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Speaker 1: Good morning. I'm Amy King, and you are here for
Speaker 1: the wake up call. Yep, it's uh. What is today?
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday already, February twelve. Got a big storm on
Speaker 1: the way, but it's it's pretty nice out still. Now
Speaker 1: we're hearing this raine is starting to fall, but we're
Speaker 1: expecting a lot, especially tomorrow. We'll be ready for it.
Speaker 1: Got what's going on today? So glad you're starting your
Speaker 1: day with a Whether you're listening on the radio on
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Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. LA Mayor Bass
Speaker 1: and other officials are urging people in the LA area
Speaker 1: to prepare for the atmospheric river that's about to hit
Speaker 1: southern California. It could bring flooding, mudslides, and debris flows,
Speaker 1: especially in the wildfire burn areas. The heaviest rains expected
Speaker 1: from tomorrow afternoon to early Friday morning, with one and
Speaker 1: a half to three inches of rain in most areas.
Speaker 1: Three to six inches is possible in the foothills and mountains,
Speaker 1: and up in northern California. They're expecting several feet of
Speaker 1: snow in the Sierra Nevada. An American teacher held in
Speaker 1: Russia for more than three and a half years has
Speaker 1: met with President Trump at the White House hours after
Speaker 1: he was released. Trump's a Special Envoy to the Middle East,
Speaker 1: Steve Whitcoff, negotiated the deal with the Kremlin to release
Speaker 1: Mark Fogel. Fogel was released from the Kremlins custody yesterday
Speaker 1: and left Russia on Whitcoff's lie. So why we're not
Speaker 1: looking at our phones quite as much. Oh, we're still
Speaker 1: looking at screens, but they're bigger. We'll be talking with
Speaker 1: KTLA's tech reporter Rich Damuro. That's at five point twenty. Also,
Speaker 1: we've had the fires, floods could be coming, so we
Speaker 1: might as well start talking about earthquakes. We're actually gonna
Speaker 1: talk with the chief mitigation officer with the California Earthquake
Speaker 1: Authority to find out what we can do now and
Speaker 1: get some help monetarily to get it done, to prepare. Also,
Speaker 1: Amy's on it. I'm on Award nominated movies as we
Speaker 1: lead up to the SAG and the Academy Awards. This
Speaker 1: one's got a lot of buzz. It's about a big
Speaker 1: change in both appearance and in spirits that's coming up
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the hour. I think you're kinda
Speaker 1: want to hear it. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: Rain has arrived in parts of southern California. Officials in
Speaker 1: LA are urging people to prepare for possible mud and
Speaker 1: debrief flows, especially in the Burn areas. Hey The alertsvariously here.
Speaker 1: National Weather Service meteorologist doctor Ariel Cohen says the weather
Speaker 1: conditions could be dangerous, with the main concern being from
Speaker 1: two pm Tomorrow through two am Friday.
Speaker 6: We're looking at very intense rainfall rates to bring the
Speaker 6: potential for significant debris flows.
Speaker 3: Now we're not saying that they're definitely going to happen.
Speaker 7: We're saying right now approximately a fifty to seventy percent
Speaker 7: chance of that activity.
Speaker 1: He says people should be prepared and have a plan
Speaker 1: in case they need to evacuate. The La County Board
Speaker 1: of Supervisors has voted unanimously to crack down on price
Speaker 1: gougers in the wake of the wildfire.
Speaker 2: See maximum civil fine four. Price gouging is temporarily increasing
Speaker 2: from ten thousand to fifty thousand dollars for each violation.
Speaker 2: Supervisor Lindsay Hornfath says the motion aims to protect renters
Speaker 2: and consumers from getting exploited during a time of crisis.
Speaker 1: On Mark Mayfield, some business owners in La may get
Speaker 1: a break on their taxes.
Speaker 8: The city council has approved a sixty day tax filing
Speaker 8: waiver for businesses destroyed or disrupted by the wildfires. Councilwoman
Speaker 8: Unisses Hernandez says some businesses lost their tax documents and
Speaker 8: equipment needed a file.
Speaker 9: By passing measures like this, we both s are a
Speaker 9: collective safety net and ensure that the protections we are
Speaker 9: creating actually meet the needs of the people who we're
Speaker 9: designing them for.
Speaker 8: The decision could cost the city an estimated eight million
Speaker 8: dollars in tax revenue. Any business that re establishes itself
Speaker 8: after destruction would be treated as a new business and
Speaker 8: would not file taxes until January next year. Michael Monks
Speaker 8: KFI News.
Speaker 1: The California Insurance Department says the Fair Plan, which provides
Speaker 1: homeowners insurance for people who can't get private coverage, needs
Speaker 1: another one billion dollars to pay claims from the fires
Speaker 1: in LA. The department says major private insurance companies that
Speaker 1: pay into the plan will have to bear half of
Speaker 1: the cost, but then can pass that cost onto policyholders.
Speaker 1: The Fair Plan is for people whose properties are deemed
Speaker 1: too risky to ensure. Waiting to check in with ABC's
Speaker 1: Jordana Miller, and there she is is in Jerusalem. Good morning, Jordana.
Speaker 1: Just when things seemed to be going well, things are
Speaker 1: now on the verge of falling apart again. So what's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 10: Well, well, I certainly hope not. You know, in the
Speaker 10: last hour or so, we've seen new images of trucks
Speaker 10: carrying caravans towards Gaza. That was one of the Hamasa's
Speaker 10: complaints why they initially said we will not release the
Speaker 10: hostages on Saturday. You know, Israel and the other partners
Speaker 10: in the steal have not lived up to their obligations.
