May 16, 2023 • 40 mins
TERRENCE HAYES – VA PRESS SECRETARY Urging Eligible Veterans to Apply for PACT Act Benefits before August 10, 2023
MIKE DOBUSKI EU ANTITRUST OFFICIALS APPROVE MICROSOFT’S BID TO BUY ACTIVISION/BLIZZARD
INES DE LA CUETARA ZELENSKYY'S EUROPEAN TOUR YIELDS MORE AID: FRANCE PLEDGES TANKS & TRAINING, UK ATTACK DRONES, MORE MISSILES
MIKE DOBUSKI EU ANTITRUST OFFICIALS APPROVE MICROSOFT’S BID TO BUY ACTIVISION/BLIZZARD
INES DE LA CUETARA ZELENSKYY'S EUROPEAN TOUR YIELDS MORE AID: FRANCE PLEDGES TANKS & TRAINING, UK ATTACK DRONES, MORE MISSILES
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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. My name is Jason
Middleton. I am in for JenniferJones Lee all week. This week,
I was talking with a news editorjust before we went on the air about
second Mondays. I never could finda value to Tuesdays. Right, there's
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Mondays. Everybody braces for Monday comingout of the weekend, Wednesday's Humpday,
Thursday's Friday, Eve, Friday,you know, Friday, Tuesday. Niver
had a thing, but she said, Tuesday's just one day closer to Friday,
and I was like, yeah,let's let's stay optimistic. I'm with
that. Let's also get some headlinesbefore we get into the rest of this
hour. Treasury Secretary and former Chairof the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen says time
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is running out to get a dealdone ahead of today's Biden McCarthy meeting about
the debt ceiling. McCarthy has saidthe House needs a deal to vote on
by this weekend. Ukraine's president Zelenskihas been touring away Western Europe getting more
missiles and munitions for the countries anticipatedcounter offensive against Russia. Later this hour,
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we will talk with ABC's Inez Delakataand get an update on the Ukraine
Russia war. And the Lakers continuetheir championship pursuit tonight against the Denver Nuggets.
It's the first of a seven gameseries. It's a battle of the
big men in that one. That'sthe Brow Anthony Davis versus the Joker Djokovic.
Those guys are going to be patrollingthe paint. Lakers got passed the
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Warriors because they had a bigger paintpresence, and the series winner goes on
to the NBA Championship against either ofthe Celtics or the Heat. In just
a few minutes, we're gonna talkwith Terrence Hayes. Terrence is the Press
secretary at the BA. The VeteransAdministration has a program that expands healthcare and
benefits for vets, but it's undera deadline. You can apply for an
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extension, So we're going to getthe details on the Packed Act that was
passed last year. It's coming upin August on another deadline, so we
need the details around that. Let'sstart with some of the other stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room. We always lead local.
The La County Department of Public Healthsays rising numbers of deaths among the homeless
are being caused by fentonyl overdoses.The number of drug overdoses and the homeless
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population has gone up by fifty eightpercent since twenty twenty one. Healthcare in
Actions doctor Jose Luis Gonzalez says oneof the biggest reasons for this is cross
contamination. You might be thinking you'resmoking methemphetamine and it might be laced with
fentonel. Doctor Gonzalez says because ofthat, some people are accidentally getting addicted
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to fentanyl. The department's report releasedlast week shows overdoses in general being the
number one cause of death among thehomeless in twenty twenty one in La Chris
Adler KFI News Scientists with NASA JPLsay there's been a dramatic drop in greenhouse
gas emissions along a stretch of theSouth Bay where the bulk of those refineries
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operate. The report notes the reductionof the last three years is most likely
due to sparse vehicle traffic during thepandemic, which of course halted demand for
fuel Researchers also discovered a seven percentdrop in human caused emissions in La San
Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties fromthe year's twenty fifteen to twenty twenty.
That represented a reduction of thirty threemillion pounds of methane released per year.
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Officials say despite a drop in thenumber of migrants trying to cross the California
Mexico border following Title forty two's expirationof enforcement, they're expecting a surge soon
as cartels and smugglers figure out aworkaround for Title eight and a tougher approach
to border enforcement. Border agents saythey are bracing for another caravan style push
towards the sande see to report ofentry in the coming weeks, and for
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those migrants who successfully entered to seakasylum, there is still a challenge.
Migrant or that family has to behoused someplace or be placed into a community
while they are awaiting the adjudication processor a hearing. To National security expert
John Cohen says most of the hearingdates won't even happen until twenty twenty five
or twenty twenty six. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News Uber is promoting
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a service where users can save somecash by catching rides with strangers. Uber
announced last week riders can save thirtyfive percent on trips by using Uber uber
carpool and sharing the ride with anotherperson heading in the same direction. It's
offered Monday through Friday during peak commutetimes in most areas. Users have to
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schedule their rides thirty minutes to thirtydays ahead of time. Comedian Margaret cho
and the late actor Leslie Jordan havebeen named Grand Marshals of this year's La
Pride Parade. Pride officials say Chowwill be honored for her years of anti
racism and anti bullying advocacy and hersupport of LGBTQ plus rights. Jordan,
who died in October when he suffereda heart attack while driving in Hollywood,
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will serve as the Legacy Grand Marshal. It's a new title to posthumously celebrate
those who have made an impact onthe community, and The Pride Parade is
June eleventh at Sunset and Highland inHollywood. In just a couple of minutes,
We're get what, why, andhow the VA's extended benefits for veterans.
Six minutes after five on your wakeUp Call on the KFI Live Line.
We're going to have Terrence Hayes injust a minute from the VA,
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but first a couple of quick stories. The Fed's recent interest rate hikes has
caused the US dollar to become morevaluable. The American Enterprise Institute says higher
interest rates are keeping excess cash outof the US and strengthening the dollar.
It has been increasing in value comparedto currency from other countries. This also
means the US dollar index is onan upward trajectory. Places like Indonesia,
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Brazil, and Chile have all benefitedbecause of higher commodity prices, bringing in
more dollars for goods and for services. Usually the dollar fluctuates. It's it's
either when it's really really good inthe US the economy, the dollar goes
up and it's really really bad orscarier jittery kind of right now because of
the debt ceiling, the dollar alsopicks up some scene because people are not
as investing as much in the bondmarket. Here, it's seven minutes after
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five o'clock on your wake Up Calland on the KFI Live Line, as
promised as Terrence Hayes he's with theVeterans Administration. He's going to help us
spell out how veterans can apply orreapply for the Packed Act benefits. Let's
start at the beginning, Terrence,and good morning, Good morning, how
are you? I'm good? Thankyou? What is okay? Updates on
the Packed Act and who can ithelp? Yeah? The pack Act is
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a significant law that expands VA healthcareand benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits
and other toxic substances. This lawempowers VA to provide generations of veterans and
their survivors with the care and benefitsthey've earned and quite frankly deserve. And
I understand it expires on August thetenth. It was passed last year,
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so this is a this is anextension of benefits that need to be applied
for. So actually there is noexpiration date. So I want to make
sure that we're perfectly clear on theokay. There is a one year date
that is very urgent to us.And what it is is that if any
veteran or survivor applies for their benefitsbefore August ninth of this year, benefits
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could potentially be backdated to when PresidentBiden signed the bill into law last year,
So there's benefits on the table forthose individuals. But you can follow
a claim today, tomorrow, nextyear, five years from now, at
any given point a veteran can do. So here's how does this this packed
Act differ from other benefits. Imean it's I realize it's focused, but
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what other benefits are pulled out?Yeah, I mean this is vital.
What it is is that it's veryimportant because there's twenty three new presumptive conditions.
And bottom line is this, ifany veteran or any survivor knows of
their veteran may have been exposed toany of those twenty three conditions. If
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you have any of those twenty threeconditions, it's automatically assumed that it's because
of your service. The evidence,the burden approof is no longer on you
as a veteran or the survivor.We automatically assume this. So it's vital
that you give us a call atone eight hundred nine eight two four one
one or visit the website at VAdot gov slash pack to find out more
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information on how you can get thosebenefits to day, Do you have any
ballpark figure as to how many veteranscould be affected by this or benefit from
this, Yeah, yeah, Ourestimate looks at about three point five million
men and women who potentially could beimpacted by the pack DAC. So far,
we've received over five hundred thousand claimsthus far, and to the average
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individual that may seem like a lot, but to us as a small number.
So again we're encouraging as many menand women to please give us a
call and follow those claims today.But also to those who made they don't
know if they have been exposed ornot, we're encouraging those who are already
in our healthcare system to visit theirprimary care physician. The schedule was called
a toxic exposure screening. More thantwo point five million men and women have
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done so already. I actually havedone so as well as a veteran,
and it's very useful. It couldlead to diagnosis, further testing in a
treatment plan, and again that evidenceto support those claims as well. So
again, if you're interested, findout more at visiting va dot gov slash
pack. You mentioned there that somepeople might not even know if they've been
exposed to burn pits and agent orangetoxic substances. Are there any typical or
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telltale symptoms or after effects that peoplecan might be looked well, be looking
for or keep an eye out for. Yeah, again, if they visit
that site and via dot gov slashpack with those twenty three presumptive conditions there,
and if you have any of thoseconditions, any of them, stop
exactly what you're doing right now,give us a call, or visit your
local Veteran service organization who have serviceofficers there to assist you free of charge
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to follow those claims. But again, it's vital that you get on that
website and see those conditions because ifyou have any of those, this pertains
to you. Terence, thank youso much for your time, this wanting
important information. Thank you so much. It's Terence Hayes. He's the Press
Secretary of the Veterans Administration. Let'sget back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room before we go to traffic.
