Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
Speaker 1: with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2: And it's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3: And good morning.
Speaker 2: This is your wake up call for Tuesday, January seventh,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I am Michael Monks filling in again
Speaker 2: for Amy King, and we've got some strong wins on
Speaker 2: the way. This is a particularly dangerous situation. This is
Speaker 2: about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather.
Speaker 2: So you need to stay aware today of your surroundings.
Speaker 3: You need to be.
Speaker 2: Ready to evacuate, especially if you are in a high
Speaker 2: risk area for fire, and you need to be careful
Speaker 2: with your fire sources. Don't take that from me. Those
Speaker 2: are the words from the National Weather Service here in LA.
Speaker 2: They are not prone to hyperbolic language. So the Santa
Speaker 2: Ana win event forecasted for today and tomorrow appears to
Speaker 2: be a serious one. National Weather Service has called this
Speaker 2: a life threatening and destructive widespread wind storm. They're saying
Speaker 2: even areas that are not typically windy will be impacted,
Speaker 2: and obviously this means the threat of wildfires has been
Speaker 2: raised dramatically. Red flag warnings of critical fire danger are
Speaker 2: now in effect as of four o'clock this morning. They
Speaker 2: will stay in place until six o'clock Thursday evening for
Speaker 2: the Malibu Coast, the Santa Monica Mountains Recreational Area, the
Speaker 2: San Gabriel Valley, the San Fernando Valley, Calabasas, the Santa
Speaker 2: Clarita Valley, the San Gabriel Mountains, and the Golden State
Speaker 2: five Annalope Valley fourteen Freeway corridors. Then at noon today,
Speaker 2: the warning extends to include La County Beaches, the Palos
Speaker 2: Verdes Hills, Catalina Island, and the inland La County Coast
Speaker 2: stretching down into downtown La That red flag warning will
Speaker 2: be in place from ten o'clock this morning till six
Speaker 2: o'clock on Wednesday in the Antelope Valley, in the Annealope
Speaker 2: Valley Foothills, going all over the place. Entire region, the
Speaker 2: warnings will be upgraded to particularly Dangerous situation red flag
Speaker 2: warnings noting extremely critical wildfire conditions from noon today to
Speaker 2: four pm Wednesday for La County Beaches, the coastal area
Speaker 2: stretching into downtown, the Malibu Coast, the Santa Monica Mountains
Speaker 2: Recreational Area, the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley,
Speaker 2: the San Gabriel Mountains, and the fourteen Freeway Corridor. Then
Speaker 2: an Orange County a red flag warning will be in
Speaker 2: place from one o'clock today this afternoon through six pm
Speaker 2: Thursday for the Santa Ana Mountains and inland parts of
Speaker 2: the county, including what the National Weather Service has called
Speaker 2: a particularly dangerous situation from seven am to one pm
Speaker 2: on Wednesday. Orange County coastal areas will be under a
Speaker 2: red flag warning from four pm to six pm Wednesday,
Speaker 2: So from four pm today to six pm tomorrow. We
Speaker 2: are going to stay on top of this from the
Speaker 2: start to the finish, so stick with us here at KFI.
Speaker 2: We'll have live reports throughout. We're going to monitor, We're
Speaker 2: gonna let you know what's going on. But you also
Speaker 2: need to stay close to your phone, keep charged, have
Speaker 2: your go bag ready. All of those warnings, all of
Speaker 2: those things they tell you about. Today seems like one
Speaker 2: of those days where you really need to take it seriously.
Speaker 2: All the conditions are right for it. We've been really dry,
Speaker 2: and these wins are coming and they're going to be
Speaker 2: very strong, hearing that these wins could be the strongest
Speaker 2: we've seen since like twenty eleven. So they're not messing around.
Speaker 2: We're telling us a lot of stuff. And it's the
Speaker 2: entire area that I just listed there, even downtown LA.
Speaker 2: I mean, these are parts of the region that are
Speaker 2: not typically prone to fire weather. But they're saying everybody
Speaker 2: needs to keep an eye out today, so that includes you.
Speaker 2: So good Tuesday morning. We got a fun hour ahead
Speaker 2: despite this looming over US. We'll have a lot of
Speaker 2: news coming up for your enjoyment, including President Biden's move
Speaker 2: to ban offshore oil and gas drilling around most of
Speaker 2: the coastal waters in the US came just before the
Speaker 2: President arrived here in southern California. So what does that
Speaker 2: move mean for California. We'll have a live report in
Speaker 2: just a moment. And President elect Trump has announced that
Speaker 2: he wants one big, beautiful bill encompassing a chunk of
Speaker 2: his policy proposals, whether they're related or not. But he
Speaker 2: has met some pushback from Republicans in Congress, so Trump
Speaker 2: is reportedly headed to the Capitol to talk with the GOP.
Speaker 2: We'll go live to Washington and then in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: The Consumer Electronics Show now known only as CES has returned.
Speaker 2: We'll talk live about the gadgets that are on display,
Speaker 2: and then at the top of the hour, as always,
Speaker 2: handle on the news Bill handle Nil Savidra and I
Speaker 2: will be there and I hope that you will be
Speaker 2: there as well. President Biden has arrived in southern California.
