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Speaker 1: call for Tuesday, March fourth. I'm Amy King. Good morning.
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Speaker 1: you along this very exciting Tuesday. Gotta tell you we
Speaker 1: got Eglitz. I'm watching the camera. I'm actually behind on
Speaker 1: my show prep for today because we've been watching the
Speaker 1: eagles high above Big Bear Lake. Jackie and Shadow laid
Speaker 1: three eggs. One is completely hatched and he's a little fluffball.
Speaker 1: And then the other one. I just got to look
Speaker 1: at it about half hour ago, and he's about half
Speaker 1: out of his shell. The shell's completely cracked and he's
Speaker 1: pretty much out. So we're gonna be actually talking to
Speaker 1: Sandy Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley. They're the
Speaker 1: ones who put that camera up in the nest so
Speaker 1: we can watch this miracle of nature. And we're talking
Speaker 1: to her at five thirty, so we hope you'll stick
Speaker 1: around for that. Also, another big day, it's free pancake
Speaker 1: Day at IHO.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, cake Day.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's pancake Day. I love pancakes. I think Carla
Speaker 1: the editor said, Oh, I made pancakes for dinner last
Speaker 1: night to celebrate pancake Day. And I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: that sounds good. I think that's a great idea. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's what's ahead on wake up Call. Thirty officers at
Speaker 1: the Los Padrino's Juvenile Detention Facility have been charged for
Speaker 1: their involvement in gladiators style fights between kids at the
Speaker 1: detention center. State ag rob Bonte says nearly seventy fights
Speaker 1: happened between July and December of twenty twenty. Three kids
Speaker 1: between twelve and eighteen were involved. The AG says the
Speaker 1: officers allowed and even encouraged the fights. California Democratic Senator
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff is bringing a firefighter with him to President
Speaker 1: Trump's speech before a joint session of Congress. Captain Vincent
Speaker 1: Culliver is a veteran firefighter with the Department of Defense
Speaker 1: at Vandenberg Space Force Space and helped fight the wildfire
Speaker 1: and out to Dina. ABC's Karen Travers going to tell
Speaker 1: us what the President plans to talk about tonight, and
Speaker 1: also about the tariffs that just went into effect overnight
Speaker 1: and how other countries are responding to it. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: an eaglet has landed. The first of three bald eagle
Speaker 1: eggs is completely out, the second one is almost there,
Speaker 1: and then we're waiting to see if the third one
Speaker 1: is going to hatch. And again we'll be talking with
Speaker 1: Sandy at Friends of Big Bear Valley coming up at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour, doom spending, What is it?
Speaker 1: Are you doing it? And should you be? The host
Speaker 1: of How to Money on KFI. Joel Larsgard is going
Speaker 1: to tell us all about that. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. Former LA fire chief Kristin Crowley is
Speaker 1: expected to ask for her job back today.
Speaker 5: The city charter says she has the right to appeal
Speaker 5: her firing by Mayor bass, but she'll need ten of
Speaker 5: fifteen members of the City council to take her side.
Speaker 5: Crowley filed her appeal last week. The vote has been
Speaker 5: fast tracked and the council will take it up today.
Speaker 5: Four council members have publicly supported bast firing of the
Speaker 5: fire chief over the mayor's belief that Crowley wasn't prepared
Speaker 5: or communicative leading up to the Palisades fire. A fifth
Speaker 5: council member has supported the mayor's right to fire the chief.
Speaker 5: Crowley would need to run the table on the other
Speaker 5: ten to be reinstated. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Michael's gonna have live coverage throughout the day from La
Speaker 1: City Hall. The La City Council is also set to
Speaker 1: vote on a proposal to provide eviction protections for nannies, gardeners,
Speaker 1: and others impacted financially by the wildfires in January. The
Speaker 1: proposal's aim is to provide a defense for non payment
Speaker 1: of rent and no fault evictions for renters who can
Speaker 1: show proof of economic hardship because of the fires. City
Speaker 1: council was split on proposed protections last month. The Department
Speaker 1: of Justice has announced the dismantling of a human smuggling
Speaker 1: ring in La and the indictment of four alleged smugglers.
Speaker 1: Acting US Attorney Joseph McNally yesterday said the alleged ring
Speaker 1: leader is Eduardo Domingo Renault, which they held individuals smuggled
Speaker 1: hostage for months, threaten them and their family members with violence,
Speaker 1: and others, including children, were killed in a horrific car
Speaker 1: crash in Oklahoma in twenty twenty three. McNally says those
Speaker 1: deaths make Renoj Matoul and other members of his alleged
Speaker 1: gang eligible for the death penalty. The so called Turco
Speaker 1: transnational criminal organization operated out of La smuggling undocumented Guatemalan
Speaker 1: nationals to Phoenix in other parts of the country. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller, who is
Speaker 1: in Jerusalem. Jordana, the Arab countries do not like President
Speaker 1: Trump's idea to clear out the Gaza Strip and rebuild
Speaker 1: it as the riviera of the Middle East and relocate
Speaker 1: all the Palestinians. So apparently they're going to put together
Speaker 1: a plan of their.
