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Speaker 1: your Monday morning wake up call. It is April twenty first,
Speaker 1: of course, the day after Easter. Hope you had a
Speaker 1: nice weekend. We're wakemup to news that Hope Francis has died.
Speaker 1: Kind of a sad thing, although you know what I
Speaker 1: will say, eighty eight years it's a good run. A
Speaker 1: lot of people don't get that one. Here's what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wake up call. As I just mentioned, the Pope
Speaker 1: has died. The Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis
Speaker 1: early this morning, after he made a surprise appearance from
Speaker 1: the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica on Easter Sunday. Pope
Speaker 1: Francis was eighty eight. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join
Speaker 1: us at five point thirty five with the latest. As
Speaker 1: a billion Catholics around the world say goodbye to the
Speaker 1: leader of their church. La Mayor Karen Bass will deliver
Speaker 1: her State of the City address today at City Hall.
Speaker 1: Her office says she'll be talking about wildfire recovery, a
Speaker 1: nearly billion dollar budget gap, the homeless crisis, public safety,
Speaker 1: and how federal policies are impacting city business. Several trees
Speaker 1: in downtown LA have been cut down, apparently by vandals
Speaker 1: using chainsaws. The trees were cut down on several streets
Speaker 1: over the weekend. LA Mayor Bass's office as the city's
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who did it, assess the damage,
Speaker 1: and get new trees planted quickly. Also coming up on
Speaker 1: wake Up Call, the US and Iran have held another
Speaker 1: round of talks. ABC's Jordana Miller's going to tell us
Speaker 1: if they made any progress on a deal to prevent
Speaker 1: Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. On again, off again.
Speaker 1: Deportations are on hold again. ABC Stephen Portnoy's going to
Speaker 1: join us before the top of the hour to tell
Speaker 1: us about the Supreme Court's latest decision. And here's one
Speaker 1: for you. Ever wonder if the future is going to
Speaker 1: be like a Terminator or the last of Us, or
Speaker 1: is it going to be more like Meet the Robinsons. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking with an author and futurist,
Speaker 1: Kevin Sirilli. That's coming up at five point twenty. Looking
Speaker 1: forward to that, let's get started with some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Bells have told across Rome following news from the Vatican
Speaker 1: that Pope Francis has died. He was last seen yesterday
Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday, blessing the faithful from the balcony of
Speaker 1: Saint Peter's Basilica and driving in an open car through
Speaker 1: the assembled crowd in Saint Peter Square. Father James Martin
Speaker 1: says there is a lot of sadness.
Speaker 4: Today but also great till gratitude for all he was
Speaker 4: able to accomplish, and then also this understanding of how
Speaker 4: hard he pushed himself, particularly at the end. This was
Speaker 4: a very holy man and a very hard worker.
Speaker 1: At the same time, the Pope spent more than a
Speaker 1: month in the hospital earlier this year because of respiratory problems.
Speaker 1: He had double pneumonia. Pope Francis was eighty eight. Vice
Speaker 1: President Vance met with the Pope at the Vatican yesterday.
Speaker 1: Bossion as, how are you find yourself out to her?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 1: Ethic you can have mister to your father Vanci's. His
Speaker 1: heart goes out to the millions of Christians around the
Speaker 1: world who loved the pope. French President and Menuel Montcralin
Speaker 1: says Francis always sided with the most vulnerable and the
Speaker 1: most fragile, and said a great pain would be felt
Speaker 1: in France and around the world. Israeli President Isaac Herzog
Speaker 1: called Francis a man of deep faith and boundless compassion
Speaker 1: who fostered ties with the Jewish war world. La Mayor
Speaker 1: Bass is about to break down her budget plan for
Speaker 1: the city.
Speaker 5: Maribas is set to deliver her State of the City address,
Speaker 5: where she's expected to outline her plan to tackle a
Speaker 5: nearly one billion dollar budget shortfall. She'll also unveil her
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five twenty twenty six budget, which may include
Speaker 5: laying off more than fifteen hundred city workers and cutting
Speaker 5: vacant jobs. The city faces mounting challenges from slowed housing
Speaker 5: construction and a struggling entertainment industry to fall out from
Speaker 5: the Palisades fire. Heatherbrooker KAFI News.
Speaker 1: We'll have the details on the state of the city
Speaker 1: addressed throughout the day right here. On KFID space supposed
Speaker 1: to happen about noon. Police have shot and killed a
Speaker 1: man who appeared to have shot at a police helicopter
Speaker 1: in Resita. LAPD Sergeant Bruce Borihan says officers responding to
Speaker 1: an assault with a deadly weapon call yesterday run.
Speaker 6: Into this apartment complex behind us here on Victory Boulevard.
Speaker 6: Sometime in that when the suspect was in that apartment complex,
Speaker 6: the airship was overhead and reported that that suspect actually
Speaker 6: fire appeared to fire at leadership.
Speaker 1: Police confronted the man in the rear alley of the
Speaker 1: apartment complex a short time later. That's when the shooting happened.
Speaker 1: Time to say good morning too. ABC's jordonah Miller, Good morning, John, Jordana.
Speaker 1: I'm curious we're going to be talking about Iran in
Speaker 1: the US, but is there any response from Israel on
Speaker 1: the passing of Pope Francis this morning?
Speaker 7: Well, Israeli officials from the president on down are putting
Speaker 7: out statements, you know, you know, wish saying they're expressing
Speaker 7: their condolences over the death of the Pope. The President
Speaker 7: of Israel, Isaac Hert Hertzog called him, you know, a
Speaker 7: great man who dedicated his life to the poor, to
Speaker 7: the needy, and to really developing interfaith relationships with Jews
Speaker 7: and other religious minorities.
