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May 1, 2023 44 mins
Jennifer Jones Lee hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. ABC's Karen Travers talks about President Biden at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. Then, National Weather Service Meteorologist Todd Hall warns of more clouds and rain hitting SoCal. ABC News Senior Correspondent Aaron Katersky sheds more light on the battery and defamation trial against Donald Trump resuming today. Five innocent people in Texas were killed execution-style over the weekend - their neighbor is the suspect. And ABC's Ines De La Cuetara highlights how the U.S. continues mass evacuations out of Sudan.
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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to kf I AM six forty
wake Up Call on demand on theiHeartRadio app. That's Monday, man,
it's time to rise and shine.Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your morning wake
up call. How was your weekend. I feel, for the first time

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like I actually accomplished something. Ican now open the door to my garage.
The jeeps in one side, solook at that. A whole space
has been cleaned out, and I'mabout a third of the way through wave
six seven foot tall wall of justjunk I don't need. I filled up

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two giant black you know, likethe regular ash barrels, and it felt
so freeing if it was. Iwas looking through things, going why didn't
I keep this? Why did Ithink I would ever need this? I've
been in this house since September,and so what I was telling myself was

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if this has been in a bagor a box since September, And yesterday
I was saying this, and Iwas thinking, and tomorrow is May first,
I clearly don't need it, andwhat wow, is there just a
lot of stuff I don't need.I was finding shoes that only had one
to them. Now where the hellthe other one went in the move?

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I have no idea, and maybeit's in another bag for all I know,
but that means I haven't worn thoseshoes since September. Off to goodwill
those go, I mean, notjust one shoe. Of course I'll find
the other one. But what I'msaying is, if you've never done that
before, where you went in yourgarage with the mindset that if I have
not used this in months, Idon't need it, try it. It

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was. It was the best thingI could have done yesterday. Anyway,
I know, boring weekend, Iguess you could say, but it felt
really really good. So anyway,and thank you to my neighbor Cupcake,
who knew I was going to beclean in the garage. Cupcake who calls
Tyler by the way, t dollarsign or tea money, as the case

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may be. Cupcake went and gotme a big old soda just give me
some sustenance throughout the day. Whata guy, I'm telling you, He's
pretty amazing. So anyway, itwas just a fun weekend. And it's
you know, if you're also doingyour garage, you get to hang out
and see all the neighbors. Youget to hang out and look in their
garage. Is too because usually theirdoors are opening and closing, just saying

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it's a little voyeuristic. Then yousee who also is like you and has
a ton of crap in their garage, and who's very organized. Here's what's
ahead for your wake up call.So it looks like police in la are
trying to find three home invasion robbers. These are so scary. They slipped
in through a sliding door and assaulteda couple in bel Air, an elderly

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couple. Ooh. And the Crowningof King Charles. You know I love
a good Lifetime movie. Apparently theUK is not without controversy in crowning the
King. People in London are scoffingat the price tag. Wait till you
hear how much this is going tocost taxpayers. It's not like it comes

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out of the I don't know King'sCoronation fund, if there is such a
thing. It's just really sad.I guess you could say. Five o
five We're going to talk with ABC'sKaren Travers all about the White House Correspondence
dinner that happened over the weekend andthe President did his own joke, and
I'll tell you what it had todo with something that he's having to address.

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How's that for it? All that'scoming up with Karen in just a
few minutes. Let's start with someof these stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. LA policeare trying to find three home invasion robbers
who went into a home in belAir through a sliding door and assaulted an
elderly couple. Police say the manwas punched several times in the face Friday
when he told the intruders there wereno valuables in his home. The couple's

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son says the intruders also stepped onhis mom's head. The sun says the
robbers took a safe and some cash. A man from Baldwin Park's been arrested
for a hit and run crash thatkilled a pedestrian in Irwindale. Police say
security video shows a guy walking alongAzusa Canyon Road Saturday afternoon when he was

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hit by an suv. The drivertook off. Cops eventually found the driver
at his home and arrested him.Investigators are trying to figure out what caused
the crash of a single engine planethat was reported missing while headed to the
airport and Van Eyes. There wasthick fog Saturday a night when the plane
crashed in LA's Beverly Crest area.The La City Fire Department says the plane

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was eventually found on a steep hillsidethat has a large water tank which was
not damaged. One person on theplane was killed. And there's a survey
by La Metro that is found eighthundred homeless people find shelter on Metro trains
on any given night and nearly sixhundred end up sleeping on the streets when
the trains reached the end of theline. Metro has been scrambling to find

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solutions. That is considering enacting ahomeless emergency similar to those enacted by the
City and the County of La.Karen Travers, good morning to you.
Did you get to go to theWhite House Correspondence dinner? Please say yes,
I do. I'm actually on theboard of the correspondence. Well look
at you, wow, Okay,that's all. Yeah. I sit at

