September 14, 2025 • 37 mins
Charlie Kirk's widow speaks as tensions continue to mount across the country following the conservative commentator's assassination; The California Assembly has approved the polarizing Senate Bill 79, paving the way for more housing to be developed near some transit stops; Downtown LA landmarks goes and stays dark and covered in graffiti, as the rat population finds a windfall in the city's center.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
This is Michael Monk's reports from Michael Monks from KFI News. Sorry,
I'm watching this Dodgers game. It looks like the Giants
are starting to storm back. The Dodgers jumped out to
a pretty hefty lead after trailing four to one early
and took a nine to four lead. It's down nine
to seven after an extra base hit there by the Giants.
That game is currently in the bottom of the fifth,
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so those two teams will be battling it out. The
Angels meanwhile trailing three to two in the bottom of
the fifth at the Mariners of Seattle, USC Trojans won
today on the Gridiron thirty three seventeen over Perdue.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And UCLA.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Last night just got walloped by New Mexico thirty five
to ten. Shaping up to be a long, long season
in Westwood. It's been a long season apparently for some
donkeys in the Marino Valley. Six donkeys have been shot
with arrows recently in Marino Valley, and one local wild
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animal sanctuary is now asking for the public's help in
identifying the suspect. Workers at Donkey Land and the Marino
Valley Animal Services and the Riverside County Department of Animal
Services have been able to capture an injured two year
old female wild donkey from a herd off Pigeon Pass
Road on Thursday, the sixth donkey recently shot with an arrow.
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Donkeyland is offering a fourteen thousand dollars reward for information
leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person
or persons responsible for shooting the animals. The rescue donkey
has been named Cupid by the sanctuary and has been
admitted to the SoCal Equine Vet in Norco. The arrow
was lodged within her thoracic region. Cupid required sedation to
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safely remove that arrow, but the tip of the arrow
was scheduled to be removed Monday during a second surgery.
According to Donkey Land, the air pass through a small
portion of cupids right long and is very close to
puncturing her left lung. Officials say it's very painful for
Cupid as the arrow is scraping against the underside of
her shoulder blade every.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Time she moves.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Chip of bone dislodge from the arrow is also endangering
her left lung, but Cupid is receiving powerful antibiotics to
help with infection and pain medication to keep her comfortable
and calm. Donkey Land is also accepting donation towards Cupid's
medical expenses. If you know who's shooting donkeys out Marino Valley,
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contact Donkeyland could get fourteen thousand dollars for your help.
It's going to take more than fourteen thousand dollars to
renovate and expand the convention center in downtown Los Angeles.
I've been covering this story since last year. Originally it
sounded like a pretty decent idea no brainer. Yeah, of course,
LA and it's dated convention center is apparently losing out
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on major conventions to much smaller cities across the country.
So I'm not that sophisticated when it comes to checking
out a convention center and saying whether it's able to
fulfill the needs of conventioneers.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I've been to the LA Convention Center. It looked fine
to me.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But downtown civic groups, business groups, residents, workers, union laborers,
they want this project. They say there are significant economic
benefits to this project, and city Administrator Man Sabo seemed
very bullish on this last year. When he presented it
to city council and presented it as a one point
one billion dollar project. In fact, the Convention Center is
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set to serve as a venue for the Olympics, and
not just for any old event. We're talking about gymnastics,
one of the marquee events of the Summer Olympics when
they come to la in twenty twenty eight. So last
year they were thinking, let's jump on it, let's get
this done. Let's start this construction medly because we could
have this finished in time for the Olympics. So they've
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already spent the city fifty four million dollars, basically, have
a report come back and say you probably can't finish
this in time for the Olympics, fifty four million dollars
to rain on that parade.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So let's let's do it in phases.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Let's start phase one and finish phase one, make it
pretty for the Olympics, and then after the Olympics leave,
we'll finish the rest of the project. Okay, Well, now
the price has gone up, and I mean it's gone
up again rapidly. Just less than a month ago, the
city administrator came to city council and said so it
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looks like this thing is going to cost about two
point four billion billion with a B two point four
billion dollars. And then on Wednesday of this week, he's
back before the Budget Committee City Council and says the
price now estimated at two point seven billion dollars. It
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went up another three hundred million dollars in the span
of a couple of weeks, and the news got worse
for this project because one of the revenue opportunities for
the city is apparently this digital advertising. It's in a
prime location, the La Convention Center. It's near the freeways,
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so if they have billboards facing the freeways, that's prime
advertising real estate. They could get a pretty penny for that.
But they're also hoping to have digital advertising all over
the place. There's currently some state law forbids, and an
attempt to get that state law changed has not worked
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out so far in this session, which ended today. So
the city was originally anticipating that it would get sixty
one million dollars a year from digital advertising, not anymore
closer to twenty seven million dollars. And that matters because
they're planning to finance this thing for thirty years and
it would cost the city each year to pay on
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that debt just over two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Why does that matter because the city is very cash strapped.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I know you heard my reporting about their budget crisis
that they had ahead of the new fiscal year starting
on July first, where they said that they were going
to have to lay off twenty twelve hundred employees. They
have no margin for error, and now to add an
annual two hundred million dollar possible payment every year. Well,
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they've saved all those jobs, but they've only saved them
for now. They've saved various departments from cuts, but only
for now. If this project goes through, there will undoubtedly
be cuts because they've not increased their revenue.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
This is just math.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So the city administrator was before the City Council Budget
Committee this week and says to them, we need you
to make a decision today so that we can get
a full vote at City Council on whether we're moving
forward on this project, so that we can get part
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of it done before the Olympics come in twenty eight.
He expressed the urgency of the situation, and instead of
feeling that urgency, the City Council Budget Committee said, why
don't we put this off for another week and we'll
log it together again next Wednesday and talk about it
a little more. I will tell you that there are
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council members who express significant concerns about that two hundred
million dollars a year debt payment, knowing that they've already
trimmed the services that people rely on every day, street cleaning,
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street lights. There's nowhere to cut animal services. Their backs
are against a financial wall here. So I will be
covering that meeting for you next week. You'll hear my
reports as you always do Monday through Friday and even
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on the weekends here on KFI AM six forty, and
we'll have full analysis on however it goes down on
next Saturday night show.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I hope you'll join us for that as well.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You probably saw that there was a pretty significant situation
developing at the Port of Long Beach where all of
those shipping containers fell into the water. They did have
products inside. That's a big deal. But the ports are
really important here because not only are they a significant
part of the southern California economy, they are indicators for
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the broader economy across the country. And it looks like
prices are starting to go up. So what do the
ports say about that? What is the role of the
ports in that. We'll talk a bit about that. Get
a look at what inflation is doing.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Up next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Emmy's coming up tomorrow. Exciting day here in Hollywood. Talk
a bit more about that coming up. There's a new
sitcom apparently being planned and it's set in Alta data
after the wildfire. It's causing a bit of controversy. We'll
talk about that a little bit later this hour. But
what a scene at the port of Long Beach this
week where seventy five or more shipping containers just fell
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off this vessel called Mississippi after to ride from China.
