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Speaker 3: This is your wake up Call for Thursday, May eighth.
Speaker 3: I'm Heatherbrooker in for Amy King this week. Don't you worry.
Speaker 3: She will be back next week. I'm just keeping the
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Speaker 3: good morning to my buddy Will Cole Shrubber. Oh I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: I sang for We both have this musical essence about us.
Speaker 2: We enjoy a musical, So there's there's that. At any given.
Speaker 3: Moment, Will and I will break into song show tunes,
Speaker 3: come on ye. So Amy King is away in Paris today,
Speaker 3: and in honor of her trip, I brought in the
Speaker 3: most delicious croissant from Portos that I'm very excited to
Speaker 3: dive into here in a little.
Speaker 2: Bit for everyone, No, just for me.
Speaker 3: Sorry, just rubbing it in, but I'll keep everyone posted
Speaker 3: on macrossant be good times. All right, here's what's ahead
Speaker 3: on wake Up Call. La Metro has named Bill Scott
Speaker 3: as chief of its new police department. The former San
Speaker 3: Francisco Police chief says writer safety will be his focus.
Speaker 3: The agency's new force is expected to launch by twenty
Speaker 3: twenty nine. President Trump is standing firm on China tariffs,
Speaker 3: saying he won't back down even as the FED warns
Speaker 3: of economic fallout, and the Golden Globes are adding a
Speaker 3: new category Best Podcast. Organizers say it's part of honoring
Speaker 3: new voices and entertainment. Twenty five shows will qualify, with
Speaker 3: six final nominees to be announced, and I look forward
Speaker 3: to submitting for that.
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Ahead on wake Up Call, five oh five Catholic Cardinals
Speaker 3: have begun this sacred process of selecting a new pope
Speaker 3: after the death of Pope Francis on April twenty first.
Speaker 3: Black Smoke rose from the sixteen Chapel on Wednesday, signaling
Speaker 3: there's been no decision yet. We'll check in with ABC's
Speaker 3: Brian Clark live from Rome to get the latest and
Speaker 3: if five twenty, a federal judge blocked a potential Trump
Speaker 3: administration moved to deport migrants to Libya and Saudi Arabia,
Speaker 3: saying it violates due process. We'll check in with ABC's
Speaker 3: Peter Harlamboos. He's gonna break it all down and tell
Speaker 3: us what happens next. At five thirty five, Fanfast Nights
Speaker 3: is underway Universal Studios, Hollywood. We're taking you behind the
Speaker 3: scenes of this epic event, giving a closer look at
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Speaker 2: I point fifty.
Speaker 3: After losing his home in nearly all his instruments in
Speaker 3: the Eton fire, composer Brandon Jay is helping fellow musicians
Speaker 3: rebuild one guitar at a time. We're going to tell
Speaker 3: you how he's doing it and how you can help.
Speaker 3: Then at six zho five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 3: Dozens of pro Palestinian protesters were removed for the main
Speaker 3: library Columbia University will have all the details on what
Speaker 3: happened next. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 3: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police
Speaker 3: in Santa Anna say they're looking for two students they
Speaker 3: believe were involved in a stabbing at a school in
Speaker 3: where a fourteen year old boy was killed. Three students
Speaker 3: were stabbed during a fine and classes were let out
Speaker 3: at Sant Annea High School yesterday. Officer Natalie Garcia says
Speaker 3: they've been checking videos of the attack posted on social media.
Speaker 4: Our investiators are still trying to assess the situation, interview victims, witnesses,
Speaker 4: maybe gather some surveillance.
Speaker 3: Regarding the incidents, pollice say it's very likely it's gang related.
Speaker 3: The CEO of Mattel says that one hundred and forty
Speaker 3: five percent tariffs on China will likely affect the cost
Speaker 3: of toys here in the US.
Speaker 5: CEO Inan Christ tells CNBC the toymaker is looking to
Speaker 5: reduce its reliance on Chinese manufacturing and look to other sources,
Speaker 5: but that may not be enough in the short term.
Speaker 6: Where unnecessary, we would be taking a pricing action in.
Speaker 5: The US, Christ says Mattel currently sourcesrouts from a combination
Speaker 5: of owned factories and third party vendors in seven other countries.
Speaker 5: He says China represents less than twenty percent of US imports,
Speaker 5: and that's expected to be reduced to fifteen percent by
Speaker 5: next year and less than ten percent by twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 5: Tammy trihellok f I News.
Speaker 3: The search for a new pope is officially underway at
Speaker 3: the Vatican. Cardinals are now in seclusion as the world
Speaker 3: watches for that white smoke and a historic decision. ABC's
Speaker 3: Brian Clark joins us with the latest on what's happening
Speaker 3: behind closed doors. Brian, did I say you were in
Speaker 3: Rome earlier?
Speaker 2: Did you hear me say that.
Speaker 7: I didn't hear you say, Okay, I did, gotcha. I
Speaker 7: wish I just think you're free.
Speaker 2: You have free flights of Rome, is what I just did. Well,
Speaker 2: good morning. Can you walk us through what's happening right
Speaker 2: now inside the conclave?
Speaker 8: So right now it is a very important part of
Speaker 8: the day, and it is all of the cardinals having lunch.
Speaker 8: They're on their break between the two sessions. There's a
Speaker 8: morning session and an afternoon session. They took two votes
Speaker 8: in the morning session they did not agree or did
Speaker 8: not elect a pope, so they burn the ballots from
Speaker 8: those two votes with the black smoke. And there were
Speaker 8: not as many people as we saw yesterday in Saint
Speaker 8: Peter's Square, but there were a few thousand and they
Speaker 8: reacted the excitement of seeing the smoke, but then kind
Speaker 8: of the disappointment of realizing it was not turning white
Speaker 8: and that there's no pope yet. So what they're going
Speaker 8: to do now. They'll come back in a little less
Speaker 8: than two hours and they'll hold two more votes in
Speaker 8: the conclave session. If the first vote produce as a pope,
Speaker 8: they'll burn the white smoke right away to let the
Speaker 8: world know that there is a pope, and then we'll
Speaker 8: all wait about an hour until we see this new
Speaker 8: pope emerge and we learn who it is and we
Speaker 8: learn what his name is going to be.
