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Speaker 2: It's time for your morning wake up call. Hey, good morning.
Speaker 2: This is your wake up Call Monday, May fifth. I'm
Speaker 2: Heather Brooker in for Amy King, who is on a
Speaker 2: much deserved vacation. We hope she is having a wonderful
Speaker 2: time enjoying herself in Paris. Actually a little bit jealous
Speaker 2: over here. I want to say good morning to the
Speaker 2: wake Up Call crew. We've got Cono. Good morning, Cono,
Speaker 2: Good morning Other. Good to you you too. I'm so
Speaker 2: happy to be here with you guys. And good morning
Speaker 2: to producer Ann. Hello. Oh is she ready? She's not ready.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 2: You just saying good morning to you. Oh it's okay, Hi,
Speaker 2: it's startled she is. And speaking of startling, good morning, Will.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Will came in this morning and he made some insane
Speaker 2: noise when he walked in, and I nearly fell out
Speaker 2: of my chair. I screamed so loud that Cono jumped.
Speaker 5: It's usually me in the other room, comes around the
Speaker 5: corner and scares the Bejesus Saturday.
Speaker 2: But well, I'm awake sure, turn thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Will I am awake now. I also want to say
Speaker 2: a special good morning to my husband, the love of
Speaker 2: my life for twenty four years, Chris Brooker. Today is
Speaker 2: our anniversary, the anniversary. Ew, thank you. So he's fast asleep.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll listen when he wakes up. But either way,
Speaker 2: I am so happy to be here with you all.
Speaker 2: I am just here keeping Amy seat warm for a
Speaker 2: few days, and she will be back next week. All right,
Speaker 2: let's get started. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 2: Should the La City Council take a pay cut, Well,
Speaker 2: one local group says yes, and they want leaders to follow.
Speaker 2: What Mayor Bass is doing is the city faces a
Speaker 2: big budget crisis. President Trump says he wants a one
Speaker 2: hundred percent tariff on movies made outside the US foreign
Speaker 2: film incentives a national security threat. The move targets countries
Speaker 2: like Australia and New Zealand that offer tax breaks to
Speaker 2: Hollywood productions. Critics warn it could hurt global filmmaking and
Speaker 2: strain international ties. The last official day of mourning for
Speaker 2: Pope Francis wrapped up at the Vatican on Sunday, and
Speaker 2: a papal conclave will begin on Wednesday, May seventh to
Speaker 2: choose his successor. Ahead on wake Up Call at five
Speaker 2: oh five, President Trump made some comments during an interview
Speaker 2: with Meet the Press that have some questioning his loyalty
Speaker 2: to the Constitution. We're going to tell you what he
Speaker 2: said and what his team says he really meant. Five
Speaker 2: twenty May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to the top mental health leader in La
Speaker 2: County to find out how they're addressing mental health and
Speaker 2: substance issues for low income and the unhoused population in
Speaker 2: the county. At five point thirty five, we're going to
Speaker 2: have your financial report from Bloomberg and we're diving into
Speaker 2: Cinco de Mayo with some fun suggestions of places you
Speaker 2: can celebrate. At five fifty afar Bucks just opened its
Speaker 2: first ever three D printed store in Brownsville, Texas. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk with ABC's Jim Ryan to find out
Speaker 2: how they did it and if we will see one
Speaker 2: here in California anytime soon. Then at six oh five,
Speaker 2: it's Handle on the News. Police arrested two people in
Speaker 2: Brazil after they allegedly targeted a Lady Gaga concert. We're
Speaker 2: going to tell you what the investigation revealed so far.
Speaker 2: Let's start with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 2: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A pilot and a
Speaker 2: passenger on board a small plane, and a dog have
Speaker 2: been killed in a crash in Seami Valley. The plane
Speaker 2: hit two homes Saturday. When it went down ended up
Speaker 2: between the homes. This man told KTLA he saw the
Speaker 2: plane before crashed.
Speaker 6: Something was off because he was just hitting the gas
Speaker 6: on and off and then just going on circles very
Speaker 6: very low.
Speaker 2: The NTSB says it's too soon to know what caused
Speaker 2: the crash. No one on the ground was hurt. A
Speaker 2: new bill in California could prevent a tragedy.
Speaker 7: Senate Bill eight hundred has passed unanimously in the Senate
Speaker 7: Transportation Committee. If successfully passed through Sacramento, the bill would
Speaker 7: came off a pilot program requiring caltrans to install suicide
Speaker 7: deterrens like barriers and signs on ten freeway overpasses in
Speaker 7: San Bernadino County. The bill is prompted by recent tragedies,
Speaker 7: including the deaths of two high school students just weeks
Speaker 7: apart in September twenty twenty four. In Rancho Cucamonga. The
Speaker 7: city's mayor says that the bill provides much needed attention
Speaker 7: to a crisis that has shaken numerous communities. The bill
Speaker 7: now moves to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Andrew Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 2: Trial of hip hop mogul Shan Combs is starting in
Speaker 2: New York today. Prosecutors are expected to paint him as
Speaker 2: a criminal sexual devian who exploited is fame to abuse women,
Speaker 2: as lawyers say prosecutors are trying to police consensual sex
Speaker 2: and that their allegations against Combs are false. President Trump
Speaker 2: is raising some eyebrows after telling NBC's Meet the Press
Speaker 2: he's not sure if he's required to uphold the Constitution.
Speaker 2: In that same interview, he ruled out a third term
Speaker 2: and says he won't fire Federal Chair Reserve Jerome Powell.
Speaker 2: Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers with the latest.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Hey, good morning to you all.
