May 22, 2023 • 37 mins
Jennifer Jones Lee is back to host your Monday morning Wake Up Call! ABC White House Correspondent Karen Travers joins the show to talk about how President Biden and Speaker McCarthy are meeting for more debt ceiling talks as the June 1st deadline approaches. Then, ABC's Ines De La Cuetara shares information from the G7 meeting that happened over the weekend. ABC's Luis Martinez highlights what's happening at the Pentagon. And ABC's Jim Ryan has more on the he-said/she-said over airback inflators.
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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. That's Monday, man,
it's time to rise and shine.Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your morning
wake up call, Addie. Imiss you, guys. Did you miss
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me? I know, probably not. Jason Middleton, thank you so much
for filling in for me so Icould wander on up to writing, Oh
my gosh, you guys. Irarely am like, hey, check out
my stuff from my vacation. WouldJeffer have one of those vacations where you're
like, God, bless America.That was a good vacation. That's how
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I feel about my last trip.And if you follow me on Facebook Jennifer
Jones Lee or instagramm JJLKF, II did some I tell you guys so
often about the way I grew up, and I know it probably sounds so
foreign to most people who grew updown here, but I wanted you guys
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to see what my extremely rural lifewas like. And I think I probably
start most videos with I know youguys probably think I'm lying when I tell
you half these stories but that isgenuinely what I did. I went back
to my roots, did some rodeotimes, spent time on the ranch.
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I'm gonna introduce you to Willie andJezebel. For all of you who have
not watched any of my videos onInstagram Live, can you guess who Willie
and Jezebelle are. I'm just gonnaleave that there. I'll tell you more
about it later. So many storiestogether to you this morning. We've got
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debt ceiling talks, and I knownormally you'd be like, I don't want
to talk about debt ceiling. However, you've got President Biden meeting with how
Speaker McCarthy today, and we arenearing Secretary Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's deadline of
when she says, hey, guys, we're going to default if you guys
don't figure something out. So thisis a big deal fact. At five
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oh five, we're going to talkmore about this meeting with ABC's Karen Travers.
Also, we've had somebody killed onthe ninety one freeway in Corona,
but it's a weird story. It'snot just a car crash that is,
you know, sad and tragic enoughit's a little bit stranger. Then there
was this crazy car show that wentterribly awry in Baja California. Steve Gregory's
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got that story coming up. Solet's get into these. President Biden and
how Speaker McCarthy are set to meetface to face again to talk about raising
the debt ceiling and avoiding a governmentdefault. No agreement, we're still a
part. Administration officials have warned thegovernment could run out of cash to pay
its bills as soon as June first. Now, Speaker McCarthy says a phone
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call with Biden yesterday was productive.I walked through things that I'm looking at.
What I'm looking at are where wardifferences are and how could we solve
those? And I felt that partwas a perdounty. Isn't that what you
do when you negotiate things? Youlook at the problems because if you agree
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on stuff, why would you lookat that? Okay? Anyway, Biden
returned early over the weekend from theG seven semment in Japan and says the
phone call with McCarthy yesterday went welland their meeting again today more on that
with Karen Travers. In a fewa man's been killed on the ninety one
Freeway in Corona Now. The HPsays the twenty one year old man was
on the eastbound side about three inthe morning yesterday when he was hit,
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so he was walking or not,because there was an initial report of a
person lying in the freeway before theywere actually hit by a car, so
some strange went on there yesterday beforethis person was killed. Ten people have
been shot and killed and nine othersinjured during a car show in Baja California.
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Officials say it's not clear the motivefor the shooting, but people were
gathered at a gas station when agray van pulled up and guys jumped out
with long guns and opened fire.The shooting Saturday afternoon happened in the city
of Ensnada. Last month, aseventy nine year old man from sam Bernardino
was beaten to death in Tijuana whilehe was delivering donations to families in need.
The US State Department issued a travelwarning to Americans last October, and
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Baja California was elevated to level threestatus, with four being the worst.
Steve Gregory CAMAFINUS and police in Anaheimare investigating a double homicide in Disneyland's garden
Walk shopping District. Police Sergeant JohnMcClintock says there was a large fight before
the deaths early yesterday and that investigatorsbelieved the people killed or involved. We
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believed the fight might have started insidethe garden Walk, potentially at a local
club. One man was fatally shotin the parking structure. Another was found
nearby. Let's say good morning nowto ABC's Karen Traverse. Karen, any
movement, I mean it kind ofsounds like President Biden and Speaker McCarthy after
their phone call, might be alittle bit more interested in negotiations. Well,
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you know, their meeting today,So at least that's some interest in
negotiations because they will sit down togethertoday here at the White House. The
President yesterday said that his phone callwith McCarthy when he was traveling back from
Japan went well. When he wasasked how it was, McCarthy said that
the conversation was productive, but hestressed that there was no deal and that
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they're still very far apart at thispoint. Over the weekend, the conversations
were kind of stopping and starting.They halted on Friday. The House negotiators
and the White House negotiators were goingback and forth about steep spending cuts,
and you know, it was notable. I think that there was a sense
that really things couldn't take that bigstep forward closer to the finish line until
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President Biden was back in Washington andhe could sit down with how Speaker Kevin
McCarthy, Okay, and when thetwo. I think it's this cut that
I heard this morning from McCarthy that, honestly, I'm gonna say I mocked
a little bit, but check itout. I walked through things that I'm
looking at. I'm what I'm lookingat are where war differences are, and
how could we solve those? AndI felt that part was a productive and
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I think my mock of it earlierwas like a you guys are gonna look
at the issues that you don't agreeon. Well, that's how negotiations work.
It felt so ambiguous though. Italmost felt like, yeah, I'm
just reading some political statement here,but really I don't have any meat to
tell you guys. Yeah, yeah, like as vague as you possibly.
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Yeah, in terms of a statementthere, you know, we're going to
look at things that we don't agreeon and think about ways that we could
get closer to an agreement on that. Oh while, as we're heading closer
to this very quickly looming deadline,the Treasury Secretary yesterday said is a hard
deadline. Janning Yellen said, Junefirst is a hard deadline for when the
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government would default, when the governmentwould run out of the cash to be
able to pat its bills and nolonger be able to borrow anymore unless there
is action from Congress. So youknow, we talked about this. June
first is the date circle. Junefirst has been the default date, but
yesterday she was very clear it's ahard deadline. All right, Karen,
Well, I'm going to keep myfingers crossed that today's talks are a little
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more poignant than maybe some of thesestatements have been about the talks. But
we'll see if anything actually comes outof him. Thank you so much.
I'm sure we'll talk more this week. Absolutely, have a great day,
all right, you too, Seeyou later. ABC is Karen Travers And
I don't mean to yes, Ido. Who am I kidding? Yes?
I do mean to point out,Come on, you guys, if
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June first, you have Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen saying Hey, guys, we
gotta bills to pay, and ifyou don't figure it out, we can't
pay the bills. And then whatare they going to have to? I
don't know, pick and shoes.I mean I read a statement this morning
that Treasury Secretary Yellen is saying thatthere will be some hard choices to make
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about what bills don't get paid ifthe debt ceiling isn't raised. Now,
let's think about this. We've allbeen in this position at one point in
our lives where you're like, man, I only have you know whatever,
five hundred bucks in the bank leftuntil my next paycheck. But I've got
you know so col gas do,I've got edison do, I've got you
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know whatever? My water bill?Do? What am I going to pay?
And what am I going to pushoff? That is where she's making
it sound we are. I'm surethe big bills will get paid and the
ones that we can push will getkicked down the road. But that fourteenth
Amendment, I mean, you stillhear a lot of Democrats saying, hey,
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President Biden, kicking that fourteenth Amendmentwhere you have the opportunity to raise
the debt ceiling. But that's asticky, sticky political move. Should he
do that? So we'll see whathappens. Right, let's get back to
some of these stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour news room.