Some workers there were unloading it. They don't know how
this happened yet, at least they haven't said so publicly.
The Coast Guard and others are investigating. But this was
a mess, and it's a bigger mess when you find
out that these containers were not empty. There were people's
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things in there. That's a tough, tough situation. If you've
ordered something from China, you've been waiting on it, and
now it's floating or worse, it's at the bottom of
the harbor and Long Beach a couple dozen or more
sunk and they're working to retrieve those. The latest response
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from the Port of Long Beach is that they're still working.
Two sunken cargo containers were retrieved from the bottom of
the basin on Wednesday, and responders also secured the source
of a fuel league that was originating from an emissions
control barge that was moored alongside the container vessel. So
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think about that. There was this control barge that had
several shipping containers fall on top of it and then
it started leaking fuel because it was damage. It contained
about two thousand gallons of renewable diesel. So that's all
over the harbor. They say. Cargo operations at the Port
of in mostly unaffected by the incident, except in a
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five hundred yard safety zone placed around the Mississippi, which
was carrying two thousand, four hundred and twelve containers at
the time of the incident. They had a press conference
a couple days ago and said operations are fine. We're
going to continue to clean this up and figure out
what went wrong. Meanwhile, the Port of Los Angeles is
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going to be doing its monthly update. And I cover
this every time that this rolls around, and you know,
typically it's boring. It's just here's how many containers came in,
Here's how it looks year over year, and you know,
we just give you the report. Here's here's the numbers
that the Port of La is reporting. Because it's a
significant part of our local economy. We have two very
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large international ports right next to each other basically, so
it's important to know what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But President Trump's.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Tariff policy has reshaped the global economies, certainly when it
comes to shipping and inventories. And so the Port of
La will have its monthly update on Wednesday, the seventeenth,
and of course I'll be all over that. We'll have
full updates throughout the newsday, but we'll also have a
full recap on next Saturday show as well. They say
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that the topic will be customs freight forwarding. That's the
problem with the ports is that they use these terms
that don't mean anything freight forwarding. But they are going
to have an expert join them. Vincent Ayacoppola, president of
Trade and Government Relations at Alba Wheels, up International, who
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joined Port of La Executive Director Jean Soroka, discuss how
tariffs and trade policy are impacting customs, brokerage and freight forwarding,
and then Soroka will of course provide the port's August
cargo data and comment on supply chain issues. Now, we
have heard from the port in these monthly updates that
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expect problems later. They had record cargo in July, busiest
July they ever had, in spite of some projections that
maybe by the summer the global shipping world would collapse
a bit because of the tariff policy. But that's not
been the case, and we'll find out what August looked
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like next week. He's pretty straightforward, that Jeene Soroka about
what it is going on at the port. I'm wondering
if you have noticed any supply issues, inventory issues, price increases.
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Apparently they're happening.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
If you feel like prices are still inching higher at
the grocery store, you're not wrong. According to the latest
inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices
between July and August jumped point six percent, the biggest
monthly increase since August twenty twenty two and are now
two point seven percent higher than a year ago, with
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coffee up twenty point nine percent, Apple's up nine point
six percent, and bananas up six point six percent, ground
beef up twelve point nine percent, and steaks up sixteen
point six percent. And while the price of certain items
like eggs and ham have been moving lower recently, economists
predict the impact of President Trump's tariffs will start showing
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up more overall in the final months of the year.
Many major retail hail like Walmart, Macy's at Home Depot
have acknowledged those increased costs, but say they're working to
keep prices low where they can. The economists are pointing
to a number of factors driving this, a shortage of farmers,
those tariffs, and even bad weather.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Prices are headed higher, but by some economists estimists, they're
not as high as they were expected to go because
of tariffs. We did see some tariff impact in this report.
We saw things like new cars prices increase. We saw
the price of furniture and betting increase. We saw a
pair of clothing prices go up a bit. Coffee prices
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have increased because a different reason. They have been going
up because there's been drought and then there's been a
shortage of beings. But a lot of coffee comes from Brazil,
and Brazil, as we know, it's one of the countries
that is facing hecty tariffs. They're now real concerns that
the job market is not holding up as well as
it was hoped. We are almost certainly to see the
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Federal Reserve cut rates when they meet next week. The
question now is like how much will those bring mortgage
rates down? Will those bring other prices down?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Food prices between July and August jumped point six percent,
the biggest monthly increase in three years. Grocery prices are
now two point seven percent higher than a year ago,
Coffee prices are up nearly twenty one percent, stakes at
more than sixteen percent, and bananas up more than six percent,
and economists warn the impact of President Trump's tariffs could
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drive some prices even higher in the coming months.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That last thing we heard, the impact of President Trump's
tariffs could make prices even worse in the coming months.
We've been hearing about in the coming months since the
tariff policy started earlier this year. And while we heard
in that report there there are certainly some products that
are seeing year over year increases. It's not been this
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massive thing yet, but what is to come is the
coming months. The last few months of the year, the
Congressional Budget Office has released new economic projections indicating that unemployment, inflation,
and overall growth will worsen in twenty twenty five before
improving over the next year. The CBO's update reflects major
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legislative and policy changes under President Donald Trump, according to
this report from the Associated Press, including his new tariff
policy and immigration plans. The CBO outlooks attempt to set
expectations for the economy in order to help choices made
by congressional and executive branch policy makers. This outlook that
came out Friday showed the degree to which Trump's choices
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are altering the path of the US economy, suggesting that
growth has been hampered in the near term by choices
that have yet to show the promised upside of more
jobs and lower budget deficits. So I am very much
looking forward to that report from the Port of Los
Angeles on Wednesday, A sheer to be an important one.
