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Speaker 1: almost Christmas, guys. And look who's back Neil Neil Savedra
Speaker 1: heart attack. Yes, I did you know what Will is?
Speaker 1: He scares easily and comes in right before the end
Speaker 1: of the show usually and because she turns on electronics
Speaker 1: and stuff that I don't know how to do, and
Speaker 1: it scares Will almost every day. It's hysterical.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Nil Savedra, Welcome back, Neil nails back from
Speaker 1: a trip to Italy. Fancy. Yeah, we're gonna hear lots
Speaker 1: about that coming up on the Bill Handle show because
Speaker 1: handles out for one more week. But we got we
Speaker 1: got half the guys back, so that's exciting.
Speaker 5: Yay.
Speaker 1: Here's something else exciting. The eaglets are getting their feathers
Speaker 1: you've been watching the Big Bear Eagle cam. We have
Speaker 1: our two babies, and they're growing fast. The biggest ones
Speaker 1: about the size of a chicken, of course, according to
Speaker 1: Sandy Steers, and they're zooming up during the day. If
Speaker 1: you go and check out the camera, like you know,
Speaker 1: fifty sixty seventy eighty thousand other people are doing the
Speaker 1: Big Bear Eagle camp, you can see they zoom in
Speaker 1: and you can see their little feathers. They're starting to sprout.
Speaker 1: I thought, that's gotta be that's gotta feel weird. How
Speaker 1: are an eagle? How long does it take for them
Speaker 1: to become an adult? Like when's adulthood? It's it's a
Speaker 1: ways off. But they're fully grown at like I have
Speaker 1: to go and look at my notes, but they're they're
Speaker 1: to their full size in about three months, I think.
Speaker 1: And they don't get their white heads for years. Oh yeah, yeah, okay. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of myself. I got a ring doorbell
Speaker 1: because my brother harassed me because I don't have a
Speaker 1: working doorbell. Actually, he gave me a ring doorbell for
Speaker 1: Christmas and I just finally put it up and so
Speaker 1: three months later, but I put it up and so now,
Speaker 1: like when I left the house this morning, the chimes
Speaker 1: went off on my phone, and I'm getting all these
Speaker 1: weird things. Oh there's a coyote in the neighborhood, like
Speaker 1: all these it's sort of like a neighborhood, oh like
Speaker 1: next door, like next door app, but it's ring and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I gotta go figure out how to turn
Speaker 1: those off because it's driving me crazy already. And it's
Speaker 1: only been twenty four hours. So porch pirates beware, Amy's
Speaker 1: armed exactly. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. A
Speaker 1: pedestrian has been killed on the five Freeway in Anaheim.
Speaker 1: It happened early this morning north of Lincoln Avenue. C
Speaker 1: HP shut down all southbound lanes and the Euclid Street
Speaker 1: on Rampill's gonna get the latest done that in just
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, So when we take our first
Speaker 1: look at traffic. Comedian Paul Rodriguez is doing court next
Speaker 1: month after he and a friend were arrested in Burbank
Speaker 1: for drug possession. The arrest happened Friday night during a
Speaker 1: traffic stop. Rodriguez told TMZ after he was released on
Speaker 1: Saturday that he was sleeping in the passenger seat and
Speaker 1: was slapped awake by what he said was a Caucasian
Speaker 1: officer on a power trip. He says he's considering filing
Speaker 1: a formal complaint. A three point two earthquake has rattled
Speaker 1: residents of Rancho Palace, Verde. Is a small quake hit
Speaker 1: at eight twenty seven last night. It was centered twenty
Speaker 1: two miles off the coast. The rumbling was felt from
Speaker 1: Santa Monica to Lamorada. Apparently President Trump is not happy
Speaker 1: with Russia's President Putin. Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker
Speaker 1: is going to join us to tell us what that
Speaker 1: could mean for US Russia relations and the possibility of
Speaker 1: a ceasefire with Russia and Ukraine. That's coming up at
Speaker 1: five twenty. Also, we may soon be able to start
Speaker 1: making omelets without breaking the bank again. ABC's Chim Ryan's
Speaker 1: going to tell us why. And it's a big day
Speaker 1: for the big cats and it all has to do
Speaker 1: with dirt. We're going to be talking with bet Beth
Speaker 1: Pratt with the National Wildlife Federation about the latest on
Speaker 1: the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. I love that thing. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for it to opin. Let's get started with
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. A fast moving wildfire east of Fresno,
Speaker 1: known as the Silver Fires, forced evacuations in Inyo and
Speaker 1: Mono Counties.
Speaker 6: Flames broke out Sunday afternoon near Bishop, threatening homes and
Speaker 6: power lines as strong winds pushed the fire.
Speaker 1: North.
Speaker 6: Cal Fire says by early Sunday evening it had already
Speaker 6: burned over one thousand acres with zero containment. The National
Speaker 6: Weather Service says wind gusts up to thirty five miles
Speaker 6: per hour are fueling the flames. Strong winds and dry
Speaker 6: conditions are also hindering the firefight. From the air, Several
Speaker 6: aircraft had to be grounded due to extreme turbulence. Bushita
Speaker 6: de Gastino, KFI News.
Speaker 1: So Cal Edison customers are paying more for fire prevention
Speaker 1: than ever before the number of wildfires has increased at
Speaker 1: LA times.