Speaker 10: We have not received any caravans or enough tents. Remember,
Speaker 10: there's nowhere for many most gosins to live, so these
Speaker 10: caravans are quite important. Now we're seeing the first images
Speaker 10: that caravans are moving towards the Gaza Strip. That means
Speaker 10: that we are getting some resolution on this. And despite
Speaker 10: all of the threats and the you know, the deadlines,
Speaker 10: whether it's from the American president, from President Trump or
Speaker 10: the Israelis, it looks like we're moving towards resolution. We're
Speaker 10: going to it looks like we're moving towards getting through
Speaker 10: this big, big bump. You know, it is true that
Speaker 10: the Israeli Prime Minister said, if we don't get our
Speaker 10: hostages Saturday, we're going to resume the war. We're going
Speaker 10: to go back into the Gaza Strip. But for the Israelis,
Speaker 10: they only need to see three hostages come out on
Speaker 10: Saturday for the deal to still be intact. Right, the
Speaker 10: President Trump is saying all the hostages and these Raelies
Speaker 10: are just kind of staying away from that. Oh, that
Speaker 10: would be nice, that would be great. Sure, we want
Speaker 10: all the hostages out, but we know Hamas is not
Speaker 10: going to turn over all nine living hostages from this
Speaker 10: part of the deal. Now we're only just a little
Speaker 10: more than halfway through phase one, so if these issues
Speaker 10: of aid can get resolved, then we'll hope, God willing,
Speaker 10: we'll see Hamas released three hostages on Saturday, the Israelis
Speaker 10: will release pal standing prisoners, and then we'll be at
Speaker 10: another point where the sides have to discuss what's coming next.
Speaker 1: So they haven't are they starting to talk about phase
Speaker 1: two yet or are they holding off to make sure
Speaker 1: that phase one is carried out well.
Speaker 10: According to the deal, during phase one, phase two talks
Speaker 10: are supposed to start, right, So the Israelis say, we've
Speaker 10: started to talk about phase two with the Americans, with
Speaker 10: the mediators, but Hamas is saying, well, we haven't really
Speaker 10: sat down at a table where our negotiators are talking
Speaker 10: to your negotiators, right, So it hasn't been a real
Speaker 10: indirect round yet of negotiations. And the Israeli Prime Minister
Speaker 10: said yesterday we're not going to talk about the second
Speaker 10: round yet. Like you want to pull out of letting
Speaker 10: the hostages out, We're going to pull out of the talks.
Speaker 10: So everything could begin again after Saturday, or in a
Speaker 10: worst case scenario, I mean, we see the Israeli army
Speaker 10: go back into Gaza this weekend.
Speaker 1: Okay, and uh, you've said that they're positioning themselves now
Speaker 1: for that, for just in case. Is that still the
Speaker 1: case that they're kind of massing again near the near Gaza.
Speaker 10: Yeah, they are, they are, These Erali troops are have
Speaker 10: they boosted their presence along the southern part of Israel
Speaker 10: near the Gaza border. They've also called up reservists, uh,
Speaker 10: you know, there are. They're they're working out several different
Speaker 10: contingency plans in case everything falls apart, and that includes
Speaker 10: some kind of you know, surprise attack even from Amas
Speaker 10: right now. So we're gonna we're gonna have to you know,
Speaker 10: I think both sides still have a vested interest in
Speaker 10: keeping the deal afloat. So I don't think we're going
Speaker 10: to see it fall apart right now. Could it fall
Speaker 10: apart next week, yes, but right now, I think you know,
Speaker 10: Hamas still wants some of their Palestinian prisoners released. They
Speaker 10: still want to look like they're the ones championing, you know,
Speaker 10: getting in aid for the people of Goazas. They want
Speaker 10: to sort of rebuild their support among Gosen. So I
Speaker 10: don't think the deal is going to fall apart right now.
Speaker 10: But there are serious challenges to Phase two, which the
Speaker 10: size are supposed to be talking about, which hasn't even begun,
Speaker 10: So that doesn't bode well for the you know, for
Speaker 10: what's coming next.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we will continue to watch and hope
Speaker 1: that they continue to make progress. ABC's Jordanna Miller in Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for the information. We'll talk again soon.
Speaker 10: Thanks suck soon.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Russia says one
Speaker 1: of its citizens has been freed and a swap for
Speaker 1: released American Mark Foegel. The American teacher, was arrested in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one in charges of having medical marijuana in
Speaker 1: Russia in his suitcase. He returned to the US yesterday
Speaker 1: with Special Envoy for President Trump, Steve Whitcoff, and met
Speaker 1: with Trump at the White House.
Speaker 5: I feel like the luckiest man on earth right now,
Speaker 5: and I want you to know that I am not
Speaker 5: a hero.
Speaker 11: In this at all.
Speaker 1: National Security Advisor Michael Walls says the US and Russia
Speaker 1: negotiated the exchange, but didn't give any details. President Trump
Speaker 1: said another American hostage is going to be released today.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration has cut some federal jobs outside of
Speaker 1: its efforts to shrink the government.
Speaker 7: Four FEMA officials fired yesterday after must Claim Dosche found
Speaker 7: tens of millions of dollars were spent by the agency
Speaker 7: on housing migrants in New York hotels. Massive cuts also
Speaker 7: announced that the Department of Education worth nearly nine hundred
Speaker 7: million dollars.
Speaker 1: ABC's Perry Russim says the White House also fired the
Speaker 1: Inspector General for USAID. Several brands of canned tuna sold
Speaker 1: at Costco, Trader Joe's, Walmart, and other stores are being recalled.