Speaker 3: Remember the community.
Speaker 7: Here, the Christian community here in in Jerusalem, the Catholic
Speaker 7: community is very small, and it's been dwindling for a
Speaker 7: few decades, and that has made it ever more reliant
Speaker 7: on Rome and the Pope and the tension from the
Speaker 7: from the Vatican. So they are there's a lot of
Speaker 7: grief from local clergy, the representatives of the Vatican, as
Speaker 7: well as the faithful here. So it's a somber day
Speaker 7: for Jerusalem, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thanks for that update, Jardana. Okay, so
Speaker 1: the reason that we're talking this morning was because Iran
Speaker 1: and the US have held another round of talks on
Speaker 1: Iran's nuclear program. Where were the talks and did anything
Speaker 1: come out of them?
Speaker 3: The talks were held in Rome.
Speaker 7: We don't know a lot of the details, but we
Speaker 7: do know that the United States and Aron are saying
Speaker 7: that progress was made. There are already h you know,
Speaker 7: intentions to talk again in about another week. And those
Speaker 7: are all very good signs because remember before before these
Speaker 7: talks began, just a couple of weeks ago, Iran was
Speaker 7: really flip flopping on whether they would actually be interested
Speaker 7: in talks, right, And there were semantics about whether these
Speaker 7: were direct talks, whether they were indirect talks. Because Oman
Speaker 7: is there also as a mediator. I don't think that
Speaker 7: matters as much as the fact that the sides are
Speaker 7: talking and now they say they're going to work on
Speaker 7: carving out a framework for this deal. We know what
Speaker 7: some of the big issues are going to be, even
Speaker 7: though we don't know the details. So, for example, will
Speaker 7: President Trump and the United States give a Ron a
Speaker 7: certain percentage to which they can enrich uranium? Right under
Speaker 7: the former deal with President Obama they could enrich just
Speaker 7: over three percent, right, Will that be the case again
Speaker 7: or will some say geranium at all? And what will
Speaker 7: happen to the There's a lot of enriched material up
Speaker 7: to sixty percent, right that Aron did in kind of
Speaker 7: defiance of the international community, which is just a step
Speaker 7: away from weaponized levels around ninety percent. What's going to
Speaker 7: happen to all of that in rich uranium? Is it
Speaker 7: going to be destroyed? Is it going to be given
Speaker 7: to a third party?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 7: Another big question is the length of this deal. Will
Speaker 7: it be in place for twenty years, twenty five years,
Speaker 7: thirty years. We know President Trump and others were very
Speaker 7: critical of what many considered the kind of short sunset
Speaker 7: clauses on the Obama deal. You know that it would
Speaker 7: have been in place for just ten years, twelve years,
Speaker 7: thirteen years. So how long this deal will be you know,
Speaker 7: will be you know, in force. That's another issue that
Speaker 7: we'll be discussed.
Speaker 1: Sounds like they have a lot, a lot to work out, right.
Speaker 7: And it's not.
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 7: I don't think it's a deal that is going to
Speaker 7: be hammered out, you know, in a month. You know,
Speaker 7: it's going to take some time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And do they have plans to meet again?
Speaker 9: They do.
Speaker 7: The plan is to meet again, I think this coming weekend,
Speaker 7: though we're not sure what the where the location is.
Speaker 7: It was you know again the last round was in Rome,
Speaker 7: but Death of thely to be Rome again. But we'll
Speaker 7: we'll have to see. I think we have to recognize
Speaker 7: that Iran is in a very vulnerable and weak position
Speaker 7: and so despite all of their threats, and we're not
Speaker 7: going to do this, and we're not going to do that.
Speaker 7: And we'll retaliate to see Americans bomb US. You know,
Speaker 7: Iran really there, they have to negotiate with the United
Speaker 7: States if they want the regime, the Iranian regime led
Speaker 7: by the Supreme Leader, to survive, because otherwise they're really
Speaker 7: putting the regime at risk, right if there's an attack
Speaker 7: or really tight sanctions that bring the economy down. I mean,
Speaker 7: Ron has its back against the wall.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well we will be watching. Thank you
Speaker 1: for giving us that insight, so we know what they're
Speaker 1: at least starting to talk about. And we'll be following
Speaker 1: this one, all right, jordanah Miller, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Namy.
Speaker 1: All right, take care. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from
Speaker 1: deporting more Venezuelans, it says are criminal gang members. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of men from Venezuela and El Salvador have already been deported,
Speaker 1: including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the government says was deported
Speaker 1: by mistake, but one of his tattoos is gang related.
Speaker 1: Borders are Tom Holman says it's a legitimate claim.
Speaker 3: You can't ignore tattoo.
Speaker 1: That's one more factor that leads you to believe maybe
Speaker 1: the gang member.
Speaker 3: It's just not based on tattoos. It's based on a
Speaker 3: lot of other things, but tattoos.
Speaker 1: Many Wellman says, no one is removed just because of
Speaker 1: a tattoo, so there is more to it. Democrats are
Speaker 1: calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following
Speaker 1: reports of a second chat on the Signal app where
Speaker 1: sensitive information was discussed. ABC's Lewis Martinez says this one
Speaker 1: included flight schedules for the fighter jets involved in a
Speaker 1: military attack against the Huties in Yemen.
