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Speaker 3: Eight is five oh one.
Speaker 1: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, February fourth,
Speaker 1: oh only ten days till Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3: How exciting? Oh that day? You're not that excited about it?
Speaker 3: Will yeah?
Speaker 7: Singles Awareness Day, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: They should rename it to that. You and I will
Speaker 1: go out and celebrate. Hey, you know, I didn't have
Speaker 1: fog in my neighborhood this morning like yesterday where it
Speaker 1: was like thick, thick, thick, like pea soup. But as
Speaker 1: I was driving into Burbank, I could see this wall
Speaker 1: of fog in the valleys.
Speaker 3: So not in my area this morning.
Speaker 1: But as you head out and about you might hit
Speaker 1: some dense fogs, So do be careful for that.
Speaker 3: Also.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping this isn't a precursor to what today is
Speaker 1: going to be like. But I went to make my
Speaker 1: morning oatmeal. There's no spoons, so I'm having oatmeal with
Speaker 1: a fork.
Speaker 3: See how that works. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: A pair of storms moving into southern California, raising fears
Speaker 1: possible debris and mudflow in recent burn areas. The National
Speaker 1: Weather Service says La and Ventura Counties will get a
Speaker 1: quarter to three quarters of an inch of rain, but
Speaker 1: up to an inch and a half is possible in
Speaker 1: areas that include the Palisades and Eaten fire burn scars.
Speaker 1: A second storm is expected to move through Thursday into
Speaker 1: Friday morning. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been put
Speaker 1: on hold for a month. The decision comes following President
Speaker 1: Trump's conversations yesterday with Mexico's president and Canada's Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau. A ten percent tariff against China's gone into
Speaker 1: effect effective at midnight. Tulci Gabbard's nomination for National Intelligence
Speaker 1: Director has received a boost with word that main Republican
Speaker 1: Senator Susan Collins is going to support her. Colin said
Speaker 1: that during the confirmation hearing and closed door meetings, Gabbard
Speaker 1: satisfied her concerns regarding her views on Edward Snowden. We're
Speaker 1: going to be talking with kfi's White House correspondent John
Speaker 1: Decker on whether Tulci Gabbard is going to get sent
Speaker 1: approval when her nomination goes up for a vote today.
Speaker 1: That's coming up in about three minutes. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. A stretch of Pacific Coast Highway
Speaker 1: in Malibu is going to be closed this afternoon because
Speaker 1: of the expected rain. Caltran says the highway must be
Speaker 1: closed as a precaution because of soft soils between Chautauqua
Speaker 1: Boulevard and Carbon Beach Terrace. The first storm this week
Speaker 1: should arrive sometime tonight. It's going to hit San Luis
Speaker 1: Obispo and Santa Barbara County is harder than here, but
Speaker 1: we are still going to get some rain, and then
Speaker 1: another storm, as I mentioned, is moving in later this week.
Speaker 1: The Governor's Office of Emergency Services has made preparations for
Speaker 1: the heavy rains forecast for much of the state. Cal
Speaker 1: Oees Fire and Rescue Chief Brian Marshall says rescue crews
Speaker 1: are on standby.
Speaker 8: We have swift water rescue teams that will be available
Speaker 8: prepositioned in the event that we have flooding urgencies and
Speaker 8: we need to rescue people.
Speaker 1: Former Early County Sheriff Alex Viannaweva has criticized the lack
Speaker 1: of preparation by city and county leaders that he claims
Speaker 1: cost lives in the recent wildfires in Aueva. Tells kfi's
Speaker 1: John Cobalt the delay and evacuations in Alta Dina was inexcusable.
Speaker 5: No one was saying, hey, this is a big problem.
Speaker 7: Let's get everybody lined up.
Speaker 4: Let's start doing our evacuations in an orderly fashion.
Speaker 8: None of that happened.
Speaker 7: It was kind of like, well, let's put our.
Speaker 9: Finger in the wind and see what we do once
Speaker 9: we see the.
Speaker 1: Fire authority say Nightly curfew orders are still in effect
Speaker 1: from six pm to six am in the burn areas
Speaker 1: in an effort to restrict unnecessary access and prevent looting.
Speaker 1: Demonstrators have marched again in downtown LA to oppose President
Speaker 1: Trump's deportation policies.
Speaker 10: Protesters took to the streets and freeways to march and rally.
Speaker 10: The past two days, some protesters threw water bottles at police,
Speaker 10: and say officers responded by using non lethal force. Nikola
Speaker 10: says she came to protest peacefully.
Speaker 6: I got shot by a Robbert bullet.
Speaker 11: But I'm here because I want them to pay attention
Speaker 11: to not just myself, but my family as well.
Speaker 10: By five twenty pm yesterday, the LAPD declared the protest
Speaker 10: an unlawful assembly. Crowds began to thin out about an
Speaker 10: hour later. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: The protest yesterday was part of a nationwide movement called
Speaker 1: a Day Without Immigrants.
Speaker 3: It's five h six.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker. So, John, the confirmation train just keeps rolling
Speaker 1: into the station.
Speaker 3: This stop.
Speaker 4: Tulsi Gabbard, Yeah, Telsey Gabbard. She is President Trump's choice
Speaker 4: to be the next Director of National Intelligence. That's the
Speaker 4: individual that has oversight over eighteen different intelligence agencies, a
Speaker 4: really important role. And she got a big booth yesterday. Amy.
Speaker 4: The reason being is because Senator Susan Collins, she's a
Speaker 4: Republican from Maine. She's a Republican Senator from Maine who
Speaker 4: voted against Pete hagsats nomination to be Defense Secretary yesterday.
