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Speaker 1: Business. It's five oh won this Tuesday morning, March eleventh.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Speaking of eagles, we're watching the eagles in
Speaker 1: the nest and if if you heard, we were talking
Speaker 1: about the newest eagle that arrived over the weekend and
Speaker 1: he's like smaller than everybody else and still fighting to
Speaker 1: get his food. So we named him Rocky temporarily. They're
Speaker 1: going to do an official naming later. You could put
Speaker 1: that in there, right, But he's a fighter, so that's Rocky.
Speaker 1: And then Anne was telling us that one of the
Speaker 1: eaglets over the weekend kind of got up out of
Speaker 1: the little bowl, got away from the group, and so
Speaker 1: Mom had to like basically nudge him back and he
Speaker 1: tumbled back down and we were like, oh, he's he's
Speaker 1: an escape artist, troublemaker. Yeah. Well, there was one of
Speaker 1: them this morning when when she got up, one of
Speaker 1: them was like outside because she kind of keeps them
Speaker 1: all huddled underneath it to keep them warm, especially at night.
Speaker 1: And one of them was like right at the edge
Speaker 1: of the bowl and she was like nudging him and
Speaker 1: nudging him, like dude, get back under and we're like,
Speaker 1: he's an explorer or she's an explorer. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: name that one Dora the Explorer. Okay, Okay, so we
Speaker 1: got Dora and Rocky. We'll name the third one too. Oh,
Speaker 1: we've got Chicago tickets to give away. The Crito Center
Speaker 1: for the Performing Arts has the musical Chicago this weekend
Speaker 1: at the Cerrito Center for the Performing Arts, and we
Speaker 1: have tickets for Saturday night show. In fact, we have
Speaker 1: five pair of tickets for Saturday night show going to
Speaker 1: be fabulous Roxy Heart and her cohorts. If you haven't
Speaker 1: seen Chicago, or if you have seen Chicago you probably
Speaker 1: want to go see it again, We're gonna give those away.
Speaker 1: This hour. Keep your phones handy. We've got five pairs
Speaker 1: that's coming up. Here's what's ahead on wake up. Called
Speaker 1: light rain is in the forecast today, with a stronger
Speaker 1: storm expected to move through tomorrow and Thursday. Forecasters say
Speaker 1: it could be an atmospheric river that means heavy rainfall.
Speaker 1: The heavy rain could fall at a half to an
Speaker 1: inch of rain an hour. At times, one to two
Speaker 1: feet of snows possible in the mountains and passes including
Speaker 1: the Grapevine usc Santa Monica College and Pomona College in
Speaker 1: La County, and Chapman University in Orange County are among
Speaker 1: sixty colleges warned by the US Department of Education's Office
Speaker 1: for Civil Rights of potential enforcement actions if they do
Speaker 1: not protect Jewish students on campus. After the jury deliberated
Speaker 1: for a week and a half without reaching a verdict,
Speaker 1: a judge is declared a mistrial. In the case of
Speaker 1: an Orange County judge accused of killing his wife, Judge
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Ferguson admits he shot his wife at their home
Speaker 1: in Anaheim Hills in twenty twenty three, but he says
Speaker 1: it was an accident. Prosecutors say they're going to retry
Speaker 1: the case. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass says she did not deliberately delete any text
Speaker 1: messages while overseas in early January when the wildfires started.
Speaker 1: Bass has been criticized for being out of the country
Speaker 1: at the time and for not having any wreck heard
Speaker 1: of her communications while she was away.
Speaker 4: Let me just say that my phone did automatic delete
Speaker 4: after thirty days. We've been swamped with CPRA and so
Speaker 4: it took a while, but we're also looking to see
Speaker 4: if there's some other way to retrieve the messages.
Speaker 1: Bess was part of a US diplomatic delegation that was
Speaker 1: in Africa in January to attend the swearing in ceremony
Speaker 1: for the new President of Ghana. The La County DA
Speaker 1: has come out against re sentencing for the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 5: He A Nathan Hawkman says next week's resentencing hearing was
Speaker 5: called by the court and that he'll rescind his predecessor's
Speaker 5: motion calling for the convicted killers to be resentenced. He
Speaker 5: says the brothers haven't fully accepted what they did when
Speaker 5: they murdered their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: Without exhibiting those insights.
Speaker 3: Our position is that they do not.
Speaker 2: They continue to pose an unreasonable risk of danger the community.
Speaker 5: Hawkman has also opposed a new trial for the Menindez brothers.
Speaker 5: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The LAPD says MacArthur Park has seen a big in
Speaker 1: crime recently. Chief Jim McDonald says there are more officers
Speaker 1: in the area to fight retail and drug crimes.
Speaker 6: Over the past few months, the LAPDS increased its enforcement efforts,
Speaker 6: expanded outreach initiatives and work closely with our community partners
Speaker 6: to make the park and the area surrounding it safer.
