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Speaker 1: Yes it is. It's five o'clock. This is your wake
Speaker 1: up call for Wednesday, April twenty third. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I keep thinking
Speaker 1: it's Thursday. Like normally, I don't know about you, but
Speaker 1: weeks have been just flying by. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's because we're having fun or what's going on, but
Speaker 1: weeks are just flying by. And then this week I
Speaker 1: keep thinking it's Thursday. I'm like, no, cool, your you know, cool,
Speaker 1: your jets same, it's only Wednesday. But that's okay. It
Speaker 1: means we're halfway home. Halfway home. Here's what's ahead on
Speaker 1: wake up Call. The LAPED is urging residents to be
Speaker 1: careful following a series of so called distraction robberies. Police
Speaker 1: say a man and a woman have been approaching people,
Speaker 1: engaging them and complimenting their jewelry, and then police say
Speaker 1: they offer to swap their jewelry for better jewelry and
Speaker 1: somehow get the victims to let them put on fake
Speaker 1: jewelry and steal the real pieces. A man in Long Beach,
Speaker 1: seen on video lifting his dog by its leash, slamming
Speaker 1: it onto the ground several times and kicking it, has
Speaker 1: been arrested. Long Beach Police picked the guy up last night.
Speaker 1: Police say the dog has been rescued. It's in the
Speaker 1: care of Long Beach Animal Care Services. That video breaks
Speaker 1: my heart. It's just gone viral. It's everywhere, and if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it and you don't like to see
Speaker 1: dog abuse, don't watch it. It's just so infuriating. The
Speaker 1: body of Pope Francis is lying in Steae at Saint
Speaker 1: Peter's Basilica. The faithful will pass by for the next
Speaker 1: couple of days to pay their last respects. The Pope's
Speaker 1: funeral happens Saturday, starts at one am hour time. This
Speaker 1: body will then be taken to the Basilica of Saint
Speaker 1: Mary Major in Rome to be in tune. Okay, the
Speaker 1: wildfires in Pasadena, more than ae hundred days out and
Speaker 1: also Altadena are literally affecting the brains of people who
Speaker 1: live in burn zones. We're gonna be talking to UC
Speaker 1: San Diego professor Yo T. Mishra about a new study
Speaker 1: about how the fires are making people think differently, really
Speaker 1: interesting stuff. At five point twenty, we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking tough times for TESLA, and ABC's Mike Tubuski says
Speaker 1: something that has become a staple for video viewing is
Speaker 1: turning twenty. At the bottom of the hour, Amy's on
Speaker 1: it speaking of things that are more than twenty years old.
Speaker 1: A throwback feel good movie I think you're gonna want
Speaker 1: to watch. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
Speaker 1: LAPD has arrested a man accused of using a chainsaw
Speaker 1: to cut down a bunch of trees in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: Police released security video yesterday of a man on a
Speaker 1: bicycle believed to have been responsible for the hackings. His
Speaker 1: arrest was announced hours later. Investigator say he also cut
Speaker 1: down trees in LA's Westlake District and in glasel Park,
Speaker 1: Orange County Superior Court judge charged with killing his wife
Speaker 1: in Anaheim Hills has been found guilty of second degree
Speaker 1: murder seventy four year old Jeffrey Ferguson was convicted yesterday
Speaker 1: in his retrial. Orange County DA Todd Spitzer tells cafe's
Speaker 1: Tim Conway Junior that Ferguson could get forty years to
Speaker 1: life in prison, possibly with the possibility of parole.
Speaker 5: I just want to caveat the public's expectation when you're
Speaker 5: over fifty five, who end up being eligible in California
Speaker 5: for elder parole.
Speaker 1: The jury in Ferguson's first trial deadlocked at eleven and one,
Speaker 1: which forced the retrial. Ferguson is due to be sentenced
Speaker 1: in June. A controversy over porn sign is getting heated
Speaker 1: in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 6: Shines reading protect our Kids from Porn no On A
Speaker 6: and B have appeared outside local elementary schools. The signs
Speaker 6: were placed ahead of a June tenth special election on
Speaker 6: two library related measures. Councilman Chad Williams, who leads the
Speaker 6: pack behind the signs, defends them, saying explicit content is
Speaker 6: accessible to miners in public libraries. Critics argue the claims
Speaker 6: are exaggerated and have called for a formal investigation. Parents
Speaker 6: are voicing concern about exposing young children to the term
Speaker 6: porn without context. Hearings and debates over the measures are ongoing.
Speaker 6: Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: DMV offices are packed as Californians rush to get their
Speaker 1: real ID.
Speaker 7: To manage the number of people trying to get the
Speaker 7: real ID before federal enforcement begins in a couple weeks,
Speaker 7: state DMV offices have extended hours. DMV spokesman Himy Garza says,
Speaker 7: if you don't have to get on a plane or
Speaker 7: go to a federal building, it may be best to
Speaker 7: chill out for now. Then we encourage you to use
Speaker 7: those documents and wait to upgrade to a real ID
Speaker 7: when you're driving. For renewal on May seventh, the federal
Speaker 7: government building a real ID for flying and access to
Speaker 7: federal property. Garza says that's not a deadline to get
Speaker 7: a real ID. They will still be available after that date.
Speaker 7: Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Michael, Michael. I think that might have
Speaker 1: been Jordana interrupting us. Let's say good morning now to
Speaker 1: ABC's Giordana Millard. Jordana, we had two big leaders having
Speaker 1: another conversation yesterday. Natanyahu and Trump spoke my phone.