Speaker 2: Right, let's start with that big headline everybody is talking
Speaker 2: about when President Trump said I don't know when he
Speaker 2: was asked if he had to uphold the constitution. Did
Speaker 2: the White House walk that back at all or offer
Speaker 2: any clarifications.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, they haven't. And you know that kind of
Speaker 8: tends to be the process for this White House. When
Speaker 8: the President speaks, they let those words stand. The President
Speaker 8: yesterday said, as you know, that he didn't know if
Speaker 8: he needed to uphold the constitutions due process protections. He
Speaker 8: was asked if he believed every person on American soil,
Speaker 8: citizens and non citizens, is entitled to do process guaranteed
Speaker 8: by the Fifth Amendment, and he deflected. When he was
Speaker 8: answering this, he said, I don't know. I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 8: I don't know. He was later pushed on this, don't
Speaker 8: you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States,
Speaker 8: and he said, I don't know. I have to respond
Speaker 8: again by saying I have brilliant lawyers that work for me,
Speaker 8: and he said they're going to follow what the Supreme
Speaker 8: Court said. But he also tested that giving people due
Speaker 8: process could slow down his promise plans for mass deprecations,
Speaker 8: and that was notable to hear him say that, but
Speaker 8: he's kind of hinted that before, but now sort of
Speaker 8: spelling it out, like saying, you know, we have a
Speaker 8: million or two million or three million trials that that
Speaker 8: would be too complicated for what he's planning to do.
Speaker 2: Are there any political leaders that are responding so far
Speaker 2: as well? I mean legal experts coming forward saying we
Speaker 2: need to clarify this.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I think there are a lot of questions with
Speaker 8: the White House this week about it. But you know,
Speaker 8: when this has come up before, when the President has
Speaker 8: asked been asked these questions. You know, I asked him
Speaker 8: similar questions last week, Karen Moran, my colleague. Did we've
Speaker 8: we've kind of pushed the president on this. The White
Speaker 8: House tends to say, you know, the President's word stands
Speaker 8: on this, and that they are following what the Supreme
Speaker 8: Court order was at this point. They also say they
Speaker 8: don't engage in hypotheticals, and so that's always a tricky
Speaker 8: way to kind of get them to engage on these
Speaker 8: types of scenarios. But on the specific case where the
Speaker 8: Supreme Court has said they must facilitate the order of
Speaker 8: the man who had been wrongfully deported to El Salvador,
Speaker 8: the White House continues to say that it's not up
Speaker 8: to them, it's up to El Salvador at this point
Speaker 8: to make that happen.
Speaker 2: Now we've heard Trump kind of float the idea of
Speaker 2: a third term before, but in this interview he kind
Speaker 2: of rolled it out. And so, do you think that's
Speaker 2: a firm line or another headline grab?
Speaker 8: I mean, it certainly was more firm than we've seen.
Speaker 4: He said.
Speaker 8: So many people want me to do it, but it's
Speaker 8: something that, to the best of my knowledge, you're not
Speaker 8: allowed to do. He said, it's not something I'm looking
Speaker 8: to do. I'm looking to have four great years and
Speaker 8: turn it over to somebody. And he was asked an
Speaker 8: interesting question about whether he believes the Mega Movement his movement,
Speaker 8: could survive without him, and he said, I do. I
Speaker 8: think it's so strong and we have tremendous people, and
Speaker 8: he specifically cited Secretary of State Marco Rudio, his vice
Speaker 8: president Jadie Vance, who he said is fantastic. He also
Speaker 8: said he could name ten, fifteen, thirty other people right now,
Speaker 8: but I think it was notable to hear him specifically
Speaker 8: mention those two individuals as potential successors.
Speaker 2: All right. And finally, he also says he's not going
Speaker 2: to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell before his term ends.
Speaker 2: What significance does that have?
Speaker 8: You know, it's not even clear he could do that
Speaker 8: because of the independence of the Federal Reserve. But Powell
Speaker 8: is up in May of twenty twenty six. That was
Speaker 8: when his term ends, and the President said he gets
Speaker 8: to replace him in a short period of time, so
Speaker 8: he's not looking to make any moves before then.
Speaker 2: Okay, ABC's Karen Travers, thank you so much, have a
Speaker 2: wonderful morning.
Speaker 8: Have a great day. Thanks you. Thanks.
Speaker 2: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 2: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA Mayor Bass
Speaker 2: says she'll take a pay cut as the city tries
Speaker 2: to close a nearly one billion dollar budget hole. Is
Speaker 2: tammy Truehio said. The mayor also says she'll hold off
Speaker 2: on the scheduled raises for her staff.
Speaker 9: Her office didn't specify how much of a pay cut
Speaker 9: Bass is taking or when it would go into effect.
Speaker 9: The mayor's annual salary is about three hundred thousand basses.
Speaker 9: Proposed budget of thirteen million dollars for the twenty twenty
Speaker 9: five twenty six fiscal year includes getting rid of over
Speaker 9: twenty seven hundred city positions with over sixteen hundred layoffs,
Speaker 9: and cutting over one thousand vacant jobs. Tammy Triheo KFI News.
Speaker 2: Two Democratic senators from New York say the White House
Speaker 2: has broken a promise to its own Republican leaders to
Speaker 2: restore funding for HHS programs that provide healthcare for nine
Speaker 2: to eleven first responders. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says more people
Speaker 2: who work on nine to eleven programs were fired on Friday.
Speaker 10: President Trump and Elon Musk and the Doge Boys are
Speaker 10: slowly but surely dismantling the nine to eleven health program.
Speaker 2: Senator Chuck Schumer says he and Senator Gillibrand will not
Speaker 2: let up on the pressure. Conflict of interest questions are
Speaker 2: being asked about the Trump family's involvement in the crypto world.
Speaker 2: Former SEC official John reed Stark says the entire crypto
Speaker 2: enforcement program at the Securities and Exchange Commission has been demolished.
Speaker 3: President Trump did say he was going to do this,
Speaker 3: so he's keeping his promises.