The latest Associated Press Nork Center forPublic Affairs Research poll shows thirty three percent
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of adults in the US say theyapprove of President Biden's handling of the economy.
Twenty four percent say national economic conditionsare in good shape. Thirty one
percent say they approve of the President'sperformance on gun laws and immigration. Over
All, forty percent of people saythey approve of the way that Biden is
doing his job. Vice President Harrisis wrapping up her four day it to
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LA Now she's headed up north toSilicon Valley. She'll be attending a roundtable
discussion today with Texi EOS to talkabout the Biden Administration's support for US semiconductor
research development and for manufacturing oh MetaMeta's face in a big old fine from
the EU one point three billion thatthe EU is slapping Meta with for privacy
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violations and has ordered it to stoptransferring user data across the Atlantic. ABC's
Andy Field says this case started intwenty thirteen legal battle highlights the clash between
Washington and Brussels over the differences betweenEurope's strict view on data privacy and the
comparatively lax regime in the US.Meta has vowed to appeal and ask courts
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to immediately put this decision on hold. The company has previously warned the services
for users in Europe could be cutoff. A couple in a BMW have
been killed by a speeding jeep thatslammed into them as they pulled out of
a drug I've through restaurant in SouthLA. The driver of the jeep ran
off after the crash early yesterday,but was caught a short time later thanks
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to a witness who had followed him. This one is some serious money.
A very pricey private space flight isdocked with the International Space Station for the
first time. In decade, SaudiArabia has sent astronauts into space, including
the nation's first woman. The Axiommission to ISS is a multimillion dollar chartered
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flight led by a retired NASA astronaut. Axiom won't say how much Saudi Arabia
paid for the trip, but NASAhas generously provided a list of expenses per
person per day on average daily chargesinclude two thousand dollars for food, about
fifteen hundred for sleeping bags. Ifyou need to send your luggage up to
Iss ahead of time, it runsabout ten thousand dollars per pound. If
you need your items on the returnflight to Earth, well it's double the
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price. Andrew Caravella k if INews. Somehow, I feel like it's
kind of a bargain to put yoursleeping bag in space. It only cost
fifteen hundred bucks. That's like,I don't know, go into one really
good Dodgers game, getting those likesweet seats. Officials in Mexico are investigating
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a fatal mass shooting that killed tenpeople and injured nine others in Baja California.
The shooting Saturday afternoon happened during acar show in en Sonata. It's
not clear if this is cartel related. I hate the story. Dog in
Riverside County is being treated four hundredsof beastings. There was a man in
Paris who says he was trying toremove a hive on his fence last week
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when the bees attacked a neighbor's twoyear old Rottweiler pitbull mix. The man
says chance the dog was stung atleast seven hundred times on one side of
its body. Let's say good morningnow to abcasonez Dela Kuta. The G
seven summit wrapped up, and itseemed like, once again you had Ukrainian
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President Zelenski, who really took centerstage when it all came down to,
you know, the person that everybodywas listening to. Hey, good morning,
that's right. So we expected Ukraineto be at the top of the
agenda, and it certainly was.We actually saw Ukrainian President Lenski attending,
even though we should point out Ukraineis not a member of the G seven,
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but his presence there certainly put Ukrainekept Ukraine front and center. So
we know Zolenski met with some ofhis biggest backers behind closed doors, and
he did seem to make progress onsome of his biggest demands. So one
of the big headlines out of thesummit was President Biden announcing the US would
join allies training Ukrainian pilots on theUS built F sixteen warplanes, and Biden
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saying he has a flat assurance fromZolenski that the planes will not be used
on missions in a Russian territory.That was a real concern for the US,
the fact that you know, someof these warplanes could be used to
attack targets inside Russia. And infact, when Lenski first began making those
demands a few months ago, askingfor warplane to be donated to Ukraine,
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we saw a split amongst native countrieswith regards to what to do. So
you have some countries on the EasternPlank, countries like Poland, for instance,
that supported giving Ukraine warplanes. They'veactually moved ahead already with donating warplanes,
but then you had countries like theUS that were more reluctant to do
so out of fear it could escalatethe situation with Russia and the US saying
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that it now does support plans toprovide Ukraine with fighter jets. Worth noting,
though that the US hasn't said thatthe planes would come directly from the
US. So it appears that theUS is saying we support allies donating planes
to Ukraine. It's it's still unclearwho's going to be giving those planes and
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when that's all going to happen.Yeah, and Russia has made it very
clear that that would be sort ofa demarcation line for them if the US
starts actually being the one to providethe actual you know, weapons and things
that are actually used in war.So that's been one big thing that they've
sort of It's funny, it's likePutin kind of keeps his eye on it
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and he makes these veiled threats,but then he never actually does anything on
them. I know that world leaderswere, you know, telling China,
hey, put this pressure on Russia. You guys are buddy, yet them
to end this war in Ukraine.Did China, That's what I'm kind of
curious about. Did China have anyreaction to this, Did it seem like
it was going to stay on Russia'sside or what went down there. So,
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you know, it's interesting because Chinahas certainly tried to play a role
here, a mediator role. Chinahas offered to broker peace between Russia and
Ukraine. Actually sent an envoy toUkraine recently to try and broker peace.
And you had countries like Russia thingthey support anything that could put an end
to the war in Ukraine. SoChina's trying to position itself as a kind
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of world lead. I mean,it is a world power, but it's
trying to position itself, as youknow, potentially a leader here in this
in this conflict. Should China besuccessful in negotiating an end to the war,
that would give China even more cloudthan it already has on the geopolitical
stage. So China in a trickyposition. So when it comes to to
these fighter jets, it will beinteresting to see what China does and whether
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you know, China China comes outto say that that that's um, you
know, an escalation of the conflict. China not thrilled with everything that happened
at the G seven. You hadChinese state media this morning calling the summit
an anti China summit. They feelthat a lot of the talk regarding China
was um was not necessarily appropriate.You had Beijing summoning Japan's envoy to China.
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You had Beijing also be rating Britainafter their statements that they issued regarding
the G seven, and you hadChina's Foreign ministry today urging the US to
have the right understanding of China,meet it halfway and bring bilateral relations back
on track. Oh, that's that'ssome kind of good, juicy rhetoric.
I guess that came out of thisfor sure. We'll keep an eye on
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that one and see how. Youknow, China continues to react to that,
thank you so much, and asI appreciate it, thank you all
right, see you later, Abyseason as delakutera. And you know,
it's it's not even just a stickysituation for China to be in, but
it also here's the thing. Wedon't ever want China to think, oh,
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yeah, we're depending on you guysto put an end to the Russian
conflict with Ukraine, because you don'twant China to feel like it's got that
power. So how do you makesomebody who is your let's call China our
friend of me, Shall we yourfriend of me do something you need it
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to do without actually giving it morepower. I don't have an answer for
that. I'm just throwing that outthere as a yes, China, we'd
love for you to do something,do the right thing. At the same
time, we need you to dothe right thing and not take any credit
for it nor feel like you've gainedany footing at all. Probably not possible.
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A group of business economists is predicting, oh, this is nice.