Speaker 7: Report shows there were one hundred and seventy eight wildfires
Speaker 7: sparked by so Cal Edison equipment last year, up from
Speaker 7: one hundred and seven in twenty fifteen. Edison customers are
Speaker 7: paying more than three hundred dollars on their bill every
Speaker 7: year to support wildfire related costs totaling billions of dollars
Speaker 7: for prevention efforts get state. Utility officials say so cal
Speaker 7: Edison equipment continues to spark wildfires in its territory. Edison
Speaker 7: says it's spending the money on insulated wires, tree trimming.
Speaker 7: Weather station's an increased equipment inspection. Officials say the utility
Speaker 7: is shifting the cost of wildfires to customers, even when
Speaker 7: the fires are their mistake. Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: And somebody in Anaheim has bought a Powerball lottery ticket
Speaker 1: worth more than five hundred million dollars. Kfi's Mark Mayfield
Speaker 1: said it was sold at a seven eleven on North
Speaker 1: Euclid Street.
Speaker 5: The story gets a bonus of one million dollars forth
Speaker 5: selling the winning ticket. Saturday mark the first time someone
Speaker 5: has won the Powerball Jackbot since January. The winning numbers
Speaker 5: were twenty one, seven, eleven, sixty one and fifty three.
Speaker 1: The powerball was two. Another person got five numbers but
Speaker 1: didn't match the power ball. They'll get almost two hundred
Speaker 1: eyousand dollars. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter
Speaker 1: Haralambu's Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 4: Good morning Amy, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to talk to you because you've got
Speaker 1: such great information for us. And this time the Trump
Speaker 1: administration's battle with US District Judge James Bosberg continues. What's
Speaker 1: the latest development on that.
Speaker 4: Yes, this fight is now heading all the way up
Speaker 4: to the Supreme Court. As of Friday, the Trump administration
Speaker 4: asked the highest Court to intervene in the matter. They
Speaker 4: want this High court to sure stay. Basically, it allowed
Speaker 4: the Trump administration to continue those deportations under the Alien
Speaker 4: Enemies Act.
Speaker 1: Okay, but the did the request to the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: come before or after the judge made his ruling, because
Speaker 1: he extended as restraining order or something.
Speaker 4: Right, that's right, So that came shortly before the judge
Speaker 4: actually decided to extend that order, So that order was
Speaker 4: set to actually expire on Friday. Temper restraining orders only
Speaker 4: typically lost for about two weeks, and it's been about
Speaker 4: two weeks since this battle begun, since James Boseberg issued
Speaker 4: that first order blocking those deportation flights. So he extended
Speaker 4: those as kind of a matter of a technicality. And
Speaker 4: at the same time, this fight continues on about whether
Speaker 4: or not whether or not those those deportation flights are lawful?
Speaker 1: Okay? And did the Supreme Court agree to hear arguments?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Supreme Court has set a briefing schedule. It's
Speaker 4: rather quick on the matter. We should be expecting some
Speaker 4: filings this week and they could decide as early as
Speaker 4: this week about whether or not this this this this
Speaker 4: unprecedented use of the Alien Enemies Act, which allows deportations
Speaker 4: with a little to no do process in so far
Speaker 4: as someone falls within this category of a member of
Speaker 4: this Venezuelan gang can be removed.
Speaker 1: Okay. And then with the restraining order extension in place,
Speaker 1: there is still another r coming. What was a court
Speaker 1: here on April eighth, which is a week from tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So this judge is also hearing whether or not
Speaker 4: to issue a preliminary injunction, which is kind of like
Speaker 4: a longer term version of that same order from earlier.
Speaker 4: In order to determine that this judge is hearing arguments
Speaker 4: from both sides, he wants to see new evidence. So
Speaker 4: over the weekend we actually saw filing from the ACLU
Speaker 4: and Democracy Forward Foundation, the two groups that brought this lawsuit,
Speaker 4: alleging that there were you know, majority of these people
Speaker 4: had really nothing to do with trend Aarragua. There were
Speaker 4: individualized stories where, you know, these people were mistaken because
Speaker 4: of their tattoos. Apparently one person who had a tattoo
Speaker 4: devoted to his mother apparently had that mixed up as
Speaker 4: a tattoo that associated him with trend Aragua. Some pretty
Speaker 4: terrifying and concerning stuff allegedly about what actually got these
Speaker 4: people mixed up in this and what got them sent
Speaker 4: to an El Salvador in prison despite having, according to
Speaker 4: their lawyers now affiliation with this gang.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we don't know if that's the case. That's
Speaker 1: what their lawyers are saying, that's right, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: And then so if the judges, if the if the
Speaker 1: High Court hears it and said, you know what, this
Speaker 1: judge can do this, then what happens next.
Speaker 4: At that point the matter is slightly settled for a while.
Speaker 4: The Trump administration doesn't really have that much of an option.
Speaker 4: And you know this is coming though, as the Trump
Speaker 4: administration is railing against the courts as a whole. In
Speaker 4: this application to the Supreme Court, they didn't just mention
Speaker 4: those birds order. They mentioned the fact that they've dealt
Speaker 4: with I believe over forty temporary restraining orders and preliminary
Speaker 4: injunctions across the country, blocking you know, every aspect really
Speaker 4: of their policies that they've enacted since Trump was inaugurated.
Speaker 4: In a way, yes, this this Supreme Court fight is
Speaker 4: important because the alien enemies act as a big deal
Speaker 4: and it's a big part of Trump's immigration agenda. But
Speaker 4: the way this case is being framed is more about
Speaker 4: of this unchecked power district judges that the Trump administration
Speaker 4: believes is unlawful.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, then I want to play the what
Speaker 1: if game because I always like doing that.
