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Speaker 1: This morning we get to talk to Colonel Nick Haig.
Speaker 1: He's a Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut, and last
Speaker 1: time we talked to him, he was live on the
Speaker 1: International Space Station. Now he's got his feet back on
Speaker 1: the ground and he's gonna come visit wake up call
Speaker 1: that's happening a little bit later this hour, so please
Speaker 1: do stick around. Can't wait to talk to him about
Speaker 1: his adventures and a spacewalk and you know, like everything
Speaker 1: that is just something that none of us get to
Speaker 1: experience except for you know, a handful of people on
Speaker 1: this planet. I'm just so excited to have Colonel Hag
Speaker 1: back with us again. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Speaker 1: Stock futures are down this morning after a huge bounce
Speaker 1: back on Wall Street. The Dow gained more than twenty
Speaker 1: nine hundred points yesterday following President Trump's announcement that a
Speaker 1: ninety pause was being put on tariffs for everyone except China.
Speaker 1: The President announced tariffs against China would increase to one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five percent. A US Russian national from
Speaker 1: Los Angeles has been freed in a prisoner swap between
Speaker 1: the US and Russia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says
Speaker 1: Ballerina Casina Krolina is on her way back to the US.
Speaker 1: Garolina was serving a twelve year sentence after being convicted
Speaker 1: of treason last year for making a fifty two dollars
Speaker 1: donation to a charity aiding Ukraine. Construction on the first
Speaker 1: house to be rebuilt following the fire in Pacific Palisades
Speaker 1: is underway. Mayor Bass toured the construction site yesterday. She
Speaker 1: said for those who want to rebuild, she's looking at
Speaker 1: what permit fees can be waived. Sixty eight hundred homes, businesses,
Speaker 1: and other buildings burned down in the Palisades fire in January.
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho joins us a little earlier than normal
Speaker 1: this morning. She's going to be with us at five
Speaker 1: point twenty. We will of course be talking about the
Speaker 1: near history day on Wall Street, the Dow closing, of
Speaker 1: course up more than twenty nine hundred points. We're gonna
Speaker 1: also go to check in with ABC's Karen Travers and
Speaker 1: talk to why the President announced those ninety day tariffs,
Speaker 1: and then, of course, at the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: Colonel hag Fresh office six months in space leading the
Speaker 1: Crew nine mission to the International Space Station. Let's get
Speaker 1: started with some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As construction to rebuild the
Speaker 1: Palisades gets underway, La Mayor Bass says she's looking at
Speaker 1: ways to ease traffic congestion around the burn area in
Speaker 1: the Palisades. Speaking to KTLA outside of home where construction
Speaker 1: has begun, Bass says she's got some ideas, so we're
Speaker 1: looking at a lot of options.
Speaker 6: Maybe we do the debris removal at night, maybe we
Speaker 6: have some of the trucks go at night.
Speaker 1: So we're examining all of that right now. Bass was
Speaker 1: in the Palisades to visit with a homeowner who has
Speaker 1: received a permit to rebuild. She says she's also looking
Speaker 1: at which permit fees can be waived as rebuilding efforts
Speaker 1: pick up. LA. School district officials say federal officials, we
Speaker 1: weren't allowed to go into two elementary schools this week.
Speaker 1: The district says the Homeland Security Department officials were denied
Speaker 1: entry to the Lillian Street and Russell Elementary Schools. Both
Speaker 1: schools are in South LA. The feds are jumping into
Speaker 1: the homeless problem in the Southland.
Speaker 2: US Attorney Bill A. Saley and US District Judge David
Speaker 2: Carter visited LA's skid row. As Salely tells kfi's Tim
Speaker 2: Comway Junior, his office has begun an investigation into how
Speaker 2: money for homeless programs has been spent in the area.
Speaker 3: All we know right now is that there's at least
Speaker 3: two billion dollars that's unaccounted for voting to an audit
Speaker 3: that was just conducted last month, and that's not a rounding, era.
Speaker 2: Judge Carter ordered an audit of the LA Homeless Services
Speaker 2: Authority and the City of LA's homeless spending. Saley says
Speaker 2: it found the more than two billion dollars had been
Speaker 2: poorly accounted for with limited evidence of results. Michael Krozer
Speaker 2: KFI News.
Speaker 1: Today is Delores Horta Day in LA. The La County
Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors voted to honor the legendary lab and
Speaker 1: civil rights activist's ninety fifth birthday. She was born April tenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty in New Mexico and moved to Stockton as
Speaker 1: a child. She co founded the United farm Workers' Union
Speaker 1: with Caesar Chavez. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Speaker 1: Karen Travers. So, Karen, if there's one predictable thing about
Speaker 1: President Trumpet said, He's unpredictable.
Speaker 7: Yes, And you know, this is a complete reversal from
Speaker 7: what he had said on Monday, where he told my
Speaker 7: colleague Mary Bruce that he was not looking at a
Speaker 7: pause on tariffs to allow for negotiations. And that's exactly
Speaker 7: what he did yesterday. His team said yesterday that this
Speaker 7: was the strategy all along, that this was the president's
Speaker 7: negotiating strategy. But the President then undercut that message by
Speaker 7: saying that he was looking at the markets, that he
Speaker 7: saw people getting a little yippie, a little afraid, and
Speaker 7: that the markets were looking a little glum over the
Speaker 7: last few days, and that that was driving his decision
Speaker 7: to put this pause in place.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what exactly happened? And why does he say
Speaker 1: that he did it. I mean, you said that it
Speaker 1: was because they were yippie.
