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Speaker 1: your wake up call for Friday, February fourteenth. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: I might just be the first one to wish you
Speaker 1: a happy Valentine's Day. I want to say thanks to
Speaker 1: producer Michelle. We came in and there was a little
Speaker 1: cutie sweetheart was yep and kisses and a little unicorn sticker.
Speaker 5: What are you.
Speaker 1: Supposed to do with this? It's a gel thing. You
Speaker 1: can stick it on your window, like put it on
Speaker 1: the window of your car. It'll just stick there. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: I'm all about the unicorns. Thank you, Michelle. Happy Valentine,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michelle Man. How about that rain we were
Speaker 1: talking about it yesterday, you know in the morning because
Speaker 1: they were like, Okay, it's going to be two o'clock
Speaker 1: till two am, and then they shortened that window from
Speaker 1: two to ten, and then they shortened it from four
Speaker 1: till nine. Is the most severe storm time, And I
Speaker 1: tell you about four four point thirty at my house.
Speaker 1: I know that it was moving across, but at my
Speaker 1: house that's when it hit and it was coming down
Speaker 1: in buckets, like I haven't seen in the longest time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like and it was blowing. So my balcony, which
Speaker 1: is covered, got all wet. And then I looked out
Speaker 1: and I was like, boy, it sure is loud out
Speaker 1: front on my front porch with the rain, and it
Speaker 1: almost came into the house. It was pouring down the
Speaker 1: walkway like a little river. And then so I got
Speaker 1: out this squeegee and to get it so it wouldn't
Speaker 1: get into the front door because it was just it's
Speaker 1: on a little bit of a it's not on a slope.
Speaker 1: Normally it drains fine. But so I was out there
Speaker 1: with my squeegee and got it all out and then
Speaker 1: I'll just do this for the next four or five hours.
Speaker 1: But luckily it only lasted for about a I don't know,
Speaker 1: less than an hour, so it was fine. And then I,
Speaker 1: you know, and I was like, going, boy er, you
Speaker 1: a woos because I'm dealing with a little bit of
Speaker 1: water keeping it out on my front door, and they've
Speaker 1: got mud slides all over the area. So aren't you
Speaker 1: from Oregon? I am, And it rains a lot in Oregon,
Speaker 1: but it's not that the day luge like we got
Speaker 1: the atmospheric river de luge. It doesn't always fall that way.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I hope you made it through safely. Overall,
Speaker 1: we've got some damage, but nobody's been hurt, and so
Speaker 1: that is great news. Let's get right into what's ahead
Speaker 1: on wakeup. Called heavy rain, of course, pounding the Southland.
Speaker 1: It caused flooding and mud flows, especially in the Pacific Palisades,
Speaker 1: Altadena and Pasadena. More than an inch of rain per
Speaker 1: hour fell yesterday afternoon. Several roadways were covered in mud
Speaker 1: and debris. They still are No injuries reported. Five and
Speaker 1: a half inches of rain fell in the San Gabriel
Speaker 1: Dam area from the storm. Just under three inches fell
Speaker 1: in downtown La Burbank and Santa Monica got just under
Speaker 1: two inches of rain from the atmospheric river. The worst
Speaker 1: of it's moved out, there's still a fifty percent chance
Speaker 1: of showers this morning. President Trump has ordered reciprocal tear
Speaker 1: saying they will simply charge countries what they charged the US.
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers joins us in just a couple minutes
Speaker 1: to talk about those tariffs and what they'll mean for
Speaker 1: you and me. US attorney has up and quit after
Speaker 1: refusing to drop the charges against New York City Mayor
Speaker 1: Eric Adams. So Stephen Portnoy with ABC is going to
Speaker 1: dig into that one for us. The host of Home
Speaker 1: on KFI, Dean Sharp, joins us to tell us that
Speaker 1: if you've got an idea about a project to do
Speaker 1: on your house, that's a good thing, but what you
Speaker 1: do about it is what could be bad. That's coming
Speaker 1: up at five point thirty, and it could be a
Speaker 1: bear of a weekend at movie theaters. ABC's Willgans is
Speaker 1: going to join us to tell us about that and
Speaker 1: what's new on the stream that's at five fifty. Let's
Speaker 1: get started with some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The heavy rain has
Speaker 1: caused some muddy messes around La Mud and debris overwhelmed
Speaker 1: a catch basin in the Palisades area and cascaded onto
Speaker 1: a street. One debris flow in Malibu swept in La
Speaker 1: City Fire Department vehicle off pch and into the ocean.
Speaker 1: The firefighter who was inside was able to jump out
Speaker 1: of the suv as the vehicle was pushed through a
Speaker 1: k rail and a fence before it eventually plunged off
Speaker 1: a cliff.
Speaker 5: Are you okay?
Speaker 1: He was able to walk back to the road and
Speaker 1: was taken to the hospital as precaution. The rain has
Speaker 1: caused a large debris flow on Mulholland Drive in the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills. The fire department said there was about eight
Speaker 1: inches of mud on the roadway yesterday, blocking the street.
