September 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News technology reporter Mike Dobuski opens the show with ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Mike talks about AI Wizard of Oz happening at The Sphere in Las Vegas. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy speaks on a judge blocking the deportation of unaccompanied Guatemalan children. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg joins the show to talk about the latest in business and what is affecting the markets today. The show closes with KFI entertainment reporter Heather Brooker highlighting a family who lost their home in the Los Angeles wildfires have made it to America’s Got Talent finals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Orange County. How that you wake up call your host? Amy?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, good morning. It is five o'clock Tuesday, September second,
twenty twenty five. This is your wake up call. I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
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good news. Labor Days done. The next holiday Halloween, So
that means that I can finally get out my Halloween stuff.
I know, right, I've been itching to do it. I
don't know why. I was talking to my friend Amy
last weekend. I was like, I don't know why, but
I want to put my Halloween stuff out. So now
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it's fair game because this holiday is over. I'm a
one holiday at a time decorator.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So no Christmas before Halloween. No, okay, good now.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Nope, nope, nope, nope. And we're all here this morning.
You're up early. That probably means what you didn't win
the power Ball last night. In fact, I just checked
my ticket. Where did it go? Okay? Two nine thirty
two thirty seven sixty three eighteen The winning numbers were eight,
twenty three, twenty five, forty fifty three, and a powerball
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of five. So I got none, but somebody, somebody did
match five of six and that ticket was sold on
Ventura Boulevard at A seventy six in Sherman Oaks one
point four million. Not bad. Here's what's ahead on wake
up Call. A heat wave that has settled over southern California.
It's expected to bring thunderstorms over the mountains and foothills
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and could cause some flash flooding and high winds. A
flash flood watch goes into effect at eleven this morning
and lasts through tomorrow night in the Bridge Fire Burns
Scar area, the San Gabriel Mountains, and the fourteen Corridor.
Attempts expected to drop five to seven degrees by this weekend.
Two La County Sheriff's deputies have been hurt when a
car slammed into their cruiser in the Vermont Vista area.
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Sheriff's Deputy Tracy Corner says the guy was driving fast
last night when he slammed into the sheriff's vehicle at
ninety eighth Street and Vermont Avenue, then tried to take off.
He was arrested. A second man in the car did
run off. The deputies were taken to the hospital. A
bill that would have fast tracked construction of California's high
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speed rail project has failed to pass in the state Senate.
The bill that would have simplified the permitting and land
the acquisition process faced strong opposition from local governments and
utility companies. The bill's sponsor, Senator Scott Wiener, says he'll
try again next year. Hey, the Wizard of Oz has
blown into Las Vegas. Have you seen this. ABC's Mike
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Debusky's going to join us in just a couple minutes
to tell us about the news show at the Sphere.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, I got to get to the Sphere. Everybody that
I've talked to that's been to it says is absolutely
just mind blowing and amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Even just the outside of it is so cool to
like sit and watch.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh yeah, and like when they put up the big
eyeball and it blinks at you. It's freaky, and it
watches the planes fly by.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, very cool. President Trump has not lost another round
in court, this one over the deportation of hundreds of
Guatemalan kids. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to join us to
tell us what's next for the children and what's next
for the President's case that's coming up at five point twenty. Also,
a family who lost everything in the fire in Alta Dina,
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literally rising from the ashes and tonight steps into the
national spotlight. Our Heather Brooker is going to tell us
more about the ben family band that's coming up before
the end of wake up calls to stick around. This
is a story I think you're going to want to hear.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Southern California continues
to bake under a heat wave that's expected to last
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for a couple more days. Forecasters are warning now if
thunderstorms flash, flooding high winds, those could all be on
the way today. A floodwatch is issued for later tomorrow
morning through tomorrow night, actually for later this morning through
tomorrow night for the Annealo Valley, the bridge fire burned
scar the San Gabriel Mountains, and the Highway fourteen corridor.
Temperatures in the upper nineties are expected to continue in
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the IE until at least tomorrow could hit one hundred
in some areas. A chlorine gas leak inside a garage
in the Corona Del Mar area has prompted some evacuations
and orders for others to take shelter inside their homes.
Newport Beach fire responded to a medical emergency and found
that some chemicals had been mixed and that put off
the chlorine gas. One person and a dog were rescued
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from the home. Lawmakers in California are moving forward with
a bill to ban businesses from using your personal information
to charge different prices for the same items.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It now only applies to grocery stores. Authored by Assemblyman
Chris Ward, Assembly built four four to six response to
a consumer watchdog report on unfair pricing practices, such as
target charging one hundred more dollars for a TV based
on where customers were located. Ward emphasizes that people shouldn't
have to worry about their data influencing prices and mid
rising costs. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
A couple loulyweds in Glendale say a wedding crasher has
stolen about one hundred thousand dollars worth of gifts from
their reception the bride tells KTLA. The guy can be
seen on videos swiping a box build with wedding gifts
and cards and cash are jaws dropped on the floor.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
We had no idea how to react, what to say.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
We were just.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Absolutely speechless that someone could do that on someone's really
special day.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The theft happened Saturday in one of the ballrooms at
Renaissance Banquet on Central Avenue. The couple says they paid
extra to have security at the wedding and it filed
a police report. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Mike Debuski. So, Mike, the Wizard of Oz has blown
into Las Vegas and landed at the now famous Sphere.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Yes, the Sphere is this big new event venue that
people might be familiar with in Las Vegas. It's a
big sphere. It's a big ball essentially. It's kind of
just off the strip in downtown Las Vegas, and it
has a big TV screen on the outside, but it
also has this big TV screen on the inside, about
four football fields worth of sixteen k LED screens on
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the inside. And over the weekend they started showing the
Wizard of Oz. What the Library of Congress calls the
most watched movie of all time. However, this version of
The Wizard of Oz that's playing at the Sphere is
a lot different from the one that you or I
might be familiar with from nineteen thirty nine Judy Garland.
Because of the Sphere's design, it has this big curved
screen on the inside that kind of reaches up and
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over and behind the audience. The creative team behind it
had to basically take the movie and stretch it out
in all different directions to fit this massive screen, and
they did this with the help of Google's artificial intelligence team.
That's why we're talking about it from the tech angle, essentially,
because there are a couple different technologies that are being
employed here. For one, they're using a process called super
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resolution to basically use AI to sharpen up the images. Again,
when you blow up an image to this degree, you
lose some fidelity, right, it starts to become less clear.
It's the same principle that applies whenever you zoom really
far in on an iPhone photo, right, it gets kind
of muddy. Well, to sharpen that up to fix it. Essentially,
they say that they've used artificial intelligence to kind of
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make things a little clearer, and that's just one piece
of this. They're actually also going much further, and this
is where we get into the kind of controversial territory
in Hollywood's estimation. They're using this process known as out painting,
where when you're watching The Wizard of Oz, right, you
might only see Dorothy's shoulders and head right, But because
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there's this big screen now, they actually have to fill
out what the rest of that character looks like, and
they're using artificial intelligence to generate the rest of her
dress and the ruby slippers and what have you. In
some cases, they're actually going even further than that and
creating characters completely. For example, in an early scene of
The Wizard of Oz, the camera moves and cuts Uncle
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Henry out of the frame entirely because now there's this
wider field of view, Uncle Henry doesn't disappear off the
screen at the sphere, so the creative team had to
use AI to come up with something for him to do.
They called this process performance generation. In promotional videos, they
say they went back to the original script and the
director's notes in the book to inform what that performance
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was going to look like. But amy you can imagine
that is kind of dividing opinion in Hollywood in a
pretty big way. It was not that long ago that
the writers and the actors went on strike in large
part two protest the creeping influence of artificial intelligence in
the industry.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, so when you go see it, you'll see some
things that you've never seen before when watching it. But
otherwise the movie itself is the same.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
The movie itself is broadly the same. We understand that
it's about thirty minutes shorter than the one that is
broadcast normally. However, what is lost in the process there
is still sort of unclear. It only just opened on Thursday,
so you know, it's it's still sort of you know,
in its early stages. But yeah, somewhere in the editing process,
it seems like they lost about thirty minutes of the film.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, so here's another question. So you're talking about it's
in sixteen K. Yeah, and the most you can get
at your house. I mean, like, I think I have
a four K. I think you can get a little
bit higher now, and then it's that sphere and like
you were saying, you have to stretch it. Does the
picture get distorted like it does in soaring around the
world at Disneyland, where they I feel tower gets all wonky.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yeah, I mean that is something that you know, they
tried to address here with artificial intelligence that doesn't look
all distorted in weird. That's part of the super resolution
piece of this. But you know, you look at kind
of images from inside the sphere, which again is not
a perfect example of the experience of being there because
you're kind of watching this somewhat three dimensional thing on
a two dimensional screen. But like, yeah, the house it
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gets blown away in a tornado is completely invented and
you can kind of see it like, you know, swoop
up over you, and it does, I guess, get a
little distorted in that way. Another thing that's happening here
is four D effects they call them, which are actual
live special effects that happen in the room with you.
