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Speaker 1: Good morning. This is your wake up call for Thursday,
Speaker 1: March twentieth. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Welcome to Spring. Spring arrived at two one
Speaker 1: am today and it's going to feel very spring. Nice,
Speaker 1: nice day, gorgeous sunshine. You know, I was driving home
Speaker 1: yesterday and I'm always amazed at things you see in
Speaker 1: a big city. So I'm driving down the five so
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, ten lanes of freeway and there's
Speaker 1: this gorgeous, big old blue herong sort of floating across
Speaker 1: the freeway. There's blue herons in Griffith Park. There's a
Speaker 1: couple I think, nesting around silver like two, and you
Speaker 1: just go, well, you just don't expect that in a
Speaker 1: city of ten million people. It's very cool to see.
Speaker 1: And speaking of big birds, you know you're doing something
Speaker 1: too much when you start dreaming about it. I dreamt
Speaker 1: about the Egletz last night. Okay, So you know, were
Speaker 1: watching the eglitz. There's still two up in the eagle
Speaker 1: nest high above Big Bear Lake, and they're so fun
Speaker 1: to watch. They were like kind of biting each other yesterday,
Speaker 1: which is called bonking. It's all very normal. And then
Speaker 1: one of the bigger one like sits on the little one.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is the deal with that? But they're
Speaker 1: they're getting fed, they're doing well and thrilled about that.
Speaker 1: So I'm dreaming and I had taken the eglets out
Speaker 1: of the nest and they were in my room and
Speaker 1: I was going to put one of them on my bed,
Speaker 1: and I went, oh, it's going to do one of
Speaker 1: those they call it poop shoots, and they have to
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom and they out the nest. And
Speaker 1: then I turned around and Jackie was sitting there, and
Speaker 1: you know, the eagles are like almost three feet tall,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, And then I woke up weird, Right,
Speaker 1: Maybe I shouldn't watch quite so much. Here's what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wake Up Call. La County's nine to one one
Speaker 1: system has gone down again. The Sheriff's Department says the
Speaker 1: system was out for about twenty minutes yesterday because of
Speaker 1: what it says was a drop in electricity voltage from
Speaker 1: a utility company. The Sheriff's Department's dispatch system went out
Speaker 1: on New Year's Eve. That outage lasted about two days.
Speaker 1: Thousands of people could lose their jobs and services could
Speaker 1: be cut in the city of la The city is
Speaker 1: facing a projected one billion dollar budget shortfall for the
Speaker 1: next fiscal year. Governor Newsom has sent cell phones to
Speaker 1: CEOs of the top one hundred California based companies Newsom's offices.
Speaker 1: The Governor's been mailing the phones out since November. His
Speaker 1: number is programmed into the contacts, he says it so
Speaker 1: he can connect more directly with business leaders in the state.
Speaker 1: Israel has boots on the ground again in Gaza, and
Speaker 1: ABC's Jordana Miller is going to join us in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Apparently air raid sirens have been
Speaker 1: going off as Israel faces attacks for multiple fronts. It's
Speaker 1: been more than sixty years since President Kennedy was assassinated,
Speaker 1: there's still huge interest in what really happened, and Brad
Speaker 1: Garrett is going to join us. Tell us whether we're
Speaker 1: getting any answers from the release of those JFK files
Speaker 1: Also Disneyland touted is the happiest place on Earth, but
Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan says the happiest place is actually a
Speaker 1: few hundred miles north of us. We'll tell you about that.
Speaker 1: That's coming up before the top of the hour. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA's financial problems could
Speaker 1: lead to thousands losing.
Speaker 3: Jobsdy administrator Matt Zabel hasn't painted a pretty picture for
Speaker 3: LA's cash position. He says the city's depleted tax revenue
Speaker 3: and rising costs have gotten worse.
Speaker 5: The economic conditions contributing to this revenue loss are persisting
Speaker 5: and in most cases are weakening further.
Speaker 3: It's all added up to a potential budget deficit for
Speaker 3: the next fiscal year of one billion dollars. He says
Speaker 3: thousands of layoffs could be necessary without a course correction.
Speaker 3: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Some power lines owned by so Cal Edison near the
Speaker 1: start of the Eton fire in January have been flagged
Speaker 1: as fire hazards and were overdue for maintenance. Daily Times
Speaker 1: reports ninety four work orders for the lines were filed
Speaker 1: with the utility by the end of last year, so
Speaker 1: Cal Edison has been the target of several lawsuits alleging
Speaker 1: its power lines started the fire that burned in Altadena, Pasadena,
Speaker 1: and Sierra Madre. The man accused of leading San Bernardino
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies on a chase that led to the
Speaker 1: death of a deputy has been charged with murder. Ryan
Speaker 1: Turner also faces charges of evading police and vehicle theft.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Shannondikas says Deputy Hector Khavas died when his cruiser
Speaker 1: smashed into a car that was not involved in the chase.
Speaker 2: Although these charges that are filed against Turner will not
Speaker 2: bring Hector back, I open some way that helps the
Speaker 2: family through.
Speaker 1: Their loss, prosecutor say. Turner has faced car theft charges
Speaker 1: three different times. A state assemblyman from the San Fernando
Speaker 1: Valley has introduced a bill to eliminate ultra processed foods
Speaker 1: at schools.
