardo to write a song about.
Speaker 15: It and the classroom texting on the Prince the Bot
Speaker 15: of Bogs learning the Tane emends.
Speaker 5: The rules and Maroll change head.
Speaker 15: At least it's not a bread the school district does
Speaker 15: me the phone is class my head, the cellphones in
Speaker 15: the classroom, the cellphone in the classroom. Eliwis is changing
Speaker 15: all the rules.
Speaker 16: Everybody knows that sellpotane aloud in school.
Speaker 1: And cell phones are not allowed at Sage Magnet Academy
Speaker 1: in Palmdale either. Doctor Timothy How's going to join us
Speaker 1: to tell us how it's going and how the kids
Speaker 1: are handling it. Apparently they're taking it pretty well. Governor
Speaker 1: Newsom has proposed a one hundred and twenty five million
Speaker 1: dollar program to help people whose homes have been damaged
Speaker 1: or destroyed by wildfires. The program would specifically help residents
Speaker 1: in burn zone dating back to twenty twenty three who
Speaker 1: are at risk of foreclosure. Victims of the Palisades, Eton
Speaker 1: Park and Franklin fires could all be eligible for relief.
Speaker 1: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be at Union Station in
Speaker 1: downtown LA this morning to make an announcement about California's
Speaker 1: high speed rail project. After years of delays, the first
Speaker 1: track is being laid for the project that has been
Speaker 1: in the work since twenty fifteen. The price of the
Speaker 1: project has ballooned to one hundred and thirty five billion do.
Speaker 1: A mountain lion found wandering around a neighborhood in Camerio
Speaker 1: has been sedated, caught, and return is being returned to
Speaker 1: the mountains. The big cat was spotted on roofs and
Speaker 1: walking through yards early yesterday morning near the one oh
Speaker 1: one and North Lewis Road. The mountain lion will be
Speaker 1: tagged before it's released at.
Speaker 6: Six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: Millions of dead people may still be getting Social Security
Speaker 1: checks right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, So, Jim,
Speaker 1: I'm getting on a plane tomorrow. Okay, I'd be lying
Speaker 1: if I said I wasn't a little bit nervous. I mean,
Speaker 1: there have been like five plane crashes in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks if you include that one in Arizona just
Speaker 1: earlier this week.
Speaker 17: Yeah, and there's a video of just about all of them,
Speaker 17: isn't there. So you're a great example.
Speaker 7: Where are you.
Speaker 17: Going going up to Oregon, Oregon, and you're going visit
Speaker 17: family there? I had so instead of focusing on the
Speaker 17: hour and a half he'll spend on the plane going
Speaker 17: from LA to Oregon, think about your family, Think about
Speaker 17: the fun things you're going to do up there about
Speaker 17: you know, seeing the trees and the wonderful things that
Speaker 17: you'll be doing there instead of focusing on the flight.
Speaker 17: That may be the best advice that I heard yesterday
Speaker 17: from a psychologist who deals with this kind of thing
Speaker 17: and easing people's anxiety. It's not the destination, amy, it's
Speaker 17: the it's the journey. Don't believe that it is the
Speaker 17: destination in this case.
Speaker 1: Focus on the destination. Yes, a journey, Okay. Are there
Speaker 1: a lot of people like expressing concerns because of this.
Speaker 17: There's a fascinating and objective way to measure that. You
Speaker 17: can see what Google searches. What's going on with Google
Speaker 17: searches right and right now the phrase is it's safe
Speaker 17: to fly? That is jamming up Google. People searching that
Speaker 17: phrase to see if it's safe to fly. The only
Speaker 17: time that Americans were searching for it more for that
Speaker 17: phrase was during the pandemic when they wanted to know
Speaker 17: whether it was safe to fly during the pandemic. So
Speaker 17: this sudden spike, and it has coincided with these high
Speaker 17: profile crashes that we've seen in the last few.
Speaker 1: Weeks, well and two of them, the one in Arizona,
Speaker 1: and then also the one near Reagan National Airport. Those
Speaker 1: are both mid air collisions. I mean, like you think
Speaker 1: of what a bad plane crash, and midair collision seems
Speaker 1: like the worst of the worst.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I think you're right. I think that the one
Speaker 17: in Arizona, these were two fairly small planes, I understand,
Speaker 17: and one of them actually landed. The other one it
Speaker 17: was one that went down and had fatalities on board.