Speaker 2: He plans to designate the Chuckwalla Mountains a national monument
Speaker 2: to protect them from development. That's not the only environmental
Speaker 2: action Biden has taken in recent days with a direct
Speaker 2: impact on California. So let's talk about this ban on
Speaker 2: new offshore oil and gas drilling. ABC White House, ABC
Speaker 2: White House correspondent Karen Travers joins US live from Washington,
Speaker 2: DC to discuss Karen, good morning to you. When we
Speaker 2: say banning new offshore oil and gas drilling, what do
Speaker 2: we mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a significant, sweeping executive action announced by the
Speaker 4: President yesterday to ban all future offshore oil and national
Speaker 4: gas drilling on America's East and West coast, the eastern
Speaker 4: Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska's North Bearing Sea. So they're
Speaker 4: kind of covering all the big spots and according to
Speaker 4: the White House. This move would block drilling in more
Speaker 4: than six hundred and twenty five million acres of US oceans.
Speaker 4: The President said in a statement yesterday that this is
Speaker 4: something that speech gooers, businesses people can all agree on
Speaker 4: that drilling off these codes could cause irreversible damage to
Speaker 4: places we hold dear. He said, it's unnecessary to meet
Speaker 4: the nation's energy needs and it's not worth the risks. Now,
Speaker 4: no surprise, the incoming Trump team is not happy with
Speaker 4: this move by the Biden White House, and the spokesperson
Speaker 4: for the President elect called this move political revenge and
Speaker 4: they sucker punch on their way out the door. Because
Speaker 4: the incoming Trump team wants to make energy production and
Speaker 4: drilling a priority on day one. You've heard that from
Speaker 4: the President election as a candidate. You know it's real
Speaker 4: baby drill, and this could make it much more difficult
Speaker 4: for them to move forward on that. But we'll see
Speaker 4: how they try to get around this. But notably, this
Speaker 4: law that the President used to take this executive action
Speaker 4: was written in such a way that it actually makes
Speaker 4: it almost permanent. If the Trump team wants to try
Speaker 4: to reverse it, they would likely have to have Congress
Speaker 4: change that law in order to make that happen.
Speaker 2: Okay, so he has set up a little bit of
Speaker 2: an obstacle on his way out the door. Exactly why
Speaker 2: do that now in just a few days left in
Speaker 2: his administration.
Speaker 4: That was a question yesterday to Karine Jean Pierre, the
Speaker 4: White host Press secretary on Air Force Laanhoes traveling with
Speaker 4: the president yesterday, and she was pepper with some questions
Speaker 4: about the timing of this, and she didn't get into
Speaker 4: the specifics of you know, why right now, especially given
Speaker 4: what the Trump team was saying about this, and she
Speaker 4: stuck to broadly just saying that this has been a
Speaker 4: big policy priority for this president over the last four years,
Speaker 4: pointing to his record on land and water conservation. So
Speaker 4: she said, you know, this is something he has been
Speaker 4: wanting to do. It is something he has done through
Speaker 4: other means over the past four years, and now they're
Speaker 4: trying to do it because they have a checklist they're
Speaker 4: trying to get to before their time is up.
Speaker 2: Karen, I know we only got a few minutes, a
Speaker 2: few moments left together, but what exactly does this policy
Speaker 2: mean for a place like California?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's significant when you look at given
Speaker 4: how sweeping this is. It bans any offshore oil and
Speaker 4: natural gas drilline off of the West Coast. That's one
Speaker 4: of the key areas there. And you know also, as
Speaker 4: I mentioned, the East Coast, the eastern Gulf Coast in Mexico,
Speaker 4: and then going all the way up to Alaska. You know,
Speaker 4: I think the big thing that we're going to be
Speaker 4: looking at is the permanency of this. You know, when
Speaker 4: the White House took this executive action, all executive actions
Speaker 4: are always subject to legal challenges and then reversal by
Speaker 4: the next president. You and I in two and a
Speaker 4: half weeks are going to be talking a lot about
Speaker 4: what the Trump administration is doing to reverse things that
Speaker 4: the Biden administration did. But they were clever about this
Speaker 4: one by turning to and authority on this. That makes
Speaker 4: it very challenging for the Trump team to undo it.
Speaker 4: This essentially makes this permanent right now. And it's about
Speaker 4: six hundred and twenty five million total acres of US ocean.
Speaker 4: I don't know how many of those are specific to California,
Speaker 4: but that is a very large chunk of American ocean.
Speaker 2: ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for joining us this morning. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Have a great day you do the same, and good
Speaker 2: morning to all of you. This is KFI wake up call.
Speaker 2: I'm Michael Monks filling in for Amy King. I want
Speaker 2: to let you know if you're just joining us, we
Speaker 2: are monitoring the Santa Ana wind forecast for our entire
Speaker 2: Southland area that is starting today all the way through
Speaker 2: Wednesday and parts of Thursday. It looks like we will
Speaker 2: have updates throughout this hour, throughout every newscast, and you
Speaker 2: can bet that we will have it throughout the day
Speaker 2: and all of our programs. So just stay aware, stay
Speaker 2: tuned to us, and keep your devices charged and handy.
Speaker 2: This does a to be a very dangerous situation brewing.
