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Speaker 1: watching comments yesterday because they have during the live stream,
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Speaker 1: of spend the afternoon. I had my brother over for
Speaker 1: dinner over the weekend, and so I just turned it
Speaker 1: on on my TV. So I was watching it and
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Speaker 1: watching them just sitting there on the big screen was
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Speaker 1: want to let you know I'm walking wounded today. I
Speaker 1: think I broke my finger. I'm not sure. I know
Speaker 1: cono well, I don't know that it's broken. It is swollen,
Speaker 1: but it's not black and blue yet, and I can
Speaker 1: move it. So but I tripped last night going up
Speaker 1: some stairs and just jam the crap out of it.
Speaker 1: So it's really hard to type the morning. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you it's a new experience in pain. But we'll get
Speaker 1: through it together. Right, Okay, let's get going. We got
Speaker 1: a lot going on. Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1: Eric and lyleman Endez are expected to appear virtually for
Speaker 1: a two day hearing that gets underway this morning in
Speaker 1: Van Eys. The judge gonna hear arguments for and against
Speaker 1: the brother's request to be re sentenced for the murder
Speaker 1: of their parents in nineteen eighty nine. Da Nathan Hoffman
Speaker 1: has requested a delay, so we're going to have to
Speaker 1: wait and see if the judge grants that. Kfi's Michael
Speaker 1: Monks is there. He's going to be bringing us the
Speaker 1: latest throughout the day. About seventy students in Orange County
Speaker 1: have had their student visas revoked by the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Attorney General Rob Bonta and nineteen other states attorney general
Speaker 1: are challenging the administration over student visa revocations. Look Up
Speaker 1: in the sky, the Lerid meteor shower is underway. The
Speaker 1: annual celestial display started last night. It'll go through April
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, says the media. Showers expected to peak next
Speaker 1: week on April twenty first and twenty second. And all
Speaker 1: you need to see it is clear weather in a
Speaker 1: dark sky. So is AI making us dumber? ABC's Jim
Speaker 1: Ryan's going to join us in about two minutes to
Speaker 1: tell us. We've been talking about how tariffs are going
Speaker 1: to affect car sales and lumber and steal, but what
Speaker 1: about the little guy. We're going to talk to the
Speaker 1: CEO of Women Business Collaborative at five point twenty to
Speaker 1: talk about how small businesses could get hit really hard.
Speaker 1: I've got an Amy's on it out and about mashup
Speaker 1: for you today at the bottom of the hour, we're
Speaker 1: headed to the studio at five point fifty. Griffith Park
Speaker 1: is going high tech for hiking, and we're going to
Speaker 1: tell you how you can help make our little urban
Speaker 1: sanctuary even better. As we head towards Earth Day, we're
Speaker 1: going to be talking with Brenda Reese with friends of
Speaker 1: Griffith Park. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 1: coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. A
Speaker 1: hearing on the re sentencing of the Menendez brothers is
Speaker 1: set to start this morning. Legal analyst Alison Treesil tells
Speaker 1: KTLA both sides been going over their arguments for a
Speaker 1: while now.
Speaker 4: Either Eric and Lyle should be re sentenced or, as
Speaker 4: the prosecution will surely argue, these two still pose a
Speaker 4: danger to public safety.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, kfi's Michael Monks is going to be
Speaker 1: at the Van Nights Courthouse with complete coverage for US
Speaker 1: all morning and all afternoon. A man has died after
Speaker 1: an officer involved shooting at the end of a wild
Speaker 1: high speed chase in Orange County. This woman lives near
Speaker 1: where it happened in Anaheim.
Speaker 5: Well, well, so you just here.
Speaker 4: Like what it sounds like gunshots.
Speaker 5: First of we thought it was a car, but then
Speaker 5: everyone started running off. Soon it was gunshots.
Speaker 1: Police shot the driver last night after disabling his pickup
Speaker 1: truck with a pit maneuver on a bridge above the
Speaker 1: Santa Ana River. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office says two
Speaker 1: of its deputies have been arrested.
Speaker 6: News release issued Wednesday says deputies Anthony Melagon and Dylan
Speaker 6: Davis were arrested while off duty on March thirtieth. They
Speaker 6: were allegedly involved in what's being called a domestic incident
Speaker 6: at a restaurants in Camill.
Speaker 1: Kfi's Daniel Martindale says a security guard who intervened got
Speaker 1: hurt and had to be taken to the hospital. The
Speaker 1: Port of La has been ordered to clean up its act.
Speaker 7: A tentative settlement has been reached against the City of
Speaker 7: La for alleged violations of the Federal Clean Water Act.
Speaker 4: The Port of La.
Speaker 7: Has to improve its management of storm water and groundwater
Speaker 7: to make sure toxic pollutants stay out of the harbor.
Speaker 7: The lawsuit brought by La based Environment California last year
Speaker 7: alleged that there have been more than two thousand illegal
Speaker 7: discharges of pollution in the previous five years at the port.
Speaker 7: Deborah mark Koffi News a gray whale.
Speaker 1: Has been freed after its tail became entangled in gill
Speaker 1: metting in the waters off Rancho Palace Verties. Noah Fisheries
Speaker 1: officials say the twenty five foot whale got tangled and
Speaker 1: tethered to a rock crab trap. It had been dragging
Speaker 1: it along the seafloor from Newport Beach to Rancho Palace
Speaker 1: Verties for about a week and a half. Half A
Speaker 1: crew was able to untangle and release the whale that
Speaker 1: quickly swam away. Let's say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
Speaker 1: artificial intelligence is here, but do we even know what
Speaker 1: it can do? And are we using it?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 8: Are we afraid of it?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I still am.
