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Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Amy King. This is your wake up
Speaker 1: call for Tuesday, February twenty fifth. We're live everywhere on
Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app and happy to have you along. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Michael Monks filled in for me yesterday, did a
Speaker 1: great job and brought ice cream and brought ice cream.
Speaker 1: Oh sure, he's just trying to earn favor with you guys.
Speaker 1: So I went on a quick trip up to Oregon
Speaker 1: a couple things. I went to visit a sick friend,
Speaker 1: spend some time with her, and then also do some
Speaker 1: stuff with my mom, and we did some driving. We
Speaker 1: went from southern Oregon to not central Oregon because that's ben,
Speaker 1: but we went up north. And I got to tell you,
Speaker 1: it's a different world in Oregon. Like when you're down here,
Speaker 1: when you go over the overpasses, there are signs and
Speaker 1: banners posted spray painted on their with graffiti and signs
Speaker 1: saying no ice and defund the police and that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff in Oregon. Literally in southern Oregon, not up
Speaker 1: by Portland, but in southern Oregon, all of the overpasses
Speaker 1: for about one hundred miles. Somebody had put American flags
Speaker 1: on the overpasses. It was beautiful, nice, yeah, and no graffiti.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it was so nice. Here's what
Speaker 1: the head on wake up call. The US Office of
Speaker 1: Personnel Management has put out new guidance about Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: email to all federal workers. The new email was sent
Speaker 1: out yesterday, right before the deadline for workers to submit
Speaker 1: those work accomplishments. It said agencies should review responses and
Speaker 1: evaluate non responses For those who didn't reply by the deadline.
Speaker 1: Musk says workers will be given another chance to reply.
Speaker 1: Ash pieces of metal and burned wood from the wildfires
Speaker 1: has been washing ashore on beaches from Malibu to the
Speaker 1: South Bay. Beachgoers are being worn to stay away from
Speaker 1: certain beaches off the Malibu area coast because of the debris.
Speaker 1: The Fast and Furious characters will soon ride their last
Speaker 1: ride in Universal Studios Hollywood's Backlock Studio tour. The park
Speaker 1: has announced that the three D Fast and Furious Supercharged
Speaker 1: attraction that has ended the tour for the past ten
Speaker 1: years is closing March tenth. Ukraine's president Zelenski has a
Speaker 1: message to his people as the war with Russia hits
Speaker 1: the three year mark. ABC's and as de la Katera
Speaker 1: is going to join us in just a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes to tell us more about that. We've been telling
Speaker 1: you that beehives are being stolen because there aren't enough
Speaker 1: bees in California. So we're gonna check in with our
Speaker 1: friend Keith Roberts at the Valley Hive in Chatsworth to
Speaker 1: get the buzz on the bees. For now, the White
Speaker 1: House can keep the ap out. ABC. Stephen Portnoy's gonna
Speaker 1: tell us about the implications of a judge's ruling and
Speaker 1: what happens next. That's coming up at the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour. And also with all these federal layoffs, a
Speaker 1: lot of people are worried that their jobs could be
Speaker 1: next because it's not only happening at the federal level.
Speaker 1: I mean, it happens all the time all over the place.
Speaker 1: Starbucks just announced they were doing layoffs. The host of
Speaker 1: How To Money on KFI has some advice for you
Speaker 1: to get ready just in case. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. La City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez says she's
Speaker 1: encouraging former La Fire Chief Kristin Crowley to appeal the
Speaker 1: mayor's decision to fire her. Mayor Bass said last week
Speaker 1: her decision to fire Crowley was for the safety of
Speaker 1: people in LA, but Rodriguez tells kfi's John Colebelt that's nonsense.
Speaker 2: I was just.
Speaker 3: Really disappointed that those words were even uttered to suggest
Speaker 3: that she wasn't keeping Angelino safe, and I didn't believe
Speaker 3: that she deserved to be treated in this manner.
Speaker 1: If Crowley does appeal, she will need ten of the
Speaker 1: fifteen city council members to back her. LA City Council
Speaker 1: President Mark CUIs. Harris Dawson says he encouraged Mayor Bass to,
Speaker 1: as he put it, separate from ousted fire chief Crowley
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Bess fired the chief on Friday, citing failures
Speaker 1: in leadership before the fires last month. Councilwoman Tracy Park
Speaker 1: says it was disappointing and that everyone in La knew
Speaker 1: about the fire danger. Councilwoman Rodriguez, of course, as I
Speaker 1: just mentioned, has accused Bass of misrepresenting the facts regarding
Speaker 1: Crowley's firing. An Orange County judge accused of fatally shooting
Speaker 1: his wife in Anaheim has testified that it was an accident.
Speaker 4: The defense says that their client, Jeffrey Ferguson, was in
Speaker 4: the middle of a pretty heated argument with his wife
Speaker 4: after dinner in August twenty three. Ferguson allegedly was attempting
Speaker 4: to remove his gun from his ankle holster at his
Speaker 4: wife's request when the gun accidentally went off. The prosecution
Speaker 4: says that his wife, Cheryl Ferguson, scolded her husband to
Speaker 4: point a real gun at her, and that's when he
Speaker 4: pulled the trigger. Immediately following the shooting, Ferguson texted his
Speaker 4: court clerk and bailiff saying he lost it and that
Speaker 4: he just shot his wife. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: An La City Council committee is considering proposal to require
Speaker 1: all pets to be microchipped. The goal is to reduce
Speaker 1: the number of lost animals entering the city's shelters and
Speaker 1: to reduce overcrowding. The Department of Analtmal Services charges fifteen
Speaker 1: dollars to microchip a pet and use his grant money
Speaker 1: to help cover the fee for people who can't afford it.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's and Es de
Speaker 1: la Kata. Good morning in as.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 1: So President Zelenski and his country have been in a
Speaker 1: vicious war with Russia for three years since the country
Speaker 1: was invaded. How does Zelenski say he's feeling on the
Speaker 1: three year anniversary of the war.