Inflation will remain high this year alongwith the Fed's key interest rates. The
National Association for Business Economic Survey foundthe median forecast is for inflation to average
four point two percent this year.That's up three point nine percent forecast in
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the group survey from February. TheFed is expected to keep that key interest
rate at its current level of roughlyfive point one percent, it's highest point
in sixteen years. And a juryin la is set to hear the closing
arguments in the trial of a manaccused of fatally shooting a man in Malibu
Creek State Park who was camping withthis Two little girls, Tristan Boudette,
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was shot through his tent in twentyeighteen were not hurt. The accused killer,
Anthony Rauda, is also charged withattempted murder for the shooting of a
man who was sleeping in a hammock. The man says he thought he had
been bitten by an animal when hewas shot in the arm. Closing arguments
are set for this morning. PresidentBiden and how Speaker McCarthy are going to
talk about negotiating that federal debt ceiling, raising it in the final days before
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the country default on its bills.ABC's Louis Martinez joins us right now,
and Louie, I was just talkingwith your counterpart Abcason as de la Kutera
about what was going on at theG seven summit and the US pledging another
three hundred and seventy five million dollarsin aid to Ukraine. But it couldn't
help me think about our upcoming interview, which was, Okay, well,
that's lovely that we're going to pledgethree hundred and seventy five million. But
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I hope whoever the accountant was whomissed the three billion dollars in the accounting
error before for all of the aidthat we were giving Ukraine is not the
same person who's going to do thismath on this additional aid. Good morning,
Jenny. Yeah, it's a verytricky situation, right the Pentagon and
acknowledging they made a three billion dollaraccounting error is what they're calling it.
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But I think let's just call itfuzzy math, right. I mean is
they're looking for additional money they cangive the Ukraine, and they found it
just by doing a different accounting metric. Okay. And the way I've been
explaining it is essentially you're going tobuy a new car, you get the
dealer price. You're going to buya used car, you've got the blue
book value. What they've been givingthe Ukrainians from the US multitary stock pile
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is that AID used equipment and sothey were using the original dealer price when
they should have been using the bluebook value. And that's how the Pentagon
is explaining this a way. Okay, I love that because at least that
makes sense. You know. Iwanted to say, like, how in
the world do you, you know, have an error of three billion dollars?
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But what I think that this doesis it makes the American people go,
huh, we don't really like theway that this is being built.
You know. I'm when the governmentis preaching we're going to be transparent,
we're going to tell you everything thatwe do, when you're going to be
able to hold us accountable, andthen there's a three billion dollars accounting error
at the Pentagon. You can't helpbut sit back and go, what else
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are we having fuzzy math on thesedays? I no doubt about it,
Jem, because leading to a lotof hit scratching saying, well, if
this is what you have been doingfor so long, why weren't you doing
it from the start? And you'rehearing some House Republicans, some Center Republicans
saying just that. But the waythat it's interesting, the tact that they're
taking on this, is that they'resaying this would have been money that you
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could have used on the front half, right, and not on the front
end as opposed to the back end, because essentially they're going through a lot
of this money already, and sothey're having a rational specifically how much more
they can give them, and byfinding at least three billion dollars, you
know what, it's actually going tobe probably more because I was told on
Friday that they're applying this metric toall of the assistance that they've given you
Ukraine, and then it is probablygoing to be more like five billions.
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Oh that's great, all right,Well, thank you for that. At
least we know that's coming. Andthank you for you know, doing that,
you know, investigation for us andhelping that. And I think that
that's where I know that people getmad about the media, and you know,
they say that we bias things andall that. I get that,
but then look at what you justdid. Look at how this initial report
came out. It was reporters lookinginto this stuff who saw that there was
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Hey, there's a discrepancy. Somedoesn't smell right, and that's the way
that this stuff comes out. SoI guess you know, my or moral
of the story here is, yes, I know that you just trust us
in the media a lot, butwe get things right sometimes, and I
want to say you're welcome. You'rewelcome, So no, Louis, I
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mean, seriously, you guys aredoing the hard work on this, and
so we thank you for that,because sometimes it is somebody who just sees
something that's a little bit off andyou do some digging, and not only
is a little bit off, it'sway the heck off. Yeah, it's
something that's really you have to lookat it, right, because we're talking
about the huge amounts of money thirtyseven billion dollars that the United States military
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has given to Ukraine already, andit's some of that existing stock, it's
some of it as new weapons.But I think overall, the rush to
help Ukraine was so this is atthe forefront of everyone's mind a year ago,
right when the invasion occurred, andit's continued. But you've got a
different attitude in Congress right now,and it's going to make it more difficult
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for the administration to get more moneyto provide to Ukraine, even as they're
gearing up for this big counter offensive, which may being Black Loud, it
might be somewhere else, but eitherway, money is going to be tight.
And so I think this is morea case of the God actually looking
inward and saying, Okay, howcan we get more money? And so
they're being creative here. All right, Louis, thank you so much for
explaining that for us. Keep upthe good work. Thanks, appreciate it,
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all right, see you later.ABC's Louis Is, I don't know.
I don't like this when you guys, it feels like we just opened
Pandora's box and I don't like that. I don't like when I go three
billion and now Louis saying it's fivefreaking billion. All right, So breaking
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this up for a second, I'mgonna give you the ninety seconds compilation of
what went down on my trip toShasta County. First off, please go
to Lake Shasta if you need atrip this summer and you're like, oh,
we got a road trip somewhere wholeleak. Gnolie. I'm telling you
go there because I've not seen thelake this full in I don't even know
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a bazillion years. It's stunning.However, I was telling Tyler, here's
the only bad thing. So you'vegot all the logs that were on the
shores for years that are now incertain so that the La Shasta has five
arms, a couple of the armsthat we went through off of it.
The McCloud in the Sacramento Holy cow. There it is log best if you
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know the river or the lake,the pit side is stunning. Stay over
there. My pro tip. Buthere's the craziest thing. So they're telling
people now that because of all thelogs in the water, if you're gonna
go wakeboarding or something like that,you could get smacked to buy a log.
Oh, that's not what i'd heard. And then the other thing is
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there are snakes swimming in the waterbecause the water has now encroached on the
snake's land. Like, hey,we've been stunning out here for the last
few years in this drought. Droughthas been fun for us. Oh they're
swimming. I didn't see any Isaw a couple of videos on the local
news up there of snakes swimming inthe water, and I thought, oh,
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that's neat because I'm going out onthe lake tomorrow. Anyway, you
want to see the videos, JJLKFIand I tease you earlier about I went.
I went to my family ranch,which is where everybody still lives,
and our family barn is awesome,you guys, I kind of forgot how
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awesome it was, so you're gonnasee that. I like my dad and
I kind of break into it andit's it's old and original and still standing
and it needs, uh, youknow, refurbishing. I think I'm gonna
start a go fund me with myfamily, like, let's refurbish the family
barn. It's awesome. Anyway.I got to meet my cousin's horse,
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Lama, two donkeys, Willie andJezebelle, and uh, Willie named after
my grandpa Bill. Grandpa, ifyou're listening, they've named a donkey after
you. I don't know what thatsays about our family, but you can
see what life and Redding is likefor me. I got to go to
the rodeo. We have a familybox that we've had. I don't know,
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since I don't know since the startof the rodeo. For all I
know seventy five years. This yearRedding Rodeo was awesome and it was just
it was a hell of a weekto be up north. And you guys
can see my redneck roots in fullswing. So Jjlkfi on Instagram and Jennifer
Jonesley on Facebook. Two people havebeen killed by a speeding driver while they
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were pulling out of a drive throughrestaurant in South LA. Family members tell
KTLA the young woman killed yesterday wasa twenty year old USC student. Her
name was Maria Bellin Polanco. Eventhough we were step siblings, we were
the same age, we were inthe beginning we were in separable, you
know, we were like twins.And even though we were in blood still
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my sister so sad. A friendof the young man who died says they
were texting over the weekend, butthen his friend didn't respond. He found
out later his friend had died.The driver who caused the crash ran away,
but witnesses followed him. He wasarrested as short time later, and
the EU has fine Meta one pointthree billion dollars for privacy violations and ordered
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it to stop transferring user data acrossthe Atlantic. But this took a bazillion
years. This case started in twentythirteen. Finally there is a resolution.