Speaker 8: That's right, and we really didn't hear many details of
Speaker 8: that conversation.
Speaker 1: He is reelly.
Speaker 8: Prime Minister's office didn't even put out a statement to
Speaker 8: read out. Just Natano turned to Twitter and put on
Speaker 8: this account, thank you very much, President Trump. Trump of
Speaker 8: course put on his social media account that you know,
Speaker 8: they had a good meeting. It was very positive there.
Speaker 8: You know, they see eye to eye on all the
Speaker 8: issues wrong, and they also talked about tariffs. There wasn't
Speaker 8: in there a mention of the Gaza war or the hostages.
Speaker 8: There really has been no movement on a ceasefire deal
Speaker 8: over the Passover holiday. Hamas rejecting the latest partial agreement
Speaker 8: that was put on the table by some of the
Speaker 8: mediators and supported by Israel in the United States. Hamas said, no,
Speaker 8: we're only interested in a full swap of all the
Speaker 8: fifty nine hostages in return for an end of the
Speaker 8: war and a full Israeli withdrawal. For many reasons, the
Speaker 8: Israelis cannot do that, so we're kind of back to
Speaker 8: square one. And in this conversation, you know, it's likely
Speaker 8: that the President did mention, of course, the Gaza war.
Speaker 8: He wants the hostages to come out and the President
Speaker 8: that the Israeli Prime Minister has been threatening to really
Speaker 8: intensify the military operation, even some in his cabinet openly
Speaker 8: calling for a military takeover of the entire Gaza strip.
Speaker 8: But that is likely not what the President wants. And
Speaker 8: we are hearing that the Israeli Prime Minister is going
Speaker 8: to wait and give another chance for negotiations, wait several,
Speaker 8: you know, a couple at least a couple more weeks
Speaker 8: and see what happens. And also wait and see what
Speaker 8: happens between you know, the United States in Iran with
Speaker 8: these new negotiations over Ron's nuclear program. Right, the Prime
Speaker 8: Minister has certainly put in his two cents with the
Speaker 8: President about some of Israel's concerns with the deal. And
Speaker 8: you know, I think the Prime Minister is showing that
Speaker 8: he's going to be patient and wait and see what
Speaker 8: happens with those talks.
Speaker 1: And of course we'd be purely speculating if we throw
Speaker 1: any conclusions. But to me, it sounds like if they
Speaker 1: both said, hey, he had a good talk, but there
Speaker 1: were no announcements in the White House didn't say anything,
Speaker 1: and Natnahu's people didn't really say anything. It sounds like
Speaker 1: they didn't really make any progress.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure there was any progress made, but I
Speaker 8: do think it's probably too early to talk about any
Speaker 8: kind of really crisis between the leaders or major tensions.
Speaker 8: I think President Trump has made it clear that he
Speaker 8: wants Natamielle to do his best to get a hostage
Speaker 8: deal before launching another massive military assault on Gaza. Remember,
Speaker 8: right now, there are thousands of Israeli troops in the
Speaker 8: Gaza Strip. They're mostly in the carved out and expanding
Speaker 8: buffer zone all along the periphery of the Gaza Strip. Right,
Speaker 8: they're pushing inwards, but there isn't massive ground combat right
Speaker 8: now that and there, but there are deadly air strikes.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 8: We're seeing an average of thirty to fifty people killed
Speaker 8: a day, which is not a small number, but it's
Speaker 8: not at the levels of major combat and war that
Speaker 8: we saw, you know, through most of the war, the
Speaker 8: first phase of the war, where up to two hundred
Speaker 8: people were killed to day.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 8: So the President I think is likely telling Natanyao hold back,
Speaker 8: wait right now, you know, let's try to get a
Speaker 8: deal and you know, keep your you know, far right
Speaker 8: ministers who are pushing for war, you know, keep them,
Speaker 8: you know, keep them in line. And you know I want,
Speaker 8: you know, I want to see a deal only after,
Speaker 8: you know, after everything's been exhausted.
Speaker 1: And I think the tragic thing about this Chartana is
Speaker 1: as the two sides talk and then like you said,
Speaker 1: Hamas rejected the last thing, I mean, it's and you said,
Speaker 1: we're back to square one. It still sounds like both
Speaker 1: sides are still stuck on what they were stuck on,
Speaker 1: you know, a year ago when this started, and then
Speaker 1: Palestinians continue to pay the price.
Speaker 8: Right well, I think the saddest part of this war really,
Speaker 8: I mean, there's a lot of sad parts. I don't
Speaker 8: want to put any group's pain above another's, because the
Speaker 8: Israeli hostages have suffered tremendously. There are fifty nine that
Speaker 8: are still there, their families are suffering. It has really
Speaker 8: it is a festering wound in Israel, and it is
Speaker 8: torn part of this country apart. But certainly the Palestinians
Speaker 8: are also paying a very heavy price because they're dying
Speaker 8: every day in this war now. And it's true that
Speaker 8: among those killed, you know, very bad guys are killed.
