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Speaker 1: It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday, January twenty ninth. Good morning, I'm
Speaker 1: Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I
Speaker 1: want to say thanks to Michael Monks, who filled in
Speaker 1: for me for the last couple of days so I
Speaker 1: could go and celebrate Amuary and do what Andrew quine
Speaker 1: so pictures. There was a little of that. We went
Speaker 1: up and we did a girls' weekend extravaganza. Watch out
Speaker 1: fossil robles and pots of robels and or roblists. There's
Speaker 1: an ongoing fight on how you pronounce it. But what
Speaker 1: a fun weekend. So Amuary continues. I got two more days.
Speaker 1: I thought it was Willowary. Well you can have Willowery too.
Speaker 1: I have Amuary. I celebrate my birthday the whole month
Speaker 1: and other good news. Today Jackie laid another egg one
Speaker 1: of the Big Bear Eagles three email are yep, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, they got busy this season. WHOA, they've got
Speaker 1: three again, So I'm very excited about that. Here's what's
Speaker 1: ahead on wake up Call, Governor Newsom says the state
Speaker 1: and FEMA have sent a letter to the EPA calling
Speaker 1: for the hazardous materials removal work to be completed in
Speaker 1: the fire zones within thirty days, not the original sixty
Speaker 1: days that was estimated. Newsom added the Phase two debris
Speaker 1: removal will not have to wait until the EPA's work
Speaker 1: is completely done. The LA Department of Water and Power
Speaker 1: has plans to hire an independent engineer to determine whether
Speaker 1: the empty Santa Inez Reservoir led to the failure of
Speaker 1: its water system during the deadly Palisades Fire. The one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir has been empty four
Speaker 1: about a year. The White House has held its first
Speaker 1: press briefing of the new Trump administration. Press Secretary Caroline
Speaker 1: Levitt read out a list of some of the illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants who've been detained in raids, said the mysterious drones
Speaker 1: where FAA approved, and said a temporary freeze on federal
Speaker 1: aid is being done because it's the responsibility of the
Speaker 1: administration to be stewards of Americans tax dollars. Kfi's White
Speaker 1: House correspondent John Decker was in the room and it
Speaker 1: was packed. We're going to talk to him in about
Speaker 1: three minutes. Ktlized tech guy Rich DeMuro, what the heck
Speaker 1: is Deep Seek and do we want it? That's coming
Speaker 1: up at five point twenty. Also, Tax season is here
Speaker 1: with it. ABC's Jim Ryan says he's got another warning
Speaker 1: for us because people are trying to scam us. That's
Speaker 1: at five point fifty. Oh, and Amy's on it with
Speaker 1: Awards season here. I'll be checking out a really dark
Speaker 1: torch show that just might ruffle your feathers. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA Department of Water
Speaker 1: and Power investigating whether an empty reservoir led to the
Speaker 1: failure of its water system during the fire and Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 4: That reservoir was trained by the department about a year ago.
Speaker 1: That man lost his home in the fire. He addressed
Speaker 1: the Board of Water and Power commissioners yesterday, what.
Speaker 5: Is the explanation for this?
Speaker 2: There's been no explanation offered to the people of Palisades,
Speaker 2: whose house is burned out.
Speaker 1: The one hundred and seventeen million gallon reservoir near the
Speaker 1: Palisades Highlands neighborhood was drained after a tear was found
Speaker 1: in its protective cover. The DWP says it's planning to
Speaker 1: hire an independent engineer to look at how much the
Speaker 1: reservoir being empty contributed to the loss of water pressure
Speaker 1: and water in hydrants. The City of La is offering
Speaker 1: online workshops to help fire survivors access job opportunity, unemployment benefits,
Speaker 1: and healthcare. La Mayor Bath says the workshops are going
Speaker 1: to happen Monday through Saturday. You can sign up for
Speaker 1: them on the La city website. Governor Newsom is working
Speaker 1: with Magic Johnson to help people rebuild from the fires
Speaker 1: in La County. The Lakers, Legend and the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: behind an effort called La Rises to raise money for
Speaker 1: wild fire recovery.
Speaker 6: Mark Waters, the lead owner of the Dodgers, as well
Speaker 6: as the La Dodger Foundation, has now put up and
Speaker 6: donated up to one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1: LA twenty eight Olympics chairperson Casey Wasserman is also pledging
Speaker 1: to help. Johnson says he's involved because he doesn't want
Speaker 1: the city of Altadena to be forgotten, and neither do we.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker. John, we've been waiting to see what's going
Speaker 1: to happen when the Trump administration press briefings continued, and
Speaker 1: they didn't disappoint.
Speaker 4: Huh Yeah, forty seven minute long briefing conducted yesterday by
Speaker 4: Caroline Levitt. That's the new White House Press secretary, just
Speaker 4: twenty seven years old, the youngest press secretary in American history,
Speaker 4: and she has served before in the first Trump administration
Speaker 4: in a junior level capacity in the Press Office, but
Speaker 4: yesterday was her first White House press briefing, packed house,
Speaker 4: standing room only, no surprise. I've seen that before with
Speaker 4: new administrations, but I think that's going to continue for
Speaker 4: the foreseeable future. And where you where you have these
Speaker 4: packed rooms. I was one of the journalists that she
Speaker 4: called upon yesterday during the White House Press briefing. But
Speaker 4: a number of journalists representing some well known news organizations
Speaker 4: did not get called upon. The Wall Street Journal, the
Speaker 4: Washington Post didn't get called upon, PBS didn't get called upon,
Speaker 4: the USA Today, the La Times did not get called upon.
