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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, April thirtieth, last day of April. I'm
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Speaker 3: Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call.
Speaker 1: More than fifty five thousand LA County workers are off
Speaker 1: the job as they continue at forty eight hour strike.
Speaker 3: The strike is.
Speaker 1: Affecting public works employees, trash collectors, librarians, and non urgent
Speaker 1: healthcare providers, among others. The two sides have meant for
Speaker 1: contract negotiations but have not reached an agreement.
Speaker 3: The strike is set to end tonight.
Speaker 1: Residents of a low income and formerly homeless Senior apartment
Speaker 1: complex in Altadena say they've been basically ignored following the wildfire.
Speaker 1: They held a rally outside the Mirrador Apartments yesterday. They
Speaker 1: say they had no help during the fire and in
Speaker 1: the aftermath the lobby got cleaned, but their apartments are
Speaker 1: full of soot and ash and smoke. President Trump has
Speaker 1: celebrated his first one hundred days in office at a
Speaker 1: rally in Michigan at Macomb Community College north of Detroit.
Speaker 1: Trump claimed his first one hundred days are the most
Speaker 1: successful of any administration ever and says he's just getting started.
Speaker 1: Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker took a ride on
Speaker 1: Air Force one with the President on his one hundredth
Speaker 1: day in office. We'll find out about that and take
Speaker 1: a look at the next one hundred days in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: Looking for a good paying hourly job.
Speaker 1: Well, The host of Rich on Tech, Rich de Murro,
Speaker 1: is joining us at five point twenty to tell us
Speaker 1: where you can go to find one. Also Meta launching
Speaker 1: an AI assistant and one a podcast. AI can help
Speaker 1: put it together for you. At the bottom of the hour,
Speaker 1: Amy's on It. I was inspired to watch this show
Speaker 1: after all of the drama over Dione sanders Son not
Speaker 1: getting picked until the fifth round of the draft.
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna like it again. That's at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: And then kasa's Reimagine Gala is coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: It's a party for a really great cause. KASA helps
Speaker 1: some of the most vulnerable kids in La County. We're
Speaker 1: gonna let you know how you can help and have
Speaker 1: a good time at the same time. Let's get started
Speaker 1: with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
Speaker 1: twenty four hour newsroom. A small group of striking La
Speaker 1: County workers ended up in handcuffs.
Speaker 4: Yesterday just outside the County administration building in downtown La
Speaker 4: came in the middle of a forty eight hour strike
Speaker 4: by the Service Workers Union Local seven to y one.
Speaker 4: President David Green says the county is not being honest
Speaker 4: with its offers to union members by pleading poverty.
Speaker 5: It's hard to be conservative with your budget when you're
Speaker 5: spending seven point eight billion dollars with a b on
Speaker 5: contracting out of non union labor.
Speaker 6: So we could start there.
Speaker 4: Round twelve union members sat in the road and block traffic.
Speaker 4: Then the LAPD declared an unlawful assembly. The workers strike
Speaker 4: is expected to end tonight at seven. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Soccer coach accused of killing a thirteen year old boy
Speaker 1: from the San Fernando Valley, is due back in court.
Speaker 1: Mario Garcia Akino made his first appearance earlier this month,
Speaker 1: but didn't enter a plea that could happen today. Garcia
Speaker 1: Akino is charged with murder during the commission or attempted
Speaker 1: commission of alu to act with a child. He's also
Speaker 1: facing charges of assaulting two other boys. A man has
Speaker 1: been attacked in Inglewood in what police say appears to
Speaker 1: be a hate crime.
Speaker 7: Police say the racially motivated attack happened on Tuesday morning.
Speaker 7: The victim was ambushed and repeatedly punched in the face
Speaker 7: and in the back of his head before he fell
Speaker 7: to the ground. Detectives say the suspect was shutting an
Speaker 7: expletive about Mexicans during the attack.
Speaker 1: Jfis Mark Mayfield says the injured man was left with
Speaker 1: facial fractures and a cut on one eye. The attacker
Speaker 1: took off with the man's house keys. A new cost
Speaker 1: of Living study shows more than one in three households
Speaker 1: in California cannot afford a decent standard of living. The
Speaker 1: United Ways of California's Real Cost Measure study shows that
Speaker 1: to meet basic needs, families need to earn the equivalent
Speaker 1: of three full time minimum wage incomes. In the last decade,
Speaker 1: the Real Cost Measure analysis has found the overall percentage
Speaker 1: of California households unable to meet basic needs has remained
Speaker 1: stagnant despite the amount of wealth generated in the state.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to kfi's White House correspondent
Speaker 1: John Decker. John, you got to be with the president
Speaker 1: on his one one hundredth day in office.
Speaker 3: Took a trip on Air Force one. Tell us about it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. A long day. Yesterday the President traveled
Speaker 8: out to Warren, Michigan. That's McComb County. It's a county
Speaker 8: that he won in November. He lost it four years
Speaker 8: earlier to Joe Biden. But he wanted to celebrate his
Speaker 8: one hundredth day in office in Michigan and tell the
Speaker 8: accomplishments that his administration has had amy during the course
Speaker 8: of the past one hundred days. He spoke for about
Speaker 8: an hour and twenty minutes, showed a lot of energy
Speaker 8: and the people that showed up really early to be
Speaker 8: at that campaign rally. I spoke with a lot of them,
Speaker 8: and they were so pleased and happy to be there
Speaker 8: for this particular event. And the President's keeping it going.