Speaker 8: So if the.
Speaker 1: Judge is ruling held, and of course we won't know
Speaker 1: until the Supreme Court decides it, could the judge then
Speaker 1: order the people being held in the President's El Salvador
Speaker 1: to be brought back to the US to get their
Speaker 1: due process.
Speaker 4: This is a great question, and I asked a bunch
Speaker 4: of legal experts and trying to figure out an answer.
Speaker 4: It's a bit tricky because on one hand, you know,
Speaker 4: these people are in Now Salvador in custody, and the
Speaker 4: United States doesn't have that much authority to bring them back.
Speaker 4: But it's not like Salvador is doing this out of
Speaker 4: the kindness of their heart. The United States is paying
Speaker 4: them six million dollars to house these people for a year.
Speaker 4: So with that in mind, some of the folks I've
Speaker 4: spoken to have suggested that because this is still a
Speaker 4: contractual relationship, because at the end of the day, the
Speaker 4: United States is still paying for these people to to
Speaker 4: be housed in this jail. The Unitey still has the
Speaker 4: power to bring them back to the United States. Of course,
Speaker 4: the Trump administration has argued these people are terrorists and
Speaker 4: the Starch has no authority to do this. But just
Speaker 4: yet another complicated thing here, because these people, if their
Speaker 4: lawyers are true, many of them have no association in
Speaker 4: reality with this group, and they're riding away in what
Speaker 4: is arguably one of the harshest prisons in the entire world.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we will be watching and as always,
Speaker 1: we appreciate all the information. Peter Haralambo's with ABC News
Speaker 1: investigative reporter. We appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Alle herey, all right, take care. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour newsroom. The number of people killed in the
Speaker 1: magnitude seven point seven earthquake that hit me and mar
Speaker 1: has topped seventeen hundred as more bodies are being pulled
Speaker 1: from the rubble. The earthquake on Friday was centered near
Speaker 1: the country's second largest city. It also hit Thailand. Tord
Speaker 1: ABC's Britt Cline says crews in Bangkok have been desperately
Speaker 1: so through what's left of a collapsed skyscraper.
Speaker 9: There's a hive of activity here at the site where
Speaker 9: a thirty four story building which was still under construction,
Speaker 9: was reduced to rubble in less than five seconds.
Speaker 1: She says. The rubble is about seven stories high. President
Speaker 1: Trump says he won't be firing anyone over administration officials
Speaker 1: discussing sensitive military attack plans in a group chat on
Speaker 1: the messaging app Signal. That chat inadvertently included a journalist.
Speaker 1: Former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Ohio Republican Congressman
Speaker 1: Mike Turner says signals safety is questionable.
Speaker 2: People when they get into that platform have an assumption
Speaker 2: of privacy that it just does not provide.
Speaker 1: A reporter with The Atlantic was included in the group
Speaker 1: chat that covered US military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Speaker 1: The workforce at the Department of Health and Human Services
Speaker 1: is about to be slashed by twenty five percent. Dean
Speaker 1: of the Brown University School of Public Health, doctor Ashishchah,
Speaker 1: who served as White House COVID nineteen response coordinator and
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, says he's worried about that.
Speaker 4: You're going to get rid of.
Speaker 1: People who do inspections of nursing homes to make sure
Speaker 1: nursing homes are safe. They're going to get rid of
Speaker 1: people who go into factories to make sure our drug
Speaker 1: supply is safe. He says he's not worried so much
Speaker 1: about the cuts themselves, but where the cuts are going
Speaker 1: to be. President Trump says he is not joking when
Speaker 1: he talks about serving a third term as president. He
Speaker 1: told NBC News there are ways to make it happen,
Speaker 1: but he says there's a long way to go, and
Speaker 1: it is very early in his administration. The Constitution's twenty
Speaker 1: second Amendment limits presidents to two terms in office. Hundreds
Speaker 1: of people have gathered at Fair Oaksburger to send the
Speaker 1: message Alta Dina not for sale. Residents say they've been
Speaker 1: getting calls from their mortgage companies asking them to sell
Speaker 1: their property following the eat and fire. A fire that
Speaker 1: broke out yesterday afternoon just north of Bishop has burned
Speaker 1: a thousand acres. Homes and power lines are threatened. Evacuation
Speaker 1: orders are in place in parts of Ino and Mono Counties.
Speaker 1: Fighting the fire has been made more challenging because of
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty five miles per hour winds and
Speaker 1: low humidity. Six Flags Magic Mountain has permanently closed Superman.
Speaker 1: The roller coaster, which was once the tallest and fastest
Speaker 1: in the world, has been closed since September. The in
Speaker 1: park president Jeff Harris says they decided that the Superman
Speaker 1: Escape from Krypton's Shuttle coaster, which opened in nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: had reached the end of its life cycle and they're
Speaker 1: not going to reopen it. Let's say good morning now
Speaker 1: to kfi's White House correspondent John Dagger.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 1: President Trump had said several times that he has a
Speaker 1: good relationship with Russia's President Putin, but that relationship may
Speaker 1: have hit a snag.
Speaker 8: What happened, well, the reason is is because, as the
Speaker 8: President said just last week, Russia is dragging its feet.
Speaker 8: Those are his own words. Related to a thirty day ceasefire.