Speaker 10: We've confirmed from two people familiar with the chat that yes,
Speaker 10: the Pete Hegseth actually used his personal phone to set
Speaker 10: up this signal chat originally during the confirmation process. It
Speaker 10: included some family members like his wife, like his brother
Speaker 10: who works out the Penagon, and his personal attorney who
Speaker 10: now works at the Pentagon as well.
Speaker 1: The White has dismissed the report yesterday as a non story,
Speaker 1: insisting that no classified information was shared. Charles wrapping up
Speaker 1: in Arizona in a conspiracy case against a woman already
Speaker 1: convicted along with her husband of killing her two children
Speaker 1: in Idaho. Laurie Valo dabl is on trial, this time
Speaker 1: for allegedly conspiring to mur or her estranged husband. ABC's
Speaker 1: Jorene Shaw says day Bell's expected to rest her case
Speaker 1: today without calling any witnesses.
Speaker 11: Mari has maintained she is not guilty, instead claiming her
Speaker 11: brother Alex killed Charles Valow in self defense. Alex not
Speaker 11: around to tell his version of the story because he
Speaker 11: passed away shortly after from natural causes.
Speaker 1: Dabell is acting as her own attorney. Closing arguments are
Speaker 1: expected this week. Oakland has a new mayor elect. Former
Speaker 1: Congresswoman Barbara Lee has defeated former Oakland City council member
Speaker 1: Lauren Taylor, who conceded the race on Saturday. Seventy eight
Speaker 1: year old Li says she's grateful for her support.
Speaker 12: Thank you first of.
Speaker 13: All, and we love Oakland right, We love in Oakland right.
Speaker 1: Lee takes the job after the recall of former Oakland
Speaker 1: mayor Sheng Tao, who faces federal corruption charges. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: girls in space just not going away. Katy Perry and
Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez and Gail King and a few others all
Speaker 1: went up and did their space thing and then talked
Speaker 1: about how they are changing the world with their with
Speaker 1: their three minutes of weightlessness backlash, and yeah, the backlash
Speaker 1: isn't going away. I thought, you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of flame out really quickly. But then I was
Speaker 1: on Instagram and found this.
Speaker 2: Tell me, did you guys have a lot of fun?
Speaker 2: Do you finally realize and understand how much of haya
Speaker 2: Old Chicks careers off?
Speaker 1: Fade?
Speaker 6: Cantie?
Speaker 1: How completely?
Speaker 12: Don't you are.
Speaker 1: Too much too hot?
Speaker 2: Just moart out of.
Speaker 9: Celebrities folk love yourself, nobody came, nobody care.
Speaker 1: It goes on for a lot longer than that. And
Speaker 1: I don't think he needed to make the comment about
Speaker 1: the Old chicksen but because I think Katy Perry's still
Speaker 1: kind of rocking it right right, Okay? Anyway, Uh, it's
Speaker 1: probably it fade away. Yeah, it hasn't yet. In his
Speaker 1: last appearance to the faithful, Pope Francis waved to the
Speaker 1: crowd from the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica. The Pope
Speaker 1: gave the crowd his blessing and wish them happy Easter.
Speaker 1: The Vatican announced the Pope's passing early this morning, Pope
Speaker 1: Francis was eighty eight. Senator Chris Van Hollins's all Americans
Speaker 1: are threatened if the deportation of a man living in
Speaker 1: Maryland is allowed to stand show. Hey, Otani has rejoined
Speaker 1: the team after a brief paternity leave. The Dodgers superstar
Speaker 1: and his wife Welcome to baby Girl. On Friday. Otani
Speaker 1: went over three in his return yesterday, with walking a
Speaker 1: strikeout in the Dodgers one nothing win over Texas. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to author and futurist Kevin Surially.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Kevin, Hey, thanks for having me. How's your
Speaker 9: future going these days?
Speaker 1: Well, you're gonna tell us.
Speaker 3: Are you?
Speaker 9: Are you? Are you polite to your artificial intelligence? When
Speaker 9: you talked to Siri and elect so, do you say
Speaker 9: please and thank you?
Speaker 1: I do not have a good relationship with Siri.
Speaker 9: Do you want to talk about it? Why not? What's
Speaker 9: going on with you in Siri?
Speaker 1: Well, she and I are not on speaking terms because
Speaker 1: I used to ask your questions and she always gave
Speaker 1: me stupid answers, and so I just don't talk to her.
Speaker 9: Alexa and well, I respect that you guys are fine. Okay,
Speaker 9: So sixty seven percent of Americans. And I write about
Speaker 9: this on me to Future, about subsec dot com. But
Speaker 9: sixty seven percent of Americans say that they are polite
Speaker 9: to their artificial intelligence. Now why because some folks are
Speaker 9: just doing it because they think that they should be
Speaker 9: nice to AI and it's good manners cultural, I guess.
Speaker 9: But the others are in the back of their mind
Speaker 9: they're concerned about like a robot uprising that somehow if
Speaker 9: AI comes back or is able to beat humans, that
Speaker 9: they're going to somehow. Remember who said please and who
Speaker 9: said thank you? But Sam Altman, he's the CEO of
Speaker 9: Open AI with Jones Chatchipt, he said, stop being so
Speaker 9: polite to our official intelligence. Stop it because it's costing
Speaker 9: tens of millions of dollars in electricity. So all of
Speaker 9: these Americans who are writing these very nice questions or
Speaker 9: asking very nice questions, the brain of AI is just saying,
Speaker 9: get to the point. Already, artificial intelligence is run on electricity,
Speaker 9: and these data centers that America is building all across
Speaker 9: the country is really taking shape, and a lot of
Speaker 9: its power by nuclear energy, by the way. But these
Speaker 9: data centers, we're in the middle of an electrical revolution
Speaker 9: because of how much Americans are now relying on artificial intelligence.
