May 14, 2025 • 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC News reporter Steven Portnoy opens the show talking about Biden camp refuting leaked portions of new tell-all book. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about AirBnB expanding beyond rentals, Samsung’s NEW Galaxy S25 Edge, and the Apple Siri Voice settlement. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews ‘Heretic’ starring Hugh Grant available to stream on Max and Prime Video. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and Wall Street update. The show closes with Amy talking to Friends of Big Bear Valley Executive Director Sandy Steers about Sunny and Gizmo getting ready to take flight for the first time.
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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.
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and Orange County.
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Yours, Amy, Kay, it.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Is five o'clock straight up. I must admit I missed
my Dodgers while I was overseas. They're playing the A's.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Do you know that was my first team because I
grew up in the Bay Area Oakland A's.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
That was my very first baseball game ever.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Soon to be the Las Vegas A's, soon to be
right now, they're the Sacramento A's or something. This is
your wake up call for Wednesday, May fourteenth. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for getting your day started with us. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Still have a little jet lag.
So I got back on Sunday from my vacation and
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I'm fine and like you walking around and you're doing stuff,
and then it hits me and it's like, okay, I
gotta sleep now. I feel a little bit like I
have narcolepsy. I'm hoping it doesn't hit during wakeup call.
I think we're gonna be hard. Okay, thanks, all right,
here's what's ahead on wakeup call this Wednesday morning. Eric
and Lylemanendez, who've been serving a life without parole prison
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sentence for murdering their parents, have been re sentenced. Following
a hearing. A judge yesterday resentds the brothers to fifty
years to life. That makes them immediately eligible for parole.
They could get out soon. President Trump has told golf
leaders in Saudi Arabia who urgently wants to make a
deal with Iran to wind down its nuclear program bud.
He adds Tehran must end its support of terrorist proxy
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groups and says Ron can never have a nuclear weapon.
Trump is in Qatar for a state visit today, then
it's off to the UAE tomorrow. Developers plan to build
a movie studio production facility in Englewood. They say they
hope it will be the international broadcast center for the
twenty twenty eight Summer Games in LA. The Hollywood Park
studio plan is led by Rams owner Stan Cronky. It'll
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have five massive sound stages and a parking structure big
enough for sixty movie production trailers.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's a big garage.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The first of several tell all books about President Biden's
about to head store shelves and ABC. Stephen Portnoy's gonna
tell us what's in it and whether it really means
anything in the long run.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He's going to be joining us in about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Have you ever received that email or did you recently
get that email saying you might qualify for a part
of a settlement for a lawsuit over Siri?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
KTLA's tech guy Rich Demiro is going to join us
at five twenty to tell us whether it's legit or not.
And also Samsung has released its new skinniest phone ever.
Of course Rich is getting his hands on it. We'll
tell you about that. Amy's on it. You know, I
was on a plane for eleven hours the other day
on my way home from Europe. I was on movies
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on the plane. I watched I think seven or eight
during the course of the both trips and Oldie that
is one of my favorites of all time. I'm gonna
go back into the wayback machine and pull that one
out for you. And also Hugh Grant, like you've never
seen him before. This is no nodding hill. Let me
tell you and our iglitz at Big Bear getting close
to leaving the nest. We're going to check in on
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Sonny and Gizmo, who are almost as big as their
parents now and could fly at any time.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
That's coming up at five point fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Menendez brothers
have been re sentenced and could soon be freed from prison.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Five witnesses, all in favor of the convicted killers release,
testified in the courtroom, and Van Nys and then Judge
Michael Jessic made up his mind a new sentence fifty
years to life, making the Menindez brothers immediately eligible for parole.
Their grateful family thanked the brother's attorney, Mark Giragos, thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You have brought hope to this family that we didn't
see coming.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
The Menindez were originally sentenced to life without parole for
killing their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine.
They're still also seeking clemency from the governor and a
new trial. Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was brought to you by Simper Solearis, Governor Newsom
in California Attorney General Rob Bonte have filed court papers
to try to stop what they say or the Trump
administration's illegal tariffs. Newsom says the tariffs challenged in the
lawsuit are projected to at a minimum, cost consumers twenty
five billion dollars and caused the loss of more than
sixty thousand jobs. The governor is due to deliver his
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revised twenty twenty five twenty six budget today. He's expected
to focus on bringing down the cost of living for
people in California, but Republican state Senator Brian Jones tells
kfi's John Cobalt, Newsom doesn't relate to the average person.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
He doesn't understand the plight of trying to fill up
your gas tank every week, and that two hundred and.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Fifty dollars more a month.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
For gasoline actually has a negative impact.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He says.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Newsom needs to address the growing concerns people have about
the cost of living in general.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I know that's a big concern for me. It is
five oh seven on your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen portnoy So.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Stephen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The Biden camp is disputing what has been released so
far about a book about the decline of President Biden
during his time in office. What is the administration saying
and what does the book say.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Well, you mean that Biden sort of aids the team
around him. They put out a statement yesterday saying that
they quote continue to await anything that shows where Joe
Biden had to make a presidential decision, or where national
security was threatened, or where he was unable to do
his job. In fact, the statement says, the evidence points
to the opposite, that he was a very effective president.
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This is a response to the reporting of Jake Tapper
of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, who have this
book coming out next week called Original Sin that gets
at the question of whether Joe Biden did his party
and his country a disservice by declining to drop out
of the race sooner. The headlines yesterday, based on a
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pr rollout strategy for this book, have two significant headlines.
One involves Joe Biden and the conversations are about his walk,
his unsteady, halting walk and in twenty twenty three, according
to the reporting, the aides around Biden talked about the
possibility that he might have to use a wheelchair if
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he were re elected to a second term and the
doctor Kevin O'Connor warned that if the president had another
bad fall, he might have to be in a wheelchair
even sooner. That didn't happen. There's another anecdote that got
a lot of eyebrows raised yesterday, and this isn't a
piece in The New Yorker penned by Tappara and Thompson
themselves based on their book. The authors say that Biden,
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in June of last year, was at that star studied
Hollywood fundraiser where he had just returned from a summit
in Italy, which, as you know, as many time zones away.
He had to be prompted, according to the reporting, that
he was shaking hands with the most one of the
most famous people in the world, George Clooney. And according
to the reporting, as Biden was going down the line,
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thank you for being here, Thank you for being here,
thank you for being here, he apparently didn't seem to
recognize a register that he was shaking George Clooney's hand
and had to be prompted that it was George Clooney.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh, George, of course, how are you.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Weeks later, as you remember, after Biden's disastrous performance in
the debate against President Trump. Clooney was one of the
earliest and most prominent supporters of Joe Biden at the
Democratic Party to urge Biden to drop out of the race.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Hey, I was thinking about that and watching some of
the shows when they were talking about that, and that's
what put Clooney over the top apparently.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Well, I mean, look, he didn't talk about it at
the time, but this revelation in the book and the
reporting of it certainly gives you more context for why
George Clooney would have come to the conclusion that it
was time for Biden to go. And it wasn't the
same man that he remembers leading the conversation about the
Affordable Care Act, you know, fourteen years earlier. Yeah, and
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decline is natural, and this happens, and it was part
of the conversation. Increasingly, though, you have to wonder why
we're talking about this, why this is sort of a
area of interest, particularly on the left.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, because they keep saying, let's move on, let's move on,
it's over, it's done with. And then Trump gets criticized
for bringing up what she does. He brings up Biden
all the time, which is kind of ridiculous in my opinion.
But this is going back instead of like saying, hey,
you guys, let's just move on and let's focus on
the future.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Well, I think you're right. I think Democrats are kind
of sort of split on this, and you have a
lot of people in the sort of you know, a
professional political world who want to focus on it because
they are angry that the country elected Donald Trump and
they're looking for someone to blame, and rather than blaming
Kamala Harris, who was on the ticket, they've decided to
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point the finker at Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay, and I have so many more questions, and I
know you don't have time because you have other things
than other people you have to talk to, So we'll
save those for another day. But Steven Portnoy is always
thank you so much for the information. We appreciate it.
You back, all right, Well, like, yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So many more states.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I have so many more questions about that, Like think
about like Jake Tapper was once a pretty strong supporter
as far as like when you watched him on CNN
talking about the President, he would kind of defend the
president when he was interviewing certain people, and for him
to go nope and put out this tell all book.
