Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty Wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: I'm to.
Speaker 2: Get Up, Get your work week started. Have you had
Speaker 2: a great weekend? I did.
Speaker 1: I had a D and D weekend. No, not Dungeons
Speaker 1: and Dragons.
Speaker 2: I was like, what Disney and Dodgers very nice, only nice.
Speaker 1: The only bad things were on the Dodgers lost, but
Speaker 1: it was still it was such a great game. And
Speaker 1: then Disneyland was spectacular. It was so much fun. I
Speaker 1: had a friend in town and it was just it
Speaker 1: was awesome. We went on the Tiana's whatever it's called.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but you used to be see the old
Speaker 1: Splash Mountain.
Speaker 2: We went on that ride.
Speaker 1: People were coming off of that ride soaked, like drenched
Speaker 1: head to toe, and we're like.
Speaker 2: Well, we gotta go, we gotta do it. We didn't get.
Speaker 1: Wet, wow, lucky or not the people in front of us.
Speaker 2: Head to toe. It was so fun. It was a
Speaker 2: great group of people though. It was fun.
Speaker 1: We just like met up with these people and we
Speaker 1: started talking to them and they're like, hey, you want
Speaker 1: to go on our boat with us. We're like okay,
Speaker 1: And we had them sit in front. So anyway, it
Speaker 1: was a great weekend. Hope you had a great weekend too.
Speaker 1: Let's get started. We got a lot going on. Here's
Speaker 1: what's ahead. On wake up Call, La Metro begins screening
Speaker 1: passengers for concealed weapons at the Green Lines Norwalk station.
Speaker 1: Officials will be assessing the technology for the next year
Speaker 1: across key stations to see if it can be an
Speaker 1: effective tool. It's the latest move by the agency to
Speaker 1: address rising violence on Metro buses and trains. Such sections
Speaker 1: of PCH that had been closed on Saturday reopened. The
Speaker 1: roadway was shut down because of mudslides, leaving residents and
Speaker 1: pass holders no way to get into the fire zone
Speaker 1: area between Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Carbon Beach Terrace. A
Speaker 1: new national poll shows a lot of Americans not happy
Speaker 1: with President Trump's first one hundred days in office. The
Speaker 1: Pole Show's fifty five percent of Americans disapprove of how
Speaker 1: Trump has handled the presidency. We're gonna dig into those
Speaker 1: numbers more with ABC's Stephen Portnoy.
Speaker 2: That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Another weekend, another car rams into a festival. This one
Speaker 1: leaves at least eleven people dead in Canada. ABC's Jim
Speaker 1: Ryan's going to join us at five point twenty. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see if there's anything that can be done to
Speaker 1: stop these kinds of attacks. And if you're looking for
Speaker 1: hope and inspiration and true love, I might have.
Speaker 2: The perfect movie for you.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk with the producer and director of
Speaker 1: Abby's List, a documentary, yes, not documentary, a dogumentary. It's
Speaker 1: in theaters this weekend. We're gonna find out all about it.
Speaker 1: That's coming up at about five point fifty. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Thousands of La County workers
Speaker 1: are planning to walk off the job tonight, and.
Speaker 3: The strike could potentially disrupt key services. SEIU Local seven
Speaker 3: twenty one, representing fifty five thousand frontline employees, says the
Speaker 3: walkout is over on labor practices, wage stagnation, and excessive outsourcing.
Speaker 3: County officials warn't possible delays in healthcare, social services, and
Speaker 3: public works through Wednesday evening. Union leaders accused the county
Speaker 3: of spending billions on contractors while ignoring worker pay and
Speaker 3: staffing shortages. Heatherbrooker KFI news.
Speaker 1: La County Supervisor Catherine Barger is set to visit a
Speaker 1: property in Alta, Dina where crews are about to start
Speaker 1: rebuilding a home destroyed by the Eton fire. The woman
Speaker 1: who owns the home, Margot Stuber, had debris cleared Firmer
Speaker 1: property by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Governor Newsom
Speaker 1: says wildfire resources in California are safe, even though the
Speaker 1: states facing major financial issues. He says California has nearly
Speaker 1: doubled its investments in CalFire over the past few years
Speaker 1: in state of.
Speaker 4: The art technologies it relates to access the tools that
Speaker 4: the Pentagon provides the tools that private contractors like Lockeed provide.
Speaker 1: Still, Newsom says there is a tough road ahead with
Speaker 1: lower revenue, higher unemployment, and rising costs. Santa Monica could
Speaker 1: soon be letting people sip a drink while strolling down
Speaker 1: the Third Street promenade.
Speaker 5: Pantamonica City leaders have approved plans for an entertainment zone
Speaker 5: where public drinking would be allowed every day from eight
Speaker 5: am to two am between Wilshore and Arizona. Drinkers would
Speaker 5: need to wear wristbands, be twenty one or older, and
Speaker 5: use plastic cups. Some residents and leaders raise security concerns,
Speaker 5: but supporters say it's a smart way to bring visitors back.
Speaker 5: A final vote is expected in May, with a possible
Speaker 5: rollout in June. Brigida, Degastino, Okay.
Speaker 1: If I news California's my Shake app has been downloaded
Speaker 1: more than four million times. Governor Newsom says the app
Speaker 1: gives people life saving seconds before an earthquake hits. His
Speaker 1: office says since its inception, the app has sent out
Speaker 1: more than five million alerts for nearly one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy quakes. The state's encouraging people to use the free
Speaker 1: app and to follow the cal Oes Earthquake Readiness Guide
Speaker 1: and up for that last one. Yeah, that hit down
Speaker 1: in San Diego County. We got the pre worn for
Speaker 1: the shaking eighty seconds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it was good. It was good. It's five
Speaker 2: seven on your Monday morning wake up call.