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the head table. I was sittingnext to Roywood Jr. The entertainer,
and Karen Jean Pierre, the Presssecretary, and presented the Journalism Awards to
our colleagues who won the awards onSaturday night, and it was a really
great event. So the President wasvery serious, talking about the importance of
a free press and the importance ofwhat the industry does and bringing journalists who

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are detained overseas home thing he's workinglike hell to bring home Wall Street journal
reporter Evan Gerskovich who's detained in Russia, and then also had a good time
poking fun at himself and his age, which was the big topic of most
of his jokes, and how oldhe is and how much everybody else likes
to make jokes about how old heis. Right, And you know what,
I think that that was smart ofhim to address the elephant in the

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room right away, to make itlike, I know, you guys are
all questioning this and joking about this, and so you know what, I'm
going to not pretend like it's notthere, just go ahead and hit it
hard and then move on. Yeah, And you know, he started out
very serious with his remarks, andit almost seemed like maybe he wasn't going
to do any jokes. I wassitting next the Kareem, like I said,
and I kind of turned her andsaid as transitioning, and she said,

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yeah, he's getting into it.And his transition line actually was really
funny and proud loved it. Ashe's talking about journalism in the industry,
he said, I believe in theFirst Amendment. He paused and said not
just because my good friend Jimmy Madisonwrote it. And everybody laughed, and
then I kind of laughter the raceswith all the old person jokes and how

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old he is, and he said, you say I'm ancient. I say
I'm Why do you say I'm overthe hill? And then he got in
the dig at the former CNN anchoredDon Lemon. He said Don Lemon would
say that's the man in his primeand then talks about how, you know,
the media covers him being old,but they don't cover how old Donald
Trump is. He talked about howthat's unfair. But you know, he

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seemed to have fun and enjoyed beingup there and enjoyed spending time at the
dinner. But again, it's allabout scholarships. The dinners an annual fundraiser
scholarships that the WHDA gives out thecollege students who to go to the dinner,
they had a chance to take apicture with the president before and and
it's a really great event. Andyou know, yeah, there's always criticism

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too about the mingling of people fromthe government side and reporters, but it's
also a chance to do some reportingthere in the room too, when you're
talking with those cabinet secretaries as you'resitting at a table with them and walking
around the room and members of Congressor at the table next to you,
Oh my gosh, I can onlyimagine. And was there anybody there that
was I don't want to say,a controversial guest, but a surprise guest

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or anything like that. I alwayswant to know, like what the backstory
is on stuff. Yeah, soa couple of notable guests, John Legend
and Christy Keegan were there. BrittanyGriner was there. She got a lot
of mentions in various remarks from thepresident to the comedian, but very notable,
and a couple of standing locations.The people who seemed to be getting

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a lot of attention in terms ofwho people wanted to take the pictures with
the most were the people from vanderPump Rules from Bravo, very very high
in demand, so certainly seeing themshowing up on a lot of social media
accounts. Oh my gosh, yeah, I mean of all kinds of people.
When I saw that too, Iwas like, oh, well,
all right, I guess there's Secretaryof State Anthony B. Lincoln and there

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is Lisa Vandal Pumps. So youknow, it's that type of events.
It's a little bit of everything Imean, And that's what makes it kind
of fun, is you know thatyou don't know who's going to be there,
and it does make it for youdo have to have those uh I
don't know, sort of the nowtrending kind of people in there, just

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so you got a little bit ofthat, like wait, what what are
they doing here? You guys needto have fun while you're there too.
Yeah, absolutely, And it createsbuzz for the events, and then a
lot of articles get written about it, and you know, you have those
celebrities go back to Hollywood and talka little bit about Washington and yeah about
the event, and that's always goodfor it too, of course. But
you know, it's again, it'sreally about the scholarship students. It's about

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honoring our all leagues and maybe awardsthat we gave out and just underlining the
importance of the work that journalists inWashington do, and you know, at
the time when they're layoff throughout theindustry at local level and at the national
level. A lot of news organizationsin that room hit recently with layoffs.
It was important to celebrate the workit's being done and the importance of the

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mission at the White House and inWashington. All right, Karen, thank
you so much. And I kindof feel like I'm rubbing elbows with a
celebrity here if you're on the board. For goodness sakes, holy cow.
Well it was yeah, it wasfun. It was really nice. But
that's why my voice sounds like itdoes. Today is a long week,
got it Monday and well yesterday,oh my gosh. All right, well,

