May 2, 2023 • 42 mins
Jennifer Jones Lee hosts your Tuesday morning Wake Up Call. ABC's Karen Travers shares information on possible progress being made in the debt ceiling talks after Yellen issued a dire warning. Then, ABC Senior Correspondent Aaron Katersky talks about Trump's accuser and why she waited so long to come out with her allegations. ABC's Jim Ryan warns of a "subscription renewal scam." And Michelle Steinberg, Director of the Wildfire Division at the National Fire Protection Association talks about Wildfire Community Preparedness Day coming up on May 6th. Are you doing everything you can to ensure you're the most prepared for a wildfire? Michelle gives tips on ways to stay ready, so you don't have to get ready.
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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones. Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M
six forty wake up call on demandon the iHeartRadio apps. Tuesdays aren't so
bad when they start with Jennifer JonesLate. Here she is with your morning
wake up call. God bless America. Have you? Are you one of
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those people like me who actually hasa summer wardrobe and a winter wardrobe.
Not that I'm not fancy pants,but I'm just saying for closet space,
right Like I like to take allthe sweatshirts out, hold them up,
I put them away in the sparebedroom closet because I don't need them anymore.
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It's spring, it's summer. Andthen we get this this cold front
that's sitting over the top of usright now. Now, remember over the
weekend, I was in my garagesweating my bohunkas off because it was like
close to ninety And this morning Iget in the car and it's fifty something
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at any point, and mother Nature'sgonna be fickle basically all week. So
I already got some sprinkles and thingson the way in this morning, so
you'll probably encounter that as well.And then the bulk of the actual rain
isn't supposed to come until tomorrow andThursday, maybe stay into Friday and then
warm again for the weekend. Butyou know what, let's be honest if
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this is what we have to gripeabout in the world. Oh hey,
he can't put my sweatshirt away.I feel like life's pretty good, am
I right? Tyler? I likethe cold, well, I do too.
I don't want to ever have toput my sweatshirt away. As what
I'm saying, I see it.I'll find a way to wear it.
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Okay, it'll be that in aspeedo to work or not. Let's talk
about the writers, Okay. InLa they say they're going on strike for
the first time in fifteen years becausethe studios and the riders failed to reach
a contract. Sad story. Threepeople have been killed in the crash of
a small plane in Big Bear,and then two teen boys were stabbed in
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front of LA High School. Fiveoh five. Do we have possible progress
in the debt ceiling talks? Maybe? And this follows Janet Yellen issuing a
pretty dire warning. So we'll getinto that with Karen Traverse in just a
few minutes. Let's start with someof these stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Writers inLA say they are going on strike for
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the first time in fifteen years,as studios and riders just could not reach
a new agreement. Fifteen years haspassed since the Writers Guild of America last
win on a strike that lasted onehundred days and cost the industry billions.
The union says half of its overalleleven thousand members are earning minimal wages,
and in LA it's not nearly enoughto get by. The union says streaming
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services I've cut down the number ofepisodes in a series, which cuts working
hours. The union says about ninetyeight percent of its members last month voted
for a strike if an agreement couldn'tbe reached. Chris Adler ka FI News
okay. So, which shows willbe impacted the most? Looks like immediately
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the new episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live, That Tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon,
Real Time with Bill Meyer, maherI always want to call them my heart,
Late Night with Seth Myers, LastWeek Tonight with John Oliver. All
of those also daytime TV and soapoperas will feel the impact of ongoing production
schedules. Shout out to my boyKen. You know, Scottie Baldwin and
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I are buddies. We had liketen minute conversation at the car washed over
here. I know, Tyler,I know that you're shaking your head because
you're jealous. Do you want tosee me and Scottie Baldwin jj LKFI.
I wasn't weird or anything at theend of it, once I realized who
it was and that, oh mygod, I'm having a conversation with Scottie
Baldwin at the car wash, andI was like, hey, before you
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leave, can we take a selfie? Nicest guy ever by the way,
all right, let's get back tosome of these other stories. He was
fantastic. Three people have been killedin the crash of a small plane in
Big Bear. That plane went downin a field yesterday afternoon, about a
mile east of the Big Bear Airport. Cruise arrived in minutes and they found
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three people aboard the plane dead atthe scene. Two boys were stabbed in
front of La High School. Thestudents who were taken to the hospital yesterday,
School district Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says studentsdeserve to go to school free of
fear. He says that counselors andmental health support will be provided to the
who need it. Police will bearound campus today for additional security. A
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man from Westlake Village has admitted toselling heroin that resulted in a fatal overdose.
Prosecutors say Bradford Shepley and two othermen were cut on security cameras in
a target parking lots selling the heroin. US Attorney spokesman Karen McAvoy says the
man who bought the drugs in twentyseventeen overdose the next day. The victim
was twenty three years old, anoverdose in the heroine in his bedroom at
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his parents' house. Shepley will besentenced in August. Prosecutors have agreed to
recommend no more than fifteen and ahalf years of prison. Bloy Trolley,
k if I News, Karen Travers, Good morning to you from the White
House correspondence dinner to right back intoall right, let's talk about the debt
ceiling now. So how are things? Do we have any progress in the
debt ceiling talks? It was areally busy day yesterday and there was a
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flurry set off when Janet Yellen,the Treasury Secretary, released a letter that
she had sent to congressional leaders sayingthat the new date now the warning that
the US could default on its debtsas early as June first. This moves
up the timeline slightly, and it'salso the most firm date we have seen
from the Treasury Secretary. And whatthis means now is that the US is
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essentially one month away from a potentialeconomic catastrophe if Congress doesn't act. She
sent this letter and said that thelawmakers need to raise the debt feeling as
soon as possible or risk severe hardshipto American families and harm to our global
leadership position, the US position.And this has sparked some actual action.
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Now we'll see what it does.But the President yesterday, we have learned,
has invited congressional leaders to the WhiteHouse for talks on May ninth.
Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker,has accepted that invitation and they will then
sit down and talk about things.They're not budging on their positions on this
based on what they were all sayinglast night, but at least there's a
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conversation taking place and we'll see wherethat goes next week at the White House
when we are at loggerheads like this, but we have a fall off the
cliff impending? What is it?Or what typically or should I say maybe
who typically has to break or benda little bit more than the other side.
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Yeah, that's the great question.And you know, you start looking
at politics here and there's always ablame game, and who looks like they're
going to get more of the blameand who the politics reflect badly on,
and everybody starts sizing up how thismight work for them. The talking point
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that the White House keeps hitting onis that Republicans, when they were in
charge of Congress during the Trump administration, raised the dead ceiling three times without
any conditions, and they should dothe same thing now, but they're doing
it with strings attached, or that'swhat they want to do right now,
with strings attached, and they're sayingthat is pure politics. Republicans are saying
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enough is enough. That is whywe're trying to do it with strings attached.
Because spending is out of control andwe have to draw a hard line
here because we need to reign infederal spending. The President's response to that
is sure, let's have that conversation, but only when a threat of a
desault is taken off the table andthe US economy is no longer in jeopardy.
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Okay. And I feel like thatthreat is not even not taken off
the table. It was put onthe table by Janet Yellen. So somebody's
got a break at some point here. Yeah, Yeah, that threat,
it's still very much on the table. That threat is coming on June first,
and until Congress passes legislation to raisethe dead ceiling, it will still
be on the table. And that'san important point here too. The president
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can't just raise the debt limit himself. Congress has to pass legislation, then
he has to sign it. TheHouse did pass legislation last week that raised
the debt limit, but it hadall those other things attached to it that
the president would not sign. Itwas also dead on arrival in the Senate.
They weren't even history so much andmight help to do is just sit
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as they have done before. Allright, Karen, thank you so much.
That was good timing when we werestarting to lose. You have a
great day, see you later.Thanks bye. That's ABC's Karen Travers,
it was all going so well untilthe end. So we'll see what happens
today. So it's um the Presidenthaving Kevin McCarthy, Chuck Schumer, I
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saw Mitch McConnell. So you've gotall the big boys coming in to try
and talk, and it'll be interestingwhat concessions are made. I do feel
like they're not going to let usdefault, and so honestly, with Kevin
McCarthy saying like, hey, I'mnot going to move, I'll agree to
meet with you as of right nowthat we're in the you know, May
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second, we have until June onein political time, or in Washington,
DC time, that's eons. SoI have a feeling they'll get something hammered
out. Don't mark my words oranything, but I just have a feeling.