Speaker 1: Officials say homes above the debris flow had been determined
Speaker 1: to be stable. A possible tornado has torn roofs off
Speaker 1: homes at a mobile home park in Oxnard. The National
Speaker 1: Weather Services the Ocean Air Mobile Home Estates area was
Speaker 1: hit by sixty mile per hour wind gush shortly after
Speaker 1: three thirty yesterday afternoon. About a dozen properties were damaged
Speaker 1: and power was knocked out. No injuries were reported. Meteorologists
Speaker 1: called the extreme wind event a possible week tornado. Jackie
Speaker 1: the bald eagle is weathering the storm in a nest
Speaker 1: high above the Big Bear Lake. She has endured the
Speaker 1: heavy rain and pounding winds as she protects her three eggs,
Speaker 1: and now she's dealing with the snow. She's pretty much
Speaker 1: buried in it right now. Shadow came by the nest
Speaker 1: to offer to take over yesterday, but Jackie stay and
Speaker 1: put protecting those eggs. The EGLTZ could begin hatching by
Speaker 1: the end of February. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, President Trump has said more
Speaker 1: tariffs were coming, and indeed they have. He announced him yesterday.
Speaker 6: What's going on, Well, he didn't actually announce new terriffs yesterday,
Speaker 6: like he didn't put anything in place. He's threatening more terriffs.
Speaker 6: He's having his administration look into relationships that the United
Speaker 6: States has with other countries trade deficits and figure out
Speaker 6: whether they can be evened out. So it's another threat
Speaker 6: of tariffs. And you know this follows threatened tariffs on
Speaker 6: Mexico and Canada. He did put new tariffs in China.
Speaker 6: He has expanded tariffs on steel and aluminum. But now
Speaker 6: this is essentially putting the world on notice anybody that
Speaker 6: the United States does trade with. The President says it's
Speaker 6: a matter of fairness that whatever countries are charging the
Speaker 6: US in terms of tariffs, that we will charge them.
Speaker 6: He said, no more, no less. But you know, we
Speaker 6: can't underline this enough that economists and experts warned that
Speaker 6: higher tariffs on imports coming into this country that are
Speaker 6: then paid by American companies are passed on to American
Speaker 6: consumers in the form of higher prices. And you know,
Speaker 6: there are concerns then about what a big trade war,
Speaker 6: you know, doing higher tariffs on countries all over the
Speaker 6: world could mean for inflation here at home. And this
Speaker 6: announcement yesterday by the President comes just twenty four hours
Speaker 6: after a new report showed inflation is on the rise.
Speaker 6: It's now up three percent.
Speaker 1: Okay, So going back to the tariffs that he says
Speaker 1: that that he is looking at reciprocal tariffs and basically saying, well,
Speaker 1: if they're going to charge us, we're going to charge them.
Speaker 1: And then he gave an example like for exports of cars,
Speaker 1: there's a ten percent tariff on US companies exporting cars,
Speaker 1: but for the cars coming in I think it's Mercedes
Speaker 1: was the example they used. It's a two and a
Speaker 1: half percent, So he's saying he just wants to equal
Speaker 1: it out, like if you're going to charge us something,
Speaker 1: we're going to charge you that. And what's the endgame
Speaker 1: of that is that to say then let's just get
Speaker 1: rid of tariffs.
Speaker 6: It's not clear, I mean, And that's the thing, Like
Speaker 6: there was nothing announced yesterday in terms of like the
Speaker 6: numbers this yesterday. What he said is like, we're going
Speaker 6: to look into all of this and see, you know,
Speaker 6: where we have those deficits, what countries we have the
Speaker 6: biggest one where we think we could start making moves.
Speaker 6: You know. It was largely symbolic yesterday and more to come,
Speaker 6: essentially after the president's team does a review. Even his
Speaker 6: own economic top economic advisor the day before when he
Speaker 6: was asked about this, he said it was a work
Speaker 6: in progress. But the president yesterday announcing this signing a thing,
Speaker 6: just directing his team to start moving forward to look
Speaker 6: into this.
Speaker 1: It sounds kind of like it's the start of a negotiation.
Speaker 1: He'll cut like what he did with Mexico and Kennada
Speaker 1: and said we're going to do this and then they
Speaker 1: came back with their response to it. And right now
Speaker 1: those tariffs are on hold.
Speaker 6: Right, yes, very much still on the table based on
Speaker 6: what the President has said recently, but on pause at
Speaker 6: this moment. But we'll see what happens at the end
Speaker 6: of that month and whether he puts them in place
Speaker 6: as he has threatened.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then he also said that because of all
Speaker 1: the tariffs and what that's going to do, America is
Speaker 1: going to be flooded with jobs. How does that work
Speaker 1: out in his eyes?
Speaker 6: He has not said that either. I think the sense
Speaker 6: is that people would be you know, the companies here
Speaker 6: would be doing better, and that could lead to job creation.
Speaker 6: But again it was just a comment the President made yesterday.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 6: Another important thing to notice he also said that there
Speaker 6: could be some short term disturbance when he was acknowledging
Speaker 6: prices could go up. He was pushed on that by
Speaker 6: a reporter saying, or should Americans prepare for some short
Speaker 6: term pain? He said, I didn't say that. Well, you know,
Speaker 6: if the prices go up, he said, well, let's see
Speaker 6: what happens.
Speaker 1: Well, and we will see what happened and see if
Speaker 1: this just is a first step in negotiations. Karen Travers,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Have a wonderful weekend.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The
Speaker 1: city of Calabasas is not happy about the EPA choosing
Speaker 1: the city's landfill to dispose of waste from the Palisades fire.