Speaker 6: Ultra processed foods have been linked to serious health harms,
Speaker 6: including cancer, cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, metabolic disorders, reproductive harm,
Speaker 6: and neurobehavioral issues in children.
Speaker 1: Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel says seventy three percent of adults in
Speaker 1: the US are obese, and thirty eight percent of kids
Speaker 1: are pre diabetic. His bill would task scientists with identifying
Speaker 1: particularly harmful upfs that's ultra processed foods based on scientific research.
Speaker 1: The measure looks to phase out ultra processed foods in
Speaker 1: California schools by twenty twenty three, twenty thirty two, that's
Speaker 1: seven years from now. Maybe they could do it a
Speaker 1: little faster. Let's say good morning to ABC's Giordana Miller. Jordana,
Speaker 1: we're just getting word that the Israeli military says air
Speaker 1: raids sirens have been sounding in central Israel, possibly from
Speaker 1: the Gaza Strip. What's going on?
Speaker 7: That's right, For the first time since Israel broke the
Speaker 7: seas fire on Tuesday, Hamas responding firing three rockets on
Speaker 7: central Israel. Hamas claimed the strikes. The Israelis say they
Speaker 7: shot down one of these rockets, the other two fell
Speaker 7: in open areas and no one has been injured. Clearly
Speaker 7: an escalation here now with Hamas responding to what looks
Speaker 7: like an expanding military operation once again in the Gaza Strip.
Speaker 7: We have now been told by the Israeli army that
Speaker 7: ground troops are operating not just in central and southern Israel,
Speaker 7: which was what we were told several hours ago, but
Speaker 7: now as well in northern Gaza. The Israeli Army also
Speaker 7: taking back part of that very critical corridor, the Nizarim Corridor,
Speaker 7: which cuts the Gaza Strip in half, separating its northern
Speaker 7: from its southern area. This is a really important strategic
Speaker 7: pathway and Israel. The army had withdrawn from this corridor
Speaker 7: during the seasfire, and now we're being told that the
Speaker 7: Israelian Army has taken at least half of that eight
Speaker 7: mile corridor back. Likely they will take the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you mentioned that you're also getting worried that
Speaker 1: there are troops on the ground in northern Israel, which
Speaker 1: reminds me that when the ceasefire went into effect, we
Speaker 1: saw tons of Palestinians, you know, marching, not marching, but
Speaker 1: making their way back north. That was one of the
Speaker 1: first areas that really came under attack when the war started.
Speaker 1: Where are they going and have they been told to evacuate?
Speaker 7: The Israeli Army has issued evacuation orders in northern Gaza,
Speaker 7: really all over the strip, in central and southern Gaza,
Speaker 7: and we are seeing once again Palestinians on the move,
Speaker 7: fleeing from northern Gaza down to the center and the south. Right,
Speaker 7: it seems clear that the Israelis are trying to move
Speaker 7: most of the population once again to the Mawassie. On
Speaker 7: Mawassie the declared zone safe zone, i'd put it. I'd
Speaker 7: say that in quotation marks because it was never ever
Speaker 7: fully safe, even during the war. But it looks like
Speaker 7: Israel's trying to move the Gazan population again down south,
Speaker 7: move them south. And this is you know, this could
Speaker 7: be a sign that the Israelis are going to take
Speaker 7: part of northern Gaza, come in and control it, lay
Speaker 7: siege or you know, control it inasmuch as they can
Speaker 7: try to use it in the negotiations against Remember the
Speaker 7: Israeli Prime Minister says that he started restarted the attacks
Speaker 7: on Hamas because he wanted them to release hostages, in
Speaker 7: other words, to come back and negotiate for another seafire.
Speaker 7: It doesn't look like that kind of pressure is working,
Speaker 7: at least not now. We do know that behind the scenes,
Speaker 7: cutter in Egypt and the United States are working to
Speaker 7: get the seafire back on track. But it's unclear if
Speaker 7: Hamas is going to be part of that, right, and
Speaker 7: they are, you know, they will determine what comes next, Okay.
Speaker 1: And Israel says this is just the beginning, so things
Speaker 1: could continue to escalate.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, unfortunately, Amy, and the depth poll now is over
Speaker 7: five hundred, right, and that includes more than one hundred children.
Speaker 7: Once again, the civilians in the Gaza strip paying the
Speaker 7: heaviest and really most tragic price for this war. Because
Speaker 7: it should be abundantly clear now that Hamas doesn't care
Speaker 7: about keeping its civilians safe. Right, they don't care.
Speaker 1: Okay, ABC, stre Dona Miller, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: the information. We will keep an eye on this and
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: It's so disappointing. We were hoping that that was going
Speaker 1: to take hold and the fighting wouldn't restart. Governor Newsom
Speaker 1: says the state is going to keep providing healthcare to
Speaker 1: illegal immigrants despite facing a budget shortfall for health care costs.
Speaker 1: Newsom does say that healthcare for the undocumented population is
Speaker 1: contributing to rising expenses for the state's medicaid program.
Speaker 8: This was something we previewed in the January budget. It's
Speaker 8: something when I previewed and suffer conversations.
Speaker 2: With other governors.
Speaker 9: It was highlighted actually in December the Democratic Governors Association
Speaker 9: as an issue that we're seeing all across the country.