Speaker 7: That's what he said. I mean his reason yesterday was
Speaker 7: because of the markets, That's what he said. His advisor
Speaker 7: said it was because countries were reaching out to negotiate.
Speaker 7: But we asked him on Monday, why not put a
Speaker 7: pause in place before they go into effect? Because countries
Speaker 7: had already started reaching out to negotiate at that point.
Speaker 7: Why not not move forward with it and just do negotiations.
Speaker 7: Why announce it last week when you know you could
Speaker 7: have had negotiations already. But the President said, you know, no,
Speaker 7: we're full steam ahead. He wasn't looking at a pause.
Speaker 7: The tariffs went into effect. They were in effect for
Speaker 7: thirteen hours before the President announced this reversal, and the
Speaker 7: reasons he cited yesterday all related to the stock market. Okay,
Speaker 7: and the bond market, I should say, okay.
Speaker 1: And then the big exception to pausing all the tariffs
Speaker 1: is China.
Speaker 7: Yes, China now has one hundred and twenty five percent
Speaker 7: tariff all goods coming into the US from China. China
Speaker 7: has retaliated significant teriffs on US goods. They've also said
Speaker 7: this morning that they're going to limit the number of
Speaker 7: Hollywood films that will be shown in China as a
Speaker 7: way to strike back at you know, American cultural exports
Speaker 7: as well. And this is showing no signs of flowing
Speaker 7: down that Chinese have not engaged at all with the
Speaker 7: White House. Despite the White House please to reach out,
Speaker 7: let's talk, let's have negotiations, they're not doing that. They
Speaker 7: have said they're going to fight this to the end,
Speaker 7: and that the United States trade policy right now amounts
Speaker 7: to economic bullying. So it's not clear where this goes,
Speaker 7: Like what's the end in sight here when it comes
Speaker 7: to China. One thing though, is that like this could
Speaker 7: grind trade between the two countries to a halt.
Speaker 1: Okay, and there's a lot of it. I mean that's
Speaker 1: a huge amount of.
Speaker 7: Trade, Okay, significant amount of trade. And also you know
Speaker 7: you think, well, you as a consumer. People out there
Speaker 7: by a lot of products, and then you think of
Speaker 7: the materials that go into things for small businesses, a
Speaker 7: lot of that comes from China, and that's the significant
Speaker 7: concern for companies that are, you know, getting parts and things.
Speaker 7: People that have already placed orders at this point, they've
Speaker 7: already paid for things and now they're on their way here.
Speaker 7: They've bought their stuff whatever that is. Well, should say widgets.
Speaker 7: You know, you bought one hundred dollars of widgets and
Speaker 7: now that widget when it gets offloaded at the ports
Speaker 7: in California, is going to have an additional one hundred
Speaker 7: and twenty five dollars charge to it. You didn't factor
Speaker 7: that in when you made your business plan.
Speaker 3: What are you going to do?
Speaker 1: Right? And what happens if you don't accept the shipment?
Speaker 1: I mean, I just could imagine at the ports it
Speaker 1: could be kind of a nightmare.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, I mean it's going to be. And that's
Speaker 7: all coming in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Okay, and we will be watching it because, as we
Speaker 1: were just talking about the everything changes so quickly these days,
Speaker 1: kind of hard to keep track of it. But thank
Speaker 1: you for helping us make sense of it. Karen Travers,
Speaker 1: have a great day, all right, you too. Let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. House Speaker Mike Johnson has
Speaker 1: delayed a vote on President Trump's budget bill. The bill,
Speaker 1: which passed the Senate, includes tax cuts, more immigration enforcement,
Speaker 1: more defense spending, and a higher debt limit. The House
Speaker 1: was set to vote last night, but some Republicans opposed it,
Speaker 1: mainly because the Senate's version only includes four billion dollars
Speaker 1: in spending cuts. The House wants up to two trillion
Speaker 1: in cuts. The vote's been pushed back to today at
Speaker 1: the earliest. The Department of Homeland Security says the Trump
Speaker 1: administration will keep deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador.
Speaker 1: ABC's Matt Rivers says they're being held in a notorious prison.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why it's become known as infamous.
Speaker 4: It is an incredibly harsh place, is brutal. Frankly, it
Speaker 4: is depressing, and it is designed to be that way.
Speaker 1: He says. It was built as part of the El
Speaker 1: Salvador government's push to clean up crime in that country.
Speaker 1: Forty five thousand pounds of cocaine worth a half billion
Speaker 1: dollars has been seized by the Coast Guard in Florida.
Speaker 1: Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Coastguard used drones, aircraft
Speaker 1: and ships to ter intercept the traffickers leading to the
Speaker 1: bus yesterday.
Speaker 3: What they did saved countless American lives.
Speaker 1: Countless lives.
Speaker 5: This cocaine would have been distributed throughout our country and
Speaker 5: perhaps throughout our world.
Speaker 1: Bondi says the drugs originated from Mexican cartels. Eleven people
Speaker 1: have been arrested in connection with the bust. The Supreme
Speaker 1: Court has reversed a lower court ruling that ordered the
Speaker 1: Trump administration to reinstate two heads of watchdog agencies. The
Speaker 1: High Court says it will hear arguments from the lawyers
Speaker 1: for the head of the National Labor Relations Board and
Speaker 1: the Merit Systems Protection Board on why they should be
Speaker 1: allowed to keep their positions. The search for survivors of
Speaker 1: the nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic is over,
Speaker 1: and victim recovery efforts are now underway. ABC's Victor Akendo
Speaker 1: says the death toll is at at least two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighteen.
Speaker 4: Just an incredibly difficult scene. Here outside of the jets
Speaker 4: at nightclub.