Speaker 8: He is going to have a cabinet meeting today. He'll
Speaker 8: also meet with some corporate executives, perhaps announced some more
Speaker 8: investments that those corporate executives our companies will make here
Speaker 8: in the US. So the pace is continuing at a
Speaker 8: dizzying pace in the this week that marks his one
Speaker 8: hundredth day in office.
Speaker 1: Okay, you mentioned that you talked to a bunch of
Speaker 1: the people who were at that rally. Did you get
Speaker 1: a chance to ask them how they I know they're
Speaker 1: excited to be there and be part of it. How
Speaker 1: they felt about some of the policies, the tariffs, that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Do they agree with them?
Speaker 8: Well, you know, this is anecdotal. You know, keep in mind,
Speaker 8: I didn't do a poll, but everyone that I spoke
Speaker 8: to and I did it.
Speaker 2: Ask about that.
Speaker 8: Because of concerns about a slowdown in the economy and
Speaker 8: increase in inflation as a result of the president's tariff's policy.
Speaker 8: They believe that in the long term, the president has
Speaker 8: their back, that the President has America's long term interests
Speaker 8: at heart when he takes on these policies, even though
Speaker 8: there could be as the President has acknowledged, some short
Speaker 8: term pain associated with some of the price increases that
Speaker 8: we will likely see as a result of those tariffs
Speaker 8: on so many products coming into the US. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And when you're at those rallies, I mean you said
Speaker 1: that people were excited. I mean, what does the vibe like.
Speaker 1: I have only been to one and it was a
Speaker 1: long time ago. Oh and it's a pretty electric experience,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 8: It really is. You know, I've been to so many
Speaker 8: of them over the years, you know, going back to
Speaker 8: twenty fifteen, and while here we are ten years later,
Speaker 8: they're still going on and still going strong. I think
Speaker 8: that for some individuals it's an event. And you know,
Speaker 8: the people that are there are essentially like minded. They're
Speaker 8: wearing their mega hats, mega shirts, and they're just very
Speaker 8: happy that President Trump is back in office. You know,
Speaker 8: they're individuals, some of whom maybe their parents were Reagan Democrats,
Speaker 8: but they are, you know, for President Trump and his policies.
Speaker 8: And that shows you how that part of the country anyway,
Speaker 8: Amy is changing a bit, you know, it's changing from
Speaker 8: their outlook in terms of who they want as their leadership,
Speaker 8: not only in the White House, but also for statewide
Speaker 8: offices as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then on the plane, did you get a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to the president? Did you do any
Speaker 1: kind of a gaggle like he does so much so often.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was disappointed, Amy, he didn't come back to
Speaker 8: the press cabin, either going out to Michigan or coming back.
Speaker 8: That was a disappointment. I was certainly counting on that.
Speaker 8: But I'll tell you a funny story. I was going
Speaker 8: through you have to go through securities, you can imagine,
Speaker 8: for Air Force one. And right behind me was doctor Oz,
Speaker 8: who was on this trip. And I saw doctor Oz
Speaker 8: and you may recall a few years ago he ran
Speaker 8: for the US Senate in Pennsylvania. He lost to John Fetterman. Well,
Speaker 8: I forgot that and I called him senator.
Speaker 2: He got a kick out of it. I think he's
Speaker 2: a little embarrassed.
Speaker 8: I wasn't intentional, obviously, you know, when I mistakenly called
Speaker 8: him senator. But he's now a part of the administration,
Speaker 8: and that's the reason for his trip out with the
Speaker 8: President on Air Force one yesterday. The President also bringing
Speaker 8: out with him on Air Force one, Keat Haigseth, the
Speaker 8: Defense Secretary.
Speaker 2: But we didn't have any visitors to.
Speaker 8: The press cabin yesterday and It'll have to be another trip.
Speaker 8: But I got two good meals Amy, on Air Force one,
Speaker 8: so I'm not complaining.
Speaker 3: Okay, what'd you get?
Speaker 8: Oh, they prepared a nice salmon salad for lunch, a
Speaker 8: nice gake salad for dinner, So no complaints.
Speaker 2: They do a.
Speaker 8: Phenomenal job as it relates to presenting meals to you know,
Speaker 8: the people that travel on Air Force one, so you
Speaker 8: can just imagine they have very high standards and they
Speaker 8: never disappoint.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: A nice little ride on Air Force one. Kfi's White
Speaker 1: House correspondent, John Decker, thanks so much for the info.
Speaker 2: Have a great day, Thanks Amy, Bye bye.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
Speaker 1: A lot of UPS workers could be losing their jobs.
Speaker 9: The package delivery service says is looking to slash about
Speaker 9: twenty thousand jobs and clothes more than seventy facilities as
Speaker 9: a drastically reduces the amount of Amazon shipments it handles.
Speaker 9: UPS says it anticipates making the job cuts this year.
Speaker 9: It could close seventy three leased and owned buildings by
Speaker 9: the end of June. UPS says it is still reviewing
Speaker 9: its network and may identify more buildings that need to
Speaker 9: be shut down.
Speaker 3: Deborah mark Ki five News.
Speaker 1: The La City Council has decided to hold off on
Speaker 1: voting on a proposal to ban the use of a
Speaker 1: racial slur and an obsteine term. During council and committee meetings.
Speaker 1: They're discussing the potential legal fallout from the proposed rule change.