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I hope you've got some vacation comingoff. Just arrest that voice coming
up. All right, Thanks Karen, appreciate it, Thank you, all
right, see you later. Thatis ABC's Karen Travers. Hey, So,
what is this a possibility of rainin the forecast? This was weirding
me out like crazy. Yesterday itwas warm, warm, warm, I'm
sweating in the garage, and thenby the time that I'm putting the show

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together, last night I was sittingout on my patio it got cold.
National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall ison with us this morning. Todd,
this is a rollercoaster weather ride I'venever seen, or haven't seen in quite
a while. Yeah, good morning, Jennifer. Yeah, we're looking at
a really kind of a cold,unfeasonable storm system moving in. Uh,

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you know for this for this timeof year. So for early day,
you're going to start off pretty chilito start off, to start off May.
What what are you expecting as faras chili? What's you know?
Are we back in the sixties again? Yeah, I mean we're gonna see
temperatures in the upper fifties to sixfeet across across the area. Um,
chances of rain are going to increasethrough the week, So probably looking at

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Wednesday and Thursday five potential for rainand maybe maybe Iceland thundersporns. Wow.
So how much rain are you expectingright now? It looks like about a
half an inch for the close valleys, but there's a chance that we could
see you know, it's a cutoff. It's it's one of these these these
troughs that it's kind of going towobble around and hang out, but it's

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gonna make us look bad over theover the coming week. Unfortunately, as
far as meteorologists in Sounding California,it's not a great time to be a
meteorologist when this kind of happened.So we're looking at the potential for you
know, uh, you know wherewe could see you know, showers lingering
and musi on Friday possibly and increasingthose rainfall amount. So right now we're
saying it happened to one inch,but it's it's there's certain that there is

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a certain amount uncertainty with that,you know. Um as we're starting to
see more and more fires and they'rejust popping up here and there. A
few have been in San Bernardino Countyrecently, And I was talking with a
friend of mine who's a firefighter,and he was talking about how, in
spite of all the rain that wegot and then obviously the fuel that grew
from it, just this little tinystint of dry weather that we had dried

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all that fuel out so fast.So from a fire standpoint, I guess
it's good if this thing lingers,Yeah, I mean, this will end
up and actually help a little bitalleviate some of fire weather positions for a
few weeks before we get into thesummer. Um. So it's it's it's
going to help a little bit.Um. But I mean, we have

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all this rain that happens over youknow, over the winter, and then
as we hit April May typically westart to dry out, and and we
have these grasses, these fine grassesthat dry out as well. So as
we get that warmer weather as theterms begin into summer. So that's that's
kind of what we're that's kind ofwhat you know, those those vegetation is

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starting to respond to that by weatherwe had. All right, Todd,
thank you so much. All Right, so we'll start looking for the grace.
Guys, probably tomorrow. You thinkyou think we'll have any sunshine today,
we'll well, we may have alittle bit of breaks of sunshine this
afternoon, but it looks like we'regoing to continue to speak kind of the
kind of a cloudy, dreary typeMay gray type pattern. Okay, you

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know that we're going to see overthe next couple of days. I don't
hate that because I love to napwhen it's gray. So thank you Todd
for that, Thank you so much. All right, see you later.
National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall.Is there anything worse than when you're trying
to take a nap and the birdsare singing and the sun is out?
I have cussed birds more often thanI would like to admit in my life

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because they're not on my schedule.How dare they? These are the Hollywood
writers who could soon walk off thejob if a new labor contract isn't reach
the sticking points pay and security.The Writers Guild says TV execs have used
the transition to streaming to cut writerpay and separate writers from production, directly
impacting scripts for series That's ABC's DerekDennis. He says the writer's Guild is

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also concerned about artificial intelligence being usedto generate scripts without the writers. I
can only imagine, because that's whatAI can do. It can write you
a song, it can write youa script, It can write your paper
for school. Where the hell wasAI when I was going to school.

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Some of TV's biggest shows could godark as soon as midnight tonight if a
deal is not reached. Cops inLa are trying to find three home invasion
robbers who slipped into a home inbel Air through a sladding door and assaulted
an elderly couple. Police say theman was punched several times in the face
late Friday when he told intruders thatthere were no valuables in the home.

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The couple's sons says the intruders steppedon his mom's head. I don't the
punching of the man is bad enough, but then you step on an elderly
woman's head. Yeah, no placein society for you as far as I'm
concerned. The Sun says the robberstook a safe and some cash coming up
at five thirty five. This isa horrific story that came out of Texas

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this weekend, and local, state, and federal investigators are trying to determine
now what the connection is between fivepeople who were aged eight to thirty one
and the man accused of shooting themall to death. Over the weekend.
Four people were dead at this scene, and that eight year old died at

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the hospital. Cops say all ofthe violence may have started as a dispute
between neighbors in the city of Cleveland, Texas. That's about forty five miles
north of Houston. So we'll getinto that with Jim in just a few
minutes. Well, some kids fromBoyle Heights have become new horse riders thanks
to the LAPD. It's part ofa rebounded program in Metro's Mounted Unit.