Speaker 6: Yes, I mean he is paying tribute to what he
Speaker 6: is calling the absolute heroism of Ukrainians over the last
Speaker 6: three years defending against Russia's invasion. We saw sorts of
Speaker 6: ceremonies being held yesterday throughout Ukraine, physically in Kiev, people
Speaker 6: reflecting on the three horrific.
Speaker 5: Last three years and all the lives that have been lost.
Speaker 5: Is Zelenski saying that.
Speaker 6: He is proud of Ukraine, that he wants to thank
Speaker 6: everyone who defends and supports it. There were a number
Speaker 6: of foreign leaders who traveled to Ukraine to be there
Speaker 6: on Monday to meet with Zelenski and.
Speaker 5: To show their support for Ukraine.
Speaker 6: And it was a bit of a split screen moment
Speaker 6: because at the same time you had President Trump meeting
Speaker 6: with the French President's Manuel mccran. The focus of that
Speaker 6: made a meeting, of course, was also.
Speaker 1: Ukraine, okay, And who were some of the leaders that visited.
Speaker 6: So interestingly, you had the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau,
Speaker 6: who's also been you know, we know Zelenski has been
Speaker 6: kind of going at it with Trump, with Trump college
Speaker 6: Vilenski and Dictator and Vilenski kind of pushing back, and
Speaker 6: then Trudeau has also been going.
Speaker 5: At it with Trump, recently calling Trudeau the governor of
Speaker 5: the fifty first estate.
Speaker 6: There were also representatives from France, so that France sent
Speaker 6: to European Minister while Macron.
Speaker 5: Was over in Washington to you know, still show that
Speaker 5: France stands with Ukraine.
Speaker 6: You had the British as well, former the British Prime
Speaker 6: Minister Bors Johnson was there. So a number of kind
Speaker 6: of big names from across Europe. You know, lots of
Speaker 6: concerns in Europe about what the US's new policy towards
Speaker 6: Ukraine is going to mean for them and for security
Speaker 6: on the continent.
Speaker 1: Okay, And as are are any of the other countries
Speaker 1: that were showing strong support for Ukraine kind of backing
Speaker 1: away from that as the US appears to be doing.
Speaker 6: Not no, I think quite the opposite actually, as you're
Speaker 6: seeing the Americans kind of you know, changing their policy.
Speaker 6: You're seeing the Europeans really trying to step up, and
Speaker 6: it really is talking about it.
Speaker 5: They're talking about how Europe needs to play a bigger
Speaker 5: role here. We've heard that from the French, from the British.
Speaker 6: The Germany just held elections over the weekend and it
Speaker 6: was the Conservatives that won. The leader of the Conservative Party,
Speaker 6: Frederick mess he has been critical of Trump and specifically
Speaker 6: Trump's outreach to Russia. He is pro Ukraine pronado and
Speaker 6: just after being you know, after his party one, he
Speaker 6: told German TV that he thinks Europe essentially needs to
Speaker 6: play more of a leading role here in that Europe
Speaker 6: must achieve independence from the US. So it's really harsh
Speaker 6: words there from the man who is set to lead
Speaker 6: one of the US's oldest allies.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then as the war continues and discussions are
Speaker 1: going about how to end it, are are there plans
Speaker 1: for the US to send any more aid to Ukraine
Speaker 1: or is that kind of on hold for right now?
Speaker 6: You know, I think the focus in the US right
Speaker 6: now is going to be this deal. We've seen President
Speaker 6: Trump just pushing for this deal. We know he loves
Speaker 6: you know the art of the deal, and so I
Speaker 6: think that's where the focus is. And until that gets done,
Speaker 6: I'm not sure that a whole lot, a whole lot
Speaker 6: of other aid is going to.
Speaker 5: Get through, or that much more is going to be done.
Speaker 6: The Europeans are trying to kind of step in here,
Speaker 6: but there's also, you know, just so much they can do.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, the focus is going to be on this deal.
Speaker 6: President Trumps trying to push a Galenski to sign this
Speaker 6: agreement that would hand the US hundreds of billion of
Speaker 6: dollars worth of Ukrainian resources. We saw Maccron yesterday, so
Speaker 6: I think Maccran is there to try and kind of
Speaker 6: smooth things out between everyone. He said that everyone is
Speaker 6: seeking the same outcome, which is peace. But he also
Speaker 6: tried to warn Trump that, you know, a week deal
Speaker 6: would be would be would be.
Speaker 5: A bad thing.
Speaker 6: And he tried to remind Trump of Russia's poor track
Speaker 6: record in keeping its international commitments.
Speaker 1: And we will see if he listens to Macrome. They
Speaker 1: seem to have a decent relationship, seemed to be getting
Speaker 1: along yesterday, so we'll see. Ab season is a bit
Speaker 1: of a romance there, Yeah, a romance that's a good
Speaker 1: word for ab season is de la kata. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for the information. We appreciate it as always.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 1: Did you know there was that little bit of a
Speaker 1: leg she's impatis, she's in Paris, so I think we
Speaker 1: had a little a little delay. The FAA and Delta
Speaker 1: are investigating the source of a smoky haze that filled
Speaker 1: a plane headed from Georgia to South Carolina. NBC News's
Speaker 1: Emily Ikeda says the plane had to return to Atlanta's
Speaker 1: Hartsfield Jackson International Airport yesterday.
