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Speaker 4: Good morning. It's five o'clock straight up for Monday, May twelfth.
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Speaker 4: for Amy King. It is my last run on the
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Speaker 5: But we have a lot of stories.
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Speaker 4: on wakeup call. Dozens of people had to be rescued
Speaker 4: from beaches as temperatures soared during the weekend heat wave.
Speaker 4: Lifeguards say they responded to numerous heat related incidents, prompting
Speaker 4: officials to urge caution and hydration during the extreme weather.
Speaker 4: And the Lazoo is facing a lawsuit over plans to
Speaker 4: move its elephants, Billy and Tina to a zoo in Tulsa,
Speaker 4: and the sue calls for an injunction, arguing the animals
Speaker 4: should go to a sanctuary instead. In Florida, two kids,
Speaker 4: a ten year old Jabbari Solomon and four year old
Speaker 4: Charlie Rivieria, lost their lives when a Dodge Durango driven
Speaker 4: by Miami Hurricanes linebacker Adarius Hayes collided with their families Kia.
Speaker 4: Seventy eight year old woman, the driver of the Kia,
Speaker 4: also died. Hayes sustained non life threatening injuries. Please say
Speaker 4: there was no signs of any impairment. And here's what's ahead.
Speaker 4: On wake up call at five oh five, your house
Speaker 4: might be sinking, and not because of a bad foundation.
Speaker 4: A new study reveals what's really happening beneath our feet
Speaker 4: and why it's way worse than we thought. At five
Speaker 4: point twenty, a potential breakthrough in the Israel Hamas conflict.
Speaker 4: Amma says the release of American Israeli soldier Eden Alexander
Speaker 4: is part of a step towards a broader ceasefire. And
Speaker 4: at five point thirty five, she wrote a student op
Speaker 4: ed and ended up in a detention center. The story
Speaker 4: of rumescia os Turk, a Turkish grad student, raises major
Speaker 4: questions about immigration, free speech, and how far the Trump
Speaker 4: administration is willing to go. At five point fifty, they've
Speaker 4: opened for comedy and music legends, earned praise from Jack Black,
Speaker 4: and built a cult following in just under two years.
Speaker 4: We'll talk to the Wolves of Glendale about the band's
Speaker 4: meteoric rise and the serious musicians ship behind their not
Speaker 4: so serious songs. Then it's six zh five. It's handle
Speaker 4: on the news. The White House says they've reached a
Speaker 4: trade deal with China, as the two countries negotiated for
Speaker 4: a second day in Switzerland. We're going to tell you
Speaker 4: which has to say about that. Let's get started with
Speaker 4: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 4: five our newsroom. A seventeen year old has been arrested
Speaker 4: for allegedly killing a twelve year old in Compton.
Speaker 1: The suspect was arrested in Los Angeles on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: less than two days after the younger boy was shot
Speaker 1: to death at fig Oleander Park. Police say the suspect
Speaker 1: left the park before officers arrived, but he was identified
Speaker 1: through evidence fund at the scene and tracked down Daniel
Speaker 1: Martindale KFI News three.
Speaker 4: Sentencing hearing for the Menandez brothers is being held this week.
Speaker 4: Erica Lyle Mendez had been serving life sentences for murdering
Speaker 4: their parents in nineteen eighty nine in the family home
Speaker 4: in Beverly Hills. A once celebrated educator in San Diego
Speaker 4: has fallen from grace.
Speaker 7: A former teacher of the Year has been sentenced to
Speaker 7: thirty years in prison for sexually abusing two of her
Speaker 7: sixth grade students. Prosecutor say Jaqueline Ma taught at Lincoln
Speaker 7: Acres Elementary and National City and was named San Diego
Speaker 7: County's Teacher of the Year in twenty twenty two. Prosecutors
Speaker 7: say she groomed the boys with gifts, food, and special attention,
Speaker 7: and even did their homework. Mop pleaded guilty in February
Speaker 7: and apologized in court. Life last week during sentencing, calling
Speaker 7: her actions selfish and a disgrace to the teaching profession.
Speaker 7: Brigita Degasino ok if I News a.
Speaker 4: New study shows that land subsidence, the gradual sinking of
Speaker 4: the ground, isn't just a coastal issue tied to sea
Speaker 4: level rise. We go down to ABC's Jim Ryan, who's
Speaker 4: in North Texas, one of the fastest sinking areas in
Speaker 4: the US.
Speaker 8: GYM.
Speaker 4: What's causing all this?
Speaker 9: Yeah, southern Califoria. You guys get it both ways, both
Speaker 9: from the coast, you know, with rising shoreline, rising seas,
Speaker 9: the sea level is rising, and then Los Angeles is
Speaker 9: kind of sinking into the ground, not as dramatically as
Speaker 9: some other parts of the country Chicago, for example, San Antonio, Texas,
Speaker 9: New York. They're all sinking at a faster rate than
Speaker 9: Los Angeles. But worst of all is here in Texas,
Speaker 9: Dallas and for Worth, where I am. It's sinking at
Speaker 9: about five millimeters per year, Houston about six millimeters per year,
Speaker 9: and some parts of Houston are sinking at a rate
Speaker 9: of about two inches per year. So yeah, it's pretty dramatic.
Speaker 4: All right, So how does groundwater play into this phenomenon
Speaker 4: groundwater extraction.