Speaker 4: Time Magazine did not get called upon. So a different
Speaker 4: era with Caroline Levitt in charge of the White House
Speaker 4: press briefings.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you mentioned some of the traditional outlets didn't
Speaker 1: get called on. But she made an announcement saying we're
Speaker 1: going to open the press room back up to others.
Speaker 1: What was the message.
Speaker 4: There, Well, the message is that the Trump administration believes
Speaker 4: that you know, this legacy media has really dominated questions
Speaker 4: in the White House press briefing over the course of
Speaker 4: the past four years during the Biden administration, and what
Speaker 4: the Trump administration would like to do and what they're
Speaker 4: going to do is to open things up and we'll
Speaker 4: see how that goes. And you know what I always
Speaker 4: say is the rules are dictated by the president the
Speaker 4: people that won the White House, and Donald Trump won
Speaker 4: the White House, and if that's what they want to do,
Speaker 4: that is their right. They've won the White House, they've
Speaker 4: won the keys to the White House, and they can
Speaker 4: establish the rules going forward for the White House Press
Speaker 4: briefing room, can they.
Speaker 1: I know that Caroline mentioned that they were going to
Speaker 1: look at reinstating like four hundred press criefs credentials is
Speaker 1: it pretty normal for people to get basically not to
Speaker 1: not get the president the credentials or get them denied
Speaker 1: after they already have them.
Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting. You know, people are obviously not
Speaker 4: aware of all the rules that take place. But literally,
Speaker 4: if you work for your high school newspaper, you could
Speaker 4: get a daily press pass to into the White House.
Speaker 4: That is the case for the Biden administration. It will
Speaker 4: be the case for the Trump administration. Now getting a
Speaker 4: hard pass is completely different. But if you wanted to,
Speaker 4: you know, attend a press briefing, literally and you work
Speaker 4: for your high school newspaper, go ahead and apply and
Speaker 4: you can attend a White House press briefing. So it's
Speaker 4: not the exclusive club that certain people make it out
Speaker 4: to be.
Speaker 1: And lots of pressure on Caroline Levett, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: very the youngest press secretary, Like around the room, what
Speaker 1: was the how did she do?
Speaker 4: I thought she did a commendable job. You know, she
Speaker 4: is the seventeenth White House press secretary that I will
Speaker 4: work with amy and I thought she did a great
Speaker 4: job right out of the box and not a surprise.
Speaker 4: She did a good job. As it relates to being
Speaker 4: the campaign spokesman, during the campaign, and she's had some
Speaker 4: experience in politics, served in the first Trump White House,
Speaker 4: a former congressional candidate back in twenty twenty two. I
Speaker 4: think she's very poised in handling the questions. And you
Speaker 4: may have noticed amy she doesn't rely on a briefing book,
Speaker 4: unlike Karine Jean Pierre, unlike Jen Saki, unlike Kaylee mckinenni
Speaker 4: the final press secretary for Donald Trump in his first administration.
Speaker 1: I did notice that I was like she was addressing
Speaker 1: the reporters and not looking down. There was a couple
Speaker 1: of times where she looked down, but otherwise she she
Speaker 1: had it all up in her inner nouggin.
Speaker 4: Yeah, aside from the opening statement that she wished to deliver,
Speaker 4: which you can underst and opening statement relying on your
Speaker 4: notes or relying on the text the questions themselves, she
Speaker 4: did not rely on any notes in terms of providing
Speaker 4: answers to those questions. I asked two questions yesterday at
Speaker 4: the White House Press briefing, went on domestic policy, one
Speaker 4: on foreign policy, including a question on birthright citizenship and
Speaker 4: what the administration's point of view is on that, given
Speaker 4: that many legal scholars believe that right is enshrined in
Speaker 4: the fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. And I also asked
Speaker 4: about Donald Trump's view of the NATO Defense Alliance if
Speaker 4: it's the same view in terms of its importance that
Speaker 4: the prior administration had. So hopefully, you know, I get
Speaker 4: called upon continuously by Caroline Leavitt as the briefings happen.
Speaker 4: They may not happen every day, she indicated, but they
Speaker 4: will happen, certainly, you know, on a fairly regular basis.
Speaker 1: I was wondering which questions you got to ask because
Speaker 1: I was watching it, and she mentioned the drones. That
Speaker 1: was kind of out of the blueset. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: we checked on the drones. Here's what happened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know what, interestingly enough, it's pretty she
Speaker 4: said it in her own way, but interestingly enough, it's
Speaker 4: essentially the same message that was delivered by the Biden
Speaker 4: administration in terms of those drones that have popped up
Speaker 4: in many parts of New Jersey in particular over the
Speaker 4: last few months.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll look forward to more press briefings, and
Speaker 1: we love that you're in the room there, and we'll
Speaker 1: be looking for your insights as we move through this presidency.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Kfi's White House correspondent John Dekker
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
Speaker 1: medical lab owner in La County has been sentenced to
Speaker 1: nine years for her role in a three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty nine million dollar fraud scheme that exploited the COVID
Speaker 1: nineteen pandemic and resulted in false billings and theft from
Speaker 1: federal programs. Lord Is Navarro from Glendale plead guilty two
Speaker 1: years ago to conspiracy to commit health care fraud and
Speaker 1: wire fraud for doing tests in nursing homes, elder facilities,
Speaker 1: and schools that weren't needed. California Attorney General Rob Bontas
Speaker 1: as he agrees with a federal judge who has temporarily
Speaker 1: blocked President Trump's executive order to pause federal funding for review.
Speaker 1: The judge blocked the order just minutes before was due
Speaker 1: to take effect yesterday afternoon. Bontas's California could have lost
Speaker 1: billions in federal aid. If the order had been left
Speaker 1: in place.