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Lieutenant Carlos Figeroa says the kids wereselected by the department's Community Safety Partnership Division.
They selected kids from the Ramona GardensHousing develop who got some funding through
help of the Los Angeles Police Foundationto purchase helmets and boots, food for
the kids when they were here.On Saturday, ten kids graduated from the
Mini Mounties program. They spent fivesaturdays in a row here at the Almonds

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and Equestrian Center learning how to rideand care for horses. At first,
I was nervous and I didn't wantto go on the horse because I was
like, what if I fall?But you get comfortable riding a horse and
being with the horse, so itwas it was pretty cool. He was
fourteen and says this was life changing. Then there's fifteen year old Jose I
came out. It turns out ridinghorse it turns out to be my passion

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is fun. What was it likewhen you first got on that saddle?
When I first gone on that saddle? Kind of nervous, almost fell once,
but I didn't give up. Thekids got certificates, cool polo shirts
and a bunch of memories in atwater. Steve Gregory, King of I News,
I love that horses are the best. If you've never ridden a horse,
you're doing yourself a disservice. EricKatursky, good morning to you.

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You know that has to be myquestion. Have you ever ridden a horse?
Yeah? Yeah, not like competitively. I was just thinking, right,
but I was just thinking maybe,I don't know. You're a big
city guy. I don't know ifyou've ever ridden a horse. Yeah,
yeah, sure, like when Iwas eight at summer camp or something.

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Sure, Okay, that makes onlyinteractions of wildlife. We have her,
you know, pigeons, cockroaches andrats. So like, if I try
not to go too crazy, allright, well, you know what,
I will take a horse over allof that any day. So come out
and visit us. Aaron, goodmorning to you. Let's get back into
what the trial is now or wherewe stand. I guess you could say

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of journalist E Jean Carroll, whowill be back today and her federal battery
and defamation suit against former President Trump. She's due back She's due back today
for a cross examination, which willcontinue under Joe Tacopina, the defense attorney
or former President Trump, and thismorning, Jen he wrote to the judge
asking for a mistrial. He saidthat the judge had improperly limited some of

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the questions that he was asking herabout, why she didn't go to the
police, why she didn't pursue securitycamera footage, why she just made some
of the decisions that she did aftershe was allegedly raped. The judge at
different points intervened and told Tacopina tomove along, and he took exception to
that, and so much so thathe's now asking for a mistrial. I'm

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not sure that's necessarily going to goanywhere, but it does lay the groundwork
for an eventual appeal perhaps, Andso her cross examination will continue, and
then we expect to hear from twofriends of hers that she says she told
in real time after the alleged rapeoccurred. Will that make a difference based

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on the line of questioning that Tacopinowas going with, Well, the friends
could because there's no physical evidence hereand there's no direct eye witnesses. So
in order to boast the bull EegeeneCarol's credibility with the jury that the pointiff
side wants to show that, youknow, she didn't just make this up
whole cloth, as Trump alleges,but she actually told two friends about it

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at the time it allegedly occurred inthe mid nineteen nineties, and those two
friends, Carol Martin, a formertelevision news anchor, and Lisa burned Back,
a writer, are expected to testifyabout it. And we'll also see
at some point during the trial,probably later this week, the so called
Access Hollywood take to remember that fromthe twenty sixteen campaign, when you know,

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Trump has overheard telling then host BillyBush about what he does with women
without their consent, and although he'sdismissed it as locker room banter, Carol's
attorneys have said it wasn't locker roomtalk. It's exactly what he did to
Egeene Carol. And then I'm surethen the defense will say, well,
Eejeene Carroll came out with this afterwe all saw that video, so they

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could say that. I'm sure they'lltry and say she's making it up or
something. I mean, you're whatthe tip for to in this trial is
kind of predictable. I'm a littlebit surprised by it. Well, I
mean, you know, absent anyphysical evidence or direct eyewitness accounts it you
know, it isn't, he said, she said, but the you know,
the plaintiffs insist it's not because they'rethese you know, corroborating witnesses.