Speaker 1: But I hope the SEC can be independent enough to
Speaker 1: say we're not going to do that.
Speaker 2: He says. All SEC investigations regarding crypto have been closed,
Speaker 2: and SEC litigations involving crypto have been dismissed or paused.
Speaker 2: At least thirty three people have been heard when a
Speaker 2: shuttle bus carrying forty one passengers crashed in Missouri. The
Speaker 2: State Highway Patrol says the driver overcorrected and hit a
Speaker 2: ditch that led to the crash on Saturday. Four people
Speaker 2: were seriously hurt, including the driver. They were taken to
Speaker 2: the hospital. The Dodgers are taking on the Marlins in
Speaker 2: Miami today with the first pitch at three forty. You
Speaker 2: can listen to all games on AM five to seventy
Speaker 2: LA Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and
Speaker 2: stream all Dodgers games in HD on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 2: Hey Word AM five seventy LA Sports. A part of
Speaker 2: Orange County's coast is closed after four thousand gallons of
Speaker 2: sewage spilled in coast to Mesa. The closure stretches from
Speaker 2: Huntington State Beach to Newport Beach with no swimming or
Speaker 2: surfing allowed. Officials say a grease and roots blockage caused
Speaker 2: the spill. A Pasentia woman was honored. She honored fifty
Speaker 2: eight victims of the Route ninety one Harvest Festival shooting
Speaker 2: by completing her fifty eighth marathon on Sunday in Orange County.
Speaker 2: Christine Mayfield set the goal after surviving the twenty seventeen tragedy.
Speaker 2: She finished the race on Sunday in just under five hours,
Speaker 2: with over thirty six hundred runners taking part. And Marvel's
Speaker 2: Thunderbolts stormed the box office with a seventy six million
Speaker 2: dollars debut, taking the top spot from Sinners, which still
Speaker 2: pulled in a solid thirty three million dollars in its
Speaker 2: third week. Superhero Flix stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian stan and
Speaker 2: Julia Louis Dreyfus, and I highly recommend, by the way,
Speaker 2: that was a great, great movie, a lot of fun,
Speaker 2: and at six zh five it's handle on the news.
Speaker 2: President Trump told NBC's Meet the Press he's not sure
Speaker 2: if he's required to uphold the Constitution. And I know
Speaker 2: that Bill will have a lot to say about that,
Speaker 2: so you don't want to miss it. May is mental
Speaker 2: health Awareness Month, and the goal of most initiatives is
Speaker 2: to raise awareness about mental health, reduce stigma, and promote
Speaker 2: support for individuals and families affected by mental illness. Joining
Speaker 2: me now is doctor Lisa Wong, the director of the
Speaker 2: La County Department of mental Health.
Speaker 10: Hi, doctor Wang, Hello, thank you for having me today.
Speaker 2: Heather, Sure, thank you for joining me. So this is
Speaker 2: a really important topic and I'm so glad we have
Speaker 2: the opportunity to talk about it. Let's just start with
Speaker 2: what initiatives is the county working on for Mental Health
Speaker 2: Awareness Month?
Speaker 10: Well, the La County Department of Mental Health. Our Take
Speaker 10: Actions for Mental Health La County campaign encourages people to
Speaker 10: really take action on their mental health for themselves and
Speaker 10: for others throughout May, and we hope that this is
Speaker 10: just the start. This is like a launching point in May,
Speaker 10: and you know, of course, we hope this goes well
Speaker 10: beyond throughout the rest of the year. We've partnered with
Speaker 10: sixty eight different organizations and we're hosting almost one hundred
Speaker 10: and ninety different events with free activities like yoga, meditation, music,
Speaker 10: and resources. And our campaign really is about raising awareness,
Speaker 10: fostering community, and ensuring that mental health and wellbeing are
Speaker 10: priorities and accessible for everyone, especially beyond May.
Speaker 2: Now, I want to talk about something that I know
Speaker 2: is sort of a hot button issue for a lot
Speaker 2: of people, and that is the prevalence of mental illness
Speaker 2: in unhoused people. In La County, and LASA had a
Speaker 2: report that came out that said about twenty four percent
Speaker 2: of unhoused adults in La County reported having a serious
Speaker 2: mental illness. That's about fifteen thousand or more people. I
Speaker 2: would love to talk about what programs or initiatives the
Speaker 2: county is doing to support mental health or unhoused individuals.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the challenges in trauma of living unhoused can take
Speaker 10: a serious toll on a person's mental state, and homelessness
Speaker 10: often worsens existing mental health conditions or it can give
Speaker 10: rise to new mental health issues as a result of
Speaker 10: living in the house. And that's why we follow a
Speaker 10: very client centered approach for people who are both unhoused
Speaker 10: and living with a serious mental illness. This means that
Speaker 10: homeless services and mental health treatment can't really be separated out.
Speaker 10: I think having access to both whenever needed insures continuity
Speaker 10: of care and stable transitions between levels of care. Our
Speaker 10: goal at the Department of Mental Health is to make
Speaker 10: client care as seamless as possible, always striving to meet
Speaker 10: clients where they are, and we also value partner with
Speaker 10: housing authorities, the city, and other county departments to ensure
Speaker 10: mental health care is part of every housing solution. And
Speaker 10: you know, as you mentioned, a lot of people experiencing
Speaker 10: homelessness also have what we call co occurring disorders, meaning
Speaker 10: they have both a mental illness and or some kind
Speaker 10: of mental health condition and a substance use need. So
Speaker 10: in La County, probably up to forty forty five percent
Speaker 10: of unsheltered homeless individuals are estimated to have co occurring disorders.