When you go to the Wizard of Oz, so wind
will blow through your hair during the tornado scenes and
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maybe your seat will move, and then they have sort
of fake flying monkeys that come down and like swoop
over the audience, which would terrify five year old me
because I was not a fan of the flying monkeys
and the Wizard of Oz, but like that's another piece
of this as well.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
There's sort of four D effects.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, And have you heard much feedback from like audiences.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Yeah, So for one, there does seem to be interest
in that the tickets for this are start at one
hundred and nine dollars and go all the way up
to three hundred and forty nine dollars. So this is
not a cheap, normal trip to the movies. This The
company behind it, MSG Entertainment, says they spend about eighty
million dollars modernizing the film. So it's kind of expected
given that, plus this you know, kind of unique venue,
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that tickets were going to be a lot pricier. Ben Mankowitz,
who's the host of Turner Classic Movies. He's also the
grandson of Herman Mankowitz, the writer of Citizen Kane. He,
in a piece for CBS Sunday Morning, said that this
experience feels like magic. He was a big fan and
he is, you know, comes from Hollywood Royalty, right, So
like that is a guy that you know you would
want on your side if you're part of the creative
team here. However, others are pushing back on it in
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a pretty big Way. Slate's review of this called it
an atrocity. Indie Wire said that it is the world's
ugliest oz that's been radically mutilated by AI and on
our air on ABC. Over the weekend, we talked to
Jamel Bowie, who is a columnist for The New York Times,
and he called it an abomination that is an insult
to the very idea of art. His larger idea being
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that art, whether it be writing or film or television,
is just as much about what you see as what
you don't see. Right, Framing and cropping and cutting is
part of the artistic process, that's part of the director's vision,
and this is a corruption of that essentially. And again,
the strikes kind of loom over this in a pretty
large way. You can imagine many in the industry are
pushing back on this because of what it represents. Even still,
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James Dole and the guy who owns the Sphere says
they've sold about two hundred thousand tickets to this so far.
So you can imagine that many in Hollywood are going
to be watching this really closely to see if this
is a success or a failure, because it could be
some indicator to the future of the industry.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
All right, Mike Debuski, ABC News Tech reporter, thank you
so much.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
So, of course, Amy Taker, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I think I still I want to see a hundred
bucks for the starting pick. Oh that's a lot. That's
a lot to see the Wizard of Oz. But you're
seeing it the severe and I'm guessing whether you like
it or hate it, just the spectacle of it is
probably pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
See, nothing is cheap anymore Vegas. It's just like you've
got to be prepared to spend some money if you're
going to go there.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
government of Afghanistan sis the death toll from a magnitude
six earthquake that hit the eastern part of the country
is now topping fourteen hundred, with more than three thousand
people hurt. Rescue teams in the mountains continue to search
for survivors of the quake that hit late Sunday night.
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It flattened villages and left people trapped under rubble. Afghanistan's
National Disaster Management authoritiesays the quake also caused landslides in
some areas which blocked roads, but they have since been reopened.
Russia's President Putin and India's Prime Minister Modi have met
in China with President Jijinping for a summit. ABC's Ian
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Pannell says the three leaders showed that they have a
very friendly relationship.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
All smiles, laughter, and a clear message to President Trump.
The war words are an effort to show a stable
and alternative world all day.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The three countries are part of the Bricks Economic Group
of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. North Korean
leader Kim Jong un is headed to Beijing to attend
a military parade. The official Korean Central News Agency reported
early today that Kim left Pyongyang by his special train
to participate in celebrations marking the eightieth anniversary of the
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end of World War II. Kim and Russian President Putin
are among the twenty six world leaders who will join
President she to watch tomorrow's massive military parade. And New
York Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler says he will not seek
reelection next year. The seventy eight year old said it's
time for someone younger. He says it's time for generational change.
(14:48):
He gets that now, Nadler said. Watching President Biden say
something about the necessity for generational change in the party
really rung true with him. Nadler was elected to the
House of Representative in nineteen ninety two. Santa Monica police
are looking for the person who stabbed a pizza shop
worker in Santa Monica. Police say the guy was on
(15:09):
break outside Peer Pizza and Subs late Sunday afternoon when
a guy who may be homeless came up and just
stabbed him several times. The man ran off before police
got there. It appears to have been a random attack.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's been released from
the hospital after he was seriously hurt in a car
crash in New Hampshire over the weekend. The eighty one
year old suffered a fractured vertebrae, cuts and injuries to
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his arm and leg when he was rear ended on
Saturday night. Juliani is expected to continue his recovery at home.
No Big Winner No One matched all six winning numbers
from last night's Powerball drawing that pushes the jackpot up
to one point three billion dollars. A ticket was sold
in Sherman Oaks that had five of the six numbers,
but not the power ball. That ticket worth almost one
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point four million dollars. And the next drawing is tomorrow
night at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Oh boy, another government shutdown looming. Bill's going to tell
you about that right now. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Good Morning's Stephen. President Trump's battle with
the courts continues. In this latest round of judges blocked
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the deportation of some Guatemalan kids who came to the
US illegally and without their parents.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
This is a complicated story, but really it boils down
to something simple, according to the immigrant rights groups, and
that is this idea that there's process that has to
be followed. We're talking about potentially hundreds of children who
came to this country without their parents, unaccompanied over the
last several years, and they are between the ages of
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ten and seventeen, some of them about to turn eighteen.
And what's driving this idea of repatriation or reunification, frankly,
on the Guatemalan side, is the idea that when they
hit eighteen, some of these kids will all of a
sudden be try transferred from health and human services and
school and foster care to jail, to adult detention centers
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where they'll be perhaps rather swiftly taken out of the country.
Is what the immigrantrights groups are seizing on is the
idea that there is a process for children baked into
federal law. They're entitled to special protections, the foster care,
the education, and also attorneys, to be paid a taxpayer expense,
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and the requirement that they go through a process before
a final order of removal. And what's alleged here is
that the government has identified hundreds of children and regardless
of where they are in the process, said that they
would be put on planes and sent home to Guatemala
to their parents. And there's this conflict essentially between this
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argument that they should be reunited with their families and
the argument that the laws says that they should go
through a process first to make sure that their rights
are protected.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, you're right, it's confusing. So the judges ruling just
puts us puts a.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Pause, a two week pause, a temporary restraining order to
maintain the status quo to allow for this to play
out more fulsomely in court. There are different interests here.
You've got the notion that the government of Guatemala has
agreed to take these kids back. And again, what's driving
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some of that concern is that they're focused on the
rights of these seventeen year olds and don't want to
see them being mistreated. That's how they view it in
an American detention facility. And then the other side of
it is, well, these ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen
year olds have been in custody of the Department of
Health and Human Services. They have been in foster care.
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Some of them may have relatives here who would sponsor
them in the United States, allow them to stay. But
and perhaps maybe they have not just the credible fear,
you know, this idea of persecution that's how you claim asylum,
but also the fear that maybe they were abused. I mean,
there are a whole list of things that people could claim. Nevertheless,
the idea here is that that process allows for people
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to make those claims and to simply ignore that process
and say, well, this is different. Maybe these kids have
agreed willingly to go back home. We don't know, and
that's why there's this pause put in place. Because the
immigrant rights attorneys say that none of this process has
been followed and that the administration simply wants to round
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these kids up, put them on a plane, and don't
ask any questions about it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, So it's not necessarily, if I'm hearing you right,
it's unncessary necessarily to stop the deportation. It's to make
sure that they go through the process to make sure
that it's okay to send them back to.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
What well, well, look, I mean, at the end of
the day, if an immigrant immigrant excuse me, if an
immigration judge looks at this and says child has no
right to stay, no basis to stay, the judge issues
of final order of removal. Well, that's the process. But
that hasn't happened. According to the immigrant rights advocates in
the case of these children, they haven't had their day
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in court. They have just simply been identified round up.