Speaker 17: But yeah, that's I think. And if you're flying along
Speaker 17: and you know, back in see twenty one A, and
Speaker 17: you're looking at the window and you see other planes
Speaker 17: taking off and landing and flying parallel like we have here.
Speaker 17: We have six runways here in Dallas Fort Worth, and
Speaker 17: you see planes flying alongside you, it's almost like they're racing,
Speaker 17: and that thought creeps into your mind. But you just
Speaker 17: and by the way, you know, if you know somebody
Speaker 17: who has that, if you're flying, don't belittle them. Don't
Speaker 17: tell them that they're crazy and start spouting statistics about
Speaker 17: how much safer it is. Just try to be compassionate,
Speaker 17: try to help them through this, ease them into the
Speaker 17: thought of flying, and help them get through it. So
Speaker 17: it's a real thing.
Speaker 6: It is a real thing, and I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering though, Like we've had in the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: all of these very high profile crashes like we've talked about,
Speaker 1: but there were so many like close calls leading up
Speaker 1: to it. It's almost like it was inevitable that something
Speaker 1: was going to happen because we'd gone for such a
Speaker 1: long time without anything happening, but so many close calls.
Speaker 17: Right, Yeah, Well, the one in Washington that was the
Speaker 17: first commercial airline crash or fatality in years, a decade
Speaker 17: or so, maybe more, that just doesn't happen. But the
Speaker 17: one at Arizona yesterday, the fatal crash there, that kind
Speaker 17: of thing happens all the time.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 17: Yeah, you have small planes being involved in incidents and
Speaker 17: accidents and crashes every day of the year. We don't
Speaker 17: hear so much about it because they are fairly small.
Speaker 17: What's more, you know, as tragic as it is, two
Speaker 17: people died in that crash in Arizona yesterday, the plane crash,
Speaker 17: how many crashes, how many people died in car accidents
Speaker 17: in Los Angeles yesterday? Yeah, you know it's that. Yeah,
Speaker 17: So you're sitting back there and see twenty one eight.
Speaker 17: You don't have any control of that flight at all.
Speaker 17: There's no you don't have anything to do with this
Speaker 17: safe operation of that flight. And it's that lack of
Speaker 17: control that kind of drives people's imagination and anxiety.
Speaker 1: I used to be a nervous fire. I'm much better now.
Speaker 1: But I was on a flight one time with a woman,
Speaker 1: or not with her, but she was sitting next to me,
Speaker 1: and she could tell that I was really you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, your white knuckling, your your armrests and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. And she just said the same
Speaker 1: thing that you alluded to, the control thing, and she said,
Speaker 1: at some point you just need to let go and
Speaker 1: know that the people in the cockpit know what they're doing.
Speaker 6: They've got it under controlled.
Speaker 1: And then she kind of just kind of talked me
Speaker 1: through it, and I was like, you know, she's right
Speaker 1: because I'm kind of a control freak, so, you know,
Speaker 1: letting go of that and once you just kind of say,
Speaker 1: you know what, there's somebody better qualified. They're going to
Speaker 1: take care of me. They want to get where we're
Speaker 1: going to, so just chill. And it really helped me.
Speaker 17: Yeah, anything to take your mind off of your concern,
Speaker 17: your fear. If you think that being in the back
Speaker 17: of the plane is safer than being in the front,
Speaker 17: get a seat in the back.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 17: There's no real statistical proof one way or the others,
Speaker 17: but if it makes you feel better, do it. The
Speaker 17: psychologist I spoke with yesterday said that the trick she
Speaker 17: offers her patients pick a really big number and start
Speaker 17: counting backward by three. Your mind will be occupied with
Speaker 17: something else. But whatever you can do to self soothe,
Speaker 17: even if it means stopping by the airport bar on
Speaker 17: the way and grabbing a drink or whatever, just whatever
Speaker 17: it takes to as long as you don't turn drunk
Speaker 17: and you know.
Speaker 6: And belligerate. Yeah, freak out.
Speaker 16: Well we're all going to die.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe just as xannex would be good.
Speaker 6: Well, all right, all right.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much. Hopefully this will help.
Speaker 1: I'm going to think about seeing my mommy. There you
Speaker 1: go on my side, see better.
Speaker 17: Already, yeah on the coast or in inland.
Speaker 1: Oh, inland, okay, yeah, nice, thank you, all right.