Speaker 1: Time to say good morning to kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker. Morning, John, Are peace talks continuing with Russia
Speaker 1: and the US and Ukraine?
Speaker 2: Because President Trump's getting a little fed up.
Speaker 6: He is, He's getting frustrated, and with good reason, and
Speaker 6: the reason being is because two months ago the US
Speaker 6: put a peace proposal on the table. It was a
Speaker 6: thirty day ceasefire peace proposal. It was accepted immediately by Ukraine.
Speaker 6: It has not been accepted by Russia. Now Russia said
Speaker 6: that today, just within the past few hours, that it
Speaker 6: will have a three day unilateralist ceasefire as it relates
Speaker 6: to the war in Ukraine. But that's not what the
Speaker 6: President's proposal calls for. And I think that's the reason
Speaker 6: why the President has threatened more sanctions on Russia and
Speaker 6: has said maybe that Putin is stringing him along in
Speaker 6: terms of what it is that he's saying publicly and
Speaker 6: what we see that he's doing attacking civilian areas in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so you mentioned that two months ago we
Speaker 1: had put up this or the administration had put up
Speaker 1: that thirty day seas fire. Has any progress and that
Speaker 1: been made, I know you just mentioned that. I think
Speaker 1: May sixth, seventh and eighth is when they said that
Speaker 1: they're going to do a ceasefire. But did they say
Speaker 1: is that a precursor to accepting a longer cease fire?
Speaker 1: Is that because conclave starts on May seventh, I mean,
Speaker 1: did they say.
Speaker 6: Why, No, they didn't haven't said why. I think they
Speaker 6: recognized the frustration that the President has indicated over the
Speaker 6: course of the past few weeks. Also, the President has
Speaker 6: threatened to impose what's called secondary sanctions on Russia, maybe
Speaker 6: going and targeting its oil sector. That oil really funds
Speaker 6: everything as it relates to the war. So that would
Speaker 6: be a very skiff sanction that the US and its
Speaker 6: allies could impose upon Russia.
Speaker 1: And kind of interesting because it so far, I mean,
Speaker 1: from just you know, looking at bird's eye view, it
Speaker 1: seems like Trump has actually been siding more with Russia,
Speaker 1: you know, like saying, you know, Russia is going to
Speaker 1: get a lot of what it wanted, Ukraine is not
Speaker 1: going to get a lot of what it wanted, So
Speaker 1: that that putin seems to be sort of hedging his
Speaker 1: bets or not making any moves, seems a little surprising.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you raised a really good point, Amy, and you know,
Speaker 6: I think that's one of the reasons that you haven't
Speaker 6: seen any movement by Russia. Russia sees that, you know,
Speaker 6: as it relates to public statements made by President Trump,
Speaker 6: it seems as if he's agreeing to some of the
Speaker 6: things that Russia has been putting out there, and from
Speaker 6: the Russian perspective, they probably feel, what's the purpose in
Speaker 6: offering up any concessions if we don't have to if
Speaker 6: the president buys into the point of view that we're
Speaker 6: publicly presenting out there. So you look, you know, I
Speaker 6: think the President is facing a lot of pressure. He's
Speaker 6: facing pressure from European alliing that with the Prime Minister
Speaker 6: of Norway. Just last he met with European leaders while
Speaker 6: he was in Italy for the funeral of Pope Francis,
Speaker 6: and they were putting a full court press on the
Speaker 6: president as well.
Speaker 7: So we'll see.
Speaker 6: I think this is an important week, and the President
Speaker 6: last week said I'll give Russia a week's time to
Speaker 6: come to some sort of movement getting to peace, and
Speaker 6: we'll see if this is that critical week that the
Speaker 6: President has been pushing for.
Speaker 1: John does Trump actually have any power in this? Does
Speaker 1: he have any leverage?
Speaker 6: That's a good question, you know, I think he has
Speaker 6: less leverage on this situation than he does concerning you know,
Speaker 6: the war in the Middle East. That being said, you know,
Speaker 6: the President also has spoken about the strong relationship that
Speaker 6: he has with Russian President Vladimir Putin, So perhaps you
Speaker 6: know he can use that strong relationship to convince Putin
Speaker 6: to at the very least agree to this thirty day
Speaker 6: ceasefire proposal that Ukraine's already agreed to, and then work
Speaker 6: towards a permanent peace once that thirty day ceasefire is
Speaker 6: put in place.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that he met with some leaders when he
Speaker 1: was overseas for the Pope's funeral. Did he meet with
Speaker 1: Selensky on Saturday?
Speaker 6: He did an iconic photograph.
Speaker 8: You could google it.
Speaker 6: You can see a one on one meeting in the
Speaker 6: Vatican with President Zelensky and also meeting with leaders like
Speaker 6: here Starmer, the uk Prime Minister, French President Emmanuel Macron,
Speaker 6: and they huddled together, and that they've been putting a
Speaker 6: lot of pressure the president. Also last Thursday here at
Speaker 6: the White House meeting with the Secretary General of the
Speaker 6: United Nation of NATO Mark Ruda. All of those individuals
Speaker 6: putting a lot of pressure on the President to put
Speaker 6: the pressure on Russia. So you can get to the
Speaker 6: point where you're moving towards peace.
Speaker 2: Okay, and we'll see what happens next.
Speaker 1: Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, Thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the insight and information.
Speaker 2: As always, Thanks Amy Bright, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour news. Murder chargers have
Speaker 1: been filed in Vancouver, Canada against a man who allegedly
Speaker 1: drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival.