Speaker 1: The city has also made investments in outreach teams to
Speaker 1: work with drug users in the park. The area has
Speaker 1: been plagued by criminal and drug activities for years. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. John,
Speaker 1: President Trump is moving fast and furious with tariffs, but
Speaker 1: then they go on and then they go off any
Speaker 1: new ones.
Speaker 7: Yesterday there were new ones that were placed on American
Speaker 7: products that was retaliatory tariffs coming from China, agriculture products
Speaker 7: in particular. But as for the US tariffs on foreign
Speaker 7: goods coming into our country. They are set to take
Speaker 7: effect on April the second, so we're less than a
Speaker 7: month away from that, but Wall Street already preparing for that.
Speaker 7: And you saw how the Dow dropped nearly nine hundred
Speaker 7: points yesterday. It's been a steady decline for all of
Speaker 7: the financial markets over the course of the past two weeks,
Speaker 7: not only because of this thread of tariffs being implemented
Speaker 7: on April the second, but also you have what the
Speaker 7: President said over the weekend in an interview with Fox
Speaker 7: News in which he did not rule out the possibility
Speaker 7: of a recession. That has really scared Wall Street, and
Speaker 7: that's the reason for that huge decline that we saw yesterday.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine John, that this is putting some
Speaker 1: of Trump loyalists. They kind of have to walk a
Speaker 1: delegate line, a delicate line, because they're supporting the president,
Speaker 1: but then there's things that are going on that might
Speaker 1: not be great for their constituents. What's the challenge for
Speaker 1: Republican lawmakers.
Speaker 7: Well, you just spelled it out, Amy, It's a huge challenge.
Speaker 7: You know, you have Republican lawmakers who want to remain
Speaker 7: low oil to the president. At the same time, as
Speaker 7: you point out, it's constituents that are concerned about rising
Speaker 7: prices number one and then number two, they're looking at
Speaker 7: this decline in the stock market. It's impacting their retirement accounts.
Speaker 7: They're four to one case. So lawmakers are hearing a
Speaker 7: lot from their constituents right now.
Speaker 1: Now. Stock people always say, investors always say, don't freak
Speaker 1: out when the stock market takes a dive like this,
Speaker 1: because it can rebound. You know, you're in this for
Speaker 1: the long haul. Sure, So is there concern that you
Speaker 1: know there's going to be a sort of knee jerk
Speaker 1: reaction on lawmakers' parts.
Speaker 7: Too, well, you know that is true. You know, to
Speaker 7: play the long game as it relates to the financial markets,
Speaker 7: very true. That being said, you know, the impact of
Speaker 7: tariffs would be something that would be felt not only
Speaker 7: in the US economy, but also the global economy for
Speaker 7: a significant period of time. You know, the financial markets
Speaker 7: have ups and downs day in and day out. But
Speaker 7: what we've seen amy over the course of the past
Speaker 7: two weeks as a steady decline in the financial markets.
Speaker 7: All of the games that we saw since President Trump's
Speaker 7: selection in November have now been wiped away because of
Speaker 7: these declines in the financial markets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's and for investors, I'm sure that makes everybody
Speaker 1: very very nervous. So here's a question for you, John,
Speaker 1: because you're you're there in the White House and following
Speaker 1: the president. Do you think people are going to be
Speaker 1: able to keep up with this rapid page pace? Like
Speaker 1: everything is happening so fast, it's like somebody opened up
Speaker 1: fire hose when he got into office. Things are just
Speaker 1: going so fast and furious. Or are we just in
Speaker 1: for chaos like this for four years?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 7: Look, I covered President Trump's first term as well, Amy,
Speaker 7: and the pace that we're seeing right now is reminiscent
Speaker 7: of what I saw in his first term. It was
Speaker 7: a very busy time period for me, you know, eight
Speaker 7: years ago, during that whole court period of time, and
Speaker 7: I anticipate or repeat of that. I do not see
Speaker 7: a slowdown. I mean the president signing executive actions almost
Speaker 7: every day and taking actions which have very real effects
Speaker 7: on the economy every week, and so I don't see
Speaker 7: a slowdown in that. And you know, look, the midterm
Speaker 7: elections will be here before you know it. We'll see
Speaker 7: whether all of these they will be and we'll see
Speaker 7: whether all of these actions taken by the President Trump
Speaker 7: and his administration have a positive or negative effect on
Speaker 7: the economy and what lawmakers will have to run on
Speaker 7: as far as the record two years from now when
Speaker 7: the midterms take place.
Speaker 1: Jfi's White House correspondent, John Decker, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 7: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All Right, buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride.
Speaker 1: I know Handel was talking about it and he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited because it's just there's never going to
Speaker 1: be a dull news day because things happen and developed
Speaker 1: so quickly, and we'll be here to watch it for you.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A judge in
Speaker 1: New York has temporarily blocked the deportation of a Palestinian
Speaker 1: activist who helped lead anti Israel protests at Columbia University.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of people demonstrated in Manhattan yesterday to protect the
Speaker 1: grad students or to protest the grad student's arrest. Professor
Speaker 1: Enon Cohen with Columbia's Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Speaker 1: compares the arrest to tactics used to detain Palestinians in Gaza,
Speaker 1: then Israeli America. I'm extremely troubled that such practices have
Speaker 1: been important to the United States and manifest themselves on
Speaker 1: our campus. The Department of Homeland Security says the arrest
Speaker 1: was in response to Trump's executive orders prohibiting anti Semitism.