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I think that was sort of a big switch, wondering
what's going on there? Is it money or was it conscience?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You know, what is it?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And then this is apparently not the only book that's
coming out. There's several kind of tell all books. I
think Steven makes an interesting point about looking for someone
to blame for the loss. Super interesting stuff. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four newsroom. A new tax plan by House
Republicans could increase the federal child tax credit to twenty
five hundred dollars. It's currently two thousand, but the credit
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for nearly a million children in California could be lost
if a parent is in the USA legally and doesn't
have a Social Security number. That's according to an analysis
by several research groups, including Washington's Institute on Taxation and
Economic Policy. Lawmakers are looking to vote on the tax
bill next week. The Senate will finalize its version next month.
A federal budget reconciliation package could make significant changes to
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Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
You're not going to see a reduction in Medicaid funding
You're not going to see eligible beneficiaries losing their ability
to be covered.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
California Republican Congressman Kevin Kylee says reforms are aimed at
reducing fraud and ensuring oversight to prevent people from enrolling
in multiple states. He suggests limiting medicaid and medical benefits
to those in the country legally. Kylie warns that California
could lose billions in federal funding if the policy to
cover illegal immigrants continues.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
President Trump is.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Made an unexpected announcement at his tour or during his
tour of the Middle.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
East, Trump extending an olive branch to Iran.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I have never believed in having permanent.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Enemies, appearing to lay out a foreign policy approach based
on whether you can make a deal regardless of past history.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
ABC's Mary Bruce's Trump kicked off his trip yesterday saying
the US will lift sanctions on Syria. He met with
Syria's interim president today and then took off and he's
on his way to Katar. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
is going to head to Turkey later this week for
peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine's president Zelenski says
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he'll be there for the talks, but Russia hasn't said
if President Plutin's going to show up for what would
be the first face to face talks between the two
leaders since the early days of the war that started
three years ago. Testimony is said to continue in the
sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Combs in New York.
ABC's Aaron Katursky says Comb's ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, testified
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yesterday about days long seven marathons called Frea Coughs when
she says she was forced to take part.
Speaker 11 (12:04):
In Ventura's sobbing on the witness stand as she described
marathon drug fueled sex performances with male prostitutes. I just
remember my stomach falling, just the nervousness, she said.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Ventura said she was twenty two at the time of
the Frea Coffs. The canned Film festivals going on in
France in falls, highlighting the hottest international films in fashion
in twenty eighteen, organizers band Selfie's on the Red Carpet.
Nabc's Michelle Friends and says there's now another new rule.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No nudity on the red carpet or any other area
of the festival always at effect before, but this year
that rule added to the festival's charter rules.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
She says the policy tweaked to the dress code comes
as sheer and nude dresses have been trending on red carpets.
I like this new rule. I don't want to see
everybody's business under red carpet.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
It just don't.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
State Farm's been given the ok to raise insurance rates
for homeowners in California starting next month. State Farm says
it needs to take in more revenue to pay out
the expected seven billion dollars in claims from the LA fires.
Rates will go up fifteen to seventeen percent. A man
in Santa Cedro has been charged with murder for allegedly
throwing his girlfriend off the third floor balcony of a
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senior home to her death. LA has moved a step
closer to backing a statewide ban on catney clawing. The
city's animal Services commission voted for nothing in favor of
a state bill. Supporter say declaining can cause kats lasting
pain and behavioral issues. Let's say good morning now to
the host of rich on Tech right here on KLA
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KFI kt LA see I kind of just put those together.
KTLA's tech reporter Rich Damiro.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning you, Amy, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I got to tell you I wish that I had
asked you about this before I left. I took a
converter over to France and to England. Yes, it wasn't
a converter, it was an adapter.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Yeah, there's a big difference. One melts your curling iron
the other.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, So if you're going you can plug it in
if you have the adapter, but if you don't convert
the power supply, you fry.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I have one of those. It's like a blow
dryer brush all.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
In one, turned it on, I went, wow, that's really
seems you have one. I'm like, oh, that really seems
to be high powered. But it's working and we're like okay,
and then and then it was dead.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
So that got left behind in Paris.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
But I'll ask you, thankfully, thankfully for most folks that
are not bringing a blow dryer or one of your
you know, hairstyling tools. All the rest of the stuff
pretty much works nowadays, like all the gadgets. But yeah,
when you're bringing those those are the last holdouts, like
if you're bringing like an iron or some sort of
like steamer or hair appliance, that you do need an
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actual voltage converter for.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, everything else worked to just find. So yes, it
was a win analogs all at the same time. Okay,
let's get down to business. I got this email about
a Series Voice settlement, and in fact, I've made a
note to myself and said, ask Rich if this is legit,
because we've been talking about how some of these settlements
are coming out and some are and some are not.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Yes, so this stems from a ninety five million dollars
settlement with Apple. A couple said, Hey, my Siri automatically
activated and listen to what I said. And not only
did you record that conversation, but you shared it with
third parties and you sold advertising against it. And of
course Apple has denied all of this, and I actually
do not believe the advertising part, but the third party part,
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for you know, quality assurance and you know that kind
of stuff, probably was true. But Apple has definitely cleaned
up its game when it comes to Siri and maybe
even more private. But yes, you can get up to
one hundred dollars look in your email if you get
something from Lopez Voice Assistant Settlement dot com. It is real.
You can go in and I thought it was actually
tougher to claim than it was. But if you go
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in there and you have that claimant identification code and
your confirmation code, you basically just a test that your
device activated at some point, and you can claim up
to five devices. That's one hundred dollars total, twenty dollars
per device. Do it. It's not too much money. Ninety
five million dollars is not much for Apple, but hey,
it's better than nothing.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So is it like if I've had several phones over
the years or if I have fivell iPhones.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
All at once, No, it's one. It's several phones over
the years. So it's one one activation per device. So
this has been This was from twenty fourteen to twenty
twenty four so in ten years. And it's not just phones.
It's the iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook, the Apple Watch,
the HomePod, Apple TV, and others. So I would say
that if you have those devices in your house, I
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am sure that that has happened to you, because I
know it's happened to me. And so you can pretty
much attest to say, you know, as long as that's
happened to you, you can claim this money.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, cool, that's good news. It's not a lot of money,
but every little bit helps, right. There's a new phone
we're switching over from Apple to Android. It's the new
Galaxy S twenty five Edge.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Tell us about it.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
This is the theme for twenty twenty five thin phones.
So the S twenty five Edge is brand new from Samsung.
It is super thin, super light. Went hands on with
it in New York City. Five point eight millimeters thick,
one hundred and sixty three grams. It is significantly lighter
in your hand and thinner than any phone that I've
used in the past. Still has high end features like
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a two hundred megapixel camera powered by the latest processor.
Comes in three colors. It's got all the things you need,
except the battery definitely takes a hit because it is smaller,
So we don't know for sure until we review this.
If the battery doesn't last as long it's a regular phone,
We're not sure. Samsung says they're using some AI smarts
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to make the battery last longer, but it is available
on May thirtieth and it starts at eleven hundred dollars.
Lots of pre order deals to get that. But Apple
is expected to come out with their thin phone later
this year.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, so here's my My issue with the thin phones
that always concerns me is if they're too thin, are
they going to bend like if you sit on it,
or so if you put in your back pocket and
sit on it.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Yeah, good question. I did not test that when I
was going hands on, but I am getting a review
unit and I will test that. I think that's going
to be one of the biggest things people are testing
when they put this thing through its paces. It is
made of titanium, and I know that Samsung is not
a silly company, So I think they tested to see
if people put it in their back pocket and it crumbles.
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And I hope that they have figured out them a
way to make this phone not do that.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
What would be really cool is if they made bendable glass.
Well they have that, they already phones.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Huh, Well maybe they're okay.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Maybe they you know, mix these When it goes in
your back pocket, it bends just slightly, you know, turned
like curves.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Well, we'll have to wigh and see. So okay, and
then let's talk Airbnb.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
We actually looked at Airbnb for our little trip but
didn't ultimately use it, but it looks like they're doing
a little expansion.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yeah, and Paris is actually one of the top cities.
They mentioned yesterday they had this big event in Los
Angeles and they mentioned Paris is one of the top
cities for Airbnb, and they are expanding beyond rentals and
now they offer services and experiences in the app, so
you can book your room and then you can book
a chef, a massage, personal trainer, makeup artist, all kinds
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of people to come to your room and offer services.
And then they also have experiences, so instead of taking
that double decker bus tour of the city you're going
in visiting, you can have you know, food tours, art classes,
nature hikes, and locals lead you in behind the scenes tours.