Speaker 8: That's something Amy that Ukraine has already agreed to. Russia
Speaker 8: has not. In fact, Russia continues attacking civilian areas in
Speaker 8: Ukraine with missile strikes, with drone strikes, and the President
Speaker 8: now threatening to do to Russia what he's already done
Speaker 8: to Venezuela, the President saying any country that purchases oil
Speaker 8: from Venezuela will be hit with twenty five percent tariffs.
Speaker 8: The President saying essentially that if Russia keeps it up
Speaker 8: and does not agree to this thirty day seasefire, he
Speaker 8: will oppose twenty five percent tariffs on any country that
Speaker 8: continues purchasing oil from Russia.
Speaker 1: Ooh, that could get very, very expensive. And then aside
Speaker 1: from tariffs, has Trump pinted at other sanctions that might
Speaker 1: become against Russia.
Speaker 8: Well, what Russian President Putin Amy said through his national
Speaker 8: security team over a month ago in Saudi is that
Speaker 8: we won't even discuss the idea of peace in Ukraine
Speaker 8: until the US removes all of the economic and banking
Speaker 8: sanctions that have been placed upon Russia. That is going
Speaker 8: to be a non starter. The US it says, no,
Speaker 8: they will remain in place until you agree to a
Speaker 8: thirty day ceasefire. So there's a standoff in terms of that.
Speaker 8: In the meantime, President Putin criticizing Vladimir Zelensky over the weekend,
Speaker 8: That too drew the ire of President Trump realizing it's
Speaker 8: going to be so difficult to reach an agreement if
Speaker 8: Putin continues to attack Zolensky in terms of the rhetoric
Speaker 8: that he's putting out there in various interviews.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, even though you know, Trump has also kind
Speaker 1: of gotten into it with Zolenski and said some things
Speaker 1: I agree about that, So it's interesting that it's kind
Speaker 1: of coming from both sides, but now Trump's kind of
Speaker 1: coming to Zelensky's defense, it sounds like.
Speaker 8: So, yeah, it is interesting because, as you point out,
Speaker 8: Trump has also said some unflattering things about Zelensky over
Speaker 8: the course of the past month and a half, even
Speaker 8: calling him a dictator and suggesting that it was Ukraine
Speaker 8: that was the country that started the war three years ago,
Speaker 8: when of course, it was Russia's invasion of Ukraine's sovereign
Speaker 8: territory in February of twenty twenty two that started off
Speaker 8: this war.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so John can you tell, like, who holds the
Speaker 1: cards in this because you said, basically, now Trump and
Speaker 1: Putin are sort of at an impasse, and we know
Speaker 1: that they're both pretty strong, pretty stubborn. Does anyone hold
Speaker 1: the advantage here?
Speaker 8: Well, it's a very good question. You know, the President
Speaker 8: believes that the US has the upper hand.
Speaker 4: You know, he uses this term.
Speaker 8: Who holds the cards. He's made it clear that the
Speaker 8: US holds all the cards as it relates to Ukraine.
Speaker 8: I don't think you can necessarily say the same thing
Speaker 8: holding all the cards as it relates to Russia. Russia
Speaker 8: continues its attacks on Ukraine. Russia continues to get help
Speaker 8: in terms of military assistance from China. It's got troops, support,
Speaker 8: assistance coming from North Korea. So the war continues, no
Speaker 8: end in sight. The President has expressed optimism since he's
Speaker 8: been sworn in amy about bringing about an aimed end
Speaker 8: to this war. But I think that realism is now
Speaker 8: setting in for President Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, kafi's White House correspondent John Decker, thanks
Speaker 1: so much for the information. As always, Thanks Amy, All right,
Speaker 1: talk soon. Cal Trend's workers have discovered a woman's body
Speaker 1: in LA's Mid City area. They made the discovery yesterday
Speaker 1: morning near the ten freeway at Librea. Neither the cause
Speaker 1: of death or details regarding how the body ended up there,
Speaker 1: we're clear a person's been killed in a collision involving
Speaker 1: an LA City fire truck in Pacoima.
Speaker 5: The collision happened shortly before eleven o'clock Sunday morning at
Speaker 5: the intersection of sand for New into a road in
Speaker 5: Tara Bella Street. Authority say a car pulled out in
Speaker 5: front of a fire engine that was responding to an
Speaker 5: emergency call with its lights and sirens.
Speaker 1: On kfi's Mark Mayfield says the driver of the car
Speaker 1: was killed. No one else was in that car. Two
Speaker 1: firefighters were treated at the hospital. A man shot by
Speaker 1: an LA Sheriff's deputy in West Hollywood is recovering an
Speaker 1: LA County Sheriff's deputy rather. The shooting happened late Saturday
Speaker 1: afternoon during what authorities are calling a physical altercation between
Speaker 1: the man and a deputy. The guy allegedly resisted when
Speaker 1: he was detained. He was taken to the hospital in
Speaker 1: stable condition. No deputies were hurt. As if there weren't
Speaker 1: enough issues with eggs, more than two hundred thousand pounds
Speaker 1: of liquid egg products are being recalled because they may
Speaker 1: be contaminated with cleaning solution. The USDA Food Safety and
Speaker 1: Inspection Service says the egg products were produced by Cargill
Speaker 1: Kitchen Solutions and distributed to several states, including California. Thousands
Speaker 1: of people have turned out in Pacoima, where the annual
Speaker 1: Caesar Chavez mar March for justice. The two mile march
Speaker 1: yesterday was preceded by a rally highlighting what supporters call
Speaker 1: the invaluable contributions of immigrants. Caesar Chavez would have been
Speaker 1: ninety eight today. President Obama declared this day a holiday
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen. California is one of a handful of
Speaker 1: states that observes it. Kindergarteners in California are ahead of
Speaker 1: the curve when it comes to vaccinations.