Speaker 1: The governor has asked for a nearly three billion dollar
Speaker 1: loan to cover the program. He had already received a
Speaker 1: loan from the general Fund for about three and a
Speaker 1: half billion last week. Republican Assemblyman Carl Demayo suspending all
Speaker 1: this money on illegal immigrants puts coverage at risk for
Speaker 1: the elderly, disabled, children, and other low income citizens. Ukraine's
Speaker 1: President Zelenski has agreed to a partial cease fire following
Speaker 1: a phone call yesterday with President Trump. Trump says the
Speaker 1: call that lasted about an hour, was focused on aligning
Speaker 1: both Ukraine and Russia in terms of what each is
Speaker 1: asking for to move forward with a ceasefire. Putin and
Speaker 1: Trump had agreed to a limited ceasefire to halt attacks
Speaker 1: on infrastructure during a call on Tuesday. The Pentagon has
Speaker 1: restored some content to its website that got Stubb scrubbed
Speaker 1: as part of a sweep of information that promoted diversity, equity,
Speaker 1: and inclusion. Kfi's Tammy Truchio says a deleted article about
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson's military service is now back on the Defense
Speaker 1: Departartment's website.
Speaker 4: Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in nineteen forty seven, and
Speaker 4: before that served in the US Army during World War II.
Speaker 4: He reached the rank of second lieutenant in a tank battalion,
Speaker 4: but never served overseas.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon also restored some web pages yesterday highlighting the
Speaker 1: wartime contributions of Navajo code talkers and other Native American veterans.
Speaker 1: Defense Department officials said the Navajo code talker material was
Speaker 1: erroneously erased. President Trump is expected to sign an executive
Speaker 1: order calling for the shutdown of the US Department of Education.
Speaker 1: ABC's Andrea FUJII says the administration has already laid off
Speaker 1: half of the department's staff.
Speaker 10: Sources say the Education Secretary will now be directed to
Speaker 10: dissolve the agency while keeping critical services and programs in
Speaker 10: place elsewhere. The order comes after Trump vowed to return
Speaker 10: education authority to the States.
Speaker 1: Trump has complained the agency is wasteful and polluted by
Speaker 1: liberal ideology, but finalizing the closure of the Education Department
Speaker 1: is impossible without an Act of Congress. The Federal Reserve
Speaker 1: Vote Board has voted to keep interest rates right where
Speaker 1: they are, citing the possibility of a short term rise
Speaker 1: in prices later this year. FED chair Jerom Palell says
Speaker 1: there is uncertainty in the US economy.
Speaker 5: Recent indications, however, point to a moderation in consumer spending
Speaker 5: following the rapid growth seen over the second half of
Speaker 5: twenty twenty four. Surveys of households and businesses point to
Speaker 5: heightened uncertainty about the economic outlook.
Speaker 1: Bell says economic activity continued to expand at a pretty
Speaker 1: solid pace. In the fourth quarter of last year. The
Speaker 1: GDP rose two point three percent. He says the consumer
Speaker 1: uncertainty is related to President Trump's trade and tariff policies.
Speaker 1: A man accused of stabbing an Orange County Sheriff's deputy
Speaker 1: in San Clementy has been arrested. State park rangers found
Speaker 1: the thirty five year old homeless man at Santa Nofre
Speaker 1: State Beach yesterday. The deputy was attacked as she conducted
Speaker 1: what officials say was routine homeless outreach This week she's
Speaker 1: expected to fully recover from her wounds. California law enforcement
Speaker 1: officials are again issuing a warning about people impersonating ICE
Speaker 1: officers and other immigration scams. California Attorney General Rob Bontes
Speaker 1: as scammers and other bad actors may try to capitalize
Speaker 1: on fear and uncertainty over the Trump administration's immigration policies.
Speaker 1: If you want to fly through the best airport in
Speaker 1: the US, New York's LaGuardia is the place to go.
Speaker 1: Forbes Travel named LaGuardia Airport as the best in the
Speaker 1: US based on a survey of five thousand hospitality and
Speaker 1: travel experts. LaGuardia was once known as the nation's worst
Speaker 1: airport and underwent an eight billion dollar transformation. At six
Speaker 1: oh Five's handle on the news with mo Kelly, What
Speaker 1: if you called nine to one one and no one answered.
Speaker 1: It happened for about twenty minutes in La County yesterday.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's crime and terrorism
Speaker 1: analyst Brad Garrett. Brad, it's been more than sixty years
Speaker 1: since JFK was assassinated, and there's still this fascination in
Speaker 1: what really happened. So one let's ask, well, to talk
Speaker 1: about whether the JFK files are shining any light on
Speaker 1: that and maybe go back and explain some of the theories.
Speaker 11: Okay, so I don't think amy that there is any
Speaker 11: huge smoking gun in these documents. Now keep in mind,
Speaker 11: probably nobody has yet thoroughly read eighty thousand pages, if
Speaker 11: you can imagine even trying to clear this stuff to
Speaker 11: get it out, because none of it probably was computerized.
Speaker 3: But be that what it may.
Speaker 11: The indicators by the people who really know this assassination
Speaker 11: seem to be, Yes, there is some interesting pieces of
Speaker 11: information in the documents, but nothing that sort of goes oh,
Speaker 11: so that's what happened kind of thinking, right, And if
Speaker 11: it does anything, and this is my perspective, it probably
Speaker 11: fuels some of the conspiracy theories about what actually happened.