Speaker 9: So stop saying please and thank you.
Speaker 1: Okay, because stop saying please and thank you or you're
Speaker 1: going to have blackouts.
Speaker 9: Correct. Yeah, well that's the very you know, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 9: that's the extreme version of it. And I think when
Speaker 9: you look at just from a modern standpoint and where
Speaker 9: this is all headed the humanoid robotic space, which of
Speaker 9: course is the next competition between the United States and
Speaker 9: China and the digital frontier. Over the weekend, there were
Speaker 9: twenty one humanoid robots that ran in the Beijing half marathon,
Speaker 9: but only six of them finished the time. The fastest
Speaker 9: robot finished the half marathon in two hours and forty minutes, which,
Speaker 9: by the way, is very slow. The average age of
Speaker 9: a seventy year old running half marathon is two hours
Speaker 9: and forty minutes, so it's not that fast. But I
Speaker 9: think this is cheating. And I don't know how you
Speaker 9: feel about this, amy, but they changed their battery three times,
Speaker 9: So you don't get to change your battery when you
Speaker 9: run a half marathon if you're a human let alone
Speaker 9: takes steroids. So why is it that a humanoid robot
Speaker 9: gets to change their battery and somehow still get to finish.
Speaker 9: I think the Chinese Communist Party is cheating with these robots.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to know about the ones that didn't finish.
Speaker 1: Did they just run out of gas, juice, whatever? Or
Speaker 1: do they follow over what happened?
Speaker 9: Just fell out and collapse? Can you imagine they sell
Speaker 9: over busted, thud dead?
Speaker 1: Okay? So, Kevin, because you're a futures so you study
Speaker 1: things that are going to happen. And I was Kno
Speaker 1: brought us back with music from Back to the Future,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of laughing about that because all
Speaker 1: this stuff that they did in nineteen eighty whatever, and
Speaker 1: when they said, here, we're in the future in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, we actually have some of that stuff now.
Speaker 9: It's pretty cool, and I think you're absolutely correct. I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm a millennial and I'm a part of the last
Speaker 9: generation that can remember life before the Internet. Gen Z
Speaker 9: is the last generation that can remember life before artificial intelligence.
Speaker 9: Folks that are born today are candidly the last generation
Speaker 9: that we'll remember life before quantum computing, which is going
Speaker 9: to make AI look like a calculator from your TI
Speaker 9: eighty three and geometry class in high school. But I
Speaker 9: interviewed Major General Gagnad, who was one of the top
Speaker 9: generals at the United States Space Force. I interviewed them
Speaker 9: last month at the National Press Club, and I said,
Speaker 9: what do you want folks to know about outer Spacebviously,
Speaker 9: this is before Katie Perry's eleven minute flight with Gail
Speaker 9: King up to the space and he said that space
Speaker 9: security is national security and economic security. And I really
Speaker 9: dug down on that because the average American most folks
Speaker 9: don't know this. This will blow your mind. The average American
Speaker 9: interacts with space more than two dozen times per.
Speaker 3: Day and we don't know about it.
Speaker 9: Right, you don't even know an amy. I mean it's
Speaker 9: everything from your phone to your computer, to your emails.
Speaker 9: I mean everything is run via the satellites. So protecting
Speaker 9: that space domain is just completely imperative. America of Force
Speaker 9: turns two hundred and fifty years old next year, and
Speaker 9: I said, where is America General in two hundred and
Speaker 9: fifty years from now? He know what he said, beyond
Speaker 9: the moon And that just kind of blew my mind
Speaker 9: as well, because all of this is headed towards expanding
Speaker 9: human presence, not just or beyond planet Earth with the
Speaker 9: intention of protecting the planet as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, so well we're not going to be around for that,
Speaker 1: so let's look into our near future. Like what give
Speaker 1: us some like some of your predictions of things that
Speaker 1: we should expect to see in the next ten years.
Speaker 9: Well, I think driverless cars. You're already starting to see
Speaker 9: that on the road. Have you seen one yet driving
Speaker 9: driver less cars?
Speaker 1: We have them in La so.
Speaker 9: Exactly, so I think that's going to be way more common.
Speaker 9: I think you're going to be seeing space jets that
Speaker 9: are able to land and then drive more private the
Speaker 9: private aviation space won't look out for that. So if
Speaker 9: you are on a private jet, I don't fly private,
Speaker 9: but for folks who do, they be able to land
Speaker 9: and then drive to their destination. But I also think
Speaker 9: speed in slight and speed and train is going to
Speaker 9: get a lot faster as well. Hypersonic flight could be
Speaker 9: something that comes in our lifetime. Quantum computing in our
Speaker 9: lifetime to really be able to solve complex diseases and
Speaker 9: find cures. That's something that really interests me. But space,
Speaker 9: the space economy, space apply chain, the way that the
Speaker 9: chemicals and properties here on planet Earth, and the chemistry
Speaker 9: behind making cures for diseases is different than the chemistry
Speaker 9: up and outer space. So you're already seeing some health
Speaker 9: companies send things up via satellites to cook medicine for
Speaker 9: lack of a better analogy, and then it comes back
Speaker 9: on Earth and you're able to solve diseases. So that
Speaker 9: really is interesting as well, not to mention mining the Moon,
Speaker 9: mining Mars, all of that is really happening as we speak.
Speaker 1: Okay, So, Kevin, one last question, because I know we
Speaker 1: got to let you run, but most movies TV shows
Speaker 1: that show the future show a really dystopian future. It
Speaker 1: doesn't look great.