Speaker 7: But we've got another session this afternoon to come.
Speaker 3: All right, So we saw the black smoke yesterday, So
Speaker 3: what does that tell us about how that first round
Speaker 3: of voting went.
Speaker 7: It tells us that it kind of went as expected.
Speaker 8: We don't know anything about who got how many votes,
Speaker 8: how close do they come to becoming pope, and then
Speaker 8: as the play out, who's gaining momentum, who's losing momentum.
Speaker 7: All of this is secrets, so we don't know.
Speaker 8: There are dribs and drabs that come out largely in
Speaker 8: Italian media, but a lot of that is just you know,
Speaker 8: how credible is that? We don't know because everybody has
Speaker 8: taken this oath of secrecy. What we do know is
Speaker 8: that there are more cardinals voting this year one hundred
Speaker 8: and thirty three than there were in twenty thirteen, the
Speaker 8: last time there was a conclave, So it's going to
Speaker 8: take longer. You need two thirds, so you need eighty
Speaker 8: nine votes to be to select a pope. So we're
Speaker 8: on the road to eighty nine for somebody, but we
Speaker 8: don't know who, and that's what the waiting part is
Speaker 8: right now. Now, what we do know about that process
Speaker 8: that yesterday it was the black smoke, and same with
Speaker 8: this morning. Twelve years ago the conclave that led to
Speaker 8: Pope Francis. He was chosen on the fifth ballot, and
Speaker 8: that's what's coming up this afternoon. Twenty years ago, the
Speaker 8: conclave that Ledipope Benedict, he was on the fourth ballot,
Speaker 8: also coming up later today. So we are certainly heading
Speaker 8: into the window that could result in the pope.
Speaker 3: So how are cardinals like typically influenced in their voting
Speaker 3: decision process, because I imagine that it's a little bit like
Speaker 3: you know, running for a school president, where people are
Speaker 3: kind of going around and saying vote for me, vote
Speaker 3: for me, vote for me. But it's not really like
Speaker 3: that isn't.
Speaker 8: No, it's not, it's it's looked down upon to openly campaign.
Speaker 7: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 8: So I think there are ways that they make it
Speaker 8: known that what they would do if they were elected,
Speaker 8: some of the favorite some of the front runners. And
Speaker 8: what's going to be the question and what could determine
Speaker 8: the pope is what do the car What does the
Speaker 8: College of Cardinals want in the next pope. Do they
Speaker 8: want to pope from Italy, which we haven't had in
Speaker 8: almost fifty years. Do they want to pope maybe from
Speaker 8: Asia or Africa for the first time. Do they want
Speaker 8: one from the United States for the first time ever?
Speaker 8: Is it going to be an older pope because that
Speaker 8: would certainly dictate how long the next papacy will be.
Speaker 8: So all of those things factor in, and then where
Speaker 8: do they want to go after Pope Francis? Do they
Speaker 8: want to pope that is going to get can you
Speaker 8: the path he set the church on? Do they want
Speaker 8: a pope that's going to do things differently? So those
Speaker 8: are all of the factors that go into play as
Speaker 8: far as politicking goes while, like we said, it's not
Speaker 8: done openly. This is some of the sessions before the
Speaker 8: actual conclave began, when the cardinals all gathered in Rome.
Speaker 8: That's where those messages are given about what their vision
Speaker 8: for the church would be.
Speaker 3: Any actual names of those front runners being mentioned that
Speaker 3: you know, people are kind of keeping an eye on.
Speaker 8: Well, the name that everybody likes just because it's a
Speaker 8: fun name to say is Cardinal Pizza Bala from Italy
Speaker 8: because it's Pizza Balaz exactly. So we don't know, you know,
Speaker 8: there's cardinals from the Philippines, there's cardinals from a few
Speaker 8: from Italy with Parolin as well from Italy. But we
Speaker 8: also do know is that the pope will change, will
Speaker 8: select his name as pope, and that will be interesting
Speaker 8: what name does he select.
Speaker 7: So all of these.
Speaker 8: Things are things we're going to learn, hopefully today, but
Speaker 8: certainly over the next few days.
Speaker 2: Well, I think you are right.
Speaker 3: I think sometime maybe today, if not tomorrow, we might
Speaker 3: see that white smoke coming out, because I think I
Speaker 3: saw that the average days that it takes for them
Speaker 3: to select the pope is maybe around two or three days.
Speaker 2: So we're on day two now and we I know
Speaker 2: the world is watching.
Speaker 3: So Brian, thank you so much for your time and
Speaker 3: enjoy your Pope watch today.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 3: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 2: This feed. Limit around schools in la is set to
Speaker 2: come down.
Speaker 6: The city council has designated more school zones. More than
Speaker 6: three hundred streets and two hundred schools will see fifteen
Speaker 6: mile per hour limits. Councilman Unisses Hernandez urged her colleagues
Speaker 6: to approve the seven hundred fifty thousand dollars allocation from
Speaker 6: a special sales tax fund.
Speaker 3: And help make our streets safer for young people in
Speaker 3: a more cost effective way with these school safety zones.
Speaker 6: The installation of the new sign is expected to take
Speaker 6: place over the next six to ten weeks. Council members
Speaker 6: say the city's budget has cut funding for speed humps
Speaker 6: and other traffic calming issues, but this is a quick
Speaker 6: and effective alternative. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 3: New vandalism charges have been filed against a man suspected
Speaker 3: of cutting down multiple trees, mostly in downtown La. Samuel
Speaker 3: Groft was already facing eight felony vandalism counts. Three new
Speaker 3: charges involve additional trees that were cut between April thirteenth
Speaker 3: and April nineteenth. The preliminary hearing will continue this morning.
Speaker 3: California has joined sixteen other states ensuing the Trump administration
Speaker 3: for withholding billions of dollars intended for electric vehicle charging stations.