There's been some discussion in court documents about perhaps interviews
with these children where they may have indicated that they
want to go back. Is that true? The attorneys say
it's not and so and were they pressured? Do they
have any right to say what they want or is
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that right being ignored because they're miners.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And where in the kids parents in all of this
did they do? We know, did the kids parents send
them across the border?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Well, in some cases that is what happens. I mean,
you know it's I read a piece in a Guatemalan
newspaper that indicated that some again this is through the
prism of perhaps official Guatemalan authorities and how they view it.
But the Guatemalan government doesn't like to see people leave
because life is so hard in that country. They have
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an interest in keeping people there and working there. But
the argument is that the family send their kids north
and force them to go. To provide remittances back to
the family, you have to go up there and work
and then send the money back. That's the argument, which
is itself a terrible thing to put a child through
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that horrible trek unaccompanied. The allegation is it's forced by
the family. But then there's the argument, well, there's nothing
for them here. We want our children to have a
better life and maybe pull the whole family up, and
so there's that too. The bottom line is federal law
has special protections for children who are in this circumstance,
recognizing their unique vulnerabilities and the idea that the administration
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would simply say, never mind all that, We're going to
do what we want to do and let the.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Courts stop us.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
That seems to be what's happening here, and so the
courts have said just a moment, pause for a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All right, Well, you are right about the very first
thing you said, and that is that it is very complicated, Steve,
who things aren't Yeah, Stephn Portnoy, ABC News, thank you
so much for the info you've bet. All right. I
just wish that there would be something easy, don't you.
I mean, like it just everything is so complicated when
it comes to all of this. State lawmakers are urging
the Department of Insurance to quickly investigate State Farm and
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pause any rate increases until that review is complete. Assembly
Member John Harabedian says he wants the Department to finish
its claims handling examination within sixty days and make the
findings public. This follows accusations by consumer groups of unfair
practices related to LA wildfire claims. Social media accounts in
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California may soon come with a warning.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
California social media warning law aims to tackle social media
addiction by requiring platforms to display a warning message daily
and every hour or after three hours of use.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Kay if i's Brian Shook says the warning will focus
on social media being associated with mental health issues and
not being proven safe for young users. Authorities are investigating
a death at MacArthur Park Lake. A man's body was
pulled out of the lake at the park west of
downtown shortly before noon yesterday. Police haven't released information about
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what caused the person's death, but it was initially reported
as a drowning, and arrest has been made in Texas
in connection with a game of Ding Dong Ditch. Remember
doing that as a kid, Well, now it has turned deadly.
An eleven year old boy was killed. ABC's Alex Stone
says the man in custody is suspected of shooting the
kid in the back after the boy rang the doorbell
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and ran off.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Investigators in Houston say it unfolded around eleven o'clock Saturday night,
the boy ringing doorbells of homes in the area and
then running away until someone emerged from one of those
houses with a gun.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Authority say murder charges may be filed this week. Urism
experts warned the decline in international travels travelers coming to
the US could continue even after the summer ends.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
They say factors like President Trump's tariffs, strict immigration policies,
and rhetoric have made international tourists feel unwelcome. US government
data confirms an overall drop off in international arrivals. Figures
from the National Travel and Tourism Office show more than
three million fewer international arrivals in the first seven months
of the year. The preliminary data does not include travelers
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from Canada, where many residents have said they planned to
stay away in protest. Deporah mark Kaffi.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
News thunderstorm is expected to move into the Southland through Friday,
mainly across the mountains in Analote Valley. A flash flood
watch goes into effect at eleven this morning and lasts
through Wednesday night. TikTok influencers been taken into custody in La.
She live streamed her arrest by Ice to her thousands
of social media followers. Tatiana Martinez's attorney says she was
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sitting in her car at home when ICE agents approached
and took her into custody. The Feds say she was
arrested because of a DUI conviction. Her lawyer says she
was targeted because she's been recording ICE activity around LA.
Lawmakers in Sacramento working on a bill that would ban
businesses from using personal information to charge different prices for
the same items. It now only applies to grocery stores.
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The bill is in response to a consumer watchdog report
that found some companies were charging one hundred dollars more
for a TV based on where customers were located. One
hundred bucks isn't much, but how about more than a billion?
At six oh five? It's handled on the news. The
jackpot is growing. You think Bill's buying tickets. I don't
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think Bill buys lottery tickets. We're getting urs. Here's what's
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Health
officials say Shagas disease is in California. It's an illness
causing more deaths in Latin America than malaria. About three
hundred thousand people in the US may be unaware they
even have it. The disease can be inactive for years
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only because coming a parent through severe health issues like
heart problems or strokes. It's caused by a parasite found
in kissing bugs, which are common in California. The Department
of Health is California has between seventy and one hundred
thousand shagas cases. The FDA has given the go ahead
for a new round of COVID nineteen shots, but the
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vaccine is only approved for seniors and younger people with
medical conditions. Before this year, people could schedule a shot
at a pharmacy, but ABC's Perry Rustman says that has
changed as well.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
At the largest pharmacy chain in the country, CBS, the
vaccine is not being offered in three states, Nevada, New Mexico,
and Massachusetts, and Walgreens has their own restrictions. You have
to have a prescription in sixteen states.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Both companies say they plan to have the new vaccine
in stock soon. A report shows more than fourteen thousand,
mainly Venezuelan migrants headed to the US, have turned around
and headed back since President Trump took office. Most migrants
interviewed in Costa Rica, Panama, and Columbia cited the inability
to reach the US legally. Northward migration through the Darien
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Gap between Panama and Columbia peaked in twenty twenty three,
but has nearly stopped. This year. Former New York City
Mayor Rudy Giuliani is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Trump announced it on social media two days after
Giuliani was seriously hurt in a car crash. He said
Giuliani was the greatest mayor in the history of New
(27:30):
York City. The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest
civilian honor. Researches in California say a cancer treatment for
cats may also work for people.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Scientists a UC Davis and UC San Francisco have been
testing a treatment for squamous sel carcinoma, one of the
most aggressive cancers in cats. Casey Ra and Sacramento says
twenty cats were treated during the clinical trial and seven
showed a response to the treatment. One cat given only
six weeks, managed to live eight months because of the
treatment and was able to spend Christmas with its family.
The research believe the treatment could also be effective for
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humans who have squamous sell carcinoma. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
News, It's Fine forty one. Time to get in your
business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning Courtney.
Speaker 12 (28:11):
Good Morning, Got Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday at our desks
here after the long weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yep, we got big changes coming to your pantry. And
that is that Craft and Hines are getting a divorce.
Speaker 12 (28:22):
Yes, they're breaking up. They're going their separate ways.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So so sad well.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
One company is going to include its sauces and box
meals like Heinz Ketchup and Kraft Mac and Cheese. That's
their more high performing brands. The second's going to sell
grocery products oscar Meyer hot Dogs, lunch Bolts, felve To to Cheese.
Now the names of these two companies, that's going to
be given at a later day. We don't have that
right now. But to keep in mind, Kraft Heindes combined
(28:46):
about a decade ago, forty six billion dollar merder just
turning around right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Okay, and then Courtney as far as business goes, because
we're getting in your business. Like, are they just saying
that if they split up they can more effectively concentrate
on each section as opposed to trying to keep it
all under one roof.
Speaker 12 (29:04):
Yes, because they say that's going to allow them to
have a little more consolidation. It's going to improve some
of their sales chains as they're going along. But then
it's going to allow them to focus on the things
that are making the more money. Those brands. They always
said that sauces and stuff have been a lot of
(29:25):
meals too. Handy dandy meals have been a lot easier,
have been making more money in general for food companies,
and that's why we're seeing some of the grocery staples
moving off into this new entity. So it's going to
allow the faster moving products a little more room to
run and management to better focus on growing each side
of the business.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Okay, staying with food, another romantic scandal and the head
of Nestley is at the top of that scandal.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah, he ousted as CEO after only one year on
the job. He had a romantic relationship with the direct subordinate,
the executive who runs then Espresso coffee Empire for them
will now lead the world's biggest food company. But this
is a second change in leadership that they had in
a little over a year. It's last CEO is booted
for underperformance. So a lot of changes in a company
(30:16):
that was always known for being quite stable.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And is that do you expect to see like an
you know, an immediate reaction in stocks.
Speaker 12 (30:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, there there definitely has been a reaction
to Neslei. It's it trades overseas because it's a Swiss company.
