May 9, 2023 • 44 mins
Jennifer Jones Lee hosts your Tuesday morning Wake Up Call. It's an ABC heavy morning! ABC's White House Correspondent Karen Travers first joins the show to talk about today being the first in negotiations surrounding the debt ceiling while the gun violence epidemic continues to frustrate Biden. Then, Ines De La Cuetara shares information regarding the President of Mexico holding a call with Biden on immigration and the fentanyl crisis. Mike Dobuski talks about Bluesky, the possible competitor to Twitter. And ABC's Jim Ryan talks about the search for answers in two mass casualties in Texas.
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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 app. Tuesdays aren't
so bad when they start with JenniferJones Late. Here she is with your
morning wake up call. You knowhow we often talk about the national days.
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Today is two that I feel arereally important. One the most important
one. It is National Teacher's Day. Any teacher who was up an atom
right now, probably a lot ofyou are. I have such respect for
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you because here's the way that Ifeel when it comes to who people who
are like teachers get paid too much. Teachers don't get paid en up right,
you get both sides of that coin. I look at this and I
go, any teacher who had kneein their class did not get paid enough.
I don't care if they were makingsix figures. Bottom line, I
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was that kid. So to misterCropsey and mister Brown and missus Peterson and
mister Edwards. Literally that's like fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh grades,
I apologize and I celebrate you today. Today is also National Lost Sock Memorial
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Day. What is I'm one personin a house screen made three dogs who
like socks. But what I'm sayingis one person in a house, I'm
in charge of all the laundry.I fold the laundry, I do the
laundry. Where in the hell dothose socks go? Is there a vortex?
A sock vortex? You put themin the washer, and then who
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they're sucked up into the board.I'm convinced there is. Other people are
convinced the vortex's name is Betty Whitethe dog. Quite possible as well.
Also, the writer's strike has enteredits second week, and apparently the two
sides are still way at odds overpay, streaming, residuals, and AI.
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We'll talk about the debt ceiling andthe White House says it's got a
constitutional duty to raise it. Andwe also got the autopsy results on actor
ray Leota. I'll tell you whatthose are in just a second, but
let's start with some of these storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The writer's strike has enteredits second week. WGA negotiator Chris Kaiser
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says the two sides are still atodds over pay, streaming, residuals,
and AI. To become a gigeconomy, there's no ladder up for writers.
They get the same pay over andover again, year after year,
and our members they're telling us theyjust can't make it. Many of the
more than eleven thousand striking writers havecalled out streaming services because they are changing
the way that the writers are paidunlike network shows. Now, the creators
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of Stranger Things have shut down productionof its final season until the strike ends.
Other Netflix series like Cobra Kai andRob Blow's new project Unstable, We're
also shut down. But you know, what I was thinking about, sort
of the ripple effect that this strikehas not taking a side of you know,
the writers or the studios. Here, all I'm saying is this writer's
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strike is impacting more than just thewriters. Right, You've got the hair
and makeup people, the caterers,the people who's living, you know,
make their living renting out the microphonesand the stages and the sets and all
that kind of stuff. All thosepeople, and I know far more than
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I'm even thinking of. But it'sjust anytime that you hear, oh it's
the writers strike. No, thisimpacts Hollywood. I mean, this could
impact your neighbor, right, maybeyour neighbor is a set designer, or
maybe your neighbor is the clothing person, the stylist for one of these shows.
They're not working right now either.The White House says it is Congress's
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constitutional duty to raise the debt ceiling. There shouldn't be negotiations on the debt
limit. This is something that theyshould get to regular order and get to
work on. White House Press SecretaryKorean Jean Pierre says President Biden will make
that clear today when he meets withRepublican leaders to talk about the debt limit.
Now, we're going to talk withABC's Karen Travers more about this in
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just a second. The La SchoolDistrict Board of Education is said to give
final approval to a new labor agreementwith the union representing its teachers. The
agreement includes a twenty one percent payhike in increments that go back to July
one of last year, then runthrough January first of twenty twenty five.
When the agreement was announced, thedistrict noted the increases were on top of
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a five percent hike that was includeddid in the twenty twenty one twenty two
budget. Ray Leoda, we've nowfound out that the actor died from cardiovascular
disease. The Good Fellows actor diedin his sleep last May while filming in
the Dominican Republic. Officials confirmed yesterdayhe died from a build up of fat's
cholesterol and other substances in and onthe artery walls. They cited pulmonary edema,
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heart and respiratory failure as all thingsthat contributed to his death. The
National Institute of Health say about sixhundred ten thousand people die of heart disease
every year in the US. Willthey won't they? Karen Travers, good
morning to you. Let's talk debtceiling negotiations and frustrations. Yeah, it's
good today, big meeting at theWhite House. President Biden's sitting down with
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressionalleaders. But really this is all about
the presidents and the House Speaker.It's the first time that they have sat
down and talks in February. First. It's a really significant meeting. But
I can say the expectations are reallybeing managed, if not lowered, for
any major breakthrough on the debt ceilingand the bigger issue about budget and spending
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cuts because the two sides are sofirmly entrenched in their positions, and it's
not clear where there's any room fornegotiating. The White House is saying yesterday,
the President isn't budgeting, he doesnot want to negotiate on the debt
ceiling, and is insisting that Congressjust raised that without any conditions, without
any strings attached. Well, theHouse Republicans have said, we've already raised
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the debt ceilings legislation that we passed. But that legislation, of course,
cut federal spending by more than fourand a half trillion dollars over a decade
and rolled back some of the keyparts of the President's domestic agenda. That's
a nonstarter for the Senate Democrats andfor the President. So that's where we
stand right now, and that's wherewe've stood now for several months. And
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it's not quite clear then, ifthese two sides are going in with these
very firm positions, how there's anegotiation today and they talk about It's been
my question and other people have beenasking this at the White House for a
week since this meeting has been announced. What are they even going to talk
about if they're both saying here's whatwe will not negotiate on how do you
have a meeting today? Well,that's what I'm thinking. Is this a
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waste of time? Is this justso that each side can go Well,
we tried to push our agenda andthe other person wouldn't budge. So it's
their fault, it might be,And we'll find out afterwards. We're going
to see the beginning of the meeting. They're gonna let cameras and reporters in
for the photo opportunity at the start. Most likely President Biden is the only
one that talks that that is hismeeting. He invited them down to his
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turf at the White House. Butthen afterwards, I think we'll hear from
lawmakers who will come out to thecameras afterwards to talk about what was discussed
in the meeting. And that's alwaysthe managing of or you know, the
narration, the narrative setting afterwards,so you know, here's what my side
was, and here's what we gotout of the other side, and we'll
see. But it's always interesting afterwardsbecause presidents don't come out and talk like
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that, but the law acres do, so they're the ones that get to
set the tone a little bit afterwards. We'll likely get a paper statement to
read out from the White House aboutwhat they think happened in the meeting,
But I think there'll be a lotof political spin from both sides. You
can guarantee, Oh, absolutely,June first being the day that Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen gave as sort of thedeadline to have this budget passed before we
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default. She also made some commentswhen it was suggested that, oh,
the President could invoke the fourteenth Amendmentand go for the validity of the public
debt and make the decision himself.And I just thought it was interesting that
basically she was like, Nah,that's not a good option either. She
essentially said there's no good option unlessthese two sides can figure something out.
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Yeah. And you know, thisis a White House that, on many
issues always says like the best optionis always to do it the right way
with Congress and legislation. And thePresident was asked about this in an interview
last week, about invoking the fourteenthand them and to unilaterally raise the debt
ceiling. He said he's not thereyet. It would surely face constitutional challenge,
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So it's it's unlikely. I don'twant to say it's completely a zero
possibility, but unlikely that they woulddo that. They are still saying it's
Congress that needs to do this.Pass legislation that just raises the debt ceiling,
as they have done dozens of timesbefore the President was sign it,
take the threat of default off thetable, and then the conversation can begin
about the budget and spending cuts.All right, Karen, thank you so
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much. I appreciate it, andhave fun. It's a photo by today.
Oh yeah, inside scoop you twosee you later. ABC's Karen traversed,
don't you ever wonder what these WhiteHouse reporters actually find out about some
of our nation's political leaders, liketheir quirks, you know, like,
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oh, we had one governor.I don't know if this is common knowledge.
So he bit to myself, buthe was colorblind, and from what
I understand, his wife had toput out his clothes so that he matched.
And the joke was when he showedup to like a briefing, you
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know, in the I don't know, when he was wearing orange on top
and pink pants or something. Hehad no idea. He thought he looked
awesome. Just little things like that, Little quirks like that that I wish
we knew. Let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LACity Council is expected to get a report
calling for more funding and more resourcesto expand street medicine services for city funded
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housing. Street medicine provides general medicalcare, counseling, therapy, addiction recovery
services, and health insurance and romemeant to homeless people. Emotion introduced in
April, says the city had alreadymade a large investment in street medicine in
February, but there's an urgent needto provide more on site services. Renters
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at the Barrington Plaza apartments in WestLa are being forced to move out so
the complex can renovate with fire sprinklersand other safety upgrades. There have been
two huge fires at that complex overthe past decade, including one that killed
a nineteen year old foreign exchange student. Eight floors in one of the complex's
three towers have been red tagged andout of service since the fire. Remember
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I knew we covered this one Januarytwenty twenty. Hundreds of people have until
September to get out. Here's thething. If somebody was like, you
know, the building you're living in, it's not the safest thing. I
wouldn't wait till September. Granted Iwould have to have somewhere else to go,
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and that's always a problem, butdon't give me a timeline. I'll
get out. Yesterday, social mediasuggests the man who killed eight people at
Amalin Allen, Texas, may havescouted the location for over a year.