Speaker 3: Attorney General Rob Bonta says the loss of funding hurts California.
Speaker 9: Cost California specifically more than three hundred million dollars, eliminate
Speaker 9: thousands of good paying jobs, and damage a critical emerging industry.
Speaker 3: Bonta says President Trump has exceeded his presidential powers by
Speaker 3: withholding the money. The state has sued the administration nineteen
Speaker 3: times now. LA Firefighters Union president Freddie Escobar says the
Speaker 3: allegations that have led to his suspension are not true.
Speaker 3: He and two other officials have been suspended over alleged
Speaker 3: financial malpractice. The union says an audit between twenty eighteen
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty four found Escobar spent more than two
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five thousand on the union's credit card,
Speaker 3: while the former secretary and treasurer racked up more than
Speaker 3: five hundred and thirty thousand dollars in credit card transactions
Speaker 3: between them, and all were undocumented. Escobar has posted on
Speaker 3: social media that the allegations are politically motivated. A new
Speaker 3: study says wildfires driven by climate change contributed to thousands
Speaker 3: of annual debts and billions of dollars in economic cost.
Speaker 3: The paper in the journal Nature, Communications, Earth and Environment
Speaker 3: found from two thousand and six to twenty twenty, climate
Speaker 3: change contributed to about fifteen thousand deaths from exposure to
Speaker 3: small particulate matter from wildfires and cost about one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty billion dollars. Netflix's homepage is getting a makeover.
Speaker 10: Starting next week, Netflix will introduce a new homepage designed
Speaker 10: for TV screens. This is the company's first serious makeover
Speaker 10: since twenty thirteen. The streaming giant says it is revamping
Speaker 10: its look to make the platform more personal and improve
Speaker 10: its interface. The new homepage will have a navigation bar
Speaker 10: across the top of the screen instead of being tucked
Speaker 10: away on the left side. Deborah Mark Kifi News.
Speaker 3: Tonight, the Dodgers are taking on the Diamondbacks in Arizona,
Speaker 3: with the first pitch at six point forty. Listen to
Speaker 3: all Dodgers games on AM five to seventy LA Sports
Speaker 3: and stream all Dodgers games in HD on the iHeartRadio
Speaker 3: app keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Zen She handcrafted
Speaker 3: sushi made fresh daily at Ralph's near the deli counter.
Speaker 3: A student was killed and two others were hurt in
Speaker 3: a stabbing outside San Anna High School Wednesday afternoon. It
Speaker 3: happened as students were leaving campus, and police are searching
Speaker 3: for the two people believed to be high school students
Speaker 3: that were involved, though it's unclear if they attack san
Speaker 3: Anna Hi. New charges have been filed against Samuel Groft,
Speaker 3: accused of cutting down trees in downtown La. He now
Speaker 3: faces eleven felony vandalism counts. A preliminary hearing continues this
Speaker 3: morning at nine thirty. A Los Angeles woman is speaking
Speaker 3: out after surviving a hit and run. Kate Olivia says
Speaker 3: she was struck by a car while walking in a
Speaker 3: crosswalk in Los Felis and was left unconscious with serious injuries.
Speaker 3: Now she is asking the public to help identify the
Speaker 3: driver who fled the scene. Police are seeking a black
Speaker 3: Hyundai Sedan with tinted windows and a six ZH five
Speaker 3: its handle on the news. Flags at La City buildings
Speaker 3: will fly at half staff today in memory of Nate Holden,
Speaker 3: who served sixteen years on the city Council, will talk
Speaker 3: about his life and legacy.
Speaker 2: A federal judge has ruled.
Speaker 3: That deporting non citizens to Libya or Saudi Arabia without
Speaker 3: due process would violate an existing court order. This comes
Speaker 3: after reports that Trump administration was preparing such removals using
Speaker 3: military aircraft. Joining US now with more insights as ABC
Speaker 3: Peter harr Lamboos, who's been following this developing.
Speaker 2: Storty, good morning, Good morning, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about what exactly did the judge
Speaker 3: rule and how does it impact the administration's reported deportation plans.
Speaker 11: So this federal judges at Boston came to the conclusion
Speaker 11: that any of these proposed deportation plans, this idea of
Speaker 11: taking a bunch of people who aren't actually from Libya
Speaker 11: who are detained in the United States and immigration proceedings
Speaker 11: and flying them to that country. It's kind of like
Speaker 11: similar to how the United States outsourced detention to El Salvador,
Speaker 11: would violate his court order because those people didn't have
Speaker 11: enough time to actually raise concerns about their safety of
Speaker 11: being moved to that country. Now, this order came even
Speaker 11: before we got any kind of confirmation that the United
Speaker 11: States was carrying out this plan. Sources close to the
Speaker 11: matter told ABC that the White House has been considering
Speaker 11: this idea of sending migrants to Libya as early as
Speaker 11: this week. But we don't even know if this order
Speaker 11: actually he is going to apply to something, or or
Speaker 11: if this plan was actually going to be taken. A
Speaker 11: lot of this was made on an assumption that these
Speaker 11: flights could already be ongoing, that this might be needed
Speaker 11: on an emergency basis. So we'll learn more about that
Speaker 11: over the coming week, But for now, this federal judge
Speaker 11: is pumping the brakes on the idea that the Trump
Speaker 11: administration can send a bunch of migrants to war torn Libya.
Speaker 3: So what prompted this motion from the migrants legal team.
Speaker 11: It was a little bit of news report and it
Speaker 11: was a little bit of first hand accounts from their clients.
Speaker 11: It was a little bit of speculation. They cited media
Speaker 11: reports from the New York Times and from Reuters. They
Speaker 11: cited that some of their clients were apparently receiving notice
Speaker 11: suggesting they might be sent to Libya, And there was
Speaker 11: also a concern that there might actually already have been
Speaker 11: an aircraft in the air flying from Texas to Libya.