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We'll see if the jury believes it. You know, the defense has already
gotten Carol at a concide. Shecan't remember the exact date the alleged rape
occurred. She did not go tothe police, she didn't seek security camera
footage, she didn't seek medical treatmentor psychological help after. The defense is
suggesting she didn't do the things thatother rape victims do, including screaming during

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the alleged attack, and Carol said, he can't beat up on me for
not screaming. Some women scream,some don't. And then she said,
with dramatic flair, you know heraped me, whether I screamed or not.
Wow. And I mean, ohmy gosh, even from just a
watcher of this, you can't judgewhat a rape victim does or does not
do. Reporting remembering the day,you don't know what she's suppressed. Who

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she you know, was she soashamed when it happened that she just didn't
want you want to say anything aboutit or whatever. And now as she's
gotten older, maybe she's gotten strongerand wants to say something about it.
But you can see where Tacapino canlook at this and say, hey,
you never did any of this.So you told two friends, but you
never did anything that a normal rapevictim might or might not have done.

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I don't know what a normal victimis, but gosh, you can kind
of see how both sides are orthe believability I guess on both sides is
there. Well, And that's exactlywhat the defense is hoping for to say
that, look, you know,you may have some sympathy, but but
she can't prove it that you knowshe's And even if you don't believe she's

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fully made it up, he's alreadygotten her to conceive that some of the
details are odd and inconceivable. Youknow, it is a former president of
the United States being accused of rapeand open court. That's never happened before
an American history, And so thedefense is suggesting, you're gonna want to
be sure, whereas you know,Carol's attorneys say it's Trump, it's his

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m just look at you know whattwo dozen other women have said, even
though this would represent a first conviction. All right, Aaron, thanks for
watching it for us. I'm surewe'll talk to you again. Thank you,
all right, see you later.ABC's horse riding Aaron Katursky. I
think I need to see Aaron ona horse, just for the record,
because Aaron is probably one of themost city guys that I know, you

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know, like he's got when yousee him on TV. He's got the
coat and the scarf and the youknow, he's dressed to the nines,
as a reporter from New York wouldbe. I kind of need to see
him in jeans and like a snapup shirt and some boots. An assembly
woman from Irvine is alerting small businessesabout a new law that gives them equal

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chances. The Hollywood writers could soonwalk off the job if a new labor
contract is not reached. It's thewriters Guild that's also concerned about artificial intelligence
being used to generate scripts without thewriters rightedly, so some of TV's biggest
shows could go dark as soon asmidnight tonight if a deal isn't reached.
And speaking of deals. The FDICsays JP Morgan Chase Bank will take over

(24:25):
all deposits and most of the assetsof First Republic Bank, which has struggled
since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bankand Signature Bank in early March. The
FDIC announced early this morning that regulatorsin California had closed First Republic and appointed
it as a receiver. First RepublicBanks eighty four branches in eight states are

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reopening today as branches of JP MorganChase Bank. It's so crazy because when
I was working in the Bay Areapretty early on, I think when I
started actually anchor, so it wouldhave been twenty four, twenty five at
the time, we had your weatherforecast brought to you by First Republic Bank.

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First Republic Bank, where it's aprivilege to serve you, and they
were the hot thing. I rememberthem being the big up and comer.
And then now this what twenty yearslater? That was fast. All right,
let's say good morning now to ABC'sJim Ryan. Jim, what a
horrific story out of Texas. Goahead and give us just sort of the
nuts and bolts of the story beforewe get into the investigation. So,

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yeah, Jennifer well, it startedon Friday evening, and we're told that
people in Cleveland, Texas, sometimesthey get home from work on Friday,
they blow off steam by shooting offguns in their yards, firing into the
air. That's apparently, according toneighbors at least, what this man in
this case was doing. And nowhe is gone. Francisco Orld pass his

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name. He's thirty eight years old. Neighbors told him to stop it.
They had somebody sleeping inside, ababy was asleep. He said he was
in his own property, on hisown yard, and so he wasn't going
to stop. Instead of stopping,he went next door with this ar fifteen
semi automatic rifle, according to police, shot and killed five people, including
an eight year old boy. Killedthem execution style, shooting them in the

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head. And now he has disappeared. The police have been looking for him.
They brought in the FBI, theybrought in dogs, did an extensive
search. They found his cell phoneand some articles of clothing, but still
Oral Pessa is nowhere to be found. All right. Do they think that
he was drinking? Do they thinkthat he on top of it all,
it just seems like a random I'mshooting a gun I mean, that's weird

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enough. I'm shooting a gun inmy own backyard. But was there more
to it? Was he on somethingto the neighbors know? No, they
haven't said, and we may notknow that ever. In fact, by
the time he's caught, if he'scaught, then whatever was in his bloodstream
might not be there anymore. SoYeah, was it drug induce? Was
it alcohol induce? We don't know. But all we know is that this

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horrific crime has happened. An eightythousand dollar reward has been issued. Oropeza
is now subject to arrest in afive million dollar bond. Meanwhile, the
people in this house are trying torecover. There was a civil There was
a vigil last night in Cleveland.People from around that community of about seven
thousand gathered in solidarity with the familiesthat lost loved ones, both the shooter