Speaker 7: The Boeing seven one seven was only in the air
Speaker 7: for a few minutes, looping back arounds for an emergency
Speaker 7: landing at the world's busiest airport around nine am. Slides
Speaker 7: were deployed and first responders helped people deplane.
Speaker 1: There were ninety four passengers and five crew members on board.
Speaker 1: Two people had to be treated by medics. Delta put
Speaker 1: out a statement apologizing to passengers, saying nothing is more
Speaker 1: important than the safety of our customers and people. Defense
Speaker 1: Secretary Pete Hegsas says he is replacing the top lawyers
Speaker 1: for the military services because he doesn't think they're well
Speaker 1: suited to provide commendations when lawful orders are given. He
Speaker 1: spoke at the start of a meeting yesterday with Saudi
Speaker 1: Arabia's Defense Minister Hagsith didn't answer a question about why
Speaker 1: the Trump administration has chosen a retired general to be
Speaker 1: the next Joint Chief's Chairman. President Trump recently fired Air
Speaker 1: Force General C. Q. Brown Junior meg Seth followed that
Speaker 1: by firing the Navy Chief of Operations, the Air Force
Speaker 1: Vice Chief, and the Judge Advocate General for the Services.
Speaker 8: The tariffs are going forward.
Speaker 1: President Trump says his tariffs on Canada and Mexico will
Speaker 1: start next month. He said it during a news conference
Speaker 1: at the White House yesterday with French President and Manuel Macron.
Speaker 2: We're on time with the tariffs, and it seems like
Speaker 2: that's moving along very rapidly.
Speaker 8: We've been mistreated very badly by many countries.
Speaker 1: Trump also stressed that his intended reciprocal tariffs were on
Speaker 1: schedule to begin as soon as April. Joanne Fabric has
Speaker 1: announced it is closing all of its fabric in craft stores.
Speaker 9: Eighty two year old company May. The announcement Monday, a
Speaker 9: liquidator has agreed to buy all of Joanne's assets and
Speaker 9: going out of business sales will be held at stores.
Speaker 9: This comes after Joanne had announced plans earlier this month
Speaker 9: to close around five hundred to eight hundred of its stores.
Speaker 1: Joanne filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection last month, citing
Speaker 1: sluggish consumer demand and inventory shortages. But Francis is showing
Speaker 1: a slight improvement in his condition and is resuming some
Speaker 1: of his activities. The Vatican says the eighty eight year
Speaker 1: old remains in critical condition with pneumonia in both lungs.
Speaker 1: The update said early signs of mild kidney failure that
Speaker 1: were reported on Sunday have shown no cause for concerns.
Speaker 1: More people are falling behind on their debt, that's a
Speaker 1: cause for concern. Recent data shows at the end of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, just over three percent of people in
Speaker 1: California loans rather in California where at least thirty days overdue.
Speaker 1: Nationally it's four percent. That's the highest rate since early
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, but still way below delinquent payment rates during
Speaker 1: the recession in two thousand and eight, when more than
Speaker 1: fourteen percent of people were behind on their payments. NASA
Speaker 1: has put out new projections as it estimates whether a
Speaker 1: certain asteroid could hit Earth in the next decade. Rory
Speaker 1: O'Neill reports the risk of twenty twenty four y our
Speaker 1: four slamming into our planet is now believed to be
Speaker 1: even lower.
Speaker 10: When first discovered, it was estimated that the asteroid, which
Speaker 10: could be three hundred feet across, had a slight chance
Speaker 10: of hitting the Earth and doing significant damage, but upon
Speaker 10: further review, NASA now says the odds are nearly zero.
Speaker 1: But astronomers say there's an almost two percent chance the
Speaker 1: asteroid will hit the Moon when it buzzes by the Earth.
Speaker 1: In December of twenty thirty two, police are looking for
Speaker 1: a group of teens who beat up a driver in
Speaker 1: the mid Wilshire area. The LAPD says there's some sort
Speaker 1: of argument between the driver and a group of about
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty people. Video shows the group pummeling the
Speaker 1: driver when he got out of his car to confront
Speaker 1: the group. Times running out for business owners, nonprofits and
Speaker 1: workers impacted by the palisades and eaten fires to apply
Speaker 1: for financial aid Applications for relief through the LA Region
Speaker 1: Small Business Really Fund and the Los Angeles Region Worker
Speaker 1: Relief Fund are being accepted through March second. Wicked stars
Speaker 1: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Arrivo will be performing at the
Speaker 1: Academy Awards this weekend. No songs from Wicked were nominated,
Speaker 1: but the Broadway musical adaptation is up for ten Oscars,
Speaker 1: including Best Picture. The ninety seventh Academy Awards will be
Speaker 1: held on Sunday at six oh five. It's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. The US is refusing to blame Russia for
Speaker 1: the invasion of Ukraine. Bill will have a thing or
Speaker 1: two to say about that. Right now, let's say good
Speaker 1: morning to the Valley Hives. Keith Roberts. Good morning, Keith
Speaker 1: Amy King. How are you doing great? Wanted to talk
Speaker 1: to you because last this week we had a story
Speaker 1: about a couple of big problems with the bees, and
Speaker 1: one of those problems is causing the others. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you first about the number of bees
Speaker 1: continues to decline and that's causing the other problem that
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about. Can we talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about why that's happening. I know you have some
Speaker 1: thriving hives up in Chatsworth at the Valley Hive, but
Speaker 1: the bee population is declining.