Speaker 6: Talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: A couple of suspected burglars have been shot at by
Speaker 1: LAPD officers and arrested during a chase in Hancock Park.
Speaker 6: A third guy got away.
Speaker 1: The pursuit started around nine last night near the Wiltshire
Speaker 1: Country Club.
Speaker 6: It only lasted about five minutes.
Speaker 1: The guy's police were after soon crashed into another car
Speaker 1: and tried to run off.
Speaker 6: Two of them were caught.
Speaker 1: Dust and ash advisories in effect for areas around the
Speaker 1: fires and Pacific Palisades and Castaic because of winds in
Speaker 1: the burn areas. The South Coast Air Quality Management District
Speaker 1: says even though the ash won't affect air quality readings,
Speaker 1: it could be harmful. The advisory is in effect through
Speaker 1: noon today. Officials advised staying indoors, avoiding heavy activity, using
Speaker 1: air purifiers, and wearing protective gear if you're handling ash.
Speaker 1: La County has moved toward creating a fund to support
Speaker 1: renters facing eviction who've lost income due to the wildfires.
Speaker 11: The Board of Supervisors has approved a request to have
Speaker 11: a resolution drafted for consideration next week. Supervisor Lindsay Horvath
Speaker 11: says workers all over the county have face financial challenges
Speaker 11: because of the fires.
Speaker 9: This is a natural disaster that eclipses all others.
Speaker 6: Our County has faced in modern times, The.
Speaker 11: County would put up at least ten million dollars to
Speaker 11: keep renters from being evicted as long as they can
Speaker 11: prove they've lost at least ten percent of their monthly income.
Speaker 11: The program would run through July if approved. Michael Monks
Speaker 11: KFI News.
Speaker 1: Five billion dollars in contracts for upgrades at LAX have
Speaker 1: been approved by the La City Council. Twenty projects are
Speaker 1: expected to get started this year to make the improvements
Speaker 1: at the airport ahead of the twenty twenty six World Cup,
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty eight Super Bowl, and of course, the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. New York
Speaker 1: Governor Kathy Hockel and the MTA are suing the Trump
Speaker 1: administration for ending the city's congestion pricing program. Hokel also
Speaker 1: reacted yesterday to a post on the White House X
Speaker 1: page that read Congestion pricing is dead, with an image
Speaker 1: of President Trump and a crown and the words long
Speaker 1: Live the King.
Speaker 16: New York hasn't labored under a king in over two
Speaker 16: and fifty years, and we are not as sure as hell.
Speaker 7: I'm not going to start now.
Speaker 1: Hochel says whether people love congestion pricing or hate it.
Speaker 1: She sees the Transportation Department's move as an attack on
Speaker 1: New York's sovereign identity and independence from Washington. The Starlight
Speaker 1: Bowl in Burbank is going to be out of service
Speaker 1: for the summer. The city says the venue won't be
Speaker 1: able to host any events due to damage from the
Speaker 1: windstorm last month. City officials say the season will be reimagined,
Speaker 1: with programming relocating to other venues around the city. Strong
Speaker 1: winds will be blowing through parts of the Southland, with
Speaker 1: a wind advisory up in the valleys until noon and
Speaker 1: an advisory for forty mile per hour GUS in Ventura
Speaker 1: County today and tomorrow. Wildfire risk remains low thanks to
Speaker 1: recent heavy rains. Hamas has returned the bodies of four
Speaker 1: dead Israeli hostagees as part of the ongoing ceasefire hostage
Speaker 1: release agreement. The bodies of a four and nine year
Speaker 1: old and their mother, who were taken hostage in the
Speaker 1: October seventh attack, along with a man who was eighty three,
Speaker 1: were turned over today. The children's father was released alive.
Speaker 1: Earlier this month. Apple has unveiled its newest iPhone. The
Speaker 1: sixteen is less expensive than the other iPhones. It'll start
Speaker 1: it just under six hundred dollars. It'll still have Apple's
Speaker 1: A eighteen chip, which is the same processor used in
Speaker 1: the more expensive sixteen models, so you can still do
Speaker 1: AI with it, but it doesn't have the fancy camera.
Speaker 1: It'll be available starting February twenty. Coming up in just
Speaker 1: a few minutes. LA's cell phone ban is in effect
Speaker 1: now for all LA schools and a lot of people
Speaker 1: are kind of freaking out about it. But we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to doctor Timothy Howell at Sage Magnet Academy.