Speaker 1: ABC's Chuck Siebertson says try Union Seafoods is recalling its
Speaker 1: products because of a can defect that could potentially cause
Speaker 1: botulism contamination.
Speaker 12: The recall effects can tuna sold under the Genova, Van Camps, HB,
Speaker 12: and Trader Joe's brand names. According to the company, there
Speaker 12: have been no illnesses reported in connection to the recalled products.
Speaker 1: Customers are being encouraged to return the recalled cans to
Speaker 1: the store for a full refund or just throw them out.
Speaker 1: Disneyland is facing a class action lawsuit over DAS that's
Speaker 1: its Disability Access service. Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the lawsuit,
Speaker 1: filed on Monday, claims guests with physical disabilities are disproportionately
Speaker 1: excluded from using DAS to skip lines for attractions.
Speaker 5: The lawsuit challenges the changes Disneyland made to DAS last
Speaker 5: summer to cut down on the amount of people misusing
Speaker 5: the system. The new guidelines limit DIAS usage primarily to
Speaker 5: guests with developmental disabilities.
Speaker 1: The lawsuit is asking the judge to make Disney mudify
Speaker 1: so that people with all types of disabilities can bypass
Speaker 1: long waits in lines. Toyota is recalling more than one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand Pacoma pickups.
Speaker 12: Model years twenty, twenty four and twenty five because mud
Speaker 12: or dirt may wear through break hoses, causing a fluid leak,
Speaker 12: which could reduce braking and ultimately increase the risk of
Speaker 12: a crash.
Speaker 1: I think I said Pacoma, I meant Tacoma. ABC's check
Speaker 1: Seversin says Toyota owners will be notified by early April
Speaker 1: and dealers will replace both rear break hoses for free.
Speaker 1: NASA says two astronauts stuck aboard the International Space Station
Speaker 1: since last summer are going to be brought back to
Speaker 1: Earth a couple weeks sooner than previously announced. The Space
Speaker 1: Agency had said it was targeting a return date of
Speaker 1: late March, butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams went to space
Speaker 1: aboard the Boeing star Liner in June. They were supposed
Speaker 1: to be up for a week, but they couldn't come
Speaker 1: back on the spacecraft because of leaks and chanical issues,
Speaker 1: and they were only supposed to be there.
Speaker 3: For a week.
Speaker 1: But it's been about nine months now. I would imagine
Speaker 1: they would be excited to touch Terra Firma again. Last
Speaker 1: week we went out and about to the Pasadena Humane
Speaker 1: to check out what is going on there and see
Speaker 1: the great work that they are doing to save and
Speaker 1: take care of the animals caught up in the wildfires.
Speaker 1: And I just wanted to remind you that that video
Speaker 1: is posted on Instagram at amy K King if you
Speaker 1: want to get a look at you've got some just
Speaker 1: cats with their little paws burned. The good news is
Speaker 1: they're getting better and Pasadena Humane has reopened adoptions, so
Speaker 1: if you are looking to adopt, you can do that again.
Speaker 1: They had to shut everything down for about a month
Speaker 1: as they were taking in hundreds and hundreds of animals. Again,
Speaker 1: it's at Amy K. King and would love it if
Speaker 1: you would follow me as well. Power is back on
Speaker 1: for nearly all of the homes and businesses affected by
Speaker 1: the wildfire in Pacific Palisades, La Mayor bassas crews are
Speaker 1: still working to restore the power or to some of
Speaker 1: the area's hit hardest by the fires. Bass says progress
Speaker 1: is also being made on restoring water service to affected areas.
Speaker 1: An eighteen year old from Lancaster has been senced to
Speaker 1: four years in federal prison for making over three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy five so called swatting or threatening calls. He
Speaker 1: was arrested in California last month. Prosecutors say he called churches,
Speaker 1: high schools, universities, individuals, and government officials around the US
Speaker 1: threatening to have bombs detonated or to carry out mass shootings.
Speaker 1: Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show is the most watched ever.
Speaker 1: Rock Nation says the performance drew one hundred thirty three
Speaker 1: point five million viewers. That breaks the record of one
Speaker 1: hundred thirty three point four million set by Michael Jackson
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three. Lamar is set to launch a
Speaker 1: Stadium World tour with Siza in April. At six oh five,
Speaker 1: it's handle on the news. Elon was in the oval
Speaker 1: with the President to talk about downsizing the federal government.
Speaker 1: Is going to tell us about that. Right now, let's
Speaker 1: say good morning to the host of Rich on Tech
Speaker 1: on KFI KTLA's tech reporter rich Demiro. Rich, I have
Speaker 1: to ask you a question before we dig into our topics.
Speaker 4: Today, Sure, and it's well if we have an answer.
Speaker 1: Well, I figured if anybody would, you would, and I'm
Speaker 1: guessing that other people may be having this issue too.
Speaker 1: So I've got my iPhone right and it's a Sure
Speaker 1: fifteen Max Pro and sometimes when I open the email,
Speaker 1: you get those little boxes with the question mark that's
Speaker 1: basically blocking the pictures. Is there a way to clear
Speaker 1: that out so they come up? Because sometimes if I
Speaker 1: restart the phone, they'll come up, but sometimes they just
Speaker 1: don't show up, and it's annoying.
Speaker 6: That sounds like it's a connection issue at the time.
Speaker 6: So if they come up afterwards, it might just be
Speaker 6: that you're in an area that it's not loading those pictures.
Speaker 4: That's the only thing I can think of off the
Speaker 4: top of my head.
Speaker 1: Okay, see Ice.
Speaker 4: But I'd have to send me a screenshot so I
Speaker 4: can investigate.