Speaker 1: President Trump has said the man's arrest would be the
Speaker 1: first of many. Israeli negotiators are in Qatar to restart
Speaker 1: talks with Hamas on what phase two of a ceasefire
Speaker 1: agreement's going to look like. The talk come as Israel
Speaker 1: has cut off electricity to Gaza. Addi Alexander says his
Speaker 1: son Eden is still being held in Gaza and he
Speaker 1: hopes the negotiators will come to a consensus soon. We
Speaker 1: heard some testimonies from the recently released hostages that they
Speaker 1: saw him in the tunnels. He was strong, he tried
Speaker 1: to help other civilians. He says. Both sides need to
Speaker 1: keep talking to get everybody out as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: Talks between the US and Ukraine on how to end
Speaker 1: the war with Russia have begun in Saudi Arabia. ABC's
Speaker 1: James Longman says The meeting follows an apology from Ukrainian
Speaker 1: President Zelenski to President Trump for that explosive meeting in
Speaker 1: the Oval.
Speaker 5: Vilenski himself won't be involved, but his team will meet
Speaker 5: with the US delegation led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1: Rubio says the delegation will not be proposing any specific
Speaker 1: measures to end the three year war, but wants to
Speaker 1: hear from Ukraine about what it would be willing to consider.
Speaker 1: The meeting opened hours after Russian air defenses shot down
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty seven Ukrainian drones for Russia. Former
Speaker 1: Philippines President Rodrigo d Duterte has been arrested in connection
Speaker 1: with an international criminal court case that alleged crime against
Speaker 1: humanity during his anti drug crackdowns. Dutarte was arrested today
Speaker 1: at the Manila Airport, not clear where he was taken.
Speaker 1: The government said the seventy nine year old former leader
Speaker 1: was in good health and was in authorities custody. Workers
Speaker 1: in DC have begun to dismantle the area known as
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter Plaza. They started removing some of the
Speaker 1: murals and street markers yesterday. Lawmakers threatened last week to
Speaker 1: withhold funding from the city if the plaza was not removed.
Speaker 1: A bill also demanded a name change for the two
Speaker 1: block area. The works expected to take six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says the space will be used
Speaker 1: to create art celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 1: of the US next year, and a new kind of
Speaker 1: yarn will mean your cloth could soon charge your phone.
Speaker 1: Researchers in Sweden are working on a new textile technology
Speaker 1: that converts body heat into electricity through thermoelectric effects. They
Speaker 1: say the newly developed polymers are bendable, lightweight, and non toxic,
Speaker 1: and will serve as a coating for ordinary silk yarn.
Speaker 1: The researchers say the polymers will have the ability to
Speaker 1: conduct electricity. Right, Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's down on a hill during a lightning storm.
Speaker 1: That's all I can say. Yeah, no kidding, right, Hey, iheartradios.
Speaker 1: Wango Tango's returning to southern California and it's headed to
Speaker 1: the beach Saturday, May tenth at Huntington City Beach. Wango
Speaker 1: Tango's all star lineup will feature performances by Doja, Cat,
Speaker 1: Megan Trainer and a whole lot more, plus performing right
Speaker 1: at Sunset Orange County Zone. Gwen Stefani. Tickets go on
Speaker 1: sale this Friday, March fourteenth, at ten am. You can
Speaker 1: get them at AXS dot com. It's Wango Tango. The
Speaker 1: DWP board is expected to vote today on her request
Speaker 1: to provide private security for the head of DWP because
Speaker 1: of threats she has received in regards to the Palisades
Speaker 1: Fire and how the department handled it. The cost of
Speaker 1: the security detail for a year is seven hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration is looking to shorten the enrollment period
Speaker 1: for the Affordable Care Act. It says it should be
Speaker 1: November first through December fifteenth, which it says would bring
Speaker 1: the enrollment period more in line with employer based health
Speaker 1: plans and would reduce confusion. The proposal also calls for
Speaker 1: ending coverage for migrants brought to the US illegally as children,
Speaker 1: known as Dreamers. A federal jury in LA has rejected
Speaker 1: a writer animator's claim that Disney lifted portions of his
Speaker 1: draft for a Polynesian themed surfer story and used it
Speaker 1: for the twenty sixteen animated blockbuster Mowana. Buckwoodall alleged a
Speaker 1: development director gave Dizzy a project that he had produced
Speaker 1: two decades ago and then used it as the basis
Speaker 1: for Mwana without permission. At six oh five, it's handle
Speaker 1: on the news the Menendez brothers' efforts to get out
Speaker 1: of prison have hit a roadblock named Nathan Hakman. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Stephen portnoy So. Stephen,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've had this conversation again, just a
Speaker 1: few days away from a partial government shutdown. If lawmakers
Speaker 1: can't pass a bill, where do we stand?