Speaker 8: You've heard of Quinnipiac University, right, that's that Connecticut school
Speaker 8: and they do surveys on things all year long about
Speaker 8: different things. Now they've gone out and they've asked over
Speaker 8: a thousand people around the country. So what do you
Speaker 8: know about AI and how do you feel about artificial intelligence? Well,
Speaker 8: betting upon your age. You either accept it, you're okay
Speaker 8: with it, or you're terrified that it's going to take
Speaker 8: over the world. The older you are, the more you
Speaker 8: fall into that latter group. Right, But it also depends
Speaker 8: not just on your age, but on the task that
Speaker 8: you're asking AI to do. When it comes to, for example,
Speaker 8: medical advances, fifty nine percent of Americans think AI will
Speaker 8: do more good than harm. But if you ask it
Speaker 8: to screen health insurance claims or screen loan applications or
Speaker 8: job applications, people are more queasy about it, and they
Speaker 8: can't support artificial intelligence doing that. They would rather have
Speaker 8: a person sitting across the desk.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that, like, because I think when
Speaker 1: you take the human factor out, like you mentioned a resume,
Speaker 1: someone might look great on a resume, but in person,
Speaker 1: they're just they're not dynamic, engaging, they can't think on
Speaker 1: their feet, that kind of stuff. I mean, So it's
Speaker 1: taking a huge part of the equation out.
Speaker 8: Sure well, or the opposite. You know, somebody isn't that
Speaker 8: dynamic or is a real go getter, but it doesn't
Speaker 8: show on paper. Yeah, and AI might kick that person
Speaker 8: out of the process. Maybe that could be a problem.
Speaker 8: So yeah, it largely depends upon the job you're asking
Speaker 8: it to do. More than eight and ten Americans, though,
Speaker 8: are either very concerned or a little concerned that a
Speaker 8: I will diminish the ability of people in the youngest
Speaker 8: generation to think for themselves. In other words, that that
Speaker 8: were dumbing down the youngest generation, because AI will be
Speaker 8: doing all the thinking for us.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and that I mean, when you think
Speaker 1: about it, it's already underway. If you think about like smartphones,
Speaker 1: we don't remember phone numbers anymore. I know, like three
Speaker 1: phone numbers. I know my phone number from when I
Speaker 1: was five years old, but I you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know my next door neighbor's phone number anymore. And like,
Speaker 1: think about it, appointments, You put an appointment in your
Speaker 1: phone and then you forget about it and then it
Speaker 1: reminds you. Or even driving directions.
Speaker 5: Right, that's a big one too.
Speaker 8: And you know I used to get around with a
Speaker 8: map skill, you know, the remember the map books in
Speaker 8: the back of the car and.
Speaker 1: The Thomas guides. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 8: But at the same time, somebody suggested earlier today to
Speaker 8: me that you know, every piece of technology that comes
Speaker 8: along is going to destroy civilization. AI included, right, but
Speaker 8: think back to the Abbacus thousands of years ago. Suddenly
Speaker 8: people were freaking out. You don't have to learn math
Speaker 8: anymore because you've got this this row of this column
Speaker 8: of bars with beads on it. You're going to use
Speaker 8: this instead of thinking, come on and.
Speaker 1: Look at us thinking, well, you know, now we've got
Speaker 1: our I.
Speaker 8: Take it back.
Speaker 5: We did ruin us with ourselves, with the advocates.
Speaker 1: So here's the thought though, if we if we use
Speaker 1: a I, will we get worse? Or could we use
Speaker 1: AI to help make us smarter?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 8: And I think that's that's one possibility, and where you
Speaker 8: can learn it as use it as a learning tool. Absolutely,
Speaker 8: So while AI is teaching itself and learning, it can
Speaker 8: also be teaching you whatever it is you want to
Speaker 8: know and doing so kind of a personal way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think you're right. I mean, like I'm
Speaker 1: so worried about it, and I know that I use
Speaker 1: it because like when I Google something now and it'll
Speaker 1: say AI generated response. But you got to be careful
Speaker 1: because a lot of times it's wrong.
Speaker 5: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 8: So found out yesterday.
Speaker 1: I still needs us, We're still necessary.
Speaker 5: Jim, Thank Evid.
Speaker 1: All right. ABC's Jim Ryan always necessary on wake up call.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us today. Thanks Bhabe, all right, We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration is facing possible contempt charges over two
Speaker 1: deportation flights to El Salvador. ABC's Nicole Antonio says the
Speaker 1: flights continued after a federal judge ordered they be turned around.
Speaker 7: Judge James Sposburg saying the administration displayed a wilful disregard
Speaker 7: for his order. His investigation could eventually include officials testifying
Speaker 7: under oath.
Speaker 1: She says. The judge could also appoint an independent lawyer
Speaker 1: to prosecute the administration. The New York Attorney General, who
Speaker 1: led and won a civil fraud trial against President Trump
Speaker 1: Remember That for inflating the value of Israel estate, has
Speaker 1: now been accused of committing mortgage fraud. Letitia James hasn't
Speaker 1: been charged, but the case is being referred to the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice. The complaint says James's falsified records to
Speaker 1: get sweetheart home loans for a home that she apparently
Speaker 1: didn't live in the Supreme Court in the UK has
Speaker 1: ruled the legal definition of a woman is someone born
Speaker 1: a biological female. ABC's James Longman says the ruling clarifies
Speaker 1: whether transgender women are protected from discrimination under Britain's equality law.