Speaker 1: I will do that. That's why we have see I
Speaker 1: use you as my personal tech issue guy. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about something that everybody can probably relate to, and
Speaker 1: that is that YouTube says that TVs have overtaken mobile
Speaker 1: for viewing, so we're watching less on our little phones
Speaker 1: and more on big screens.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't know about less. I don't think YouTube
Speaker 6: would want to say less on little phones, I think
Speaker 6: And here's the distinction here. So they're going by watch
Speaker 6: minutes and so if you ask me, of course you're
Speaker 6: going to be watching more on TV because you're watching longer, right,
Speaker 6: Like you're probably watching like longer form content on TV.
Speaker 6: So that makes it, you know, just overall, watch time
Speaker 6: is longer on TV than it is on mobile. But
Speaker 6: I still think people are on mobile a lot. But
Speaker 6: of course, you know this is all because of TikTok.
Speaker 6: You know, they're trying to position themselves as hey, we
Speaker 6: are still a force here, we are still very strong
Speaker 6: and YouTube is very important as by the way, they
Speaker 6: are celebrating twenty years this year, which oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: twenty years of YouTube, and so they talked about in
Speaker 6: this recent blog post. They just kind of go through
Speaker 6: all these things about how YouTube is such a big
Speaker 6: business and how content creation is so huge, and it's
Speaker 6: pretty wild because some of these creators, you know, they
Speaker 6: have studios and you know, a lot of staff. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's pretty wild how many businesses have been built on the.
Speaker 4: Back of YouTube, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Okay, I would rather watch it on a big screen.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of looking at stuff on my phone. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Do you ever get phone fatigue?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, No.
Speaker 6: Well it's funny because I'm kind of depends on the day,
Speaker 6: but sometimes I'm too lazy to turn on my TV
Speaker 6: to open up YouTube, so I will literally just go
Speaker 6: on my phone.
Speaker 1: And I do that with this with my computer. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I should go and look up this on my computer,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, but then I have to go
Speaker 1: into the other room and I can just do it here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're lazy, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, So for people who have multiple Apple accounts, a
Speaker 1: time of consolidation has arrived.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and this is kind of a big shift. So
Speaker 6: I don't know about you, But I've had two Apple
Speaker 6: accounts since like day one, because you didn't realize when
Speaker 6: you set up your original account just how much of
Speaker 6: your life would be linked to that account. And so
Speaker 6: when I set mine up, I use this random email address,
Speaker 6: and ever since then, because I started buying things on
Speaker 6: that account, I've had to stick to that one forever. Well,
Speaker 6: now they say if you have two Apple accounts with
Speaker 6: different purchases and things between them, Apple has a way
Speaker 6: for you to consolidate them, so you can actually move
Speaker 6: the content from one account to another. So pick your
Speaker 6: favorite and then you can go into Settings, Media and
Speaker 6: Purchases and tap view account and then there's like a
Speaker 6: new migrate purchases option, So basically you can move everything
Speaker 6: over to the new account or the you know, whichever
Speaker 6: account you prefer, and then you can use that from
Speaker 6: now on. So this is kind of a big shift
Speaker 6: because for many years it's been kind of tough to
Speaker 6: change things about your Apple account, including your email address.
Speaker 4: So I'm all for this.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, yeah, less is more in my opinion, And
Speaker 1: I just mentioned to Wake Up Call listeners that there
Speaker 1: is a reason that they need to get their news
Speaker 1: from us here on KFI and that's because AI gets
Speaker 1: it wrong. Sometimes it gets it wrong.
Speaker 6: A lot, And as someone who uses AI on a
Speaker 6: daily basis, my kid last night too, was just laughing
Speaker 6: at some of the things that it gets wrong, and
Speaker 6: it does it with confidence. And I think that's the
Speaker 6: scary part, is that you don't know if it's wrong
Speaker 6: unless you know what's wrong about it. BBC did a
Speaker 6: study and they looked at CHATCHBT Copilot from Microsoft, Gemini
Speaker 6: from Google, and Perplexity and they basically fed them stories
Speaker 6: from the BBC website and then kind of had journalists
Speaker 6: look and see what was right and what was wrong.
Speaker 6: And they said there were significant inaccuracies and distortions and
Speaker 6: if one percent of all AI answers to questions about
Speaker 6: the news had significant issues, nineteen percent of AI answers
Speaker 6: had factual errors.
Speaker 4: And who did the best, well, who did the worst?
Speaker 6: Microsoft's Copilot and Google's Gemini, Chat GPT and Perplexity did
Speaker 6: a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's a question for you, rich. If you
Speaker 1: say you want chat GPT to give you a news
Speaker 1: story or something, can you then ask the AI to
Speaker 1: fact check check itself.
Speaker 6: You can, Yes, you can, and it will go and
Speaker 6: take a second look on Google. They actually have this
Speaker 6: built in, so Google knew that this was a problem.
Speaker 6: And so if you look at any answer from Gemini,
Speaker 6: there is a little Google search button at the bottom
Speaker 6: and if you tap that, it will go through and
Speaker 6: fact check everything. So oh interesting, they changed it. They
Speaker 6: actually now it says double check response on Google, so
Speaker 6: if you tap that, it will then search Google for
Speaker 6: the response and highlight any inaccuracies or errors.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of smart in that aspect.
Speaker 6: With chat GBT, you could just ask to reconsider, say hey,
Speaker 6: can you check that, check those facts.
Speaker 4: And we'll go out and double check them that way.
Speaker 1: So he's kind of like Sanna making a list in
Speaker 1: checking it twice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but not automatically.