He apparently posted a dozen images fromthe mall parking lots, even taking a
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screen grab of peak hours Saturday's threepm to six pm, exactly when the
shooting happened. ABC's Matt Gutman saysthe shooters social media activity also includes references
to Nazi ideology, hatred of women, racism, and anti Semitism. A
three year old boy and two younggirls were among those killed Saturdays. Seven
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people were hurt. The girls thatwere killed I think were fourth in sixth
graders. I think there were sisters. A bill in Texas to raise the
age for buying assault style weapons totwenty one has passed a House committee vote.
Families have lost loved ones in massshooting celebrated the vote yesterday. Jerry
Modi says he lost his daughter inthe mass shooting last year at rob Elementary
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School in Uvaldi, Texas. Heand his wife have been fighting ever since
for stricter gun laws. No matterwhat happens in the floor, whether it
dies in the floor or not,we're gonna continue. We're gonna continue the
fight. We're not gonna stop.Not to and his wife say they cried
when they heard about the age vote. He says it's a big step because
they've been told it would never happenin the Capitol. The bill still has
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to pass in the Senate, thenget to Governor Abbott's desk for his signature.
Have you gone outside if you livein Sherman Oaks, there's a chance
that you've got a river running throughit as in the streets. A sheared
fire hydrant has created this huge messin Sherman Oaks. The hydrant was apparently
hit by a car this morning onWoodcliff Road, and it caused water to
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shoot up about one hundred feet high. I know I shouldn't be excited about
this, but have you ever beenby a fire hydrant that gets cheered?
It is impressive. Streets and severalhomes were flooded. That's not good.
The driver did not stick around.That's not good either. And a jury
in Riverside County has found a guyconvicted of fatally stabbing his girlfriend was sane
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when he did it. The womanwas killed in twenty seventeen. Her body
was dumped by a cemetery. Thenapparently her mobile home was set on fire.
Christian Potaco pleaded not guilty by reasonof insanity. He will be sentenced
next month. Let's say good morningnow to ABC's Inez de la Kutera.
Mexico's president is saying, sure,I'll talk with President Biden today about the
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federal crisis in immigration, but Ihave a feeling in Es there might be
some finger pointing going on. Hey, good morning. Yeah, that's right.
So President Biden will be speaking withthe Mexican president today. They're going
to be speaking by a phone.And this is important because it comes just
days before the title forty two Borderrestrictions. Let's you'll remember those Dark Pandemic
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era immigration restrictions that allowed US authoritiesto quickly expel migrants to cross the border
illegally. So they're gonna talk aboutthat. They're going to talk about how
to develop programs to help stem theflow of migrants to the US border.
We know, for instance, LocalOverdoor previously out the US government to contribute
more aid to Hello. Oh sorry, and as our connection is horrible,
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I'm gonna let you go for halfa second so we can try and reconnect
with you and see if we canget a slightly better connection. It's just
very digitally. We're kind of gettingevery other word from Inez. I hate
when that happens, especially when theyget them on and they check them and
Tyler and Ann are like, we'regood to go, and then all of
a sudden they start talking in theirphone. Craps out happens all the time.
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A woman from Kaipa who made childporn with two kids, including an
infant, has been sentenced to fortyyears in prison. Stephanie Stevens admitted to
investigators she made videos of herself performingoral sex on the infant and taking several
nude photos with the other kid.US Attorney spokesman Kieran McAvoy says Stevens was
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babysitting the kids when she made theporn in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.
These were moms and a mom anda dad who had to work these were
different families. Macavoy says. Investigatorsfound online messages between Stevens and another person
in which Steven's expressed excitement to havethe infide in her care so she could
make porn with the baby Blake trolley. K if I News. That's possibly
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one of the worst stories I've heard. I mean, granted, the shootings
and everything, but what are youwatch my mouth on that one? All
right, let's say good morning nowagain to ab season as dala kuta.
I hear our line has cleared up, so if you could go back and
tell us everything that you said before, because we didn't catch a lot of
it. So Mexico President is meetingwith President Biden today and immigration obviously going
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to be right at the top ofthe list considering the expiration of Title forty
two on Thursday. Oh hey,that's right. Yeah, so hopefully you
can hear me better now. Butyes, they're gonna be talking about immigration,
They're going to be talking about economiccooperation, and they are going to
be talking about the fentinel crisis aswell. The immigration part of it is
especially interesting because it comes just daysbefore the Title forty two border restrictions lift,
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so those are, of course,those pandemic era immigration restrictions that allow
US authorities to quickly expel migrants whoacross the border illegally. So they're going
to talk about that. They're goingto talk about how to, excuse me,
how to develop programs to help stemthe flow of migrants to the US
borders, so we know, forinstance, the Mexican president had previously asked
the US government to contribute more aidto help develop the region economically, to
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help crack down on crime, forinstance, so that people wouldn't have to
migrate in the first place. TheMexican president has also recently slammed Republicans for
putting forward proposals that would make itmore difficult for migrants to apply for asylum
and easier for authorities to block migrantsat the border. But it's a tricky
situation for Mexico as well. Weshould point out Mexico has been accepting and
continues to accept migrants from Venezuela,Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua who are turned
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away at the border, So ifthey don't make it into the US,
then they stay in Mexico. Mexicofor now has been accepting that, but
that does put a strain also onMexican resources. Of course, now as
this continues to be a problem andit's going to you know, become more
and more of a problem for Mexico'sresources, so the Mexican president also has
a vested interest in resolving this situation. And of course the concern here is
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an ask title forty two runs outs, there could be a surge of migrants
heading to the US border, youknow, some some new caravans. We've
seen those caravans pop up time andtime again, and and that's as expected
here as Title forty two runs out, okay, and it has Mexico said
specifically, we have X resources thatare stretched to the limit and therefore we
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can't accept anybody else. Have theygiven a timeline for how long that they'll
be able to use sustain this acceptance? You know, I don't know about
a specific timeline. I do knowthat they have said that they're going to
continue accepting migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaraqua places like that.
So it doesn't seem like right nowthey're looking to crack down on those
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arrivals. But that is something thatcertain you know, officials are pushing for
in the US. They feel thatit would be or if to to stop
this migration problem if Mexico just didn'taccept the migrants to you know, if
it didn't allow the migrants to comeinto Mexico to begin with. So yeah,
there's a bit, a little bitof the US blaming Mexico here for
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this problem. Right. It feelslike which came first, the chicken out
of the egg. Either it's yourfault for letting them in, or it's
your fault for letting this expire.It's somebody's fault along the way. Right
on the fentyl crisis portion of it. I just happened to be watching El
Chapo, that series on Netflix.I've never I hadn't watched it, and
I know it's a couple of yearsold, but they just got to the
part about fentyl and it being smuggledin in some I mean, I guess
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that we haven't really dealt specifically withthe fentyl crisis until the last couple of
years. But knowing it was awhile ago when we started getting that drug
into the United States, to seethe growth that it has had just over
the last couple of years, orthe explosion somebody's got to stop it somewhe.