But taking a look at Nesleis shares right now, I
will bring it up for you. That's a wonder of
the Bloomberg We have the Bloomberg system which has all
different data and we're looking at shares are lower right
now in European trading, so it's actually down about one
(30:46):
point two percent.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Okay. And then before we let you go, Starbucks put
out it's Pumpkins spice latte. And how how is that
drive in business?
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Yes, Starbucks has been working to reverse a big string
of declines. So the pumpkin spice latte that road to
the rescue for them. They said their fall product launch
helped deliver a record breaking sales week in the US
last week. And by the way, I want to mention
that this report is sponsored by Fidelity.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe
like we do every weekday except for holidays. Because we
didn't have her yesterday, but we'll have you tomorrow, yes,
and I'll be here all right, thanks Courtney Seeya. A
real life wedding crasher has stolen about one hundred thousand
dollars worth of gifts from a wedding reception in Glendale.
The man got caught on surveillance video taking a box
(31:33):
filled with cash, checks and gift cards from a ballroom
at Renaissance banquet. A friend of the bride saw the
guy take the box and alerted them, but he was
able to slip away and drive off. State lawmakers are
moving forward with a bill that would put a warning
label on social media sites. The bill would require a
warning message be displayed at least once a day when
(31:54):
someone visits a social media site. The message would appear
again after three hours of use. Legislation passed and Committee
Friday on a five to two vote. It's not a
billion dollars, but someone who bought a powerball ticket in
the Valley is a new millionaire. A powerball ticket that
matched five of the six winning numbers for last night's
drawing was sold at a seventy six gas station on
(32:14):
Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. It's worth just under one
point four million dollars. We're just minutes away. From Handle
on the news this morning as lawmakers get back to
work in DC after their August recess. Tops on the
docket a possible government shutdown. Let's say, uh, actually, let's
not say good morning to anybody right now, but we
(32:36):
want to tell you the story about Rising from the Ashes.
The Ben family lost their home in the wildfires in January,
like so many thousands of people did well. Our Heather
Brooker caught up with the family, who tonight will step
into the national spotlight.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
You are not heard a song whispered with heartbreak. It's
never been a moment you and the strength of a lion.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
You are not.
Speaker 13 (33:03):
The Ben family band, five relatives from Altadina lost everything
in the January wildfires.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Always heard about, you know, fires happening, but we've never
actually experienced one this close. There was no power, there
were eighty mile winds, and it was just It was
absolutely the scariest time of our life for generations.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
The Ben's have been a musical family, harmonizing in church
pews week after week. But Lauren Ben and her mom
Laurie say that fateful night in January changed everything.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
Our home and most of the town was gone.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
We focused on what we knew to do, which was
to say.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
Their homes, their church, their community. Reduced to ashes for
a time, even the music stopped. The harmonies that once
filled their lives were silenced by the fire, but the
flames couldn't take away their spirit.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Hello, Hi, how are you pretty good?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (34:02):
We are the Ben family.
Speaker 13 (34:03):
Lauria and Lauren took a leap of faith and together
with three other family members, formed the Ben Family Band
and send in a video to the producers of America's
Got Talent. They say their goal was to bring hope
to their community and say thank you.
Speaker 14 (34:15):
When we fled our neighborhood, we didn't get a chance
to hug anyone or say hey, I'll see you later,
or any of that. Well, we were up there singing
and we were able to speak. It was a way
of saying thank you to our neighborhood as well.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Where are you from Altadena, California?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
We, like thousands of other families, lost our home in
January or the fire. Oh, the Altadena fire took our
city and all of our homes.
Speaker 13 (34:47):
Executive producer and showrunner Sam Donnelly says, the Ben's embody
what the show is all about.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
We were just kind of blown away by them that
spirit story. I think it's more about who you are
as a human being and with a peak really feel
for you, they root for you. But they also as
human beings, have tons of personality. They're lovely people, and
so you really connect with them on a human level.
Speaker 13 (35:08):
And their heartfelt performance of Rescue earned them a standing
ovation and a ticket to the live rounds.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Could I just say.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Yes, it's definitely yes.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Yes.
Speaker 13 (35:28):
Laura and Lauren say they chose Rescue because its lyrics
carry a powerful reminder.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
We'll continue to choose in music that we feel really
connected to, and more importantly, that shares the message of
hope and resiliency for us in our town, we survived
an incredible tragedy. There's resilience in strength and standing tall
when something awful has happened.
Speaker 13 (35:51):
For Lauren and her family, stepping on to that stage
wasn't about impressing the judges. It was about honoring her
hometown and proving that out of tragedy can triumph and.
Speaker 14 (36:01):
It's okay to do it afraid find support those that
can uplift you. You know, togetherness is a beautiful thing
that even if it's just a single individual stands strong
in it.
Speaker 13 (36:13):
From the ashes of a wildfire to the lights of
a national stage. That Ben Family's voices are carrying farther
than ever before, not with a whisper.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
But with a roar. Heatherbrooker, KFI News America's Got Talent
is on NBC tonight at eight. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. LA County Supervisors are set to consider
(36:44):
a ten million dollar emergency rent relief program. It would
help people who were affected by the wildfires in January
and people impacted by the ongoing immigration rates in LA.
The board will meet later this morning. Governor Newsom is
expanding hp SEE crime suppression units into more areas of
the state. Newsom says the hp is going to be
(37:04):
deployed in San Diego, the Inland Empire, LA, the Central Valley, Sacramento,
and the Bay Area. The governor says there's been a
thirty four percent year over year drop in crime in Oakland,
where CHP crime suppression teams were deployed last year. News
brought to you by American Vision Windows. Lawmakers in California
(37:24):
have modified a bill aimed at banning businesses from using
personal information to charge different prices for the same items.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
It now only applies to grocery stores. Authored by Assemblyman
Chris Ward, Assembly built four four to six response to
a consumer watchdog report on unfair pricing practices such as
Target charging one hundred more dollars for a TV based
on where customers were located. Ward emphasizes that people shouldn't
have to worry about their data influencing prices and mid
rising costs. Mark ronnor KFI News.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
A new report says California's vulnerable students, especially those who
are homeless or in foster care, are still facing high
suspension rates. The report by the National Center for Youth
Law says that during the twenty twenty three twenty four
school year, foster care students lost an average of seventy
seven days of instruction because of suspensions. Foster care students
(38:14):
who are black lost almost one hundred and twenty two days,
American Indian students about ninety eight days, and white students
almost seventy four days. The first safe sleeping site with
tents for homeless peoples opening today in San Jose, but
Shawn Cartwright with the Unhoused Response Group says a recent
lawsuit tied to a similar site in San Diego has
raised safety concerns about extreme summer heat.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
The heat down in San Diego inside the exact same
tents was recorded at one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 10 (38:42):
And I know San Diego doesn't get near as hot
as San Jose.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
The San Jose site will use the same tents that
are being used at the site in San Diego. California
energy regulators have postponed a plan to fine oil companies
for high profits until twenty thirty, providing a temporary win
to the industry. This comes after two major oil companies
that refine eighteen percent of the state's oil announced they
(39:09):
were closing. If you're looking to get off your phone,
pick the bean.
Speaker 15 (39:13):
Focus Friend is an app that helps to reduce the
time on your phone by essentially hijacking it to knit.
You set a timer and a cartoon bean with a
butt crack that you get to name I'll call mine. Beanie, knits,
socks and scarves, which you trade for things to decorate
Beanie's room. If you check your email or anything on
your phone before the timer rents whatever Beanie's been Knitting
Goes Away and Beanie Is Sad. Focus Friends isn't the
(39:36):
first app of its kind, but Beanie's personality has created
an emotional investment with users that recently made it number one,
beating out Chat, GPT, TikTok and others in the app stores.
Michael Kroscher, KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Okay, Beanie Crow, Yeah, I know you picked such great
stories to cover. This is KFI and kosd HG two,
Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake
up call. If you missed any wake up call, you
can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening
(40:10):
to wake Up Call with me, Amy King. You can
always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday
through Friday on KFI AM six forty and anytime on
demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Orange County. How that you wake up call your host? Amy?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Okay, good morning. It is five o'clock Tuesday, September second,
twenty twenty five. This is your wake up call. I'm
Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
(00:48):
good news. Labor Days done. The next holiday Halloween, So
that means that I can finally get out my Halloween stuff.