Speaker 1: A deputy city attorney has said that members must allow
Speaker 1: the language under the first Amendment. The vote is now
Speaker 1: set for a six Members of the La City Council
Speaker 1: Budget Committee say they have tough choices to make with
Speaker 1: a nearly one billion dollars shortfall. Councilman Tim McCosker says
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks, the committee will look for
Speaker 1: ways to address Mayor Bass's proposal to lay off more
Speaker 1: than sixteen hundred workers.
Speaker 6: We're going to be looking real hard at these sixteen
Speaker 6: hundred employees who are slated for layoff and working very,
Speaker 6: very very hard to find offsets wherever we can.
Speaker 1: The committee will continue to host hearings with city departments
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks. The committee will then make
Speaker 1: its recommendation to the full Council. A man charged with
Speaker 1: stabbing his girlfriend of death and Huntington Beach has been convicted.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says it took jurors less than a
Speaker 1: day to return the guilty verdict yesterday against Craig Sharoon.
Speaker 10: During the trial, three women testified that they were victims
Speaker 10: of domestic violence and had obtained restraining orders against Tron.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the murder, nearly five years ago, was partially
Speaker 1: captured on voicemail. They say the Air Force veterans stabbed
Speaker 1: the woman twice in the chest, nearly cut off her nose,
Speaker 1: and stabbed her in the head so viciously that he
Speaker 1: bent the knife. More than forty five million people are
Speaker 1: on alert and in the path of some severe spring weather.
Speaker 1: Dangerous storms have already left a trail of damage from
Speaker 1: Missouri to Minnesota. Meteorologist ginger Z says it's more than
Speaker 1: just severe storms. There are also severe flood threats. We've
Speaker 1: got to focus on the Southwest and the plains because
Speaker 1: it's not just the severe thunderstorms.
Speaker 3: Yet, but it's the flash flood threat.
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, for example, has had their second wettest.
Speaker 3: April on record, she says.
Speaker 1: In Minnesota, a tornado was confirmed as an EF one
Speaker 1: with winds of at least eighty six miles per hour.
Speaker 1: A company known for Lady urinals is taking the fruit
Speaker 1: of its loins to feed the masses.
Speaker 11: For the third year in a row, Pequoal set up
Speaker 11: its female porta potties at the London Marathon. The difference
Speaker 11: this year is the company teamed up with another company
Speaker 11: that's saving the pee to make bread. NPK Recovery says
Speaker 11: the more than fifty six thousand runners at Sunday's marathon
Speaker 11: was a veritable gold mine of potential urea, nitrogen and ammonia,
Speaker 11: all key ingredients in plant fertilizers. The companies say roughly
Speaker 11: three hundred gallons of urned from the standalone Touch Free
Speaker 11: Squad and Go Women's urinal pequial toilets at the starting
Speaker 11: line could fertilize enough wheat for three thousand loaves of bread.
Speaker 11: Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I feel about that? I just
Speaker 3: lost my desire for breakfast. I don't know, Okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Man from Westminster accused from Slam, accused of slamming his
Speaker 1: puppy onto the ground, kicking her and dragging her down
Speaker 1: the street, is pleaded not guilty to a felony charge
Speaker 1: of animal cruelty. The attack was caught on video in
Speaker 1: Long Beach last week. Alexander Queva's next court date is
Speaker 1: May seventh. The puppy continues to recover at Long Beach
Speaker 1: Animal Care Services. The La County Board of Supervisors has
Speaker 1: unanimously approved a record four billion dollar settlement for sex
Speaker 1: abuse victims. The amount will cover the abuse claims made
Speaker 1: by more than seven thousand victims in the county foster
Speaker 1: care and probation departments dating back to nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 1: New Lakers superstar Luka Doncic is covering the restoring the
Speaker 1: vandalized mural of Kobe and Gianna Bryant in downtown La.
Speaker 1: Most of the mural on Main Street, as we've told
Speaker 1: you about, has been covered with black and white graffiti.
Speaker 1: A GoFundMe was started requesting five thousand dollars to pay
Speaker 1: for the restoration. Don Chick's foundation is paying for it.
Speaker 1: At six o five a handle on the news, China's
Speaker 1: telling Trump don't expect us to blink anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Let's say good morning now to the host of Rich on.
Speaker 1: Tech on KFI KTLA's tech reporter Rich de Murro.
Speaker 2: Morning, Rich, Good morning to you.
Speaker 6: Amy.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to talk jobs first because the you know,
Speaker 1: some people need a job and they don't want like
Speaker 1: a full time salaried position. They want a good hourly job,
Speaker 1: and you can help them.
Speaker 12: There new way to find This website called bandana dot com.
Speaker 12: Interviewed the founder on my radio show, and the idea
Speaker 12: behind this is there are so many sort of like
Speaker 12: opportunities out there that lead nowhere, and so he said, look,
Speaker 12: we want to build a job site for people that
Speaker 12: are just working class, entry level and the jobs are
Speaker 12: actually real. So what they've done is they've gone out
Speaker 12: to all these companies interface directly with their websites on
Speaker 12: the back end, so they know that the job listings
Speaker 12: are legit. And the best part is they add a
Speaker 12: whole bunch of information to the job listings, like the
Speaker 12: exact location, so you can find stuff in your neighborhood
Speaker 12: if you don't want to long commute pay range, and
Speaker 12: they will tell you your estimated taxes and take home pay.
Speaker 12: Because I don't know about you, Amy, but my first
Speaker 12: job get those taxes.
Speaker 2: You're like very surprised. Wait a second, what how much?
