March 10, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. ABC News reporter Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to speak on Israel cutting off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water. ABC News investigative reporter Peter Charalambous talks about the DOJ investigating major egg producers amid soaring prices. Amy talks with ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan about some positive health news for a change. The show closes with SEMA Senior VP of Public and Government Affairs Karen Bailey-Chapman discussing Specialty Equipmaent Marketing Association (SEMA) wanting to achieve a cleaner world through innovation, NOT mandates on EVs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and KOST HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Monday, March tenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. If you're hearing
my voice right now, it means that your clock automatically
changed and you did.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Get up this daylight saving time fairly, fairly.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I woke up yesterday, and, like we were talking about
last week, most of the clocks adjust themselves. My Apple
watch does it, my phone does it. Even my little
alarm clock automatically adjust itself. So I'm sitting there on
the couch yesterday and I'm watching my news shows because
I'm obsessive and I watch all the news shows on
Sunday morning, and I was like, Wow, it's only eight thirty.
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Oh wait that clock. I have to change myself. Shoot,
I'm behind an hour already. Hey, we got another eagle.
The third eaglet has hatched. We knew that it was
pipping on Friday, but he broke out over the weekend,
and oh my.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Gosh, the little guy.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
He's like so much smaller than the other ones, and
you can tell he's weaker. And I'm just like, it's
like breaking my heart when I'm like, Jackie, feed the
little one, Jackie, feed the little one. But we you know,
we know that it's it's a tough rope and they've
got a fight to survive. And so we were talking
over the weekend with editor Carla and I said, he's
(01:50):
gonna have to fight hard, and she goes, I'm going
to call him Rocky. Yeah, So that's what we're going
to call the little one. Yep. Okay, here's what's ahead
on wake up Call. A bit of a shaky start
to the more, A three point three quake rumbled under Malibu.
The US Geological surveyces the quake happened at two twenty three.
It's near where a four point one quake rattled Malibu yesterday.
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Yesterday afternoon's quake was followed by several smaller aftershocks. Flames
shot through the roof of a graffiti covered building in
downtown la this morning. LA Fire says a fire and
a commercial building spread to other units and a nearby
building before firefighters put it out. By about three twenty,
Israel has cut off electricity supply to Gaza. Offici'll say
it's going to interrupt operations at a desalination plant that
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provides drinking water for part of the Strip. A Moss
called it part of Israel's starvation policy. We're gonna find
out what's going on with this uh with ABC Stredonna
Miller in Jerusalem that's coming up in just a couple
of minutes at.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Five point twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Is the high price of eggs really because of bird
flu or could there be something else going on. ABC's
Peter Haralumbus is going to tell us and speaking of
bird flu and the flu and the measles, ABC's Jim
Ryan says he finally has some good news for us
on those fronts.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And EV's electric vehicles should they be mandated, they are
going to be in California. A group says evs are great,
but making people buy them is not the way to go.
We're going to talk with the senior VP at SEMA
coming up at five point fifty to find out what's
up with that. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
(03:29):
Eight people have been hurt by a guy who drove
into the showroom at a CarMax dealership in Inglewood. Investigators
say the driver had taken his car to the dealer
for an estimate, but apparently didn't estimate, but apparently didn't
like the quote that he got. He drove away after
he crashed into the building, but then later drove to
an LAPD station and turned himself in. An apparent trespasser
(03:54):
is in critical condition after nearly being electrocuted at a
hospital in North rich which the Fire Department says the
man was hurt yesterday when he made contact with an
electrical vault at Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center. He
has significant burn injuries to more than half his body.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
La Keunty Da.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Nathan Hawkman is expected to announce an update on the
Menendez brother's case. Hawkman said last month his office would
oppose the brother's request for a new trial. The brothers
have also asked to be re sentenced, and they've asked
Governor Knwsoim for clemency. In an effort to be released
from prison. They're serving life sentences for murdering their parents.
In nineteen eighty nine. More people are taking legal action
(04:36):
over the wildfires in LA.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Twenty five more Pacific Palisades residents have joined the lawsuit
filed against the City of Los Angeles and the Department
of Water and Power after the January wildfires. This brings
the total plaintiffs to forty eight. The lawsuit alleges the
city designed a water supply system that wouldn't have enough
water pressure to fight the fires. It also says the
reservoir located near the Pacific Palisades had been empty since
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February of last year, which made it more difficult for
fire crews to access water. Brigida Degastino, Okay if I new.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
A new study shows California is ranked fifth among the
most expensive states for childcare in the US oh great.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
The study by Birth.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Injury Lawyer dot com analyzed data from Childcare Aware of
America and used the average cost of a center based
in family childcare.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It found in.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
California, center based childcare costs eighteen two hundred dollars a
year that takes up fifteen percent of a married couple's
income and forty eight percent of single parents. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller. She's in Jerusalem.
Soa Gaza just can't catch a break. Israel's now cutting
off electricity.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
The Israeli government announced on Sunday that they would be
cutting off electricity to Gaza. But we have to remember
that Israel cut off almost all of its electricity supplies
to the strip more than a year ago when the
war first broke out, right back in the in the
winter of twenty twenty three. So this is not a
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good sign. And it will affect about six hundred thousand
Palestinians in central Gaza because it will essentially shut down
a desalinization plant and that helps with you know, water
supplies creating powdable water. So that is a problem, and
it's going to affect the sewage systems there, but it's
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not going to have a dramatic impact the way for example,
cutting off humanitarian aid has for the last two weeks. Right,
It's another step that's you know, going to be uncomfortable
for gossms. But remember they're now used to living either
with fuel run generators or solar panels, and they're not
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as dependent on Israeli electricity anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, So all of the awfulness has made them better prepared.
Is the desalination plant has power to that been cut
off before or is this a new development with that plant?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
The plant wasn't working for several months again at the
start of the war, and then we'll put it back
online during the first ceasefire deal in November December. That
was one of the agreements right in the original the
first seafire where we saw over one hundred hostages come out.
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So it had been functioning since November. There were recently
some power outages with this plant, but they were fixed.
Now it will not be working because the Israeli electric
Company will no longer be supplying the electricity there to
keep it going, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And now Jordana Hamas has called this the latest starvation
policy by Israel, which is sort of hard to argue.
But and Israel maybe trying to force Amas's hand to
maybe get back and come up with a piece deal
or to move forward with that phase too. But Hamas
has already said, hey, we're willing to lose hundreds of
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thousands of people, So does it really force Amasa's hand.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Right, I don't think it's really going to work as
a pressure tactic. The issue of humanitarian aid will, but
I don't think the electricity is going to make a
difference at this point. And I think it's important to
point out there's not starvation right now in the Gaza Strip. Remember,
for forty two days over, on average, about seven hundred
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trucks of aid came in each and every day. Oh okay,
so a Gaza strip. So yeah, they're not hungry right now,
but of course those supplies will run out, you know,
in several months.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, and didn't you say what I think in one
of our conversations, you were saying that they needed an
average of like three hundred a day, so then when
they were getting six hundred, they were kind of stocking up.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Well, you know, before the war, Gaza received about four
to five hundred trucks of aid, but not all of
it was food. And the difference is that there were
a lot of local you know, fields, bakeries, you know,
they had their own way of you know, generating food
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in the Gaza Strip. Now, with all the destruction, you know,
Gaza is ever more dependent on aid coming in and
I think that's the major difference. I mean, there's not Israel.
Gaza's own production of food is not now at what
it was before the war, right, Okay, so yes, so
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we have to be careful with comparisons. Nonetheless, I think
the aid issue is something that could put pressure on Hamas.
I think, Amy, we have to point out today for
the first time since January, Israel Hamas, the United States
and the Mediate are engaging in talks in Doha, in
cutter And this is the first round of real indirect talks.