Speaker 5: JK.
Speaker 10: Rowling and other women like her say we fought for
Speaker 10: decades for women's rights.
Speaker 1: For feminism, The ruling goes on to say transgender people
Speaker 1: are still protected against discrimination and harassment. Ford dealers are
Speaker 1: being told unless the Trump administration changes its tariff's policy,
Speaker 1: they can expect the price of vehicles to go up.
Speaker 1: ABC's Dave Packer says Ford has sent a memo out
Speaker 1: to its dealerships.
Speaker 2: The automaker offered deep discounts across this lineup starting earlier
Speaker 2: this month through the beginning of June, but the memo
Speaker 2: making clear that any vehicle that's produced from May on
Speaker 2: will see a price increase if nothing changes with the.
Speaker 1: Tariffsmo says any Ford cars or trucks ordered now will
Speaker 1: have a guaranteed price, even if the vehicle isn't produced
Speaker 1: or delivered until after May. The CEO of a large
Speaker 1: e commerce company has said AI could maybe do certain
Speaker 1: jobs better than people.
Speaker 10: The CEO at Shopify has told his managers no new
Speaker 10: hires unless it can be proven they'll be better than
Speaker 10: artificial intelligence. Sacramento based CEO of My out Desk, Daniel Ramsey,
Speaker 10: says that's not the right approach.
Speaker 11: Fear is always the lack of knowledge, so educating people
Speaker 11: about how it works and how they could use it,
Speaker 11: and then being encouraging.
Speaker 10: Ramsey's company helps connect businesses to virtual staffing and says
Speaker 10: AI should be viewed as a tool that existing employees
Speaker 10: should be introduced to and encouraged to use, not replaced.
Speaker 10: By Michael Monks, KFI News.
Speaker 1: All about AI this morning. In what could be a
Speaker 1: major discovery in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists
Speaker 1: say they've detected unusual gases in the atmosphere of a
Speaker 1: faraway planet, but University of Cambridge professor Niku Madhasuden says
Speaker 1: more study is needed.
Speaker 12: We have found signs of biosignature molecules either dms or
Speaker 12: dmds or both, both of which are produced uniquely by
Speaker 12: life here on Earth.
Speaker 1: The discovery was made using the James Webb telescope, fresh
Speaker 1: off in eight to seven win over the Rockies the
Speaker 1: Dodgers head to the Lone Star State. The Dodgers are
Speaker 1: taking on the Rangers in Texas tomorrow night. First pitch
Speaker 1: goes off at goes out at five o'clock. You can
Speaker 1: listen to every play on AM five seventy LA Sports
Speaker 1: Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast booth. You can also
Speaker 1: stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports La County DA Nathan
Speaker 1: Hawkman has asked for a delay for today's scheduled resentencing
Speaker 1: hearing for Eric and Lylemanendez. He says they need time
Speaker 1: to review a new parole board assessment. The hearing is
Speaker 1: scheduled to start and Van Nis at nine thirty are
Speaker 1: Michael Munks to be there covering it all day for US.
Speaker 1: Three people have been arrested in connection with more than
Speaker 1: two dozen break ins in North Hollywood between January and March.
Speaker 1: The LAPD says the three homeless men hit both homes
Speaker 1: and businesses and apparently told police they did it to
Speaker 1: pay for their drug habits. Stocks have dropped again following
Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve chairman saying he expects inflation to rise
Speaker 1: and economic growth to slow because of tariffs. Speaking of tariffs,
Speaker 1: let's say good morning to the chief executive officer of
Speaker 1: the Women Business Collaborative. It's Gwen Rece. Good morning, Gwen
Speaker 1: A So I'm sorry, it's Gwen.
Speaker 13: Young morning Amy when y no problem, Good morning.
Speaker 1: I'm good. We're talking to Brenda Reese a little bit later,
Speaker 1: so I just mixed you guys up. So, Gwen, before
Speaker 1: we get started and jump in and talk about these
Speaker 1: the tariffs, tell us a little bit about what your organization,
Speaker 1: Women Business Collaborative does. So we have a frame of reference.
Speaker 13: Absolutely, So we are a co collaborative, which means we
Speaker 13: have eighty seven organization, sixty seven sponsors, and three hundred
Speaker 13: individuals that are committed to growing women in business. And
Speaker 13: related to this conversation, about forty percent of our collaborative
Speaker 13: is women owned businesses. So we are there to support
Speaker 13: and grow these businesses and help continue to grow the economy.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome, So let's talk about tariffs. A lot of
Speaker 1: focus has been on the car makers and things like
Speaker 1: lumber and steal. We just had a story about Fords
Speaker 1: and on a memo to its dealership saying, hey, if
Speaker 1: the tariffs take hold, prices are going to go up,
Speaker 1: but as the tariffs take hold. If they do, they
Speaker 1: could have a huge effect on small businesses. So what
Speaker 1: kind of things are the small businesses experiencing?
