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Speaker 2: Good morning. This is your wake up call for Wednesday,
Speaker 2: May seventh. I'm Heatherbooker in for Amy King, who is
Speaker 2: on a much deserved vacation. But don't worry, I'm just
Speaker 2: keeping our seat warm for a few days. She will
Speaker 2: be back next week. I will continue to keep you
Speaker 2: updated on all the major stories happening. To help kick
Speaker 2: off your day. I want to say good morning to
Speaker 2: the wake Up Call crew, Good morning to producer, and
Speaker 2: she's giving me a beautiful wave. Good morning. I always
Speaker 2: love seeing you. It is such a delight. I feel
Speaker 2: like sometimes our schedules are a little opposite, so this
Speaker 2: is always nice week to see I agree, and good morning, Cono,
Speaker 2: Good morning, Heather, Good morning. Right, and now we've got
Speaker 2: Will back in studio with me today. Good morning, Whale,
Speaker 2: Cole Streiver, Oh doctor, turn you on, that's what she's saying. Morning, Hey,
Speaker 2: good morning. So you guys know, I think we mentioned
Speaker 2: Amy is in Paris. Have you guys seen they're having
Speaker 2: massive hail storms in Paris golf ball sized hail. It's
Speaker 2: been like deadly storm. So I hope she's okay. I
Speaker 2: hope that she's still enjoying herself and walking around with
Speaker 2: her croissant and having a good time where we're thinking
Speaker 2: about you, Amy and we can't wait till you come back.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get started before before I get too
Speaker 2: off track, Let's get to some of the stories without
Speaker 2: working on Here's what's ahead. On wake Up Call, we
Speaker 2: have an update on the shooting at Spartan College. It
Speaker 2: happened last Friday. Officials say doctor Kemisha Clark was a
Speaker 2: dean at the school when she was shot and killed
Speaker 2: in her office. A receptionist was also hurt. The suspected shooter,
Speaker 2: Jesse Figueroa, was a recently hired campus security guard. He
Speaker 2: was arrested in charge with murder and other felonies. Five
Speaker 2: people are under arrest after a deadly smuggling attempt off
Speaker 2: San Diego's coast. A capsized boat left three confirmed dead,
Speaker 2: including two children from India. Two men face smuggling charges.
Speaker 2: There will not be a triple crown winner this year.
Speaker 2: Kentucky Derby Champs Sovereignty is skipping the Preakness. Some experts
Speaker 2: say the race should be pushed back to give horses
Speaker 2: more recovery time. Head on wake up call. At five five,
Speaker 2: diplomatic sparks flew at the White House this week when
Speaker 2: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney firmly told President Trump that
Speaker 2: Canada is not for sale. We're going to dive into
Speaker 2: the implications there. And if five twenty, big changes are
Speaker 2: shaking up the tech world. Amazon is pushing back on Apple,
Speaker 2: Samsung is reinventing how we pay each other in Google's
Speaker 2: new Pixel may just be the best phone deal of
Speaker 2: the year. We're going to talk to Rich on tech.
Speaker 2: And at five point thirty five, the new Marvel movie
Speaker 2: Thunderbolts already has a new title. We're going to tell
Speaker 2: you what it is and why some say this is
Speaker 2: the best Marvel movie in a long time. And if
Speaker 2: I point fifty, imagine waking up in a home designed
Speaker 2: by Disney Imagineers, the crystal clear lagoon just steps away. Well,
Speaker 2: we're going to tell you all about Cotino and how
Speaker 2: you could enjoy some magic with modern living. Then a
Speaker 2: six oh five, it's handled on the news. Four former
Speaker 2: employees of Smokey Robinson and his wife have accused him
Speaker 2: of sexual assault on multiple occasions. We'll talk about the
Speaker 2: case and what this means for the eighty five year
Speaker 2: old singer. Let's get started with some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five
Speaker 2: people have been arrested in connection with a deadly smuggling
Speaker 2: attempt off the coast of San Diego. The US Attorney's
Speaker 2: Office says three migrants died and a fourth is presumed
Speaker 2: dead after a pangaboat capsized near Del Mar. A ten
Speaker 2: year old girl and a fourteen year old boy from
Speaker 2: India were among the victims. Their parents are in the hospital.
Speaker 2: Two Mexican nationals have been charged with human smuggling and
Speaker 2: three others have been arrested for driving eight migrants from
Speaker 2: the scene. A fight over elephants at the La Zoo
Speaker 2: made his way to the City council budget committee.
Speaker 3: Keeltelman Bob Bloomenfield says, the La Zoo you can't just
Speaker 3: ship its last two old elephants off to Tulsa without
Speaker 3: authorization from him and his colleagues.
Speaker 4: This is a decision that the council must be part of.
Speaker 3: Zoo Director Denise Verrett was before the Council's Budget Committee
Speaker 3: part of the budget process when the fight over Billy
Speaker 3: and Tina came up. Bloomfield says it might be cheaper
Speaker 3: to put them in a different sanctuary. Arrett says she
Speaker 3: would not promise she would not send the elephants to
Speaker 3: Oklahoma before Council has an opportunity to act. Michael Monks
Speaker 3: KFI News.
Speaker 2: Joining me now is ABC's Karen Travers. Good Morning, Karen,
Speaker 2: Good morning. All right, let's start with the obvious here.
Speaker 2: What's prompting President Trump to again suggest Canada should become
Speaker 2: the fifty first state? And how serious is he really
Speaker 2: about this?