Speaker 1: His students haven't had their phones for a while now,
Speaker 1: and he says the kids are doing just fine. At
Speaker 1: six oh five, it's handle on the news. The ninth
Speaker 1: Circuit in San Francisco has blocked President Trump. Wakeup calls
Speaker 1: gone out and about as we do each week to
Speaker 1: try to get a little culture, and we went to
Speaker 1: a really amazing venue. It was such a just a
Speaker 1: really great surprise. We caught up with the director of
Speaker 1: the Soirita Center for the Performing Arts in Ciritos. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning to Jeff Tilkey.
Speaker 7: Thank you for being here. We really appreciate you being here.
Speaker 1: Well, I want to find out because I've never been
Speaker 1: here and today we're getting to see Dear Evan Hansen,
Speaker 1: and it's a big deal. You guys got kind of
Speaker 1: scored with us. This is a nastur we did.
Speaker 18: It is a national tour. We're very fortunate to have
Speaker 18: it here. We have some great Broadway tours coming through
Speaker 18: this year, but this is one of the biggest ones
Speaker 18: we have, so we're very appreciative of it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So tell us what is it about the Serato
Speaker 1: Center for the Performing Arts that allows you to draw
Speaker 1: in these big name shows.
Speaker 7: Sure.
Speaker 18: One of the great things about this venue is it
Speaker 18: is completely multi configurable.
Speaker 19: So you.
Speaker 18: Are surrounded by a million pounds of moving building. This
Speaker 18: room can literally change shape and we can accommodate just
Speaker 18: about any type of production. So what I mean by
Speaker 18: that is, Dear Evan Hanson is a national Broadway musical tour.
Speaker 18: We can do this very easily. You can see we
Speaker 18: have an orchestra pit here in front of you. We
Speaker 18: can also do a different configuration called large arena. So
Speaker 18: in that configuration, all of this floor is flat. Okay,
Speaker 18: The box seats push out wider and more box seats
Speaker 18: from behind, find the stage on ferral to come out
Speaker 18: and join the room, and you have a three quarter
Speaker 18: wrap round of a raised stage and that is like
Speaker 18: a concert venue.
Speaker 7: Okay, right, So we.
Speaker 18: Can do pop shows, rock shows in that configuration, and
Speaker 18: then next weekend we can do a big Broadway tour
Speaker 18: like this in this configuration.
Speaker 6: That's so cool.
Speaker 1: So it's very versatile, yes, and you mentioned that. So
Speaker 1: we've got the play right now. And then I know
Speaker 1: I'm a big country music fan of ty Herndon coming out.
Speaker 18: Ty Herndon's coming up. I'm looking forward to that show. Yeah,
Speaker 18: he's a great guy. I met him in New York
Speaker 18: a couple of years ago. We're happy to have him here.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then so what are some of the other shows
Speaker 1: that people are going to get to see when they
Speaker 1: come out here.
Speaker 18: Sure, we have a great lineup for the rest of
Speaker 18: the spring. We have Andy Grammer coming, Smokey Robinson, you
Speaker 18: mentioned country with ty Herndon. We have Lyle Lovett coming
Speaker 18: and his acoustic group.
Speaker 1: He's so good, he's amazing in a venue like this, acoustics,
Speaker 1: it's probably pretty spectactical.
Speaker 7: It's going to be great. It's fantastic.
Speaker 18: Yeah, And we have a lot of other special attractions
Speaker 18: as well. We have Rspect, the Aretha Franklin Story coming up,
Speaker 18: Rhythm India, which is a dance show, and a lot
Speaker 18: of other opportunities for Broadway as well. We have Chicago
Speaker 18: coming up the next month, and in June we have
Speaker 18: the Adams Family.
Speaker 6: Oh, the Adams Family.
Speaker 18: The Adams Family. Fine, all of those are national tours,
Speaker 18: by the way. Okay, so if you missed that national tour,
Speaker 18: say at the Pantages, no problem, come right on down
Speaker 18: to Critos and you're right here.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: And you just mentioned so Rita specifically. One of the
Speaker 1: other things that I think is kind of fun and
Speaker 1: special about this one is if you don't if you're
Speaker 1: in Orange County and you don't want to go all
Speaker 1: the way up into Hollywood.
Speaker 7: Yes, that is a big plus.