Speaker 7: We would have stood lose one hundred and thirty billion
Speaker 7: plus dollars over the course of this year alone. If
Speaker 7: the funding that the order contemplated was actually halted.
Speaker 1: He says, healthcare for the poor, subsidized housing assistants, and
Speaker 1: food assistants were all on the chopping block. The administration
Speaker 1: said the order was temporary to ensure spending complies with
Speaker 1: Trump's executive orders. The White Houses offered buyouts with about
Speaker 1: eight months salary to federal employees who choose to leave
Speaker 1: their jobs by February sixth. It's part of an administration
Speaker 1: effort to reduce the cost of the federal workforce. ABC's
Speaker 1: Andrew Dimbert says those interested just have to reply with resign.
Speaker 3: Elon Musk, who leads the Department of Government Efficiency, reposting
Speaker 3: a report saying they expect five to ten percent of
Speaker 3: the federal workforce to take the buyout offer, saving about
Speaker 3: one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 1: A memo tells employees that if they resign under the program,
Speaker 1: they will retain all pay and benefits and will be
Speaker 1: exempted from all in person work requirements until September thirtieth.
Speaker 1: Former New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is set to
Speaker 1: be sentenced for accepting cash and gold bars and acting
Speaker 1: as a foreign agent for Egypt. Prosecutors have recommended a
Speaker 1: fifteen year sentence when Menendez goes before a judge today.
Speaker 1: Two businessmen were also convicted in the case, and Menendez's
Speaker 1: wife is awaiting trial. Her bribery trial has been postponed
Speaker 1: because she's being treated for breast cancer. That trial is
Speaker 1: scheduled to begin in New York in March. Nearly twenty
Speaker 1: thousand cases of Horizon Organic milk or being recod called
Speaker 1: because of spoilage concerns. The impacted milk was distributed in California, Arizona,
Speaker 1: and Nevada. The milk apparently is spoiling early because of
Speaker 1: heat damage during the milk's processing. A plane has caught
Speaker 1: fire on the tarmac at an airport in South Korea
Speaker 1: ABCZ and panels as The airbus was operated by low
Speaker 1: cost South Korean air carrier air Boosam.
Speaker 8: Security footage showing smoke rising. Fire crewis desperately trying to
Speaker 8: douse the flames. One hundred and sixty nine passengers and
Speaker 8: seven crew evacuated just as smoke starts to fill the cabin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's scary. Officials say they believe the fire began
Speaker 1: in the tail section of the plane. Three people have
Speaker 1: minor injuries. A prototype passenger jet has broken the sound
Speaker 1: barrier during a test flight from the Mojave Air and
Speaker 1: Spaceport in California. Kfi's Tammy Truehillo says the XB one
Speaker 1: jet hit speeds above Makwe yesterday.
Speaker 9: It was the first civilian aircraft to reach speeds of
Speaker 9: over eight hundred and fifty miles per hour since the
Speaker 9: Concord Airliner did it over twenty years years ago.
Speaker 1: The CEO of Boom's Supersonic praised his team for the
Speaker 1: accomplishment and said he hopes to bring supersonic flights to everyone.
Speaker 1: Rent prices have spiked during the wildfires. A study from
Speaker 1: a tenant advocacy group says there are more than thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred cases of price gouging. The study found new listings
Speaker 1: in West Hollywood, Hollywood, Venice, and Malibu, where among the
Speaker 1: worst areas affected. Tenant advocates are calling on law enforcement
Speaker 1: agencies to take immediate action and hold violators accountable. Public
Speaker 1: health officials are warning residents to stay out of the
Speaker 1: water from Malibu to Santa Monica because of potentially toxic
Speaker 1: storm runoff. And debris from the Palisades fire. Signs are
Speaker 1: being posted on affected beaches. The waters will be closed
Speaker 1: to swimmers and surfers indefinitely. The California State Senate has
Speaker 1: approved millions in funding to trump proof the state against
Speaker 1: President Trump's policies. The proposals include twenty five million dollars
Speaker 1: for the California DOJ lawsuits and another twenty five million
Speaker 1: for nonprofits assisting illegal immigrants. Govin or Newsom could sign
Speaker 1: the bills this week if the Assembly proves them approves them.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning to the host of
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech right here on KFI KTLA's tech guy,
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro. Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of buzz about Deep Seek, a new AI.
Speaker 1: What is it and do we want it?
Speaker 2: Well, this is a new AI out of China and
Speaker 2: it kind of surprised a lot of people overnight because
Speaker 2: they're doing what CHATYBT and Google and Meta are doing
Speaker 2: at a fraction of the price, or so they say,
Speaker 2: And so this has kind of upended everything we know
Speaker 2: about AI, like how much it costs to produce these models,
Speaker 2: how much it costs to run them, The chips that
Speaker 2: we need for these things. And of course it sent
Speaker 2: Silicon Valley into a tizzy because it seems like everything
Speaker 2: we knew over the past year or two has been
Speaker 2: thrown up and everything is up for grabs again.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like they kept this secret because I
Speaker 1: had not even heard that name until all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it was there, and stocks for Nvidi and other
Speaker 1: ani's were tanking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and now you can't hear enough about it. So again,
Speaker 2: this is a website just like chat GPT, and also
Speaker 2: an app. The app has sprung to the top of
Speaker 2: the App Store also on Google Play, so people are
Speaker 2: trying this. They're very curious about it. If you look
Speaker 2: at this deep cki, you know, you can ask it questions,
Speaker 2: you can have a brainstorm. I told it my favorite
Speaker 2: movies yesterday and asked for some similar recommendations. So it's
Speaker 2: everything that you need in this AI. But again, it's
Speaker 2: just being done at a fraction of the price, and
Speaker 2: so of course it's putting a lot of pressure on
Speaker 2: American companies to say, hold on, do we need to
Speaker 2: rethink how we're doing this now. Time will tell just
Speaker 2: how good this AI is over time. If this is
Speaker 2: just a blip on the radar, or if we have
Speaker 2: seen a sizeable shift in the entire industry.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then you mentioned that it's out of China,
Speaker 1: and there's already concerns over TikTok having our information and
Speaker 1: possibly using it for nefarious purposes. I would imagine that
Speaker 1: there would be even more concern over an AI out
Speaker 1: of China.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be curious. I would think the exact same thing,
Speaker 2: especially because people are going to start dumping very sensitive
Speaker 2: information into this chat window, right if they want to
Speaker 2: have their medical records analyzed, or their personal information or whatever.