Speaker 4: She says she will vote for Tulcy Gabbert for the
Speaker 4: position of DNI. And that is a big boost because
Speaker 4: she was seen as a potential no vote, was on
Speaker 4: the fence. That may convince other Republican Senators who may
Speaker 4: be on the fence to also vote for Tulci Gabbert
Speaker 4: when her nomination is taken up by the Senate Intelligence
Speaker 4: Committee today.
Speaker 1: And do we know who the other people are who
Speaker 1: may be leaning against or at least on the fence.
Speaker 4: I think there's one name that comes up often, and
Speaker 4: that is Senator Todd Young. He's a Republican Senator from Indiana.
Speaker 4: He's one of those few Republican senators who did not
Speaker 4: endorse Donald Trump for president. He's obviously supportive of President
Speaker 4: Trump's legislative agenda. At the same time, he's not a
Speaker 4: big fan of some of the things that Trump does personally,
Speaker 4: and he keeps an arms length distance from President Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: He has not indicated definitively how he will vote on
Speaker 4: Tulci Gabbert's nomination. You may recall from Pete Hegsseth's confirmation vote,
Speaker 4: that Republicans can afford to lose three Republican senators if
Speaker 4: all Democrats vote against the nomination. We saw that happen
Speaker 4: with Pete Hegsath. You lose four, that's when the nomination
Speaker 4: is killed. So I think that it's one of those
Speaker 4: things that may play out the same way as the
Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth nomination that we saw within the past two weeks,
Speaker 4: in which it could be Vice President jd Vance who
Speaker 4: breaks a fifty to fifty tie as it relates to
Speaker 4: her nomination.
Speaker 1: And what about I think Murkowski and McConnell voted against
Speaker 1: hag Seth.
Speaker 3: Do we know which way they're leaning on this one?
Speaker 4: They have not indicated, you know, and I think that
Speaker 4: that's going to be interesting to see how they vote.
Speaker 4: This is an important role. The reason why you know,
Speaker 4: you have senators on the Republican side that are wish
Speaker 4: you Why she on Tulsey Gabert has to do not
Speaker 4: only with how she performed in her confirmation hearing, but
Speaker 4: more importantly, her record, her record as a US congresswoman
Speaker 4: as a Democrat representing Hawaii. Meeting with the leader of Syria,
Speaker 4: Basher al Assade, taking positions that sound like Russian talking points.
Speaker 4: All of that came up in her confirmation hearing. And
Speaker 4: for some senators they're not satisfied with the answers that
Speaker 4: she gave during that confirmation year.
Speaker 1: Okay, well we'll find out if they were, and whether
Speaker 1: any Democrats might vote for or probably not on this.
Speaker 4: One, I don't think so. I don't think she's going
Speaker 4: to get any Democratic votes. Also, keep in mind today,
Speaker 4: I'll say this really quickly, Amy. Today, the committee that
Speaker 4: oversees the Department of Health and Human Services, they will
Speaker 4: vote on the nomination of our F K. Junior to
Speaker 4: be the Secretary of HHS. He too will face a
Speaker 4: very tough vote. There are many sensors who have not
Speaker 4: indicated how they will vote on RFK Junior's nomination.
Speaker 1: Okay, so both of them get a committee vote today
Speaker 1: before it goes to a full Senate.
Speaker 4: If it's bad, correct, that's correct. And as it relates
Speaker 4: to RFK Junior, a lot of focus on Senator Cassidy
Speaker 4: from Louisiana. He's a medical doctor by training. He has
Speaker 4: said he was very dissatisfied with some of the answers
Speaker 4: that RFK Junior gave to questions he posed during the
Speaker 4: confirmation hearing. There's a lot of focus on him and
Speaker 4: how he will vote on RFK Junior's nomination. He could
Speaker 4: potentially sink the nomination if he's a no vote when
Speaker 4: that vote happens later today.
Speaker 3: Okay, and we will be watching. Never a dull moment.
Speaker 1: Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, thank you, as always.
Speaker 3: We'll talk again soon.
Speaker 4: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Officials
Speaker 1: in Washington, d C sand engine and large pieces of
Speaker 1: the fuselage from last week's midair crash between a commuter
Speaker 1: plane and an Army helicopter have been pulled from the
Speaker 1: Potomac River. The Army Corps of Engineers expects to remove
Speaker 1: the cockpit today. Officials say they've recovered more human remains,
Speaker 1: but they didn't give specifics. DC Assistant Fire Chief Gary
Speaker 1: Stein says resources are being offered to support the divers
Speaker 1: who've been recovering remains.
Speaker 9: It's tragic and everything imaginable that you can think of,
Speaker 9: right that is what they're dealing with day in and
Speaker 9: day out.
Speaker 1: So far, fifty five people who died in the crash
Speaker 1: have been identified.
Speaker 3: Vice President J. D.
Speaker 1: Vance says East Palestine, Ohio will not be forgotten.
Speaker 12: We are committed not just to finishing the environmental side
Speaker 12: the cleanup, but hopefully seeing East Palestine build back better
Speaker 12: and stronger and more prosperous than it was before this
Speaker 12: disaster happened in the first place.
Speaker 1: He visited the community yesterday for the second anniversary of
Speaker 1: a Norfolk Southern train derailment that spewed toxic chemicals into
Speaker 1: the air and into the ground. New EPA administrator Lee Zelden,
Speaker 1: who joined the VP on the trick about to make
Speaker 1: the cleanup effort in the area his department's highest priority.
Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the president of El
Speaker 1: Salvador has offered to accept deportees from the US in
Speaker 1: what Rubio calls an act of extraordinary friendship.
Speaker 11: MS thirteen, trenda R or whatever it may be. He
Speaker 11: has offered his jails so we can send them and
Speaker 11: he will put him in in his jails. And he's
Speaker 11: also offered to do the same for dangerous criminals currently
Speaker 11: in custody of serving their sentences in the United States,
Speaker 11: even if they're US citizens or legal residents.