Speaker 7: There are now eleven confirmed fatalities.
Speaker 1: Interim police Chief Steve Ray says dozens more people were
Speaker 1: hurt on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: This woman says the crash was shocking.
Speaker 3: We had initially assumed that it was like a food
Speaker 3: truck that had fallen over. That's how loud it was,
Speaker 3: and then we heard screams.
Speaker 1: Following investigators say they have ruled out terrorism. They say
Speaker 1: the man driving has a history of mental health issues.
Speaker 1: The retrial of Karen Reid continues this week in Boston.
Speaker 1: Legal analyst Brian Buckmeyer says the former economics professors accused
Speaker 1: of killing her boyfriend in twenty twenty two by backing
Speaker 1: her SUV into him and leaving him to die in
Speaker 1: a snowstorm.
Speaker 7: We're all expecting for a former officer now, Michael Proctor.
Speaker 3: He was the lead investigator in the case to testify,
Speaker 3: as well as an officer he worked with.
Speaker 1: He says the defense is arguing the trial is a
Speaker 1: conspiracy and all of the officers are involved. The US
Speaker 1: and Iran are set to hold an round of nuclear
Speaker 1: talks following a weekend meeting in Jordan. The White House
Speaker 1: says those talks were positive and productive. President Trump's Special
Speaker 1: Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Iran's foreign minister led the two delegations,
Speaker 1: with the discussions lasting about four hours. The next meeting
Speaker 1: is schedule to take place May third.
Speaker 2: More than one hundred.
Speaker 1: People have been arrested at an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Speaker 1: The DEA says illegal immigrants and active duty service members
Speaker 1: were detained. Many of the illegal immigrants were turned over
Speaker 1: to ICE. The Army Criminal Investigation Divisions looking into the
Speaker 1: involvement of about a dozen US service members who again
Speaker 1: were taken into custody. A legal analyst says the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decision giving presidents immunity could be argued for A
Speaker 1: judge in Milwaukee arrested by the FBI. Judge Hannah Dugan
Speaker 1: is accused of allowing an illegal immigrant from Mexico to
Speaker 1: leave through a back door of her court, so ICE
Speaker 1: agents couldn't arrest him. Editor of Scotis Blog and former
Speaker 1: Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Iger says the judge could put
Speaker 1: that new judicial ruling to the test.
Speaker 9: No court has found that judges are immune from criminal prosecution,
Speaker 9: but that Trump immunity decision could be very relevant here.
Speaker 1: Judge Dugan could face up to six years in prison
Speaker 1: for her actions. A new poll shows President Trump has
Speaker 1: the lowest one hundred day job approval rating of any
Speaker 1: president in the past eighty years. The ABC News Washington
Speaker 1: Post IPSOS poll shows just thirty nine percent of Americans
Speaker 1: say the approve of what he's done so far. Gary
Speaker 1: Langer with Langer Research Association Associates, who produced the polls
Speaker 1: as fifty five percent of people disapprove.
Speaker 8: It beats the record low at one hundred days set
Speaker 8: by Donald Trump in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 9: He gets criticism on many issues, but perhaps his prime
Speaker 9: challenge is economic discontent.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Trump's one hundredth day in office. The Vatican
Speaker 1: has announced the conclave to elect a successor to Pope
Speaker 1: Francis will begin Wednesday, March not March May close. Friend
Speaker 1: of Pope Francis father James Martin says there are nine
Speaker 1: days of morning before the gathering, but there are some
Speaker 1: preliminary talks before the official conclave happens inside the Sistine Chapel.
Speaker 10: They are starting now already with what's called general congregations,
Speaker 10: where they're discussing in general what they want in the
Speaker 10: next pope without campaigning.
Speaker 1: More than thirteen thousand people filed into the Saint Mary
Speaker 1: Major Basilica yesterday to view Francis's tomb, with several more
Speaker 1: several thousand more waiting outside. When we come back, another
Speaker 1: cars plowed into a crowd. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to
Speaker 1: join us on why these attacks are increasing and what's
Speaker 1: being done to prevent them.
Speaker 2: That's coming out next.
Speaker 7: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 7: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Three men have been arrested in connection with a deadly
Speaker 1: home invasion in Woodland Hills, Willy say. The three broke
Speaker 1: into the home early Saturday morning, held the forty seven
Speaker 1: year old homeowner captive, and beat him up. He died
Speaker 1: of a head injury. At the scene. All three are
Speaker 1: facing murder charges and are being held on two million
Speaker 1: dollars bail. A major power outages hit Spain and Portugal,
Speaker 1: including in those countries capitals. Parts of France apparently also affected.
Speaker 1: The outage has halted trains and flights and left traffic
Speaker 1: signals dark all over the country. First time nominees Chubby Checker,
Speaker 1: Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the
Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also
Speaker 1: includes pop star Cindy Lauper, the hip hop Pioneers, Outcast,
Speaker 1: the rock duo White Stripes, and grunge masters Sound Garden.
Speaker 1: Some nominees that didn't get in this year Mariah Carey,
Speaker 1: Fish and Billie Idol. At six oh five's handle on
Speaker 1: the news, Russia's response to a Trump Zelensky meeting at
Speaker 1: the Vatican, A barrage of drone strikes. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 7: Jim.
Speaker 1: Another horrific crash this weekend where a person driving a
Speaker 1: car plows into a crowd at a gathering or festival
Speaker 1: or celebration.
Speaker 2: What's the latest on this, Well.
Speaker 4: Yes, eleven people we know have died. One person is
Speaker 4: in constandy. The victims there ranged in age from five
Speaker 4: to sixty five years old of Filipino Street celebration in Vancouver.