Speaker 6: You can see where the roof collapse.
Speaker 3: There's all that heavy machinery.
Speaker 1: He says. At least one American has died ahead of
Speaker 1: the trial in the Idaho college killings. The defense is
Speaker 1: pushing for the death penalty to be taken off the
Speaker 1: table because of Brian Cooberger's autism spectrum disorder. At a
Speaker 1: pre trial hearing yesterday, Judge Stephen Hipler said he didn't
Speaker 1: think that's relevant.
Speaker 3: Stay should not make the general argument that somehow the
Speaker 3: diagnosis is an aggravating factor.
Speaker 1: The trial is set to start later this summer. Flying
Speaker 1: could soon become less stressful.
Speaker 6: American Airlines is teaming up with Customs and Border Protection
Speaker 6: on a plan. They say we'll make international flights move
Speaker 6: more quickly. Passengers would no longer pick up their bags
Speaker 6: when they arrive and then recheck them for a domestic
Speaker 6: connecting flight. Instead, the luggage would be transferred automatically. The
Speaker 6: carrier says this will enhance safety. The pilot program will
Speaker 6: be tested on flights from Sydney to Los Angeles, dep
Speaker 6: remark KFFI.
Speaker 1: News speaking of airlines Delta Airlines has pulled its financial
Speaker 1: outlook for this year, saying it's because of concerns about
Speaker 1: where global trade is headed. Virgin Atlantic is cutting back
Speaker 1: its scheduled flights from London to New York and Seattle
Speaker 1: this winter. The travel and tourism industry is a big
Speaker 1: part of the US economy. It contributed more than two
Speaker 1: trillion dollars in twenty twenty two. It also supports more
Speaker 1: than nine million jobs. You'll soon be paying more to
Speaker 1: wish people happy birthday, happy anniversary, or congratulations the old
Speaker 1: fashioned way. The Postal Service is raising the price of
Speaker 1: a first class stamp from seventy three oh I believe
Speaker 1: seventy eight percent Tito there sorry. Postcard stamps will go
Speaker 1: up from fifty six to sixty two cents. The USPS
Speaker 1: says prices are still among the most affordable in the world.
Speaker 1: Two La City council committees have advanced a plan to
Speaker 1: hike trash collection fees by more than fifty percent. If
Speaker 1: it's approved by the city council on Friday, it would
Speaker 1: be the first increase in seventeen years. Cities looking for
Speaker 1: ways to raise revenues as it faces a nearly billion
Speaker 1: dollar budget shortfall. A fifth person has died following a
Speaker 1: high speed crash into a tree in Santa Anna. Authority
Speaker 1: say a thirteen year old girl, who was on life
Speaker 1: support following the crash late Saturday night, has succumbed to
Speaker 1: her injuries. Most of the people killed were teenagers. Police
Speaker 1: are still investigating what led to the deadly crash. Pope
Speaker 1: Francis has met privately with King Charles the Third and
Speaker 1: Queen Camilla at the Vatican. The royal couple is in
Speaker 1: Italy to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. It was the
Speaker 1: first confirmed meeting for the Pope since he returned to
Speaker 1: the Vatican after spending five weeks in the hospital with
Speaker 1: life threatening double pneumonia at six zho five. It's handle
Speaker 1: on the news, was it art of the deal or
Speaker 1: a fix because of a falling stock market. Bill's going
Speaker 1: to be talking about the huge gains on Wall Street
Speaker 1: following the president's announcement of a ninety day pause in tariffs. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we had to switch stuff up a little bit
Speaker 1: this morning because we get to talk to Colonel Nick Haig,
Speaker 1: a NASA Astronaut Space Force guardian. We've talked to him
Speaker 1: several times as he was getting ready for his trip
Speaker 1: to the International Space Station. And then we were so
Speaker 1: lucky we got to talk to him while he was
Speaker 1: on the International Space Station. And now he's back on Earth,
Speaker 1: so we're going to be talking to him in about
Speaker 1: ten minutes. And so we moved Courtney Donaho, Bloomberg's Business Specialist,
Speaker 1: Getting In Your Business, to five twenty. But maybe she
Speaker 1: didn't get the message because we haven't heard from Courtney,
Speaker 1: so we're going to try to reach out to her.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot to talk about with his stock market. Man,
Speaker 1: was that crazy? When President Trump announced the pause and
Speaker 1: tariffs at about ten o'clock yesterday Actually it was just
Speaker 1: about ten fifteen yesterday morning, and immediately the stocks shot
Speaker 1: up and ended the day up for Dow twenty nine
Speaker 1: hundred points. Right now the Dow futures are down like
Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty one points or down. Now it's
Speaker 1: down five point fifty nine, so maybe things are looking
Speaker 1: a little better. But now we have Courtney Donahoe, So
Speaker 1: glad you could join us early. We're Getting in Your
Speaker 1: Business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks so much for joining
Speaker 1: us early today. Courtney. I guess the only thing we
Speaker 1: can say is buckle up. We were just talking while
Speaker 1: we were waiting to connect with you about the crazy
Speaker 1: day it was on Wall Street.