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We'll have that covered for you here on KFI, and
then we'll talk about it more together next Saturday. There
is an election in California in November. As we decide
whether we need to redraw our congressional districts to be
more favorable to Democrats. Governor Newsom says we need to
do that in order to counteract Texas's opportunity to send
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more Republicans to the House because that state's redrawing its
maps and other states are kind of getting.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Into it too.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But there was one other attempt to get another issue
on the ballot that has failed.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
We'll talk about that next.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We got about a half hour left together on this
Saturday night before Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell comes up,
and then it's coast to coast throughout the overnight hours
here on KFI AM six forty. A man was stabbed
to death today in front of the Downey Library and
the ambulance of responding pairs paramedics was stolen during the
call the stab and happening. The stabbing happened about nine
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to thirty five this morning in front of the library
on Brookshire Avenue, Downey. Fire Department paramedics tried to save
the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
No information about who that victim was. Witnesses told the
police the suspect fled toward Downey High School, and the
school and library were placed on lockdown while officers searched
for that suspect. Twenty three year old man is believed
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to be a transient, was eventually taken into custody at
Downey High School. While emergency personnel were tending to that
victim at the library, a male suspect unrelated to the
homicide investigation stole the Downy Fire Department ambulance that was
parked at the homicide scene. Downy officers chased that ambulance
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to the city of Alhambra, where the suspect crashed the
ambulance into a parked vehicle. That suspect was a forty
two year old man who lives in LA Both cases,
the please say, are under investigation, of course, only only
in southern California. Meanwhile, elimhor Bass has issued a new
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directive that she says will lead to the hiring of
more police officers in Los Angeles and more quickly. She says,
it establishes new protocols between the LAPD and the Personnel
Department with the goal of clearing what she calls bureaucratic barriers.
It would also establish new criteria to ensure the hiring
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of highly qualified candidates. It will also establish new benchmarks
for each stage of the hiring process and the creation
of a dedicated LAPD Hiring division within the Personnel Department.
The LAPD currently has eighty seven hundred or so officers,
well below what Chief MacDonnell and his predecessors have said
that department should have.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Is not just bureaucratic. This department has received a record
number of applications. There are a lot of people who
would love to join the LAPD. The problems have been
a little bit of this red tape situation. But what
I have learned by attending various city meetings and committee
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meetings and those sorts of things, is a lot of
these folks who want to be police officers aren't just unqualified.
They're either out of shape. Some of them have criminal
records with active warrants, So not only are they not
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able to get a police job, they usually prompt an
existing police officer to do their job immediately. By taking
these people into custody. It's tough and the only city
council has been busy this week as well. Some ceremonial
resolution that they passed unanimously is in support of Governor
Newsom's Proposition fifty, the Election Response Act. This would allow
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the state to withdraw its congressional districts. It would create
more favorable districts for Democrats, which already largely outnumber Republicans
in California. But Governor Newsom says, we could send six
more Democrats, which is what we need to do, because
Texas has redrawn its maps to send more Republicans at
the request of President Trump. The House is very narrowly
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led by the Republican Party. It's not much margin for error.
So Texas thought they could give the Republican Party a
little wiggle room, redraw its maps, get rid of some Democrats,
send more Republicans. Governor Newsom said, not so fast. California
shall send more Democrats. And there are other states out there,
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you know, threatening shaking their fists as well, that they
may draw their districts in one partisan way or another.
It's quite a cold war we've got going on here
in America between American states. The only City Council voted
unanimously to endorse Proposition fifty. They are in favor of
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what we'll all be voting on in November. Here's Councilman
Adrinazarian explaining why.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
The danger is real and unfolding before our eyes. We
cannot and will not stand by while federal overreach undermines democracy.
As leaders, we need to fight back. I know firsthand
the cost of allowing autocrats to dismantle democracy. Many of
you know that as a child, my family fled Iran
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to escape authoritarian rule. We must not let our country,
the most diverse democracy in the world, slide into dictatorship.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Again, that was Councilman Adrinazarian who talked about his family
leaving Iran to flee autocracy. That's how some of the
Democrats are viewing the Trump administration. So they want to
send more Democrats to Washington to try to counteract and
counterbalance some of the initiatives coming out of the Trump
White House because they do currently have Republican control of
the White House and both Houses of Congress, as well
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as a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Something else that.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Could have come to the ballot in Los Angeles city
has failed to make it, and airport and hotel workers
are excited about that. You've heard us talk about it
a lot here on kfive been covering it a lot.
The La City Council, even while it was saying it
could not pay its own bills, even while it was saying,
we may have to lay off our own employees because
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we can't afford to pay them anymore, they adopted a
law that would force small hotels, small businesses at the
airports to pay their workers a minimum wage of at
least thirty dollars an hour by twenty twenty eight. It's
called the Olympic Wage. Union activists and workers rights activists
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had been calling for this hospitality and tourism wage increase
because there's going to be a lot of people taking
advantage of tourism and hospitality in twenty twenty eight when
the Olympics come, and the raises were supposed to start immediately.
This is an incremental situation. We'll go up about a
dollar or so this year, next year in twenty seven,
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and then ultimately be thirty dollars an hour by twenty
twenty eight. Well after that passed, some industry groups representing
airlines airport businesses, hotels. They got together and said, let's
take it to the voters, because we have told everyone
that this will put us out of business or force
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us not to do business in Los Angeles. We'll build
hotels elsewhere. The way that it works is you need
to gather a certain number of valid signatures. So this
group is against the minimum wage increase turned into the
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city clerk more than one hundred and forty thousand signatures.
This group's called the LA Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress.
They needed just under ninety three thousand of those, so
they had some wiggle room. Forty seven thousand of those
could be bad. Unfortunately, too many of them were bad.
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Unfortunately for them, I should say eighty four thousand. Eighty
four thousand and seven were deemed valid. So they fell
almost nine thousand signatures short, and so they have not
forced a referendum and the ordinance goes into effect. Members
of the Defend the Wage LA coalition, composed of SEIU,
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United Service Workers, West United Here Local eleven and the
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. They gathered on
the south lawn steps of City Hall this week to
celebrate this. They say We're tired of waiting. The referendum failed.
Now it's time to pay up. Please don't make us
wait any longer. We waited over two and a half years.
It's time to pay up.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We'll see if there's another attempt to block that. These
workers have said we worked too hard for low wages.
The hotels say we can't afford to give these people anymore.
And by the way, it's not just an hourly wage increase,
it's insurance too. I mean, this will be expensive.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Now, if you're Hilton or.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Marriott, you may be able to make the case that
you think this is wrong, but you're a big company.