Speaker 6: Own, that's right, and they're working on that today. Out
Speaker 6: of Cairo, there's an Arab summit underway, and it's likely
Speaker 6: this is being led by the Egyptians, by the way,
Speaker 6: It's likely they're going to put on the table a
Speaker 6: plan for regional governance of the Gaza Strip that is
Speaker 6: some kind of technocratic government made up of different leaders
Speaker 6: either Egypt, Jordan, maybe some of the Palestinians, but not
Speaker 6: local Palestinians, and you know, support to train a police
Speaker 6: force that could come in. Right. The whole idea is,
Speaker 6: you know, with this ceasefire, we need to you know
Speaker 6: the world needs to see hamas step aside. Right, they
Speaker 6: can't be running the Gaza Strip. They can't have a
Speaker 6: you know, their own military or army that competes with
Speaker 6: the official army of the Gaza Strip. So the Arab
Speaker 6: States are going to put that on the table, and
Speaker 6: you know, as an altarlternative to what they see as
Speaker 6: a very radical plan by President Trump that they want
Speaker 6: to avoid, certainly because it also includes the displacement of
Speaker 6: so many Palestinians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like two million of them. And where that's right.
Speaker 6: Where are you going to put it and where would
Speaker 6: they exactly exactly and more than that, you know, we
Speaker 6: don't talk about this amy, but President Trump's plan you know,
Speaker 6: when you think it through in the bigger picture, what
Speaker 6: it really does is it takes the Gaza strip out
Speaker 6: of any future Palestinian state. And that's very problematic, not
Speaker 6: only for the Palestinians, but for the region, you know,
Speaker 6: because then what is already considered a small area that
Speaker 6: is being divided between Israel and the Palestinians, right, the
Speaker 6: West Bank Israel proper and Gaza. Take Gaza out of it,
Speaker 6: you're left with just the West Bank and eas to read.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, and Jordana, I have a question for you.
Speaker 1: Do most of the Arab countries support that two state
Speaker 1: solution idea that everybody talks about.
Speaker 6: They do they do that? You know, the Arab or
Speaker 6: you know, the air world by and large supports a
Speaker 6: two state solution that is Jordan, Egypt, the Amoradis, the Baharinis,
Speaker 6: the Saudis, and they say even you know, as far
Speaker 6: as the Kingdom, the Saudi Kingdom is concerned. They don't
Speaker 6: want to normalize ties with Israel unless there is a
Speaker 6: path to statehood for the Palestinians. I mean, the only
Speaker 6: people in the region who still support, you know, an
Speaker 6: extreme agenda where Israel basically doesn't exist and you know,
Speaker 6: the Palestinians try to take back all of Israel, right,
Speaker 6: that chant from the river to the sea. That sadly,
Speaker 6: so many young smart Americans say on on campuses that
Speaker 6: they don't understand what they're chanting for.
Speaker 7: Is know Israel?
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 6: The only ones who support that are Hamas, Husbalalah isis Aroan, right,
Speaker 6: all the bad players in the region who are still
Speaker 6: interested in trying to you know, wipe out Israel or
Speaker 6: you know, or render it, you know, a country with
Speaker 6: little power here in the region. But you know, the
Speaker 6: tide for for a while now, the tide has been changing,
Speaker 6: not only would the Oslo piece of Cords, but with
Speaker 6: the Abraham Accords. And President Trump has made it clear
Speaker 6: he wants to make peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 6: And on that road, he has to solve the problem
Speaker 6: in Gaza. He has to get Hamas out and he's
Speaker 6: asking the region to come up with solutions to get
Speaker 6: them out.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: So that's what we're seeing.
Speaker 1: Okay, And and they're meeting this week. Do you I mean,
Speaker 1: are they going to come up with a quick answer
Speaker 1: and say here, President Trump, here is our option, or
Speaker 1: is this going to be something that this is just
Speaker 1: the starting of the conversation.
Speaker 6: What we do anticipate they're going to put out some
Speaker 6: kind of joint statement after the summit. It may you know,
Speaker 6: it be could come tomorrow, Okay, watching we will see, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: we'll be watching for it and hopefully it'll you know,
Speaker 6: something will will give so that we can move We also,
Speaker 6: you know, the ceafire talks are stuck right now, so
Speaker 6: we also have to get those going again. But we
Speaker 6: expect Steve Woodcoff, President Trump's envoy to come here to
Speaker 6: the region after the State of the Union address sometime
Speaker 6: later in the week, perhaps the weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, Jerdona Miller Injurusalem, thank you so much, appreciate the
Speaker 1: information as always.
Speaker 7: Thanks Jamie.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's up too, but you got it. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A Republican assemblyman says
Speaker 1: he's been kicked off the California Budget Committee for shining
Speaker 1: a light on what he calls questionable spending. San Diego
Speaker 1: Assemblyman Carl Demiel told kfi's John Cobelt yesterday that his
Speaker 1: goal is to bring an end to the misuse of
Speaker 1: tech dollars.
Speaker 4: What we're doing is working with outside whistleblowers, outside resources,
Speaker 4: outside investigators, and the very hard working but limited staff
Speaker 4: I have in my Assembly office to do this work.
Speaker 1: Demayo says he found the state budget allocated twenty five
Speaker 1: million dollars to a COVID program, but says the money
Speaker 1: is going to special interest groups instead. The Trump administration
Speaker 1: has paused military aid to Ukraine, days after President Zelenski's
Speaker 1: intense meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance at
Speaker 1: the White House.
Speaker 7: Your country is in big trouble. I know you're not
Speaker 7: winning all You're not winning this.
Speaker 1: Trump has directed the US to pause all assistance to
Speaker 1: Ukraine as he tries to pressure Zelenski to engage in
Speaker 1: peace talks with Russia. Trump criticized Olenski yesterday for saying
Speaker 1: that the end of the war is still likely, very
Speaker 1: very far away. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the army
Speaker 1: post in Georgia that was previously known as Fort Benning
Speaker 1: and then changed to Fort Moore is now Fort Benning again.
Speaker 1: ABC Stephen Portnoys's com Ungriss retired the name four years ago.