Speaker 8: We stand on the cusp of a vote in the
Speaker 8: House of Representatives later today, by mid afternoon, late early afternoon,
Speaker 8: i'd say your time. We would expect the Speaker of
Speaker 8: the House to call the role on the measure that
Speaker 8: would extend government funding through the end of September. Democrats
Speaker 8: are going to withhold their support. They say they want
Speaker 8: no part of this. They are wary of DOGE. They're
Speaker 8: concerned that there's nothing in this bill that prevents future
Speaker 8: DOGE related cuts. They say that it amounts to a
Speaker 8: cut because it keeps spending levels where they are for
Speaker 8: the rest of the fiscal years. Supposed to increasing them
Speaker 8: as you'd expect from year to year, and they are
Speaker 8: saying to the Republican majority, this is your house. You
Speaker 8: pass the bill on a party line basis, if you
Speaker 8: can do it now. The challenge for Speaker Johnson, whose
Speaker 8: confident it will pass, is that he already has one defector.
Speaker 8: That's Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky. Massy's always a no
Speaker 8: vote on CRS. He's a no vote this time. President
Speaker 8: Trump overnight called him a grand standard who should be primaried.
Speaker 8: But Massi's a no. If there's another no vote on
Speaker 8: the Republican side and all Democrats withhold their support, well
Speaker 8: then this bill does not pass. And nobody knows what
Speaker 8: the Plan B would.
Speaker 1: Be, Okay, so it doesn't need the sixty vote majority,
Speaker 1: just needs the simple majority.
Speaker 8: In the House of Representatives, they operate on a majority basis,
Speaker 8: with the exception of a suspension of the rules, which
Speaker 8: is a two thirds vote. But never mind that now.
Speaker 8: That may be operative later in the week if this
Speaker 8: doesn't pass. But never mind that now. The point is
Speaker 8: it's a majority vote today, and if it passes in
Speaker 8: the House and the ball gets in to the Senate
Speaker 8: and it's in the Democrats court. Well, that is to say,
Speaker 8: they have to decide whether they're going to withhold their
Speaker 8: support and prevent the sixty votes in the Senate. And
Speaker 8: that's where you get into this question of, you know,
Speaker 8: Democrats having leverage here because remember, Republicans control both houses.
Speaker 8: What can the Democrats do in the House. Not a lot,
Speaker 8: in fact, not much at all. In the Senate, they
Speaker 8: have real power. They can withhold their support and prevent
Speaker 8: a bill from being enacted.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is not a done deal by any stretch.
Speaker 8: No, it is not a done deal. And look, you
Speaker 8: have Vice President Vance going up to Capitol Hill today
Speaker 8: to rally Republicans, keep them in line.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then you mentioned that there's nothing really new
Speaker 1: in the bill, so it's a continuing resolution. It's basically
Speaker 1: kicking that can down the road again.
Speaker 8: Right, yeah, I mean, look, Democrats would tell you that
Speaker 8: it amounts to a cut, that they are concerned that
Speaker 8: it'll affect essential services that Americans rely on, potentially nutrition assistance,
Speaker 8: veterans' care, a whole bunch of things. Here in Washington,
Speaker 8: d C. There's a concern that the bill does not
Speaker 8: include a standard provision in crs that would allow the
Speaker 8: DC government to spend its own locally raised funds. May
Speaker 8: be an oversight, that's the way the mayor of the
Speaker 8: city is describing it. But if it does not get
Speaker 8: added to the bill, the mayor and her aids say
Speaker 8: that they're gonna have to cut a billion dollars from
Speaker 8: the budget here in the city within the next six months,
Speaker 8: which could result in police fire and teach your layoffs.
Speaker 1: Okay, Stephen, you've been following this for a long time.
Speaker 1: Do they ever pass more than it can? When was
Speaker 1: the last time they passed like a real budget, not
Speaker 1: just a continuing resolution?
Speaker 8: So it most often happens when there is unified government,
Speaker 8: where you have you know, one party control these days,
Speaker 8: and in the you know, the idea is that you
Speaker 8: would see the passage of a full year either omnibus
Speaker 8: bill or you know, the idea of passing twelve individual
Speaker 8: spending bills. These days, it's just you know, so far afield.
Speaker 8: It's hard to I could look up when the last
Speaker 8: time it happened, but it's not in my memory, so
Speaker 8: you'd have to go back a number of years. Instead,
Speaker 8: what you have is either you know, what they call
Speaker 8: an omnibus or a cromnibus what John Bayner used to
Speaker 8: call a crap sandwich. Right, This idea that you know,
Speaker 8: it's just a whole bunch of stuff piled together, amalgamated,
Speaker 8: and you know it's subject to criticism because you know,
Speaker 8: Republicans conservatives would say, you know, you're talking about spending
Speaker 8: a trillion dollars in a single piece of legislation. There's
Speaker 8: no opportunity to dig in, and that's fueling the Doge effort.