Speaker 11: There was flight radar information that's publicly available showing a
Speaker 11: flight moving that could have been one of these flights,
Speaker 11: and all that kind of led to this panic that
Speaker 11: perhaps already one of these flights was already in the
Speaker 11: air and emergency relief was necessary. The federal judge in
Speaker 11: Boston didn't inquire if the flight actually contained migrants, but
Speaker 11: he kind of just put it on the record if
Speaker 11: that flight did contain, my mind, migrants, that would be
Speaker 11: a violation of a court order and that it could
Speaker 11: lead to a sticky situation for the Trump administration.
Speaker 3: So has the Trump administration or immigration officials responded to
Speaker 3: the ruling so far.
Speaker 11: At this point, we've heard some criticism from top officials
Speaker 11: in the White House calling it's basically a judicial coup.
Speaker 11: But when asked about this idea of something migrants to Libya,
Speaker 11: pretty much everyone in the federal government was pretty tight
Speaker 11: lift about it. The President declined to comment when asked
Speaker 11: about in the Oval Office, the Department of homeod Security
Speaker 11: Secretary declined to comment on the matter. Depentagon declined to
Speaker 11: comment on the matter. It seems like to the extended
Speaker 11: of this policy was close to being enacted. It was
Speaker 11: a very close hold.
Speaker 3: Are Libya and Saudi Arabia considered particularly dangerous destinations for deportation?
Speaker 11: Well, if we just focus on Libya for a second, yes,
Speaker 11: I mean that Libya is a country that the State
Speaker 11: Department says you should not travel to, is its rust
Speaker 11: and a country that's kind of been in turmoil since
Speaker 11: twenty eleven with the fallible Markadafi. At this point, we're
Speaker 11: talking about a country that has two different governments at
Speaker 11: this point, there's one base out of Tripoli. There's one
Speaker 11: base out of Benghazi that's basically run by a warlord.
Speaker 11: For what it's worth, both of these governments distanced themselves
Speaker 11: from this plan and said that they wouldn't be housing
Speaker 11: a us to porgies.
Speaker 12: But at the end of the day, it would be a.
Speaker 11: Kind of shocking proposal to send migrants to Libya. If anything,
Speaker 11: into deterrent this idea that if you're in the country illegally,
Speaker 11: that you could get picked up one day and then
Speaker 11: very quickly send to a country like Libya wouldout any
Speaker 11: contact with your lawyers or your family. That's a pretty
Speaker 11: scary concept and could have a deterrent effect.
Speaker 3: And this is you know something I think a lot
Speaker 3: of people want to know. Is this gonna this ruling
Speaker 3: set a broader legal precedent for future immigration enforcement?
Speaker 12: I mean, for now, it does. I think it pumps
Speaker 12: the break on this idea of sending any kind of
Speaker 12: nonsense into a country that isn't the actual home country.
Speaker 12: It's this original lawsuit in Boston began accident party people
Speaker 12: to l selvid Or. That was really the impetus of
Speaker 12: all this. But this judge in Boston is now indicated
Speaker 12: that he's ruling a plant kind of across the board.
Speaker 12: You want to send them silent for you, Olivia, Pa
Speaker 12: How lets you take friends about their stasty? You know
Speaker 12: the law allows for that, but we said to this country,
Speaker 12: you should have enough time to be able to say, hey,
Speaker 12: I might get persecuted here, or history here, or rise
Speaker 12: judges following.
Speaker 3: Okay, Peter, thank you so much for your time, very insightful,
Speaker 3: and hopefully we will we'll continue to follow up on
Speaker 3: this story as it develops.
Speaker 12: Thanks much for having me.
Speaker 3: Thank you all right, Let's get back to some of
Speaker 3: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3: A bipartisan group of California lawmakers has urged congressional action
Speaker 3: to protect the head Start program from federal budget cuts.
Speaker 4: Over three quarters of state legislators signed a letter expressing
Speaker 4: concern overcuts that could eliminate the program. Head Start receives
Speaker 4: one and a half billion dollars annually in California, supporting
Speaker 4: over eighty thousand low income children with medical and childcare, education,
Speaker 4: and food. It also employs about twenty six thousand workers.
Speaker 4: Just recently, nearly one thousand head Starred employees lost their
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Speaker 3: seven months after going on a labor strike, the union
Speaker 3: representing Kaiser Permanente mental health workers will vote today to
Speaker 3: ratify a proposed new contract. The senative deal, announced on Sunday,
Speaker 3: covers nearly twenty four hundred Kaiser mental health therapists, social workers,
Speaker 3: psychiatric nurses and psychologists represented by the National Union of
Speaker 3: Healthcare Workers. Both sides say if the agreement is given
Speaker 3: formal consent by members, the union will end its open
Speaker 3: ended strike. An ailing Azusa police canine has been sent
Speaker 3: into retirement with full honors.
Speaker 13: After five years of loyal service. The narcotics dog named Haley,
Speaker 13: is being retired as she battles lymphoma cancer, although she
Speaker 13: can no longer work effectively. During her career, Haley helped
Speaker 13: in the seizure of over five hundred pounds of meth,
Speaker 13: two hundred pounds of cocaine, and over one hundred pounds
Speaker 13: of fentanyl, and recovered about three million in drug money.
Speaker 7: She'll spend the rest of her.
Speaker 13: Days being spoiled, eating and relaxing in the care of
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Speaker 3: A southern California man has been convicted of raping three
Speaker 3: women during a violent crime spree. The assaults occurred in
Speaker 3: various locations, including Northridge and Encinos, since twenty nineteen. Officials
Speaker 3: say Charles Gaines targeted women in their homes, breaking in
Speaker 3: and attacking them. Sentencing is scheduled for next month. California
Speaker 3: and sixteen other states are suing the Trump administration for
Speaker 3: stopping billions in federal funding earmarked for electric vehicle charging stations.
Speaker 3: The lawsuit argues that the administration's move to block funds
Speaker 3: approved by Congress violates the law and undermines clean energy initiatives.