Speaker 6: So the reality is these things just come up with
Speaker 6: answers sometimes that they seem like they're right and they're not.
Speaker 1: Okay, so make sure to be careful you do double check, okay.
Speaker 1: KF tech guy is rich Demiro and you can hear
Speaker 1: him every Saturday from eleven to two right here. It's
Speaker 1: rich on Tech and you can also see him on KTLA.
Speaker 1: You can follow him on Instagram at rich on tech
Speaker 1: and you can get information about all the stuff he
Speaker 1: talks about on his website. Rich On tech dot TV.
Speaker 4: Thank you, rich Damuro, Thanks Amy, have a great day
Speaker 4: you too.
Speaker 1: A mix of snow, freezing rain, and ice from another
Speaker 1: big winter storm has causing a lot of trouble across
Speaker 1: parts of the East Coast. ABC's Eefany Ramo says there
Speaker 1: have been white out conditions in Virginia and up to
Speaker 1: a foot of snow.
Speaker 11: Multiple tractor trailers stranded along inner Streets eighty one and
Speaker 11: sixty four near Stanton, the governor declaring a state of emergency.
Speaker 11: Traffic cameras on I ninety five showing multiple accidents near Richmond.
Speaker 1: She says in Washington, d C. Snow has been falling
Speaker 1: at about an inch per hour. We're also expecting a
Speaker 1: lot of snow in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 1: Different storm, obviously. A man from Compton has pleaded not
Speaker 1: guilty to causing a multi vehicle crash that killed a
Speaker 1: Manhattan Beach Police motorcycle officer. Police Ay Raymond Sanders didn't
Speaker 1: secure boxes on his truck. The boxes fell off and
Speaker 1: that caused a crash with three other vehicles and motorcycle
Speaker 1: officer Chad Swanson. In October of twenty twenty three, Swanson
Speaker 1: was thrown from his bike and died. Sanders could face
Speaker 1: a year in jail if convicted. A thirty three year
Speaker 1: old man has pleaded no contest to charges that he
Speaker 1: pistol whipped a seventy one year old woman in her
Speaker 1: home in Beverly Grove and stole a bunch of her jewelry.
Speaker 1: Dylan Clinkey was immediately sentenced to ten years in state
Speaker 1: prison for the home invasion. In August of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: Wrapper Asap Rocky has decided not to testify in his
Speaker 1: gun assault trial. His defense rested yesterday without Rocky taking
Speaker 1: the stand. Asap is charged with two felony counts of
Speaker 1: assault with a semi automatic firearm. His lawyers say he
Speaker 1: was carrying a prop gun when a fight broke out
Speaker 1: on a street in Hollywood in November of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: National Weather Service meteorologist Ariel Cohen is urging people not
Speaker 1: to ignore the flood warning ahead of an atmospheric river storm.
Speaker 1: Cohen says there could be life threatening mud and debris
Speaker 1: flows in the wildfire burn areas from two pm tomorrow
Speaker 1: through Friday at two am, k Rail's sandbags and compost
Speaker 1: socks are being set up to try to minimize damage
Speaker 1: from flooding. The La County Board of Supervisors has approved
Speaker 1: a motion to increase the penalty for price gouging dirty
Speaker 1: states of emergency to a maximum of fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: per violation. Right now it's ten thousand. The vote comes
Speaker 1: following reports of landlords and businesses jacking up prices after
Speaker 1: the wildfires. Costco has become the latest retailer to limit
Speaker 1: egg purchases. Shoppers have been seen on video recently loading
Speaker 1: up carts with eggs, which are in short supply because
Speaker 1: of bird flu. Costco has been selling out at times
Speaker 1: after about ten minutes. Customers are now limited to three
Speaker 1: packages of eggs per day. At six oh five, it's
Speaker 1: handle on the news. Twenty four hundred new JFK assassination
Speaker 1: records have been discovered. What do they say? And will
Speaker 1: we get to see them? Bill, We'll tell you.
Speaker 3: AMI's on it, Dami's on this, AA's on it, Gami's
Speaker 3: on it?
Speaker 1: What am I on? I'm mostly on the stream shows movies, documentaries,
Speaker 1: and every once in a while step outside and go
Speaker 1: see a movie or read a book. But this week
Speaker 1: I'm on award nominated movies because we have the Academy
Speaker 1: Awards coming up on March second, and then the SAG
Speaker 1: Awards are in a couple of weekends. I think February
Speaker 1: twenty third is the date, and so I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that I, well, I am a SAG member,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to make sure that I see all
Speaker 1: the movies so I can make an informed decision when
Speaker 1: I cast my boat my vote. So this week I
Speaker 1: am on Amelia Perez. It's on Netflix, so if you
Speaker 1: have Netflix, you don't have to pay extra to see it.
Speaker 1: Some of the movies either aren't available yet on streaming
Speaker 1: or you have to rent them or buy them and
Speaker 1: they're up to like twenty bucks. But this one is
Speaker 1: included in your Netflix. Zoe Saldana, who's already won a
Speaker 1: Golden Globe for this movie. Selena Gomez is in it.
Speaker 1: Carla Sophia Gascone is in it, nominated for Best Actress.
Speaker 1: It's a musical, a musical and not like a happy
Speaker 1: Joy Joy musical, but it's a musical about a transgender journey.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like it's a story of regret and
Speaker 1: a hope for a new existence and a new future,
Speaker 1: and there it turns out there is dark redemption for
Speaker 1: Amelia Perez. So the movie looks into the cartels and
Speaker 1: it's really fascinating. I will tell you up front, I
Speaker 1: did not expect to like this movie, but it's it
Speaker 1: shows the cartels, what they do to people, how people
Speaker 1: don't really matter because it's all about the drug trade
Speaker 1: and takes a closer look at that and how people
Speaker 1: just are really collateral damage. And it was a lot
Speaker 1: more compelling and interesting that I thought it would be.
