WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:04.160 You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:08.679 with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio. 3 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:14.240 App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange. 4 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:20.440 County and. 5 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:24.760 Yours Amy. 6 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:34.399 Okay, can you believe it? Baseball season's almost here? So 7 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:39.799 exciting Opening day Dodger Stadium, twenty seventh. I'll be there. 8 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:44.439 This is your wake up call for Friday, March fourteenth. 9 00:00:44.479 --> 00:00:48.159 Good morning, I'm Amy King. So wow, what a difference 10 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:52.759 a day makes on the roads. Yesterday it was like crazy, 11 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.320 wet with and I was hydroplaning and driving like a 12 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:58.320 ninety year old to make sure that I didn't spin 13 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:01.079 out like everybody else. And today, just an eighty year old, 14 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:04.159 just an eighty year old booth sailing in might have 15 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:08.280 sped a little bit. So a better day. Hopefully, Will's 16 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:11.079 going to keep you updated on what's going on the roads. 17 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:13.560 I missed the eclipse. Did you guys stay up and 18 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:16.000 say see the eclipse. I got out of the house 19 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:18.480 this morning on my way in and went, oh, the eclipse. 20 00:01:18.879 --> 00:01:20.280 And I looked up and there was the moon and 21 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:23.599 it looked totally normal. Yeah, here's what's ahead on wake 22 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:27.519 up call. Swatted again students and staff at Claremont McKenna 23 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:30.040 College were told to shelter in place after a threat 24 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:33.400 was called into nine one one yesterday. The person said 25 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.959 they were holding a person captive in a restroom on campus, 26 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.359 that they had a bomb and a weapon and plan 27 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:44.000 to walk around and shoot people. Claremont police later confirmed 28 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:47.239 it was a swatting call. Looks like a government shutdown 29 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:50.319 might not happen now that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer 30 00:01:50.359 --> 00:01:52.680 says he will vote in favor of the six month 31 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:55.719 funding bill passed in the House. He said there are 32 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:58.920 no winners if the government shuts down, and a shutdown 33 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.079 would just give President and Trump more power. The Senate's 34 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:06.439 expected to vote on that today. NASA is going to 35 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:10.000 try to launch a mission again to bring two astronauts 36 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.120 who been on the International Space Station for like nine 37 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.080 months back to Earth. A launch plan for yesterday was 38 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:19.280 scrubbed about an hour before liftoff because of a hydraulics 39 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:22.719 issue not related to the Falcon nine rocket itself. The 40 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:24.960 next attempt is going to be tonight from Kennedy Space 41 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.280 Center in Florida. Okay, so there's fishing and now there's smishing. 42 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:32.120 What the heck is it. ABC is Jim Wright's going 43 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.800 to tell us in about fifteen minutes new fun things 44 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:36.520 for your home, whether you're going to do a big 45 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.120 reno or a DIY project our house. Whisper Dean Sharp's 46 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:42.159 going to share some of the top new gizmos and 47 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:45.919 gadgets from the International home Builders Show. ABC's Will Gans 48 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:47.960 is back from vacation to tell us about a new 49 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.680 comedy on the stream, a thriller on the big screen, 50 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:55.560 and a big old blockbuster that's on Disney Pluss. Let's 51 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:57.439 get started. Oh that's coming up at five point fifty. 52 00:02:57.719 --> 00:02:59.719 Let's get started now with some of the stories coming 53 00:02:59.719 --> 00:03:02.439 out of KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police say Claremont 54 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:04.919 mckinna College has been the target of a swating call. 55 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.080 As I mentioned, a person called police and said they 56 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:11.520 were in a restroom on campus holding a hostage, threatening 57 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:15.360 to hurt that person. They also threatened to have a 58 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:17.680 bomb and said that they were going to shoot people. 59 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:22.360 Police from several departments responded. This student told KTLA it 60 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:23.479 was really scary. 61 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:28.439 Because the police were sweeping every area, and at least 62 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:31.759 from what I heard from my friends, they weren't announcing themselves, 63 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:33.240 so it was scary to hear, you. 64 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:35.560 Know, like a rattle on the door for example. Police 65 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.680 later determined it was a hoax, a swatting call. This 66 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:42.039 one came just a day after a sweating call caused 67 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.840 an evacuation and a massive police response at Loma Linda 68 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:49.599 Medical Center. Officials with the Trump administration say they want 69 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:50.919 to meet with La Mayor Bass. 70 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.479 The US Department of Justice says they want to discuss 71 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:56.639 the city's response to alleged incidents of anti Semitism at 72 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.680 schools and college campuses over the last two years. The 73 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:03.400 federal Old Task Force to Combat Anti Semitism informed Bass 74 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:06.039 that it wants to engage with city leadership, district or 75 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:07.759 city attorneys, and law enforcement. 