Speaker 5: I mean, he's just interested in this, and you know,
Speaker 5: it's sort of a thing where when the President gets
Speaker 5: an idea in his head, he's just not letting it go. Before,
Speaker 5: it was like a trolling thing about Prime Minister Justin
Speaker 5: Trudeau because they had a tense relationship. He liked to
Speaker 5: call him Governor Trudeau, and there was a sense that
Speaker 5: there might be a chance of a reset of the
Speaker 5: US Canada relationship, or at least his relationship with the
Speaker 5: leader of Canada. With the election of Prime Minister Mark Kearney.
Speaker 5: He came to the White House yesterday. We had talked
Speaker 5: to White House officials and said, you know, is he
Speaker 5: going to bring up the fifty first state thing? And
Speaker 5: they said probably because he's just this is something he
Speaker 5: is interested in. How serious is he? You get a
Speaker 5: little bit of a shrug reaction from people, But it
Speaker 5: came up yesterday. Mark Carney said very firmly that you know,
Speaker 5: there are places in real estates that are not for sale.
Speaker 5: He was trying to appeal to the President's development mentality.
Speaker 5: He said, Buckingham Palace, the place we're sitting in right now,
Speaker 5: referred to the Oval Office, not for sale. And he
Speaker 5: said over the months that he traveled as a candidate
Speaker 5: in Canada, he heard from the owners of Canada that
Speaker 5: Canada is also not for sale and won't be ever well.
Speaker 5: The President's response to that numerous times was never say never,
Speaker 5: never say never, smiling kind of joking issues. They had
Speaker 5: these moments back and forth, but it was very clear
Speaker 5: neither side is going to give this one up. Mark
Speaker 5: Kearney is not budging. Of course, Canada is not budging.
Speaker 5: And the President kind of kept needling him on this
Speaker 5: over the course of their meeting.
Speaker 2: All right, So the President is also refusing to lift
Speaker 2: these tariffs of up to twenty five percent on Canadian goods.
Speaker 2: So how are those tariffs affecting Canada's economy at this point?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the more significant issue in terms of
Speaker 5: actual substance. There is a twenty five percent tariff on
Speaker 5: many Canadian goods, the ten percent tariff on Canadian oil imports,
Speaker 5: the twenty five percent tariff on cars autoparts stealing aluminum.
Speaker 5: It is, you know, impacting Canadian the Canadian economy. Down's
Speaker 5: not going to have an impact here. I mean, we're
Speaker 5: hearing this from automakers about their concerns about what this
Speaker 5: is going to do. We're hearing about this in border
Speaker 5: towns along the US Canada border on the US side
Speaker 5: of it, about how this is impacting them. So there
Speaker 5: were questions yesterday about what Carnee could say or do
Speaker 5: to get the President to lift the tariffs. He said nothing,
Speaker 5: not a thing. This is just the way it is
Speaker 5: right now, but indicated that maybe broadly speaking, they could
Speaker 5: have conversations about trade and tariffs as they renegotiate the
Speaker 5: US Mexico Canada Free Trade Agreement over the next year
Speaker 5: and a half. It's due for a renegotiation in twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six. It's an important piece of this. There is
Speaker 5: a free trade agreement that he as president in his
Speaker 5: first term, negotiated, signed with great fanfare. But these tariffs
Speaker 5: he's put in place now have thrown that trade agreement
Speaker 5: into disarray.
Speaker 2: Now all of the political theater aside. You know, whether
Speaker 2: Trump's intentions are true to make this fifty first state
Speaker 2: or not. What is really at stake here for both
Speaker 2: countries if these tensions continue to escalate, especially with so
Speaker 2: much trade and security cooperation a place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's a big question that I think is
Speaker 5: not known yet as it plays out. Canada is one
Speaker 5: of our top trading partners obviously, and also a big
Speaker 5: partner on security.
Speaker 6: Issues as well.
Speaker 5: And that was the question came up yesterday and both
Speaker 5: leaders were pledging cooperation. The president was asked what concessions
Speaker 5: he wants to see from Canada, and he said, friendship.
Speaker 5: He just wants to see friendship and good cooperation.
Speaker 2: Oh, he just wants to be friends. That sounds so nice.
Speaker 5: Friend as he puts massive terariffs on our neighbors to.
Speaker 2: The north exactly, that's what all good friendships start with asolutely. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll be interested to see how this continues to play out.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Karen, have a great rest of your.
Speaker 7: Day, you too.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Amazon's
Speaker 2: Zookes that's zox is issuing a software recall for two
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy of its robotaxis after a crash in
Speaker 2: Las Vegas last month. According to the National Highway Traffic
Speaker 2: Safety Administration report, the recall surrounds a defect with a
Speaker 2: defect with the vehicle's automated driving system that could cause
Speaker 2: it to inaccurately predict the movement of another car and
Speaker 2: increase the quote risk of a crash. Recall follows an
Speaker 2: incident where an occupied to Zouke's robotaxi collided with a
Speaker 2: passenger vehicle. A new survey shows many people are having
Speaker 2: fewer kids these days.
Speaker 8: A lot of pearents in the US are rethinking the
Speaker 8: number of children they can afford due to rising costs
Speaker 8: associated with raising children. According to a recent lending Tree survey,
Speaker 8: seventy seven percent of respondents said raising children has been
Speaker 8: more expensive than they expected, and forty six percent of
Speaker 8: parents with young kids said they have fewer due to
Speaker 8: financial constraints. Lending tre says the cost of raising a
Speaker 8: child is nearly three hundred thousand dollars. Data shows the
Speaker 8: annual cost of raising a child has jumped thirty six
Speaker 8: percent over the past two years. Deborah mark Koffive News.