Speaker 9: Thank Is that all possible?
Speaker 1: Or are we going to have a bright future?
Speaker 9: Yes, we're absolutely. I mean, listen, I don't know about you,
Speaker 9: but I don't want to live in a world without
Speaker 9: the Internet or GPS or uber or my iPhone. So
Speaker 9: at the end of the day, I mean, technology is good.
Speaker 9: It's all how we use it and it's what we
Speaker 9: make it so people don't have to be worried.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, thank you so much, Kevin Thrillly.
Speaker 1: I would love to talk to you more. Unfortunately we're
Speaker 1: out of time, so maybe maybe we'll do it again.
Speaker 1: But appreciate your time this morning, love taking a little
Speaker 1: look into the future.
Speaker 9: Thank you for having me. Have a gret day, all right.
Speaker 1: Take care. Pope Francis has died. The Vatican announced his
Speaker 1: passing this morning, hours after he appeared before a crowd
Speaker 1: of thousands celebrating Easter Sunday at Saint Peter's Basilica. The
Speaker 1: Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow deportations
Speaker 1: to continue under the Alien Enemies Act. The Supreme Court
Speaker 1: proved an emergency request from the ACLU early Saturday to
Speaker 1: pause the act that allows suspected Venezuelan gang members to
Speaker 1: be deportive. We're going to be talking more about that
Speaker 1: with Steven Portnoy in about fifteen minutes. Chinese e commerce
Speaker 1: sites Tmu and Sheen say they're raising prices. They say
Speaker 1: the increases, which going to effect April twenty fifth, are
Speaker 1: a ripple effect of President Trump's tariffs. Tariff's on Chinese
Speaker 1: products imported to the US are a upping one hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five percent, sometimes higher at six so five.
Speaker 1: A handle on the news. The latest call for the
Speaker 1: Secretary of Defense Pete HEGs death to be removed from
Speaker 1: his office. Take a look at that right now, let's
Speaker 1: say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, we
Speaker 1: got the news this morning when we woke up that
Speaker 1: Pope Francis has done.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The message read like this, Samy. At seven thirty five
Speaker 14: this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Frances returned to the
Speaker 14: Home of the Father. Was seven thirty five Vatican time
Speaker 14: this morning overnight here in the United States, and now
Speaker 14: begins this process of choosing the next Pope. Francis had
Speaker 14: been in that position for the last twelve years, had
Speaker 14: moved the church kind of to the left, you know.
Speaker 14: He embraced the disenfranchise of the world, the homeless, the refugees, migrants, others,
Speaker 14: the poor, and much to the chagrin I think of
Speaker 14: a lot of traditionalists inside the church, he also sort
Speaker 14: of reached out to the LGBTQ plus community. When someone
Speaker 14: asked him about a gay priest, he said, who am
Speaker 14: I to judge? And I think people read a lot
Speaker 14: into that. So a real legacy that was, in papal terms,
Speaker 14: relatively short twelve years. I mean, look at John Paul,
Speaker 14: he was in there for thirty something like that. So
Speaker 14: now we'll see where this process goes, but it will
Speaker 14: take a long time and there's a lot of ceremony
Speaker 14: to come between now and the choosing of the next pope.
Speaker 3: Amy.
Speaker 1: Well, and the good news is we all just watched
Speaker 1: conclaims that we're very familiar with the process.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Great, if you haven't seen it, it's really I mean,
Speaker 14: it's fiction and it's it's a story, but it does
Speaker 14: offer I think, something of a look inside this process
Speaker 14: of choosing posts. Course, nobody really knows what happens except
Speaker 14: the seventy odd cardinals who gathered to participate in that.
Speaker 14: But it is always a gas. But it is an
Speaker 14: educated guess. So if you haven't seen it, see it.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I have a question for you about because
Speaker 1: I am not Catholic, I'm Lutheran, but I know that
Speaker 1: there's about a billion, well one point three nine billion
Speaker 1: Catholics around the world. What does the pope actually do?
Speaker 1: Does he set church policy? Is he more of a figurehead?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, and he sets a tone as much as
Speaker 14: anything else.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 14: He sits there issuing statements and proclamations and eat aches
Speaker 14: all day long, and those filtered down to the churches,
Speaker 14: to the parishes, to individual priests and church members. But yeah,
Speaker 14: I mean there is a concrete policy that comes with
Speaker 14: that too. He was responsible for some of the investigations
Speaker 14: into child abuse allegations within the church. There's a lot
Speaker 14: of administrative stuff that comes with it. So while he
Speaker 14: is the figurehead of the Catholic Church, there are some
Speaker 14: administrative duties that go with that. It's a big job,
Speaker 14: and he didn't take any time off, and I think
Speaker 14: it was remarkable. People were shocked that he was in
Speaker 14: the hospital for five weeks, came close to death several times,
Speaker 14: eventually was discharged and was well enough to appear at
Speaker 14: the Easter ceremony yesterday. I mean, the holiest moment in
Speaker 14: the whole Christian calendar, and he was right there to participate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's sort of like you know what, you know
Speaker 1: how some people like say, I'm going to make it
Speaker 1: to this birthday or something like that. Yeah, Easter's the
Speaker 1: big one for Christians, so well it is. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, but I mean, wow, an amazing life.