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Offence has been put around islands onSan Vicente Boulevard in Beverly Grove to keep
homeless camps out. People in thearea had complained about the dozens of tents
in the area before the city recentlycleared them. Officials say other beautification projects
are in the works for the areaas well. State lawmakers have passed a
first of its kind bill prohibiting toxicchemicals and processed foods and drinks. It
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now moves to the state Senate.If signed into law, the bill would
ban the sale, production, ordistribution of any food product in California containing
yeah, the infamous red dye numberthree and other chemicals commonly found in sodas,
flame and hot Cheetos, candies,and cereals. Research has linked the
chemicals to cancer, reproductive issues,and behavioral and developmental issues in kids.
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Striking members of the WGA say theywill not pick it next month's Tony Award
telecast, which would hurt what manyconsider broadways biggest night. That last week,
the union denied a request by Tonyorganizers to have a waiver for their
June eleventh live telecast. The guildsays some sort of Tony show might work
within specific requests from the WGA.The guild does not represent Broadway writers,
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but it does represent writers who workon the Tony's telecast. So our gassum
seaweed is causing a problem on beachesin Jupiter, Florida. Scientists say the
seaweed is threatening sea turtles nesting season. Marine life scientist Heather Baron says the
seaweed provides sanctuary and nutrients for theturtles once they get out to see out
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at sea. It's a very naturaland important part of their development and environment.
However, on our beaches it cancertainly provide an impediment. The brown
seaweed has blanketed beaches and grown insize over the last few months. If
you've seen the pictures, you knowwhat I mean. Down in southern Florida,
Miami Dade County has set aside nearlyfour million dollars for cleanup efforts this
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year and requested an additional two milliondollars from the state. When we come
back, we will take the temperaturein Washington around the debt sealing negotiations.
Wall Street looks a little jittery rightnow in pre market trading, so ABC's
Karen Travers will give us an updatefrom DC a few more stories before we
get into the break. A billbanning Florida's public colleges and universities from funding
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diversity, equity and inclusion programs willsoon become law in the state. Governor
Ronda Santist signed the measure Monday yesterday, saying DEI efforts are an attempt to
impose an ideological agenda on students andfaculty. He added that the initiative promotes
exclusion and discrimination. The law alsosays that general courses cannot distort significant historical
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events or include a curriculum that teachesidentity politics. It's set to go into
effect on July. The first.Elon Musk is being subpoened as part of
the lawsuit in the US Virgin Islandsaccusing JP Morgan Chase of enabling sexual abuse
by Jeff Free Epstein. According toReuters, the subpoena is seeking all communications
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between Musk and Epstein, stating thatEpstein may have referred the Tesla and SpaceX
CEO to the bank. The subpoenaalso reportedly requests documents from Musk about Epstein's
involvement in human trafficking. The lawsuitfiled by the Virgin Islands claims JP Morgan
Chase knowingly benefited from alleged sexual abuseby Epstein. Okay, we talked about
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the Lakers a little bit ago.Let's talk about a less well, let's
just talk about hockey. The nextround of the Stanley Cup playoff field is
set. The Stars beat the Seattlecrack in two to one in yesterday's Game
seven that was in Dallas to advanceto the Western Conference Finals. Dallas will
square off against the Golden Nights inthe next round. Vegas will have ulm
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ice in the seven game series,which begins Friday. Meanwhile, the Carolina
Hurricanes host the Florida Panthers in theEastern Conference Finals, with Game one taking
place in Raleigh. That's on Thursday. Okay, in a couple of minutes,
we're gonna come back and we're gonnatalk about the debt ceiling negotiations.
Right after this, you're listening toWake Up Call with Jennifer jones Lee on
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demand from k five AM six forty. My name is Jason Middleton. I
am in for Jennifer Jones Lee thisweek. She is on rodeo duty up
near reading, seen some family andsome livestock. Some quick headlines before we
get into the rest of the show. The federal government is stepping up to
stop an anticipated surge of illegal immigrationat the southern border. A Pentagon spokesman
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says that another nine hundred and fiftytroops will be arriving by the end of
the month, with most headed toEl Paso, Texas. The man behind
chat GPT will testify before Congress todayopen a ice, THEEO, Sam Altman
will take questions from lawmakers calling forguardrails and regulation of artificial intelligence tools over
fears that it could be abused.Altman's company is is leading the development of
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AI with its popular platform chat GPT. It also launched a thousand headlines when
it paired up with Microsoft and thebeing search Being has seen some share gain
when it comes to search overall,eating into Google's de facto monopoly of online
search. Taxpayers could soon be ableto file their taxes digitally and free of
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charge, directly with the IRS.The Washington Post reports the agency has been
quietly developing its own prototype system thatcould disrupt the tax prep market. The
Inflation Reduction Act set aside fifteen milliondollars to create a free and direct filing
program. A few more headlines,because we have a lot of news moving
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through on this Tuesday morning, Policein New Mexico say three people are dead
and several are injured after a shootingin a rural town. It happened yesterday
in Farmington, which is northwest ofAlbuquerque. Authorities responded to a report of
shots fired and eventually confronted a malesuspect, who later died after a gun
battle. Multiple officers are among thosewho were hurt. Nearby schools were placed
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on lockdown during the event as well. Consumer debt, always something to keep
an eye on, hit a recordhigh of more than seventeen trillion dollars in
the first quarter of twenty twenty three. So these are figures from the New
York Federal Reserve and they show thetotal for borrowing across all categories rows nearly
one hundred and fifty billion dollars duringthe period from January to March. The
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jump comes despite a sharp pullback andhome loans due to rising mortgage rates.
Student loan debt also edged up toone point six trillion dollars in the first
quarter, so inflation is slowing alittle bit. It's sticky, though,
but seeing this debt rise. Onthe consumer side, sixty six percent of
the American economy is based on consumerspending on services and goods, right,
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so if we keep spending on that, then we're going to see the economy
doing. Once we stop spending andracking up this credit card debt, we
might see that recession come and maybestick around a little bit longer. I
don't think that the FED is goingto lower rates by the end of this
year, like some people are hopingfor. I don't think that's going to
happen because inflation is so sticky still. But I do think it's anticipated and
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fair that a short term two tothree quarter recession might be coming. To
write the ship Triple A air travel, we do have a holiday coming up.
Triple A predicts air travel over MemorialDay weekend we'll be busier this year
than it was pre COVID, signalinga true return as they say to pre
twenty twenty travel levels. According tothis year's report, about three point four
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million Americans are expected to fly overthe holiday weekend, an eleven percent increase
from last year. Not bad.It's also nearly a five and a half
percent increase since twenty nineteen, beforethe COVID pandemic. This year is expected
to be the busiest Memorial Day weekendsince two thousand. That's way before the
pandemic. When Blaze started tracking thesenumbers to begin with. Pasadena, back
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here in California, has approved havinga response team on standby to respond to
bee swarms. The city has contracteda live bee removal company for at least
the next three years. With overtwenty four parks that we have in Pasadena,
we have beautiful hiking trails the Arroyoarea, so there are at the
risk of bees. Pasadena's Lisader Dariansays. There have been several swarms in
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the city over the last few years. One swarm of up to forty thousand
bees in twenty twenty led to acity block being closed in five people being
injured. The contract was approved yesterdayin Pasadena Blake Trolley k if I news,
so that was Pasadena. A massewswarm of bees has taken over a
neighborhood in Encino, La City Fireand police both responded yesterday, treating at
least two people for beastings. Firefightershad been called to what they thought was
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one beasting and when they arrived theysaw hundreds of bees. People were told
to stay inside and wait for animalcontrol. The amount of greenhouse gas has
continued to drop in the LA regionover the last few years. Scientists at
NASA JPL installed eight censors around thearea, and from twenty fifteen to twenty
twenty, human const dimissions fell byseven percent. That's a reduction of thirty
three million pounds of methane released peryear. The largest reductions were found at
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censors near Granada Hills and Ontario.The censors gathered data from La Orange,
San Bernardino, and Riverside counties andalso showed the drop in emissions was most
likely due to the lack of vehicletraffic during the pandemic. Researchers also noted
a significant reduction in greenhouse gases overthe last three years along the South Bay,
where most refineries operate. Steve GregoryCanofine News some paycheck News State regulators
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have returned more than four hundred andthirty seven thousand dollars in stolen wages two
thirty four workers in commerce workers happilystepped up to grab their checks, many
as high as fourteen thousand dollars.State Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia Bauer says golden
food, falsified paste, dubs,and underpaid workers comp insurance. These business
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practices are atrocious. State Insurance CommissionerRicardo Laura said yesterday the company underreported four
point five million dollars in payroll overa six year period to illegally saved workers'
compensation insurance and fail to pay theiremployees for their hard work. The owners
of Golden Food faced forty three laborfraud felonies and took a plea deal.