Speaker 11: Yes, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity
Speaker 11: to talk about this crisis. So very unfortunately, because of
Speaker 11: what's going on in Washington, the oxygen has been sucked
Speaker 11: out of the room and not a whole lot of
Speaker 11: media is talking about this. But across the nation we're
Speaker 11: facing a record high loss of colonies. We're talking about
Speaker 11: sixty two percent of hives across the country have collapsed,
Speaker 11: and some operations are reporting between eighty to one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: They've lost all of their.
Speaker 11: Hives and they're not going to be able to recover.
Speaker 11: This has been absolutely devastating, and what is particularly frightening
Speaker 11: about it is that we still don't know for sure
Speaker 11: what has occurred to push these numbers into this region.
Speaker 11: So we went from an average, so a little bit
Speaker 11: of backstory back in seven we were having about a
Speaker 11: fifteen percent loss of hives, and then because of the
Speaker 11: four p's, the pests, the pathogens, the pesticide, and the
Speaker 11: poor nutrition, the numbers went up to about forty percent.
Speaker 11: And now something has occurred in the last six months
Speaker 11: to push that loss another twenty percent into the sixty
Speaker 11: percent region, which is completely unsustainable. More than one hundred
Speaker 11: thirty fruits and vegetables. Thirty percent of everything we eat
Speaker 11: is dependent on honey bees. And so this is a crisis,
Speaker 11: and not a whole lot of people are talking.
Speaker 1: About it, Okay, and Keith, I mean, is there any substitute?
Speaker 1: I mean, you need the bees. That's what they do,
Speaker 1: They pollinate. I mean, but if there are no bees,
Speaker 1: the pollination just can't happen, or there's no other way
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 11: Right, there's not going to be unlike places in China
Speaker 11: where they have to do a pollination by hand, that's
Speaker 11: not going to be feasible here at scale at all.
Speaker 11: Honey Bees are too important to our way of getting
Speaker 11: food on the table. And bee keepers, quite frankly, are
Speaker 11: the red headed stepchild of the agricultural industry. And they
Speaker 11: don't get the attention that they deserve because it's such
Speaker 11: a niche industry. But they need help and they need
Speaker 11: support and this and this is crippling to not only
Speaker 11: the beekeeper, but to our agriculture. And if people think
Speaker 11: that the cost of eggs is high, it's about to
Speaker 11: get real across the board.
Speaker 1: Because if the bees aren't pollinating that like one of
Speaker 1: the big ones right now that we're talking about is
Speaker 1: that for the almond crop, which is a multi billion
Speaker 1: dollar business in California, they need those bees because bloom
Speaker 1: season is right around the corners.
Speaker 11: Now, it's right now, Okay, and you're out, and you're
Speaker 11: absolutely right. They haven't gotten enough bees. And if you're
Speaker 11: an almond grower, you can't even get crop insurance unless
Speaker 11: you can prove you have so many highs per a here.
Speaker 11: And so yeah, this is devastating. And just in the
Speaker 11: bees alone, just the beekeeping alone, just a little bit
Speaker 11: of scale, this represents about two hundred and twenty four
Speaker 11: million dollars of.
Speaker 12: Loss, and the economic impact across agriculture is going to
Speaker 12: be around six hundred and thirty four point seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then Keith, the other thing that I mentioned
Speaker 1: that the problem there are two problems. One is that
Speaker 1: the bee population is god who knew was sixty two
Speaker 1: percent of the hives of colps. That's just crazy numbers.
Speaker 1: But that has led to another problem, and that's the
Speaker 1: shortage of bees, which is leading to people stealing bee hives.
Speaker 11: Yes, absolutely disgusting. I think we've all seen the westerns
Speaker 11: of cattle wrestlers, right, yeah, and today twenty twenty five,
Speaker 11: what is it. It's be wrestling. And what's really sick
Speaker 11: about it is that it's where it's basically people who
Speaker 11: are already beekeepers obviously, because you need to have infrastructure
Speaker 11: to be able to pick up these palettes of bees
Speaker 11: like these are these hives are palletized. There's four hives
Speaker 11: to a palette, and they're coming in and at night
Speaker 11: and there, and because these palace are in the orchard
Speaker 11: and they can be visible from the road, they kind
Speaker 11: of mark where they're down and then they come back
Speaker 11: at night, they load them up, and you have thirty
Speaker 11: hives stolen here, fifty hives stolen there, two hundred hives
Speaker 11: stolen there, and something else that unfortunately, bee keepers are
Speaker 11: getting hit with.
Speaker 1: And then keith. So then the people who are stealing
Speaker 1: the hives are going and selling them like or renting
Speaker 1: them to the farmers or something, because the farmers desperately
Speaker 1: need them for their crops.
Speaker 11: So they're going to either take them back to their operation.
Speaker 11: They're going to take the bees out and put them
Speaker 11: in their boxes. Or they're going to paint over all
Speaker 11: of the branding and the markings of the rightful owner
Speaker 11: and then put them back out as of they're that
Speaker 11: they were their hives to begin with. And it's just
Speaker 11: an absolute tragedy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Keith, I know, I mean, it just sounds
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that the problem was this bad. Is
Speaker 1: there anything that we can do aside from setting up
Speaker 1: a little high in our backyard?