Speaker 2: People use AI in really personal ways. So the fact
Speaker 2: that this is out of China obviously does have some
Speaker 2: of the same implications as TikTok, if not more, because
Speaker 2: people are using it for very personal information. So far
Speaker 2: we don't know is not owned by the government, but
Speaker 2: you know, things are a little bit different over there
Speaker 2: in China. So that is the concern, and I guess
Speaker 2: we'll hear more about that in the future.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for now, I mean, do you think it's
Speaker 1: worth a download or worth a It's I guess it's
Speaker 1: just on a website. It's not an app.
Speaker 2: It is a is the top Yeah, it's a top
Speaker 2: app right now on the iPhone and Android. Do I
Speaker 2: think you should switch to it? No, I think that
Speaker 2: unless you are an AI researcher or someone who's really
Speaker 2: interested in this stuff for building an app, I would
Speaker 2: stick to what we have here. But if you're curious,
Speaker 2: you know, there's no harm in checking out. You do
Speaker 2: have to sign in with your with your Google account,
Speaker 2: just FYI.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then we have some iPhone and some Android news.
Speaker 1: You've got the Samsung S twenty five Ultra. Tell us
Speaker 1: about that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been been playing with this. They had the
Speaker 2: event last week up in San Jose. I don't think
Speaker 2: we got to talk because of that, but it was.
Speaker 2: It's a great phone so far. I'm very impressed. It's
Speaker 2: all about AI. Of course, the camera's slight upgrade, so
Speaker 2: the cameras are really good. I will just say I'll
Speaker 2: cut to the chase here on this phone. If you're
Speaker 2: thinking of upgrading your Samsung or your Android, or even
Speaker 2: switching to Android, this is the year to do it,
Speaker 2: because Samsung finally came out with the phone. That is,
Speaker 2: there's no flaw on this that I can discern, so
Speaker 2: it's really really nice. And it also, by the way,
Speaker 2: they got the size of it perfect, so it fits
Speaker 2: in your hand really nicely. Even though they made the
Speaker 2: screen bigger, somehow they made it fit in your hand
Speaker 2: better than last year, which is pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what kind of cost are we looking at?
Speaker 2: Well, you're looking at about thirteen hundred dollars for the
Speaker 2: top of the line, eight hundred dollars for the standard.
Speaker 2: But nobody pays the full Samsung prices. There is always
Speaker 2: a discount. They've got discount for military teachers, students. If
Speaker 2: you're employed by a company, you know, you can get
Speaker 2: up to thirty percent off plus trade in. Someone emailed
Speaker 2: me after they heard me talk about it my radio,
Speaker 2: so they paid three hundred and ninety nine dollars to
Speaker 2: the top of the line device after trade in.
Speaker 1: Okay, so big thumbs up from Rich for that one.
Speaker 1: And there's an awesome new feature in the latest iOS update.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, this is so handy. So iOS eighteen
Speaker 2: point three if you haven't downloaded it a bunch of
Speaker 2: you know, a little polish for the the latest operating system.
Speaker 2: But the coolest feature if you have one of these
Speaker 2: newer iPhones, with the camera control button, you can aim
Speaker 2: your phone at a poster or anything, or a flyer,
Speaker 2: whatever you have that has like a calendar event on it,
Speaker 2: Press and hold the button and it will recognize that
Speaker 2: calendar event and add it to your calendar. So for me,
Speaker 2: my kid came home yesterday with an event at school
Speaker 2: they have to go to, and it was a printed
Speaker 2: flyer that would take me a while to type it
Speaker 2: into my phone. I literally just scanned it with this
Speaker 2: new feature, and in seconds it added all the information
Speaker 2: to my calendar. That to me is worth the upgrade.
Speaker 1: It's almost like the job search websites that you go
Speaker 1: to where it like auto fills your resume. Sounds like
Speaker 1: the same kind of thing where it's reading your stuff
Speaker 1: and then inputting it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that that was my dream forever. It's like,
Speaker 2: here's my resume, you tell me which jobs i'd be
Speaker 2: good for, right, Like, don't why do I have to search?
Speaker 2: So I think we're seeing more of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's cool. You just point your camera at
Speaker 1: it and automatically does it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I've been using it like all afternoon. I showed
Speaker 2: my wife. She's like, okay, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna have to try that one. And that's
Speaker 1: on the new or the updated iOS, So if you
Speaker 1: haven't updated, maybe now's the time to do that.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was eighteen point three. Yeah, remember that's on
Speaker 2: the iPhone sixteen. I'm not sure if that's available on
Speaker 2: the older models because they don't have that camera control button.
Speaker 2: You know, Apple's trying to give you an excuse to
Speaker 2: upgrade by adding all these new features exclusive for the
Speaker 2: new phone.