Speaker 8: Right there are Hamas militants and leaders killed, There are
Speaker 8: Palestinian Islamic jihadis killed, there are weapons destroyed. But the price,
Speaker 8: you know, there's usually at least for every one bad guy,
Speaker 8: at least two to three innocent gossins that are killed, right, women, children,
Speaker 8: the elderly. And this is you know, this is a terrible,
Speaker 8: terrible price to pay, and they are you know, they
Speaker 8: are paying it, and it you know, it has, it
Speaker 8: has slowly been. The death toll each day again is
Speaker 8: somewhere between thirty and fifty. And remember a lot of
Speaker 8: gossins are living in tense cities. And as we saw,
Speaker 8: for example, overnight, the Israelis hit a school that in
Speaker 8: Gaza that you know, we're waiting for a statement from
Speaker 8: the Israli Army to lay out who the target was.
Speaker 8: But you know, in the end, that strike, you know,
Speaker 8: it ignites tens where civilians are living, and then it
Speaker 8: becomes you know, almost a kind of brush fire right
Speaker 8: through the camps where people are living, and it's people
Speaker 8: are porched and get killed. It's you know, it is
Speaker 8: you know, horrifying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, and I hate to leave it on
Speaker 1: that note, but that's where we're going to leave it today.
Speaker 1: Jordanna Miller, ABC, thank you so much for your information.
Speaker 1: As always, talk soon, all right, let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. A belle ceremony has been held in
Speaker 1: Rome as the coffin carrying the body of Pope Francis
Speaker 1: has moved into Saint Peter's Basilica, where it will lie
Speaker 1: in state for three days. The public will have the
Speaker 1: chance to pass by and pay their respects before the
Speaker 1: Pope's funeral on Saturday. Francis died early Monday. The conclave,
Speaker 1: which is the process of choosing a new pope, has
Speaker 1: to begin between May fifth and tenth. Russian President Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin has apparently offered to stop its invasion of Ukraine
Speaker 1: along what is now the front line so different borders.
Speaker 1: The Financial Time says it's part of efforts to reach
Speaker 1: a peach deal, a peace deal. You and European officials
Speaker 1: meet with Ukrainian officials today in London. Trump said on
Speaker 1: True Social he hopes Russia and Ukraine will make a
Speaker 1: deal this week. The government has submitted its status update
Speaker 1: on the man who was living in Maryland and deported
Speaker 1: to El Salvador. It follows President Trump's criticism of judges
Speaker 1: who've ruled against his administration's effort to deport alleged Venezuelan
Speaker 1: gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of seventeen ninety eight.
Speaker 4: We're getting him out, and a judge can't say no,
Speaker 4: you have to have a trial.
Speaker 8: That let's the trial is going to take two years.
Speaker 1: He says. Thousands of people are all ready to be deported,
Speaker 1: and you can't have a separate trial for each of them.
Speaker 1: Security has been increased across Indian controlled Kashmir a day
Speaker 1: after men with guns killed at least twenty six people,
Speaker 1: most of them tourists. Indian forces have been searching for
Speaker 1: the killers. Police called it a terror attack. A group
Speaker 1: known as the Kashmir Resistance claimed responsibility in a social
Speaker 1: media message. They claimed the people targeted were not ordinary tourists,
Speaker 1: but were linked to and affiliated with Indian security agencies.
Speaker 1: You may be able to order a red rum at
Speaker 1: this hotel's bar.
Speaker 9: The hotel that inspired the horror classic The Shining is
Speaker 9: making major upgrades. The new owners of the Stanley Hotel
Speaker 9: in Colorado are tapping into municipal bonds to use nearly
Speaker 9: three hundred million dollars to add more rooms and events
Speaker 9: center and a horror museum curated by Blumhouse that's the
Speaker 9: production studio behind numerous horror movies, including Halloween and Paranormal Activity.
Speaker 9: No word on any special amenities in Room two thirty seven.
Speaker 9: The goal is to take advantage of the Sundance Film
Speaker 9: Festival relocating to nearby Boulder in twenty twenty seven. Mark
Speaker 9: Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1: I never saw the shining ooh, I know red rum,
Speaker 1: I know those little things and he and Jack's back
Speaker 1: and that kind of stuff. But no, no, nope, nope.
Speaker 9: All work and no play.
Speaker 1: Eh uh huh, all right. ICE agents have rounded up
Speaker 1: and detained more than a dozen day laborers in Pomona,
Speaker 1: sparking a protest from immigrant rights groups. ICE agents in
Speaker 1: marked and unmarked cars took fifteen to twenty of the
Speaker 1: laborers into custody yesterday morning. Outside the home depot, protesters
Speaker 1: rallied yesterday afternoon to condemn the raid and remind illegal
Speaker 1: immigrants they have rights if they're detained. One of the
Speaker 1: most massive wildfires in the history of Ocean County, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: is burned through more than eighty five hundred acres and
Speaker 1: forced evacuations of thousands of residents. It's also burning close
Speaker 1: to a closed nuclear power plant. Winds have died down overnight,
Speaker 1: allowing fire crews to get lines around about ten percent
Speaker 1: of the fire. Two Asian elephants at the La Zoo
Speaker 1: are going to be moved to a new home. Animal
Speaker 1: rights advocates have been fighting for years to let the
Speaker 1: forty and fifty eight year old elephants live out their
Speaker 1: lives in a wildlife sanctuary. Zoo officials say they will
Speaker 1: relocate Billy and Tina to a newly expanded preserve at
Speaker 1: the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma. A date for the move
Speaker 1: has not been set. At six oh five to ten
Speaker 1: Alon the News, the President says he has no intention
Speaker 1: of firing FED chairman Jerome Powell. What's that going to
Speaker 1: do to the markets? We will see. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning right now to ABC's technology reporter Mike Debuski. Morning, Mike,
Speaker 1: good morning.