Speaker 2: We've got some more news coming out of the KFI
Speaker 2: twenty four hour news room. President Joe Biden has come
Speaker 2: to the Southland to announce the creation of a national
Speaker 2: monument near Joshua Tree National Park. The proclamation would establish
Speaker 2: a Chukwala National Monument, making drilling, mining, and other energy
Speaker 2: and industrial related activity illegal in the area. Supporters have
Speaker 2: also said it would protect important heritage values tied to
Speaker 2: the land, such as a multi use trail system established
Speaker 2: by indigenous peoples as well as their sacred sites. The
Speaker 2: La City Council is back to work today and is
Speaker 2: scheduled to consider final approval for a proposed billion dollar
Speaker 2: expansion of Television City. It'll also hear from nine groups
Speaker 2: that have formally opposed it. The plan is for up
Speaker 2: to one point four million square feet of new development,
Speaker 2: the retention of two hundred and sixty four thousand square
Speaker 2: feet of existing uses, and the demolition of nearly a
Speaker 2: half million square feed of space for new buildings. They
Speaker 2: say the number of stages that TV City would incur
Speaker 2: trees from eight to fifteen. Two stages built in the
Speaker 2: nineties would be taken down, but four original stages built
Speaker 2: by CBS back in nineteen fifty two would be preserved,
Speaker 2: along with other historical design elements. We got another round
Speaker 2: of bitter cold expected to take hold of these southern
Speaker 2: states after ice, snow, and wind already hammered much of
Speaker 2: the country in that direction. The storm system took down trees,
Speaker 2: it even threatened to freeze in Florida. The National Weather
Speaker 2: Service said that by early Tuesday this morning, wind chilled
Speaker 2: temperatures could dip into the teens to low twenties from
Speaker 2: Texas across the Gulf Coast. They say a low pressure
Speaker 2: system is then expected to form as soon as tomorrow,
Speaker 2: bringing snow to parts of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Again,
Speaker 2: we are monitoring this situation involving the red flag warnings
Speaker 2: and the strong winds that are on the way. A
Speaker 2: quick reminder, the National Weather Service here in La It
Speaker 2: has called this a particularly dangerous situation. They say it
Speaker 2: could be life threatening. They also note that it is
Speaker 2: probably widespread. There are different warnings and forecasts for just
Speaker 2: about every corner of the Southland area. So this is
Speaker 2: a day to take those warnings seriously and to pay
Speaker 2: attention to what's going on around you. If they say
Speaker 2: to get out, or if you feel like you need
Speaker 2: to get out, you're probably feeling the right thing. The
Speaker 2: strongest winds in more than a decade could hit southern
Speaker 2: California today. We are facing possible structural damage and an
Speaker 2: extreme fire risk at a time where we haven't seen
Speaker 2: substantial rain in months. It is dangerous and potentially life threatening,
Speaker 2: according to the National Weather Service. So starting this afternoon,
Speaker 2: the windstorm will impact Los Angeles and Ventura counties. It
Speaker 2: will peak in the early hours of Wednesday, when the
Speaker 2: gusts could reach eighty miles per hour. Now in the mountains.
Speaker 2: In the foothills, they say the gusts could be even higher,
Speaker 2: like more than one hundred miles per hour. The Weather
Speaker 2: Services warned of down trees and knocked over big rigs, trailers,
Speaker 2: motor homes. They say powerful powerful offshore gust could also
Speaker 2: bring dangerous conditions off the coasts of Orange County and
Speaker 2: LA including Catalina Island. Potential delays and turbulence could arise
Speaker 2: at local airports. I mean, it's every single part of
Speaker 2: the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area that could be impacted
Speaker 2: by these winds that are rolling in. And this is
Speaker 2: another potential consequence public safety power shutoffs. They're being considered
Speaker 2: for nearly three hundred thousand customers across the region, including
Speaker 2: Southern California's Edison So So Cal Edison, You're gonna have
Speaker 2: to pay attention today. We're gonna bring you all of
Speaker 2: the details as we get them all morning, all afternoon,
Speaker 2: all evening, and night long right here on KFI. So
Speaker 2: stay with us, but also keep your devices charged and
Speaker 2: get your go bag ready in case the situation gets
Speaker 2: bad where you are. Since the war between Israel and
Speaker 2: Hamas started, we have heard cries for ceasefire, from international
Speaker 2: leaders to the White House to college campuses right here
Speaker 2: in southern California. There have been some close calls, and
Speaker 2: now we may be closer to the latest one. Both
Speaker 2: the outgoing and incoming presidents have wanted to see the
Speaker 2: fighting stopped, but negotiations currently have become bogged down over
Speaker 2: the names of hostages to be released. ABC News correspondent
Speaker 2: Jordana Miller joins US Live from Jerusalem to talk about it.
Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Jordana.
Speaker 5: Good morning. Hamas has said that they have approved a
Speaker 5: list of thirty four hostages that they are willing to
Speaker 5: release in the first part of a ceasefire. It's important
Speaker 5: to note, though, that Hamas has not said who is
Speaker 5: alive and who is dead on this list, and it
Speaker 5: does include the names of two Americans, one in their
Speaker 5: sixty and a younger Israeli American in his thirties. This
Speaker 5: list of hostages has not been really it has not
Speaker 5: been seen officially or given back officially to the Israelis.
Speaker 5: It's a list that Israel initially gave to the mediators
Speaker 5: in the summertime, and so there's some questions about why
Speaker 5: Hamas has released it or why they're talking about it
Speaker 5: in the press instead of passing it through the mediators
Speaker 5: to Israel. So some here see it as a move
Speaker 5: to kind of pressure Israel, and of course it is.
Speaker 5: You know, it has stirred the Israeli public as anything
Speaker 5: related to the hostage issue or crisis does. Right, there's
Speaker 5: thirty four names on the list, but there's you know,
Speaker 5: ninety six hostages. So here in Israel, some of the
Speaker 5: families are you know, are cautiously optimistic when they saw
Speaker 5: the names of their loved ones on the list, but
Speaker 5: others are just furious that that you know, over sixty
Speaker 5: hostages are not on this list. What will be their fate?