I mean, it can't be goodfrom Mexico. It's got to be
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killing their people, but it's alsokilling ours left and right. Yeah,
I mean similar to immigration. Likeyou say, these are big problems that
have been going on for years,and so both sides they're facing lots of
pressure to domestically to actually resolve them. So this is going to be another
interesting one, this topic of fentanel. So the US knows that the drugs
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are being mainly smuggled in from Mexico, but the Mexican president denies that drug
cartels make fentanyl in Mexico. He'sacknowledged that that precursor chemicals and finished fentinel
are smuggled into Mexico from China.China denies that. So again we're seeing
that finger pointing. What we doknow is that it is a very real
problem for the US with um,you know, the centinel crisis causing about
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seventy thousand overdosed deaths per year inthe US. And so yeah, President
I did it under lots of pressureto resolve this, find a way to
stop the flow of drugs into theUS. Do you think that he and
the Mexican president can come to anysort of agreement on that. I mean,
I know, I know he saysthat it's not the drug cartels who
are producing it. However, Ithink history would maybe disagree with that,
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or at least they would say,you guys might not be the A plus
B equals C on this one,but you're certainly the distributor of it into
the United States. Yeah, youknow, And I was just gonna say
that that the Mexican prigels are very, very powerful, and that's the Mexican
president, um, you know,much as the trance to crackdown on corruption,
and there are some would argue thathe doesn't do enough, but um,
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he has domestic concerns that he alsoneeds to contemporally, let's put it
that way. And so and therehave been Mexican officials who actually accuse the
US of overstepping and entry enacting toomuch of Mexico and trying to meddle in
Mexican affairs. So, um,that's you know, part of all of
this. I think there's also thevery real possibility that this will cause friction
between the US and Mexico, andthey certainly want to maintain a good kind
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of neighborly relationship. And then theother part of it is is China,
of course, and and China.Recently, because of the tensions between the
US and China over Taiwan, Chinasaid that it was going to stop stopping
the flow of drugs. Oh,now we've lost her complete eventually, So
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that's another part of all of thedefichiens. Oh and as I'm sorry at
the end we lost you, andas if you can hear me, thank
you very much, or as wetried. You know. I think one
of the most interesting parts of Iknow I keep talking about it about this
El Chapo Netflix series. Yes,it's a drama and all of that kind
of stuff, but it whether youwatched Narcos, any one of them,
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or whether you watched El Chappo.I think there's Pablo Escobar, which is
an extramentalist. The thing that cannotbe dramatized is over and over and over
again. I don't care what seriesthat is you're watching, or what you've
been reading or what news organization.The thing is, these Mexican drug cartels
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control Mexico. And I feel like, not that he's gonna say it,
but that the Mexican president. Iwish that there was at least acknowledgement of
it, like, hey, yeah, I don't know what. I don't
know what I'm supposed to do.You know, there are assassination attempts left
right up down, I'm sure,all the time on him. Anytime he
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does crack down, he's got toknow his life and his family's life is
in danger because these guys don't stop. But still it's also killing his own
people. So at what point doeshe go, all right, you know
what, I gotta bite the bullet. Well, that's a bad phrase.
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I've got to, you know,I've got to crack down on this and
get I can't have my own peoplebeing killed just so these drugs smugglers and
drug cartels can get their stuff overthe US border and don't Hey, I
don't have a solution for it.But there have been presidents who have tried,
there have been governments who have tried. There have been police organizations in
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Mexico who have tried, or thathave tried to fix this problem. I
don't know. Is it too bigto fail? Are they like the banking
industry? Maybe The writer's strike hasentered its second week WGA negotiator Chris Kaiser
says that two sides are still wayat odds over pay streaming residuals and AI.
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The White House says it is Congress'sconstitutional duty to raise the debt ceiling,
and we do have the autopsy nowon Actor ray Leota, and he
died of cardiovascular disease. Hey,there are some people who are saying,
you don't need AM radio in yourcar. You can get those alerts on
your phone, pup Lees. Thereis talk about AM radio being removed from
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new cars and trucks, but ifyou get rid of AM radio, yes,
we have an obvious vested interest inthis. However, think about it.
We are the way that millions ofAmericans get their local emergency information,
especially when the cell towers are deadand there's no power. How are you
going to charge your phone? Howare you going to get any of those
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alerts on your phone if it's dead. So what we're trying to do is
make sure our voices are heard andmake sure that you get Congress to hear
you. And the way you cando that is don't let AM radio out
of the cars. Just text AMto five to eight, eight to six
and tell Congress to keep AM radioin all cars and trucks. That's AM
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to five to eight eight six.That's the way that you can tell Congress
to keep AM radio in your car. Mike Dubuski, good morning to you.
I'm pretty sure that you wrote thisin French. I have no idea
what steet skylines, the fetaverse andBlue Sky are all right. Well,
let's start with blue Sky then,because that's kind of the hot new app
of the moment. It's where peoplekind of are congregating popular Twitter figures like
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Alexandriocazio Cortez, Chrissy Teagan Drill,the popular comedy account are all showing up
on this new app called blue Sky. And it's very similar to Twitter jen
It's sort of short posts that arecharacter limited. You can follow people,
those people can follow you. Youcan post pictures if you want. It
looks and feels and has the samesort of vibe generally as Twitter. And
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that's kind of no surprise because BlueSky got off the ground as sort of
a side project at Twitter, apet project of Jack Dorsey, who used
to be head of that company.Okay, so if you have big name
people like a Chrissy Teagan on thereand they can pull their followers from Twitter
and bring them to Blue Sky.Is this something Elon must needs to be
worried about? So as of rightnow, Blue Sky only has a couple
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we'll say, about sixty to sixtyfive thousand users on it. It is
right now inclosed beta, which meansthat in order to get onto Blue Sky
you need to be invited by someonewho's already on the platform. So right
now it's pretty exclusive club. AndI think that also contributes to why it's
kind of being discussed so much.It's like people always want what they can't
have, right tell someone they can'tgo somewhere, they inevitably want to go
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there, So that that's part ofit. But yeah, the idea that
you know, Jack Dorsey has gonealong and created just like a Twitter that
is not run by Elon Musk,I think certainly is speaks to kind of
where Twitter is at right now,and a lot of people are very dissatisfied
with the way that Elon Musk hasrun Twitter during his tenure there, the
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sort of scuffles over verification, thelacks content moderation guidelines allowing you know,
sort of hateful accounts and hateful contentto sort of run rampant there. You
can see why people would be lookingfor other options, and Blue Sky is
presenting that to them. Admittedly apretty exclusive club of them, but you
know, I expected to kind ofopen up and become a less exclusive club,
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you knows, as the app sortof irons out some of it's more
rougher edges. But even in theJack Dorsey part of it, where he
can go, hey, remember whenyou liked Twitter. That was the thing
that I created back in the day. So let's go back to the good
old days. Get on Blue Sky. However, also, it's kind of
like when um, I'm just goingto use a Kardashian when they endorse something
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or when they're like, oh,I love this lipstick. That lipstick is
sold out for the next six monthsor so because people want to be like
them. And I can only imagineall the people that will be knocking at
the door hoping that they get oneof those invitations so that they too can
be part of the you know,fancy people's network. Right, And it's
also worth mentioning that since Elon Musktook over Twitter, there's been a bunch
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of Twitter clones, right, justaccident popped up that operate and and sort
of you know, function similarly toTwitter. It's just the Blue Sky is
the Jack Dorsey one, right,It's the one that you know is from
the guy who created Writer. Andit's also worth mentioning that it's not a
strict Twitter clone. It looks andfeels like Twitter. You use it just
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like you would use, you know, a normal Twitter app, but it's
built on a different technology. It'sbuilt on what's known as a decentralized protocol,
which is essentially what Jack Dorsey istrying to do with this app and
another app that he's built called Noster. And it's this idea that your social
profile, right the things that youpost on social media, the people that
you follow, the people that followyou right now, that is segmented to
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the app that you use. YourTwitter followers are your Twitter followers, Your
Instagram followers are your Instagram followers.Under a decentralized protocol, which you know
Blue Sky is built on. Thatdoesn't necessarily need to be the case,
though, your followers can just beyour followers and you can access them and
interact with them and post to themthrough whatever app you like kind of similar
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to email, right, Like Icould have a Gmail account, you could
have an Outlook account, but wecan st will communicate with one another.
We just prefer different apps. Andone last thing before I let you go
the fetaverse, tell me what exactlythat is? So that is what a
decentralized protocol kind of gets at.Right, So, decentralized protocol is at
the architecture that Blue Sky is builton right now, It's called the at
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protocol. They've built Blue Sky asort of their flagship app. Right,
this is the Twitter of the Fetaverse. But you could conceivably build a Green
Sky and it could be an Instagramclone, or it could be a YouTube
clone or something like that. It'sthis idea that I can log into a
federated Facebook and like your federated tweet, right, and it would all just
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play very nicely together. The questionis, you know, how if that's
actually going to play out the waythey sort of scripted it. There's not
a ton of money in the fetaverseright now, but you know a lot
of people really seem to be pushingthis idea. Jack Dorsey among them.
All right, thank you so much, Mike, You're so much fun.
We'll do it again soon, ofcourse. Take care jin All right,
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thanks ABC's Mike Debuskie. So it'slooking up. How do you get an
invite specifically? And there's a DigitalTrends dot com. Okay, how about
this. You know how you waitin line at Disneyland, Like you get
in the queue right and it says, okay, you can get on the
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matterhorn in forty minutes. Okay.That's what a Blue Sky invite essentially is.
You have to log onto the BlueSky Beta website. Then you get
on a wait list, so youput your yourself in the queue. And
there are times, like Mike wassaying, that some of these these different
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people who are on there will givean invite code. However, scammers are
lovingness and here's the thing, Ibet there you are going to nab a
bunch of people. Digital Trends says, we do not recommend spending money to
get a Blue Sky code because athere's very little stopping somebody from taking your
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money, and be they might takeyour money and not give you a code
after all. So don't do it, don't fall for it. Just watch
the fancy people for a while,put your name in the queue. What
else are you doing at five fortyfive in the morning, and then just
wait and see but don't pay forit. And what is a Tuesday without
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a story about Koalas and chlamydia?Right, Koalas and chlamydia as the fun
Tuesday. Some of the other storieswe're watching in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Also, we're keeping aneye in Sherman Oaks. In fact,
we've got like trolley on his waythere. There was a sheered fire hydrant
that created this huge mess. There'sa little river going down some streets and
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even several homes were flooded. Andthe driver who hit that fire hydrant apparently
did not stick around. Weird.Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim
Ryan. Jim the state of Texas. Man, it had an awful weekend.