Speaker 1: It kind of sheds the light on how far reaching
Speaker 1: control of the cartels go in Mexico, how the drug
Speaker 1: trade is tied to every level of society. And this
Speaker 1: movie has lots of surprises, lots of unexpected plot twists.
Speaker 1: There are also some very uncomfortable moments when you are
Speaker 1: wondering if something is going to happen, and then that
Speaker 1: leads to something unexpected. So I do like when a
Speaker 1: movie kind of grips you and has you maybe not
Speaker 1: on the edge of your seat, but you're kind of
Speaker 1: sitting there going will is that going to happen? Is
Speaker 1: that going to happen, So it keeps you really engaged
Speaker 1: in that. And again, it's a it's a transgender journey.
Speaker 1: You know that from the get go that somebody's going
Speaker 1: to make the transition, and it's all about that, and
Speaker 1: obviously it's Carlo Sophia Gascon, but her transformation is fascinating
Speaker 1: in the movie. And then the big question is can
Speaker 1: a tiger change its stripes? I mean, can you can
Speaker 1: you teach an old dog nude trips tricks? And can
Speaker 1: there be a happy ending for someone who lived a
Speaker 1: very violent and tragic past. So it's going to also
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if the controversy over the old
Speaker 1: social media posts from Carlos Sophia Scone is going to
Speaker 1: keep SAG members and Academy members from voting for this movie.
Speaker 1: So she's pretty much been canceled. But is that going
Speaker 1: to spin over to the movie and what it can
Speaker 1: do now because voting is underway, you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: Zoe Saldona, Saldona who is nominated and she's already won
Speaker 1: a Golden Glo Globe and she does a great job.
Speaker 1: I mean, like everybody does a really good job in
Speaker 1: this movie. And it's a dark movie. And it's a musical,
Speaker 1: which is so counterintuitive, but it was a really good watch.
Speaker 1: I'm on it. I think you might want to be
Speaker 1: as well. Okay, let's get on to money stuff and
Speaker 1: check in with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney morning.
Speaker 13: We are sitting here looking at the Consumer Price Report
Speaker 13: this morning that just came out moments ago, and that's
Speaker 13: why we have you.
Speaker 3: And it was it was ugly.
Speaker 1: Now it was what happens well.
Speaker 13: This report is sponsored by Fidelity Wealth Management. Want to
Speaker 13: point that out first, but inflation has been more stubborn
Speaker 13: than expected.
Speaker 3: We talk about this all the time. I'm looking right
Speaker 3: at you.
Speaker 13: Eggs for consumer prices, which excludes food and energy, that
Speaker 13: increased three point three percent from a year ago, much
Speaker 13: more than what economists were expecting. Overall CPI, which has
Speaker 13: food and energy in the calculation, that's up by three percent.
Speaker 13: That was also more than estimate. So we're seeing these
Speaker 13: readings that were hotter than expected. Shelter costs that was
Speaker 13: a big driver, car insurance, airfares too. And of course
Speaker 13: I have to point out the egg index that rose
Speaker 13: by fifteen percent, the motions twenty fifteen that wasn't a surprise,
Speaker 13: but yeah, stocks are taking a dive after that. Dow
Speaker 13: futures right now down four hundred and thirty five points.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Corney, when you see big stuff like this
Speaker 1: and obviously a bad report and the stocks take a
Speaker 1: huge dive, people shouldn't panic, right.
Speaker 13: No, No, but this report is not looking all that
Speaker 13: good for the Federal Reserve, and it may stoke a
Speaker 13: lot of speculation out there that the potential next move
Speaker 13: from the Central Bank might be higher, not lowered, that
Speaker 13: they'd raise interest rates not drop them as we've been
Speaker 13: going through recently.
Speaker 3: And don't forget that fed shir J. Powell.
Speaker 13: He's on Capitol Hill for his second day of his
Speaker 13: marathon testimony. He speaks to the House, so I'm sure
Speaker 13: he's going to be addressing this situation today in this report,
Speaker 13: and I'm sure Congress is going to be asking him
Speaker 13: about this because this is definitely hitting us all in
Speaker 13: our pocketbooks, I think, more than what investors are seeing
Speaker 13: when we go to the gas station, when we go
Speaker 13: to the grocery store. Lots of people are feeling pain
Speaker 13: right now, and we could see it in reports like this.
Speaker 1: Okay, So someone who's not feeling pain is Drake because
Speaker 1: he's winning big when it comes to Dave's Out Chicken.
Speaker 13: Yes, yes, he may be losing to Kendrick Lamar in
Speaker 13: his feud, but he's looking like a winner with his
Speaker 13: investment in Dave's Hot Chicken. So the Fried Chicken chain
Speaker 13: and the Chicken chain's known for its Nashville Hot Chicken,
Speaker 13: which we love.
Speaker 3: It's said to be exploring a potential sale.
Speaker 13: It could value the company at about a billion dollars.
Speaker 13: That's according to Reuter's. So he came on as an
Speaker 13: investor back in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna he'll come out smelling like a rose
Speaker 1: on that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a lot of other big names are in
Speaker 3: this too, Samuel L. Jackson. I know Usher has a
Speaker 3: couple of.