Speaker 11: I think there's not much argument that Lee Harvey Oswald
Speaker 11: is the shooter. There's some argument that there might have
Speaker 11: been a second shooter on the quote unquote Girassy Noll.
Speaker 11: I think most ballistics experts and medical examiners have more
Speaker 11: or less ruled that out, but that's still out there.
Speaker 11: But because we don't have much time, I think the
Speaker 11: more intriguing piece of information. Is the whole CIA connection
Speaker 11: or interest maybe is a better word in Lee Harvey Oswald. Now,
Speaker 11: Oswald was troubled guy. He had problems in school, he
Speaker 11: had problems in the Marine Corps. He leaves the Marine
Speaker 11: Corps in nineteen fifty nine and moves to Russia and
Speaker 11: Mary's or Russian gets I assumed disillusioned with communism. And
Speaker 11: sixty two he moves back to the United States and
Speaker 11: moves to Dallas. And you know, we already knew this,
Speaker 11: but it seems to be there's some additional clarification without specificity,
Speaker 11: that the CIA had been tracking Olswald from fifty nine
Speaker 11: to sixty three. They apparently were monitoring his movements, his communications. Now,
Speaker 11: one could argue a me that was because let's go
Speaker 11: to historical context here. It's during the Cold War and
Speaker 11: you have an American moved to Russia. That probably raised
Speaker 11: a lot of eyebrows. So maybe they were keeping track
Speaker 11: of him, what's his motive, what's he doing in Russia, etc.
Speaker 11: And then clearly they were, by their own documents, keeping
Speaker 11: track of him even up to the time of the assassination.
Speaker 11: But they were just were obsessed with nobody knowing that
Speaker 11: they were keeping track of him. Now, could that be
Speaker 11: simply because of embarrassment they didn't know what he was
Speaker 11: about to do then he did it, or there is
Speaker 11: there something else? In other words, is there some sort
Speaker 11: of connection or relationship. Again, I'm not suggesting there was
Speaker 11: between Oswald and the CIA, So that's gonna so that
Speaker 11: conspiracy theory, of course, will run wildfire, right, And if
Speaker 11: you add to the Gazilion other conspiracy theories, you know,
Speaker 11: the Russians had something to do with it, ie the KGB.
Speaker 11: There's this intriguing travel by Oswald a few weeks before
Speaker 11: the assassination where he flies to Mexico City. He goes
Speaker 11: to the Russian embassy and the Cuban consulate. Now the
Speaker 11: CI apparently are keeping track of that. But you know,
Speaker 11: why would he do that? What is that all about?
Speaker 11: Now he's a pretty nutty guy, so it's hard to
Speaker 11: say rationally why he was doing that. But then he
Speaker 11: goes back to the US. He buys the weapons through
Speaker 11: an alias that they were that was found back in
Speaker 11: the day. Weapons were sent to him, a handgun in
Speaker 11: the rifle that he used to shoot President Kennedy. And
Speaker 11: so do you walk away from at least preliminarily from
Speaker 11: these documents, that was Oswald shooter. Yes, but then you
Speaker 11: can take all these tentacles off of that. It's the yes,
Speaker 11: but yes, but somebody sent him that, you know, was
Speaker 11: this a bigger conspiracy to to kill the president? Totally
Speaker 11: remains to be seen.
Speaker 1: What I think is also interesting is like you talk
Speaker 1: about that the CIA has been had been watching him,
Speaker 1: and that he moved to Russia, married to Russia, comes back,
Speaker 1: moves to Dallas. So what are the chances that he
Speaker 1: moves back from Russia to Dallas and that's just where
Speaker 1: the president happens to be in the CIA is watching him,
Speaker 1: and then he goes to the consular. I mean you,
Speaker 1: like you said, those tentacles, it's just like there's all
Speaker 1: these like well that sounds more than coincidental. Well, that
Speaker 1: sounds more than coincidental. But are we I mean, are
Speaker 1: we ever going to know?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 11: If you ask me to guess the documents that would
Speaker 11: answer at least the CIA questions probably don't exist anymore.
Speaker 11: I suspect they got flushed a long time ago. So
Speaker 11: and the other aspect quickly is that I don't think
Speaker 11: that based on only what I've read that the Warren
Speaker 11: Commission that investigated the assassination make no mention of this,
Speaker 11: and the belief is they didn't know about the CIA's
Speaker 11: connection relationship, whatever the right word is. So we'll see
Speaker 11: how that flushes out too.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it makes me want to go watch JFK,
Speaker 1: you know, with the old movie with Kevin Costner, because
Speaker 1: in that movie, by the end of it, you went, Okay,
Speaker 1: everybody was in on it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Yeah, Well that's good for the movies though, right, good
Speaker 11: for them. Just got alone, guy, it's it's boring, yes.
Speaker 1: Right, all right, ABC's Crime and Terrorism analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for the information and insight. We always
Speaker 1: appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Hey, welcome. Take care, Amy, take care.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how we're still so fascinated by that. Family
Speaker 1: members and supporters of the effort to release Eric and
Speaker 1: Lyle Menendez from prison are holding a rally in LA
Speaker 1: today to call out what they say is das the
Speaker 1: DA's relentless fixation on the past. District Attorney Hawkman has
Speaker 1: opposed resentencing for the brothers, which could lead to their release.
Speaker 1: He recently told NBCLA that brothers have not taken responsibility
Speaker 1: for their crime.