Speaker 1: A US official says the Trump administration has no plans
Speaker 1: to try to deport American citizens, but that the offer
Speaker 1: was significant. Rights groups have criticized the move, which El
Speaker 1: Salvador says will help provide funding to make its harsh
Speaker 1: prison system sustainable. The first Marines have landed at the
Speaker 1: US military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They'll set up
Speaker 1: a migrant deportation center that may eventually hold up to
Speaker 1: thirty thousand people. Marine Corps First Sergeant Johnny Stone says
Speaker 1: it's what they trained for.
Speaker 7: At a moment's notice, we get the call.
Speaker 13: We were in the field training for something like this,
Speaker 13: and it happened.
Speaker 7: We stay ready and we're ready to go, and here
Speaker 7: we are.
Speaker 1: The Marines had short notice for this trip, as the
Speaker 1: command to go was given just late Friday. Israeli Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who's in the US, to meet with
Speaker 1: President Trump at the White House.
Speaker 3: The meeting this afternoon will.
Speaker 1: Be Trump's first with a foreign leader since his inauguration
Speaker 1: got a little frog in my throat. Netanyahu is looking
Speaker 1: to strengthen ties with the US after a sometimes tense
Speaker 1: relationship with the Biden administration over the warre in Gaza.
Speaker 9: Our decisions and the courage of our soldiers have redrawn
Speaker 9: the map, but I believe that working closely with President Trump,
Speaker 9: we can readraw it even further and for the better.
Speaker 1: The meeting comes as negotiations for the second phase of
Speaker 1: the ceasefire with Hamas are set to begin this week.
Speaker 1: Researchers at UC Irvine say listening to jazz could help
Speaker 1: reduce chronic pain.
Speaker 14: The study offered a variety of music options, but it
Speaker 14: was improvisational jazz with a player veers from the usual
Speaker 14: notes of a familiar song that showed the most promise.
Speaker 15: You see.
Speaker 14: Irvine professor Sean Jung says focusing intently on the music
Speaker 14: helped cut down the amount of pain. Patients felt.
Speaker 5: If we could teach people how to do that, then
Speaker 5: it may be able to take their mind off the paint,
Speaker 5: and that was a goal and ultimately that's what we found.
Speaker 14: The study was conducted over four weeks and has been
Speaker 14: published in the medical journal Curious. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 3: I'd try it. I like Jess.
Speaker 1: Protesters have taken over city streets for a second day
Speaker 1: to rally against President Trump's deportation policies. About a thousand
Speaker 1: protesters overtook the Spring and Main Street overpasses of the
Speaker 1: one oh one yesterday, but police were able to keep
Speaker 1: them from getting onto the freeway. As residents head back
Speaker 1: into the wildfire burn areas, they say, lawyers are swarming
Speaker 1: trying to get him to sue for damages. Legal experts
Speaker 1: tell residents not to rush into representation and question whether
Speaker 1: lawyers are being ethical. More than a dozen lawsuits have
Speaker 1: already been filed. Ticket prices for Super Bowl fifty nine
Speaker 1: have dropped thirty percent over the past week. Prices are
Speaker 1: down fifty percent compared to last year's Super Bowl. The
Speaker 1: least expensive tickets for the Big Game still going for
Speaker 1: about four thousand dollars. The game, of course, this Sunday
Speaker 1: at the Caesars Super Dome. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, tariffs were supposed to kick
Speaker 1: in starting at midnight, but last minute verbal agreements with
Speaker 1: Mexico and Canada stopped them at least temporarily.
Speaker 16: Yeah, they're on pause for a month. According to the
Speaker 16: President yesterday, after his conversations with the leaders of Mexico
Speaker 16: and Canada. He spoke to the President of Mexico in
Speaker 16: the morning, he spoke to the Prime Minister of Canada
Speaker 16: in the morning and again in the afternoon, and then
Speaker 16: had announced over the course of the day that there
Speaker 16: would be a pause for both countries tariffs. But the
Speaker 16: President was very clear in the oblosis yesterday that this
Speaker 16: is a pause that these could go into effecting the months.
Speaker 16: He said, maybe we will, maybe we won't. I think
Speaker 16: the big thing we're looking for now is what is
Speaker 16: the metric that he's looking for. What is he judging
Speaker 16: these two countries on their actions at the border, And
Speaker 16: that's not clear at this point that I asked the
Speaker 16: White House yesterday what is he looking to see? What
Speaker 16: kind of action? And Caroline Levitt, the President's press secretary,
Speaker 16: could not say what he's trying to do. She said,
Speaker 16: negotiations will continue, that he's sending down the Secretary of
Speaker 16: State and Treasury and Commerce to have high level conversations
Speaker 16: with Mexican officials and then after a month bill assess
Speaker 16: and see where things go from there.
Speaker 1: Okay, but immediately, or at least you know, immediately end
Speaker 1: quotes Mexico and Canada have agreed to send troops to
Speaker 1: their borders.
Speaker 10: They did.
Speaker 16: Mexico said that they would be sending ten thousand troops
Speaker 16: to the northern border. But you know, it's important to
Speaker 16: note that, yes, the White House said yesterday these would
Speaker 16: be permanent troops. They have done this in the past.
Speaker 2: There have been.
Speaker 3: Troops there at the border.
Speaker 16: It's not a new concept for them, a new action
Speaker 16: for them. Canada had said that they were going to
Speaker 16: do one point three billion dollar border plan. Important to
Speaker 16: note that this is announced back in December. They had
Speaker 16: already talked about the details of this. Yesterday they added
Speaker 16: on some new details, saying that they were going to
Speaker 16: appoint that Fentinel zur launch a joint task force with
Speaker 16: the United States aimed at border security and addressing the
Speaker 16: sentinel issue. But the Mexican excuse me, The Canadians have
Speaker 16: been very perplexed in the word they keep using as
Speaker 16: to why they've been targeted on tariffs on this specific issue,
Speaker 16: because they say that the sentinel coming over the border
Speaker 16: between the US and Canada is nothing compared to what
Speaker 16: you're seeing at the southern border, and therefore they're very
Speaker 16: surprised why this has been the issue that the President
Speaker 16: has euroede in on at the northern border, okay.