Speaker 9: Yes, well, because a city like Houston, you know, as
Speaker 9: it grows, what does it need? What do those people need,
Speaker 9: those millions of people, they need water. And so you
Speaker 9: pull the water up out of the ground, pull the
Speaker 9: water up out of the ground, and what's left is
Speaker 9: a space, right, and so's filling that space is the
Speaker 9: ground above it. And that ground, along with the buildings
Speaker 9: and cars and freeways on top of it, falls down
Speaker 9: into fill that gap. Now, it's not like a sinkhole
Speaker 9: that develops on the ten and is there overnight and
Speaker 9: it's gone the next day after it's been fixed. This
Speaker 9: takes years and years and years to progress. But it's
Speaker 9: over a much wider region as well, and there's more
Speaker 9: waters drawn out, the quicker the rate of sinking.
Speaker 4: No, I've heard stories about how we're sinking here in
Speaker 4: la as well. So what are some of the signs
Speaker 4: that we should look out for that our home might
Speaker 4: be affected?
Speaker 9: Well, that's your home, yeah, I mean cracks in the
Speaker 9: walls or in the ceiling or the foundation. Having issues
Speaker 9: in a place where you thought everything was good and
Speaker 9: you run on bedrock and maybe you were, but if
Speaker 9: that bedrock is sinking down into the ground. You might
Speaker 9: still have some shifting and some problems in your own home,
Speaker 9: but the big scheme of things, the big big picture
Speaker 9: of communities like San Jose and Jacksonville, Florida, they have
Speaker 9: more to worry about. They've got to try to figure
Speaker 9: out how to address this issue, and city planners need
Speaker 9: to find ways to keep it from happening in the future,
Speaker 9: finding different places to build our cities and different sources
Speaker 9: of water so that we're not sinking ourselves.
Speaker 4: And I know you talked to a little bit about
Speaker 4: what city planners need to do. Is it more of
Speaker 4: like an overarching federal issue? Do you think if it's
Speaker 4: happening more widespread across the US, Well.
Speaker 9: It seems as though it's kind of a local issue
Speaker 9: because it's local communities that are figuring out their own
Speaker 9: water needs right in figuring out where that needs to
Speaker 9: come from. Certainly federal resources will be used I suspect
Speaker 9: in addressing it in the future, but for now, it's
Speaker 9: just a manner of individuals, cities, and communities figuring out
Speaker 9: the best way to come up with you know, of course,
Speaker 9: so what do we do pump water back into the ground? Well,
Speaker 9: we saw what happened when that happened. When we do
Speaker 9: that water reinjection into the ground after fracking has been done,
Speaker 9: what's the result earthquakes?
Speaker 6: Heather.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I guess ultimately you know a lot of
Speaker 4: people who are sitting in their homes and they're probably
Speaker 4: looking at the cracks in the walls now going oh,
Speaker 4: what do I do? What can we do, as you know,
Speaker 4: homeowners or business owners if our building is showing these signs?
Speaker 9: Well, I mean, in the short term, it's making sure
Speaker 9: that you have insurance to cover something like that if
Speaker 9: you've got building damage from this. But I mean in
Speaker 9: the long term, I suspect that that urban planners and
Speaker 9: building specialists are going to be looking at different ways
Speaker 9: of constructing, you know, three D printing for example, using
Speaker 9: concrete is one way to protect a community from from
Speaker 9: that sort of damage and also from wildfires, potentially from flooding.
Speaker 9: This could be the wave of the future.
Speaker 4: All right, well, we're all going to go home and
Speaker 4: take a closer look around from now on. Thank you
Speaker 4: so much, Jim, have a wonderful day. See all right,
Speaker 4: let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 4: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Opening statements are
Speaker 4: expected to start in the sex trafficking trial of rap
Speaker 4: mogul Shawan Comb's. ABC's Shawnte Lands says they will include
Speaker 4: a video of Comb's assaulting his ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura,
Speaker 4: who is also expected to be in court.
Speaker 10: Federal prosecutors say they plan to call two quick witnesses,
Speaker 10: including Cassie, before calling victim one, whose testimony.
Speaker 9: Is expected to take up most of this week.
Speaker 4: Combe's lawyers have tried several times to have the video
Speaker 4: excluded from evidence, that a federal judge has allowed it
Speaker 4: to be shown to the jury. US and Chinese officials
Speaker 4: say they've reached a deal to roll back most of
Speaker 4: the recent tariffs and call a ninety day truce in
Speaker 4: the trade war talks as trade war as talks continue,
Speaker 4: US trade representative of Jamison Greer says the US has
Speaker 4: agreed to drop its one hundred and forty five percent
Speaker 4: tariff rate on Chinese goods to thirty percent, while China
Speaker 4: agreed to lower its rate on US goods to ten percent.
Speaker 3: We're confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese
Speaker 3: partners will help us to resolve work towards resolving that
Speaker 3: national emergency.
Speaker 4: Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Descent announced the tariff reductions
Speaker 4: at a news conference in Geneva. President Trump is heading
Speaker 4: to the Middle East this week. ABC Selina Wang says
Speaker 4: it's the president's first major foreign trip of his second term,
Speaker 4: stopping in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 11: Cutter and the UAE now Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 7: Was also Trump's first foreign trip during his first term,
Speaker 7: and he's once again breaking tradition by skipping over America's
Speaker 7: closest neighbors.