Speaker 4: The suspects he's been identified as Kai g Adam Lowe.
Speaker 4: The police have not said anything about his ethnicity or
Speaker 4: his origin, where he came from, whether it was a
Speaker 4: Native Canadian. But the police don't think this was an
Speaker 4: act of terrorism. They believe that this man, this suspect,
Speaker 4: had a mental health issue or some sort of crisis
Speaker 4: unrelated to terrorism that convinced him that he needed to
Speaker 4: drive his suv down this street filled with people, killing
Speaker 4: eleven and injuring dozens.
Speaker 1: We're seeing these more and more often, it seems, Jim,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially if this guy has mental health issues.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are these copycat kind of crimes.
Speaker 4: Sure, we're not just in this country. Germany seems to
Speaker 4: have a lot of these incidents, and there it may
Speaker 4: be copycats here, perhaps the same situation. People see if
Speaker 4: they've got you know, this intent in mind, they see
Speaker 4: that it works in one place and they might try
Speaker 4: it somewhere else. We saw it in Charlottesville, Virginia. We
Speaker 4: saw it January first, in New Orleans. We saw somebody
Speaker 4: you know, do the same thing at the parade, a
Speaker 4: holiday parade in Kenosha, Wisconsin. So it does happen. I
Speaker 4: think it was Waukesh actually wakesh Howers constant where that happened.
Speaker 4: But you know, it does happen, and it seems to
Speaker 4: be happening more that vehicles are being used as weapons.
Speaker 1: And politically it's got to be you know how lawmakers
Speaker 1: love to just pounce on things. It's got to be
Speaker 1: a little bit challenging for them because they can't say, oh,
Speaker 1: it's guns that are bad.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't say all cars are bad.
Speaker 4: No, you're right, So what do we do about it?
Speaker 4: I mean maybe there is legislation, not sure, but within
Speaker 4: the and in some of these cases it was a
Speaker 4: rental car that was used. There was a rental car
Speaker 4: New Orleans that that man used to drive down Bourbon
Speaker 4: Street and kill fourteen. I think it was. It was
Speaker 4: a rented cyber truck that was part there in Las
Speaker 4: Vegas and blown up. So the rental car industry is
Speaker 4: looking at strengthening its procedures, making it more difficult to
Speaker 4: rent a car without a background check. But this is
Speaker 4: fascinating to me geo fencing, and they use this on
Speaker 4: golf court, golf carts in golf courses. Right, So the
Speaker 4: GPS tracker is on the vehicle, and there's an alarm
Speaker 4: that goes off if you drive this golf cart into
Speaker 4: a sensitive area or off the the golf cart path.
Speaker 4: Why not use that same kind of technology in a vehicle. Right,
Speaker 4: Almost every car has GPS, and certainly every year more
Speaker 4: of them do. So certain areas of a community could
Speaker 4: be blocked off, essentially a virtual barricade that keeps people
Speaker 4: from driving down Bourbon Street, for example, or driving down
Speaker 4: that street in Charlottesville. Kill switch, Yeah, kill switch. And
Speaker 4: even if it's your own car, your own vehicle, if
Speaker 4: it's GPS equipped and the law enforcement has blocked off
Speaker 4: an area, then and you start to turn onto that street,
Speaker 4: either an alarm goes off, a buzzer, or the car
Speaker 4: is simply shut down.
Speaker 1: But it will right, Well, I would think that the
Speaker 1: alarm or buzzer probably wouldn't if it's somebody's hell bent
Speaker 1: on plowing into a crowd.
Speaker 4: Right, I know that's true. And even with the golf carts,
Speaker 4: if somebody's drunk and they're headed for the eighteenth.
Speaker 2: Hole and not that that ever happens.
Speaker 7: That's right.
Speaker 4: No, people don't get wrong. But yeah, the buzzer, the
Speaker 4: alarm on the golf cart isn't going to keep that
Speaker 4: person from doing that. But if there is a kill switch,
Speaker 4: if the if the if the golf cart itself recognize
Speaker 4: it it's going into an area it shouldn't, it could
Speaker 4: shut itself off. If a car is headed onto Canal
Speaker 4: Street and over onto Bourbon Street, where there's a crowd
Speaker 4: of people, the car could shut itself off. You know.
Speaker 4: It's that's that maybe the future of preventing this kind
Speaker 4: of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we know it.
Speaker 1: In New Orleans, which you referenced, their barriers were supposed
Speaker 1: to have been put in place, but they weren't there
Speaker 1: yet ahead of Super Bowl and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So are more cities going to start doing that? I
Speaker 1: think they have them on the promenade, like the Third
Speaker 1: Street promenade. There's ballards there so you can't drive down.
Speaker 4: There, right, right, Physical barriers like that, and community planners
Speaker 4: are looking at doing things like that. Redesigned urban areas
Speaker 4: that protect the pedestrians from vehicles, you know, curbs that
Speaker 4: are higher or more boulevards with separation down the middle
Speaker 4: of them to prevent cars from doing committing mayhem. We've
Speaker 4: seen that happen in New York City, people driving out
Speaker 4: of the crew onto the sidewalk and mowing people down.