And so it's all part of their way of differentiating,
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adding more options to the mix. And I'm telling you,
if you are a makeup artist, or a hairstylist, or
a masseuse or or a personal trainer, get on here
and offer up your services. They are accepting applications you
do have to be vetted, but this could be a
very lucrative side gig. If people start booking through this
in a big way.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
That's going to be interesting to see how that works out.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
The mastage therapists come into your room gives me a
little bit of he bgb's but.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Well, they already do it. They've got zeal And soothe,
which are very popular, and it's already a thing. So
I know, it's got to have a little faith in humanity,
I guess. But we're in the news, so it's.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Tough to do that, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro also the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI that you can hear every Saturday
from eleven to two.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You can follow Rich at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You can also watch him on KTLA, follow him on Instagram,
as I just mentioned, and he always puts everything that
we talk about on his show and on KTLA on
his website and you can get all that information at
richon Tech dot tv.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Thank you, Rich, Thanks Amy, have.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
A great day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Several survivors of
the Palisades fire have sued California's Fair Plan.
Speaker 12 (21:09):
The Fair Plan is a state run insurance program that
provides fire insurance to homeowners who are not able to
get coverage from private companies. The lawsuit claims homeowners are
being underpaid through the Fair Plan or being denied coverage
for fire and smoke damage.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Kaf i's Daniel Martindale says Fair Plan officials claim they're
paying all claims consistent with California law, which are approved
by the California Department of Insurance. LA Mayor bass Is,
a homeless prevention program is working.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
In a study release by Loyola Marymount, around seventy five
percent of participants and that We Are LA program have
said their housing became more secure because of it.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Maass says it's.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Important to get people living on the streets into housing.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But before that, how about preventing people from ever becoming homeless.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
To begin with We Are LA, at program from the
Mayor's Fund for LA connects people facing eviction with social
and legal services. The study suggests more than three thirty
three thousand people have been helped by it. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
News he Rose is being reinstated by Major League Baseball
He was ineligible from ever being considered for the Baseball
Hall of Fame because of the gambling scandal, but ABC's
Will Reeves says now, eight months after Rose's death, the
ban has been lifted.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
He was banned from the game for life, but in
an historic decision, Major League Baseball reinstating all time hits
leader Pete Rose. Rose, who died last year, was barred
from the sport in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's as a person who is no
longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity
of the game. Shoeless Joe Jackson also being reinstated. The Dodgers,
speaking of baseball, take on the Athletics with the first
pitch going out tonight at seven o'clock. You can listen
to all the games on a five to seventy LA
Sports and you can stream Dodgers games all season long
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NHD on the iHeartRadio app. That keyword again, am five
to seventy LA Sports and visit the Zenchi Sushi Counter
at Ralph's for your chance to win a baseball suite
life experience. Ooh, a sweet life experience to a game
in May. Zenchi handcrafted sushi made fresh daily. Easy for
me to say. Lyle and Eric Menendez get their shot
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at parole now that a judge in Van Nuys has
re sentenced the brothers to fifty years to life for
murdering their parents at their home in Beverly Hills in
nineteen eighty nine. The brothers have served almost thirty years
of a life without parole sentence. Three people have been
arrested for the abuse and neglect of six foster kids
in Victorville, San Bernardino County. Sheriff's deputies say sixty year
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old's Kenneth and Tina Key and twenty three year old
Caitlin Key are facing torture charges. The children involved are
between five and sixteen years old. President Trump says Siria's
interim president will recognize Israel once his country has straightened up.
Syria hasn't confirmed this. Trump and President Ahmed al Sharrah
met in Saudi Arabia today. Yesterday, Trump said he planned
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to lift sanctions imposed on Syria as it struggles to
emerge from the rule of the sod regime that isolated
the nation for decades. At six o five TANDL on
the News State Farm has been given the green light
for an emergency rate hike.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That means your home.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Insurance rates if you have State Farm, are going up
fifteen to seventeen percent starting next month.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Amy's on it, AMI's on it, Amy's on it, Aami's
on it.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
What am I on?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm usually on the stream movies, TV shows, documentaries, that
kind of thing. But this week I was on a plane,
so I got to watch a bunch of movies. It
was a nice way to spend the time because it
was an eleven hour flight. So I watched a lot
of movies. And as you're scrolling through, they had a
few new movies, and they had some older movies.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
They had some animated movies.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I was like, and of course, it's just like when
you used to when you used to go to the
Blockbuster movie store one hundred years ago, and you'd look
through everything and there's like nothing to watch.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
But I came across Arthur.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Remember Arthur, not the one, not the remake, the original
with Dudley Moore. So it's one of my favorite movies
of all time. So I'm like, oh, I'll just watch this,
and I watched half of it on the way there.
Fell asleep and then watch the rest on the way
home hysterical. I literally watched it so many times when
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I was younger that I was reciting lines from the
movie when I had the headphones off on the flight,
and was then laughing out loud in my seat, which
surely the people around me were appreciating.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
But today I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Think the movie would be as well received because it's
basically about an ultra rich drunk who refuses to grow
up again. It stars Dudley Moore. Arthur Bach such a
great actor, gone too soon. He's got all the money
in the world. He's supposed to marry somebody he doesn't love,
and he doesn't know what he's missing until he meets
Liza Minelli, who plays Linda Morola. Sir John Gilgood is
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his butler who has been with Arthur every step of
the way. Sir John Gilgod is a brilliant actor as always.
You you hate him that and then you love him right.
So he's Dudley Moore is adorable and funny in his drunkenness.
I mean, like, you know, you go all all the
worries about people being alcoholics and all this stuff, but
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he is a darn funny drunk, and the movie is
touching and it's sentimental, and sometimes you're laughing out loud
and other times you're crying. So I was laughing and
crying on the plane all at the same time. If
you haven't watched it, if you you know you were,
if you're too young to have seen the original, it's
really it's really a funny movie. I would be interesting
to hear what someone who's much younger might think of it,
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because again, you know this kind of stigma with the
drinking that wasn't in place at the time, and it
was just that he was a funny drunk.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So anyway, one of my favorite movies of all time.
Highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And on the other end of the spectrum, really quick
Hugh Grant's Heretic.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
It's on Max.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's also on Apple TV and Prime video on WHO
but you have to pay for it there, but it's
been released on Max. And Hugh Grant plays mister Reid.
He's a very eccentric guy and these two young Mormon
missionaries visit his house because he's expressed interest in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, and his
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intentions become evidently more sinister once they get into the house.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It is a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I didn't think it was particularly scary, but really interesting
as they state their case on why he might want
to convert, and he talks of the origins of different
religions and finding the one true God. And again this
is not charming, quirky Hugh Grant from notting Hill. He
is deciding decidedly charming at first and then becomes incredibly creepy.
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And Hugh Grant does a great job, in my opinion,
in this role. I didn't think it was a great movie,
but Hugh Grant's performance was really great.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I saw it on the plane.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I might watch it if I was on my couch too,
So give it a watch. It's called here Tickets on
Max and again Arthur funny, funny, funny, totally politically and correct,
and I loved it. Time to get in your Business
now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donah, Good morning, Courtney, good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Okay, So technically it's supposed to be spring home buying season, but.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
There could be a problem. Okay, And here is the issue.
A lot of people after they buy a home say regrets.
I've had a few I'm gonna bury the singing on.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
All of this.
Speaker 13 (28:28):
Yes, exactly, that's what so many homeowners are saying in
this report, a sponsor by Fidelity Wealth Management. According to
a survey from bank Raid, nearly half of all homeowners
have at least one regret about their home. The biggest
one is finding out all the hidden costs of owning house.
Things like maintenance and repairs. Affel you all when you
get that bill from a plumber or a rufer and
(28:49):
you're like, oh my goodness, But a lot of folks
wish that they bought a bigger or smaller house, or
the house was in a completely different location.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
They actually liked the house, but they wanted in a
different place.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So it just means that with everything, you really need
to think about these things, and especially when it's you know,
a half a million dollars, million dollars, I mean, look
at your neighborhood, go and check out the size. Does
your stuff fit?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You know exactly?
Speaker 13 (29:14):
Research is so important finding out is this the type
of place I want to be?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Are these the schools that I'd like my kids to
be in? The those little.
Speaker 13 (29:24):
Things that you that that kind of add up and
then also making sure that you get a good home inspection.
I think that's the most important thing. And remember when
the markets were popping up a couple of years ago,
so many people were foregoing that and he ended up.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
With all these problems that they had to deal with.
Speaker 13 (29:42):
So it's it's really important to get a key home
inspection and make sure all those hidden things are found.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Worth every penny.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Microsoft is cutting a bunch of jobs, so not a
great time to be in this uh, this particular tech industry.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
No six thousand workers all across the company. The tech
Gione does roll out periodic layoffs, often to reorganize its
headcount toward priority areas. Remember this is only three percent
of its workforce, but it's still a lot of people
and especially if you're affected. But last month, Microsoft told
its workers that it's planning to use their party firms
to handle more sales to small and medium sized customers.