Speaker 8: Oh my goodness, it was unbelievable. All the tariff twists
Speaker 8: and turns continue with the President announcing that ninety day
Speaker 8: tariff pause. The New York Stock Exchange actually exploded in
Speaker 8: huge roar as the news hit, but Wall Street was
Speaker 8: practically begging for some relief, and yesterday traders got it,
Speaker 8: with the S and P five hundred, ending the day
Speaker 8: up nine and a half percent. Now this morning, it's
Speaker 8: not looking so good. It's looking pretty rough out there,
Speaker 8: looking at Dow futures down five hundred eighty eight points,
Speaker 8: SMP futures falling one point nine percent. But kind of
Speaker 8: buried in all of this news in just a few
Speaker 8: minutes from now. And why I kind of have to
Speaker 8: jump here is the March consumer price report is going
Speaker 8: to be on an economisty. Inflation likely stepped down last month,
Speaker 8: but the information it contains is somewhat stale compared to
Speaker 8: some of the big economic policy changes that came in
Speaker 8: the past week.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you have to jump, yes, I do. It's
Speaker 1: so busy here today. I'm sorry, well, and we appreciate you,
Speaker 1: you know, adjusting your schedule. So we'll be watching and
Speaker 1: see what happens, and then we'll talk to you tomorrow
Speaker 1: and get a recap of everything. Exactly, exactly. Have a
Speaker 1: great day to all right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in
Speaker 1: your business in an abbreviated version today, I would imagine
Speaker 1: if you have anything to do with the financial industry,
Speaker 1: things are a little hectic. It's crazy. Okay, let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPD says it's looking
Speaker 1: for a father who allegedly abducted his nine year old
Speaker 1: daughter and seven year old son in Silmar after he
Speaker 1: lost custody. The children were last seen at their elementary
Speaker 1: school around eleven am on Tuesday. He was picked up
Speaker 1: by their father, who's Ukrainian. Police say Rhodian Colomets was
Speaker 1: presumed to be driving a twenty sixteen gray Toyota Prius
Speaker 1: with California license plate ending In nine six six, a
Speaker 1: man is dead after confronting shoplifters in a parking lot
Speaker 1: in South Almani. The man's brother, Yamshid Yagoubi, says it
Speaker 1: all happened really fast yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 7: It was three guys.
Speaker 5: Two was in the car. They opened the door, they
Speaker 5: come out and one of them they punched my brother.
Speaker 7: He go down.
Speaker 1: The sixty year old man was helping at his brother's stores.
Speaker 1: No arrests have been made and police have not at
Speaker 1: least a description of the shoplifters who got away in
Speaker 1: their car. Plans to expand the La Convention Center have
Speaker 1: been approved by the full city Council.
Speaker 4: The project is estimated to cost more than two billion dollars,
Speaker 4: but city council wants that price tag and other risks
Speaker 4: to come down. Councilman Isabelle Herado says the city can't
Speaker 4: wait any longer to improve its outdated center.
Speaker 6: Moving forward with this project, albeit cautiously and responsibly, will
Speaker 6: help us regain our competitive bitch.
Speaker 4: Plans to revitalize the Convention Center seemed dead earlier this
Speaker 4: year because of the city's financial condition. Now the plan
Speaker 4: is for a phased approach, with work done until the
Speaker 4: Olympics had been finished. After the games. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Some Democrats say they want Congress to investigate if anyone
Speaker 1: may have known about President Trump's tariff moves in advance.
Speaker 1: ABC Jurine Shaw says they want to know if anyone
Speaker 1: may have benefited from the drastic market shifts.
Speaker 5: About six trillion wiped out from the S and P
Speaker 5: five hundred, a major selloff in American bonds led by
Speaker 5: China and Japan.
Speaker 1: Some experts belief could have swayed the president. The Dow Jones,
Speaker 1: S and P five hundred, and NASDAK all reversed their
Speaker 1: losses yesterday. Amazon says it's canceling orders for a lot
Speaker 1: of products made in China and other Asian countries so
Speaker 1: it won't have to pay tariffs on them. The products
Speaker 1: are mainly summer things like beach chairs, air conditioners, and scooters.
Speaker 1: You know the things we need during the summer. Bloomberg says.
Speaker 1: One company that's been selling Chinese made beach chairs to
Speaker 1: Amazon for years got an email from the online merchandiser
Speaker 1: saying it was canceling its orders and not to ship them.
Speaker 1: Calfires urging residents cross the state to take precautions as
Speaker 1: peak wildfire season approaches. California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade
Speaker 1: Crawfoot says the government is ready and the public needs
Speaker 1: to be too.
Speaker 9: The state, federal, local partner sets remain intensely focused on
Speaker 9: helping these communities are recover and rebuild and protecting Californians
Speaker 9: from catastrophic wildfire. Remember, everybody has a role to play.
Speaker 1: Grofoot says. The fires in the Palisades and Altadena have
Speaker 1: shown the importance of being prepared. He says home hardening
Speaker 1: and having defensible space are among the most important preparations.
Speaker 1: CalFire does offer a fire planner tool, It's at readyfor
Speaker 1: Wildfire dot org. The president of the La Urban Policy
Speaker 1: Task Force is calling on police to do something about
Speaker 1: what he calls the epidemic of hit and runs in
Speaker 1: South LA. Earl Offari Hutchison is asking police to set
Speaker 1: up a task force to help prosecute what he calls
Speaker 1: hit and run murders. Half dozen people have been killed
Speaker 1: in hit and run recks in South LA in just
Speaker 1: the last three months. A new bill could make it
Speaker 1: harder to force people in California government to keep secrets
Speaker 1: from the public.
Speaker 5: A build to block non disclosure agreements in the government
Speaker 5: is moving forward in the Legislature AB thirteen seventy's goal
Speaker 5: is to update California's Political Reform Act of nineteen seventy
Speaker 5: four to prohibit lawmakers from signing or asking others to
Speaker 5: sign NDAs. An exception can be made for NDA's used
Speaker 5: to shield information for private businesses. The bill's text states
Speaker 5: a violation of the Act as nishable as a misdemeanor.
