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Speaker 1: call for Wednesday, April sixteenth. I'm Amy King. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. All right, got my coffee,
Speaker 1: got my oatmeal? Ready to go energized? I hope you
Speaker 1: are too. And it is the sixteenth. I hope everybody
Speaker 1: got their taxes done and it can now breathe a
Speaker 1: sigh of relief. I was amazed when we were talking
Speaker 1: to Jim Ryan yesterday. I was talking about how many
Speaker 1: millions of people put off doing their taxes until the
Speaker 1: last second. Of course, we have that six month extension
Speaker 1: in La County. But as I mentioned, I at least
Speaker 1: got mine done. I don't know how the damage is,
Speaker 1: but I at least got them done so that it's
Speaker 1: off my plate and I don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: it for the next six months. Got a lot happening
Speaker 1: on wake up call today, so let's get right to it.
Speaker 1: Here's what's ahead. LA twenty eight has confirmed more sites
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games. Dodger Stadium is
Speaker 1: going to host baseball events. I mean, come on, where
Speaker 1: else which you host those? Boxing is going to be
Speaker 1: at the Peacock Theater. Incrypto dot Com Arena. Long Beach
Speaker 1: will host eleven events, including beach volleyball, water polo, and
Speaker 1: coastal rowing. Squash makes its Olympic debut. It'll be held
Speaker 1: at the Universal Studios Lot. The LA Board of Supervisors.
Speaker 1: The County Board of Supervisors has given initial approval to
Speaker 1: a nearly forty eight billion dollar budget proposal for the
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty six fiscal year. The recommended spending plan
Speaker 1: includes three percent cuts to some departments and the elimination
Speaker 1: of more than three hundred vacant positions, but no layoffs.
Speaker 1: A federal judge says she will order sworn testimony by
Speaker 1: Trump administration officials to determine if the administration complied with
Speaker 1: her orders to facilitate the return of Ki Abrego Garcia,
Speaker 1: he was mistakenly caught up in an ice sweep and
Speaker 1: deported to El Salvador. We'll get the latest on this
Speaker 1: one with ABC Stephen Portnoy. That's coming up at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour at five point fifty. As properties
Speaker 1: are cleared and people in Altadena get down to the
Speaker 1: business of rebuilding their homes and their lives, the Dodgers
Speaker 1: Foundation has quietly pitched in to help bring Little League
Speaker 1: back to the city. We're gonna be talking to somebody
Speaker 1: about that at again at five point fifty. Amy's on it,
Speaker 1: and this week I'm on a movie that was a
Speaker 1: hit at the box office, but when compared to the original,
Speaker 1: this one was really a miss for me. That's coming
Speaker 1: up at five twenty. Let's get started with some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: La County's budget challenges may be affecting some government programs.
Speaker 7: The proposed budget for the new fiscal year is one
Speaker 7: point three billion dollars less than the current one. In
Speaker 7: County CEO Fecia Davenport tells the Board of Supervisors that's
Speaker 7: just the beginning of the problems we are facing.
Speaker 1: Mounting budgetary pressures that, taken together, have the potential to
Speaker 1: seriously destabilize the county's budget.
Speaker 7: She says two billion dollars in wildfire recovery cost and
Speaker 7: a four bill billion dollar sex abuse settlement will hurt
Speaker 7: for years to come. No layoffs are planned, but Davenport
Speaker 7: says some programs could have fewer resources. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: New is brought to you by American Vision Windows. Speaking
Speaker 1: of sex abuse and assault. Former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauers
Speaker 1: asking for more than three hundred thousand dollars in a
Speaker 1: default judgment against a woman who accused him of sexual assault.
Speaker 1: He says she breached the terms of an agreement they
Speaker 1: reached in twenty twenty three to settle their lawsuits. Bowers
Speaker 1: complaint contends Lindsey Hill falsely stated twenty two times, mostly
Speaker 1: on social media, that she got money from him as
Speaker 1: part of the deal. Nearly a third of all fires
Speaker 1: in LA in the past six years have involved homeless people.
Speaker 6: That is, according to a new memo from interim Los
Speaker 6: Angeles Fire Department chief Ronnie Viennaweva The LAFD Commission was
Speaker 6: supposed to discuss the memo on Tuesday, but it is
Speaker 6: now delaying the discussion to next month. The memo also
Speaker 6: says that in the past decade, trash fires were rubbish
Speaker 6: have increased by four hundred and seventy five percent. LIFD
Speaker 6: data shows close to half of all trash fires also
Speaker 6: involve homeless people. I'm Daniel Martindale.
Speaker 1: Shocking. I think we already all knew this interesting that
Speaker 1: officials are finally acknowledging it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: TV memorabilia lovers are in for a treat next month.
Speaker 8: You can bid on things from some of TV's most
Speaker 8: iconic moments, including the body suit worn by Linda Carter
Speaker 8: as Wonder Woman, the original barstools and bar front door
Speaker 8: from Cheers, and the living room sofas from Roseanne and
Speaker 8: Fraser Julian's auctions as. The event, dubbed Channel Surfing, will
Speaker 8: take place live and online May seventh and eighth. It'll
Speaker 8: feature more than six hundred props, costumes, set pieces, production
Speaker 8: materials and more.