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And speaking of Microsoft, another NBA team is on the market.
The Portland trail Blazers are being put up for sale
by the estate of Microsoft co founder Paul Allen. Now
Alan died in twenty eighteen, but he wanted all his
sports assets to eventually be sold and all the proceeds
go to charity.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Oh okay, that's my old hometown.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And then let's talk stocks, because yesterday they were down,
they were up a bunch before that. Where are we
in the whole grand scheme of things since the big
roller coaster ride continued or started?
Speaker 13 (30:50):
Well, it is unbelievable where we've come from. Well, first
of all, yesterday was a big game changer because a
lot of people thought that President Trump's the tariffs, that
it was going to take a big toll on a
lot of wallets out there. But the consumer price report
that we got yesterday came in softer than what Wall
Street expected. It seemed that a lot of retailers are
absorbing the extra costs or the products that they're selling
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now arrived before the brunt of the.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Tariffs, So that drove stocks hires.
Speaker 13 (31:18):
The benchmark rose forty two points to finish out the
day yesterday. Now this morning, we've seen this rapid comeback
in stocks from that brutal April that we would like
to forget.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
The S and P five.
Speaker 13 (31:29):
Hundred is now unchanged for the year, and we're looking
at more gains this morning. Dow features are up fifty
points at this hour.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
But the Dow is still down because it hit a
high of like, what is it, forty six thousand at
some point.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Yes, and the Dow was lower yesterday. United Health was
one of the big problems that it saw yesterday because
the insurer unexpectedly replaced its chief executive. People did not
expect this. Now, remember this is the company that's been
undergoing a lot of problems after one of its executives
was shot in Midtown in New York. They also suspended
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their financial outlook. They're citing higher than expected medical costs.
But it's interesting because if you look at some of
the insurance their insurance rivals, those are doing fine. They're
not saying, oh, here are the problems. So where did
United Help go wrong? And that's where a lot of
investors are really digging into the numbers, going what happened here?
And those shares definitely took a big hit yesterday.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
All right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho getting in your business as
we do every day at five forty.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
We'll talk to you tomorrow. I'll see you later, all right. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Several survivors of the Palisades Fire of suit California's fair plan.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
That's the insurance plan.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The lawsuit claims homeowners are being underpaid through the plan
or being denied coverage for fire and smoke damage. The
laped's investigating vandalism at the Islamic Center of Southern California
as a hate crime. Official say graffiti was sprayed on
the side of the building on Vermont Avenue, and nearby
trees were also damaged. Governor Newsom expected to release his
revised twenty twenty five twenty six stay budget today. His
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initial proposal of three hundred and twenty two billion dollars
was the second largest spending plan ever released in January,
showed a small budget surplus. Apparently now we're looking at
a deficit. Let's say good morning now to Sandy Steers
with friends of Big Bear Valley. Sandy, I have to
tell you I'm so addicted to our eagles that I
was over in Paris and checked on them several times
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while we were on vacation.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
So I'm glad to hear that they're doing great. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
We love to hear that.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So we've kind of hit a milestone. Sunny is officially
ten weeks old, and Gizmo who hatched like five days
after sunny.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
I think is going to be ten weeks on.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Saturday, right, yes?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Okay, And what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I mean that means that, well, it's between ten and
fourteen weeks is the average for when bald eagles fledge
or fly from the nest for the first time.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And how you're watching them? We're all watching. A lot
of people are still watching them. I think there's I
just looked at the numbers. There's about thirty thousand watching
them right now.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
What are they.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Doing and what are we looking for to show that
they're kind of reagi ready to take off.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
They've been doing lots of flapping and running around the
nest to get their wings ready and know how to
balance with their wings and to build the muscles to
and now they're jumping up and down as they flap
and even getting a little bit of air underneath their
feet for a half a second maybe.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Okay, so those are little practice jumps.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But when they actually leave the nest for the first time,
there's no practicing. I mean, it's it's a do or
die situation for them, right.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
They just they well, they wouldn't die, they would just
glide if they couldn't fly, but but they can when
they're ready, when they feel like they can really do
this and they have their confidence, say, jump off the
limb and fly.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I can't wait to see this. I'm so excited for them.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
So then, Sandy, I'm kind of curious too. When they
take off, do they come right back to the nest
or do they stay away for a while or is
it just sort of a wait and see thing.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Do we really know?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
We don't really know. Mostly they don't come right back.
They at least for a day or sometimes a few hours.
They stay away from the nest. Sometimes they have to
build their muscles enough to be able to fly high
enough to get back up to the nest after they
fly away, But they can come and all of Jackie
(35:47):
in Shadow's chicks have at some point come back to
the nest and visit it several times and come back
when they need food, although Jackie and Shadow will be following.
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Them around bringing them food. Yeah, oh okay, bringing them
food and showing them how to hunt and things like that,
or fish really for a couple of months, that's so cool?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So do they then the kids follow Jackie and Shadow
around and watch them hunt.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Right they Yeah, they watch them. They'll learn how to fish,
and Jackie and Shadow will bring them food and and
they don't always know they'll follow, so Jackie and Shaddle
will find and follow them to make sure that they're
getting plenty of food and learning what they need.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Okay, And then you said that that Sonny and Gizmore
are watching mom and dad. Do they watch them fly too?
I haven't really paid attention to that, because you know,
they're they're flying in and out all the time. Do
they seem interested in what they're doing the parents are doing?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
They do. They very often will watch them fly away,
and you can see them, you know, like tilt their
heads and look around to see where they went. Yes,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Okay, And we anticipate that Sonny would be the first
to go because she's she or he is older, right
Gizmo try to follow? Or do they really instinctually wait
until they're ready?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't know for sure. We haven't seen had two
chicks that were ready to fledge at the same time before,
so we'll have to wait and see what happens. Most likely,
Gizmo wouldn't go unless it felt really ready. But we.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Okay, and so we continue to see. We have the
camera sitting above the nest in Big Bear Lake, and
Sandy tell us how if people want to help keep
that funded?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Because this is a five O one c.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
If anyone wants to make a donation to help out
the eagles or maybe buy an eagle calendar, where do they.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Go to do that?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
To our website, Friends of Big Bear Valley dot org
and it has all of that there.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Okay, Sandy Steers, Friends of Big Bear Valley will be
watching our eglitz.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
We're so excited they're gonna fly soon. Thanks so much, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Eric and Leilemanendez
been re sentenced. During a hearing in Van Nuy's. Judge
Michael Jessic handed them a new sentence yesterday of fifty
years to life. Their attorney, Mark Gerrigo says the judge
was impressed by the brother's work in prison.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
And he said while the crime was truly horrific and remarkable,
the thirty five years since what they have accomplished is
remarkable in with no hope.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
The brothers were originally sentenced to life without parole for
the murders of their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen
eighty nine. The new sentence makes them immediately eligible for release.
That decision lies with the state Parole Board. A hearing
is set for June. La County DA Nathan Hockman says
the decision to re sentence the brothers was a monumental
one that has a significant implication for the families involved,
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for the community, and the principles of justice. He says
all cases must be viewed with a critical eye and
that justice should never be swayed by back to cole.
The La Keunty Sheriff's Altadena station has announced a new
dedicated email address for residents to report suspicious activity. People
can also submit photos or videos that may help in
criminal investigations. Officials say the new initiative reflects the department's
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continued commitment to community based policing, transparency, and collaborative partnerships
with the public. Before there was Bond, James Bond, there
was Bone.
Speaker 14 (39:26):
Kaffrey Bone Ian Fleming's The Shameful Dream is a rare
short story published this week in Strand Magazine. Kaffrey Bone
is the protagonist, a London literary editor who's been summoned
to meet with his formidable boss, Lord Ower not Am.
The shameful dream appears along with another rarity from a
master of thrillers, Graham Green's Reading at Night, a brief
ghost story in which the contents of a paperback anthology
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becomes frighteningly real. Mark Ronner, KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Okay, so I've got the big bear bald eagle camera
on and the both of the chicks are up and
they're doing exactly what Jackie was saying. They're flapping their
wings and jumping around the nest. It's so fun to watch.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
If you missed any wake up call, you can listen
anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening 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
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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 k f I and kost HD two Los Angeles
and Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yours, Amy, Kay, it.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Is five o'clock straight up. I must admit I missed
my Dodgers while I was overseas. They're playing the A's.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Do you know that was my first team because I
grew up in the Bay Area Oakland A's.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
That was my very first baseball game ever.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Soon to be the Las Vegas A's, soon to be
right now, they're the Sacramento A's or something. This is
your wake up call for Wednesday, May fourteenth. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for getting your day started with us. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Still have a little jet lag.