76 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.560 Kafi's Tammy Tree Hio says they also want to talk 77 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:15.159 about allegations the local universities failed to protect Jewish students 78 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:18.600 from discrimination. The task Force is also asking to meet 79 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:21.600 with the mayors of New York, Chicago, and Boston. A 80 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:25.480 new marketing campaign has begun to promote La County's mental 81 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:26.639 health crisis hotline. 82 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:29.319 The Alternative Crisis Response Team has been designed to take 83 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:31.800 the burden off nine one one and police. A new 84 00:04:31.839 --> 00:04:34.600 promotional video features a mom whose twelve year old son 85 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:37.120 was helped by the team during a behavior crisis. 86 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.439 You're wondering what's going on with your child? You know, 87 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:41.839 people are afraid that they're going to be in trouble, 88 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.560 that their kids will be in trouble. 89 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.319 The county's hotline is operational twenty four to seven and 90 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.519 dispatches mental health professionals instead of police to help de 91 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:53.319 escalate certain situations and connect people to resources to get better. 92 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:58.160 The campaign includes videos, billboards, and posters. Michael Monks KFI 93 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:05.600 News Move in Now. 94 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.199 Nine percent of LA County residents say they are seriously 95 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:13.560 considering moving out of southern California. The study out of 96 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:17.399 UC Berkeley was taken after the devastating wildfires in Pacific 97 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:21.600 Palisades and Altadena in January. Twenty three percent of residents 98 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.399 say they've given at least some thought to moving since 99 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:27.839 the fires. Let's see if you're moving on the road, roadways. 100 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.680 Let's check in with Will Cole Schreiber morning, well, good 101 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:31.199 morning boy. 102 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:34.240 You said, what a difference to day makes is just 103 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:37.199 a huge difference as far as they're driving today. We 104 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:39.319 do have a work zone in effect right now. Northbound 105 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:40.720 side of the five. This is going to be in 106 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.560 the downy area from the six oh five up to 107 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.279 Slaws in one lane taken away, it's slowed from the 108 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:47.240 six to oh five kind of slow through that stretch 109 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:49.480 westbound side of the one oh five. The one ten 110 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:52.360 Caltrans work there as well. They're picking up the cones. 111 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:54.079 So you're going to find a little bit of slowing 112 00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:56.040 on the westbound side of the one oh five approaching 113 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.839 the one ten Freeway northbound five Penrose crashed. There also 114 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:02.759 little problem in the fast track lanes of the ninety 115 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:07.439 one westbound at Weird Canyon. Overturned vehicle reported and CIGPI 116 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:09.319 in the fire department on the way to deal with it. 117 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.000 With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports. 118 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:14.839 I'm Will Coles Roper. Thank you Will. It's five oh 119 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.519 seven on your Friday morning wake up call. Let's say 120 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:22.040 good morning now to ABC's Peter Haralambu's Peter. Another roadblock 121 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:23.439 for DOGE efforts. 122 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.920 Yeah, that's exactly right. Amy. Over the course of the 123 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:31.360 last day, two separate federal judges came out and said 124 00:06:31.399 --> 00:06:35.639 that those attempts to fire probationary employees thousands of them, 125 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:39.279 as many as twenty thousands, we understand, were actually illegal 126 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.079 and ordering all those employees the immediately being reinstated. 127 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.360 Okay, and why was that illegal? 