Speaker 4: So urban redesign technology like GPS tracking or geo fencing,
Speaker 4: and then intelligence on the part of police is tracking
Speaker 4: groups on social media to see who might be planning
Speaker 4: something like this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that we have to do this. But ABC's Jim Ryan,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for the info. Thanks, you have a
Speaker 1: good day. The Menendez brothers have filed court papers asking
Speaker 1: a judge to remove La County DA Nathan Hawkman from
Speaker 1: their resentencing hearing. Attorney Mark garrigo says Hawkman should be
Speaker 1: disqualified because of a conflict of interest. Garrigos claims Hawkman
Speaker 1: has admitted to the conflict and has even helped organize
Speaker 1: protests against the resentencing. A hearing on the motion is
Speaker 1: scheduled for next month. A new bill in California aims
Speaker 1: to create innovative insurance options to protect people from climate
Speaker 1: related risks. If passed, a new program would pay for
Speaker 1: projects that reduce the impact of climate change and improve
Speaker 1: insurance coverage for homeowners. It would support community based insurance models,
Speaker 1: nature driven solutions, and educational efforts on the importance of insurance.
Speaker 1: The LA Urban Policy Roundtable group wants city and county
Speaker 1: officials to take long term action to save trees from
Speaker 1: being randomly destroyed. It's in response to a homeless bench
Speaker 1: topping down eight trees across LA last week. Round Table
Speaker 1: President earl Ofari Hutchinson says they're suggesting an emergency Save
Speaker 1: LA Trees task force be set up.
Speaker 8: We don't want to see what happened down Chile continually
Speaker 8: by others.
Speaker 4: It may get the bonehead idea, the dumb idea, let's
Speaker 4: go cut down the tree.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: The destruction of trees is both criminal and environmentally damaging.
Speaker 1: An expert on rare earths says the US has most
Speaker 1: of the seventeen rare earth elements and fifty critical minerals underground,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't have the capacity to refine them into
Speaker 1: processed metals and magnets. Critical Minerals Institute co chair Melissa
Speaker 1: Sanderson tells The Epic Times the US has zero magnet manufacturers.
Speaker 1: She says it could take five years to develop a
Speaker 1: domestic supply chain to replace China's global monopoly in processing
Speaker 1: rare earths and materials needed to make everything from iPhones
Speaker 1: to F thirty five fighter jets. The deadline for the
Speaker 1: real IDs getting closer. New rules kick in May seventh
Speaker 1: for US residents to get on domestic flights or to
Speaker 1: go into certain federal facilities. Katie Nastro with the travel
Speaker 1: site Going says there are ways to tell if your
Speaker 1: ID meets the new standard.
Speaker 10: You just need to look in the top corner to
Speaker 10: see if you have a star star stamp where if
Speaker 10: you're in California, a bear with a star.
Speaker 2: She says.
Speaker 1: Those with an enhanced ID will see a flag emblem.
Speaker 1: Weight Watchers is reportedly getting ready to file for bankruptcy.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg reports the company's been dealing with increasing debt as
Speaker 1: its earnings have been dropping at the same time as
Speaker 1: weight lost drugs like ozempic have been gaining popularity. Speaking
Speaker 1: of Popular Dodgers, a popular bunch and tonight they'll be
Speaker 1: taken on the Marlins at Dodger Stadium. The first pitch
Speaker 1: goes out at seven o'clock. You can listen to all
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we're one hundred days into President
Speaker 1: Trump's second urn.
Speaker 2: Well we will be tomorrow.
Speaker 1: ABC's Stephen Portnoy joins us to see how the public
Speaker 1: says he's doing so far.
Speaker 7: You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
Speaker 7: AM six forty.
Speaker 1: Police had extra patrols on duty for the sixteenth annual
Speaker 1: Thai New Songgren Festival in East Hollywood following Saturday night's
Speaker 1: deadly vehicle attack on a Filipino festival in Vancouver, Canada.
Speaker 1: Extra barriers were added to block vehicles from getting into
Speaker 1: the festival area on Hollywood Boulevard. A conservative groups rallied
Speaker 1: in West Hollywood in an effort to get voters to
Speaker 1: leave the Democratic Party. The group, called American Restoration Tour,
Speaker 1: was followed by a group of counter protesters yesterday. The
Speaker 1: group displayed a US flag, a smaller Israeli flag, and
Speaker 1: several signs, including one that said Trump won, Save America.
Speaker 1: Sinners has earned the number one spot at the box
Speaker 1: office and its second weekend in theaters with another forty
Speaker 1: five million in ticket sales. The twentieth anniversary reel lease
Speaker 1: of George Lucas's Star Wars episode three, Revenge of the Sith,
Speaker 1: finished in second, taking in twenty five million dollars. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to ABC's Steven Portnoy. Stephen were
Speaker 1: almost one hundred days into Trump's presidency. According to polls,
Speaker 1: how are things going well?
Speaker 9: Not great?
Speaker 11: Look, the president has the lowest job approval of any
Speaker 11: president at this point in his term, going back to
Speaker 11: nineteen forty five, lowest job approval of any president on
Speaker 11: record in this first one hundred days thirty nine percent
Speaker 11: approval fifty five percent disapproval about in keeping. However, with
Speaker 11: his score eight years ago at his first one hundred days,
Speaker 11: he had forty two percent approval in our poll then
Speaker 11: and now it's at thirty nine percent, so slightly lower.
Speaker 10: Look.
Speaker 11: The reason is Americans are concerned about the state of
Speaker 11: the economy. That's the primary reason. Seventy two percent seventy
Speaker 11: two percent in our poll say that they believe the
Speaker 11: president's policies are likely to cause a recession. Sixty two
Speaker 11: percent say prices are going up for things that they
Speaker 11: want and need. Fifty three percent say the economy has
Speaker 11: already gotten worse since the president has taken office. Sixty
Speaker 11: seven percent say they are worried about the stock market turmoil.
Speaker 11: Sixty four percent say they disapprove of the president's proposals,
Speaker 11: his policies to tariff impose taxes on imports to this country.