Speaker 2: Four former housekeepers are suing motown singer Smokey Robinson for
Speaker 2: at least fifty million dollars. Attorney John Harris says the
Speaker 2: women were subjected to rape and sexual assault at Robin's
Speaker 2: home in Robinson's home in Chatsworth, Las Vegas, and Bell Canyon.
Speaker 9: These courageous for women have collectively decided to come forward
Speaker 9: and share their experiences of being sexually assaulted by mister
Speaker 9: Smokey Robinson and stand up for their rights as well
Speaker 9: as the rights of other women.
Speaker 2: The lawsuit alleges that Robinson forced himself on the women
Speaker 2: multiple times, generally while his wife, Francis, was out of
Speaker 2: the home. Robinson's wife is also named in the lawsuit
Speaker 2: for allegedly contributing to a hostile work environment. San Diego
Speaker 2: Senator Brian Jones says gas could jump above eight dollars
Speaker 2: a gallon in California if the state doesn't change its
Speaker 2: refinery policies.
Speaker 7: There are two refineries that have announced their closing. Phillip
Speaker 7: sixty six is going to close by the end of
Speaker 7: this year, and Valero has said they're going to close
Speaker 7: theirs by April of next year. Those two refineries, just
Speaker 7: those two alone make up twenty percent of California's refinery capacity.
Speaker 2: The Senator calling on the governor in state lawmakers to
Speaker 2: change the refining policies in California ahead of the announced closures,
Speaker 2: which cover twenty percent of the capacity in the state.
Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has ruled President Trump's ban on transgender
Speaker 2: members of the military can take effect for now. ABC
Speaker 2: Stephen Portnoy says the decision yesterday sets aside a lower
Speaker 2: court decision that blocked the ban from taking effect.
Speaker 3: It means the military can begin discharging transgender service members
Speaker 3: while the case plays out. The Trump administration argues that
Speaker 3: his owned substantial deference when it comes to how it
Speaker 3: runs the military.
Speaker 2: The court's three liberal justices say they would have left
Speaker 2: the order in place. The man arrested after crashing his
Speaker 2: car into a gate at Jennifer Aniston's home in bel Air,
Speaker 2: apparently had a thing for her. ABC's Alex Stone says
Speaker 2: forty eight year old Jimmy Wayne was arrested on Monday.
Speaker 3: Law enforcement sources to ABC News they believe his act
Speaker 3: was intentional, but why is not clear.
Speaker 2: It's not evident he was targeting Anniston, but Wayne did
Speaker 2: post about Aniston on social media, saying he loves her
Speaker 2: and that unnamed forces were keeping them apart, especiallyzed LAPD
Speaker 2: Unit is investigating. Wayne is currently being held for felony vandalism.
Speaker 2: Starting today, travelers must present a real ID or another
Speaker 2: tsa approved form of ID to board domestic flights and
Speaker 2: access certain federal facilities. Real IDs are marked with a
Speaker 2: star and require proof of identity, social Security number, and residency.
Speaker 2: Without one, passengers may face delays and additional screenings at airports.
Speaker 2: A man has been sent to fifteen years to life
Speaker 2: for helping murder celebrity hairdresser Fabio sem and Tilly, a
Speaker 2: plot to prosecutor say was masterminded by the victim's wife,
Speaker 2: Christopher Austen, testifying against her, and a second accomplice, both
Speaker 2: now facing life sentences. A Chicago homeowner says he moved
Speaker 2: in with alleged squatters after discovering them living in his property.
Speaker 2: The police couldn't remove the couple citing civil law, so
Speaker 2: marco Velaskeez decided to stay overnight himself. Eventually negotiated with
Speaker 2: a couple and pay them forty three hundred bucks to leave.
Speaker 2: Pretty smart. Might as well just get out of the
Speaker 2: money and say get out of here. At six so
Speaker 2: five and handle on the news, America's top brass is
Speaker 2: meeting with leaders in China to talk trade. We're going
Speaker 2: to tell you why they're meeting in Switzerland and why
Speaker 2: some are calling this an icebreaker meeting. But first we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about AI power, shortcuts in Windows, to
Speaker 2: tap to pay tricks on your Samsung. We're going to
Speaker 2: break down the latest gadgets and updates that can make
Speaker 2: your life easier, maybe even save you some money. Joining
Speaker 2: us to explain what's worth your time and what is
Speaker 2: just high Biscayfvice tech guy rich Toimuro from rich on Tech,
Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 4: Hey, good morning to you, Heather. Thanks for that great intro.
Speaker 2: Oh you're welcome. It's so nice to talk with you.
Speaker 2: This is one of my favorite segments. Yeah, let's talk
Speaker 2: about Windows. They just got a lot smarter with AI.
Speaker 2: So how exactly does this new feature work and could
Speaker 2: it change how we interact with our devices?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's actually quite interesting. Windows has been
Speaker 4: going through a major evolution. Obviously, Microsoft one of the
Speaker 4: biggest investors in open AI, so they've been building a
Speaker 4: lot of the AI features into Windows software through Copilot,
Speaker 4: which is, you know, their sort of version of Chatchy
Speaker 4: BT and so you know, things have been changing. But
Speaker 4: one of the things that they're adding, which I thought
Speaker 4: was really cool, is this idea of AI to change
Speaker 4: the settings on your computer. How many times have you
Speaker 4: looked at your mouse and you're like, I wish that
Speaker 4: mouse cursor was bigger, or I wish that my screen
Speaker 4: would turn off after four minutes and not one minute,
Speaker 4: or I want my screen, you know, my keyboard, you know,
Speaker 4: I want a different a German keyboard.