Speaker 3: I thought I was making this much? And I'm making
Speaker 3: a third less.
Speaker 2: Than that exactly, and that never ends by the way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, so it's and it's some decent
Speaker 1: paying jobs too, it's just for people who want hourly work.
Speaker 12: Yeah, And it's just I think it's just, you know,
Speaker 12: a lot of these job hunting sites are either focused on,
Speaker 12: you know, the typical jobs that you would see, like
Speaker 12: the salary jobs, or if you're looking for a job
Speaker 12: at say, you know, I'm looking at like jobs at
Speaker 12: Trader Joe's, jobs at the you know, at the various
Speaker 12: transit agencies. I mean, there's a whole bunch of them
Speaker 12: on here. But the reality is a lot of those
Speaker 12: jobs and those big websites lead nowhere and so here
Speaker 12: it actually leads to jobs that you could get.
Speaker 1: Very cool Bandana dot com. Okay, well we've got chat GPT,
Speaker 1: and there's co pilot and now Meta's got its own
Speaker 1: AI app.
Speaker 12: I find this a little ironic because you know, we
Speaker 12: understand that AI is a huge competition right now, right
Speaker 12: every company Chat GBT is the clear leader, Google, Gemini,
Speaker 12: you've got Microsoft with Copilot, You've got Claude, you've got
Speaker 12: deep Seak out of China. Meta has their own Meta AI,
Speaker 12: which they've built into all of their apps. You've probably
Speaker 12: seen it, you know, when you're on Instagram or whatever.
Speaker 12: But now they made a standalone AI app so that
Speaker 12: you can access this even faster. And so it's just
Speaker 12: called Meta AI and you can download it from the
Speaker 12: App Store or from Google Play and.
Speaker 2: It's the same thing as CHATCHBT.
Speaker 12: You can talk and generate images or get web results.
Speaker 12: But I find this interesting because so many people when
Speaker 12: Meta built this into their apps were like, rich, how
Speaker 12: do I turn this off? So now it's like, maybe
Speaker 12: you know what, Amy, I'm gonna be positive here. Maybe
Speaker 12: they'll give us the option to turn it off in
Speaker 12: the apps. Now that we have a standalone app, so
Speaker 12: if you want this, you can go get it, but
Speaker 12: you can turn it off in like Instagram and Facebook.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping for that, okay.
Speaker 3: But well, I like your optimism yeah.
Speaker 1: Also, well, then tell me about this AI podcast tool
Speaker 1: that Google has.
Speaker 2: Okay, have you heard of this, this notebook LM.
Speaker 1: No and it okay, yeah, just tell because it sounds
Speaker 1: like you're just taking all the work.
Speaker 3: Out of work.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, this is this is not this is
Speaker 12: not replacing you. So this is uh, this is basically
Speaker 12: notebook LM is Google's sort of smart notebook tools. Started
Speaker 12: out as an experiment. It's been around for a while,
Speaker 12: but you basically feed in information. So let's say you're
Speaker 12: going on let's say you're a student, right and you're
Speaker 12: taking a class. All your class notes you just dump
Speaker 12: into this notebook, right, and you can ask questions about
Speaker 12: those notes, just like you would AI. But it's programmed
Speaker 12: only on the information that you feed it. But it
Speaker 12: takes it a level further. You can generate a podcast
Speaker 12: based on your information that you've uploaded, so these two
Speaker 12: podcasts hosts will talk about your information.
Speaker 2: It's really cool. It's sort of gone viral.
Speaker 12: It's very popular among students and anyone who's studying stuff,
Speaker 12: and you can use it for pretty much anything. So
Speaker 12: for me personally, when I get all my reviewers, guides
Speaker 12: and things like that, for the products I test, I'll
Speaker 12: dump it into this notebook, and then these two people
Speaker 12: will talk about it and it's like you're listening to
Speaker 12: someone talk about the product, all the features of the product.
Speaker 1: Okay, then here here's my question, because you and I
Speaker 1: have talked about this a couple of times. How sometimes
Speaker 1: AI is wrong? So have you found that? Or is
Speaker 1: it because it's only using your notes? It's what your
Speaker 1: truth is, see what.
Speaker 12: I'm saying exactly, So that that is the idea. The
Speaker 12: idea is that it's not going outside of the information
Speaker 12: that you feed it. So if you feed it your journal,
Speaker 12: it would just talk about.
Speaker 2: Your journal is really boring? How I doubt it, But
Speaker 2: that's the thing.
Speaker 12: So that's and of course all AI can hallucinate, It
Speaker 12: can always make mistakes, but that's the whole idea of
Speaker 12: this is that you know that this is rooted in
Speaker 12: your information, so technically it should be more factual. Now
Speaker 12: here's a super easy way to do this. If you
Speaker 12: don't want to go into notebook LM, just go to Gemini.
Speaker 12: Google's Gemini, you know, you can go to their AI,
Speaker 12: upload a file any like PDF or whatever, and just
Speaker 12: wait for it to say generate audio overview and then
Speaker 12: it will generate that podcast asked right from their AI tool.
Speaker 12: And so it's really fun, like once you try this,
Speaker 12: you kind of get hooked on it. It's really really
Speaker 12: fun to hear these people talk about your information.
Speaker 1: Okay, and you're going to dig into this a little
Speaker 1: bit more at your segment on KTLA this morning.
Speaker 12: Right, Yeah, that's coming up in just a few minutes,
Speaker 12: or you can get the link on my.