Speaker 11: Really, if you want to be more effective, And this
Speaker 11: kind of sounds corny and cliche, but it's truth. Buy
Speaker 11: American honey. Make sure that when you go to the store,
Speaker 11: you're buying honey that is made in the USA, and
Speaker 11: that is going to directly help beekeepers. It's just going
Speaker 11: to put money directly in the hands of beekeepers. Another
Speaker 11: thing that you can do is doing what you're doing
Speaker 11: right now. Talk about it because, like I said at
Speaker 11: the very beginning, this is not getting the media attention
Speaker 11: it deserves. So when colony collapse disorder first came on
Speaker 11: in two thousand and seven, Amy, you heard it everywhere, right,
Speaker 11: remember all the stories about the collapse, and everybody was
Speaker 11: getting in on it. There were ads from Basket Robbins,
Speaker 11: I mean, it was everybody knew that the honeybee was
Speaker 11: in trouble, and now it's the problem has gotten even
Speaker 11: worse and you're not hearing about it. So be sure
Speaker 11: that you're that you're telling people about it. And so
Speaker 11: spread the word and support American bee keepers by getting
Speaker 11: American honey and keep doing what you're doing, Amy, and
Speaker 11: just spread spread this word. Talk to your congress person
Speaker 11: and make sure that we can get some attention from
Speaker 11: the government to help bee keepers and and try to
Speaker 11: subsidize some of their losses.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Keith Roberts with the Valley Hive and Chatsworth, it's
Speaker 1: really a cool place if you want to go and
Speaker 1: check out the bees and their nursery. It's a beautiful
Speaker 1: place to go. And thanks so much for all that information, Keith.
Speaker 1: Well we'll keep it in the spotlight. Bees bees are friends.
Speaker 1: We need them.
Speaker 11: Thank you so much for this opportunity.
Speaker 1: Amy, You take care, all right, you got it. It's
Speaker 1: just that is just so freaky, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: that whole circle of life thing that one thing is
Speaker 1: dependent on the next, and the next thing is dependent
Speaker 1: on the next, And what's going to happen if they're
Speaker 1: all gone with our food supply. I mean that's really scary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no kidding. Police are looking for a group of teens
Speaker 1: who made up a driver in the mid Wilshire area.
Speaker 1: The LAPD says there was some sort of argument between
Speaker 1: the driver and a group of twenty to thirty teenagers.
Speaker 1: Surveillance video shows the group just pummeling the driver when
Speaker 1: he got out of his car to confront the group.
Speaker 1: A new scam has surfaced in the wake of the wildfires.
Speaker 1: County supervisors say tow truck drivers are towing cars in
Speaker 1: the burn area in Altadena and then charging massive fees
Speaker 1: for the car owners to get their cars back. Egg
Speaker 1: smuggling along the US Mexico border is surge nearly thirty
Speaker 1: percent as egg prices continue to rise. Customs agents say
Speaker 1: bringing raw and fresh eggs into the US is prohibited
Speaker 1: because of the risk of spreading disease. Egg prices of
Speaker 1: skyrocketed because of supply shoes caused by the spread of
Speaker 1: the bird flu. At six oh five, it's handle on
Speaker 1: the news. President Trump has named a talk show host
Speaker 1: and former Secret Service agent to be the number two
Speaker 1: guy at the FBI, and people are freaking out. Let's
Speaker 1: say Good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, a
Speaker 1: federal judge has ruled in favor of the Trump administration
Speaker 1: over its exclusion of the Associated Press from being in
Speaker 1: the press pool in the Oval Office in on Air
Speaker 1: Force one. Is this a temporary ruling.
Speaker 13: It is a short term victory for the Trump White
Speaker 13: House as it aims to, as you say, exclude the
Speaker 13: Associated Press from the tight pool of reporters that cover
Speaker 13: the president in the close in spaces of the White House,
Speaker 13: like the Oval Office, the Roosevelt Room, a couple of
Speaker 13: other spaces. But you know, what you have to understand
Speaker 13: and why the judge is also kind of sort of
Speaker 13: looking at this sideways, is the fact that the AP
Speaker 13: has also been excluded from the largest room in the
Speaker 13: executive mansion.
Speaker 11: That's the East Room of the.
Speaker 13: White House, where they're now two press conferences that the
Speaker 13: world's one of the world's largest and oldest news organizations
Speaker 13: has been excluded from covering. And those are joint press
Speaker 13: conferences with other world leaders with foreign press alongside the
Speaker 13: American press, hundreds of people in the room and no
Speaker 13: room for the AP. Well, the judge yesterday made it
Speaker 13: clear it was pretty obviously viewpoint discrimination and what's going
Speaker 13: on here a punitive step that the White House has
Speaker 13: taken to try to punish the AP for its own
Speaker 13: editorial judgment. And ultimately, as this case proceeds, it seems
Speaker 13: to me that the judge indicated that it's probably going
Speaker 13: that the white is probably going to lose on the
Speaker 13: First Amendment, but for now a short term victory for
Speaker 13: the White House.
Speaker 1: So if the judge makes that ruling but says it's
Speaker 1: probably going to lose, is does that mean? I don't
Speaker 1: get how that that seems incongruous to.