(10:08):
And we're hoping and praying that this leads to a
breakthrough where we see some more hostages come out and
an extension of this ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Okay, well, we will hope that that moves forward. ABC
Stdana Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
As always, Thanks Tuckson.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. North
Korea has fired several ballistic missiles into the sea. The
launches happened several hours after the South Korean and US
militaries began their annual Freedom Shield combined military drills. The
US is the drills are routine. North Korea calls them
(10:46):
an aggressive move and that they pose a threat. The
US is expected to impose more tariffs on Canada. ABC's
Selina Wang says it could happen as soon as today.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The President is threatening to impose steep terrace on Canadian
loveber in dairy products, he says, in response to the
high tax that Canada puts on American lumber and dairy
to protect its own industries.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico last week,
only to pause most of them soon after that. He
said the US will impose reciprocal tariffs on a whole
range of countries starting April second. Secret Service agents have
shot a man near the White House.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
An agency spokesperson says agents confronted the arm suspect, who
allegedly pulled out a gun before being shot and was
taken to the hospital in unknown condition. The Secret Service
had reportedly been notified about a potentially suicidal individual traveling
from Indiana to Washington.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
D c kfi's Michaelkastners's President Trump was not at the
White House at the time. He spent the weekend at
his resort in Florida. Fighter jets from Norad intercepted a
civilian aircraft there yesterday afternoon when it entered restricted airspace.
A small plane has crashed in Pennsylvania. Mannheim Township fire
chief Scott Little says the plane ended up in a
(12:00):
parking lot of a retirement community. Five passengers were on board.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
All five passengers were transported by.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Local MS agencies to local hospitals for treatment. The plane
burst into flames when it crashed yesterday, damaging several vehicles.
Officials say no one in the parking lot was hurt.
Former Central Bank Central banker Mark Carney is going to
be Canada's next prime minister. The governing Liberal Party elected
him as its leader yesterday. Carney has vowed to stand
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up to President Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses and we cannot
let him succeed, and we will.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Carney will replace Justin Trudeau, who made the decision last
month to step down as Prime minister following ongoing criticism
of his leadership by the public and from within his
own party. He's expected to remain Prime minister during the transition.
The Southland has been rattled by another earthquake. The three
point three quake hit near Malibu at two twenty three
this morning. A four point one quake rattled Malibu just
(13:04):
after one yesterday afternoon. US Geological SURVEYSS. Three smaller quakes
rumbled under Malibu a short time later. Republicans have unveiled
a spending bill to keep the government funded through September.
The bill cuts non defense spending and boosts defense spending.
The bill has to be passed by Friday to prevent
a partial government shutdown. President Trump posted on social media
(13:26):
urging all Republicans to vote yes, saying we must remain united.
The third egg for bald eagles Jackie and Shadow has hatched.
All three egglets are now being fed and protected by
the eagles in their nest hi above Big Bear Lake.
The newest eglet has been struggling to get fed, as
the other two that had hatched almost a week earlier
are now much stronger.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
But we're going to help.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
He's a fighter, and like I said, Carla and I
have agreed that his name should be Rocky because he's
going to be a fighter. At six oh five, it's
handle on the news. China is targeting the US with
tariffs of its own let's say good morning now to
ABC's Peter Harlambuos.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Good morning Peter, Good morning Amy, Thanks so much for
having me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, so before we get started, I want to I
want to settle this once and for all, because when
we get a request for you or an availability for you,
they phonetically spell out your name because it's spelled different
than it looks and sounds. And then I heard you
do like a lockout, which is when you say, hey,
it's Amy King for k if I News.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
That's your lockout.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I heard you say it differently than it's pronounced here.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
How do you say your name so you actually have
it right?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
For the record, it's horror lamboos. It's that's how my
parents have pronounced that. When I was a kid, it
was just pronounced phanatically with the ch, So it's kind
of a habit that's stuck in my head from elementary
and middle of high school. Or sometimes I slip into
say charlamboos, but the proper pronunciation, according to my parents
and their parents is horror lamboosh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, all right, I feel better now because I heard
you say it the other like You've got right. Okay,
let's get down to business Peter Haralambus.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So, we know.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The elimination of millions of chickens because of bird flu
is causing egg prices to go up, But is there
something else, maybe something a little more underhanded going on
that's leading to price increases for our eggs.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, that's exactly right, Amy. At this point, the DOJ
is looking into just that possibility. We understand the Department
of Justice is Civil Division is in the very early
stages of an investigation into some of the country's largest
egg distributors. They're looking into the possibility that it's high
price and eggs isn't just caused by this massive culling
of chickens because of the bird flu, but potentially because
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of coordination among these companies. Again, very early stages, but
they're looking into that possibility that this is something this
high cost of eggs four ninety five for a dozen
eggs on average by something more than just the bird flu. Again,
we've seen some of the profits for these huge egg
companies actually skyrocket. For example, the country's largest egg distributor,
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their profits are up about thirty excuse me, three hundred percent,
And there was actually a similar kind of spike in
profits the last time the bird flow came around.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Okay, so here's the question then, is their profits are up.
I was just thinking, well, of course they're making more
because they're charging more, but the supply is down. But
you're saying, even though the supply is down, they're still
making more money than before the bird flu.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's correct. So if you look at their profits, they're up.
I mean, if you look back, for example, in twenty
twenty three, the last time the bird flu got really
quite bad, they saw their profits. They made more than
one point two billion dollars. That's triple what they made
the year prior. And you know, there's nothing illegal about that.
There's nothing wrong in the United States with making more
money when their supply for something goes down and the
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demand states high. That's something that's inherent eggs. People continue
to buy them. But what the concern is from the
Department of Justice, according to a source with direct knowledge
of this, is that there might be some kind of
coordination among these companies to keep these prices high for longer,
to basically continue making money despite the fact that the
natural market conditions would have brought those prices down.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We'll have to.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
See again, we're in the middle of this, so you know,
in a way that DJ is looking to something as
it's happening to see if that's going on. But if
that's the case, it's really that would be very concerned
and corporate behavior for something that Americans buy and rely
on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, okay, And you said that they're in the early
stages of this investigation, So can we expect to find
anything out anytime soon or does this take months and
months to play out?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I think we're talking about months and months, I understand
in terms of where we are when th're reporting. Is
there at the basically the subpoena stage, the civil subpoena
is being sent by DOJ's Anti trust divisions and begins
figuring out more information about this in order to get
from that to a finding or a criminal finding of
a civil finding of liability. That's months, if not years.
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But in a way, it is exerting some pressure on
these egg companies to basically, you know, if there is
something happening that's below board, fix it now that they
know there's a spotlight being shined on them again, the
country's egg distributors are pushing back strongly on this claim.
That there might be price fixing. They're saying that American
farmers are hurting, distributors are hurting, and the idea that
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these prices are they you know, are driven by something
other than just the bird flu is completely wrong and misguided.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And I guess the numbers will show us if they
really are getting record profits. That you know, paints a
little different picture than what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's written for what it's worth. Counting foods in the
country's largest distributor and distributor and producer of eggs. I
believe their profits so this quarter are three hundred forty
two percent compared to last year. That's in their SEC filings.
They've disclosed that, but not hiding that fact.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
ABC's Peter Haralambus, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Thanks so much, Avery thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Do you know how long it took me to learn
how to say his name?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
About as long as col Shriver. If you've been listening
to Wake Up Call, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
More rain is in the forecast this week.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
The National Weather Services two systems are going to be
moving through southern California. Meteorologist Mike Wafford tells KFI the
first system could bring some light rain tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
The strongest period for US is going to be Wednesday
night and the Thursday morning. That's when we'll see the
heaviest rain and potentially some rain rates that could be
a problematic for some of the burn areas.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Colder temperatures are also in the forecast this week. The
head of the LA Department of Water and Powers asking
for seven hundred thousand dollars for security.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
The Chief Meditan, the chief Engineer, cited threats made against
her since the Palisades fire earlier this year. Her department's
been criticized over the state of water infrastructure in the
city at the time of the fire and the manner
in which it responded to the crisis.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
K if Ice Tammy Trujillo says the utility board is
set to vote tomorrow on a security contract for general manager.
General Manager Jennie Kinyonis. A fourteen year old boy has
been stabbed in a parking lot during a carnival in Anaheim.
Police are trying to figure out what led to the
attack last night. They say the teen's injuries are not
believed to be life threatening. He was taken to the hospital.
(20:26):
One person was detained. A Hindu temple in Chino Hills
has been vandalized. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says
the graffiti was discovered on Saturday. The messages, disparaging the
Prime Minister of India, among other things, were political in nature.