Speaker 11: The President is shrugging all this off, although on social
Speaker 11: media this morning, he's essentially lashing out at these survey results, saying,
Speaker 11: among other things, that the press quote writes bad stories,
Speaker 11: cheats big on polls, it is compromised and corrupt.
Speaker 7: Sad.
Speaker 11: So the president obviously not aware of he is aware
Speaker 11: of these numbers and doesn't like them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and have the polls as have his numbers dropped
Speaker 1: or did they start out at thirty nine and they're
Speaker 1: just staying there.
Speaker 11: Well, Look, this is the first significant survey that ABC
Speaker 11: News has done that I've seen since the president has
Speaker 11: taken office, and it's meant to be sort of a
Speaker 11: benchmark for where he goes going forward under this first
Speaker 11: one hundred days. Looking now at a survey we took
Speaker 11: in February, so two months ago his approval rating was
Speaker 11: at forty five percent. It has dropped six points to
Speaker 11: thirty nine percent. So not a good trend. But remember
Speaker 11: and the White House is shrugging off these numbers in
Speaker 11: part because the President, although he's selling Trump twenty twenty
Speaker 11: eight hats, is not himself on the ballot again. And
Speaker 11: the challenge for him and his party is the midterm elections.
Speaker 11: But those are still a year and a half off.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I know you got to run winer.
Speaker 1: I know ABC scored an interview with him for the
Speaker 1: first one hundred days.
Speaker 2: When's that happening.
Speaker 7: Tomorrow night on ABC?
Speaker 11: Terry Moran, our senior national correspondence, It's down with the President.
Speaker 11: Should be a fascinating conversation.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, ABC. Stephen Portney, thanks so much. All right, time
Speaker 1: to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho morning, Courtney,
Speaker 1: good morning. Okay, so let's talk about pina coladas.
Speaker 2: What a great way to start your Monday.
Speaker 10: And getting lost in the rain.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh my gosh, what if you love pea? I
Speaker 2: haven't heard that song?
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I put that earworm in your ear this
Speaker 10: morning because if you're looking forward to having one a
Speaker 10: peinut pilata tropical drink on the beach this summer, it's
Speaker 10: probably going to cost you a lot more. Some of
Speaker 10: the world's top coconut rowers have been slammed by poor
Speaker 10: weather shrinking supplies, and that's raising the price of the fruit.
Speaker 10: The Philippines, which is the world's biggest coconut producer, expects
Speaker 10: a twenty percent of cline and output this year because
Speaker 10: drought and cyclones have affected the trees.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a that's a that's a big hit. You know,
Speaker 1: the people on Survivor would really be in trouble if
Speaker 1: they didn't have coconuts.
Speaker 10: No doubt about it. And that's what we're seeing, not
Speaker 10: only with the Philippines, but also Indonesia too. So they say,
Speaker 10: you know what, we're going to hold on to some
Speaker 10: of our output and not send it around the globe.
Speaker 10: But because global demand two has been climbing and climbing.
Speaker 10: The US, by the way, it is the largest market,
Speaker 10: and a lot of people have been jumping on the
Speaker 10: bandwagon because you know, it is a plant based milk option.
Speaker 10: And also you can't forget about the big wellness push
Speaker 10: that we've been seeing and that's definitely been helping.
Speaker 2: Coconuts, coconut oil, good for your skin. Yeah, okay, let's
Speaker 2: go to.
Speaker 1: Amazon and their business may have just hit a big hiccup.
Speaker 1: What's going on with that?
Speaker 10: Yeah, so a number of Amazon sellers are pulling out
Speaker 10: of the next Prime Day event. Reuters has reported that
Speaker 10: some third party merchants are sitting it out this year.
Speaker 10: They said, no way, we're not going to do it.
Speaker 10: Our margins aren't good, or they're offering fewer discounted items
Speaker 10: due to tariffs. But you can't forget Prime Day is
Speaker 10: one of Amazon's biggest shopping days of the year. Participation
Speaker 10: for sellers is optional, to point that out, but Amazon
Speaker 10: spends millions of dollars promoting the event. So Amazon, they
Speaker 10: haven't announced the dates yet for Prime Day, but it's
Speaker 10: going to spread across four days in July. But sellers
Speaker 10: still have a little bit of time to sign up.
Speaker 9: That's uh.
Speaker 10: The deadline seems to be the end of May.
Speaker 1: Okay, So then here's a question for you. They they
Speaker 1: either have to make the decision to participate or not
Speaker 1: participate by May. What happens if, as Trump is predicting,
Speaker 1: we're going to take care of these tariffs and they're
Speaker 1: going to be going away.
Speaker 2: If we're playing us, you know, we're playing the what
Speaker 2: if game.
Speaker 1: But if they could they change their mind or they
Speaker 1: just out of luck, like if they go, hey, we're
Speaker 1: not going to have the supply train is supply train
Speaker 1: train issues because you know everything's going to start flowing
Speaker 1: again the tariffs are lifted.
Speaker 2: Can we participate, Well, they have a.
Speaker 10: Certain date that they have to say we're either in
Speaker 10: or out, So there there is a limit to all
Speaker 10: of this, and definitely that's within the ninety days. So
Speaker 10: we are not really sure what's going to happen. But
Speaker 10: a lot of these companies, they basically have to do
Speaker 10: a leap of faith on what they think is going
Speaker 10: to be ahead. But you have to think about how
Speaker 10: shoppers spent fourteen billion dollars during the last prime day
Speaker 10: last year, so it's a lot of money to kind
Speaker 10: of be leaving on the table. But again, when you
Speaker 10: look at the margins, that's going to be very difficult
Speaker 10: for them. But it's also going to be a tough
Speaker 10: time for Amazon because a pullback could mean fure fees
Speaker 10: and less ad revenue for Amazon. As well as less
Speaker 10: items for them to sell, so this could be a
Speaker 10: big problem for them coming up for Prime Day.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll be watching, I'm sure, and big week.