In Commerce, Corbin Carson k Ifinds a person looking for a Democratic Congressman
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Jerry Connolly at his district office inVirginia has attacked two of his staffers with
a metal baseball bat. Connolly saysboth staffers were hospitalized, but their injuries
are not life threatening. ABC's LindsayWatts says one of the staffers was hit
in the head yesterday, the otherwas hit on the side. Both were
taken to the hospital. US CapitolPolice arrested the attacker. Duncan is offering
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free pick me ups to make Mondaysbetter. I not ites today's Tuesday,
but I'm hoping to plan ahead,it says. Coffee drinkers in California can
get free medium drinks every Monday throughJune twenty sixth with any purchase. Coffee
drinks need to use the Duncan appand sign up as a rewards member to
redeem the free caffeine. Native Americansare demanding accountability from Dartmouth College because of
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its use of Indigenous skeletal remains forteaching. The school says the remains had
been incorrectly cataloged as those not beingNative American. They were later correctly identified.
The university says it will take meaningfulaction by consulting the tribes most impacted
by the discovery. The Native AmericanGraves Protection and Repatriation Act requires federally funded
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institutions, such as universities to returnremains and cultural items to the appropriate tribes.
Southern California weather from KFI. Lowclouds and fog and some patchie drizzle
this morning, then partly cloudy skieslater on Today. Highs in the upper
sixties and seventies for inland LA andOrange County. Some same start at the
beaches. Slightly cooler of course forthe inland valleys, though highs are going
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to be in the eighties today.Tonight, the low clouds and fog move
back in with overnight lows round sixtyTomorrow. It's pretty much the same start
to the day slightly warmer temperatures acrossthe board. Right now, Manhattan Beach
is fifty nine, Anaheim is sixtyone, Torrance is sixty and Altadena is
fifty five. When we come back, we're gonna get a chat with ABC's
tech reporter Mike Dubuski about the Microsoftpurchase of gaming company Activision Blizzard. You're
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listening to Wake Up Call with JenniferJones Lee on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Little drizzle out there aswell, so if be careful on the
roads, you know how that sheencan happen and cause a spin out.
A couple of quick headlines before weget to nerd out with Mike Dubuski.
A suspect on the terror watch listhas been arrested trying to cross the border
into San Diego. A suspect fromAfghanistan on the FBI's terror watch list was
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arrested in ote Mesa Wednesday after crossingthe border illegally as part of a larger
group. A bill banning Florida's publiccolleges and universities from funding diversity equity end
inclusion programs will soon become law inthe state. Governor Rod distant has signed
that law. Yes yesterday, ElonMusk is being subpoened as part of the
lawsuit in the US Virgin Islands accusingJP Morgan Chase of enabling sexual abuse by
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Jeffrey Epstein. News is brought toyou by American Vision Windows. At five
fifty, we're going to close outwake Up Call with ABC News correspondent Inez
Daia Kata. The topic for thatone is the Ukrainian ramp up for a
possible counter offensive in its war withRussia. President Zelenski has been traveling through
Europe as he looks for more militaryaid for Ukraine. Right now, on
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the liveline, we have ABC Techreporter Mike Debuski. He's gonna help me
unpack Microsoft's I guess almost done purchaseof gaming company Activision Blizzard. It's a
big deal, sixty nine billion dollarsall cash offer. Good morning, Mike.
I think almost is the keyword there. Yesterday Microsoft inched a little bit
closer to closing this deal. EUregulators basically gave them the go ahead to
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acquire Active Vision Blizzard. Activision Blizzardnot a name that most people non gamers
might know, but it is thelargest independent video game publisher in the world.
You probably know some of the productsthat they put out, things like
Candy Crush, popular mobile game,World of Warcraft, a very popular and
long running online multiplayer game, andthen of course the big one, Call
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of Duty, which is a hugesales success for them. New Call of
Duty games can't come out basically everyyear. Microsoft really trying to acquire this
video game publisher, in part becausethey are the owner of Xbox, right,
And this is why regulators are takinga very close look at this deal,
is that if they own the makerof the games, and they own
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the thing that you play the gameson, that would be a concern with
regards to antitrust. Yeah, talkabout moat right truly, Yeah, yeah,
exactly. The owning the rails isthe cliche, but I think it
applies here. But it is alsoworth mentioning that the deal is not closed
yet. Last year, the FTChere in the United States sued to block
the deal, and then last monthBritish regulators made moves to block the deal
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as well, specifically with focus onthis sort of immerg urging part of the
gaming space known as the cloud gamingtechnology, so that that that is kind
of the things that they need toclear from here on in. Essentially from
experts that I've talked to, itbasically means that all world governments and all
the regulators who are taking a lookat this deal need to be in agreement
because it's not like there's going tobe one version of Xbox here in the
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United States and one version in theEuropean Union. They kind of need to
all be, you know, uh, copasetic with one another because of the
globalized nature of the video game industryand the tech industry in general. Right,
And are there any privacy issues aroundhere, because I know the EU's
years ahead of us when it comesto policies or regulations around privacy. Yeah,
it is interesting to see the EUgive this deal the go ahead and
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the United States not, because usuallywhen it comes to big tech regulation,
it's the inverse, right, Jason. It's like the the EU has been
very aggressive when it comes to hyou know, taking tech companies to task.
They find Google in the millions,if not billions of dollars for what
they say are alleged antitrust practices.But what I think is kind of interesting
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to note here is the British movementhere, right, the British moved last
month late last month to block thisdeal, and they made specific focus on
cloud gaming, which is this sortof interesting tactic because it almost seems like
they're trying to stop a monopoly fromhappening before it's allowed to take hold,
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right, Like the traditional way ofdealing with antitrust concerns is to break up
big tech companies or big companies andthen allow them to be smaller companies that
can operate with more competition. Now, because the cloud gaming space is so
small, they are almost doing thatin the reverse. They're trying to kind
of get ahead of the problem beforeit is allowed to happen. And Microsoft
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has given a number of concessions tothe EU in order to get their thumbs
up. Right, They've committed tokeeping Activision Blizzard games on other platforms non
Xbox platforms, meaning Nintendo and PlayStationfor the next ten years, which has
caused some analysts to one under whywhat is Xbox's role here if there are
no exclusives to that that platform.Right, the video game industry is heavily
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reliant on exclusive games or exclusive tocertain consoles and platforms and that sort of
thing. So that's that's sort ofstill a question mark, and obviously they
still have to contend with the ongoingprocesses in the United States and Britain.
So yeah, far from a donedeal, but they're moving in a positive
direction at least this week when itcomes to Microsoft closing this thing. We're
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speaking with ABC Tech reporter Mike Dubuskiabout the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal. It's
a sixty nine billion dollar deal.I believe it's an all cash offer on
the table waiting for Britain to approveit. I'm going to ask you to
keep your analyst hat on just forone more second, because um, okay.
Microsoft obviously making some headlines starting thisyear with Chat, GPT and the
merger into being for online search.Is there any play here for AI or
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is it more of a meta playdown the road if you're Satia Adela,
the CEO at Microsoft. So whenthey instituted, when they first announced that
they were going to do this lastyear, obviously it made a huge amount
of press just based on the sizeof the deal. This is not just
the biggest video game deal in videogame history, it's the largest consumer tech
deal in almost two decades. AOLacquired Time Warner about twenty years ago,
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and that was the last biggest one, just to put this whole thing in
context. But when that happened,they did say this was a play for
the metaverse, that that was alot of the line that came out of
this. We're not hearing so muchabout the metaverse that much anymore, and
I think ultimately it really was aplay to get the games that people like,
these really popular video games and theXbox platform, which is also a
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popular platform, to sort of playnice with one another. But it's also
I think worth mentioning that the Xboxplatform is very popular here in the United
States, it's less popular in Europe, where PlayStation largely dominates. So I
think that was maybe part of theirthinking in this, to make Xbox a
more globalized brand, to bring sortof some of the more appealing games to
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that platform in foreign markets. Butyou know, again, that's that's sort
of yet to be determined whether thatwill actually play out for them, because
as I said, we kind ofgot to get all these governments to play
nice with one another, or atleast we have to get the governments to
play nice with Activision, Blizzard,and Microsoft here and then Jason, just
one more thing that I want tomention here because I think it's important to
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put this all in context. Right. We talked about how big this deal
is and how important it is forthe gaming industry in the tech industry.
This is also important for a lotof people. Two billion people in the
world to play video games in somecapacity. That's a little bit more than
one quarter of the global population.The video game industry is one hundred and
seventy five billion dollars. Investipedia saysthat means it's bigger than both the movie
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and the music industry combined. Sothis, uh, you know, the
conception of video games might be that, you know, it's people who play
them on consoles in your living roomor doing your basement, but it's a
lot bigger than that. And whathappens here with Microsoft and Activision, it's
going to impact a lot of people. Yeah, and you mentioned Meta and
we mentioned AI a little bit.This is a growth at a gory.
If you think about it, it'sit's spinning out original content, if you
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will, on different platforms from thefranchises that they're building in the gaming industry.
And two billion is nothing to Imean, Microsoft, Satia nadel to
me, is the CEO of thecentury so far this year. Right,
Tim Cook is doing great, it'sat keeping the things on track at Apple,
but but turning around Microsoft after comingout of the uh the Bomber years,
that's uh, that's impressive stuff.Absolutely, yeah, No, it's
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that Satia Nadela is is a reallyfascinating guy. We actually had the opportunity
here at ABC News Radio to interviewhim a few years ago, uh and
right around the time that his bookcame out. And he's a really interesting
guy, an interesting history, andI would recommend reading his book because you
know, it gives you a littlebit more insight, uh kind of into
his history and his his time atMicrosoft, as he mentioned during the Balmer
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years. Um so yeah, andyou also mentioned AI there. I mean,
that's that's a big deal this weekas well here at home. I
mean, Congress is looking into uh, you know, potential AI regulation.