We heard from a lot of smaller hoteliers here in
Los Angeles that that we just we can't, we cannot
afford this. So this will have some potential ripple effects
that we'll have to keep an eye on, especially as
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we see how important the hospitality industry is going to
be with the world upcoming Super Bowl and then the Olympics.
As always, the details will be right here on KFI News.
We had a tragedy involving a child in La County
who had contracted measles as an infant. This disease came
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back in a different way years later and killed this child.
We also have a case of a rabid bat that
officials are telling us to be on the lookout for,
and a new sitcom set in Alta, Dina after the
January wildfire causing some controversy.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
If you missed any part of our very busy show today,
you can always look for the podcast at KFI AM
sixty dot com. Click on those featured segments and you'll
find Michael Monks Reports there. We talked a lot about
Charlie Kirk in the murder of him. Earlier in the
last hour, we talked about the new legislation that has
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been adopted related to more housing near transit projects across
southern California, really across California, but it was very controversial
here in La. Why we're seeing more rats in downtown LA,
the disastrous progression of the LA Convention Center expansion proposed project.
That'll all be available on the podcast KFI AM six forty.
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You can also hit me up on social media if
you're into that sort of thing on all platforms. I'm
Mike monks La at Mike Monk's La. That's micmnks La
on all of your favorite social media apps. Terrible, terrible
tragedy involving a young child here in Los Angeles County.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
The child originally recovered from the initial measles infection, but
then died from a complication from the measles, which is
rare but always fatal. It's caused from an abnormal immune
response to the measles. It leads to brain inflammation. The
child was not eligible for the measles vaccine because they
were under the age of one when infected. At like Stone,
Abcnews Los Acheles.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
This child was apparently an infant when infected with the measles,
and the vaccine for measles is generally administered between twelve
and fifteen months of age. The LA County Health Department
says that the child was able to recover from that
initial measles illness, but later developed and died from what
is called subacute sclerosing pan encephalitis. It's also known as SSPE.
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They call this a universally fatal complication that can occur
in individuals who had measles early in life. Very very
sad situation there. We've also got a case of rabies
involving a bat passing in a public health department reminds
residents that the chances of people getting rabies is low,
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but residents should be wary and careful because a bat
infected with the disease was found in passage. This bat
was found on a Thursday. It tested positive for rabies,
and health officials there have urged residents to avoid contact
with any bats in the area. The city says the
bat was found near the intersection of South San Rafael
and Knitsdale Road. It is the first bat found in
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the city this year to test positive for rabies. No
human cases of rabies have been reported in the city,
and the overall risk of public exposure reportedly remains low.
Carmona excuse me. The city urged residents to avoid contact
and immediately report any injured, ill, or dead bats in
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the area. Rabid bats just in time for spooky season
here in southern California. It's hard to believe, but eight
months have passed since those wildfires first broke out earlier
this year, destroying much of Pacific Palisades and much of
Altadena as well, and now a new television show set
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in post eat and fire Alta Dina is planned. Deadline
Hollywood is reporting this even though it's been less than
a year of that eating fire, and theirs still families
healing and rebuilding their lives as best they can. There's
a show coming from the creator of Blackish. Her name
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is Kenya Barris, and it's set to star actor Mike Epps.
According to Deadline, this comedy is created and written by
Barris and comes from Beet Studios. The show is described
as an untitled half hour. After wildfire sweep through Altadena,
two estrange black brothers, one played by Epps, reunite to
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sell their late grandmother's house to private developers, but when
they learn her caretaker now owns part of the home
and refuses to sell, they're forced to live together and
confront their differences and what community, legacy, and family really mean.
I don't know that sounds interesting, provocative, certainly relevant? Well
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soon maybe so. There are some people who are not
necessarily excited about this. Last is reporting that they've talked
to some people living there, and one of those residents
wondered why a sitcom was chosen, Why not something that
shares real stories? The quote provided is why are we
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sharing a story that is not real about our community
when there's so many real stories to share. And then
also triggering for me was why a comedy when no
one that we know in the community.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Is part of this project? Well, this is Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I think it sounds interesting, but obviously proceed with caution
and great sensitivity to what happened. I saw Altadina up
close and personal as it was burning, and that was
quite a sight. Not something that I'll forget anytime soon.
We'll see how they do with that show. The Emmys
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are tomorrow, will be a big night in Los Angeles
as Hollywood honors the best in television. You know, I'm
sitting here in this studio that has all of these
great televisions. You know, I've got every channel on and
we have that so that we can keep track of
the news. But on Saturday nights, you know, it's mostly
sports that's on. And I think this is this is
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great because if I were at home, whatever I would
be watching would have been on an individual.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
App and TV.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Man, it's still my favorite medium for creative storytelling. I
like it more than movies, and I love the Emmys,
But TV, and especially when you're watching sports, it's just
it's impossible these days. You really have to commit to
one thing, flipping back and forth. Everything's a hassle. If
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you're watching one game on one app and the other
game you're curious about is on a completely different appter
screwed even if you have it, because you have to close, reopen,
maybe sign in again, enter some bizarre code through a
website on your phone. Are we ever going to fix this?
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Are we ever going to go back to the bad
old days when cable was in charge. It's nice to
be able to flip back and forth.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Those are my thoughts about TV as we begin to
celebrate the best in television. I also realize, as much
as I love TV, I don't know a lot of
a lot of the shows that are nominated because, in
addition to it being a hassle to go from one
app to the next, you have to have every single app.
And I don't tough. It's tough life, first world problems,
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but it's annoying. I mostly just rewatch shows that I
love that just blew through succession again, after blowing through
Game of Thrones again, that's easier. But I'm going to
watch these Emmys tomorrow and see what's good. And I'm
sure our shows on Monday all across KFI in the morning,
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we'll hear Neil Savager, who's filling in for Bill Handle.
He'll be talking about the Emmys. Gary and Shannon will
be talking about the Emmys as well on Monday, So
don't miss our post Emmy's coverage right here, and thank
you for joining me for another Saturday night. As always,
I'll be covering the news for you throughout the week,
appearing on your favorite weekday shows to talk about it
more in depth, and then we'll all be back together
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again next Saturday for another edition of Michael Monks Reports.