Let's start in Allen, Texas.First off, as investigators are still
trying to figure out exactly what causedthat man to shoot up a shopping center.
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And I think that the backstory onthis is that I can't believe how
much research this guy did for solong. Yeah, research on the mall
first of all, trying to figureout the layout of the place is like
a huge strip shopping center. Ithink you inscribed yesterday one of the biggest
outdoor outlet malls anywhere, one hundredand twenty store or something like that.
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And Mauricio Garcia was very thorough inlooking at all the angles there, figuring
out where to pull his car intothe parking lot and then start shooting.
And that's what he did on Saturdayand killing eight people altogether. Others are
still hospitalized, some in critical conditionand so, and you're right, and
finding out exactly why he did this. It's going to be tricky watching his
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social media or looking at it asinvestigators are now. They are seeing all
these different pictures of time and timeagain where he took pictures of the mall
he thought, you know, hecategorized when the most people happened to be
there, and that kind of thing. I mean, the planning that went
into this. Is this going tobe another one of those see something,
say something things considering he was postingthis stuff, or is it going to
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be like, well, that's thatweird guy that post pictures of the mall
all the time. Well yeah,yeah, well probably a little of each.
I think there is some indication thatmaybe some of this could have been
caught by a person who could havedone something about it. But at the
same time, Mauricio Garcia had nocriminal background. He had no criminal record,
He hadn't done anything wrong before hewas kicked out of the army in
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two thousand and eight because of somemental health condition, but he had never
broken the law before walking onto thatparking lot and opening fire on people.
Besides the planning that went into this, he also had been online researching neo
Nazi view who's apparently visiting white supremacistsites, and in fact, he had
a patch on his tactical vest thathe wore at the time of the shooting.
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Our w d S is what itsaid. That's come to be known
as right wing that squad, assomething that was in that community. So
yeah, that's it's it's been kindof adopted by extremists over the last couple
of years. And I get youknow, a lot of people are sort
of parsing the fact that he waslooking at neo Nazi things and yet he
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is a Hispanic manner was right,Yeah, he was. You know,
That's that kind of leads to someof the confusion here is it is it
realistic for a Hispanic to be aneo Nazi. It is. We've seen
that in the past. Back thehead of the Proud Boys was not white,
right, so you know that's Idon't think he can be ruled out
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as somebody who has these sorts ofviews just because of his background, his
family's background. All right. YesterdayI was watching the news conference out of
Brownsville and the chief they're talking aboutjust the horrific accident. The thing that
I thought was so interesting is walkingin yesterday morning reading the news, it
was this could be intentional. Seemslike some people at the scene say that
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this guy was shouting different, youknow, things at them before he crashed
into them, or once he crashedinto the people at the bus stop.
But then when I watched the policechief giving the news conference yesterday, the
vibe around it anyway, although hecouldn't rule out it was intentional, but
the vibe was this was just ahorrible accident, right, Yeah, George
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Albarez, he has an extensive criminalbackground, unlike Maria Ceo, and that
criminal background doesn't include at least oneDWI conviction. We're waiting now for the
toxicology report to see if he wasdrunk at the time, that wouldn't rule
out his doing this on purpose,but it would seem to suggest that it
was, as you point out,an accident. He ran a red light
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and then went up on the curb, striking eighteen people, killing eight of
them there on the scene. Someare still hospitalized today. The vehicle flipped
on its side and Alvarez got out. He apparently tried to leave the scene.
I've seen video of the crowd therethat closed in on him to get
him to stay in place, andthere was a lot of shouting going on.
He may have been yelling at them. I think he knew who those
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people were because he was from Brownsville. He knew that that bus stop was
there. That bus stop is rightin front of an immigrant services type center,
and so yeah, it may bea little of both. He had
a gripe against these folks, buthe also might have been drunk. Yeah,
it could be a two fur onthat one. All right, thanks,
Jim, I appreciate it, allright, see you later. Maybec's
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Jim Ryan. Well, whatever wefind out that the actual cause is or
was, doesn't matter. Eight peoplewere killed. That's what matters. And
according to the police chief yesterday thatten people who were injured, some of
them are still uncritical, so wecould see the manslaughter charges go up against
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that driver. If God forbid,more people end up dying in the hospital.
Russian President Putin has told his countrythe West, this is so fun,
this is rich coming from the oldblad. He says, the West's
untamed ambition, arrogance and impunity aredriving the real war against Russia. Hello,
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pot, this is kettle. Hepraised soldiers taking part in the war
in Ukraine and urged Russians to standtogether. He made the comments during a
traditional Victory Day parade, which Imight point out hat did not look at
anything like the ones that we haveseen in the past. Why because they
don't have a freaking tank to spare. So, yeah, you had a
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lot of older ones that were inthe parade. There's older ones that are
defunct, like yeah, this onecan still roll down the street, but
it can't shoot anything anymore, orit doesn't have the technology in it to
actually be part of a war.That's what was in the parade yesterday.
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I don't know if you were ifI was going to be a rapper,
I don't know what my name wouldbe. Actually hit me up on Twitter.
This would be a fun one.If I was a rapper, what
would my rap name be? Idon't know that it would be Boozy Badass.
(39:44):
But there is a rapper named BoozyBadass who has been arrested in San
Diego for gun possession. Oh,by the way, his name is all
is actually Torrence Hatch Junior, whogoes by Boozy Badass. Of course he
does. He was performing at anightclub and Say Diego last week, where
videos show him leading a chant off San Diego police. That's going to
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go well for you. Hatch wasarrested during a traffic stop later Sunday for
illegal possession of a gun. Therapper was acquitted a first degree murder in
twenty ten. All right, doyou have any plans to go to Florida?
To go to Disney World? Theresort in Florida says it is no
longer going to make you have areservation date when you're buying tickets, so
(40:28):
partgoers will just buy a ticket andthen select a date at checkout now.
Disney also announced it's bringing back diningplans and it's bringing back the early entry
to the park for people who arestaying at one of the hotels there.
The changes take effect in January.Once old for the older set, hearing
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aids are now being used more andmore by the young UN's by the age
of thirty. The CDC says abouttwenty percent of Americans have damaged their hearing
because of noise. That's on topof the younger Americans who have hearing lost,
tight netics, or medical conditions,and more and more, the younger
sets seem okay with the idea ofhearing aids. The FDA started allowing the
sale of hearing aids over the counterlast year, and since then companies like
Sony and job Or have jumped intothe market, adding new designs and features
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that appeal to young consumers. Thereare dozens of brands to choose from.
Most new models have Bluetooth capability,and some of the over the counter options
can even be ordered online with freeshipping. Amy King kf I knew.
My dad just got some hearing aidsthat are Bluetooth equipped. Oh my god,
I want to use them. Heused to sit. My dad worked
on heavy equipment, you know.He was a paver and then he was
(41:35):
also a heavy equipment mechanic, sohis ears from the ringing of those that
machinery. He's got that what's itcalled tenitus? Right? Yes? I
think so. Anyway, he gothearing aids. Holy God, he can
answer the phone. Would like atouch of his ear. They're bluetooth enabled
so he can hear what's on theTV. They're fantastic if he ever,
(41:58):
if one day he akes up andgoes, hey, where are my hearing
aggs? Don't look at me.Then finally we end with two stories out
of Australia. The first one scientiststhere say they have started vaccinating wild koalas
against clamidia. They say they hopeto protect the marsupials against the disease that
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causes blindness, infertility, and death. Experts say clamidia is killing koalas because
they become so sick they are unableto climb trees, get food, escape
predators, and the females can becomeinfertile. The first koalas were vaccinated in
March and the trial is expected tolast about three months. And finally,
this woman I feel like is theShannon Farren of Australia, because I feel
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like if Shannon got lost in thebush in Australia, she too could survive
on lollipops and wine. In hercase, it might be bacon and wine.
But this woman who got lost ina remote bushland survived for five days
on wine and lollipops. So policethere showed this aerial picture of where she
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was. It was super dense.How they even found her, I don't
know, but her car got stuckin the mud when she was kind of
exploring the area, so she wasforced to wander on foot alone for five
days before the team spotted her.Police said she was able to survive the
ordeal on a few provisions that shehad. She had lollipops in the car
(43:34):
and a bottle of wine that wassupposed to go to a friend of hers
as a gift. The woman apparentlywas just fine when police found her,
and she apparently was very great tosee them, very grateful to see them.
Shannon hashtag dreams, hashtag goals.So Cowweather from KFI. It's a
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partly gray day today. That's becausewe could have a little mist and drizzle
coming in. Should taper off though, buy tomorrow and warm and more sunshine
for the weekend. We lead LocalLive from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This hasbeen your wake up Call. You've
been listening to your wake up Callwith me, Jennifer Jones Lee, and
you can always hear wake Up Callfive to six am Monday through Friday at
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KFI AM six forty and anytime ondemand 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 app. Tuesdays aren't
so bad when they start with JenniferJones Late. Here she is with your
morning wake up call. You knowhow we often talk about the national days.