Speaker 4: She says it signals the close political and economic ties
Speaker 4: between the US and Saudi Arabia under the Trump administration,
Speaker 4: and President Trump is also reportedly said to accept a
Speaker 4: luxury Bohen seven forty seven eight jet from Cutter's royal
Speaker 4: family to serve temporarily as Air Force One. The aircraft,
Speaker 4: valued at approximately four hundred million dollars, would later be
Speaker 4: transferred to Trump's Presidential Library Foundation, and while the Trump
Speaker 4: administration says the deal complies with all applicable laws, critics
Speaker 4: are raising concerns about the potential violations of the Constitution's
Speaker 4: Emoluments Clause, which prohibits federal officials from accepting gifts from
Speaker 4: foreign governments without congressional approval. A new study by the
Speaker 4: National Cancer Institute shows cancer before age fifty is still
Speaker 4: rare but increasing in the US. Emergency medical physician doctor
Speaker 4: Stephanie Wimer says many scientists aren't sure exactly why.
Speaker 12: The study looked at over twenty million cases that have
Speaker 12: been diagnosed from the year twenty ten to the year
Speaker 12: twenty nineteen that approximately fourteen of these different types of
Speaker 12: cancers are increasing.
Speaker 4: She says that's especially true among young women. A federal
Speaker 4: judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring land
Speaker 4: in Arizona to mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP for
Speaker 4: a copper mine. The San Carlos Apache tribe is against
Speaker 4: the land transfer on religious grounds. They say that's where
Speaker 4: they worship their deities and putting a mine there will
Speaker 4: cause irreparable harm. Ten people have been sent to the
Speaker 4: hospital across southern California and Nevada because of a listeria
Speaker 4: outbreak linked to ready to eat foods produced by Fresh
Speaker 4: and Ready Foods LLSC. The FDA has issued a recall
Speaker 4: for products sold under various brands across Arizona, California, Nevada
Speaker 4: and Washington. A former CHP captain is facing some serious
Speaker 4: charges after an alleged outburst on a flight to La
Speaker 4: Dennis Woodberry is accused of groping a flight attendant, shouting
Speaker 4: in appropriate comments, and exposing himself. He's doing court today.
Speaker 4: Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed at least eleven people,
Speaker 4: including women and children, according to local health officials. Strikes
Speaker 4: and con Unice hits civilian tents, killing two children and
Speaker 4: their parents. The Israeli military says it targets militians millet
Speaker 4: pardon me, target's militants, and blames Hamas for civilian casualties
Speaker 4: due to their presence in populated areas. The ongoing conflict
Speaker 4: has led to over fifty fifty two eight hundred Palestinian
Speaker 4: debts and displaced about ninety percent of Gaza's two million residents.
Speaker 4: Then at six oh five, it's handle on the news
Speaker 4: hip hop. Mogul Sean Combs is in court today. Opening
Speaker 4: statements in his racketeering case are set to begin as
Speaker 4: early as this afternoon, and we'll have the latest. All right,
Speaker 4: let's get to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 4: the KFI twenty four Hour newsroom. The LA Zoo is
Speaker 4: being sued over its plans to transfer for Asian elephants
Speaker 4: Billy and Tina to a zoo in Tulsa, Oklahoma, instead
Speaker 4: of an animal sanctuary. Lawsuit asked for preliminary injunction to
Speaker 4: prevent the elephants from being relocated to any other zoo.
Speaker 4: The suit follows claims by animal rights activists who say
Speaker 4: keeping the animals out a zoo instead of a sanctuary
Speaker 4: is harmful to their physical and mental well being. A
Speaker 4: former employee of California's EDD and her ex boyfriend have
Speaker 4: been since for pandemic related benefits fraud.
Speaker 11: The US district judge sentenced Philis Stit to twenty months
Speaker 11: in federal prison and ordered her to pay over seven
Speaker 11: hundred thousand dollars in restitution. Kenneth Riley was also sentenced
Speaker 11: to twenty months in prison and ordered to pay over
Speaker 11: six hundred thousand in restitution. Sti pleaded guilty in January
Speaker 11: in downtown LA to one federal count of conspiracy to
Speaker 11: commit mail and bank fraud for filing at least twenty
Speaker 11: nine bogus claims. Tammy Triheo KFI.
Speaker 4: News joining US now is ABC's Ordonna Miller reporting from
Speaker 4: Jerusalem with the latest developments on the ongoing seasfiring s
Speaker 4: sociations between Israel and Hamas, and apparently the group has
Speaker 4: just announced it will release a US Israeli soldier as
Speaker 4: a quote gesture in these talks.
Speaker 8: Now, good morning, that's right, Heather Hamas saying in a
Speaker 8: statement that they will release the last living American hostage,
Speaker 8: a young man by the name of Dan Alexander, a
Speaker 8: native of New Jersey, also an Israeli citizen. He came
Speaker 8: to Israel, joined the Israeli Army, and was kidnapped by
Speaker 8: Hamas on October seventh from his military base. There have
Speaker 8: been several signs of life from him over the last
Speaker 8: year and a half, the last one in April where
Speaker 8: he looked very skinny, very exhausted, fearful, tired as he
Speaker 8: pled on camera for President Trump to work for his release.