Speaker 2: Website rich on tech dot tv. I'll put it there.
Speaker 12: This is just such a cool little tool to kind
Speaker 12: of have experiment with AI a little bit.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: It's kfi's tech guy, Rich DeMuro. You can hear him
Speaker 1: every weekend rich on Tech Saturdays from eleven to two
Speaker 1: right here on KFI. Of course, you can watch him
Speaker 1: on KTLA and follow him on Instagram rich on Tech
Speaker 1: and everything he talks about he puts it on his website,
Speaker 1: so if you missed it or you're driving or something,
Speaker 1: you can always go to his website. Check it out.
Speaker 1: It's rich on tech dot TV. Thank you, Rich DeMuro.
Speaker 2: All right, have a great day.
Speaker 3: All right, talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: A key provision in a child sex trafficking bill making
Speaker 1: its way through the state Assembly has been removed. The
Speaker 1: provision would have made it a felony to purchase sex
Speaker 1: from sixteen and seventeen year olds.
Speaker 12: Child sex trafficking shouldn't be arguable here in the state
Speaker 12: of California, and yet here we are again.
Speaker 1: California Representative David Tanjipe says trafficking older teens should be
Speaker 1: a felony, but the bill will proceed without that provision.
Speaker 1: Senator Shannon Grove authored the original bill and said removing
Speaker 1: that provision is just completely evil and makes older teens
Speaker 1: a lot more vulnerable. News brought to you by Simper
Speaker 1: solaris In over two hundred and thirty cities in the US,
Speaker 1: a million dollars is only enough for a basic starter home.
Speaker 13: A Zillo analysis reveals as of March, the average price
Speaker 13: for a starter home has risen significantly the most recent
Speaker 13: figures compared to just eighty five cities five years ago. Nationally,
Speaker 13: the average starter home costs just over one hundred and
Speaker 13: ninety two thousand dollars. California leads the country with one
Speaker 13: hundred and thirteen cities where a million dollars is typical
Speaker 13: for a starter home, followed by New York with thirty
Speaker 13: two cities, New Jersey with twenty cities, and Florida with
Speaker 13: eleven cities. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1: News Newsom says the state is fighting back against tariffs
Speaker 1: imposed by President Trump.
Speaker 5: California was the first state in the country to sue
Speaker 5: the Trump administration as it relates to his authority on
Speaker 5: these tariffs. And by the way, I am damn confident
Speaker 5: we're going to win that and we're going to get
Speaker 5: clarity on that in the next few weeks.
Speaker 3: Damn confident.
Speaker 1: On his podcast, Newsom spoke with business owners about how
Speaker 1: the tariffs are affecting them and also about how tariffs
Speaker 1: impact more than products and groceries.
Speaker 5: Tariffs impact tourism and people don't necessarily connect that dot
Speaker 5: as easily as they should or as consequentially as they must.
Speaker 3: Newsom says.
Speaker 1: In spite of an ad campaign encouraging Canadians to come
Speaker 1: visit California, Canadians are upset over the tariffs san Trump's
Speaker 1: talk about making Canada the fifty first state, They're not
Speaker 1: visiting as much. The Honda Center in Orange County is
Speaker 1: getting a one billion dollar makeover.
Speaker 10: Modernization project will take place through twenty twenty seven, with
Speaker 10: the venue staying open during the work. The nearly thirty
Speaker 10: two year old Honda Center will be getting three new
Speaker 10: parking garages with a total of six thousand spaces, a
Speaker 10: new five story entrance, new suites, new escalators, and new
Speaker 10: food and beverage spots for fans.
Speaker 1: Kay if I's Daniel Martindale says the project is being
Speaker 1: paid for by the family that owns the Anaheim Ducks.
Speaker 1: Family members of a woman shot and killed by police
Speaker 1: at the end of a car chase in Guardina have
Speaker 1: called for an independent investigation. Police say Alexandre at Cordoba
Speaker 1: pulled out a gun during a brief standoff with police
Speaker 1: on April fifteenth. The families demanding bodycam and dashboard cam
Speaker 1: footage be released, along with dispatch audio. Inglewood police are
Speaker 1: looking for a person who ambushed and repeatedly punched a guy.
Speaker 1: They're calling it a hate crime. The attack happened Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: Detectives say the attacker was shouting racial slurs against Mexicans
Speaker 1: during the assault. The man attacked has multiple face fractures
Speaker 1: and a gash on his eye. President Trump says he
Speaker 1: had a good call with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos about
Speaker 1: Amazon's apparent plan to display the amount tariffs increase the
Speaker 1: price of an item on its website. Amazon has said
Speaker 1: that plan was never approved and would not be happening
Speaker 1: at six.
Speaker 3: So five is handled on the news.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Amazon, UPS is not going to be doing
Speaker 1: as much business with Amazon, and that's going to lead
Speaker 1: to losing twenty thousand jobs.
Speaker 3: We're gonna tell you more about that. Amy's on it,
Speaker 3: AMI's on it, AMI's on it, Aami's on it. What
Speaker 3: am I on?
Speaker 1: I'm on the stream movies, documentaries, TV shows, you name it.
Speaker 1: There's a whole lot of it. And how do you
Speaker 1: sift through it? Well, I get recommendations from friends, and
Speaker 1: I watch stuff and then I give recommendations back to you,
Speaker 1: hopefully help you make some good decisions and see just
Speaker 1: really good stuff, not always brand new stuff.