So I got back on Sunday from my vacation and
(01:06):
I'm fine and like you walking around and you're doing stuff,
and then it hits me and it's like, okay, I
gotta sleep now. I feel a little bit like I
have narcolepsy. I'm hoping it doesn't hit during wakeup call.
I think we're gonna be hard. Okay, thanks, all right,
here's what's ahead on wakeup call this Wednesday morning. Eric
and Lylemanendez, who've been serving a life without parole prison
(01:26):
sentence for murdering their parents, have been re sentenced. Following
a hearing. A judge yesterday resentds the brothers to fifty
years to life. That makes them immediately eligible for parole.
They could get out soon. President Trump has told golf
leaders in Saudi Arabia who urgently wants to make a
deal with Iran to wind down its nuclear program bud.
He adds Tehran must end its support of terrorist proxy
(01:49):
groups and says Ron can never have a nuclear weapon.
Trump is in Qatar for a state visit today, then
it's off to the UAE tomorrow. Developers plan to build
a movie studio production facility in Englewood. They say they
hope it will be the international broadcast center for the
twenty twenty eight Summer Games in LA. The Hollywood Park
studio plan is led by Rams owner Stan Cronky. It'll
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have five massive sound stages and a parking structure big
enough for sixty movie production trailers.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
That's a big garage.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
The first of several tell all books about President Biden's
about to head store shelves and ABC. Stephen Portnoy's gonna
tell us what's in it and whether it really means
anything in the long run.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
He's going to be joining us in about three minutes.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Have you ever received that email or did you recently
get that email saying you might qualify for a part
of a settlement for a lawsuit over Siri?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I got it.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
KTLA's tech guy Rich Demiro is going to join us
at five twenty to tell us whether it's legit or not.
And also Samsung has released its new skinniest phone ever.
Of course Rich is getting his hands on it. We'll
tell you about that. Amy's on it. You know, I
was on a plane for eleven hours the other day
on my way home from Europe. I was on movies
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on the plane. I watched I think seven or eight
during the course of the both trips and Oldie that
is one of my favorites of all time. I'm gonna
go back into the wayback machine and pull that one
out for you. And also Hugh Grant, like you've never
seen him before. This is no nodding hill. Let me
tell you and our iglitz at Big Bear getting close
to leaving the nest. We're going to check in on
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Sonny and Gizmo, who are almost as big as their
parents now and could fly at any time.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
That's coming up at five point fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Menendez brothers
have been re sentenced and could soon be freed from prison.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Five witnesses, all in favor of the convicted killers release,
testified in the courtroom, and Van Nys and then Judge
Michael Jessic made up his mind a new sentence fifty
years to life, making the Menindez brothers immediately eligible for parole.
Their grateful family thanked the brother's attorney, Mark Giragos, thank
you so much.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You have brought hope to this family that we didn't
see coming.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
The Menindez were originally sentenced to life without parole for
killing their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen eighty nine.
They're still also seeking clemency from the governor and a
new trial. Michael monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
It was brought to you by Simper Solearis, Governor Newsom
in California Attorney General Rob Bonte have filed court papers
to try to stop what they say or the Trump
administration's illegal tariffs. Newsom says the tariffs challenged in the
lawsuit are projected to at a minimum, cost consumers twenty
five billion dollars and caused the loss of more than
sixty thousand jobs. The governor is due to deliver his
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revised twenty twenty five twenty six budget today. He's expected
to focus on bringing down the cost of living for
people in California, but Republican state Senator Brian Jones tells
kfi's John Cobalt, Newsom doesn't relate to the average person.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
He doesn't understand the plight of trying to fill up
your gas tank every week, and that two hundred and.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Fifty dollars more a month.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
For gasoline actually has a negative impact.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
He says.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Newsom needs to address the growing concerns people have about
the cost of living in general.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I know that's a big concern for me. It is
five oh seven on your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen portnoy So.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Stephen.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
The Biden camp is disputing what has been released so
far about a book about the decline of President Biden
during his time in office. What is the administration saying
and what does the book say.
Speaker 8 (05:23):
Well, you mean that Biden sort of aids the team
around him. They put out a statement yesterday saying that
they quote continue to await anything that shows where Joe
Biden had to make a presidential decision, or where national
security was threatened, or where he was unable to do
his job. In fact, the statement says, the evidence points
to the opposite, that he was a very effective president.
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This is a response to the reporting of Jake Tapper
of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios, who have this
book coming out next week called Original Sin that gets
at the question of whether Joe Biden did his party
and his country a disservice by declining to drop out
of the race sooner. The headlines yesterday, based on a
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pr rollout strategy for this book, have two significant headlines.
One involves Joe Biden and the conversations are about his walk,
his unsteady, halting walk and in twenty twenty three, according
to the reporting, the aides around Biden talked about the
possibility that he might have to use a wheelchair if
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he were re elected to a second term and the
doctor Kevin O'Connor warned that if the president had another
bad fall, he might have to be in a wheelchair
even sooner. That didn't happen. There's another anecdote that got
a lot of eyebrows raised yesterday, and this isn't a
piece in The New Yorker penned by Tappara and Thompson
themselves based on their book. The authors say that Biden,
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in June of last year, was at that star studied
Hollywood fundraiser where he had just returned from a summit
in Italy, which, as you know, as many time zones away.
He had to be prompted, according to the reporting, that
he was shaking hands with the most one of the
most famous people in the world, George Clooney. And according
to the reporting, as Biden was going down the line,
(07:05):
thank you for being here, Thank you for being here,
thank you for being here, he apparently didn't seem to
recognize a register that he was shaking George Clooney's hand
and had to be prompted that it was George Clooney.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh, George, of course, how are you.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
Weeks later, as you remember, after Biden's disastrous performance in
the debate against President Trump. Clooney was one of the
earliest and most prominent supporters of Joe Biden at the
Democratic Party to urge Biden to drop out of the race.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Hey, I was thinking about that and watching some of
the shows when they were talking about that, and that's
what put Clooney over the top apparently.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
Well, I mean, look, he didn't talk about it at
the time, but this revelation in the book and the
reporting of it certainly gives you more context for why
George Clooney would have come to the conclusion that it
was time for Biden to go. And it wasn't the
same man that he remembers leading the conversation about the
Affordable Care Act, you know, fourteen years earlier. Yeah, and
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decline is natural, and this happens, and it was part
of the conversation. Increasingly, though, you have to wonder why
we're talking about this, why this is sort of a
area of interest, particularly on the left.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, because they keep saying, let's move on, let's move on,
it's over, it's done with. And then Trump gets criticized
for bringing up what she does. He brings up Biden
all the time, which is kind of ridiculous in my opinion.
But this is going back instead of like saying, hey,
you guys, let's just move on and let's focus on
the future.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Well, I think you're right. I think Democrats are kind
of sort of split on this, and you have a
lot of people in the sort of you know, a
professional political world who want to focus on it because
they are angry that the country elected Donald Trump and
they're looking for someone to blame, and rather than blaming
Kamala Harris, who was on the ticket, they've decided to
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point the finker at Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Okay, and I have so many more questions, and I
know you don't have time because you have other things
than other people you have to talk to, So we'll
save those for another day. But Steven Portnoy is always
thank you so much for the information. We appreciate it.
You back, all right, Well, like, yeah, I have.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
So many more states.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I have so many more questions about that, Like think
about like Jake Tapper was once a pretty strong supporter
as far as like when you watched him on CNN
talking about the President, he would kind of defend the
president when he was interviewing certain people, and for him
to go nope and put out this tell all book.
(09:33):
I think that was sort of a big switch, wondering
what's going on there? Is it money or was it conscience?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
You know, what is it?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
And then this is apparently not the only book that's
coming out. There's several kind of tell all books. I
think Steven makes an interesting point about looking for someone
to blame for the loss. Super interesting stuff. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four newsroom. A new tax plan by House
Republicans could increase the federal child tax credit to twenty
five hundred dollars. It's currently two thousand, but the credit
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for nearly a million children in California could be lost
if a parent is in the USA legally and doesn't
have a Social Security number. That's according to an analysis
by several research groups, including Washington's Institute on Taxation and
Economic Policy. Lawmakers are looking to vote on the tax
bill next week. The Senate will finalize its version next month.