Speaker 1: And so we get first of all, we get nine
Speaker 1: days of mourning, yes, and then they're going to have
Speaker 1: a big funeral.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 14: The large funeral. I think something like two weeks here
Speaker 14: the key dates, so you know, after this nine day
Speaker 14: period of mourning, the funeral comes to seventy cardinals. Seventy
Speaker 14: cardinals from around the world will be traveling there. Between
Speaker 14: day four and day six the funeral comes. Then between
Speaker 14: seven and fifteen days preparations for the conclave, and then
Speaker 14: at some point, maybe next month sometime, we will have
Speaker 14: the white smoke coming from the chimney there at the
Speaker 14: in the choosing of a pope.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's and there's so many movies about about that
Speaker 1: that I feel like I know about the white smoke,
Speaker 1: you know, between conclave and then there was the Dan
Speaker 1: Brown movies. Is it Angels and Demons that had that
Speaker 1: one or I can't remember which one it was, but
Speaker 1: there was a couple that are really centered around rug
Speaker 1: the pope and replacing the pope.
Speaker 14: I mean there's there. Take them all. I suppose they
Speaker 14: are fiction. They are out of someone's imagination, but you know,
Speaker 14: they may give us an inside glimpse of what happens there.
Speaker 1: Yep. All right, ABC, Jim Ryan, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: the information. We'll talk to you soon. All right, it
Speaker 1: is time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman.
Speaker 3: Good morning Dan, Good morning Amy. How are you.
Speaker 1: We're doing good, doing good today? So I am looking
Speaker 1: for your notes because I put Oh they're there. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get in your business with Google and the Justice Department.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh is Amy will be on the Washington court
Speaker 3: room today lawyers for both Google and the Justice Department.
Speaker 3: They're can be facing off now. The government has accused
Speaker 3: the tech chine of turning its popular search engine into
Speaker 3: a monopoly, leading to the Department seeking to force the
Speaker 3: company to sell its Chrome browser, as well as take
Speaker 3: steps to increase competition. So obviously a very big day
Speaker 3: for Google imaginal. We have to sell Chrome. I mean
Speaker 3: that's unbelievable if you think about it.
Speaker 1: Who would buy it?
Speaker 3: I don't know what would it cost? I mean everybody
Speaker 3: uses Chrome, right, have to cost a fortune? Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean I have no idea whould buy it? I mean,
Speaker 3: like in the cost, I think billions upon billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and then I try to think, like when
Speaker 1: big things like this happen or may have to happen,
Speaker 1: I wonder does that actually affect you and me? And
Speaker 1: how does it affect. I guess if you have Google stock,
Speaker 1: But what are some of the other ripples from something
Speaker 1: like that happening.
Speaker 3: Oh, you's that's a great point. I mean, obviously a
Speaker 3: Google stock you would affect that because you know they
Speaker 3: would lose a huge revenue source there with Chrome. I
Speaker 3: don't think as a user. You know, you get up,
Speaker 3: you get on a computer, you click on Chrome. Anything's
Speaker 3: going to change potentially. But whoever buys it, you know,
Speaker 3: at first, maybe the stock drops a little because they're
Speaker 3: going to pay billions of dollars, But you would have
Speaker 3: to believe that that stock of whichever company would in
Speaker 3: fact buy it if it's you know, if Google is
Speaker 3: forced to sell, it would at some point go up.
Speaker 3: Because we know Chrome is a massive revenue source because
Speaker 3: of the fact that everybody's using it. So for one,
Speaker 3: it would be bad that being Google, and for the other,
Speaker 3: whoever would potentially buy it if you became available, probably
Speaker 3: very good for the stock. So take a you know,
Speaker 3: kind of keep an eye on that one to see
Speaker 3: what ends up happening.
Speaker 1: Okay, speaking of stock, Boeing stock could be affected because
Speaker 1: of the trade war between the US and China.
Speaker 3: What's up for that it's right in the toilet anyway, right.
Speaker 3: Boeing has been in the news for the last couple
Speaker 3: of years, all for the wrong reasons, but they're not
Speaker 3: feeling the effects of that trade war, as deliveries of
Speaker 3: some seven thirty seven jets have now been refused by
Speaker 3: the Chinese airlines that ordered the planes, which has led
Speaker 3: to Boeing flying the planes all day to the US,
Speaker 3: you know, while the airplane maker, though, is in talks
Speaker 3: of the parent company of state owned Malaysia Airlines for
Speaker 3: that airline to potentially take over delivery slots left open
Speaker 3: by those Chinese airlines. China also ordered its airlines to
Speaker 3: stop receipt of Boeing aircraft and suspend purchases of aviation
Speaker 3: equipment and parts from US company. So tit for tat
Speaker 3: with China and the US. No one's blinking at this point.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, okay. And then tariff's giving a cola company
Speaker 1: an advantage over other cola companies.
Speaker 3: That's right. PEPSI could get a disadvantage because they make
Speaker 3: almost all their concentrate for its American sodas in Ireland
Speaker 3: for over fifty years due to the country's low corporate
Speaker 3: tax right now, the concentrate for Pepsi and Mount Dew
Speaker 3: is going to be subject to a ten percent tariff.
Speaker 3: Coca Cola Amy, they make their concentrate for the US
Speaker 3: market in Atlanta and Puerto Rico. They're not going to
Speaker 3: be exposed to tariff now. Both companies, though, could be
Speaker 3: hurt by twenty five percent tariff on aluminum imports for
Speaker 3: the cans we use. So they've now said they're probably
Speaker 3: going to now try to have more plastic with bottles
Speaker 3: and things like that rather than cans if in fact
Speaker 3: they have to pay at twenty five percent tariff.