You know, also with regards toanti trust this week. That's a little
bit more on the open AI sideof things than the Microsoft side of things,
but those two companies are deeply related. So Microsoft fighting a couple of
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different regulatory battles this week. Itsums yeah. ABC's tech reporter Mike Dubusky.
Mike, I have another show calledMacro. Maybe you can join me
over there. We can talk aboutregulational round AI. I would love to.
Yeah, absolutely, Thanks a lot, Mike for your time this morning.
Take care by when we come back. ABC News correspondent Inez Dala Kata
will update us on the situation inUkraine and how Ukraine's president has been adding
more military aid as they ramp upfor a counter offensive. You're listening to
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Wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Leeon Demand from KFI AM six. Forty.
Congressman Jerry Connolly is confirming that twomembers of his staff were attacked by
a person with a baseball bat yesterdayat his Virginia office. The Democrat tweeted
that the individual entered his district office, asked for Connolly, and then proceeded
to attack the staff members. Theperson in custody and the two victims were
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taken to an area hospital non lifethreatening injuries. Triple A predicts air travel
over Memorial Day weekend will be busierthis year than it was pre cod but
according to this year's report, aboutthree point four million Americans are expected to
fly over the holiday weekend. That'sup from last year. Consumer debt did
hit a record high of seventeen trilliondollars in the first quarter of twenty twenty
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three. For context, the USbond market that is the benchmark for the
global economy is twenty four trillion dollarsfive fifty one. On your wake up
call, ABC's Inez Dai Kata ison the line to talk with us about
President Zelenski's recent tour of Europe andif he was able to add military aid
for Ukraine's army head of an anticipatedcounter offensive against Russia. Good morning,
(32:37):
daz, Hey, good morning yeah. The Ukrainian President Lenski was on a
whirlwind tour through Europe. He metwith the German Chancellor Alophals in Germany.
He then made a surprise trip toParis, where he met with French President
Emmanuel Macron, and then he headedup to London to meet with the British
Prime Minister Rieshi Sunac. He didsecure fresh pledges of military aid. He
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for instance, got from the Frenchpresident a pledge with France, pledging to
train Ukrainian fighter pilots on French planesand to train them here in France.
That's interesting because we've seen a lotof back and forth over this issue of
fighter jets, with Ukraine asking forwarplanes, a lot of Western countries reluctant
to a handover those, um,those warplanes the US included, with the
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concern being that could really escalate theconflicts and really infuriate Russia. So they've
been reluctant to send Ukraine warplanes.But here Macron is offering to train Ukrainian
fighter pilots. We also got someuh, you know, pledges of military
and financial aid from the from theUK, from Germany as well. UM,
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So yeah, a lot of alot of additional help coming in from
European leaders. And this comes,of course, as Kiev is planning a
or we're expecting Kiev to carry outa major counter offensive in the spring.
Um. Initially Ukrainian officials had saidthat was put on hold because they didn't
have enough Western weapons. And sonow that Zalvski has secured at all this
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additional aid, the thinking is thatthis counter offensive cold could really be just
stays away, wow, days away. Okay, because we've been it's not
exactly been a secret that the Zolenskyand the Ukrainian army wanted to counter a
fan. Zolenski has described this waras a fundamental definition of civilization. The
Russian president Putin recently had a paradein Moscow. It seems like a lot
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of this is playing out in publicand very very not secret ways. Is
that influencing anything when it comes to, for lack of a better term,
public relations or media relations on eitherside of the war. Yeah, you
know, I think it's been it'scertainly been interesting to see these how these
two leaders have gone about it.And you're right, we've seen Putin quite
a bit in recent weeks. Therewas that military parade and and and Putin
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did speak. It was kind ofone of a rare appearance. We hadn't
seen him in a while, andhe did speak about the war. He
talked about how the world had hadfundamentally changed. He was accusing the West
again of attacking Russia. Things likethat. We've seen him him coming out
kind of more publicly, and Russianofficials also talking more and more about what's
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really going on on the ground,which was also kind of unusual because they've
kept a lot of things kind ofsecret um and we are seeing, Yeah,
the Ukrainian president. I mean he'sbeen the center throughout the throughout the
war, um, but certainly inrecent days as this world and euro tour,
Luke seeing a lot more of him. So yeah, I think there's
a little bit of that as well. Both sides kind of touting their games.
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Ukraine just this week was touting itsbiggest battlefield advances in six months.
Um so. So they're you know, saying that they're making progress already,
um so so. And I thinkpart of that is also to keep morale
up of course, and and andbut they but they're claiming that they have,
you know, made more progress therethan they have in six months.
We're speaking with ABC's in as delicateaone one more question back to Western Europe
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real quickly, as um French PresidentMakron is a self described internationalist, and
is this aid package unsuspectable? Well, did we expect to get that out
of France for this because it seemslike training on the weapon systems that Ukraine
already has is giving them an edgealready they seem to be up to speed
on a lot of those systems.Yeah. So, you know, it's
interesting that the systems have certainly beena huge help, and we just saw
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that overnight with Russia launching a newkind of intense garage of missiles that Ukraine.
Ukraine is able to shoot down alleighteen of those missiles. And what
was especially interesting about last night isthat there were hypersonic missiles views that Russia
had touted as all but you know, unstoppable, and still those air defense
systems were able to shoot them down. So I think that goes to show
just how well that's working. Andyeah, the edge that Ukraine has over
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Russia in many ways because of allthis aid that's coming in. When it
comes to what France is doing,Yeah, it's been interesting to see how
different countries have you know, they, especially European countries, think Western countries
as a whole natal allies. Theywanted to present a united front when it
comes to Ukraine, and I thinkthey've suceeded in doing that. They want
to show that they stand firmly behindUkraine. But at the same time,
there is a split amongst these countrieswhen it comes to how just how far
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the age should go. And we'veseen countries, for instance, on the
eastern flying country like Poland or theBaltic States that are very much concerned about
what's going on in Ukraine. Theyfeel that a Russia isn't stopped there,
Russia could come after the next Sothey've been really you know, Ukraine's biggest
allies here. And when it comesto this issue of fighter jet fighter jets
that we were discussing earlier, countrieslike Poland for instance, have been very
vocal and saying that they would beopen to sending Ukraine fighter jets, whereas
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countries like France, the US,Germany, the UK are a little bit
more measured, I want to sayin their approach. They've been reluctant to
set Ukraine fighter jets and and sothey're maybe not at directly affected. And
I think what you're seeing Kron doinghere and helping training these pilots but not
sending more plans is trying to walkthat fine line of helping Ukraine without taking
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it too far. Well, thankyou so much for your update on this.
We've you know, as your timeis very valuable and we really you
appreciate you joining us this morning.Thank you ab season as Daily Cattery,
they're updating us on the munitions andmilitary aid headed to Ukraine for an often
discussed and predicted counter offensive in thatwar against Russia. Back to some news
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coming out of the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom, a convicted felon who shot
a BB gun at planned parented inPasadena has been sentenced. The man admitted
to firing at the clinic at leasteleven times between twenty twenty and twenty twenty
one. The US attorneys Karen McAvoysays fifty three year old Richard Chamberlain also
had a handgun with him during oneof the attacks. Police found on the
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front passenger seat of Chamberlain's car abackpack containing a twenty two caliber pistol which
was loaded with ten rounds of ammunition. Chamberlain last year pleaded guilty to being
a felon with a firearm and ammunition. He was sentenced yesterday to thirty months
in federal prison. Chris Adler KFINews, a former LAPD officer suspected of
(39:00):
sexually assaulting four boys at his homein Covina has been arrested. The La
County Sheriff's Department says the officer wasarrested last week and remains in custody.
The alleged abuse happened between two thousandand seven and twenty sixteen. Officials say
based on the allegations and the officersaccess to children, there could be more
kids abused than have been reported.Federal officials are looking to resume student loan
(39:22):
debt repayments. The country's Education secretarysays the process will start no later than
June the thirtieth. Student loan paymentshave been paused federally for more than three
years because of the pandemic. TheSupreme Court has not yet made a ruling
on challenges to President Biden's student loanforgiveness plan. San Diego has been given
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the option to sue Sea World.Rent is due and the balance is ten
million dollars for the aquatic theme part. The San Diego City Council is voted
to take legal action against Sea Worldto try and recover its back rent from
most of twenty twenty. In earlytwenty twenty one, officials for SeaWorld release
a statement that they will continue towork with the city to find a resolution.
In the past, c World saidit should not owe rent in their
(40:02):
revenue sharing contract because theme parks wereforced to shut down completely during the pandemic.
The city said the least only allowedfor rent to be deferred, not
waived. Andrew Caravella, KFI NewsSouthern California Weather from KFI Low clouds and
fog this morning and then sunny alittle bit later. Today. We do
have some patchy fog also happening thismorning and a drizzle we have to watch
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for the drizzle. High are goingto be in the upper sixties and seventies
for inland LA and OC. Samestart at the beaches today, slightly cooler
temps for the inland valleys. Highsare going to be in the eighties today.