The at taggers spray painted a marble sign, a brick
wall and the sidewalk. The graffiti had been removed by
(20:47):
Sunday morning. Ukrainian President Zelenski's arrived in Saudi Arabia for
talks on ending the war with Russia. Ross Cullen reports
Zelensky is meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salmon.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
And that attention will turn to the crucial face to
face meetings scheduled for Tuesday between the United States and
Ukraine looking at a possible framework for a truce, ceasefire,
and potential future peace negotiations with Russia.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going to lead the
US team. President Trump says he expects a lot of
progress to be made this week. Many states in the
US are in a race to get new power plants
built as a way of keeping electricity prices down. Some
of them dangling financial incentives. Others are loosening up regulations
to attract power companies. The Electric Power Supply Association, which
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represents power plant owners, says it hasn't seen anything like
this before. Big Tech is buying up real estate to
build power plants to generate electricity for artificial intelligence data centers.
Our very own Jim Bryan was telling us that those
the data centers need a lot a lot of power. Hey,
you know what you need? You need to get ready
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we would love for you to join us for the
Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
They do such great work for our furry friends.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It starts at eight o'clock and then the run and
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It is Sunday, April sixth at the Rose Bowl. The
deadline to apply for FEMA assistance for wildfire victims has
been extended. Residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in
the fires and Pacific Palisades and Altadena. We're facing a
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deadline of midnight tonight, but that has been pushed back
to March thirty.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
First.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
FEMA grants can be used to pay rent, pay for
temporary housing, home repairs, property losses, and other things. The
FEMA grants do not have to be paid back. Republicans
have unveiled the spending bill to keep the government funded
through September. The bill cuts non defense spending and boosts
defense spending. The bill has to be passed by Friday
to prevent a partial government shutdown. The sci fi comedy
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thriller Mickey seventeen has landed in first place at the
box office. The Robert Pattinson movie about a guy who
dies over and over and then his remade, took in
just over nineteen million dollars. It cost one hundred and
eighteen million to make. At six o five Tendle on
the news, why the head of DWP wants the city
to spend seven hundred thousand dollars on her? Right now,
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let's say good morning too, ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, you
have some good news for us in spite of all
this weird bad health news about I did bird flu
and measles.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Yeah, I saw Mickey seventeen yesterday. He did pretty good.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Was it really a little long?
Speaker 12 (24:31):
They could have lopped it off in a few places,
But it's it's a pretty cool movie. I like it.
It's fun.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
It's supposed to. I heard it's a comedy.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
It is. It's a I'd call it a black comedy.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
So there we go. Good news about seasonal flu, not
bird flu, not measles.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I thought we had good bird flu news.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Not really. Well, yeah, I think they're they're Yeah, we're
still lost. I mean, look at egg prices. They're at
record highs. They went down a little last week, but
still they're historically high. The good news is that flu
season appears to have peaked around the country. The CDC
is reporting fewer cases to your positive tests. Clinical lab
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tests are nineteen percent lower than they were the week before,
and that's good. There are still some places around the
country that have a higher than normal flu rate. Oregon
to your North Washington state, Idaho still pretty high. Yeah,
it is low levels in Nevada and California somewhere in
the middle with a moderate caseload of influenza, and even
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there it's beginning to go down. So now we appear
to have made it through another flu season.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So traditionally, is this about the time of year that
flu season kind of winds down or is it earlier
late this year.
Speaker 12 (25:49):
A little bit late, just a little bit late before
it starts to back down just a bit. A couple
of years with twenty one twenty two, it didn't peak
until May, it didn't go up until May, and then
it went down pretty dramatically from there. But yeah, this year,
we're just a little little behind schedule in terms of
when it normally peaks. But I mean, we worry about
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the measles, the West Texas measles outbreak. Almost two hundred
people have gotten sick from that and two people have died,
you know, the avian flu. I think only one person
that has died from avian flu, you know, beyond all
the birds that have been destroyed and the cows that
have gotten sick. But look at flu seasonal flu. It's
one we kind of don't think about forty million influenza
(26:34):
cases this year, according to the CDC, forty million, including
more than five hundred thousand hospitalizations. Twenty two thousand people
have died of flu this year.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's crazy and you know what, and I know that,
like we get a usually we'll find out, hey, the
first flu death of the year happened. But then it
just happens apparently so often, and it's so common that
we just kind of don't even it doesn't even hit
like the newswires.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
I know, you know it's true, and it's kind of
the forgotten problem out there, the health problem. So it's
so important to get your flu shot. It's one that
affects primarily middle aged, older people with the serious consequences.
I mean, if the twenty two thousand people who have
died during this flu cycle, according to the CDC, one
hundred and fourteen have been pediatric desk so children. So yeah, yeah,
(27:25):
mainly older people, mainly older.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
What is it that kills you?
Speaker 12 (27:28):
It's the lung stuff that follows it, the lung infection,
the potential pneumonia, the things that come with the flu
that affect older people in a much more severe way
than younger people.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Okay, well, we're happy about the good news that the
flu seasons. He'll take it, and then we'll look forward
to talking to you when you tell us that bird
flu and mesos are going away too.
Speaker 12 (27:46):
It could be a little while.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much to you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All Right, time to get in your business as we
do every day on wake up Call with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Morning, Courtney, good Monday morning to you.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Okay, let's get started with stock markets, because it was
quite the roller coaster ride even on Friday, with stocks
bouncing up and down, and because of all this tariff talk.
Are we expecting the wild ride to continue this week?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh, no doubt about it, and we're seeing it this morning.
So traders all last week they were trying to make
sense about a number of headlines around tariff. So on
Friday we did see stocks hire. The Dow rose two
hundred and twenty three points. But even though Friday saw games,
it was the worst week for stocks in September. Now
this morning, we are seeing S and P futures tumbling
(28:37):
one percent. Dow future is down four hundred and eighty
five points at this hour. So if it opened up
right now, if the Dow, if the markets were open
right now, it'd be down about four hundred and eighty points.
So we are racing for this tough start to the week.
Not only the tariffs, but the federal workforce job cuts.
That's raising the prospect of a slowdown in economic growth.
(28:58):
And President Trump over the weekend scared the nervous Nelli's
here on Wall Street. He told Fox News that the
economy faces a period of transition, and nobody on Wall
Street they like certainty here on Wall Street.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, okay, here's something that's for certain I go to
CVS a lot and get a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And you said that they're kind of changing.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yes, they're preparing to open these smaller formats stores. So
Shakeup's going to be coming. It's going to be a
focus on pharmacies. So according to the Wall Street Journal,
the downsize locations, they're still going to have health products
like first aid, kids, cough syrup. However, grocery and beauty
items from milk to nail polish that's going to go.
Greeting cards gone. So the new stores, they're about half
(29:44):
the size of the typical CBS location, but they're starting small.
Twelve of these small format stores will open over the
next year.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Okay, so they're not closing the ones that they have,
they're opening this new sort of streamline pharmacy centered store.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Well, CBS is closing a bunch of stores, and not
all of them, not every single one, because they're trying
to downsize their footprints. Real estate is expensive, and they've
struggled in recent years from a number of things, including
competition from discount retailers Amazon, and also you can't forget
about the surge and theft where we see everything locked up.
(30:18):
So they plan to close. Oh it's hard, and especially
here in New York too. We see them all the time,
just as I'm sure you guys see in LA. But
they planned to close about two hundred and seventy locations
they planned, they planned this year. Eight hundred have been
closed over the past three years, so a lot of
(30:38):
local CBS's are shutting down.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All right, Bloomberg, Scortney, Donaho, thanks so much for the information.
Let's get in your business again tomorrow, same time.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Definitely. I'll see you then.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jurors in the
trial of an Orange County judge accused of killing his
wife are due back today for another day of deliberations.
This comes out they had previously said they were at
an m pass but might be able to break the
deadlock with more deliberations. They told the judge Friday they
were exhausted and asked to be excused at lunch. Jeffrey
(31:10):
Ferguson has charged with second degree murder for fatally shooting
his wife at their home in Anaheim Hills in twenty
twenty three. He says it was an accident. The search
is on for a forty five year old inmate who
walked away from a re entry program facility in La
herber Ramaswara is serving a three year sentence for robbery.
Officials say they were alerted yesterday that he'd walked away.
(31:32):
He was last seen near Wiltshire Boulevard in South Bonnie
Bray Street in Westlake. Four LA County Sheriff's deputies have
been heard in an attack on the men's Central Jail Downtown.