Speaker 2: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Now you can literally just go into the settings and
Speaker 4: ask for what you want to change. The AI will
Speaker 4: figure out what you're trying to say and it will
Speaker 4: do it for you. That's a big shift in how
Speaker 4: we work with our computers.
Speaker 2: Ooh, that sounds fun. I mean definitely the mouse size. Sometimes,
Speaker 2: especially here when we're kind of following our stories, it's
Speaker 2: like where where's my cursor? Where to to go? Plus
Speaker 2: I'm getting old, so it's hard for me to see things,
Speaker 2: so that would.
Speaker 4: Be also I find I find sometimes, you know, making
Speaker 4: the zoom a little bit better is a little bit
Speaker 4: bigger is better. But the other thing is that you know,
Speaker 4: you may find settings that you didn't even know you
Speaker 4: could do, Like maybe you just didn't even Hey, where's
Speaker 4: my emoji keyboard?
Speaker 1: You know, and it brings that up.
Speaker 4: So it's like, it's just the idea of like, to me,
Speaker 4: AI is really opening up this idea of natural language computing,
Speaker 4: Like we just ask what we want to do, and
Speaker 4: it helps us do that. And I think we're going
Speaker 4: to see that with all of our devices over time.
Speaker 2: I love that. All right. So Amazon is finally letting
Speaker 2: users make in app purchases on iPhones, and to be honest,
Speaker 2: I thought we could already do that. What is what
Speaker 2: am I missing here? I thought, when I go on
Speaker 2: my Amazon, I can make app purchases.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, this is a this is a big shift
Speaker 4: in the way that Apple does business. Because we had
Speaker 4: a court say, hey, you have to let consumers and developers,
Speaker 4: you know, lead consumers to third party payment methods on
Speaker 4: the iPhone. So right now, on the iPhone, basically, if
Speaker 4: you make any sort of purchase, you know, and I'm
Speaker 4: not talking the Amazon app where you're making like a
Speaker 4: purchase of something that you're shipping to your house. I'm
Speaker 4: talking the Kindle app. Specifically, you couldn't buy an ebook
Speaker 4: from the Kindle app for many years because Amazon would
Speaker 4: have to give a thirty percent cut to Apple for
Speaker 4: all those ebooks, and of course they're not going to
Speaker 4: do that because that's just a lot of money they're
Speaker 4: going to waste. And so now with this court ruling
Speaker 4: that says you have to offer alternative payment links and
Speaker 4: iOS apps, all these major developers have been updating their
Speaker 4: apps to be easier where you can subscribe. Now in
Speaker 4: the app, you can get alternative payment solutions. You can
Speaker 4: be led to a website that lets you pay outside
Speaker 4: the app. And so Amazon has updated their app immediately
Speaker 4: and now you can actually purchase an ebook through that app.
Speaker 4: It's not going to it's kind of weird to that
Speaker 4: leads you to the Amazon website still, so it's not
Speaker 4: a perfect system. But at the same time, this has
Speaker 4: been a major shift in the way developers can offer
Speaker 4: consumers better and different payment methods on the I Phone
Speaker 4: outside of the app store, and we're seeing Spotify update
Speaker 4: their app, We're seeing Patreon update their app. Pretty much
Speaker 4: every major app maker is getting on board because it
Speaker 4: saves them about thirty percent off the top.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's going to be really handy. That's going
Speaker 2: to be really helpful. Okay, let's talk about Samsung. Their
Speaker 2: new tap to transfer payment features sounds a little too easy,
Speaker 2: but is this sort of the future of peer to
Speaker 2: peer payments.
Speaker 4: I just thought this was super cool because you know
Speaker 4: the idea that you you know right now when you
Speaker 4: like the other day I had to pay someone. I
Speaker 4: was like, do you have Venmo? And he's like sure,
Speaker 4: He's like, I'd rather use Zel. I'm like, okay, well
Speaker 4: I don't really want to use Zel. Can we use Venmo?
Speaker 4: And then he has to transfer the money to his
Speaker 4: bank account. So it was like this whole thing. Whenever
Speaker 4: it comes to paying someone, you have to figure out,
Speaker 4: like which payment app do they use? Right, Well, Samsung
Speaker 4: is now letting you literally tap someone's debit card right
Speaker 4: to your phone, so you can just tap their card
Speaker 4: to your phone and transfer the money. So if you're like, hey,
Speaker 4: you know you owe me thirty bucks for dinner, I don't. Yeah,
Speaker 4: just literally tap your debit card to my phone and
Speaker 4: the thirty dollars will transfer to me. So I thought
Speaker 4: that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: It's like to pay the store. When we check out,
Speaker 2: we do the tap to check.
Speaker 4: Out exactly, except imagine your phone is now like the
Speaker 4: cash registered checkout thing. So I just thought it was
Speaker 4: kind of thing, a neat thing. Now Apple has introduced
Speaker 4: a similar feature. I'm not sure that many people use it,
Speaker 4: but it requires it's not just your regular card that
Speaker 4: give to tap your two iPhones together and you can
Speaker 4: exchange cash. I have not used that feature, so I'm
Speaker 4: not exactly sure how it works, but I know they
Speaker 4: did advertise something at one of their events about that.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure how widely that's used. But this is
Speaker 4: kind of cool because it's just your debit card. You're like, hey,
Speaker 4: tap your card.
Speaker 2: Tap your card. That's so cool. Okay, really quickly, before
Speaker 2: we let you go. You just reviewed the Pixel nine
Speaker 2: A for KTLA. What makes this phone a standout?