Speaker 8: And it does appear, and we saw. President Trump also
Speaker 8: makes the announcement of his forthcoming release in a social
Speaker 8: media post. The President the Trump administration has cut a
Speaker 8: deal directly with Hamas to release Dan Alexander. The Israelis
Speaker 8: were not part of this deal, though they are obviously
Speaker 8: thrilled to have one of their soldiers released. Some of
Speaker 8: the public heres also well. There's a lot of excitement
Speaker 8: for the family that has suffered. Right edon. Alexander has
Speaker 8: been in captivity for more than five hundred and eighty days. Nonetheless,
Speaker 8: there are still fifty seven hostages, several Israeli soldiers and
Speaker 8: several Israeli civilians still being held by Hamas fifty seven
Speaker 8: in total, and this will put pressure on the Israeli
Speaker 8: Prime Minister to perhaps delay the intensified war plans that
Speaker 8: he announced last week and move instead towards another ceasefire.
Speaker 8: We do understand that after Dan's release, which is expected
Speaker 8: to be in the next couple hours, his mother has
Speaker 8: just landed here in Israel his planes. Her plane landed
Speaker 8: at Tel Aviv Ben Green International Airport. Traveling with her
Speaker 8: is the President's Special Envoy, Adam Boehler. They are about
Speaker 8: to fly directly to rating base, which is an indication
Speaker 8: that Adan will be released pretty soon after that. We
Speaker 8: do understand that the President is working with the Israeli
Speaker 8: Prime Minister to jumpstart another round of ceasefire talks.
Speaker 4: Wow. I can only imagine the relief that his family
Speaker 4: must be feeling, you know, as they move closer to
Speaker 4: this moment, what are the chances that this release leads
Speaker 4: to a full ceasefire or any you know, the release
Speaker 4: of any additional hostages.
Speaker 8: Well, I think there is a good chance that this
Speaker 8: will you know this, this appears to be a really
Speaker 8: critical window that has opened a window of opportunity. And
Speaker 8: the question is will the Israeli Prime Minister and will
Speaker 8: Hamas showed some flexibility in their positions and go through
Speaker 8: that window. This is right before President Trump's visit here
Speaker 8: to the region, a lot of critical issues on the table,
Speaker 8: including not only Gaza, but a potential normalization deal between
Speaker 8: Saudi Arabia and the Israel. Will Nataniel seize the moment
Speaker 8: and agree to terms that would begin real discussions on
Speaker 8: the end of the war. What could put his government
Speaker 8: in jeopardy?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 8: Will he agree to that? And will Hamas say that
Speaker 8: they're willing to release more hostages without an immediate and
Speaker 8: to the war without an immediate withdrawal of Gaza troops. Right,
Speaker 8: Because both of the sides have dug their heels in
Speaker 8: to positions that are very hard to bridge. But this
Speaker 8: move by President Trump, which I think is a strategy right,
Speaker 8: get the American out, put pressure on both sides to
Speaker 8: now get a deal done because it is possible. What
Speaker 8: this deal shows is that it is about the willingness
Speaker 8: of leaders to take a position and make a deal happen.
Speaker 8: So I think there's a chance here, and that's more
Speaker 8: than we've seen for several weeks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, there's definitely a lot at stake here, and
Speaker 4: I know the world will be watching closely, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure his family is just incredibly relieved, and we'll keep
Speaker 4: an eye on this. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 4: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. At
Speaker 4: least ten people have been hospitalized in California and Nevada
Speaker 4: after eating food linked to a listeria outbreak. The FDA
Speaker 4: says the source is San Fernando based Fresh and Ready Foods.
Speaker 4: Their products were sold at airports, hotels, hospitals, and convenience
Speaker 4: stores across four states. The company is now recalling several
Speaker 4: items under the brand's Fresh and Ready Foods and Fresh
Speaker 4: Take Crave Away. Listeria can cause serious illness, especially in
Speaker 4: people with weakened immune systems. A small study in California
Speaker 4: has found that over half of black and Latina women
Speaker 4: regularly use beauty products that contain a chemical link to
Speaker 4: uterine cancer.
Speaker 11: Researchers ask seventy black and Latino women in Los Angeles
Speaker 11: to log the use of their personal care products for
Speaker 11: a week and take pictures of the labels to note
Speaker 11: the ingredients. The study found fifty three percent of the
Speaker 11: women used beauty products containing form aldehyde. The study noted
Speaker 11: for aldehyde in an array of products including soap, lotions,
Speaker 11: shampoo conditioner, eyeliner, and eyelash glue. Tammy Triheo KFI News.
Speaker 4: The family of a man murdered in his apartment in
Speaker 4: Valley Village is suing the landlords.
Speaker 1: The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the late Manachehedro who
Speaker 1: went by Manny, claims negligent management. Heedra was found dead
Speaker 1: on April twenty sixth, then his unit at the Ashton
Speaker 1: Show German Village apartments. It's believed he died on April
Speaker 1: twenty third, when neighbors reported hearing screams. The lawsuit says
Speaker 1: the management company that also owns the complex, Essex, is
Speaker 1: partially at fault. It claims residents warned the company multiple
Speaker 1: times about security issues and people roaming the building, but
Speaker 1: it did nothing. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 4: Officials have confirmed that three siblings and their father were
Speaker 4: tragically killed in a rollover crash on the forty Freeway
Speaker 4: near Barstow on a fourth The Dodge Ram they were
Speaker 4: in veered off the road and overturned. All four were
Speaker 4: pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities do not suspect impairment
Speaker 4: and the investigation is ongoing. A former San Diego Teacher
Speaker 4: of the Year, Jacqueline ma has been sentenced to thirty
Speaker 4: years in prison for sexually abusing two sixth grade students.