(00:28):
Today is two that I feel arereally important. One the most important
one. It is National Teacher's Day. Any teacher who was up an atom
right now, probably a lot ofyou are. I have such respect for
(00:51):
you because here's the way that Ifeel when it comes to who people who
are like teachers get paid too much. Teachers don't get paid en up right,
you get both sides of that coin. I look at this and I
go, any teacher who had kneein their class did not get paid enough.
I don't care if they were makingsix figures. Bottom line, I
(01:14):
was that kid. So to misterCropsey and mister Brown and missus Peterson and
mister Edwards. Literally that's like fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh grades,
I apologize and I celebrate you today. Today is also National Lost Sock Memorial
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Day. What is I'm one personin a house screen made three dogs who
like socks. But what I'm sayingis one person in a house, I'm
in charge of all the laundry.I fold the laundry, I do the
laundry. Where in the hell dothose socks go? Is there a vortex?
A sock vortex? You put themin the washer, and then who
(02:00):
they're sucked up into the board.I'm convinced there is. Other people are
convinced the vortex's name is Betty Whitethe dog. Quite possible as well.
Also, the writer's strike has enteredits second week, and apparently the two
sides are still way at odds overpay, streaming, residuals, and AI.
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We'll talk about the debt ceiling andthe White House says it's got a
constitutional duty to raise it. Andwe also got the autopsy results on actor
ray Leota. I'll tell you whatthose are in just a second, but
let's start with some of these storiescoming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. The writer's strike has enteredits second week. WGA negotiator Chris Kaiser
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says the two sides are still atodds over pay, streaming, residuals,
and AI. To become a gigeconomy, there's no ladder up for writers.
They get the same pay over andover again, year after year,
and our members they're telling us theyjust can't make it. Many of the
more than eleven thousand striking writers havecalled out streaming services because they are changing
the way that the writers are paidunlike network shows. Now, the creators
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of Stranger Things have shut down productionof its final season until the strike ends.
Other Netflix series like Cobra Kai andRob Blow's new project Unstable, We're
also shut down. But you know, what I was thinking about, sort
of the ripple effect that this strikehas not taking a side of you know,
the writers or the studios. Here, all I'm saying is this writer's
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strike is impacting more than just thewriters. Right, You've got the hair
and makeup people, the caterers,the people who's living, you know,
make their living renting out the microphonesand the stages and the sets and all
that kind of stuff. All thosepeople, and I know far more than
(03:50):
I'm even thinking of. But it'sjust anytime that you hear, oh it's
the writers strike. No, thisimpacts Hollywood. I mean, this could
impact your neighbor, right, maybeyour neighbor is a set designer, or
maybe your neighbor is the clothing person, the stylist for one of these shows.
They're not working right now either.The White House says it is Congress's
(04:14):
constitutional duty to raise the debt ceiling. There shouldn't be negotiations on the debt
limit. This is something that theyshould get to regular order and get to
work on. White House Press SecretaryKorean Jean Pierre says President Biden will make
that clear today when he meets withRepublican leaders to talk about the debt limit.
Now, we're going to talk withABC's Karen Travers more about this in
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just a second. The La SchoolDistrict Board of Education is said to give
final approval to a new labor agreementwith the union representing its teachers. The
agreement includes a twenty one percent payhike in increments that go back to July
one of last year, then runthrough January first of twenty twenty five.
When the agreement was announced, thedistrict noted the increases were on top of
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a five percent hike that was includeddid in the twenty twenty one twenty two
budget. Ray Leoda, we've nowfound out that the actor died from cardiovascular
disease. The Good Fellows actor diedin his sleep last May while filming in
the Dominican Republic. Officials confirmed yesterdayhe died from a build up of fat's
cholesterol and other substances in and onthe artery walls. They cited pulmonary edema,
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heart and respiratory failure as all thingsthat contributed to his death. The
National Institute of Health say about sixhundred ten thousand people die of heart disease
every year in the US. Willthey won't they? Karen Travers, good
morning to you. Let's talk debtceiling negotiations and frustrations. Yeah, it's
good today, big meeting at theWhite House. President Biden's sitting down with
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House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressionalleaders. But really this is all about
the presidents and the House Speaker.It's the first time that they have sat
down and talks in February. First. It's a really significant meeting. But
I can say the expectations are reallybeing managed, if not lowered, for
any major breakthrough on the debt ceilingand the bigger issue about budget and spending
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cuts because the two sides are sofirmly entrenched in their positions, and it's
not clear where there's any room fornegotiating. The White House is saying yesterday,
the President isn't budgeting, he doesnot want to negotiate on the debt
ceiling, and is insisting that Congressjust raised that without any conditions, without
any strings attached. Well, theHouse Republicans have said, we've already raised
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the debt ceilings legislation that we passed. But that legislation, of course,
cut federal spending by more than fourand a half trillion dollars over a decade
and rolled back some of the keyparts of the President's domestic agenda. That's
a nonstarter for the Senate Democrats andfor the President. So that's where we
stand right now, and that's wherewe've stood now for several months. And
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it's not quite clear then, ifthese two sides are going in with these
very firm positions, how there's anegotiation today and they talk about It's been
my question and other people have beenasking this at the White House for a
week since this meeting has been announced. What are they even going to talk
about if they're both saying here's whatwe will not negotiate on how do you
have a meeting today? Well,that's what I'm thinking. Is this a
(07:14):
waste of time? Is this justso that each side can go Well,
we tried to push our agenda andthe other person wouldn't budge. So it's
their fault, it might be,And we'll find out afterwards. We're going
to see the beginning of the meeting. They're gonna let cameras and reporters in
for the photo opportunity at the start. Most likely President Biden is the only
one that talks that that is hismeeting. He invited them down to his
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turf at the White House. Butthen afterwards, I think we'll hear from
lawmakers who will come out to thecameras afterwards to talk about what was discussed
in the meeting. And that's alwaysthe managing of or you know, the
narration, the narrative setting afterwards,so you know, here's what my side
was, and here's what we gotout of the other side, and we'll
see. But it's always interesting afterwardsbecause presidents don't come out and talk like
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that, but the law acres do, so they're the ones that get to
set the tone a little bit afterwards. We'll likely get a paper statement to
read out from the White House aboutwhat they think happened in the meeting,
But I think there'll be a lotof political spin from both sides. You
can guarantee, Oh, absolutely,June first being the day that Treasury Secretary
Janet Yellen gave as sort of thedeadline to have this budget passed before we
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default. She also made some commentswhen it was suggested that, oh,
the President could invoke the fourteenth Amendmentand go for the validity of the public
debt and make the decision himself.And I just thought it was interesting that
basically she was like, Nah,that's not a good option either. She
essentially said there's no good option unlessthese two sides can figure something out.
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Yeah. And you know, thisis a White House that, on many
issues always says like the best optionis always to do it the right way
with Congress and legislation. And thePresident was asked about this in an interview
last week, about invoking the fourteenthand them and to unilaterally raise the debt
ceiling. He said he's not thereyet. It would surely face constitutional challenge,
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So it's it's unlikely. I don'twant to say it's completely a zero
possibility, but unlikely that they woulddo that. They are still saying it's
Congress that needs to do this.Pass legislation that just raises the debt ceiling,
as they have done dozens of timesbefore the President was sign it,
take the threat of default off thetable, and then the conversation can begin
about the budget and spending cuts.All right, Karen, thank you so
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much. I appreciate it, andhave fun. It's a photo by today.
Oh yeah, inside scoop you twosee you later. ABC's Karen traversed,
don't you ever wonder what these WhiteHouse reporters actually find out about some
of our nation's political leaders, liketheir quirks, you know, like,
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oh, we had one governor.I don't know if this is common knowledge.
So he bit to myself, buthe was colorblind, and from what
I understand, his wife had toput out his clothes so that he matched.
And the joke was when he showedup to like a briefing, you
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know, in the I don't know, when he was wearing orange on top
and pink pants or something. Hehad no idea. He thought he looked
awesome. Just little things like that, Little quirks like that that I wish
we knew. Let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LACity Council is expected to get a report
calling for more funding and more resourcesto expand street medicine services for city funded
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housing. Street medicine provides general medicalcare, counseling, therapy, addiction recovery
services, and health insurance and romemeant to homeless people. Emotion introduced in
April, says the city had alreadymade a large investment in street medicine in
February, but there's an urgent needto provide more on site services. Renters
(11:01):
at the Barrington Plaza apartments in WestLa are being forced to move out so
the complex can renovate with fire sprinklersand other safety upgrades. There have been
two huge fires at that complex overthe past decade, including one that killed
a nineteen year old foreign exchange student. Eight floors in one of the complex's
three towers have been red tagged andout of service since the fire. Remember
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I knew we covered this one Januarytwenty twenty. Hundreds of people have until
September to get out. Here's thething. If somebody was like, you
know, the building you're living in, it's not the safest thing. I
wouldn't wait till September. Granted Iwould have to have somewhere else to go,
(11:46):
and that's always a problem, butdon't give me a timeline. I'll
get out. Yesterday, social mediasuggests the man who killed eight people at
Amalin Allen, Texas, may havescouted the location for over a year.