Speaker 1: I do not like that. I do not like my
Speaker 1: diet coke in a plastic bottle. I like it in
Speaker 1: an aluminum can. Really why, I don't know's it tastes better,
Speaker 1: it stays colder. I don't know what it is. I
Speaker 1: just like it in a can better than a bottle,
Speaker 1: not than a glass bottle. But then I.
Speaker 3: Plastic, I love the I like if I drink of coke,
Speaker 3: I like it in the plastic. What is a twenty
Speaker 3: ounce more than a can? You know? So we're completely Obsodamy.
Speaker 3: We would certainly not survive in the same household exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: All right, Well with that, let's just end this discussion then,
Speaker 1: Dan Business with Dan Schwartzman from Bloomberg. Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Have a good day, you too, 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. You know,
Speaker 1: uput two people unarmed?
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: A brother and sister have been stabbed on the beach
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. The twenty eight year old sister says
Speaker 1: she her brother, his girlfriend, and a couple other friends
Speaker 1: are on the beach early Saturday morning when a couple
Speaker 1: men began harassing them. They threatened and then stabbed the
Speaker 1: brother and sister several times with pocket knives. The group
Speaker 1: was able to run away. Two were taken to the hospital.
Speaker 1: The brother remains there, the sister's been released. A man
Speaker 1: who allegedly bit in Orange County police officers died in custody.
Speaker 1: Fullerton officers responded to a city park early yesterday morning
Speaker 1: to remove a man who was in the park after hours,
Speaker 1: but la say the man resisted and bit one of
Speaker 1: the officers before he was restrained. He later died at
Speaker 1: the hospital. Attention, all these shoppers, the FEDS have issued
Speaker 1: a health alert for a certain pork product.
Speaker 2: It might be contaminated with metal. The USDA says sixteen
Speaker 2: ounce packages of pork carnitas, seasoned and seared pork could
Speaker 2: contain the fragments. The affected items have use by dates
Speaker 2: of June thirtieth or July first printed on the side.
Speaker 2: Shoppers are urged not to eat the product and to
Speaker 2: throw it away. No injuries have been reported, but the
Speaker 2: USDA is warning consumers to take caution. Andrew Kirovelak hey
Speaker 2: if I News.
Speaker 1: Catholics began nine days of morning withinnnouncement that Pope Francis
Speaker 1: has died. His death announced by the Vatican early this morning,
Speaker 1: following a surprise appearance from the balcony of Saint Peter's
Speaker 1: Basilica on Easter Sunday. Pope Francis was eighty eight. Deputies
Speaker 1: responding to a traffic crash in Palmdale have found two
Speaker 1: men dead in their car. The Sheriff's Departments's two bodies
Speaker 1: were found with gunshot wounds in a remote area near
Speaker 1: Little Rock Reservoir early yesterday morning. Sinners is the top
Speaker 1: movie at the box office on Easter weekend. The vampire
Speaker 1: thriller earned about forty five and a half million dollars
Speaker 1: in its first weekend in theaters. A Minecraft movie was second,
Speaker 1: still bringing in just over forty one million dollars, and
Speaker 1: the faith based animated film The King of Kings was
Speaker 1: in third with seventeen million in ticket sales. We're just
Speaker 1: minutes away from handle on the news this morning. DHL
Speaker 1: is responding to the Trump tariffs by canceling deliveries of
Speaker 1: products worth more than eight hundred dollars. Bill's going to
Speaker 1: tell you more about that right now. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy So. Stephen, the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: first said the Trump administration could use the Alien Enemies Act,
Speaker 1: but now says no, not so fast.
Speaker 13: Well, what has happened here is unlike something we've seen
Speaker 13: in the past. Rapid activity in the courts. On Friday
Speaker 13: at the District Court, the Circuit Court, ultimately the Supreme
Speaker 13: Court and the Justices put pause on deportations under the
Speaker 13: Alien Enemies Act. The order from the Court late Friday
Speaker 13: into Saturday morning said, quote, the government is directed not
Speaker 13: to remove any member of the putative class of detainees
Speaker 13: from the United States until further order of this Court,
Speaker 13: the putative class being the Venezuelan men who were brought
Speaker 13: to this facility in northern Texas as a staging area,
Speaker 13: presumably for their imminent deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
Speaker 13: They've been given pieces of paper in English which said
Speaker 13: that they are subject to removal under the Act, that
Speaker 13: they have the right to make a phone call. But
Speaker 13: nowhere in the Act. First of all, none of it
Speaker 13: is in Spanish, and these men aren't necessarily believed to
Speaker 13: speak English per se. And no wherein it does it
Speaker 13: say that they have the right to consult an attorney
Speaker 13: or to pose a challenge, which the Supreme Court weeks
Speaker 13: ago said they have the right to do. The Supreme
Speaker 13: Court also said that before any of these men are
Speaker 13: deported under the Alien Enemies Act, they have to be
Speaker 13: given notice within a reasonable amount of time. Well what's
Speaker 13: a reasonable amount of time? The Court didn't say, And
Speaker 13: so now that's being put to the test. The administration
Speaker 13: seemed to be arguing, or seemed to believe the twenty
Speaker 13: four hours was enough notice. And the argument is, well, look,
Speaker 13: you have a couple of guys who were able to
Speaker 13: call an attorney, get into Court and get an injunction
Speaker 13: by the Supreme Court. So that's obviously enough time, isn't it.
Speaker 13: That's the Supreme Court, that's the argument from the White House.