Let's get back to some of thesestories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. California's Department ofWater Resources has done its fifth snow survey
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of the season near Lake Tahoe sothe stick. The manual survey yesterday recorded
fifty nine inches of snow depth anda snow water equivalent of thirty inches,
which is two hundred forty one percentof average for that location. On May
first, electronic greetings from one hundredthirty snow sensors that were put all around
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the state, So the statewide snowpackis now equivalent of forty nine point two
inches. That's still two hundred andfifty four percent of average for the date.
Well, the new chief of CalFiresays despite all the rain and snow
and so cal it will be avery active wildfire season. Joe Tyler says
the first quarter of this year hasalready been a busy one. CalFire in
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the California Fire Service has already respondedto more than one hundred and sixty three
thousand emergencies across the state. Endof those, he says, six hundred
forty were wildfires, with one hundredthirty five of those in just the last
week. Tyler said yesterday, asthey kickoff Wildfire Awareness Week, people need
to realize it's not if, butwhen they'll be impacted by a wildfire.
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In Chino Hills, Steve Gregory Koff, I knew, see that's what I
was telling you about my firefighter buddy. He was telling me that those fires
that had popped up already in samErnardino and the Riverside counties. I believe
the thing is that, yeah,we had a great season of water.
It was wonderful, but then itcaused all this fuel to grow and then
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it dried out. So you know, I'm grateful for this little bit of
rain. Maybe it's going to pushyou know, the fire season at least
by a few days. Anything wouldhelp, but it makes sense that this
could be a real humdinger of aseason. At least six people have been
killed in the highway crash in Illinoisthat happened during a severe dust storm.
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The pile up yesterday involved more thanseventy cars, trucks, and tractor trailers.
One woman says she was driving towardthe crash when a guy on a
motorcycle warned her to stop. Hismotorcycle was covered with the dust. He
was covered with the dust, andhe said had he had had to bust
out a couple of one of thosein a ladies car to pull her out.
Another driver says it felt like awar zone. The National Weather Service
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says newly plowed farm fields contributed toall that dust. I heard a cut
from a guy today, A SoundBitefrom a guy who said it looked like
He said, all I could tellyou is imagine you're driving along and you
see, oh yeah, there's somedust ahead of you, and then somebody
takes a brown blanket and throws itacross your windshield. Thought that was the
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best description. Writers in LA haverejected a last ditch offer from production companies
allowing for a strike for higher pay. The Writer's Guild of America West is
striking for the first time in fifteenyears. The WGA says about half of
its eleven thousand members are writers whosay their work is devalued. The contract
between the writers and production companies expiredlast night. At midnight, the guild
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told its members all script riding isto immediately cease. We had three people
killed in a crash of a smallplane in Big Bear. That plane went
down in a field yesterday afternoon,just about a mile east of the Big
Bear Airports, so close. Crewsarrived in minutes, but found all three
people aboard the plane dead at thescene. Let's say good morning now to
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ABC's Aeron Katursky, So let's getthe latest. If you'd give that to
us on a Former L magazine columnistEjene Carroll, who was accusing former President
Trump of sexual assault. So whatwas the latest in this, And a
lot of people had wondered. Iknow, the line of questioning that you
and I were discussing yesterday was JoeTacapino talking about the defense attorney talking about
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why she hadn't come forward, Andnow maybe we're getting that answered. Yeah.
She says she never came forward becauseshe's a member nearly eighty years old
now of what she called the silentgeneration women of that era who were taught
and trained, she said, tokeep their chins up and to not complain.
And she also said that Donald Trumpwas powerful. A friend advised her
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that she had we had like twohundred lawyers and would bury her. So
she never thought the police would takeher seriously. She also says Jim that
she felt shame and she just didn'tshe would have done anything but go to
the police. So that just wasn'tin her head, she said. But
good Offense seemed to suggest that notgoing to the police was part of a
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series of behaviors that, to thedefense, seemed out of step with someone
who had suffered the kind of traumashe claimed to. Not only did she
not go to the police. Shedidn't seek any medical or psychological help.
She didn't throw away the dress shewore, she didn't stopped shopping at Burgdor's.
There was a list of some twodozen purchases from two thousand and one
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to twenty eighteen. She said shewatched Donald Trump on The Apprentice because she
said she thought it was a goodshow. So all of these things to
the defense, you know, itseemed to infer that maybe this didn't happen
because Carol didn't act like it happened. See, and that's that's where we
start to split hairs over how shoulda victim of rape behave? Who the
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hell knows? I mean that everybody'sgoing to react differently. And that's what
the redirect her attorney suggested. Youknow, is there a prescribe to set
a behavior that a you know,a rape victim should behave like and that
you know, egene, Carol said, no, some women scream, some
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don't, some go to the pullies, some don't, I mean, And
so she had even told the defenseattorney at one point, and you can't
beat up on me for not screaming. He raped me, she said,
whether you know, I screamed ornot. So she has an answer for
every every question or inference the defenseraised. It's just a matter of what,
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you know, how the jury seesher, because she did describe a
kind of a public persona the magazineadvice columnist who always said her life was
fabulous because she didn't want to burdenanyone with her problems, versus the private
person who says she suffered because ofthis attack from the mid nineteen nineties.
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You know, I think in justhearing this and kind of a lot of
the things would then go to ahe said, she said, or a
how should a rape victim ac kindof thing. The only thing that I
think is a little bit strange thatI feel like Tacopino can kind of hang
his hand on for a little bitwas the fact that she watched The Apprentice.
And again it's not to say howa rape victim would act, but
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it just seems like for her tocall it what she call it, like
a witty competition show or something likethat. For her to enjoy it that
way, I guess is a littlebit strange. I mean, I guess
maybe he could kind of pick thatapart, like you had an opportunity not
to see the guy that you claimraped you, yet you continually watched his
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show. Maybe that's a little bitweird. Well, that that I think
was the whole point of the crossexamination, Like she did all these weird
things. You saved the dress,you didn't burn it, you know,
she said, oh, it's alovely dress. You asked the apprentice.
But I thought it was a verygood TV show. I enjoyed the competitions.
You know, she did other things. She kept shopping at burnt Or.
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She said it's not a place I'mafraid to enter, and that there
was a list of like two dozenpurchases that totaled more than thirteen thousand dollars.
So, you know, there's somequirky things about her her story that
the defense tried to exploit. Andagain, you know, she's got an
answer. It's just whether the jury, you know, use it or sees
it as evidence that she made somethingup as the defense suggests, to sell
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a book. All right, thankyou so much, Aaron for the update.
Thanks all right, see you later. ABC's Aeron Katursky, Im,
that is not a jury I wouldwant to sit on, I think because
the reason that I would would hesitateto want to be on that jury.
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Is there is a question about thetiming of her coming forward and it coinciding
with the book. On the otherhand, you never want to try and
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I guess dissect or split hairs onhow or when a victim of rape should
act. If Donald Trump did thosethings to her, who is like,
you know, we should be ashamed. If we're trying to say that,
there's some I don't know guideline,check the boxes. This is how a
rape victim is supposed to act.You know what, until you're raped,
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what do we know? How doI know I would act? How do
you know you would act? Idon't know. But the social media part
and the why I'm watching Donald Trumpon the Apprentice part, that's a little
that's a little odd. And thepart about the timing with the book and
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the allegations maybe stick to those,But yeah, dissecting how a rape victim
should act. No. Seven bodieshave been found at a rural property in
Oklahoma during the search for two missingteenagers. Parts go out to the families
and friends, school mates and everyoneelse, and it's just a tragedy.
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Sheriff Eddie Rice says. The remainsfound yesterday are believed to include the two
teens and a convicted sex offender.Police were also looking for the teens had
apparently been traveling with him. Thebodies were found near the town of Henrietta,
which is about ninety miles east ofOklahoma City. Singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot
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has died. His family, saysthe Canadian Folks. Singer died of natural
causes yesterday at a hospital in Toronto. He was known for songs like That
One, Carefree, Highway, Sundown, and The Wreck of Edmund. The
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald got.He received five Grammy nominations. Over the
years. He won seventeen Juno Awards. Gordon Lightfoot was eighty four Suddendown's My
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Favorite Not that you care, butI love that song. A United Airlines
passenger on a flight from San Franciscoto Houston had to be restrained after he
apparently got mad because they asked himto move seats. Naya Jimenez, who
was also on the flight Sunday,says the man was combative with airline staff
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and nearly jumped out of the planeat one point. After he paused for
a minute, he ran towards wherethe like the pilot area is where the
emergency exit doors are, and attemptedto open it. Successfully opened the emergency
exit, She says, a bunchof people pulled the guy back. Are
we really at that point in societywhere hi, sir, can you move?