Speaker 4: She pleaded guilty and called her actions selfish and disgraceful.
Speaker 4: An Amazon delivery driver in Los Angeles was caught on
Speaker 4: camera pooping on a homeowner's doorstep and peeing on another's porch.
Speaker 4: The incident, which occurred on Mother's Day of all days,
Speaker 4: led to the driver's immediate termination after the video surfaced online.
Speaker 4: Amazon has apologized to the customers, calling the behavior quote
Speaker 4: deeply disturbing and they are not wrong then at six
Speaker 4: ZHO five it's handle on the news. Hamas is set
Speaker 4: to release the last surviving American hostage. We're going to
Speaker 4: tell you why. Some say this is a good sign
Speaker 4: of a possible ceasefire. Rumesa oz Turk, a doctoral student
Speaker 4: from Turkey studying at Tufts University, was detained for six
Speaker 4: weeks by immigration officials after co authoring an opinion article
Speaker 4: critical of her school's handling of pro Palestinian protests. ABC
Speaker 4: Steve Roberts joins US to help US unpack a case
Speaker 4: that's stirring up a lot of national debate on civil liberties.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Steve, Well.
Speaker 6: Good morning, And yes this is true. This woman who
Speaker 6: is a citizen of Turkey, season observant muscle. She where's
Speaker 6: a traditional Muslim head covering, and she was arrested on
Speaker 6: a street corner in Somerville, Massachusetts. And we know this
Speaker 6: because we have video of it. The surveillance camera caught
Speaker 6: the video of masked ice age and seizing her on
Speaker 6: the street. And she was deported to Louisiana for six weeks.
Speaker 6: And her crime was she wrote an article in the
Speaker 6: student newspaper taking a pro Palestinian viewpoint. Well, you don't
Speaker 6: have to agree with her viewpoint to say she has
Speaker 6: a right to say that. That's pretty much a classic
Speaker 6: example of free speech. I happened to be the advisor
Speaker 6: to a student newspaper at George Washington University, and I
Speaker 6: can tell you writing outbed articles could not be a
Speaker 6: more basic right, whether you're a citizen or a non citizen.
Speaker 6: And it took six weeks for a federal judge to
Speaker 6: finally get her release. And when he ordered her release
Speaker 6: on Friday, he said that this example killed the speech
Speaker 6: of millions and millions of individuals in this country who
Speaker 6: are not citizens, and he said there was absolutely no
Speaker 6: evidence to support the governments claimed that somehow she was
Speaker 6: a danger of the community or supporter of terrorism. So,
Speaker 6: as you point out, this issue has gotten a lot
Speaker 6: of national publicity because one of the reasons behind it,
Speaker 6: one of the strategies from this administration is to send
Speaker 6: this chilling message, Look, this could happen. If it happened
Speaker 6: to her, it could happen to you. And there are
Speaker 6: over a million foreign students studying in this country, and
Speaker 6: I'm sure plenty of them are in Los Angeles, and
Speaker 6: the chilling effect is powerful. And it was reinforced over
Speaker 6: the weekend when a key advisor to the president, Stephen Miller,
Speaker 6: Deputy Chief of Staff that the administration was actively looking
Speaker 6: into suspending the right of habeas corpus. The right of
Speaker 6: habeas corpus is in the Constitution, and it specifically gives
Speaker 6: someone like Romeza Osterk the right the challenge unlawful detention
Speaker 6: in a prison. It's only been suspended four times in
Speaker 6: our entire history, mainly during the Civil War. And yet
Speaker 6: they said they're actively looking to suspend that right. So
Speaker 6: this is this is a case study that echoes all
Speaker 6: over the country.
Speaker 4: So, you know, going back to the original you know,
Speaker 4: reason that the Trump administration had for you know, putting
Speaker 4: under arrest. What justification did they initially use for claiming
Speaker 4: her writing you know, supported hamas what were they claiming
Speaker 4: it it was doing well.
Speaker 6: This is a chain of argument that says, you're encouraging
Speaker 6: the enemies of the country, You're supporting terrorism. And look,
Speaker 6: the country has a right to defend itself if you
Speaker 6: are an active supporter of terrorism, if you're plotting an
Speaker 6: attack on the United States, you have the government has
Speaker 6: every right, every obligation to use police powers to block
Speaker 6: a terrorist act. No one is questioning that. But the
Speaker 6: argument that somehow this woman poses a threat to security
Speaker 6: and order by writing an article in the student newspaper. Just,
Speaker 6: I mean, the judge just was astounded that the government
Speaker 6: would even make such an outrageous claim. But as I say,
Speaker 6: the government has been using all sorts of arguments to
Speaker 6: try to detain over two hundred Venezuelans who were sent
Speaker 6: to a prison in El Salvador. And look, in that case,
Speaker 6: they accuse them of being gang members. Maybe you have
Speaker 6: a better case if you can prove that someone is
Speaker 6: a member of a violent gang. But writing an article
Speaker 6: in the student newspaper is very far from that kind
Speaker 6: of act. But there have been many other cases of
Speaker 6: different kinds where this administration and has sought not just
Speaker 6: to block illegal immigration, A lot of Americans would agree,
Speaker 6: you know that, maintaining closed borders and making sure that
Speaker 6: the people come here come here legally, a lot of
Speaker 6: Americans would agree with that. It was a very popular
Speaker 6: argument that Trump made during the campaign. But he's also
Speaker 6: trying to close down many legal avenues. He's totally shut
Speaker 6: down in the process of allowing refugees into this country.