Speaker 1: Deborah mark kff I News. Right now, let's say good
Speaker 1: morning too. ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, I remember the
Speaker 1: first time that I really heard about autism. It was
Speaker 1: super rare, like I'd never even heard of it. And
Speaker 1: there was a sho I oh about a child who
Speaker 1: had this disease and a mother who worked with him
Speaker 1: every single day and was somehow able to break through
Speaker 1: to him. It was a docudrama. And I mean, this
Speaker 1: is when when I was a young child, and it's
Speaker 1: called Sunrise, a miracle of love. Story had a happy ending,
Speaker 1: right sure, But that was when it was super rare.
Speaker 1: But now almost everybody I know knows somebody or has
Speaker 1: a kid who has.
Speaker 9: It right right, or has I have a close close
Speaker 9: relatives a relative who has autism and was diagnosed in
Speaker 9: the nineteen sixties, back when practically nobody knew about it,
Speaker 9: And back then the thinking was that about one in
Speaker 9: ten thousand kids had autism. They had the know any
Speaker 9: social behavior or the closed off personality, no eye contact,
Speaker 9: you know, these sorts of things that we associate now
Speaker 9: with autism. One in ten thousand. But the thinking now
Speaker 9: is that the number is probably closer to one in
Speaker 9: thirty one, one thousand, but thirty one. The centered sort
Speaker 9: of disease Control and Prevention released those statistics yesterday, just
Speaker 9: five years ago. In twenty twenty, the number was one
Speaker 9: in thirty six. Now it we're one thirty one. Now,
Speaker 9: certainly does that mean that there there's this much greater
Speaker 9: prevalence of autism or is it better diagnosis, recognition of
Speaker 9: the illness and of the of the of this disorder.
Speaker 9: Probably a little bit of.
Speaker 1: Each, Okay, but we still don't The thing about this
Speaker 1: one is we still don't know what causes it.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, it's a mystery. There is thinking that there
Speaker 9: may be an environmental component, but certainly that there's a
Speaker 9: genetic component and so yeah, and the thing is, you
Speaker 9: can't do a blood test for it. You can't do
Speaker 9: it DNA testing something like that to determine whether your
Speaker 9: child has autism or it's just not like that. It's
Speaker 9: a matter of observation. And physicians, as good as they
Speaker 9: are at their jobs, still there there's objectivity there that
Speaker 9: they put into it. They put their own frame over
Speaker 9: this diagnosis that they're making. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 9: really a tough and mysterious kind of thing for science
Speaker 9: to figure out.
Speaker 1: Interesting if you said that it's up to the doctors
Speaker 1: to really watch it and diagnose it, because there's no
Speaker 1: medical markers or something which could lead to misdiagnosis too.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe your kid just is kind of scatter
Speaker 1: brained or you know, doesn't like people.
Speaker 9: Right, right, And so there may be and so people
Speaker 9: who are on that spectrum or on that range of
Speaker 9: disorders may be diagnosed with something else, or some people
Speaker 9: with something else might be diagnosed as being on the
Speaker 9: autism spectrum, and that too has complicated this entire process.
Speaker 9: Robert F. Kennedy, Junior, the Health and Human Services Secretary,
Speaker 9: has said that he wants to get to the bottom
Speaker 9: of it by September.
Speaker 1: That's kind of that's a very ambitious goal since people
Speaker 1: have been working on it and watching it for years
Speaker 1: and years and watching it get worse and worse, and
Speaker 1: we still, like you just said, we don't know what's
Speaker 1: causing it or don't have even markers, you know, medical
Speaker 1: conditions for it.
Speaker 9: So he's looking May June, July August said five months.
Speaker 9: You know, they've been working on trying to figure this
Speaker 9: out for the last five decades. So we'll see if
Speaker 9: a RFKN company can come up with something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, rather ambitious goal. And before we go,
Speaker 1: just the one I mentioned, Sunrise is the one that
Speaker 1: really brought my mind to awareness of this. But I
Speaker 1: think the one that really kind of hit the mainstream,
Speaker 1: or made it hit mainstream was rain Man.
Speaker 9: Sure, yes, and the relative I have his behavior is
Speaker 9: very much like that. But he's almost seventy years old, now, married, happy,
Speaker 9: employed and doing great. So this is not a sentence
Speaker 9: of a life of gloom. People with this disorder, depending
Speaker 9: upon the severity, can be quite happy.
Speaker 1: All right. ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the information.
Speaker 1: We'll talk again in September and see if RFK actually
Speaker 1: finds what is causing it.
Speaker 9: Fingers crossed. Everybody wants to know.
Speaker 1: I know, right, all right, Thanks Jim. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been taken into
Speaker 1: custody in connection with a shooting at a high school
Speaker 1: in Dallas. ABC's Mariah via Reale says four students were heard.
Speaker 10: Terrified students running out of this Texas high school after
Speaker 10: multiple shots fired. First responders swarming the scene at Wilmer
Speaker 10: Hutchins High School in Dallas around lunchtime.
Speaker 1: She says one student was shot in the leg, three
Speaker 1: others were injured in the chaos. A report says one
Speaker 1: of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top advisors has been escorted
Speaker 1: out of the Pentagon after an investigation into leaks.