Speaker 2: Rather than honoring a Confederate Brigadier general the Benning now
Speaker 2: being honored was a hero of World War One. Corporal
Speaker 2: Fred Benning was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his
Speaker 2: action in France in nineteen eighteen.
Speaker 1: He says the change follows a similar move by Hegseeth
Speaker 1: to rename Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The Brag now
Speaker 1: honored received the Silver Star for service in World War II.
Speaker 1: Forever twenty one says it's falling on hard times as
Speaker 1: more people are buying clothes online. ABC's Alex Stone says,
Speaker 1: once synonymous with early two thousand's fashion, the chain is
Speaker 1: closing its corporate headquarters in La.
Speaker 9: Forever twenty one has suffered as it's tried to compete
Speaker 9: with online Chinese discount retailers like Timu.
Speaker 2: The company is hoping to be bought to avoid his
Speaker 2: second bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: Stone says three hundred and fifty workers in La will
Speaker 1: be laid off next month. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: Santa Ana, and Riverside have charged one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: six people for coming back to the US after they
Speaker 1: were deported thirty s Many the defendants had previously been
Speaker 1: convicted of felonies before being deported, including manslaughter and crimes
Speaker 1: against children. The City of Huntington Beach has been sued
Speaker 1: for restricting access to books at city run public libraries.
Speaker 1: The suit was filed by two teens, a transgender advocacy group,
Speaker 1: and the ACLU of Southern California. Huntington Beach City Council
Speaker 1: passed a resolution in twenty twenty three to restrict certain
Speaker 1: library materials to miners if they don't have the consent
Speaker 1: of their parent or guardian. By the year twenty fifty,
Speaker 1: a new report predicts that more than half of adults
Speaker 1: around the world will be obese. The analysis in The
Speaker 1: Lancet also predicts a third of children will be overweight.
Speaker 1: Experts warn if the trends don't change, the impact on
Speaker 1: health and an economy will be well massive. At six
Speaker 1: oh five, it's handled on the news. President Trump has
Speaker 1: just made things a whole lot more difficult for Ukraine's
Speaker 1: ability to fight Russia. Bill's going to tell you about
Speaker 1: that right now. Let's say good morning to ABC sees
Speaker 1: Karen Travers. Karen, President Trump says the tariffs against Mexico
Speaker 1: and Canada are in effect.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they went into effect at midnight last night. This
Speaker 10: is a twenty five percent tariff on all products coming
Speaker 10: into the US from Mexico and Canada. And he also
Speaker 10: added another ten percent tariff on top of what had
Speaker 10: already existed on Chinese goods. So that's just kind of
Speaker 10: adding to what had already been in place there, the
Speaker 10: President said yesterday. Tariffs are easy, they're fast, they're efficient,
Speaker 10: and they bring fairness. But economists are saying they're also
Speaker 10: likely to bring price increases for American consumers. That the
Speaker 10: cost for these American importers who are bringing things in
Speaker 10: from Mexico, Canada, and China, but especially Mexico and Canada,
Speaker 10: it's going to get passed on to Americans through pricing increases,
Speaker 10: and likely within days you could start seeing this at
Speaker 10: the grocery store because it's about half I think it
Speaker 10: is sixty three percent actually of our vegetables come into
Speaker 10: the US from Mexico. So you can't stockpile fresh vegetables
Speaker 10: get them in before the teriffs go into effect. And
Speaker 10: so when you in a week start bringing in stuff
Speaker 10: or in the next couple of days from Mexico, you're
Speaker 10: paying a twenty five percent text on top of that
Speaker 10: and they're going to pass that on and you know,
Speaker 10: just think about what that means for the products then
Speaker 10: that you're buying at the grocery store.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so, Karen, why are the tariffs now because
Speaker 1: didn't both Mexico and Canada do what President Trump said
Speaker 1: he wanted them to do, and that is start enforcing
Speaker 1: the border.
Speaker 10: They did something, but it wasn't enough, but it's also
Speaker 10: not clear what he actually wants them to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is enough border?
Speaker 10: I mean, they've been doing that, right, I mean, it's
Speaker 10: that's the thing. Canada is says they're very bewildered why
Speaker 10: they're being targeted on the fentanyl issue when less than
Speaker 10: one percent of the fentanyl that is seized coming into
Speaker 10: this country comes across the US Canada border, so it's
Speaker 10: not an issue at the northern border, and they say
Speaker 10: they don't know what they're supposed to be doing about that.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's just not the big thing there. They
Speaker 10: appointed a sentinel zar, which was you know, in some
Speaker 10: ways maybe optics, just to say, hey, we're doing something.
Speaker 10: Mexico sent ten thousand troops National Guard troops to their
Speaker 10: northern border and permanent capacity. The White House applauded that
Speaker 10: a month ago. But again the issue of what did
Speaker 10: the president want to see? We've asked this question numerous times.
Speaker 10: What metrics is he judging these countries? And the White
Speaker 10: House has not said okay.
Speaker 1: And then so we know at least why the President
Speaker 1: said he was going to do the terraffs on Mexico
Speaker 1: and Canada. And initially he announced ten percent on China,
Speaker 1: but then hood that to twenty percent. What's the beef
Speaker 1: with China just overall.
Speaker 10: Ten percent already on what had been ten percent, So
Speaker 10: he's just adding tarifs onto China because they already existed.
Speaker 10: These tarriffs on Mexico and Canada are new, completely new.
Speaker 10: China already had some, so he's just you know, increasing
Speaker 10: it on top of what's there. This is again just
Speaker 10: for the president. He says, this is about fairness. This
Speaker 10: is about countries not treating the US fairly in his view,
Speaker 10: and he uses terrorists, as he said, you know, as
Speaker 10: like a punishment tool that you know, these countries now
Speaker 10: can be punished by tariff.