Speaker 3: The State Bar of California is under fire after its
Speaker 3: February Bar exam roll out went disastrously wrong. Aimed at
Speaker 3: cutting costs, the new exam format led to widespread technical
Speaker 3: issue choose AI generated questions and a lawsuit against the
Speaker 3: testing vendor. Now the Bar faces millions in unexpected expenses
Speaker 3: and leadership upheaval. Then at six oh five, it's Handle.
Speaker 2: On the news.
Speaker 3: The White House is pulling their pitch for a new
Speaker 3: surgeon General. We're going to tell you who they want
Speaker 3: to add as a replacement, just a day before the
Speaker 3: confirmation hearing. Now, usually at this point in the show,
Speaker 3: Amy does Amy's out and about, But she's out and
Speaker 3: about in real life right now. She is in Paris
Speaker 3: and enjoying herself as she should. So I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 3: gonna in keeping with her traditions, I'm gonna do Heather's
Speaker 3: head and out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why not we go?
Speaker 3: This week, I'm gonna give you a closer look at
Speaker 3: fan Fast Nights at Universal Studios. It's being called comic
Speaker 3: con meets theme Parks. I spoke with fan Fast Nights
Speaker 3: executive producer Steven Sertz to find out what it's all about.
Speaker 3: Tell me a.
Speaker 2: Little bit about fan Fest Nights.
Speaker 7: What is it all about?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 14: Fan Fast Nights is the ultimate immersive fan experience, and
Speaker 14: we're celebrating the genres of sci fi, fantasy, gaming, and
Speaker 14: anne in a way that drops our guests into the
Speaker 14: middle of these iconic worlds and allows them to explore
Speaker 14: it and also celebrate one another through community activations as
Speaker 14: well as overall engagement throughout the event.
Speaker 3: Is it one fandom per night or are they all
Speaker 3: in the same night.
Speaker 14: One of the best parts about FanFest Nights is that
Speaker 14: you get to experience all the fandoms each and every
Speaker 14: night of the event. So we really encourage our guests
Speaker 14: to take it all in, soak it all up and
Speaker 14: enjoy all the experiences every single night of the event.
Speaker 3: So right now, where are we and what experience are
Speaker 3: we getting a sneak preview of?
Speaker 14: So right now we're getting a sneak peak of Star
Speaker 14: Trek Red Alert, which is one of our immersive walkthrough attractions.
Speaker 14: And this one is fun because it's a story based
Speaker 14: pulse attraction, meaning that we're able to really dive into
Speaker 14: the iconic environments like the Shuttle Bay where we are now,
Speaker 14: the Sick Bay Engineer Rooms, ultimately leading to the bridge
Speaker 14: of the Enterprise d And by being a story based
Speaker 14: pulse attraction, we're able to really take in the characters,
Speaker 14: be able to develop the story, and be able to
Speaker 14: experience these environments in a way that we haven't allowed
Speaker 14: our guests to as much previously. As part of seasonal
Speaker 14: events here at Universal Students Hollywood, some.
Speaker 3: Of these areas have been described as in world experiences.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 14: So an in world experience to us here at FanFest
Speaker 14: Nights is the ultimate immersive experience meeting that we're really
Speaker 14: able to bring our guests and, as mentioned, drop them
Speaker 14: into the middle of the action, whether it be here
Speaker 14: at Star Trek at our other event activations as well,
Speaker 14: really being able to allow them to experience these brands,
Speaker 14: experience these franchises, experience these genres in an exciting way.
Speaker 3: Now, tell me why did Universal want to do something
Speaker 3: like this? Like, you guys didn't have to add all
Speaker 3: this extra work for yourselves.
Speaker 2: Why did you guys want to do this.
Speaker 14: The fans certainly wanted to experience more, and we wanted
Speaker 14: to certainly give them more. So that was at the
Speaker 14: core of fan Fest Nights, and we had two foundational
Speaker 14: goals as part of developing this event, fan first and authentic.
Speaker 14: Fan first, meeting that we wanted to service the fans
Speaker 14: who have such fandom for these genres, and authentic in
Speaker 14: delivering a uniquely universal perspective to these brands in a
Speaker 14: way that we can bring them to life, building on
Speaker 14: some of the legacy of events like Halloween, Hortnits and
Speaker 14: other things that we've done here at Universal Studios, Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Now, how can you make sure that this is something
Speaker 3: the fans are going to like? What kind of research
Speaker 3: you do? Are you talking to fans? Are you saying like, hey,
Speaker 3: what do you guys want to see? What goes into
Speaker 3: the decision making for the properties that you picked for this.
Speaker 14: We did a lot of research in developing the lineup
Speaker 14: and the content for this first year of fan Fast Nights,
Speaker 14: and we're really excited about the mix of the different
Speaker 14: genres of sci fi, fantasy, gaming, and anime and speaking
Speaker 14: about the fans and the authenticity, specifically with Star Trek
Speaker 14: Reht Alert. We were really excited to partner with Paramounts
Speaker 14: and the Star Trek franchise team to bring this experience
Speaker 14: to life. They were collaborators and creative partners of ours
Speaker 14: from the very beginning and developing the concept all the
Speaker 14: way through final execution.
Speaker 3: Aside from ticket sales, What is going to be the
Speaker 3: biggest indicator for you that this.
Speaker 15: Was a success.
Speaker 14: One of the most amazing things about developing these style
Speaker 14: of events is being able to stand in these attractions, standards,
Speaker 14: experiences and just watch the reaction, watch the reaction of
Speaker 14: guests coming out them, engaging with them, and also with
Speaker 14: fan Fest nights, celebrating one another through areas like our
Speaker 14: block party, where we're celebrating the fans and the fandoms
Speaker 14: through cosplay, celebrations, trivia contests, really being able to soak
Speaker 14: up the energy of the event each and every night.
Speaker 2: Now you mentioned cosplay, can people dress up?
Speaker 14: Costplay is one of the foundational aspects of fan Fest nights,
Speaker 14: So being able to celebrate the fans and celebrate their
Speaker 14: affinity for these genres through cosplay as well as just
Speaker 14: the community aspect of being together throughout.