Speaker 7: It's been very difficult finding information on the fire cleanup
Speaker 7: and the debris removal, and we've been actively working to
Speaker 7: get in that information for several weeks now and we're
Speaker 7: not finding that information.
Speaker 1: Calabasis Mayor Peter Kraut says he's concerned about toxic materials
Speaker 1: like arsenic and lead, but has been assured that no
Speaker 1: toxic materials like lithium ion batteries will be disposed of
Speaker 1: at the land fill.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, hazardous waste includes more than just household hazardous waste,
Speaker 7: and certainly could include toxin things that are bad for
Speaker 7: the environment, bad for living beings, bad for our waterway.
Speaker 1: The city attorney is exploring options to try to delay
Speaker 1: the operation or get the EPA to choose another site.
Speaker 1: President Trump says the US will increase military sales to
Speaker 1: India by many billions of dollars, as he put it,
Speaker 1: after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi at the
Speaker 1: White House, Trump also said he was paving the way
Speaker 1: to give India F thirty five stealth fighter planes. The
Speaker 1: Prime minister's visit follows a controversial US deportation flight earlier
Speaker 1: this month that saw over one hundred Indian migrants return
Speaker 1: to their home country. Elon Musk says the US should
Speaker 1: delete entire agencies in order to cut waste and reduce bureaucracy.
Speaker 1: He said it during a video call to the World
Speaker 1: Government Summit in Dubai.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like leaving a week.
Speaker 4: If you remove the roots of the weed, then it's
Speaker 4: easy for the week to go back. But if you
Speaker 4: remove the rich roots of the weed, it doesn't stop
Speaker 4: weeds from every going.
Speaker 5: Back that it makes it harder.
Speaker 1: He says reducing the size of government will end the
Speaker 1: rule of bureaucracy and restore the rule of the people.
Speaker 1: He also said the US should stay out of the
Speaker 1: affairs of other countries and, as he put it, mind
Speaker 1: its own business. A teenage girl in Indiana's been arrested
Speaker 1: for allegedly plotting a mass shooting at her school on
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. Court filing show a tipster reported their friend
Speaker 1: was planning the attack, had access to an AR fifteen rifle,
Speaker 1: and had just ordered a bulletproof vest. Eighteen year old
Speaker 1: Trinity Shockley is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and
Speaker 1: two terrorism related crimes. Police say she was inspired by
Speaker 1: the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in twenty eighteen. Mexico
Speaker 1: has threatened legal action against Google for changing the name
Speaker 1: of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America
Speaker 1: on Google Maps. Kfi's Tammy Truchio says the change was
Speaker 1: made because of an executive order from President Trump.
Speaker 8: On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Shinbaum said Google was wrong
Speaker 8: to change the name of the entire body of water
Speaker 8: because Trump's executive order only applies to the US Continental shellf.
Speaker 1: Mexico says its government could file a civil suit against
Speaker 1: Google if it doesn't fix the what it calls an error. Streets, neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: freeways have been flooded by the huge storm that moves
Speaker 1: through southern California. Rain was falling at a rate of
Speaker 1: more than an inch per hour at one point yesterday,
Speaker 1: triggering mud and debris flows and blocking roadways in the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Hills, pch Malibu, and in the Pacific Palisades and
Speaker 1: Altadena Burn areas. California's water supply has improved significantly because
Speaker 1: of the heavy rainfall in the state this month. The
Speaker 1: state's largest reservoir, which is Shasta Lake near Redding, rose
Speaker 1: by twenty two feet. Lake Oroville and Butte County the
Speaker 1: second largest, so its water level increased by twenty three
Speaker 1: feet after getting twenty four inches of rain in two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's five times the usual amount. The crew of a
Speaker 1: Northern California based US Coast guardship has offloaded more than
Speaker 1: eighteen tons of cocaine in San Diego, seized from drug
Speaker 1: traffickers off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South
Speaker 1: America in the past few months. Scart says the more
Speaker 1: than thirty seven thousand pounds of coke has a street
Speaker 1: value of about two hundred and seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 1: Let's say good morning to ABC's Stephen Portnite Portnite. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Stephen, The DOJ says it stepping in wants to
Speaker 1: dismiss the federal bribery case against New York City Mayor
Speaker 1: Eric Adams, but the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan didn't
Speaker 1: want anything to do.
Speaker 4: With that, and she quit. Danielle Sassoon is her name,
Speaker 4: No relation to v dal anyway.
Speaker 1: Are they still in business. I haven't seen anything from
Speaker 1: Videlsas Snerl.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but that was that was a digression, Okay.
Speaker 4: So here's what happened. In the last several weeks. There's
Speaker 4: been apparently a tremendous amount of tension in the ranks
Speaker 4: of the Justice Department over this decision by Washington by
Speaker 4: Emil Bovey, who is the acting Deputy Attorney General, to
Speaker 4: order the dismissal of the against Eric Adams, the bribery
Speaker 4: case involving allegations that he took gifts from Turkish officials
Speaker 4: in exchange for applying pressure on his own city government
Speaker 4: to facilitate the certificates of occupancy for the Turkish consulate
Speaker 4: in New York. The case is pending, and the prosecutors
Speaker 4: who have brought it insist that this man committed these
Speaker 4: crimes and should be held to account. The decision, however,
Speaker 4: here in Washington is that it was a politically motivated
Speaker 4: prosecution brought by prosecutors who were taking vengeance against Eric
Speaker 4: Adams for his criticism of Biden era administration policies immigration policies.