A federal budget reconciliation package could make significant changes to
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Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
Speaker 9 (10:28):
You're not going to see a reduction in Medicaid funding
You're not going to see eligible beneficiaries losing their ability
to be covered.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
California Republican Congressman Kevin Kylee says reforms are aimed at
reducing fraud and ensuring oversight to prevent people from enrolling
in multiple states. He suggests limiting medicaid and medical benefits
to those in the country legally. Kylie warns that California
could lose billions in federal funding if the policy to
cover illegal immigrants continues.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
President Trump is.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Made an unexpected announcement at his tour or during his
tour of the Middle.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
East, Trump extending an olive branch to Iran.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I have never believed in having permanent.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
Enemies, appearing to lay out a foreign policy approach based
on whether you can make a deal regardless of past history.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
ABC's Mary Bruce's Trump kicked off his trip yesterday saying
the US will lift sanctions on Syria. He met with
Syria's interim president today and then took off and he's
on his way to Katar. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
is going to head to Turkey later this week for
peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine's president Zelenski says
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he'll be there for the talks, but Russia hasn't said
if President Plutin's going to show up for what would
be the first face to face talks between the two
leaders since the early days of the war that started
three years ago. Testimony is said to continue in the
sex trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Combs in New York.
ABC's Aaron Katursky says Comb's ex girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, testified
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yesterday about days long seven marathons called Frea Coughs when
she says she was forced to take part.
Speaker 11 (12:04):
In Ventura's sobbing on the witness stand as she described
marathon drug fueled sex performances with male prostitutes. I just
remember my stomach falling, just the nervousness, she said.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Ventura said she was twenty two at the time of
the Frea Coffs. The canned Film festivals going on in
France in falls, highlighting the hottest international films in fashion
in twenty eighteen, organizers band Selfie's on the Red Carpet.
Nabc's Michelle Friends and says there's now another new rule.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No nudity on the red carpet or any other area
of the festival always at effect before, but this year
that rule added to the festival's charter rules.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
She says the policy tweaked to the dress code comes
as sheer and nude dresses have been trending on red carpets.
I like this new rule. I don't want to see
everybody's business under red carpet.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
It just don't.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
State Farm's been given the ok to raise insurance rates
for homeowners in California starting next month. State Farm says
it needs to take in more revenue to pay out
the expected seven billion dollars in claims from the LA fires.
Rates will go up fifteen to seventeen percent. A man
in Santa Cedro has been charged with murder for allegedly
throwing his girlfriend off the third floor balcony of a
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senior home to her death. LA has moved a step
closer to backing a statewide ban on catney clawing. The
city's animal Services commission voted for nothing in favor of
a state bill. Supporter say declaining can cause kats lasting
pain and behavioral issues. Let's say good morning now to
the host of rich on Tech right here on KLA
(13:35):
KFI kt LA see I kind of just put those together.
KTLA's tech reporter Rich Damiro.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Morning, Rich, Hey, good morning you, Amy, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I got to tell you I wish that I had
asked you about this before I left. I took a
converter over to France and to England. Yes, it wasn't
a converter, it was an adapter.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Yeah, there's a big difference. One melts your curling iron
the other.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yes, So if you're going you can plug it in
if you have the adapter, but if you don't convert
the power supply, you fry.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I have one of those. It's like a blow
dryer brush all.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
In one, turned it on, I went, wow, that's really
seems you have one. I'm like, oh, that really seems
to be high powered. But it's working and we're like okay,
and then and then it was dead.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
So that got left behind in Paris.
Speaker 9 (14:27):
But I'll ask you, thankfully, thankfully for most folks that
are not bringing a blow dryer or one of your
you know, hairstyling tools. All the rest of the stuff
pretty much works nowadays, like all the gadgets. But yeah,
when you're bringing those those are the last holdouts, like
if you're bringing like an iron or some sort of
like steamer or hair appliance, that you do need an
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actual voltage converter for.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Yes, everything else worked to just find. So yes, it
was a win analogs all at the same time. Okay,
let's get down to business. I got this email about
a Series Voice settlement, and in fact, I've made a
note to myself and said, ask Rich if this is legit,
because we've been talking about how some of these settlements
are coming out and some are and some are not.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Yes, so this stems from a ninety five million dollars
settlement with Apple. A couple said, Hey, my Siri automatically
activated and listen to what I said. And not only
did you record that conversation, but you shared it with
third parties and you sold advertising against it. And of
course Apple has denied all of this, and I actually
do not believe the advertising part, but the third party part,
(15:33):
for you know, quality assurance and you know that kind
of stuff, probably was true. But Apple has definitely cleaned
up its game when it comes to Siri and maybe
even more private. But yes, you can get up to
one hundred dollars look in your email if you get
something from Lopez Voice Assistant Settlement dot com. It is real.
You can go in and I thought it was actually
tougher to claim than it was. But if you go
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in there and you have that claimant identification code and
your confirmation code, you basically just a test that your
device activated at some point, and you can claim up
to five devices. That's one hundred dollars total, twenty dollars
per device. Do it. It's not too much money. Ninety
five million dollars is not much for Apple, but hey,
it's better than nothing.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
So is it like if I've had several phones over
the years or if I have fivell iPhones.
Speaker 9 (16:23):
All at once, No, it's one. It's several phones over
the years. So it's one one activation per device. So
this has been This was from twenty fourteen to twenty
twenty four so in ten years. And it's not just phones.
It's the iPhone, the iPad, the MacBook, the Apple Watch,
the HomePod, Apple TV, and others. So I would say
that if you have those devices in your house, I
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am sure that that has happened to you, because I
know it's happened to me. And so you can pretty
much attest to say, you know, as long as that's
happened to you, you can claim this money.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Okay, cool, that's good news. It's not a lot of money,
but every little bit helps, right. There's a new phone
we're switching over from Apple to Android. It's the new
Galaxy S twenty five Edge.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Tell us about it.
Speaker 9 (17:08):
This is the theme for twenty twenty five thin phones.
So the S twenty five Edge is brand new from Samsung.
It is super thin, super light. Went hands on with
it in New York City. Five point eight millimeters thick,
one hundred and sixty three grams. It is significantly lighter
in your hand and thinner than any phone that I've
used in the past. Still has high end features like
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a two hundred megapixel camera powered by the latest processor.
Comes in three colors. It's got all the things you need,
except the battery definitely takes a hit because it is smaller,
So we don't know for sure until we review this.
If the battery doesn't last as long it's a regular phone,
We're not sure. Samsung says they're using some AI smarts
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to make the battery last longer, but it is available
on May thirtieth and it starts at eleven hundred dollars.
Lots of pre order deals to get that. But Apple
is expected to come out with their thin phone later
this year.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Okay, so here's my My issue with the thin phones
that always concerns me is if they're too thin, are
they going to bend like if you sit on it,
or so if you put in your back pocket and
sit on it.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Yeah, good question. I did not test that when I
was going hands on, but I am getting a review
unit and I will test that. I think that's going
to be one of the biggest things people are testing
when they put this thing through its paces. It is
made of titanium, and I know that Samsung is not
a silly company, So I think they tested to see
if people put it in their back pocket and it crumbles.
(18:35):
And I hope that they have figured out them a
way to make this phone not do that.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
What would be really cool is if they made bendable glass.
Well they have that, they already phones.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Huh, Well maybe they're okay.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Maybe they you know, mix these When it goes in
your back pocket, it bends just slightly, you know, turned
like curves.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Well, we'll have to wigh and see. So okay, and
then let's talk Airbnb.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
We actually looked at Airbnb for our little trip but
didn't ultimately use it, but it looks like they're doing
a little expansion.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Yeah, and Paris is actually one of the top cities.
They mentioned yesterday they had this big event in Los
Angeles and they mentioned Paris is one of the top
cities for Airbnb, and they are expanding beyond rentals and
now they offer services and experiences in the app, so
you can book your room and then you can book
a chef, a massage, personal trainer, makeup artist, all kinds
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of people to come to your room and offer services.
And then they also have experiences, so instead of taking
that double decker bus tour of the city you're going
in visiting, you can have you know, food tours, art classes,
nature hikes, and locals lead you in behind the scenes tours.
And so it's all part of their way of differentiating,
(19:52):
adding more options to the mix. And I'm telling you,
if you are a makeup artist, or a hairstylist, or
a masseuse or or a personal trainer, get on here
and offer up your services. They are accepting applications you
do have to be vetted, but this could be a
very lucrative side gig. If people start booking through this
in a big way.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
That's going to be interesting to see how that works out.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
The mastage therapists come into your room gives me a
little bit of he bgb's but.