Speaker 13: Why would the judge not have issued his order yesterday
Speaker 13: restoring the AP's access Because of the way that it
Speaker 13: works in the federal court when you go to court
Speaker 13: and you initiate a you know, when you ask a
Speaker 13: judge for a temporary restraining order, you have to meet
Speaker 13: a number of requirements, including you have to you have
Speaker 13: to demonstrate that irreparable harm is being done to you
Speaker 13: and you see it in another circumstances of fact. The
Speaker 13: judge made reference to this that in the courthouse here
Speaker 13: in Washington, DC, there are a number of other cases
Speaker 13: pending where federal workers say, Judge, you have to do
Speaker 13: something right now, because if you don't act right now,
Speaker 13: irreparable harm will be done to me and my family
Speaker 13: because of the you know, the jobs that are being
Speaker 13: eliminated in the federal government. And so the judges are saying,
Speaker 13: you're right, we acknowledge your irreparable harm. We will act
Speaker 13: to restrain the administration from taking this step or that
Speaker 13: step in this case. The judge said, well, I'm not
Speaker 13: so sure there's a reparable harm being done because I
Speaker 13: see the AP writing stories about the president even though
Speaker 13: they aren't in the room. How is that ye, And
Speaker 13: so the AP will have to explain the harm that's
Speaker 13: being done. But it wasn't compelling enough or convincing enough
Speaker 13: of the judge to say that he needed to act immediately.
Speaker 13: But the judge said that the case law here in Washington,
Speaker 13: d c. At the district and circuit courts when it
Speaker 13: comes to press access to the White House, has been
Speaker 13: written over the decades in such a way that it's
Speaker 13: uniformly unhelpful to the White House's position here that they
Speaker 13: have the right to decide with outlets are favored or
Speaker 13: disfavored based on their reporting.
Speaker 1: That's not how the courts have viewed.
Speaker 13: This here, and it's why the judge essentially gave two
Speaker 13: pieces of advice to the White House yesterday. One to
Speaker 13: change course and readmit the White House readmit the AP
Speaker 13: to the pool, or two scrap the pool all together,
Speaker 13: because if the arrangement is no longer being adhered to
Speaker 13: or the WHCA, that's the White House correspond Association, which
Speaker 13: in full disclosure, I once led. If the WHCA is
Speaker 13: not the arbiter of who decides who's in the pool
Speaker 13: and who's not, and the White House decides for itself,
Speaker 13: well that changes the dynamic. It might undermine the AP's argument.
Speaker 13: And ultimately that's another thing that the White House could do,
Speaker 13: and the Judge basically suggested that's what the White House
Speaker 13: should do. We'll see how it all plays out. Okay,
Speaker 13: So next step is what further briefing of the judge
Speaker 13: because there are some factual questions that he wants answered
Speaker 13: so he has a better understanding. One of the things
Speaker 13: I appreciate uniquely is because it was news to me
Speaker 13: as I was read into the operation, is just how
Speaker 13: complicated and confounding these varying pool relationships and structures are.
Speaker 13: Only when you're steeped in it and administering it. Do
Speaker 13: you understand and appreciate how complicated it is to arrange
Speaker 13: for hundreds of competing news outlets to have access to
Speaker 13: the president in these type spaces and seeing to it
Speaker 13: that they are able to take part in these rotations
Speaker 13: where it's equitable, the ap is always in the room.
Speaker 13: That's just by tradition and custom, but also by our
Speaker 13: choice because of the way that they are utilized by
Speaker 13: news organizations all over the world to help inform their
Speaker 13: coverage of the president. And certainly they're first among equals
Speaker 13: when it comes to the news wires that are there
Speaker 13: every day of the year, holidays, weekends, traveling with the
Speaker 13: president everywhere he goes on the planet. And the idea
Speaker 13: that they would be excluded because of an editorial judgment
Speaker 13: they made about what to call the Gulf of Mexico
Speaker 13: or the Gulf of America. Well, that's not generally how
Speaker 13: the constitution works, where the government shouldn't have the right
Speaker 13: to say you must say it this way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, Well, we'll be following it, and we appreciate
Speaker 1: all the information. Steven Bortnoy, thank you so much. You
Speaker 1: bet all right time to get in your business with
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney. So Eli Lilly ramping
Speaker 1: up the fight against cheaper copycat versions of zepp Bound
Speaker 1: because there's no longer a shortage dream exactly.
Speaker 2: Good morning. Well, it's lowering the price of the blockbuster
Speaker 2: obesity drug that everybody's been looking for. It seems the
Speaker 2: company is cutting the costs by about fifty bucks. But
Speaker 2: you have to remember this is still super expensive for
Speaker 2: a lot of folks.
Speaker 1: It's like a thousand dollars a month, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, five yeah, five hundred bucks for a five milligram
Speaker 2: bile So depending on how many times you have to
Speaker 2: you have to do it. But so many, hundreds of
Speaker 2: thousands of Americans have turned to the these compounded versions,
Speaker 2: which are typically cheaper. They were more readily available, but
Speaker 2: they don't go through the same rigorous approval process as
Speaker 2: a lot of brand name or generic drugs. But Lily
Speaker 2: and Novo Nordice, which is its rival that also has
Speaker 2: these obesity drugs, they've asked the FDA to ban compounded version,
Speaker 2: saying that they're safety risks with the copycats. But they say,
Speaker 2: you know, if we're going to lower the price. That's
Speaker 2: going to put us right back in the fight.
Speaker 1: Okay, So with the supply chain being beefed up where
Speaker 1: they don't have the shortage of those now there could
Speaker 1: be a shortage of the less expensive ones if Eli
Speaker 1: Lily gets their.