Oh it's a he said, shesaid, or it's a they say,
they say when it comes to airbags, and this fight over ARC Automotives
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recall of sixty seven million airbag inflators. Now the company says there's no reason
to recall them, and the NationalHighway trans Traffic Safety Administration disagrees. Jim
Ryan, good morning to you.So what is the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration saying about these airbags? Hey, Jennifer, and yeah, this also
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started approximately bazillion years ago, twothousand and nine, Oh my gosh.
Yeah. And since that time,the National Highway Traffty and Traffic Safety let's
just call it NAS then name,and it says it has seen nine reports
of injury or death related to theairbag inflators built by Automotive. Sounds familiar
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because Takata went through the same thing. Remember, millions and millions of vehicles
had to have their airbag inflators changedout because Takata airbag inflators were found to
be defective. Well, Nitza saysthe same may be true with ARC Automotive,
although there are far fewer numbers involvedhere, and our Automotive says,
you know what, because of that, we don't think there's a need to
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issue a sweeping recall. We're notgoing to go along with it. It
just says, yeah, you wantto. It's it's sort of the standoff
because generally the company or an industrywill will say, go ahead, let's
let's go ahead and issue the recall. We'll eat the losses. You know,
it could be crippling in years ahead, as it was with Takata.
But ourc Automotive is saying no,they're resisting these calls for a nationwide or
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the a worldwide recall. Okay,So what if you are somebody, though,
who has one of these ARC ones. I think I'd be a little
bit nervous, though I'd want toerr on the slide of caution. I
think, well, you're right,So what do you do about it?
Yeah, you could take your vehiclein And by the way, ARC automotive
airbag inflators are found in about adozen makes from around the world. Some
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fan Kia, you know, Hundauses them. General Motors uses them.
So and Chrysler. So if youhave one of those vehicles, what do
you do about it? You cantake it into a shop and have them
look and see if it's an ArcAutomotive airbag inflator, but there's no real
fix in place at this point.General Motors has taken it upon itself to
(30:34):
do its own recall and has issueddocuments or issued letters to the owners of
about two hundred and forty thousand buikEnclaves from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen,
four hundred and fifty thousand Chevy traverses, two hundred and ninety three thousand GMC
acadius. So it sent out theseletters to them, to owners let them
(30:56):
know that there could be this problem, but there's no real fix in place
yet until Arc Automotive says, okay, we're gonna send out new airbag inflators
to dealerships and go ahead and putthem in. Okay, no real fix,
And who plays for this, that'sthe thing. So who does pay
for it? Nobody's nobody's paying foranything right now. There's nothing to pay
for it, I guess, right, right. I mean, if you
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if as if a car owner,and if you wanted to take your twenty
fifteen gmc A Katie into the shopand have them change out the airbag inflator
at your own cost. Save thereceipt because at some point in the future
you might get reimbursed if there's anationwide recall. All right, Jim,
Wow, what a mess? Allright, thank you so much. I
appreciate it, Sudan, all right, see you later. ABC's Jim Ryan
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as if you haven't the moral ofthat story, If you have an arc
airbag in your car, we don'tknow what you're supposed to do about it
or who's gonna pay for it.Other than that, have a great day.
What a mess. Have some funstories for you. In a second.
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We're going to talk about dinosaurs andpizza after we get the latest on
the WGA strike, because fall episodesof TV shows are supposed to start filming
in about a month, but thepeople involved are wondering whether that'll happen if
the Hollywood Writers strike continues. Membersof the Writers Guild of America have been
on strike since May second. NBChas a full season shot of a new
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missing person's drama called Found. NBC'salso already filmed some episodes of Quantum Leap.
Those shows are generally the exception.If the strike continues into the summer,
networks will likely offer expanded versions ofreality shows or game shows, or
reruns of scripted shows, lots ofreruns. Mark Ronnery, If I knew,
I hope you like them. Hawthorneis holding a toiletry drive for homeless
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people living in the city's newly openedtiny homes. The Bridge of Hope community
offers twelve individual shelters and three mealsa day. Hawthorne mayor pro tem Angie
Raya's English says, residents need tofoot brushes, shampoo, and other hygienic
items. Just the essentials that wemight you know, take for granted sometimes
and you know, deeodorant, razors, those types of things that we use
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every day. Ray As English says. The homes opened in April and the
first set of tenants moved in lastweek. The drive will run through June
fourteenth. Personal care items can bedonated to the police department. You can
donate them at city hall or theHawthorne Memorial Center. Russia claims it is
one control of a key city ineastern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials acknowledge they now
(33:35):
control only a small part of Bakhmut, but they say their fighters presence has
played a key role in their strategyof just exhausting the Russian military. Basically,
the Ukrainians feel like, if wecan drive this Russian military until its
wheels fall off, that might bethe way that we win. It's kind
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of a think of Russia as thethe tortoise and Ukraine I'm sorry, and
Ukraine as the tortoise and Russia asthe hair. Now, Ukraine says its
current position in surrounding areas will letthem strike back inside bach Moot, while
there are other advances from the Ukrainianforces outside the city. Apple TV is
(34:20):
taking us back to the day ofthe dinosaurs again. A second five part
series of Prehistoric Planet is available onApple TV Plus starting today. One episode
will be released each day this week. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the
series combines wildlife filmmaking, the latestpaleontology learnings, and state of the art
technology to recreate realistic looking dinosaurs andother inhabitants as they hunt, mate,
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and roam around ancient Earth. Thisseries will explore the active volcanoes of India,
the deep oceans near North America anddinosaur habitats. Amy King kaf Fi
News. All right, have youever thought about the angriest airport? I
(35:05):
know I hadn't either. Whose ideais it to go? Hey, let's
do a poll on angry airports.That guy gets paid too much money,
whoever he is, traveling back andforth can be a headache. But there
are ones in particular that what suckmore and suck less. So there's this
(35:29):
recent survey survey in Forbes that foundthe angriest airport in the country is John
Wayne Airport in Orange County. I'mgonna disagree, but has anybody else been
to lax? I'm just saying.The analysis found nearly two thirds of the
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tweets aimed at John Wayne Airport couldbe categorized as angry. Complaints ranged from
the airport being too noisy. Shutup? Oh, the airport's too noisy.
Please If you're gonna talk about flightdelays, that's one of the things.
(36:15):
I get it. Issues with TSA, I get it, but you're
bitching about a noisy airport. Shutup anyway. The others on the list
were Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida,let's see Eppley Airfield in Omahanna, Braska,
(36:36):
San Diego International Airport. That onedoes kind of string if you've flown
southwest, it's San Diego and Normanwhy Manetta Sandoda International Airport. I kind
of like that one. Anyway,there you go, and Lax doesn't make
the list. I don't believe inthis list. So Catweather from KFI.
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We have a partly cloudy day ahead. That's because there is still this chance
of showers or thunderstorms and that's goingto be mostly in the mountains and the
deserts today, but highs are goingto be in the sixties and seventies.
Then it looks like for tomorrow lowclouds and fog again. Highs are going
to be in the mid sixties,but it looks like we're gonna stay probably
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just in the sixties low seventies formost of this week. We lead local
live from the KFI twenty four hournewsroom. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This
has been your wakeup call. You'vebeen listening to your wake up call with
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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to KFI, a M six
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it's time to rise and shine.Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your morning
wake up call, Addie. Imiss you, guys. Did you miss
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me? I know, probably not. Jason Middleton, thank you so much
for filling in for me so Icould wander on up to writing, Oh
my gosh, you guys. Irarely am like, hey, check out
my stuff from my vacation. WouldJeffer have one of those vacations where you're
like, God, bless America.That was a good vacation. That's how
(00:51):
I feel about my last trip.And if you follow me on Facebook Jennifer
Jones Lee or instagramm JJLKF, II did some I tell you guys so
often about the way I grew up, and I know it probably sounds so
foreign to most people who grew updown here, but I wanted you guys
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to see what my extremely rural lifewas like. And I think I probably
start most videos with I know youguys probably think I'm lying when I tell
you half these stories but that isgenuinely what I did. I went back
to my roots, did some rodeotimes, spent time on the ranch.