Speaker 12: If the menendez Is themselves want to go ahead and
Speaker 12: make a sincere and unequivocal statement accepting full responsibility for
Speaker 12: the breath of all the lies that they have told
Speaker 12: over the past thirty years, we will certainly consider that statement.
Speaker 1: The brothers are serving life sentences for murdering their parents
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine. The resentencing hearing that was supposed
Speaker 1: to start today has been pushed back to next next month.
Speaker 1: And entertainment entrepreneur in La charged with a series of
Speaker 1: federal crimes, including murder, has turned himself in.
Speaker 3: Eugene Henley has presented himself as a creative, civic and
Speaker 3: community leader. Acting US Attorney Joseph McNally says the charges
Speaker 3: against him paint a different picture.
Speaker 8: It is one of a murderer, a thief, a liar,
Speaker 8: and a cheat and the criminals that enabled him.
Speaker 3: Henley, who's also known as Big U, has been accused
Speaker 3: of working with gangs and racketeering and trafficking and killing
Speaker 3: an aspiring rapper in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Michael Monks KFI News Henley has surrendered and says he's
Speaker 1: done nothing wrong. The drummer for Guns n' Roses has
Speaker 1: left the band. I didn't even know Guns n' Roses
Speaker 1: was still together Frank Farrer. Farrar has been with Guns
Speaker 1: n' Roses for nearly twenty years. In a statement, the
Speaker 1: band said the split was amicable and they thanked him
Speaker 1: for his friendship, creativity, and sturdy presence. He was the
Speaker 1: longest serving drummer in Guns n' Roses history, a reason
Speaker 1: that he's left. Not given orange. You're glad you weren't
Speaker 1: down the one oh one in Tabluca Lake during the
Speaker 1: afternoon and commute h I get it. A load of
Speaker 1: oranges spilled out onto the freeway, blocking several lanes of
Speaker 1: the one on one late yesterday afternoon headed into Sherman Oaks.
Speaker 1: The oranges orange blocked. Whatever the orange block caused a
Speaker 1: big traffic pile up as the oranges had to be
Speaker 1: cleared off the runway. Did they just get brooms and
Speaker 1: just sort of roll them off? Really put a squeeze
Speaker 1: on the PM? Yeah? Okay. La Mayor Bass says it's
Speaker 1: time to stop repeating past mistakes and find ways to
Speaker 1: maximate maximize taxpayer dollars or comments come as the city's
Speaker 1: administrative officers. Is LA's facing a about a billion dollar
Speaker 1: budget shortfall next fiscal year. Bass is directing city officials
Speaker 1: to find up to nine hundred million dollars in savings
Speaker 1: while working to protect essential services. President Trump expected to
Speaker 1: sign an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.
Speaker 1: He'll then direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to start closing
Speaker 1: the department to return authority back to the States. Completely
Speaker 1: eliminate the department does require congressional approval. The Federal Reserve
Speaker 1: has left interest rates right where they are. FED Chair
Speaker 1: Jerome Powell announced that rates are going to stay unchanged
Speaker 1: following two days of meetings. Powell says the Fed is
Speaker 1: not in any hurry to cut rates as economic uncertainties
Speaker 1: continue over President Trump's tariffs. At six five, it's Handle
Speaker 1: on the News with special guest hosts Moe Kelly. When
Speaker 1: it's time to get your social Security you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to just phone it in anymore so.
Speaker 1: LA Police Chief Jim McDonald talked with Gary and Shannon
Speaker 1: about those new crime numbers that the statistics that were
Speaker 1: just released and got to dig into them a little
Speaker 1: bit what they actually mean. Gary asked the chief. What
Speaker 1: some of the highlights of the statistics are.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think the big ones had struck me or
Speaker 8: the reduction and homicides were down fourteen percent from the
Speaker 8: year before, and that is that's a big one. That's
Speaker 8: the one that everybody counts very accurately. So I think
Speaker 8: as a measure of successor, we looked to that one
Speaker 8: for twenty twenty four. Then we built on that in
Speaker 8: the first quarter this year. We're down an additional forty
Speaker 8: percent for twenty twenty four. The victims shot, a number
Speaker 8: of people shot was down nineteen percent. Rapes decreased by
Speaker 8: almost one.
Speaker 9: Hundred during the year.
Speaker 8: Robbery's saw a slight decline and then a large decline
Speaker 8: in aggravated assaults from over twenty thousand down two seventeen
Speaker 8: thousand and six. And so all in all, look at
Speaker 8: it numbers across the board, twenty twenty four was a
Speaker 8: good year for Los Angeles.
Speaker 13: I remember a press conference five hundred years ago. You
Speaker 13: were an assistant chief at the time. Bill Bratton was there,
Speaker 13: and you guys, the focus was talking about community policing,
Speaker 13: and you know the broken windows theory, and I know
Speaker 13: you're a big community policing guy. And now that you're
Speaker 13: back at the helm of the LAPD, do you see
Speaker 13: room for more of that? Is that one of the
Speaker 13: items on your agenda is to really I mean post pandemic,
Speaker 13: post prot test life.
Speaker 1: Is this something that could really.
Speaker 13: Create great strides in Los Angeles right now in twenty
Speaker 13: twenty five.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely. I think we're looking at comunity policing as more
Speaker 8: of a philosophy how we do business, looking at the
Speaker 8: root causes rather than just the symptoms or incidents. That's
Speaker 8: a focus that we have taken them will continue to take.