Speaker 3: The night and our tickets on sale right now. Where
Speaker 3: can people get tickets?
Speaker 14: Tickets are on sale now. Go to Universal Studios Hollywood
Speaker 14: dot com for all the information to get your tickets now.
Speaker 3: Definitely go and check out fanfaest Nights if you get
Speaker 3: a chance.
Speaker 2: It was a blast.
Speaker 3: I went with my family and we loved all of
Speaker 3: the walkthrough experiences. We enjoyed Star Trek. I'm not a
Speaker 3: big Dungeons and Dragons fan, but I know a lot
Speaker 3: of people are. But honestly, it's just a fun time
Speaker 3: being in the park at night. Will have you ever
Speaker 3: been to Universal Studios Hollywood?
Speaker 7: Not for like twenty years?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, twenty years. It's spent a little it's
Speaker 2: been a minute. Oh wow.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, and we were just talking about Will and
Speaker 3: I were just talking about how much we both love
Speaker 3: Star Trek.
Speaker 2: Yes, so this is your sign to go.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is a go and check out because they
Speaker 3: have recreated the bridge from the Enterprise and it's just
Speaker 3: such a cool thing. So definitely check that out. All right,
Speaker 3: now it's time to get up in your business.
Speaker 2: We have Courtney.
Speaker 3: Yes, yay, I did it. I was like, I'm going
Speaker 3: to say it today. Get and Amy's gonna kill me
Speaker 3: and be like, what have you done to with my
Speaker 3: with my Bloomberg segment?
Speaker 2: You want to get up all in my business, Get
Speaker 2: up all in the business. Good morning, Courtney, Good morning.
Speaker 16: All right, we have a lot going on here today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it looks like a lot of high schoolers
Speaker 3: are being offered jobs that top seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: What and how can I get one?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 16: That is a huge because there's a shortage of skill
Speaker 16: trades workers. I know a lot of times when I'm
Speaker 16: trying to call for a plumber, there's a huge wait.
Speaker 16: But companies have been increasingly reaching out to high schoolers
Speaker 16: who are studying welding, electrical work, and also plumbing. Businesses
Speaker 16: are looking as baby boomers retire, plus they need workers
Speaker 16: who are more comfortable with some of the emerging technologies
Speaker 16: that go along with these professions. According to The Wall
Speaker 16: Street Journal, some high schoolers are being offered jobs that
Speaker 16: pay as much as seventy thousand dollars and in five
Speaker 16: years some are making six figures. But the demand for
Speaker 16: all these workers has even led to a resurgence of
Speaker 16: shop classes in some school districts around the country.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, well, I think that's great.
Speaker 3: I think it's important for kids to learn a skill
Speaker 3: like that, and I also think.
Speaker 16: It's great to give people and children an alternative as
Speaker 16: opposed to saying, all right, well you have to go
Speaker 16: to college. There's so many different jobs that are lucrative
Speaker 16: that can support a family. You just don't always have
Speaker 16: to look in what some people say are the traditional
Speaker 16: way to move forwards. So it's great to look in
Speaker 16: these different sorts of ways, like in these trades.
Speaker 2: You know what's funny. This is a little side note here.
Speaker 3: I think I'm convinced our phones are listening to us,
Speaker 3: because all of a sudden, in the past few days,
Speaker 3: the Bloomberg TikTok channel has been showing up on my phone.
Speaker 2: Oh that's never happened before. We'll see, and now.
Speaker 16: Everybody should go to the Bloomberg TikTok channel. There you go.
Speaker 2: It's great, Bloomberg. We've got a lot.
Speaker 16: Of great business news, so definitely head over our way
Speaker 16: and see some of the stuff that we have in
Speaker 16: some of our great reporting.
Speaker 3: All right, speaking of that, let's talk about Ford. They're
Speaker 3: raising the price for a number of their models.
Speaker 2: So this is funny.
Speaker 16: Last week Ford CEO Jim Farley said the Automaker they
Speaker 16: were going to hold off on hiking prices until they
Speaker 16: see how rivals react to tariffs. So that ended quite quickly.
Speaker 16: Ford said yesterday that they're going to boost prices on
Speaker 16: models and builds in Mexico by as much as two
Speaker 16: thousand dollars. So we're talking the Maverick Small pick up,
Speaker 16: the Bronco Sport, and the electric Mustang Mokei. So Ford says, yes,
Speaker 16: we are raising prices on these models. It's a combination
Speaker 16: of they say, of these typical midyear pricing adjustments, but
Speaker 16: also the impact of tariffs. But keep in mind, vehicles
Speaker 16: are currently an inventory will not be affected. So I
Speaker 16: think what they're saying is, hey, get in here and
Speaker 16: start buying stuff now because the prices are going to
Speaker 16: be going up later.
Speaker 2: Okay, and this is some sad news.
Speaker 3: Krispy Kreme is pausing the expansion of its partnership with McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 16: Well, the two companies were planning a nationwide rollout of
Speaker 16: Krispy Creme donuts by the end of next year. I
Speaker 16: know it's saying my local McDonald's is my son loves McDonald's,
Speaker 16: but McDonald's was hoping to bring in more diners for
Speaker 16: breakfast and also get more snackers to come in throughout
Speaker 16: the day by offering the sugar retreats. So the companies
Speaker 16: rolled out the donuts in more than two thousand locations.
Speaker 16: But here's the problem. They notice that demands start to
Speaker 16: drop off after the initial launch. So Krispy Kreme says,
Speaker 16: this hiatus is going to allow both sides, both them
Speaker 16: and McDonald's to refine their marketing and keep people coming
Speaker 16: back for more donuts.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I do like a good donut every now
Speaker 2: and then.
Speaker 16: Love, I'm a dunking sort of girl, so.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, well all right, So the FED wrapped
Speaker 3: up its policy meeting yesterday. Looks like the Central Bank
Speaker 3: is on hold when it comes to rates.
Speaker 2: What is that about?