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Wah? Is that where we arenow? Oh? This story so
bizarre, such a one in amillion kind of thing. Family members of
a bride killed on her wedding nightin South Carolina are raising awareness about the
dangers of impaired driving. Samantha Millerwas killed Friday when she and her new
husband, Eric were leaving their weddingin a golf cart. Police say the
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twenty five a twenty five year oldwoman, rammed the cart from behind.
Miller's mom says her daughter's alleged killermade a terrible decision that changed lives forever.
She literally ran into my daughter goingsixty five miles an hour because Sam
and Eric were on the back ofthe golf cart, and so she basically
just ran my child. Oh mygod. The family says. The groom
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is recovering from a brain injury andnumerous broken bones after the golf cart rolled
over several times he was thrown ahundred yards. The woman driving has been
charged with three counts of felony duiand one count of reckless homicide. Television
and movie riders are headed to thepicket lines. The WGA voted to strike
last night for the first time infifteen years. Chris Escobar is the executive
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director of the Atlanta Film Festival andsays the strike will hurt Georgia as well
as New York in LA anything thatcould put a halt into people being able
to work and to be able toget to work, and for businesses to
be able to supply. I mean, that's obviously a huge concern. The
sag AFTER National Board says it standsin solidity with the union as well as
the Director's Guild of America and theIATs. Negotiations between the studio and the
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riders in March, that's when theystarted, and we still have nothing.
On the second of May, andthe US military says, hey, look
up in the sky, it's abird. It's a plane. It's another
mysterious balloon. This one's been seenover parts of Hawaii. But they say
it poses no threat to aerial trafficor national security. But They say it's
not clear who it belongs to orwhat exactly it is. The military has
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been tracking the balloon since late lastweek. Officials say it did not go
over any sensitive areas. A Chinesespy balloon flew over parts of the US
in February February before it was shotdown. Jim Ryan, Good morning to
you. So let's talk about youknow, a lot of times these an
elderly person sometimes won't shoot Anybody whogets caught in a scam oftentimes just doesn't
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say anything because they don't want tolook like, oh gosh, I was
that dummy who got caught. Notscam. That's what they're afraid people will
think of. But there's a gentlemaneighty years old who's a Navy veteran,
and I love that he's bucking atrend like, hey, I got caught.
You easily could too. Yeah,And that's the warning he's trying to
put out there. His name isJohn McKendrick. He lives in West Palm
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Beach. As he said, he'sa Navy veteran, got his master's degree.
Smart guy, he's tech savvy,but he still fell for this scam.
The Norton Security Protection scam. Youget a note from Norton Security saying,
hey, your subscription for your computersecurity is about to expire. Do
you want to renew it or doyou want to cancel it? So you
get in touch with the company.What's really frightening to me, Jen is
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that John McKendrick had the presence ofmind to say, no, I don't
know about this. So instead ofrelying on the phone number that was provided
to him by quote Norton Security Protectionunquote, he googled Norton Security Protection,
went out, found the website,and called the phone number that he found
there. He still was connected toscammers. Because these scameras are able to
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spoof a website, they can makeone very similar to what the actual company
website is, so that makes itextra difficult to try to thwart this kind
of thing. These people are unscrupulous, and you might think, well,
they say, well, this guy'seighty years old, he's living on his
retirement, he's just got a littlelevel. Let's leave him alone and move
onto the knocks. No, no, no, no, they were.
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They play on that the guy's age, They play on his unfamiliarity with how
the scam wight work. And theyknow that he's got a pile of money
that he's sitting on to live on, and they don't mind taking it away
from him, So that's what theydo. You gotta be careful because companies
like or the scammeras will use aname like Norton or Microsoft or geek Squad
or Amazon in their pitches to tryto buy some confidence from you, to
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get you to buy into it andsay, hmm, this looks legitimate.
Even the phone number on your callerID might say Microsoft, and you know
it's They're able to spoof just aboutanything, including websites and phone numbers.
Tyler in my ear while you weretalking and said, wait a minute,
he googled it. And and thendoes Google. Is there any responsibility or
on us on them to make surethat all of the stuff that's on their
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website is legit? Well not really, but as soon as they find out
something like that this has happened,they'll yank that website off of there.
And you know, but it's toolate then for a lot of folks,
And it would have been for McKendrickif he had not you know, gotten
And in fact it was too latefor him because he got pulled in the
scammers and had hold of him.They were able to gain access to his
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computer, gain his trust. Firstof all, they call it an a
con because it relies on your confidence. That's what con is short for,
right, And so you know,it's just it's horrific. And I just
hate too that he was planning onusing some of this money to go to
London, I guess, to havethe what celebration of life for his wife,
right that really I don't know whythat part just it kills me.
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Yeah, I mean, ninety fourthousand dollars right out the window. And
this was money, you're right,for this tribute to his wife that I
think it was in France actually,but and money that he was going to
live on and now it's gone.So I think he's relying. He's hoping
the bank and maybe the bank willtake mercy on him. They've got insurance
and maybe they'll be able to makehim whole again. But catching the scammers
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almost impossible. Well, I justagain give this guy kudos. I mean,
obviously he's a war hero and nowhe's a hero probably for a lot
of other elderly people, just togive them shoot and not even elderly people.
For me, I appreciate this guycoming forward right here. Whether you're
eighty or eighteen, it's possible tofall for something like this. And because
the scammers are geniuses in a way, evil geniuses. Yeah, exactly,
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evil genius. Yeah yeah, Ilike that. That's better big jerks.
All right, Jim, thank youso much. I appreciate it too.
Yeah. Well, I think thatjust proves that, you know, it
can happen to anybody, anybody,and you know it now. I don't
know if you're like me, Ijust assume everything is a scam until you
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go to use your credit card andthey say that, you know, like
it'll get declined, and you're likewhat And you call the company and they
say, we called you five daysago because we suspected fraud, and you
never called us back. I thoughtthat was spam. I didn't think it
was actually you guys that might havehappened to one of us. They turn
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it right back on, you know, they just go through that did you
make this purchase? Yes? Didyou make this purchase? Yes? But
now, in the assumption that I'mgoing to get, you know, screwed
over by something, I just don'tdo anything anymore, tell us you're a
shopoholic, gen without telling us thatyou're a shopoholic, A bit of a
shopoholic when your credit card company saysthere's irregular activity on your account because you're
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shopping so much. You know what, though, But if they looked,
it would probably be like what,she didn't go to Target or Goodwill or
eBay. She actually went to areal store. She went to a Nordstrom
rack. What cause for concern?I'm telling you. Former President Trump will
be on CNN again. CNN saysthe former president has been confirmed for an
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appearance at a CNN town hall.Caitlin Collins will moderate the town hall at
Saint Anselm's College in New Hampshire nextweek. The booking may be a sign
that Trump is trying to reach beyondRepublicans to find more votes for the twenty
twenty four election. CNN has beentrying to get more Republicans to appear on
its network since new management took over. This would be Trump's first official appearance
on CNN since the twenty sixteen presidentialcampaign. Amy King KFI News, all
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Right, you've heard us talking aboutAM radio being removed from new cars and
trucks. Yeah, that's a possibilityright now. And if you remove access
to the very AM radio stations thatmillions of Americans count on, like this
one for local emergency information, especiallywhen your cell phone is down, you've
now lost power and then AM isthe lifeline. Right THEEMA and first responders
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across the country rely heavily on AMradio to deliver public warnings and emergency because
of AM's unmatched reach resiliency. Anddon't forget it's free now. This hits
home for most of us. Anddo you think it's right for you to
lose access to KFI when you're onthe road. I didn't think. So.
You need to make your voice heardon this issues. How can you
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do that? Text the letters AMto five to eight eight six and tell
Congress to keep AM radio in allcars and trucks. That's the letters AM
to five to eight eight six andtell Congress. Hey, Congress, people,
keep AM radio in all our carsand trucks. Standard messaging and data
rates apply. Michelle Steinberg joins usthis morning the director of the Wildlife Division
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of the National Fire Protection Association.Michelle, Good morning to you. Good
morning, Jennifer. You know Iwas just doing a story. One of
my reporters had filed something about howthis fire season, specifically CalFire was talking
about this fire season. Yeah,the rain was awesome, but then all
that rain turns into fuel, thatfuel dries out and look at all the
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potential for wildfires we have. Andso that just perfectly coincided with what you're
talking about today, right, we'retalking about Wildfare Community Preparedness Day, which
is this coming Saturday, May sixth, and it's a chance for people to
get ahead of when those fuels willdry out and get prepared for wildfire.