I know, right, I've been itching to do it. I
don't know why. I was talking to my friend Amy
last weekend. I was like, I don't know why, but
I want to put my Halloween stuff out. So now
(01:09):
it's fair game because this holiday is over. I'm a
one holiday at a time decorator.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
So no Christmas before Halloween. No, okay, good now.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Nope, nope, nope, nope. And we're all here this morning.
You're up early. That probably means what you didn't win
the power Ball last night. In fact, I just checked
my ticket. Where did it go? Okay? Two nine thirty
two thirty seven sixty three eighteen The winning numbers were eight,
twenty three, twenty five, forty fifty three, and a powerball
(01:39):
of five. So I got none, but somebody, somebody did
match five of six and that ticket was sold on
Ventura Boulevard at A seventy six in Sherman Oaks one
point four million. Not bad. Here's what's ahead on wake
up Call. A heat wave that has settled over southern California.
It's expected to bring thunderstorms over the mountains and foothills
(02:00):
and could cause some flash flooding and high winds. A
flash flood watch goes into effect at eleven this morning
and lasts through tomorrow night in the Bridge Fire Burns
Scar area, the San Gabriel Mountains, and the fourteen Corridor.
Attempts expected to drop five to seven degrees by this weekend.
Two La County Sheriff's deputies have been hurt when a
car slammed into their cruiser in the Vermont Vista area.
(02:23):
Sheriff's Deputy Tracy Corner says the guy was driving fast
last night when he slammed into the sheriff's vehicle at
ninety eighth Street and Vermont Avenue, then tried to take off.
He was arrested. A second man in the car did
run off. The deputies were taken to the hospital. A
bill that would have fast tracked construction of California's high
(02:43):
speed rail project has failed to pass in the state Senate.
The bill that would have simplified the permitting and land
the acquisition process faced strong opposition from local governments and
utility companies. The bill's sponsor, Senator Scott Wiener, says he'll
try again next year. Hey, the Wizard of Oz has
blown into Las Vegas. Have you seen this. ABC's Mike
(03:05):
Debusky's going to join us in just a couple minutes
to tell us about the news show at the Sphere.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's really cool.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, I got to get to the Sphere. Everybody that
I've talked to that's been to it says is absolutely
just mind blowing and amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Even just the outside of it is so cool to
like sit and watch.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Oh yeah, and like when they put up the big
eyeball and it blinks at you. It's freaky, and it
watches the planes fly by.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It's the weirdest thing.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, very cool. President Trump has not lost another round
in court, this one over the deportation of hundreds of
Guatemalan kids. ABC's Stephen Portnoy's going to join us to
tell us what's next for the children and what's next
for the President's case that's coming up at five point twenty. Also,
a family who lost everything in the fire in Alta Dina,
(03:48):
literally rising from the ashes and tonight steps into the
national spotlight. Our Heather Brooker is going to tell us
more about the ben family band that's coming up before
the end of wake up calls to stick around. This
is a story I think you're going to want to hear.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Southern California continues
to bake under a heat wave that's expected to last
(04:10):
for a couple more days. Forecasters are warning now if
thunderstorms flash, flooding high winds, those could all be on
the way today. A floodwatch is issued for later tomorrow
morning through tomorrow night, actually for later this morning through
tomorrow night for the Annealo Valley, the bridge fire burned
scar the San Gabriel Mountains, and the Highway fourteen corridor.
Temperatures in the upper nineties are expected to continue in
(04:33):
the IE until at least tomorrow could hit one hundred
in some areas. A chlorine gas leak inside a garage
in the Corona Del Mar area has prompted some evacuations
and orders for others to take shelter inside their homes.
Newport Beach fire responded to a medical emergency and found
that some chemicals had been mixed and that put off
the chlorine gas. One person and a dog were rescued
(04:56):
from the home. Lawmakers in California are moving forward with
a bill to ban businesses from using your personal information
to charge different prices for the same items.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
It now only applies to grocery stores. Authored by Assemblyman
Chris Ward, Assembly built four four to six response to
a consumer watchdog report on unfair pricing practices, such as
target charging one hundred more dollars for a TV based
on where customers were located. Ward emphasizes that people shouldn't
have to worry about their data influencing prices and mid
rising costs. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
A couple loulyweds in Glendale say a wedding crasher has
stolen about one hundred thousand dollars worth of gifts from
their reception the bride tells KTLA. The guy can be
seen on videos swiping a box build with wedding gifts
and cards and cash are jaws dropped on the floor.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
We had no idea how to react, what to say.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
We were just.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
Absolutely speechless that someone could do that on someone's really
special day.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The theft happened Saturday in one of the ballrooms at
Renaissance Banquet on Central Avenue. The couple says they paid
extra to have security at the wedding and it filed
a police report. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Mike Debuski. So, Mike, the Wizard of Oz has blown
into Las Vegas and landed at the now famous Sphere.
Speaker 8 (06:15):
Yes, the Sphere is this big new event venue that
people might be familiar with in Las Vegas. It's a
big sphere. It's a big ball essentially. It's kind of
just off the strip in downtown Las Vegas, and it
has a big TV screen on the outside, but it
also has this big TV screen on the inside, about
four football fields worth of sixteen k LED screens on
(06:36):
the inside. And over the weekend they started showing the
Wizard of Oz. What the Library of Congress calls the
most watched movie of all time. However, this version of
The Wizard of Oz that's playing at the Sphere is
a lot different from the one that you or I
might be familiar with from nineteen thirty nine Judy Garland.
Because of the Sphere's design, it has this big curved
screen on the inside that kind of reaches up and
(06:58):
over and behind the audience. The creative team behind it
had to basically take the movie and stretch it out
in all different directions to fit this massive screen, and
they did this with the help of Google's artificial intelligence team.
That's why we're talking about it from the tech angle, essentially,
because there are a couple different technologies that are being
employed here. For one, they're using a process called super
(07:21):
resolution to basically use AI to sharpen up the images. Again,
when you blow up an image to this degree, you
lose some fidelity, right, it starts to become less clear.
It's the same principle that applies whenever you zoom really
far in on an iPhone photo, right, it gets kind
of muddy. Well, to sharpen that up to fix it. Essentially,
they say that they've used artificial intelligence to kind of
(07:42):
make things a little clearer, and that's just one piece
of this. They're actually also going much further, and this
is where we get into the kind of controversial territory
in Hollywood's estimation. They're using this process known as out painting,
where when you're watching The Wizard of Oz, right, you
might only see Dorothy's shoulders and head right, But because
(08:03):
there's this big screen now, they actually have to fill
out what the rest of that character looks like, and
they're using artificial intelligence to generate the rest of her
dress and the ruby slippers and what have you. In
some cases, they're actually going even further than that and
creating characters completely. For example, in an early scene of
The Wizard of Oz, the camera moves and cuts Uncle
(08:25):
Henry out of the frame entirely because now there's this
wider field of view, Uncle Henry doesn't disappear off the
screen at the sphere, so the creative team had to
use AI to come up with something for him to do.
They called this process performance generation. In promotional videos, they
say they went back to the original script and the
director's notes in the book to inform what that performance
(08:46):
was going to look like. But amy you can imagine
that is kind of dividing opinion in Hollywood in a
pretty big way. It was not that long ago that
the writers and the actors went on strike in large
part two protest the creeping influence of artificial intelligence in
the industry.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Okay, so when you go see it, you'll see some
things that you've never seen before when watching it. But
otherwise the movie itself is the same.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
The movie itself is broadly the same. We understand that
it's about thirty minutes shorter than the one that is
broadcast normally. However, what is lost in the process there
is still sort of unclear. It only just opened on Thursday,
so you know, it's it's still sort of you know,
in its early stages. But yeah, somewhere in the editing process,
it seems like they lost about thirty minutes of the film.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Okay, so here's another question. So you're talking about it's
in sixteen K. Yeah, and the most you can get
at your house. I mean, like, I think I have
a four K. I think you can get a little
bit higher now, and then it's that sphere and like
you were saying, you have to stretch it. Does the
picture get distorted like it does in soaring around the
world at Disneyland, where they I feel tower gets all wonky.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
Yeah, I mean that is something that you know, they
tried to address here with artificial intelligence that doesn't look
all distorted in weird. That's part of the super resolution
piece of this. But you know, you look at kind
of images from inside the sphere, which again is not
a perfect example of the experience of being there because
you're kind of watching this somewhat three dimensional thing on
a two dimensional screen. But like, yeah, the house it
(10:18):
gets blown away in a tornado is completely invented and
you can kind of see it like, you know, swoop
up over you, and it does, I guess, get a
little distorted in that way. Another thing that's happening here
is four D effects they call them, which are actual
live special effects that happen in the room with you.