Speaker 8: I look at the areas that are covered by our
Speaker 8: folks who work the Community Safety Partnership Bureau, where they
Speaker 8: focus community policing efforts and strategies on particular places. Homicides
Speaker 8: fell by forty percent in those areas in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: And so when you look at the success of engaging
Speaker 8: with the community, nobody knows a particular neighborhood better than
Speaker 8: the people who live there. So if we can make
Speaker 8: them part of the public safety equation and partner with them,
Speaker 8: we get tremendous results. So the effort will be to
Speaker 8: continue that and take it to a new level.
Speaker 1: Chief McDonald graduated from the LA Police Academy and Shannon
Speaker 1: asked him if there are any cases or interactions from
Speaker 1: the past that remind him why he does what he does. Oh.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, you know, thinking back, that was forty four years ago,
Speaker 8: and I remember it like it was yesterday. But coming
Speaker 8: out onto the street in the city I didn't know
Speaker 8: at the time with people I had never met before
Speaker 8: was something that was exciting but challenging. And to be
Speaker 8: able to kind of acclimate to a new culture and
Speaker 8: certainly a new career. I look back on that and
Speaker 8: the thing that reminded me continuously of why we do
Speaker 8: what we do sometimes under the most difficult to circumstances,
Speaker 8: is because of the victims, the people out there who
Speaker 8: truly need the police, who without the police would be
Speaker 8: living in terror, be locked in their homes and not
Speaker 8: be able to function in the way that we all
Speaker 8: as Americans would expect to be able to. And so yeah,
Speaker 8: I've constantly been reminded throughout my career of why I'm here,
Speaker 8: primarily because of the people who need us the most.
Speaker 1: I love that police are here to help. Time to
Speaker 1: get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 2: Yes, good morning, and this report, by the way, is
Speaker 2: brought to you by Fidelity Wealth Management.
Speaker 1: I want to mention that before we start, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: then a fun back in. Then let's get right back
Speaker 1: into it. The buzziest bars around the nation shots are
Speaker 1: going upscale, the buzziest bars.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, first of all, so it is five o'clock somewhere.
Speaker 2: It's five o'clock in the morning though for you, so
Speaker 2: I think it's the appropriate time to talk about shots.
Speaker 2: So I'll bringing a little song for you. Yes, sim
Speaker 2: bars all around the country, shots are having.
Speaker 1: An upscale moment.
Speaker 2: So these cocktails becoming big business, driven by inflation. Pinch
Speaker 2: drinkers they want a little something even though it's small
Speaker 2: and ironically the growing movement toward drinking less. So they're
Speaker 2: serving everything from high end jello shots with fancy presentations
Speaker 2: to palate cleansing shooters similar to a sore bay course
Speaker 2: and a fancy meal. Even zero proof shots are increasingly popular.
Speaker 2: For those zero proof shots, yeah, because well, people want
Speaker 2: to participate, they want to show it on social media,
Speaker 2: but they don't want the effects of the hangover the
Speaker 2: next day, so they say okay, well, I'm going to
Speaker 2: have something nice and fun. It's not just going to
Speaker 2: be a shot of water. And yeah, this is probably
Speaker 2: zero proof and low proof are popping up all over.
Speaker 1: Are they less expensive if there's no booze in them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Usually they're they're just slight less expensive.
Speaker 1: So instead of twelve dollars, they're eleven, Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: But they use a lot of high end ingredients, which
Speaker 2: they say adds to the cost of everything. But yeah, people,
Speaker 2: people are seeing, you know. They They actually say one
Speaker 2: of the bars that it's kind of like the fijeita
Speaker 2: away where they see people come in or them serving
Speaker 2: all these shots and then every other table wants to
Speaker 2: join in, kind of like when they bring out a
Speaker 2: fajita platter and everybody's fell and every he says, oh yeah,
Speaker 2: I want that too. Okay, So they're seeing that with shots.
Speaker 1: I think if you're going to spend all that money
Speaker 1: on it, you might as well sip it and savor it.
Speaker 1: That's just me exactly, Okay, I hear you, girl. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the FED meeting yesterday. They said there's uncertainty,
Speaker 1: but they said, hey, we're plugging along pretty good, so
Speaker 1: we're not doing anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, one thing is j Powell, who's the Federal
Speaker 2: Reserve chair. He cons a lot of minvestors who are
Speaker 2: worried about tariffs. He said the Central Bank sees no
Speaker 2: need for drastic action in the face of this trade war.
Speaker 2: But one thing that he did say that kind of
Speaker 2: perked up the years of a lot of people is
Speaker 2: that the inflationary impact of tariffs is likely to be transitory,
Speaker 2: so it's going to be brief. Now.
Speaker 1: He used the word transitory.
Speaker 2: We've heard that, and that surprised a lot of people
Speaker 2: in the past because the Fed used the same exact
Speaker 2: word when inflation exploded following the pandemic, and remember that
Speaker 2: we got they got it wrong then them and a
Speaker 2: lot of others got it wrong then. So the President
Speaker 2: also took to social media right away and he said,
Speaker 2: you know what, we need lower rates. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of questions about what's going to be ahead. But
Speaker 2: you know, he was asked about sagging sentiment from businesses
Speaker 2: and consumers, and he did say that the hard data
Speaker 2: shows the economy is still solid.
