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Speaker 2: Good morning, this is your wake up call for Monday,
Speaker 2: May nineteenth.
Speaker 3: I'm Heather Brooker in for Amy King.
Speaker 2: She is a little bit under the weather this morning,
Speaker 2: so I'm more than happy to step in and let
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Speaker 3: That's that post Paris flu right well, yeah, I had
Speaker 3: to make that vacation last nar right.
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Speaker 3: Today we're going down. I'm not touching anything. Don't touch
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Speaker 2: We've still got lots of good news to cover for
Speaker 2: you guys, and we're gonna just jump right on in.
Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 2: The FBI has deemed Saturday's car bombing outside of fertility
Speaker 2: clinic in Palm Springs an act of terrorism. The explosion
Speaker 2: killed the suspect, twenty five year old Guy Barkas and
Speaker 2: four other people were hurt. Officials say Barcas reportedly targeted
Speaker 2: the clinic due to its IVF services and his anti
Speaker 2: nationalist views. Authorities are investigating his manifesto and attempted live
Speaker 2: stream of the attack. Fortunately, no staff or embryos at
Speaker 2: the clinic were harmed. New billboards have been put up
Speaker 2: around South LA to raise awareness of unsolved murders.
Speaker 3: The Group for Murdered.
Speaker 2: Children, as it's called, have put up seven billboards showing
Speaker 2: photos of people killed over the last few years. The
Speaker 2: group hopes everyone and anyone who knows anything about the
Speaker 2: murders will come forward. Former President Biden has been diagnosed
Speaker 2: with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized
Speaker 2: to his bones. Officials say the cancer is hormone sensitive,
Speaker 2: which means there are some treatment options. Biden and his
Speaker 2: family are currently reviewing medical plans. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 2: wake Up Call at five oh five. From fake text
Speaker 2: to AI generated voices, Deep fakes are getting harder to spot,
Speaker 2: and the FBI is sounding the alarm. We're going to
Speaker 2: tell you how you can protect yourself and what's going
Speaker 2: on when it comes to deep fakes. At five twenty
Speaker 2: Israel eases a month's long aid blockade in Gaza, but
Speaker 2: critics say it's too little, too late. ABC's Giordana Miller
Speaker 2: joins US Life from Jerusalem with the latest on the
Speaker 2: humanitarian crisis and Israel's shifting strategy. At five point thirty five,
Speaker 2: it's big, it's beautiful, but it's a bust. President Trump's
Speaker 2: signature tax bill is hitting some serious roadblocks on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 2: We're going to break down the high stake showdown between
Speaker 2: the GOP moderates Democrats and what it can mean for
Speaker 2: Trump's second term agenda. And at five point fifty, as
Speaker 2: we said, President Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Speaker 2: We're going to tell you what we know so far
Speaker 2: and what it means for his health moving forward.
Speaker 3: Then at six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 2: Almost three hundred people were on board a Mexican Navy
Speaker 2: ship that crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll give you the latest on what happened and what
Speaker 2: investigators are saying may have caused the crash. Let's get
Speaker 2: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 2: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The FBI says The person
Speaker 2: who died in a vehicle explosion outside of Fertility Clinic
Speaker 2: and Palm Spring Saturday is the man responsible for the
Speaker 2: intentional act of terrorism. Assistant Director in charge of the
Speaker 2: FBI's LA Field office at kil Davis identified the man
Speaker 2: as twenty five year old Guy Barkiss of twenty nine Palms,
Speaker 2: whose anti pro life writings were found.
Speaker 4: We are looking through that. We are tracking a possible
Speaker 4: manifesto out there and it's part of our ongoing investigation.
Speaker 2: Four people were hurt in that explosion. Southern California is
Speaker 2: going to get really hot this week.
Speaker 5: The National Weather Service says the greatest impacts will be
Speaker 5: felt in the mountains, deserts, and interior valleys. Some of
Speaker 5: the valley areas could reach the mid nineties today and
Speaker 5: could get as hot as one hundred degrees Tuesday, Wednesday
Speaker 5: and Thursday. The NWS is predicting highest well above normal
Speaker 5: for this time of year on each weekday. That means
Speaker 5: a higher risk of grass fires as vegetation continues to
Speaker 5: dry out. Temperatures next weekend, though, are expected to be
Speaker 5: closer to normal. Mark Mayfield Kofi news Hi.
Speaker 2: For one, am not quite ready for the summer heat,
Speaker 2: yet I needed to be just a little bit cooler
Speaker 2: for a little bit longer. Also realize I forgot to
Speaker 2: say good morning to everybody, guys. I'm already out of practice.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Cono, Good morning Heather, and good morning Producer.
Speaker 3: And she's busy rushing around getting everything ready.
Speaker 6: Morning.
Speaker 3: Well, so nice to see you guys, and good morning
Speaker 3: to Will. Good morning.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: we're working on today. The FBI is ramping up warnings
Speaker 2: about the growing threat of AI generated deep fakes, and
Speaker 2: joining us now from Dallas is ABC's Jim Ryan, who's
Speaker 2: been following the story closely.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Jim, good morning.