Speaker 16: Yes, so, feder Reserve chair j Pal says he's in
Speaker 16: no hurry to adjust interest rates.
Speaker 2: He's going to keep it.
Speaker 16: He's going to keep it the same. Unsurprisingly, yesterday the
Speaker 16: Central Bank voted unanimously to keep the benchmark rate in
Speaker 16: a range of four and a quarter to four and
Speaker 16: a half percent, where it's been since December. So the
Speaker 16: trade policies that we've been seeing from President Trump that's
Speaker 16: unleashed a big wave of uncertainty across the economy. And
Speaker 16: the President has been coming out there and saying, you
Speaker 16: need to cut rates, j Pal, but j Pell says,
Speaker 16: no way. The Fed says they are comfortable with keeping
Speaker 16: rates unchanged, with unemployment still load, demand to still steady
Speaker 16: until they have a better understanding of where the economy
Speaker 16: is headed right now, because you look at some of
Speaker 16: the economic numbers, they're coming in aok So if he
Speaker 16: comes in and moves a little bit early to cut rates,
Speaker 16: that will probably end up being a problem. So yesterday
Speaker 16: the Dow rose two hundred and eighty five points with
Speaker 16: Powell saying the economy is holding up. And this morning
Speaker 16: we're looking at a rally head on Wall Street because
Speaker 16: the President says we reached a trade deal with the UK.
Speaker 16: Dow futures up one hundred and fifty five points right now.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I'm going to start looking for those seventy thousand dollar
Speaker 3: jobs for my future high schooler.
Speaker 16: Exactly. I'm sending my kids out there too to do that.
Speaker 2: There you go, Thank you, Corney. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 16: Let's see you later.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 3: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 3: Golden Globes have announced a new category for next year.
Speaker 3: Ceremony honoring the best in TV and film will now
Speaker 3: include an award for Best Podcast. Organizers say they want
Speaker 3: to honor its heritage categories while making room for new
Speaker 3: voices and formats. Twenty five podcasts will qualify, with six
Speaker 3: making the final list of nominees for the award. Eligibility
Speaker 3: requirements will be announced in the coming weeks. Former Lakers
Speaker 3: star Byron Scott is facing a lawsuit accusing him of
Speaker 3: sexualist builting a fifteen year old girl at Campbell Hall
Speaker 3: School in nineteen eighty seven. The girl alleges the incident
Speaker 3: occurred in a janitor's closet during a team event. Scott,
Speaker 3: who was twenty six at the time, denies any wrongdoing,
Speaker 3: claiming he believed she was over eighteen. Southern California Edison
Speaker 3: has dismantled and removed a decade's old transmission tower from
Speaker 3: Eaton Canyon for forensic testing. The tower has been inactive
Speaker 3: for over fifty years and is under investigation on the
Speaker 3: potential ignite ignition point for January's deadly eaten fire. Investigators
Speaker 3: aim to determine if the tower's re engineering contributed to
Speaker 3: the blaze. And tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated
Speaker 3: sharply after a terrorist attack in India administered Kashmir killed
Speaker 3: twenty six tourists, mostly Hindus. India responded with airstrikes on
Speaker 3: alleged militant sites in Pakistan. And we're just minutes away
Speaker 3: from handle on the news this morning. Russia is hosting
Speaker 3: world leaders for the eightieth anniversary of the defeat of
Speaker 3: Nazi Germany in World War Two. We're going to tell
Speaker 3: you all about their victory day and what it means
Speaker 3: for the US. Yes, right now, I want to shine
Speaker 3: a light on some people making a powerful difference after
Speaker 3: the January wildfires. We're turning up the volume, so to speak,
Speaker 3: on a story that has hit all the right notes.
Speaker 2: Man, I love a good pun.
Speaker 3: We're joined by Brandon j the founder of Altadina Musicians
Speaker 3: and the Instrumental Giving app. It's a grassroots organization that
Speaker 3: not only amplifies local talent, but is putting real instruments
Speaker 3: back into the hands of people who lost them during
Speaker 3: the January wildfires. Brandon, tell me how did this all begin?
Speaker 15: So my wife and I are music composition names Gwendolyn Sandford,
Speaker 15: most notably re scored Orange is the New Black, and
Speaker 15: we lived there dun for thirteen years in our home
Speaker 15: and studio burned in the fire. About a week afterwards,
Speaker 15: we were both playing a show and people came and
Speaker 15: started bringing us instruments and did a lot of them
Speaker 15: were exact names that we lost in the fire, which
Speaker 15: gave me the idea to like just do that on
Speaker 15: a big scale and ask people that had extra instruments
Speaker 15: to connect with people that lost theirs. And the special
Speaker 15: thing about instruments are the stories behind them and how
Speaker 15: they're passed down from generation to generation, or they're used
Speaker 15: on particular recordings, or someone saved up bought a guitar
Speaker 15: when they were young, and so I've found it it's
Speaker 15: really healing in the process for the people that are
Speaker 15: donating to meet the musicians that lost stuff. So that's
Speaker 15: the legacy of the instrument is carried on with the
Speaker 15: person getting it, and the person that lost something gets
Speaker 15: the story behind what they're getting so they can mourn
Speaker 15: what they lost, but it's replaced by something that already
Speaker 15: has a story to it and you can continue that.
Speaker 2: And what has the response been like from the community.
Speaker 15: It's extraordinary. The you know, I grew up in Los
Speaker 15: Angeles and so I've been playing music since I was nine.
Speaker 15: Both my parents are musicians, so I've been in the
Speaker 15: Los Angeles music scene for most of my life. And
Speaker 15: incredible tight knit community and far reaching. And the devastation
Speaker 15: of these particular wildfires is so broad because so many
Speaker 15: people are affected and all walks of life have you know,
Speaker 15: it's it's just incredible the connections that people have made
Speaker 15: with each other in the community when they reach out
Speaker 15: and like help each other, and it's been it's been incredible.
Speaker 3: How many instruments have you had donated and then how
Speaker 3: many have you passed out so far?