Speaker 3: So this one this week is was.
Speaker 1: I was inspired to watch it after watching some of
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, which I have to tell you, the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft is not very exciting in my humbold pay.
Speaker 3: And I'm a football fan anyway, So you know.
Speaker 1: Cam Ward went number one, and he was humble and
Speaker 1: he was gracious, and I love football and it's in
Speaker 1: this wonderful and you're like yeah. And then Dion Sanderson
Speaker 1: was supposed to go pretty high in the draft didn't
Speaker 1: go to the fifth round, and I was like, there
Speaker 1: was a movie about this and I remember liking it.
Speaker 3: And it's called Draft Day. Oh have you seen it?
Speaker 1: Clo Shrepper, No, okay, And it stars Kevin Costner, Wow,
Speaker 1: and Jennifer Garner.
Speaker 2: How old is it?
Speaker 3: Uh? Will you google it for me?
Speaker 1: I forgot to write that down anyway, It's called Draft
Speaker 1: Day and Kevin Costner plays the GM of the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: so they used real team names. He plays Sonny Weaver Junior,
Speaker 1: his dad twenty fourteen. His dad has just died. The
Speaker 1: weight of the world is on his shoulders, of course,
Speaker 1: because his team is about to fail and he needs
Speaker 1: to get it back on track and make the best
Speaker 1: pick in the draft for the future of the team,
Speaker 1: to save Cleveland and all that stuff. His girlfriend, his girl, Friday,
Speaker 1: who's also a huge football person, reminds me of Shannon Farren,
Speaker 1: like knows everything about football. Jennifer Garner, She's fabulous. Chadwick
Speaker 1: Boseman is in this movie. He is one of the draftees.
Speaker 1: He's got a rather big mouth and a very big heart.
Speaker 1: He plays Vonte Mack and at one point, Kevin Costner's
Speaker 1: character Sonny Weaver Junior is talking to Vonte Mack and says,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of ups and downs today
Speaker 1: during this draft day. You're just gonna have to find
Speaker 1: the fun in it. And boy, were there ups and downs.
Speaker 1: There's the injured quarterback who's trying to get back in
Speaker 1: the game. There's the hot shot expected to go number
Speaker 1: one or up at the top, which reminded me of
Speaker 1: Dean Sanderson. There's the father's son dynamic for the dad
Speaker 1: who plays in Cleveland and his son who wants to
Speaker 1: be a Cleveland Brown. And there's the new coach who
Speaker 1: wants to be a superstar. And there's the owner threatening
Speaker 1: to fire Sonny. And you find this all out in
Speaker 1: like the first five minutes. So I'm not telling you
Speaker 1: anything that you're not going to discover right away. Sonny
Speaker 1: is right. There are ups and downs. There are ins
Speaker 1: and outs and trades and searching to figure out who's
Speaker 1: the right pick. And then to make it interesting because
Speaker 1: it's a lot of you know, phone calls and inner
Speaker 1: workings and a lot of talk talk talk, and what
Speaker 1: should we do and who should we pick and who
Speaker 1: should we trade and blah blah blah. They intersperse it
Speaker 1: with football footage, so you get a split screen of
Speaker 1: them showing football, like they talk about Joe Montana at
Speaker 1: some point, and then they show you, like Joe Montana
Speaker 1: running a play or something, so they keep it more
Speaker 1: visually interesting along with it. It all happens in the
Speaker 1: twelve hours and forty minutes leading up to the draft
Speaker 1: and then into the draft. And I gotta admit it's
Speaker 1: a football movie, but I'll be darned if I didn't
Speaker 1: tear up a few times like it was good.
Speaker 3: It was good, And if you love football, it's a
Speaker 3: good watch.
Speaker 1: If you don't like football, or you don't know that
Speaker 1: much about it but are kind of interested, it's a
Speaker 1: fun insight into draft day.
Speaker 3: And I'm guessing that.
Speaker 1: A lot of this stuff happens sure like what happens
Speaker 1: in the movie. And if you've already seen the movie,
Speaker 1: it's worth another watch. I hadn't seen it for obviously
Speaker 1: a few years because it's an older movie. If you
Speaker 1: haven't seen it, give it a look. I'm on it,
Speaker 1: and I think you should be too. It's called Draft Day.
Speaker 1: It's streaming on Netflix, and it is a movie, not
Speaker 1: a series, so it just takes a couple of hours
Speaker 1: and it's a fun one nice Okay. Time to get
Speaker 1: in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 3: Morning, Courtney, good morning. How are we today?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 1: I'm good because we're going to talk about oreos, oh
Speaker 1: of course, but not so good news.
Speaker 3: I'm going to make you sad about this. Okay, I'll
Speaker 3: give you something happier later about this, okay. Bucks, So shoppers.
Speaker 14: Are coming back on their snacks. Mondalize, which is the
Speaker 14: company behind the Oreo cookie maker. They make roots crackers too.
Speaker 14: They are seeing shoppers prioritizing meat, veggies, and eggs over
Speaker 14: a lot more indulgent items like snacks. So lower income
Speaker 14: shoppers are switching to smaller packages. Higher income consumers are
Speaker 14: opting for larger value packs. So Mandalize is saying that
Speaker 14: consumers are demonstrating a lot of frustration with the prices
Speaker 14: that they're so they're trying to launch more affordable products
Speaker 14: to match what shoppers are willing to pay. But I
Speaker 14: mentioned Starbucks because we'll stick with the whole food theme.