Tonight, the low clouds and fogmay move back in overnight lows around
sixty tomorrow. It's the same startto the day. You've been listening to
(40:43):
your wake Up Call with me,Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always
hear wake Up Call five to sixam Monday through Friday at kf I Am
six forty and anytime on demand onthe iHeartRadio app.
Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee.You're listening to KFI, a M six
forty wake up call on demand onthe iHeartRadio app. My name is Jason
Middleton. I am in for JenniferJones Lee all week. This week,
I was talking with a news editorjust before we went on the air about
second Mondays. I never could finda value to Tuesdays. Right, there's
(00:22):
Mondays. Everybody braces for Monday comingout of the weekend, Wednesday's Humpday,
Thursday's Friday, Eve, Friday,you know, Friday, Tuesday. Niver
had a thing, but she said, Tuesday's just one day closer to Friday,
and I was like, yeah,let's let's stay optimistic. I'm with
that. Let's also get some headlinesbefore we get into the rest of this
hour. Treasury Secretary and former Chairof the Federal Reserve Janet Yellen says time
(00:45):
is running out to get a dealdone ahead of today's Biden McCarthy meeting about
the debt ceiling. McCarthy has saidthe House needs a deal to vote on
by this weekend. Ukraine's president Zelenskihas been touring away Western Europe getting more
missiles and munitions for the countries anticipatedcounter offensive against Russia. Later this hour,
(01:07):
we will talk with ABC's Inez Delakataand get an update on the Ukraine
Russia war. And the Lakers continuetheir championship pursuit tonight against the Denver Nuggets.
It's the first of a seven gameseries. It's a battle of the
big men in that one. That'sthe Brow Anthony Davis versus the Joker Djokovic.
Those guys are going to be patrollingthe paint. Lakers got passed the
(01:30):
Warriors because they had a bigger paintpresence, and the series winner goes on
to the NBA Championship against either ofthe Celtics or the Heat. In just
a few minutes, we're gonna talkwith Terrence Hayes. Terrence is the Press
secretary at the BA. The VeteransAdministration has a program that expands healthcare and
benefits for vets, but it's undera deadline. You can apply for an
(01:53):
extension, So we're going to getthe details on the Packed Act that was
passed last year. It's coming upin August on another deadline, so we
need the details around that. Let'sstart with some of the other stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room. We always lead local.
The La County Department of Public Healthsays rising numbers of deaths among the homeless
are being caused by fentonyl overdoses.The number of drug overdoses and the homeless
(02:15):
population has gone up by fifty eightpercent since twenty twenty one. Healthcare in
Actions doctor Jose Luis Gonzalez says oneof the biggest reasons for this is cross
contamination. You might be thinking you'resmoking methemphetamine and it might be laced with
fentonel. Doctor Gonzalez says because ofthat, some people are accidentally getting addicted
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to fentanyl. The department's report releasedlast week shows overdoses in general being the
number one cause of death among thehomeless in twenty twenty one in La Chris
Adler KFI News Scientists with NASA JPLsay there's been a dramatic drop in greenhouse
gas emissions along a stretch of theSouth Bay where the bulk of those refineries
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operate. The report notes the reductionof the last three years is most likely
due to sparse vehicle traffic during thepandemic, which of course halted demand for
fuel Researchers also discovered a seven percentdrop in human caused emissions in La San
Bernardino, Orange and Riverside counties fromthe year's twenty fifteen to twenty twenty.
That represented a reduction of thirty threemillion pounds of methane released per year.
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Officials say despite a drop in thenumber of migrants trying to cross the California
Mexico border following Title forty two's expirationof enforcement, they're expecting a surge soon
as cartels and smugglers figure out aworkaround for Title eight and a tougher approach
to border enforcement. Border agents saythey are bracing for another caravan style push
towards the sande see to report ofentry in the coming weeks, and for
(03:43):
those migrants who successfully entered to seakasylum, there is still a challenge.
Migrant or that family has to behoused someplace or be placed into a community
while they are awaiting the adjudication processor a hearing. To National security expert
John Cohen says most of the hearingdates won't even happen until twenty twenty five
or twenty twenty six. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News Uber is promoting
(04:04):
a service where users can save somecash by catching rides with strangers. Uber
announced last week riders can save thirtyfive percent on trips by using Uber uber
carpool and sharing the ride with anotherperson heading in the same direction. It's
offered Monday through Friday during peak commutetimes in most areas. Users have to
(04:24):
schedule their rides thirty minutes to thirtydays ahead of time. Comedian Margaret cho
and the late actor Leslie Jordan havebeen named Grand Marshals of this year's La
Pride Parade. Pride officials say Chowwill be honored for her years of anti
racism and anti bullying advocacy and hersupport of LGBTQ plus rights. Jordan,
who died in October when he suffereda heart attack while driving in Hollywood,
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will serve as the Legacy Grand Marshal. It's a new title to posthumously celebrate
those who have made an impact onthe community, and The Pride Parade is
June eleventh at Sunset and Highland inHollywood. In just a couple of minutes,
We're get what, why, andhow the VA's extended benefits for veterans.
Six minutes after five on your wakeUp Call on the KFI Live Line.
We're going to have Terrence Hayes injust a minute from the VA,
(05:09):
but first a couple of quick stories. The Fed's recent interest rate hikes has
caused the US dollar to become morevaluable. The American Enterprise Institute says higher
interest rates are keeping excess cash outof the US and strengthening the dollar.
It has been increasing in value comparedto currency from other countries. This also
means the US dollar index is onan upward trajectory. Places like Indonesia,
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Brazil, and Chile have all benefitedbecause of higher commodity prices, bringing in
more dollars for goods and for services. Usually the dollar fluctuates. It's it's
either when it's really really good inthe US the economy, the dollar goes
up and it's really really bad orscarier jittery kind of right now because of
the debt ceiling, the dollar alsopicks up some scene because people are not
as investing as much in the bondmarket. Here, it's seven minutes after
(05:54):
five o'clock on your wake Up Calland on the KFI Live Line, as
promised as Terrence Hayes he's with theVeterans Administration. He's going to help us
spell out how veterans can apply orreapply for the Packed Act benefits. Let's
start at the beginning, Terrence,and good morning, Good morning, how
are you? I'm good? Thankyou? What is okay? Updates on
the Packed Act and who can ithelp? Yeah? The pack Act is
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a significant law that expands VA healthcareand benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits
and other toxic substances. This lawempowers VA to provide generations of veterans and
their survivors with the care and benefitsthey've earned and quite frankly deserve. And
I understand it expires on August thetenth. It was passed last year,
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so this is a this is anextension of benefits that need to be applied
for. So actually there is noexpiration date. So I want to make
sure that we're perfectly clear on theokay. There is a one year date
that is very urgent to us.And what it is is that if any
veteran or survivor applies for their benefitsbefore August ninth of this year, benefits
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could potentially be backdated to when PresidentBiden signed the bill into law last year,
So there's benefits on the table forthose individuals. But you can follow
a claim today, tomorrow, nextyear, five years from now, at
any given point a veteran can do. So here's how does this this packed
Act differ from other benefits. Imean it's I realize it's focused, but
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what other benefits are pulled out?Yeah, I mean this is vital.
What it is is that it's veryimportant because there's twenty three new presumptive conditions.
And bottom line is this, ifany veteran or any survivor knows of
their veteran may have been exposed toany of those twenty three conditions. If
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you have any of those twenty threeconditions, it's automatically assumed that it's because
of your service. The evidence,the burden approof is no longer on you
as a veteran or the survivor.We automatically assume this. So it's vital
that you give us a call atone eight hundred nine eight two four one
one or visit the website at VAdot gov slash pack to find out more
(08:05):
information on how you can get thosebenefits to day, Do you have any
ballpark figure as to how many veteranscould be affected by this or benefit from
this, Yeah, yeah, Ourestimate looks at about three point five million
men and women who potentially could beimpacted by the pack DAC. So far,
we've received over five hundred thousand claimsthus far, and to the average
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individual that may seem like a lot, but to us as a small number.
So again we're encouraging as many menand women to please give us a
call and follow those claims today.But also to those who made they don't
know if they have been exposed ornot, we're encouraging those who are already
in our healthcare system to visit theirprimary care physician. The schedule was called
a toxic exposure screening. More thantwo point five million men and women have
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done so already. I actually havedone so as well as a veteran,
and it's very useful. It couldlead to diagnosis, further testing in a
treatment plan, and again that evidenceto support those claims as well. So
again, if you're interested, findout more at visiting va dot gov slash
pack. You mentioned there that somepeople might not even know if they've been
exposed to burn pits and agent orangetoxic substances. Are there any typical or
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telltale symptoms or after effects that peoplecan might be looked well, be looking
for or keep an eye out for. Yeah, again, if they visit
that site and via dot gov slashpack with those twenty three presumptive conditions there,
and if you have any of thoseconditions, any of them, stop
exactly what you're doing right now,give us a call, or visit your
local Veteran service organization who have serviceofficers there to assist you free of charge
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to follow those claims. But again, it's vital that you get on that
website and see those conditions because ifyou have any of those, this pertains
to you. Terence, thank youso much for your time, this wanting
important information. Thank you so much. It's Terence Hayes. He's the Press
Secretary of the Veterans Administration. Let'sget back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews room before we go to traffic.