Speaker 18: We're right on the border of Los Angeles and Orange County,
Speaker 18: very easy to access, right off the freeway. The other
Speaker 18: great thing, and I say this all the time, people
Speaker 18: laugh at me, but it's true.
Speaker 7: Free parking.
Speaker 6: I was just going to ask, it's free parking.
Speaker 7: It's free parking.
Speaker 6: It's a big deal in LA.
Speaker 7: It's right out the front door.
Speaker 18: Yeah, so you come park on the in the parking lot,
Speaker 18: walk right up to the front door, quick security check,
Speaker 18: and you're in, ready to.
Speaker 7: Rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Cool and where do people find out more information about
Speaker 1: all the great shows that are coming up?
Speaker 18: Everything is available on our website soritocenter dot com, easypasy
Speaker 18: easyserritocenter dot com.
Speaker 1: We're out and about at the Cerrito Center for the
Speaker 1: Performing Arts. Jeff Helthy, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much for being here. Appreciate you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have tickets to some of the shows at
Speaker 1: the Cerrito Center for the Performing Arts that he was
Speaker 1: just mentioning too. So you know, listen every day to
Speaker 1: wake Up Call and I got to tell you it
Speaker 1: was a super cool venue. And we're putting a video
Speaker 1: up on my Instagram at Amy Kking. Hopefully i'll get
Speaker 1: it posted in the next.
Speaker 6: Hour or so.
Speaker 1: But it shows how he was talking about how they
Speaker 1: reconfigure the whole venue and they've got video of it
Speaker 1: of how they push like they raise the stage and
Speaker 1: push back the boxes and all that stuff. Really impressive.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was really a great venue. The sound
Speaker 1: was amazing, that show was amazing. By the way, and
Speaker 1: can't wait to go back there again. So thanks to
Speaker 1: the Center for the Performing Arts again. You can check
Speaker 1: my video out at amy Kking and against listen to
Speaker 1: the interview. We'll also post it on at KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty and I would love you to follow me
Speaker 1: too at Amy Kking. Time to get in your business
Speaker 1: now with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzmann.
Speaker 5: Good morning Dan, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 6: How are you doing good? And we hear that Walmart's
Speaker 6: doing pretty good too.
Speaker 4: They are, although they did forecast lower than expected profit
Speaker 4: for the full year. I mean, we're still talking billions
Speaker 4: of dollars. Of course. They cited an uncertain economic environment
Speaker 4: now and investor expectations for high After seventy seven percent
Speaker 4: run up in the stock price over the past twelve months,
Speaker 4: the company's newer businesses, such as advertising and membership are
Speaker 4: fueling profitability. Walmart's digital business is helping attract and retain consumers.
Speaker 4: So like, I mean, there are some issues there, obviously,
Speaker 4: uncertainty and things like tabs, but overall, Walmart still is
Speaker 4: printing money.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you said their stock price is up seventy
Speaker 1: seven percent.
Speaker 4: It was over the past twelve months, it's down about
Speaker 4: ten percent today. I mean expect that to rebound at
Speaker 4: some point. But over the past twelve months you're up
Speaker 4: seventy seven percent.
Speaker 1: That's massive. And I never shopped at Walmart.
Speaker 4: Really, I love the walmarket by everything. It's like one
Speaker 4: stomp shop.
Speaker 1: Okay, Americans apparently prefer the stock market over other investment
Speaker 1: avenues when it comes to long term investing.
Speaker 6: What's up with that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, bank Create has found that Americans do you prefer
Speaker 4: that put their money in stocks to invest for the
Speaker 4: long haul? Now, more than a quarter of adults aim
Speaker 4: you say stocks are the best option for investing funds
Speaker 4: not needed for at least a decade. Now, A little
Speaker 4: less than a quarter people picked to real estate, while
Speaker 4: cash along as savings accounts and cvs came in third.
Speaker 4: Then you have things like gold and crypto and bonds
Speaker 4: coming up well past those top three. Of course, so
Speaker 4: the stock market again seems to be the safest a
Speaker 4: coordinate people.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 1: And when you're talking about there's long term investing, then
Speaker 1: there's a short term thing.
Speaker 6: And you mentioned bank rate.
Speaker 1: We just had the story yesterday that more people are
Speaker 1: beefing up their emergency funds again, they're starting to save again. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, during COVID people had excess cash, just
Speaker 4: spends and then obviously past COVID people spent it and
Speaker 4: then they're that kind of to where they were prior.