Speaker 1: They're sneaky that way.
Speaker 5: Yes, all right.
Speaker 1: That's KFI is Tech reporter Rich DeMuro. You can get
Speaker 1: all kinds of great tech tips from Rich when you
Speaker 1: listen to him Saturdays from eleven am to two pm
Speaker 1: right here on KFI it's Rich on Tech. You can
Speaker 1: also follow Rich on Instagram at rich on tech is website,
Speaker 1: richon tech dot tv. Thank you, Rich DeMuro, Thank you Amy.
Speaker 2: Have a great Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Right, we'll talk to you soon. The LACD councils considering
Speaker 1: a package of tenant protections meant to help people displaced
Speaker 1: or impacted by the recent wildfires. The package prohibits evictions
Speaker 1: for non payment of rent, certain no fault evictions, evictions
Speaker 1: for having additional tenants and pets, and evictions based on
Speaker 1: failure to have renters insurance. It also includes a possible
Speaker 1: one year freeze on rent increases. A woman accused of
Speaker 1: killing her two year old son at their home in
Speaker 1: East Vale in Riverside County is pleaded not guilty to
Speaker 1: first degree murder. She's alleged to have killed the boy
Speaker 1: in October of twenty twenty two. After her initial court appearance,
Speaker 1: she was given psychiatric evaluations through twenty twenty three before
Speaker 1: judge determined that she was mentally competent. Another hearing has
Speaker 1: been scheduled for late February. The Pentagon has pulled retired
Speaker 1: General Mark Milly's security clearance.
Speaker 10: Milly served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Speaker 10: in both the Trump and Biden administrations. On Tuesday, new
Speaker 10: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in formally that he was revoking
Speaker 10: his security clearance and his security detail.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield says Pete Hegseth also direct to the
Speaker 1: Defense Department's Office of Inspector General to open an inquiry
Speaker 1: into the facts and circumstances surrounding General Milly's conduct. Or
Speaker 1: allegedly undermining the chain of command during President Trump's first term.
Speaker 1: The new Orleans Police chief has reassured residents and visitors
Speaker 1: the city and the police department are making sure this
Speaker 1: year's Super Bowl and Mardi Gras events will be safe.
Speaker 1: Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick say's lessons have been learned from the
Speaker 1: January first Bourbon Street terrorist attack. We're going to have
Speaker 1: an incredible Super Bowl. We're going to have a great
Speaker 1: and fun time.
Speaker 9: And then followed by Marty Grass.
Speaker 1: She says they're going to maintain their traditional parade routes.
Speaker 1: People whose homes were damaged or destroyed in the wildfires
Speaker 1: can have the US Army Corps of Engineers clear debris
Speaker 1: from their properties for free. Owners just need to request
Speaker 1: the help with debre removal by filling out a form
Speaker 1: that's available at Recovery dot LA County dot gov. Homeowners
Speaker 1: can also hire their own contractors if they'd rather get
Speaker 1: the debris cleared that way. LA Fire employees have founded
Speaker 1: the lawsuit against the city. They say the department is
Speaker 1: significantly understaffed. Members of the firefighters union and their attorneys
Speaker 1: say the problem has been happening for years. They say
Speaker 1: employees are often asked to stay extra hours and in
Speaker 1: some cases are not paid for overtime. Jackie has laid
Speaker 1: another egg. The bald eagle perched in the nest high
Speaker 1: above Big Bear Lake, laid her third egg this season
Speaker 1: last night. The first egg arrived a week ago. Today,
Speaker 1: you can watch Jackie and Shadow in the eggs on
Speaker 1: the Friends of Big Bear Valley YouTube channel. It's on
Speaker 1: as Will Coleschreiber just found out twenty four hours a day.
Speaker 1: They've got night vision, no privacy, no privacy, That's okay.
Speaker 1: They're so gorgeous, so excited. At f I point fifty,
Speaker 1: tax season is here, and with it, there are scammers.
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan has more warnings for us. You won't
Speaker 1: want to miss that again. That's in about thirteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Amy on it, Aami's on, Jami's on it, Gami's on it.
Speaker 1: What am I on? I'm on the stream movies documentaries series,
Speaker 1: you name it, I'm on it, and hopefully I'll help
Speaker 1: you get on the good ones and maybe pass on
Speaker 1: the bad ones. But it is awards season, so for
Speaker 1: the next month or so, I'm going to be reviewing
Speaker 1: award nominated ones. This one is nominated for SAG Awards.
Speaker 1: I think those are February twenty third, a couple weeks
Speaker 1: before the Academy Awards. But again, this is a TV series,
Speaker 1: not a movie. But it's The Penguin on Max. The
Speaker 1: full season is out eight episodes, so you can watch
Speaker 1: it in installments or you can binge it as I
Speaker 1: wont to do. Colin Ferrell plays the Penguin. And you
Speaker 1: may have heard about this. You don't know it's Colin Ferrell.
Speaker 1: It's almost distracting. It's so not Colin fair garl. I mean,
Speaker 1: he they absolutely transform him and it doesn't look like makeup.
Speaker 1: It looks like a whole different person. And he plays
Speaker 1: Oswald Cobb and does it brilliantly. And based on the
Speaker 1: name the Penguin, you think Batman. Well, it's set in Gotham.
Speaker 1: He's basically a mob boss fighting the familiar foes, the
Speaker 1: Falcone family, the Maroney family. It sounds like Chicago mob families, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: lots of villains in the show, from the Penguin to
Speaker 1: his mom, to the Falcones to kind of everyone in
Speaker 1: Penguin's life. There's lots of villains in this show. Oh
Speaker 1: and by the way, there's no Batman. There's no reference
Speaker 1: to Batman. There's nothing about Batman through the whole eight episodes.