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Offence has been put around islands onSan Vicente Boulevard in Beverly Grove to keep
homeless camps out. People in thearea had complained about the dozens of tents
in the area before the city recentlycleared them. Officials say other beautification projects
are in the works for the areaas well. State lawmakers have passed a
first of its kind bill prohibiting toxicchemicals and processed foods and drinks. It
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now moves to the state Senate.If signed into law, the bill would
ban the sale, production, ordistribution of any food product in California containing
yeah, the infamous red dye numberthree and other chemicals commonly found in sodas,
flame and hot Cheetos, candies,and cereals. Research has linked the
chemicals to cancer, reproductive issues,and behavioral and developmental issues in kids.
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Striking members of the WGA say theywill not pick it next month's Tony Award
telecast, which would hurt what manyconsider broadways biggest night. That last week,
the union denied a request by Tonyorganizers to have a waiver for their
June eleventh live telecast. The guildsays some sort of Tony show might work
within specific requests from the WGA.The guild does not represent Broadway writers,
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but it does represent writers who workon the Tony's telecast. So our gassum
seaweed is causing a problem on beachesin Jupiter, Florida. Scientists say the
seaweed is threatening sea turtles nesting season. Marine life scientist Heather Baron says the
seaweed provides sanctuary and nutrients for theturtles once they get out to see out
(11:37):
at sea. It's a very naturaland important part of their development and environment.
However, on our beaches it cancertainly provide an impediment. The brown
seaweed has blanketed beaches and grown insize over the last few months. If
you've seen the pictures, you knowwhat I mean. Down in southern Florida,
Miami Dade County has set aside nearlyfour million dollars for cleanup efforts this
(11:58):
year and requested an additional two milliondollars from the state. When we come
back, we will take the temperaturein Washington around the debt sealing negotiations.
Wall Street looks a little jittery rightnow in pre market trading, so ABC's
Karen Travers will give us an updatefrom DC a few more stories before we
get into the break. A billbanning Florida's public colleges and universities from funding
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diversity, equity and inclusion programs willsoon become law in the state. Governor
Ronda Santist signed the measure Monday yesterday, saying DEI efforts are an attempt to
impose an ideological agenda on students andfaculty. He added that the initiative promotes
exclusion and discrimination. The law alsosays that general courses cannot distort significant historical
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events or include a curriculum that teachesidentity politics. It's set to go into
effect on July. The first.Elon Musk is being subpoened as part of
the lawsuit in the US Virgin Islandsaccusing JP Morgan Chase of enabling sexual abuse
by Jeff Free Epstein. According toReuters, the subpoena is seeking all communications
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between Musk and Epstein, stating thatEpstein may have referred the Tesla and SpaceX
CEO to the bank. The subpoenaalso reportedly requests documents from Musk about Epstein's
involvement in human trafficking. The lawsuitfiled by the Virgin Islands claims JP Morgan
Chase knowingly benefited from alleged sexual abuseby Epstein. Okay, we talked about
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the Lakers a little bit ago.Let's talk about a less well, let's
just talk about hockey. The nextround of the Stanley Cup playoff field is
set. The Stars beat the Seattlecrack in two to one in yesterday's Game
seven that was in Dallas to advanceto the Western Conference Finals. Dallas will
square off against the Golden Nights inthe next round. Vegas will have ulm
(13:48):
ice in the seven game series,which begins Friday. Meanwhile, the Carolina
Hurricanes host the Florida Panthers in theEastern Conference Finals, with Game one taking
place in Raleigh. That's on Thursday. Okay, in a couple of minutes,
we're gonna come back and we're gonnatalk about the debt ceiling negotiations.
Right after this, you're listening toWake Up Call with Jennifer jones Lee on
(14:11):
demand from k five AM six forty. My name is Jason Middleton. I
am in for Jennifer Jones Lee thisweek. She is on rodeo duty up
near reading, seen some family andsome livestock. Some quick headlines before we
get into the rest of the show. The federal government is stepping up to
stop an anticipated surge of illegal immigrationat the southern border. A Pentagon spokesman
(14:35):
says that another nine hundred and fiftytroops will be arriving by the end of
the month, with most headed toEl Paso, Texas. The man behind
chat GPT will testify before Congress todayopen a ice, THEEO, Sam Altman
will take questions from lawmakers calling forguardrails and regulation of artificial intelligence tools over
fears that it could be abused.Altman's company is is leading the development of
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AI with its popular platform chat GPT. It also launched a thousand headlines when
it paired up with Microsoft and thebeing search Being has seen some share gain
when it comes to search overall,eating into Google's de facto monopoly of online
search. Taxpayers could soon be ableto file their taxes digitally and free of
(15:24):
charge, directly with the IRS.The Washington Post reports the agency has been
quietly developing its own prototype system thatcould disrupt the tax prep market. The
Inflation Reduction Act set aside fifteen milliondollars to create a free and direct filing
program. A few more headlines,because we have a lot of news moving
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through on this Tuesday morning, Policein New Mexico say three people are dead
and several are injured after a shootingin a rural town. It happened yesterday
in Farmington, which is northwest ofAlbuquerque. Authorities responded to a report of
shots fired and eventually confronted a malesuspect, who later died after a gun
battle. Multiple officers are among thosewho were hurt. Nearby schools were placed
(16:08):
on lockdown during the event as well. Consumer debt, always something to keep
an eye on, hit a recordhigh of more than seventeen trillion dollars in
the first quarter of twenty twenty three. So these are figures from the New
York Federal Reserve and they show thetotal for borrowing across all categories rows nearly
one hundred and fifty billion dollars duringthe period from January to March. The
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jump comes despite a sharp pullback andhome loans due to rising mortgage rates.
Student loan debt also edged up toone point six trillion dollars in the first
quarter, so inflation is slowing alittle bit. It's sticky, though,
but seeing this debt rise. Onthe consumer side, sixty six percent of
the American economy is based on consumerspending on services and goods, right,
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so if we keep spending on that, then we're going to see the economy
doing. Once we stop spending andracking up this credit card debt, we
might see that recession come and maybestick around a little bit longer. I
don't think that the FED is goingto lower rates by the end of this
year, like some people are hopingfor. I don't think that's going to
happen because inflation is so sticky still. But I do think it's anticipated and
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fair that a short term two tothree quarter recession might be coming. To
write the ship Triple A air travel, we do have a holiday coming up.
Triple A predicts air travel over MemorialDay weekend we'll be busier this year
than it was pre COVID, signalinga true return as they say to pre
twenty twenty travel levels. According tothis year's report, about three point four
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million Americans are expected to fly overthe holiday weekend, an eleven percent increase
from last year. Not bad.It's also nearly a five and a half
percent increase since twenty nineteen, beforethe COVID pandemic. This year is expected
to be the busiest Memorial Day weekendsince two thousand. That's way before the
pandemic. When Blaze started tracking thesenumbers to begin with. Pasadena, back
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here in California, has approved havinga response team on standby to respond to
bee swarms. The city has contracteda live bee removal company for at least
the next three years. With overtwenty four parks that we have in Pasadena,
we have beautiful hiking trails the Arroyoarea, so there are at the
risk of bees. Pasadena's Lisader Dariansays. There have been several swarms in
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the city over the last few years. One swarm of up to forty thousand
bees in twenty twenty led to acity block being closed in five people being
injured. The contract was approved yesterdayin Pasadena Blake Trolley k if I news,
so that was Pasadena. A massewswarm of bees has taken over a
neighborhood in Encino, La City Fireand police both responded yesterday, treating at
least two people for beastings. Firefightershad been called to what they thought was
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one beasting and when they arrived theysaw hundreds of bees. People were told
to stay inside and wait for animalcontrol. The amount of greenhouse gas has
continued to drop in the LA regionover the last few years. Scientists at
NASA JPL installed eight censors around thearea, and from twenty fifteen to twenty
twenty, human const dimissions fell byseven percent. That's a reduction of thirty
three million pounds of methane released peryear. The largest reductions were found at
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censors near Granada Hills and Ontario.The censors gathered data from La Orange,
San Bernardino, and Riverside counties andalso showed the drop in emissions was most
likely due to the lack of vehicletraffic during the pandemic. Researchers also noted
a significant reduction in greenhouse gases overthe last three years along the South Bay,
where most refineries operate. Steve GregoryCanofine News some paycheck News State regulators
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have returned more than four hundred andthirty seven thousand dollars in stolen wages two
thirty four workers in commerce workers happilystepped up to grab their checks, many
as high as fourteen thousand dollars.State Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia Bauer says golden
food, falsified paste, dubs,and underpaid workers comp insurance. These business
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practices are atrocious. State Insurance CommissionerRicardo Laura said yesterday the company underreported four
point five million dollars in payroll overa six year period to illegally saved workers'
compensation insurance and fail to pay theiremployees for their hard work. The owners
of Golden Food faced forty three laborfraud felonies and took a plea deal.
In Commerce, Corbin Carson k Ifinds a person looking for a Democratic Congressman
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Jerry Connolly at his district office inVirginia has attacked two of his staffers with
a metal baseball bat. Connolly saysboth staffers were hospitalized, but their injuries
are not life threatening. ABC's LindsayWatts says one of the staffers was hit
in the head yesterday, the otherwas hit on the side. Both were
taken to the hospital. US CapitolPolice arrested the attacker. Duncan is offering
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free pick me ups to make Mondaysbetter. I not ites today's Tuesday,
but I'm hoping to plan ahead,it says. Coffee drinkers in California can
get free medium drinks every Monday throughJune twenty sixth with any purchase. Coffee
drinks need to use the Duncan appand sign up as a rewards member to
redeem the free caffeine. Native Americansare demanding accountability from Dartmouth College because of
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its use of Indigenous skeletal remains forteaching. The school says the remains had
been incorrectly cataloged as those not beingNative American. They were later correctly identified.