Speaker 1: Okay. I would imagine that Trump's going to be talking
Speaker 1: about tariffs when he addresses the Joint Session of Congress tonight.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: I think this will be a part of his remarks
Speaker 10: on the economy, which is one of the four sections
Speaker 10: the White House says he will be zeroing in on.
Speaker 10: He'll talk about his record so far in office. He'll
Speaker 10: talk about the economy, he'll talk about border security and
Speaker 10: what the White House says are his plans for peace
Speaker 10: around the world.
Speaker 1: Okay, And we've heard that a lot of people are
Speaker 1: bringing guests as they normally do for the State of
Speaker 1: the Union address, even though this isn't a State of
Speaker 1: the Union. Do we know of who of the some
Speaker 1: of those people are going to be.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the White House just announced the President will have
Speaker 10: some guests in the first Lady's box, including Mark Fogeld,
Speaker 10: the American who's recently released from a Russian prison. They've
Speaker 10: also invited the family of Corey Compromatory, who the firefighter
Speaker 10: who was killed at the Butler Rally last summer.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then I know that we've got Adam Schiff
Speaker 1: is taking Space Force. No, he's not. He works at
Speaker 1: Space Force. I don't believe he's Maybe he is a guardian.
Speaker 1: But there's a firefighter who helped with the fires in
Speaker 1: southern California is going with our representative Adam Schiff. So
Speaker 1: I think a number of people are bringing special guests
Speaker 1: to make a political point.
Speaker 10: Yes, they will be.
Speaker 1: Okay. We have a lot of rumblings too. The Democrats
Speaker 1: are being encouraged to skip the speech. Do we know
Speaker 1: if that's going to happen.
Speaker 10: I don't. We haven't heard any you know, mass announcements
Speaker 10: of that.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 10: I think people are also planning to bring people and
Speaker 10: make points about federal firings and workforce reductions by the
Speaker 10: guests that they're going to bring. But I'm going to
Speaker 10: have to leave it there and jump.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so sorry, I didn't realize you had a
Speaker 1: heart out today, Karen Travers, thank you so much. Thank
Speaker 1: you all right, take care.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom is
Speaker 1: ordering state employees back to the office for at least
Speaker 1: four days a week. He signed an executive order yesterday
Speaker 1: that allows for telework flexibility on a case by case basis.
Speaker 1: The order also directs cal HR to streamline the hiring
Speaker 1: process for former federal employees who are looking for jobs
Speaker 1: in firefighting, forest management, and weather forecasting. The changes kick
Speaker 1: in in July. Weather experts in California are warning that
Speaker 1: recent budget cuts to the National Weather Service and the
Speaker 1: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could put people at risk.
Speaker 1: Eugene Cordero, with the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
Speaker 1: at San Jose State University says the cuts are undermining science.
Speaker 8: We need to know when the rain's coming, how strong
Speaker 8: the winds are. Those are like critical pieces of information
Speaker 8: so that emergency responders have good data they can work
Speaker 8: and help save lives.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration is laid off more than six hundred
Speaker 1: employees from the agencies, raising concerns that some weather service
Speaker 1: offices that are staffed around the clock may close. LA
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputy say a teenager shot and killed in
Speaker 1: Willowbrook has been identified. The shooting happened just before midnight Friday.
Speaker 1: The boy died at the hospital. The Medical Examiner's office
Speaker 1: says the boy was fourteen year old Elijah Davenport. Sheriff's
Speaker 1: homicide investigators are asking for anyone with information about the
Speaker 1: shooting to give them a call. The laped says officers
Speaker 1: have shot a man who pointed a gun at them
Speaker 1: in Echo Park. The guys in the hospital in critical condition.
Speaker 1: Police were called yesterday to an area near the one
Speaker 1: oh one and Alvarado Street about a man with a
Speaker 1: mental illness who was carrying a handgun. It's not clear
Speaker 1: exactly what led up to the shooting. No officers were hurt.
Speaker 1: Jurors in the case of an Orange County judge accused
Speaker 1: of killing his wife have reached an impassed. Jurors told
Speaker 1: the judge they can't come to a unanimous decision on
Speaker 1: second degree murder charges against Jeffrey Ferguson. After three and
Speaker 1: a half days of deliberations, the judge asked them to
Speaker 1: keep working. Ferguson says he shot his wife by accident
Speaker 1: during an argument. The jury could convict him of second
Speaker 1: degree murder or involuntary manslaughter, or, of course, could have
Speaker 1: quit him. The state has indicted dozens of officers at
Speaker 1: a juvenile facility in Downey.
Speaker 5: The State Department of Justice says there were sixty nine
Speaker 5: gladiator style fights involving young inmates at Los Padrino's over
Speaker 5: a six month period. In twenty twenty three, Attorney General
Speaker 5: Rob Bonta says video shows officers encouraging the fights.
Speaker 1: The officers don't step in, don't intervene, and don't protect
Speaker 1: their charges.
Speaker 5: Thirty officers have been charged with child abuse, child endangerment,
Speaker 5: and other crimes. Bonta says there are one hundred and
Speaker 5: forty three victims between the ages of twelve and eighteen.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Guess what time it is or almost is. It's time
Speaker 1: for the annual Wiggle Waggle Walk. That's a Pasadena Humane's
Speaker 1: Wiggle Waggle Walk coming to of course Pasadena. The date
Speaker 1: is set and KFI has a team and we would
Speaker 1: love for you to join our team. You can donate.