128 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.560 So really, at the end of the day, it came 129 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:53.279 down to two different things. First, the way these employees 130 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:56.000 were fired, the fact that they weren't given notice, kind 131 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.199 of broke the standard rules for if you're going to 132 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.800 do what's called the reduction in force than the federal government. Second, 133 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.600 the judges found that the reasons the government gave for 134 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:08.360 these firings were lies. Basically, so in most of these instances, 135 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:11.040 the government fired these for these employees for what they 136 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.040 listed as performance reasons. If you look at like the 137 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:17.639 letters that most of these employees received, it cited performance 138 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:21.120 itself for some kind of individualized reason, when in reality 139 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:23.360 these were just layoffs that had nothing to do with 140 00:07:23.519 --> 00:07:26.519 cause or performance. The judges in both these cases came 141 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.759 to the conclusion that the Trump administration functionally lied about 142 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:31.920 the reason for the layoffs so that they can get 143 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.399 around the kind of requirements necessary to layoff huge numbers 144 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:36.040 of employees. 145 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:39.199 Okay, So this is very interesting to me because in 146 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.000 the private sector, I mean, they can fire you at 147 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.519 any time for pretty much any reason. I mean, we've 148 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:50.160 experienced here at here, I've I know, tons of others 149 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.920 just recently, they have layoffs and there's no warning given. 150 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:56.439 You just come into work one day and they say thanks, goodbye. 151 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:59.240 So why is it different for these workers? 152 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.439 No, that's exactly right. I mean, unlike the private sector. 153 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:08.079 These employees, though, who are a few more additional protections. 154 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.439 The government kind of has these built in measures to 155 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:16.240 prevent mass kind of unscheduled layoffs of government employees. For example, 156 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.399 if you're going to go to a department, like let's 157 00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.920 say that Apartment of Education and fire fifty percent of 158 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.920 the workforce for reasons like just strategy, just saying we 159 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:29.040 don't need the Department of Vegucation anymore. The Trump administration 160 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:31.720 is allowed to do that. The thing is, in order 161 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:33.279 to do it, they have to kind of give sixty 162 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.639 days notice and say, you know, we're doing this because 163 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:40.279 we're reducing the size of this department, not because you know, 164 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:42.720 for performance reasons. Is that's not actually the case. There's 165 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:45.559 actually a judge on San Francisco yesterday, one of the 166 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.200 two judges who made these similar kinds of rulings, who 167 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:51.799 was furious with the Trump administration. He said that Trump 168 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:56.039 administration lied and used sham documents, It basically committed a 169 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:59.440 fraud on American workers by saying that the reason for 170 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:03.120 all these fire was performance and basically hiding the fact 171 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:04.960 that all they were trying to do was reduce the 172 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.519 size of the federal government without actually following the laws 173 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:10.559 governing how you reuse the size in the federal government. 174 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:13.840 Okay, so in the judges ruling, then Peter, in your assessment, 175 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.919 if are the judges saying that if they would have said, okay, 176 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.320 you get sixty days, and we're doing it because it's 177 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.879 a reduction in force, if they would have you know, 178 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.519 had different verbiage and maybe you know, instead of cutting 179 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:28.840 them immediately giving them sixty days, then it would have 180 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:29.639 been okay. 181 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:33.399 Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, that judge on San 182 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:35.320 Francisco even went as far as to say that he 183 00:09:35.399 --> 00:09:38.679 does not want this decision being interpreted that some crazy 184 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.559 left wing judge in San Francisco said the Trump administration 185 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:45.080 can fire government's employees. It's actually just the opposite. He 186 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.639 reaffirmed the thing in the idea that the Trump administration 187 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:50.320 can fire employees they just have to go through that 188 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.919 appropriate process. So in a way, this is a temporary 189 00:09:53.960 --> 00:09:56.639 reprieve for all these employees. Yes, they're being reinstated back 190 00:09:56.639 --> 00:09:59.200 into their jobs, but it's unclear how long they're actually 191 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:01.240 going to stay in that job if the Trump administration 192 00:10:01.320 --> 00:10:03.399 is insistent that they're going to be fired, So they 193 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:04.879 might just be back on the job for one or 194 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:06.440 two days and then all of a sudden they get 195 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:08.279 a sixty day notice that they're gonna get laid off 196 00:10:08.320 --> 00:10:08.919 in two months? 197 00:10:09.240 --> 00:10:12.480 Okay, And can the administration appeal this ruling as well? 198 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.200 Or is this done now? 199 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:17.480 They can appeal this ruling. In fact, last night they 200 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:19.919 did begin the process of appealing that to the Ninth Circuit. 