Speaker 11: Reuters says senior advisor Dan Caldwell was placed on administrative
Speaker 11: leave Tuesday for an unauthorized disclosure.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Brian Schuck says Caldwell's a Marine V veteran who
Speaker 1: served in the Iraq War. Three people have been arrested
Speaker 1: at a town hall that Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 1: Green was holding in Atlanta. Green was backing President Trump
Speaker 1: and his administration's actions so far into his second term.
Speaker 3: Now this is a.
Speaker 12: Faceful town hall, Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: This should not have to happen. One person was tased
Speaker 1: by police. Most of the crowd supported Green. Longtime game
Speaker 1: show host Wink Martindale has died. The host of Tic
Speaker 1: Tac Dough high Rollers, Gambit and others died at his
Speaker 1: home in Rancho Mirage yesterday. Wink Martindale was ninety one.
Speaker 1: Airlines in China have been told by the country's government
Speaker 1: not to take any more jets from Boeing ABC's Rheanon
Speaker 1: Alley says it's an escalation of the trade war with
Speaker 1: the US.
Speaker 10: Boberg says Chinese airlines were ordered not to take any
Speaker 10: further Boeing deliveries and to stop buying airline parts from
Speaker 10: US companies.
Speaker 1: She says President Trump appears to have confirmed it in
Speaker 1: a post, writing, China just backed out of a big
Speaker 1: Boeing deal. A United Airlines flight from Denver to Edmonton
Speaker 1: had to turn around quickly. ABC's Gio Banant Benitaz says
Speaker 1: a rabbit YEP rabbit got inside an engine during takeoff
Speaker 1: on Sunday, large flames shooting from the engine.
Speaker 7: The pilots at one point thinking the fire compromised the
Speaker 7: landing gear.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: The FAA says there have been more than twenty thousand
Speaker 1: wildlife strikes in the US. Four of those were rabbit strikes.
Speaker 1: How did that happen? A rabbit in the engine? Everybody's okay.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers beat the Rockies last night sixty two at
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. Go Blue, same two teams, go at it tonight.
Speaker 1: First pitch goes out at seven o'clock. You can listen
Speaker 1: to every play off, every game on AM five seventy
Speaker 1: LA Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and
Speaker 1: you can stream all the games in HD on the
Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Two marines
Speaker 1: from Camp Pendleton have been killed in a rollover crash
Speaker 1: near the US Mexico border. A third marine is in
Speaker 1: critical condition following the accident yesterday morning. They are among
Speaker 1: more than ten thousand active duty troops deployed to the
Speaker 1: border as part of President Trump's Border protection mission. Family
Speaker 1: members of Eric and Lyle Menendez filed court paper's claiming
Speaker 1: the La County DA's office needlessly showed a bloody crime
Speaker 1: scene photo without any advance notice. During a court hearing
Speaker 1: last week. The attorney, who's representing twenty family members says
Speaker 1: the entire DA's office owes the family in apology. Thirteen
Speaker 1: percent more people viewed the season two premiere of The
Speaker 1: Last of Us. I'm one of Them, then watched the
Speaker 1: show's first episode. The new season dropped on Sunday. Five
Speaker 1: point three million people have watched it. The show's already
Speaker 1: been renewed for a third season. New episodes are available
Speaker 1: on Sunday nights.
Speaker 5: Aamie's on It Damie's on it, Aami's on it, Damie's
Speaker 5: on it.
Speaker 1: What am I on? Well, I'm on the stream. I'm
Speaker 1: on movies, TV shows, documentaries, you name it. Part of
Speaker 1: the reason is because there's so much content out there,
Speaker 1: it's hard to make a decision on what you're going
Speaker 1: to invest your time in. So I take recommendations from
Speaker 1: people and then I give it recommendations to you and
Speaker 1: either get you hooked up with a really great show
Speaker 1: or maybe save you a couple of hours if it's
Speaker 1: not a great show. Okay, So what I'm on this
Speaker 1: week is Disney's Moufasa hit at the box office huge,
Speaker 1: so and I didn't go see it. I waited until
Speaker 1: it came out on the stream. That's the beauty. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to sit in a movie theater, it's
Speaker 1: eventually going to come out. So now it's on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: It's the story of how Mufasa from The Lion King
Speaker 1: becomes king and how Scar, his brother, comes to be
Speaker 1: and also becomes an outcast. Okay, so this is again
Speaker 1: a live action movie. Both are CG. But I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you that the CG animation in The Lion King,
Speaker 1: which was the quote live action of the Lion King
Speaker 1: animated movie that came out a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: is better for some reason, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're doing differently. But in The Lion King,
Speaker 1: the original live action movie, which of course is cg,
Speaker 1: it was more realistic, like I believed it more. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. I mean, it's still amazing, but it's
Speaker 1: less believable. And then the music from The Lion King,
Speaker 1: like you've got Circle of Life. It's going in the
Speaker 1: background right now. The music in The Lion King is amazing.
Speaker 1: The songs are powerful, they're memorable. The animated Lion King
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time.