Speaker 1: And then so we've got pauses on Mexico and Canada,
Speaker 1: but there has been no movement on China. So those
Speaker 1: tariffs did go into effect at midnight.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 16: They went into effect at midnight as expected. There was
Speaker 16: no indication yesterday that there was going to be a
Speaker 16: pause on those tariffs, and also the expectation was that
Speaker 16: it would retaliate, and they did swiftly. Beijing announced tariffs
Speaker 16: on American goods like coal, liquefied natural gas, crude oil,
Speaker 16: agricultural machinery, and pickup trucks. And they've also said that
Speaker 16: they think that this was the wrong action by the
Speaker 16: United States and they're urging the administration to back down
Speaker 16: on this. We are expecting the President and China's President
Speaker 16: g to have a conversation on the phone in the
Speaker 16: next couple of days. Not clear if that's going to
Speaker 16: take place before the Chinese tariff's go into effect, which.
Speaker 1: Is next week, okay, And the tariffs for China. Just
Speaker 1: make sure that we have it clear. It's on those
Speaker 1: the coal and the liquid natural guess that's all on
Speaker 1: products that are going to China.
Speaker 16: Yes, on American goods going from the US to China.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then we don't even have time to talk
Speaker 1: about it. But Trump is hinting that tariffs could be
Speaker 1: slapped on European Union countries too.
Speaker 16: Yeah, He's been saying that for some time and again
Speaker 16: reiterated that yesterday, talking about targeting the European Union too.
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers, thank you so much, as always appreciate
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 16: I have a great day.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: We're just getting word into the KFI newsroom that five
Speaker 1: people have been shot at an adult education center in Sweden.
Speaker 3: We'll get you more details as more comes in.
Speaker 1: The La County Medical Examiner's Office has identified two more
Speaker 1: people in the fire in the Pacific Palisades area. That
Speaker 1: brings the death toll from the fire to twelve. The
Speaker 1: Eton Fire that burned through parts of Altadena and Pasadena
Speaker 1: killed seventeen people. Fourteen members of Congress from southern California
Speaker 1: are starting an investigation into the emergency alerts that went
Speaker 1: out by mistake during the fires in La County. Remember those.
Speaker 1: ABC's Alex Stone says the alerts sent to people's cell
Speaker 1: phones were critical during the fires.
Speaker 15: At least one mistake in erroneous alert that went out
Speaker 15: to all ten million residents of La County telling everybody
Speaker 15: they were in danger and to evacuate, when in fact
Speaker 15: most were nowhere near the wildfires.
Speaker 1: The lawmakers say erroneous alerts like that will cause people
Speaker 1: to mute or ignore future alerts, and that could be deadly.
Speaker 1: Billionaire developer and former candidate for mayor of La Rick
Speaker 1: Carusoe has launched a foundation to help speed up wildfire
Speaker 1: recovery efforts. The group's Steadfast LA aims to bring private
Speaker 1: and public sectors together to rebuild in Pacific Palisades in Altadena.
Speaker 1: Crusoe has been critical of the city's wildfire response and
Speaker 1: says his foundation will help cut through red tape. Some
Speaker 1: relatives of convicted killers Eric and Lyle Menendez have spoken
Speaker 1: against a recent change at the La County DA's office.
Speaker 14: Assistant Das Brock Lunsford and Nancy the Burge have worked
Speaker 14: on the Menindez case and have recommended them for resentencing
Speaker 14: because of new evidence related to sexual abuse, but the
Speaker 14: pair of prosecutors say they've been reassigned by new DA
Speaker 14: Nathan Hackman. They say it was retaliatory and they'll sue.
Speaker 14: Menindez family members have spoken in support of Lunsford and
Speaker 14: the Burge, calling the reassignments disappointing and expressing worry that
Speaker 14: politics could infiltrate the effort to see the brothers freed.
Speaker 14: The Meninez brothers have been in prison since killing their
Speaker 14: parents in nineteen eighty nine. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Defend Secretary Pete Hegseth has visited the southern border in
Speaker 1: Texas to meet with some of the active duty soldiers
Speaker 1: sent by President Trump. Hexas says the troops are proud
Speaker 1: to be there because.
Speaker 7: Of President Donald Trump.
Speaker 6: This is a new era at the southern border.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 1: The soldiers are motivated to be at the border because
Speaker 1: they're defending their friends, families, and communities. California Attorney General
Speaker 1: Rob Bonte says the Trump administration's offer to buy out
Speaker 1: federal employees is really aimed at dismantling the federal workforce.
Speaker 1: The administration says any employees who take the offer will
Speaker 1: be paid through the end of September, but they have
Speaker 1: to resign by Thursday. Banta is one of twelve attorneys
Speaker 1: general warning federal employees about the potential pitfalls of accepting
Speaker 1: the buyout. More than a thousand employees at the Environmental
Speaker 1: Protection Agency could be losing their jobs as the Trump
Speaker 1: administration looks to cut government costs. The union that represents
Speaker 1: EPA workers says eleven hundred employees who've worked for the
Speaker 1: agency less than a year received an email notifying them
Speaker 1: they could be dismissed immediately. Former President Biden has a
Speaker 1: talent agent. Biden has signed with CAA to represent him
Speaker 1: in his post presidential life. CAA repped the former president
Speaker 1: between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty after he was vice president.