They were assaulted yesterday during what the Sheriff's department called
a routine inmate movement. All four deputies were taken to
the hospital. One has a puncture type injury. Officials say
(31:54):
the inmates involved were also medically evaluated and remained in custody,
and that a jail made weapon was recovered. Eight people
have been hurt when a car crashed into a carmac
showroom in Inglewood. Bully say a customer had taken his
car in to get an estimate on Saturday, apparently didn't
like the quote that he got didn't have the value
(32:16):
he expected, so he got upset and drove it right
into the showroom, sending customers and workers scrambling. The guy
drove away, but then ended up turning himself in a
short time later at an LAPD station. After pausing most
tariffs against Mexico and Canada until April second, the President
says he could be ready to impose tariffs on Canadian
(32:37):
dairy and lumber as soon as today. He says it's
in response to the high tax Canada puts on American products.
A man's been arrested after leading police on a chase
through several cities in Orange County and ramming at least
two police cruisers. Bully said the chase started yesterday and
Garden Grove when police tried to pull a guy over
who was driving a suspected stolen car. A Canite unit
(32:59):
had to be called dan when the guy refused to surrender.
We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning.
Republicans have a plan to keep the lights on in Washington.
Can they get it passed without the Democrats? That's the
big question right now.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Let's say good morning too.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
The senior VP for Public and Government Affairs at the
Specialty Equipment Marketing Association, it's Karen Bailey Chapman.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
Good morning, Karen, Good morning, and happy Monday.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
If you can call it a happy Monday. I agree.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, okay, So Karen, before we dive in, because we're
gonna be talking about EV's and EV mandates, I really
quickly just to familiarize people with what your group does.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
What does your group do?
Speaker 13 (33:43):
So we are the Specialty Equipment Market Association, probably best
known for the SEMA Show, which is the largest automotive
gathering that takes place in Las Vegas every November. What
we do is we represent the manufacturers, retailers, and distributors
of aftermarket seculty, aftermarket automotive parts. So everything you do
to your vehicle after you've bought it because you want
(34:05):
to make it faster, improve the engine performance, or make
it cooler looking, list it, lower it, all of the
fun stuff people love to do to customize their vehicle.
Those are the parts that we make. We represent fifty
two billion dollars in retail sales annually as well as
employee one point three million Americans.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, so now that helps us a lot as we
jump into this. So your group is for moving to
a cleaner car industry, but your group is not for
EV mandates? And which are there are several that are
you know they're looming? And why why are you against
the EV mandates?
Speaker 13 (34:46):
We believe that government should remain technology neutral when it
comes to our vehicles, not only because we believe that innovation,
as it's already been proven, can continue to improve emissions
out of our vehicles just based on the technology and
innovation that we have, but also to protect consumers so
that they have the ability to purchase and have available
(35:08):
to purchase the vehicles that best suit their needs. Whether
you live in the rural community or you live in
an urban or suburban areas, So all consumers have different needs,
and we have the ability to do things with our
vehicles and innovate to cleaner emissions. But government, we believe,
should stay stay out of telling us what to do
and allow the marketplace and the innovators to accomplish accomplish
(35:31):
the goals.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, So you're basically saying that the private sector is
going to get there, but you've got to give You've
got to let them do it on their own timetable
and not force it by saying you must do like
California has done saying new cars have to be electric
or hybrid by twenty thirty five.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Exactly.
Speaker 13 (35:51):
I think we've as an automotive industry, have proven that
we've been able to do more with less over the
over one hundred years that the internal combustion engine has
been around in the marketplace. So I think we have
a track record to prove that we're able to do that.
So let us keep doing that. We believe that evs
are part of our future, but they're not the only future.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And Karen, you say that small businesses might not be
able to shift to the EV industry fast enough. Which
small businesses are you talking about the ones who trick
out the cars?
Speaker 13 (36:25):
Well, that's actually our industry. Ninety five percent of our
membership is small businesses. And so when you think about
small business that makes parts for engines, that modifies engines,
or any part of that powertrain it's not simply just
shifting over. So many people like to say that, oh,
you should just transition. Well, if you make mufflers, or
you make intakes, or you make pistons, or you make
(36:47):
anything that's in that powertrain, those don't exist on an EV.
And so you know, you're looking at entire swaths of
the us E commune, especially the autumn motive sector, simply
just going away.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Right, Because we were talking about I can't remember what
it was, it Hurts or something got a huge fleet
of electric vehicles, and they said because they don't have
any maintenance.
Speaker 13 (37:14):
Right, But then that's same. I don't know if it
was Hurts or one of the other rental car agencies
have also now been divesting of the vehicles as well,
for a couple of different reasons. But yeah, they've also
been divesting of that fleet.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And I think part of that was because if there
was damage, you have to basically replace the car. You
can't fix the car like a mechanic can fix the car.
That's not really an option.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, exactly, And even look at what just
happened in the wildfires in the LA area. How many
people that were in those impacted areas saw evs that
were burned up on the side of the road that
law enforcement and emergency services couldn't just simply tow it away.
They had to have special handling in order to remove
(37:59):
them from the affected areas. So I think that right
there is a proof and point in the LA area.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Okay, so you're lobbying Congress to like say, hey, you guys,
hands off, just let us get there on our own.
Don't slap these mandates on.
Speaker 10 (38:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 13 (38:14):
So you've got California that passed a rule that is
putting this in place, the twenty thirty five ban on
the gas and diesel vehicles. But the thing is, but
under federal law, they have to get approval by the EPA.
So in the days before the Biden administration left, their
EPA went and signed off on this waiver. The issue
(38:36):
that we really have with California's rule is the fact
that eleven other states have signed on to follow it,
and that's about forty percent of the American marketplace that
are going to be under California's rule. California's exemption that
was given to them in the Federal Claim Air Act
was supposed to be for California only not California plus
(38:58):
forty percent.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
So well, California always says it sort of leads the nation.
So are you going to Congress then to basically try
to get something passed so that they can't do these mandates.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (39:16):
So one of the things there's always, obviously in Washington,
there's always a million different procedur rule ways to do things.
And so one of the things that we're pushing for
right now is with called the Congressional Review Act and
what it does that allows Congress to issue an approval
or disapproval of a federal agency's rule.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
So in the case of.
Speaker 13 (39:34):
The EPA approving the California van, it has been transmitted
by the current EPA to Congress, which starts a sixty
day window for Congress to issue a disapproval or what
that's what we're asking them to do, is to issue
a disapproval of this rule that California has put in place.
(39:55):
Not only will it stop this internal combustion engine ban
that California has put forward for forty percent of the country,
but also it's going to be one of the first
times in a very, very, very long time that Congress
is going to be able to really kind of tell
California what is not allowed under federal law.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, Karen Bailey Chapman with SEMA. I would love to
check in with you as we get closer and to
hearing a decision on this, because I mean, it affects
so many of us, you know, so hopefully.
Speaker 13 (40:25):
Letely absolutely would.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Love to all right, well, we'll plan on talking to
you again and we'll be watching what happens. Sema, Senior
Vice President of Republican Government Affairs. Karen Bailey Chapman, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
So interesting, right, because so many people are getting them
and then but it's like the sales have sort of
leveled off as people are like maybe I don't want that,
and hybrids are becoming the thing. But I didn't even
think of the residuals of that of banning the EV's
or not banning EV's, but banning the gas powered engines,
(40:57):
and how that literally could put just hundreds of thousands
of mechanics out of businesses.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I mean, you're gonna have them because you'll have the
old cars, but as that phase is out, where are they?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Where do they go? All Right, Innovation, it's a wonderful thing.
Isn't it hey?
Speaker 1 (41:11):
This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County
Southland Weather from KFI. The storm rolling in he is
taken a little longer than expected, which means we get
another day of sunshine, highs in the sixties to mid seventies,
clouding up tonight with a chance of showers after midnight.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Rain on the way tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Then a stronger storm moves in Wednesday into Thursday, with
one to two inches of rain possible in the basin,
two to four inches in the foothills, and snow in
the mountains. Daytime highs just in the fifties, overnight lows
in the forties. It's forty nine and Fullerton, forty nine
in San Clementy, forty nine in Pasadena, and you guessed
at forty nine in Santa Monica. We lead local live
(41:49):
from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
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Speaker 4 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
It is five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake
up call for Monday, March tenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. If you're hearing
my voice right now, it means that your clock automatically
changed and you did.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Get up this daylight saving time fairly, fairly.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
I woke up yesterday, and, like we were talking about
last week, most of the clocks adjust themselves. My Apple
watch does it, my phone does it. Even my little
alarm clock automatically adjust itself. So I'm sitting there on
the couch yesterday and I'm watching my news shows because
I'm obsessive and I watch all the news shows on
Sunday morning, and I was like, Wow, it's only eight thirty.