(01:40):
I'm gonna introduce you to Willie andJezebel. For all of you who have
not watched any of my videos onInstagram Live, can you guess who Willie
and Jezebelle are. I'm just gonnaleave that there. I'll tell you more
about it later. So many storiestogether to you this morning. We've got
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debt ceiling talks, and I knownormally you'd be like, I don't want
to talk about debt ceiling. However, you've got President Biden meeting with how
Speaker McCarthy today, and we arenearing Secretary Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's deadline of
when she says, hey, guys, we're going to default if you guys
don't figure something out. So thisis a big deal fact. At five
(02:23):
oh five, we're going to talkmore about this meeting with ABC's Karen Travers.
Also, we've had somebody killed onthe ninety one freeway in Corona,
but it's a weird story. It'snot just a car crash that is,
you know, sad and tragic enoughit's a little bit stranger. Then there
was this crazy car show that wentterribly awry in Baja California. Steve Gregory's
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got that story coming up. Solet's get into these. President Biden and
how Speaker McCarthy are set to meetface to face again to talk about raising
the debt ceiling and avoiding a governmentdefault. No agreement, we're still a
part. Administration officials have warned thegovernment could run out of cash to pay
its bills as soon as June first. Now, Speaker McCarthy says a phone
(03:07):
call with Biden yesterday was productive.I walked through things that I'm looking at.
What I'm looking at are where wardifferences are and how could we solve
those? And I felt that partwas a perdounty. Isn't that what you
do when you negotiate things? Youlook at the problems because if you agree
(03:30):
on stuff, why would you lookat that? Okay? Anyway, Biden
returned early over the weekend from theG seven semment in Japan and says the
phone call with McCarthy yesterday went welland their meeting again today more on that
with Karen Travers. In a fewa man's been killed on the ninety one
Freeway in Corona Now. The HPsays the twenty one year old man was
on the eastbound side about three inthe morning yesterday when he was hit,
(03:53):
so he was walking or not,because there was an initial report of a
person lying in the freeway before theywere actually hit by a car, so
some strange went on there yesterday beforethis person was killed. Ten people have
been shot and killed and nine othersinjured during a car show in Baja California.
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Officials say it's not clear the motivefor the shooting, but people were
gathered at a gas station when agray van pulled up and guys jumped out
with long guns and opened fire.The shooting Saturday afternoon happened in the city
of Ensnada. Last month, aseventy nine year old man from sam Bernardino
was beaten to death in Tijuana whilehe was delivering donations to families in need.
The US State Department issued a travelwarning to Americans last October, and
(04:39):
Baja California was elevated to level threestatus, with four being the worst.
Steve Gregory CAMAFINUS and police in Anaheimare investigating a double homicide in Disneyland's garden
Walk shopping District. Police Sergeant JohnMcClintock says there was a large fight before
the deaths early yesterday and that investigatorsbelieved the people killed or involved. We
(04:59):
believed the fight might have started insidethe garden Walk, potentially at a local
club. One man was fatally shotin the parking structure. Another was found
nearby. Let's say good morning nowto ABC's Karen Traverse. Karen, any
movement, I mean it kind ofsounds like President Biden and Speaker McCarthy after
their phone call, might be alittle bit more interested in negotiations. Well,
(05:23):
you know, their meeting today,So at least that's some interest in
negotiations because they will sit down togethertoday here at the White House. The
President yesterday said that his phone callwith McCarthy when he was traveling back from
Japan went well. When he wasasked how it was, McCarthy said that
the conversation was productive, but hestressed that there was no deal and that
(05:45):
they're still very far apart at thispoint. Over the weekend, the conversations
were kind of stopping and starting.They halted on Friday. The House negotiators
and the White House negotiators were goingback and forth about steep spending cuts,
and you know, it was notable. I think that there was a sense
that really things couldn't take that bigstep forward closer to the finish line until
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President Biden was back in Washington andhe could sit down with how Speaker Kevin
McCarthy, Okay, and when thetwo. I think it's this cut that
I heard this morning from McCarthy that, honestly, I'm gonna say I mocked
a little bit, but check itout. I walked through things that I'm
looking at. I'm what I'm lookingat are where war differences are, and
how could we solve those? AndI felt that part was a productive and
(06:36):
I think my mock of it earlierwas like a you guys are gonna look
at the issues that you don't agreeon. Well, that's how negotiations work.
It felt so ambiguous though. Italmost felt like, yeah, I'm
just reading some political statement here,but really I don't have any meat to
tell you guys. Yeah, yeah, like as vague as you possibly.
(06:59):
Yeah, in terms of a statementthere, you know, we're going to
look at things that we don't agreeon and think about ways that we could
get closer to an agreement on that. Oh while, as we're heading closer
to this very quickly looming deadline,the Treasury Secretary yesterday said is a hard
deadline. Janning Yellen said, Junefirst is a hard deadline for when the
(07:20):
government would default, when the governmentwould run out of the cash to be
able to pat its bills and nolonger be able to borrow anymore unless there
is action from Congress. So youknow, we talked about this. June
first is the date circle. Junefirst has been the default date, but
yesterday she was very clear it's ahard deadline. All right, Karen,
Well, I'm going to keep myfingers crossed that today's talks are a little
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more poignant than maybe some of thesestatements have been about the talks. But
we'll see if anything actually comes outof him. Thank you so much.
I'm sure we'll talk more this week. Absolutely, have a great day,
all right, you too, Seeyou later. ABC is Karen Travers And
I don't mean to yes, Ido. Who am I kidding? Yes?
I do mean to point out,Come on, you guys, if
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June first, you have Treasury SecretaryJanet Yellen saying Hey, guys, we
gotta bills to pay, and ifyou don't figure it out, we can't
pay the bills. And then whatare they going to have to? I
don't know, pick and shoes.I mean I read a statement this morning
that Treasury Secretary Yellen is saying thatthere will be some hard choices to make
(08:28):
about what bills don't get paid ifthe debt ceiling isn't raised. Now,
let's think about this. We've allbeen in this position at one point in
our lives where you're like, man, I only have you know whatever,
five hundred bucks in the bank leftuntil my next paycheck. But I've got
you know so col gas do,I've got edison do, I've got you
(08:50):
know whatever? My water bill?Do? What am I going to pay?
And what am I going to pushoff? That is where she's making
it sound we are. I'm surethe big bills will get paid and the
ones that we can push will getkicked down the road. But that fourteenth
Amendment, I mean, you stillhear a lot of Democrats saying, hey,
(09:11):
President Biden, kicking that fourteenth Amendmentwhere you have the opportunity to raise
the debt ceiling. But that's asticky, sticky political move. Should he
do that? So we'll see whathappens. Right, let's get back to
some of these stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour news room.
The latest Associated Press Nork Center forPublic Affairs Research poll shows thirty three percent
(09:35):
of adults in the US say theyapprove of President Biden's handling of the economy.