I am Michael Monks, follow me online at Mike Monk's
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and I'll look forward to talking to you again. Revision
Is History with Malcolm Gladwell is up next right here
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This is Michael Monk's reports from Michael Monks from KFI News. Sorry,
I'm watching this Dodgers game. It looks like the Giants
are starting to storm back. The Dodgers jumped out to
a pretty hefty lead after trailing four to one early
and took a nine to four lead. It's down nine
to seven after an extra base hit there by the Giants.
That game is currently in the bottom of the fifth,
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so those two teams will be battling it out. The
Angels meanwhile trailing three to two in the bottom of
the fifth at the Mariners of Seattle, USC Trojans won
today on the Gridiron thirty three seventeen over Perdue.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
And UCLA.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Last night just got walloped by New Mexico thirty five
to ten. Shaping up to be a long, long season
in Westwood. It's been a long season apparently for some
donkeys in the Marino Valley. Six donkeys have been shot
with arrows recently in Marino Valley, and one local wild
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animal sanctuary is now asking for the public's help in
identifying the suspect. Workers at Donkey Land and the Marino
Valley Animal Services and the Riverside County Department of Animal
Services have been able to capture an injured two year
old female wild donkey from a herd off Pigeon Pass
Road on Thursday, the sixth donkey recently shot with an arrow.
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Donkeyland is offering a fourteen thousand dollars reward for information
leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of the person
or persons responsible for shooting the animals. The rescue donkey
has been named Cupid by the sanctuary and has been
admitted to the SoCal Equine Vet in Norco. The arrow
was lodged within her thoracic region. Cupid required sedation to
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safely remove that arrow, but the tip of the arrow
was scheduled to be removed Monday during a second surgery.
According to Donkey Land, the air pass through a small
portion of cupids right long and is very close to
puncturing her left lung. Officials say it's very painful for
Cupid as the arrow is scraping against the underside of
her shoulder blade every.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Time she moves.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Chip of bone dislodge from the arrow is also endangering
her left lung, but Cupid is receiving powerful antibiotics to
help with infection and pain medication to keep her comfortable
and calm. Donkey Land is also accepting donation towards Cupid's
medical expenses. If you know who's shooting donkeys out Marino Valley,
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contact Donkeyland could get fourteen thousand dollars for your help.
It's going to take more than fourteen thousand dollars to
renovate and expand the convention center in downtown Los Angeles.
I've been covering this story since last year. Originally it
sounded like a pretty decent idea no brainer. Yeah, of course,
LA and it's dated convention center is apparently losing out
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on major conventions to much smaller cities across the country.
So I'm not that sophisticated when it comes to checking
out a convention center and saying whether it's able to
fulfill the needs of conventioneers.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I've been to the LA Convention Center. It looked fine
to me.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
But downtown civic groups, business groups, residents, workers, union laborers,
they want this project. They say there are significant economic
benefits to this project, and city Administrator Man Sabo seemed
very bullish on this last year. When he presented it
to city council and presented it as a one point
one billion dollar project. In fact, the Convention Center is
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set to serve as a venue for the Olympics, and
not just for any old event. We're talking about gymnastics,
one of the marquee events of the Summer Olympics when
they come to la in twenty twenty eight. So last
year they were thinking, let's jump on it, let's get
this done. Let's start this construction medly because we could
have this finished in time for the Olympics. So they've
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already spent the city fifty four million dollars, basically, have
a report come back and say you probably can't finish
this in time for the Olympics, fifty four million dollars
to rain on that parade.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
So let's let's do it in phases.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Let's start phase one and finish phase one, make it
pretty for the Olympics, and then after the Olympics leave,
we'll finish the rest of the project. Okay, Well, now
the price has gone up, and I mean it's gone
up again rapidly. Just less than a month ago, the
city administrator came to city council and said so it
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looks like this thing is going to cost about two
point four billion billion with a B two point four
billion dollars. And then on Wednesday of this week, he's
back before the Budget Committee City Council and says the
price now estimated at two point seven billion dollars. It
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went up another three hundred million dollars in the span
of a couple of weeks, and the news got worse
for this project because one of the revenue opportunities for
the city is apparently this digital advertising. It's in a
prime location, the La Convention Center. It's near the freeways,
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so if they have billboards facing the freeways, that's prime
advertising real estate. They could get a pretty penny for that.
But they're also hoping to have digital advertising all over
the place. There's currently some state law forbids, and an
attempt to get that state law changed has not worked
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out so far in this session, which ended today. So
the city was originally anticipating that it would get sixty
one million dollars a year from digital advertising, not anymore
closer to twenty seven million dollars. And that matters because
they're planning to finance this thing for thirty years and
it would cost the city each year to pay on
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that debt just over two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Why does that matter because the city is very cash strapped.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I know you heard my reporting about their budget crisis
that they had ahead of the new fiscal year starting
on July first, where they said that they were going
to have to lay off twenty twelve hundred employees. They
have no margin for error, and now to add an
annual two hundred million dollar possible payment every year. Well,
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they've saved all those jobs, but they've only saved them
for now. They've saved various departments from cuts, but only
for now. If this project goes through, there will undoubtedly
be cuts because they've not increased their revenue.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
This is just math.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
So the city administrator was before the City Council Budget
Committee this week and says to them, we need you
to make a decision today so that we can get
a full vote at City Council on whether we're moving
forward on this project, so that we can get part
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of it done before the Olympics come in twenty eight.
He expressed the urgency of the situation, and instead of
feeling that urgency, the City Council Budget Committee said, why
don't we put this off for another week and we'll
log it together again next Wednesday and talk about it
a little more. I will tell you that there are
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council members who express significant concerns about that two hundred
million dollars a year debt payment, knowing that they've already
trimmed the services that people rely on every day, street cleaning,
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street lights. There's nowhere to cut animal services. Their backs
are against a financial wall here. So I will be
covering that meeting for you next week. You'll hear my
reports as you always do Monday through Friday and even
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on the weekends here on KFI AM six forty, and
we'll have full analysis on however it goes down on
next Saturday night show.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I hope you'll join us for that as well.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
You probably saw that there was a pretty significant situation
developing at the Port of Long Beach where all of
those shipping containers fell into the water. They did have
products inside. That's a big deal. But the ports are
really important here because not only are they a significant
part of the southern California economy, they are indicators for
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the broader economy across the country. And it looks like
prices are starting to go up. So what do the
ports say about that? What is the role of the
ports in that. We'll talk a bit about that. Get
a look at what inflation is doing.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Up next, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Emmy's coming up tomorrow. Exciting day here in Hollywood. Talk
a bit more about that coming up. There's a new
sitcom apparently being planned and it's set in Alta data
after the wildfire. It's causing a bit of controversy. We'll
talk about that a little bit later this hour. But
what a scene at the port of Long Beach this
week where seventy five or more shipping containers just fell
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off this vessel called Mississippi after to ride from China.