Speaker 10: And this really underscores the importance of integrated care models
Speaker 10: and support of housing and outreach. So we've done everything
Speaker 10: we can to meet people where they are, including standing
Speaker 10: up street teams that actually go out with nurses, doctors,
Speaker 10: social workers, community health workers and peers to start, you know,
Speaker 10: forming those relationships and winning over the trust. When we're
Speaker 10: talking about people who are unhoused, especially who've had substance
Speaker 10: use issues mental health issues, they have experienced a number
Speaker 10: of system failures and a lot of times it's hard
Speaker 10: for them to then trust those same systems to come
Speaker 10: through for them.
Speaker 2: The almost issue in Lan County is very complex. It's
Speaker 2: not as black and white as a lot of people
Speaker 2: believe it is, and so is dealing with someone who
Speaker 2: has a mental illness. Can you tell us how we
Speaker 2: can identify mental health issues in ourselves and others.
Speaker 10: Well, I think you bring up some really important issues, Heather,
Speaker 10: And it's true. It's not a black and white kind
Speaker 10: of deal, right, It's very complex, very layered. People who
Speaker 10: are unhoused or in housed for many different reasons, and
Speaker 10: the way out of that has involved a lot of
Speaker 10: different kinds of solutions. So I think some things to
Speaker 10: look for in ourselves as well as others is have
Speaker 10: there been changes, you know, have you noticed a difference
Speaker 10: in sleeping patterns and eating patterns? Have you noticed a
Speaker 10: change in like what you find interesting or if you have,
Speaker 10: you know, it's kind of inertia that's developing. We often
Speaker 10: find that the earliest signs of having a mental health
Speaker 10: issue don't really involve something that you requires a hospitalization
Speaker 10: or a crisis work or anything. A lot of mental
Speaker 10: health issues develop over time. Most importantly, not be afraid
Speaker 10: to have a conversation about it.
Speaker 2: Those are all absolutely wonderful points and great advice and insights.
Speaker 2: So doctor Wang, I appreciate your time and thank you
Speaker 2: so much for talking with us.
Speaker 10: Thank you, Heather.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three
Speaker 2: people have been hurt in a shooting at a park
Speaker 2: in Orange County. One of those hurt yesterday at Featherly
Speaker 2: Regional Park in Yorba Linda is the alleged shooter. Fully
Speaker 2: say a man trying to run over someone with his
Speaker 2: car before shooting two people and then himself. All three
Speaker 2: apparently knew each other. Two popular beaches in Orange County
Speaker 2: have been closed because of a sewage spill.
Speaker 11: Health officials say about four thousand gallons of sewage leaked
Speaker 11: into the water at Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, caused
Speaker 11: by a blocked we're line clogged with roots in Greece.
Speaker 11: The beaches will remain closed until the water tests safe again.
Speaker 11: County Supervisor Katrina Foley is asking everyone to follow the
Speaker 11: signs and stay out of the ocean for now. Brigida
Speaker 11: Agustino k if I is President.
Speaker 2: Trump says he's looking to reopen Alcatraz.
Speaker 3: Trump said in a post on truth Social that America
Speaker 3: has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders
Speaker 3: and that the country in the past did not hesitate
Speaker 3: to lock up the most dangerous criminals and keep them
Speaker 3: far away from anyone they could harm. He went on
Speaker 3: to say Alcatraz will house America's most ruthless and violent offenders,
Speaker 3: adding that it'll serve as a symbol of law, order
Speaker 3: and justice.
Speaker 2: Chris Carragio reports Alcatraz is on a small island about
Speaker 2: a mile from San Francisco and has stopped operating as
Speaker 2: a prison. In nineteen sixty three, a man and a
Speaker 2: teenager have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot
Speaker 2: to set off a bomb at a Lady Gaga concert
Speaker 2: in Brazil. The weekend concert drew about two million fans
Speaker 2: to the Copacamana Beach. Former FBI agent Brad Gearhart says
Speaker 2: local authorities will probably get intelligence from the FBI and
Speaker 2: other agencies because they actively monitor events like that.
Speaker 10: A high profile person like Lady Gaga are an attractive target,
Speaker 10: obviously by a number of groups or individuals.
Speaker 2: Police in Rio say the attack was allegedly planned by
Speaker 2: a group spreading hate speech against LGBTQ people. New numbers
Speaker 2: show thirty thousand people left New York City and moved
Speaker 2: to Florida between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty two. Most
Speaker 2: of them went to Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties.
Speaker 2: They took more than nine billion dollars in income with
Speaker 2: them COVID nineteen. The cost of living and the quality
Speaker 2: of life issues were the main reasons for the moves.
Speaker 2: Some New Yorkers also came to California during that time span.
Speaker 2: Vatican insiders say the decision on the next pope is
Speaker 2: now in the hands of the Holy Spirit. ABC's Inez
Speaker 2: de la Kutera says the papal conclave gets under way
Speaker 2: later this week.
Speaker 11: There are now thousands across Italy playing a fantasy football
Speaker 11: type of game to try and predict the next pope.
Speaker 12: At the top of the list right now are the
Speaker 12: Italian cardinals.
Speaker 2: The conclave is set to start Wednesday and could last
Speaker 2: up to fifteen days to Israeli official say ministers have
Speaker 2: approved a plan to capture all of the Gaza Strip
Speaker 2: and remain in the territory for an unspecified amount of time.
Speaker 2: The vote was held after hours, held after the Israeli
Speaker 2: military chiefs said the army was calling up tens of
Speaker 2: thousands of reserve soldiers. The Israeli officials say the plan
Speaker 2: is meant to help Israel achieve its goal of defeating
Speaker 2: Hamas and freeing hostages. Coles has fired CEO Andy Buchanan
Speaker 2: after the board learned he directed millions of dollars in
Speaker 2: business to incrediit Brew, a company run by a woman
Speaker 2: he had a personal relationship with. Buchanan had only held
Speaker 2: the roles since January. Former President Trump says he wants
Speaker 2: a one hundred percent tariff on movies made out the
Speaker 2: side the US, calling foreign film incentives a national security threat.