Speaker 6: Most of the the targets in this latest wave of
Speaker 6: AI de fakes have been government employees, federal government employees
Speaker 6: who are getting messages voicemail messages, video messages from their
Speaker 6: supervisors or people who seem like their supervisors asking them
Speaker 6: for the passwords or other sensitive information. And sometimes those
Speaker 6: folks are giving up that information believing that that's who's
Speaker 6: on the other end or leaving this message, and turns
Speaker 6: out it isn't. In very many cases, heether it's an
Speaker 6: AI generated deep fake. We've seen commercials, We've seen political ads.
Speaker 6: There's one here in Dallas and his Dallas City Council race.
Speaker 6: Somebody with a supporter of one candidate created a deep
Speaker 6: fake using the opponent, casting him in a very bad light.
Speaker 6: And now that candidate, the one who's been targeted, is
Speaker 6: having to run around and clarify that that's not me.
Speaker 6: I didn't do that, So he can't campaign. He's wasting
Speaker 6: time and money leading up to an election. So yeah,
Speaker 6: it's kind of out there and it's not going anywhere, Heather.
Speaker 3: Are there certain groups of people that are being targeted
Speaker 3: most often by these deep fakes?
Speaker 1: Not really.
Speaker 6: I mean, in this case, the FBI is warning about
Speaker 6: people who work for the government and are being targeted
Speaker 6: by there by people who purport to be their supervisor
Speaker 6: or even high level of government officials. Let's see, you
Speaker 6: get a message from a senator or someone asking you
Speaker 6: for some piece of information, and it sounds very, very convincing.
Speaker 6: The videos are convincing, the audio is convincing. It's just
Speaker 6: it's it's out there now, and we're seeing this being
Speaker 6: more used more and more at a lower level as well.
Speaker 6: You've probably heard Heather about to scam somebody gets a
Speaker 6: call from a relative, a cousin, or even a a
Speaker 6: son or daughter, a granddaughter saying that I'm in big,
Speaker 6: big trouble. I need money. Please send me this, you know,
Speaker 6: to get me out of this. Here's what you can do.
Speaker 6: Establish a family password, right with your kids, your parents,
Speaker 6: your grandparents, maybe a couple of cousins and aunts and uncles,
Speaker 6: and tell him, Look, if you ever call me or
Speaker 6: you try to reach out to me and you need
Speaker 6: help or you need money or something, this is the
Speaker 6: family password. Okay, Librea, how about that. That's a good one, Lobrea,
Speaker 6: that'll be the family password. You give me that password
Speaker 6: and all think about it. Otherwise I'll assume that you're
Speaker 6: a deep fake.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about how when we get these calls
Speaker 2: or when we have these deep fake interactions, is there
Speaker 2: anything we should be listening for. Is there like a
Speaker 2: giveaway or something that we would be able to tell like, hey,
Speaker 2: this isn't real.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I saw a deep fake recently. It was
Speaker 6: Elon Musk and he's on stage. You see him there
Speaker 6: talking to his employees, and then he starts touting crypto
Speaker 6: currency as specific crypto you know, and he wants people
Speaker 6: in the and a QR code appears on the screen
Speaker 6: and it's all very very convincing, but he's lacking his
Speaker 6: South African accent. It sounds a lot like him. The
Speaker 6: voice inflection and the tone is the same, but it
Speaker 6: doesn't have the same accent. So little tip offs like
Speaker 6: that and the odd word usage or odd inflections, or
Speaker 6: you know, a missing accent or an added accent. You
Speaker 6: can pick those things up if you listen carefully. But
Speaker 6: so often people aren't They They skim by, they scroll
Speaker 6: to the next thing, and they say, oh, yeah, Neilon
Speaker 6: Musk is selling crypto.
Speaker 2: You know, the video technology of deep fakes is really sophisticated,
Speaker 2: and it is often really hard to tell. But if
Speaker 2: you look closely, sometimes you can tell in their mouth,
Speaker 2: like some of the details their mouths maybe don't look
Speaker 2: like a normal mouth, or their hands, those kind of things.
Speaker 2: But audio is another story. Audio is you know, if
Speaker 2: you get a fake call from somebody, it seems even
Speaker 2: more challenging there to be able to distinguish the difference.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're right. Adobe, which creates some AI tools,
Speaker 6: one called Firefly now is working on tools to spot ais,
Speaker 6: to spot face they let the horse out of the barn.
Speaker 6: Now they're trying to get it back in so that
Speaker 6: maybe on the market at some point in the future.
Speaker 2: Well, I will tell you this and then I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is helpful to anyone out there, but
Speaker 2: one thing that I have encouraged, you know, my elderly
Speaker 2: mom to do, my elderly parent is if she has
Speaker 2: a question about something or even just the slightest like
Speaker 2: wondering if something is real or not, I have her
Speaker 2: send it to me and she'll go, there is this real.
Speaker 3: And that has been very.
Speaker 2: Helpful and very beneficial because you know, not to you know,
Speaker 2: throw elderly people or senior citizens out there, but they
Speaker 2: are targeted a lot in situations like this, and that
Speaker 2: has been really beneficial for us to open that dialogue
Speaker 2: and I can help her go, yeah, this isn't this
Speaker 2: isn't real, or unfortunately, yeah this is real as whatever
Speaker 2: the case might be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to keep the lines of communication open,
Speaker 6: especially with your relatives when it comes to things like this.