Some workers there were unloading it. They don't know how
this happened yet, at least they haven't said so publicly.
The Coast Guard and others are investigating. But this was
a mess, and it's a bigger mess when you find
out that these containers were not empty. There were people's
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things in there. That's a tough, tough situation. If you've
ordered something from China, you've been waiting on it, and
now it's floating or worse, it's at the bottom of
the harbor and Long Beach a couple dozen or more
sunk and they're working to retrieve those. The latest response
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from the Port of Long Beach is that they're still working.
Two sunken cargo containers were retrieved from the bottom of
the basin on Wednesday, and responders also secured the source
of a fuel league that was originating from an emissions
control barge that was moored alongside the container vessel. So
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think about that. There was this control barge that had
several shipping containers fall on top of it and then
it started leaking fuel because it was damage. It contained
about two thousand gallons of renewable diesel. So that's all
over the harbor. They say. Cargo operations at the Port
of in mostly unaffected by the incident, except in a
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five hundred yard safety zone placed around the Mississippi, which
was carrying two thousand, four hundred and twelve containers at
the time of the incident. They had a press conference
a couple days ago and said operations are fine. We're
going to continue to clean this up and figure out
what went wrong. Meanwhile, the Port of Los Angeles is
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going to be doing its monthly update. And I cover
this every time that this rolls around, and you know,
typically it's boring. It's just here's how many containers came in,
Here's how it looks year over year, and you know,
we just give you the report. Here's here's the numbers
that the Port of La is reporting. Because it's a
significant part of our local economy. We have two very
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large international ports right next to each other basically, so
it's important to know what's going on there.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
But President Trump's.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Tariff policy has reshaped the global economies, certainly when it
comes to shipping and inventories. And so the Port of
La will have its monthly update on Wednesday, the seventeenth,
and of course I'll be all over that. We'll have
full updates throughout the newsday, but we'll also have a
full recap on next Saturday show as well. They say
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that the topic will be customs freight forwarding. That's the
problem with the ports is that they use these terms
that don't mean anything freight forwarding. But they are going
to have an expert join them. Vincent Ayacoppola, president of
Trade and Government Relations at Alba Wheels, up International, who
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joined Port of La Executive Director Jean Soroka, discuss how
tariffs and trade policy are impacting customs, brokerage and freight forwarding,
and then Soroka will of course provide the port's August
cargo data and comment on supply chain issues. Now, we
have heard from the port in these monthly updates that
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expect problems later. They had record cargo in July, busiest
July they ever had, in spite of some projections that
maybe by the summer the global shipping world would collapse
a bit because of the tariff policy. But that's not
been the case, and we'll find out what August looked
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like next week. He's pretty straightforward, that Jeene Soroka about
what it is going on at the port. I'm wondering
if you have noticed any supply issues, inventory issues, price increases.
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Apparently they're happening.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
If you feel like prices are still inching higher at
the grocery store, you're not wrong. According to the latest
inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices
between July and August jumped point six percent, the biggest
monthly increase since August twenty twenty two and are now
two point seven percent higher than a year ago, with
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coffee up twenty point nine percent, Apple's up nine point
six percent, and bananas up six point six percent, ground
beef up twelve point nine percent, and steaks up sixteen
point six percent. And while the price of certain items
like eggs and ham have been moving lower recently, economists
predict the impact of President Trump's tariffs will start showing
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up more overall in the final months of the year.
Many major retail hail like Walmart, Macy's at Home Depot
have acknowledged those increased costs, but say they're working to
keep prices low where they can. The economists are pointing
to a number of factors driving this, a shortage of farmers,
those tariffs, and even bad weather.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Prices are headed higher, but by some economists estimists, they're
not as high as they were expected to go because
of tariffs. We did see some tariff impact in this report.
We saw things like new cars prices increase. We saw
the price of furniture and betting increase. We saw a
pair of clothing prices go up a bit. Coffee prices
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have increased because a different reason. They have been going
up because there's been drought and then there's been a
shortage of beings. But a lot of coffee comes from Brazil,
and Brazil, as we know, it's one of the countries
that is facing hecty tariffs. They're now real concerns that
the job market is not holding up as well as
it was hoped. We are almost certainly to see the
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Federal Reserve cut rates when they meet next week. The
question now is like how much will those bring mortgage
rates down? Will those bring other prices down?
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Food prices between July and August jumped point six percent,
the biggest monthly increase in three years. Grocery prices are
now two point seven percent higher than a year ago,
Coffee prices are up nearly twenty one percent, stakes at
more than sixteen percent, and bananas up more than six percent,
and economists warn the impact of President Trump's tariffs could
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drive some prices even higher in the coming months.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That last thing we heard, the impact of President Trump's
tariffs could make prices even worse in the coming months.
We've been hearing about in the coming months since the
tariff policy started earlier this year. And while we heard
in that report there there are certainly some products that
are seeing year over year increases. It's not been this
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massive thing yet, but what is to come is the
coming months. The last few months of the year, the
Congressional Budget Office has released new economic projections indicating that unemployment, inflation,
and overall growth will worsen in twenty twenty five before
improving over the next year. The CBO's update reflects major
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legislative and policy changes under President Donald Trump, according to
this report from the Associated Press, including his new tariff
policy and immigration plans. The CBO outlooks attempt to set
expectations for the economy in order to help choices made
by congressional and executive branch policy makers. This outlook that
came out Friday showed the degree to which Trump's choices
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are altering the path of the US economy, suggesting that
growth has been hampered in the near term by choices
that have yet to show the promised upside of more
jobs and lower budget deficits. So I am very much
looking forward to that report from the Port of Los
Angeles on Wednesday, A sheer to be an important one.