Speaker 5: So you know, again that is you know, there are
Speaker 5: protests here daily against the government of calling on them
Speaker 5: to really negotiate for a full swap all the hostages,
Speaker 5: for a large number of Palestinian prisoners to be released,
Speaker 5: but that is not clearly, that is not where the
Speaker 5: negotiations are going. As we see a partial deal being
Speaker 5: talked about. Even though this list is out there, we
Speaker 5: are still not at the finish line, we heard Sector
Speaker 5: of State Anthony Blincoln say he hopes to complete a deal.
Speaker 5: I think it is before President Trump returns to the
Speaker 5: White House. I think it is highly, highly unlikely, unfortunately,
Speaker 5: because there's still obstacles and disputes. You know, will the
Speaker 5: Israeli army withdraw all of their forces? Will this seafire
Speaker 5: mean the end of the war or just the seafire?
Speaker 5: How many Palestinian prisoners will be released for each American
Speaker 5: versus each Israeli female soldier versus you know, just an
Speaker 5: ordinary Israeli the numbers are all different. They haven't been
Speaker 5: agreed upon. So we're still, i would say, unfortunately, weeks
Speaker 5: away from a ceasefire deal.
Speaker 2: I was just about to ask you what a ceasefire
Speaker 2: would mean, and you explained it just then. It seems
Speaker 2: like no one really knows. Does it mean we just
Speaker 2: stopped fighting for a little while? Is the war over?
Speaker 2: So that's another sticking point. But also as it relates
Speaker 2: to the list of hostages who are on these lists,
Speaker 2: it's been reported that Hamas doesn't know which hostages or
Speaker 2: are alive or dead.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right. Hamas says they don't know, and
Speaker 5: that's another sticking point. Israel wants to know what they're
Speaker 5: getting in this deal before they sign it, and that's
Speaker 5: because Hamas acted in bad faith during the last ceasefire.
Speaker 5: Even though over one hundred fifty people came out of
Speaker 5: Gaza back in November of twenty twenty three, still Hamas
Speaker 5: did not end up faithfully completing that deal. They were
Speaker 5: supposed to release every female that they had, every female
Speaker 5: Israeli's hostage, and they did not do that. They're still
Speaker 5: over a dozen that they're holding, including young Israeli girls,
Speaker 5: with the grave concern that they, you know, are being
Speaker 5: sexually assaulted. Right their names do appear on this list
Speaker 5: of thirty four to come out. In the first phase,
Speaker 5: Hamas is asking for several days of a ceasefire to
Speaker 5: try to locate and figure out what's happening with the hostages,
Speaker 5: who's alive and who's dead. But of course Israel has,
Speaker 5: you know, a certain amount of skepticism, and they're not,
Speaker 5: you know, there's a huge trust gap of course between
Speaker 5: the sides. And in the past Hamasa said, we don't
Speaker 5: know where this hostage is. We think so and so
Speaker 5: is dead, and they've turned out to be alive and
Speaker 5: Hamas turns them over. So you know, is Hamas telling
Speaker 5: the truth? Do they really not know about where most
Speaker 5: of these hostages are or are they saying that to
Speaker 5: buy extra time.
Speaker 2: We're talking with ABC News correspondent Ordana Miller, who is
Speaker 2: live in Jerusalem, and before we let you go this morning,
Speaker 2: we are facing a significant change here in America. The
Speaker 2: White House will be in different hands on January twenty,
Speaker 2: President Biden leaving office, President Elect Trump resuming office, returning
Speaker 2: to office. What can we expect in terms of the
Speaker 2: approach by the US to this conflict when that change
Speaker 2: takes place in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's clear when we look at some
Speaker 5: of the remarks from Israeli officials that you know, they
Speaker 5: expect that President Trump will support what Israel wants to
Speaker 5: do next. Obviously that wasn't always the case with President Biden,
Speaker 5: for better and for worse. But I think here the
Speaker 5: assessment is that Israel's going to wait to really sign
Speaker 5: a Gaza cease fire until after Trump's in office, hoping
Speaker 5: that Trump may be able to put pressure on the mediators,
Speaker 5: cutter on Egypt. Those who are the greatest influence over
Speaker 5: Hamas to get them to finally crack if you will, Hamas.
Speaker 5: Many people believed that once Ja Chessinoir, the head of Hamas,
Speaker 5: was killed by the Israelis, which happened, you know, several
Speaker 5: weeks ago, you know, in October, a couple months ago,
Speaker 5: many believed that Hamas would soften their position once he
Speaker 5: was out. But his brother has now taken over the
Speaker 5: negotiations and he has not again showed flexibility on the
Speaker 5: issue of ending the war of an Israeli true presence,
Speaker 5: on the identity of Palestinians that will be released. And
Speaker 5: so the hope, I think of many Israeli politicians is
Speaker 5: that when Trump comes into office, he'll be able to
Speaker 5: exert more pressure on the mediators and back Israel if
Speaker 5: it wants to continue the military operation in Gaza. There's
Speaker 5: still combat in the northern part of Gaza and central Gaza,
Speaker 5: until Hamas feels that they're under more pressure to cave
Speaker 5: in or show flexibility. So I think many, you know,
Speaker 5: here in Jerusalem, the political class are waiting for Trump
Speaker 5: to come into office. They think it will work Togral's benefit,
Speaker 5: and it likely will.
Speaker 2: ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joining us live from Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: We really appreciate the time you gave us, and I
Speaker 2: hope we get to talk again soon.