(01:13):
Oh wait that clock. I have to change myself. Shoot,
I'm behind an hour already. Hey, we got another eagle.
The third eaglet has hatched. We knew that it was
pipping on Friday, but he broke out over the weekend,
and oh my.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Gosh, the little guy.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
He's like so much smaller than the other ones, and
you can tell he's weaker. And I'm just like, it's
like breaking my heart when I'm like, Jackie, feed the
little one, Jackie, feed the little one. But we you know,
we know that it's it's a tough rope and they've
got a fight to survive. And so we were talking
over the weekend with editor Carla and I said, he's
(01:50):
gonna have to fight hard, and she goes, I'm going
to call him Rocky. Yeah, So that's what we're going
to call the little one. Yep. Okay, here's what's ahead
on wake up Call. A bit of a shaky start
to the more, A three point three quake rumbled under Malibu.
The US Geological surveyces the quake happened at two twenty three.
It's near where a four point one quake rattled Malibu yesterday.
(02:11):
Yesterday afternoon's quake was followed by several smaller aftershocks. Flames
shot through the roof of a graffiti covered building in
downtown la this morning. LA Fire says a fire and
a commercial building spread to other units and a nearby
building before firefighters put it out. By about three twenty,
Israel has cut off electricity supply to Gaza. Offici'll say
it's going to interrupt operations at a desalination plant that
(02:35):
provides drinking water for part of the Strip. A Moss
called it part of Israel's starvation policy. We're gonna find
out what's going on with this uh with ABC Stredonna
Miller in Jerusalem that's coming up in just a couple
of minutes at.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Five point twenty.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Is the high price of eggs really because of bird
flu or could there be something else going on. ABC's
Peter Haralumbus is going to tell us and speaking of
bird flu and the flu and the measles, ABC's Jim
Ryan says he finally has some good news for us
on those fronts.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
And EV's electric vehicles should they be mandated, they are
going to be in California. A group says evs are great,
but making people buy them is not the way to go.
We're going to talk with the senior VP at SEMA
coming up at five point fifty to find out what's
up with that. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
(03:29):
Eight people have been hurt by a guy who drove
into the showroom at a CarMax dealership in Inglewood. Investigators
say the driver had taken his car to the dealer
for an estimate, but apparently didn't estimate, but apparently didn't
like the quote that he got. He drove away after
he crashed into the building, but then later drove to
an LAPD station and turned himself in. An apparent trespasser
(03:54):
is in critical condition after nearly being electrocuted at a
hospital in North rich which the Fire Department says the
man was hurt yesterday when he made contact with an
electrical vault at Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center. He
has significant burn injuries to more than half his body.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
La Keunty Da.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Nathan Hawkman is expected to announce an update on the
Menendez brother's case. Hawkman said last month his office would
oppose the brother's request for a new trial. The brothers
have also asked to be re sentenced, and they've asked
Governor Knwsoim for clemency. In an effort to be released
from prison. They're serving life sentences for murdering their parents.
In nineteen eighty nine. More people are taking legal action
(04:36):
over the wildfires in LA.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Twenty five more Pacific Palisades residents have joined the lawsuit
filed against the City of Los Angeles and the Department
of Water and Power after the January wildfires. This brings
the total plaintiffs to forty eight. The lawsuit alleges the
city designed a water supply system that wouldn't have enough
water pressure to fight the fires. It also says the
reservoir located near the Pacific Palisades had been empty since
(04:58):
February of last year, which made it more difficult for
fire crews to access water. Brigida Degastino, Okay if I new.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
A new study shows California is ranked fifth among the
most expensive states for childcare in the US oh great.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
The study by Birth.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Injury Lawyer dot com analyzed data from Childcare Aware of
America and used the average cost of a center based
in family childcare.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
It found in.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
California, center based childcare costs eighteen two hundred dollars a
year that takes up fifteen percent of a married couple's
income and forty eight percent of single parents. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller. She's in Jerusalem.
Soa Gaza just can't catch a break. Israel's now cutting
off electricity.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
The Israeli government announced on Sunday that they would be
cutting off electricity to Gaza. But we have to remember
that Israel cut off almost all of its electricity supplies
to the strip more than a year ago when the
war first broke out, right back in the in the
winter of twenty twenty three. So this is not a
(06:08):
good sign. And it will affect about six hundred thousand
Palestinians in central Gaza because it will essentially shut down
a desalinization plant and that helps with you know, water
supplies creating powdable water. So that is a problem, and
it's going to affect the sewage systems there, but it's
(06:30):
not going to have a dramatic impact the way for example,
cutting off humanitarian aid has for the last two weeks. Right,
It's another step that's you know, going to be uncomfortable
for gossms. But remember they're now used to living either
with fuel run generators or solar panels, and they're not
(06:52):
as dependent on Israeli electricity anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Okay, So all of the awfulness has made them better prepared.
Is the desalination plant has power to that been cut
off before or is this a new development with that plant?
Speaker 7 (07:09):
The plant wasn't working for several months again at the
start of the war, and then we'll put it back
online during the first ceasefire deal in November December. That
was one of the agreements right in the original the
first seafire where we saw over one hundred hostages come out.
(07:31):
So it had been functioning since November. There were recently
some power outages with this plant, but they were fixed.
Now it will not be working because the Israeli electric
Company will no longer be supplying the electricity there to
keep it going, okay.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
And now Jordana Hamas has called this the latest starvation
policy by Israel, which is sort of hard to argue.
But and Israel maybe trying to force Amas's hand to
maybe get back and come up with a piece deal
or to move forward with that phase too. But Hamas
has already said, hey, we're willing to lose hundreds of
(08:09):
thousands of people, So does it really force Amasa's hand.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Right, I don't think it's really going to work as
a pressure tactic. The issue of humanitarian aid will, but
I don't think the electricity is going to make a
difference at this point. And I think it's important to
point out there's not starvation right now in the Gaza Strip. Remember,
for forty two days over, on average, about seven hundred
(08:35):
trucks of aid came in each and every day. Oh okay,
so a Gaza strip. So yeah, they're not hungry right now,
but of course those supplies will run out, you know,
in several months.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Yeah, and didn't you say what I think in one
of our conversations, you were saying that they needed an
average of like three hundred a day, so then when
they were getting six hundred, they were kind of stocking up.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Well, you know, before the war, Gaza received about four
to five hundred trucks of aid, but not all of
it was food. And the difference is that there were
a lot of local you know, fields, bakeries, you know,
they had their own way of you know, generating food
(09:22):
in the Gaza Strip. Now, with all the destruction, you know,
Gaza is ever more dependent on aid coming in and
I think that's the major difference. I mean, there's not Israel.
Gaza's own production of food is not now at what
it was before the war, right, Okay, so yes, so
(09:45):
we have to be careful with comparisons. Nonetheless, I think
the aid issue is something that could put pressure on Hamas.
I think, Amy, we have to point out today for
the first time since January, Israel Hamas, the United States
and the Mediate are engaging in talks in Doha, in
cutter And this is the first round of real indirect talks.
(10:08):
And we're hoping and praying that this leads to a
breakthrough where we see some more hostages come out and
an extension of this ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Okay, well, we will hope that that moves forward. ABC
Stdana Miller in Jerusalem. Thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
As always, Thanks Tuckson.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. North
Korea has fired several ballistic missiles into the sea. The
launches happened several hours after the South Korean and US
militaries began their annual Freedom Shield combined military drills. The
US is the drills are routine. North Korea calls them
(10:46):
an aggressive move and that they pose a threat. The
US is expected to impose more tariffs on Canada. ABC's
Selina Wang says it could happen as soon as today.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The President is threatening to impose steep terrace on Canadian
loveber in dairy products, he says, in response to the
high tax that Canada puts on American lumber and dairy
to protect its own industries.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico last week,
only to pause most of them soon after that. He
said the US will impose reciprocal tariffs on a whole
range of countries starting April second. Secret Service agents have
shot a man near the White House.