Speaker 14: They say that they're making progress on a turnaround plan,
Speaker 14: but they did have weaker than expected earnings. This is
Speaker 14: amping up the pressure on management to deliver something because
Speaker 14: they've been trying to slim down their menu and overhaul
Speaker 14: their cafes too, to make them a lot more welcoming.
Speaker 1: Well, and they just did that like a month or
Speaker 1: two ago. Doesn't that kind of stuff take time?
Speaker 3: Wall Street doesn't.
Speaker 1: Wait, I know we can see that from these two
Speaker 1: thousand point swings that we're seeing.
Speaker 14: Exactly instant gratification, but sales last quarters acline one percent.
Speaker 14: And one of the things that they're also doing, they're
Speaker 14: working to speed up service. They're hiring more workers at
Speaker 14: its stores, and they also have this new algorithm which
Speaker 14: prioritizes drinks, which drinks to make first, and they say
Speaker 14: that's actually speeding up service. They're seeing drinks go out
Speaker 14: the door in two minutes, so that's that's a good
Speaker 14: move for them. So it does take time, and we
Speaker 14: have to be patient with Brian Nichol, but he has
Speaker 14: Brian Nichol, who's the CEO. He came from Chipotle before,
Speaker 14: and he took Chipotle from this much smaller company to
Speaker 14: this enormous organization that's doing quite well and has good exactly.
Speaker 14: So that's what a lot of investors are hoping. He's
Speaker 14: going to come in and instantly shake things up.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I don't I don't want to belabor this
Speaker 1: Oreo Cookies thing, but you made me think of it
Speaker 1: because you're saying they're cutting back on snack purchases. But
Speaker 1: doesn't that have to do with ozampic two.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that is one of the things too. But they
Speaker 14: have been saying, you know what, a lot of shoppers
Speaker 14: are going in, They're looking at the prices and saying.
Speaker 3: No way, I'm not spending this money.
Speaker 14: I mean, I can even see that when I take
Speaker 14: my kids shopping and we're going down the cookie aisle
Speaker 14: and the snack aisle and they're like, Mom, we want this,
Speaker 14: we want this chip, we want that. And I said, guys,
Speaker 14: you got to prioritize what you want. And I'm sure
Speaker 14: sure a lot of other families are doing that most time,
Speaker 14: especially with all the economic uncertainty.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and speaking of uncertainty, as I mentioned, the stock
Speaker 1: markets still seeing some wild swings up. But yesterday SMP
Speaker 1: did Okay, Yeah, the.
Speaker 14: S and P five hundred saw its best six days
Speaker 14: since March twenty twenty two. So traders were shrugging off
Speaker 14: disappointing earnings from the likes of Ups and General motors,
Speaker 14: and that's why we're seeing stocks higher. But we just
Speaker 14: got a report that kind of is shaking up things
Speaker 14: this morning. We got the report on GDP and the
Speaker 14: economy slowed dramatically over the last quarter. So it showed
Speaker 14: a gross domestic product decreased three tenths of a percent,
Speaker 14: well below the average growth of about three percent in
Speaker 14: the prior two years. So this is why we are
Speaker 14: seeing stocks taking a bit of a hit right now.
Speaker 14: In the pre market, it was a change. We were
Speaker 14: a little changed for most of the morning, but after
Speaker 14: that report, the Dow right now is down three hundred
Speaker 14: and thirty points, the S and P five hundred falling
Speaker 14: seventy points at this point.
Speaker 1: All right, that's your business with Bloomberg's Courtney, donaho. Let's
Speaker 1: do it again tomorrow, same time, Kay, No doubt about it.
Speaker 1: See you later, thanks, Courtney. Okay, bye bye. Just getting
Speaker 1: worded in the Ukrainian officials say Kiev is ready to
Speaker 1: sign a much anticipated mineral resources deal with the US
Speaker 1: that's expected to happen today. About fifty five thousand LA
Speaker 1: County employees are on strike until seven o'clock tonight. The
Speaker 1: workers' union met with LA County leaders about their contract,
Speaker 1: but no deal was reached. Tens of thousands of striking
Speaker 1: workers marched through the streets of downtown LA yesterday. About
Speaker 1: a dozen blocked a roadway and got arrested. In one
Speaker 1: hundred thirteen cities in California, a million dollars is just
Speaker 1: enough to get you into a starter home. An analysis
Speaker 1: by Zillo shows the average price for a starter home
Speaker 1: is up significantly. Nationally, a starter home averages one hundred
Speaker 1: ninety two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's quite a bit more.
Speaker 1: Here, hey, Today the Dodgers are taking on the Marlins
Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium, with the first pitch going out at
Speaker 1: New oh I love a day game. Listen to all
Speaker 1: the Dodger games on AM five seventy LA Sports live
Speaker 1: from the Galpin Motors broadcast booth. You can stream all
Speaker 1: the Dodgers games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword
Speaker 1: is AM five seventy LA Sports. Okay, we were supposed
Speaker 1: to be talking to a representative from CASA.
Speaker 3: CASA.
Speaker 1: At this time, we're having trouble connecting with them, but
Speaker 1: I still want to tell you about this. It's called
Speaker 1: the Reimagine Gala and it is one of kasa's largest
Speaker 1: fundraising events for the whole year. And I learned about
Speaker 1: KASA when my well, I knew my parents were sort
Speaker 1: of involved in it, but when my dad passed away,
Speaker 1: they said, hey, you know what, instead of flowers and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, make donations to KASA. And I
Speaker 1: was like, wow, you know, like that's what mom and
Speaker 1: dad had worked out. And pretty amazing what these people
Speaker 1: do because it's.