Speaker 1: And then I mentioned the Falcone family. So the daughter
Speaker 1: is Sophia Falcone, brilliantly played by Kristin Miliatti. She's also
Speaker 1: I believe she's nominated for a sag Award for Best Actress.
Speaker 1: She is a tortured soul. She's been convicted of being
Speaker 1: someone called the Hangman. So again, the references are very
Speaker 1: batman esque where they are, you know, super villains and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But again, Batman isn't part of this.
Speaker 1: She's cold, she's calculated, she's wonderfully crazy in this role,
Speaker 1: and I see why she's nominated. Really fun to watch.
Speaker 1: The show is super dark. The characters are more real people,
Speaker 1: not caricatures like the Batman movies. So unlike like Danny
Speaker 1: DeVito when he played the Penguin and kind of waddled
Speaker 1: and had the weird nose and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't get me wrong, Oswald Cobb is a
Speaker 1: funky looking guy, but he's not a caricature of a person,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. The Penguin is dark. He's disturbed,
Speaker 1: he's conflicted, he has serious mommy issues, serious mommy issues
Speaker 1: that play out throughout the show. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a trend in Hollywood, show all the darkness, see
Speaker 1: if there's any light in there, and this show you
Speaker 1: see the darkness, and every once in a while you
Speaker 1: just get a glimmer you go, is there some good
Speaker 1: in this guy? Or is he completely evil? And I
Speaker 1: want to let you judge for yourself. But they do
Speaker 1: a really good job of like going, oh, maybe, and
Speaker 1: then now and then maybe, and then you'll have to
Speaker 1: wait and see on that. Just when you think there
Speaker 1: might be something good, he does something else, so you go, nah, no,
Speaker 1: not good at all. But it's so interesting and you
Speaker 1: know you're kind of you're rooting for this really really
Speaker 1: bad guy. He is a mess, and the show is great.
Speaker 1: Like I said, it is very dark. I'm on Penguin.
Speaker 1: I think you should be too full season out on
Speaker 1: Max just eight episodes, and they do. They kind of
Speaker 1: tee it up for a second season, so we'll see.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The cooler weather
Speaker 1: has helped firefighters working on the three large fires in
Speaker 1: La County. All three in Pacific Palisades, Eating Canon and
Speaker 1: Castake are almost completely surrounded now. Evacuation orders and warnings
Speaker 1: all lifted, except for some in the Palisades area. The
Speaker 1: National Weather Services there are no signs of any immediate
Speaker 1: return of Santa Ana winds or rain that could cause
Speaker 1: debris flows, but it is cold. The cooler temperatures will
Speaker 1: remain over the next several days, with daytime temperatures remaining
Speaker 1: a low normal for this time of year, but we
Speaker 1: should warm up by the weekend. A rare strain of
Speaker 1: bird flu has been detected at a duck farm in California.
Speaker 1: The World Organization for Animal Health report of the outbreak
Speaker 1: at the farm in Merced County on Monday, noting that
Speaker 1: the more common H five and one strain was also
Speaker 1: present at the farm. More than one hundred thousand birds
Speaker 1: were cold to prevent the virus from spreading. The City
Speaker 1: of San Francisco is reassuring immigrants it will not help
Speaker 1: federal agents target them at home, work, or school. Assessor
Speaker 1: Recorder for the City and County of San Francisco, Joaquin Torres,
Speaker 1: says they will not back down. Sanctuary today, Sanctuary forever.
Speaker 2: We do not ask for this fight, but we.
Speaker 4: Are here for it.
Speaker 1: City leaders have confirmed San Francisco's status as a sanctuary city.
Speaker 1: Caroline Kennedy has written a letter to senators about Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior ahead of his confirmation hearings for Health and
Speaker 1: Human Services Secretary. In it, she says her cousin is unqualified,
Speaker 1: calls him a predator, and asks senators to reject the nomination.
Speaker 1: We are a close family.
Speaker 9: None of that is easy to say. It also wasn't
Speaker 9: easy to remain silent last year when Bobby expropriated my
Speaker 9: father's image and distorted President Kennedy's legacy to advance his
Speaker 9: own failed presidential campaign, and then grovel to Donald Trump
Speaker 9: for a job.
Speaker 1: Caroline Kennedy read her letter on camera, and her son
Speaker 1: shared the six minute video on x. President Trump has
Speaker 1: signed an executive order targeting transition related medical care for minors.
Speaker 1: The goal of the order is to restrict access to
Speaker 1: puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery for anyone under nineteen.
Speaker 1: The White House is confirmed what the Biden administration said
Speaker 1: in December about drones spotted on the East Coast. Officials
Speaker 1: say the drones over New Jersey, which were Senior President
Speaker 1: Trump's Bedminster golf resort, were not a threat. Press Secretary
Speaker 1: Caroline Levitt says they were not nefarious.
Speaker 2: The drones that were flying over New Jersey and large
Speaker 2: numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for
Speaker 2: research and various other reasons.
Speaker 1: It's unclear when the FAA learned they were research drones.
Speaker 1: La Clippers owner Steve Balmer says he will match all
Speaker 1: contributions made to the Fire Aid concert during the live broadcasts.