Speaker 4: And the current situation is that the acting US Attorney
Speaker 4: for Manhattan has quit and we have seen fierce letters
Speaker 4: written by both Danielle Sassoon and Emiel Beauvet which get
Speaker 4: into this idea of the tension between the two sides.
Speaker 4: And you have now half a dozen people in the
Speaker 4: Justice Department who have left their posts rather than carrying
Speaker 4: out the order to dismiss the charges against Adams. Six
Speaker 4: prosecutors in the Justice Department who are willing to walk
Speaker 4: away from their jobs rather than carrying out the order
Speaker 4: to dismiss charges against a man who they believed to
Speaker 4: be guilty of these crimes.
Speaker 1: And then wasn't there some conversation that people who are
Speaker 1: still there who worked on the case could end up
Speaker 1: getting disciplined or.
Speaker 4: Fired because he has felt that the people who serve
Speaker 4: under him have been insubordinate and this is a meal.
Speaker 4: Emil Bouvet says that he will put the line prosecutors
Speaker 4: who targeted Atoms on administrative leave and see about possibly
Speaker 4: dismissing them.
Speaker 1: Aren't they just following orders?
Speaker 4: Well, that's what they would tell you, and not only that,
Speaker 4: but following the law that they found substantial evidence. And
Speaker 4: what was also really surprising and eye opening yesterday was
Speaker 4: in the detail in Danielle Sassoon's letter to the Justice
Speaker 4: Department that her team had been preparing to add additional
Speaker 4: counts in a superseding indictment charging Eric Adams with destroying
Speaker 4: evidence and asking others to lie to the FBI. So
Speaker 4: what remains unclear this morning is how this is going
Speaker 4: to be resolved. One question would be, well, couldn't Trump
Speaker 4: just pardon Eric Adams? The answer, of course is yes,
Speaker 4: But why hasn't he Well, the arrangement, as it's understood,
Speaker 4: and this director from the Justice Department, is to withdraw
Speaker 4: the charges without precedent, threatening that they could be brought back.
Speaker 4: Why would you want to do that for leverage over Adams?
Speaker 4: Why do you want leverage over Adams? Because the President
Speaker 4: wants to see New York City submit to federal immigration enforcement.
Speaker 4: And the suggestions been made by the former US Attorney
Speaker 4: acting US Attorney Manhattan, Danielle Sassoon that a quid pro
Speaker 4: quo was in play, that Eric Adams and his attorneys
Speaker 4: agreed that he would submit his city to federal immigration
Speaker 4: enforcement in exchange for dropping the charges. The Justice Department
Speaker 4: says that's not the case, and Eric Adams's attorney say
Speaker 4: it's not the case, but it is the allegation of
Speaker 4: the now former acting US Attorney for Manhattan.
Speaker 1: Well, on both sides, things smell a little suspicious.
Speaker 4: To me, not just you. And the question is what
Speaker 4: does it say about corruption and the application of even
Speaker 4: handed justice in America? If the Justice Department is willing
Speaker 4: to look the other way past corruption allegations, if you
Speaker 4: happen to sign on to the president and his policies,
Speaker 4: how does that comport with the idea of equal justice
Speaker 4: under law? It can't.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: It's true the pardon power's absolute, but we're not talking
Speaker 4: about that here, and even if we were, that would
Speaker 4: also raise questions about even handed justice in America. This
Speaker 4: is how the Justice Department is going to pursue varying targets,
Speaker 4: and that may wind up coming up before a judge
Speaker 4: to decide whether to move forward with a dismissal. You know,
Speaker 4: the court has to be asked to dismiss the charges
Speaker 4: once they've been entered.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll be watching ABC. Stephen Portnoy as always, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for helping to explain this, because it looks
Speaker 1: easy on the surface, it never is. Oh not this one,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks so much.
Speaker 5: You bet.
Speaker 1: The roof of a Smart and Final store in Azusa
Speaker 1: has collapsed during the heavy rain. This man says he
Speaker 1: was eating at a restaurant nearby last night when he
Speaker 1: heard the commotion, but like a boom and then like
Speaker 1: things just breaking. He says the crash was scary loud.
Speaker 5: I could see people running out, and I could just
Speaker 5: see everything destroyed in the produce section, and I was like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, Like I was scared out of my mind.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 7: It was insane.
Speaker 1: The store is temporarily closed. La County Sheriff Robert Luna
Speaker 1: says his department will not assist with federal immigration rates.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Mark Mayfield says the sheriff said during an interview
Speaker 1: that his department's policies on enforcement and assistance have not
Speaker 1: changed and it won't be part of any sweeps. Luna
Speaker 1: says immigration enforcement is out of the lasd's jurisdiction, adding
Speaker 1: that it does not have the resources to help immigration
Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement agents. The sheriff says immigration is a
Speaker 1: federal law enforcement issue. The city of Fremont has passed
Speaker 1: some of the strictest homeless camping laws in the state.
Speaker 1: The city council voted six to one to make it
Speaker 1: illegal for homeless people to set up tents on public property.
Speaker 1: Those who break the law could face a fine of
Speaker 1: up to one thousand dollars and six months in jail.
Speaker 1: The Fremont City attorney says the law does not permit
Speaker 1: arrests for people who provide supplies to the homeless unless
Speaker 1: those supplies create a shelter for camping on public land.