Speaker 9 (20:17):
Well, they already do it. They've got zeal And soothe,
which are very popular, and it's already a thing. So
I know, it's got to have a little faith in humanity,
I guess. But we're in the news, so it's.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Tough to do that, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro also the host of Rich
on Tech on KFI that you can hear every Saturday
from eleven to two.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
You can follow Rich at rich on Tech.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
You can also watch him on KTLA, follow him on Instagram,
as I just mentioned, and he always puts everything that
we talk about on his show and on KTLA on
his website and you can get all that information at
richon Tech dot tv.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
Thank you, Rich, Thanks Amy, have.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
A great day.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Several survivors of
the Palisades fire have sued California's Fair Plan.
Speaker 12 (21:09):
The Fair Plan is a state run insurance program that
provides fire insurance to homeowners who are not able to
get coverage from private companies. The lawsuit claims homeowners are
being underpaid through the Fair Plan or being denied coverage
for fire and smoke damage.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Kaf i's Daniel Martindale says Fair Plan officials claim they're
paying all claims consistent with California law, which are approved
by the California Department of Insurance. LA Mayor bass Is,
a homeless prevention program is working.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
In a study release by Loyola Marymount, around seventy five
percent of participants and that We Are LA program have
said their housing became more secure because of it.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Maass says it's.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Important to get people living on the streets into housing.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But before that, how about preventing people from ever becoming homeless.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
To begin with We Are LA, at program from the
Mayor's Fund for LA connects people facing eviction with social
and legal services. The study suggests more than three thirty
three thousand people have been helped by it. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
News he Rose is being reinstated by Major League Baseball
He was ineligible from ever being considered for the Baseball
Hall of Fame because of the gambling scandal, but ABC's
Will Reeves says now, eight months after Rose's death, the
ban has been lifted.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
He was banned from the game for life, but in
an historic decision, Major League Baseball reinstating all time hits
leader Pete Rose. Rose, who died last year, was barred
from the sport in nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's as a person who is no
longer with us cannot represent a threat to the integrity
of the game. Shoeless Joe Jackson also being reinstated. The Dodgers,
speaking of baseball, take on the Athletics with the first
pitch going out tonight at seven o'clock. You can listen
to all the games on a five to seventy LA
Sports and you can stream Dodgers games all season long
(22:50):
NHD on the iHeartRadio app. That keyword again, am five
to seventy LA Sports and visit the Zenchi Sushi Counter
at Ralph's for your chance to win a baseball suite
life experience. Ooh, a sweet life experience to a game
in May. Zenchi handcrafted sushi made fresh daily. Easy for
me to say. Lyle and Eric Menendez get their shot
(23:11):
at parole now that a judge in Van Nuys has
re sentenced the brothers to fifty years to life for
murdering their parents at their home in Beverly Hills in
nineteen eighty nine. The brothers have served almost thirty years
of a life without parole sentence. Three people have been
arrested for the abuse and neglect of six foster kids
in Victorville, San Bernardino County. Sheriff's deputies say sixty year
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old's Kenneth and Tina Key and twenty three year old
Caitlin Key are facing torture charges. The children involved are
between five and sixteen years old. President Trump says Siria's
interim president will recognize Israel once his country has straightened up.
Syria hasn't confirmed this. Trump and President Ahmed al Sharrah
met in Saudi Arabia today. Yesterday, Trump said he planned
(23:55):
to lift sanctions imposed on Syria as it struggles to
emerge from the rule of the sod regime that isolated
the nation for decades. At six o five TANDL on
the News State Farm has been given the green light
for an emergency rate hike.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That means your home.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Insurance rates if you have State Farm, are going up
fifteen to seventeen percent starting next month.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Amy's on it, AMI's on it, Amy's on it, Aami's
on it.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
What am I on?
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I'm usually on the stream movies, TV shows, documentaries, that
kind of thing. But this week I was on a plane,
so I got to watch a bunch of movies. It
was a nice way to spend the time because it
was an eleven hour flight. So I watched a lot
of movies. And as you're scrolling through, they had a
few new movies, and they had some older movies.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
They had some animated movies.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
I was like, and of course, it's just like when
you used to when you used to go to the
Blockbuster movie store one hundred years ago, and you'd look
through everything and there's like nothing to watch.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
But I came across Arthur.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Remember Arthur, not the one, not the remake, the original
with Dudley Moore. So it's one of my favorite movies
of all time. So I'm like, oh, I'll just watch this,
and I watched half of it on the way there.
Fell asleep and then watch the rest on the way
home hysterical. I literally watched it so many times when
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I was younger that I was reciting lines from the
movie when I had the headphones off on the flight,
and was then laughing out loud in my seat, which
surely the people around me were appreciating.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
But today I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Think the movie would be as well received because it's
basically about an ultra rich drunk who refuses to grow
up again. It stars Dudley Moore. Arthur Bach such a
great actor, gone too soon. He's got all the money
in the world. He's supposed to marry somebody he doesn't love,
and he doesn't know what he's missing until he meets
Liza Minelli, who plays Linda Morola. Sir John Gilgood is
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his butler who has been with Arthur every step of
the way. Sir John Gilgod is a brilliant actor as always.
You you hate him that and then you love him right.
So he's Dudley Moore is adorable and funny in his drunkenness.
I mean, like, you know, you go all all the
worries about people being alcoholics and all this stuff, but
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he is a darn funny drunk, and the movie is
touching and it's sentimental, and sometimes you're laughing out loud
and other times you're crying. So I was laughing and
crying on the plane all at the same time. If
you haven't watched it, if you you know you were,
if you're too young to have seen the original, it's
really it's really a funny movie. I would be interesting
to hear what someone who's much younger might think of it,
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because again, you know this kind of stigma with the
drinking that wasn't in place at the time, and it
was just that he was a funny drunk.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
So anyway, one of my favorite movies of all time.
Highly recommend it.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
And on the other end of the spectrum, really quick
Hugh Grant's Heretic.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
It's on Max.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
It's also on Apple TV and Prime video on WHO
but you have to pay for it there, but it's
been released on Max. And Hugh Grant plays mister Reid.
He's a very eccentric guy and these two young Mormon
missionaries visit his house because he's expressed interest in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, and his
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intentions become evidently more sinister once they get into the house.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
It is a horror movie.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I didn't think it was particularly scary, but really interesting
as they state their case on why he might want
to convert, and he talks of the origins of different
religions and finding the one true God. And again this
is not charming, quirky Hugh Grant from notting Hill. He
is deciding decidedly charming at first and then becomes incredibly creepy.
(27:44):
And Hugh Grant does a great job, in my opinion,
in this role. I didn't think it was a great movie,
but Hugh Grant's performance was really great.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
I saw it on the plane.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
I might watch it if I was on my couch too,
So give it a watch. It's called here Tickets on
Max and again Arthur funny, funny, funny, totally politically and correct,
and I loved it. Time to get in your Business
now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donah, Good morning, Courtney, good morning.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Okay, So technically it's supposed to be spring home buying season, but.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
There could be a problem. Okay, And here is the issue.
A lot of people after they buy a home say regrets.
I've had a few I'm gonna bury the singing on.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
All of this.
Speaker 13 (28:28):
Yes, exactly, that's what so many homeowners are saying in
this report, a sponsor by Fidelity Wealth Management. According to
a survey from bank Raid, nearly half of all homeowners
have at least one regret about their home. The biggest
one is finding out all the hidden costs of owning house.
Things like maintenance and repairs. Affel you all when you
get that bill from a plumber or a rufer and
(28:49):
you're like, oh my goodness, But a lot of folks
wish that they bought a bigger or smaller house, or
the house was in a completely different location.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
They actually liked the house, but they wanted in a
different place.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
So it just means that with everything, you really need
to think about these things, and especially when it's you know,
a half a million dollars, million dollars, I mean, look
at your neighborhood, go and check out the size. Does
your stuff fit?
Speaker 4 (29:12):
You know exactly?
Speaker 13 (29:14):
Research is so important finding out is this the type
of place I want to be?
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Are these the schools that I'd like my kids to
be in? The those little.
Speaker 13 (29:24):
Things that you that that kind of add up and
then also making sure that you get a good home inspection.
I think that's the most important thing. And remember when
the markets were popping up a couple of years ago,
so many people were foregoing that and he ended up.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
With all these problems that they had to deal with.
Speaker 13 (29:42):
So it's it's really important to get a key home
inspection and make sure all those hidden things are found.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
Worth every penny.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Microsoft is cutting a bunch of jobs, so not a
great time to be in this uh, this particular tech industry.