Speaker 4: But you know, with the uncertainties economically what's going on,
Speaker 4: I think people are trying to stockposs some cash. God
Speaker 4: DoD they lose their job. I mean, loo can make
Speaker 4: federal employees seem to be losing their jobs with potentially
Speaker 4: tens of thousands more. So people are trying to think
Speaker 4: kind of give themselves somewhat of a cushion gossip. Did
Speaker 4: they lose their jobs?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 1: And while Walmart, maybe a less luxury place to shop,
Speaker 1: is doing well, a luxury car brand is having some trouble.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the luxury car brand, that's kind of an interesting
Speaker 4: story when you look at it, because we're talking about
Speaker 4: all the biggest ones out there. Mercedes Benz expects it's
Speaker 4: car making margin it drops as little as six percent
Speaker 4: this year. That's due to uneven demanding the global all
Speaker 4: the market, as well as really fierce competition. Last year,
Speaker 4: the companies operating earning slump thirty percent. They do plan
Speaker 4: to reduce production costs by ten percent through twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: But despite having investments, Mercedes system sales of the electric
Speaker 4: vehicles falling short of expectations. They're just one of many
Speaker 4: companies that seem to bank on evs. They have not
Speaker 4: gotten their turn because Americans just aren't buying evs right now.
Speaker 4: In China have developed their owns, they're not buying the
Speaker 4: foreign brands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that that's going to be an ongoing
Speaker 1: problem because there was such a rush to get to
Speaker 1: the evs, but then you've got to find people who
Speaker 1: want to buy them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and really the smartest companies Toyota, they did not
Speaker 4: invest heavily and evs. Instead, they invested in the hybrids.
Speaker 4: And you can't buy one right now. You go to dealership,
Speaker 4: you're on a waiting list to get a hybrid because
Speaker 4: everybody wants a hybrid because hey, it's fun to drive electric.
Speaker 4: But if I got to go, you know, a long
Speaker 4: drive or something, do I want to have to wait
Speaker 4: thirty minutes to charge up a car if I'm lucky
Speaker 4: enough to find the charging station. So give me the
Speaker 4: option of electric and gas. And that's been really popular
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: All right, Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman, We're getting in your b
Speaker 1: business like we do every day at five point forty.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: IRS is preparing to lay off about six thousand employees
Speaker 1: starting today.
Speaker 10: The IRS will primarily be letting go of probationary workers
Speaker 10: as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the
Speaker 10: federal government workforce.
Speaker 1: Kyfi's Mark Mayfield says the layoffs come at the busiest
Speaker 1: time of the year for the IRS, and as the
Speaker 1: Department of Government Efficiency, or DOZE, is trying to get
Speaker 1: access to the agency's taxpayer data system. The La City
Speaker 1: Council's signed off on five billion dollars in contracts for design,
Speaker 1: build and construction services at LAX. The vote yesterday was
Speaker 1: eleven nothing. Council members Isabelle Herado, Tracy park Here and Price,
Speaker 1: and Hugo Soto Martinez were absent during the vote. The
Speaker 1: money will cover fifty one contract agreements. A judge's ruled
Speaker 1: critical critical evidence. No, you know when I already did
Speaker 1: that story. How about this one spider Man can't even
Speaker 1: by a fake beer in LA.
Speaker 2: Actor Tom Holland posted to social media about getting carted
Speaker 2: at Target in LA while he attempted to buy his
Speaker 2: own non alcoholic beer brand.
Speaker 16: They wouldn't accept my ID because it's English and I
Speaker 16: couldn't prove my age really lovely employee, I guess stand
Speaker 16: there id.
Speaker 2: Holland is nearly three years sober and says that he
Speaker 2: started the brand to help people feel included in social
Speaker 2: gatherings without drinking alcohol. Businesses in California can check IDs
Speaker 2: when selling non alcoholic beer because it's often categorized similarly
Speaker 2: to alcoholic beer. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: Part of PCH that's been closed since the wildfires broke
Speaker 1: out in Pacific Palisades is partially reopening today. The roadway
Speaker 1: will only be open to residents, people who work or
Speaker 1: own businesses in the area, and school bus traffic. People
Speaker 1: will need access passes to travel along the roadway. Pro
Speaker 1: Palestinian protests have returned to the UCLA campus. Several dozen
Speaker 1: students and others marched through campus earlier this week, demanding
Speaker 1: the university dive guest from investments in Israeli owned businesses.