Speaker 2: The move targets countries like Australia and New Zealand that
Speaker 2: offer tax breaks to Hollywood productions, and critics are warning
Speaker 2: it could hurt global filmmaking and strain international ties. The
Speaker 2: World Health Organization warns that a billion young people worldwide
Speaker 2: are at risk of hearing loss due to unsafe listening habits.
Speaker 2: Experts say it often goes unnoticed until it worsens, with
Speaker 2: nearly twenty percent of teens already showing signs, mostly from
Speaker 2: loud music and noise exposure. Then at six oh five
Speaker 2: it's handle on the news. Catholic leaders are criticizing President
Speaker 2: Trump for sharing a photo of himself as the Pope.
Speaker 2: The AI generated image was reshared by the President on
Speaker 2: his truth social account. All right, now it's the moment
Speaker 2: we've all been waiting for. May fifth. What else is
Speaker 2: there really to talk about? Is it too early to
Speaker 2: say Cinco di drino?
Speaker 4: No, I mean not on the job, of course.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 2: Never, It's Cinco de Mayo everybody, And of course this
Speaker 2: is observed every May fifth. I'm a history nerd. I
Speaker 2: love talking about the history of like holidays and events
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And in a minute, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: bug Kno and Will and producer and to find out
Speaker 2: what they like to do on Sigo to Mayo. But
Speaker 2: as you know, Seago to Mayo commemorates Mexico's victory over
Speaker 2: France at the Battle of Puebla in eighteen sixty two.
Speaker 2: And apparently we continue that tradition by just drinking margaritas
Speaker 2: and eating chips and guacamole.
Speaker 4: And made me hungry and thirsty.
Speaker 2: There you go, Will is ready to go.
Speaker 4: It's bigger here than in Mexico.
Speaker 2: Right, Oh, yeah, they don't really celebrate it in Mexico.
Speaker 2: I think it's it may even just be southern California.
Speaker 2: It may not be anywhere else in the country. All right, Will,
Speaker 2: So what do you do? Do you go out? Do
Speaker 2: you have any things that you like to do.
Speaker 5: When I was younger, I used to go out with
Speaker 5: the friends to the but it's so crowded, it's so
Speaker 5: crowded out. So we kind of started this tradition on
Speaker 5: Cinco de Mayo. We'd go to an Irish place on
Speaker 5: Saint pat the date you go to a Mexican place.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're such a rebel. I know what a rebel
Speaker 2: you are, Like, I'll show these holidays. Yeah, I have
Speaker 2: to save a little side note here. What a treat
Speaker 2: it is to be working with you again? Yes, because
Speaker 2: you know Will and I we go way back. We
Speaker 2: used to work at KTLA together a long time ago.
Speaker 2: I won't date us by saying exactly how long early
Speaker 2: even earlier than this shift, if you can believe it.
Speaker 2: And so it truly is such a treat. We used
Speaker 2: to keep each other company and laugh a lot in
Speaker 2: the newsroom over there, and now we get to do
Speaker 2: that here. Such a joy, all right, So, producer, and
Speaker 2: do you celebrate seine goo tomayo? Do you have any
Speaker 2: chipsy Sla? By the way, that was a fun fact.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that yeah, we go back.
Speaker 2: Oh what about KTLA? Yeah? Oh yeah, you guys were together.
Speaker 2: We did. Will and I have known each other for
Speaker 2: a very long time. Is that why he got to
Speaker 2: scare you without meaning what happened? Will came around the
Speaker 2: corner before, like at four point thirty in the morning,
Speaker 2: and then what's happening? So loud that I knew jumped
Speaker 2: out of my seat. I screamed so loud that I
Speaker 2: thought ConA was going to call the cops. I'm pretty sure,
Speaker 2: all right, And what do you like to do? Do
Speaker 2: you do you have any man? Isn't that a young
Speaker 2: man's game holiday?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Like sure?
Speaker 11: Like it was just an excuse to go drink right
Speaker 11: now with this fun job.
Speaker 2: Who goes out drinking a night? I mean not me,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. I was in bed at like six
Speaker 2: last night trying to get well. I didn't go to
Speaker 2: bed so there, so I did party. Well, it's your heart.
Speaker 2: I know you're so tired. I think we're both gonna
Speaker 2: go on my crash after this.
Speaker 7: But yeah, so I think Kono is our Partierno.
Speaker 2: Where's where's the place to go? What should we be doing?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I don't party anymore. I have three kids.
Speaker 4: There's no chance that's right.
Speaker 2: No, go to drinko for you. We suck all right.
Speaker 2: So back in the day then I would say I
Speaker 2: would have a little uh I honestly, and don't come
Speaker 2: at me. Southern California. I am not a fan of Margarita's.
Speaker 2: I know. I do not like Margarita's. It is not
Speaker 2: for me. It is not There's just something about the
Speaker 2: taste I don't I don't love it. I also cannot
Speaker 2: drink tequila. It makes me just a little bit too honest,
Speaker 2: and I don't know that I should do that at
Speaker 2: this point in my life.
Speaker 4: There's actually a song called Tequila makes your Clothes fall off.
Speaker 2: Oh dang, No, it's not that not that's not not
Speaker 2: that honest, not that honest. A couple of things you
Speaker 2: might want to look into. Most of these single de
Speaker 2: Mayo events in Southern California happened over the weekend. There's
Speaker 2: a few things happening today. However, on the actual day,
Speaker 2: you can head down to see. Let's see Single to
Speaker 2: Mayo celebration at UCLA's Academy de Danza. I think that's
Speaker 2: means dance academy. That's happening on the Third Street Promenade
Speaker 2: from four to five thirty. You can also there's lots
Speaker 2: of restaurants having Sinco de Mayo food. Legendary Mexican restaurant Elcholo,
Speaker 2: they're going to be having some of their special tacos
Speaker 2: there tonight. Olvera Street did a big thing this weekend,
Speaker 2: but I'm sure some of the festivities will continue today
Speaker 2: as well, if you want to head down there. And
Speaker 2: then in Catalina, they're having a big celebration this evening
Speaker 2: at the Museum for Art and History. If you want
Speaker 2: to head on over to Catalina tonight and finish your
Speaker 2: Sinco de Mayo celebrations. So and also, as I mentioned
Speaker 2: at the top of the show, this is my anniversary.