Speaker 2: Way, Well you can see a lot of well a
Speaker 2: lot of people are probably going to say, well, you
Speaker 2: know what, I was afraid to do a compounded version
Speaker 2: for a while because of these threats and what they've
Speaker 2: been seeing from what Eli Lilly has been saying, because
Speaker 2: they did have a campaign out there saying this is
Speaker 2: not what you want to use. You want to use
Speaker 2: the one that's been through the rigorous process. So we
Speaker 2: probably will see some people coming out and jumping on
Speaker 2: the zep bound bandwagon because it's a little less money
Speaker 2: and they feel a little bit safer because they know
Speaker 2: exactly what's in this compounded versions. You don't quite understand
Speaker 2: the full and also, if you have a compounded version,
Speaker 2: you need to build the vial and some people really
Speaker 2: don't want to do that. They want they want it
Speaker 2: already set and ready to go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's still very expensive. Okay, we just got word
Speaker 1: that Joeanne Fabric is closing all of its stores. But
Speaker 1: not all retailers are doing bad. Home Depots bounce them
Speaker 1: back a little bit.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and Joe Anne, we're going to know about
Speaker 2: the stores coming up soon. How many of them, Well,
Speaker 2: not all of them are going to close, but when
Speaker 2: they're going to close. But home Depot had their latest
Speaker 2: quarterly earnings report in showing a bit of improvement there.
Speaker 2: But retailers overall, they're seeing a lot of uns andy.
Speaker 2: Consumers are still pretty selective and very cautious. But home
Speaker 2: Depot was one of the big winners of the pandemic.
Speaker 2: Americans were splurging on sprucing up their homes. I know
Speaker 2: I did it too. But the chain's growth start to
Speaker 2: disappear with these high interest rates that we've been having,
Speaker 2: and that slowed down a lot of spending on big
Speaker 2: projects that needed financing.
Speaker 1: Okay, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in your business. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. We'll talk to you again tomorrow, see you later,
Speaker 1: all right, bye. La City Council woldman Monica Rodriguez has
Speaker 1: criticized Mayor Bass for firing La Fire Chief Kristin Crowley.
Speaker 1: Rodriguez says Mass is using Crowley as a scapegoat. The
Speaker 1: disaster recovery centers in West LA and Altadena cutting back
Speaker 1: operations a bit. They're going to be closed on Sundays
Speaker 1: starting next week, but we'll still be open Monday through Saturday.
Speaker 1: The Earth has dodged a bullet, or actually an asteroid.
Speaker 1: NASA now says the chances of that asteroid hitting the
Speaker 1: Earth when it buzzes past the planet in December of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four are almost zero, but now there's a
Speaker 1: two percent chance it'll hit the Moon. We're just minutes
Speaker 1: away from a handle. On the news this morning, Doge
Speaker 1: is using AI to determine which federal employees may be
Speaker 1: losing their jobs. Let's say, good morning too. The host
Speaker 1: of How to Money Sundays noon to two on KFI,
Speaker 1: it's Joel Lars Guarde. Joel, I just mentioned that federal
Speaker 1: employees could be losing their jobs. And with a lot
Speaker 1: of federal layoffs kind of looming, and of course there's
Speaker 1: always private laff. Starbucks just announced they're cutting like fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of their corporate workforce. We need to talk about
Speaker 1: how to get ready for a potential layoff.
Speaker 14: Yes, yes we do, and yet that is that's been
Speaker 14: one of those one of those things that's always true
Speaker 14: is that every individual you could be laid off, especially
Speaker 14: like if you're working for the man, right if you
Speaker 14: don't run your own business, like you work at the
Speaker 14: pleasure of the business that you work for. And we're
Speaker 14: seeing this in particular with like what doges do with
Speaker 14: the federal government.
Speaker 6: This.
Speaker 14: I'm really sad about what's happening for a lot of
Speaker 14: individuals who are on the federal payroll and DOGE seems
Speaker 14: to be cutting indiscriminately. And even people I think who
Speaker 14: who think that there's, you know, room to cut spending
Speaker 14: in the government, they might not love the way dog
Speaker 14: is going about this, But where I'm sitting, I think
Speaker 14: it's really important to highlight how you need to be
Speaker 14: prepared for a layoff, whether you're a federal worker or not, because, yeah,
Speaker 14: if you're working at Starbucks Corporat or wherever you're working,
Speaker 14: there's always a chance, right that the that there's an
Speaker 14: economic downturn the experience or even if there's a there's
Speaker 14: a personal downturn in your life, or there's an industry
Speaker 14: downturn in that you know, in your particular section of
Speaker 14: the workforce, and it's important to be prepared that you
Speaker 14: might not have your job, you know, weeks or months
Speaker 14: from now. And that's why for me, like the biggest
Speaker 14: piece of advice I can offer to people is to
Speaker 14: increase your savings rate and to try to get up
Speaker 14: to having that three to six months worth of living
Speaker 14: expenses in the bank account. That is ultimately your essentially
Speaker 14: short term insurance against some sort of potential layoff that
Speaker 14: might be coming down the pike.
Speaker 1: Okay, three to six months, and you want that sitting
Speaker 1: in a savings account, not in a place where you
Speaker 1: can't get to it right or.
Speaker 14: It got Yeah, it's got to be liquid, it's got
Speaker 14: to be accessible if you're sticking. I literally had a
Speaker 14: question from a listener recently. She's crushing it on the
Speaker 14: investing side, maxing out like a four to oh one k,
Speaker 14: which is a ton of money to be investing every month.