Speaker 2: How are you good?
Speaker 1: So yesterday first quarter earnings report for Tesla was released
Speaker 1: and it was not a great one.
Speaker 2: It was not Yeah, revenues for this company. Automotive revenues
Speaker 2: were down twenty percent. Total revenues for the company were
Speaker 2: down nine percent and overall profits down seventy one percent.
Speaker 2: Amy So this is not great for Tesla, obviously, a
Speaker 2: hugely prominent electric vehicle manufacturer used to be the biggest
Speaker 2: electric vehicle manufacturer in the world that has since been
Speaker 2: surpassed by a Chinese company. Obviously, the CEO of that company,
Speaker 2: Elon Musk, has been generating some controversy for his actions
Speaker 2: at the Department of Government Efficiency, and this was our
Speaker 2: first real indicator as to what effect Elon Musk is
Speaker 2: having on Tesla sales. Obviously, we've seen major protest movements
Speaker 2: crop up across the country at Tesla dealerships, Tesla charging stations.
Speaker 2: This protest movement calls itself the Tesla takedown, and these
Speaker 2: are people who are dissatisfied with Elon Musk's moves at
Speaker 2: the federal government, his efforts to trim the federal workforce.
Speaker 2: I've spoken to these protesters. They say Elon Musk is
Speaker 2: an unelected billionaire wreaking havoc on our federal government and
Speaker 2: on people's lives. And clearly that seems to be showing
Speaker 2: up at Tesla's dealerships. For Tesla deliveries and sales, you know,
Speaker 2: and you know, to say nothing of the stock price
Speaker 2: of Tesla, which was down pretty dramatically yesterday though is
Speaker 2: trading slightly up in pre market trading today, So wally
Speaker 2: interesting to.
Speaker 1: See what happens with that as he exits his role
Speaker 1: at doche because he had said one hundred days and
Speaker 1: he's done, so that's like the end of April.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he made sort of more you know, mention
Speaker 2: of that yesterday after the earnings report was released. During
Speaker 2: an earnings call, Lon Musk said that his work at
Speaker 2: DOGE is pretty much done and that he plans to
Speaker 2: step back. He was always a temporary federal worker, right
Speaker 2: His status at DOGE was always had sort of this
Speaker 2: time limit on it, and that time limit comes due
Speaker 2: next month, so it seems like he's not going to renew.
Speaker 2: He says his work is pretty much done, as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: so yeah, it seems like he's going to take a
Speaker 2: step back to focus a little bit more on Tesla,
Speaker 2: which is facing a number of challenges right now. Aside
Speaker 2: from sort of the controversies that its CEO connotes on
Speaker 2: the brand, they're also facing increased competition from a sort
Speaker 2: of resurgent establishment automakers both from here and abroad. The
Speaker 2: sales are down in Europe, sales are down in China,
Speaker 2: and he has mentioned that the tariffs that the Trump
Speaker 2: administration has imposed on the automotive sector will have an
Speaker 2: effect on the company, despite the fact that Tesla builds
Speaker 2: all of its domestic market Tesla's here in Texas and
Speaker 2: in California. They do say that the tariffs on components automotive,
Speaker 2: you know, part are going to have an impact on
Speaker 2: Tesla prices and therefore Tesla sales. So a lot of
Speaker 2: challenges that this company's facing.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I want to move on because we have
Speaker 1: a very important happy birthday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely right. Twenty years ago today was the
Speaker 2: first YouTube video. It's hard to believe that this company,
Speaker 2: this platform is now twenty years old, but yes, on
Speaker 2: April twenty third of two thousand and five, this video
Speaker 2: is called Me at the Zoo was uploaded to the platform.
Speaker 2: Here's what it sounded like.
Speaker 1: All right, so here we are one of the elephants
Speaker 1: in the neighbor.
Speaker 9: Cool things about these guys to think said, they have really, really,
Speaker 9: really long.
Speaker 1: From thanks.
Speaker 2: So a pretty innocuous video. I think it's fair to say,
Speaker 2: but that was Jawad Kareem. He was one of three
Speaker 2: founders of YouTube uploading this video to the platform. Interestingly enough,
Speaker 2: these are three ex PayPal employees who started a video
Speaker 2: dating service. Essentially, this was their attempt to connect people
Speaker 2: on the relatively early Internet, but they found that people
Speaker 2: were using the video component of that dating service for
Speaker 2: all kinds of things, so they decided to spin it
Speaker 2: off into its own standalone video streaming platform called YouTube.
Speaker 2: It quickly became very popular. By March of two thousand
Speaker 2: and six, just a few months after that video was uploaded,
Speaker 2: YouTube was hosting twenty five million videos. About twenty thousand
Speaker 2: new videos were being uploaded to the platform every day,
Speaker 2: and amy that required a lot of computing power. They
Speaker 2: were also dealing with copyright claims from music studios and
Speaker 2: movie studios mad that people were uploading copyrighted material to
Speaker 2: the platform, so Google stepped in in two thousand and
Speaker 2: six to acquire the company for one point sixty five
Speaker 2: billion dollars. Now, according to Nielsen, Americans watch about a
Speaker 2: billion hours of YouTube content every day.