Speaker 1: We've got it up on our website on KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty dot com and you can go to the
Speaker 1: wake up call page and there's a link to the
Speaker 1: Wiggle Waggle Walk again. It's coming on the sixth of April,
Speaker 1: and we're going to be talking about it more, how
Speaker 1: you can donate, how you can join our team, Grab
Speaker 1: your dog and come and take a stroll with us.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to it. Will Cole Sharber, you're joining
Speaker 1: us this year? Heck yeah, It was fun last year. Yep,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful thing. And you know what, Pasadena Humane
Speaker 1: and so many other shelters have done so much good
Speaker 1: work for the animals in the wake of the fires.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're still housing hundreds of animals who are
Speaker 1: displaced from the fires. They're like, they're owners, they know
Speaker 1: who the animals belong to, but the owners don't have
Speaker 1: a home, and so Pasadena Humane has taken them in.
Speaker 1: And plus they're still trying to do everything else they
Speaker 1: do to find permanent homes for animals. So they're doing
Speaker 1: great work and we'd love for you to join us again.
Speaker 1: It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk and it's coming on April
Speaker 1: twenty April sixth, which is a Sunday morning, and we
Speaker 1: would love for you to join us again. More information
Speaker 1: can be found KFIAM six forty dot com. It's on
Speaker 1: the wake Up Call page. Governor Newsom has signed an
Speaker 1: executive order requiring most public workers in California back to
Speaker 1: the office. The order says employees need to be in
Speaker 1: the office at least four days a week. It goes
Speaker 1: into effect July first. The storms headed to southern California
Speaker 1: expected to bring rain to the Southland tomorrow and Thursday.
Speaker 1: This storm system's expected to bring heavier rain than the
Speaker 1: storm that moved through over the weekend. One half to
Speaker 1: an inch of rain is expected in some areas. Starbucks
Speaker 1: is offering thirteen fewer drink options effective today as it
Speaker 1: trims down its menu. The drinks removed from the menu
Speaker 1: are mostly fapuccinos. Starbucks new CEO also announced recently that
Speaker 1: the company was cutting eleven hundred jobs as part of
Speaker 1: its back to Starbucks restructuring plan. At six oh five
Speaker 1: its handle on the news, La Mayor Bath says she
Speaker 1: was not made aware of the extreme fire condition before
Speaker 1: the wildfires began, but there's a paper trail that disputes that.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to Sandy Steers with friends
Speaker 1: of Big Bear Valley. A very exciting day in the nest.
Speaker 7: Sandy, Hello, yes, we do. It's very exciting to see
Speaker 7: them out.
Speaker 1: Okay, so tell us what when did this start? And
Speaker 1: is it pretty normal to have it take about this
Speaker 1: long for them to come out or did they come
Speaker 1: out extra quick?
Speaker 7: It's pretty it was pretty normal. The last one, you know,
Speaker 7: one day is on the fast side, but it's not
Speaker 7: faster than usual, okay, And both of them took about well,
Speaker 7: the first one took about a little over a day
Speaker 7: and the second one took about a day.
Speaker 1: Okay, So the first one was officially hatched. They start
Speaker 1: with the pipping, that's when they break through the shell,
Speaker 1: and then you consider them hatched once they're completely.
Speaker 7: Out, yes, when they're out of the shell.
Speaker 1: Okay. And the second one just finished hatching like an
Speaker 1: hour ago.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, that's correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, So what happens now? What does now that they've
Speaker 1: got two eaglets and we've we still have a third
Speaker 1: egg that could hatch. Maybe we don't know yet. It's
Speaker 1: still within the window of time for it to be
Speaker 1: able to be viable, right.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's correct, it still could hatch. It was only
Speaker 7: thirty four days yesterday, and they don't even really start
Speaker 7: hatching until at least thirty five.
Speaker 1: Okay. So now we're watching the third egg. But we've
Speaker 1: got two little babies out, and what do Jackie in
Speaker 1: Shadow now do to keep them safe? Protect them? What
Speaker 1: are we what are we going to be looking for?
Speaker 7: They will be you know, covering them as usual and
Speaker 7: probably taking turns if Jackie let's shadow have his turn.
Speaker 7: And they will be starting to feed them as soon
Speaker 7: as the chick drives off a little bit and can
Speaker 7: sit up. It takes it a while before it can
Speaker 7: even hold its head up, and they will start feeding
Speaker 7: it little bits, feed both of them little bits of food,
Speaker 7: and we'll watch a few what happens. But they will
Speaker 7: start bringing more and more fish and other food to
Speaker 7: the nest and kind of store it along the side
Speaker 7: so there's plenty there for Whenever they stand up, they
Speaker 7: will start trying to feed the chicks.
Speaker 1: Okay, and they immediately go right to like fish and
Speaker 1: other meat, right.
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, the parents will break off little pieces of
Speaker 7: fish and or ducks usually and start feeding tiny pieces
Speaker 7: to the chick.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then Sandy, we know that we've got another
Speaker 1: rainstorm coming. We just had some snow in the nest.
Speaker 1: And I saw Jackie the other day. Does she sat
Speaker 1: there as hail fell on her? I mean, she just
Speaker 1: weather's the storm, but one. I mean, the chicks are
Speaker 1: okay if another heavy rainstorm comes in.
Speaker 7: Yes, the chicks are okay. Sorry, I've got to she's
Speaker 7: calling in the background. Yes, the chicks are fine, and
Speaker 7: they will keep them covered and they don't have waterproof
Speaker 7: feathers yet, so that's why they keep them covered the
Speaker 7: whole time. But Jackie and Shadow are very good at that,
Speaker 7: so they will be fine through the storm. And Jackie
Speaker 7: and Shadow are sort of waterproofed, so they will also
Speaker 7: be fine.