If you have a house that's gotI don't know, any space around it,
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I know, we talk about defensiblespace and if you're on a property
that's got some land about around it, what is the proper defensible space area
that you should have? Right,so we talk about preparing your home and
working your way out into that socalled defensible space, and really what it's
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doing is working in this area thatcan help prevent your home from igniting from
a wildfire. So these colncepts arevery similar, and what we try to
focus on is getting people to takea look at their roof, walls,
windows, vents, any place embercan catch and ignite or enter the home
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to try to prevent that, andthen working out starting with the first five
feet away from your house, andthat extent could go out to about one
hundred feet. It really depends onthe property parcel itself, but even in
that first five feet you can makea real difference in the safety of your
home. And you know, onething that we all hate to do is
clean out our gutters. Nobody likesthat. But if you think about all
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of the fuel that's in those guttersand God forbid an ember come along like
that boom, you've got an atticfire and forget your house right. Cleaning
your gutters seems like such a kindof ordinary, boring thing to do,
but it's really effective. And ifyou notice that you're getting a lot of
material onto your roof and guard asyou might think about working whether it's a
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tree specialist or a landscape or tosee can we trim back some of those
overhanging branches that could also pose anissue, or trying to reduce some of
that debris that comes down onto yourhouse and right around your house. That's
real important to rake out. Alsoat the base of the house, to
get that kind of material away fromyour siding, away from the edge of
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your home, just within about thatfive feet. And you know one thing
that a lot of us, Yousit on your couch, you look out
the window, you see the grassis a little high in the yard.
But you don't you think yourself,I'll get it next weekend, and maybe
next weekend is going to be alittle too late. Well, that's the
thing. What we're trying to dowith this Welfare Community Preparedness Day is a
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reminder, in a rallying call tosay, hey, let's get out there
now. Hopefully it's good weather andyou can go take care of things.
And sometimes working with your family,working with your neighbors, that can make
as that are pretty mundane a littlebit more enjoyable. So that's another great
aspect of our having our prep dayhappen on May six. So that's that's
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just something we recommend that people kindof stay on that maintenance. That's one
of the most important things you cando and really really effective. And one
of the things that I never eventhought about, but was that a lot
of people store stuff under their decksor porches and those things might ignite I
never even kind of thought about that. I thought, oh, they're under
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there. It's kind of wet andmoist, you know, damp underneath your
deck. But I guess that canjust as easily ignite as anything else.
Sure, and so a lot oftimes if you've got an elevated deck,
what we would recommend is think aboutsome screening or as you say, remove
some of those items that might beflammable if embers, if debris is blowing
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in there, say like pine needlesor other things are collecting there, you
know that embers are going to gothere too. So that's where that's where
we try to pay attention and too. That is, anything attached to your
house is part of your house.When fire is concerned, it will have
that path of ignition right to thehome. So that's why we recommend to
clear out those areas as much asyou can for anything that could catch fire.
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Where can people go for all thisinformation. We have a great website
at Wildfire prep day dot org.It's part of NFPAS websites that gives tips
and tools. It's got some greatlittle videos to actually show you some of
the things you can do. ProjectToolkit. If people are excited about what
they're going to do on May six, they can share that on a map
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and tell the world about it,and that's just a great place to start,
all right. Thank you so muchfor your time, Michelle, and
hopefully people me heed this warning andgo around the house and just see,
you know, what could catch fire, and you know, just do a
tiny little bit of maintenance might beyou know, a big help in the
future should a wildfire ever start aroundyou. Thanks Michelle, Thank you,
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Jennifer, See you later. Thatis Michelle Steinberg. She is director of
the Wildlife Division of the National FireProtection Association. Some one of my parents
lived up in the Sticks in Shingletown, literal sticks. I think they were
on like I don't know, maybetwo acres or something like that, and
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they are like, oh my gosh, I know my dad listens to the
show sometime. Dad. I loveyou, but holy Cannoli, are you
anal about fire protection? Good foryou, dad, see Tyler's in the
will now stay safe out there,dad. Yes, I'm not anymore.
But he would get and I'm notjoking you. He would cut down trees
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himself, like the digger pines,the ones that you know are kind of
the skinny. They're the skinny onesthat fall in our big fire danger.
He'd cut those down himself. He'dgo rent man lift. There's Bob and
the man lift cutting down tree limbsand whatever. Y'all ever have a fire?
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No, thankfully. However, theproperties on the not the one side
of them, but the property onanother side of them. Holy cow.
I don't think they ever raked apine needle or a whatever. And no,
no, there were no There wereno fires on their street, Tyler.
So nobody had a fire. Nobodyhad a fire. However, I'm
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trying to make a point, butnow he just walked away from the mic.
The point is, you gotta encourageyour neighbors to do the same,
because if the house on the otherside of them had done some actual fire
prevention, maybe if there was afire, Tyler, that house wouldn't have
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caught fire. I'm just saying,there was no fire on the street,
Tyler. Shout out to Shingletown thismorning. Good for you, Shingletown.
Five environmental and cultural heritage groups aresuing the FAA over the recent SpaceX launch
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in Texas that ended with that bigboom. Now, the groups accused the
FAA of approving the test launch withouta comprehensive environmental review. Remember all of
the dust and things that everybody wastalking about in that area right after the
rocket exploded four minutes after liftop onApril twentieth, But it was actually the
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launchpad that went you know, alsokapui and that concrete metal rained down over
a six mile area once you hadthe blowup. That on top of all
the damage that was done from thelaunch pad, it was tough. The
FDIC has recommended the US rethink it'sdecades old policy of ensure up to two
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hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bankdeposits. It recommends replacing it with an
overhaul that would let regulators cover higheramounts on a targeted basis. Interest rates
are going up. That's creating challengesin managing interest rate risks. That's a
basic thing that any bankers should beable to do. There are a few
banks out there that have not managedtheir risk will. Former FDIC director Sheila
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Bears says when she worked for theorganization, she did not have enough examiners
and had deep cutbacks, and shesays she's sad to see the problem still
exist. The proposal comes as wewere talking about yesterday, first to a
public bank failed to be the secondlargest bank collapse in US history. They
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say, good fences make good neighbors, right, but the internet makes neighbors
worse. Any study says the averageperson is not spoken to their neighbor in
three weeks, but they still enjoyposting passive, aggressive stuff about those same
neighbors on social media community pages,researchers saying more than half of those surveyed
enjoyed the sniping and mud slinging andlocal online groups, with thirty four percent
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saying it's pure entertainment. Many won'tdeal with their neighbors face to face to
resolve issues like loud dogs or parkingissues, but they'll post about it online.
About ten percent said they'd like toget to know their neighbors, but
they're unsure how to go about doingso. Michael Krozer k if I News,
All right, not only am Ifriends with my neighbors? Tyler is
now friends with my neighbors neighbor?Well, yeah, you know him,
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You know Cupcake, just the oneyou haven't met every shot. Okay,
see's word. Hey, that's howquickly Tyler and Cupcake became friends. By
the way, if you want tosee Cupcake, he's on my Instagram jjlkfive.
We all went to a Dodgers gametogether a couple of weeks ago.
But Phila Noreen, So if you'relooking at my house, Phila Noreen or
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on the right, we just hada conversation over the weekend. I have
Norma down the street who's worked atMichael's for I think she said thirty seven
years. That's right, Chuck andShelley across the street, Jerry Arabella and
Madaline who just moved into the housedirectly across from me, and then there's
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Cupcake and Pink Cheeks. I lovemy neighbors, and I'm not dumb enough
to snipe about them on the communitywebsite that they too might be on.
I feel like that's on you ifyou do something stupid like that. Nick
Paliochini knows everybody. I think you'vemet half the people that I even talked
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about. Nick specifically, say Iknow all those neighbors in the Cold Side.
Yeah, yeah, Nick's been overthe shoot, We've all sat around
for hours. At knows them,a king, A king knows them.
Yeah, I mean it's that's howsee I'm a good neighbor, or I
just have really good neighbors. That'smore the case. It's Kopi and KOSHD,
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two Angeles, Orange County. Thishas been your wake up Call.
I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. You've beenlistening to your wake up Call with me,
Jennifer Jones Lee, and you canalways hear wake Up Call five to
six am Monday through Friday at kfI am six forty and anytime on demand
on the iHeartRadio app.