Speaker 15: It's hard to tell because the numbers are there's like
Speaker 15: skyrocketing every day, but well over four hundred and bounting
Speaker 15: we just about a week ago. Mister Holland's Opus Foundation
Speaker 15: wonderful organization that provides instruments to schools when they need them.
Speaker 15: They like buy them like new instruments and you know,
Speaker 15: get them sorted out they took care of like all
Speaker 15: the schools that were ready for them, because there's about
Speaker 15: six schools that burned and just in Altadena, and so
Speaker 15: they were taking care of them. They also did an
Speaker 15: instrument drive and were collecting instruments from other people that
Speaker 15: were supposed to go to fire victims, and they had
Speaker 15: to give up their extra storage space where everything was,
Speaker 15: and so we got in contact with them and we
Speaker 15: said we'll take everything because we have the infrastructure to
Speaker 15: get it to individuals. So just about three days ago
Speaker 15: we took we're just cataloging everything to see how much
Speaker 15: it is because it was so much. It was like
Speaker 15: over eighty five guitars and like a whole room full
Speaker 15: of classical instruments somewhere in the neighborhood of like like
Speaker 15: six hundred instruments.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 15: So right now we're like cleaning them with We have
Speaker 15: about forty volunteers that are just coming people that we
Speaker 15: got instruments too, and they're like running over there like
Speaker 15: testing out blareets and cleaning things off. And we also
Speaker 15: connected with Bertrans Music in Pasadena very early on because
Speaker 15: it's important for people to know that like there's instruments
Speaker 15: that need servicing if they've been sitting around for a
Speaker 15: long time and we don't want to put instruments in
Speaker 15: people's hands that need work.
Speaker 2: I think that's great.
Speaker 3: I mean it sounds like people are This is something
Speaker 3: that people are truly passionate about and they really want
Speaker 3: to help.
Speaker 2: You know, when it comes to your instruments.
Speaker 3: You know, my daughter plays the trombone, and I know
Speaker 3: she loves it and she enjoys it, and it's very
Speaker 3: special to her because it's the first instrument she really.
Speaker 2: Learned how to play.
Speaker 3: And I know that even in some you know, even
Speaker 3: if it seems like such a small thing to give
Speaker 3: someone an instrument to start over, in that way, it
Speaker 3: means so much to the person who's playing, because music
Speaker 3: is therapy and it can be very healing in many ways.
Speaker 3: So I think it's wonderful what you're doing. Can you
Speaker 3: tell everybody how they can help? If you still need instruments,
Speaker 3: are you still taking them? How can people help and
Speaker 3: support what you're doing?
Speaker 15: So either going to Alphagenia musician dot org, make a donation,
Speaker 15: can read about us, come to upcoming events, or download
Speaker 15: our app Instrumental Giving.
Speaker 2: That's such a great addition to the instruments and.
Speaker 3: A way to help also make money for your organization
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing. So Brandon, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for your time. You can check out Instrumental Giving
Speaker 3: or Altadena Musicians to find out how you can help
Speaker 3: bring music back to Alta. Dina, all right, let's get
Speaker 3: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 3: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Traffic has slowed at the
Speaker 3: Port of La and the La City Council has voted
Speaker 3: to have a direct report on the situation. Councilman Tim
Speaker 3: McCusker says, if the president's tariff policy continues, jobs in
Speaker 3: the area will be impacted.
Speaker 17: We have local thirteen longshore persons on the on the
Speaker 17: front lines. We have fewer clerks, we have fewer for persons,
Speaker 17: we have fewer truck drivers, we have fewer mechanics.
Speaker 3: McCusker says. Soon there will also be fewer items on shelves.
Speaker 3: The port's executive director has been summoned to a council
Speaker 3: committee meeting to talk more about the impacts of the tariffs.
Speaker 3: The news is brought to you by Thorson Motor Center.
Speaker 3: A high pressure system will start cranking up temperatures across
Speaker 3: much of our area today and continuing into Mother's Day weekend. Basically,
Speaker 3: it's going to be hot. The National Weather Service says
Speaker 3: the heat is expected to peak on Friday and Saturday,
Speaker 3: when temperatures in the valleys will push about one hundred degrees.
Speaker 3: So enjoy this cool weather while you can, but they
Speaker 3: are expected to drop off starting on Sunday. And singer
Speaker 3: Avril Levine has stepped in to help a beloved Los
Speaker 3: Angeles skates shop to.
Speaker 2: Skate the busy.
Speaker 7: Dye.
Speaker 2: It's called Palace Skates.
Speaker 3: She's going to help them rebuild after it was destroyed
Speaker 3: by the Palisades Fire. Levine says she was moved by
Speaker 3: the shop's role in the community for the past twenty
Speaker 3: five years and is rallying support to help restore it.
Speaker 3: The singer's biggest hit you just heard there was called
Speaker 3: Skater Boy, so she says she feels a connection to
Speaker 3: the store. The effort aims to bring back a space
Speaker 3: cherished by so many local skaters and artists.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: I love to see famous people doing good things. That's
Speaker 3: why I do good things. I'm sort of famous. Yeah, Okay, no,
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. Hashtag humble on the Thursday morning. Will,
Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure having you here. I'm also very
Speaker 3: excited for handling the news that's coming up today. I
Speaker 3: have a feeling it's gonna be a rocking, good time
Speaker 3: humdinger of a show.
Speaker 11: Well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate everybody listening.
Speaker 3: Also want to remind you, if you get a chance,
Speaker 3: come see me this Saturday night at the Ice House
Speaker 3: in Pasadena seven o'clock. I will be doing some stand
Speaker 3: up comedy. I'd love for you guys to come out.
Speaker 3: I may or may not talk about KFI.
Speaker 2: Probably not. I don't want to get fired, all right.
Speaker 3: This is KFI and KOSDHD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Speaker 3: live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer
Speaker 3: and technical producer Kno and our traffic specialist Will. I'm
Speaker 3: Heather Brooker. Thank you for listening. This has been your
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