Speaker 1: I love that, and I know that I've been watching
Speaker 1: obviously you have been watching. Pretty much everyone here at
Speaker 1: KFI has been watching the Big Beer Eagle cam. So
Speaker 1: how many people are watching this?
Speaker 7: Yesterday we had I think it was fifty nine thousand
Speaker 7: and something we're watching at the same time.
Speaker 1: It's just I mean, it's just it's just nature. But
Speaker 1: you say it's just nature, it's such a miracle. And
Speaker 1: it's so cool to watch Jackie in Shadow being the
Speaker 1: parents and like tending to the eggs, and now we're
Speaker 1: going to watch them as they help their babies grow,
Speaker 1: which is another it's just beautiful to watch. So and
Speaker 1: we think the friends of Big Bear Valley for putting
Speaker 1: that camera up. I know that you guys have to
Speaker 1: maintain that you're a nonprofit. Can people help and donate
Speaker 1: to you guys if they want to keep those cameras going?
Speaker 7: Yes, absolutely. On our website we can take donations. Friends
Speaker 7: at Big Bear Valley dot org. And we also have
Speaker 7: Eagle merchandise that we sell that helps support it as well.
Speaker 7: So any of that helps keep the camera.
Speaker 1: Going, Eagle merchandise, I love that, Sandy Steers. Very exciting day.
Speaker 1: Thanks for making some time to come on and share
Speaker 1: the happy news with us. We love happy news.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: All right, take care, time to get in your business
Speaker 1: now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney, good morning.
Speaker 3: So busy here on Wall Street.
Speaker 1: This morning, busy here in the nest above a big
Speaker 1: bear lake as well. So tell us about what's going
Speaker 1: on on Wall Street.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, President Trump unleashing the tariffs on Canada, Mexico,
Speaker 3: and China that it's definitely shaking up Wall Street. The
Speaker 3: increasing trade tensions is feeling a lot of worries about
Speaker 3: the outlook for the American economy.
Speaker 7: So stocks took a pounding.
Speaker 3: In yesterday's session as a result. The S and P
Speaker 3: five hundred loss nearly two percent in trading. The Dell
Speaker 3: plunge six hundred and fifty points, so that is a
Speaker 3: big loss. Now this morning, stocks are continuing to see
Speaker 3: more losses ahead down. Futures are down about one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty BET one hundred and fifteen points right now,
Speaker 3: so we're looking at losses once again today.
Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of losses, it's kind of a tough forecast
Speaker 1: out for Target.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, they're forecasting little to no sales growth this year.
Speaker 3: They're also warning of meaningful pressure on profit in the
Speaker 3: coming months. Of course, one of the reasons that they're
Speaker 3: saying is tariffs. They're also saying there's a lot of
Speaker 3: uncertainty around consumer sentiment. But Target's been doing everything to
Speaker 3: try to get people in the door at They've lowered prices,
Speaker 3: they're offering discounts, the special discounts. They're also trying to
Speaker 3: freshen up their merchandise. We've seen big changes lately, but
Speaker 3: it hasn't helped. When you look at Target chairs, they're
Speaker 3: down about twenty percent over the past year. Walmart chairs,
Speaker 3: on the other hand, have climb more than sixty percent
Speaker 3: over the same time period. So well, a Target needs
Speaker 3: to do something about at Costco too, has been has
Speaker 3: been doing quite well. So Target needs to shake things
Speaker 3: up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what we were talking about this that
Speaker 1: we a group of friends and I used we used
Speaker 1: to do Target Sundays, like you just went to go
Speaker 1: stroll through the aisles because they always had such cool stuff.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what it is about Target, but
Speaker 1: it at it has changed over the last few years
Speaker 1: and I don't have it, so it's not a go
Speaker 1: to place anymore for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's what a lot of people have been
Speaker 3: saying out there, that it just doesn't have the right
Speaker 3: product mix that it used to have. All the special
Speaker 3: items that people used to go in and try to find,
Speaker 3: even their their brands that they have themselves that was
Speaker 3: kind of high end, and then people will go in
Speaker 3: and try to buy that. But a lot of times
Speaker 3: you go into a Target, you see merchandise all over
Speaker 3: the place. You're waiting on big, long lines. So some
Speaker 3: people are saying, you know what, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: go here. I'm going to look to other retailers, and
Speaker 3: especially Walmart for example, they've been trying to shake up things.
Speaker 3: They have expanded their headquarters, they're working on kind of
Speaker 3: jazzing up some of their stores, and that's important. You
Speaker 3: got to jazz up the stores in order to bring
Speaker 3: people in the door.
Speaker 1: Jazz up the stores. I like it. Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the information today. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you again tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Definitely see you later.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. We talked to Courtney from Bloomberg
Speaker 1: every day at this time right here, getting in your
Speaker 1: business on the wake up call. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four our newsroom. Protesters have gathered at the Golden Gate
Speaker 1: National Recreation Area in San Francisco to oppose budget cuts
Speaker 1: to the National Park Service. Many held signs and chanted
Speaker 1: protect our parks.
Speaker 5: You need to stop this nonsense. We needed to hire
Speaker 5: back the people that were fired, not only National Park Service,
Speaker 5: but every federal government employee.
Speaker 2: That's lost their job in the past six weeks.
Speaker 5: They need to be rehired.