Speaker 1: That's something else we're going to watch is the markets.
Speaker 1: What's going on this week?
Speaker 10: Yes, so it's quiet this morning. I'd say it's the
Speaker 10: quiet before this storm. But the wild market moves that
Speaker 10: we've been seeing because of the tariff announcements, that's ease somewhat.
Speaker 10: But these corporate reports that we're going to be getting
Speaker 10: this week. We're hearing from Apple, Amazon, McDonald's, Coca Cola,
Speaker 10: some major companies this week, and that's going to give
Speaker 10: us a better look at the help of the consumer.
Speaker 10: We also have star books too, so these are game
Speaker 10: changers in trading. Plus, this Friday is a key report
Speaker 10: for Wall Street at Theapral Jobs stated that's going to
Speaker 10: give us a pulse check on the labor market. So
Speaker 10: right now Dow futures and SMP futures are a little
Speaker 10: changed in trading.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll be watching them, and we have you
Speaker 1: to help us sort them out. Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho getting
Speaker 1: in our business every day. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 10: Definitely. I'll see you later, all right.
Speaker 1: Thanks, So let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some
Speaker 1: students at Occidental College are on a hunger strike.
Speaker 3: The ten students are demanding the school divest from weapons
Speaker 3: manufacturers tied to Israel and bolster protections for international students.
Speaker 3: The strike, now in its second week, follows a similar
Speaker 3: protest at Chapman University. Occidentals presidents as many students' concerns
Speaker 3: are already being addressed, but rejected calls for divestment. The
Speaker 3: students say the college isn't doing enough and vow to
Speaker 3: continue signing the humanitarian crisis in Gonza Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles swoop into the White
Speaker 1: House today. Running back Sequon Barkley met with President Trump
Speaker 1: yesterday took a ride on Marine one. The Eagles didn't
Speaker 1: visit the White House after their twenty eighteen victory during
Speaker 1: President Trump's first term. Trump claimed he withdrew the information,
Speaker 1: calling the team disrespectful because they stayed in the locker
Speaker 1: room during the national anthem as protest. When we come
Speaker 1: back last week, we talked about bucket list. Well, today,
Speaker 1: it's Abbey's List, a documentary about the journeys of a
Speaker 1: man and his best friend.
Speaker 2: That's coming up next.
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Speaker 1: Six forty libraries in La County could be closed this
Speaker 1: week as union workers planned to strike. Employees are expected
Speaker 1: to walk off the jobs seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: They'll be on strike until Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Officials in Santa Monica considering a measure that would allow
Speaker 1: people to drink in public along the Third Street Promenade.
Speaker 2: If approved by city council, it would create a.
Speaker 1: Permanent entertainment zone from eight am to two am every day.
Speaker 1: More than four million Californians have downloaded the my Shake
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Speaker 2: Since its inception.
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Speaker 1: Let's say how good morning to the producer and director
Speaker 1: of Abby's List, A Dog youmentary? Yes, dog youmentary, not documentary.
Speaker 1: Good morning Mark Sutherland.
Speaker 9: Good morning Amy King.
Speaker 1: Okay, so your movies coming out in select theaters this weekend,
Speaker 1: and if you are looking for hope and inspiration and
Speaker 1: true love. This one might be the one for you,
Speaker 1: So please tell us about your movie.
Speaker 2: Abby's List a documentary.
Speaker 9: Back in twenty sixteen, I lived in Hermosa Beach and
Speaker 9: my dog was getting older. She was getting up in years.
Speaker 9: She was a whippet named Abby. I'd had two other
Speaker 9: whippets that it both unfortunately passed away around that age.
Speaker 9: So I figured we were on borrowed time and figured
Speaker 9: what better thing to do than to hit the road
Speaker 9: and do some of her favorite things. But her favorite things,
Speaker 9: in my eyes, maybe not exactly the same sort of
Speaker 9: favorite things that most people would think of, which I
Speaker 9: think is what made the film entertaining. The first thing
Speaker 9: she did was sale a yacht. We took her up
Speaker 9: to Sequoia so she could pee on some of the
Speaker 9: world's tallest trees. Went to Vegas so she could live
Speaker 9: like a rock star in a three thousand dollars a
Speaker 9: night sweet which they comped. By the way, I didn't
Speaker 9: have to pay that She met the world's most famous dog,
Speaker 9: Goofy Bill Farmer, who does the voice for Goofy. I
Speaker 9: took her to Disney World because I wanted her to
Speaker 9: ride my favorite ride as a kid. Wanted her to
Speaker 9: see what I just wanted to see that look on
Speaker 9: her face, you know that little kids get when they
Speaker 9: ride or ride like that the first time.
Speaker 1: And do little kids' faces and dogs faces look similar.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, exactly the same little bit of droll,
Speaker 9: eyes wide open. So we just started out basically to
Speaker 9: do this and to shoot some you know, just ridiculous
Speaker 9: absurd videos for friends. And then two things happened really quickly.
Speaker 9: The videos started going crazy viral, and Abby started aging
Speaker 9: in reverse and started acting more like a nine or
Speaker 9: ten year old than a fourteen year old. So what
Speaker 9: we do, So what we decided to do was let's
Speaker 9: keep on going. We kept on going, and our three
Speaker 9: week road trip became almost three years.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, and how many places did you visit
Speaker 1: in three years?
Speaker 2: Mark?
Speaker 9: Fifteen? Fifteen places including we went to the White House.