201 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.279 So the challenge has begun and the Trump administration has 202 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.720 already slammed this as then the legal ruling in their eyes. 203 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:29.080 I think that this would be very unsettling for workers, like, 204 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:31.600 you know, hey, you're fired, Okay, come back, but oh 205 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:33.320 then you're going to be fired again. I mean, it's 206 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.080 just got to have people's head spinning. 207 00:10:36.480 --> 00:10:38.480 Yeah, I think that's exactly right. It's been kind of 208 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:40.720 a roller coastal right for these employees. If you recall 209 00:10:41.039 --> 00:10:43.159 you know that it first started off with that email 210 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.559 about a buyout offer that quickly got rescinded and then 211 00:10:46.679 --> 00:10:50.039 kind of came back, and then you know, was deemed 212 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.759 of wallful three hours before it was actually finalized. And 213 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.720 then pretty much as soon as that buyout offer ended, 214 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:00.000 the layoffs began. And now even if they're being reinstated, 215 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:02.320 it's unclear how long they're actually going to stay in 216 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:04.759 the government because the term of administration is pretty insistent 217 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.440 that they want to reduce the federal government and no 218 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:08.519 one's really going to stop them. 219 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.360 Okay, thanks so much for the information. That clears up 220 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.519 a lot of my questions that we had about that, 221 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.039 because it is, it's all moving so fast, it's a 222 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:17.600 little bit confusing. 223 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:19.919 Head spinning. Its time spaks Force for having me. 224 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.919 Absolutely, we'll talk to you soon. Peter. That's ABC's Peter Haralambus. 225 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:25.799 Let's get back to some of the stories coming out 226 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.360 at the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Senate Minority Leader 227 00:11:28.440 --> 00:11:32.360 Chuck Schumer says there almost certainly will be enough Democratic 228 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.440 votes to advance the House bill and keep the government funded. 229 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.440 He told the Senate yesterday they either passed the Continuing 230 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:42.600 resolution or risk President Trump throwing America into the chaos 231 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:43.279 of a shutdown. 232 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:47.320 The shutdown would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk cart 233 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:53.039 launch to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster 234 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.799 rate than they can right now. 235 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:00.559 The House bill funds the government through September. Deadline to 236 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.799 pass a funding bill is midnight. The Trump administration has 237 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:07.159 asked the Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright 238 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:12.519 citizenship to take effect while legal challenges continue. The administration 239 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.279 wants to narrow court orders that have blocked the directive 240 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.000 Trumps signed when he took office in January. The order 241 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:21.879 would prevent children born to illegal immigrants after February nineteenth 242 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:26.600 from becoming legal citizens. So far, three federal appeals courts 243 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:36.320 have rejected the administration's requests. Anti Israel protesters who stormed 244 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:39.440 Trump Tower in New York been arrested. They were there 245 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.320 yesterday demanding the release of a pro Palestinian activist who 246 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:46.440 is facing deportation. Video shows at least one hundred people 247 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:49.679 in the dining area of the Trump Tower. Former Columbia 248 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.600 student Macmood Khalil was arrested last weekend. President Trump says 249 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:58.000 Khalil is a terrorist sympathizer and should be deported because 250 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.879 of his pro Hamas activities. Hamas says it has accepted 251 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.360 a proposal to release an American Israeli hostage in Gaza 252 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.440 and also the bodies of four dual nationals who died 253 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.159 in captivity. The group did not say when it was 254 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.320 going to happen. The announcement comes as talks continuing Katar 255 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.039 on the next stage of the Israel Hamas sees fire. 256 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:22.080 The first phase ended two weeks ago. A volcano in 257 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.399 Alaska could erupt at any time, maybe you see's. Alex 258 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:28.320 Stone says there are fifty three volcanoes in the state 259 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.279 that have been active in the last two hundred and 260 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:34.480 fifty years, including Mount Spur, which is northeast of Anchorage. 261 00:13:34.519 --> 00:13:39.039 Alaska's Volcano Observatory says Mount Spur is emitting significantly elevated 262 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:42.240 amounts of volcanic gas and that if it's going to erupt, 263 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:45.240 they expect to see earthquakes, more gas, and surface heating 264 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:46.799 before it blows. 