Twenty four percent say national economic conditionsare in good shape. Thirty one
percent say they approve of the President'sperformance on gun laws and immigration. Over
All, forty percent of people saythey approve of the way that Biden is
doing his job. Vice President Harrisis wrapping up her four day it to
(10:00):
LA Now she's headed up north toSilicon Valley. She'll be attending a roundtable
discussion today with Texi EOS to talkabout the Biden Administration's support for US semiconductor
research development and for manufacturing oh MetaMeta's face in a big old fine from
the EU one point three billion thatthe EU is slapping Meta with for privacy
(10:22):
violations and has ordered it to stoptransferring user data across the Atlantic. ABC's
Andy Field says this case started intwenty thirteen legal battle highlights the clash between
Washington and Brussels over the differences betweenEurope's strict view on data privacy and the
comparatively lax regime in the US.Meta has vowed to appeal and ask courts
(10:45):
to immediately put this decision on hold. The company has previously warned the services
for users in Europe could be cutoff. A couple in a BMW have
been killed by a speeding jeep thatslammed into them as they pulled out of
a drug I've through restaurant in SouthLA. The driver of the jeep ran
off after the crash early yesterday,but was caught a short time later thanks
(11:07):
to a witness who had followed him. This one is some serious money.
A very pricey private space flight isdocked with the International Space Station for the
first time. In decade, SaudiArabia has sent astronauts into space, including
the nation's first woman. The Axiommission to ISS is a multimillion dollar chartered
(11:30):
flight led by a retired NASA astronaut. Axiom won't say how much Saudi Arabia
paid for the trip, but NASAhas generously provided a list of expenses per
person per day on average daily chargesinclude two thousand dollars for food, about
fifteen hundred for sleeping bags. Ifyou need to send your luggage up to
Iss ahead of time, it runsabout ten thousand dollars per pound. If
you need your items on the returnflight to Earth, well it's double the
(11:52):
price. Andrew Caravella k if INews. Somehow, I feel like it's
kind of a bargain to put yoursleeping bag in space. It only cost
fifteen hundred bucks. That's like,I don't know, go into one really
good Dodgers game, getting those likesweet seats. Officials in Mexico are investigating
(12:13):
a fatal mass shooting that killed tenpeople and injured nine others in Baja California.
The shooting Saturday afternoon happened during acar show in en Sonata. It's
not clear if this is cartel related. I hate the story. Dog in
Riverside County is being treated four hundredsof beastings. There was a man in
Paris who says he was trying toremove a hive on his fence last week
(12:35):
when the bees attacked a neighbor's twoyear old Rottweiler pitbull mix. The man
says chance the dog was stung atleast seven hundred times on one side of
its body. Let's say good morningnow to abcasonez Dela Kuta. The G
seven summit wrapped up, and itseemed like, once again you had Ukrainian
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President Zelenski, who really took centerstage when it all came down to,
you know, the person that everybodywas listening to. Hey, good morning,
that's right. So we expected Ukraineto be at the top of the
agenda, and it certainly was.We actually saw Ukrainian President Lenski attending,
even though we should point out Ukraineis not a member of the G seven,
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but his presence there certainly put Ukrainekept Ukraine front and center. So
we know Zolenski met with some ofhis biggest backers behind closed doors, and
he did seem to make progress onsome of his biggest demands. So one
of the big headlines out of thesummit was President Biden announcing the US would
join allies training Ukrainian pilots on theUS built F sixteen warplanes, and Biden
(13:41):
saying he has a flat assurance fromZolenski that the planes will not be used
on missions in a Russian territory.That was a real concern for the US,
the fact that you know, someof these warplanes could be used to
attack targets inside Russia. And infact, when Lenski first began making those
demands a few months ago, askingfor warplane to be donated to Ukraine,
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we saw a split amongst native countrieswith regards to what to do. So
you have some countries on the EasternPlank, countries like Poland, for instance,
that supported giving Ukraine warplanes. They'veactually moved ahead already with donating warplanes,
but then you had countries like theUS that were more reluctant to do
so out of fear it could escalatethe situation with Russia and the US saying
(14:22):
that it now does support plans toprovide Ukraine with fighter jets. Worth noting,
though that the US hasn't said thatthe planes would come directly from the
US. So it appears that theUS is saying we support allies donating planes
to Ukraine. It's it's still unclearwho's going to be giving those planes and
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when that's all going to happen.Yeah, and Russia has made it very
clear that that would be sort ofa demarcation line for them if the US
starts actually being the one to providethe actual you know, weapons and things
that are actually used in war.So that's been one big thing that they've
sort of It's funny, it's likePutin kind of keeps his eye on it
(15:05):
and he makes these veiled threats,but then he never actually does anything on
them. I know that world leaderswere, you know, telling China,
hey, put this pressure on Russia. You guys are buddy, yet them
to end this war in Ukraine.Did China, That's what I'm kind of
curious about. Did China have anyreaction to this, Did it seem like
it was going to stay on Russia'sside or what went down there. So,
(15:30):
you know, it's interesting because Chinahas certainly tried to play a role
here, a mediator role. Chinahas offered to broker peace between Russia and
Ukraine. Actually sent an envoy toUkraine recently to try and broker peace.
And you had countries like Russia thingthey support anything that could put an end
to the war in Ukraine. SoChina's trying to position itself as a kind
(15:52):
of world lead. I mean,it is a world power, but it's
trying to position itself, as youknow, potentially a leader here in this
in this conflict. Should China besuccessful in negotiating an end to the war,
that would give China even more cloudthan it already has on the geopolitical
stage. So China in a trickyposition. So when it comes to to
these fighter jets, it will beinteresting to see what China does and whether
(16:18):
you know, China China comes outto say that that that's um, you
know, an escalation of the conflict. China not thrilled with everything that happened
at the G seven. You hadChinese state media this morning calling the summit
an anti China summit. They feelthat a lot of the talk regarding China
was um was not necessarily appropriate.You had Beijing summoning Japan's envoy to China.
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You had Beijing also be rating Britainafter their statements that they issued regarding
the G seven, and you hadChina's Foreign ministry today urging the US to
have the right understanding of China,meet it halfway and bring bilateral relations back
on track. Oh, that's that'ssome kind of good, juicy rhetoric.
I guess that came out of thisfor sure. We'll keep an eye on
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that one and see how. Youknow, China continues to react to that,
thank you so much, and asI appreciate it, thank you all
right, see you later, Abyseason as delakutera. And you know,
it's it's not even just a stickysituation for China to be in, but
it also here's the thing. Wedon't ever want China to think, oh,
(17:26):
yeah, we're depending on you guysto put an end to the Russian
conflict with Ukraine, because you don'twant China to feel like it's got that
power. So how do you makesomebody who is your let's call China our
friend of me, Shall we yourfriend of me do something you need it
(17:49):
to do without actually giving it morepower. I don't have an answer for
that. I'm just throwing that outthere as a yes, China, we'd
love for you to do something,do the right thing. At the same
time, we need you to dothe right thing and not take any credit
for it nor feel like you've gainedany footing at all. Probably not possible.
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A group of business economists is predicting, oh, this is nice.