Speaker 1: It was just spectacular. The music for the original animated
Speaker 1: movie was composed by Elton John with Tim Rice. The
Speaker 1: score was composed by Hans zimmer And in collaboration with
Speaker 1: the South African composer Libo m So. In Mufasa, Lynn
Speaker 1: Manuel Miranda did several of the songs and he's awesome, right,
Speaker 1: But the songs in Mufassa are just nothing, nothing compared
Speaker 1: to The Lion King. In my humble opinion, the story
Speaker 1: is good, it's clever, it's more charming, you know, in
Speaker 1: the original. The music, as I mentioned, is far superior
Speaker 1: in The Lion King as opposed to Mufasa. I get
Speaker 1: that there would be a desire to capitalize on the
Speaker 1: success of The Lion King, but if you're going to
Speaker 1: do it, do it better. Mufasa doesn't have any memorable songs.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Lion King songs are fun, catchy, memorable.
Speaker 1: We heard Houkuna Matata that Cono played as we were
Speaker 1: getting into this segment. The animation is amazing, but again,
Speaker 1: it's not as good or believable as in The Lion King.
Speaker 1: So whether you watch it or don't, watch it as
Speaker 1: a standalone, it's an interesting movie. It's an interesting story,
Speaker 1: and I always love stories that tell backstories to figure
Speaker 1: out why people are the way they are. But when
Speaker 1: you compare the songs, the animation, the story to the
Speaker 1: actual Lion King, it just falls short. I love Disney.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Disney fan, as you know, but I
Speaker 1: think they could have done better. And that's what I
Speaker 1: have to say about Mufasa. I'm on it, I was
Speaker 1: on it. It's up to you. Really, I don't have
Speaker 1: a strong recommendation on this I was disappointed. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA County
Speaker 1: Board of Supervisors has approved emotion to restore funding for
Speaker 1: Transitional Age, Youth and Key homelessness prevention programs. That's a mouthful,
Speaker 1: allowing weeks of back and forth. Supervisors are looking into
Speaker 1: other ways to keep those programs running. In a report
Speaker 1: presented earlier this month, the CEO suggested cuts to some
Speaker 1: programs in the twenty twenty five twenty six Homeless Initiative
Speaker 1: funding recommendations, which generated some backlash. The motion reinstates five
Speaker 1: point six million dollars in funding to program for people
Speaker 1: between the ages of sixteen and twenty five who are
Speaker 1: at a higher risk of becoming homeless. A city in
Speaker 1: northern California will soon have a safe sleeping site San
Speaker 1: Jose mayor Matt Mayon says homeless people will be able
Speaker 1: to stay in tents, have access to bathrooms, get three
Speaker 1: meals a day, and receive city services.
Speaker 3: Say here will be short.
Speaker 12: Our goal is to stabilize folks, assess their needs, connect
Speaker 12: them to case management, and help them move on to
Speaker 12: a longer term setting.
Speaker 3: Within thirty days.
Speaker 1: Mayor Man says the site will be fenced and have
Speaker 1: around the clock security. It cost a million dollars to build,
Speaker 1: it's going to cost two million dollars a year to operate.
Speaker 1: Critics are questioning its effectiveness in helping those trying to
Speaker 1: actually get off the street. An investigation report shows Gene
Speaker 1: Hackman's wife had searched the Internet for flu like symptoms
Speaker 1: and breathing techniques in the days before she died. She
Speaker 1: died of hantavirus at the couple's home in New Mexico.
Speaker 1: The rodent born disease can have flu like and respiratory
Speaker 1: distress symptoms. Gene Hackman died about a week after his
Speaker 1: wife of heart disease and complications from Alzheimer's. Gas is
Speaker 1: getting cheaper at the pump ABC's alex Stones as the
Speaker 1: price of regular unletted has dropped by almost eight cents
Speaker 1: a gallon across the US in the last week.
Speaker 5: Over the past couple of weeks, oil prices have come
Speaker 5: down sharply over global worries about US tariffs and OPAQ
Speaker 5: ramping up production, so was inevitable the gas prices would
Speaker 5: come down with lower oil prices.
Speaker 1: He says it's now forty six cents less than a
Speaker 1: year ago. At this time, the average price in California
Speaker 1: is for eighty seven, and I zoom in on La
Speaker 1: County for eighty six. On average in La County, you
Speaker 1: can look to the ladies for signs of recession.
Speaker 11: Trends on social media could be a sign that an
Speaker 11: economic downturn is coming or even.
Speaker 1: Already here for the US.
Speaker 11: Recession blonde has been seen on TikTok and other places recently,
Speaker 11: where you let your natural, darker roots grow out on
Speaker 11: your hair to save money on touchups. A recession hair
Speaker 11: trend was also seen after the financial crisis in two
Speaker 11: thousand and eight, as women saved money and hair salons
Speaker 11: suffered from cancelations. Googles has search US for press on
Speaker 11: nails are up ten percent since February. Women shoppers made
Speaker 11: up sixty percent of general stuff like clothes and home
Speaker 11: decor for the last twelve months ending in February, but
Speaker 11: it's gone down overall one percent since then as well.
Speaker 11: Michael Krozier kf I News don't I.