Speaker 1: That's tomorrow night. Fire Aid is being held at the
Speaker 1: Intuit Dome and Kia Forum. It'll air on iHeartMedia radio
Speaker 1: stations and be broadcast on more than twenty TV stations
Speaker 1: and streaming services. Billie Eilish, Katie Perry, Jelly Rolls, Sting,
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, Alanis Morrisset, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, and Moore
Speaker 1: will be performing. And that's tomorrow night. The LEDWP plans
Speaker 1: to hire an independent engineer to determine whether the empty
Speaker 1: Santa Inez reservoir led to the failure of its water
Speaker 1: system during the deadly Palisades Fire. Several fire hydrants ran
Speaker 1: dry during the peak of the firefight. January seventh and eighth,
Speaker 1: California Attorney General Robed Bont's filed charges against a real
Speaker 1: estate agent for allegedly attempting to price gouge a family
Speaker 1: that was forced out of their home during the Eton fire.
Speaker 1: Bont's offices, the agent offered of the family a rental
Speaker 1: that exceeded the listing price by fifty percent. State law
Speaker 1: prohibits markups of more than ten percent during disasters and
Speaker 1: states of emergency. A judge, as I mentioned, is granted
Speaker 1: a stay on President Trump's executive order to temporarily freeze
Speaker 1: federal aid. It was supposed to start yesterday and would
Speaker 1: pause federal and domestic aid, but would not touch Social
Speaker 1: Security or Medicare. Right now, let's say good morning to
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan, Jim Guye Tax time. Did you get
Speaker 1: your W two?
Speaker 4: It did?
Speaker 5: I came in the mail yesterday? I think did it
Speaker 5: come in the mail?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I did I get it. It's a pay per copy,
Speaker 5: you know that. Yeah, it came in the mail, so
Speaker 5: I didn't have to go online to the portal and
Speaker 5: print it out and do all that. But yeah, the
Speaker 5: W two, once you have it in hand or all
Speaker 5: the W two's, you're ten ninety nine the other forms
Speaker 5: you need to file your return, then you can sit
Speaker 5: down and start doing it or hand over all that
Speaker 5: stuff to your tax prepare. That's where the big warning
Speaker 5: is coming from this year from the Better Business Bureau.
Speaker 5: Ghost tax preparers.
Speaker 1: People tax prepares, ran.
Speaker 5: Folks who ghost you after they file your return or
Speaker 5: extensibly file your return. You go to somebody tax prepare.
Speaker 5: Maybe that person is certified, maybe not. Then they're offering
Speaker 5: a nice, big fat return if you file with them.
Speaker 5: So there's the big tip off. Amy. If you go
Speaker 5: to a tax preparer, then that person sits down, works
Speaker 5: up the return, sends it up, but first comes to
Speaker 5: you and says, oh wait, you need to sign right here,
Speaker 5: Amy King, right here in this line right here. Then
Speaker 5: you sign it and you sent it off. Now, if
Speaker 5: there's a problem with that return, math problem, you know,
Speaker 5: signs of fraud something, it's going to come back on
Speaker 5: to you because you signed it. If you have a
Speaker 5: preparer to it, the preparer is supposed to sign it
Speaker 5: and send it off that way, And that's why you're
Speaker 5: paying that person to take responsibility. If there's a problem,
Speaker 5: you know, you're honest. You're being honest with them. They're
Speaker 5: supposed to be honest with the irs. But if there's
Speaker 5: an issue, the problem comes back on to them.
Speaker 1: Gotcha. Okay, So how can you tell because you're talking
Speaker 1: about going and sitting down with somebody and meeting with them,
Speaker 1: not just an online tax filer, right.
Speaker 5: Well, you know there could be online an online presence
Speaker 5: for these folks as well. But if it's somebody you've
Speaker 5: never heard of, or just because they're offering a cheap
Speaker 5: price to work up your return or promising big, huge refunds,
Speaker 5: they can't promise that. You know that that should be
Speaker 5: your other big tip off. So ghost tax preparers are
Speaker 5: a major major issue. So how will people reach out
Speaker 5: to you? How does the IRS reach out to us? Well,
Speaker 5: buy paper mail. That's why I got my return or
Speaker 5: my W two in the mail that came from my boss.
Speaker 5: But you know the paper mail is So if you
Speaker 5: don't check your mail often, if you rely on email
Speaker 5: so much that you don't even go out to the mailbox,
Speaker 5: that's a problem. You need to go out and check
Speaker 5: that thing. First of all, because people could be stealing
Speaker 5: your mail, but second because you could be missing an
Speaker 5: important document, right, and we have.
Speaker 1: To have W two's and ten ninety nine's by the
Speaker 1: end of this month, right, I.
Speaker 5: Think, yeah, the deadline is here, or maybe it's tomorrow
Speaker 5: that the IRS has told your boss you must have
Speaker 5: your W two.
Speaker 1: In hand, Okay, and I know that like for our company,
Speaker 1: a lot of them they don't. They don't send them
Speaker 1: in the mail anymore like ours. You download from the portal.
Speaker 1: So those are options and it's not an issue for
Speaker 1: you in Dallas, Texas, but it's an issue.
Speaker 5: For us speak income texts.
Speaker 1: Well, they've they've pushed back oh stuff in La County
Speaker 1: because of the wildfires.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: They initially had said it's just for the people who
Speaker 1: are in the actual wildfires, but I think it's probably
Speaker 1: hard to like determine who's who, and so they pushed
Speaker 1: it back to October fifteenth.
Speaker 5: For the whole state.
Speaker 1: Nope, for La County. Oh, okay, La County, not the
Speaker 1: whole state. But so you get a little breathing room.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm still going to try to do my
Speaker 1: taxes on time this.
Speaker 5: Year by April fifteenth, Yes.
Speaker 1: Because you know what, then you don't have to stress
Speaker 1: about it for the next six months. Otherwise you got
Speaker 1: to sit there and go ooh, that's looming for six months.