Hey, it's Jennifer Jones. Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M
six forty wake up call on demandon the iHeartRadio apps. Tuesdays aren't so
bad when they start with Jennifer JonesLate. Here she is with your morning
wake up call. God bless America. Have you? Are you one of
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those people like me who actually hasa summer wardrobe and a winter wardrobe.
Not that I'm not fancy pants,but I'm just saying for closet space,
right Like I like to take allthe sweatshirts out, hold them up,
I put them away in the sparebedroom closet because I don't need them anymore.
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It's spring, it's summer. Andthen we get this this cold front
that's sitting over the top of usright now. Now, remember over the
weekend, I was in my garagesweating my bohunkas off because it was like
close to ninety And this morning Iget in the car and it's fifty something
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at any point, and mother Nature'sgonna be fickle basically all week. So
I already got some sprinkles and thingson the way in this morning, so
you'll probably encounter that as well.And then the bulk of the actual rain
isn't supposed to come until tomorrow andThursday, maybe stay into Friday and then
warm again for the weekend. Butyou know what, let's be honest if
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this is what we have to gripeabout in the world. Oh hey,
he can't put my sweatshirt away.I feel like life's pretty good, am
I right? Tyler? I likethe cold, well, I do too.
I don't want to ever have toput my sweatshirt away. As what
I'm saying, I see it.I'll find a way to wear it.
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Okay, it'll be that in aspeedo to work or not. Let's talk
about the writers, Okay. InLa they say they're going on strike for
the first time in fifteen years becausethe studios and the riders failed to reach
a contract. Sad story. Threepeople have been killed in the crash of
a small plane in Big Bear,and then two teen boys were stabbed in
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front of LA High School. Fiveoh five. Do we have possible progress
in the debt ceiling talks? Maybe? And this follows Janet Yellen issuing a
pretty dire warning. So we'll getinto that with Karen Traverse in just a
few minutes. Let's start with someof these stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Writers inLA say they are going on strike for
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the first time in fifteen years,as studios and riders just could not reach
a new agreement. Fifteen years haspassed since the Writers Guild of America last
win on a strike that lasted onehundred days and cost the industry billions.
The union says half of its overalleleven thousand members are earning minimal wages,
and in LA it's not nearly enoughto get by. The union says streaming
(03:07):
services I've cut down the number ofepisodes in a series, which cuts working
hours. The union says about ninetyeight percent of its members last month voted
for a strike if an agreement couldn'tbe reached. Chris Adler ka FI News
okay. So, which shows willbe impacted the most? Looks like immediately
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the new episodes of Jimmy Kimmel Live, That Tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon,
Real Time with Bill Meyer, maherI always want to call them my heart,
Late Night with Seth Myers, LastWeek Tonight with John Oliver. All
of those also daytime TV and soapoperas will feel the impact of ongoing production
schedules. Shout out to my boyKen. You know, Scottie Baldwin and
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I are buddies. We had liketen minute conversation at the car washed over
here. I know, Tyler,I know that you're shaking your head because
you're jealous. Do you want tosee me and Scottie Baldwin jj LKFI.
I wasn't weird or anything at theend of it, once I realized who
it was and that, oh mygod, I'm having a conversation with Scottie
Baldwin at the car wash, andI was like, hey, before you
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leave, can we take a selfie? Nicest guy ever by the way,
all right, let's get back tosome of these other stories. He was
fantastic. Three people have been killedin the crash of a small plane in
Big Bear. That plane went downin a field yesterday afternoon, about a
mile east of the Big Bear Airport. Cruise arrived in minutes and they found
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three people aboard the plane dead atthe scene. Two boys were stabbed in
front of La High School. Thestudents who were taken to the hospital yesterday,
School district Superintendent Alberto Carvallo says studentsdeserve to go to school free of
fear. He says that counselors andmental health support will be provided to the
who need it. Police will bearound campus today for additional security. A
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man from Westlake Village has admitted toselling heroin that resulted in a fatal overdose.
Prosecutors say Bradford Shepley and two othermen were cut on security cameras in
a target parking lots selling the heroin. US Attorney spokesman Karen McAvoy says the
man who bought the drugs in twentyseventeen overdose the next day. The victim
was twenty three years old, anoverdose in the heroine in his bedroom at
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his parents' house. Shepley will besentenced in August. Prosecutors have agreed to
recommend no more than fifteen and ahalf years of prison. Bloy Trolley,
k if I News, Karen Travers, Good morning to you from the White
House correspondence dinner to right back intoall right, let's talk about the debt
ceiling now. So how are things? Do we have any progress in the
debt ceiling talks? It was areally busy day yesterday and there was a
(05:49):
flurry set off when Janet Yellen,the Treasury Secretary, released a letter that
she had sent to congressional leaders sayingthat the new date now the warning that
the US could default on its debtsas early as June first. This moves
up the timeline slightly, and it'salso the most firm date we have seen
from the Treasury Secretary. And whatthis means now is that the US is
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essentially one month away from a potentialeconomic catastrophe if Congress doesn't act. She
sent this letter and said that thelawmakers need to raise the debt feeling as
soon as possible or risk severe hardshipto American families and harm to our global
leadership position, the US position.And this has sparked some actual action.
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Now we'll see what it does.But the President yesterday, we have learned,
has invited congressional leaders to the WhiteHouse for talks on May ninth.
Kevin McCarthy, the House Speaker,has accepted that invitation and they will then
sit down and talk about things.They're not budging on their positions on this
based on what they were all sayinglast night, but at least there's a
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conversation taking place and we'll see wherethat goes next week at the White House
when we are at loggerheads like this, but we have a fall off the
cliff impending? What is it?Or what typically or should I say maybe
who typically has to break or benda little bit more than the other side.
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Yeah, that's the great question.And you know, you start looking
at politics here and there's always ablame game, and who looks like they're
going to get more of the blameand who the politics reflect badly on,
and everybody starts sizing up how thismight work for them. The talking point
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that the White House keeps hitting onis that Republicans, when they were in
charge of Congress during the Trump administration, raised the dead ceiling three times without
any conditions, and they should dothe same thing now, but they're doing
it with strings attached, or that'swhat they want to do right now,
with strings attached, and they're sayingthat is pure politics. Republicans are saying
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enough is enough. That is whywe're trying to do it with strings attached.
Because spending is out of control andwe have to draw a hard line
here because we need to reign infederal spending. The President's response to that
is sure, let's have that conversation, but only when a threat of a
desault is taken off the table andthe US economy is no longer in jeopardy.
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Okay. And I feel like thatthreat is not even not taken off
the table. It was put onthe table by Janet Yellen. So somebody's
got a break at some point here. Yeah, Yeah, that threat,
it's still very much on the table. That threat is coming on June first,
and until Congress passes legislation to raisethe dead ceiling, it will still
be on the table. And that'san important point here too. The president
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can't just raise the debt limit himself. Congress has to pass legislation, then
he has to sign it. TheHouse did pass legislation last week that raised
the debt limit, but it hadall those other things attached to it that
the president would not sign. Itwas also dead on arrival in the Senate.
They weren't even history so much andmight help to do is just sit
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as they have done before. Allright, Karen, thank you so much.
That was good timing when we werestarting to lose. You have a
great day, see you later.Thanks bye. That's ABC's Karen Travers,
it was all going so well untilthe end. So we'll see what happens
today. So it's um the Presidenthaving Kevin McCarthy, Chuck Schumer, I
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saw Mitch McConnell. So you've gotall the big boys coming in to try
and talk, and it'll be interestingwhat concessions are made. I do feel
like they're not going to let usdefault, and so honestly, with Kevin
McCarthy saying like, hey, I'mnot going to move, I'll agree to
meet with you as of right nowthat we're in the you know, May
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second, we have until June onein political time, or in Washington,
DC time, that's eons. SoI have a feeling they'll get something hammered
out. Don't mark my words oranything, but I just have a feeling.
Let's get back to some of thesestories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. California's Department ofWater Resources has done its fifth snow survey
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of the season near Lake Tahoe sothe stick. The manual survey yesterday recorded
fifty nine inches of snow depth anda snow water equivalent of thirty inches,
which is two hundred forty one percentof average for that location. On May
first, electronic greetings from one hundredthirty snow sensors that were put all around
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the state, So the statewide snowpackis now equivalent of forty nine point two
inches. That's still two hundred andfifty four percent of average for the date.