Speaker 8 (11:23):
An agency spokesperson says agents confronted the arm suspect, who
allegedly pulled out a gun before being shot and was
taken to the hospital in unknown condition. The Secret Service
had reportedly been notified about a potentially suicidal individual traveling
from Indiana to Washington.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
D c kfi's Michaelkastners's President Trump was not at the
White House at the time. He spent the weekend at
his resort in Florida. Fighter jets from Norad intercepted a
civilian aircraft there yesterday afternoon when it entered restricted airspace.
A small plane has crashed in Pennsylvania. Mannheim Township fire
chief Scott Little says the plane ended up in a
(12:00):
parking lot of a retirement community. Five passengers were on board.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
All five passengers were transported by.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Local MS agencies to local hospitals for treatment. The plane
burst into flames when it crashed yesterday, damaging several vehicles.
Officials say no one in the parking lot was hurt.
Former Central Bank Central banker Mark Carney is going to
be Canada's next prime minister. The governing Liberal Party elected
him as its leader yesterday. Carney has vowed to stand
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up to President Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses and we cannot
let him succeed, and we will.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Carney will replace Justin Trudeau, who made the decision last
month to step down as Prime minister following ongoing criticism
of his leadership by the public and from within his
own party. He's expected to remain Prime minister during the transition.
The Southland has been rattled by another earthquake. The three
point three quake hit near Malibu at two twenty three
this morning. A four point one quake rattled Malibu just
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after one yesterday afternoon. US Geological SURVEYSS. Three smaller quakes
rumbled under Malibu a short time later. Republicans have unveiled
a spending bill to keep the government funded through September.
The bill cuts non defense spending and boosts defense spending.
The bill has to be passed by Friday to prevent
a partial government shutdown. President Trump posted on social media
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urging all Republicans to vote yes, saying we must remain united.
The third egg for bald eagles Jackie and Shadow has hatched.
All three egglets are now being fed and protected by
the eagles in their nest hi above Big Bear Lake.
The newest eglet has been struggling to get fed, as
the other two that had hatched almost a week earlier
are now much stronger.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
But we're going to help.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
He's a fighter, and like I said, Carla and I
have agreed that his name should be Rocky because he's
going to be a fighter. At six oh five, it's
handle on the news. China is targeting the US with
tariffs of its own let's say good morning now to
ABC's Peter Harlambuos.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Good morning Peter, Good morning Amy, Thanks so much for
having me.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, so before we get started, I want to I
want to settle this once and for all, because when
we get a request for you or an availability for you,
they phonetically spell out your name because it's spelled different
than it looks and sounds. And then I heard you
do like a lockout, which is when you say, hey,
it's Amy King for k if I News.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
That's your lockout.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I heard you say it differently than it's pronounced here.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
How do you say your name so you actually have
it right?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
For the record, it's horror lamboos. It's that's how my
parents have pronounced that. When I was a kid, it
was just pronounced phanatically with the ch, So it's kind
of a habit that's stuck in my head from elementary
and middle of high school. Or sometimes I slip into
say charlamboos, but the proper pronunciation, according to my parents
and their parents is horror lamboosh.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Okay, all right, I feel better now because I heard
you say it the other like You've got right. Okay,
let's get down to business Peter Haralambus.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
So, we know.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
The elimination of millions of chickens because of bird flu
is causing egg prices to go up, But is there
something else, maybe something a little more underhanded going on
that's leading to price increases for our eggs.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Yeah, that's exactly right, Amy. At this point, the DOJ
is looking into just that possibility. We understand the Department
of Justice is Civil Division is in the very early
stages of an investigation into some of the country's largest
egg distributors. They're looking into the possibility that it's high
price and eggs isn't just caused by this massive culling
of chickens because of the bird flu, but potentially because
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of coordination among these companies. Again, very early stages, but
they're looking into that possibility that this is something this
high cost of eggs four ninety five for a dozen
eggs on average by something more than just the bird flu. Again,
we've seen some of the profits for these huge egg
companies actually skyrocket. For example, the country's largest egg distributor,
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their profits are up about thirty excuse me, three hundred percent,
And there was actually a similar kind of spike in
profits the last time the bird flow came around.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Okay, so here's the question then, is their profits are up.
I was just thinking, well, of course they're making more
because they're charging more, but the supply is down. But
you're saying, even though the supply is down, they're still
making more money than before the bird flu.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
That's correct. So if you look at their profits, they're up.
I mean, if you look back, for example, in twenty
twenty three, the last time the bird flu got really
quite bad, they saw their profits. They made more than
one point two billion dollars. That's triple what they made
the year prior. And you know, there's nothing illegal about that.
There's nothing wrong in the United States with making more
money when their supply for something goes down and the
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demand states high. That's something that's inherent eggs. People continue
to buy them. But what the concern is from the
Department of Justice, according to a source with direct knowledge
of this, is that there might be some kind of
coordination among these companies to keep these prices high for longer,
to basically continue making money despite the fact that the
natural market conditions would have brought those prices down.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
We'll have to.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
See again, we're in the middle of this, so you know,
in a way that DJ is looking to something as
it's happening to see if that's going on. But if
that's the case, it's really that would be very concerned
and corporate behavior for something that Americans buy and rely
on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Yeah, okay, And you said that they're in the early
stages of this investigation, So can we expect to find
anything out anytime soon or does this take months and
months to play out?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I think we're talking about months and months, I understand
in terms of where we are when th're reporting. Is
there at the basically the subpoena stage, the civil subpoena
is being sent by DOJ's Anti trust divisions and begins
figuring out more information about this in order to get
from that to a finding or a criminal finding of
a civil finding of liability. That's months, if not years.
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But in a way, it is exerting some pressure on
these egg companies to basically, you know, if there is
something happening that's below board, fix it now that they
know there's a spotlight being shined on them again, the
country's egg distributors are pushing back strongly on this claim.
That there might be price fixing. They're saying that American
farmers are hurting, distributors are hurting, and the idea that
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these prices are they you know, are driven by something
other than just the bird flu is completely wrong and misguided.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
And I guess the numbers will show us if they
really are getting record profits. That you know, paints a
little different picture than what they're saying.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
It's written for what it's worth. Counting foods in the
country's largest distributor and distributor and producer of eggs. I
believe their profits so this quarter are three hundred forty
two percent compared to last year. That's in their SEC filings.
They've disclosed that, but not hiding that fact.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
ABC's Peter Haralambus, thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
We'll talk to you again soon.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Thanks so much, Avery thinking.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Do you know how long it took me to learn
how to say his name?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
About as long as col Shriver. If you've been listening
to Wake Up Call, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
More rain is in the forecast this week.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
The National Weather Services two systems are going to be
moving through southern California. Meteorologist Mike Wafford tells KFI the
first system could bring some light rain tomorrow.
Speaker 10 (19:29):
The strongest period for US is going to be Wednesday
night and the Thursday morning. That's when we'll see the
heaviest rain and potentially some rain rates that could be
a problematic for some of the burn areas.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Colder temperatures are also in the forecast this week. The
head of the LA Department of Water and Powers asking
for seven hundred thousand dollars for security.
Speaker 11 (19:48):
The Chief Meditan, the chief Engineer, cited threats made against
her since the Palisades fire earlier this year. Her department's
been criticized over the state of water infrastructure in the
city at the time of the fire and the manner
in which it responded to the crisis.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
K if Ice Tammy Trujillo says the utility board is
set to vote tomorrow on a security contract for general manager.
General Manager Jennie Kinyonis. A fourteen year old boy has
been stabbed in a parking lot during a carnival in Anaheim.
Police are trying to figure out what led to the
attack last night. They say the teen's injuries are not
believed to be life threatening. He was taken to the hospital.
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One person was detained. A Hindu temple in Chino Hills
has been vandalized. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says
the graffiti was discovered on Saturday. The messages, disparaging the
Prime Minister of India, among other things, were political in nature.