Speaker 1: Okay, good news, good news. Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, thank you
Speaker 1: so much getting in your business and we'll do it
Speaker 1: again tomorrow, definitely, see Lena. All right, thanks. I have
Speaker 1: fun with those shots. No, I'm not a shots person,
Speaker 1: never really have been. But if I'm going to buy one,
Speaker 1: at least it should have some booze in it, exactly.
Speaker 1: Especially yeah, a non alcoholic shot. Come on, let's get
Speaker 1: back to some of the stories coming out of the
Speaker 1: KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman from Rancho Cucamonga
Speaker 1: is facing charges for the drug related death of a
Speaker 1: ten year old boy. Christina Alvarez is accused of child
Speaker 1: endangerment and could also face other charges. The boy was
Speaker 1: found unresponsive back in December and later died. It was
Speaker 1: determined that he died from fentanyl toxicity. Investigator say Alvarez
Speaker 1: had stored fentanel in her home in a way that
Speaker 1: led to the boy's death. Officials in California have again
Speaker 1: issued warning about phony ice officers and other immigration scams.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Tammy Truchillosa's State Attorney General, Rob Bonte has released
Speaker 1: guidelines to help illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4: Spont Is, again warning scammers and other bad actors who
Speaker 4: may seek to capitalize on fear and uncertainty over the
Speaker 4: Trump administration's immigration policies that they'll be held accountable.
Speaker 1: She says guidance has also been issued to law enforcement
Speaker 1: prosecutors and public institutions on complying with state law. An
Speaker 1: article about Jackie Robinson's military service on the Defense Department's
Speaker 1: website has been restored. It was taken down as part
Speaker 1: of the Trump administration's campaign against DEI. Before the article
Speaker 1: was put back up, the URL directed users to a
Speaker 1: link that added the letters DEI in front of the
Speaker 1: word sports heroes. Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in nineteen
Speaker 1: forty seven. Before that, he served in the Army in
Speaker 1: worldorld War II. A woman in Santa Anna has been
Speaker 1: taken into custoday after she called police from a hotel
Speaker 1: and told them she had killed her eleven year old son.
Speaker 1: Polise say the child had been stabbed several times when
Speaker 1: police found the woman at the Lakina Inn around ten
Speaker 1: am yesterday. They say she had ingested something and was
Speaker 1: taken to the hospital. Governor Newsom says the state's going
Speaker 1: to keep providing healthcare to illegal immigrants despite facing a
Speaker 1: budget shortfall for healthcare costs. Republican Assemblyman Carl Demayo says
Speaker 1: spending millions from the general Fund on illegal immigrants puts
Speaker 1: coverage at risk for elderly, disabled children and other low
Speaker 1: income citizens. The University of California has ordered a state
Speaker 1: wide hiring freeze and is making other cuts. President Michael V.
Speaker 1: Drake said during the UC regents meeting yesterday that higher
Speaker 1: education in the US is in a time of great
Speaker 1: and uncertainty. He told UC campuses to prepare strategies and
Speaker 1: management plans to address shortfalls as the Trump administration threatens
Speaker 1: to cut federal funding to universities. We're just minutes away
Speaker 1: from Handle. On the news this morning, Hey, what if
Speaker 1: you called nine to one to one and no one answered?
Speaker 1: It happened for about twenty minutes across Elle County yesterday.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning right now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So,
Speaker 1: Jim Disneyland Build is the happiest place on earth, But
Speaker 1: that's not quite accurate. It's actually about three hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty miles to the north Fremont.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Freemont, Fremont, at least according to wallet Hull this well, I.
Speaker 1: Worked in the Bay Area. Fremont was kind of a
Speaker 1: not a great place, but that was, I mean one
Speaker 1: hundred years ago.
Speaker 9: So well, things have changed in the last century. Apparently
Speaker 9: this is World Happiness Day. For the last thirteen years,
Speaker 9: the United Nations has been looking at world happiness and
Speaker 9: has declared March twentieth has World Happiness Day. It coincides
Speaker 9: with first day Spring this year. And so there you go.
Speaker 9: The happiest countries in the world amy are Nordic countries.
Speaker 9: Finland is top of the list for the eighth row,
Speaker 9: in eighth year in a row. The United States now
Speaker 9: has fallen below the top twenty is now in number
Speaker 9: in twenty fourth place among happiest spots on Earth. Those
Speaker 9: are the countries as far as the city's wallet of
Speaker 9: the personal finance Companye has taken a look at that,
Speaker 9: and yeah, I found that the top three cities for
Speaker 9: happiness Fremont, California, San Jose, California, and Irvine.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, okay, yeah, San Jose. I'm going to make
Speaker 1: a note of this in turn.
Speaker 9: Okay, so fourth place though behind those California cities. Who
Speaker 9: soo falls South Dakota.
Speaker 1: Really okay, I think I flew into there, no anyway,
Speaker 1: So what determines the happiness? I mean, do they just
Speaker 1: walk around and see if people are smiling or what.