Well, the new chief of CalFiresays despite all the rain and snow
and so cal it will be avery active wildfire season. Joe Tyler says
the first quarter of this year hasalready been a busy one. CalFire in
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the California Fire Service has already respondedto more than one hundred and sixty three
thousand emergencies across the state. Endof those, he says, six hundred
forty were wildfires, with one hundredthirty five of those in just the last
week. Tyler said yesterday, asthey kickoff Wildfire Awareness Week, people need
to realize it's not if, butwhen they'll be impacted by a wildfire.
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In Chino Hills, Steve Gregory Koff, I knew, see that's what I
was telling you about my firefighter buddy. He was telling me that those fires
that had popped up already in samErnardino and the Riverside counties. I believe
the thing is that, yeah,we had a great season of water.
It was wonderful, but then itcaused all this fuel to grow and then
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it dried out. So you know, I'm grateful for this little bit of
rain. Maybe it's going to pushyou know, the fire season at least
by a few days. Anything wouldhelp, but it makes sense that this
could be a real humdinger of aseason. At least six people have been
killed in the highway crash in Illinoisthat happened during a severe dust storm.
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The pile up yesterday involved more thanseventy cars, trucks, and tractor trailers.
One woman says she was driving towardthe crash when a guy on a
motorcycle warned her to stop. Hismotorcycle was covered with the dust. He
was covered with the dust, andhe said had he had had to bust
out a couple of one of thosein a ladies car to pull her out.
Another driver says it felt like awar zone. The National Weather Service
(12:31):
says newly plowed farm fields contributed toall that dust. I heard a cut
from a guy today, A SoundBitefrom a guy who said it looked like
He said, all I could tellyou is imagine you're driving along and you
see, oh yeah, there's somedust ahead of you, and then somebody
takes a brown blanket and throws itacross your windshield. Thought that was the
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best description. Writers in LA haverejected a last ditch offer from production companies
allowing for a strike for higher pay. The Writer's Guild of America West is
striking for the first time in fifteenyears. The WGA says about half of
its eleven thousand members are writers whosay their work is devalued. The contract
between the writers and production companies expiredlast night. At midnight, the guild
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told its members all script riding isto immediately cease. We had three people
killed in a crash of a smallplane in Big Bear. That plane went
down in a field yesterday afternoon,just about a mile east of the Big
Bear Airports, so close. Crewsarrived in minutes, but found all three
people aboard the plane dead at thescene. Let's say good morning now to
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ABC's Aeron Katursky, So let's getthe latest. If you'd give that to
us on a Former L magazine columnistEjene Carroll, who was accusing former President
Trump of sexual assault. So whatwas the latest in this, And a
lot of people had wondered. Iknow, the line of questioning that you
and I were discussing yesterday was JoeTacapino talking about the defense attorney talking about
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why she hadn't come forward, Andnow maybe we're getting that answered. Yeah.
She says she never came forward becauseshe's a member nearly eighty years old
now of what she called the silentgeneration women of that era who were taught
and trained, she said, tokeep their chins up and to not complain.
And she also said that Donald Trumpwas powerful. A friend advised her
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that she had we had like twohundred lawyers and would bury her. So
she never thought the police would takeher seriously. She also says Jim that
she felt shame and she just didn'tshe would have done anything but go to
the police. So that just wasn'tin her head, she said. But
good Offense seemed to suggest that notgoing to the police was part of a
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series of behaviors that, to thedefense, seemed out of step with someone
who had suffered the kind of traumashe claimed to. Not only did she
not go to the police. Shedidn't seek any medical or psychological help.
She didn't throw away the dress shewore, she didn't stopped shopping at Burgdor's.
There was a list of some twodozen purchases from two thousand and one
(15:05):
to twenty eighteen. She said shewatched Donald Trump on The Apprentice because she
said she thought it was a goodshow. So all of these things to
the defense, you know, itseemed to infer that maybe this didn't happen
because Carol didn't act like it happened. See, and that's that's where we
start to split hairs over how shoulda victim of rape behave? Who the
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hell knows? I mean that everybody'sgoing to react differently. And that's what
the redirect her attorney suggested. Youknow, is there a prescribe to set
a behavior that a you know,a rape victim should behave like and that
you know, egene, Carol said, no, some women scream, some
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don't, some go to the pullies, some don't, I mean, And
so she had even told the defenseattorney at one point, and you can't
beat up on me for not screaming. He raped me, she said,
whether you know, I screamed ornot. So she has an answer for
every every question or inference the defenseraised. It's just a matter of what,
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you know, how the jury seesher, because she did describe a
kind of a public persona the magazineadvice columnist who always said her life was
fabulous because she didn't want to burdenanyone with her problems, versus the private
person who says she suffered because ofthis attack from the mid nineteen nineties.
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You know, I think in justhearing this and kind of a lot of
the things would then go to ahe said, she said, or a
how should a rape victim ac kindof thing. The only thing that I
think is a little bit strange thatI feel like Tacopino can kind of hang
his hand on for a little bitwas the fact that she watched The Apprentice.
And again it's not to say howa rape victim would act, but
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it just seems like for her tocall it what she call it, like
a witty competition show or something likethat. For her to enjoy it that
way, I guess is a littlebit strange. I mean, I guess
maybe he could kind of pick thatapart, like you had an opportunity not
to see the guy that you claimraped you, yet you continually watched his
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show. Maybe that's a little bitweird. Well, that that I think
was the whole point of the crossexamination, Like she did all these weird
things. You saved the dress,you didn't burn it, you know,
she said, oh, it's alovely dress. You asked the apprentice.
But I thought it was a verygood TV show. I enjoyed the competitions.
You know, she did other things. She kept shopping at burnt Or.
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She said it's not a place I'mafraid to enter, and that there
was a list of like two dozenpurchases that totaled more than thirteen thousand dollars.
So, you know, there's somequirky things about her her story that
the defense tried to exploit. Andagain, you know, she's got an
answer. It's just whether the jury, you know, use it or sees
it as evidence that she made somethingup as the defense suggests, to sell
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a book. All right, thankyou so much, Aaron for the update.
Thanks all right, see you later. ABC's Aeron Katursky, Im,
that is not a jury I wouldwant to sit on, I think because
the reason that I would would hesitateto want to be on that jury.
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Is there is a question about thetiming of her coming forward and it coinciding
with the book. On the otherhand, you never want to try and
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I guess dissect or split hairs onhow or when a victim of rape should
act. If Donald Trump did thosethings to her, who is like,
you know, we should be ashamed. If we're trying to say that,
there's some I don't know guideline,check the boxes. This is how a
rape victim is supposed to act.You know what, until you're raped,
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what do we know? How doI know I would act? How do
you know you would act? Idon't know. But the social media part
and the why I'm watching Donald Trumpon the Apprentice part, that's a little
that's a little odd. And thepart about the timing with the book and
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the allegations maybe stick to those,But yeah, dissecting how a rape victim
should act. No. Seven bodieshave been found at a rural property in
Oklahoma during the search for two missingteenagers. Parts go out to the families
and friends, school mates and everyoneelse, and it's just a tragedy.
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Sheriff Eddie Rice says. The remainsfound yesterday are believed to include the two
teens and a convicted sex offender.Police were also looking for the teens had
apparently been traveling with him. Thebodies were found near the town of Henrietta,
which is about ninety miles east ofOklahoma City. Singer songwriter Gordon Lightfoot
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has died. His family, saysthe Canadian Folks. Singer died of natural
causes yesterday at a hospital in Toronto. He was known for songs like That
One, Carefree, Highway, Sundown, and The Wreck of Edmund. The
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald got.He received five Grammy nominations. Over the
years. He won seventeen Juno Awards. Gordon Lightfoot was eighty four Suddendown's My
(20:45):
Favorite Not that you care, butI love that song. A United Airlines
passenger on a flight from San Franciscoto Houston had to be restrained after he
apparently got mad because they asked himto move seats. Naya Jimenez, who
was also on the flight Sunday,says the man was combative with airline staff
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and nearly jumped out of the planeat one point. After he paused for
a minute, he ran towards wherethe like the pilot area is where the
emergency exit doors are, and attemptedto open it. Successfully opened the emergency
exit, She says, a bunchof people pulled the guy back. Are
we really at that point in societywhere hi, sir, can you move?