Speaker 5: Thanks Tucson.
Speaker 2: We're going to be heading to CES in Las Vegas momentarily,
Speaker 2: but we are we connected yet? Are connected? All right?
Speaker 2: We're gonna get onto The Consumer Electronics Show is what
Speaker 2: it used to be called. Now it's just called CES.
Speaker 2: And every year in Vegas, the tech world companies and
Speaker 2: their enthusiasts they gather for this thing and a lot
Speaker 2: of people go to this Tech names like Google and
Speaker 2: Samsung are there, but so are Delta, Volvo and Laoreal.
Speaker 2: We'll see things like a self driving John Deere tractor,
Speaker 2: talk about your Way mo Am I right, and smart
Speaker 2: baby bassinettes microwaves with tablets built in. ABC News Technology
Speaker 2: reporter Mike Debuski he joins his Live Now to talk
Speaker 2: about it all. Good morning to you, Mike.
Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you? I am well?
Speaker 2: So CES starts today. What does this event mean to
Speaker 2: the tech industry and consumers.
Speaker 6: Well, it is the tech world's annual trade show, and
Speaker 6: it takes place in Las Vegas at the beginning of
Speaker 6: every year. It's a way for the tech world to
Speaker 6: really set the tone for the year ahead. Organizers they're
Speaker 6: expecting about one hundred and forty thousand people to descend
Speaker 6: on Las Vegas, thousands of exhibitors as well, across about
Speaker 6: a dozen different buildings around the city, including some of
Speaker 6: the biggest convention centers in the country. And this year
Speaker 6: is perhaps no surprise all about artificial intelligence. AI has
Speaker 6: taken over the tech world in a big way in
Speaker 6: recent years, and that's absolutely showing up here at CES,
Speaker 6: as evidenced by the fact that the keynote address kicking
Speaker 6: everything off last night in Las Vegas was given by
Speaker 6: Jensen Huang. He's the CEO of Invidia, that is, of
Speaker 6: course the computer chip company that really took off in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty four because their processors are really good at
Speaker 6: running and building AI programs, and Vidia has really become
Speaker 6: the go to company for Meta and Amazon and Google
Speaker 6: and others when they're building their own AI technologies. Gary
Speaker 6: Shapiro is the head of the organization that puts on CES,
Speaker 6: and he told me in the lead up to this
Speaker 6: event that he's expected about half of the exhibitors on
Speaker 6: the floor to mention generative AI in some capacity.
Speaker 3: So AI is the big thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I imagine there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 2: oohing and eyeing over it, a lot of showing off
Speaker 2: of what folks can do with AI. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, the role that this technology plays in our
Speaker 2: everyday lives, it's become a regular topic for discussion and
Speaker 2: even concern for lawmakers for the public. Does that loom
Speaker 2: over this event at all or is it all just
Speaker 2: horay horay?
Speaker 6: I think it does in some capacity, right, AI, you know,
Speaker 6: really kind of has been It's been around for a
Speaker 6: very long time, but the recent wave of AI excitement
Speaker 6: and AI hype really started with the launch of j
Speaker 6: GPT in twenty twenty two, and since then the technology
Speaker 6: has yet to answer some pretty crucial questions, things like
Speaker 6: energy consumption. This is a very power hungry type of
Speaker 6: technology and it puts a lot of strain on energy
Speaker 6: grids and local environments, so that is something that they
Speaker 6: haven't quite f figured out yet. In addition to that,
Speaker 6: the ability by which people can easily spread miss and
Speaker 6: disinformation using AI tools that are now readily accessible to
Speaker 6: them continues to be a lingering concern beyond just the
Speaker 6: simple practical matter of the fact that a lot of
Speaker 6: these technologies just aren't very good yet, right. They hallucinate,
Speaker 6: they make mistakes, they make things up, and that is
Speaker 6: something that continues to plague even the top players in
Speaker 6: the industry. Nonetheless, people at CEES are already touting artificial
Speaker 6: intelligence as the way forward. Google, for example, says it's
Speaker 6: going to bring its AI technology, which they call Gemini,
Speaker 6: into their line of smart home products, which they call
Speaker 6: Nest products. HP and Dell have announced a bevy of
Speaker 6: new laptop PCs that they say are designed from the
Speaker 6: ground up to run AI programs, and there's even an
Speaker 6: LGTV TVs are always really big at CEES that they
Speaker 6: say will run AI programs to help sharpen images to
Speaker 6: make your picture quality a little bit better depending on
Speaker 6: how what kind of file you're watching, and they call that.
Speaker 3: The o led Evo TV. So it's already showing up
Speaker 3: in a pretty big way here at the show.
Speaker 2: We're talking with ABC News technology reporter Mike Debuski about
Speaker 2: CEES and all the gadgets and tech on display there
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. I'm wondering, are there stakes for companies
Speaker 2: at this event? Is it like a Super Bowl commercial?
Speaker 2: Thing you really want to be the one that people
Speaker 2: talk about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think a good way to think about CES
Speaker 6: is not necessarily like, you know, means by which to
Speaker 6: look at stuff that you're gonna buy, but rather kind
Speaker 6: of a popularity contest or a talent show maybe is
Speaker 6: the better comparison. Last year, we saw a company called
Speaker 6: Rabbit breakout with an AI device that they called the
Speaker 6: r One. It was kind of the darling of the show.