Speaker 6: The state's new report shows over ninety five percent of
Speaker 6: students are up to date on their measles, mumps, and
Speaker 6: rubella shots, well above the national average and a rate
Speaker 6: California has maintained for nearly a decade. Health officials are
Speaker 6: urging families to stay current, especially with the recent measles
Speaker 6: outbreaks reported in Texas, New Mexico. And Oklahoma Brigida de
Speaker 6: Agastino KAFI News.
Speaker 1: Guess what tonight is what It's time for the Dodgers
Speaker 1: to play baseball again. And if you're going to the game,
Speaker 1: it's World Champion Hoodie Giveaway Day. I'm bummed that I'm
Speaker 1: missing that one. But you can listen to the action
Speaker 1: on AM five to seventy LA Sports Live from the
Speaker 1: Galpin Motors Broadcast booth, and you can stream the game
Speaker 1: in HD on the iHeart Radio app Keyword AM five
Speaker 1: seventy LA Sports Go. Boys in Blue protesters in Pasadena
Speaker 1: have joined protests around the US to demonstrate against Tesla's CEO,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Crowds gathered outside the Tesla dealership Saturday to
Speaker 1: criticize cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE,
Speaker 1: which is overseen by Musk. Protesters are urging people to
Speaker 1: boycott Tesla, sell their cars, and dump their stock. Attorney
Speaker 1: General Pam Bondi has launched an investigation into whether UCLA
Speaker 1: and UC Irvine used DEI initiatives and in selecting students.
Speaker 1: The Department of Justice, as Stanford and UC Berkeley are
Speaker 1: also being investigated. The Trump administration has banned the use
Speaker 1: of DEI policies nationwide. Construction crews will start placing the
Speaker 1: first layers of dirt over the surface of the Wallace
Speaker 1: Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agora Hills today. It will eventually
Speaker 1: provide safe passage for wildlife over the one on one
Speaker 1: freeway and will be the largest bridge of its kind
Speaker 1: in the world. We're going to find out more with
Speaker 1: the National Wildlife Federation's Beth Pratt in just a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. Find out as they enter their next phase.
Speaker 1: Very exciting stuff. Handle on the news coming up at
Speaker 1: six oh five. Handles still on vacation. But we have, Neil,
Speaker 1: sayed Savader. I forgot how to say your name. Neil,
Speaker 1: you were gone for like two weeks. Neil Savader is
Speaker 1: filling in. We've got the death toll going up in
Speaker 1: me and mar from that seven point seven earthquake. Just
Speaker 1: so scary. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Speaker 1: Jim Ryan. So, Jim, are we going to be able
Speaker 1: to start afford to make omelets again?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought we were, well.
Speaker 10: Maybe at some point. Retail egg prices are still pretty high,
Speaker 10: but wholesale prices have been coming down. Amy, that's good news.
Speaker 10: They're down at three dollars for the first time in
Speaker 10: several months of dramatic decline in just the last few
Speaker 10: weeks in the wholesale price. But the retail prices tend
Speaker 10: to lag behind. So you might still be paying four
Speaker 10: dollars more, four to fifty, even five dollars in some places.
Speaker 10: And it's a very localized thing. One grocery store in
Speaker 10: one city might have eggs for three fifty a dozen.
Speaker 10: I know, I'm not here, you're in Texas. Yeah, that
Speaker 10: are that low. In others than may have them for
Speaker 10: six fifty or seven dozen, you know, seven dollars. It
Speaker 10: all depends really on one thing, on proximity to the
Speaker 10: egg production facility. That has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 10: The general inflation, right, I know in California is higher
Speaker 10: than it is in Kansas, and so Kansas eggs are
Speaker 10: probably cheaper than California. But yeah, to suffice it to
Speaker 10: say that doll around the country, prices have become to
Speaker 10: come started to come back down somewhat.
Speaker 1: Well, that's at least a good mundication. So you said
Speaker 1: that wholesale prices are at like three dollars, So how
Speaker 1: high did the wholesale prices go.
Speaker 10: Do we know eight dollars fifteen cents for wholesale. Yes,
Speaker 10: that's sixty three percent higher than it is right now.
Speaker 10: And that was February twenty first. So just in that
Speaker 10: little over a month, you saw the prices drop back
Speaker 10: down for a lot of reasons. Now, you know, you
Speaker 10: had the avian flu, which took out millions, tens of
Speaker 10: millions of birds, and the US flock right the laying hens,
Speaker 10: the poultry farms, all the rest of it. They had
Speaker 10: to call out millions and millions of birds because of
Speaker 10: individual cases of avian flu. Well, bird flu has subsided
Speaker 10: quite dramatically. You also have a lot more imports coming
Speaker 10: into the United States from elsewhere, you know where. We're
Speaker 10: getting a lot of our eggs right now. No, South Korea.
Speaker 1: It seems like an awful long way to send eggs.
Speaker 10: Let's just open a refrigeration on the plane, doesn't Okay,
Speaker 10: Let's make this a really soft land and we've got
Speaker 10: a cargo of eggs back there. So yeah, South Korea.
Speaker 10: We're getting a lot of imported eggs from South Korea.