265 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:48.799 Saying to say the volcano could erupt in the next 266 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:51.480 few weeks or months, they say it's possible it could 267 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:55.080 happen with little or no warning. A new community notes 268 00:13:55.159 --> 00:13:59.039 option is expected to start appearing on Meta's Facebook, Instagram 269 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:03.960 and threads page. ABC's Mike Debuski reports Meta envisions community 270 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:07.480 notes as small boxes of information that appear next to 271 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:11.039 viral posts on its platforms, designed to add context to 272 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.240 any misleading or harmful content. 273 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.360 Notes will be written by volunteers who hold a range 274 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:19.320 of viewpoints. The company says they'll also be rated for 275 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:23.159 helpfulness by an open source algorithm that Meta is borrowing 276 00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:24.919 from its competitor x. 277 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.879 X, formerly known as Twitter, of course, has used community 278 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.879 notes in a similar capacity. Facebook previously had fact checkers 279 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:36.120 police harmful content before Meta decided to end the practice 280 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:39.600 in favor of community notes. Investigators are looking into what 281 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.159 has caused an oil spill in the Port of Long Beach. 282 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:45.080 The Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention 283 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.879 and Response was called about a small oilchine yesterday. The 284 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:52.440 oil seeped from the street onto or into the storm 285 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:55.799 dreams leading into port. Channel's three officials say it does 286 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:59.200 not appear to be impacting wildlife. California has joined several 287 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:02.720 other demo cratic led states ensuing the Trump administration over 288 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.960 its layoffs at the Department of Education. The suit claims 289 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:09.480 the layoffs are unconstitutional. It says only Congress has the 290 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:12.559 power to dismantle the department and the work it does. 291 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:15.840 Meazel's cases still on the rise. In the US, health 292 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:18.120 officials have confirmed at least two hundred and fifty eight 293 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:21.480 cases and two deaths in nearly a dozen states. One 294 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:25.080 case was just confirmed this week in La County and 295 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:28.600 LA County resident who flew into lax on March fifth. 296 00:15:28.799 --> 00:15:32.559 Most of the cases are in unvaccinated children in Texas. 297 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.000 Speaking of Texas, let's go there now and say good 298 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:39.919 morning to ABC's Jim Ryan in Dallas. Morning, Jim, See 299 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:42.879 how do you where you do and wear big hats? 300 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:45.159 It seems like every time we talked, Jim, we're talking 301 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:48.080 about scams, which lead me to believe that they are 302 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:52.000 absolutely everywhere they are. Yeah, So we know about fishing, 303 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.120 and now there's smishing. 304 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:57.840 Smishing that is it. It stands for short Message service. 305 00:15:57.879 --> 00:16:01.159 That's the formal name for text messaging. We know about phishing, 306 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:06.039 and smishing is sending out scam messages by text message. 307 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:09.240 So here's how it works. You get your phone beeps notification, 308 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:11.919 you look at it and it says hi, Amy, this 309 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.399 is fast Track. You recently drove in the four or 310 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.279 five express lanes and you owe us a toll for that. 311 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:22.240 Please click below to pay your toll or face loosing 312 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.919 your driver's license. Send see your fees mounting. So there's 313 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:28.679 always that little hint of a threat that goes with it. 314 00:16:28.720 --> 00:16:31.480 You could lose your driver's license. So you click on 315 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:34.120 the link and if there's a form that opens up, 316 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:35.879 you put your name in there, Amy King. You can 317 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:38.679 put your address, your phone number, your credit card information, 318 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.519 your the security code, and then hits send to pay 319 00:16:41.919 --> 00:16:45.120 your toll. Well, you just sent your credit card information 320 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.360 to an absolute scammer, because neither fast Track, nor the 321 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:52.960 Chicago Toll Authority, nor the North Dallas Toll Radio, none 322 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.679 of them send out bills by text message. That's number one. 323 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.240 Just don't do it. Don't click on the link, just 324 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.519 delete the thing. McAfee, which looks at this stuff, says 325 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:06.720 you can go ahead and forward it on to you know, 326 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:09.920 a text number specifically that is supposed to look at 327 00:17:09.960 --> 00:17:14.319 these things seven seven two six, which stands for spam. 328 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:16.920 But the best thing to do is just to a leader, 329 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:18.519 because it's it's a scam. 330 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.519 And it's funny that you mentioned that one, because I 331 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:25.160 got that one. Ah ah, And that's not the only one. 332 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:28.440 Another one that I got this week was and now 333 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.359 I know what to call it. It's missing. I got one. 334 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:35.400 It says Microsoft unusual sign in for the asterisk, and 335 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:40.279 then the last two digits of your email address and 336 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:42.599 then it says review at and it has a link. 337 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.279 Well, that's the thing. They've been able to customize these 338 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.680 things by regions. So fast Track is the one sending 339 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:53.079 out the text or people representing themselves as fast Track. 