Speaker 13 (29:57):
No six thousand workers all across the company. The tech
Gione does roll out periodic layoffs, often to reorganize its
headcount toward priority areas. Remember this is only three percent
of its workforce, but it's still a lot of people
and especially if you're affected. But last month, Microsoft told
its workers that it's planning to use their party firms
to handle more sales to small and medium sized customers.
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And speaking of Microsoft, another NBA team is on the market.
The Portland trail Blazers are being put up for sale
by the estate of Microsoft co founder Paul Allen. Now
Alan died in twenty eighteen, but he wanted all his
sports assets to eventually be sold and all the proceeds
go to charity.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Oh okay, that's my old hometown.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
And then let's talk stocks, because yesterday they were down,
they were up a bunch before that. Where are we
in the whole grand scheme of things since the big
roller coaster ride continued or started?
Speaker 13 (30:50):
Well, it is unbelievable where we've come from. Well, first
of all, yesterday was a big game changer because a
lot of people thought that President Trump's the tariffs, that
it was going to take a big toll on a
lot of wallets out there. But the consumer price report
that we got yesterday came in softer than what Wall
Street expected. It seemed that a lot of retailers are
absorbing the extra costs or the products that they're selling
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now arrived before the brunt of the.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Tariffs, So that drove stocks hires.
Speaker 13 (31:18):
The benchmark rose forty two points to finish out the
day yesterday. Now this morning, we've seen this rapid comeback
in stocks from that brutal April that we would like
to forget.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
The S and P five.
Speaker 13 (31:29):
Hundred is now unchanged for the year, and we're looking
at more gains this morning. Dow features are up fifty
points at this hour.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
But the Dow is still down because it hit a
high of like, what is it, forty six thousand at
some point.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Yes, and the Dow was lower yesterday. United Health was
one of the big problems that it saw yesterday because
the insurer unexpectedly replaced its chief executive. People did not
expect this. Now, remember this is the company that's been
undergoing a lot of problems after one of its executives
was shot in Midtown in New York. They also suspended
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their financial outlook. They're citing higher than expected medical costs.
But it's interesting because if you look at some of
the insurance their insurance rivals, those are doing fine. They're
not saying, oh, here are the problems. So where did
United Help go wrong? And that's where a lot of
investors are really digging into the numbers, going what happened here?
And those shares definitely took a big hit yesterday.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
All right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho getting in your business as
we do every day at five forty.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
We'll talk to you tomorrow. I'll see you later, all right. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Several survivors of the Palisades Fire of suit California's fair plan.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
That's the insurance plan.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
The lawsuit claims homeowners are being underpaid through the plan
or being denied coverage for fire and smoke damage. The
laped's investigating vandalism at the Islamic Center of Southern California
as a hate crime. Official say graffiti was sprayed on
the side of the building on Vermont Avenue, and nearby
trees were also damaged. Governor Newsom expected to release his
revised twenty twenty five twenty six stay budget today. His
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initial proposal of three hundred and twenty two billion dollars
was the second largest spending plan ever released in January,
showed a small budget surplus. Apparently now we're looking at
a deficit. Let's say good morning now to Sandy Steers
with friends of Big Bear Valley. Sandy, I have to
tell you I'm so addicted to our eagles that I
was over in Paris and checked on them several times
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while we were on vacation.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
So I'm glad to hear that they're doing great. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
We love to hear that.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So we've kind of hit a milestone. Sunny is officially
ten weeks old, and Gizmo who hatched like five days
after sunny.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
I think is going to be ten weeks on.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Saturday, right, yes?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
Okay, And what does that mean?
Speaker 3 (33:50):
I mean that means that, well, it's between ten and
fourteen weeks is the average for when bald eagles fledge
or fly from the nest for the first time.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (34:02):
And how you're watching them? We're all watching. A lot
of people are still watching them. I think there's I
just looked at the numbers. There's about thirty thousand watching
them right now.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
What are they.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Doing and what are we looking for to show that
they're kind of reagi ready to take off.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
They've been doing lots of flapping and running around the
nest to get their wings ready and know how to
balance with their wings and to build the muscles to
and now they're jumping up and down as they flap
and even getting a little bit of air underneath their
feet for a half a second maybe.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Okay, so those are little practice jumps.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
But when they actually leave the nest for the first time,
there's no practicing. I mean, it's it's a do or
die situation for them, right.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
They just they well, they wouldn't die, they would just
glide if they couldn't fly, but but they can when
they're ready, when they feel like they can really do
this and they have their confidence, say, jump off the
limb and fly.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I can't wait to see this. I'm so excited for them.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
So then, Sandy, I'm kind of curious too. When they
take off, do they come right back to the nest
or do they stay away for a while or is
it just sort of a wait and see thing.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Do we really know?
Speaker 3 (35:24):
We don't really know. Mostly they don't come right back.
They at least for a day or sometimes a few hours.
They stay away from the nest. Sometimes they have to
build their muscles enough to be able to fly high
enough to get back up to the nest after they
fly away, But they can come and all of Jackie
(35:47):
in Shadow's chicks have at some point come back to
the nest and visit it several times and come back
when they need food, although Jackie and Shadow will be following.
Speaker 10 (35:57):
Them around bringing them food. Yeah, oh okay, bringing them
food and showing them how to hunt and things like that,
or fish really for a couple of months, that's so cool?
Speaker 1 (36:09):
So do they then the kids follow Jackie and Shadow
around and watch them hunt.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Right they Yeah, they watch them. They'll learn how to fish,
and Jackie and Shadow will bring them food and and
they don't always know they'll follow, so Jackie and Shaddle
will find and follow them to make sure that they're
getting plenty of food and learning what they need.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Okay, And then you said that that Sonny and Gizmore
are watching mom and dad. Do they watch them fly too?
I haven't really paid attention to that, because you know,
they're they're flying in and out all the time. Do
they seem interested in what they're doing the parents are doing?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
They do. They very often will watch them fly away,
and you can see them, you know, like tilt their
heads and look around to see where they went. Yes,
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Okay, And we anticipate that Sonny would be the first
to go because she's she or he is older, right
Gizmo try to follow? Or do they really instinctually wait
until they're ready?
Speaker 3 (37:11):
I don't know for sure. We haven't seen had two
chicks that were ready to fledge at the same time before,
so we'll have to wait and see what happens. Most likely,
Gizmo wouldn't go unless it felt really ready. But we.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Okay, and so we continue to see. We have the
camera sitting above the nest in Big Bear Lake, and
Sandy tell us how if people want to help keep
that funded?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Because this is a five O one c.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
If anyone wants to make a donation to help out
the eagles or maybe buy an eagle calendar, where do they.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Go to do that?
Speaker 3 (37:50):
To our website, Friends of Big Bear Valley dot org
and it has all of that there.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Okay, Sandy Steers, Friends of Big Bear Valley will be
watching our eglitz.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
We're so excited they're gonna fly soon. Thanks so much, Sandy.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Eric and Leilemanendez
been re sentenced. During a hearing in Van Nuy's. Judge
Michael Jessic handed them a new sentence yesterday of fifty
years to life. Their attorney, Mark Gerrigo says the judge
was impressed by the brother's work in prison.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
And he said while the crime was truly horrific and remarkable,
the thirty five years since what they have accomplished is
remarkable in with no hope.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
The brothers were originally sentenced to life without parole for
the murders of their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen
eighty nine. The new sentence makes them immediately eligible for release.
That decision lies with the state Parole Board. A hearing
is set for June. La County DA Nathan Hockman says
the decision to re sentence the brothers was a monumental
one that has a significant implication for the families involved,
(38:51):
for the community, and the principles of justice. He says
all cases must be viewed with a critical eye and
that justice should never be swayed by back to cole.
The La Keunty Sheriff's Altadena station has announced a new
dedicated email address for residents to report suspicious activity. People
can also submit photos or videos that may help in
criminal investigations. Officials say the new initiative reflects the department's
(39:15):
continued commitment to community based policing, transparency, and collaborative partnerships
with the public. Before there was Bond, James Bond, there
was Bone.
Speaker 14 (39:26):
Kaffrey Bone Ian Fleming's The Shameful Dream is a rare
short story published this week in Strand Magazine. Kaffrey Bone
is the protagonist, a London literary editor who's been summoned
to meet with his formidable boss, Lord Ower not Am.
The shameful dream appears along with another rarity from a
master of thrillers, Graham Green's Reading at Night, a brief
ghost story in which the contents of a paperback anthology
(39:47):
becomes frighteningly real. Mark Ronner, KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:51):
Okay, so I've got the big bear bald eagle camera
on and the both of the chicks are up and
they're doing exactly what Jackie was saying. They're flapping their
wings and jumping around the nest. It's so fun to watch.
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
If you missed any wake up call, you can listen
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