Speaker 1: The Century City based agency also represents Barack and Michelle
Speaker 1: Obama's High Grounds productions. Okay, remember yesterday we talked about
Speaker 1: dog Man and that it brought in like thirty six
Speaker 1: million dollars at the box office and none of us
Speaker 1: knew what it was. It's about a half dog, half
Speaker 1: man police officer, and in the days of all of
Speaker 1: the CGI, I thought it was a live action, but
Speaker 1: it's really it's a it's an animated movie. Our Jason
Speaker 1: Campadonia came in and he's like, oh, my kids love that.
Speaker 3: So apparently it's heard of, because I.
Speaker 1: Had never seen of it, seen it or heard it
Speaker 1: or seen any ads or anything. But he said that
Speaker 1: the ads are all over YouTube, and there are Dogman
Speaker 1: graphic novels, and so it's advertised on YouTube. And so
Speaker 1: he said his kids knew about it and they were
Speaker 1: super excited, and there may even be a YouTube series.
Speaker 1: But that's the lowdown on dog Man. So I watched
Speaker 1: the trailer. Looks kind of cute. It looks a little
Speaker 1: weird because when they do something happens to the guy
Speaker 1: and then there's his dog, and then they go basically go, hey,
Speaker 1: what if we took the head off the dog and
Speaker 1: put it on the person.
Speaker 7: Can you do that?
Speaker 1: You can an animation, because now there's something called dog Man.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: Protesters have hurled rocks and bottles at laped officers as
Speaker 1: they tried to break up crowds that had gathered for
Speaker 1: a second day to protest President Trump's deportation policies. Police,
Speaker 1: we're able to keep the protesters away from the one
Speaker 1: to one freeway, unlike Sunday, when the crowd shut down
Speaker 1: the freeway off and on four hours. The Governor's Office
Speaker 1: of Emergency Services has preposition fire crews in wildfire areas
Speaker 1: where rain could cause flooding, mud and debris flows. Crews
Speaker 1: are ready for swift water rescues near rivers and other
Speaker 1: waterways and intra More rain is expected in the burn
Speaker 1: areas this week. An Altadena resident has been called a
Speaker 1: hero for his efforts the night the Eton fires erupted.
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Judy Chu presented Edgar McGregor with a Certificate of
Speaker 1: Congressional Recognition yesterday in Pasadena for posting alerts and videos
Speaker 1: which provided information to thousands of people about the fast
Speaker 1: spreading and deadly fire. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: KFI is Rory O'Neil.
Speaker 3: Morning, Rory, good morning, Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday to you.
Speaker 1: So, if you're looking for a last minute getaway, New
Speaker 1: Orleans might be the place to go.
Speaker 5: Huh, it could be, but you know, the ticket prices
Speaker 5: are lower, but they're not reasonable.
Speaker 2: Let's be.
Speaker 7: Going to be a hard Yeah, the.
Speaker 5: Folks over at Tickpick say tickets have fallen below four
Speaker 5: thousand dollars each on the secondary market. But that's a
Speaker 5: thirty percent drop in just the past week, and more
Speaker 5: than half or less than half of what they were
Speaker 5: a year ago. Keep in mind, look we're all sick
Speaker 5: and tired of Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 7: I think that's number one. Number two.
Speaker 5: Last time around, the tickets got crazy high because for
Speaker 5: the first time ever, the Super Bowl was in Las Vegas,
Speaker 5: so you had all those high rollers going and that
Speaker 5: really skewed the ticket prices. They're a little bit more
Speaker 5: back down to earth now that things are happening in
Speaker 5: New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm wondering with the Las Vegas super Bowl
Speaker 1: whether it was the casinos buying the tickets for the
Speaker 1: high rollers because yea, how they get those perks and
Speaker 1: they don't care they've got grazillions of dollars.
Speaker 5: Well, no, that was a big part of it, and
Speaker 5: you know the cachet of Vegas and that first time
Speaker 5: Super Bowl and all the gambling that was surrounding it. Yes,
Speaker 5: New Orleans has a nice casino right next door to
Speaker 5: the super Dome, but clearly not the same kind of
Speaker 5: vibe that they saw last year. So that may be
Speaker 5: another reason that things have come down. And you know,
Speaker 5: there's a look. As a long time Patriots fan, I
Speaker 5: realized we were the jerks of the NFL for a while.
Speaker 5: I get it, but you know you ask your significant other, Oh,
Speaker 5: can I please splurge? It's the one time I'm only
Speaker 5: going to be able to see my team in the
Speaker 5: super Bowl. Well you've done this a few times now,
Speaker 5: you don't do the splurge because this keeps happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so interest in the super Bowl maybe down?
Speaker 1: Are there any airfare deals or hotels available?
Speaker 3: Even if people said, you know what, I'm going.
Speaker 5: To do it? Yeah, the hotels will be snatched up,
Speaker 5: so that's going to be a tough find. So maybe
Speaker 5: you might find some success on something like a verbo
Speaker 5: or the Airbnb to try to find someplace to stay.
Speaker 5: But it's really so corporate now they buy up all
Speaker 5: the hotels in advance that it's really tough to get
Speaker 5: in there. And airfare is going to matter where you're
Speaker 5: coming from. Obviously, flights from Philadelphia and from Kansas City
Speaker 5: they'll all ready to be sold out for fans. But
Speaker 5: if you can hop a cheap flight from LA to
Speaker 5: New Orleans, that may be in the mix.
Speaker 3: All Right, Rory, who you rooting for?
Speaker 7: The guacamole the grog?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm ready for the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: who didn't make it this year.
Speaker 3: That's my team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I just I can't root for the Eagles.
Speaker 5: The Eagles are great, Philadelphia is great. The Eagles fans
Speaker 5: are terrible, terrible people. So I guess I'll go with
Speaker 5: my homes, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Cay if i's Rory O'Neil, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: Thanks Art you soon.
Speaker 3: All right, we have just been.