Speaker 6: And if you have that line of communications, you have
Speaker 6: maybe the past word you could avoid this kind of
Speaker 6: thing technology or not.
Speaker 2: And I love that password idea as well, Jim, thank
Speaker 2: you so much. Have a great rest of your day.
Speaker 6: Thanks Heather.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Former
Speaker 2: President Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of
Speaker 2: prostate cancer. ABC Selena Wang says it was revealed Friday
Speaker 2: that an abnormal growth was found on his prostate during
Speaker 2: a routine exam.
Speaker 4: Former President Biden has mostly stayed out of public view
Speaker 4: since he left office in January.
Speaker 7: However, he did attend Pope Francis his funeral.
Speaker 3: She says.
Speaker 2: Biden has also been doing interviews, pushing back against a
Speaker 2: slate of new books, saying he was dealing with cognitive
Speaker 2: decline at the end of his presidency. A new billboard
Speaker 2: has gone up in South la in hopes of solving
Speaker 2: some murders. Kfi's Jordan Christmas reports the sign at one
Speaker 2: hundred and fourth Street and Vermont Avenue was put up
Speaker 2: by the group Justice for Murdered.
Speaker 4: Children, featuring four people murdered over the last few years.
Speaker 4: A question was written across the board, reading do you
Speaker 4: know who murdered me? The founder of GMC says anyone
Speaker 4: who knows any information about any of the unsolved murder
Speaker 4: cases should break their coat of silence.
Speaker 2: Seven billboards have been installed across the city as part
Speaker 2: of a broader campaign to encourage witnesses and community members
Speaker 2: to say something. A UC Santa Barbara student has disappeared
Speaker 2: after a weekend with friends in Big Bear.
Speaker 5: Twenty two year old Tanner Prentice has not been seen
Speaker 5: since early Saturday morning. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 5: says he and several friends took a trip to Big
Speaker 5: Bear Lake for the weekend. Prentice never made it back
Speaker 5: to his rental cabin after going out on Friday night.
Speaker 5: Prentice has red hair, fair skin, and blue eyes. Mark
Speaker 5: Mayfield Kofi.
Speaker 2: News surgeons have performed the first human bladder transplant.
Speaker 8: The operation was performed earlier this month by a pair
Speaker 8: of surgeons from the University of California, Los Angeles and
Speaker 8: usc The patient is a forty one year old man
Speaker 8: who lost most of his bladder capacity from treatments for
Speaker 8: a rare form of bladder cancer. The doctors planned to
Speaker 8: perform bladder transplants and for more patients as part of
Speaker 8: a clinical trial Tammy Trio KFI News.
Speaker 2: The NTSB is investigating the collision of a Mexican Navy
Speaker 2: ship into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. ABC's Allison Cosik.
Speaker 2: Cossick says the training ship has set sail on an
Speaker 2: international good will tour to Iceland on Saturday, right before
Speaker 2: the crash.
Speaker 7: The NYPD says it was supposed to head out to sea,
Speaker 7: instead losing power and heading in the wrong direction before
Speaker 7: striking the bridge.
Speaker 2: At least two people were killed and nineteen were hurt.
Speaker 2: The ship did not sink and the bridge was not
Speaker 2: badly damaged. Delta Airlines says it's going to stop selling
Speaker 2: tickets under the Basic Economy label so it can compete
Speaker 2: with a no frill's offerings of discount competitors. And the
Speaker 2: LA Dodgers have released veteran utility player Chris Taylor. The
Speaker 2: thirty four year old who played a pivotal role in
Speaker 2: the team's twenty twenty and twenty twenty four World Series victories,
Speaker 2: had been to the Dodgers since twenty sixteen. In California
Speaker 2: faces a dangerous heat wave this week. We're going to
Speaker 2: tell you more about that, and at six oh five
Speaker 2: it's handled on the news. President Trump plans to call
Speaker 2: Russian President Putin today to talk about the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2: Israel is now allowing limited humanitarian aid into Gaza after
Speaker 2: nearly three months of a total blockade. Joining US now
Speaker 2: is ABC's Jordonna Miller live in Jerusalem.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7: The Israeli Prime Minister announced late Sunday that Israel would
Speaker 7: be allowing some aid into the Gaza Strip. This is
Speaker 7: something that he and his government have essentially blocked for,
Speaker 7: as you said, almost three months. But now the Israeli
Speaker 7: Prime Minister is claiming that it is a dangerous situation.
Speaker 7: The humanitarian crisis is near what he called a red line,
Speaker 7: and he said.
Speaker 6: That the.
Speaker 7: Increasing state of hunger across the Gaza Strip could undermine
Speaker 7: and the Israeli Armies military operations, and therefore he was
Speaker 7: allowing in aid into the strip. We're only expected to
Speaker 7: see less than a dozen trucks go in today, but
Speaker 7: possibly more later today. We're still trying to get some
Speaker 7: official numbers, and this, of course will be just I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't think you can call it a drop in
Speaker 7: the bucket. I don't know what it is. It's like
Speaker 7: a little it is, you know, nine or ten or
Speaker 7: twelve trucks after so long without aid, you know it's
Speaker 7: going to help very few people. And clearly as there
Speaker 7: one needs to ramp up this operation quite quickly to
Speaker 7: make up for the rising hunger across the Strip.