Speaker 1: That's John Goodwin, a twenty seven year old now or
Speaker 1: a twenty seven year now retired Park Service employee. About
Speaker 1: one thousand Park Service workers have been let go so
Speaker 1: the Trump administration was to downsize the government. A former
Speaker 1: staffer has accused San Bernardino County supervisor Joe Baca Junior
Speaker 1: of bullying, disparaging, and threatening employees. Baca has denied the
Speaker 1: allegations and claims he treats his staff with the utmost respect.
Speaker 1: The woman was recently fired. A gas company worker has
Speaker 1: been rescued after falling more than thirty feet into a
Speaker 1: pit in a backyard in Hesperia. The guy was apparently
Speaker 1: doing maintenance work when the ground gave way underneath him.
Speaker 1: Firefighters used a rope system to safely pull him out
Speaker 1: of what was either an abandoned well or a sinkhole.
Speaker 1: The guy was awake and alert the whole time and
Speaker 1: was taken to the hospital. Not clear what his injuries are.
Speaker 1: Fired La Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is asking La City
Speaker 1: Council for her job back at today's council meeting. Under
Speaker 1: the city charter, Crowley needs the support of ten of
Speaker 1: the fifteen council members to be reinstated. At least four
Speaker 1: city council members have stood alongside Mayor Bass in support
Speaker 1: of the firing. Governor Newsom's declared a state of emergency
Speaker 1: in forests in California. The declaration allows Newsom's administration to
Speaker 1: bypass more coastal and permitting regulations and also expedite wildfire
Speaker 1: prevention projects. President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight.
Speaker 1: The White House says the theme of the address will
Speaker 1: be the renewal of the American Dream. The speech is
Speaker 1: at six o'clock. We will carry it live on the
Speaker 1: Tim Conway Show right here on KFI. We're just minutes
Speaker 1: away from handle. On the news this morning, President Trump's
Speaker 1: tariffs have been slapped on Mexico, Canada and China. And
Speaker 1: guess what they're slapping back. Let's say good morning too.
Speaker 1: Someone who knows how a lot about money and how
Speaker 1: those tariffs might affect this. It's the host of How
Speaker 1: to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard. Morning Joel, Morning Amy.
Speaker 1: So one in five Americans are giving into doom spending.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 11: Well, I think in large part because of the threats
Speaker 11: of tariffs and now the actual implementation of tariffs. A
Speaker 11: lot of American people have said I should probably spend
Speaker 11: more because I think prices are going up, and I
Speaker 11: get that impulse, but they're essentially saying things are going
Speaker 11: to spiral out of control and because of that, I
Speaker 11: should probably stockpile things now, maybe take the costco mentality,
Speaker 11: but amp it up on steroids or something like that.
Speaker 11: And I guess I'm just worried. I don't think that's
Speaker 11: really actually a good path forward for people. The tariff question, certainly,
Speaker 11: it's been kind of a yo yo thing, and now
Speaker 11: they're actually being implemented. And like you said, the countries
Speaker 11: that were implementing tariffs against are implementing tariffs of their own.
Speaker 11: And the truest reality in economics is that tariffs do
Speaker 11: lead to higher costs. I will say this though, the
Speaker 11: first time around, companies had ways of kind of getting
Speaker 11: around those tariffs, whether it was going through a third
Speaker 11: party country or sourcing some materials elsewhere. That I think
Speaker 11: these tariffs are going to be more impactful. But I
Speaker 11: don't want people to go out there and buy stuff
Speaker 11: that maybe they don't actually have the money for, putting
Speaker 11: it on credit cards and stuff like that. I don't
Speaker 11: want people to let fear change their money habits.
Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, you bring that up, and I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you. I was driving around the other
Speaker 1: day and I was like, Oh, I need to ask
Speaker 1: Joel if he thinks a lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to go and buy cars because of the tariffs.
Speaker 11: I mean, I do think that is one of the places,
Speaker 11: especially as much Ink has been spilled about rising car prices,
Speaker 11: and that's we've already experienced that with just inflation in general, right,
Speaker 11: But tariffs could impact car prices even more. And part
Speaker 11: of the reason that tariffs are being implemented it's a
Speaker 11: protectionary instinct to protect I think, the American car manufacturers.
Speaker 11: But because cars are essentially built in multiple countries and
Speaker 11: the parts are flying back and forth across borders, the
Speaker 11: tariffs could increase the price of car parts, increase the
Speaker 11: price of cars altogether. And so someone saying, you know what,
Speaker 11: I guess I should buy a car before prices go up.
Speaker 11: It depends on when were you playing on buying a
Speaker 11: car anyway. If you're like I was thinking about buying
Speaker 11: one in like twenty twenty six or twenty seven, I
Speaker 11: should go ahead and front load that purchase even though
Speaker 11: I don't have the cash on hand to buy it,
Speaker 11: I would say, no, that's not why. It's like, pay
Speaker 11: a little more for car parts to repair your car now,
Speaker 11: and don't go ahead and buy a new car. But
Speaker 11: if you're like, no, I was already gonna buy one
Speaker 11: in like May or June, I don't see the harm
Speaker 11: in making that purchase a little bit sooner, although I
Speaker 11: don't know how much you're gonna save. I mean, some
Speaker 11: of the estimates about how much more cars will cost
Speaker 11: because of terraffs are really a few percentage points higher.
Speaker 11: When you talk about the price of a car that
Speaker 11: could be on thy fifteen hundred dollars, that's a lot
Speaker 11: of money. So I don't I'm not against the idea
Speaker 11: of frontloading that purchase a little, but just don't look
Speaker 11: so far out and let that doom and gloom color
Speaker 11: your purchases too much.
Speaker 1: Okay. I saw that Starbucks said it's not going to
Speaker 1: raise its prices because of the tariffs. They said, we'll
Speaker 1: eat it.