Speaker 1: Didn't remember recession hair, but you remember COVID hair. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: because you couldn't go to the nobody could go to
Speaker 1: the hairstylist, so you couldn't get your touchups done and
Speaker 1: all that. Okay, I have final thoughts on Girls In
Speaker 1: because it's still driving me crazy. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: I know, I know. So Gail King and who else
Speaker 1: went up? Lauren Sanchez Lauren Sanchez Bezos's fiance, and Katy
Speaker 1: Perry went up a couple of days ago, and like
Speaker 1: I said, amazing that they got to go. How lucky
Speaker 1: are they? That's wonderful. But my final thoughts are that
Speaker 1: they keep insisting that this is this was an historic
Speaker 1: thing that happened, is just still ticking me off.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of justifying being done. I was
Speaker 1: watching TV shows yesterday, lots of justifying. Oh for those
Speaker 1: who say that this wasn't an important mission, they just
Speaker 1: don't know. That means they're getting a massive back that
Speaker 1: they are even addressing. It means that people are freaking out.
Speaker 1: So it's not just me stuff in arms. People are
Speaker 1: talking about it. Yeah, So here's what I wish. I
Speaker 1: wish they would just say, you know what, you guys,
Speaker 1: this was an amazing opportunity. It was a great ride.
Speaker 1: Wish everybody could do it can't because it costs, you know,
Speaker 1: millions of dollars dollars and just stop talking about the
Speaker 1: historical significance. They were like, oh, what we did is
Speaker 1: going to advance the space program. Well, here's what it was.
Speaker 1: It was a publicity stunt. Katy Perry announced her song
Speaker 1: list for her new tour on it, and good on her,
Speaker 1: because think about next time you go to a Katy
Speaker 1: Perry show. I love Katy Perry. When you go to
Speaker 1: her next show, she's going to have herself on the
Speaker 1: JumboTron floating around in space. Sure, and the crowd's going
Speaker 1: to go wild amazing, but let's let's be real. It
Speaker 1: is what it is. And Aisha Bow says, you don't
Speaker 1: see borders from space. They're reflecting on how amazing it was,
Speaker 1: and she said, it's impossible to go through this and
Speaker 1: not come back changed. Well, I was changed the first
Speaker 1: time I went on Guardians of the Galaxy too. I
Speaker 1: was scared to death. But you know, how do you
Speaker 1: really feel? This is the last time I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk about it, because it still it gets me mad
Speaker 1: every time I talk about it again. I love that
Speaker 1: they went good on them. It was great it was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was fun to watch, but it wasn't an historic
Speaker 1: advancement for women in space. Nearly a third of all
Speaker 1: fires in LA in the past six years have involved
Speaker 1: homeless people. A new memo from interim LA Fire Chief
Speaker 1: Ronnie Vanueva says close to half of all trash fires
Speaker 1: involve homeless people, and in the past decade, trash fires
Speaker 1: have increased four hundred and seventy five percent. A surge
Speaker 1: in cargo volume in March has led to the Port
Speaker 1: of Long Beach's best first quarter on record. The port
Speaker 1: saw a twenty five percent jump in units moved over
Speaker 1: the same month last year, and it had its busiest
Speaker 1: first half of any fiscal year on record. Officials say
Speaker 1: fears of tariffs are behind the recent surge. NASA needs
Speaker 1: your help. It wants a mascot to represent its Artemis
Speaker 1: two mission to the Moon planned for next year. The
Speaker 1: uncrewed Artemis one mission in twenty twenty two had a
Speaker 1: plush snoopy on board to tract zero gravity on the spaceship.
Speaker 1: NASA says he wants to do something similar for next
Speaker 1: year's crude mission and wants the public to design the mascot.
Speaker 1: At six oh five, it's handle on the news. Former
Speaker 1: President Biden says President Trump has taken a hatchet to
Speaker 1: social security. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen
Speaker 1: portnoy So Stephen. The Supreme Court said the Trump administration
Speaker 1: should facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was
Speaker 1: swept up in that ice rate in Maryland and sent
Speaker 1: to a prison in El Salvador. But he's still sitting
Speaker 1: in that prison.
Speaker 12: He is and he hasn't spoken to his wife or
Speaker 12: child since he was sent by this country to his
Speaker 12: home country, which he had been protected from being sent
Speaker 12: to by an immigration judge in twenty nineteen. So for
Speaker 12: the last six years he's been checking in with ICE.
Speaker 12: As recently as this January, thought he was okay, and
Speaker 12: now oh, he and his family are, in the words
Speaker 12: of his wife, living a nightmare. And his wife said
Speaker 12: on the American born wife said on the steps of
Speaker 12: the Court Plaza yesterday that she won't give up the
Speaker 12: fight until she sees her husband and her.
Speaker 6: Children's father returned.
Speaker 12: The judge has ordered senior officials at ICE, DHS and
Speaker 12: the State Department to submit to depositions where they're gonna
Speaker 12: have to give sworn testimony. This is the judge's effort
Speaker 12: to try to enforce her own order, which directs the
Speaker 12: Trump administration to facilitate this man's release. And she says
Speaker 12: she seemed nothing to indicate that they have done that,
Speaker 12: and so now she's going to require them to submit
Speaker 12: to sworn depositions. And it'll be interesting to see if
Speaker 12: the administration tries to push back against that. But as
Speaker 12: she reminded the government lawyer, yesterday, the Supreme Court heard
Speaker 12: the argument and the administration lost. No matter what you
Speaker 12: hear from Stephen Miller on television or anybody else saying
Speaker 12: that was a nine to no victory for the administration,
Speaker 12: it wasn't. The got government is directed by the court
Speaker 12: to provide information and to facilitate this man's release from
Speaker 12: custody in El Salvador, where the US government sent him
Speaker 12: and is paying for him to be held. But the
Speaker 12: way the administration looks at it, they see another line
Speaker 12: in the opinion that says that the courts have to
Speaker 12: give due deference to the administration in its conduct of
Speaker 12: foreign affairs. The administration also says this man is MS
Speaker 12: thirteen because right there in twenty nineteen, an immigration judge
Speaker 12: found that it was credible the evidence that was presented
Speaker 12: by law enforcement, and on appeal Abrego Garcia lost. He
Speaker 12: denied it at the time. He's denied it ever since.