Speaker 2: Now, when you talk about these trucks that are coming in,
Speaker 2: what kind of aid is actually in those trucks and
Speaker 2: how much of it do you think will actually reach
Speaker 2: the hands of the civilians that need it.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean we're told that the first trucks are
Speaker 7: going to include baby formula. There's been you know, a
Speaker 7: lot of reporting on children, infants, babies who simply don't
Speaker 7: have any formula. And unfortunately, because the situation is so
Speaker 7: dire when you're when the mothers are not eating properly,
Speaker 7: they can't lactate right, So baby formula is going to
Speaker 7: be key, as well as flour and some other canned foods.
Speaker 7: I mean, this will again, this will only help you know,
Speaker 7: maybe several hundred dozens. And whether it all gets to
Speaker 7: the hands of the needy, I think that's an open
Speaker 7: question because as we know, Hamas has been looting some
Speaker 7: of the aid, whether for their fighters or to sell
Speaker 7: it back on the market for exorbitant prices. So you
Speaker 7: know this is this is not a full proof system
Speaker 7: for delivering humanitarian aid.
Speaker 2: Sounds like they need to start letting in quite a
Speaker 2: bit more and hopefully that will start happening in the
Speaker 2: next just as soon as possible.
Speaker 3: And I know you have to go. I have more questions,
Speaker 3: but I know you have to go.
Speaker 2: So thank you so much for your time this morning,
Speaker 2: and we'll definitely keep an eye out on this story
Speaker 2: as it develops.
Speaker 7: We'll talk san Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you all right here some of the stories we're
Speaker 2: continuing to follow in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: LA County DA Nathan Hawkman says his office will be
Speaker 2: cracking down on criminals who come into La County from
Speaker 2: San Bernardino County thinking they can still get away with crimes.
Speaker 2: Hawkman posted a message on social media saying times have changed.
Speaker 9: Got a root awakening for those criminals.
Speaker 10: We're back.
Speaker 9: The DA's office is working with law enforcement. We're going
Speaker 9: to actually enforce the laws and hold criminals accountable.
Speaker 2: He says laws used to be lax in La County,
Speaker 2: but now he believes he is making a change. The
Speaker 2: US military is planning to do a test launch of
Speaker 2: an unarmed nuclear missile in from northern Anna, Barbara County.
Speaker 2: The launch from VanderBurg Space Force Base is scheduled for
Speaker 2: some time early Wednesday morning. The weapon being tested is
Speaker 2: a Minuteman three intercontinental ballistic missile. Military officials say the
Speaker 2: launch is routine and was scheduled years in advance. Metro's
Speaker 2: D Line has been shut down for a while.
Speaker 10: The closure of Sea Cruz can connect the existing line
Speaker 10: to its planned extension to West La. The closure will
Speaker 10: run through July twenty fifth. It means there's no train
Speaker 10: service along Wilshire between the Vermont, Normandy and Western stations,
Speaker 10: but Metro is providing shuttle buses to help commuters get
Speaker 10: where they need to go. Tammy Trio KFI News.
Speaker 2: Southern California is in for a big heat wave this week.
Speaker 2: The National Weather Service says people should be aware of
Speaker 2: the possibility of dangerous heat, with high temperatures felt the
Speaker 2: most away from the coast. There will also be elevated
Speaker 2: fire weather concerns. Some areas, like Woodland Hills, could see
Speaker 2: highs above one hundred degrees tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday. Temperatures
Speaker 2: should be closer to normal by next week. The only
Speaker 2: hydrogen powered car share program in the US is being
Speaker 2: tested in Riverside County. The Riverside Clean Air Car Share
Speaker 2: program uses cars equipped with hydrogen fuel sec cell technology
Speaker 2: you see. Riverside researcher Penn Wow TELLSKFI they protect the environment.
Speaker 9: Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle is a type of vehicle that
Speaker 9: is super clean that do not emit any air pollutant
Speaker 9: besides like water vapors.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 2: Data from the program is being used to measure reductions
Speaker 2: in miles traveled, fuel used, and greenhouse gas emissions. National
Speaker 2: nonprofit Grid Alternatives says a flawed rule is stopping some
Speaker 2: people in California from accessing.
Speaker 3: Shared solar powered battery energy.
Speaker 2: The California Public Utilities Commission has a program that allows
Speaker 2: home batteries to share stored power with neighbors during peak demand,
Speaker 2: but Grids Managing Policy director Emma Searson tells KFI the
Speaker 2: system isn't working right now.
Speaker 11: Californians who get their power through a community Choice Aggregator
Speaker 11: or CCA, which is about one in three Californians, aren't
Speaker 11: able to fairly access the s ship funds.
Speaker 2: Searson says, if nothing is done about this, CCA users
Speaker 2: won't be able to power their homes during an outage.