Speaker 6: It had this fun design that was bright orange and
Speaker 6: it looked like an old, kind of retro piece of
Speaker 6: technology from the nineteen eighties, and people really kind of
Speaker 6: fell in love with this thing at CES and they
Speaker 6: saw a lot of pre orders as a result. Of course,
Speaker 6: it's worth mentioning later in the year when reviewers got
Speaker 6: their hands on the thing, it didn't quite work as
Speaker 6: intended or as explained, But that is kind of what
Speaker 6: CES is all about, right. It's a place for these
Speaker 6: smaller companies to have a breakout moment and really capture
Speaker 6: the attention of the broader tech press. It was Rabbit's
Speaker 6: game last year. It's still too early to say who's
Speaker 6: going to be the big winner this year, but you know, competitors,
Speaker 6: big and small from companies that you've never heard of
Speaker 6: to Google's and Samsung's and Hyundai and Sony you know,
Speaker 6: are all at the show as well. So we're gonna
Speaker 6: have to just wait and see who kind of breaks out.
Speaker 2: Oh, what are the buzziest gadgets that might end up
Speaker 2: in people's homes or possessions soon.
Speaker 6: So there's several. There's an LG signature over the Range
Speaker 6: microwave oven in case your microwave oven doesn't have enough
Speaker 6: screen on it. This one has a twenty seven inch
Speaker 6: Android tablet that you can run apps on like Zoom.
Speaker 6: Because it's got cam as well, you can track, you know,
Speaker 6: the status of your popcorn as it's popping in the
Speaker 6: microwave oven as well using those cameras. LG says it's
Speaker 6: just a concept, but based on reception that they're going
Speaker 6: to get at this show, they could put it into
Speaker 6: production before the end of the year. Some robo vacuum
Speaker 6: announcements at CEES this year. There's this company called Dream
Speaker 6: that has a robot vacuum that it says can push
Speaker 6: itself up small inclines, which is pretty interesting, not stairs
Speaker 6: or anything like that. They say it can only kind
Speaker 6: of do this up to two point five inches. But
Speaker 6: this robot vacuum kind of looks like an old rumba,
Speaker 6: has little arms that you know, deploy and can kind
Speaker 6: of push itself up these small little lips that it
Speaker 6: can encounter in a person's home. And another robot vacuum
Speaker 6: piece of news is called the robo rock. This has
Speaker 6: a retractable arm that can come out and move things
Speaker 6: that are in its way out of the way, so
Speaker 6: dog toys or arrant socks, or laundry or anything like that.
Speaker 6: That's what the robo rock is designed to address. And
Speaker 6: then I got another fun one for you, but you
Speaker 6: might want to hold your nose for it. It's called
Speaker 6: the re This is what bosh China is calling a
Speaker 6: smart baby crib. And this crib has a sensor in
Speaker 6: it that can detect changes in air quality. Oh, I
Speaker 6: see where you're going with you see where I'm going
Speaker 6: with this, and it can alert you when your baby
Speaker 6: needs a diaper change, so that might be very helpful
Speaker 6: to some new parents. It also, of course has a
Speaker 6: heart and a respiratory sensor in it as well as
Speaker 6: he can keep track of your bad baby's status. That
Speaker 6: is already in production. It's one thousand dollars and it's
Speaker 6: only available in China right now, but again, based on
Speaker 6: reception at this show, that could change.
Speaker 2: Well, all I have is a cat, and he has
Speaker 2: no problem letting me know when it's time to change
Speaker 2: that litterbox. But maybe someday that product will appeal to
Speaker 2: me as well. Mike Debuski, ABC News Technology reporter in
Speaker 2: New York, thank you so much for joining us Live today.
Speaker 2: We do appreciate you, of course, take care. President Biden
Speaker 2: has arrived in La and is traveling to the Coachella
Speaker 2: Valley today to announce the creation of a national monument
Speaker 2: south of Joshua Tree National Park. The President and first
Speaker 2: late He got here last night after visiting families of
Speaker 2: terror victims in New Orleans. Biden is preparing to sign
Speaker 2: a proclamation that would establish a Chukwala National Monument, making drilling, mining,
Speaker 2: and other energy and industrial related activity illegal in that area.
Speaker 2: An earthquake has killed at least ninety five people in Tibet,
Speaker 2: damaged hundreds of homes as well, and also impacted a
Speaker 2: high altitude region of western China and areas of Nepal
Speaker 2: many other areas. Excuse me, many others were trapped. Dozens
Speaker 2: of aftershocks have shaken that remote region. The state funeral
Speaker 2: of President Jimmy Carter moves to the nation's capital after
Speaker 2: memorials in Georgia. His body will be taken from the
Speaker 2: Carter Presidential Center today and flown to Washington aboard Special
Speaker 2: Air Mission thirty nine in honor of the thirty ninth President.
Speaker 2: The Carter family and former president will arrive at Joint
Speaker 2: Base Andrews with a motorcade following to the US Navy Memorial.
Speaker 2: Carter's flag draped casket will be transferred to a horse
Speaker 2: drawn carriage or his final journey to the Capitol. And
Speaker 2: then we got Bill Handle coming up at six zho five.
Speaker 2: It'll be Handle on the news this morning. Bill Handle,
Speaker 2: Nil Sevidra and I will be there. We hope you'll
Speaker 2: be there as well. We'll be talking about these Santa
Speaker 2: Ana wins and the threats of fire. Certainly, President elect
Speaker 2: Trump often changes his mind, even right before all our eyes.