Speaker 12: We learned at this time yesterday morning, Amy I mentioned
Speaker 12: the allegation of MS thirteen involvement. It was made by
Speaker 12: Prince George's County, Maryland Police. We learned at this time
Speaker 12: yesterday morning that the police officer who put forward that form,
Speaker 12: who alleged that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS thirteen
Speaker 12: weeks after that forum was submitted, that police officer was suspended.
Speaker 12: He was indicted. He pleaded guilty. The allegation was that
Speaker 12: he provided information to a sex worker whom he was paying,
Speaker 12: and he pleaded guilty. I don't know that that entered
Speaker 12: into Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immigration case. I doubt his attorneys
Speaker 12: ever knew about it. In fact, I know his attorneys
Speaker 12: didn't know about it because it was all reported yesterday.
Speaker 12: So you know, when you hear administration officials so ardently
Speaker 12: say things, you really have to wonder what more they
Speaker 12: may have that they haven't shared with the public. Because
Speaker 12: the judge says that the record she's seen is vague
Speaker 12: and uncorroborated. She says she's seen little to no evidence
Speaker 12: of this MS thirteen involvement, as the administration calls him
Speaker 12: a terrorist. Just yesterday in the White House briefing room,
Speaker 12: the Press Secretary said that he was involved in human trafficking.
Speaker 12: We heard from a DHS spokesperson who said there's intelligence
Speaker 12: that he was involved in some called labor trafficking, which
Speaker 12: I'd never heard of. Apparently it means forcing people to
Speaker 12: work against their will. Well, where's the evidence of all this.
Speaker 12: No one's seen it in court.
Speaker 1: And we'll see if they do and if the administration complies.
Speaker 1: An interesting thing to watch, yeah, I mean, I'm always
Speaker 1: interested after talking to you about this case and the
Speaker 1: status of the guy, and then watching the administration saying
Speaker 1: what they're saying, and they're just the two aren't driving,
Speaker 1: So it would be nice, as you said, to see
Speaker 1: some evidence.
Speaker 12: Well, look, I mean, I can't believe I have to
Speaker 12: say this, but as a reminder to everyone in America,
Speaker 12: you're presumed innocent until you're proven guilty. Guilt has to
Speaker 12: be based on evidence presented in court, which the defendant
Speaker 12: has the opportunity to challenge. The defendant has the right
Speaker 12: to face his accusers who can't be unnamed, but have
Speaker 12: to step forward by name and give sworn testimony, and
Speaker 12: ultimately a jury has to weigh the evidence and decide
Speaker 12: who's telling the truth in this case, because we're talking
Speaker 12: about someone who was in this country, came to this
Speaker 12: country legally as a sixteen year old, and largely has led,
Speaker 12: as far as we know, a law abiding life for
Speaker 12: the last fourteen years in the state of Maryland. There's
Speaker 12: this accusation he was involved in MS thirteen. But I
Speaker 12: just mentioned that that seems to be well in some
Speaker 12: way suspect because of the man who's made that allegation,
Speaker 12: that was a police officer who pleaded guilty to essentially
Speaker 12: being a crooked cop.
Speaker 1: All right, fascinating as always, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so
Speaker 1: much for the info. You bet all right, we'll talk
Speaker 1: again soon. Time to get in your business now with
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Scott Carr, who's in for Courtney Donaho this week. Scott,
Speaker 1: more of us have been scouring Chinese e commerce apps
Speaker 1: for stuff that they can for now get very cheap.
Speaker 4: What's going on with that that's right. Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 4: Bloomberg report today pointing to more of us scouring these
Speaker 4: Chinese e commerce apps like Talmao and Sheen and d
Speaker 4: Hgate for cheap stuff. Censor Tower data orders for everything
Speaker 4: from handbags the yoga pants are piling up on those
Speaker 4: Chinese platforms, TikTok users being inundated with videos from Chinese influencers.
Speaker 4: They say to stop getting ripped off and buy direct
Speaker 4: from the world factory, and they mean China. This report,
Speaker 4: by the way, sponsored by Fidelity Wealth Management. Also Amy,
Speaker 4: we just got some new numbers on retail sales for March,
Speaker 4: and this is a big indicator for those of us
Speaker 4: in the economic world. Data suggesting a lot of us
Speaker 4: did rush out to buy new autos last month, trying
Speaker 4: to get ahead of higher prices that could be coming
Speaker 4: in the face of new tariffs. So we got the
Speaker 4: solid reading what was expected. The retail sales data from March.
Speaker 4: The sales rose ups substantially on a jump in car purchases.