Speaker 2: I've been married twenty four years to my main man
Speaker 2: and everyone always asks, oh, did you have this Sinco
Speaker 2: de Mayo wedding? No, we did not. We didn't. That
Speaker 2: just felt like maybe one step too far. So we
Speaker 2: just had a regular, old, regular old wedding. But the
Speaker 2: reason we picked this date was because it would be
Speaker 2: easy for us to remember when we got old five'
Speaker 2: five oh one. That was genuinely we were like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's an easy anniversary date to remember five to five
Speaker 2: oh one. So here we are. Happy anniversary again to
Speaker 2: my love Chris. All right, let's move along, you guys.
Speaker 2: Thanks for participating in my fun little uh sinco de
Speaker 2: Mayo moment. Now we're going to have some fun to
Speaker 2: get up in your business. Oh I love that we
Speaker 2: say that we're going to get up in your business
Speaker 2: with bloom Courtney Donahoe. Good morning, Courtney, good morning.
Speaker 12: By the way, my dad, who's in his late seventies,
Speaker 12: asked me yesterday if we were going out for Cinko Demaya,
Speaker 12: So you're never too old.
Speaker 2: He's also from Ireland and he loves to go out.
Speaker 12: So there we go.
Speaker 2: See, Okay, that's a good point. I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a good time, all right, I love that.
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 2: So it's the end of an era, all right. This
Speaker 2: is pretty big news today. Warren Buffett stepping down after
Speaker 2: six decades running Berkshire Hathaway.
Speaker 12: Oh my goodness. And he picked the final minute of
Speaker 12: his sixtieth Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting over the weekend to
Speaker 12: drop this change that surprised so many, even the guy
Speaker 12: who was supposed to take over for him, didn't even
Speaker 12: know the board didn't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he then he dipped out and didn't answer
Speaker 2: any questions. Right, Yeah, so he's like, I'm out.
Speaker 12: But longtime Berkshire Energy executive Greg Gable he's gonna take
Speaker 12: over January first. The board just proved it within the
Speaker 12: past hour. But now the big question lots of people
Speaker 12: are pondering this morning, does Berkshire Stock actually still deserve
Speaker 12: the buffet premium when he's no longer there, And people
Speaker 12: want to know how greg Abil's going to change the business.
Speaker 12: Because Warren had a certain magic that kind of recreating
Speaker 12: that is almost impossible. There were stories that he used
Speaker 12: to go out with his children and read financial reports
Speaker 12: and be so engrossed in them that he would walk
Speaker 12: into a tree. So not many people have the stamina
Speaker 12: or the focus to be able.
Speaker 2: And also he's.
Speaker 12: Well known for having tremendous memory. So greg Abel, these
Speaker 12: are gifts that are given to you, not really something
Speaker 12: that you can kind of hone over the years. So
Speaker 12: that's something that's going to be a big difference when
Speaker 12: greg Abel steps in, and that's going to be January first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very smart man. That will make a huge difference.
Speaker 2: I think for Berkshire Hathaway and yeah, let's talk about brides.
Speaker 2: Brides are facing tariffs. What's that about. Yeah, so we're.
Speaker 12: Probably going to see a lot more carnations instead of
Speaker 12: roses the next wedding we all attend. So one of
Speaker 12: the issues is that couples are telling the Wall Street
Speaker 12: Journal that they're planning to do their own flower arrangements
Speaker 12: because they started pricing it out with a florist. It
Speaker 12: was way too expensive. So now they're going to Trader
Speaker 12: Joe's and Costco and they're making them themselves. And other
Speaker 12: ways that couples are saving. They're cutting back on party favors.
Speaker 12: They're scrapping European for American wine. But they're also ditching
Speaker 12: the professional videographer to a content creator who shoots on
Speaker 12: a smartphone but charges about half the price.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean, I guess there is a little bit
Speaker 2: of something to that, saving a little bit.
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, it's a very different story than how many
Speaker 12: years ago when you're getting married and happy anniversary, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, we spent a
Speaker 2: lot of money on our photographer and videographer and all
Speaker 2: of that stuff.
Speaker 12: So yeah, and now they're trying to find ways because
Speaker 12: now it's so much more expensive.
Speaker 2: Does the content creator put themselves in the content? That's
Speaker 2: what I would want to know, like I see the selfie.
Speaker 2: We're also seeing a buying surge to get ahead of
Speaker 2: President Trump's auto tariffs. It looks like it's rapidly depleting
Speaker 2: the supply of duty free cars.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and this, according to Cox Automotive, of the run
Speaker 12: on showrooms has slashed new vehicle inventories by twenty four percent.
Speaker 12: That's one of the largest drops in several years. So
Speaker 12: dealerships right now have about sixty one days worth of
Speaker 12: cars on him, but that is the lowest level in
Speaker 12: nearly two years. And remember two years ago we were
Speaker 12: facing all of the issues with autos because we couldn't
Speaker 12: get the parts. So sales are expected, though, to slow
Speaker 12: down in the second half of the year as prices
Speaker 12: continue to rise due to tariffs.
Speaker 2: All right, Bloomberg's Courtney, Donah, thank you so much. We'll
Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 12: Definitely see you later.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's get back to some of the
Speaker 2: stories coming out of the KFI twenty five our newsroom.