Speaker 13: Franchises too, So there's gonna be a lot of people
Speaker 13: making some money on this if this is sold.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how can you go wrong when it comes to
Speaker 1: Hot Chicken? God, I love that stuff. Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. We get to talk to Courtney
Speaker 1: every day so she can keep us up on what's
Speaker 1: going on with our money. And we'll talk to her
Speaker 1: again tomorrow. Thanks Courtney, see you later. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Senate Republicans have met
Speaker 1: in private with Borders are Tom Holman and newly minted
Speaker 1: OMB director Russ Fott to talk about new funding to
Speaker 1: secure the border. Budget Committee Chairman Lindsay Graham says they
Speaker 1: made the case for a plan that would see one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five billion dollars over four years allocated
Speaker 1: to shoring up the border. After hearing these two gentlemen,
Speaker 1: we're living on board time.
Speaker 10: I've never been more worried about a terrorist attack on
Speaker 10: our homeland than I am now.
Speaker 1: It comes as the House and Senator working on but
Speaker 1: on a budget bill that would fund the government passed
Speaker 1: next month. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Natanielle, who is threatened
Speaker 1: to withdraw from the ceasefire with Hamas and less more
Speaker 1: hostages held in Gaza are released as scheduled on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Hamas has accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement and
Speaker 1: saying the release would be postponed. President Trump said this
Speaker 1: week that all the hostages should be released by noon
Speaker 1: on Saturday, not just a few at a time.
Speaker 9: Those people have been badly hurt, both mentally and physically.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the young women that came.
Speaker 12: Out also previously, and I think one of the reasons
Speaker 12: they're doing.
Speaker 10: This is because they're probably sending the best.
Speaker 1: So far, sixteen of thirty three hostages scheduled to be
Speaker 1: released in the current phase of the agreement have been
Speaker 1: freed by hamas some appeared emaciated. And we on a
Speaker 1: happier note, Monty the Giant Schnauzer has one Best in
Speaker 1: Show at the one hundred and forty ninth Westminster Kennel
Speaker 1: Club Dog Show. Monty beat out about twenty five hundred
Speaker 1: dogs for more than two hundred breeds to take the
Speaker 1: title at Madison Square Garden last night. And I didn't
Speaker 1: know this. They get ribbons and all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: they don't get a monetary win. It's just because for
Speaker 1: the love of dogs. I love that. A fast moving
Speaker 1: storm is moving on shore and is expected to dump
Speaker 1: up to six inches of rain in some parts of
Speaker 1: the state. Crews have been putting in k rails and
Speaker 1: creating troughs to divert rain that could trigger mud slides.
Speaker 1: And flooding, especially in the Palisades and eat and burn areas.
Speaker 1: Kanye West's website has been taken offline after he used
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl ad to try to sell swastika t
Speaker 1: shirts on its site. Shopify said the merchant did not,
Speaker 1: in its words, engage in authentic commerce practices and violated
Speaker 1: its terms, so it was removed from Shopify. Super Bowl
Speaker 1: ad followed a bunch of anti semitic posts on West
Speaker 1: social media last weekend. California lawmakers have introduced several bills
Speaker 1: to crack down on the sale of puppies from out
Speaker 1: of state puppy mills. Assembly Member Mark Berman says his
Speaker 1: bill would close the loophole in the state's pet retail
Speaker 1: band by preventing brokers from shipping or selling dogs to
Speaker 1: consumers in California. We're just minutes away from handle. On
Speaker 1: the news this morning, the Fair Insurance Plan says it
Speaker 1: needs a billion dollars. Guess who's going to be giving
Speaker 1: it to them. So we've had the fires, the floods
Speaker 1: could be coming, and so now it is time to
Speaker 1: bolt up. And it doesn't have anything to do with
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers joining wakeup call is the chief Mitigation
Speaker 1: officer for the California Earthquake Authority. Let's say good morning
Speaker 1: to Janille Mfay. Morning.
Speaker 9: Janille, good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for coming on. I know that we
Speaker 1: had talked about this in the past, but now this
Speaker 1: new program is becoming available starting tomorrow, and we want
Speaker 1: to get the word out so people take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: And it's going to help protect your home against an earthquake.
Speaker 9: It's right. The Earthquake Brace and Bolt program is open
Speaker 9: and ready for registrations. It's an important opportunity to make
Speaker 9: your house more resistant to earthquake damage.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's called earthquake Brace and Bolt. So tell
Speaker 1: us what exactly we need to do and what the
Speaker 1: money goes to. How do people make their homes safer? Right?
Speaker 9: So this is so very important for older houses, and
Speaker 9: to be more specific, if you have a pre nineteen
Speaker 9: eighty house, you might have this vulnerability. If you have
Speaker 9: a pre nineteen forty house, you do have this vulnerability.
Speaker 9: And it's the house that has a crawl space under it,
Speaker 9: under that first floor. And the older houses were just
Speaker 9: designed and built before we knew a lot about how
Speaker 9: buildings performed in earthquakes, and so it lacks bolting to
Speaker 9: the foundation and bracing around those short little walls around
Speaker 9: the crawl space, and this can be very, very devastating.
Speaker 9: These houses come off their foundation, not yet reoccupied, two
Speaker 9: and a half years later and you're out somewhere else,
Speaker 9: living somewhere else, all the while still paying that mortgage.
Speaker 9: So earthquake Brace and Bolt has some great retrofit schemes
Speaker 9: to make your house more protected in an earthquake.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Janelle, And it's as simple. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's not like I can't do it myself, but
Speaker 1: it's as simple as bolting the foundation and like putting
Speaker 1: the foundation and the house together so when there's a
Speaker 1: significant shaking, the house doesn't bounce off the foundation.