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and the folks the victims are thoughtto be in the country illegally, but
Cleveland still came around this family andsaid that they were supporting them. Was
he illegal, No, he's fromMexico. The those who were killed,
it's thought all of them were mostof them at least were from Honduras and
many of them had moved into thishouse only recently, so it's likely that

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he didn't know these people at all, that the neighbors didn't know him,
he didn't know them, and thatthis was just a crime of passion or
something. Well. Yeah, Imean it sounds like one of those almost,
um, I don't know, I'mtrying to like, can it somehow
a road rage where all of asudden you get mad at somebody really fast
and you see red. But usuallyfor most of us, we see red
for half a second and then yougo, wait a minute, that person

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might have a gun or that personyou know, like, all right,
never mind, I'm backing off.But this guy, it's I know,
this sounds awful. It's one thingto go after adults, but in eight
year old execution style. I mean, there's something screwed up with you if
you're able to do that. Yeah. And I think there's there's a lot
of credence to your theory that hewas on something. He was either on

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drug store was drunk at the time, but again we just don't know that
yet. All right, and thenas far as he was not here legally,
do they believe now they're going tohave to work with Mexican authorities.
Do they think he went to Mexico. Well, yes, and certainly the
State of Texas working with the USCustoms and Border Protection there along the US
Mexico border in uh, you know, in South Texas, in West Texas,

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to try to let them know,distribute his picture to those folks out
there, to those border patrol agentsso that if he does kind of try
to leave the country through one ofthe international bridges, that he'll be caught.
Yeah, you're right. It's it'sa difficult thing once somebody gets out
of the country, but it's happenedbefore. We've had fugitives from Texas who
have made it into Mexico and havebeen caught and brought back to the US.

(29:18):
Same story with California, I'm sure, all right. And the reward
that you were talking about was thatthe Governor's office, who's it's a part
of it, right, is fromthe Governor's office. That's part of it.
The crime Stoppers, the multi countyCrime Stoppers has put up five thousand
dollars. The State of Texas,through the Governor's office, has put up
a reward, and the FBI isoffering another twenty five thousand, So fifty

(29:41):
plus five and twenty five is thirty'sat eighty thousand. All right, well,
let's hope that that gets somebody tocome forward and talk about where this
guy is. Jim, thank youso much. See Jennifer. All right,
see you later. That is ABC'sJim Ryan. I you know,
don't know. It's not that Iam in any way, shape or forms

(30:03):
thing. It's it's okay for oneperson to shoot an adult. That's not
what I'm saying. There's just thatlittle the pit in your stomach when you
hear a child was killed eight yearsold execution style. What the hell is
wrong with people? Hey, Ijust I don't know why I can't wrap

(30:29):
my head around it. All right, I'm gonna end with something light.
Let's get out of that. Let'sget out of that darkness, because we
can laugh at this or giggle atthis. I should say, although if
I was a prior or, ifI was a taxpayer in the UK,
I might not be laughing. Imight be a little annoyed. The crowning

(30:52):
of King Charles comes with a onehundred twenty five million dollar price tag,
and who pays that price? Thetaxpayers? It just doesn't stay quite right,
they could be paying for it themselves, and how it would be like
a nice gesture. Yeah, it'snot like the royal family is without some
money now. ABC's Lionel Moise says. People have also criticized the plans to

(31:15):
have the archbishop asked the public tovocally vocally pledge allegiance to King Charles and
his successors. Critics call the oathoffensive and tone deaf, pointing out that
it asked people to swear allegiance toPrince Andrew, who, despite being stripped
of his royal titles, is stilltechnically a successor. He's technically a successor.

(31:40):
He's also been accused of being aJeffrey Epstein, I don't know,
partner in crime with the sexual assaultof women. What are we doing?
The coordination of Britain's new monarch andhis wife, Queen Kimilla is less than
a week away. You know,there's they're only part of me that is

(32:07):
made happy by that story. Welltwo parts, I guess, Like I
said that I'm not a UK taxpayer, but also apparently they are as screwed
up as we are. At timesthat make you feel a little better,
like misery loves company on that levela little bit. Hey, look at
this, As of tonight at midnight, Hollywood writers could soon walk off the
job. No, because that meanssome of TV's biggest shows could go dark

(32:32):
as soon as midnight tonight if adeal isn't reached. Now. The writer's
guild is very concerned about this newcontract. But in addition to the contract,
they're worried about artificial intelligence being usedto generate scripts without the writers.
I get that, because you couldalso have news anchors without the news anchor.
Some of TV's biggest shows again,we will be watching because they could