Speaker 14: But then on the flip side, she's like, I don't
Speaker 14: have any money in savings, and I don't want that
Speaker 14: to be the case to you. I love the idea
Speaker 14: of investing for your future, obviously, but I don't want
Speaker 14: you to do it at the complete expense of having
Speaker 14: liquid funds accessible, and so what that means for most
Speaker 14: people is to have like at least twenty five hundred
Speaker 14: bucks in savings. That's the initial amount I want you
Speaker 14: to secure because that's going to get you through most
Speaker 14: bumps in the road, and then you can start taking
Speaker 14: advantage of let's say, like the match in your four
Speaker 14: OW and K while you're also building up that emergency
Speaker 14: fund to be a bigger amount. But ultimately that emergency fund, yeah,
Speaker 14: is going to be a big help if you do
Speaker 14: lose your job. It's going to provide you the ability
Speaker 14: to keep the roof over your head and to keep
Speaker 14: food on the table. And something else I talk about
Speaker 14: pretty frequently is something called a bare bones budget, and
Speaker 14: I want people to institute one of those as well.
Speaker 14: And we've got an article about it on how toomney
Speaker 14: dot com if people want to know all the details.
Speaker 14: But essentially it's like, hey, how much can I cut
Speaker 14: if the stuff were to hit the fan?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 14: Like, if I did lose my job, how much could
Speaker 14: I cut back on my monthly spending. I'm not asking
Speaker 14: people to go bear bones budget while they've still got
Speaker 14: money flowing in, but it's a good idea to at
Speaker 14: least be prepared for that and to say, listen, I've
Speaker 14: thought through this. If I were to lose my job,
Speaker 14: I can cut back my monthly spending from forty eight
Speaker 14: hundred dollars a month down to thirty three hundred dollars
Speaker 14: a month, and that would give my emergency fund an
Speaker 14: extra month and a half or two months to to
Speaker 14: keep me solvent. So I think that barbones budget is
Speaker 14: another thing, and I love for people to actually create
Speaker 14: it before something like a job loss occurs, that you
Speaker 14: kind of have that confidence if it does come about.
Speaker 1: Yeah it now, and then set it aside for in
Speaker 1: case you need it so you don't have to exactly,
Speaker 1: we don't have to do it now. So I can
Speaker 1: keep my Burke Williams membership for another couple of months
Speaker 1: at least, right.
Speaker 14: But it's nice to know, oh, hey, if I lose
Speaker 14: my that's that's gone, right, Or the eating out is
Speaker 14: gone for the time being, or some of these subscriptions
Speaker 14: that they're gone. Like you can't necessarily get rid of
Speaker 14: a car payment overnight, right, but that's something you can
Speaker 14: you can kind of have you your eyes looking forward
Speaker 14: to that. But there are other things that you can
Speaker 14: cut immediately and yeah, it's stinks you're going to miss
Speaker 14: that thing, But the whole goal is to make sure
Speaker 14: that you have enough money for the things that are
Speaker 14: that are crucial.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Such great advice from our buddy Joel Larsgard, who
Speaker 1: you can listen to every Sunday on how to Money
Speaker 1: noon to two right here on KFI. You can also
Speaker 1: follow Joel at how to Money. Joel and I want
Speaker 1: to check out your bare bones budget at howtomoney dot com.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 15: Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, a person has been robbed at gunpoint outside
Speaker 1: the Hilton at lax Pilly say. The robbers took trash
Speaker 1: bags and luggage last night and drove off in a
Speaker 1: gray Mercedes Benz. Police put out descriptions of what the
Speaker 1: guys were wearing, hoodies and dark pants, but not of
Speaker 1: what they actually look like. The state's Department of Fish
Speaker 1: and Wildlife says chinook salmon have returned to the North
Speaker 1: Yuba River in northern California for the first time in
Speaker 1: more than eighty years. Officials say it's the result of
Speaker 1: the department's reintroduction project after the Ingelbright Dam blocked their path.
Speaker 1: Nests were created and fertilized eggs were put in the water.
Speaker 1: The first young salmon were seen hatching a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 1: This is the deadliest flu season in six years. More
Speaker 1: than nine hundred people have died in the US or
Speaker 1: actually in California since October. Preventative medicine doctor Don Bucklin
Speaker 1: says generally healthy people recover from the flu in about
Speaker 1: a week.
Speaker 8: If you're going steadily downward, cough isn't getting better, it's
Speaker 8: getting worse. You're getting a little short of breath, you're
Speaker 8: getting really high fevers. Time to call somebody, because that
Speaker 8: means your life is threatened.
Speaker 1: Health officials say the large majority of the deaths have
Speaker 1: come from people over the age of sixty five, but
Speaker 1: they also say fifteen children have died from flu. The
Speaker 1: avalanche danger in Colorado is high. ABC's Alex Stones as
Speaker 1: fourteen people in the state have been caught at avalanches
Speaker 1: just this month.
Speaker 15: In the last ten days in Colorado, there have been
Speaker 15: over five hundred avalanches, most of them small but with
Speaker 15: a lot of snowfall. The Colorado Avalanche Information Center says
Speaker 15: there has been a recent spike in avalanches since Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: He says So far this season, three people in Colorado
Speaker 1: have been killed in avalanches. Two powerhouse singers may just
Speaker 1: defy gravity for Hollywood's biggest night.
Speaker 4: Wicked stars Cynthia Aarrevo and Ariana Grande will perform at
Speaker 4: the Academy Awards this weekend. No songs from Wicked are
Speaker 4: actually eligible to be nominated because no new music was
Speaker 4: composed specifically for the movie, but the Broadway musical adaptation
Speaker 4: is up for ten Oscars, including Best Picture. Some other
Speaker 4: record artists scheduled to perform include Doja Cat and Queen Latifah.
Speaker 4: The ninety seventh Academy Awards can be streamed on Hulu
Speaker 4: this Sunday starting at four pm. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
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