The at taggers spray painted a marble sign, a brick
wall and the sidewalk. The graffiti had been removed by
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Sunday morning. Ukrainian President Zelenski's arrived in Saudi Arabia for
talks on ending the war with Russia. Ross Cullen reports
Zelensky is meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salmon.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
And that attention will turn to the crucial face to
face meetings scheduled for Tuesday between the United States and
Ukraine looking at a possible framework for a truce, ceasefire,
and potential future peace negotiations with Russia.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is going to lead the
US team. President Trump says he expects a lot of
progress to be made this week. Many states in the
US are in a race to get new power plants
built as a way of keeping electricity prices down. Some
of them dangling financial incentives. Others are loosening up regulations
to attract power companies. The Electric Power Supply Association, which
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represents power plant owners, says it hasn't seen anything like
this before. Big Tech is buying up real estate to
build power plants to generate electricity for artificial intelligence data centers.
Our very own Jim Bryan was telling us that those
the data centers need a lot a lot of power. Hey,
you know what you need? You need to get ready
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to go for a walk with us. It's time for
the Wiggle Waggle Walk. It's actually not quite time, but
it's coming up in less than a month. It's on
April sixth at Brookside Park at the Rose Bowl, and
we would love for you to join us for the
Wiggle Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
They do such great work for our furry friends.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
It starts at eight o'clock and then the run and
walk starts at nine o'clock. There's vendors, food trucks, training demonstration,
a dog costume contest, and of course we'll have the
KFI booth there and you can get exclusive KFI swag,
but quantities are limited first three hundred only. We would
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Speaker 5 (22:35):
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And it's a great way to start your day on
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You get to see all kinds of dogs, whether you
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We'd love to have you come walk with us again.
It is Sunday, April sixth at the Rose Bowl. The
deadline to apply for FEMA assistance for wildfire victims has
been extended. Residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed in
the fires and Pacific Palisades and Altadena. We're facing a
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deadline of midnight tonight, but that has been pushed back
to March thirty.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
First.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
FEMA grants can be used to pay rent, pay for
temporary housing, home repairs, property losses, and other things. The
FEMA grants do not have to be paid back. Republicans
have unveiled the spending bill to keep the government funded
through September. The bill cuts non defense spending and boosts
defense spending. The bill has to be passed by Friday
to prevent a partial government shutdown. The sci fi comedy
(23:53):
thriller Mickey seventeen has landed in first place at the
box office. The Robert Pattinson movie about a guy who
dies over and over and then his remade, took in
just over nineteen million dollars. It cost one hundred and
eighteen million to make. At six o five Tendle on
the news, why the head of DWP wants the city
to spend seven hundred thousand dollars on her? Right now,
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let's say good morning too, ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, you
have some good news for us in spite of all
this weird bad health news about I did bird flu
and measles.
Speaker 12 (24:25):
Yeah, I saw Mickey seventeen yesterday. He did pretty good.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Was it really a little long?
Speaker 12 (24:31):
They could have lopped it off in a few places,
But it's it's a pretty cool movie. I like it.
It's fun.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
It's supposed to. I heard it's a comedy.
Speaker 12 (24:39):
It is. It's a I'd call it a black comedy.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
So there we go. Good news about seasonal flu, not
bird flu, not measles.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
I thought we had good bird flu news.
Speaker 12 (24:50):
Not really. Well, yeah, I think they're they're Yeah, we're
still lost. I mean, look at egg prices. They're at
record highs. They went down a little last week, but
still they're historically high. The good news is that flu
season appears to have peaked around the country. The CDC
is reporting fewer cases to your positive tests. Clinical lab
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tests are nineteen percent lower than they were the week before,
and that's good. There are still some places around the
country that have a higher than normal flu rate. Oregon
to your North Washington state, Idaho still pretty high. Yeah,
it is low levels in Nevada and California somewhere in
the middle with a moderate caseload of influenza, and even
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there it's beginning to go down. So now we appear
to have made it through another flu season.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
So traditionally, is this about the time of year that
flu season kind of winds down or is it earlier
late this year.
Speaker 12 (25:49):
A little bit late, just a little bit late before
it starts to back down just a bit. A couple
of years with twenty one twenty two, it didn't peak
until May, it didn't go up until May, and then
it went down pretty dramatically from there. But yeah, this year,
we're just a little little behind schedule in terms of
when it normally peaks. But I mean, we worry about
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the measles, the West Texas measles outbreak. Almost two hundred
people have gotten sick from that and two people have died,
you know, the avian flu. I think only one person
that has died from avian flu, you know, beyond all
the birds that have been destroyed and the cows that
have gotten sick. But look at flu seasonal flu. It's
one we kind of don't think about forty million influenza
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cases this year, according to the CDC, forty million, including
more than five hundred thousand hospitalizations. Twenty two thousand people
have died of flu this year.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's crazy and you know what, and I know that,
like we get a usually we'll find out, hey, the
first flu death of the year happened. But then it
just happens apparently so often, and it's so common that
we just kind of don't even it doesn't even hit
like the newswires.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
I know, you know it's true, and it's kind of
the forgotten problem out there, the health problem. So it's
so important to get your flu shot. It's one that
affects primarily middle aged, older people with the serious consequences.
I mean, if the twenty two thousand people who have
died during this flu cycle, according to the CDC, one
hundred and fourteen have been pediatric desk so children. So yeah, yeah,
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mainly older people, mainly older.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
What is it that kills you?
Speaker 12 (27:28):
It's the lung stuff that follows it, the lung infection,
the potential pneumonia, the things that come with the flu
that affect older people in a much more severe way
than younger people.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Okay, well, we're happy about the good news that the
flu seasons. He'll take it, and then we'll look forward
to talking to you when you tell us that bird
flu and mesos are going away too.
Speaker 12 (27:46):
It could be a little while.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much to you.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
All Right, time to get in your business as we
do every day on wake up Call with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Morning, Courtney, good Monday morning to you.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Okay, let's get started with stock markets, because it was
quite the roller coaster ride even on Friday, with stocks
bouncing up and down, and because of all this tariff talk.
Are we expecting the wild ride to continue this week?
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Oh, no doubt about it, and we're seeing it this morning.
So traders all last week they were trying to make
sense about a number of headlines around tariff. So on
Friday we did see stocks hire. The Dow rose two
hundred and twenty three points. But even though Friday saw games,
it was the worst week for stocks in September. Now
this morning, we are seeing S and P futures tumbling
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one percent. Dow future is down four hundred and eighty
five points at this hour. So if it opened up
right now, if the Dow, if the markets were open
right now, it'd be down about four hundred and eighty points.
So we are racing for this tough start to the week.
Not only the tariffs, but the federal workforce job cuts.
That's raising the prospect of a slowdown in economic growth.
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And President Trump over the weekend scared the nervous Nelli's
here on Wall Street. He told Fox News that the
economy faces a period of transition, and nobody on Wall
Street they like certainty here on Wall Street.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yeah, okay, here's something that's for certain I go to
CVS a lot and get a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 5 (29:17):
And you said that they're kind of changing.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yes, they're preparing to open these smaller formats stores. So
Shakeup's going to be coming. It's going to be a
focus on pharmacies. So according to the Wall Street Journal,
the downsize locations, they're still going to have health products
like first aid, kids, cough syrup. However, grocery and beauty
items from milk to nail polish that's going to go.
Greeting cards gone. So the new stores, they're about half
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the size of the typical CBS location, but they're starting small.
Twelve of these small format stores will open over the
next year.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Okay, so they're not closing the ones that they have,
they're opening this new sort of streamline pharmacy centered store.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Well, CBS is closing a bunch of stores, and not
all of them, not every single one, because they're trying
to downsize their footprints. Real estate is expensive, and they've
struggled in recent years from a number of things, including
competition from discount retailers Amazon, and also you can't forget
about the surge and theft where we see everything locked up.
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So they plan to close. Oh it's hard, and especially
here in New York too. We see them all the time,
just as I'm sure you guys see in LA. But
they planned to close about two hundred and seventy locations
they planned, they planned this year. Eight hundred have been
closed over the past three years, so a lot of
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local CBS's are shutting down.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
All right, Bloomberg, Scortney, Donaho, thanks so much for the information.
Let's get in your business again tomorrow, same time.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Definitely. I'll see you then.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jurors in the
trial of an Orange County judge accused of killing his
wife are due back today for another day of deliberations.