He apparently posted a dozen images fromthe mall parking lots, even taking a
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screen grab of peak hours Saturday's threepm to six pm, exactly when the
shooting happened. ABC's Matt Gutman saysthe shooters social media activity also includes references
to Nazi ideology, hatred of women, racism, and anti Semitism. A
three year old boy and two younggirls were among those killed Saturdays. Seven
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people were hurt. The girls thatwere killed I think were fourth in sixth
graders. I think there were sisters. A bill in Texas to raise the
age for buying assault style weapons totwenty one has passed a House committee vote.
Families have lost loved ones in massshooting celebrated the vote yesterday. Jerry
Modi says he lost his daughter inthe mass shooting last year at rob Elementary
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School in Uvaldi, Texas. Heand his wife have been fighting ever since
for stricter gun laws. No matterwhat happens in the floor, whether it
dies in the floor or not,we're gonna continue. We're gonna continue the
fight. We're not gonna stop.Not to and his wife say they cried
when they heard about the age vote. He says it's a big step because
they've been told it would never happenin the Capitol. The bill still has
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to pass in the Senate, thenget to Governor Abbott's desk for his signature.
Have you gone outside if you livein Sherman Oaks, there's a chance
that you've got a river running throughit as in the streets. A sheared
fire hydrant has created this huge messin Sherman Oaks. The hydrant was apparently
hit by a car this morning onWoodcliff Road, and it caused water to
(13:35):
shoot up about one hundred feet high. I know I shouldn't be excited about
this, but have you ever beenby a fire hydrant that gets cheered?
It is impressive. Streets and severalhomes were flooded. That's not good.
The driver did not stick around.That's not good either. And a jury
in Riverside County has found a guyconvicted of fatally stabbing his girlfriend was sane
(13:56):
when he did it. The womanwas killed in twenty seventeen. Her body
was dumped by a cemetery. Thenapparently her mobile home was set on fire.
Christian Potaco pleaded not guilty by reasonof insanity. He will be sentenced
next month. Let's say good morningnow to ABC's Inez de la Kutera.
Mexico's president is saying, sure,I'll talk with President Biden today about the
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federal crisis in immigration, but Ihave a feeling in Es there might be
some finger pointing going on. Hey, good morning. Yeah, that's right.
So President Biden will be speaking withthe Mexican president today. They're going
to be speaking by a phone.And this is important because it comes just
days before the title forty two Borderrestrictions. Let's you'll remember those Dark Pandemic
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era immigration restrictions that allowed US authoritiesto quickly expel migrants to cross the border
illegally. So they're gonna talk aboutthat. They're going to talk about how
to develop programs to help stem theflow of migrants to the US border.
We know, for instance, LocalOverdoor previously out the US government to contribute
more aid to Hello. Oh sorry, and as our connection is horrible,
(15:03):
I'm gonna let you go for halfa second so we can try and reconnect
with you and see if we canget a slightly better connection. It's just
very digitally. We're kind of gettingevery other word from Inez. I hate
when that happens, especially when theyget them on and they check them and
Tyler and Ann are like, we'regood to go, and then all of
a sudden they start talking in theirphone. Craps out happens all the time.
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A woman from Kaipa who made childporn with two kids, including an
infant, has been sentenced to fortyyears in prison. Stephanie Stevens admitted to
investigators she made videos of herself performingoral sex on the infant and taking several
nude photos with the other kid.US Attorney spokesman Kieran McAvoy says Stevens was
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babysitting the kids when she made theporn in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.
These were moms and a mom anda dad who had to work these were
different families. Macavoy says. Investigatorsfound online messages between Stevens and another person
in which Steven's expressed excitement to havethe infide in her care so she could
make porn with the baby Blake trolley. K if I News. That's possibly
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one of the worst stories I've heard. I mean, granted, the shootings
and everything, but what are youwatch my mouth on that one? All
right, let's say good morning nowagain to ab season as dala kuta.
I hear our line has cleared up, so if you could go back and
tell us everything that you said before, because we didn't catch a lot of
it. So Mexico President is meetingwith President Biden today and immigration obviously going
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to be right at the top ofthe list considering the expiration of Title forty
two on Thursday. Oh hey,that's right. Yeah, so hopefully you
can hear me better now. Butyes, they're gonna be talking about immigration,
They're going to be talking about economiccooperation, and they are going to
be talking about the fentinel crisis aswell. The immigration part of it is
especially interesting because it comes just daysbefore the Title forty two border restrictions lift,
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so those are, of course,those pandemic era immigration restrictions that allow
US authorities to quickly expel migrants whoacross the border illegally. So they're going
to talk about that. They're goingto talk about how to, excuse me,
how to develop programs to help stemthe flow of migrants to the US
borders, so we know, forinstance, the Mexican president had previously asked
the US government to contribute more aidto help develop the region economically, to
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help crack down on crime, forinstance, so that people wouldn't have to
migrate in the first place. TheMexican president has also recently slammed Republicans for
putting forward proposals that would make itmore difficult for migrants to apply for asylum
and easier for authorities to block migrantsat the border. But it's a tricky
situation for Mexico as well. Weshould point out Mexico has been accepting and
continues to accept migrants from Venezuela,Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua who are turned
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away at the border, So ifthey don't make it into the US,
then they stay in Mexico. Mexicofor now has been accepting that, but
that does put a strain also onMexican resources. Of course, now as
this continues to be a problem andit's going to you know, become more
and more of a problem for Mexico'sresources, so the Mexican president also has
a vested interest in resolving this situation. And of course the concern here is
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an ask title forty two runs outs, there could be a surge of migrants
heading to the US border, youknow, some some new caravans. We've
seen those caravans pop up time andtime again, and and that's as expected
here as Title forty two runs out, okay, and it has Mexico said
specifically, we have X resources thatare stretched to the limit and therefore we
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can't accept anybody else. Have theygiven a timeline for how long that they'll
be able to use sustain this acceptance? You know, I don't know about
a specific timeline. I do knowthat they have said that they're going to
continue accepting migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaraqua places like that.
So it doesn't seem like right nowthey're looking to crack down on those
(18:52):
arrivals. But that is something thatcertain you know, officials are pushing for
in the US. They feel thatit would be or if to to stop
this migration problem if Mexico just didn'taccept the migrants to you know, if
it didn't allow the migrants to comeinto Mexico to begin with. So yeah,
there's a bit, a little bitof the US blaming Mexico here for
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this problem. Right. It feelslike which came first, the chicken out
of the egg. Either it's yourfault for letting them in, or it's
your fault for letting this expire.It's somebody's fault along the way. Right
on the fentyl crisis portion of it. I just happened to be watching El
Chapo, that series on Netflix.I've never I hadn't watched it, and
I know it's a couple of yearsold, but they just got to the
part about fentyl and it being smuggledin in some I mean, I guess
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that we haven't really dealt specifically withthe fentyl crisis until the last couple of
years. But knowing it was awhile ago when we started getting that drug
into the United States, to seethe growth that it has had just over
the last couple of years, orthe explosion somebody's got to stop it somewhe.
I mean, it can't be goodfrom Mexico. It's got to be
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killing their people, but it's alsokilling ours left and right. Yeah,
I mean similar to immigration. Likeyou say, these are big problems that
have been going on for years,and so both sides they're facing lots of
pressure to domestically to actually resolve them. So this is going to be another
interesting one, this topic of fentanel. So the US knows that the drugs
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are being mainly smuggled in from Mexico, but the Mexican president denies that drug
cartels make fentanyl in Mexico. He'sacknowledged that that precursor chemicals and finished fentinel
are smuggled into Mexico from China.China denies that. So again we're seeing
that finger pointing. What we doknow is that it is a very real
problem for the US with um,you know, the centinel crisis causing about
(20:42):
seventy thousand overdosed deaths per year inthe US. And so yeah, President
I did it under lots of pressureto resolve this, find a way to
stop the flow of drugs into theUS. Do you think that he and
the Mexican president can come to anysort of agreement on that. I mean,
I know, I know he saysthat it's not the drug cartels who
are producing it. However, Ithink history would maybe disagree with that,
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or at least they would say,you guys might not be the A plus
B equals C on this one,but you're certainly the distributor of it into
the United States. Yeah, youknow, And I was just gonna say
that that the Mexican prigels are very, very powerful, and that's the Mexican
president, um, you know,much as the trance to crackdown on corruption,
and there are some would argue thathe doesn't do enough, but um,
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he has domestic concerns that he alsoneeds to contemporally, let's put it
that way. And so and therehave been Mexican officials who actually accuse the
US of overstepping and entry enacting toomuch of Mexico and trying to meddle in
Mexican affairs. So, um,that's you know, part of all of
this. I think there's also thevery real possibility that this will cause friction
between the US and Mexico, andthey certainly want to maintain a good kind
(21:52):
of neighborly relationship. And then theother part of it is is China,
of course, and and China.Recently, because of the tensions between the
US and China over Taiwan, Chinasaid that it was going to stop stopping
the flow of drugs. Oh,now we've lost her complete eventually, So
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that's another part of all of thedefichiens. Oh and as I'm sorry at
the end we lost you, andas if you can hear me, thank
you very much, or as wetried. You know. I think one
of the most interesting parts of Iknow I keep talking about it about this
El Chapo Netflix series. Yes,it's a drama and all of that kind
of stuff, but it whether youwatched Narcos, any one of them,
(22:41):
or whether you watched El Chappo.I think there's Pablo Escobar, which is
an extramentalist. The thing that cannotbe dramatized is over and over and over
again. I don't care what seriesthat is you're watching, or what you've
been reading or what news organization.The thing is, these Mexican drug cartels
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control Mexico. And I feel like, not that he's gonna say it,
but that the Mexican president. Iwish that there was at least acknowledgement of
it, like, hey, yeah, I don't know what. I don't
know what I'm supposed to do.You know, there are assassination attempts left
right up down, I'm sure,all the time on him. Anytime he
(23:30):
does crack down, he's got toknow his life and his family's life is
in danger because these guys don't stop. But still it's also killing his own
people. So at what point doeshe go, all right, you know
what, I gotta bite the bullet. Well, that's a bad phrase.