(32:57):
have to stop as of midnight tonight. Also, Tyler, I need your
help on this one, or Michelleor Anne or all if everybody's in there.
Nobody's in here, Oh dude,it's just you then, all right.
Singer songwriter at Cheron's copyright infringement trialresumes today in Manhattan. Tyler,
I need you to do the let'sget it on part. He's facing a

(33:23):
one hundred million dollar lawsuit over allegationsthat his song thinking Out Loud Baby UH
Will Be Loving You to is seventeen. Tyler, it's a no for me,
dog, dude, you were supposedto do. Good dog. It's
a no for me. Dog.You suck the audio for you if you

(33:45):
want it. No, I don'twant it. I wanted you to sing,
but screw that. Cheron is theclaim, and says he has twenty
fourteen hit Thinking out Loud was hevery collaborative effort with co writer Amy wedd
Hey. By the way, thereis talk about AM radio being removed from

(34:05):
new cars and trucks. Not okay. FEMA and first responders across the country
rely heavily on AM radio to deliverpublic warnings and emergencies because of AM's unmatched
reach resiliency. And don't forget,it's free. So here's the deal.
If you're thinking, okay, Ihave a text alert on my phone and
that's how I'm going to get it. That's lovely, but it's not a

(34:30):
substitute for what broadcast radio provides intime of needs. If you get a
one line text alert, it can'ttake the place of the voice on the
radio who comes to you twenty fourto seven until the emergency passes. And
that's even assuming that the cell networksare up and running, which often they
are not. In a big emergency, So when emergencies occur, your local

(34:51):
broadcast radio station is there providing wallto wall coverage, life saving information and
a live connection in the crisis whenradio stays in the aftermath. So this
hits home. Do you think it'sright for you to lose access to KFI
when you're on the road. Ididn't think so. So you need to
make your voice heard on this issue. Text the letters AM to five to

(35:13):
eight eight six and tell Congress tokeep AM radio in our cars and trucks.
Standard data and messaging rates apply.Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Inez de la Kutera. Inez.Last time we spoke to you about the
evacuation in Sudan of US Americans.At that point, we knew that the
embassy had been cleared and that itwas a very quick and clean operation.

(35:36):
Those helicopters on the ground. Ithink the whole thing lasted like an hour
if I remember correctly. But therewere also sixteen thousand Americans still in the
country. What happens to them?And where are we now in the evacuation
of our citizens? Hey, goodmorning. Yeah, so you'll remember that
dramatic rescue from last weekend when theUS decided to step in and evacuate embassy

(35:59):
staff and their families from Sudan.So they came in with military planes.
They got them all out safely.But the US at that point had told
the remaining US nationals in Sudan,and there were a lot, I mean,
there were over sixteen thousand Americans inSudan at the time when the fighting
first broke out. A lot ofthem were dual US Sudanese nationals, but

(36:21):
over sixteen thousand US nationals in Sudan, and the US had told those Americans
that they were basically on their own, that the situation on the ground was
too difficult too, that it justwasn't safe enough for the US to come
and get them. And then theUS based quite a bit of criticism because
there were a number of other countrieswho were able to go in and get
their nationals. So Saudi Arabia,for instance, was pretty quickly able to

(36:44):
send in ships to Sudan and evacuateSaudi nationals. We saw Germany sending in
military plane, the UK evacuating someof its citizens as well, and so
the question was why wasn't the UScoming in to help US citizens. I
actually spoke to one family so thatthe two parents were away. They were
out of the country when the fightingfirst broke out, and the children were

(37:06):
with their aunt. And the childrenwere dual US Sudanese nationals, and the
father was frustrated, but that hehad been reaching out to the embassy repeatedly,
he was getting kind of automatic emailsback. He was having a really
hard time getting ahold of anyone.And he pointed repeatedly since that Saudi Arabia
had been able to get their citizensout, and he didn't understand why the
US couldn't do the same. Sowe did. Over the course of this

(37:29):
weekend, see the US begin toevacuate at citizens. They were using bus
so bus convoys evacuating two hundred tothree hundred Americans per bus convoys. There
are drones flying overhead to ensure thatthe route is safe. And as far
I mean in terms of the latestnumbers, over a thousand Americans have now
been evacuated. But again still thetotal out of Americans in Sudan was sixteen

(37:52):
thousand, so you know, stilla long ways to go before everybody is
out. And faith where what wasthe US answer to the criticism? I
guess that other countries were able todo it, so why weren't we?
So the US had told its citizens. So there were two things. So
when they were saying the situation onthe ground just wasn't safe enough to conduct

(38:13):
these evacuations. And then the USalso pointed to the fact that the State
Department had repeatedly told Americans not totravel to the Sudan and they had warned
Americans that they wouldn't be able toget them out should things escalate, should
the situation get to be too dire. So, uh, you know that
that was also mean there had beena level for do not travel advisory in
place for Sudan for a while.Now. We should point out also so