The university says it will take meaningfulaction by consulting the tribes most impacted
by the discovery. The Native AmericanGraves Protection and Repatriation Act requires federally funded
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institutions, such as universities to returnremains and cultural items to the appropriate tribes.
Southern California weather from KFI. Lowclouds and fog and some patchie drizzle
this morning, then partly cloudy skieslater on Today. Highs in the upper
sixties and seventies for inland LA andOrange County. Some same start at the
beaches. Slightly cooler of course forthe inland valleys, though highs are going
(21:56):
to be in the eighties today.Tonight, the low clouds and fog move
back in with overnight lows round sixtyTomorrow. It's pretty much the same start
to the day slightly warmer temperatures acrossthe board. Right now, Manhattan Beach
is fifty nine, Anaheim is sixtyone, Torrance is sixty and Altadena is
fifty five. When we come back, we're gonna get a chat with ABC's
tech reporter Mike Dubuski about the Microsoftpurchase of gaming company Activision Blizzard. You're
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listening to Wake Up Call with JenniferJones Lee on demand from KFI AM six
forty. Little drizzle out there aswell, so if be careful on the
roads, you know how that sheencan happen and cause a spin out.
A couple of quick headlines before weget to nerd out with Mike Dubuski.
A suspect on the terror watch listhas been arrested trying to cross the border
into San Diego. A suspect fromAfghanistan on the FBI's terror watch list was
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arrested in ote Mesa Wednesday after crossingthe border illegally as part of a larger
group. A bill banning Florida's publiccolleges and universities from funding diversity equity end
inclusion programs will soon become law inthe state. Governor Rod distant has signed
that law. Yes yesterday, ElonMusk is being subpoened as part of the
lawsuit in the US Virgin Islands accusingJP Morgan Chase of enabling sexual abuse by
(23:03):
Jeffrey Epstein. News is brought toyou by American Vision Windows. At five
fifty, we're going to close outwake Up Call with ABC News correspondent Inez
Daia Kata. The topic for thatone is the Ukrainian ramp up for a
possible counter offensive in its war withRussia. President Zelenski has been traveling through
Europe as he looks for more militaryaid for Ukraine. Right now, on
(23:26):
the liveline, we have ABC Techreporter Mike Debuski. He's gonna help me
unpack Microsoft's I guess almost done purchaseof gaming company Activision Blizzard. It's a
big deal, sixty nine billion dollarsall cash offer. Good morning, Mike.
I think almost is the keyword there. Yesterday Microsoft inched a little bit
closer to closing this deal. EUregulators basically gave them the go ahead to
(23:51):
acquire Active Vision Blizzard. Activision Blizzardnot a name that most people non gamers
might know, but it is thelargest independent video game publisher in the world.
You probably know some of the productsthat they put out, things like
Candy Crush, popular mobile game,World of Warcraft, a very popular and
long running online multiplayer game, andthen of course the big one, Call
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of Duty, which is a hugesales success for them. New Call of
Duty games can't come out basically everyyear. Microsoft really trying to acquire this
video game publisher, in part becausethey are the owner of Xbox, right,
And this is why regulators are takinga very close look at this deal,
is that if they own the makerof the games, and they own
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the thing that you play the gameson, that would be a concern with
regards to antitrust. Yeah, talkabout moat right truly, Yeah, yeah,
exactly. The owning the rails isthe cliche, but I think it
applies here. But it is alsoworth mentioning that the deal is not closed
yet. Last year, the FTChere in the United States sued to block
the deal, and then last monthBritish regulators made moves to block the deal
(24:56):
as well, specifically with focus onthis sort of immerg urging part of the
gaming space known as the cloud gamingtechnology, so that that that is kind
of the things that they need toclear from here on in. Essentially from
experts that I've talked to, itbasically means that all world governments and all
the regulators who are taking a lookat this deal need to be in agreement
because it's not like there's going tobe one version of Xbox here in the
(25:18):
United States and one version in theEuropean Union. They kind of need to
all be, you know, uh, copasetic with one another because of the
globalized nature of the video game industryand the tech industry in general. Right,
And are there any privacy issues aroundhere, because I know the EU's
years ahead of us when it comesto policies or regulations around privacy. Yeah,
it is interesting to see the EUgive this deal the go ahead and
(25:42):
the United States not, because usuallywhen it comes to big tech regulation,
it's the inverse, right, Jason. It's like the the EU has been
very aggressive when it comes to hyou know, taking tech companies to task.
They find Google in the millions,if not billions of dollars for what
they say are alleged antitrust practices.But what I think is kind of interesting
(26:03):
to note here is the British movementhere, right, the British moved last
month late last month to block thisdeal, and they made specific focus on
cloud gaming, which is this sortof interesting tactic because it almost seems like
they're trying to stop a monopoly fromhappening before it's allowed to take hold,
(26:23):
right, Like the traditional way ofdealing with antitrust concerns is to break up
big tech companies or big companies andthen allow them to be smaller companies that
can operate with more competition. Now, because the cloud gaming space is so
small, they are almost doing thatin the reverse. They're trying to kind
of get ahead of the problem beforeit is allowed to happen. And Microsoft
(26:44):
has given a number of concessions tothe EU in order to get their thumbs
up. Right, They've committed tokeeping Activision Blizzard games on other platforms non
Xbox platforms, meaning Nintendo and PlayStationfor the next ten years, which has
caused some analysts to one under whywhat is Xbox's role here if there are
no exclusives to that that platform.Right, the video game industry is heavily
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reliant on exclusive games or exclusive tocertain consoles and platforms and that sort of
thing. So that's that's sort ofstill a question mark, and obviously they
still have to contend with the ongoingprocesses in the United States and Britain.
So yeah, far from a donedeal, but they're moving in a positive
direction at least this week when itcomes to Microsoft closing this thing. We're
(27:29):
speaking with ABC Tech reporter Mike Dubuskiabout the Microsoft Activision Blizzard deal. It's
a sixty nine billion dollar deal.I believe it's an all cash offer on
the table waiting for Britain to approveit. I'm going to ask you to
keep your analyst hat on just forone more second, because um, okay.
Microsoft obviously making some headlines starting thisyear with Chat, GPT and the
merger into being for online search.Is there any play here for AI or
(27:52):
is it more of a meta playdown the road if you're Satia Adela,
the CEO at Microsoft. So whenthey instituted, when they first announced that
they were going to do this lastyear, obviously it made a huge amount
of press just based on the sizeof the deal. This is not just
the biggest video game deal in videogame history, it's the largest consumer tech
deal in almost two decades. AOLacquired Time Warner about twenty years ago,
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and that was the last biggest one, just to put this whole thing in
context. But when that happened,they did say this was a play for
the metaverse, that that was alot of the line that came out of
this. We're not hearing so muchabout the metaverse that much anymore, and
I think ultimately it really was aplay to get the games that people like,
these really popular video games and theXbox platform, which is also a
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popular platform, to sort of playnice with one another. But it's also
I think worth mentioning that the Xboxplatform is very popular here in the United
States, it's less popular in Europe, where PlayStation largely dominates. So I
think that was maybe part of theirthinking in this, to make Xbox a
more globalized brand, to bring sortof some of the more appealing games to
(28:59):
that platform in foreign markets. Butyou know, again, that's that's sort
of yet to be determined whether thatwill actually play out for them, because
as I said, we kind ofgot to get all these governments to play
nice with one another, or atleast we have to get the governments to
play nice with Activision, Blizzard,and Microsoft here and then Jason, just
one more thing that I want tomention here because I think it's important to
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put this all in context. Right. We talked about how big this deal
is and how important it is forthe gaming industry in the tech industry.
This is also important for a lotof people. Two billion people in the
world to play video games in somecapacity. That's a little bit more than
one quarter of the global population.The video game industry is one hundred and
seventy five billion dollars. Investipedia saysthat means it's bigger than both the movie
(29:41):
and the music industry combined. Sothis, uh, you know, the
conception of video games might be that, you know, it's people who play
them on consoles in your living roomor doing your basement, but it's a
lot bigger than that. And whathappens here with Microsoft and Activision, it's
going to impact a lot of people. Yeah, and you mentioned Meta and
we mentioned AI a little bit.This is a growth at a gory.
If you think about it, it'sit's spinning out original content, if you
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will, on different platforms from thefranchises that they're building in the gaming industry.
And two billion is nothing to Imean, Microsoft, Satia nadel to
me, is the CEO of thecentury so far this year. Right,
Tim Cook is doing great, it'sat keeping the things on track at Apple,
but but turning around Microsoft after comingout of the uh the Bomber years,
that's uh, that's impressive stuff.Absolutely, yeah, No, it's
(30:25):
that Satia Nadela is is a reallyfascinating guy. We actually had the opportunity
here at ABC News Radio to interviewhim a few years ago, uh and
right around the time that his bookcame out. And he's a really interesting
guy, an interesting history, andI would recommend reading his book because you
know, it gives you a littlebit more insight, uh kind of into
his history and his his time atMicrosoft, as he mentioned during the Balmer
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years. Um so yeah, andyou also mentioned AI there. I mean,
that's that's a big deal this weekas well here at home. I
mean, Congress is looking into uh, you know, potential AI regulation.