Speaker 2: Republicans have advanced their massive tax cut and border security
Speaker 2: package out of the House Budget Committee during a rare
Speaker 2: Sunday night vote. ABC's Chuck Severstein says the vote was
Speaker 2: seventeen to sixteen, but Republicans still have some work to do.
Speaker 12: The House Freedom Caucus Board of Conservative Republicans says it
Speaker 12: is still not satisfied with cost cutting in the bill.
Speaker 12: Among the five Republicans voting present, not committing support, South
Speaker 12: Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman referencing debt rating agencies like Moody's.
Speaker 2: The investigation continues into why the Mexican Navy's train ship
Speaker 2: collided with the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday night. Officials said
Speaker 2: the ship suddenly lost power, two people died and at
Speaker 2: least nineteen others were hurt, and that vessel was carrying
Speaker 2: two hundred and seventy seven people. A Los Angeles barber
Speaker 2: shop is using an unconventional method to deter homeless encampments,
Speaker 2: playing the children's song Baby Shark on a continuous loop.
Speaker 2: The tactic has sparked debate, with some criticizing it as inhumane,
Speaker 2: while the business owner defends it as a necessary measure
Speaker 2: to maintain the area for customers. A biopic about NFL
Speaker 2: legend John Madden is in production. Directed by David O. Russell.
Speaker 2: Nicholas Cage stars as Madden, with Christian Bale as Al Davis.
Speaker 2: The film follows Madden's rise from Super Bowl coach to
Speaker 2: video game icon. There's been no release date said yet.
Speaker 2: Then at six oh five, its handle on the news.
Speaker 2: Deadly storms have ripped through the Midwest and into parts
Speaker 2: of the eastern US. Will have the latest on how
Speaker 2: many people were killed and the damage left in its path.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The FBI says
Speaker 2: it's looking through the writings of a man responsible for
Speaker 2: a vehicle explosion outside of fertility clinic in Palm Springs,
Speaker 2: and we will continue to follow that story. The first
Speaker 2: major legislative test of President Trump's second term is underway,
Speaker 2: and it's well not going smoothly.
Speaker 3: His proposed Big Beautiful.
Speaker 2: Bill would extend Trump era tax cuts while slashing programs
Speaker 2: like Medicaid and food stamps. Joining us now to break
Speaker 2: it all down, his ABC's Steve Roberts.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Steve, Well, good morning, and you outlined it well. Look,
Speaker 13: the core problem Republicans have is that they have only
Speaker 13: a three vote margin in the House to representative. That
Speaker 13: means that any small group can throw up a roadblock
Speaker 13: and slow things down. And that happened this week in
Speaker 13: the House Budget Committee. Four Republicans that they wouldn't vote
Speaker 13: for this big, beautiful bill. It ties together all of
Speaker 13: the spending and tax cut proposals of President Trump's first term.
Speaker 13: Now they relented last night and let the bill go
Speaker 13: forward by one vote. But here's the problem. You have
Speaker 13: on the right a group of hardline fiscal conservatives, and
Speaker 13: they've been around for years. There's nothing new about this.
Speaker 13: John Bayner, who was the Republican Speaker of the House
Speaker 13: some years ago, called this group legislative terrorists. That was
Speaker 13: the Republican speaker talking about his own members. And that
Speaker 13: tells you how hardline and relentless these conservatives are. And
Speaker 13: they have no fear because they all come from very
Speaker 13: deep red districts, so they have no fear of political
Speaker 13: accountability or retribution from the voters. And they have done
Speaker 13: this repeatedly over the years, have held out bills and
Speaker 13: say there's overspending by the government.
Speaker 14: But on the other side, you have a group of
Speaker 14: more moderate Republicans, many of them from California. And these
Speaker 14: are not people from Alabama, Arkansas. They're from California, New York.
Speaker 14: And these are Republicans who have won seat in suburban
Speaker 14: Los Angeles and around Sacramento, and they say, look, we
Speaker 14: vote for a bill that cuts Medicare and Medicaid and
Speaker 14: food stamps. It's going to hurt us politically and we're
Speaker 14: going to lose our seats and the Republicans are going
Speaker 14: to lose the majority in the next election in the House.
Speaker 14: So it's a very difficult problem for the Speaker of
Speaker 14: the House, Mike Johnson. How does he keep everybody happy
Speaker 14: when with a three vote margin where any small group
Speaker 14: can hold things up. Now, I think in the end,
Speaker 14: because Donald Trump commands enormous loyalty on the part of Republicans,
Speaker 14: and every single Republican, no matter who they are and
Speaker 14: what district they represent, has a common interest in supporting
Speaker 14: Trump and supporting the Republican Party, and they're all afraid
Speaker 14: of Donald Trump too. So in the end, I think
Speaker 14: this bill is going to pass. But I think it
Speaker 14: carries a lot of political risks for Republicans, including some
Speaker 14: of those swings at districts right there in southern California.
Speaker 2: Now, you mentioned those three votes for the Republicans that
Speaker 2: are kind of the hard line. At this point, who
Speaker 2: are those three votes? Do we know who those who
Speaker 2: they are?
Speaker 14: Yeah? Well, it varies and you know, depending on the issue.