Speaker 1: Well, Mike, I can tell you that I've already been
Speaker 1: watching it because I had to pull a clip from
Speaker 1: a segment that I'm going to do next. I had
Speaker 1: to pull a clip from the show which I have
Speaker 1: not seen and refused to watch. And also it's crazy.
Speaker 2: That's a great movie.
Speaker 1: It's so good a right, And then of course I've
Speaker 1: got the big bear Egle Cam on YouTube and it's
Speaker 1: live all the time in the thing because our little Eglitz,
Speaker 1: Sonny and Gizmo are growing bigger every day. ABC's Mike Dubuski,
Speaker 1: thanks so much, of course, Amy, take care right. LA's
Speaker 1: taking steps to better track the money spent on the homeless.
Speaker 7: The city Council voted unanimously to have a report in
Speaker 7: two months and then every quarter after. It would require
Speaker 7: full details on homeless dollars spent by the LA Homeless
Speaker 7: Services Authority, Mayor bass Is Inside Safe program and other initiatives.
Speaker 7: A recent audit ordered by a federal judge found the
Speaker 7: city had little to know oversight of how and where
Speaker 7: it's homeless dollars are being used. The city has spent
Speaker 7: billions in recent years, only to see the official number
Speaker 7: of homeless people barely drop. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1: Hollywood workers are rallying behind a major push to expand
Speaker 1: California's film and TV tax credit program.
Speaker 6: Over one hundred thousand letters have been sent to state
Speaker 6: lawmakers urging support for SB six thirty and AB one
Speaker 6: one three eight. These are bills that would boost tax
Speaker 6: incentives to seven hundred and fifty million dollars a year
Speaker 6: and widen eligibility for productions. The Entertainment Union Coalition says
Speaker 6: the move is critical to keeping jobs in California as
Speaker 6: productions flee to other states. Hearings on the bill began
Speaker 6: on Tuesday and will continue this week. Opponents are skeptical
Speaker 6: over whether more than doubling the incentive cap is the
Speaker 6: most productive use of those funds. If approved, the new
Speaker 6: program would make California's film incentives second only to Georgia's.
Speaker 6: Heatherbrooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: The European Union has fined Apple five hundred million euros
Speaker 1: and Meta two hundred million euros in separate digital cases.
Speaker 1: Apple was accused of preventing app makers from pointing users
Speaker 1: to cheaper options outside the app store. Meta was fined
Speaker 1: for forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing
Speaker 1: ads or paying to avoid them. When Orange County Superior
Speaker 1: Court judge has been convicted of second degree murder for
Speaker 1: shooting and killing his wife at their home in Annah Hills.
Speaker 1: Seventy four year old Jeffrey Ferguson had claimed it was
Speaker 1: an accident, but the jurors didn't agree and returned a
Speaker 1: guilty verdict in his retrial yesterday afternoon. Ferguson's first trial
Speaker 1: ended with a hung jury. The Port of Long Beach
Speaker 1: is expected to see a forty four percent drop in
Speaker 1: cargo traffic because of President Trump's tariffs. The drops expected
Speaker 1: for the week of May fourth. The Port of La
Speaker 1: is also expecting a significant decline in traffic. The majority
Speaker 1: of goods imported to southern California and handled by the
Speaker 1: ports come from China. Catholics in LA will get a
Speaker 1: chance to honor the late Pope Francis on Friday during
Speaker 1: a noontime memorial mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady
Speaker 1: of the Angels in downtown La. The mass comes a
Speaker 1: day before Pope Francis's funeral in Rome on Saturday at
Speaker 1: six oh five. It's handled on the news, RFK Junior
Speaker 1: says it's time to ditch the dies to save our lives.
Speaker 1: Bill's going to have something to say about that.
Speaker 9: Damie's it, Damie's ni Aami's on it, Ami on it?
Speaker 1: What am I on? While I'm on the stream. There's
Speaker 1: tons of movies and TVs and TV shows and documentaries,
Speaker 1: and how do you sort through it all? It's tough sometimes,
Speaker 1: and I got to tell you, in randomly choosing things,
Speaker 1: I've taken a dive into some real crappy shows. So
Speaker 1: hopefully you can take my recommendations and we can find
Speaker 1: some good shows and maybe save you some time and
Speaker 1: hopefully you won't go into a binge of an awful show.
Speaker 1: I've got a list in fact I should do. I
Speaker 1: should do the like I don't know, streaming sucky streamers
Speaker 1: or something less, because there's quite a few. This one
Speaker 1: not one of them. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 10: This is Joe, missus Joe.
Speaker 8: Is this Joe talking.
Speaker 1: About Bridget Jones, Mad about the Boy. It's on Peacock
Speaker 1: was released I think about a month or two ago.
Speaker 1: Renee Zelwigger reprises her role as Bridget Jones and does
Speaker 1: a good job. Like sometimes when they come back and
Speaker 1: they do movies, they're the character. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's the actor has evolved or they've written the character
Speaker 1: differently or they're directing them differently, but sometimes it doesn't
Speaker 1: stay kind of true to what they were. This one
Speaker 1: feels like it does, like she has evolved. The character
Speaker 1: has evolved in her life because she's you know, twenty
Speaker 1: years older. The first one came out in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one and now it's twenty twenty five. But she
Speaker 1: has made changes that I go, yeah, that could happen.
Speaker 1: I could see how she would grow that way and
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So that was that was I
Speaker 1: think that they did a really good job with the
Speaker 1: writing and the directing and keeping that kind of true
Speaker 1: to the original character. Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are back.