Speaker 13: Well, i'm the small businesses which are about either you know,
Speaker 13: forty four percent of economic activity and actually have small
Speaker 13: businesses and all businesses women are about forty percent. You know,
Speaker 13: what we're seeing is these are math market goods, these
Speaker 13: are necessities, These are consumers good these are toys, these
Speaker 13: are clothing, apparel, makeup, and so forth. So it's a
Speaker 13: really interesting, you know, group of businesses. And these are
Speaker 13: businesses and have smaller profit margins, right, which means that
Speaker 13: any disruption in their supplies if they put into their
Speaker 13: business or their outputs, you know, they just don't have
Speaker 13: that ability to weather a shock, right, So that means
Speaker 13: can they pass it on to the consumer? Do they
Speaker 13: have to shutter? Do they have access to financing? And
Speaker 13: unlike those those bigger companies, they have less access to
Speaker 13: financing an opportunity, So they're really being impacted by you know,
Speaker 13: what may or may not happen in the shifts in
Speaker 13: what the tariffs are going to be.
Speaker 1: And have they already started to feel the effects. Are
Speaker 1: we still sort of in a holding pattern since almost
Speaker 1: everything's been passed, well not China though, but pretty much
Speaker 1: everything else has been paused for ninety days. But those
Speaker 1: tariffs are still in place for China. So are people
Speaker 1: feeling the pinch already?
Speaker 13: They are feeling the pinch already, and they're already starting
Speaker 13: to you know, advocate, you know, describe what that what
Speaker 13: that effect looks like. If you're a business that regards
Speaker 13: on a supply that you would, you know, bring from China.
Speaker 13: Clothing is one of the biggest thing where the world's
Speaker 13: biggest importer of clothing, so they're starting to fill at effect.
Speaker 13: Prices are going up and I need to think it
Speaker 13: was last week we saw an article that said you
Speaker 13: can expect prices to raise by ten to twenty five
Speaker 13: percent right now, and things like toys by about twenty
Speaker 13: three percent. So the impacts are immediate and it's impacting also,
Speaker 13: you know, local businesses are people that we're going to
Speaker 13: start a business because where are you going to get
Speaker 13: those supplies? Where are you going to find that financing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then even if they can whether the storm,
Speaker 1: like you said, they've got a lot of decisions to make.
Speaker 1: I mean like, do they cut hours for their workers,
Speaker 1: do they increase prices? Do they offer fewer items? So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of decisions that are going to have
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 13: Made, absolutely, And part of it too is you know,
Speaker 13: like I said earlier, you know, we get packaging things
Speaker 13: for packaging manufactured out side of the United States. So
Speaker 13: if you don't have somewhere to buy that that changes
Speaker 13: your financials, It changes your investment and money that you need.
Speaker 13: And women still access only two percent of all available capital.
Speaker 13: So you're making immediate decisions about what you can do
Speaker 13: and how you can operate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you mentioned women and I know you
Speaker 1: work with a women business collaborative. What extra challenges do
Speaker 1: women owned businesses have?
Speaker 13: Well, I think they say, you know, they say sort
Speaker 13: of two extra challenges right women owned businesses is one
Speaker 13: is they don't have the same networks and they are
Speaker 13: not represented in some of these larger industries at the
Speaker 13: same rate as men are, which means what they don't
Speaker 13: have the type of partnerships, they don't have access to
Speaker 13: capital and finance, and then definitely probably don't have that
Speaker 13: sort of advocacy power or that flexibility to figure out
Speaker 13: where to absorb those prices or how they can raise
Speaker 13: the prices. Plus many are manufacturing, you know, many of
Speaker 13: our consumer goods and the goods that we use every day,
Speaker 13: so you know, passing a price long to the consumer
Speaker 13: really is going to impact their business and what they're
Speaker 13: going to be able to sell. So they really do
Speaker 13: facing new challenges.
Speaker 1: Okay, Gwen, is there anything that we wake up call
Speaker 1: listeners can do to help out the small businesses?
Speaker 13: Well, I think a couple of things. I mean we
Speaker 13: always say, you know, by local, you know, and that
Speaker 13: sort of thing, and try to do what we can do.
Speaker 13: But you know, the advocacy right now is let's get
Speaker 13: some exemptions for those small businesses. Let's look at the
Speaker 13: impact on the small businesses, and let's find where big
Speaker 13: companies you know and local, national, and federal government can
Speaker 13: support those small businesses. So if we can continue to
Speaker 13: make that drum week drum beat call for that action
Speaker 13: and support those small businesses, that's what we can do
Speaker 13: to help them stay alive.
Speaker 1: Local and small is always good. Gwen Young, the CEO
Speaker 1: of Women Business Collaborative, Thanks so much for helping kind
Speaker 1: of sort through this with us today. Go Small Business, Thank.
Speaker 13: Any Goo, Small Business looks people working together, Take Care.
Speaker 1: A new ad campaign has been created to draw more
Speaker 1: young people to jobs with the LAPD.
Speaker 10: Video features the campaign's branding, unrivaled since eighteen sixty nine.
Speaker 9: Only those who dare who come to appreciate the perseverance
Speaker 9: and sacrifice the choir.
Speaker 10: LAPD chief Jim McDonald says the department is short more
Speaker 10: than a thousand officers despite a record number of applications,
Speaker 10: but they.
Speaker 3: Also apply other places at the same time, and the
Speaker 3: smaller departments are more nimble and able to offer a
Speaker 3: job quicker than we have been.