Speaker 8: This idea that there's waste endemic in the federal government.
Speaker 8: The only way to find it is to dig deep
Speaker 8: for it, and Doe just pointing out, you know, some
Speaker 8: of the most what they considered that some of the
Speaker 8: most outrageous examples. There's some doubt about whether all of
Speaker 8: it's true, frankly, but nevertheless, you know, you get to
Speaker 8: find waste in any large endeavor, and particularly in one
Speaker 8: as large as the federal government.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC, Stephen Portony, thanks for the information. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we're going to be talking again soon because we
Speaker 1: don't know if those lights are going to stay on
Speaker 1: or not.
Speaker 2: How you bet?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: Thanks?
Speaker 1: La County Supervisor Catherine Barger has asked for an update
Speaker 1: from USC Health on a possible cancer risk and other
Speaker 1: effects from the Chiquita Canyon landfill. Barger, who represents the
Speaker 1: Analoge Valley including the Castaic area where the landfill is,
Speaker 1: wants officials with the US Cancer Surveillance Program to do
Speaker 1: an analysis of potential cancer clusters in the communities around
Speaker 1: the landfill. A man from Oxnard's been arrested for allegedly
Speaker 1: sexually assaulting a woman on a transit bus. The Ventura
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's office says the woman was on the bus
Speaker 1: from Cameriot to Venture Friday when she was attacked. The
Speaker 1: forty nine year old man, who the woman says assaulted her,
Speaker 1: was spotted by deputies on another bus on Sunday and
Speaker 1: was arrested. Investigators say the guy may have sexually assaulted
Speaker 1: other women on the bus or in or around bus stops.
Speaker 1: A year's long murder case against an Orange County judge
Speaker 1: has ended with a mistrial.
Speaker 9: The jury was deadlocked eleven to one after eight days
Speaker 9: of deliberation in the case against OC Superior Court judge
Speaker 9: Jeffrey Ferguson. He was on trial for the second degree
Speaker 9: murder of his wife Cheryl in August of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 9: As attorneys say the deadlock is a victory.
Speaker 1: Pung jury is part of the process, and it's also
Speaker 1: a success in its own way.
Speaker 9: The prosecution says they plan to retry the.
Speaker 10: Case, and we are ready and willing to answer, ready
Speaker 10: anytime the court tells us that the court is ready.
Speaker 1: Heather Brooker KFI News USC is among several colleges in
Speaker 1: southern California to get a warning from the Department of
Speaker 1: Education's Office for Civil Rights.
Speaker 10: The warning, issued Monday, says colleges will face potential enforcement
Speaker 10: actions if they do not protect Jewish students on campus.
Speaker 10: Letters were also sent to Pomona College and Santa Monica
Speaker 10: College in Los Angeles County, and to Chapman University in
Speaker 10: Orange County.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield says the letters were sent to sixty
Speaker 1: colleges across the country that get federal funding. A Chinese
Speaker 1: citizen who is a resident of the United States has
Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force
Speaker 1: Space in poo Zoo. Was in a federal court room
Speaker 1: in downtown Lay to face account of violating national defense airspace.
Speaker 1: The drone was flown over the base in November. Ju
Speaker 1: was arrested at San Francisco International Airport in December before
Speaker 1: he could board a flight to China. Prosecutors say Ju
Speaker 1: took photos of the base. He's facing a year in
Speaker 1: prison and a one hundred thousand dollars fine. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is my favorite story of the day. Four year old
Speaker 1: boy in Wisconsin called nine one one on his mom
Speaker 1: because she ate his ice cream. Local radio station WTMG
Speaker 1: got the recording.
Speaker 11: My mom didnt that what's going on?
Speaker 1: The boy told police last week that his mom needed
Speaker 1: to go to jail. Two officers showed up at the house.
Speaker 1: The kid told them what mom did, but then he
Speaker 1: said he didn't want her to go to jail anymore.
Speaker 1: He just wanted some ice cream. The officers returned the
Speaker 1: next day with a couple of ice cream treats. Love that.
Speaker 1: La County DA Nathan Hawkman says he wants the Menendez
Speaker 1: brothers to remain locked up until they can, in his words,
Speaker 1: come clean once and for all. Nathan Hawkman announced yesterday
Speaker 1: he will not oppose a resentencing hearing, but he does
Speaker 1: oppose their release unless they admit they murdered their parents
Speaker 1: at their home in nineteen eighty nine. LA Mayor, Bass
Speaker 1: Police Chief McDonald and city officials say they're making progress
Speaker 1: in making MacArthur Park cleaner and safer. They say there's
Speaker 1: been a decrease in crime in the park and the
Speaker 1: surrounding neighborhood thanks to an increased police presence and a
Speaker 1: crackdown on gang related activity. Mcdonald' says crime in the
Speaker 1: area overall has dropped forty six percent since December. Manager
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts is going to stick around to coach the
Speaker 1: boys in Blue. The Dodgers say they have extended the
Speaker 1: World Series winning manager's contract through the twenty twenty nine season.