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We'll have that covered for you here on KFI, and
then we'll talk about it more together next Saturday. There
is an election in California in November. As we decide
whether we need to redraw our congressional districts to be
more favorable to Democrats. Governor Newsom says we need to
do that in order to counteract Texas's opportunity to send
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more Republicans to the House because that state's redrawing its
maps and other states are kind of getting.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Into it too.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
But there was one other attempt to get another issue
on the ballot that has failed.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
We'll talk about that next.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We got about a half hour left together on this
Saturday night before Revisionist History with Malcolm Gladwell comes up,
and then it's coast to coast throughout the overnight hours
here on KFI AM six forty. A man was stabbed
to death today in front of the Downey Library and
the ambulance of responding pairs paramedics was stolen during the
call the stab and happening. The stabbing happened about nine
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to thirty five this morning in front of the library
on Brookshire Avenue, Downey. Fire Department paramedics tried to save
the victim, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
No information about who that victim was. Witnesses told the
police the suspect fled toward Downey High School, and the
school and library were placed on lockdown while officers searched
for that suspect. Twenty three year old man is believed
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to be a transient, was eventually taken into custody at
Downey High School. While emergency personnel were tending to that
victim at the library, a male suspect unrelated to the
homicide investigation stole the Downy Fire Department ambulance that was
parked at the homicide scene. Downy officers chased that ambulance
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to the city of Alhambra, where the suspect crashed the
ambulance into a parked vehicle. That suspect was a forty
two year old man who lives in LA Both cases,
the please say, are under investigation, of course, only only
in southern California. Meanwhile, elimhor Bass has issued a new
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directive that she says will lead to the hiring of
more police officers in Los Angeles and more quickly. She says,
it establishes new protocols between the LAPD and the Personnel
Department with the goal of clearing what she calls bureaucratic barriers.
It would also establish new criteria to ensure the hiring
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of highly qualified candidates. It will also establish new benchmarks
for each stage of the hiring process and the creation
of a dedicated LAPD Hiring division within the Personnel Department.
The LAPD currently has eighty seven hundred or so officers,
well below what Chief MacDonnell and his predecessors have said
that department should have.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Is not just bureaucratic. This department has received a record
number of applications. There are a lot of people who
would love to join the LAPD. The problems have been
a little bit of this red tape situation. But what
I have learned by attending various city meetings and committee
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meetings and those sorts of things, is a lot of
these folks who want to be police officers aren't just unqualified.
They're either out of shape. Some of them have criminal
records with active warrants, So not only are they not
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able to get a police job, they usually prompt an
existing police officer to do their job immediately. By taking
these people into custody. It's tough and the only city
council has been busy this week as well. Some ceremonial
resolution that they passed unanimously is in support of Governor
Newsom's Proposition fifty, the Election Response Act. This would allow
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the state to withdraw its congressional districts. It would create
more favorable districts for Democrats, which already largely outnumber Republicans
in California. But Governor Newsom says, we could send six
more Democrats, which is what we need to do, because
Texas has redrawn its maps to send more Republicans at
the request of President Trump. The House is very narrowly
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led by the Republican Party. It's not much margin for error.
So Texas thought they could give the Republican Party a
little wiggle room, redraw its maps, get rid of some Democrats,
send more Republicans. Governor Newsom said, not so fast. California
shall send more Democrats. And there are other states out there,
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you know, threatening shaking their fists as well, that they
may draw their districts in one partisan way or another.
It's quite a cold war we've got going on here
in America between American states. The only City Council voted
unanimously to endorse Proposition fifty. They are in favor of
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what we'll all be voting on in November. Here's Councilman
Adrinazarian explaining why.
Speaker 7 (23:17):
The danger is real and unfolding before our eyes. We
cannot and will not stand by while federal overreach undermines democracy.
As leaders, we need to fight back. I know firsthand
the cost of allowing autocrats to dismantle democracy. Many of
you know that as a child, my family fled Iran
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to escape authoritarian rule. We must not let our country,
the most diverse democracy in the world, slide into dictatorship.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Again, that was Councilman Adrinazarian who talked about his family
leaving Iran to flee autocracy. That's how some of the
Democrats are viewing the Trump administration. So they want to
send more Democrats to Washington to try to counteract and
counterbalance some of the initiatives coming out of the Trump
White House because they do currently have Republican control of
the White House and both Houses of Congress, as well
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as a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Something else that.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Could have come to the ballot in Los Angeles city
has failed to make it, and airport and hotel workers
are excited about that. You've heard us talk about it
a lot here on kfive been covering it a lot.
The La City Council, even while it was saying it
could not pay its own bills, even while it was saying,
we may have to lay off our own employees because
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we can't afford to pay them anymore, they adopted a
law that would force small hotels, small businesses at the
airports to pay their workers a minimum wage of at
least thirty dollars an hour by twenty twenty eight. It's
called the Olympic Wage. Union activists and workers rights activists
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had been calling for this hospitality and tourism wage increase
because there's going to be a lot of people taking
advantage of tourism and hospitality in twenty twenty eight when
the Olympics come, and the raises were supposed to start immediately.
This is an incremental situation. We'll go up about a
dollar or so this year, next year in twenty seven,
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and then ultimately be thirty dollars an hour by twenty
twenty eight. Well after that passed, some industry groups representing
airlines airport businesses, hotels. They got together and said, let's
take it to the voters, because we have told everyone
that this will put us out of business or force
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us not to do business in Los Angeles. We'll build
hotels elsewhere. The way that it works is you need
to gather a certain number of valid signatures. So this
group is against the minimum wage increase turned into the
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city clerk more than one hundred and forty thousand signatures.
This group's called the LA Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress.
They needed just under ninety three thousand of those, so
they had some wiggle room. Forty seven thousand of those
could be bad. Unfortunately, too many of them were bad.
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Unfortunately for them, I should say eighty four thousand. Eighty
four thousand and seven were deemed valid. So they fell
almost nine thousand signatures short, and so they have not
forced a referendum and the ordinance goes into effect. Members
of the Defend the Wage LA coalition, composed of SEIU,
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United Service Workers, West United Here Local eleven and the
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. They gathered on
the south lawn steps of City Hall this week to
celebrate this. They say We're tired of waiting. The referendum failed.
Now it's time to pay up. Please don't make us
wait any longer. We waited over two and a half years.
It's time to pay up.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We'll see if there's another attempt to block that. These
workers have said we worked too hard for low wages.
The hotels say we can't afford to give these people anymore.
And by the way, it's not just an hourly wage increase,
it's insurance too. I mean, this will be expensive.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Now, if you're Hilton or.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Marriott, you may be able to make the case that
you think this is wrong, but you're a big company.
We heard from a lot of smaller hoteliers here in
Los Angeles that that we just we can't, we cannot
afford this. So this will have some potential ripple effects
that we'll have to keep an eye on, especially as
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we see how important the hospitality industry is going to
be with the world upcoming Super Bowl and then the Olympics.