Speaker 4: Commerce data. Commerce Department data showing the value of retail
Speaker 4: purchases not adjusted for inflation, went up by one point
Speaker 4: four percent, that is the most in over two years.
Speaker 4: But if you take out auto sales, the sales climb
Speaker 4: by half a percentage point.
Speaker 1: Okay, up a little bit. If you take out the
Speaker 1: cars and then Scott, we're probably expected to see a
Speaker 1: pretty large drop in car sales in the next month.
Speaker 4: Well, that's yet to be seen. You could speculate that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I suppose we'll see what happens. Of course, the tariff
Speaker 4: the tariffs haven't really kicked in yet. When they really
Speaker 4: do kick in, that's when you think you'll see decline
Speaker 4: in the sales. Also, a lot of IRS workers, we
Speaker 4: should mention headed for the exits now the tax filing
Speaker 4: season is over. A source is telling Bloomberg about twenty
Speaker 4: thousand IRS workers have accepted the Trump administration's offer for
Speaker 4: a buyout if they'll resign, as about one fifth of
Speaker 4: the IRS workforce. And amy we should mention. Tech stocks
Speaker 4: are poised to take ahead. The NASDAK features down three
Speaker 4: hundred and ten points right now. This is after the
Speaker 4: AI chip making giant Nvidia said that because of new
Speaker 4: Trump administration tariff policies, they won't be able to sell
Speaker 4: their H twenty chip to China. It's an important part
Speaker 4: and Vidia's business. They said they'll have to write off
Speaker 4: some five and a half billion dollars in losses now
Speaker 4: just for the first quarter. So features are down down,
Speaker 4: features down one hundred and three points and AMSMP features
Speaker 4: are down by fifty two points.
Speaker 1: All right, Bloomberg, Scott car thanks so much for getting
Speaker 1: in your business with us today. Let's do it again tomorrow,
Speaker 1: shall we?
Speaker 4: All righty, have ay good day?
Speaker 1: All right you too. LA twenty eight has confirmed more
Speaker 1: sites for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games. The triathlon
Speaker 1: is going to be held in Venice Beach that will
Speaker 1: also be the starting point for the marathon and some
Speaker 1: cycling events. Dodgers Stadium will host baseball events. Following weeks
Speaker 1: of back and forth, the LA County Board of Supervisors
Speaker 1: has given their okay to restore five point six million
Speaker 1: dollars in funding for kids between the ages of sixteen
Speaker 1: and twenty five who are at high risk of becoming homeless.
Speaker 1: The county CEO had suggested cuts to that program. The
Speaker 1: Trump administration says it's suing Maine because the state's still
Speaker 1: allowing transgender athletes to participate in girl sports. President Trump
Speaker 1: signed an executive order banning that where minutes away from
Speaker 1: Handle on the news this morning. The future of air
Speaker 1: travel may not include tickets. You may only need your
Speaker 1: face that's going to tell you about that. Right now,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to the president of Central Altadena
Speaker 1: Little League and a former Little League player himself, Philip Polorana.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Philip, Good morning Amy.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 1: I'm great, so thanks so much for getting up early
Speaker 1: to talk to us this morning. We know that in
Speaker 1: Alta Dina, nine thousand homes, businesses, and other buildings were
Speaker 1: destroyed by the wildfire. And along with homes and buildings,
Speaker 1: parks were damaged to including the Loma Alta Park in
Speaker 1: Alta Dina. Yes, so as people are working to clear
Speaker 1: their properties and get their permits to rebuild. Some work
Speaker 1: to rebuild the community is underway. So please tell us
Speaker 1: what's going on at Loma Alta Park.
Speaker 2: I'm super excited about it. The La Dodger Foundation is
Speaker 2: donating to Dodger Dreamfields, and it's you know, it's something
Speaker 2: that we've always had in our mind, like, hey, you know,
Speaker 2: wonder if the Dodgers would ever come up here since
Speaker 2: we are La County Parks and you know, unfortunately, with
Speaker 2: the situation that took place was it was able to happen.
Speaker 2: So Loma Alta is planning to open May seventeenth. They're
Speaker 2: providing a lot of things for the youth, a lot
Speaker 2: of things for seniors in the area that have been
Speaker 2: displaced to try and provide some normalcy, and they're also
Speaker 2: building these fields to get Central Altadeena Little League a
Speaker 2: place to play for the next coming years as we
Speaker 2: rebuild Altadena.
Speaker 1: Okay, and for the Central Altadena Little League. About how
Speaker 1: many kids are involved in that organization.
Speaker 2: We have over two hundred and twenty children. We're a
Speaker 2: small league in Altadena, but we're resilient, so it's about
Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty kids. Luckily, West Pasadena Little League
Speaker 2: has been able to team up with us to give
Speaker 2: us a place to play until we get our park
Speaker 2: back and hopefully we can continue to play there after
Speaker 2: May seventeen.
Speaker 1: Perfect, Okay, So the teams themselves are staying intact. They're
Speaker 1: just playing at somebody else's fields because of the damage
Speaker 1: to the fields at.