Speaker 14: When I say there's a three vote margin, that means
Speaker 14: that Republicans only have a three vote margin in the
Speaker 14: whole in the whole house, so any three can be
Speaker 14: the deciding margin if they decide to oppose the leadership
Speaker 14: and oppose the president, and that can shift who those
Speaker 14: three are. As I say, right now, it's an organized
Speaker 14: group of hard right conservatives grouped under the Freedom Caucus.
Speaker 14: But there is a group of others who have signed legislation,
Speaker 14: as I say, including some from swing district in California
Speaker 14: who saying not so fast, we can't vote for a
Speaker 14: bill that you know that cuts Medicaid and food stamps.
Speaker 14: And here's the other problem you know that you know,
Speaker 14: Donald Trump during his first term passed a massive tax
Speaker 14: cuts which were very popular, but they cost an enormous
Speaker 14: amount of money. You know, fiscal conservatives are always railing
Speaker 14: against waste, fraud, and abuse and over spending by the government,
Speaker 14: the big government. The fact is that when you talk
Speaker 14: about these tax cuts, this is just government spending by
Speaker 14: another name, because the impact on the bottom line, the
Speaker 14: impact on the defens is exactly the same as if
Speaker 14: you spent this money, and the impact is to deprive
Speaker 14: the government of revenue. And independent ANALYSTI has said the
Speaker 14: tax cuts, by extending them to cost four trillion, that's
Speaker 14: a ty for trillion dollars over the next ten years.
Speaker 14: And so there's no way that you can pass those
Speaker 14: tax cuts and have a balanced budget unless you slash
Speaker 14: highly popular and important programs like medicaid. So there's no
Speaker 14: other way of doing it. You can say, oh, we're
Speaker 14: cutting waste, broaden abuse, but that's magical thinking. You know,
Speaker 14: that is not going to save you very much money,
Speaker 14: and it's not going to make a big difference. If
Speaker 14: you're going to spend all of that money on tax cuts,
Speaker 14: you only have two options. You cut very popular programs
Speaker 14: to pay for it, or you expand the deficit. There's
Speaker 14: no third option.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, there is a lot at stake here
Speaker 2: and we will be watching this closely, Steve, Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your time anytime. All right, it is
Speaker 2: time now to get up in your business with Bloombergs.
Speaker 3: Cortidano.
Speaker 2: I didn't think we'd be reunited so soon for the
Speaker 2: get up in your business, but here we are.
Speaker 15: Well, we're back, and you're up in my business today.
Speaker 15: And there's a lot of business going on in morning,
Speaker 15: this busy Monday.
Speaker 3: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about Capital One's takeover of Discover Financial.
Speaker 3: I guess it's finally official.
Speaker 15: Yep, almost fifteen months after the deal was announced. Capital
Speaker 15: One historically had to rely on VSM MasterCard to issue
Speaker 15: its credit cards, but now the company can cut out
Speaker 15: all those mentalmen with Discover under its umbrella. So the
Speaker 15: acquisition was wasn't assured at all. Some congressional Democrats oppose
Speaker 15: the deal, saying it could harm consumers by the way
Speaker 15: the two companies say, if you have accounts with them,
Speaker 15: everything's going to stay the same for now, so you
Speaker 15: don't have to do anything. But here's the interesting twist
Speaker 15: in all of it, because Discover is leaving the s
Speaker 15: and P five hundred Coinbase is joining. But the company
Speaker 15: announced last week they're Crypto Exchange. They announced last week
Speaker 15: that it was hacked and the incident is going to
Speaker 15: cost Coinbase four hundred million dollars. But it is a
Speaker 15: big day for the crypto industry because Coinbase is joining
Speaker 15: the SMP.
Speaker 3: All right, in Cho Bonnie is expanding beyond yogurt. What's
Speaker 3: that about.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so they're moving into products such as me and smoothies,
Speaker 15: expanding in your grocery store. So Chobani's buying ready to
Speaker 15: eat healthy food maker Daily Harvest. Financial terms of the
Speaker 15: deal weren't announced, but Daily Harvest has been working to
Speaker 15: rebuild its reputation.
Speaker 3: And had a pretty big hit.
Speaker 15: It had a recall of a lentil dish three years
Speaker 15: ago and it's sick in hundreds of customers. It actually
Speaker 15: led to a twenty three million dollar class action settlement
Speaker 15: last year. But Daily Harvest began as a direct to
Speaker 15: consumer brand in twenty fifteen. You saw the commercials everywhere.
Speaker 15: I know, I saw remember that all over Yeah, and
Speaker 15: they look so good, the smoothies. But now they saw
Speaker 15: through national retailers including Target and Kroger.
Speaker 2: All right, Walmart got some big changes ahead in the
Speaker 2: way that we're going to be shopping what's that about.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, speaking of target, Walmart is shaking up things
Speaker 15: because of artificial intelligence. So Walmart's 's a big transformation
Speaker 15: ahead in the way that we shop, not that we're
Speaker 15: actually going to be shopping, but that are going to
Speaker 15: be shopping for us. So it's developing its own AI shopper.