Speaker 1: Federal judge has blocked parts of two executive orders by
Speaker 1: President Trump that aimed to restrict gender affirming care.
Speaker 4: On Thursday, a US district judge ruled in favor of
Speaker 4: a group of LGBTQ organizations and transgender teams who sued
Speaker 4: for the orders.
Speaker 1: Okay if i's Brian Shuk says the groups argued the
Speaker 1: orders were discriminatory and lacked authority. The ruling applies nationwide
Speaker 1: and is the latest in a series of court orders
Speaker 1: restricting the Trump Administration's recent actions. Igloo is recalling over
Speaker 1: a million ninety court flip and toe rolling coolers because
Speaker 1: of a safety hazard. The toe handle can pinch a
Speaker 1: person's fingertips, possibly causing cuts, fractures, or amputations. The Consumer
Speaker 1: Product Safety Commission says twelve injuries have been reported so far.
Speaker 1: People who have the coolers are urged to stop using
Speaker 1: them and contact Igloo for a free replacement handle. I've
Speaker 1: just got to ask this question, how many of those
Speaker 1: involved tailgaters at the end of a party? Okay? A
Speaker 1: family fund dirt flinging, high flying events Returning to Orange
Speaker 1: County this weekend.
Speaker 2: Monster Jam crushes its final weekend at Angel Stadium Tomorrow
Speaker 2: and Sunday. The event will feature some of the best
Speaker 2: monster truck drivers around in several competitions, including racing skills
Speaker 2: and freestyle. Fans get to score the drivers in real time,
Speaker 2: and families can also enjoy the Monster Jam Pit party
Speaker 2: for an up close look at the trucks and drivers.
Speaker 2: Tickets are available on the official Monster Jam website. Andrew
Speaker 2: Caravella KFI News.
Speaker 1: A Wall of Water is raced down streets in Pacific
Speaker 1: Palisades carrying mud and debris. Several vehicles in the area
Speaker 1: got caught up in the mud that covered roadways. Evacuation
Speaker 1: orders in the burn areas because of mud mudslide danger
Speaker 1: will remain in place until at least this afternoon. No
Speaker 1: injuries have been reported from the storm. A firefighter got
Speaker 1: swept up in a mudslide that pushed his suv off
Speaker 1: pch and into the ocean in Malibu. LA Fire says
Speaker 1: the firefighter was driving through heavy rainwater, mud, and debris
Speaker 1: when the suv was pushed off the road late yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 1: He was able to get out of the suv and
Speaker 1: was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Jackie the
Speaker 1: bald eagle has been weathering the storm in a nest
Speaker 1: high Big Bear Lake. She has endured heavy rain and
Speaker 1: pounding winds as she protects her eggs. Shadow came by
Speaker 1: the nest to offer to take over the nesting duties yesterday,
Speaker 1: but Jackie stay and put protecting those eggs. The iglicts
Speaker 1: could start hatching by the end of February. At six
Speaker 1: oh five, it's handle on the news. California is one
Speaker 1: of several states suing over what it calls Elon Musk's
Speaker 1: unchecked power. Right now, let's say good morning to the
Speaker 1: host of home on KFI, the house Whisper Dean Sharp Dean.
Speaker 1: If you have an idea about your house, that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. What you do about it could be bad.
Speaker 1: That is true.
Speaker 3: That is very, very true. And more homeowners that are
Speaker 3: planning out their remodels, their dream kitchens, whatever it is
Speaker 3: that you're changing about your house that you just want
Speaker 3: to be better, we encourage them to spend more time
Speaker 3: dreaming than they do instead of just rushing into the
Speaker 3: first idea or what they think is the first idea.
Speaker 3: And I encourage people to realize that there aren't any
Speaker 3: bad ideas. There aren't, especially when it comes to partners
Speaker 3: who are doing this together. There's almost always one partner
Speaker 3: who's like constantly shutting down anything that sounds out of
Speaker 3: the ordinary or weird. And I think you miss a
Speaker 3: lot of opportunities for what could be some of the
Speaker 3: best design ideas from that. So there are no bad ideas.
Speaker 3: There are only bad decisions. Okay, an idea is not
Speaker 3: a decision. It's just an idea that's floating around out there.
Speaker 3: And if more people get used to the idea of like,
Speaker 3: let's just play with ideas for a while, we don't
Speaker 3: have to commit to these things. Then there would be
Speaker 3: less bad decisions being made along the way for remodels
Speaker 3: as well. So the encouragement that we're going to be
Speaker 3: given folks in a little conversation on tomorrow's show is
Speaker 3: to loosen up a little bit, give yourself some more time.
Speaker 3: Build a sandbox, as it were, whether it's just in
Speaker 3: your mind or you build a file that you call sandbox,
Speaker 3: and you know, just like little kids going in there.
Speaker 3: Whatever we build in there, it's not consequential, it's not
Speaker 3: gonna it's not meant to last, it's not meant to
Speaker 3: be the permanent thing. But it gives you a place
Speaker 3: to play around. And who knows out of that, and
Speaker 3: I will tell you, Tina and I do this as
Speaker 3: we design homes all the time. Out of all of
Speaker 3: that fun and weirdness and freedom, there will usually come
Speaker 3: the kernel of the idea that ends up changing the
Speaker 3: space the idea.
Speaker 1: So then so you take all those ideas and then
Speaker 1: once you kind of land on something, you still could
Speaker 1: be in trouble because maybe you have the idea, but
Speaker 1: you don't know how to implement it, and you try it, you're.