Speaker 1: Talking about money, big Bucks, and so let's shift over
Speaker 1: to Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho heard it video stations across the
Speaker 1: country and now right here on KFI every day. Let's
Speaker 1: get into some money. So let's start with the Wall
Speaker 1: Street and how hopefully it's gonna be a little calmer today.
Speaker 13: Oh we're hoping, you know what, I should grab myself
Speaker 13: some tequila and kick back. But with these tariffs, maybe
Speaker 13: that's not a good idea at all.
Speaker 3: Well maybe you need it to kind of calm yourself exactly.
Speaker 13: Well, stocks are a little changed, not like the tumble
Speaker 13: that we saw at this time yesterday when we were talking.
Speaker 13: Traders are following the tip for tat trade measures between
Speaker 13: the US and China, and analysts are saying China's tariff
Speaker 13: steps look restrained at first glance. So This is why
Speaker 13: stocks are holding steady and we're not seeing these big drops.
Speaker 13: So Dow futures they're down about seventy points. S and
Speaker 13: P futures are up a tenth of a percent. But yesterday, oh,
Speaker 13: it was a volatile session. The market was whipsawing on
Speaker 13: every tariff headline. Still there is so much uncertain to
Speaker 13: be uncertainty about how our economy will be able to
Speaker 13: handle a trade war if it comes to that. The
Speaker 13: Dow dropped one hundred and twenty three points to finish
Speaker 13: out the session.
Speaker 1: It was down as much as six hundred though, so
Speaker 1: down one per three not so bad, A.
Speaker 13: Little bit better because I mean traders are worried about
Speaker 13: the implication of tariffs. This morning, we got China retaliating.
Speaker 13: They're targeting a handful of American companies. They're slapping taxes
Speaker 13: on some goods. But at least it's not as bad
Speaker 13: as what people were expect. And then of course there's
Speaker 13: that hold off for Mexico and Canada, and that's bringing
Speaker 13: a little bit of relief to the markets.
Speaker 6: Hopefully they'll be a.
Speaker 13: Last minute negotiation, a last minute deal.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have a question for you about futures, because
Speaker 1: when we talk every day, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: little less than an hour before trading actually starts. But
Speaker 1: the futures, what are they and how do they kind
Speaker 1: of guide the day?
Speaker 13: Well, the thing about it is more it's more of
Speaker 13: an indication until the market is open, so people are
Speaker 13: making bets ahead of time. This is probably the best
Speaker 13: way to look at it, is that people are making
Speaker 13: bets ahead of time on where they think the markets
Speaker 13: are going to.
Speaker 6: Be at the open.
Speaker 13: So we do see obviously in the futures market, we
Speaker 13: do see moves every time that there is a different
Speaker 13: headline like yesterday when the tariffs were coming out, or.
Speaker 6: Of course this is a big corporate.
Speaker 13: Earning season, so anytime a company comes out and says
Speaker 13: things are great or ooh, things are bad, we do
Speaker 13: see these indications moving in a certain direction, either up
Speaker 13: or down.
Speaker 6: So it's a good way to give you a good.
Speaker 13: Idea of at nine thirty New York Times how everything's
Speaker 13: going to look during the day.
Speaker 1: Okay, and as you mentioned, we're going to have some
Speaker 1: corporate announcements that come in later this week. Real quick,
Speaker 1: we want to hit on State Farm, which is still
Speaker 1: providing insurance policies in California.
Speaker 3: But they want to hike your rates a lot. Oh,
Speaker 3: yes they do.
Speaker 13: They're asking for an emergency rate hike from state regulators,
Speaker 13: So be careful if you are somebody who's a state
Speaker 13: farm homeowner. They're warning that the multi billion dollar payouts
Speaker 13: from the wildfires is threatening its balance sheet, it's threatening
Speaker 13: its financials. So they're looking for a twenty two percent
Speaker 13: average hike in rates for homeowners, fifteen percent for rentals
Speaker 13: and condo owners. They're looking for the new rates to
Speaker 13: go into effect May first, but the insurer said that
Speaker 13: it's wildfire payouts so far have already top to billion
Speaker 13: dollars and they're expected to rizing them further.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and Courtney, I also saw that the average
Speaker 1: is twenty two percent, but for rental units, so like
Speaker 1: if you have a house that you rent out, they
Speaker 1: want to hike those rates by thirty eight percent.
Speaker 6: And it's these insurance companies.
Speaker 13: They've said that they have already paid out four point
Speaker 13: two billion dollars in claims for the Eaton and Palisades fire.
Speaker 13: But they're also saying that the insurance regulator is saying
Speaker 13: that they're going to look into the request.
Speaker 6: But there's a lot of people.
Speaker 13: There's this consumer watchdog group, it's an insurance advocacy organization,
Speaker 13: and they're saying the company hasn't really provided the data
Speaker 13: to back up all these predictions, these dire predictions that
Speaker 13: they have for the state of the insurance market.
Speaker 1: I'd be interested to see out of you know, they
Speaker 1: say that they've paid out four point something billion. I'd
Speaker 1: be interested to see how much money they bring in
Speaker 1: every year.
Speaker 13: And that's what we get in these quarterly earnings reports,
Speaker 13: so we'll get a better indication of how much. But
Speaker 13: as these insurance watchdogs consumers who are saying, I can't
Speaker 13: really afford this anymore, and especially on top of these
Speaker 13: rise rates every single year, they're saying, something really has
Speaker 13: to be done and we need to we need to
Speaker 13: dig into these numbers to really tell the true story here.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we'll watch and see if that one gets approved.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, thank you so much. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: See you later.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three
Speaker 1: lawmakers in the LA area are asking the federal government
Speaker 1: to help protect families in the wake of the wildfires.