(38:34):
that the two warn military groups rightnow, it's the Studentese military versus a
paramilitary group known as the Rapid SupportForces. They had struck a truth,
but that truth, you know,and then they extended it another seventy two
hours. So there's been a ceasefirein place for a little over a week
now. The problem is that itdoesn't appear that the ceasefire is really being

(38:55):
respected. There have been reports ofexplosions and gunfire in the cap all of
Khartoum, and so in a situationon the ground, it's still not safe.
All right, thank you so much, and as I appreciate the update,
thank you all right, see youlater. That is ABC's Inez dela
Kutera. And that's hard because onone hand, you think, okay,

(39:17):
you should have abided by they donot travel to Sudan thing the issued,
the warning that was issued. However, if you live there, then what
If you are a Sudanese and Americancitizen, then what and at what point

(39:37):
is the US responsible for you orare you responsible for yourself if you choose
to live there. I honestly Idon't I don't know how to split those
hairs because legally, I don't knowhow all of that works. But it,
I mean, it is. Itis a mess. Right. Let's

(39:59):
look at some more stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour news room.
President Biden is meeting with the Presidentof the Philippines. The meeting between
President Biden and Philippines President Ferdinand MarcosJunior at the White House showcasing US support
for the strategically vital island, Anadministration officials saying the meeting will affirm that
US security commitments to the Philippines remainironclad amid provocative actions by China and Philippine

(40:21):
waters. ABC's Dave Packer says thetwo leaders will also talk about various commercial
initiatives to bolster the US Philippines relationshipand break failure has been blamed for a
bus crash in Mexico that killed atleast eighteen people. ABC's Connor Finnegan says
the bus was in the western stateof Nyard on Saturday when it fell off

(40:44):
a cliff and ended up about fiftyfeet down a ravine. The bus was
traveling on a highway connecting the statecapitol to the popular tourist destination Port of
Way Arta. This same stretch ofhighway saw a deadly bus accident in December
as well, when fifteen people werekilled. Now more than thirty people were
taken to the hospital in the crashon Saturday. Nearly a dozen kids were

(41:07):
taken to the hospital. And Iwant to end with this story because I
okay, so one thing that Inoticed moving from northern California to southern California
seven years ago now it's been wastinted windows. And I know that's a
really goofy thing. However, Ijust knew that in northern California, Man,

(41:28):
they really seem to nail you ifyou have tinted windows. The reason
I know this is because I mighthave fallen victim. To the fallen victim.
Please, I knew what I wasdoing, But then I come to
southern California, I'm like, hey, wait a minute, everybody's got tinted
windows, like dark tinted windows.So there was an article that came out

(41:50):
in a newspaper in San Diego Foxfive or TV station, I guess,
called the Rules of the Road,and that was specifically our tinted windows legal
in California. And I wanted todo it Friday, but I ran out
of times, so we'll do ittoday. So what is legal and what
is not? This station talked toCalifornia Highway Patrol Sergeant Brian Pennings. He

(42:15):
says tinted windows have been a factorin a lot of crashes because drivers can't
see out their windows. So thisis what is legal for your rear window.
Drivers can tint their rear windows aslong as their vehicle has two side
mirrors, not including the rear viewmirror. All right, So most cars

(42:37):
all have the two right, allright front windows. Here's the one where
I was like, wait a minute, you know you've passed one of those
cards where it's like blackout right.According to this front windows. When it
comes to the front window, Californialaw states drivers must have seventy percent transparency,

(42:57):
meaning they can have thirty percent senttint, which I'm sorry, but
there's a whole load of boatload ofpeople not abiding by that one. Front
windshields. Drivers can tint their frontwindshields under certain circumstances. But apparently there
is actually a mathematical formula for this. So if you put the driver's seat

(43:21):
all the way back right this,I don't know who does this, but
put the driver's seat all the wayback, measure four inches out from the
back and the bottom, and thenmeasure twenty nine inches up. It can't
cross that horizontal plane. Well thehell is doing math on a tinted window?

(43:44):
And who was tinting their front window? Anyway? There are potential exceptions,
like a doctor's note that does notallow drivers to permanently tint their front
windows. However, you can havekind of a shape on it, so
I don't know if you're gonna doit. Drive around with a doctor's note
where your doctor says you can.Otherwise you're gonna have the officer in there

(44:08):
with a tape measure twenty nine fromthe top and four when a mess.
Anyway, basically, it is illegalto tint super super dark like that,
but based on the number of peopleI see doing it, it doesn't feel
like anybody's abiding by the rules.This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles,

(44:31):
Orange County. This has been yourwake up call. You've been listening
to your wake up call with me, Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can
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