Speaker 11: Well, that's interesting too, because when you look at what's
Speaker 11: happening with coffee prices, coffee prices have are like a
Speaker 11: fifty year high. So yeah, maybe Starbucks doesn't have to
Speaker 11: raise prices right now. But at some point tariffs become
Speaker 11: a reality that every company has to deal with and
Speaker 11: they either have to find ways to cut back on
Speaker 11: their costs or they have to pass on some of
Speaker 11: the increased pricing onto consumers. And I do think there's
Speaker 11: probably going to be a little bit of both, right
Speaker 11: because companies don't want to shock all of US Americans.
Speaker 11: But tariffs are going to be shocking if they stay
Speaker 11: around for any in a meaningful way, for any meaningful
Speaker 11: length time.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then Joe, one last quick question because we're
Speaker 1: almost out of time. I hate that this is the
Speaker 1: quickest hour in radio. DOGE dividends. They've been talking about it,
Speaker 1: but you're saying they're not going to materialize.
Speaker 11: Don't hold your breath.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about specifically?
Speaker 11: So there were headlines last week talking about how, oh
Speaker 11: the Department of Government efficiency. It's look at all the
Speaker 11: money it's going to save us Americans. And I do
Speaker 11: think most Americans can agree that, you know, at least
Speaker 11: cutting a little bit of government waste, fraud, and abuse.
Speaker 11: If that's actually what's happening is a good thing, and
Speaker 11: the way Dog is going about it that's more debatable.
Speaker 11: But this sort of massive DOGE refund to Americans, like
Speaker 11: five thousand dollars per household is kind of what's been touted.
Speaker 11: There's no way that's going to happen. That's essentially saying
Speaker 11: if DOGE cuts two trillion dollars in federal spending, that's
Speaker 11: how much households would receive if they got a portion
Speaker 11: of those savings send out and rebate checks to Americans.
Speaker 11: There's just no way Doge is going to be able
Speaker 11: to claw back anything close to that amount of money.
Speaker 11: So if you're saying, oh, another stemmy check, I'm going
Speaker 11: to get a massive government rebate check in the mail
Speaker 11: because Doge is doing such a great job, I would
Speaker 11: just say I don't think that's going to happen. In fact,
Speaker 11: I would I would bet a lot of money that's not.
Speaker 3: Going to happen.
Speaker 11: Even a five hundred dollars check is just pie in
Speaker 11: the sky because, like really, when it comes down to it,
Speaker 11: it's entitlements that need to be cut to realize significant savings,
Speaker 11: and the Trump administration has said, no way, we're going
Speaker 11: to cut anything in regards to you know, the biggest
Speaker 11: line items that the government has.
Speaker 1: Okay, and guess who's going to talk more about money
Speaker 1: this weekend Noon to two on Sunday. Yeah, it's Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 1: The show is How to Money. It's right here on
Speaker 1: KFI Sunday's noon to two. You can also follow Joel
Speaker 1: at How to Money. Joel, Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 7: Thanks 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. Senator
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff has chosen a firefighter from Vandenberg Space for
Speaker 1: Space to join him for tonight's presidential address to Congress.
Speaker 5: Shiff extended the invitation to Captain Vincent Culiver, he's with
Speaker 5: the Department of Defense. Culiver says he hopes Congress turned
Speaker 5: some attention towards federal firefighters and their aging equipment.
Speaker 1: That does make firefighting a little difficult when your equipment.
Speaker 6: Older firefighters typically want. We need, We need the best
Speaker 6: that we can get, so we can give the best
Speaker 6: that we can give.
Speaker 5: Culiver and other federal firefighters help put out the flames
Speaker 5: during January's wildfires in La County. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: US tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico now in effect.
Speaker 1: They started just after midnight. ABC's Nicole D'Antonio says imports
Speaker 1: from Canada and Mexico are now taxed twenty five percent,
Speaker 1: with Canadian Energy Project products subject to ten percent import duties.
Speaker 12: Canada responding with a twenty five percent tariff of its
Speaker 12: own on American goods. Economists warn those tariffs are paid
Speaker 12: for by American businesses, and those costs are then passed
Speaker 12: on to American consumers by raising prices.
Speaker 1: President Trump is also doubled a ten percent tariff on
Speaker 1: Chinese imports to twenty percent. China's retaliated with additional tariffs
Speaker 1: up to fifteen percent on various items. Research shows coyotes
Speaker 1: tend to avoid wealthy neighborhoods in LA.
Speaker 9: That is, according to a new study from UC Berkeley,
Speaker 9: Researchers found that coyotes are more likely to be hazed, hurt,
Speaker 9: or captured in affluent neighborhoods. Coyotes have noticed this and
Speaker 9: adapted to it over time, meaning they generally stick around
Speaker 9: in lower income areas.
Speaker 1: I just literally saw two coyotes crossing the street in
Speaker 1: front of our office building as I pulled in this morning.
Speaker 1: It's a nice area. Did they stick their noses up
Speaker 1: and just keep walking? You know what, Coyotes don't give
Speaker 1: a crap about you. They just look at you like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you want? Okay? This is KFI and kosd
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Speaker 1: for the Annalog Valley through this afternoon. HEISIBE in the
Speaker 1: fifties to mid sixties. We have a slight chance of
Speaker 1: rain tomorrow morning than a seventy percent chance. We're going
Speaker 1: to get wet in the afternoon. Rain like with thunderstorms
Speaker 1: possible tomorrow night, then rain off and on for Thursday.
Speaker 1: We'll dry out again on Friday. It's fifty in San
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