Speaker 4: I mean really the price four hundred and ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 4: It's got everything you need. It's got a great design,
Speaker 4: it's got great AI, it's got an excellent camera, seven
Speaker 4: years of software support, so there's really nothing inside this phone.
Speaker 4: Like if you just want a value phone, this is
Speaker 4: going to be a fantastic device for the next five
Speaker 4: to seven years. And the only downside I found is
Speaker 4: that a lot of the premium phones now have satellite connectivity.
Speaker 4: So if you're in the middle of nowhere and you
Speaker 4: need to dial nine one one, you can do that
Speaker 4: over satellite, or at least call for help over satellite.
Speaker 4: This phone does not have that feature, which is one
Speaker 4: sort of downside. But otherwise, if you can live with that,
Speaker 4: this is a great device for five hundred bucks.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if I'm ever ready to give
Speaker 2: up my iPhone. I know that's terrible, but I.
Speaker 4: Know that one say, I know this is Android. So
Speaker 4: but the iPhone has the iPhone sixteen E, which is
Speaker 4: six hundred dollars, and it's also a great value.
Speaker 2: All right, good to know, all right, everybody, listen to
Speaker 2: Rich on Tech every Saturday from eleven to two on KFI.
Speaker 2: You can see him every day on KTLA and follow
Speaker 2: him on Instagram at rich on Tech, and of course
Speaker 2: go to his website rich on Tech dot tv. Rich
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, have a great morning, you too, Heather.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Democrats
Speaker 2: are reversed course on a child sex trafficking bill. Assembly
Speaker 2: democrats announced an agreement to amenda bill strengthening California law
Speaker 2: on solicitation of minors. Recently, state democrats stripped the bill,
Speaker 2: but under the agreement, the bill will impose felony penalties
Speaker 2: for adults that solicit sex from a sixteen or seventeen
Speaker 2: year old. The bill is expected to be heard before
Speaker 2: committee later today. President Trump says he's not paying for
Speaker 2: California's high speed rail. He criticized the project yesterday and
Speaker 2: says it's quote totally out of control.
Speaker 7: Hundreds of billions of dollars for this stupid project that
Speaker 7: should have never been built.
Speaker 2: Very little has been even though voter Very little has
Speaker 2: been done, even though voters approved it in two thousand
Speaker 2: and eight. It's years behind schedule and one hundred billion
Speaker 2: dollars over budget. The Dodgers are taking over the Marlins
Speaker 2: in Miami today with first pitch at one forty. Listen
Speaker 2: to all Dodgers games on AM five to seventy LA
Speaker 2: Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Boot and stream
Speaker 2: all Dodgers games in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword
Speaker 2: AM five seventy LA Sports. A brutal murderer rocked a
Speaker 2: luxury Valley Village apartment complex last month, but residents say
Speaker 2: the danger hasn't left. New security footage shows unknown men
Speaker 2: still roaming the halls at night, raising fears and questions
Speaker 2: about building security and police progress in the case. President
Speaker 2: Trump plans to announce that the US will officially refer
Speaker 2: to the Persian Gulf as the quote Arabian Gulf during
Speaker 2: his upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia. This move aligns with
Speaker 2: the preferences of Arab nations, but is strongly opposed by Iran,
Speaker 2: which views the traditional name as integral to its heritage.
Speaker 2: The decision is expected to provoke regional tensions and has
Speaker 2: already sparked some controversy. Panda Express is celebrating AAPI Heritage
Speaker 2: Month with a pop up karaoke booth starting on May nine.
Speaker 2: Here in La you can step into a giant takeout
Speaker 2: box and belt out your favorite tunes. That sounds like
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. Then it's six oh five. It's
Speaker 2: handled on the news. Trump says he just wants to
Speaker 2: be friends with Canada. That might not happen. We're gonna
Speaker 2: tell you why.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 2: This is the portion of the show where I'm told
Speaker 2: Amy does, Amy's on It, and Amy is not here today.
Speaker 2: I'm Heather Brooker. I'm in for Amy King. I don't
Speaker 2: think I said that. At the top of this segment.
Speaker 2: She's on vacation and she told me to just do
Speaker 2: my version of Amy's on It, So I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: Heather has it? Yeah, da da all right. Intro music,
Speaker 2: the music. One of my favorite things. One of the
Speaker 2: things I'm most passionate about are Marvel movies. It's something
Speaker 2: my family and I really look forward to every time
Speaker 2: there's a new Marvel series or Marvel film that comes out.
Speaker 2: And this most recent film is called Thunderbolts, and it
Speaker 2: really took the box office by storm. It's doing really
Speaker 2: well at the box office, and it's introduced a darker,
Speaker 2: more introspective chapter into the MCU. We are the Thunderbolts.
Speaker 2: Can't call ourselves that God, thank you. That's right. The
Speaker 2: Thunderbolts is in theaters now, and I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 2: a few of the highlights. Now, there's maybe some spoilers
Speaker 2: in here, So if you haven't seen Thunderbolts yet, not
Speaker 2: too you won't be. There won't be anything I will
Speaker 2: spoil for you. Essentially, one thing that's happening right now
Speaker 2: is that they have done this marketing push where they
Speaker 2: have re titled or they're retitling it the New Avengers.
Speaker 2: So you may have noticed the asterisks in Thunderbolts. It
Speaker 2: wasn't just a stylistic choice there, but it foreshadows a
Speaker 2: major twist in the film. So in the film's climax,
Speaker 2: this is a bit of a spoiler here, the CIA
Speaker 2: director of Valentina, Allegra Defontaine, played by Julia Louis Dreyfus.