Speaker 10: McDonald says he hopes the new campaign helps create a
Speaker 10: better image for the department with younger applicants. Michael Monks
Speaker 10: KFI News.
Speaker 1: A woman who said that she didn't even realize she'd
Speaker 1: been shot is in critical condition. Police say. The woman
Speaker 1: says she heard gunfire yesterday morning in El Serena and
Speaker 1: then realized that she had been hit. She was taken
Speaker 1: to the hospital to be treated. Even with more funding,
Speaker 1: a lot of California students still aren't reading at grade level,
Speaker 1: especially in La County, where fewer than half of third
Speaker 1: graders are on track. A new report from Families in
Speaker 1: Schools shows big gaps between wealthier and low income areas,
Speaker 1: with some districts like Bonita Unified and Garvi Elementary Or
Speaker 1: seeing success using proven methods like structured literacy and focused
Speaker 1: support for English learners. The report pushes for more schools
Speaker 1: to follow their lead, calling literacy a civil rights issue
Speaker 1: that needs urgent attention. The first ever Universal Studios fan
Speaker 1: Fest Nights kicks off next week. Steven Serks with Universal
Speaker 1: Studios tells KFI the event will give fans a chance
Speaker 1: to celebrate their favorite fandoms at a separate nighttime ticketed
Speaker 1: event similar to Halloween Horror Nights. FanFest Nights is the
Speaker 1: ultimate immersive fan experience, and we're celebrating the genres of
Speaker 1: sci fi, fantasy, gaming, an anime, he says. The immersive
Speaker 1: fan event will highlight seven fandoms including Star Trek, Dungeons
Speaker 1: and Dragons, One Piece, Nintendo, and more. It opens on
Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, with a resentencing hearing for Leola and
Speaker 1: Eric Menendez scheduled to begin this morning in Van Nuys.
Speaker 1: A group of parents whose own children were murdered say
Speaker 1: the brothers should do every day of their life prison sentences.
Speaker 1: One of the parents is re sentencing would let all
Speaker 1: murderers know that they have a chance of being released.
Speaker 1: An aggressive sea lion had to be euthanized after it
Speaker 1: chased surfers at the wedge in Newport Beach. Video shows
Speaker 1: several surfers scrambling to paddle back to shore to get
Speaker 1: away from the sea lion Tuesday. Wildlife officials say it
Speaker 1: was most likely suffering from demoic acid intoxication from the
Speaker 1: toxic algae bloom in coastal waters. They said they weren't
Speaker 1: able to treat it. Coachella organizers say they're making some
Speaker 1: changes for the second week of Coachella, which gets underway
Speaker 1: in India tomorrow. Festival producer Golden voices they're adding toll
Speaker 1: plazas and additional entry points to avoid the ten to
Speaker 1: twelve hour wait times last weekend just to get into
Speaker 1: camping areas. At six oh five, it's handle on the news.
Speaker 1: Probable cause exists to hold the Trump administration in contempt.
Speaker 1: Bet that Bill's gonna have a lot to say about that.
Speaker 11: Amy's on, It's on, It's on it Okay.
Speaker 1: So today's kind of a mashup of Amy's on it
Speaker 1: and uh out and about because Uh, what we're on
Speaker 1: is the studio. It's on Apple TV. Uh, it's about
Speaker 1: halfway through the season. I think they just dropped. The
Speaker 1: fifth episode is what I watched yesterday, and it stars
Speaker 1: Seth rogen as the new head of the studio, Matt Remick,
Speaker 1: and he has to navigate being the head of a studio.
Speaker 1: And it is an interesting show. I'll tell you it
Speaker 1: is outlandish. It's irreverent, quick witted, and probably a lot
Speaker 1: like what it's really like in the studios. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just like chaos all the time, and Seth Rogan's
Speaker 1: always screwing things up and then trying to dig himself
Speaker 1: out of the hole. And sometimes he can and sometimes
Speaker 1: he can't. And there's some sweet moments and there's some
Speaker 1: really crass moments. So it's a kind of it's a
Speaker 1: fun ride. Like I said, it's pretty fast paced as
Speaker 1: far as they're moving around the studio lot all of
Speaker 1: the time. And then the other thing that's very cool
Speaker 1: about it, if you are, you know, a Hollywood fan
Speaker 1: at all, is that everybody's in it, like not starring
Speaker 1: in it, but in it, Like they have cameos from
Speaker 1: all kinds of people. I was just looking at the
Speaker 1: list the I googled it and there's just a ton
Speaker 1: of actors who make cameos. And Mark Martin Scorsese for
Speaker 1: one pops in and there were Last night they were
Speaker 1: talking about Chris Hemsworth's which I was that had my attention,
Speaker 1: but he never showed up. And Ron Howard did one episode,
Speaker 1: and there are several others who just make their way
Speaker 1: through and they weave them into the storyline and it's
Speaker 1: it's very fun because they are themselves in it, like
Speaker 1: Ron Howard is Ron Howard on the studio. So here's
Speaker 1: why it's kind of a mash up with Out and
Speaker 1: About because it's shot on the Warner Brothers studio lot.
Speaker 1: And you may remember we went Out and About to
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers to do their Hollywood studio tour a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. In fact, if you'd like to go see it,
Speaker 1: it's very cool. It's on my Instagram at Amy K King.
Speaker 1: But since it's shot on the lot and I've now
Speaker 1: been on the tour, I recognize a ton of stuff.