(21:30):
Wah? Is that where we arenow? Oh? This story so
bizarre, such a one in amillion kind of thing. Family members of
a bride killed on her wedding nightin South Carolina are raising awareness about the
dangers of impaired driving. Samantha Millerwas killed Friday when she and her new
husband, Eric were leaving their weddingin a golf cart. Police say the
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twenty five a twenty five year oldwoman, rammed the cart from behind.
Miller's mom says her daughter's alleged killermade a terrible decision that changed lives forever.
She literally ran into my daughter goingsixty five miles an hour because Sam
and Eric were on the back ofthe golf cart, and so she basically
just ran my child. Oh mygod. The family says. The groom
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is recovering from a brain injury andnumerous broken bones after the golf cart rolled
over several times he was thrown ahundred yards. The woman driving has been
charged with three counts of felony duiand one count of reckless homicide. Television
and movie riders are headed to thepicket lines. The WGA voted to strike
last night for the first time infifteen years. Chris Escobar is the executive
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director of the Atlanta Film Festival andsays the strike will hurt Georgia as well
as New York in LA anything thatcould put a halt into people being able
to work and to be able toget to work, and for businesses to
be able to supply. I mean, that's obviously a huge concern. The
sag AFTER National Board says it standsin solidity with the union as well as
the Director's Guild of America and theIATs. Negotiations between the studio and the
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riders in March, that's when theystarted, and we still have nothing.
On the second of May, andthe US military says, hey, look
up in the sky, it's abird. It's a plane. It's another
mysterious balloon. This one's been seenover parts of Hawaii. But they say
it poses no threat to aerial trafficor national security. But They say it's
not clear who it belongs to orwhat exactly it is. The military has
(23:30):
been tracking the balloon since late lastweek. Officials say it did not go
over any sensitive areas. A Chinesespy balloon flew over parts of the US
in February February before it was shotdown. Jim Ryan, Good morning to
you. So let's talk about youknow, a lot of times these an
elderly person sometimes won't shoot Anybody whogets caught in a scam oftentimes just doesn't
(23:56):
say anything because they don't want tolook like, oh gosh, I was
that dummy who got caught. Notscam. That's what they're afraid people will
think of. But there's a gentlemaneighty years old who's a Navy veteran,
and I love that he's bucking atrend like, hey, I got caught.
You easily could too. Yeah,And that's the warning he's trying to
put out there. His name isJohn McKendrick. He lives in West Palm
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Beach. As he said, he'sa Navy veteran, got his master's degree.
Smart guy, he's tech savvy,but he still fell for this scam.
The Norton Security Protection scam. Youget a note from Norton Security saying,
hey, your subscription for your computersecurity is about to expire. Do
you want to renew it or doyou want to cancel it? So you
get in touch with the company.What's really frightening to me, Jen is
(24:40):
that John McKendrick had the presence ofmind to say, no, I don't
know about this. So instead ofrelying on the phone number that was provided
to him by quote Norton Security Protectionunquote, he googled Norton Security Protection,
went out, found the website,and called the phone number that he found
there. He still was connected toscammers. Because these scameras are able to
(25:02):
spoof a website, they can makeone very similar to what the actual company
website is, so that makes itextra difficult to try to thwart this kind
of thing. These people are unscrupulous, and you might think, well,
they say, well, this guy'seighty years old, he's living on his
retirement, he's just got a littlelevel. Let's leave him alone and move
onto the knocks. No, no, no, no, they were.
(25:25):
They play on that the guy's age, They play on his unfamiliarity with how
the scam wight work. And theyknow that he's got a pile of money
that he's sitting on to live on, and they don't mind taking it away
from him, So that's what theydo. You gotta be careful because companies
like or the scammeras will use aname like Norton or Microsoft or geek Squad
or Amazon in their pitches to tryto buy some confidence from you, to
(25:47):
get you to buy into it andsay, hmm, this looks legitimate.
Even the phone number on your callerID might say Microsoft, and you know
it's They're able to spoof just aboutanything, including websites and phone numbers.
Tyler in my ear while you weretalking and said, wait a minute,
he googled it. And and thendoes Google. Is there any responsibility or
on us on them to make surethat all of the stuff that's on their
(26:11):
website is legit? Well not really, but as soon as they find out
something like that this has happened,they'll yank that website off of there.
And you know, but it's toolate then for a lot of folks,
And it would have been for McKendrickif he had not you know, gotten
And in fact it was too latefor him because he got pulled in the
scammers and had hold of him.They were able to gain access to his
(26:32):
computer, gain his trust. Firstof all, they call it an a
con because it relies on your confidence. That's what con is short for,
right, And so you know,it's just it's horrific. And I just
hate too that he was planning onusing some of this money to go to
London, I guess, to havethe what celebration of life for his wife,
right that really I don't know whythat part just it kills me.
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Yeah, I mean, ninety fourthousand dollars right out the window. And
this was money, you're right,for this tribute to his wife that I
think it was in France actually,but and money that he was going to
live on and now it's gone.So I think he's relying. He's hoping
the bank and maybe the bank willtake mercy on him. They've got insurance
and maybe they'll be able to makehim whole again. But catching the scammers
(27:18):
almost impossible. Well, I justagain give this guy kudos. I mean,
obviously he's a war hero and nowhe's a hero probably for a lot
of other elderly people, just togive them shoot and not even elderly people.
For me, I appreciate this guycoming forward right here. Whether you're
eighty or eighteen, it's possible tofall for something like this. And because
the scammers are geniuses in a way, evil geniuses. Yeah, exactly,
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evil genius. Yeah yeah, Ilike that. That's better big jerks.
All right, Jim, thank youso much. I appreciate it too.
Yeah. Well, I think thatjust proves that, you know, it
can happen to anybody, anybody,and you know it now. I don't
know if you're like me, Ijust assume everything is a scam until you
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go to use your credit card andthey say that, you know, like
it'll get declined, and you're likewhat And you call the company and they
say, we called you five daysago because we suspected fraud, and you
never called us back. I thoughtthat was spam. I didn't think it
was actually you guys that might havehappened to one of us. They turn
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it right back on, you know, they just go through that did you
make this purchase? Yes? Didyou make this purchase? Yes? But
now, in the assumption that I'mgoing to get, you know, screwed
over by something, I just don'tdo anything anymore, tell us you're a
shopoholic, gen without telling us thatyou're a shopoholic, A bit of a
shopoholic when your credit card company saysthere's irregular activity on your account because you're
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shopping so much. You know what, though, But if they looked,
it would probably be like what,she didn't go to Target or Goodwill or
eBay. She actually went to areal store. She went to a Nordstrom
rack. What cause for concern?I'm telling you. Former President Trump will
be on CNN again. CNN saysthe former president has been confirmed for an
(29:18):
appearance at a CNN town hall.Caitlin Collins will moderate the town hall at
Saint Anselm's College in New Hampshire nextweek. The booking may be a sign
that Trump is trying to reach beyondRepublicans to find more votes for the twenty
twenty four election. CNN has beentrying to get more Republicans to appear on
its network since new management took over. This would be Trump's first official appearance
on CNN since the twenty sixteen presidentialcampaign. Amy King KFI News, all
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Right, you've heard us talking aboutAM radio being removed from new cars and
trucks. Yeah, that's a possibilityright now. And if you remove access
to the very AM radio stations thatmillions of Americans count on, like this
one for local emergency information, especiallywhen your cell phone is down, you've
now lost power and then AM isthe lifeline. Right THEEMA and first responders
(30:07):
across the country rely heavily on AMradio to deliver public warnings and emergency because
of AM's unmatched reach resiliency. Anddon't forget it's free now. This hits
home for most of us. Anddo you think it's right for you to
lose access to KFI when you're onthe road. I didn't think. So.
You need to make your voice heardon this issues. How can you
(30:29):
do that? Text the letters AMto five to eight eight six and tell
Congress to keep AM radio in allcars and trucks. That's the letters AM
to five to eight eight six andtell Congress. Hey, Congress, people,
keep AM radio in all our carsand trucks. Standard messaging and data
rates apply. Michelle Steinberg joins usthis morning the director of the Wildlife Division
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of the National Fire Protection Association.Michelle, Good morning to you. Good
morning, Jennifer. You know Iwas just doing a story. One of
my reporters had filed something about howthis fire season, specifically CalFire was talking
about this fire season. Yeah,the rain was awesome, but then all
that rain turns into fuel, thatfuel dries out and look at all the
(31:17):
potential for wildfires we have. Andso that just perfectly coincided with what you're
talking about today, right, we'retalking about Wildfare Community Preparedness Day, which
is this coming Saturday, May sixth, and it's a chance for people to
get ahead of when those fuels willdry out and get prepared for wildfire.