Speaker 3: Right, and that's when that's when you take that now
Speaker 3: and you start drawing it into the real world, which
Speaker 3: means research. It means you know, shopping, it means learning
Speaker 3: everything that you can about how it will affect. And
Speaker 3: this none of this is meant to, you know, replace
Speaker 3: the role of like a professional designer in your process,
Speaker 3: which I wish more homeowners you know, would appeal to.
Speaker 3: Not just because that would be good for me, I
Speaker 3: find but I am just such a strong believer, you
Speaker 3: know what I say all the time, design matters most.
Speaker 3: The one thing that is missing from most mainstream, middle
Speaker 3: class remodel projects is a professional design not a professional contractor,
Speaker 3: but a professional designer who can help you once you've
Speaker 3: got that kernel of an idea, get from point A
Speaker 3: to point Z and see it work out the right way.
Speaker 1: And if you get a designer now, you don't do
Speaker 1: the project and then have to get a designer later
Speaker 1: to fix what you did wrong.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it is so so much more difficult
Speaker 3: to undo. You know what, I would say, maybe eighty
Speaker 3: percent of houses out there are suffering from post traumatic
Speaker 3: design disorder, you know, I mean they've just been traumatized
Speaker 3: by bad ideas that have come into the real world
Speaker 3: and manifest themselves. Better to spend more time thinking it
Speaker 3: through and getting creative upfront before you make a decision.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're gonna be talking about this tomorrow. No
Speaker 1: bad ideas, just bad decisions. That is coming up from
Speaker 1: six to eight on Saturday, and then from nine to
Speaker 1: noon on Sunday, you're going to be talking about dealing
Speaker 1: with insurance companies after property damage, which a lot of
Speaker 1: people have right now. So again that's nine to noon
Speaker 1: on Sunday. This is Dean Sharp. He is the host
Speaker 1: of Home on KFI and Our House Whisper. You can
Speaker 1: follow him at Home with Dean. Thank you, Dean, Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1: Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Courtney.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the markets real quick, because it's Friday
Speaker 1: and I just took a little peak Thig. Things are
Speaker 1: not on the positive side as we get ready to open.
Speaker 1: But it is Valentine's Day. I wish I could give
Speaker 1: you better news.
Speaker 8: And by the way, I'm always a manifestation of bad
Speaker 8: ideas when it comes to decorating.
Speaker 1: We had a hook up with Dean Sharp.
Speaker 8: Oh Man, I was thinking about all my decisions I've
Speaker 8: made over the years of my house. Anyway, looking at
Speaker 8: the markets, I wish it was a little bit sweeter.
Speaker 8: We've had so much going on this week. We had
Speaker 8: reports this week that showed inflation is pretty stubborn.
Speaker 1: We also had all those tariff headlines happening this week.
Speaker 8: Right now, doubt futures they're down eighty five points, SMP
Speaker 8: futures down to tenth of a percent. They're lower, not
Speaker 8: too bad, but they're still lower. On the day, very
Speaker 8: different than what we saw yesterday. We had a big rally.
Speaker 8: President Trump moved to impose reciprocal.
Speaker 1: Tariffs, but not right away.
Speaker 8: A little bit of a pause kind of gave the
Speaker 8: market's a little room to breathe. So we did see
Speaker 8: the dow jump three hundred forty three hundred forty three
Speaker 8: points to finish out the day.
Speaker 1: The market is very knee jerky. Yes, we always. I
Speaker 1: always laugh.
Speaker 8: It's the nervous nellies. They see a headline and they go, WHOA,
Speaker 8: I got to make a change, or oh, I got
Speaker 8: to do something. So I always crack up with a
Speaker 8: friend of mine. The nervous nellies on Wall Street what
Speaker 8: are they going to say based on whatever headline crosses?
Speaker 8: And and you know, there has been a lot of
Speaker 8: knee jerk movements, especially when it comes to these tariff headlines.
Speaker 8: Once we see a tariff headline cross, we usually see
Speaker 8: markets move in one direction, either up or down, with
Speaker 8: a pretty significant move in either direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, as people are dealing with inflation, maybe they
Speaker 1: have a little bit less discretionary spending. So is that
Speaker 1: why kids are ordering off the kids menu? Well, adults
Speaker 1: are ordering off the kids Oh, adults are ordering off
Speaker 1: the kids menues. You can do that at Disneyland. Some
Speaker 1: places don't, let you can. I tell you I did that.
Speaker 9: Too, because a lot of some times these portions are
Speaker 9: so huge, they're so expensive. Others tell the Wall Street Journal, well,
Speaker 9: we're on Ozembic, we can eat the large meals.
Speaker 1: And then there's some folks.
Speaker 8: Who just want to feel like a kid again. They
Speaker 8: want their mac and cheese, they want their Shirley temples.
Speaker 8: So people are ordering more off the kid's menu, And
Speaker 8: according to restaurant industry researcher Sirkana, orders for kids meals
Speaker 8: placed by adults rose twenty eight percent last year compared
Speaker 8: with twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: So smaller portions fun food and it probably costs a
Speaker 1: little less. Yes.
Speaker 8: And by the way, there is one big downside to
Speaker 8: the menu, and that's a lack of variety.
Speaker 9: Chicken strips, burgers, and grilled.
Speaker 8: Cheese that tends to be the big three offered.