(23:51):
I've got to, you know,I've got to crack down on this and
get I can't have my own peoplebeing killed just so these drugs smugglers and
drug cartels can get their stuff overthe US border and don't Hey, I
don't have a solution for it.But there have been presidents who have tried,
there have been governments who have tried. There have been police organizations in
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Mexico who have tried, or thathave tried to fix this problem. I
don't know. Is it too bigto fail? Are they like the banking
industry? Maybe The writer's strike hasentered its second week WGA negotiator Chris Kaiser
says that two sides are still wayat odds over pay streaming residuals and AI.
(24:37):
The White House says it is Congress'sconstitutional duty to raise the debt ceiling,
and we do have the autopsy nowon Actor ray Leota, and he
died of cardiovascular disease. Hey,there are some people who are saying,
you don't need AM radio in yourcar. You can get those alerts on
your phone, pup Lees. Thereis talk about AM radio being removed from
(25:02):
new cars and trucks, but ifyou get rid of AM radio, yes,
we have an obvious vested interest inthis. However, think about it.
We are the way that millions ofAmericans get their local emergency information,
especially when the cell towers are deadand there's no power. How are you
going to charge your phone? Howare you going to get any of those
(25:22):
alerts on your phone if it's dead. So what we're trying to do is
make sure our voices are heard andmake sure that you get Congress to hear
you. And the way you cando that is don't let AM radio out
of the cars. Just text AMto five to eight, eight to six
and tell Congress to keep AM radioin all cars and trucks. That's AM
(25:45):
to five to eight eight six.That's the way that you can tell Congress
to keep AM radio in your car. Mike Dubuski, good morning to you.
I'm pretty sure that you wrote thisin French. I have no idea
what steet skylines, the fetaverse andBlue Sky are all right. Well,
let's start with blue Sky then,because that's kind of the hot new app
of the moment. It's where peoplekind of are congregating popular Twitter figures like
(26:10):
Alexandriocazio Cortez, Chrissy Teagan Drill,the popular comedy account are all showing up
on this new app called blue Sky. And it's very similar to Twitter jen
It's sort of short posts that arecharacter limited. You can follow people,
those people can follow you. Youcan post pictures if you want. It
looks and feels and has the samesort of vibe generally as Twitter. And
(26:33):
that's kind of no surprise because BlueSky got off the ground as sort of
a side project at Twitter, apet project of Jack Dorsey, who used
to be head of that company.Okay, so if you have big name
people like a Chrissy Teagan on thereand they can pull their followers from Twitter
and bring them to Blue Sky.Is this something Elon must needs to be
worried about? So as of rightnow, Blue Sky only has a couple
(26:59):
we'll say, about sixty to sixtyfive thousand users on it. It is
right now inclosed beta, which meansthat in order to get onto Blue Sky
you need to be invited by someonewho's already on the platform. So right
now it's pretty exclusive club. AndI think that also contributes to why it's
kind of being discussed so much.It's like people always want what they can't
have, right tell someone they can'tgo somewhere, they inevitably want to go
(27:21):
there, So that that's part ofit. But yeah, the idea that
you know, Jack Dorsey has gonealong and created just like a Twitter that
is not run by Elon Musk,I think certainly is speaks to kind of
where Twitter is at right now,and a lot of people are very dissatisfied
with the way that Elon Musk hasrun Twitter during his tenure there, the
(27:41):
sort of scuffles over verification, thelacks content moderation guidelines allowing you know,
sort of hateful accounts and hateful contentto sort of run rampant there. You
can see why people would be lookingfor other options, and Blue Sky is
presenting that to them. Admittedly apretty exclusive club of them, but you
know, I expected to kind ofopen up and become a less exclusive club,
(28:04):
you knows, as the app sortof irons out some of it's more
rougher edges. But even in theJack Dorsey part of it, where he
can go, hey, remember whenyou liked Twitter. That was the thing
that I created back in the day. So let's go back to the good
old days. Get on Blue Sky. However, also, it's kind of
like when um, I'm just goingto use a Kardashian when they endorse something
(28:27):
or when they're like, oh,I love this lipstick. That lipstick is
sold out for the next six monthsor so because people want to be like
them. And I can only imagineall the people that will be knocking at
the door hoping that they get oneof those invitations so that they too can
be part of the you know,fancy people's network. Right, And it's
also worth mentioning that since Elon Musktook over Twitter, there's been a bunch
(28:49):
of Twitter clones, right, justaccident popped up that operate and and sort
of you know, function similarly toTwitter. It's just the Blue Sky is
the Jack Dorsey one, right,It's the one that you know is from
the guy who created Writer. Andit's also worth mentioning that it's not a
strict Twitter clone. It looks andfeels like Twitter. You use it just
(29:10):
like you would use, you know, a normal Twitter app, but it's
built on a different technology. It'sbuilt on what's known as a decentralized protocol,
which is essentially what Jack Dorsey istrying to do with this app and
another app that he's built called Noster. And it's this idea that your social
profile, right the things that youpost on social media, the people that
you follow, the people that followyou right now, that is segmented to
(29:33):
the app that you use. YourTwitter followers are your Twitter followers, Your
Instagram followers are your Instagram followers.Under a decentralized protocol, which you know
Blue Sky is built on. Thatdoesn't necessarily need to be the case,
though, your followers can just beyour followers and you can access them and
interact with them and post to themthrough whatever app you like kind of similar
(29:56):
to email, right, Like Icould have a Gmail account, you could
have an Outlook account, but wecan st will communicate with one another.
We just prefer different apps. Andone last thing before I let you go
the fetaverse, tell me what exactlythat is? So that is what a
decentralized protocol kind of gets at.Right, So, decentralized protocol is at
the architecture that Blue Sky is builton right now, It's called the at
(30:17):
protocol. They've built Blue Sky asort of their flagship app. Right,
this is the Twitter of the Fetaverse. But you could conceivably build a Green
Sky and it could be an Instagramclone, or it could be a YouTube
clone or something like that. It'sthis idea that I can log into a
federated Facebook and like your federated tweet, right, and it would all just
(30:37):
play very nicely together. The questionis, you know, how if that's
actually going to play out the waythey sort of scripted it. There's not
a ton of money in the fetaverseright now, but you know a lot
of people really seem to be pushingthis idea. Jack Dorsey among them.
All right, thank you so much, Mike, You're so much fun.
We'll do it again soon, ofcourse. Take care jin All right,
(30:59):
thanks ABC's Mike Debuskie. So it'slooking up. How do you get an
invite specifically? And there's a DigitalTrends dot com. Okay, how about
this. You know how you waitin line at Disneyland, Like you get
in the queue right and it says, okay, you can get on the
(31:21):
matterhorn in forty minutes. Okay.That's what a Blue Sky invite essentially is.
You have to log onto the BlueSky Beta website. Then you get
on a wait list, so youput your yourself in the queue. And
there are times, like Mike wassaying, that some of these these different
(31:45):
people who are on there will givean invite code. However, scammers are
lovingness and here's the thing, Ibet there you are going to nab a
bunch of people. Digital Trends says, we do not recommend spending money to
get a Blue Sky code because athere's very little stopping somebody from taking your
(32:06):
money, and be they might takeyour money and not give you a code
after all. So don't do it, don't fall for it. Just watch
the fancy people for a while,put your name in the queue. What
else are you doing at five fortyfive in the morning, and then just
wait and see but don't pay forit. And what is a Tuesday without
(32:27):
a story about Koalas and chlamydia?Right, Koalas and chlamydia as the fun
Tuesday. Some of the other storieswe're watching in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Also, we're keeping aneye in Sherman Oaks. In fact,
we've got like trolley on his waythere. There was a sheered fire hydrant
that created this huge mess. There'sa little river going down some streets and
(32:51):
even several homes were flooded. Andthe driver who hit that fire hydrant apparently
did not stick around. Weird.Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim
Ryan. Jim the state of Texas. Man, it had an awful weekend.