Speaker 5: Experts say the use of NDAs in government is a
Speaker 5: violation of the First Amendment that limits free speech and
Speaker 5: freedom of the press. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1: As construction gets underway on the first house destroyed in
Speaker 1: the fires and Pacific Palisades, La Marebeth's roads are going
Speaker 1: to be packed with big trucks. Trucks moving debris out
Speaker 1: have been clogging streets. She says. One thing to look
Speaker 1: at is having the trucks only move at night, but
Speaker 1: that could result in a lot of noise for people
Speaker 1: who still live in the area, So they're still trying
Speaker 1: to figure that one out. LA City Council's voted to
Speaker 1: move forward with plans to modernize the La Convention Center.
Speaker 1: The project would connect the South Hall and West Hall
Speaker 1: above Pico Boulevard with a new building. A new study
Speaker 1: suggests hearing loss can increase your risk of heart failure.
Speaker 1: Researchers at uk Biobanks say they found that those with
Speaker 1: mild hearing issues had a fifteen percent increased risk. If
Speaker 1: they were poor hearing, that was a twenty eight percent
Speaker 1: increased risk of heart failure. We've got Handle on the
Speaker 1: news coming up at six oh five. Of course he's
Speaker 1: going to be talking tariffs in the stock market a
Speaker 1: whole lot more. But right now we have a very
Speaker 1: special treat we'd like to say good morning to NASA
Speaker 1: astronaut and Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, the first
Speaker 1: Space Force Guardian ever on the International Space Station, the
Speaker 1: commander of the Crew nine mission. Colonel Haig, I'm guessing
Speaker 1: you hear this a lot, but welcome home.
Speaker 3: Thanks Amy, it's great to be with you this morning.
Speaker 1: So you spent one hundred and seventy one days in space,
Speaker 1: you did a space walk, you had a successful splashdown
Speaker 1: obviously back down on Earth along with Alex and of
Speaker 1: course Sonny Williams and Butch Willmore. It's been an exciting
Speaker 1: six months. How are you and everybody doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's hard to believe the six months
Speaker 3: goes by really fast, and you know, we're back on
Speaker 3: the ground and just over three weeks back in gravity
Speaker 3: and adjusting and everything's going pretty good.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I want to ask you about that gravity
Speaker 1: because we saw you when the capsules splashed down and
Speaker 1: saw you come out of the capsule with a pretty
Speaker 1: big smile on your face. Can you tell us what
Speaker 1: you were feeling at that moment and what it feels
Speaker 1: like to go from weightlessness to full on gravity gravity
Speaker 1: in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the smile coming out of the capsule
Speaker 3: is just the thrill of you've just re entered. You've
Speaker 3: gone from seventeen thousand, five hundred miles an hour down
Speaker 3: to zero, and we do that by writing in the
Speaker 3: center of essentially a fireball. And then you know, the
Speaker 3: adrenaline rush from that experience, and then watching your parachutes
Speaker 3: open and landing safely. You're just ecstatic to be home.
Speaker 3: And so there's a lot of that going on. But
Speaker 3: then you're also starting to realize, hey, you know, gravity's
Speaker 3: real and I've been able to ignore it for the
Speaker 3: last six months. You're strong, you know you can stand up,
Speaker 3: you can carry your own weight, but your sense of
Speaker 3: balance is really not there, and so that's why they
Speaker 3: pull us out. They put us on ajourney, they wheel
Speaker 3: us around. You know, so the first day or so,
Speaker 3: somebody is there making sure that when we're walking, we
Speaker 3: don't we don't stumble. But after a few days the
Speaker 3: body snaps back. It is just truly amazing how adaptable
Speaker 3: our bodies are.
Speaker 1: Okay, so when you say that that it's hard because
Speaker 1: your balance is off, do you have sort of like
Speaker 1: a vertigo feeling, or just you're just not used to
Speaker 1: having to balance.
Speaker 3: You haven't used that part of your brain, you know,
Speaker 3: your inner ear you've kind of ignored for the last
Speaker 3: six months while you've been in space. And then when
Speaker 3: you get down on the ground, you know, if I
Speaker 3: stand up and close my eyes, my mind really doesn't
Speaker 3: know how to figure out which ways up and which
Speaker 3: ways down, and so you get a little bit off
Speaker 3: balance and then gravity takes over. So you've just got
Speaker 3: to be really careful. But like I said, it's amazing
Speaker 3: because you know, I'll take a nap, wake up, and
Speaker 3: there's this just huge increase in the amounts that my
Speaker 3: body has already adapted. And so over the course of
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, you're you know, you're pretty close to
Speaker 3: having your balance back. Even within the first six hours
Speaker 3: or so, you go from needing somebody to hold your
Speaker 3: arm everywhere you go to being able to walk on your.
Speaker 1: Own, okay. And then I was trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what that might feel like, you know, like we were
Speaker 1: talking about going from no gravity to having full gravity
Speaker 1: and having to deal with that, and I was I
Speaker 1: was like, would it be sort of like when they
Speaker 1: put those weighted vests on you when you get X
Speaker 1: rays at the dentist and then you have to walk
Speaker 1: around all day with one on? Does it do you
Speaker 1: have that heavy feeling or what does it feel like?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, when you described it perfectly, it's like
Speaker 3: you're wearing this body suit that adds just this excessive
Speaker 3: amount of weight. Everything feels like it's twenty pounds heavier
Speaker 3: than it should be, and so just lifting your arm
Speaker 3: takes effort, or or moving your head takes effort, and
Speaker 3: it feels strange because it, you know, for the last
Speaker 3: six months it's taken no effort, and then slowly, over
Speaker 3: the course of a couple of days, that just becomes
Speaker 3: your new normal, and you know, I've been back just
Speaker 3: over three weeks, and you know, after I get off
Speaker 3: the off the call with you, I'm going to go
Speaker 3: over and continue with my reconditioning and my strength and
Speaker 3: conditioning coaches are going to have me, you know, running
Speaker 3: and lifting and doing all the things that you would
Speaker 3: expect somebody to be doing, you know, just trying to
Speaker 3: stay in shape. And so we bounce back so fast.