Speaker 10: The Trump administration has been negotiating with other countries to
Speaker 10: try to bring in eggs to offset what we're seeing
Speaker 10: with these dramatic increases. So yeah, those things are helping
Speaker 10: out egg imports, the decline an avian flu, and you know,
Speaker 10: of course this all comes right before passover in East
Speaker 10: or Amy, and that means that demand will be going
Speaker 10: up again and that could pull us up.
Speaker 1: That could raise prices again if they do start coming down.
Speaker 1: So I have a question for you about when egg
Speaker 1: prices do start coming down, Like you said that the
Speaker 1: wholesale prices are getting down there, but then the retail
Speaker 1: is going to lag. What about like the increases or
Speaker 1: the search charges for restaurants are Is there any indication
Speaker 1: that they're going to remove those searcharges or are they
Speaker 1: just going to leave them now? I mean it's there now,
Speaker 1: why pull them off?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 10: I think that may be the mentality. You know, once
Speaker 10: you impose something like that, people get used to it.
Speaker 10: Customers see those prices, they're like, all right, well we'll
Speaker 10: just keep paying it. And you know, you saw restaurant
Speaker 10: prices rise dramatically during the pandemic. Right the pandemic has gone,
Speaker 10: have egg prices or restaurant price has gone down. No,
Speaker 10: they're still quite high and I think it's it's that
Speaker 10: supply and demand again. If people are willing to pay it,
Speaker 10: if they're willing to pay that inflated price for eggs
Speaker 10: or for restaurant food or for anything, then the proprietors
Speaker 10: are inclined to just keep those prices elevated.
Speaker 1: All right. ABC's Jim Ryan. Yeah, thanks for I was
Speaker 1: going to try to do a quick, little fun egg
Speaker 1: thing like you made this very exciting today. Oh no, no, no, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I kind of came up short. So it's Monday.
Speaker 1: It's Monday. Yeah, Jim Ryan, thank you so much. We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon.
Speaker 4: See.
Speaker 1: All right, it's time to get in your business now
Speaker 1: with Bloomberg's Courtney Donah morning.
Speaker 3: Courtney, good morning, Happy Monday, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1: So we were talking with Jim about how eggs are
Speaker 1: not really affordable, but we're going to go more big ticket.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about houses.
Speaker 3: Well, this has been the most difficult housing market in decades,
Speaker 3: and right now you have to have a six figure
Speaker 3: income buy to pull home in the majority of the country.
Speaker 3: That's unbelievable when you think how expansive the country is
Speaker 3: and all of the different income levels throughout the different
Speaker 3: country throughout the different states. According to bank Rate, home
Speaker 3: buyers need to have a household income up close to
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventeen thousand dollars to buy an average house.
Speaker 3: Keep this in mind, that's a fifty percent increase from
Speaker 3: twenty twenty fifty percent. So in California, of course, you
Speaker 3: need to have a lot more two hundred and thirteen
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, and when it comes to acquiring the most income,
Speaker 3: it ranks third in the nation.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Okay, well that's a fun way to start our Monday,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Let's let's move on.
Speaker 3: I know, well, if you want cheaper, you could go
Speaker 3: to West Virginia for that one. But another thing to
Speaker 3: keep in mind is five years ago, folks in just
Speaker 3: six states in DC needed a six figure income to
Speaker 3: afford a house. Now that's expanded to thirty states.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I wouldn't imagine that those prices are going
Speaker 1: to take it anytime soon. It's amazing that the house
Speaker 1: prices still keep going up, even though, like you know,
Speaker 1: the house sales are down and the interest rates are
Speaker 1: up and stuff, but the price is just keep going up.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of people don't and can't sit on
Speaker 3: the sidelines anymore. They've sat for a while in rentals,
Speaker 3: or their families are growing. They need more space. They
Speaker 3: can't just sit here and wait anymore. So that's why
Speaker 3: we're seeing more people. Early indication for the spring selling
Speaker 3: season is that a lot more people are out there
Speaker 3: taking tours, which they haven't done in a very long time.
Speaker 3: People are saying, all right, well, it is expensive, but
Speaker 3: what can we do about it? We just got to
Speaker 3: keep moving on with our lives.
Speaker 1: Okay. Sounds like maybe there might be a couple people
Speaker 1: who are moving on, and that might be the film
Speaker 1: studio heads at Warner Brothers Discovery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they may be on their way out. Sources are
Speaker 3: telling us here at Bloomberg that the media giant has
Speaker 3: been talking with potential successors to Mike de Luca and
Speaker 3: Pam Abdy. Warner Brothers has continued to struggle. They released
Speaker 3: a bunch of different pictures, including the Joker sequel and
Speaker 3: Mickey seventeen that have disappointed at the box office. A
Speaker 3: Minecraft movie that opens up this week. My son is
Speaker 3: very excited. If that's not had, and this can potentially
Speaker 3: deliver the company a much needed hint. However, Warner Brothers,
Speaker 3: they came out and they said any imminent change they
Speaker 3: did put in imminent change at the studio is not true.