Speaker 6: He's shut down the process of asylum. Folks in Los
Speaker 6: Angeles noticed and in their border with Mexico. This is
Speaker 6: a legal process recognized around the world that if someone
Speaker 6: is fleeing persecution, they could claim sanctuary and refuge in
Speaker 6: a safe country. But Trump has closed that down too.
Speaker 6: He's also trying to end the practice of what's called
Speaker 6: birthright citizenship, meaning that any child born in America, even
Speaker 6: if their parents are not citizens, they have citizenship. That's
Speaker 6: being fought in the courts, but over and over again
Speaker 6: judges have ruled against Trump on this. But there's a
Speaker 6: through line here, right, which is keep out as many
Speaker 6: foreigners as possible.
Speaker 4: Well, this particular case I think could have implications for
Speaker 4: many years to come, so we will certainly be keeping
Speaker 4: close eye on this in any future cases as well. ABC.
Speaker 4: Steve Roberts, thank you so much for your time this.
Speaker 6: Morning, during anytime.
Speaker 4: All Right, it's time to get up in your business
Speaker 4: one last time with Bloomberg Sportney Donaho. Good morning, Courtney,
Speaker 4: good morning.
Speaker 10: I love getting up in my business today, especially when
Speaker 10: the markets are doing quite well.
Speaker 4: Must report.
Speaker 10: Yeah, this report is sponsored by Total Wine and more. Well,
Speaker 10: the US and China have agreed to cut tarifs, de
Speaker 10: escalating the trade war that's sending stocks soaring to kick
Speaker 10: off the training week. I mean, let me give you
Speaker 10: some of these numbers. S and P futures are up
Speaker 10: more than three percent. Dow futures are jumping one thousand
Speaker 10: and sixty five points, that's two and a half percent.
Speaker 10: Nasdaq futures are seeing the biggest game. They're up almost
Speaker 10: four percent. So we're going to be seeing a nice
Speaker 10: rally all across the board. And by the way, if
Speaker 10: you jumped into stocks the day President Trump said on
Speaker 10: social media that it was a great time to buy,
Speaker 10: you would have been a big winner. The S and
Speaker 10: P five hundred has soared fourteen percent since he made
Speaker 10: that post on social media on April ninth, hours before
Speaker 10: he paused the tariffs.
Speaker 4: All right, so forget about flying. Americans are going to
Speaker 4: be road tripping their way through this economic uncertainty. I
Speaker 4: don't know about that. I don't like to be in
Speaker 4: my car for long periods of time. I feel like
Speaker 4: I already am in La.
Speaker 10: Oh, trust me, and here in New York too, and
Speaker 10: having to drive on these roads with some of our
Speaker 10: drivers here, but a lot more Americans they're they're hidding
Speaker 10: the road instead of flying because of the economic worries
Speaker 10: out here, So I'm gonna play a little song for you.
Speaker 10: Oh you've got to bring up vacation.
Speaker 4: Just such a good movie.
Speaker 10: But more than thirty nine million are expected to drive
Speaker 10: this Memorial Day weekend. That's up three point one percent
Speaker 10: from last year. Oil prices have dropped to a four
Speaker 10: year low, making road trips and yeah a little more affordable,
Speaker 10: and it's making everything a little more appealing to.
Speaker 4: Be on the road.
Speaker 10: On the other hand, domestic flights are two percent more
Speaker 10: expensive compared to last year. Plus have to point out
Speaker 10: that Newark Airport definitely isn't helping the situation.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, what a mess over there. We thought
Speaker 4: Lax was bad, but come on, Newark, get it together.
Speaker 10: Yeah all right, do you know where who's going to
Speaker 10: really hurt from all of this?
Speaker 11: United Airlines?
Speaker 10: Sixty eight percent of the flights at Newark Airport are
Speaker 10: United flights. Yeah, but here's another interesting point. I found
Speaker 10: one survey that said all the stock market volatility has
Speaker 10: pushed sixty eight percent of travelers to change their vacation plans.
Speaker 10: So some people are paying upfront to counteract with the
Speaker 10: dollar that's been weakening, and some even have been canceled
Speaker 10: all together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's more likely as well, people just
Speaker 4: saying either I'm gonna cancel, stay close to home this
Speaker 4: summer while there is seemingly so much uncertainty in the world.
Speaker 4: And really quickly before we let you go, let's touch
Speaker 4: a base on the zet Bound. The new study about
Speaker 4: weight loss drugs.
Speaker 10: So Eli Lilly is obst drug that's zet Bound has
Speaker 10: helped people trim about two inches more off their waist
Speaker 10: than the rival, which is we go V from Novo Nordisk.