Speaker 2: She assembles the team and she kind of dubs them
Speaker 2: the New Avengers. That's supposed to signal a new era
Speaker 2: in the MCU. But there's been a, like I said,
Speaker 2: some fun marketing happening over town where the stars of
Speaker 2: the film like Lawrence Pugh and Sebastian Standarm and going
Speaker 2: through town and like ripping off the posters that say
Speaker 2: Thunderbolts and underneath it it says the New Avengers. So
Speaker 2: that's kind of a fun little marketing ploy. But you know,
Speaker 2: as of today on IMDb, it's still listed as the Thunderbolts,
Speaker 2: so I don't know if that's just for marketing or
Speaker 2: an official title change. So in this film, Lewis Pullman
Speaker 2: is the actor who plays Bob Reynolds aka Century, and
Speaker 2: this is our first introduction to Century and the Void.
Speaker 2: If you're a fan of MCU, this might be a
Speaker 2: little deep track for you, but please stay with me.
Speaker 2: I promise this is this is going somewhere. What's great
Speaker 2: about this character is it really adds some depth to
Speaker 2: the MCU. This is one of the first films to
Speaker 2: really tackle any sort of like deeper emotional struggle with
Speaker 2: these characters. They're more I feel like, out of all
Speaker 2: of the previous iterations of these films, these characters feel
Speaker 2: more real, they're more grounded. They're dealing with, you know,
Speaker 2: actual problems in their day to day lives, psychological struggles, loneliness, depressions,
Speaker 2: self doubt, and it's not like and don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: the whole movie is not about that, but it certainly
Speaker 2: is a nice refreshing change and touches based with reality
Speaker 2: a lot more than some of the other films. It's
Speaker 2: very character driven. But in addition to that, there's still
Speaker 2: lots of great fights, lots of epic you know scenes,
Speaker 2: action scenes, and just a really fun movie. And it's
Speaker 2: getting a lot of great praise from critics and from fans.
Speaker 2: So I highly recommend Thunderbolts aka The New Avengers if
Speaker 2: you haven't seen it yet. All right, so that was
Speaker 2: Heathers has It? That was my Heathers has it. We'll
Speaker 2: see if I get to do it again. Of they're like,
Speaker 2: never do that again. For now we are going to
Speaker 2: do We have Courtney. Yay, we have Courtney. Let's get
Speaker 2: in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, good morning.
Speaker 10: I was waiting for get up in your Business.
Speaker 2: I know I don't want to get a call from
Speaker 2: the boss, but maybe I should just for this week.
Speaker 2: They'll be like, Heather's never coming back, but it's all right, Yes,
Speaker 2: let's get up in your business Courtney. Instacart is rolling
Speaker 2: out a new app that will deliver a party to you.
Speaker 2: What is that about?
Speaker 11: You know, I know it's early in the morning, but
Speaker 11: the markets have been rough and I'm always looking for.
Speaker 10: A party, and especially at this point. But instacart is
Speaker 10: ready to help you make that happen.
Speaker 11: Of course, this is a perfect opportunity to bring out
Speaker 11: that whole yeah from Eddie Murphy anytime. Instacart is launching
Speaker 11: a new service that helps groups order party snacks and drinks.
Speaker 10: The app is called Fizz, and here's how it all works.
Speaker 11: Multiple people can contribute to one order, pay for their
Speaker 11: own items, and then it's all gonna be delivered together
Speaker 11: for a five dollar fee.
Speaker 10: So this is good for all of those people, all
Speaker 10: those freeloader friends.
Speaker 2: You're gonna make them pay for all those people that
Speaker 2: try to out of paying for stuff exactly.
Speaker 11: But they're also partnering with invites at Party Fall, which
Speaker 11: will allow users to link their orders to an events page.
Speaker 10: So the hope is that younger folks will start with
Speaker 10: Fizz and.
Speaker 11: Then eventually moved to Instacart as their lives evolve and
Speaker 11: they moved to the suburbs.
Speaker 2: All right, you get that big costco Order's No, that's
Speaker 2: a really good idea. I love that, all right. So
Speaker 2: shares of Disney jumping in early trading. Entertainment Giant reporting
Speaker 2: quarterly earnings that topped Wall Street expectations.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: So a number of major companies in the past couple
Speaker 11: of days have pulled their financial forecast because of all
Speaker 11: the trade issues that have been going on. But economic
Speaker 11: worries seem to not be getting in Disney's way. The
Speaker 11: entertainment trine raising its outlook for the years, so they
Speaker 11: see a good year ahead for themselves. Disney seeing faster
Speaker 11: than expected growth at its theme parks, more visitors trek
Speaker 11: to California resorts and also to Florida.
Speaker 10: Holiday package sales also helped, and price.
Speaker 11: Increases across its streaming services, including Disney Plus and Hulu,
Speaker 11: boost results. But they did make another announcement which is
Speaker 11: kind of interesting. They're announcing plans for its first theme
Speaker 11: park in the Middle East. So it's going to be
Speaker 11: a sprawling resort in Abu Dhabi. So this is going
Speaker 11: to be the first one that they've had since the
Speaker 11: Shanghai Disney resort, but that opened back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's cool, all right. And Comcast has a new
Speaker 2: name for its spinoff of his cable channels.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so the.
Speaker 11: Cable channels MSNBC, CNBC, USAE.
Speaker 10: I could go on and on and on.
Speaker 11: Comcasts spun them off. We heard about this in November.