Speaker 2: The LA Urban Policy Roundtable is pushing the City Council
Speaker 2: to slash its pay. Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson says
Speaker 2: it should follow the example of Mayor Bass, who's volunteered
Speaker 2: to take a pay cut to meet LA's budget crisis.
Speaker 2: He says, in temporary ten to fifteen percent cut should work.
Speaker 4: You're not going to be out there in sack falth
Speaker 4: and ashes pushing the trash can with cans. Do the
Speaker 4: right thing again.
Speaker 2: Hutchinson says, by slashing its pay, the council would send
Speaker 2: a message that it's willing to sacrifice, as it's asking
Speaker 2: thousands of city employees threatened with layoffs to meet the crisis.
Speaker 2: The World Health Organization says a billion young people around
Speaker 2: the world risk losing their hearing because of unsafe listening habits.
Speaker 2: Audiologist MJ. Desusa with Belltone tells KFI hearing loss happens gradually,
Speaker 2: so people don't often know when they have it until
Speaker 2: it gets worse.
Speaker 13: A lot of younger people aren't aware of it until
Speaker 13: they're a little bit older. So it's really important that
Speaker 13: everyone gets a hearing screening so that any changes in
Speaker 13: your hearing can be identified early and if it needs
Speaker 13: to be treated, you can get that early intervention.
Speaker 2: The studies show nearly twenty percent of teenagers have some
Speaker 2: level of hearing loss, often due to exposure of loud
Speaker 2: music and noise. A small plane crash in a two
Speaker 2: homes and see Me Valley on Saturday, killing the pilot,
Speaker 2: a passenger, and a dog. A single engine air craft
Speaker 2: sparked to fire. The damaged both houses, but no residents
Speaker 2: were hurt. Witnesses say the plane appeared to be flying
Speaker 2: low and spiraling before the impact. The US Securities and
Speaker 2: Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into PayPal's stable coin
Speaker 2: py USD without taking any enforcement action. This decision removes
Speaker 2: a significant regulatory hurdle for PayPal, allowing the company to
Speaker 2: focus on expanding their adoption. Launched in August of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three, the PYUSD is a dollar backed stable coin
Speaker 2: issued in partnership with Paxos Trust Company. The trial of
Speaker 2: hip hop mogul Sewancombs kicks off today in New York.
Speaker 2: Prosecutors claim he used his fame to abuse women, while
Speaker 2: his lawyers say the accusations are false and based on
Speaker 2: consensual encounters. Jury selection will begin later today in testimonies
Speaker 2: expected next week we're just minutes away from Handel's handle.
Speaker 2: On the news this morning, former Vice President Mike Pence
Speaker 2: got a special award for courage. We're gonna tell you
Speaker 2: what it was, four and what do you have to
Speaker 2: say about it. Right now, we're going to be diving
Speaker 2: into the future of construction and coffee. Starbucks just opened
Speaker 2: its first ever three D printed store in Brownsville, Texas.
Speaker 2: Let's say good morning dabc's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Jim, Hey, ether ye talk about four months
Speaker 6: to build this place one point one million dollars to
Speaker 6: fairly small place, fourteen hundred square foot so it doesn't
Speaker 6: have the room where folks can come in and lounge
Speaker 6: around sitting.
Speaker 14: In big comfy chairs drinking their coffee. It's got to
Speaker 14: drive through in a walk up window and that's it.
Speaker 4: But really may.
Speaker 14: Set a president for Starbucks. They've get to like seventeen
Speaker 14: thousand stores around the country, and we'll see whether the
Speaker 14: one in Brownsville pays off, whether it to withstands hurricanes.
Speaker 14: Brownsville is in a hurricane country, and whether it might
Speaker 14: be the future of Starbucks.
Speaker 2: Now, why do they choose Brownsville in particular.
Speaker 14: Don't know they haven't said. You know, it's a Brownsville's
Speaker 14: a little under two hundred thousand people. There are three
Speaker 14: other Starbucks in that city and they just.
Speaker 6: I've been there to a business.
Speaker 2: Not much else there, No, not a lot.
Speaker 14: No SpaceX is down there, and you're just across the
Speaker 14: border from Mexico. But beyond that, that's not a lot
Speaker 14: in pretty country down there though.
Speaker 2: All right, So, how does the three D printing construction
Speaker 2: process differ from traditional methods in times of like cost
Speaker 2: and time environmental impact.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it is said to be cheaper, less material is wasted.
Speaker 14: You're working from a cat or a blueprint that's converted
Speaker 14: into a computer program which then controls the arm that
Speaker 14: lays down the layer after layer of concrete to build
Speaker 14: up this building. So you don't have brick and mortar,
Speaker 14: you don't have wood frames and studs like that. It's
Speaker 14: pretty self contained. Then once it's done, the giant three
Speaker 14: D printer packs up moves on to the next job site.
Speaker 14: It's been used in some housing projects here in Texas
Speaker 14: around the Austin area. This is the first time that
Speaker 14: Starbucks is putting it to use.
Speaker 2: I've actually seen the video of that and it's pretty
Speaker 2: cool and it also looks to be very fast process
Speaker 2: compared to traditional home building.
Speaker 14: This took about four months, you know, from the time
Speaker 14: they walk in and start leveling out the lot. There
Speaker 14: was an old building there, sort of a junky old
Speaker 14: previous fast food joint. They tore that down and this
Speaker 14: was their footprint. And so yeah, about four months from
Speaker 14: the start to finish, and they cut the ribbon, opened
Speaker 14: the place up on Friday.
Speaker 2: Now, why do they want to do this? Do they
Speaker 2: feel like this would have some sustainability benefits and scalability?
Speaker 2: Can they make bigger ones and expand?
Speaker 14: Sure, well, they can't do that. What's more publicity stunt?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 14: You know there's novelty there. I suspect that the line
Speaker 14: is we're talking about it. Yeah, exactly. Everybody around the
Speaker 14: country is kind of buzzed.