Speaker 10: But this is the first head to head study of
Speaker 10: the rival medicines. Now, the impact on your waistline is
Speaker 10: crucial because they met that is actually a big measure
Speaker 10: for the dangerous fat that gets stored around your organs
Speaker 10: and the abdomen and belly fat is linked to a
Speaker 10: higher risk of diseases such as heart attack, strokes, and diabetes.
Speaker 10: But I just want to note Lily funded this research.
Speaker 4: Oh well, there seem to be the winner of this,
Speaker 4: So isn't that funny how But that's why we say that,
Speaker 4: That's why we disclosed that we mentioned that information, so that's.
Speaker 10: Definitely have to and by the way, shares of pharmaceutical
Speaker 10: companies are taking a big hit today, Lillly, Pfizer, Bristol, Meyers, Squib,
Speaker 10: Mrk because President Trump is planning to order a cut
Speaker 10: in prescription drug cost to bring them in line with
Speaker 10: other countries, and that could definitely weigh on profits.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, we'll keep an eye on that. Courtney. Amy's
Speaker 4: back tomorrow, but I hope I'll see you again soon.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Definitely sending you big hugs from
Speaker 4: New York. Thank you, thank you so much. It's a
Speaker 4: lot of fun, all right. A seventeen year old has
Speaker 4: been arrested for the fatal shooting of a twelve year
Speaker 4: old boy at a Compton park. The suspect was all
Speaker 4: dressed in black with a ski mask, allegedly approached fig
Speaker 4: and only under park and open fire before running away.
Speaker 4: The victim died and the nearby hospital authorities have not
Speaker 4: released the names of those involved. Temperatures are expected to
Speaker 4: drop quite a bit today after a couple of days
Speaker 4: of record setting high temperatures in SoCal Records were broken
Speaker 4: on Saturday in Burbank, Long Beach, Willand Hills and downtown La.
Speaker 4: A Superlato plus ticket where twenty five million dollars was
Speaker 4: dollars was sold at us Say Tobacco in Norco. The
Speaker 4: ticket matched all six numbers in Saturday's drawing. We're just
Speaker 4: minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, House
Speaker 4: Republicans have proposed a bill that would save eight hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty billion dollars in cuts, mostly for medicaid. We're
Speaker 4: gonna tell you what that could mean for you now.
Speaker 4: Today is my last day filling in for Amy King
Speaker 4: on Wake Up Call, and I want to end my
Speaker 4: time here with a little bit of something that rocks
Speaker 4: and hopefully makes you smile.
Speaker 13: Smiles shes Patos floats and around can travels on the.
Speaker 4: Podcasts, I have been towling with laughter and maybe in
Speaker 4: a little bit of awe since I discovered the wonderfully
Speaker 4: weird world of Wolves of Glendale. In just the past
Speaker 4: few years, this comedy rock trio has gone from Internet
Speaker 4: cult favorites to sharing stages with the likes of David Cross,
Speaker 4: Tenacious State, and even performing at the Netflix as a
Speaker 4: Joke Festival. Their music is sharp, silly, and sonically on point,
Speaker 4: and if you ask Jack Black, they sound bleeping fantastic.
Speaker 4: Wolves of Glendale is a comedy band made up of
Speaker 4: Ethan Edinburgh, Eric Jakowitz and Tom McGovern, and I'm joined
Speaker 4: by two of the Wolves themselves, Eric Jakowitz and Tom McGovern,
Speaker 4: to talk about their creative process, musical influences, and the
Speaker 4: fine art of turning daily chaos into bangers that you
Speaker 4: can laugh and rock out too. So how did this
Speaker 4: whole comedy rock band get started?
Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, something that makes you laugh
Speaker 3: and also makes you want to rock out in our
Speaker 3: entire mission statement, So it actually means a lot to
Speaker 3: hear you say that that's very cool. The three of
Speaker 3: us have been musicians our entire lives. You know, we
Speaker 3: all grew up as fans of Tenacious Tea and Weird
Speaker 3: Al and we're standing on the shoulders of these other
Speaker 3: comedy rock guys and it just is the perfect combination
Speaker 3: of all of the things that we love about playing music,
Speaker 3: like the Killers of the Foo Fighters, the Strokes, And
Speaker 3: there's something so funny and satisfying about making the best
Speaker 3: sounding song possible about the dumbest thing, and we're just
Speaker 3: all aligned in that way.
Speaker 4: A horse just bought a horse a horse and I
Speaker 4: named tam Ricket. You talk about how you balance the
Speaker 4: comedy and the music. In the songwriting process, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it has to work on two levels, Like it
Speaker 2: has to be believable on both levels. So I feel
Speaker 2: like as musicians, we want it to sound as accurate
Speaker 2: as possible with whatever style of music we're doing, whether
Speaker 2: it's rock, it's like it should have a wall of
Speaker 2: guitars and the drums should hit very hard, just like
Speaker 2: all of our favorite records. Similarly, you know, once we
Speaker 2: have the music figured out and then we start writing
Speaker 2: jokes on top of it, we'll go to comedy clubs,
Speaker 2: comedy nights around LA and if no one's laughing, then
Speaker 2: we know we have to change it.
Speaker 4: Listen about me.
Speaker 6: I don't want to.