Speaker 1: Okay. And speaking of disappointing things, that might be another
Speaker 1: disappointing day on the markets.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, another day, another day in the red for
Speaker 3: the markets, mainly because investors have been freaking out over
Speaker 3: President Trump's plan for tariffs coming on Wednesday, these new tariffs,
Speaker 3: so the risk that these tariffs are going to hurt
Speaker 3: the economy that has driven the S and P five
Speaker 3: hundred to a more than five percent drop in the
Speaker 3: first quarter. You have to remember this is the end
Speaker 3: of first quarter trading. It's unbelievable what has happened. How
Speaker 3: the trajectory of the markets have changed. So DAL futures
Speaker 3: right now they're down about two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 3: When you look at SMP futures, they're going to take
Speaker 3: a pretty big hit at the open. It's expected to
Speaker 3: be down about one percent and keep them on. Stocks
Speaker 3: cut slammed on Friday, the S and P five hundred
Speaker 3: sel two percent, so this would build on the losses
Speaker 3: that we saw on Friday.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then Liberation Day is Wednesday, so it'll be
Speaker 1: an interesting ride on Wednesday as well. All right, getting
Speaker 1: in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thank you so much, Courtney.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again tomorrow same time.
Speaker 3: Enjoy your day, all right, you too.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
Speaker 1: of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom of pedestrian's been
Speaker 1: hit and killed by two vehicles on the five Freeway
Speaker 1: in Anaheim. HP says the person was hit by a
Speaker 1: white truck in the middle lanes of the southbound Five
Speaker 1: just after two am. HP says the pedestrian was also
Speaker 1: hit by a black Honda Civic. The freeway has been
Speaker 1: shut down during the investigation. LGBTQ organizations in SoCal are
Speaker 1: upset over potential cuts to HIV and AIDS prevention programs.
Speaker 7: Leaders of the LGBT Center in LA and DApp Health
Speaker 7: in the Coachella Valley say a cut in the CDC's
Speaker 7: HIV prevention programs could endanger many lives and drive up
Speaker 7: cost to taxpayers if the number of AIDS cases increases.
Speaker 7: Last week, the National Institutes of Health eliminated funding for
Speaker 7: dozens of HIV related research grants. Officials say the spread
Speaker 7: of the disease is down twelve percent nationally thanks to
Speaker 7: prevention efforts. The center in LA provides outreach testing and
Speaker 7: HIV preventative medications. Officials there say they've been in limbo
Speaker 7: about what become of their four hundred and fifty thousand
Speaker 7: dollars CDC grant to support their work. Heather Brooker KFI News.
Speaker 1: A man from Riverside County is expected to plead guilty
Speaker 1: in LA to federal charges of running illegal cock fights.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors say the fights were held at a home in
Speaker 1: San Bernardino last year and included seating, a taco bar
Speaker 1: and drinks. They say bird owners paid one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to register roosters expected to fight to the death while
Speaker 1: spectators gambled. People watching the fights also had to pay
Speaker 1: twenty bucks to park off site and forty dollars dollars
Speaker 1: to get in the door. Someone who bought a powerball
Speaker 1: ticket in Anaheim is holding a five hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: million dollar ticket. It was purchased at the seven eleven
Speaker 1: on Euclid Street. The ticket holder will have the option
Speaker 1: of getting the full jackpot in thirty installments or the
Speaker 1: lump SUMB payment of nearly two hundred forty four million dollars.
Speaker 1: Of course, that's before taxes. Immunization rates for kindergarteners in
Speaker 1: California is higher than the national average. California Department of
Speaker 1: Public Health says more than ninety five percent of kids
Speaker 1: in the state are vaccinated against measles, MOMPS, and rebella.
Speaker 1: The vaccination rates have held pretty steady for close to
Speaker 1: a decade. Snow White took in just over fourteen million
Speaker 1: dollars in its second weekend of release. Since it was released,
Speaker 1: it's earned about forty three million dollars in the US
Speaker 1: just over eighty seven million worldwide. The cost to make
Speaker 1: the movie was between two hundred and forty and two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million dollars. A Working Man with Jason
Speaker 1: Statham finished first in the weekend box office. We're just
Speaker 1: minutes away from handle on the news this morning with
Speaker 1: our buddy Neil Sevadra back in the driver's seat. The
Speaker 1: tariffs are coming. The tariffs are coming. Neil's going to
Speaker 1: tell you all about that right now. Let's say good
Speaker 1: morning too. California's regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation.
Speaker 1: Best Pratt, Good morning, Beth. Thanks for getting us up
Speaker 1: early with us today.
Speaker 4: Oh, no problem, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: So we're excited because construction for the wildlife crossing over
Speaker 1: the one oh one freeway in a Gore Hills is
Speaker 1: progressing and entering a new phase today.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we're really excited. I'm up early, not just for you,
Speaker 11: but we are about to put the first soil on
Speaker 11: the top of the one oh one structure, which to
Speaker 11: me is a really actually emotional milestone because so far
Speaker 11: it's been concrete, twenty six million pounds of concrete for
Speaker 11: that one oh one structure. But this is the first
Speaker 11: kind of natural lair. You know, I can now envision
Speaker 11: a mountalined pop print in it. So getting my hand
Speaker 11: in that soil and being able to toss it on
Speaker 11: the bridge and know that next coming is plant and habitat,
Speaker 11: that's a pretty amazing milestone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So now, Beth, is how much dirt are you
Speaker 1: going to be throwing onto the bridge? Eventually? You said
Speaker 1: twenty six million tons of concrete. How much dirt's going
Speaker 1: on there?
Speaker 11: You know, that's a really good question I don't know
Speaker 11: the answer to, but it's a lot.
Speaker 4: This is a this, yeah, a lot. How's that for scientific?
Speaker 11: It is a full acre of habitat on top of
Speaker 11: that bridge, and that we are actually creating, right, there
Speaker 11: was nothing there. I do know that the top soil
Speaker 11: is about nine inches in height, and then the subsoil,
Speaker 11: which actually is what we'll be tossing on would they
Speaker 11: start today, it's about nine inches.