Speaker 1: The whole cast of characters is better, and I always
Speaker 1: love the nostalgia of that. It's kind of like Cobra Kai,
Speaker 1: where the whole cast gets reunited at some point. This
Speaker 1: one not a serious though. This is just this is
Speaker 1: a movie, so it's just you know, an hour and
Speaker 1: a half, two hours of your time. So Renee is
Speaker 1: still bridget although she seems more comfortable in her skin.
Speaker 1: I was talking about how she's kind of evolved. She's
Speaker 1: not quite as awkward as the original but that makes sense.
Speaker 1: You know, it's twenty four years later, although in the
Speaker 1: movie I don't think that much time is passed because
Speaker 1: she's got kids and they're really young. But maybe anyway,
Speaker 1: it's Bridget trying to navigate the world and to fine love.
Speaker 1: And I'm not giving anything away because it happens in
Speaker 1: the first couple of minutes that you realize that that
Speaker 1: mister Darcy is gone, tragically killed doing good deeds as
Speaker 1: he is wont to do. There are fewer cringe worthy
Speaker 1: moments than in the original. I just remember I loved
Speaker 1: Bridget Jones, but there were so many scenes that you
Speaker 1: just go, oh God, Bridget, no like, you know, worse
Speaker 1: nightmares of social awkwardness. It is predictable, but it's sweet,
Speaker 1: it's fun, it's it's a feel good watch. And if
Speaker 1: you just have a couple hours, and especially if you
Speaker 1: just want to curl up on the couch and feel
Speaker 1: good about things, I think this is a good one
Speaker 1: for you to watch. I'm on it. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna want to be on it too. Oh and be
Speaker 1: sure to watch the credits. Most fun part of the credits.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you what it is, but
Speaker 1: the credits are great, So on that one, you know,
Speaker 1: and streaming that goes to the small screen and you
Speaker 1: can't barely see the credits or it moves on to
Speaker 1: the next thing. Make sure you watch the credits on
Speaker 1: this one. It's Bridget Jones mad about the boy. It's
Speaker 1: on Peacock. Time to get in your business now with
Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney, good morning. How are you
Speaker 1: feeling about the wild ride today?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: I'm feeling a lot better because markets are looking good today.
Speaker 1: You came back from vacation at just the right time.
Speaker 4: You know what I think, Because I came back from vacation,
Speaker 4: the markets are doing much better.
Speaker 1: We're joking. But see, here's the problem.
Speaker 4: The White House has been recently ratcheting up the pressure
Speaker 4: on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, and that
Speaker 4: costs so much time urbulence. We always talk about the
Speaker 4: feeder Reserve being independent from the White House, being independent
Speaker 4: from politics. So Wall Street got nervous about that, and
Speaker 4: yesterday President Trump he dialed it back. He said there
Speaker 4: is no plan to fire Chair J. Powell, And that's
Speaker 4: sending stock soaring this morning. And this report is sponsored
Speaker 4: by Fidelity wealth Management but also helping. The President says
Speaker 4: he plans to be very nice to China in any
Speaker 4: trade talks, and that's a sign that he may be
Speaker 4: backing down from his tough stance on Beijing. So this
Speaker 4: morning we're looking at Dow futures and if we open
Speaker 4: right now, we would be up about seven hundred and
Speaker 4: sixty points. When it comes to the Dow, SMP futures
Speaker 4: are gaining about two and a half percent, so a
Speaker 4: nice pop there, and this is building on a big
Speaker 4: move higher for Wall Street yesterday. The Dow sword oney
Speaker 4: seventeen points, so a really nice boost. Yesterday the S
Speaker 4: and P five hundred jumped two and a half percent
Speaker 4: because the White House has been saying it's been in
Speaker 4: talks with a lot of nations over tariffs and that
Speaker 4: the negotiations have been going well.
Speaker 1: I'm an amazed courtney By. It used to be that
Speaker 1: stocks to be up five points, down, twenty points, up,
Speaker 1: twelve points, down seven points, but now we're seeing these
Speaker 1: massive swings of a thousand or more points.
Speaker 4: Yes, because traders are desperate at this point, and any
Speaker 4: time that there's a headline in when it comes to
Speaker 4: tariffs and tariffs mean uncertainty. Anytime the White House talks
Speaker 4: about the Federal Reserve and that they plan to step in,
Speaker 4: that's uncertainty. Wall Street hates uncertainty and that will send moves.
Speaker 4: So that's why for a long time, even when the
Speaker 4: President was coming into office and stuff, there weren't any
Speaker 4: big headlines that kind of made everybody go, well, I
Speaker 4: kind of need to change what my portfolio looks like,
Speaker 4: or I need to change where my trading stands at
Speaker 4: this point. So when we see these big moves when
Speaker 4: it comes to trade, when it comes to the stance
Speaker 4: of where the United States is in result to trade,
Speaker 4: that's why we're going to see these big moves higher
Speaker 4: or lower.
Speaker 1: Okay, here's another headline. Tessa Tesla has hit some tough
Speaker 1: times according to its most recent earning support. Yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it.
Speaker 4: But shares are popping higher in the pre market, rising
Speaker 4: more than seven percent. Here's the reason. Elon Musk says,
Speaker 4: I'm going to pull back significantly from my work with
Speaker 4: the government and I'm going to devote far more time
Speaker 4: to the carmaker. So that's making investors really happy this morning.