Inflation will remain high this year alongwith the Fed's key interest rates. The
National Association for Business Economic Survey foundthe median forecast is for inflation to average
four point two percent this year.That's up three point nine percent forecast in
(18:36):
the group survey from February. TheFed is expected to keep that key interest
rate at its current level of roughlyfive point one percent, it's highest point
in sixteen years. And a juryin la is set to hear the closing
arguments in the trial of a manaccused of fatally shooting a man in Malibu
Creek State Park who was camping withthis Two little girls, Tristan Boudette,
(18:56):
was shot through his tent in twentyeighteen were not hurt. The accused killer,
Anthony Rauda, is also charged withattempted murder for the shooting of a
man who was sleeping in a hammock. The man says he thought he had
been bitten by an animal when hewas shot in the arm. Closing arguments
are set for this morning. PresidentBiden and how Speaker McCarthy are going to
talk about negotiating that federal debt ceiling, raising it in the final days before
(19:21):
the country default on its bills.ABC's Louis Martinez joins us right now,
and Louie, I was just talkingwith your counterpart Abcason as de la Kutera
about what was going on at theG seven summit and the US pledging another
three hundred and seventy five million dollarsin aid to Ukraine. But it couldn't
help me think about our upcoming interview, which was, Okay, well,
that's lovely that we're going to pledgethree hundred and seventy five million. But
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I hope whoever the accountant was whomissed the three billion dollars in the accounting
error before for all of the aidthat we were giving Ukraine is not the
same person who's going to do thismath on this additional aid. Good morning,
Jenny. Yeah, it's a verytricky situation, right the Pentagon and
acknowledging they made a three billion dollaraccounting error is what they're calling it.
(20:07):
But I think let's just call itfuzzy math, right. I mean is
they're looking for additional money they cangive the Ukraine, and they found it
just by doing a different accounting metric. Okay. And the way I've been
explaining it is essentially you're going tobuy a new car, you get the
dealer price. You're going to buya used car, you've got the blue
book value. What they've been givingthe Ukrainians from the US multitary stock pile
(20:30):
is that AID used equipment and sothey were using the original dealer price when
they should have been using the bluebook value. And that's how the Pentagon
is explaining this a way. Okay, I love that because at least that
makes sense. You know. Iwanted to say, like, how in
the world do you, you know, have an error of three billion dollars?
(20:52):
But what I think that this doesis it makes the American people go,
huh, we don't really like theway that this is being built.
You know. I'm when the governmentis preaching we're going to be transparent,
we're going to tell you everything thatwe do, when you're going to be
able to hold us accountable, andthen there's a three billion dollars accounting error
at the Pentagon. You can't helpbut sit back and go, what else
(21:14):
are we having fuzzy math on thesedays? I no doubt about it,
Jem, because leading to a lotof hit scratching saying, well, if
this is what you have been doingfor so long, why weren't you doing
it from the start? And you'rehearing some House Republicans, some Center Republicans
saying just that. But the waythat it's interesting, the tact that they're
taking on this, is that they'resaying this would have been money that you
(21:37):
could have used on the front half, right, and not on the front
end as opposed to the back end, because essentially they're going through a lot
of this money already, and sothey're having a rational specifically how much more
they can give them, and byfinding at least three billion dollars, you
know what, it's actually going tobe probably more because I was told on
Friday that they're applying this metric toall of the assistance that they've given you
Ukraine, and then it is probablygoing to be more like five billions.
(22:00):
Oh that's great, all right,Well, thank you for that. At
least we know that's coming. Andthank you for you know, doing that,
you know, investigation for us andhelping that. And I think that
that's where I know that people getmad about the media, and you know,
they say that we bias things andall that. I get that,
but then look at what you justdid. Look at how this initial report
came out. It was reporters lookinginto this stuff who saw that there was
(22:25):
Hey, there's a discrepancy. Somedoesn't smell right, and that's the way
that this stuff comes out. SoI guess you know, my or moral
of the story here is, yes, I know that you just trust us
in the media a lot, butwe get things right sometimes, and I
want to say you're welcome. You'rewelcome, So no, Louis, I
(22:47):
mean, seriously, you guys aredoing the hard work on this, and
so we thank you for that,because sometimes it is somebody who just sees
something that's a little bit off andyou do some digging, and not only
is a little bit off, it'sway the heck off. Yeah, it's
something that's really you have to lookat it, right, because we're talking
about the huge amounts of money thirtyseven billion dollars that the United States military
(23:11):
has given to Ukraine already, andit's some of that existing stock, it's
some of it as new weapons.But I think overall, the rush to
help Ukraine was so this is atthe forefront of everyone's mind a year ago,
right when the invasion occurred, andit's continued. But you've got a
different attitude in Congress right now,and it's going to make it more difficult
(23:32):
for the administration to get more moneyto provide to Ukraine, even as they're
gearing up for this big counter offensive, which may being Black Loud, it
might be somewhere else, but eitherway, money is going to be tight.
And so I think this is morea case of the God actually looking
inward and saying, Okay, howcan we get more money? And so
they're being creative here. All right, Louis, thank you so much for
explaining that for us. Keep upthe good work. Thanks, appreciate it,
(23:57):
all right, see you later.ABC's Louis Is, I don't know.
I don't like this when you guys, it feels like we just opened
Pandora's box and I don't like that. I don't like when I go three
billion and now Louis saying it's fivefreaking billion. All right, So breaking
(24:23):
this up for a second, I'mgonna give you the ninety seconds compilation of
what went down on my trip toShasta County. First off, please go
to Lake Shasta if you need atrip this summer and you're like, oh,
we got a road trip somewhere wholeleak. Gnolie. I'm telling you
go there because I've not seen thelake this full in I don't even know
(24:45):
a bazillion years. It's stunning.However, I was telling Tyler, here's
the only bad thing. So you'vegot all the logs that were on the
shores for years that are now incertain so that the La Shasta has five
arms, a couple of the armsthat we went through off of it.
The McCloud in the Sacramento Holy cow. There it is log best if you
(25:08):
know the river or the lake,the pit side is stunning. Stay over
there. My pro tip. Buthere's the craziest thing. So they're telling
people now that because of all thelogs in the water, if you're gonna
go wakeboarding or something like that,you could get smacked to buy a log.
Oh, that's not what i'd heard. And then the other thing is
(25:32):
there are snakes swimming in the waterbecause the water has now encroached on the
snake's land. Like, hey,we've been stunning out here for the last
few years in this drought. Droughthas been fun for us. Oh they're
swimming. I didn't see any Isaw a couple of videos on the local
news up there of snakes swimming inthe water, and I thought, oh,
(25:53):
that's neat because I'm going out onthe lake tomorrow. Anyway, you
want to see the videos, JJLKFIand I tease you earlier about I went.
I went to my family ranch,which is where everybody still lives,
and our family barn is awesome,you guys, I kind of forgot how
(26:14):
awesome it was, so you're gonnasee that. I like my dad and
I kind of break into it andit's it's old and original and still standing
and it needs, uh, youknow, refurbishing. I think I'm gonna
start a go fund me with myfamily, like, let's refurbish the family
barn. It's awesome. Anyway.I got to meet my cousin's horse,
(26:37):
Lama, two donkeys, Willie andJezebelle, and uh, Willie named after
my grandpa Bill. Grandpa, ifyou're listening, they've named a donkey after
you. I don't know what thatsays about our family, but you can
see what life and Redding is likefor me. I got to go to
the rodeo. We have a familybox that we've had. I don't know,
(27:00):
since I don't know since the startof the rodeo. For all I
know seventy five years. This yearRedding Rodeo was awesome and it was just
it was a hell of a weekto be up north. And you guys
can see my redneck roots in fullswing. So Jjlkfi on Instagram and Jennifer
Jonesley on Facebook. Two people havebeen killed by a speeding driver while they
(27:22):
were pulling out of a drive throughrestaurant in South LA. Family members tell
KTLA the young woman killed yesterday wasa twenty year old USC student. Her
name was Maria Bellin Polanco. Eventhough we were step siblings, we were
the same age, we were inthe beginning we were in separable, you
know, we were like twins.And even though we were in blood still
(27:45):
my sister so sad. A friendof the young man who died says they
were texting over the weekend, butthen his friend didn't respond. He found
out later his friend had died.The driver who caused the crash ran away,
but witnesses followed him. He wasarrested as short time later, and
the EU has fine Meta one pointthree billion dollars for privacy violations and ordered
(28:06):
it to stop transferring user data acrossthe Atlantic. But this took a bazillion
years. This case started in twentythirteen. Finally there is a resolution.