Speaker 1: Laura Friedman, Judy Chu, and Brad Sherman say they're going
Speaker 1: to ask the EPA to quickly assess danger from asbestos, lead,
Speaker 1: and chlorine that could be in dust carried through the
Speaker 1: air from the Palacea Palisades and eaten fires. Friedman says
Speaker 1: her constituents in and outside the burn areas are concerned
Speaker 1: about the air and the safety of school children. A
Speaker 1: Republican lawmaker from the Central Valleys put up a bill
Speaker 1: to take funding away from California's high speed rail project.
Speaker 17: Maybe two sixty seven would divert a billion dollars a
Speaker 17: year from cap and trade to projects that would make
Speaker 17: investments for water infrastructure and wildfire prevention.
Speaker 1: To Lari County assembly Woman Alexandra Messito says critics arguments
Speaker 1: that shifting the funding away from high speed rail would
Speaker 1: impact more than ten thousand workers just doesn't hold water?
Speaker 17: Do farm worker jobs not matter and count? Because if
Speaker 17: we don't get water to the Central Valley, we will
Speaker 17: continue to have to fallow farm ground, and in turn,
Speaker 17: farm workers will.
Speaker 4: Not have jobs.
Speaker 1: Mesda says a fast train would be nice someday, but
Speaker 1: water and wildfire prevention are higher priorities. Eleven billion dollars
Speaker 1: has been spent on the high speed rail. Of the
Speaker 1: high speed rail project, no tracks have been laid yet,
Speaker 1: Costs of the project have ballooned to an estimated one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five billion dollars. California Attorney General Rob
Speaker 1: Bonte says the Trump administration's offer to buy out federal
Speaker 1: employees is really aimed at dismantling the federal workforce. The
Speaker 1: administration says any employees who take the offer will be
Speaker 1: paid through the end of September, but they have to
Speaker 1: resign by Thursday. Bonte is one of twelve attorneys general
Speaker 1: warning federal employees about the potential pitfalls of accepting the buyout.
Speaker 1: State Farm has asked California to approve an emergency rate
Speaker 1: hike of an average of twenty two percent so it
Speaker 1: can pay for the impact of the wildfires in La County.
Speaker 1: State Farm says it has received at least eighty seven
Speaker 1: hundred claims and has already paid out a billion dollars
Speaker 1: to customers. The reopening of Pacific Coast Highway through Pacific
Speaker 1: Palisades in Malibu is going to be short lived. The
Speaker 1: stretch of highway that has been closed since the fires
Speaker 1: reopen in both directions yesterday morning. It's closing this afternoon
Speaker 1: at three pchs expected to remain closed through at least
Speaker 1: Friday because of concerns about mud and debris flows that
Speaker 1: could be caused by the rain that's expected to roll
Speaker 1: in starting later today. A man's been arrested for allegedly
Speaker 1: trying to start two fires in Canoga Park. Police got
Speaker 1: several calls yesterday afternoon about someone in dark clothing near
Speaker 1: Box Canyon who was setting fires. One of the callers
Speaker 1: followed the forty one year old man until La County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputies arrived. They did and arrested him. We're just
Speaker 1: minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning, Mexico
Speaker 1: and Canada get a pause, but China's on the hook
Speaker 1: for terraffs and.
Speaker 3: They're slapping back.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to the host of How
Speaker 1: to Money on KFI, Joel lars Guard. So, Joel, I
Speaker 1: just mentioned tariffs and how Mexico and Canada get a pause,
Speaker 1: But I thought maybe we should talk about tariffs and
Speaker 1: you know, what do they mean to you and me
Speaker 1: on a daily basis.
Speaker 18: Sure, Yeah, from a personal finance perspective, there was there
Speaker 18: was like a lot up in the area yesterday. Right,
Speaker 18: it felt like some whiplash going on, some tariff whiplash.
Speaker 18: And you know, the over the weekend it was like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 18: it's it's going down. We're going to implement tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico.
Speaker 18: And this is just kind of a departure too, from
Speaker 18: President Trump's tact in his first administration, where it was
Speaker 18: essentially kind of tariffs against adversaries and now it's tariffs
Speaker 18: against nations bordering nations that we're friendly with in order
Speaker 18: to kind of get concessions. He got those concessions and
Speaker 18: so the tariffs are at least punted for a month,
Speaker 18: depending on what else he's trying to bargain for. But
Speaker 18: the truth is if these tariffs went into effect, if
Speaker 18: they go into effect next month, the goods price of
Speaker 18: goods and services will go up on a whole lot
Speaker 18: of things. And it really tariffs essentially, when you know,
Speaker 18: they boil down to attacks on consumers on everyday Americans.
Speaker 18: So there's been a lot written about what would go
Speaker 18: up in price. It's a lot of things. Avocado's maple syrup.
Speaker 18: But then it's bigger things too, like the price of cars,
Speaker 18: because all of these components that go into making cars, well,
Speaker 18: they fly across the border, across Canada and Mexico and
Speaker 18: back again. And so the tariffs that would be instituted
Speaker 18: on some of these items is going to make a
Speaker 18: lot of things more expensive. I think lumber, concrete like
Speaker 18: things are going to get more expensive. Renovating your house.
Speaker 18: The quote you got last week, it might not be good.
Speaker 18: A month from now, it might have gone up quite
Speaker 18: a bit. So these are the kind of things that
Speaker 18: people should at least notice and be aware of.
Speaker 1: Okay, you said that the tariffs would kick in, you know,
Speaker 1: and again they're on pause right now, at least with
Speaker 1: Mexico and Canada. Would the effect be immediate or might
Speaker 1: it be like three months down the road or what
Speaker 1: kind of repercussions are they there?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that depends.
Speaker 18: So some businesses have in expectation of these tariffs, they
Speaker 18: have stockpiled certain things they have maybe pre bought in
Speaker 18: hopes to avoid paying extra for some of the supply
Speaker 18: chain goods and services that they're buying.