When you go to the Wizard of Oz, so wind
will blow through your hair during the tornado scenes and
(10:39):
maybe your seat will move, and then they have sort
of fake flying monkeys that come down and like swoop
over the audience, which would terrify five year old me
because I was not a fan of the flying monkeys
and the Wizard of Oz, but like that's another piece
of this as well.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
There's sort of four D effects.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, And have you heard much feedback from like audiences.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
Yeah, So for one, there does seem to be interest
in that the tickets for this are start at one
hundred and nine dollars and go all the way up
to three hundred and forty nine dollars. So this is
not a cheap, normal trip to the movies. This The
company behind it, MSG Entertainment, says they spend about eighty
million dollars modernizing the film. So it's kind of expected
given that, plus this you know, kind of unique venue,
(11:19):
that tickets were going to be a lot pricier. Ben Mankowitz,
who's the host of Turner Classic Movies. He's also the
grandson of Herman Mankowitz, the writer of Citizen Kane. He,
in a piece for CBS Sunday Morning, said that this
experience feels like magic. He was a big fan and
he is, you know, comes from Hollywood Royalty, right, So
like that is a guy that you know you would
want on your side if you're part of the creative
team here. However, others are pushing back on it in
(11:41):
a pretty big Way. Slate's review of this called it
an atrocity. Indie Wire said that it is the world's
ugliest oz that's been radically mutilated by AI and on
our air on ABC. Over the weekend, we talked to
Jamel Bowie, who is a columnist for The New York Times,
and he called it an abomination that is an insult
to the very idea of art. His larger idea being
(12:01):
that art, whether it be writing or film or television,
is just as much about what you see as what
you don't see. Right, Framing and cropping and cutting is
part of the artistic process, that's part of the director's vision,
and this is a corruption of that essentially. And again,
the strikes kind of loom over this in a pretty
large way. You can imagine many in the industry are
pushing back on this because of what it represents. Even still,
(12:24):
James Dole and the guy who owns the Sphere says
they've sold about two hundred thousand tickets to this so far.
So you can imagine that many in Hollywood are going
to be watching this really closely to see if this
is a success or a failure, because it could be
some indicator to the future of the industry.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
All right, Mike Debuski, ABC News Tech reporter, thank you
so much.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
So, of course, Amy Taker, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
I think I still I want to see a hundred
bucks for the starting pick. Oh that's a lot. That's
a lot to see the Wizard of Oz. But you're
seeing it the severe and I'm guessing whether you like
it or hate it, just the spectacle of it is
probably pretty interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
See, nothing is cheap anymore Vegas. It's just like you've
got to be prepared to spend some money if you're
going to go there.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
government of Afghanistan sis the death toll from a magnitude
six earthquake that hit the eastern part of the country
is now topping fourteen hundred, with more than three thousand
people hurt. Rescue teams in the mountains continue to search
for survivors of the quake that hit late Sunday night.
(13:25):
It flattened villages and left people trapped under rubble. Afghanistan's
National Disaster Management authoritiesays the quake also caused landslides in
some areas which blocked roads, but they have since been reopened.
Russia's President Putin and India's Prime Minister Modi have met
in China with President Jijinping for a summit. ABC's Ian
(13:46):
Pannell says the three leaders showed that they have a
very friendly relationship.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
All smiles, laughter, and a clear message to President Trump.
The war words are an effort to show a stable
and alternative world all day.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The three countries are part of the Bricks Economic Group
of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. North Korean
leader Kim Jong un is headed to Beijing to attend
a military parade. The official Korean Central News Agency reported
early today that Kim left Pyongyang by his special train
to participate in celebrations marking the eightieth anniversary of the
(14:25):
end of World War II. Kim and Russian President Putin
are among the twenty six world leaders who will join
President she to watch tomorrow's massive military parade. And New
York Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler says he will not seek
reelection next year. The seventy eight year old said it's
time for someone younger. He says it's time for generational change.
(14:48):
He gets that now, Nadler said. Watching President Biden say
something about the necessity for generational change in the party
really rung true with him. Nadler was elected to the
House of Representative in nineteen ninety two. Santa Monica police
are looking for the person who stabbed a pizza shop
worker in Santa Monica. Police say the guy was on
(15:09):
break outside Peer Pizza and Subs late Sunday afternoon when
a guy who may be homeless came up and just
stabbed him several times. The man ran off before police
got there. It appears to have been a random attack.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's been released from
the hospital after he was seriously hurt in a car
crash in New Hampshire over the weekend. The eighty one
year old suffered a fractured vertebrae, cuts and injuries to
(15:32):
his arm and leg when he was rear ended on
Saturday night. Juliani is expected to continue his recovery at home.
No Big Winner No One matched all six winning numbers
from last night's Powerball drawing that pushes the jackpot up
to one point three billion dollars. A ticket was sold
in Sherman Oaks that had five of the six numbers,
but not the power ball. That ticket worth almost one
(15:54):
point four million dollars. And the next drawing is tomorrow
night at six oh five. It's handle on the news.
Oh boy, another government shutdown looming. Bill's going to tell
you about that right now. Let's say good morning to
ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Good Morning's Stephen. President Trump's battle with
the courts continues. In this latest round of judges blocked
(16:17):
the deportation of some Guatemalan kids who came to the
US illegally and without their parents.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
This is a complicated story, but really it boils down
to something simple, according to the immigrant rights groups, and
that is this idea that there's process that has to
be followed. We're talking about potentially hundreds of children who
came to this country without their parents, unaccompanied over the
last several years, and they are between the ages of
(16:43):
ten and seventeen, some of them about to turn eighteen.
And what's driving this idea of repatriation or reunification, frankly,
on the Guatemalan side, is the idea that when they
hit eighteen, some of these kids will all of a
sudden be try transferred from health and human services and
school and foster care to jail, to adult detention centers
(17:08):
where they'll be perhaps rather swiftly taken out of the country.
Is what the immigrantrights groups are seizing on is the
idea that there is a process for children baked into
federal law. They're entitled to special protections, the foster care,
the education, and also attorneys, to be paid a taxpayer expense,
(17:30):
and the requirement that they go through a process before
a final order of removal. And what's alleged here is
that the government has identified hundreds of children and regardless
of where they are in the process, said that they
would be put on planes and sent home to Guatemala
to their parents. And there's this conflict essentially between this
(17:55):
argument that they should be reunited with their families and
the argument that the laws says that they should go
through a process first to make sure that their rights
are protected.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, you're right, it's confusing. So the judges ruling just
puts us puts a.
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Pause, a two week pause, a temporary restraining order to
maintain the status quo to allow for this to play
out more fulsomely in court. There are different interests here.
You've got the notion that the government of Guatemala has
agreed to take these kids back. And again, what's driving
(18:31):
some of that concern is that they're focused on the
rights of these seventeen year olds and don't want to
see them being mistreated. That's how they view it in
an American detention facility. And then the other side of
it is, well, these ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen
year olds have been in custody of the Department of
Health and Human Services. They have been in foster care.
(18:53):
Some of them may have relatives here who would sponsor
them in the United States, allow them to stay. But
and perhaps maybe they have not just the credible fear,
you know, this idea of persecution that's how you claim asylum,
but also the fear that maybe they were abused. I mean,
there are a whole list of things that people could claim. Nevertheless,
the idea here is that that process allows for people
(19:14):
to make those claims and to simply ignore that process
and say, well, this is different. Maybe these kids have
agreed willingly to go back home. We don't know, and
that's why there's this pause put in place. Because the
immigrant rights attorneys say that none of this process has
been followed and that the administration simply wants to round
(19:36):
these kids up, put them on a plane, and don't
ask any questions about it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Okay, So it's not necessarily, if I'm hearing you right,
it's unncessary necessarily to stop the deportation. It's to make
sure that they go through the process to make sure
that it's okay to send them back to.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
What well, well, look, I mean, at the end of
the day, if an immigrant immigrant excuse me, if an
immigration judge looks at this and says child has no
right to stay, no basis to stay, the judge issues
of final order of removal. Well, that's the process. But
that hasn't happened. According to the immigrant rights advocates in
the case of these children, they haven't had their day
(20:14):
in court. They have just simply been identified round up.