Speaker 1: Roberts deal is worth more than thirty two million dollars.
Speaker 1: He's the highest paid manager in Major League Baseball now
Speaker 1: at six oh five. Tandle on the News CBS tells
Speaker 1: the FCCED just leave them alone. Bill's going to tell
Speaker 1: you why right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: Mike Dubusky. Mike, if you're an ex user, you might
Speaker 1: have had your screen go dark yesterday. What happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: A number of how did you that platform yesterday? Over
Speaker 2: the course of the twenty four hour period that we observed,
Speaker 2: and that really did cause them frustration on the platform.
Speaker 2: About forty thousand users reported that they couldn't post or
Speaker 2: they couldn't refresh their feeds on X of course formally
Speaker 2: called Twitter. It all started around six am Eastern time,
Speaker 2: people logging on and encountering these issues reporting it to
Speaker 2: the website down detector, which tracks this type of thing,
Speaker 2: And normally we wouldn't really pay that much attention to
Speaker 2: something like this. These are very complex platforms. They have
Speaker 2: a lot of moving parts and occasionally things break and
Speaker 2: they need to send in engineers to go fix it.
Speaker 2: Usually these sorts of outages are resolved within an hour
Speaker 2: or two generally speaking. However, over the course of the day,
Speaker 2: we saw three more major outages at X that totaled
Speaker 2: four outages in total for the day of Monday, and
Speaker 2: that really did cause a lot of frustration on that platform.
Speaker 2: Elon Musk has responded to all this. He claimed that
Speaker 2: this was the of a massive cyber attack on X.
Speaker 2: He said that this largely came from a coordinated group
Speaker 2: or country, as seeming to indicate that this was a
Speaker 2: state sponsored attack of some kind. He went on Fox
Speaker 2: Business later in the day and said that this, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, possibly came from Ukraine, that this could be
Speaker 2: traced back to a Ukrainian IP address. However, for what
Speaker 2: it's worth, there is reason to doubt that this is
Speaker 2: a state sponsored attack. Cybersecurity experts generally say those types
Speaker 2: of attacks are meant to send a big, clear message.
Speaker 2: It's not very clear what kind of message several intermittent
Speaker 2: disruptions of service really sent at the end of the day. Also,
Speaker 2: Elon Musk has claimed cyber attack in the past with
Speaker 2: no evidence. Last year, he interviewed Donald Trump on the
Speaker 2: platform and that was beset with some technical issues. He
Speaker 2: said it was a cyber attack. A number of ex
Speaker 2: engineers later came out and said that now it was
Speaker 2: just some technical problems on our end. So, I mean
Speaker 2: it's very possible, right. I mean. One of Musk's big
Speaker 2: sort of mos when he took over this platform in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, excuse me, was that he was, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of pairing back a number of the employees there
Speaker 2: to taking away from various teams. There were a lot
Speaker 2: of intermittent disruptions of service when that happens, and seems
Speaker 2: like maybe this is just another sort of outgrowth of that.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to wait and see if there's a
Speaker 2: lot of information left to be learned. And for what
Speaker 2: it's worth, it comes at a pretty existential moment for
Speaker 2: this platform. You know, Elon Musk is obviously making a
Speaker 2: lot of headlines at the Department of Government Efficiency, is
Speaker 2: also seeing some of his other businesses feel the effects
Speaker 2: of the stock sell off, namely Tesla that we observed
Speaker 2: yesterday down fifteen percent in trading on Monday. I want
Speaker 2: to see what it does today, but it's pretty he's
Speaker 2: kind of facing it from a number of different sides
Speaker 2: at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll have to dive into this more when you
Speaker 1: have more time, Mike, because I know you got a
Speaker 1: heart out at right now. But thanks for the information
Speaker 1: and hopefully X people can go and do what do
Speaker 1: it's not tweeting anymore, Thanks Mike posting time to get
Speaker 1: in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Of course,
Speaker 1: Mike just mentioned that Tesla stock was down fifteen percent yesterday,
Speaker 1: and uh, they weren't the only one who lost a
Speaker 1: lot yesterday. Huh.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and it's a little bit better today. I mean,
Speaker 11: when you think about Tesla. It's down about forty five
Speaker 11: percent so far this year. Yeah, it's a little bit
Speaker 11: better today because I guess the car maker's expecting a
Speaker 11: new customer.
Speaker 1: President Trump is gonna he said he's.
Speaker 11: Going to buy a Tuessla today as a show of
Speaker 11: confidence and support for Elon Musk.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. Is he going to be riding around
Speaker 1: in a cyber Trump? Well, time was the last time
Speaker 1: President Trump drove a car exactly, So we'll see. We'll see.
Speaker 11: Maybe they'll they'll switch the Secret Service to driving around
Speaker 11: in something like that.
Speaker 1: So Courtney, what caused the big dive yesterday? Oh?
Speaker 11: So, well, we have these tariffs plus a potential cuts
Speaker 11: to government payrolls.