Speaker 11: They announced plans to divest most of its cable networks
Speaker 11: into this new publicly traded company. But they have a
Speaker 11: new name for it, and it's called Versant. Cable has
Speaker 11: definitely been a drag on Comcast business. Consumers continue to
Speaker 11: cancel their PATV services. They're heading off to streaming options
Speaker 11: like Netflix. But just to know, Comcast is keeping NBC.
Speaker 11: They're also keeping Peacock that's your streaming service.
Speaker 10: And Bravo.
Speaker 11: They can't get rid of Van Cohen and also Telemundo
Speaker 11: that's staying with Comcast to Bravo. One of the reasons
Speaker 11: is it does quite well in streaming, and Telemundo they
Speaker 11: see as a growth market for themselves.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a lot of people love the Bravo. Stocks
Speaker 2: are heading for Housewives of Everything, Owives of Everything. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 2: I watch it all. And stocks are heading for a
Speaker 2: higher open ahead of the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 10: Yes, the Federal Reserve.
Speaker 11: They wrap up their two day interest rate meeting later
Speaker 11: today traders are expecting the Fed to stay on hold
Speaker 11: while waiting to see how the trade war is evolving.
Speaker 10: So we are seeing Dow futures rising two hundred points.
Speaker 11: Also on the radar today for investors, weight Watchers has
Speaker 11: filed for bankruptcy. The company they tried to ride that
Speaker 11: weight loss drug wave. They offered a few on their platform,
Speaker 11: but they found it quite challenging to convince people that
Speaker 11: its programs were still worth their time.
Speaker 2: All right, Courtney, thank you so much, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: to you again tomorrow.
Speaker 9: See you later.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
Speaker 2: coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. California's
Speaker 2: Attorney General says the La County DA's office should remain
Speaker 2: on the Menendez brothers resentencing case. Their lawyer has filed
Speaker 2: court papers to try to remove d'a Hawkman, saying he's biased. A. G.
Speaker 2: Rob Bonta's office says the defense has not shown evidence
Speaker 2: to meet the standards for throwing the office off the case.
Speaker 2: A hearing is set for Friday. More than one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty cardinals in Rome are beginning the centuries old
Speaker 2: ritual to elect a new pope ABC's Inez de la
Speaker 2: Kutera says the conclave is highly secretive.
Speaker 12: Inside the Sistine Chapel, tables are set with police cards
Speaker 12: for each cardinal in ballots at each seat. The cardinals
Speaker 12: will be cut off from the world, voting up to
Speaker 12: four times per day, twice in the morning, twice in
Speaker 12: the evening.
Speaker 2: The Dean of the College of Cardinals presides over a
Speaker 2: mass this morning, urging the voters to set aside all
Speaker 2: personal interests and find a pope who prizes unity. He
Speaker 2: says the world today needs a leader who can awaken consciousness.
Speaker 2: Ellie County is surveying school districts on how they're informing
Speaker 2: undocumented families of their rights. Supervisor Hilda Salise says recent
Speaker 2: visits by federal agents to LA schools have sparked fear,
Speaker 2: but praise lausd for turning the agents away. Ellie County
Speaker 2: DA Nathan Hawkman says twenty five animal cruelty cases have
Speaker 2: been filed in recent weeks, including eighteen felonies. He's pledging
Speaker 2: zero tolerance, calling abuse a warning sign for future violence.
Speaker 2: And we're just minutes away from handle on the news
Speaker 2: this morning, We're going to talk about the case of
Speaker 2: Smokey Robinson. He's being sued for sexual assault by four
Speaker 2: ex employees. Right now, Disney is bringing its storytelling magic
Speaker 2: to real life with Katino, a luxury dessert community, luxury
Speaker 2: desert community with nearly two thousand homes, a massive man
Speaker 2: made lagoon, and a whimsical touch is inspired by Disney Tails.
Speaker 2: But what does it mean to live inside the magic Well?
Speaker 2: Joining me now to talk about Katino is Yolandacaid, vice
Speaker 2: President of Communications for Disney Signature Experiences. So let's just
Speaker 2: jump right in. I had the pleasure a few weeks
Speaker 2: ago of heading out to the desert and seeing firsthand Coatino.
Speaker 2: Tell me a little bit about this property. If someone
Speaker 2: who has not heard of this before, what can they
Speaker 2: expect when they go see Kotino.
Speaker 6: So, Katino, which is the very first story living by
Speaker 6: Disney community, is really just a very special place, and
Speaker 6: there are a lot of reasons for that. One of
Speaker 6: that really starts with a concept behind the community, and
Speaker 6: we're often asked, you know what makes it different, unique
Speaker 6: and special. I'll start with wealt Disney World Imagineering, who
Speaker 6: many people are familiar with the great work that they
Speaker 6: do in our parts and our attractions, that they really
Speaker 6: brought their talents to bear here because they were really
Speaker 6: inspired by all of the natural being and the magic
Speaker 6: that you find in the Coachella Valley.
Speaker 10: I'm sure you saw that.
Speaker 6: When you were there. I was just there recently myself
Speaker 6: at the community, and it's just a special place already.
Speaker 6: But when we think about what it really meant to
Speaker 6: Walt himself, what many people don't know is that Walt
Speaker 6: Disney actually found a lot of inspiration and that this
Speaker 6: was a place of rejuvenation for him. In fact, he
Speaker 6: and his wife they had a home in the area
Speaker 6: for many years, so we thought it was the perfect
Speaker 6: place for the very first story living you know by
Speaker 6: Disney community. So it's really apropos that we're there now.
Speaker 2: When people hear about a living community designed by Disney imagineers,
Speaker 2: I think what comes to mind is maybe you're going
Speaker 2: to see mouse ears everywhere, lots of touches of Disney.