Speaker 4: Tesla definitely has been struggling under the weight of slumping sales,
Speaker 4: rise and costs. Yesterday, the car maker missed Wall Street
Speaker 4: estimates for both revenue and earnings, and management backed away
Speaker 4: from earlier predictions that vehicle sales will return to growth
Speaker 4: this year. But the problem is his political activities that's
Speaker 4: alienated a lot of customers. It did some damage to
Speaker 4: the Tesla brand, and that's why we're seeing some pain
Speaker 4: when it comes to the numbers that a Tesla keeps
Speaker 4: bringing to Wall Street.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then Intel is also go to has hit
Speaker 1: some tough times and what are the repercussions of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been struggling for a while. They've been working
Speaker 4: on a turn and around strategy after years of seating
Speaker 4: grounds rivals. But this morning we might be seeing some
Speaker 4: job cut. Sources are telling us here at Bloomberg that
Speaker 4: the chip maker is planning to slash more than twenty
Speaker 4: percent of its staff. So it's also been struggling to
Speaker 4: catch up in artificial intelligence, computing in vidious kind of
Speaker 4: the King and all of that, and they really kind
Speaker 4: of missed the ball on everything. We reached out to
Speaker 4: Intel to get a little bit of insight. They declined
Speaker 4: to comment on all of this, but they've they've been
Speaker 4: definitely cutting jobs, trying to realign their management to move
Speaker 4: into a new focus for themselves for the future.
Speaker 1: And when a company announces cuts like that, does that
Speaker 1: generally help their stock or hurt their stock?
Speaker 4: Sometimes it usually ends up helping the stock because it
Speaker 4: looks in a lot of times that means costs are
Speaker 4: coming down. Unfortunately, it hurts for the workers, they're feeling
Speaker 4: a lot of pain out there, but for investors that means,
Speaker 4: all right, well, something that is costing a lot of
Speaker 4: overhead is going to come down a bit. They can
Speaker 4: take that money and plow it into other parts of
Speaker 4: the business and especially in this turnaround strategy that they're
Speaker 4: trying to do, and what they want to do in
Speaker 4: all of this is to really streamline management, really rebuild
Speaker 4: this engineering driven culture that that kind of has been
Speaker 4: missed for a good long time.
Speaker 1: You mean what they started out as, yes, ha ha aha,
Speaker 1: all right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in your business every
Speaker 1: morning at five forty. Let's do it again tomorrow, shall we?
Speaker 2: No doubt about it?
Speaker 1: See tomorrow? Thanks Courtney. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 1: The cost of a building project at the state capitol
Speaker 1: has nearly doubled. The initial estimate for the capital annex
Speaker 1: was just over five hundred and forty three million dollars.
Speaker 1: That was twenty eighteen. Well now the project's expected to
Speaker 1: cost over a billion dollars. That's roughly the same as
Speaker 1: it costs to build Levi's Stadium south of San Francisco,
Speaker 1: where the forty nine ers play. The building will provide
Speaker 1: offices for lawmakers and the governor, meeting rooms, and a
Speaker 1: parking garage, all paid for by taxpayers. It'll also provide
Speaker 1: private hallways so lawmakers can avoid journalists, lobbyists and the public.
Speaker 1: The so called doomsday mom, convicted of helping to murder
Speaker 1: her children in Idaho, has been found guilty in Arizona
Speaker 1: of conspiracy to murder her fourth husband. ABC's Alex Stones's
Speaker 1: jurors were pulled by the judge yesterday after announcing their verdict.
Speaker 5: They all said that yes, that is what they agree with.
Speaker 5: That is what they decided on. After about six hours
Speaker 5: of deliberating. She sat Lori Valodabel in the courtroom, not
Speaker 5: showing a lot of emotion. Or long blonde hair. She
Speaker 5: walked in with a whole bunch of documents.
Speaker 1: Da Bell represented herself in court. She's facing another possible
Speaker 1: life sentence on top of the three she's already serving
Speaker 1: in Idaho, but she won't be sentenced in Arizona until
Speaker 1: after her trial in another alleged murder conspiracy. Lobby groups
Speaker 1: in California spent five hundred and forty million dollars to
Speaker 1: influence the state government just last year. Kfi's Dina Kodiac
Speaker 1: says that's up more than ten percent from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 10: Key contributors included Google, oil firms and utility companies. Western
Speaker 10: States Petroleum Association spent over seventeen million, influencing two thirds
Speaker 10: of the eighteen bills at backed.
Speaker 1: She says Google spent more in twenty twenty four than
Speaker 1: it did in the last twenty years combined. The body
Speaker 1: of Pope Francis is now lying in state at Saint
Speaker 1: Peter's Basilica. Governor Newsom has called out the Democrat Party,
Speaker 1: saying it hasn't reflected on the mistakes it made during
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four election. He said in an interview
Speaker 1: with The Hill, Democrats should be open to listening. Hollywood
Speaker 1: workers are pushing to expand California's film and TV tax
Speaker 1: credit program. More than one hundred thousand letters have been
Speaker 1: sent to lawmakers and supportive bills that would raise annual
Speaker 1: tax incentives to seven hundred and fifty million dollars and
Speaker 1: also increase eligibility. Let's say good morning now to you
Speaker 1: see San Diego professor got Mishra. Good morning, doctor Mishra.