Speaker 1: That's definitely been weighing on sentiment.
Speaker 11: There's also an increasing view that President Trump won't intervene
Speaker 11: to support the markets. In the past, usually he looks
Speaker 11: at the markets as a report card, so he's jumped
Speaker 11: in and made some moves to make sure that the
Speaker 11: markets were supported. But it seems like this time, with
Speaker 11: all of the comments that he's making, it's really not
Speaker 11: going to happen. But here's the difference. In the first term,
Speaker 11: President Trump slash taxes before beginning the trade war. Now
Speaker 11: it's the other way around, and the economic backdrop looks
Speaker 11: a lot shakier this time around, so worries are continuing
Speaker 11: to grow about the economy. Yesterday it was rough when
Speaker 11: we saw the Dow drop eight hundred ninety points, the
Speaker 11: S and P five hundred fell one point two percent,
Speaker 11: the tech heavy NASTAC it was its worst day in
Speaker 11: three years. Now this morning, we're looking at a small bounce.
Speaker 11: We're off the highs of what we saw earlier. S
Speaker 11: and P futures are up a tenth of a percent,
Speaker 11: but it looks like Dow futures are a little changed.
Speaker 11: But by the way, President Trump is said to me
Speaker 11: with top business leaders today, so we'll see what comes
Speaker 11: out of that. His meeting will include chief executives from
Speaker 11: around the country. He's going to talk to boss's Wall
Speaker 11: Street lenders, so I'm sure the President's going to get
Speaker 11: an earful from all of that.
Speaker 1: Okay, then I'm going to move over to airlines. They're
Speaker 1: apparently having a They've hit some I don't know turbulence exactly.
Speaker 11: It's there is a big industry conference that's going on today,
Speaker 11: and hour by hour we're hearing from more of them,
Speaker 11: and it seems that it's not so good. What's the
Speaker 11: bad thing, Well, they're saying that the consumers pulled back
Speaker 11: sharply from the beginning of the year. They came in
Speaker 11: the airlines in the beginning of.
Speaker 1: The year, they were so positive.
Speaker 11: Delta one of them too, but they're seeing now a
Speaker 11: rapid reversal in demand. So Delta slashed its profit forecasting.
Speaker 11: The economy is weighing on the industry. Delta CEO actually
Speaker 11: called it a parade of horribles and American they're also
Speaker 11: cutting their forecast on the fallout from that fatal crash
Speaker 11: which involved one of its planes in Washington. But what
Speaker 11: a lot of people are watching. And this is an
Speaker 11: interesting note. It's the end of an era for Southwest
Speaker 11: because they're actually going to begin charging passengers for some
Speaker 11: check luggage. So this ends their free bag policy that
Speaker 11: they had. I mean, this is a hallmark of the carrier.
Speaker 11: This is what they've had since they were founded. So
Speaker 11: this new policy is going to go into effect on
Speaker 11: May twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, and I think it's interesting that they're
Speaker 1: saying it's a parade of horribles and blaming everybody else.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but have you checked your
Speaker 1: airfare prices lately? It costs a fortune to go anywhere
Speaker 1: where you used to be able to get some deals.
Speaker 1: There's no deals out there, no, not at all. So
Speaker 1: I think that they maybe need to look back at
Speaker 1: themselves a little bit on this too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I'm always looking for flights to Floria. My brother, I've
Speaker 11: said to you before, lives in Florida, and I'm constantly
Speaker 11: having that And it's so expensive to be able to
Speaker 11: go when what kind of service are we getting for
Speaker 11: all of that? So we're getting delays. That's why now,
Speaker 11: no matter what flight I do, I always try to go.
Speaker 1: First thing in the morning.
Speaker 11: It's just you know, there's no way, yep, yeah, because
Speaker 11: later on in the day you're just sitting I'm sitting
Speaker 11: at JFK for how many hours and something I don't
Speaker 11: want to do with two small kids.
Speaker 1: All right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 1: We're going to get in your business again tomorrow morning
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Speaker 1: at least for now. Right now, let's say good morning too,
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we got a fun topic.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about capital punishment.
Speaker 3: It is fun, all right, It's interesting, at least not fun.
Speaker 1: But interesting. It is interesting.
Speaker 3: We had two cases on this past Friday. A guy
Speaker 3: named Brad Sigmund, sixty seven year old, was put to
Speaker 3: death in South Carolina for the killing of his ex
Speaker 3: girlfriend's parents. He killed them both, bludging them. In two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, the option, how do you want to die,
Speaker 3: mister Sigmund? You have the option a firing squad, electric chair,
Speaker 3: lethal injection. He chose a firing squad, and that's how
Speaker 3: he was put to death. It was over in seconds essentially.
Speaker 3: Then that apparently is what he wanted. He wanted a
Speaker 3: quick end. This coming week, there is another execution planned
Speaker 3: in Louisiana. Jesse Hoffman is that convict's name, and he's
Speaker 3: to die by a relatively new method, nitrogen hypoxia. So
Speaker 3: the inmate is on the gurney or on the table.