As always, the details will be right here on KFI News.
We had a tragedy involving a child in La County
who had contracted measles as an infant. This disease came
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back in a different way years later and killed this child.
We also have a case of a rabid bat that
officials are telling us to be on the lookout for,
and a new sitcom set in Alta, Dina after the
January wildfire causing some controversy.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
This is Michael Monks Reports. I'm Michael Monks from KFI News.
If you missed any part of our very busy show today,
you can always look for the podcast at KFI AM
sixty dot com. Click on those featured segments and you'll
find Michael Monks Reports there. We talked a lot about
Charlie Kirk in the murder of him. Earlier in the
last hour, we talked about the new legislation that has
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been adopted related to more housing near transit projects across
southern California, really across California, but it was very controversial
here in La. Why we're seeing more rats in downtown LA,
the disastrous progression of the LA Convention Center expansion proposed project.
That'll all be available on the podcast KFI AM six forty.
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You can also hit me up on social media if
you're into that sort of thing on all platforms. I'm
Mike monks La at Mike Monk's La. That's micmnks La
on all of your favorite social media apps. Terrible, terrible
tragedy involving a young child here in Los Angeles County.
Speaker 8 (29:42):
The child originally recovered from the initial measles infection, but
then died from a complication from the measles, which is
rare but always fatal. It's caused from an abnormal immune
response to the measles. It leads to brain inflammation. The
child was not eligible for the measles vaccine because they
were under the age of one when infected. At like Stone,
Abcnews Los Acheles.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
This child was apparently an infant when infected with the measles,
and the vaccine for measles is generally administered between twelve
and fifteen months of age. The LA County Health Department
says that the child was able to recover from that
initial measles illness, but later developed and died from what
is called subacute sclerosing pan encephalitis. It's also known as SSPE.
(30:32):
They call this a universally fatal complication that can occur
in individuals who had measles early in life. Very very
sad situation there. We've also got a case of rabies
involving a bat passing in a public health department reminds
residents that the chances of people getting rabies is low,
(30:53):
but residents should be wary and careful because a bat
infected with the disease was found in passage. This bat
was found on a Thursday. It tested positive for rabies,
and health officials there have urged residents to avoid contact
with any bats in the area. The city says the
bat was found near the intersection of South San Rafael
and Knitsdale Road. It is the first bat found in
(31:16):
the city this year to test positive for rabies. No
human cases of rabies have been reported in the city,
and the overall risk of public exposure reportedly remains low.
Carmona excuse me. The city urged residents to avoid contact
and immediately report any injured, ill, or dead bats in
(31:38):
the area. Rabid bats just in time for spooky season
here in southern California. It's hard to believe, but eight
months have passed since those wildfires first broke out earlier
this year, destroying much of Pacific Palisades and much of
Altadena as well, and now a new television show set
(32:01):
in post eat and fire Alta Dina is planned. Deadline
Hollywood is reporting this even though it's been less than
a year of that eating fire, and theirs still families
healing and rebuilding their lives as best they can. There's
a show coming from the creator of Blackish. Her name
(32:21):
is Kenya Barris, and it's set to star actor Mike Epps.
According to Deadline, this comedy is created and written by
Barris and comes from Beet Studios. The show is described
as an untitled half hour. After wildfire sweep through Altadena,
two estrange black brothers, one played by Epps, reunite to
(32:46):
sell their late grandmother's house to private developers, but when
they learn her caretaker now owns part of the home
and refuses to sell, they're forced to live together and
confront their differences and what community, legacy, and family really mean.
I don't know that sounds interesting, provocative, certainly relevant? Well
(33:09):
soon maybe so. There are some people who are not
necessarily excited about this. Last is reporting that they've talked
to some people living there, and one of those residents
wondered why a sitcom was chosen, Why not something that
shares real stories? The quote provided is why are we
(33:30):
sharing a story that is not real about our community
when there's so many real stories to share. And then
also triggering for me was why a comedy when no
one that we know in the community.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Is part of this project? Well, this is Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I think it sounds interesting, but obviously proceed with caution
and great sensitivity to what happened. I saw Altadina up
close and personal as it was burning, and that was
quite a sight. Not something that I'll forget anytime soon.
We'll see how they do with that show. The Emmys
(34:10):
are tomorrow, will be a big night in Los Angeles
as Hollywood honors the best in television. You know, I'm
sitting here in this studio that has all of these
great televisions. You know, I've got every channel on and
we have that so that we can keep track of
the news. But on Saturday nights, you know, it's mostly
sports that's on. And I think this is this is
(34:34):
great because if I were at home, whatever I would
be watching would have been on an individual.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
App and TV.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Man, it's still my favorite medium for creative storytelling. I
like it more than movies, and I love the Emmys,
But TV, and especially when you're watching sports, it's just
it's impossible these days. You really have to commit to
one thing, flipping back and forth. Everything's a hassle. If
(35:04):
you're watching one game on one app and the other
game you're curious about is on a completely different appter
screwed even if you have it, because you have to close, reopen,
maybe sign in again, enter some bizarre code through a
website on your phone. Are we ever going to fix this?
(35:25):
Are we ever going to go back to the bad
old days when cable was in charge. It's nice to
be able to flip back and forth.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Those are my thoughts about TV as we begin to
celebrate the best in television. I also realize, as much
as I love TV, I don't know a lot of
a lot of the shows that are nominated because, in
addition to it being a hassle to go from one
app to the next, you have to have every single app.
And I don't tough. It's tough life, first world problems,
(35:57):
but it's annoying. I mostly just rewatch shows that I
love that just blew through succession again, after blowing through
Game of Thrones again, that's easier. But I'm going to
watch these Emmys tomorrow and see what's good. And I'm
sure our shows on Monday all across KFI in the morning,
(36:21):
we'll hear Neil Savager, who's filling in for Bill Handle.
He'll be talking about the Emmys. Gary and Shannon will
be talking about the Emmys as well on Monday, So
don't miss our post Emmy's coverage right here, and thank
you for joining me for another Saturday night. As always,
I'll be covering the news for you throughout the week,
appearing on your favorite weekday shows to talk about it
more in depth, and then we'll all be back together
(36:42):
again next Saturday for another edition of Michael Monks Reports.
I am Michael Monks, follow me online at Mike Monk's
LA M I C M O N KS L A,
and I'll look forward to talking to you again. Revision
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on KFI AM six forty.
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