Speaker 2: Lom Alta exactly District seventeen has come together all the
Speaker 2: parks that offered us as soon as this happened, they
Speaker 2: were willing to take on our teams. They didn't know
Speaker 2: if we had the capacity to even run a league
Speaker 2: after such a tragedy. And our board was, like I said,
Speaker 2: very resilient, Dina strong, and we were saying, hey, no,
Speaker 2: there's no way that we're going to give up on
Speaker 2: these children. And the parents were saying that this was
Speaker 2: their way of trying to keep some type of normalcy
Speaker 2: in their lives. So, you know, not to hide it
Speaker 2: from the children, but at least give them an outlet
Speaker 2: while they're trying to figure things out. And Little League
Speaker 2: Baseball that's been able to provide that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is just another thing we've talked before
Speaker 1: on wake up call about how far reaching the fires
Speaker 1: have been and how they affect absolutely every part of
Speaker 1: your life. And I didn't even think about Little League Baseball,
Speaker 1: but again, that's a very important thing for a lot
Speaker 1: of the young kids coming up. So lovely that you're
Speaker 1: getting your fields rebuilt. Did you say that, Philip, that
Speaker 1: you think they'll be able to play in the fields
Speaker 1: in May after they open or are they gonna have
Speaker 1: to wait for a little while until things around the
Speaker 1: field's become more stabilized.
Speaker 2: Well, as of right now, we're looking at lead issues.
Speaker 2: So those are the only things that we're concerned about
Speaker 2: right now as far as in field soil testing. Those
Speaker 2: are the things that my membership, the parents have brought
Speaker 2: up some concern when we did mention that the field
Speaker 2: would be available for us to play. Our season comes
Speaker 2: to an end in May, at least our regular season,
Speaker 2: then we go into tournament play with little leagues, so
Speaker 2: we're trying to make that our closing day ceremony and
Speaker 2: then go into summer and possibly having some fall ball
Speaker 2: played there, but we will be definitely playing their next
Speaker 2: spring if everything goes according to plan. While people are
Speaker 2: still rebuilding around because this is going to be a
Speaker 2: process of at least two to three years, we're trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, at least see if some of the parents
Speaker 2: can bring their children back to the burn site. That
Speaker 2: has been a big issue because some kids have not
Speaker 2: been back to the burn site. So we're trying to
Speaker 2: be respectful of that and making sure that we are
Speaker 2: providing you know, the sources for them, whether it's counseling,
Speaker 2: whether it's going to you know, any of the after
Speaker 2: school programs, or slowly initiating some type of return before
Speaker 2: they just get thrust it in and say hey, you know,
Speaker 2: because they're going to think, oh, everything is better, right
Speaker 2: because the park is going to be you know, brand
Speaker 2: new and things like that. So we don't want to
Speaker 2: deceive them, you know, making them think that everything is
Speaker 2: back to normal when it's not.
Speaker 1: Just one one piece of normalcy. And Philip, this affects
Speaker 1: you so personally, I know, because you lost your home
Speaker 1: in the fire.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I lost my home. My cousin lost his home,
Speaker 2: friends that I've known for over forty years, parents lost
Speaker 2: their home. People that have moved back. The majority of
Speaker 2: our league lost their homes. Even the ones that are
Speaker 2: still standing are damage to a point where they are
Speaker 2: displaced because of all the smoke damage and insurance companies
Speaker 2: are trying to pull a fast one on that. But
Speaker 2: for the most part, we have been receiving a lot
Speaker 2: of help. But it's just going to be a slow process.
Speaker 2: So people are still struggling to process it, and you know,
Speaker 2: all we can do is continue to fight, stay strong.
Speaker 2: Those that are selling, we understand, you know, we're one
Speaker 2: of our mottos is out that DNA is not for sale.
Speaker 2: But we understand that there was so many elderly people
Speaker 2: that they just can't. They can't stay around. You know,
Speaker 2: it's not worth it for them to try and rebuild,
Speaker 2: and we understand that, but we want to try and
Speaker 2: make sure that those people are at least giving some
Speaker 2: of the local folks an opportunity to make a bid
Speaker 2: on those homes instead of selling to big corporations that
Speaker 2: might come in and try and monopolize in the area.
Speaker 2: But other than that, you know, we're we're optimistic. We
Speaker 2: see the silver lining, Dina Strong. We're going to be
Speaker 2: bigger and better. But right now we still need assistance
Speaker 2: for those that are out there. They can, you know,
Speaker 2: go check out our gofund needs or just try and
Speaker 2: provide any service that they can find locally to help
Speaker 2: the people that are on the ground that are still.
Speaker 1: With meat and the need remains great. Philip Polerana, thank
Speaker 1: you so much, and we appreciate what you're doing because
Speaker 1: again you're you've had your complete life up ended and
Speaker 1: that you're still devoting time and effort to the kids
Speaker 1: and making sure that they have a little bit of
Speaker 1: normousy coming their ways. That's amazing and thanks to the
Speaker 1: Dodgers Foundation too. The president of Central Altadena Little League,
Speaker 1: Philip Plorana. Thanks so much, Good luck to you. Thanks
Speaker 1: all right, take care here, all right? Isn't it amazing?
Speaker 1: Like I said, we just there's so much stuff that
Speaker 1: we don't even realize how far reaching these fires are.
Speaker 1: And I love to see the communities coming together and
Speaker 1: saying we're getting through this. It's big time amazing. This
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