Speaker 1: So again, being sort of a fangirl, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so cool. Oh I remember driving by that on
Speaker 1: the tour. Oh hey, I remember seeing those you know,
Speaker 1: those those sets and that kind of stuff. So that
Speaker 1: makes it very fun. And like the tour guide at
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers said to me, hey, we use every part
Speaker 1: of this lot to make different worlds as they're creating
Speaker 1: you know, Hollywood and they're creating things all over the world.
Speaker 1: But you see those sets, whether you realize it or not.
Speaker 1: But after you've been on the tour, it's like you
Speaker 1: have this kind of inside scoop. Then one thing I
Speaker 1: did notice is they showed the sound stages and they're
Speaker 1: driving around in their golf carts because that's how they
Speaker 1: get around on the lots. And they've got the sound
Speaker 1: stages on either side, and they've got a cart driving
Speaker 1: down the middle, and then there's a Hollywood sign between
Speaker 1: the two sound stages. And I was like, well, that
Speaker 1: looks cool, and I went, wait a second, that can't
Speaker 1: be real. The Hollywood signs on the other side of
Speaker 1: the hill. So in true Hollywood fashion, they fake it
Speaker 1: a little bit. So, like I said, it's fun because
Speaker 1: you see things that you know. And I'm not one
Speaker 1: hundred percent sold on the show itself, but it's fun
Speaker 1: to watch because we live here and you see stuff
Speaker 1: around here, Like they went to Musso and Franks and
Speaker 1: I think they went to the Smokehouse and they were
Speaker 1: in Silver Lake for one of the episodes, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I know that lake. I've seen that
Speaker 1: house on the hill. So it's very fun. Anyway, it's
Speaker 1: called The Studio and it's on Apple TV and about
Speaker 1: halfway through the season, so you can see five episodes.
Speaker 1: And like I said, if you want to check out
Speaker 1: my Instagram at Amy K. King also at KFI AM
Speaker 1: six forty to check out the actual Warner Brothers studio
Speaker 1: tour that we went on not too long ago. Time
Speaker 1: to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Scott Carr
Speaker 1: in for Courtney Donaho. Good morning Scott, Hey, Good morning Amy. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we know that President Trump is very influential, and
Speaker 1: it looks like a social post can kind of tank
Speaker 1: the markets.
Speaker 14: Well, shirt Kenny is the leader of the Free World
Speaker 14: now features down five hundred and sixty seven points. That's
Speaker 14: better than one point four percent from a social media
Speaker 14: post with a president seems to be pointing fingers at
Speaker 14: Jerome Powell actually does directly. He posted this morning, quoting
Speaker 14: the President, Powell's termination cannot come fast enough, and of
Speaker 14: course Powell is not legally he says anyway that the
Speaker 14: president can't fire him. So stocks are taking a hit,
Speaker 14: and of course they did yesterday after Powell stressed at
Speaker 14: the Central Bank. And this is why the President and
Speaker 14: probably posted what he did this morning. Powell stressed that
Speaker 14: the Central Bank's going to have to ensure the administration's
Speaker 14: new tariffs don't trigger more persistent increases in inflation. So
Speaker 14: traders interpret that to mean Fed officials are in no
Speaker 14: hurry to lower interest rates. Losses yesterday for the major
Speaker 14: averages ranged from one to three quarters percent to two
Speaker 14: and a quarter percent.
Speaker 1: I'm always fascinated, scot it, how much of a knee
Speaker 1: jerk reaction Wall Street has to every little thing.
Speaker 5: They sure do. That's because you have traders that that's
Speaker 5: their business, that's why they're there.
Speaker 1: I just think of it. I think of a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys, very high stress, strung out on like double
Speaker 1: espressos don't sell.
Speaker 14: Oh, just take a look at the floor on any
Speaker 14: given day down on Wall Street in New York.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's what you see. That's what they get
Speaker 5: paid for.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh you need to do you need to do
Speaker 1: your plug?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 5: I just want to say this reports sponsored by Total
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Speaker 14: We got another medication that the well people are nervous,
Speaker 14: wedding planners telling Blueberg yesterday that they've been seeing their
Speaker 14: clients slashing their wedding budgets, some even delaying their nuptials
Speaker 14: out of worries of a coming recession and a sinking
Speaker 14: stock market. Of course, cutting budgets putting off a wedding
Speaker 14: that's going to impact a lot of businesses florists, photographers,
Speaker 14: hotels and the like. And before I let you go,
Speaker 14: I should mention amy the California may be the biggest
Speaker 14: ev market in the country, but fewer of them are
Speaker 14: going to be Tesla's that companies no longer selling the
Speaker 14: majority of their new cars registered in California, Tesla accounting
Speaker 14: for almost a third of all zero emission vehicles nationwide,
Speaker 14: but their share sold in California's fall into nearly forty
Speaker 14: four percent for a last quarter. That's down from fifty
Speaker 14: five and a half percent of them last year. The
Speaker 14: dealers' associations as part of that is backlash against Elon
Speaker 14: Musk's political activity.