There's been some discussion in court documents about perhaps interviews
with these children where they may have indicated that they
want to go back. Is that true? The attorneys say
it's not and so and were they pressured? Do they
have any right to say what they want or is
(20:37):
that right being ignored because they're miners.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And where in the kids parents in all of this
did they do? We know, did the kids parents send
them across the border?
Speaker 9 (20:47):
Well, in some cases that is what happens. I mean,
you know it's I read a piece in a Guatemalan
newspaper that indicated that some again this is through the
prism of perhaps official Guatemalan authorities and how they view it.
But the Guatemalan government doesn't like to see people leave
because life is so hard in that country. They have
(21:07):
an interest in keeping people there and working there. But
the argument is that the family send their kids north
and force them to go. To provide remittances back to
the family, you have to go up there and work
and then send the money back. That's the argument, which
is itself a terrible thing to put a child through
(21:27):
that horrible trek unaccompanied. The allegation is it's forced by
the family. But then there's the argument, well, there's nothing
for them here. We want our children to have a
better life and maybe pull the whole family up, and
so there's that too. The bottom line is federal law
has special protections for children who are in this circumstance,
recognizing their unique vulnerabilities and the idea that the administration
(21:51):
would simply say, never mind all that, We're going to
do what we want to do and let the.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Courts stop us.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
That seems to be what's happening here, and so the
courts have said just a moment, pause for a couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
All right, Well, you are right about the very first
thing you said, and that is that it is very complicated, Steve,
who things aren't Yeah, Stephn Portnoy, ABC News, thank you
so much for the info you've bet. All right. I
just wish that there would be something easy, don't you.
I mean, like it just everything is so complicated when
it comes to all of this. State lawmakers are urging
the Department of Insurance to quickly investigate State Farm and
(22:27):
pause any rate increases until that review is complete. Assembly
Member John Harabedian says he wants the Department to finish
its claims handling examination within sixty days and make the
findings public. This follows accusations by consumer groups of unfair
practices related to LA wildfire claims. Social media accounts in
(22:48):
California may soon come with a warning.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
California social media warning law aims to tackle social media
addiction by requiring platforms to display a warning message daily
and every hour or after three hours of use.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Kay if i's Brian Shook says the warning will focus
on social media being associated with mental health issues and
not being proven safe for young users. Authorities are investigating
a death at MacArthur Park Lake. A man's body was
pulled out of the lake at the park west of
downtown shortly before noon yesterday. Police haven't released information about
(23:23):
what caused the person's death, but it was initially reported
as a drowning, and arrest has been made in Texas
in connection with a game of Ding Dong Ditch. Remember
doing that as a kid, Well, now it has turned deadly.
An eleven year old boy was killed. ABC's Alex Stone
says the man in custody is suspected of shooting the
kid in the back after the boy rang the doorbell
(23:44):
and ran off.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Investigators in Houston say it unfolded around eleven o'clock Saturday night,
the boy ringing doorbells of homes in the area and
then running away until someone emerged from one of those
houses with a gun.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Authority say murder charges may be filed this week. Urism
experts warned the decline in international travels travelers coming to
the US could continue even after the summer ends.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
They say factors like President Trump's tariffs, strict immigration policies,
and rhetoric have made international tourists feel unwelcome. US government
data confirms an overall drop off in international arrivals. Figures
from the National Travel and Tourism Office show more than
three million fewer international arrivals in the first seven months
of the year. The preliminary data does not include travelers
(24:28):
from Canada, where many residents have said they planned to
stay away in protest. Deporah mark Kaffi.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
News thunderstorm is expected to move into the Southland through Friday,
mainly across the mountains in Analote Valley. A flash flood
watch goes into effect at eleven this morning and lasts
through Wednesday night. TikTok influencers been taken into custody in La.
She live streamed her arrest by Ice to her thousands
of social media followers. Tatiana Martinez's attorney says she was
(24:56):
sitting in her car at home when ICE agents approached
and took her into custody. The Feds say she was
arrested because of a DUI conviction. Her lawyer says she
was targeted because she's been recording ICE activity around LA.
Lawmakers in Sacramento working on a bill that would ban
businesses from using personal information to charge different prices for
the same items. It now only applies to grocery stores.
(25:17):
The bill is in response to a consumer watchdog report
that found some companies were charging one hundred dollars more
for a TV based on where customers were located. One
hundred bucks isn't much, but how about more than a billion?
At six oh five? It's handled on the news. The
jackpot is growing. You think Bill's buying tickets. I don't
(25:38):
think Bill buys lottery tickets. We're getting urs. Here's what's
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Health
officials say Shagas disease is in California. It's an illness
causing more deaths in Latin America than malaria. About three
hundred thousand people in the US may be unaware they
even have it. The disease can be inactive for years
(25:59):
only because coming a parent through severe health issues like
heart problems or strokes. It's caused by a parasite found
in kissing bugs, which are common in California. The Department
of Health is California has between seventy and one hundred
thousand shagas cases. The FDA has given the go ahead
for a new round of COVID nineteen shots, but the
(26:22):
vaccine is only approved for seniors and younger people with
medical conditions. Before this year, people could schedule a shot
at a pharmacy, but ABC's Perry Rustman says that has
changed as well.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
At the largest pharmacy chain in the country, CBS, the
vaccine is not being offered in three states, Nevada, New Mexico,
and Massachusetts, and Walgreens has their own restrictions. You have
to have a prescription in sixteen states.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Both companies say they plan to have the new vaccine
in stock soon. A report shows more than fourteen thousand,
mainly Venezuelan migrants headed to the US, have turned around
and headed back since President Trump took office. Most migrants
interviewed in Costa Rica, Panama, and Columbia cited the inability
to reach the US legally. Northward migration through the Darien
(27:08):
Gap between Panama and Columbia peaked in twenty twenty three,
but has nearly stopped. This year. Former New York City
Mayor Rudy Giuliani is getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
President Trump announced it on social media two days after
Giuliani was seriously hurt in a car crash. He said
Giuliani was the greatest mayor in the history of New
(27:30):
York City. The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest
civilian honor. Researches in California say a cancer treatment for
cats may also work for people.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Scientists a UC Davis and UC San Francisco have been
testing a treatment for squamous sel carcinoma, one of the
most aggressive cancers in cats. Casey Ra and Sacramento says
twenty cats were treated during the clinical trial and seven
showed a response to the treatment. One cat given only
six weeks, managed to live eight months because of the
treatment and was able to spend Christmas with its family.
The research believe the treatment could also be effective for
(28:02):
humans who have squamous sell carcinoma. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
News, It's Fine forty one. Time to get in your
business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning Courtney.
Speaker 12 (28:11):
Good Morning, Got Happy Tuesday, Happy Tuesday at our desks
here after the long weekend.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yep, we got big changes coming to your pantry. And
that is that Craft and Hines are getting a divorce.
Speaker 12 (28:22):
Yes, they're breaking up. They're going their separate ways.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
So so sad well.
Speaker 12 (28:26):
One company is going to include its sauces and box
meals like Heinz Ketchup and Kraft Mac and Cheese. That's
their more high performing brands. The second's going to sell
grocery products oscar Meyer hot Dogs, lunch Bolts, felve To to Cheese.
Now the names of these two companies, that's going to
be given at a later day. We don't have that
right now. But to keep in mind, Kraft Heindes combined
(28:46):
about a decade ago, forty six billion dollar merder just
turning around right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Okay, and then Courtney as far as business goes, because
we're getting in your business. Like, are they just saying
that if they split up they can more effectively concentrate
on each section as opposed to trying to keep it
all under one roof.
Speaker 12 (29:04):
Yes, because they say that's going to allow them to
have a little more consolidation. It's going to improve some
of their sales chains as they're going along. But then
it's going to allow them to focus on the things
that are making the more money. Those brands. They always
said that sauces and stuff have been a lot of
(29:25):
meals too. Handy dandy meals have been a lot easier,
have been making more money in general for food companies,
and that's why we're seeing some of the grocery staples
moving off into this new entity. So it's going to
allow the faster moving products a little more room to
run and management to better focus on growing each side
of the business.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Okay, staying with food, another romantic scandal and the head
of Nestley is at the top of that scandal.
Speaker 12 (29:54):
Yeah, he ousted as CEO after only one year on
the job. He had a romantic relationship with the direct subordinate,
the executive who runs then Espresso coffee Empire for them
will now lead the world's biggest food company. But this
is a second change in leadership that they had in
a little over a year. It's last CEO is booted
for underperformance. So a lot of changes in a company
(30:16):
that was always known for being quite stable.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
And is that do you expect to see like an
you know, an immediate reaction in stocks.