Speaker 15: So they're telling the Wall Street Journal it's building its
Speaker 15: own shopping agents that we'll be able to do repetitive
Speaker 15: tasks such as ordering groceries. The bob will also be
Speaker 15: able to fill a shopping basket in response to prompts
Speaker 15: such as I want to plan a graduation party from
Speaker 15: my child. That would be pretty easy being able to say, hey.
Speaker 3: Just fill it all with what I need to. Just
Speaker 3: tell me what I need to buy.
Speaker 15: I love it, except I'd like somebody else to buy
Speaker 15: it for me.
Speaker 16: Yeah, that would be good.
Speaker 15: If Walmart could develop that bot, that'd be great.
Speaker 3: There's the free grocery button. That's what we want exactly.
Speaker 2: And I want to quickly get to the breaking story.
Speaker 2: Bankrupts DNA Testing Company twenty three and me looks like
Speaker 2: they have a buyer.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 15: So a lot of people were wondering where their genetic
Speaker 15: genetic data was going to be headed when twenty three
Speaker 15: Meter file for bankruptcy in March. Now this morning we
Speaker 15: have an answer. Drug developer Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is buying the
Speaker 15: genetic testing company for two hundred and fifty six million
Speaker 15: dollars now the same coming after a wave of customers.
Speaker 15: Government officials demanded that twenty three and meters protect the
Speaker 15: genetic data that it's built up over the years, but
Speaker 15: Regeneron is pledging to comply with twenty three a MES
Speaker 15: privacy policy, and Regeneron also said that it's going to
Speaker 15: continue to run twenty three and me's personal genomic services
Speaker 15: once the sale closes.
Speaker 3: So it's going to be something to watch her.
Speaker 2: All right, lot of big stuff happening today. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much, Courtney. We'll talk again.
Speaker 10: Soon, busy, busy, I'll see you later.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she and her husband
Speaker 2: Doug are saddened by the news of President Biden's prostate
Speaker 2: cancer diagnosis. She called him a fighter, praising him and
Speaker 2: his strength and resilience. Scottie Shuffler has won the PGA Championship,
Speaker 2: finishing eleven under par. It's his third major title and
Speaker 2: the praise of our pardon me the Raise. Pali Golf
Speaker 2: Tournament in Venice has raised funds to help Palisades Charter
Speaker 2: High School recover after a fire destroyed forty percent of
Speaker 2: its campus. The event that they held over the weekend
Speaker 2: supported a temporary campus and rebuilding efforts. We're just minutes
Speaker 2: away from Handle. On the news this morning, Bruce Springsteen
Speaker 2: is getting called out by President Trump for speaking out
Speaker 2: against the administration during his concert in England. We're going
Speaker 2: to tell you how Prunes are involved. Former President Joe
Speaker 2: Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and according to
Speaker 2: his office, the cancer has spread to his bones. ABC's
Speaker 2: Stephen Portnoy joins us now with more. Good morning, Stephen,
Speaker 2: morning to you. So what more can you tell us
Speaker 2: about his diagnosis?
Speaker 16: Not much. We have limited information, but here's what we have.
Speaker 16: First word of a possible issue came last week. Last Tuesday,
Speaker 16: when Biden's office at a nodule was found in his prostate.
Speaker 16: Then yesterday came word from Biden's office that the eighty
Speaker 16: two year old former president was diagnosed on Friday with
Speaker 16: an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to
Speaker 16: the bone a doctor say that means Doctors who have
Speaker 16: not treated Biden say that means it's not curable, but
Speaker 16: it is perhaps treatable. And the Office of the Former
Speaker 16: Presidents is this cancer appears to be hormone sensitive, which,
Speaker 16: according to the statement, would allow for effective management. The
Speaker 16: experts tell us that what you could do is perhaps
Speaker 16: block testosterone that might arrest the growth of the cancer,
Speaker 16: perhaps further preventing it spread. Biden and his family are
Speaker 16: said to be reviewing treatment options with the doctors. We
Speaker 16: don't know what those options are specifically. However, doctors say
Speaker 16: that a man of Biden's age with this kind of cancer,
Speaker 16: as they understand it, could live five years ten years
Speaker 16: managing the cancer. But what you cannot do now is
Speaker 16: have surgery to cure it.
Speaker 3: Have we heard from President Biden?
Speaker 2: Is he making any sort of statement about the diagnosis,
Speaker 2: And how involved is his family in his decision making?
Speaker 16: Well, the family obviously is very closely involved.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 16: On social media, the former president posts a picture of
Speaker 16: himself sitting next to his wife on a couch. She's
Speaker 16: holding the cat. He writes, cancer touches us all like
Speaker 16: so many of you, Jill and I have learned that
Speaker 16: we are strongest in the broken places. This month marks
Speaker 16: ten years since the death of Biden's son Bo from
Speaker 16: a brain tumor, and shortly after Bo Biden died, as
Speaker 16: Vice president, Biden sparked the cancer moonshot, and as president,
Speaker 16: he set the goal of cutting US cancer deaths in
Speaker 16: half within a quarter century by the year twenty forty seven.
Speaker 2: Now, how are leaders around the world and people who've
Speaker 2: worked with him before, how are they responding? And even
Speaker 2: President Trump understand responded as well to the diagnosis.