Speaker 2: The latest example has maybe come this week, shortly after
Speaker 2: he called for one big, Beautiful bill encompassing much of
Speaker 2: his campaign promises, border security, domestic energy production, a renewal
Speaker 2: of his tax cuts from his first term, no tax
Speaker 2: on tips and more. It's kind of back down a
Speaker 2: bit after facing opposition from Republicans. So what happened and
Speaker 2: what happens next? ABC News National correspondent Stephen Portnoy joins
Speaker 2: his live from Washington, d C. Stephen, Good morning to you, well.
Speaker 3: Good morning to you. Well tell me remember, yeah, you remember.
Speaker 7: That Schoolhouse Rock episode all about budget RECONCILLI right.
Speaker 2: I think so? Was Becca Ferguson the singer.
Speaker 7: No, Unfortunately there was no such episode, and so as
Speaker 7: a result, I have to now explain to you this
Speaker 7: process of how this all works to try to avoid
Speaker 7: a filibuster in the Senate. Budget reconciliation is the process
Speaker 7: by hammering through along party lines, major pieces of legislation
Speaker 7: that the minority party in the Senate can't block. This
Speaker 7: was the process that Democrats used to get Obamacare passed,
Speaker 7: and the Inflation Production Act and a whole bunch of
Speaker 7: other Biden priorities. It's also the same procedure that Republicans
Speaker 7: used to muscle through the Trump era tax cuts, and
Speaker 7: those tax cuts are now expiring. So how do Republicans
Speaker 7: who control the House and Senate get this done? And
Speaker 7: at a thirty thousand foot viewpoint, what they want to
Speaker 7: do is they want to accomplish a lot. They want
Speaker 7: border provisions, energy provisions, tax provisions, debt provisions, spending things,
Speaker 7: and all of it. The question is whether they're going
Speaker 7: to do it in one big, beautiful bill as Donald
Speaker 7: Trump has spoken of, or split it in two as
Speaker 7: Senate leaders are talking about it. They've wanted to do
Speaker 7: because they see it just they think it's just easier
Speaker 7: to do and perhaps more just smarter in their minds.
Speaker 7: Challenge for Speaker Mike Johnson is to keep pretty much
Speaker 7: every single one of his Republicans in line behind the package.
Speaker 7: And if he's afraid if you start picking various parts off,
Speaker 7: there'll be some in his caucus to say, I want
Speaker 7: this but not that. And how do you accomplish the
Speaker 7: entire goal if you have some of the members breaking off.
Speaker 7: He can't as we saw last Friday when he had
Speaker 7: his election for Speaker. He can't afford to lose more
Speaker 7: than one vote. And you have a number of moderates
Speaker 7: from mainly the Northeast, who come from high tax states
Speaker 7: such as New Jersey and New York, Connecticut and other
Speaker 7: places who have made that majority because without those Republicans,
Speaker 7: Speaker Johnson doesn't have the gavel at all. They want
Speaker 7: a restoration of that state and local tax deduction, and
Speaker 7: they've been demanding it for years. Say that this is
Speaker 7: their moment of maximum leverage.
Speaker 2: Okay, so, well Trump coming to talk to them today.
Speaker 7: Or no, No, he's right, So he's going to be
Speaker 7: on Capitol Hill tomorrow. We expect he's gonna meet with
Speaker 7: Senate Republicans at least. But look, the question is how
Speaker 7: are they going to proceed? And we're not even talking
Speaker 7: about the details. We're talking about the broad strategy here
Speaker 7: is gonna be one bill or two bills, easy enough,
Speaker 7: And yet it has to be decided right off the
Speaker 7: bat because the way this process works, the House and
Speaker 7: Senate have to pass a budget resolution that doesn't go
Speaker 7: to the President's desk. It's just between the two houses.
Speaker 7: They agree on that, and then they have to pass
Speaker 7: enacting legislation behind it that does wind up becoming enacted
Speaker 7: into law the President signs it. So at first the
Speaker 7: leaders have to agree on a handshake between themselves, and
Speaker 7: there is a bit of a philosophical disagreement. One bill
Speaker 7: or two and yesterday on a radio interview, President Elect
Speaker 7: Trump said that he'd prefer one bill, but if it
Speaker 7: has to be two, that's okay too. And the lack
Speaker 7: of some you know, firm guidance to the members isn't
Speaker 7: helpful because there is this little minor simmering debate should
Speaker 7: it be one bill or two bills? And unless the
Speaker 7: President elect chooses one path, you're gonna continue to have
Speaker 7: that disagreement.
Speaker 2: Well, regardless of how many bills we end up with.
Speaker 2: Here are we seeing that the President elect and his
Speaker 2: Republican Congress intend to move swiftly on those campaign promises.
Speaker 7: Well, certainly that's the plan. I mean, look for this
Speaker 7: to make sense and happen. They want to do it
Speaker 7: as soon as possible. They want to hit the ground running.
Speaker 7: They want to confirm Trump's nominees in the Senate. They
Speaker 7: want to move this border, immigration, as energy at tax
Speaker 7: bill as swiftly as possible in the House. But again,
Speaker 7: in order for them to move forward, they really do
Speaker 7: need agreement between House and Senate leaders, and that is
Speaker 7: the first step.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Senator Foon, the South Dakota Republican who now leads the
Speaker 7: Senate Republican majority, has said he wants two bills, and
Speaker 7: that lobbying to try to persuade Trump to back that continues,
Speaker 7: which is why Trump said yesterday, Oh, if.
Speaker 3: It's two bills, that's okay too. Not okay for Speaker Johnson.
Speaker 7: He sees strategically the importance of having it in one package.
Speaker 7: And again, this really does need to get resolved in
Speaker 7: order for anything to happen on the House side.