Speaker 5: I've in forty years of going out and doing a
Speaker 5: Q and A with people about tax time. The people
Speaker 5: who file early and meet the deadline even before the deadline,
Speaker 5: they're the ones who are getting a refund. The ones
Speaker 5: who don't who or file an extension, they're the ones
Speaker 5: who owe the iris money.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's probably that. That sounds about right, So
Speaker 1: it's true. How do we make sure, Like you said,
Speaker 1: you might go to a tax preparer, you don't know
Speaker 1: their name, that kind of stuff. How do you know
Speaker 1: if they're legit?
Speaker 4: Off?
Speaker 1: I mean, aside from if you go and sit down
Speaker 1: and spend time with them and give them all your
Speaker 1: stuff and they go, hey, I'm going to get you
Speaker 1: back fifty thousand dollars and you go ooh, that sounds
Speaker 1: a little off. But I mean, before you go through
Speaker 1: that whole process, how can you tell somebody's legit.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, there are big name preparers out there,
Speaker 5: the H and R blocks of the world and the
Speaker 5: others that you've heard of. Going on someone else's referral
Speaker 5: will be a good way to ensure that you're not
Speaker 5: dealing with a fly by night operation. If it's somebody
Speaker 5: you've never heard of, or if it's if they seem
Speaker 5: a little sketchy or it doesn't seem they've been a
Speaker 5: business loan, that could be a problem, that could be
Speaker 5: a real problem. Maybe not. They might be totally certified,
Speaker 5: and they should not fight you if you say, hey,
Speaker 5: can I see some documentation that you're actually a certified
Speaker 5: tax preparer? That'd be great. Please. If they hesitate or
Speaker 5: they don't want to do that, then maybe go on
Speaker 5: to the next one.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the other bad thing is if you get
Speaker 1: a ghost tax preparer, then they have your social Security
Speaker 1: number and all of that stuff.
Speaker 5: And your address and your data birth and potentially all
Speaker 5: sorts of information that they can then use to open
Speaker 5: up a credit card or something.
Speaker 1: Just another thing we need to be careful of and
Speaker 1: watch out for.
Speaker 5: Jim right in twenty three, the irsays taxpayer's lost five
Speaker 5: and a half billion dollars to tax scams.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, and then I heard a story too about somebody
Speaker 1: where they said, here's my tax return and they said,
Speaker 1: oh no, we've already processed your text return.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the other big when somebody got a hold
Speaker 5: of your your social Security number and other information filed
Speaker 5: on your behalf and got a refund and then you
Speaker 5: file yours. The irsays, hey, dummy, we already have your know.
Speaker 5: They just there are a million of ways to get
Speaker 5: ripped off.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let the buyer beware, be careful. That's all
Speaker 1: we have to say. ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate the information.
Speaker 5: See you all right, talk.
Speaker 1: To you soon. Let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Federal agents have made multiple arrests in New York City.
Speaker 1: The main focus of yesterday's raid was on drug dealers.
Speaker 1: DEA Special Agent in charge of the New York Division,
Speaker 1: Frank Tarantino, says, well, they're not just focusing on drug
Speaker 1: dealers in the country illegally, that's where the job took them.
Speaker 11: This is exactly what we are designed to do, and
Speaker 11: that is to target the most significant drug traffickers and
Speaker 11: drug droving organizations who are causing the most harm, and
Speaker 11: some of those happen to be criminal legal aliens.
Speaker 1: Tarantino says, they're still going after domestic violators and more
Speaker 1: multi agency raids are likely. More than sixty percent of
Speaker 1: Americans say they support President Trump's efforts to downsize the
Speaker 1: federal government and also support a hiring freeze on government agencies,
Speaker 1: but the Reuter's IPSOS poll shows just one in three
Speaker 1: support an end to birthright citizenship and pardoning of January
Speaker 1: sixth protesters, seventy percent say they're against renaming the Gulf
Speaker 1: of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Google says is
Speaker 1: going to rename the golf when it updates its maps.
Speaker 1: US consumer confidence has dropped to a four month low.
Speaker 1: Nonprofit research organization The Conference Board says it's because of
Speaker 1: pessimism about jobs and wages. It says the number of
Speaker 1: people who think there are a lot of jobs to
Speaker 1: pick from is down, while more people feel jobs are
Speaker 1: harder to get now. An economist with the Board says
Speaker 1: it shows fewer people think employment prospects are good and
Speaker 1: a new study shows the world's oceans are warming four
Speaker 1: times faster than they did in the nineteen eighties and
Speaker 1: less at City. Research say sea temperatures hit record highs
Speaker 1: between twenty three, twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: and that helped create massive hurricanes. They say while El
Speaker 1: Nino caused some of the high temperatures, forty four percent
Speaker 1: of the warmths was from ocean's absorbing heat at a
Speaker 1: faster rate. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Orange County Southland weather from KFI. Clouds this morning becoming
Speaker 1: sunny with highs in the low sixties at the beaches,
Speaker 1: Metro La and Inland O c low sixties for the
Speaker 1: valleys and Inland Empire, fifties for the Antelope Valley. Becoming
Speaker 1: cloudy tonight with low's mainly in the forties. Partly to
Speaker 1: mostly cloudy, with highs in the fifties to about sixty Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Partly cloudy Friday, with highs in the low to mid sixties,
Speaker 1: then partly cloudy with highs in the sixties to mid
Speaker 1: seventies for the weekend. It's forty seven in Diamond Bar,
Speaker 1: forty nine in Newport Beach, thirty two in Palmdale, and
Speaker 1: four eight in Inglewood. We lead local live from the
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