Speaker 16: Well, to a person, people in elective office are expressing
Speaker 16: their warm wishes, hoping for the very best for the
Speaker 16: Biden fanily.
Speaker 2: And could this diagnosis have any political ramifications or effect
Speaker 2: on his public appearances coming up?
Speaker 16: Well, I don't expect that Joe Biden's going to be
Speaker 16: running for office anytime soon.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 16: When it comes to public appearances, I have no information.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Steven Portnoy, thank you so much. You're
Speaker 3: bet all right.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom set.
Speaker 3: Dinner Baby Checked It. Dinner Baby Checked It.
Speaker 2: A barbershop in downtown La has turned to that popular
Speaker 2: toddler tune that every parent right now I know is
Speaker 2: just cringing upon hearing. Well, they're using it to try
Speaker 2: to keep the homeless from setting up camps outside their business.
Speaker 9: Yes, it's annoying. It's also annoying for them to do
Speaker 9: what they're doing to the business.
Speaker 2: Shop CEO and founder shall Om Styles told KTLA he's
Speaker 2: trying to protect his business and keeps his customers safe
Speaker 2: and comfortable.
Speaker 9: There's no help I tried with the with the landlords,
Speaker 9: with the property managers, with the with the Fashion District
Speaker 9: safety team, with the police.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 2: The speaker playing baby Shark is going to make everybody
Speaker 2: move or draw the news out and have the city
Speaker 2: hopefully do something about it. Some Republicans say the president's
Speaker 2: willingness to accept a luxury jet from katar overshadows his
Speaker 2: otherwise successful trip to the Middle East. Kentucky Republican Senator
Speaker 2: Rand Paul says the US is the largest arms merchant
Speaker 2: in the world, and a lot of those arms go
Speaker 2: to Gulf sheektoms and monarchies like the Kataris.
Speaker 16: Couldn't color the perception of the administration if they have
Speaker 16: a four hundred million dollar plane to be more in
Speaker 16: favor of these things. Perhaps it at least gives the
Speaker 16: appearance of a conflict of.
Speaker 2: Interest, He says he doesn't think it's worth a headache.
Speaker 2: The FDA has approved the first blood test to help
Speaker 2: diagnose Alzheimer's disease. Neurologist doctor Leah Krohl says when tests
Speaker 2: become available, it'll be for people over fifty five who
Speaker 2: are showing symptoms.
Speaker 1: Test looks for two proteins in the blood that are
Speaker 1: linked to the brain changes we see in Alzheimer's, and
Speaker 1: it's over ninety percent accurate, so very very good.
Speaker 2: Currently, an accurate diagnosis requires expensive testing such as brain
Speaker 2: scans and or a spinal tap, which is a procedure
Speaker 2: that draws fluid from the spine. The Israeli military has
Speaker 2: issued an evacuation order for people in Gaza's second largest
Speaker 2: city of Communis, in some nearby towns. ABC's Lama Hassan
Speaker 2: says military spokesperson has said the entire area will be
Speaker 2: considered a dangerous combat zone.
Speaker 9: The renewed attacks come off to ten weeks of no
Speaker 9: food in crucial aid aid organizations down in the alarm
Speaker 9: about an imminent famine.
Speaker 2: Israel announced over the weekend that it will allow a
Speaker 2: limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza after a nearly
Speaker 2: three month blockade to avoid a hunger crisis. Israeli Prime
Speaker 2: Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO said Israel's allies had always concerns about
Speaker 2: images of hunger. A new book, a new book Outline
Speaker 2: claims that former President Biden's physical and mental health It's
Speaker 2: called Original Sin. In the book says Biden's health has
Speaker 2: become so bad there were internal discussions about putting him
Speaker 2: in a wheelchair after the election. California Democratic Congressman Roe
Speaker 2: Conna says there was no cover up of Biden's mental
Speaker 2: fitness ahead of the twenty twenty four election, but Democrats
Speaker 2: must admit their mistakes.
Speaker 12: There's a sense people want honesty, They want to restore
Speaker 12: a sense of public service.
Speaker 1: In light of what has come out, it's painfully obvious
Speaker 1: President Biden should not have run.
Speaker 3: He says.
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party needs to be more honest with itself.
Speaker 2: Production in factories in the US has dropped for the
Speaker 2: first time in six months. In April, manufacturing fell by
Speaker 2: point three percent. It follows an increase in the first
Speaker 2: quarter when many customers boosted orders before the Trump administration's
Speaker 2: tariffs came into play. The latest data doesn't include auto
Speaker 2: industry numbers. Governor Newsom is looking to fast track a
Speaker 2: twenty billion dollar water tunnel under the Sacramento San Joaquin
Speaker 2: River Delta. The goal of the Delta Conveyance project is
Speaker 2: to tackle California's growing water shortages. In his revised May budget,
Speaker 2: Governor Newsom proposed speeding up permits, securing funding, and cutting
Speaker 2: down legal delays, but the plan is getting pushed back
Speaker 2: from tribes, delta communities, and fishing families who say it
Speaker 2: could damage the Bay Delta ecosystem and threaten water quality. Well, guys,
Speaker 2: we did it another day with Heather Brooker in for
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