Speaker 9: That's exactly right. And you know, maybe Amy, you and
Speaker 9: I couldn't do it, but there are some talented do
Speaker 9: it yourselfers who actually can do this work. People who
Speaker 9: you have already got the tools of contractor can do
Speaker 9: this in two to three days. It's really it's all
Speaker 9: under the house, and nobody's patting around your house and
Speaker 9: little booties and that's exactly right. They're going under the
Speaker 9: house and they're putting bolts between the wood part of
Speaker 9: the house and the concrete foundation. And then they're putting plywood.
Speaker 9: If you've got those short little stud walls, they're putting
Speaker 9: plywood and nailing it up. Like everybody's heard the term
Speaker 9: shear wall. Just nice stiff plywood that's going to keep
Speaker 9: that house over its foundation.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you can get help doing this because obviously
Speaker 1: it's not going to be free, but the California Earthquake
Speaker 1: Authority can help you pay for this.
Speaker 9: It's exactly right. What we have are grants. These are
Speaker 9: not loans, they're grants, and on average it's about fifty
Speaker 9: two hundred dollars retrofit, a little bit less expensive actually
Speaker 9: in southern California, and we have an up to three
Speaker 9: thousand dollars grant that's our typical grant, and then very
Speaker 9: importantly for income qualifying households, we have an additional supplemental
Speaker 9: grant that down in southern California can help and for
Speaker 9: many people might pay for the entire retrofit. So very
Speaker 9: important also is that we have the rules, and the
Speaker 9: rules are that you do a code compliant retrofit. You
Speaker 9: do the entire cross space you do it with a permit,
Speaker 9: and you significantly increase the likelihood that house is going
Speaker 9: to stay on its foundation in an earthquake. Lots of information,
Speaker 9: Our rules are going to keep you right there at
Speaker 9: that code compliant retrofit, and that permit process will keep
Speaker 9: you on schedule, and it's a grant and really really
Speaker 9: increase the likelihood that you can shelter in place after
Speaker 9: an earthquake.
Speaker 1: I love that, so kind of an ounce of prevention.
Speaker 1: Spend a little bit now, a little bit of time,
Speaker 1: and hopefully get some grant to help you with it
Speaker 1: and save your house from probably hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars in damage. Where do they get more information, Janille?
Speaker 9: So Earthquake bracebolt dot com registration open until March twenty six,
Speaker 9: and we've got fantastic people the other end of a
Speaker 9: phone or email if you have questions.
Speaker 1: Okay, great Janille Mfi with the California Earthquake Authority, the
Speaker 1: chief Mitigation Officers. Such great information again, Earthquake brace Bolt.
Speaker 1: Find out if your house is going to get one
Speaker 1: of those grants to make your house more earthquakes safe.
Speaker 1: Thanks Janael, thank you, such good information. Just think about it.
Speaker 1: I mean even if you had to pay for the
Speaker 1: whole thing yourself, which she say, five thousand dollars, but
Speaker 1: it'll keep your whole house from bouncing off the foundation.
Speaker 1: I mean, think of how much money that is going
Speaker 1: to save you, and especially if you can get a
Speaker 1: grant and get it paid for. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. The LA School District has been sued
Speaker 1: over how it spent taxpayer approved money that was supposed
Speaker 1: to go to arts education. The suit, filed by former
Speaker 1: LA School's chief Austin Butner and others, claims the district
Speaker 1: repeatedly violated state law by misusing millions of dollars and
Speaker 1: misrepresenting how the money was spent. Voters approved money for
Speaker 1: arts education in schools in twenty twenty two. Hundreds of
Speaker 1: illegal swatting calls have been pinned on a guy from Lancaster.
Speaker 8: Eighteen year old Alan Fillion has been sentenced to four
Speaker 8: years in federal prison for making more than three hundred
Speaker 8: and seventy five fake calls to police that sent swat
Speaker 8: teams to churches, schools, and homes. Prosecutors say even set
Speaker 8: up a swatting for higher scheme looking to make money
Speaker 8: replaced all over the country over a fifteen month period,
Speaker 8: with Pillion making threats about bombs or mass shootings. He
Speaker 8: pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The attorney who represented the man whose beatings sparked the
Speaker 1: La riots, is heading to prison for tax evasion. A
Speaker 1: federal judge sentenced William Grimes to eighteen months for failing
Speaker 1: to pay almost two and a half million dollars in taxes.
Speaker 1: Grimes won a three point eight million dollars civil claim
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four on behalf of Rodney King. King
Speaker 1: died in twenty twelve. This is KFI and kost HD
Speaker 1: two Los Angeles, Orange County Southland weather from KFI rain
Speaker 1: with highs in the middubber fifties at the beaches Metro
Speaker 1: LA and Inland OC, mid fifties in the valleys and
Speaker 1: Inland Empire forties and fifties in the Antelote Valley. Rain
Speaker 1: continues tonight, then the rain becomes heavy at times with
Speaker 1: gusty winds. Tomorrow heisibly in the fifties to about sixty
Speaker 1: more rain on the way Friday should start tapering off
Speaker 1: by the afternoon and then for the week weekend partly
Speaker 1: to mostly cloudy. It's fifty four in Anaheim, fifty three
Speaker 1: in Redondo Beach, fifty three and Soritos, and fifty in
Speaker 1: Sherman Oaks. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your
Speaker 1: wake up call, and if you missed any wake up call,
Speaker 1: you missed a lot. You can listen anytime on the
Speaker 1: iHeart Radio app. Maybe get some tech advice from our
Speaker 1: tech guy, Rich Timuro, or find out how you can
Speaker 1: help get your house earthquake ready with the California Earthquake Authority.
Speaker 1: Get more information on that you've been listening to wake
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