Speaker 1: Other good news is I love chicken strips, burgers and
Speaker 1: grilled cheese, and mac and cheese is usually on there too.
Speaker 8: And by the way, one way of not getting turned
Speaker 8: away as an adult place to take out order or
Speaker 8: a mobile order.
Speaker 10: Don't see you.
Speaker 1: Right, that's in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, who
Speaker 1: we talk to every day this time to get a
Speaker 1: sneak peek into the markets and other business related things.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Courtney, see you later. Have a
Speaker 1: great weekend it thanks you too, Happy bed what I
Speaker 1: met Valentine's Day?
Speaker 11: Go across.
Speaker 1: I was trying to be you know, have economy of words.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the best you may be laugh right. Several
Speaker 1: mobile homes in Oxnard have been damaged in what witnesses
Speaker 1: say was a tornado. It blew through the Ocean Air
Speaker 1: Mobile Home Park east of Oxnard College. Around three thirty
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, some of the mobile homes had their roofs
Speaker 1: ripped off. The Red Cross has set up a temporary
Speaker 1: emergency shelter to take care of the residents of about
Speaker 1: a dozen homes damaged. The mayor of Calabasas says the
Speaker 1: EPA's decision to use the city's landfill to dispose of
Speaker 1: waste from the Palisades fire was made without consulting city leaders.
Speaker 1: Mayor Peter Kraut says he has been assured that no
Speaker 1: toxic materials will be disposed of, but he's concerned about
Speaker 1: other toxins like arsenate and lead found in the ash.
Speaker 1: If you're planning to get married this Valentine's Day, you
Speaker 1: can do it today at the La County Clerk's offices.
Speaker 1: The headquarters in Norwalk and branch offices in East La
Speaker 1: and Vanus, and also the Beverly Hills Courthouse are doing
Speaker 1: wedding ceremonies from eight thirty to four thirty today. No
Speaker 1: appointments are required, but couples are encouraged to fill out
Speaker 1: a marriage application online before arriving. That should help speed
Speaker 1: up the process. We're just minutes away from Handle on
Speaker 1: the news this morning, police in Indiana say they have
Speaker 1: prevented a Valentine's Day massacre. On a more positive belt,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning now to ABC's Will Gans. So
Speaker 1: Will first, we're going to go to the stream and
Speaker 1: then we'll head to the theaters. We have The White
Speaker 1: Lotus coming back.
Speaker 5: At long last. It's a Valentine's Day miracle. This is
Speaker 5: like my favorite show of all time. Yes, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: I just love it so much. So this go around,
Speaker 5: this is season three. We are at a White Lotus
Speaker 5: hotel in Thailand, and in tradition with seasons one, in
Speaker 5: season two, season three opens with the dead body and
Speaker 5: we are tasked with figuring out who was killed, who
Speaker 5: killed them and why?
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: And this season of The White Lotus, you know, Mike White,
Speaker 5: who's the creator, writer, director, has said that it's going
Speaker 5: to be bigger and crazier than seasons one and two,
Speaker 5: which is hard to imagine because the last one ended
Speaker 5: with Jennifer Coolidge killing everybody on a boat.
Speaker 1: So, oh, you just gave it away.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you haven't seen season two by now,
Speaker 5: three years late, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 10: But anyway, I'm.
Speaker 1: Just it's been three years since the last one.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's been it's been a while. Yeah, maybe like yeah,
Speaker 5: two and a half or so, but very excited for
Speaker 5: this one. Kerry Koon is in at Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 5: So just a fun and exciting cast, Lisa who's a
Speaker 5: K pop star.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a whole new cast each season.
Speaker 5: Right exactly. There is one crossover character from season one
Speaker 5: if you watch season one, Belinda the spa manager, is
Speaker 5: also going to be in season three, so we'll see
Speaker 5: sort of why he decided to bring her back and
Speaker 5: you know what role she might play this go around.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's on the stream, And then if you
Speaker 1: are going to head to a movie theater, Captain America
Speaker 1: is coming back.
Speaker 5: Yes, So we were sort of in a Marvel drought
Speaker 5: last year. We only had one Marvel movie, which was
Speaker 5: Deadpool and Wolverine, you know which, following years of several
Speaker 5: Marvel movies. I know that the fan base is ready
Speaker 5: for more content this year. This weekend, they're getting Captain
Speaker 5: America Brave New World. Anthony Mackie plays Captain America, Harrison
Speaker 5: Ford plays the President, Flash the Red Hulk, which is
Speaker 5: sort of a comic book super villain character. So we'll
Speaker 5: have to see, you know, how they decide to tackle that.
Speaker 5: But a lot of people excited about that this weekend.
Speaker 1: How does he get rid? Why is he read instead of.
Speaker 7: Green Christmas vibes?
Speaker 4: No, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Okay, it's uh, it's no.
Speaker 5: It's it's I guess it's just a different version of
Speaker 5: the same, you know, alien species. I guess I am
Speaker 5: not steeped in the lore of comic book you know, now, the.
Speaker 1: Green guy got exposed to Gamma rays.
Speaker 5: Okay, see why are you asking me? You know the question,
Speaker 5: you know the answer.
Speaker 1: I only know about the Green guy. I don't know
Speaker 1: about the red one.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's like, uh, what's a different version, not a
Speaker 5: Gamma ray? He got X rayed or something like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 12: All right, if you want something a little less action
Speaker 12: packed but still action packed, but maybe if you have
Speaker 12: this weekend or the grandkids, Paddington in Peru is in
Speaker 12: theaters this weekend.