Speaker 2: Occasionally there have been Democrats coming out in support of
Speaker 2: some of Trump's policy proposals, like no tax on tips.
Speaker 2: But if they lump it together in these bills with
Speaker 2: things that they find a little more deplorable, does that
Speaker 2: threaten its success without democratic support?
Speaker 3: Well, it's hard to know.
Speaker 7: I mean, look, the idea that Democrats would be on
Speaker 7: board with some of these border provisions or just general
Speaker 7: tax policies, I think is unlikely, and this will be
Speaker 7: seen as a partisan package. If there happen to be
Speaker 7: a couple of Democrats who come on board, well that'll
Speaker 7: be a big surprise and it'll be helpful to Speaker Johnson.
Speaker 7: I just don't think it's likely, and I don't think
Speaker 7: he thinks it's likely either. They intend to move forward
Speaker 7: on a party line basis, because they have the majorities
Speaker 7: in both houses, and so they're going to try to
Speaker 7: do that if it can win a couple of Democrats
Speaker 7: get them on board, well.
Speaker 3: Bully for them.
Speaker 7: But they don't feel the need to necessarily sweeten the
Speaker 7: pot for Democrats, at least not yet, and it's going
Speaker 7: to be a difficult challenge. You mentioned in particular that
Speaker 7: no tax on tips idea. It was certainly a popular
Speaker 7: idea for Trump, and he reiterated the importance of it
Speaker 7: earlier in the week when he posted on social media
Speaker 7: about it to remind everybody in his own party that
Speaker 7: he called for it, no tax on tips and all caps. Well, sure,
Speaker 7: except if you are a wage earner who doesn't earn
Speaker 7: tips and you don't get that break, and you know
Speaker 7: you're a truck driver or a construction worker, and you know, well,
Speaker 7: sorry for you. And never mind the fact that there's
Speaker 7: a cost to the treasury if you remove that taxation. Well,
Speaker 7: how do you cover that cost? Who gets the tax
Speaker 7: increase to make up the difference? Or where do you
Speaker 7: cut the spending? What government agency or program get gets cut?
Speaker 7: And never mind the fact that some of the Freedom
Speaker 7: Caucus want to see it cuts two of the entitlement programs,
Speaker 7: social Security and Medicaid and medicare. Donald Trump's not on
Speaker 7: board for that, So it all seems very easy until
Speaker 7: you start putting pen to paper.
Speaker 2: That's ABC News National correspondent Steven Portnoy, who always breaks
Speaker 2: it down so well for us. Although next time you
Speaker 2: mentioned Schoolhouse Rock, I do hope you sing a little
Speaker 2: bit for us. Thank you, warm up a little bit
Speaker 2: more coffee, all right, have a great day. Thanks for
Speaker 2: being with us again, you bet well. We're watching these
Speaker 2: strong winds as they are set to blow across the Southland.
Speaker 2: The National Weather Service has called this a dangerous situation,
Speaker 2: potentially life threatening, destructive, wide spread windstorm. They're not mincing words.
Speaker 2: They don't use hyperbolic language at the NWS here in
Speaker 2: LA and they say even areas that are not typically
Speaker 2: windy could be impacted today, tomorrow, maybe a little into Thursday.
Speaker 2: They say the thread of wildfires has been raised dramatically.
Speaker 2: We've got red flag warnings already in place for some
Speaker 2: places as of four o'clock this morning. That includes the
Speaker 2: Malibu Coast, the Santa Monica Mountains recreational area, the San
Speaker 2: Gabriel Valley, the San Fernando Valley, Callabasas, the Santa Clarita Valley,
Speaker 2: the San Gabriel Mountains, the five and fourteen freeway corridors,
Speaker 2: and then at new today we got a warning extending
Speaker 2: to include the La County Beaches, the Palas Verdes Hills,
Speaker 2: Catalina Island, the inland La County Coast, stretching all the
Speaker 2: way into downtown La and there will be more coming
Speaker 2: out across the region ten am this morning to six
Speaker 2: pm Wednesday. The Antelope Valley joins the list and then
Speaker 2: they'll be upgraded to particularly dangerous situation a little bit
Speaker 2: later this afternoon as the Weather Service monitors the situation.
Speaker 2: It's not good conditions out there. So this is one
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Speaker 2: have your go bag ready when they tell you to evacuate.
Speaker 2: Probably a good idea to evacuate, even if you just
Speaker 2: get the feeling that maybe you should get out of dodge.
Speaker 2: You might trust your instinct there. It's it's a tough one.
Speaker 2: We haven't had enough rain. We really haven't had any
Speaker 2: nothing more than a tenth of an inch since last May.
Speaker 2: That's made it really dry out there. It's created a
Speaker 2: lot of fuel. They're sending a lot of firefighters down
Speaker 2: from northern California. I mean, they are preparing for a
Speaker 2: serious situation. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but
Speaker 2: let's be prepared just in case it does. And this
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Speaker 2: Southland weather from KFI. Outside of those winds, the Santa
Speaker 2: Ana wins and the fire conditions, the regular old forecast
Speaker 2: says it'll be sunny, well highs around seventy from the
Speaker 2: beaches to downtown La mid sixties to around seventy in
Speaker 2: the San Fernando Valley, the sixties to around seventy in
Speaker 2: the San Gabriel Valley, mid sixties in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Speaker 2: It will be lower to mid fifties in the Antelope Valley.
Speaker 2: Right now, it is forty nine in Lahabra, fifty eight
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