Speaker 1: Okay, And when you were up on the space station,
Speaker 1: weren't you exercising a couple hours a day.
Speaker 3: Yes, at two and a half hours a day every day. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you come you come back so much stronger. You know,
Speaker 3: I came back stronger than when I launched because I
Speaker 3: was lifting every day, and so the big muscles, the
Speaker 3: you know, my skeleton remains you know strong, My big
Speaker 3: muscles remain strong. The real challenge is all of the
Speaker 3: little muscles that stabilize everything and keep all my joints
Speaker 3: in the right position. Those are a little bit you know,
Speaker 3: those are a little bit atrophied. And so we spend
Speaker 3: a good forty five days after we land getting all
Speaker 3: of those conditions so that my joints go back to
Speaker 3: the right positions that they're supposed to be in uh,
Speaker 3: and you've got to be really patient because you're strong,
Speaker 3: so I can go and out, you know, outperform those
Speaker 3: and end up hurting myself. So it's it's a very
Speaker 3: regimented program.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, And are you taller too. I've heard that
Speaker 1: some astronauts come back taller.
Speaker 3: So I came back taller and then I lost it all.
Speaker 3: Gravity took it away, so it.
Speaker 1: Was short lived. Okay, I want to go back up
Speaker 1: into space for a second.
Speaker 3: I want to.
Speaker 1: We'll talk in a minute about like what you were
Speaker 1: doing on the space station and stuff. But the whole
Speaker 1: journey is so fascinating to me. We followed when you
Speaker 1: undocked from the space station, when you were finally ready
Speaker 1: to go home, and there's this pretty large lag time
Speaker 1: between when you separate from the station and when you
Speaker 1: re enter the Earth's atmosphere. How long was that and
Speaker 1: what do you do during that time?
Speaker 3: So it was seventeen hours for us, It varies depending.
Speaker 3: The reason there's that delay is you're waiting essentially for
Speaker 3: the alignment of your orbit and the position of your
Speaker 3: capsule to line up with your target for your splash down,
Speaker 3: and depending on where the station is when you undock,
Speaker 3: that could change anywhere from seven hours to forty hours,
Speaker 3: and that's just orbital dynamics, and so what do you
Speaker 3: do during that time. We had a fairly long day
Speaker 3: prior to undocking, and so as soon as we undocked,
Speaker 3: we got our suits off and got into some comfortable
Speaker 3: clothes and we all went to bed, and so we
Speaker 3: slept solid eight hours and then we got up and
Speaker 3: we still had a lot of time, and so we
Speaker 3: did what you might expect a crew coming home from
Speaker 3: space would do. We were glued to the windows, looking out, enjoying,
Speaker 3: you know, the last views we have, you know, for
Speaker 3: the foreseeable future of the you know, the night sky
Speaker 3: and all the stars and galaxies and looking down on
Speaker 3: the Earth during the daytime and just trying to soak
Speaker 3: it in as much as we could.
Speaker 1: That's so great. And then for the re entry again
Speaker 1: we're talking to Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who
Speaker 1: just returned from the International Space Station. For the re entry,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to be nerve wracking because you're
Speaker 1: still going thousands of miles an hour, and then when
Speaker 1: you do the entry, you're super heated. You're basically like
Speaker 1: you said, a big fireball, Like, what does that feel like?
Speaker 1: Do you guys? Are you guys talking and joking during
Speaker 1: that time? Are you just kind of holding on? I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you do during that time? And what does
Speaker 1: it feel like?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So, you know, the first when you're in the space station,
Speaker 3: you're four hundred kilometers two hundred and fifty miles above
Speaker 3: the surface of the Earth, and so as the Earth
Speaker 3: goes by below, because I mean, you're really traveling over
Speaker 3: the Earth, but you see it as the Earth going
Speaker 3: by below, you don't really realize what five miles a
Speaker 3: second means in terms of speed. But once you start
Speaker 3: to descend the lower we really don't slow down until
Speaker 3: we start to get into the thick part of the atmosphere,
Speaker 3: or a thicker part of the atmosphere. So that's four
Speaker 3: hundred kilometers down to about eighty kilometers. At that point,
Speaker 3: all those clouds that look really small start to look
Speaker 3: really big and they are screaming by the windows, and
Speaker 3: so you get this sense of we are going really fast.