Speaker 1: Protests last spring erupted in violence and resulted in significant
Speaker 1: damage to the campus. Turkey is exporting some fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: tons of eggs to the US as bird flu is
Speaker 1: sent egg prices skyrocketing here. Deliveries will start this month
Speaker 1: and continue through July. Turkish officials let that be known.
Speaker 1: US egg producers are hoping the imports will help ease
Speaker 1: some pressure on prices. We're just minutes away from handling
Speaker 1: the news this morning. What does it mean to be
Speaker 1: a man or a woman? HHS is defining it for us. Okay,
Speaker 1: as you know, LA schools have enacted a ban on
Speaker 1: cell phones during school hours.
Speaker 15: In the class l text phenomenal brands about amos.
Speaker 16: Thirning the ten emards.
Speaker 7: To gove a out change in a least it's not
Speaker 7: a bread.
Speaker 16: The school does maccas me.
Speaker 15: The phone is so my head in the classroom. In
Speaker 15: the classroom, Ellie Lewis.
Speaker 2: Is changing all the rules.
Speaker 16: So everybody knows that sempultaane aloud in.
Speaker 1: School and a lot of people are upset about that,
Speaker 1: not happy, little freaked out about it. But this is
Speaker 1: nothing new for Sage Magnet Academy in the Palmdale School District.
Speaker 1: So we would love to say good morning to the
Speaker 1: principal at Sage Magnet Academy, doctor Timothy Howell.
Speaker 6: Good morning, doctor.
Speaker 5: Good morning. How are you.
Speaker 1: We're doing great? So you have a cell phone band
Speaker 1: in effect and it's been that way for a while.
Speaker 6: How how's it going.
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, Actually it's going great. When we when we.
Speaker 19: First started, of course we had to push back from
Speaker 19: the parents and students or whatever, but we held the.
Speaker 5: Line and set the expectation high. So it's going really,
Speaker 5: really well.
Speaker 19: Our students, you know, we use that as the ticket
Speaker 19: to get into the school. They have to show their
Speaker 19: cell phone pouches, and every single student was issued a
Speaker 19: pouch and they're expected to bring it to school every day,
Speaker 19: whether they have a phone or not, because we want
Speaker 19: to make sure that if something comes up during the
Speaker 19: school day and they forget to put their phone or
Speaker 19: anything like that, they have their pouch to put the
Speaker 19: phone in. So in the morning at the before they
Speaker 19: eat an enter school, they can't enter the school without.
Speaker 5: That cell phone pouch. Okay, so if they yeah.
Speaker 1: Doctor Hall, tell us, so is it just a little
Speaker 1: black pouch?
Speaker 6: That seals or what is it?
Speaker 19: Yeah, it's yeah, it's it's it's Yonder Pouches is.
Speaker 5: A company that you know did it. But it's like a.
Speaker 19: Gray pouch and it has a strong magnet on it's magnetized.
Speaker 19: So every morning we bring out the magnet and they
Speaker 19: have to use the magnet to open up the pouch
Speaker 19: and put their phone in there, and then they seal it.
Speaker 19: They close the magnet and the pouch and then they
Speaker 19: enter into the school, okay.
Speaker 1: All right, And then it stays sealed all day long.
Speaker 1: And so even if they they couldn't get into the
Speaker 1: pouch if they wanted to, like you guys, have to
Speaker 1: actually release that.
Speaker 19: Yes, they if they sealed all they they keep the
Speaker 19: phones with them, and yeah, if they take it out
Speaker 19: or if they, like some kids try to be sneaky,
Speaker 19: and if they don't, if we do a random pouch
Speaker 19: check or something like that and we find the phone,
Speaker 19: then it's a parent pick up, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of parents who were saying,
Speaker 1: or who have been saying, at least for la they're saying,
Speaker 1: I need to be able to reach my children. What
Speaker 1: if there's an emergency, So how do you combat that argument?
Speaker 19: Yes, I tell the parents like how the school used
Speaker 19: to be long time ago. It's like if there's an emergency,
Speaker 19: they can We'll call the school, go to the nurs's office,
Speaker 19: We'll call the parent like we we always do.
Speaker 5: We don't want all of these emergencies all.