Speaker 5: I went inside in the theater yesterday and it was
Speaker 5: a lot of grandparents and kids and amy.
Speaker 4: I cried.
Speaker 5: The movie it's so sweet. It is just adorable. And
Speaker 5: there is a lot of adventure elements.
Speaker 7: He goes back to Peru.
Speaker 5: He's gonna help track down his aunt Lucy, who's been missing,
Speaker 5: and it's just, you know, it's a fun adventure. It's
Speaker 5: very silly, and then you know, there's a lovely message
Speaker 5: about what family means and what home means. And I
Speaker 5: was sitting there surrounded by children and grandparents, and I
Speaker 5: was like, nobody looked at me.
Speaker 7: Nobody looked at me.
Speaker 1: I would have paid to see that.
Speaker 6: Will.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm glad that you did it, and I'm
Speaker 5: glad that nobody noticed that I was dabbing my eyes
Speaker 5: profusely by the end of the movie.
Speaker 1: Okay, that sounds like a very strong endorsement for Paddington
Speaker 1: in Peru. ABC's Willgans, thank you so much, have.
Speaker 3: A great weekend, you too.
Speaker 1: That's so cute, Hee Crid at Paddington in Peru. Let's
Speaker 1: get back to some of the stories coming out of
Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La County Supervisor Catherine
Speaker 1: Barker is urging property owners to provide apartments to residents
Speaker 1: displaced by the Eaton fire. The Ellie County Development Authority
Speaker 1: is working with the American Red Cross to find one
Speaker 1: in two bedroom apartments within a ten mile radius of
Speaker 1: the Eton fire. She says rentals in Pasadena, Glendale, and
Speaker 1: Monrovia are especially needed. Businessman Rick Caruso, who ran for
Speaker 1: mayor against Karen Bass, says he is focused on getting
Speaker 1: Pacific Palisades rebuilt following the devastating fire last month.
Speaker 10: The failure of leadership in this city is just so dramatic.
Speaker 10: It's astounding to think about what happened.
Speaker 1: He tells KFI that city leaders need to be held accountable,
Speaker 1: but he says his job right now is to help
Speaker 1: people get back into their homes, and.
Speaker 10: We're leaning in also in Altadena. I mean, that's a
Speaker 10: beautiful community, very moderate, and they need a lot of help.
Speaker 1: Caruso has set up a group called Steadfast LA, which
Speaker 1: is dedicated to rebuilding LA. In the wake of the fires,
Speaker 1: The Trump administration has ordered federal agencies to lay off
Speaker 1: all probationary employees who haven't yet gained civil service protections,
Speaker 1: part of the administration's efforts to shrink the government workforce.
Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of workers could be affected. Workers at
Speaker 1: some agencies have been warned that large cuts are coming.
Speaker 1: Tiktec is back in the app stores. The social media
Speaker 1: app returned to the Apple and Google App stores last
Speaker 1: night after it was removed about a month ago in
Speaker 1: response to a law that banned the Chinese app in
Speaker 1: the US if it didn't sell to a non Chinese company.
Speaker 1: The apps return follows a letter from US Attorney General
Speaker 1: Pambondi informing Apple that it would not be fine for
Speaker 1: hosting the app. Well, it wasn't the belly of a whale,
Speaker 1: but a kayaker in Chile got really close. ABC's Andrea
Speaker 1: Fujii says a nineteen year old was kayaking with his
Speaker 1: father on Saturday when he was gobbled up by a
Speaker 1: humpback whale k Adriansane.
Speaker 11: He first thought it had eaten and swallowed him, adding
Speaker 11: the real fear set in after he resurfaced, scared that
Speaker 11: something might also happen to his father, or that he
Speaker 11: would get hypothermia from the frigid waters.
Speaker 1: She says, after a few minutes, some man was able
Speaker 1: to reach his father's kayak and both of them returned
Speaker 1: to shore swallowed by a whale. I'm sure it was
Speaker 1: an accident. Humpback whales are very gentle. Plus if you've
Speaker 1: seen the video the whale spits in back house. He's
Speaker 1: just like that. Nah oh, people don't taste very good.
Speaker 1: This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
Speaker 1: Southland Weather from KFI. The worst of the rain has
Speaker 1: moved out, but we still have a pretty decent chance
Speaker 1: of showers through the morning. Some sun mixed in with
Speaker 1: clouds this afternoon. Highs in the low sixties at the beaches,
Speaker 1: Metro LA and in Lando c Fifties to mid sixties
Speaker 1: in the valleys and Inland Empire, forties and fifties in
Speaker 1: the Anaelope Valley. Clear skies tonight with lows in the
Speaker 1: thirties and forties. Partly cloudy with highs in the mid
Speaker 1: sixties Tomorrow morning, clouds, afternoon sun Sunday with highs in
Speaker 1: the middupper sixties at the beaches and metro areas, sixties
Speaker 1: to low seventies in the valleys and Ie. It's fifty
Speaker 1: nine in dana point, fifty seven in Long Beach, fifty
Speaker 1: two in Claremont, fifty five in Anaheim. We lead local
Speaker 1: live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for producer
Speaker 1: Michelle and technical producer Kno and also traffic specialist Will
Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your Valentine's Day wake
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