Speaker 3: They're in the execution table room. They put a mask
Speaker 3: over the face, something like you'd see in the dentist office.
Speaker 3: It's feeding in oxygen, but that oxygen is replaced gradually
Speaker 3: with nitrogen, and your body can't use that and you
Speaker 3: eventually suffocate. He's fighting that, Jesse Hoffman is he and
Speaker 3: his attorneys will go before a judge and demand that
Speaker 3: this not be done. He'd rather have and he says,
Speaker 3: for religious reasons and for human rights reasons, he wants
Speaker 3: to drink some app juice with poisoning it. Essentially, Okay, that.
Speaker 1: Doesn't sound pleasant either, No, not that they deserve pleasant,
Speaker 1: but yeah, the nitrixace, that one where you're suffocating, that
Speaker 1: would that would that doesn't sound great either.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's not apparently. I mean, you know, the
Speaker 3: goal I suppose is that you would lose consciousness before
Speaker 3: your organs eventually start to shut down. But in Alabama
Speaker 3: it's been tried a couple of times, and witnesses have
Speaker 3: said that they made writhes around appears to be in
Speaker 3: pain thrashes on the table before finally dying. So yeah,
Speaker 3: this doesn't there's not a good way to go if
Speaker 3: you're being well.
Speaker 1: But I think there is, And I don't understand why
Speaker 1: we just don't do this, So why don't you just
Speaker 1: give people a dose apropofil, knock them out, and then
Speaker 1: do it and then you just go to sleep like then,
Speaker 1: then everybody who complains about it because you've seen like
Speaker 1: on TV shows. I've never seen an execution live, but
Speaker 1: you've seen TV shoes show where you know, there is
Speaker 1: it's obviously painful and they're you know, frothing at the
Speaker 1: mouth and writhing and that kind of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: And of course these are really bad people who probably
Speaker 1: don't deserve to be a lie, But why not just
Speaker 1: put him to sleep like that or do it like
Speaker 1: you know, like you do it with when they euthanize dogs.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and that's that's kind of what Hoffman is
Speaker 3: looking for.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 3: This guy in Louisiana I did execute or I did.
Speaker 3: I witnessed an execution fifteen twenty years ago, maybe as
Speaker 3: part of the job, right, And it was lethal injection
Speaker 3: here in Texas, and it was peaceful, it was quiet,
Speaker 3: and it was over in ten minutes or so. But
Speaker 3: this guy, he's wanting to do exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: His attorneys want to change the protocols so that he
Speaker 3: would be taking an oral solution of different drugs mixed
Speaker 3: with apple juice, which would be something like euthanasia. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's what he's pushing for now, and we'll see
Speaker 3: what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I used to be for the death penalty, but
Speaker 1: now I don't know that I am any longer. And
Speaker 1: part of it is because of the cost, like that
Speaker 1: you put somebody on death row, then they have to
Speaker 1: be separated from population, and then there's the appeals and
Speaker 1: then it draws out for twenty years. And how does
Speaker 1: the family get any closure when that person's sitting there
Speaker 1: for twenty years and you never know if you're actually
Speaker 1: going to get that closure, Like it's just it's like
Speaker 1: it remains an open wound. You know.
Speaker 3: Well that's true. And this is getting really deep, but
Speaker 3: let's see.
Speaker 1: But that's where we go on. Wake up called Jim.
Speaker 3: I hear you. But so it depends upon I guess,
Speaker 3: your personal your personal view of justice or your view
Speaker 3: of punishment, or you want the person to suffer. Right,
Speaker 3: So staying in prison the rest of your life is
Speaker 3: not fun. You're suffering there being put to death. The suffering,
Speaker 3: I suppose it's ended, but that person is gone by
Speaker 3: the way. I mean, I think the whole country is
Speaker 3: wrestling with this the same way that you are aiming.
Speaker 3: Was Gallup poll done late last year that showed that
Speaker 3: fifty three percent of Americans support capital punishment. That's a
Speaker 3: five decade low. Back the nineteen nineties had eighty percent
Speaker 3: of Americans okay with the death penalty. So the numbers
Speaker 3: is a dropping off, and it varies by political party.
Speaker 3: It also varies by age. Older people tend to support it,
Speaker 3: younger people not so much.
Speaker 1: All right, ABC's Jim Ryan. We'll be watching to see
Speaker 1: what they come up with. Yeah, all right, I don't
Speaker 1: like the idea that nitrous oxide, that one that sounds
Speaker 1: it's not like you're getting laughing gas.
Speaker 5: And how many times have we put our pets to
Speaker 5: sleep and it seems so peaceful placeful, yes, like boom boom.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Officials
Speaker 1: in La say crime around MacArthur Park is down.
Speaker 5: The park has long been troubled by drug users and
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Speaker 6: These operators are closely linked to violent street gangs which
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Speaker 5: Officers say they were covered three hundred and fifty thousand
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Speaker 5: overdose reversal kits. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney has sent a signal
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