Speaker 4: So you're talking about you know.
Speaker 11: About across the entire habitat, you're talking about eighteen inches
Speaker 11: of soil, which is a lot.
Speaker 3: From below that.
Speaker 4: We have aggregate, we have drainage layers.
Speaker 11: It's it's you know, people ask, you know sometimes why
Speaker 11: this is taking so long. Well, it's not just a
Speaker 11: bridge for cars. To create an ecosystem on top took
Speaker 11: a lot of engineering, you know, such as the waterproofing
Speaker 11: and drainage layers, so that you could pretty much create
Speaker 11: a habitat.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then once you get all the dirt on there,
Speaker 1: then you're going to be planting things, right.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I think this is the most fascinating part of the
Speaker 11: whole project. Even though I have a black thumb and
Speaker 11: you wouldn't want me in charge of this, but we
Speaker 11: have a whole native plant nursery operation that literally we
Speaker 11: started like five or six years ago with just people
Speaker 11: coming out gathering samples of like the microbi you know,
Speaker 11: microbiology of the soil of the fungus, and started gathering
Speaker 11: over a million hyperlocal seeds that now if you look,
Speaker 11: are now full fledged plants, and those will be starting to.
Speaker 1: Go on in May, okay, And then we're still looking
Speaker 1: at an opening data when it's going to be completed
Speaker 1: still early next year, is that right?
Speaker 11: Sometime in twenty twenty six, the weather did delay us
Speaker 11: a little bit. We had two record rainy springs, which
Speaker 11: unfortunately hit at bad times. When you're pouring concrete, you
Speaker 11: can't have soupy soil doesn't work real well. But we're
Speaker 11: looking at twenty twenty six, and what is next is
Speaker 11: we have to relocate there or bury There is a
Speaker 11: utility line in between the freeway and a Gora road
Speaker 11: and those utility lines will be buried, which will actually
Speaker 11: help with fire resiliency. And then we start extending the
Speaker 11: structure over a Goa road and then put the soil
Speaker 11: on that plants on that and we are open for
Speaker 11: business and probably mid to late twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Okay, how exciting. Okay, So I want to ask you
Speaker 1: a question because we've talked about this before, but just
Speaker 1: you're building this massive crossing. It's an acre in size
Speaker 1: over the freeway, and you and I have talked before
Speaker 1: about if you build it, they will come, meaning that
Speaker 1: if you build this car, the wildlife will find it.
Speaker 1: How do they find it because in the grand scope
Speaker 1: of things along the whole freeway, it's a very narrow passage.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and that's actually why they will find it or
Speaker 11: have already found it. We know from the National Park
Speaker 11: Service research, you know, over twenty years of collaring mountain
Speaker 11: lines and bobcats and coyotes and other animals that they're
Speaker 11: trying to cross here. If you look on a map
Speaker 11: like a Google map, you can see that the green
Speaker 11: space funnels right to this location, kind of an hour
Speaker 11: glass shape. It's the last sixteen hundred feet in that
Speaker 11: entire region on the one oh one where there's protected
Speaker 11: open space on both sides. So they're already trying to
Speaker 11: cross here. They just get to the freeway and are
Speaker 11: like uh huh and turn around, because I'll tell you
Speaker 11: I've stood there at two am and I wouldn't even
Speaker 11: try it.
Speaker 4: You know, the one on one just never slows.
Speaker 11: But what we what we also do, and we know
Speaker 11: from decades of wildlife crossing science, is we put up
Speaker 11: what we call exclusionary fencing so they'll sensing on about
Speaker 11: two miles on either side of the freeway. That actually
Speaker 11: cuts off their options and leads them to it as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh, I love that. Okay, Well, I hope that
Speaker 1: we get to talk to you again soon, Beth. A
Speaker 1: very exciting day. We're a step closer to giving animals
Speaker 1: safe passage. And that's that's big stuff, you.
Speaker 4: Know, it's hopeful stuff.
Speaker 11: I think we all need hope these days, and to me,
Speaker 11: this is a hopeful project.
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, all right, thank you.
Speaker 1: Bet. That's California Regional executive director of the National Wildlife Federation,
Speaker 1: Beth Pratt. Let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Several
Speaker 1: top universities in California are under federal investigation for their
Speaker 1: use of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Speaker 6: The DOJ under the Trump administration is probing UCLA, UC Irvine, Stanford,
Speaker 6: and UC Berkeley to see if DEI criteria played a
Speaker 6: role in student admissions. Supporters of the investigation say admissions
Speaker 6: should be merit based, while critics argue these policies help
Speaker 6: level the playing field and reflect the diversity of the country.
Speaker 6: Regita Degastino kay if I Knew.
Speaker 1: An award winning actress, has been arrested in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: And Delaney from NYPD Blue was arrested on suspicion of
Speaker 2: felony assault at her home in Marina del Rey on
Speaker 2: Saturday morning. Allie County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report
Speaker 2: of a domestic disturbance. Delaney's partner, James Morgan, was also
Speaker 2: arrested on suspicion of spousal battery. He later posted a
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars bond, but Delaney remained in jail as
Speaker 2: of Sunday. Both have a court appearance on Tuesday. Andrew
Speaker 2: Caravella KYFI News country.
Speaker 1: Singer Morgan Wallin has made an early exit from the
Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live stage. Host Mikey Madison said good night,
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