This comes out they had previously said they were at
an m pass but might be able to break the
deadlock with more deliberations. They told the judge Friday they
were exhausted and asked to be excused at lunch. Jeffrey
(31:10):
Ferguson has charged with second degree murder for fatally shooting
his wife at their home in Anaheim Hills in twenty
twenty three. He says it was an accident. The search
is on for a forty five year old inmate who
walked away from a re entry program facility in La
herber Ramaswara is serving a three year sentence for robbery.
Officials say they were alerted yesterday that he'd walked away.
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He was last seen near Wiltshire Boulevard in South Bonnie
Bray Street in Westlake. Four LA County Sheriff's deputies have
been heard in an attack on the men's Central Jail Downtown.
They were assaulted yesterday during what the Sheriff's department called
a routine inmate movement. All four deputies were taken to
the hospital. One has a puncture type injury. Officials say
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the inmates involved were also medically evaluated and remained in custody,
and that a jail made weapon was recovered. Eight people
have been hurt when a car crashed into a carmac
showroom in Inglewood. Bully say a customer had taken his
car in to get an estimate on Saturday, apparently didn't
like the quote that he got didn't have the value
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he expected, so he got upset and drove it right
into the showroom, sending customers and workers scrambling. The guy
drove away, but then ended up turning himself in a
short time later at an LAPD station. After pausing most
tariffs against Mexico and Canada until April second, the President
says he could be ready to impose tariffs on Canadian
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dairy and lumber as soon as today. He says it's
in response to the high tax Canada puts on American products.
A man's been arrested after leading police on a chase
through several cities in Orange County and ramming at least
two police cruisers. Bully said the chase started yesterday and
Garden Grove when police tried to pull a guy over
who was driving a suspected stolen car. A Canite unit
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had to be called dan when the guy refused to surrender.
We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning.
Republicans have a plan to keep the lights on in Washington.
Can they get it passed without the Democrats? That's the
big question right now.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Let's say good morning too.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
The senior VP for Public and Government Affairs at the
Specialty Equipment Marketing Association, it's Karen Bailey Chapman.
Speaker 13 (33:23):
Good morning, Karen, Good morning, and happy Monday.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
If you can call it a happy Monday. I agree.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Yeah, okay, So Karen, before we dive in, because we're
gonna be talking about EV's and EV mandates, I really
quickly just to familiarize people with what your group does.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
What does your group do?
Speaker 13 (33:43):
So we are the Specialty Equipment Market Association, probably best
known for the SEMA Show, which is the largest automotive
gathering that takes place in Las Vegas every November. What
we do is we represent the manufacturers, retailers, and distributors
of aftermarket seculty, aftermarket automotive parts. So everything you do
to your vehicle after you've bought it because you want
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to make it faster, improve the engine performance, or make
it cooler looking, list it, lower it, all of the
fun stuff people love to do to customize their vehicle.
Those are the parts that we make. We represent fifty
two billion dollars in retail sales annually as well as
employee one point three million Americans.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Okay, so now that helps us a lot as we
jump into this. So your group is for moving to
a cleaner car industry, but your group is not for
EV mandates? And which are there are several that are
you know they're looming? And why why are you against
the EV mandates?
Speaker 13 (34:46):
We believe that government should remain technology neutral when it
comes to our vehicles, not only because we believe that innovation,
as it's already been proven, can continue to improve emissions
out of our vehicles just based on the technology and
innovation that we have, but also to protect consumers so
that they have the ability to purchase and have available
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to purchase the vehicles that best suit their needs. Whether
you live in the rural community or you live in
an urban or suburban areas, So all consumers have different needs,
and we have the ability to do things with our
vehicles and innovate to cleaner emissions. But government, we believe,
should stay stay out of telling us what to do
and allow the marketplace and the innovators to accomplish accomplish
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the goals.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Okay, So you're basically saying that the private sector is
going to get there, but you've got to give You've
got to let them do it on their own timetable
and not force it by saying you must do like
California has done saying new cars have to be electric
or hybrid by twenty thirty five.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Exactly.
Speaker 13 (35:51):
I think we've as an automotive industry, have proven that
we've been able to do more with less over the
over one hundred years that the internal combustion engine has
been around in the marketplace. So I think we have
a track record to prove that we're able to do that.
So let us keep doing that. We believe that evs
are part of our future, but they're not the only future.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
And Karen, you say that small businesses might not be
able to shift to the EV industry fast enough. Which
small businesses are you talking about the ones who trick
out the cars?
Speaker 13 (36:25):
Well, that's actually our industry. Ninety five percent of our
membership is small businesses. And so when you think about
small business that makes parts for engines, that modifies engines,
or any part of that powertrain it's not simply just
shifting over. So many people like to say that, oh,
you should just transition. Well, if you make mufflers, or
you make intakes, or you make pistons, or you make
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anything that's in that powertrain, those don't exist on an EV.
And so you know, you're looking at entire swaths of
the us E commune, especially the autumn motive sector, simply
just going away.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Right, Because we were talking about I can't remember what
it was, it Hurts or something got a huge fleet
of electric vehicles, and they said because they don't have
any maintenance.
Speaker 13 (37:14):
Right, But then that's same. I don't know if it
was Hurts or one of the other rental car agencies
have also now been divesting of the vehicles as well,
for a couple of different reasons. But yeah, they've also
been divesting of that fleet.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
And I think part of that was because if there
was damage, you have to basically replace the car. You
can't fix the car like a mechanic can fix the car.
That's not really an option.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
Yeah, exactly, Okay, exactly, And even look at what just
happened in the wildfires in the LA area. How many
people that were in those impacted areas saw evs that
were burned up on the side of the road that
law enforcement and emergency services couldn't just simply tow it away.
They had to have special handling in order to remove
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them from the affected areas. So I think that right
there is a proof and point in the LA area.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Okay, so you're lobbying Congress to like say, hey, you guys,
hands off, just let us get there on our own.
Don't slap these mandates on.
Speaker 10 (38:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 13 (38:14):
So you've got California that passed a rule that is
putting this in place, the twenty thirty five ban on
the gas and diesel vehicles. But the thing is, but
under federal law, they have to get approval by the EPA.
So in the days before the Biden administration left, their
EPA went and signed off on this waiver. The issue
(38:36):
that we really have with California's rule is the fact
that eleven other states have signed on to follow it,
and that's about forty percent of the American marketplace that
are going to be under California's rule. California's exemption that
was given to them in the Federal Claim Air Act
was supposed to be for California only not California plus
(38:58):
forty percent.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
So well, California always says it sort of leads the nation.
So are you going to Congress then to basically try
to get something passed so that they can't do these mandates.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (39:16):
So one of the things there's always, obviously in Washington,
there's always a million different procedur rule ways to do things.
And so one of the things that we're pushing for
right now is with called the Congressional Review Act and
what it does that allows Congress to issue an approval
or disapproval of a federal agency's rule.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
So in the case of.
Speaker 13 (39:34):
The EPA approving the California van, it has been transmitted
by the current EPA to Congress, which starts a sixty
day window for Congress to issue a disapproval or what
that's what we're asking them to do, is to issue
a disapproval of this rule that California has put in place.
(39:55):
Not only will it stop this internal combustion engine ban
that California has put forward for forty percent of the country,
but also it's going to be one of the first
times in a very, very, very long time that Congress
is going to be able to really kind of tell
California what is not allowed under federal law.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, Karen Bailey Chapman with SEMA. I would love to
check in with you as we get closer and to
hearing a decision on this, because I mean, it affects
so many of us, you know, so hopefully.
Speaker 13 (40:25):
Letely absolutely would.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Love to all right, well, we'll plan on talking to
you again and we'll be watching what happens. Sema, Senior
Vice President of Republican Government Affairs. Karen Bailey Chapman, thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
All right?
Speaker 1 (40:37):
So interesting, right, because so many people are getting them
and then but it's like the sales have sort of
leveled off as people are like maybe I don't want that,
and hybrids are becoming the thing. But I didn't even
think of the residuals of that of banning the EV's
or not banning EV's, but banning the gas powered engines,
(40:57):
and how that literally could put just hundreds of thousands
of mechanics out of businesses.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
I mean, you're gonna have them because you'll have the
old cars, but as that phase is out, where are they?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
Where do they go? All Right, Innovation, it's a wonderful thing.
Isn't it hey?
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Speaker 5 (41:28):
Rain on the way tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
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