Speaker 1: Even though they're made in America, so they're not as
Speaker 1: subject to the terror like the other cars. Interesting, all right, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 5: That political activity I mentioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, getting in your business with Bloomberg, Scott car.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much. We'll do it again tomorrow. Have a
Speaker 1: good day, all right, you too. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four our newsroom. Commercial salmon fishing along the California coast
Speaker 1: could be banned for a third year to help Chinook
Speaker 1: salmon populations recover. Fisheries regulators have voted for the ban,
Speaker 1: and it is expected to be adopted next month some
Speaker 1: boat captains. Captains say even though it affects them financially,
Speaker 1: they do support it for the sake of salmon recovery.
Speaker 1: And The White House is starting a new media policy
Speaker 1: that restricts wire services access to the president.
Speaker 9: The White House's new media policy sharply curtails access to
Speaker 9: President Trump by news agencies that serve media outlets around
Speaker 9: the world. It's the administration's latest attempt to control press
Speaker 9: coverage and would block the Associated Press and other wire
Speaker 9: services that serve billions of readers It comes after a
Speaker 9: judge rule the White House violated the AP's free speech
Speaker 9: by banning it as punishment for not renaming the Gulf
Speaker 9: of Mexico the Gold Off of America. The White House
Speaker 9: says Press Secretary Caroline Levitt will have the final say
Speaker 9: over who gets to question Trump. Mark Ronner KFI News
Speaker 9: with two.
Speaker 1: Day resentencing Hearingford Lyle and Eric Menendez scheduled to get
Speaker 1: under way this morning in Van Nuys. Our Michael Monks
Speaker 1: will be there and bring us the latest developments and decisions.
Speaker 1: Police say they know who the owner of a pit
Speaker 1: bull mix is that attacked and killed a toy poodle
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. They're evaluating possible charges now. Actor Haley
Speaker 1: Joel Osmont has been arrested and released at Mammoth Mountain
Speaker 1: Ski Resort. Billy Say, the sixth Sense Star was picked
Speaker 1: up for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance.
Speaker 1: We're minutes away from Handle on the news this morning.
Speaker 1: California the first state to sue Trump over tariffs. Let's
Speaker 1: say good morning now to board member of Friends of
Speaker 1: Griffith Park, Brenda Reese. Good morning, Brenda, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 1: Oh you sound way too energetic for five point fifty
Speaker 1: in the morning, but we appreciated a ton. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: because you're excited for Earth Day coming up.
Speaker 11: I'm excited for Earth Day and this is the time
Speaker 11: of the day anyways that us hikers are outside getting
Speaker 11: ready to put on our shoes and walk walk around
Speaker 11: in nature.
Speaker 1: Okay, and let's talk about hiking because one of the
Speaker 1: reason we're talking to you today is that there is
Speaker 1: going to be a new trail resource for Griffith Park
Speaker 1: that you're rolling out this weekend.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 11: We call it the Griffith Park Explore or the GPX
Speaker 11: for short, and it's a system of fifteen different trails.
Speaker 11: So this is so people can pick which kind of
Speaker 11: trail that they want to go on and it's a
Speaker 11: it will be encompass all of the park. This is
Speaker 11: something we've been working on for about two years now.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So up until now, if people went to
Speaker 1: the park, they would just find a trail ahead and
Speaker 1: go And now is that how it used to work?
Speaker 11: Yeah, people have done books about Griffith Park. You can
Speaker 11: kind of look you know to there to those things
Speaker 11: or as well as just you know, go to as
Speaker 11: you say go to the park. We look at the map, Oh,
Speaker 11: I'm going to go there and there. What we've done
Speaker 11: is we've kind of broken down the park into fifteen
Speaker 11: different areas. So if you're an beginner hiker or an
Speaker 11: expert hiker and you want to have a little challenge,
Speaker 11: we've kind of mapped it all out for you with
Speaker 11: ease or difficulty, and we've also given you an opportunity
Speaker 11: for if you, oh, I want to go see birds,
Speaker 11: or I want to more of a challenge, I want
Speaker 11: an easy walk. This is this will help you for that.
Speaker 1: Okay. So, and is this an app or a website
Speaker 1: or how do we how are we going to find
Speaker 1: it when it launches.
Speaker 11: It's not an app, it's just on our website. So
Speaker 11: it's going to be really easy to do. So people
Speaker 11: don't here, don't have to add another extra thing to
Speaker 11: your phone. Okay, kind of come on.
Speaker 1: Okay, and so it'll take you and it'll say, okay,
Speaker 1: here are the different trails. And then as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: like if you're a birdwatcher, beyond telling you where to go,
Speaker 1: it'll tell you what you're going to see on the
Speaker 1: different trails.
Speaker 11: Exactly we're going to give you little tidbits of geology, history,
Speaker 11: little things of the flora and fauna you might see
Speaker 11: around the area. And so it's going to give you
Speaker 11: a little bit more than just you know, walk this way.
Speaker 11: I love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, how many miles of trails are there around Griffith Park.
Speaker 11: There are fifty three official trails around Griffith Park. And
Speaker 11: another reason why we wanted to create this is a
Speaker 11: lot of people kind of make their own trails and
Speaker 11: they kind of go off trail and this and that,
Speaker 11: and that's where people can get into trouble. So we
Speaker 11: really wanted to encourage people to stay on the official trails.
Speaker 11: And that's what these that's what the GPX is. It
Speaker 11: allows you to see and experience all of Griffith Park.
Speaker 11: In fact, if you could, you could, in theory, do
Speaker 11: them all and say to your friends, I have hiked
Speaker 11: all the trails in Griffith Park, which is about fifty
Speaker 11: three trails. Fifty three miles of trails.