Speaker 4: Go get what you told me.
Speaker 13: I want to Oh.
Speaker 4: So Jack Black has praised your work. A lot of
Speaker 4: people have. Actually you have a lot of fans out there.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about how these experiences and these people have
Speaker 4: influenced your approach to performance and comedy, Like, who are
Speaker 4: your big influences?
Speaker 3: I mean, biggest influence is definitely Tenacious du I think
Speaker 3: was a lot of our first examples of oh you
Speaker 3: can do this. You can like write a song about
Speaker 3: something really really dumb and I mean that in a
Speaker 3: positive way. I use dumb in a positive context. Fly
Speaker 3: to the Concords played a big role bo Burnham in
Speaker 3: terms of like musical comedians in Lonely Island. Of course
Speaker 3: weird al.
Speaker 4: You know, it's funny to say that I actually introduced
Speaker 4: my daughter. She recently discovered bo Burnham, and I said, oh,
Speaker 4: if you like bo Burnham, you need to check out
Speaker 4: Wolves of Glendale. And she was like, in heaven, all right.
Speaker 4: My twelve year old is like, I'm all in nice.
Speaker 3: That's cool, that's very very cool. It's actually inspiring to
Speaker 3: know that that generation is finding mutual comedy funny and entertaining,
Speaker 3: because that's around the time that I think I know
Speaker 3: that I did.
Speaker 4: Can you talk about an instance where maybe a real
Speaker 4: life event directly inspired one of your songs? Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: carud car feeling out in front of a school. Your
Speaker 4: conversation is over. Now you must talk about me and
Speaker 4: my car.
Speaker 2: And we were all living in Glendale at the time,
Speaker 2: and I think we were at Ethan's place and a
Speaker 2: really loud car drove by, and that was I think
Speaker 2: that was literally.
Speaker 3: People really seem to like Olivia. It's kind of like
Speaker 3: a yacht Rock Jackson Brown Vibe.
Speaker 2: I think the one I'm most proud of is the
Speaker 2: Gym because that one took like six months to write,
Speaker 2: and when we cracked it, I feel like we really
Speaker 2: cracked it.
Speaker 4: Is you guys so much success. It's such a joy
Speaker 4: to watch people doing what they were meant to do
Speaker 4: and finding their passion. So thank you so much for
Speaker 4: talking with me, and best of love to you, oh cooler,
Speaker 4: appreciate it. The Wolves of Glendale just played a sold
Speaker 4: out show at the bell Weather in LA and have
Speaker 4: a couple more shows coming out this summer. You can
Speaker 4: check out all their music and tour dates at Wolves
Speaker 4: of Glendale dot com. I asked the postitis, let's go.
Speaker 2: Love mad dude Jim.
Speaker 4: To get down down to get down down to. That's
Speaker 4: how I feel when I'm at the gym too. Such
Speaker 4: a funny band, such a funny group of guys. Definitely
Speaker 4: check them out if you get a chance. And my
Speaker 4: thanks to them for taking time to talk with me.
Speaker 4: And let's get back to just a couple of the
Speaker 4: stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom
Speaker 4: before we wrap things up this morning. Autism experts say
Speaker 4: the Trump administration's plan to find the causes of the
Speaker 4: condition are unrealistic. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior is
Speaker 4: banking on using a new database of insurance claims and
Speaker 4: other health records to track diagnosis and access to care,
Speaker 4: but experts say autism science has already proven that genes
Speaker 4: play a huge role in the development of the complex
Speaker 4: brain disorder. Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of
Speaker 4: the South. ABC's Wayne Cabot says, so many people have
Speaker 4: settled there from other parts of the US and around
Speaker 4: the world. There's a little less drawl, y'all.
Speaker 5: A series of research papers released late last year chronicles
Speaker 5: the diminishment of the Southern accent among black residents of
Speaker 5: the Atlanta area working class whites in the New Orleans area.
Speaker 4: He says the new sound has more of a California flavor,
Speaker 4: at least among younger people. Well, hey, I say there
Speaker 4: is nothing wrong with a little California flavor. I have
Speaker 4: had such a great time filling in for Amy over
Speaker 4: the last week or so, and I want to say
Speaker 4: huge thank you to and to producer Ann who has
Speaker 4: been just amazing and really appreciate you. Guys. Will no, no,
Speaker 4: I really just had a wonderful time. And thank you
Speaker 4: to everybody who has dropped into the callbacks and left
Speaker 4: messages that you're listening right along. Amy will be back tomorrow,
Speaker 4: don't you worry, guys, The show will be back on track.
Speaker 4: No more nonsense French tomorrow. It might be in French,
Speaker 4: that's right. I cannot wait to hear Amy's stories about
Speaker 4: all her adventures. So yeah, so thank you all so
Speaker 4: much for listening. Please take a minute. If you want
Speaker 4: to continue to follow my escapades, you can follow me
Speaker 4: on social media at the Heather Brooker on Instagram and
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Speaker 4: I would love to keep in touch with you all,
Speaker 4: but I will be back someday if Amy ever decides
Speaker 4: to go on vacation again. But I'll be around KFI
Speaker 4: for sure. So thank you all so much for listening.
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Speaker 4: for producer and technical producer Cono and traffic specialist Will.
Speaker 4: I'm Heatherbrooker. This has been your wake up call if
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