340 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:56.839 They could be in Kolkata, India, they could be in Nigeria, 341 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:01.039 could be anywhere, and they can They're customized the text 342 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:05.319 message to be for that specific region, and apparently it's working. 343 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:09.839 The FBI says that there were ten thousand new domain 344 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:12.279 names taken out in just the last couple of months, 345 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.799 things like the toll roads paytoll dot world or the 346 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:21.079 toll roads paytoll dot dot com. It's really insidious. At 347 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:24.400 McAfee also has tried to quantify this in terms of 348 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.440 the frequency that people are receiving these things. I get 349 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:29.880 them all the time. Dallas is top of the list 350 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:34.640 for the most people getting these the highest number. Los 351 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:36.720 Angeles is in third place behind Atlanta. 352 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.079 I don't know why we're not number one and something bad. 353 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:40.759 Well, I think it's. 354 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:42.400 Because you don't have that many toll I mean, it's 355 00:18:42.400 --> 00:18:45.599 all express lanes there that are toll right. 356 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:48.400 Well, yeah, we are toll roads, are the express lanes? 357 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:48.640 Yeah. 358 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.440 There actually are a couple of toll highways freeways down 359 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:53.200 in Orange County. 360 00:18:54.079 --> 00:18:57.640 I guess San Francisco has several, right, but it's mainly 361 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.759 express lanes out there here. I lived just south of 362 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:03.319 Fort Worth, and to get the twenty miles up to 363 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.240 Fort Worth, if I don't want to spend you know, 364 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:09.640 an hour going this roadway, that highway, this road, I 365 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.680 can take the tollway get there in fifteen minutes. But 366 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.160 it's a toll road. Yeah, right, you're trapped around here. 367 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.359 Well, and with the express lanes, Like if you get 368 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.119 into an express lane then they charge. 369 00:19:21.880 --> 00:19:23.119 You for that, that's right. 370 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:25.799 Yeah, And I know. Actually when I got the message, 371 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:28.480 I don't know, it was a while back, I was like, 372 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:31.559 oh crap, because I drive around and go into areas 373 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.160 that I'm not familiar with. I'm like, did I end 374 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:36.319 up in express lanes think think they they think, and 375 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.359 I was like, no, I didn't. And then the other 376 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:44.400 one I get frequently is from the USPS. Yes, we 377 00:19:44.440 --> 00:19:46.240 couldn't deliver your package here click Yes. 378 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:49.039 Yeah, that's smishing as well. That's exactly what that is. 379 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:53.920 And they have this air of believability maybe considering how 380 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.839 many people are using delivery now or delivering things, you know, 381 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:00.079 and getting things by Amazon. It's totally within the a 382 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.559 possibility that you drove on that toll road, or that 383 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.319 you ordered something and that USPS can't find you or 384 00:20:07.160 --> 00:20:10.759 and so you know, it's it's just it's getting more 385 00:20:10.759 --> 00:20:13.960 and more difficult because the scammers are getting more sophisticated. 386 00:20:14.319 --> 00:20:16.720 The technology is improving such that they don't have to 387 00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:20.359 be brain surgeons to send out a text message specifically 388 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:24.200 to you and imitating your specific situation. 389 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:27.720 Okay, one last question. If you do click through, Oops, 390 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:30.880 you go, I clicked through? What should you never do? 391 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:34.039 Call your bank? First of all, that's the thing you 392 00:20:34.039 --> 00:20:37.440 should do. You know, if you click, if you clicked 393 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:39.599 on it and you see this form there that has 394 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.960 you know, everything including your credit card information asking for that, 395 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:45.920 then just you know, delete it, get get rid of 396 00:20:45.920 --> 00:20:48.799 that thing if you do fall for it. Essentially, and 397 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:50.359 by the way, you don't have to be gullible or 398 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:52.680 dumb to fall for it, because it's so believable. But 399 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:54.200 if you do fill it out and you send off 400 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:56.799 your credit card information, then you realize what you have done. 401 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.640