Speaker 3: Not like one of those few good groups.
Speaker 1: I mean, like these are court appointed special advocates. They
Speaker 1: help kids who don't have someone to have their back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, and some of these kids come from horrific backgrounds
Speaker 1: and circumstances and they need a person to be there
Speaker 1: and a person that they can trust, and a person
Speaker 1: that is going to go to bat for them in court.
Speaker 1: So it's a really really important organization and they're doing
Speaker 1: their big gala. It's on May second, and if you're interested,
Speaker 1: you can go out have a great time. They've got
Speaker 1: some people from TV shows and celebrities. And I'm bummed
Speaker 1: that our guest wasn't able to join us today because
Speaker 1: she would have much more information. But I would love
Speaker 1: for you to go and check it out if you're
Speaker 1: at all interested at KASA La c A s A
Speaker 1: LA dot org slash gala. And again they're raising money
Speaker 1: so they can help children who don't have anyb to
Speaker 1: help them. They're kids who are in the foster system
Speaker 1: or they've been removed from their homes. Some of them
Speaker 1: have been horrifically abused, some of them just got a
Speaker 1: raw deal and they The other thing that Costa does
Speaker 1: is they take volunteers and they train them very heavily
Speaker 1: and very thoroughly to make sure that they're prepared to
Speaker 1: take care of these not take care of them. They don't.
Speaker 1: They don't house them or foster them, but they do.
Speaker 1: They go to court for them and they make sure
Speaker 1: that they get what they need and really important work.
Speaker 1: So and they're always needing volunteers. So if you are
Speaker 1: interested in volunteering some time you want to do something
Speaker 1: really great.
Speaker 3: Costs is a great organization.
Speaker 1: It is a four to oh one c and the
Speaker 1: money goes where it needs to go, and that's to
Speaker 1: the kids. There are twenty two thousand children in the
Speaker 1: LA foster care system and over a thousand children in
Speaker 1: foster care get ongoing advocacy from costs of volunteers every year.
Speaker 1: So it's big work, important stuff.
Speaker 8: And even for.
Speaker 2: Adults, courts are just so overwhelming.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the technicalities and just the it's stark in there,
Speaker 13: and yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Need someone to help you navigate the system. And can
Speaker 1: you imagine trying to do that when you're a kid
Speaker 1: and you don't know anything and you're like you've been
Speaker 1: pulled out of your home or you know, for an
Speaker 1: custody stuff, or you're in foster care or something. So
Speaker 1: this is again a great organization that Kasas Reimagine Gala
Speaker 1: is happening on May second, that's this Friday night. You
Speaker 1: can still get tickets Casa La dot did I Say
Speaker 1: or dot org slash Gala or if you're interested in volunteering,
Speaker 1: same website. Okay, let's get back to some of the
Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: People in Pacific Palisades say they are concerned about controlled
Speaker 1: burns in the area being done by the ATF because
Speaker 1: the reservoirs dry, but have faith in the fact that
Speaker 1: they wouldn't do this if they weren't prepared. The first
Speaker 1: burn was done last night. The controlled fire test is
Speaker 1: being done in a neighborhood near the Skull Rock trail
Speaker 1: head to help figure out what sparked the Palisades fire
Speaker 1: in January. The test is expected to run through tomorrow.
Speaker 1: LA's financial challenges may change the way the city addresses
Speaker 1: issues like homelessness.
Speaker 4: The City council Budget Committee has weighed in publicly for
Speaker 4: the first time on Mayor Bass's proposed budget. Councilman Timcoscar says,
Speaker 4: with more than sixteen hundred layoffs on the table and
Speaker 4: a billion dollars shortfall, maybe it's time to rethink issues
Speaker 4: like homeless funding.
Speaker 6: But I think we have to ask ourselves of this moment,
Speaker 6: with everything, all of the shapes shifting in front of us,
Speaker 6: we have to ask ourselves in a moment, where are
Speaker 6: we and where are we going with all of this.
Speaker 4: He suggested that homeless funding is technically a county issue.
Speaker 4: The Budget Committee continues its hearings with city departments over
Speaker 4: the next two weeks. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: The La City Council has taken a step to make
Speaker 1: it cheaper for Hollywood to make movies and shows in
Speaker 1: the city. Councilwoman Adrian Nazarian says the entertainment industry has
Speaker 1: been fleeing California and leaving its workforce vulnerable.
Speaker 13: Simply put, this is about protecting middle class workers and
Speaker 13: also the very industry that established Los Angeles on the
Speaker 13: world map.
Speaker 1: City staff has been instructed to report back in thirty
Speaker 1: days with the plan to reduce permit fees, ease regulations
Speaker 1: around security and parking, and make it easier to build soundstages.
Speaker 1: State lawmakers are considering an expansion of California's film tax
Speaker 1: credit program. California Governor Newsom says the state will improve
Speaker 1: government services with artificial intelligence.
Speaker 5: Yes, aided by another executive order, but now it's happening,
Speaker 5: and it's happening at a scale again not happening in
Speaker 5: any other state in the country.
Speaker 1: Newsom says the state is working with several AI partners
Speaker 1: to reduce traffic on highways, enhance safety on the roads,
Speaker 1: and improve customer service at state call centers. Newsom says
Speaker 1: the initiative is a first in the nation. This is
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