Speaker 3: And then the air starts to impact our heat shield
Speaker 3: and that drag builds up and you can kind of
Speaker 3: feel the rumble the vibration. You know, we've spent the
Speaker 3: time leading up to this kind of turning the air
Speaker 3: conditioner on, if you will, to max to try to
Speaker 3: get it as cool as we can inside, because that
Speaker 3: that aerodynamic heat, that that friction from all that drag
Speaker 3: is going to start to heat up all the atmosphere
Speaker 3: around the capsule, heat up our each shield, and essentially
Speaker 3: it creates a fireball around us that's about three thousand
Speaker 3: degrees and we're in the center of that, in the
Speaker 3: calm the eye of the storm, and you what we
Speaker 3: feel is essentially just G. So we get squashed into
Speaker 3: our seat and it goes from six months of not
Speaker 3: feeling anything and floating to all of a sudden, the
Speaker 3: G meter reads point zero one g's or point zero
Speaker 3: two by the time it gets too point one one
Speaker 3: tenth of the gravity everybody feels every day. It feels
Speaker 3: like somebody's sitting on you because you just haven't been
Speaker 3: used to feeling it, and you know, it's it's surprising
Speaker 3: that the first half a G it's like a man,
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm going to be able to
Speaker 3: handle this, uh, And then your body kind of gets
Speaker 3: used to it, and then by the time we reach
Speaker 3: our maximum g which is just under five gs. You
Speaker 3: you're kind of comfortable. So I'm you know, looking at
Speaker 3: the displays. I'm talking the crew through everything that's going
Speaker 3: on where we're at, what what to prepare for next,
Speaker 3: getting ready for shoots to deploy, and so it's a
Speaker 3: it's kind of a normal conversation. Uh and you just
Speaker 3: you know, you just get you get used to having
Speaker 3: an earth squashy a little.
Speaker 1: Bit another day at the office.
Speaker 3: It sounds like indeed, you know, it's like having a
Speaker 3: conversation why while you're writing a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, nice, that's a great analogy. We are joined
Speaker 1: on wake up call this morning by NASA astronaut and
Speaker 1: Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haigh. He's the first Space
Speaker 1: Force Guardian ever on the International Space Station and also
Speaker 1: the commander of the Crew nine mission. Colonel Haig, thanks
Speaker 1: again for joining us. We so appreciate you spending some
Speaker 1: time with us this morning. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's fun to share the experience.
Speaker 1: Well, I know that last time we talked to you,
Speaker 1: Colonel Haig, we were well, I was kind of jumping
Speaker 1: out of my skin thrilled we got to talk to
Speaker 1: you live on the International Space Station, and that was
Speaker 1: back that was about six months ago. It was pretty
Speaker 1: early in your mission since you had gotten there, and
Speaker 1: so we wanted to kind of check in and see
Speaker 1: what it was like for the last six months. So
Speaker 1: I know that one of the things that you guys
Speaker 1: do is you do a lot of experiments. Are there
Speaker 1: some of the experiments that you can tell us about
Speaker 1: that we're kind of notable to you?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely. You know, the reason we're up there on the
Speaker 3: space station, the International Space Station to begin with, is
Speaker 3: to conduct science experiments. You know, I talked about all
Speaker 3: the all the you know things that being in weightlessness
Speaker 3: does to my body. It does those same things to
Speaker 3: all of our experiments, and it helps us learn a
Speaker 3: little bit more, a little bit deeper about everything. And
Speaker 3: so there we in the course of six months, was
Speaker 3: part of one hundred and fifty plus different types of experiments,
Speaker 3: and it's it's everything from looking at at our bodies.
Speaker 3: You know, how being weightless affects my immune system, how
Speaker 3: it affects the age of my vascular system. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: being in weightlessness can cause my arteries to accelerate in
Speaker 3: their aging or mimic what it's like to have accelerated aging,
Speaker 3: and so we we research what those what those changes are,
Speaker 3: and then by better understanding those we can we can
Speaker 3: help inform medicine on the ground for for people that
Speaker 3: are experiencing aging of their vascular system or have you know,
Speaker 3: suppressed immune systems. So that's a couple of examples, but
Speaker 3: it spans the whole game. I grew lots of things
Speaker 3: up there because we're trying to figure out how do
Speaker 3: we sustain crews when we send them on missions beyond
Speaker 3: Earth orbit? How do we grow the food that we're
Speaker 3: going to need to take because we can't resupply them.
Speaker 1: All the.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's just a lot of fun to
Speaker 3: be up there in the middle of it all. If
Speaker 3: you enjoy a if you're a curious person, it's an
Speaker 3: amazing job.
Speaker 1: Okay, and Colonel Haig, were the experience that you did,
Speaker 1: were those for NASA only or for they were they
Speaker 1: also for Space Force because again there's this this symbiotic
Speaker 1: relationship between the two. Even though NASA is a civilian organization,
Speaker 1: of course, Space Force is a military organization.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know, I'm a Space Force guardian
Speaker 3: and and my job is to work for NASA conducting
Speaker 3: the Civil Space Mission, not the not the you know,
Speaker 3: the National Security Space Mission, and it is a symbiotic relationship.
Speaker 3: And so you know, I'd be remiss if I didn't
Speaker 3: thank all of my fellow guardians that are stationed around
Speaker 3: the globe that provided all those essential things like you know,
Speaker 3: keeping us clear of debris up there, and helping us
Speaker 3: move the station to get out of the way, or
Speaker 3: helping us launch and land. You know, they do some
Speaker 3: fundamental things that make it possible for us to even
Speaker 3: go up there and do those science experiments and there.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just phenomenal to be associated with that
Speaker 3: team and to be a representative of the Space Force.
Speaker 3: But yeah, those experiments up there. It's an international space station,
Speaker 3: and so I'm conducting experiments across you know, for for
Speaker 3: universities across the nation, you know, the United States, but
Speaker 3: I'm also conducting them for other governments, you know, whether
Speaker 3: it's Japan or the European Space Agency and all of
Speaker 3: the countries associated with that. It's a little you know, agnostic.
Speaker 3: I don't necessarily care where the research is coming from,
Speaker 3: because in principle, we're sharing that information with everyone, and
Speaker 3: so the discoveries on the space station come back and
Speaker 3: benefit the whole world.