Speaker 9: No, Well, lest they do survey people, they also look
Speaker 9: at some objective figures like the employment rate, the income levels,
Speaker 9: the divorce rates, among people's suicide rates. Depression. That's the
Speaker 9: subjective thing, depression that is surveyed by. So they ball
Speaker 9: us all up a couple of different about two dozen
Speaker 9: different criteria to come up with this list, and sure
Speaker 9: those three California cities come out the top. Los Angeles
Speaker 9: number seventy seven, which is okay, I mean, considering there
Speaker 9: are one hundred and eighty two cities on this list.
Speaker 9: Right above Los Angeles is Riverside, California, So I mean,
Speaker 9: California does pretty well on this list overall. And a
Speaker 9: lot of West Coast cities.
Speaker 1: Out here, okay, anywhere else in the Midwest besides zious falls.
Speaker 9: Lincoln, Nebraska is in sixth place, Overland Park, Kansas in fifth.
Speaker 9: So it's not necessarily the big cities with lots of
Speaker 9: things going on all year long. It's kind of the
Speaker 9: quieter places that have low crime rates, have high income levels,
Speaker 9: and people are generally satisfied living in place like Lincoln, Nebraska, Madison, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: What's so great about living in Finland. I don't know.
Speaker 9: People are just kind of happy there. I mean, the
Speaker 9: weather is fairly mild, income levels are high, the crime
Speaker 9: rates are low, and people just seem to like living
Speaker 9: there and they say so in this World Gallop survey
Speaker 9: that has has brought Finland to the top of the
Speaker 9: list for the last eight years. So it's interesting. And
Speaker 9: the same survey shows that in the US we had
Speaker 9: been in the top twenty at least for the last
Speaker 9: several years, but now are have dropped down below that
Speaker 9: to twenty four.
Speaker 1: I think we're a grumpy bunch these days, broken bunch. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the least happiest cities?
Speaker 9: The least I guess most unhappy city down at the
Speaker 9: bottom of the list Cleveland, Ohio to number one hundred
Speaker 9: and eighty two.
Speaker 1: But they had a great show with Betty White on
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago.
Speaker 9: Yeah, in Detroit's above them, Memphis, Tennessee, which I was
Speaker 9: surprised that people in Memphis. I've been to all three
Speaker 9: of those places and people don't seem too grumpy there.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, good to know that Fremont, San Jose, and
Speaker 1: Irvine are top three. I think I'm gonna go to Irvine.
Speaker 1: I need to get happy, all right.
Speaker 9: What are you gonna do there?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just gonna walk around and be happy.
Speaker 1: That's good, all right, ABC, Jim Ryan, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: City of la is facing a nearly one billion dollar
Speaker 1: deficit for the next fiscal year, which starts on July first.
Speaker 1: Mayor Bass says she's promising to leave no stone unturned
Speaker 1: to make up for the budget shortfall. She says her
Speaker 1: budget proposal will deliver fundamental change to the way the
Speaker 1: city operates. A letter to the city Administrative office calls
Speaker 1: for a plan to save between five hundred million and
Speaker 1: nine hundred million dollars in structural budgetary expenses. A city
Speaker 1: official says layoffs are going to be inevitable.
Speaker 8: This is my last video before I turned myself in.
Speaker 1: Music executive and community activist Eugene big U Henley has
Speaker 1: been taken into custody for allegations of running a mafia
Speaker 1: like organization. TMZ posted Henley's video from his van with
Speaker 1: his family on the way to surrendering himself.
Speaker 9: A lot of.
Speaker 1: Stuff going here in a straight trash. I appreciate the love,
Speaker 1: appreciate the people who they help me. Henley's accused by
Speaker 1: the US Department of Justice of leveraging his alleged connections
Speaker 1: with the South La Street Gang the roll in sixties
Speaker 1: neighborhood crips to run an outfit whose crimes include murder, trafficking,
Speaker 1: and COVID fraud. Elon Musk says he's surprised by the
Speaker 1: level of hatred coming from the left. He was talking
Speaker 1: about the fire bombings and vandalism at Tesla dealerships across
Speaker 1: the US, including in San Diego. He says Tesla is
Speaker 1: a peaceful company and has never done anything wrong. People
Speaker 1: are upset about Musk's work with President Trump to cut
Speaker 1: the federal government's budget. Wizards and muggles are invited to
Speaker 1: enjoy butter Beer Season at Universal Studios.
Speaker 14: See Deliciously Magical event is back at the Wizarding World
Speaker 14: of Harry Potter and Universal Studios, Hollywood. That means you
Speaker 14: can get your hands on new Harry Potter merch, treats
Speaker 14: and drinks like the butter Beer Creampuff caramel or chocolate
Speaker 14: bar and fan favorite the ice Lolly.
Speaker 1: We came last year to it coming back in and
Speaker 1: this year is a muss.
Speaker 14: Guests say they love the butterbeer flavor because it immerses
Speaker 14: them in Harry Potter's world.
Speaker 1: It was his favorite drink. After all.
Speaker 6: It's fun, it's tasty, and you know it's a part
Speaker 6: of the complete experience. It really immerses you in the
Speaker 6: storytelling of Harry Potter.
Speaker 14: You can still get the classic butterbeer flavors too. Butterbear
Speaker 14: Season runs now through May thirty. First, how the Brooker
Speaker 14: kaf I news.
Speaker 1: Is buttered beer another one of those non alcoholic.
Speaker 3: Sounds like it drinks if Harry Potter drinks it, I suspect, So.
Speaker 1: Either that or he's doing a lot of underage drinking.
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