Let's start in Allen, Texas.First off, as investigators are still
trying to figure out exactly what causedthat man to shoot up a shopping center.
(33:15):
And I think that the backstory onthis is that I can't believe how
much research this guy did for solong. Yeah, research on the mall
first of all, trying to figureout the layout of the place is like
a huge strip shopping center. Ithink you inscribed yesterday one of the biggest
outdoor outlet malls anywhere, one hundredand twenty store or something like that.
(33:36):
And Mauricio Garcia was very thorough inlooking at all the angles there, figuring
out where to pull his car intothe parking lot and then start shooting.
And that's what he did on Saturdayand killing eight people altogether. Others are
still hospitalized, some in critical conditionand so, and you're right, and
finding out exactly why he did this. It's going to be tricky watching his
(33:59):
social media or looking at it asinvestigators are now. They are seeing all
these different pictures of time and timeagain where he took pictures of the mall
he thought, you know, hecategorized when the most people happened to be
there, and that kind of thing. I mean, the planning that went
into this. Is this going tobe another one of those see something,
say something things considering he was postingthis stuff, or is it going to
(34:21):
be like, well, that's thatweird guy that post pictures of the mall
all the time. Well yeah,yeah, well probably a little of each.
I think there is some indication thatmaybe some of this could have been
caught by a person who could havedone something about it. But at the
same time, Mauricio Garcia had nocriminal background. He had no criminal record,
He hadn't done anything wrong before hewas kicked out of the army in
(34:44):
two thousand and eight because of somemental health condition, but he had never
broken the law before walking onto thatparking lot and opening fire on people.
Besides the planning that went into this, he also had been online researching neo
Nazi view who's apparently visiting white supremacistsites, and in fact, he had
a patch on his tactical vest thathe wore at the time of the shooting.
(35:07):
Our w d S is what itsaid. That's come to be known
as right wing that squad, assomething that was in that community. So
yeah, that's it's it's been kindof adopted by extremists over the last couple
of years. And I get youknow, a lot of people are sort
of parsing the fact that he waslooking at neo Nazi things and yet he
(35:32):
is a Hispanic manner was right,Yeah, he was. You know,
That's that kind of leads to someof the confusion here is it is it
realistic for a Hispanic to be aneo Nazi. It is. We've seen
that in the past. Back thehead of the Proud Boys was not white,
right, so you know that's Idon't think he can be ruled out
(35:53):
as somebody who has these sorts ofviews just because of his background, his
family's background. All right. YesterdayI was watching the news conference out of
Brownsville and the chief they're talking aboutjust the horrific accident. The thing that
I thought was so interesting is walkingin yesterday morning reading the news, it
was this could be intentional. Seemslike some people at the scene say that
(36:15):
this guy was shouting different, youknow, things at them before he crashed
into them, or once he crashedinto the people at the bus stop.
But then when I watched the policechief giving the news conference yesterday, the
vibe around it anyway, although hecouldn't rule out it was intentional, but
the vibe was this was just ahorrible accident, right, Yeah, George
(36:36):
Albarez, he has an extensive criminalbackground, unlike Maria Ceo, and that
criminal background doesn't include at least oneDWI conviction. We're waiting now for the
toxicology report to see if he wasdrunk at the time, that wouldn't rule
out his doing this on purpose,but it would seem to suggest that it
was, as you point out,an accident. He ran a red light
(36:58):
and then went up on the curb, striking eighteen people, killing eight of
them there on the scene. Someare still hospitalized today. The vehicle flipped
on its side and Alvarez got out. He apparently tried to leave the scene.
I've seen video of the crowd therethat closed in on him to get
him to stay in place, andthere was a lot of shouting going on.
He may have been yelling at them. I think he knew who those
(37:19):
people were because he was from Brownsville. He knew that that bus stop was
there. That bus stop is rightin front of an immigrant services type center,
and so yeah, it may bea little of both. He had
a gripe against these folks, buthe also might have been drunk. Yeah,
it could be a two fur onthat one. All right, thanks,
Jim, I appreciate it, allright, see you later. Maybec's
(37:40):
Jim Ryan. Well, whatever wefind out that the actual cause is or
was, doesn't matter. Eight peoplewere killed. That's what matters. And
according to the police chief yesterday thatten people who were injured, some of
them are still uncritical, so wecould see the manslaughter charges go up against
(38:07):
that driver. If God forbid,more people end up dying in the hospital.
Russian President Putin has told his countrythe West, this is so fun,
this is rich coming from the oldblad. He says, the West's
untamed ambition, arrogance and impunity aredriving the real war against Russia. Hello,
(38:39):
pot, this is kettle. Hepraised soldiers taking part in the war
in Ukraine and urged Russians to standtogether. He made the comments during a
traditional Victory Day parade, which Imight point out hat did not look at
anything like the ones that we haveseen in the past. Why because they
don't have a freaking tank to spare. So, yeah, you had a
(39:00):
lot of older ones that were inthe parade. There's older ones that are
defunct, like yeah, this onecan still roll down the street, but
it can't shoot anything anymore, orit doesn't have the technology in it to
actually be part of a war.That's what was in the parade yesterday.
(39:21):
I don't know if you were ifI was going to be a rapper,
I don't know what my name wouldbe. Actually hit me up on Twitter.
This would be a fun one.If I was a rapper, what
would my rap name be? Idon't know that it would be Boozy Badass.
(39:44):
But there is a rapper named BoozyBadass who has been arrested in San
Diego for gun possession. Oh,by the way, his name is all
is actually Torrence Hatch Junior, whogoes by Boozy Badass. Of course he
does. He was performing at anightclub and Say Diego last week, where
videos show him leading a chant off San Diego police. That's going to
(40:07):
go well for you. Hatch wasarrested during a traffic stop later Sunday for
illegal possession of a gun. Therapper was acquitted a first degree murder in
twenty ten. All right, doyou have any plans to go to Florida?
To go to Disney World? Theresort in Florida says it is no
longer going to make you have areservation date when you're buying tickets, so
(40:28):
partgoers will just buy a ticket andthen select a date at checkout now.
Disney also announced it's bringing back diningplans and it's bringing back the early entry
to the park for people who arestaying at one of the hotels there.
The changes take effect in January.Once old for the older set, hearing
(40:49):
aids are now being used more andmore by the young UN's by the age
of thirty. The CDC says abouttwenty percent of Americans have damaged their hearing
because of noise. That's on topof the younger Americans who have hearing lost,
tight netics, or medical conditions,and more and more, the younger
sets seem okay with the idea ofhearing aids. The FDA started allowing the
sale of hearing aids over the counterlast year, and since then companies like
Sony and job Or have jumped intothe market, adding new designs and features
(41:12):
that appeal to young consumers. Thereare dozens of brands to choose from.
Most new models have Bluetooth capability,and some of the over the counter options
can even be ordered online with freeshipping. Amy King kf I knew.
My dad just got some hearing aidsthat are Bluetooth equipped. Oh my god,
I want to use them. Heused to sit. My dad worked
on heavy equipment, you know.He was a paver and then he was
(41:35):
also a heavy equipment mechanic, sohis ears from the ringing of those that
machinery. He's got that what's itcalled tenitus? Right? Yes? I
think so. Anyway, he gothearing aids. Holy God, he can
answer the phone. Would like atouch of his ear. They're bluetooth enabled
so he can hear what's on theTV. They're fantastic if he ever,
(41:58):
if one day he akes up andgoes, hey, where are my hearing
aggs? Don't look at me.Then finally we end with two stories out
of Australia. The first one scientiststhere say they have started vaccinating wild koalas
against clamidia. They say they hopeto protect the marsupials against the disease that
(42:19):
causes blindness, infertility, and death. Experts say clamidia is killing koalas because
they become so sick they are unableto climb trees, get food, escape
predators, and the females can becomeinfertile. The first koalas were vaccinated in
March and the trial is expected tolast about three months. And finally,
this woman I feel like is theShannon Farren of Australia, because I feel
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like if Shannon got lost in thebush in Australia, she too could survive
on lollipops and wine. In hercase, it might be bacon and wine.
But this woman who got lost ina remote bushland survived for five days
on wine and lollipops. So policethere showed this aerial picture of where she
(43:10):
was. It was super dense.How they even found her, I don't
know, but her car got stuckin the mud when she was kind of
exploring the area, so she wasforced to wander on foot alone for five
days before the team spotted her.Police said she was able to survive the
ordeal on a few provisions that shehad. She had lollipops in the car
(43:34):
and a bottle of wine that wassupposed to go to a friend of hers
as a gift. The woman apparentlywas just fine when police found her,
and she apparently was very great tosee them, very grateful to see them.
Shannon hashtag dreams, hashtag goals.So Cowweather from KFI. It's a
(43:55):
partly gray day today. That's becausewe could have a little mist and drizzle
coming in. Should taper off though, buy tomorrow and warm and more sunshine
for the weekend. We lead LocalLive from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
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