If you have a house that's gotI don't know, any space around it,
(31:41):
I know, we talk about defensiblespace and if you're on a property
that's got some land about around it, what is the proper defensible space area
that you should have? Right,so we talk about preparing your home and
working your way out into that socalled defensible space, and really what it's
(32:01):
doing is working in this area thatcan help prevent your home from igniting from
a wildfire. So these colncepts arevery similar, and what we try to
focus on is getting people to takea look at their roof, walls,
windows, vents, any place embercan catch and ignite or enter the home
(32:22):
to try to prevent that, andthen working out starting with the first five
feet away from your house, andthat extent could go out to about one
hundred feet. It really depends onthe property parcel itself, but even in
that first five feet you can makea real difference in the safety of your
home. And you know, onething that we all hate to do is
clean out our gutters. Nobody likesthat. But if you think about all
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of the fuel that's in those guttersand God forbid an ember come along like
that boom, you've got an atticfire and forget your house right. Cleaning
your gutters seems like such a kindof ordinary, boring thing to do,
but it's really effective. And ifyou notice that you're getting a lot of
material onto your roof and guard asyou might think about working whether it's a
(33:07):
tree specialist or a landscape or tosee can we trim back some of those
overhanging branches that could also pose anissue, or trying to reduce some of
that debris that comes down onto yourhouse and right around your house. That's
real important to rake out. Alsoat the base of the house, to
get that kind of material away fromyour siding, away from the edge of
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your home, just within about thatfive feet. And you know one thing
that a lot of us, Yousit on your couch, you look out
the window, you see the grassis a little high in the yard.
But you don't you think yourself,I'll get it next weekend, and maybe
next weekend is going to be alittle too late. Well, that's the
thing. What we're trying to dowith this Welfare Community Preparedness Day is a
(33:47):
reminder, in a rallying call tosay, hey, let's get out there
now. Hopefully it's good weather andyou can go take care of things.
And sometimes working with your family,working with your neighbors, that can make
as that are pretty mundane a littlebit more enjoyable. So that's another great
aspect of our having our prep dayhappen on May six. So that's that's
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just something we recommend that people kindof stay on that maintenance. That's one
of the most important things you cando and really really effective. And one
of the things that I never eventhought about, but was that a lot
of people store stuff under their decksor porches and those things might ignite I
never even kind of thought about that. I thought, oh, they're under
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there. It's kind of wet andmoist, you know, damp underneath your
deck. But I guess that canjust as easily ignite as anything else.
Sure, and so a lot oftimes if you've got an elevated deck,
what we would recommend is think aboutsome screening or as you say, remove
some of those items that might beflammable if embers, if debris is blowing
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in there, say like pine needlesor other things are collecting there, you
know that embers are going to gothere too. So that's where that's where
we try to pay attention and too. That is, anything attached to your
house is part of your house.When fire is concerned, it will have
that path of ignition right to thehome. So that's why we recommend to
clear out those areas as much asyou can for anything that could catch fire.
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Where can people go for all thisinformation. We have a great website
at Wildfire prep day dot org.It's part of NFPAS websites that gives tips
and tools. It's got some greatlittle videos to actually show you some of
the things you can do. ProjectToolkit. If people are excited about what
they're going to do on May six, they can share that on a map
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and tell the world about it,and that's just a great place to start,
all right. Thank you so muchfor your time, Michelle, and
hopefully people me heed this warning andgo around the house and just see,
you know, what could catch fire, and you know, just do a
tiny little bit of maintenance might beyou know, a big help in the
future should a wildfire ever start aroundyou. Thanks Michelle, Thank you,
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Jennifer, See you later. Thatis Michelle Steinberg. She is director of
the Wildlife Division of the National FireProtection Association. Some one of my parents
lived up in the Sticks in Shingletown, literal sticks. I think they were
on like I don't know, maybetwo acres or something like that, and
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they are like, oh my gosh, I know my dad listens to the
show sometime. Dad. I loveyou, but holy Cannoli, are you
anal about fire protection? Good foryou, dad, see Tyler's in the
will now stay safe out there,dad. Yes, I'm not anymore.
But he would get and I'm notjoking you. He would cut down trees
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himself, like the digger pines,the ones that you know are kind of
the skinny. They're the skinny onesthat fall in our big fire danger.
He'd cut those down himself. He'dgo rent man lift. There's Bob and
the man lift cutting down tree limbsand whatever. Y'all ever have a fire?
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No, thankfully. However, theproperties on the not the one side
of them, but the property onanother side of them. Holy cow.
I don't think they ever raked apine needle or a whatever. And no,
no, there were no There wereno fires on their street, Tyler.
So nobody had a fire. Nobodyhad a fire. However, I'm
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trying to make a point, butnow he just walked away from the mic.
The point is, you gotta encourageyour neighbors to do the same,
because if the house on the otherside of them had done some actual fire
prevention, maybe if there was afire, Tyler, that house wouldn't have
(37:54):
caught fire. I'm just saying,there was no fire on the street,
Tyler. Shout out to Shingletown thismorning. Good for you, Shingletown.
Five environmental and cultural heritage groups aresuing the FAA over the recent SpaceX launch
(38:15):
in Texas that ended with that bigboom. Now, the groups accused the
FAA of approving the test launch withouta comprehensive environmental review. Remember all of
the dust and things that everybody wastalking about in that area right after the
rocket exploded four minutes after liftop onApril twentieth, But it was actually the
(38:36):
launchpad that went you know, alsokapui and that concrete metal rained down over
a six mile area once you hadthe blowup. That on top of all
the damage that was done from thelaunch pad, it was tough. The
FDIC has recommended the US rethink it'sdecades old policy of ensure up to two
(39:00):
hundred and fifty thousand dollars in bankdeposits. It recommends replacing it with an
overhaul that would let regulators cover higheramounts on a targeted basis. Interest rates
are going up. That's creating challengesin managing interest rate risks. That's a
basic thing that any bankers should beable to do. There are a few
banks out there that have not managedtheir risk will. Former FDIC director Sheila
(39:22):
Bears says when she worked for theorganization, she did not have enough examiners
and had deep cutbacks, and shesays she's sad to see the problem still
exist. The proposal comes as wewere talking about yesterday, first to a
public bank failed to be the secondlargest bank collapse in US history. They
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say, good fences make good neighbors, right, but the internet makes neighbors
worse. Any study says the averageperson is not spoken to their neighbor in
three weeks, but they still enjoyposting passive, aggressive stuff about those same
neighbors on social media community pages,researchers saying more than half of those surveyed
enjoyed the sniping and mud slinging andlocal online groups, with thirty four percent
(40:05):
saying it's pure entertainment. Many won'tdeal with their neighbors face to face to
resolve issues like loud dogs or parkingissues, but they'll post about it online.
About ten percent said they'd like toget to know their neighbors, but
they're unsure how to go about doingso. Michael Krozer k if I News,
All right, not only am Ifriends with my neighbors? Tyler is
now friends with my neighbors neighbor?Well, yeah, you know him,
(40:30):
You know Cupcake, just the oneyou haven't met every shot. Okay,
see's word. Hey, that's howquickly Tyler and Cupcake became friends. By
the way, if you want tosee Cupcake, he's on my Instagram jjlkfive.
We all went to a Dodgers gametogether a couple of weeks ago.
But Phila Noreen, So if you'relooking at my house, Phila Noreen or
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on the right, we just hada conversation over the weekend. I have
Norma down the street who's worked atMichael's for I think she said thirty seven
years. That's right, Chuck andShelley across the street, Jerry Arabella and
Madaline who just moved into the housedirectly across from me, and then there's
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Cupcake and Pink Cheeks. I lovemy neighbors, and I'm not dumb enough
to snipe about them on the communitywebsite that they too might be on.
I feel like that's on you ifyou do something stupid like that. Nick
Paliochini knows everybody. I think you'vemet half the people that I even talked
(41:37):
about. Nick specifically, say Iknow all those neighbors in the Cold Side.
Yeah, yeah, Nick's been overthe shoot, We've all sat around
for hours. At knows them,a king, A king knows them.
Yeah, I mean it's that's howsee I'm a good neighbor, or I
just have really good neighbors. That'smore the case. It's Kopi and KOSHD,
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two Angeles, Orange County. Thishas been your wake up Call.
I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. You've beenlistening to your wake up Call with me,
Jennifer Jones Lee, and you canalways hear wake Up Call five to
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