Speaker 2: But this didn't feel like that. Like there were definitely
Speaker 2: some you know, nods to Disney, but it's not like
Speaker 2: a theme part.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 6: One of the great things, as you said, about our
Speaker 6: Walt Disney imagineers, is that they are known for bringing
Speaker 6: creativity and inspiration and so we've brought the best of
Speaker 6: that year to bear. But this is not a theme
Speaker 6: part uh, but it brings the very best that Disney
Speaker 6: is known for, quality service and right we're really bringing
Speaker 6: this community to life through you know, the amenities that
Speaker 6: we're offering, but our residents are really going to enjoy
Speaker 6: just an incredible lifestyle. You know, they'll be able to
Speaker 6: to choose. For example, as I talk about the amenities,
Speaker 6: one of the things that makes it special is a
Speaker 6: volunteery on site club which is called the Artisan Club,
Speaker 6: and that's where they'll be able to really explore, you know,
Speaker 6: their their passions and there'll be a lot of Disney
Speaker 6: touches and fused there with our Disney service. But most importantly,
Speaker 6: you know, it will be operated you know by our
Speaker 6: Disney you know cast members, which will be offering a
Speaker 6: number of things. So if you can think about having
Speaker 6: you know, a monthly speaker series where you can hear
Speaker 6: everything from Disney experts or storytellers, you know, food and
Speaker 6: wine events. You know, with this the backdrop of Patino Bay,
Speaker 6: which I'm sure you saw when you were there as well,
Speaker 6: Heather and the stunning mountains. It's simply going to be
Speaker 6: fit calcular. Now, when you think about a great Disney story,
Speaker 6: there's one I will call out and you probably had
Speaker 6: a chance to see the par House that is coming
Speaker 6: to life there. That's going to be a multi purpose
Speaker 6: event venue available for overnight stays and for special events. Now,
Speaker 6: the design, if it's sound familiar, is inspired by the
Speaker 6: par Family's house from Disney and Pixar's Incredibles two. So
Speaker 6: that may ring a bome for people. So the Pixar
Speaker 6: artists actually found their original inspiration for the family's home
Speaker 6: right there in Cachell in Coachella Valley, So you know,
Speaker 6: it was only fitting for us to build the par
Speaker 6: House here. So our imagineers then in turn work with
Speaker 6: the Pixar artists and they were able to design some
Speaker 6: really creative you know concepts, you know, inspired by the
Speaker 6: film and incorporated that into the homes detail, you know,
Speaker 6: the details of the home. So just a very special place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it looks really cool. And one of the
Speaker 2: things that was interesting too is that this is in
Speaker 2: many ways a standard housing development. People can go in,
Speaker 2: they can pick their floor plan, the type of house
Speaker 2: that they want to build it and then customize you know,
Speaker 2: the features and and you know, maybe they work with
Speaker 2: an imagineer to pick out certain types of tapestries and
Speaker 2: you know, those sorts of things. What are some of
Speaker 2: the phases that are going to be rolling out in
Speaker 2: the next few months, are in the next few years. Rather,
Speaker 2: I understand there's going to be a big shopping center
Speaker 2: like a town center area.
Speaker 6: Next year. We're looking forward to the opening of Katino
Speaker 6: Town Center. It will be open to the public. So
Speaker 6: again it's going to provide you know, just a nice
Speaker 6: amenity there in the community. So that town center, it's
Speaker 6: actually going to be offer a mix of shopping. There'll
Speaker 6: be dining with local and national brands. Will also be
Speaker 6: an open air artist market, along with public access to
Speaker 6: Katino Bay for a fee. So this will, uh, you know,
Speaker 6: really be a centerpiece of the community. And from a
Speaker 6: resident standpoint, you know, I was saying earlier, how you
Speaker 6: think of having everything within your community. You know, you
Speaker 6: can walk, ride your bike, drive, or just drive your
Speaker 6: golf cart over to the Katino Town Center. You can shop,
Speaker 6: you can have dinner in the community or at the
Speaker 6: town center. So again, lots of offerings and I have
Speaker 6: to tell you. I'm really excited to share with you
Speaker 6: that our first residents officially have their keys and they'll
Speaker 6: be moving in soon. So this fall, we're excited, you know,
Speaker 6: for the opening of an artisan club, you know, that
Speaker 6: includes the parhouse that we just talked about. A club
Speaker 6: members will field to also enjoy Katino Bay and you know,
Speaker 6: all the amazing amenities. So again, lots of excitement, and
Speaker 6: you know, we can't wait for our residents in the
Speaker 6: community to experience it.
Speaker 2: You know what I was telling people here sort of
Speaker 2: about this community. They had one big question, if you
Speaker 2: buy a house in Katino, does it come with free
Speaker 2: Disneyland tickets?
Speaker 6: Well, if I will tell you if if we have
Speaker 6: a conversation and we're not asked that every single time,
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, I would be surprised. And it's a
Speaker 6: natural question. And so you know, there are lots of
Speaker 6: amenities and lots of ways that we're going to be
Speaker 6: bringing to the experience to life. But no, right now,
Speaker 6: that is not a part of the plan. You know,
Speaker 6: home that comes to clip with tickets in this case.
Speaker 6: You know, the park is just you know a short
Speaker 6: drive away. But we're excited, you know, to provide a
Speaker 6: special place in a special community that they can call home.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it sounds like a magical place and
Speaker 2: I cannot wait to go back and see how it's
Speaker 2: all come together over the next few years. So yo wanta,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to some of the stories
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