Oh it's a he said, shesaid, or it's a they say,
they say when it comes to airbags, and this fight over ARC Automotives
(28:27):
recall of sixty seven million airbag inflators. Now the company says there's no reason
to recall them, and the NationalHighway trans Traffic Safety Administration disagrees. Jim
Ryan, good morning to you.So what is the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration saying about these airbags? Hey, Jennifer, and yeah, this also
(28:47):
started approximately bazillion years ago, twothousand and nine, Oh my gosh.
Yeah. And since that time,the National Highway Traffty and Traffic Safety let's
just call it NAS then name,and it says it has seen nine reports
of injury or death related to theairbag inflators built by Automotive. Sounds familiar
(29:08):
because Takata went through the same thing. Remember, millions and millions of vehicles
had to have their airbag inflators changedout because Takata airbag inflators were found to
be defective. Well, Nitza saysthe same may be true with ARC Automotive,
although there are far fewer numbers involvedhere, and our Automotive says,
you know what, because of that, we don't think there's a need to
(29:29):
issue a sweeping recall. We're notgoing to go along with it. It
just says, yeah, you wantto. It's it's sort of the standoff
because generally the company or an industrywill will say, go ahead, let's
let's go ahead and issue the recall. We'll eat the losses. You know,
it could be crippling in years ahead, as it was with Takata.
But ourc Automotive is saying no,they're resisting these calls for a nationwide or
(29:52):
the a worldwide recall. Okay,So what if you are somebody, though,
who has one of these ARC ones. I think I'd be a little
bit nervous, though I'd want toerr on the slide of caution. I
think, well, you're right,So what do you do about it?
Yeah, you could take your vehiclein And by the way, ARC automotive
airbag inflators are found in about adozen makes from around the world. Some
(30:14):
fan Kia, you know, Hundauses them. General Motors uses them.
So and Chrysler. So if youhave one of those vehicles, what do
you do about it? You cantake it into a shop and have them
look and see if it's an ArcAutomotive airbag inflator, but there's no real
fix in place at this point.General Motors has taken it upon itself to
(30:34):
do its own recall and has issueddocuments or issued letters to the owners of
about two hundred and forty thousand buikEnclaves from twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen,
four hundred and fifty thousand Chevy traverses, two hundred and ninety three thousand GMC
acadius. So it sent out theseletters to them, to owners let them
(30:56):
know that there could be this problem, but there's no real fix in place
yet until Arc Automotive says, okay, we're gonna send out new airbag inflators
to dealerships and go ahead and putthem in. Okay, no real fix,
And who plays for this, that'sthe thing. So who does pay
for it? Nobody's nobody's paying foranything right now. There's nothing to pay
for it, I guess, right, right. I mean, if you
(31:17):
if as if a car owner,and if you wanted to take your twenty
fifteen gmc A Katie into the shopand have them change out the airbag inflator
at your own cost. Save thereceipt because at some point in the future
you might get reimbursed if there's anationwide recall. All right, Jim,
Wow, what a mess? Allright, thank you so much. I
appreciate it, Sudan, all right, see you later. ABC's Jim Ryan
(31:40):
as if you haven't the moral ofthat story, If you have an arc
airbag in your car, we don'tknow what you're supposed to do about it
or who's gonna pay for it.Other than that, have a great day.
What a mess. Have some funstories for you. In a second.
(32:04):
We're going to talk about dinosaurs andpizza after we get the latest on
the WGA strike, because fall episodesof TV shows are supposed to start filming
in about a month, but thepeople involved are wondering whether that'll happen if
the Hollywood Writers strike continues. Membersof the Writers Guild of America have been
on strike since May second. NBChas a full season shot of a new
(32:25):
missing person's drama called Found. NBC'salso already filmed some episodes of Quantum Leap.
Those shows are generally the exception.If the strike continues into the summer,
networks will likely offer expanded versions ofreality shows or game shows, or
reruns of scripted shows, lots ofreruns. Mark Ronnery, If I knew,
I hope you like them. Hawthorneis holding a toiletry drive for homeless
(32:47):
people living in the city's newly openedtiny homes. The Bridge of Hope community
offers twelve individual shelters and three mealsa day. Hawthorne mayor pro tem Angie
Raya's English says, residents need tofoot brushes, shampoo, and other hygienic
items. Just the essentials that wemight you know, take for granted sometimes
and you know, deeodorant, razors, those types of things that we use
(33:12):
every day. Ray As English says. The homes opened in April and the
first set of tenants moved in lastweek. The drive will run through June
fourteenth. Personal care items can bedonated to the police department. You can
donate them at city hall or theHawthorne Memorial Center. Russia claims it is
one control of a key city ineastern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials acknowledge they now
(33:35):
control only a small part of Bakhmut, but they say their fighters presence has
played a key role in their strategyof just exhausting the Russian military. Basically,
the Ukrainians feel like, if wecan drive this Russian military until its
wheels fall off, that might bethe way that we win. It's kind
(33:57):
of a think of Russia as thethe tortoise and Ukraine I'm sorry, and
Ukraine as the tortoise and Russia asthe hair. Now, Ukraine says its
current position in surrounding areas will letthem strike back inside bach Moot, while
there are other advances from the Ukrainianforces outside the city. Apple TV is
(34:20):
taking us back to the day ofthe dinosaurs again. A second five part
series of Prehistoric Planet is available onApple TV Plus starting today. One episode
will be released each day this week. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the
series combines wildlife filmmaking, the latestpaleontology learnings, and state of the art
technology to recreate realistic looking dinosaurs andother inhabitants as they hunt, mate,
(34:45):
and roam around ancient Earth. Thisseries will explore the active volcanoes of India,
the deep oceans near North America anddinosaur habitats. Amy King kaf Fi
News. All right, have youever thought about the angriest airport? I
(35:05):
know I hadn't either. Whose ideais it to go? Hey, let's
do a poll on angry airports.That guy gets paid too much money,
whoever he is, traveling back andforth can be a headache. But there
are ones in particular that what suckmore and suck less. So there's this
(35:29):
recent survey survey in Forbes that foundthe angriest airport in the country is John
Wayne Airport in Orange County. I'mgonna disagree, but has anybody else been
to lax? I'm just saying.The analysis found nearly two thirds of the
(35:53):
tweets aimed at John Wayne Airport couldbe categorized as angry. Complaints ranged from
the airport being too noisy. Shutup? Oh, the airport's too noisy.
Please If you're gonna talk about flightdelays, that's one of the things.
(36:15):
I get it. Issues with TSA, I get it, but you're
bitching about a noisy airport. Shutup anyway. The others on the list
were Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Florida,let's see Eppley Airfield in Omahanna, Braska,
(36:36):
San Diego International Airport. That onedoes kind of string if you've flown
southwest, it's San Diego and Normanwhy Manetta Sandoda International Airport. I kind
of like that one. Anyway,there you go, and Lax doesn't make
the list. I don't believe inthis list. So Catweather from KFI.
(36:59):
We have a partly cloudy day ahead. That's because there is still this chance
of showers or thunderstorms and that's goingto be mostly in the mountains and the
deserts today, but highs are goingto be in the sixties and seventies.
Then it looks like for tomorrow lowclouds and fog again. Highs are going
to be in the mid sixties,but it looks like we're gonna stay probably
(37:20):
just in the sixties low seventies formost of this week. We lead local
live from the KFI twenty four hournewsroom. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This
has been your wakeup call. You'vebeen listening to your wake up call with
me, Jennifer Jones Lee, andyou can always hear wake Up Call five
to six am Monday through Friday atKFI AM six forty and anytime on demand
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