Speaker 1: Well, I love this idea, Brenda, because I've thought about
Speaker 1: going hiking in the park before and I just go,
Speaker 1: but I don't know where to go. And so now
Speaker 1: I'm going to know where to go and you're going
Speaker 1: to make it easy so I can go on the
Speaker 1: easy trails because I'm not an van sneiker by any stretch.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: And then on Saturday, because we Earth Day is next week,
Speaker 1: but we're going to celebrate early. So on Saturday, you've
Speaker 1: got a special celebration for the launch of this and
Speaker 1: also a chance for people to get their hands dirty
Speaker 1: and help the earth.
Speaker 11: Right, We're going to be meeting at the Griffith Park
Speaker 11: visitor Center. We're going to be putting some native plants
Speaker 11: in the ground, and I think we're going to be
Speaker 11: doing with our friends at LA Recreation and Parks and
Speaker 11: they'll be on hand too, And we're just going to
Speaker 11: be meeting everybody and explaining a little bit more about
Speaker 11: the types of things that we're doing at friends of
Speaker 11: Griffith Park and just and let's all get our hands
Speaker 11: dirty and let's, you know, help the park because it's
Speaker 11: one of our greatest assets here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: And is everybody invited?
Speaker 11: Everyone's invited.
Speaker 1: Yes, And it's at the visitor center. What time are
Speaker 1: you going to be doing that?
Speaker 11: I think that's at ten o'clock. Okay, boy, now now
Speaker 11: you're questioning me, But I think it's at ten o'clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, here's how we can direct them to your
Speaker 1: website if you'd like more information about the event on Saturday.
Speaker 1: And also and then the gPex Trail resource is going
Speaker 1: to be available starting on Saturday.
Speaker 11: That's correct, yes, okay.
Speaker 1: And also if you want more information about Friends of
Speaker 1: Griffith Park find out all about how you can help
Speaker 1: out for Earth Day, you can go to what website.
Speaker 11: They can go to www. And it's going to be
Speaker 11: Friendsigriffithpark dot org.
Speaker 1: Super easy. Brenda Reese, thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on with us this morning. I love this. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to go and take a hike.
Speaker 11: Thank you. We'll see you on the trails. Amy.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks Brenda. Let's get back to some of
Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
Speaker 1: news from San Diego. Assemblyman Carl Demyo has introduced AB
Speaker 1: twenty six. It's called the Cut the Politician's Perks Act.
Speaker 1: It's aimed at eliminating what he calls excessive benefits for
Speaker 1: California's elected officials. Key revisions include a ban on most
Speaker 1: gifts and out of state travel unrelated to campaigning, a
Speaker 1: lifetime lobbying ban for former lawmakers, and stock trading restrictions.
Speaker 11: Public service should be about serving the public, not enriching
Speaker 11: yourself or engaging in the high life through special interest
Speaker 11: gifts and funds.
Speaker 1: Demio says the bills meant to increase accountability and reduce
Speaker 1: special interest influence. News brought to you by American Vision Windows.
Speaker 1: A bill in California ames to help more drivers with disabilities.
Speaker 7: The new law would help drivers with disabilities during traffic
Speaker 7: stops by allowing them to present blue envelopes with key
Speaker 7: information about their vehicle insurance and needed accommodations. This is
Speaker 7: already happening in San Diego Riverside in San Bernardino. The
Speaker 7: bill would expand the program statewide. The envelopes given out
Speaker 7: by the DMV signal to officers and need for patients
Speaker 7: and understanding. The bill is set for discussion on April
Speaker 7: twenty eighth. Deborah Mark Kofi News.
Speaker 1: And surf City will not be hosting the surfing competition
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics.
Speaker 15: Olympic officials say the surfing event for the twenty twenty
Speaker 15: eight Games will take place at Trussel's Beach about forty
Speaker 15: five miles south of Huntington Beach. Visit. Huntington Beach officials
Speaker 15: say it was an honor to be considered and it's
Speaker 15: how to just be a part of the energy and
Speaker 15: spirit of the La Games. Many surfers said the Trussele
Speaker 15: Beach location is amazing and could be the best spot
Speaker 15: in the.
Speaker 5: Country to hang ten Sorry.
Speaker 15: The original surf city name was given a Santa Cruz
Speaker 15: in nineteen twenty seven, but Huntington Beach took over the
Speaker 15: title in nineteen ninety one and officially trademark the name
Speaker 15: in two thousand and eight. Michael Krozier KFI News.
Speaker 1: This is KFI and KOSC HD two Los Angeles, Orange
Speaker 1: County Southland. Weather from KFI. Mostly cloudy, about a twenty
Speaker 1: percent chance of some showers today, Highs in the low
Speaker 1: sixties at the beach's mid upper sixties inland fifties with
Speaker 1: strong gusty winds in the Aneloe Valley. Twenty percent chance
Speaker 1: of rain again tomorrow with highs in the low to
Speaker 1: mid sixties. The clouds move out late Friday, and then
Speaker 1: we're back to sunny skies for the weekend. Highs in
Speaker 1: the sixties to mid seventies. It's fifty nine in Dana Point,
Speaker 1: fifty nine and Long Beach, fifty seven in Studio City,
Speaker 1: and fifty seven in Tustin. Live from the KFI twenty
Speaker 1: four hour Newsroom, I'm Amy King. This has been your
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