Speaker 4: About this for coffee.
Speaker 14: So but yeah, I think that that's part of it.
Speaker 14: But we'll see how this works, to see how the
Speaker 14: building holds up over time. I mean, it's made of concrete,
Speaker 14: so you have to assume that it's going to be
Speaker 14: fairly rugged even in the face of any tropical storm
Speaker 14: that might come ashore at Brownsville.
Speaker 2: Do you think we'll see one out here in California
Speaker 2: anytime soon. Are they going to be expanded totally?
Speaker 14: I would think so. I mean three D printing also
Speaker 14: has another benefit in using concrete.
Speaker 4: It's fireproof, you know.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and so there is talk I know that in
Speaker 14: some of those hard hit communities, in places where wildfires
Speaker 14: are a problem, that you can use three D printing
Speaker 14: create buildings that simply can't burn, you know, and so
Speaker 14: and they can and they also serve then as a
Speaker 14: firebreak against you know, to protect neighborhoods that are not
Speaker 14: built this way. So yeah, we'll see what happens in
Speaker 14: the future. But it's it's an interesting concept.
Speaker 2: All right now. They just need to tackle those drive
Speaker 2: through lines and I think we'll be all set. Jim,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. Have a wonderful morning.
Speaker 4: See you, Heather, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Two
Speaker 2: popular beaches in Orange County have closed because of a
Speaker 2: major stewage spill. Health officials say about four thous and
Speaker 2: gowns of sewage leaped into the water at Huntington Beach
Speaker 2: in Newport Beach and that caused a sewer line, which
Speaker 2: was caused by a sewer line that was clogged with
Speaker 2: roots and Greece. The beaches will remain closed until the
Speaker 2: water tests safe again. President Trump has been criticized over
Speaker 2: an ai image posted online showing him dress like the Pope.
Speaker 2: Many comments on social media say it's offensive to Catholics.
Speaker 2: American Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who's in Rome, says the image
Speaker 2: is embarrassing.
Speaker 3: I hope he didn't have anything to do with that,
Speaker 3: you know you it wasn't good in the Italiani Dicono
Speaker 3: and Bruto.
Speaker 2: President Trump re shared the image on his truth social
Speaker 2: account over the weekend. Prince Harry says he's been cut
Speaker 2: off by his father, King Charles.
Speaker 9: In an interview with the BBC that aired on Friday,
Speaker 9: Harry confirmed a strained relationship with his family.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much longer my father has.
Speaker 10: You know, he.
Speaker 4: Won't speak to me because of this security.
Speaker 9: The security stuff he's referring to is Britain's High Court
Speaker 9: ruling against him having full time security protectionf.
Speaker 2: Tammy Trujillo says Harry's protection was downgraded in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: when he stepped down from the Royal family and moved
Speaker 2: to the US with his wife, Megan Markle. Three people
Speaker 2: have been killed in a shooting at a Sinko Demayo
Speaker 2: event in Arizona. Glendale Police officer Maroney Mendez says investigators
Speaker 2: believe there may have been more than one shooter, but
Speaker 2: no arrests have been made and a possible motive is unclear.
Speaker 7: We got multiple calls of a shooting that happened in
Speaker 7: an establishment just to my south fifty seven.
Speaker 2: The drive and lamar, like I said earlier, is very chaotic.
Speaker 2: One witness reported hearing more than twenty rounds fired with
Speaker 2: a span of fifteen to twenty seconds, and five people
Speaker 2: were hurt in the shooting. Well, whatever you choose to
Speaker 2: do today for your Sinco de Mayo events, I hope
Speaker 2: it's fun and safe. Definitely want to encourage everyone to
Speaker 2: get a designated driver or take a ride share service
Speaker 2: wherever you're going to be. If you're wondering where we
Speaker 2: will be, we will be right here at KFI working
Speaker 2: for the rest of the morning. Will Yes, you don't
Speaker 2: go out because your hours are insane, right, you don't
Speaker 2: really go out and party.
Speaker 4: I might go out, but be done by nine at
Speaker 4: the most.
Speaker 2: Okay, you stay up till nine and still come into
Speaker 2: stay up till eleven.
Speaker 4: Yes, my naps are my friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, as they should be. As they should be. And
Speaker 2: then kno, you go home and go Do you take
Speaker 2: naps to your big napper?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 2: No chance, you don't take Oh no naps?
Speaker 4: One four year old? When do I get innap? Feather?
Speaker 2: When is this what's gonna happen? I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: do you and your wife have like a tag team
Speaker 2: nap program? Works out? Like you take a nap and
Speaker 2: then she's but she works too. She's a nurse, so
Speaker 2: she's not home for thirteen hours a day. Wow, shout
Speaker 2: out to nurses.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: That's my mom was a nurse. That's a rough, rough gig.
Speaker 2: But we love them, We love it. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: you guys, Well this has been a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: What do you say we do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Let's see what condition we're in tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we haven't scared off too many people. You guys,
Speaker 2: come back tomorrow. We'll have lots more fun stories and
Speaker 2: all of the news you can handle right here on
Speaker 2: KFI and Wake Up Call. This is KFI and KOs
Speaker 2: THD Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty
Speaker 2: four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer KNO,
Speaker 2: is that your title? Technical producer KNO?
Speaker 4: What you want?
Speaker 8: I know?
Speaker 2: That's what was in my what's in my rundown?
Speaker 4: Here to call you?
Speaker 2: All right? And for Kono? And this also says traffic
Speaker 2: specialist Will. I should have checked with you guys before.
Speaker 2: Is that your title? Traffic Specialists?
Speaker 4: According to Amy Okay.
Speaker 2: And traffic specialist Will, I'm Heather Brooker. Thank you guys
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