Speaker 12 (30:24):
Oh yeah, yeah, there there definitely has been a reaction
to Neslei. It's it trades overseas because it's a Swiss company.
But taking a look at Nesleis shares right now, I
will bring it up for you. That's a wonder of
the Bloomberg We have the Bloomberg system which has all
different data and we're looking at shares are lower right
now in European trading, so it's actually down about one
(30:46):
point two percent.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Okay. And then before we let you go, Starbucks put
out it's Pumpkins spice latte. And how how is that
drive in business?
Speaker 12 (30:54):
Yes, Starbucks has been working to reverse a big string
of declines. So the pumpkin spice latte that road to
the rescue for them. They said their fall product launch
helped deliver a record breaking sales week in the US
last week. And by the way, I want to mention
that this report is sponsored by Fidelity.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe
like we do every weekday except for holidays. Because we
didn't have her yesterday, but we'll have you tomorrow, yes,
and I'll be here all right, thanks Courtney Seeya. A
real life wedding crasher has stolen about one hundred thousand
dollars worth of gifts from a wedding reception in Glendale.
The man got caught on surveillance video taking a box
(31:33):
filled with cash, checks and gift cards from a ballroom
at Renaissance banquet. A friend of the bride saw the
guy take the box and alerted them, but he was
able to slip away and drive off. State lawmakers are
moving forward with a bill that would put a warning
label on social media sites. The bill would require a
warning message be displayed at least once a day when
(31:54):
someone visits a social media site. The message would appear
again after three hours of use. Legislation passed and Committee
Friday on a five to two vote. It's not a
billion dollars, but someone who bought a powerball ticket in
the Valley is a new millionaire. A powerball ticket that
matched five of the six winning numbers for last night's
drawing was sold at a seventy six gas station on
(32:14):
Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. It's worth just under one
point four million dollars. We're just minutes away. From Handle
on the news this morning as lawmakers get back to
work in DC after their August recess. Tops on the
docket a possible government shutdown. Let's say, uh, actually, let's
not say good morning to anybody right now, but we
(32:36):
want to tell you the story about Rising from the Ashes.
The Ben family lost their home in the wildfires in January,
like so many thousands of people did well. Our Heather
Brooker caught up with the family, who tonight will step
into the national spotlight.
Speaker 13 (32:52):
You are not heard a song whispered with heartbreak. It's
never been a moment you and the strength of a lion.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
You are not.
Speaker 13 (33:03):
The Ben family band, five relatives from Altadina lost everything
in the January wildfires.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
Always heard about, you know, fires happening, but we've never
actually experienced one this close. There was no power, there
were eighty mile winds, and it was just It was
absolutely the scariest time of our life for generations.
Speaker 13 (33:21):
The Ben's have been a musical family, harmonizing in church
pews week after week. But Lauren Ben and her mom
Laurie say that fateful night in January changed everything.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
Our home and most of the town was gone.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
We focused on what we knew to do, which was
to say.
Speaker 13 (33:42):
Their homes, their church, their community. Reduced to ashes for
a time, even the music stopped. The harmonies that once
filled their lives were silenced by the fire, but the
flames couldn't take away their spirit.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Hello, Hi, how are you pretty good?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Who are you?
Speaker 6 (34:02):
We are the Ben family.
Speaker 13 (34:03):
Lauria and Lauren took a leap of faith and together
with three other family members, formed the Ben Family Band
and send in a video to the producers of America's
Got Talent. They say their goal was to bring hope
to their community and say thank you.
Speaker 14 (34:15):
When we fled our neighborhood, we didn't get a chance
to hug anyone or say hey, I'll see you later,
or any of that. Well, we were up there singing
and we were able to speak. It was a way
of saying thank you to our neighborhood as well.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Where are you from Altadena, California?
Speaker 6 (34:36):
We, like thousands of other families, lost our home in
January or the fire. Oh, the Altadena fire took our
city and all of our homes.
Speaker 13 (34:47):
Executive producer and showrunner Sam Donnelly says, the Ben's embody
what the show is all about.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
We were just kind of blown away by them that
spirit story. I think it's more about who you are
as a human being and with a peak really feel
for you, they root for you. But they also as
human beings, have tons of personality. They're lovely people, and
so you really connect with them on a human level.
Speaker 13 (35:08):
And their heartfelt performance of Rescue earned them a standing
ovation and a ticket to the live rounds.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Could I just say.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Yes, it's definitely yes.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Yes.
Speaker 13 (35:28):
Laura and Lauren say they chose Rescue because its lyrics
carry a powerful reminder.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
We'll continue to choose in music that we feel really
connected to, and more importantly, that shares the message of
hope and resiliency for us in our town, we survived
an incredible tragedy. There's resilience in strength and standing tall
when something awful has happened.
Speaker 13 (35:51):
For Lauren and her family, stepping on to that stage
wasn't about impressing the judges. It was about honoring her
hometown and proving that out of tragedy can triumph and.
Speaker 14 (36:01):
It's okay to do it afraid find support those that
can uplift you. You know, togetherness is a beautiful thing
that even if it's just a single individual stands strong
in it.
Speaker 13 (36:13):
From the ashes of a wildfire to the lights of
a national stage. That Ben Family's voices are carrying farther
than ever before, not with a whisper.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
But with a roar. Heatherbrooker, KFI News America's Got Talent
is on NBC tonight at eight. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. LA County Supervisors are set to consider
(36:44):
a ten million dollar emergency rent relief program. It would
help people who were affected by the wildfires in January
and people impacted by the ongoing immigration rates in LA.
The board will meet later this morning. Governor Newsom is
expanding hp SEE crime suppression units into more areas of
the state. Newsom says the hp is going to be
(37:04):
deployed in San Diego, the Inland Empire, LA, the Central Valley, Sacramento,
and the Bay Area. The governor says there's been a
thirty four percent year over year drop in crime in Oakland,
where CHP crime suppression teams were deployed last year. News
brought to you by American Vision Windows. Lawmakers in California
(37:24):
have modified a bill aimed at banning businesses from using
personal information to charge different prices for the same items.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
It now only applies to grocery stores. Authored by Assemblyman
Chris Ward, Assembly built four four to six response to
a consumer watchdog report on unfair pricing practices such as
Target charging one hundred more dollars for a TV based
on where customers were located. Ward emphasizes that people shouldn't
have to worry about their data influencing prices and mid
rising costs. Mark ronnor KFI News.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
A new report says California's vulnerable students, especially those who
are homeless or in foster care, are still facing high
suspension rates. The report by the National Center for Youth
Law says that during the twenty twenty three twenty four
school year, foster care students lost an average of seventy
seven days of instruction because of suspensions. Foster care students
(38:14):
who are black lost almost one hundred and twenty two days,
American Indian students about ninety eight days, and white students
almost seventy four days. The first safe sleeping site with
tents for homeless peoples opening today in San Jose, but
Shawn Cartwright with the Unhoused Response Group says a recent
lawsuit tied to a similar site in San Diego has
raised safety concerns about extreme summer heat.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
The heat down in San Diego inside the exact same
tents was recorded at one hundred and ten degrees.
Speaker 10 (38:42):
And I know San Diego doesn't get near as hot
as San Jose.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
The San Jose site will use the same tents that
are being used at the site in San Diego. California
energy regulators have postponed a plan to fine oil companies
for high profits until twenty thirty, providing a temporary win
to the industry. This comes after two major oil companies
that refine eighteen percent of the state's oil announced they
(39:09):
were closing. If you're looking to get off your phone,
pick the bean.
Speaker 15 (39:13):
Focus Friend is an app that helps to reduce the
time on your phone by essentially hijacking it to knit.
You set a timer and a cartoon bean with a
butt crack that you get to name I'll call mine. Beanie, knits,
socks and scarves, which you trade for things to decorate
Beanie's room. If you check your email or anything on
your phone before the timer rents whatever Beanie's been Knitting
Goes Away and Beanie Is Sad. Focus Friends isn't the
(39:36):
first app of its kind, but Beanie's personality has created
an emotional investment with users that recently made it number one,
beating out Chat, GPT, TikTok and others in the app stores.
Michael Kroscher, KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
Okay, Beanie Crow, Yeah, I know you picked such great
stories to cover. This is KFI and kosd HG two,
Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI twenty four
hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This has been your wake
up call. If you missed any wake up call, you
can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening
(40:10):
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