Speaker 19: Over the campus where kids is calling their parents and
Speaker 19: for for ridiculous things. And so these phone pouches have
Speaker 19: has really improved, you know, the engagement in the classrooms eliminated.
Speaker 5: A lot of drama.
Speaker 19: You know, kids planning to fight, posting fights and all
Speaker 19: of this stuff at school. They still do it, but
Speaker 19: they do it on Saturday and Sunday, I guess or
Speaker 19: after school.
Speaker 1: Okay, I was just going to ask you about that,
Speaker 1: like do the kids you said that there's less bullying
Speaker 1: on campus because they're not like right, you know, like
Speaker 1: in my day, we wrote nasty notes to each other,
Speaker 1: but and but it only went to like one person,
Speaker 1: It didn't go to everybody on campus.
Speaker 6: So that's one thing.
Speaker 1: And then as far as like student performance and that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, have you seen a difference with them
Speaker 1: not having that distraction?
Speaker 5: Most definitely.
Speaker 19: Actually it actually it puts more pressure on teachers to
Speaker 19: you know, make sure that you know their their instructional
Speaker 19: practices are at a high level. Because now we have
Speaker 19: the student's attention. We we eliminated a lot of the distractions,
Speaker 19: so now you know the kids are they're listening to
Speaker 19: what the instructions are and if the teachers should have
Speaker 19: a be prepared to give them, you know, quality instruction
Speaker 19: now because they have their attention.
Speaker 5: And even for those students.
Speaker 19: That maybe have their phones, you know, or they don't
Speaker 19: want to put it in the pouch and they're being
Speaker 19: sneaky or anything like that, they will do not bring
Speaker 19: that phone out because they know they're going to be
Speaker 19: you know, identified quickly because all the phones should be
Speaker 19: in the pouches. So yes, it brings focus into the classroom.
Speaker 19: I haven't had any issues when it comes to the
Speaker 19: phones because they know we're coming to confiscate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, and then what about lunchtime? Can they use
Speaker 1: them during lunch and breaks?
Speaker 19: Absolutely not want students to be engaged in activity. So
Speaker 19: at Sage Magnet Academy, we at lunchtime kids can play chess,
Speaker 19: they sit down, play board games. We also have a
Speaker 19: company that comes in and they plan sports with them
Speaker 19: football and basketball at lunch time. So kids are learning
Speaker 19: how to learn, how to socialize again, learning how to
Speaker 19: you know, be the kid, and so we don't have
Speaker 19: those issues.
Speaker 1: I love that, Doctor Timothy Howe, principal at Stage Magnet Academy.
Speaker 6: We love to hear success stories.
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on and explaining it, and hopefully for
Speaker 1: parents in LA schools just know that things are.
Speaker 6: Going to be just fine.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely all.
Speaker 1: Right, doctor Hall, thank you so much for your time
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: state agency has recommended lowering utility customers costs.
Speaker 11: The report from the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't outline
Speaker 11: exactly how to do that, It merely makes recommendations. Republican
Speaker 11: States Senator Shusette Valdaras says that's an issue.
Speaker 20: There are no real solutions and not even an acknowledgment
Speaker 20: of what is actually driving these costs up, and what
Speaker 20: is driving the cost up is overregulation and renewable energy mandate.
Speaker 11: The report says the state should find a different way
Speaker 11: to subsidize lower income customers and solar power owners. Rather
Speaker 11: than placing that burden on other ratepayers. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The son of an Orange County judge charged with murder,
Speaker 1: has taken the stand at his father's trial. Kfi's Mark
Speaker 1: Mayfield's His opening statements started yesterday.
Speaker 10: Prosecutors told the jury that seventy four year old Judge
Speaker 10: Jeffrey Ferguson was drunk and had been arguing with his wife,
Speaker 10: Cheryl on the day of the shooting. In August of
Speaker 10: twenty twenty three, Ferguson allegedly pulled a glock handgun out
Speaker 10: of his ankle holster at the couple's home in Anaheim
Speaker 10: Hills and shot his wife through the midsection.
Speaker 1: Ferguson's son, Philip, testified that his parents had been arguing
Speaker 1: that day about money and about his father's still supporting
Speaker 1: a thirty seven year old son. He also said his
Speaker 1: father had been drinking. The defense claims the shooting was
Speaker 1: an accident. Three beaches in southern California are among the
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Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris has followed her former boss and
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