You know, also with regards toanti trust this week. That's a little
bit more on the open AI sideof things than the Microsoft side of things,
but those two companies are deeply related. So Microsoft fighting a couple of
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different regulatory battles this week. Itsums yeah. ABC's tech reporter Mike Dubusky.
Mike, I have another show calledMacro. Maybe you can join me
over there. We can talk aboutregulational round AI. I would love to.
Yeah, absolutely, Thanks a lot, Mike for your time this morning.
Take care by when we come back. ABC News correspondent Inez Dala Kata
will update us on the situation inUkraine and how Ukraine's president has been adding
more military aid as they ramp upfor a counter offensive. You're listening to
(31:30):
Wake Up Call with Jennifer Jones Leeon Demand from KFI AM six. Forty.
Congressman Jerry Connolly is confirming that twomembers of his staff were attacked by
a person with a baseball bat yesterdayat his Virginia office. The Democrat tweeted
that the individual entered his district office, asked for Connolly, and then proceeded
to attack the staff members. Theperson in custody and the two victims were
(31:52):
taken to an area hospital non lifethreatening injuries. Triple A predicts air travel
over Memorial Day weekend will be busierthis year than it was pre cod but
according to this year's report, aboutthree point four million Americans are expected to
fly over the holiday weekend. That'sup from last year. Consumer debt did
hit a record high of seventeen trilliondollars in the first quarter of twenty twenty
(32:14):
three. For context, the USbond market that is the benchmark for the
global economy is twenty four trillion dollarsfive fifty one. On your wake up
call, ABC's Inez Dai Kata ison the line to talk with us about
President Zelenski's recent tour of Europe andif he was able to add military aid
for Ukraine's army head of an anticipatedcounter offensive against Russia. Good morning,
(32:37):
daz, Hey, good morning yeah. The Ukrainian President Lenski was on a
whirlwind tour through Europe. He metwith the German Chancellor Alophals in Germany.
He then made a surprise trip toParis, where he met with French President
Emmanuel Macron, and then he headedup to London to meet with the British
Prime Minister Rieshi Sunac. He didsecure fresh pledges of military aid. He
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for instance, got from the Frenchpresident a pledge with France, pledging to
train Ukrainian fighter pilots on French planesand to train them here in France.
That's interesting because we've seen a lotof back and forth over this issue of
fighter jets, with Ukraine asking forwarplanes, a lot of Western countries reluctant
to a handover those, um,those warplanes the US included, with the
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concern being that could really escalate theconflicts and really infuriate Russia. So they've
been reluctant to send Ukraine warplanes.But here Macron is offering to train Ukrainian
fighter pilots. We also got someuh, you know, pledges of military
and financial aid from the from theUK, from Germany as well. UM,
(33:44):
So yeah, a lot of alot of additional help coming in from
European leaders. And this comes,of course, as Kiev is planning a
or we're expecting Kiev to carry outa major counter offensive in the spring.
Um. Initially Ukrainian officials had saidthat was put on hold because they didn't
have enough Western weapons. And sonow that Zalvski has secured at all this
(34:06):
additional aid, the thinking is thatthis counter offensive cold could really be just
stays away, wow, days away. Okay, because we've been it's not
exactly been a secret that the Zolenskyand the Ukrainian army wanted to counter a
fan. Zolenski has described this waras a fundamental definition of civilization. The
Russian president Putin recently had a paradein Moscow. It seems like a lot
(34:30):
of this is playing out in publicand very very not secret ways. Is
that influencing anything when it comes to, for lack of a better term,
public relations or media relations on eitherside of the war. Yeah, you
know, I think it's been it'scertainly been interesting to see these how these
two leaders have gone about it.And you're right, we've seen Putin quite
a bit in recent weeks. Therewas that military parade and and and Putin
(34:52):
did speak. It was kind ofone of a rare appearance. We hadn't
seen him in a while, andhe did speak about the war. He
talked about how the world had hadfundamentally changed. He was accusing the West
again of attacking Russia. Things likethat. We've seen him him coming out
kind of more publicly, and Russianofficials also talking more and more about what's
(35:15):
really going on on the ground,which was also kind of unusual because they've
kept a lot of things kind ofsecret um and we are seeing, Yeah,
the Ukrainian president. I mean he'sbeen the center throughout the throughout the
war, um, but certainly inrecent days as this world and euro tour,
Luke seeing a lot more of him. So yeah, I think there's
a little bit of that as well. Both sides kind of touting their games.
(35:35):
Ukraine just this week was touting itsbiggest battlefield advances in six months.
Um so. So they're you know, saying that they're making progress already,
um so so. And I thinkpart of that is also to keep morale
up of course, and and andbut they but they're claiming that they have,
you know, made more progress therethan they have in six months.
We're speaking with ABC's in as delicateaone one more question back to Western Europe
(35:58):
real quickly, as um French PresidentMakron is a self described internationalist, and
is this aid package unsuspectable? Well, did we expect to get that out
of France for this because it seemslike training on the weapon systems that Ukraine
already has is giving them an edgealready they seem to be up to speed
on a lot of those systems.Yeah. So, you know, it's
interesting that the systems have certainly beena huge help, and we just saw
(36:20):
that overnight with Russia launching a newkind of intense garage of missiles that Ukraine.
Ukraine is able to shoot down alleighteen of those missiles. And what
was especially interesting about last night isthat there were hypersonic missiles views that Russia
had touted as all but you know, unstoppable, and still those air defense
systems were able to shoot them down. So I think that goes to show
just how well that's working. Andyeah, the edge that Ukraine has over
(36:42):
Russia in many ways because of allthis aid that's coming in. When it
comes to what France is doing,Yeah, it's been interesting to see how
different countries have you know, they, especially European countries, think Western countries
as a whole natal allies. Theywanted to present a united front when it
comes to Ukraine, and I thinkthey've suceeded in doing that. They want
to show that they stand firmly behindUkraine. But at the same time,
there is a split amongst these countrieswhen it comes to how just how far
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the age should go. And we'veseen countries, for instance, on the
eastern flying country like Poland or theBaltic States that are very much concerned about
what's going on in Ukraine. Theyfeel that a Russia isn't stopped there,
Russia could come after the next Sothey've been really you know, Ukraine's biggest
allies here. And when it comesto this issue of fighter jet fighter jets
that we were discussing earlier, countrieslike Poland for instance, have been very
vocal and saying that they would beopen to sending Ukraine fighter jets, whereas
(37:31):
countries like France, the US,Germany, the UK are a little bit
more measured, I want to sayin their approach. They've been reluctant to
set Ukraine fighter jets and and sothey're maybe not at directly affected. And
I think what you're seeing Kron doinghere and helping training these pilots but not
sending more plans is trying to walkthat fine line of helping Ukraine without taking
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it too far. Well, thankyou so much for your update on this.
We've you know, as your timeis very valuable and we really you
appreciate you joining us this morning.Thank you ab season as Daily Cattery,
they're updating us on the munitions andmilitary aid headed to Ukraine for an often
discussed and predicted counter offensive in thatwar against Russia. Back to some news
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coming out of the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom, a convicted felon who shot
a BB gun at planned parented inPasadena has been sentenced. The man admitted
to firing at the clinic at leasteleven times between twenty twenty and twenty twenty
one. The US attorneys Karen McAvoysays fifty three year old Richard Chamberlain also
had a handgun with him during oneof the attacks. Police found on the
(38:38):
front passenger seat of Chamberlain's car abackpack containing a twenty two caliber pistol which
was loaded with ten rounds of ammunition. Chamberlain last year pleaded guilty to being
a felon with a firearm and ammunition. He was sentenced yesterday to thirty months
in federal prison. Chris Adler KFINews, a former LAPD officer suspected of
(39:00):
sexually assaulting four boys at his homein Covina has been arrested. The La
County Sheriff's Department says the officer wasarrested last week and remains in custody.
The alleged abuse happened between two thousandand seven and twenty sixteen. Officials say
based on the allegations and the officersaccess to children, there could be more
kids abused than have been reported.Federal officials are looking to resume student loan
(39:22):
debt repayments. The country's Education secretarysays the process will start no later than
June the thirtieth. Student loan paymentshave been paused federally for more than three
years because of the pandemic. TheSupreme Court has not yet made a ruling
on challenges to President Biden's student loanforgiveness plan. San Diego has been given
(39:42):
the option to sue Sea World.Rent is due and the balance is ten
million dollars for the aquatic theme part. The San Diego City Council is voted
to take legal action against Sea Worldto try and recover its back rent from
most of twenty twenty. In earlytwenty twenty one, officials for SeaWorld release
a statement that they will continue towork with the city to find a resolution.
In the past, c World saidit should not owe rent in their
(40:02):
revenue sharing contract because theme parks wereforced to shut down completely during the pandemic.
The city said the least only allowedfor rent to be deferred, not
waived. Andrew Caravella, KFI NewsSouthern California Weather from KFI Low clouds and
fog this morning and then sunny alittle bit later. Today. We do
have some patchy fog also happening thismorning and a drizzle we have to watch
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for inland LA and OC. Samestart at the beaches today, slightly cooler
temps for the inland valleys. Highsare going to be in the eighties today.
Tonight, the low clouds and fogmay move back in overnight lows around
sixty tomorrow. It's the same startto the day. You've been listening to
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