Speaker 7: For whatever it is they're producing, so some people.
Speaker 18: Have kind of gotten out of the ahead of it,
Speaker 18: and it might be a slow truckle to implement these
Speaker 18: price increases as finally they have to make new orders
Speaker 18: and the tear increased prices of tariffs hit them. But
Speaker 18: one thing is for sure, those tariffs do ultimately pass
Speaker 18: on to the consumer. So we've talked about, you know, inflation,
Speaker 18: and inflation has been you know, at least being curbed
Speaker 18: meaningfully since the you know, since couple of years ago.
Speaker 18: But these tariffs could for sure impact inflation. So it's
Speaker 18: one of those things where you kind of can't have
Speaker 18: your cake and eat it too, implement the tariffs as
Speaker 18: a geopolitical strategy and then also hope to tame inflation
Speaker 18: at the same time.
Speaker 7: That's just not how it works.
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, the tariffs did go into effect with China.
Speaker 1: Is it everything that comes over from China gets a
Speaker 1: ten percent tariff?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what's looking like.
Speaker 18: So last time too, it was it was targeted tariffs, right,
Speaker 18: it was specific items. And it certainly seems like these
Speaker 18: these tariffs on China and these tariffs on mexic they're
Speaker 18: being less strategically implemented and it's more of a broad
Speaker 18: based strategy as well. So yeah, and there are certain exemptions, like,
Speaker 18: for instance, with Canada, there was going to be a
Speaker 18: smaller tariff on oil but on oil imports. So yeah,
Speaker 18: it's again, this is a really scattershot strategy. It's quickly moving,
Speaker 18: as we saw yesterday, and where this ends up as
Speaker 18: anybody's guess. It certainly seems like it's more of a
Speaker 18: negotiating tactic than really this desire to make tariffs hurt
Speaker 18: and impact consumers.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you know that Trump
Speaker 1: likes to make a deal. Okay, so let's move on
Speaker 1: really quick. I know we don't have a lot of time,
Speaker 1: but I want to touch on this. You said that
Speaker 1: parents are basically gaming the system to improve their kids
Speaker 1: credit stores, and I'm wondering if first explain that and
Speaker 1: then whether it's a bad thing that they're doing.
Speaker 18: Yeah, so that there was this article in The Atlantic
Speaker 18: and it was kind of actually lamenting the fact that
Speaker 18: some parents are gaming the system and they're helping their kids. Well, okay,
Speaker 18: so mostly that one of the best ways to do
Speaker 18: this is to add your child as an authorized user
Speaker 18: to your credit card.
Speaker 7: If you handle your credit card responsibly.
Speaker 18: So if you pay your balance off on time and
Speaker 18: in full, and let's say you have a high credit
Speaker 18: limit and you only use a small fraction of the
Speaker 18: overall limit that you have been given by the credit
Speaker 18: card companies, Well, if you add your child as an
Speaker 18: authorized user, and every credit card issuer has kind of
Speaker 18: different standards for this. Some will say, oh, you can
Speaker 18: only do it if your child is over thirteen. Others
Speaker 18: you can add them as a newborn, and so it's
Speaker 18: kind of cool. You can have a baby on Tuesday
Speaker 18: and on Wednesday adam as an authorized user, and they're
Speaker 18: building a healthy credit score. So by the time they
Speaker 18: leave the nest, it looks like they have this immaculate
Speaker 18: credit history. And so savvy parents are saying, let me
Speaker 18: help my kid out in this way, because credit scores
Speaker 18: impact almost everything we do in our daily lives.
Speaker 1: Okay, but isn't that sort of like doing your kids
Speaker 1: homework for them? Like I had to build my credit
Speaker 1: and I have great credit now, but I learned about
Speaker 1: it early and I started building it early, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, like it's something that I accomplished.
Speaker 18: Yeah, well, I do think this is one of those
Speaker 18: gaming like incentives matter, and people are going to do.
Speaker 7: Whatever they can to give their kids a lagup.
Speaker 18: Think about what parents do to try to get their
Speaker 18: kids into the right college, all the extra tutoring and
Speaker 18: the testing and stuff like that, and so.
Speaker 7: I don't see it.
Speaker 18: I don't necessarily want my kids to learn the hard
Speaker 18: way on everything, although certainly I do want them to
Speaker 18: learn the hard way on some stuff. But I do
Speaker 18: think that adding your kid as an authorized user while
Speaker 18: you're teaching them all the important stuff about how to
Speaker 18: handle credit, well, I just think that that can be savvy.
Speaker 18: I think it can be smart, so as.
Speaker 3: Long as you're teaching the kids as you go and
Speaker 3: not just handing them something.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think it's really different.
Speaker 18: I think very differently about kind of setting them up
Speaker 18: from a financial perspective and stocking away tons of your
Speaker 18: own money for their future. Sometimes that can lead to entitlement.
Speaker 18: But the credit thing is a little bit different and
Speaker 18: just being a little savvy around the system because it
Speaker 18: is so impactful to almost every financial decision we make,
Speaker 18: even like renting an apartment and not in California, but
Speaker 18: in many states, getting insurance for your car, you're going
Speaker 18: to pay more if you have a bad credit score,
Speaker 18: So yeah, help your kid get a good credit score
Speaker 18: and then talk to them about the importance of keeping
Speaker 18: it good.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're helping them start out on the right foot. Okay,
Speaker 1: I can get on board with.
Speaker 3: Them, Okay.
Speaker 1: Joel Larsgard, the host of how to Money on care
Speaker 1: and for some more great advice on how to handle
Speaker 1: your money. You can listen to Joel noon to two
Speaker 1: on Sundays right here on KFI. Can also follow him
Speaker 1: at how to Money.
Speaker 3: Joel. Thank you so much. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 7: All right, sounds good. Thanks Amy, Thank you.
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