Speaker 3: Good morning Amy. It's good to be here.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us this morning. There's
Speaker 1: a new study out and it really caught my eye
Speaker 1: because so oh many people in southern California have been
Speaker 1: affected by the wildfires and Pacific Palisades and Altadena. I mean,
Speaker 1: thousands of people lost absolutely everything, and we had been
Speaker 1: talking at the time and after that, the effects of
Speaker 1: the fires are going to be much more far reaching
Speaker 1: than we can even imagine. And your research shows that
Speaker 1: trauma suffered by wildfire victims is even affecting how we think.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Okay, can you tell us a little bit about your
Speaker 1: research and what you've found out.
Speaker 3: Sure, we have been studying California's deadliest wildfire, Todate, the
Speaker 3: campfire from twenty eighteen that really wiped out the town
Speaker 3: of Paradise. For many years now and we've looked at
Speaker 3: mental health impacts that include symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety,
Speaker 3: and depression, and we've shown that alongside these mood symptoms
Speaker 3: that can also be cognitive impacts. In twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: we published a first study showing that individuals who are
Speaker 3: exposed to the buyers are highly distractable. They're unable to
Speaker 3: pay attention to the task at hand, and everything in
Speaker 3: the environment seems really threatening and so everything is salient
Speaker 3: and the individual feels highly distractable to that information. Now,
Speaker 3: we also want to study that how all of this
Speaker 3: cognitive impact then plays out on decision making. Every day,
Speaker 3: we have to make important decisions and we have to
Speaker 3: really track information to say what is the better decision
Speaker 3: for us in the long term. I've given the examples
Speaker 3: of say you want to take on a job right now,
Speaker 3: which may be a small time job, versus say you
Speaker 3: want to get some education and then get a bigger
Speaker 3: job later on, and you have to make that important
Speaker 3: decision for yourself what is better for you in the
Speaker 3: long term. Similarly, people who are in disaster recovery, you
Speaker 3: have to make many important decisions for rebuilding. Therefore, studying
Speaker 3: decision making is very important, and we found that that
Speaker 3: ability specifically impacted in people who are directly impacted by
Speaker 3: the fires, directly exposed to the fires, and this impact, unfortunately,
Speaker 3: can be long lasting, even when people had experienced the
Speaker 3: fires a year before this decision making impact was observed.
Speaker 1: Okay, and doctor Mischer, so you're saying it's impacting decision making.
Speaker 1: Is it that people can't make decisions, can't stick to decisions,
Speaker 1: or are making bad decisions, or all of the above.
Speaker 3: It's more that they're making bad decisions, making decisions that
Speaker 3: are more impulsive that would be beneficial in the short
Speaker 3: term but not beneficial in the long term.
Speaker 1: Okay, And so why is this happening. Is it because
Speaker 1: there's too much up in the air and because they've
Speaker 1: lost everything and they just don't know which direction to turn,
Speaker 1: and so, like you said, they might make something more
Speaker 1: impulsive to get a quick fix as opposed to thinking
Speaker 1: it out for the long term.
Speaker 3: Yes, that why is part of the research. We've shown
Speaker 3: that brain function can really be impacted after suffering a
Speaker 3: catastrophic event in fact, this has been called the fire
Speaker 3: brain phenomena, where the brain really gets hyper aroused, hyper alert,
Speaker 3: and it's almost as if it's highly active and looking
Speaker 3: out for threats all the time, even though they're no
Speaker 3: longer threats. After the fire, the brain stays in that
Speaker 3: wired state and is unable to make the right decisions
Speaker 3: even though it's trying to make that effort. And this
Speaker 3: effect can be long lasting. And these brain impacts then
Speaker 3: are making our cognitive abilities worse.
Speaker 1: That's so interesting, and doctor Mischrad, this affects I mean
Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people directly, and then thousands more
Speaker 1: family members and friends who know people who've lost homes
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. So is there anything that
Speaker 1: you can give give some advice on, like how do
Speaker 1: you choose to make better decisions?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? I think personally, I think this is a time
Speaker 3: when we make decisions together with the family members. I
Speaker 3: would really recommend people not make important decisions, especially where
Speaker 3: they have to choose between options that that are good
Speaker 3: for now versus good for the long term. Those kinds
Speaker 3: of decisions, critical decisions, rebuilding, recovery decisions, those kinds of
Speaker 3: decisions they should make with friends and family together. Especially
Speaker 3: also people who have not been impacted by the fires.
Speaker 3: Really take the recommendations of those family members in mind.
Speaker 3: All community families and friends are here to help people
Speaker 3: who have suffered from such unfortunate disaster impacts, and our
Speaker 3: study really highlights that we should be out there helping
Speaker 3: out our community members making important decisions.
Speaker 1: It takes the village. Doctor Giochi mishra At, UC San Diego,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the information. As I said,
Speaker 1: I came across this and I was like, wow, I mean,
Speaker 1: we just still don't know how much these fires are
Speaker 1: going to affect people now and for years to come.
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for the information. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Is there somewhere we can find out more information about it?
Speaker 1: Find the study.
Speaker 3: Yes, the paper was published in Nature Scientific Reports in
Speaker 3: mid April and it's freely available. And yeah, thank you
Speaker 3: for spreading the word about it.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks again, doctor Goochi mishra At, You see,
Speaker 1: San Diego, isn't that just so fascinating? Like you physically
Speaker 1: cannot make good decisions? Have an excuse except you're not
Speaker 1: affected by the wildfires.
Speaker 9: Oh true?
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Speaker 1: I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
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