Speaker 13: The justices who dissented from this are the conservatives, Samuel
Speaker 13: Alito and Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 13: Alito wrote separately over the weekend to say not that
Speaker 13: he disagreed per se with his colleagues with respect to
Speaker 13: how this is all playing out, except that it's not
Speaker 13: ripe for consideration by the Supreme Court, that it's unpressed
Speaker 13: and legally questionable in Alito's mind for the Supreme Court
Speaker 13: to step in at this moment. That this needs to
Speaker 13: play out first in the lower courts to develop a
Speaker 13: record that the Supreme Court can then assess whether things
Speaker 13: have been done right, rightly or wrongly.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you mentioned dissenting was the two of them?
Speaker 1: So was the seven to two decision.
Speaker 13: Seemingly Yes, there were no other noted descents generally that
Speaker 13: we take away from that. It was just seven to two.
Speaker 13: But importantly, in his descent, Alito said such things as
Speaker 13: this quote, both the executive and the judiciary have an
Speaker 13: obligation to follow the law, and he specifically said that
Speaker 13: the executive the President must follow the Court's order of
Speaker 13: earlier this month to give the detainees notice of their
Speaker 13: removal within a reasonable time and the chance to challenge
Speaker 13: it in court beforehand. The administration insists it's doing that.
Speaker 13: But again, this piece of paper is in English. It
Speaker 13: doesn't mention that they can consult an attorney, doesn't say
Speaker 13: they can make a challenge, And the ACLU says that
Speaker 13: that clearly violates at least the spirit of the court's
Speaker 13: earlier order.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then how has the Trump team responded to
Speaker 1: the decision? Have they? Are they appealing? Well, how do
Speaker 1: you appeal to the Supreme Court? What do they do next?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 13: Right, so, a whole lot of more filings, I mean,
Speaker 13: you know, and just this morning, the last few minutes,
Speaker 13: I see the ACALU has filed its latest response to
Speaker 13: the government. So ultimately, this is going to have to
Speaker 13: play out in one of two ways, either at the
Speaker 13: Supreme Court. Supreme Court is going to have to resolve
Speaker 13: the situation, or it'll play out first at the Fifth Circuit,
Speaker 13: which is beneath them.
Speaker 3: And I don't know.
Speaker 13: And to the extent that Alito calls this unprecedented. I'm
Speaker 13: not sure how this moves forward, but for now everything's
Speaker 13: on pause until the Supreme Court says otherwise.
Speaker 1: Okay, ABC, Stephen Porton, I thanks so much for the update.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. You bet, all right, let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom.
Speaker 4: He celebrated Easter with a faithful and now he celebrates
Speaker 4: Easter in heaven.
Speaker 1: The Vatican has announced the death of Pope Francis. He
Speaker 1: died this morning, a day after appearing outside the Vatican
Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday. Father James Martins's friends has really wanted
Speaker 1: to live through Eastern I.
Speaker 4: Mean, I can't know what's going on in his mind,
Speaker 4: but the idea that he would participate and celebrate with
Speaker 4: the faithful was probably something that he really pushed himself
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 1: The Pope spent more than a month in the hospital
Speaker 1: earlier this year because of respiratory problems. He suffered chronic
Speaker 1: lung disease and had part of one lung removed as
Speaker 1: a young man. He served his pope for twelve years
Speaker 1: and set a different tone for the papacy, focusing on humanity.
Speaker 1: For the Catholic church facing scandals and accusations of indifference.
Speaker 1: Both Francis Was eighty eight, Louisiana, Virginia, and Missouri have
Speaker 1: all reported their first measles cases this year. One of
Speaker 1: the patients reported over the weekend is a four year
Speaker 1: old child, and all three cases are linked to international travel.
Speaker 1: At least twenty seven states have reported at least one
Speaker 1: case of measles so far in twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 1: LA County firefighter has been hurt working to put out
Speaker 1: a fire at a lumberyard in Pico Rivera. Officials say
Speaker 1: the firefighters suffered what's called an indirect injury yesterday when
Speaker 1: a train ran over the hose the firefighter was holding.
Speaker 1: They were taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries,
Speaker 1: which were described as moderate. A former LA City Council
Speaker 1: member could be hit with hefty ethics fines.
Speaker 12: Former LA City Council member Kevin de Leone could face
Speaker 12: nearly nineteen thousand dollars in fines for ethics violations tied
Speaker 12: to three city hall votes. A new report says he
Speaker 12: failed to disclose more than two hundred and sixty thousand
Speaker 12: dollars in consulting fees from groups that later benefited from
Speaker 12: those decisions, including the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and USC's Kex
Speaker 12: School of Medicine. Dalleone admits to five violations, but says
Speaker 12: the votes were about helping the vulnerable, not personal gain.
Speaker 12: A final decision on the fine is still pending. Brigitia
Speaker 12: Degastino Kafi.
Speaker 1: News LACD officials trying to figure out who has cut
Speaker 1: down dozens of trees around downtown La.
Speaker 8: I lived downtown and walked around as I usually do.
Speaker 8: I saw a tree on Olympic and Hope, and it
Speaker 8: was chopped down. I thought it was the city.
Speaker 3: To tell you the truth.
Speaker 1: Medea Mussavi runs the Downtown la Insider Instagram page. She
Speaker 1: says he noticed the trees down while out for a
Speaker 1: walk on Saturday morning.
Speaker 8: And as I'm walking around the city, I'm starting to
Speaker 8: see trees in more areas. There's three right above us
Speaker 8: on Grand, There's this one behind us.
Speaker 1: The trees on at least a half dozen streets appear
Speaker 1: to have been cut down with a chainsaw. Mayor Bass's
Speaker 1: office says city public works crews are assessing the damage
Speaker 1: and making plans to quickly replace the trees. No arrests
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