Speaker 9: We we got a private island in Canada for two weeks.
Speaker 9: Because she hadn't spent a lot of time outdoors, I
Speaker 9: mean at the beach and stuff, but not camping. I
Speaker 9: wanted her to experience that. We went to SeaWorld. One
Speaker 9: of the most magical scenes in the film is when
Speaker 9: I took her to SeaWorld and the dolphin found out
Speaker 9: there was a dog on the other side of the glass,
Speaker 9: and it's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen. There
Speaker 9: were like twenty or thirty humans over there, you know,
Speaker 9: like I don't know, twenty or thirty feet to our left,
Speaker 9: and all the dolphin were right in front of abbey.
Speaker 9: They were ignoring all the people, and once they found
Speaker 9: out there was a dog on the other side of
Speaker 9: the glass, they went right for the dog. You could
Speaker 9: probably hear it in my voice. It still affects me
Speaker 9: that we had such an amazing time, you know. And
Speaker 9: I started out doing this for her and ultimately, you know,
Speaker 9: it gave back to me tenfold. And we started making
Speaker 9: what was just going to be a few videos, and
Speaker 9: we said, you know what, this is a full film.
Speaker 9: And then we won four out of our five US festivals,
Speaker 9: and then AMC just picked us up for a theatrical release,
Speaker 9: which never happens. So I'm living under a charm star.
Speaker 9: And it's all because I had a tough stretch in
Speaker 9: Los Angeles and instead of just moping about it, we
Speaker 9: decided to, you know, do something about it. And I
Speaker 9: hit the road with my best friend, and I'm absolutely
Speaker 9: certain that it prolonged her life as well. So really, ultimately,
Speaker 9: the film's about living life.
Speaker 1: I love that, whether you're a dog or a person,
Speaker 1: go live your life, right, And if you want to
Speaker 1: see Abby's Best Life, you can head to movie theaters
Speaker 1: because it's hitting theaters this weekend, right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it opens on Friday the second, and we're doing
Speaker 9: we're also doing a special show in Rolling Hills, the
Speaker 9: AMC Rolling Hills in Torrents there in the South Bay
Speaker 9: seven five on Friday night. Bill Farmer, that's going to
Speaker 9: join me, the voice of Goofy. We're going to do
Speaker 9: a Q and A after we screen the film down there.
Speaker 9: It's only fifteen bucks, so like seeing a movie is,
Speaker 9: you know, about the greatest and the cheapest form of
Speaker 9: really solid entertainment, and you'll get to meet Goofy too.
Speaker 9: So that's this Saturday at seven forty five, and it's
Speaker 9: gonna play starting Friday every day and if it does well,
Speaker 9: then you know it'll stay longer than a week. And
Speaker 9: we're also trying to we're trying to add a theater
Speaker 9: in Burbank two, so fingers crossed, I'll know about that
Speaker 9: in a day or two. But okay, I just I
Speaker 9: really appreciate you give me a chance to talk about it,
Speaker 9: because it's just fun to share what an amazing experience
Speaker 9: we had.
Speaker 1: I love it, And Mark, will you keep us post
Speaker 1: and let us know if it's going to be in Burbank.
Speaker 1: If you find out that it will Aaron Burbank and
Speaker 1: will share that. But for right now, it opens Friday,
Speaker 1: May second at Rolling Hills.
Speaker 2: It's an AMC in Torrents. Correct.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you can get more information at abby'slistmovie dot com.
Speaker 1: Abby's List Movie Great. We wish you so much great success, Mark.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love movies like this, and I hope you,
Speaker 1: you know, get everything out of it that you would
Speaker 1: hope too.
Speaker 2: And I love your story of Abby. Can't wait to
Speaker 2: see it. Thank you, all right, take care Mark quickly, Yes, okay.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 9: If anybody wants to do this with your dog, just
Speaker 9: do it while they're young. I'm so glad that I
Speaker 9: did it, but I wish that we'd done it even earlier.
Speaker 2: So okay, that's great words of advice. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Mark Sutherland, director and producer of Abby's List a documentary.
Speaker 2: Isn't that great. I love that.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three men have
Speaker 1: been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion in
Speaker 1: Woodland Hills. The break in happened early Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: Please say.
Speaker 12: The homeowner was held captive, assaulted, and suffered a head injury,
Speaker 12: then died at the scene.
Speaker 2: The suspects escaped with the victim's property.
Speaker 1: Jeff I's Daniel Martindale says the arrests were made in
Speaker 1: Glendale and Sherman Oaks. The accused killers are being held
Speaker 1: on two million dollars bail. With the field of candidates
Speaker 1: for California governor getting crowded, cal State Domingus Hill's political
Speaker 1: science professor Christopher Holland Brook tells KFI at this stage,
Speaker 1: the candidates that have announced their running are really just
Speaker 1: testing the waters.
Speaker 8: A lot of the reason to declare this early is
Speaker 8: to sort of see what happens, see what your poll
Speaker 8: numbers look like, see if anyone will give you money,
Speaker 8: and if there's any actual future to your campaign.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 1: Most of the attention so far is on whether former
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris is going to get into the race.
Speaker 1: President Trump will no longer recognize Indigenous People's Day alongside
Speaker 1: Columbus Day.
Speaker 12: He's reversing the practice initiated by Biden. Back in twenty
Speaker 12: twenty one, Trump criticized Democrats for undermining Columbus's legacy, calling
Speaker 12: for a return to traditional American symbols. Now, in California,
Speaker 12: the second Monday in October is officially observed as Indigenous
Speaker 12: People's Day, replacing Columbus Day. The state recognizes the contributions
Speaker 12: and resilience of Native peoples.
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