Speaker 1: Good to see that we all get along in space. Okay,
Speaker 1: So when we talk to you, when you're on the
Speaker 1: space station, no space had been done. But as it
Speaker 1: turns out, you got to do one. How long was
Speaker 1: that and what did you do and what was it like?
Speaker 3: You know, a spacewalk is effectively eleven hours in a spacesuit.
Speaker 3: It takes a while to put it on, and then
Speaker 3: once you're in it, before you even step out of
Speaker 3: the space station, you have to purge all of the
Speaker 3: nitrogen that's naturally in your body because you go down
Speaker 3: to a lower pressure when you start to work outside
Speaker 3: in the vacuum of space. So after about four hours,
Speaker 3: then we go out the hatch, and you know, from
Speaker 3: a thrill perspective, you open the hatch and you look
Speaker 3: down and two hundred and fifty miles below there's the
Speaker 3: Earth kind of just gliding by, and you can see
Speaker 3: snow covered mountaintops and fan dunes and oceans and it's
Speaker 3: just spectacular. You know, it's an office. It's the best
Speaker 3: view you could have at work. And you go out
Speaker 3: and you're you know, at some point the suit just
Speaker 3: kind of melts away and you're just working outside with
Speaker 3: your with your coworker.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: Sonny was out there with me and uh and we uh,
Speaker 3: we got to work. We we were working on repairing
Speaker 3: a couple of things.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, the station is old, it's been up there
Speaker 3: for two and a half decades.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And and so we repaired a couple of pieces of
Speaker 3: equipment that needed to be replaced.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: And then I also got to work on an X
Speaker 3: ray telescope, which we used to kind of try to
Speaker 3: answer those deep questions about why are we here and
Speaker 3: how did the universe? How did the universe come into being?
Speaker 3: You know, it studies neutron stars and the you know,
Speaker 3: the remnants of of of massive explosions in space. And
Speaker 3: so I got to work on that and help repair it.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. Okay, So we only have a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes left, So I got to ask you a
Speaker 1: couple of questions about life on the space station. You
Speaker 1: were up there for Christmas? Did you get to like
Speaker 1: did what is that like? I mean, did you get
Speaker 1: to take the day off? Did you celebrate or was
Speaker 1: it just another day in the office.
Speaker 3: You know, we still have to we still have to
Speaker 3: make sure that the station goes and keeps running. And
Speaker 3: so there's a little bit of work on every day.
Speaker 3: But holidays, it's an international space station, so we celebrated.
Speaker 3: We celebrated Christmas just like everybody else here in the
Speaker 3: United States, but we also ended up celebrating Russian Orthodox Christmas.
Speaker 3: Uh and and so we celebrate international holidays up there
Speaker 3: as well. And so we find time to get together
Speaker 3: as a crew of seven and and have a meal,
Speaker 3: you know, make a cake, put out, you know, a
Speaker 3: spreadshare our you know us food or or partake in
Speaker 3: you know, the international food that's there, and and really
Speaker 3: just commune with each other as as people and and
Speaker 3: talk about you know, families and everything that's going on
Speaker 3: in each other's lives, and share our favorite music with
Speaker 3: each other and tell jokes and and just be uh
Speaker 3: And those are a really special time up there.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine for New Year's no one got
Speaker 1: to pop Champagne. I would think that might be a.
Speaker 3: Little dangerous, a little bit dangerous. All right.
Speaker 1: I did see one of your videos, and I noticed
Speaker 1: that your hair was shorter than when we talked to you.
Speaker 1: So you've got a haircut in space, and I want
Speaker 1: to know this is important question stuff, How does that work?
Speaker 1: Because I would imagine it would be very problematic to
Speaker 1: have hair floating around the space station.
Speaker 3: Absolutely anything floating around is if it floats around, it
Speaker 3: can get in your eyes. Even worse, you could breathe
Speaker 3: it in than it gets in your lungs. And so
Speaker 3: we're always trying to scrub the air up there to
Speaker 3: make sure that stuff that's floating around gets taken out
Speaker 3: of it. So a haircut, essentially you're hooking a vacuum
Speaker 3: cleaner hose to the hair trimmer. But an interesting fact
Speaker 3: is we receive no training on how to give a haircut.
Speaker 3: So the first one is a little you know, dicey,
Speaker 3: but we learn as we go.
Speaker 1: I love that, okay, And we're coming up at the
Speaker 1: top of the I know we got to go. You
Speaker 1: got to go in thirty seconds. Colonel Hag what's next
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 3: So the mission doesn't end when you land. Surprisingly, I'm
Speaker 3: going to do rehab. But there's also those science experiments.
Speaker 3: They're still collecting data on me for the next thirty days,
Speaker 3: sixty days. Some of them will collect data on me
Speaker 3: up to two years after I land. That's the science aspect.
Speaker 3: The other aspect is for the next four or five months,
Speaker 3: my focus is going to be on going out and
Speaker 3: engaging the public and sharing the story, and so that
Speaker 3: post flight tour I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: Well. We hope that your tour includes a stop in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. We would love to welcome you home in person.
Speaker 1: And again, Colonel Haig, we can't thank you enough for
Speaker 1: all of your time and everything that you're doing. It's
Speaker 1: been such a thrill to get to talk to you
Speaker 1: and get a little bit of insight into what it's
Speaker 1: like to be an astronaut. So we thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, my pleasure, Amy, and I do look forward
Speaker 3: to visiting.
Speaker 1: LA all right. Again. That is Space Force Guardian NASA
Speaker 1: astronaut Colonel Nick Haig, fresh off his trip around the
Speaker 1: Earth six months in space. Amazing stuff. This is KFI
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