July 15, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News tech reporter Mike Dobuski joins the show for ‘Tech Tuesday.’ Today, Mike talks about a big week for Grok AI and shares the latest with foldable smartphones. ABC News senior Washington reporter Will Steakin speaks on Trump defensing Bondi over Epstein files and the MAGA base being upset with how it is being handled. Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe updates us on the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan discussing why poison control centers are sounding the alarm on nicotine patches.
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
Good Morning five o'clock straight up on this Tuesday. Get
this July fifteenth. We're five months and ten days away
from Christmas. Editor Carla is like, stop, stop, aby, I
can't help it. I already have bought some of my
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Christmas presents. But well, I'm one of those people though,
I don't wait till the very last second I go
and like when I see something, I just pick it
up and then I shove it in the closet and
then I forget about it and have to remember right
before Christmas that I got it.
Speaker 9 (01:38):
Any second now, they're going to start putting up decorations
at home depot.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, well, you're right, but we were in Costco last
weekend they've got Halloween up. Ah yep, the big huge
skeletons that crawl out, you know, the like six foot
tall skeletons. Yeah. Okay, here's something else. My first cup
of coffee is my favorite thing of the morning.
Speaker 10 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I wake up because and I've got my coffee pot.
It makes the coffee for me before I get up,
and you smell the coffee and you go get it.
Something's off with my taste buds. And people are like,
do you have COVID? My coffee tastes weird. Oh, and
it's the same coffee. But if you have that, like
when and I'm like, what happened to my favorite thing
in the day. I'll get over it. It's those little
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hic those little hiccups. Yeah, little monkey wrenches in your
daily routine. Okay, uh it is uh like I said,
it's five now, it's five oh two. My time flies.
Speaker 11 (02:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Here's what's a head on wakeup call? Got a lot
going on today. Trump administration is filed court papers seeking
a stay of an LA federal judge's order that limits
ICE agents from detaining people without reasonable suspicion beyond race, ethnicity,
or occupation. It was unclear when the government would file
its actual appeal, and when or if the Ninth Circuit
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might hear the case. The La Sheriff's Department has its
missing rifle back. The Sheriff's Department says a person found
it in its black storage case near one hundred fourth
Street and Conden Avenue late Saturday night and then turned
it over to deputies at the South LA station yesterday.
They say they think somehow the rifle fell out of
the trunk of a patrol car. The first series or
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first year series The Pit, starring E R's Noah Wiley
It's on My List, I still watched it, and Seth
Rogen's The Studio are expected to be among the most
nominated shows when nominations for the seventy seventh Annual Primetime
Emmy Awards are announced this morning. The Emmys will be
awarded on September fourteenth at the Peacock Theater at LA Live.
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An AI that lost its mind and went on anti
Semitic rants as being installed in Tesla's and ABC's Mike
Debusky's joining us in a couple minutes to tell us
how the AI chatbot could also soon be used for
National Defense Terminator Anyone Trump and medministration has pulled a
little bit of a wizard of Oz. Pay no attention
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to the man behind the curtain. There's nothing to see.
ABC's Will Staken's going to join us to talk about
the mega faithful who are not happy about this one.
Poison control cenders are sounding the alarm. ABC's Jim Ryan's
going to join us before the top of the hour
to tell us how kids are poisoning themselves now and
something has changed. The result is I just might watch
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all two weeks of the Summer Olympics. Yeah, I know,
I'll tell you about that in just a few minutes.
It's all coming up on wake up calls. So much
going on. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
annual count of homeless people in La County shows a
decline for the second year in a row.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The La Homeless Services Authority conducted its annual count in February,
pushback from January by the wildfires, the number of homeless
people dropped four percent in La County and more than
three percent in the city of La mer Bass says
the strategies are working, but more needs to be done now.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Are there still unhoused Angelinos?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Are there still encampments?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
There's still more than seventy two thousand homeless people in
La County, more than half in La and thirteen thousand
more than there were in the county in twenty nineteen.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
La County DA Nathan Hockman says the man from Tarzana
accused of killing his wife and her parents then cutting
up their bodies, has evaded justice. Samuel Haskell was found
dead in his jail cell on Saturday, two days before
he was supposed to be in court.
Speaker 12 (05:27):
Mister Haskell never volunteered what happened and where he put
the body parts, nor does he ever provide a full
explanation as to why he did it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Askell allegedly hired day laborers to take plastic trash bags
from his home in twenty twenty three, but they found
human remains inside and took them back. A former candidate
for Ventura County Sheriff's accused of trying to register for
cats to vote in the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 13 (05:54):
On Monday, Chatsworth resident Bruce Boyer was ordered to stand trial.
Prosecutors say, tried to enroll Cool Teacat, Astra d T Gray,
Fritz Teacat, and Sylvester Teacat has voters. All of the
cats had the same address Boyer listed on his candidacy
forms with Ventura County.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Kay if I's Daniel Martindale says Boyer has also run
unsuccessfully for congress and county clerk and recorder. I love
those names. They'd probably vote for him he feeds them.
Maybe let's say good morning to ABC's technology reporter Mike Debuski. So, Mike,
let's talk about Groc, the AI chatbot that went on
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a an anti semitic rant. What happened there?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, so this all played out last week, and maybe
we should just start by talking about what Groc is
because it is an AI chatbot. It is in the
style of chat GPT where you can kind of go
to it and ask it questions, and it is made
by a company called Xai. Xai is Elon Musk's artificial
intelligence company. So a good way to think about Groc
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is like his take on chat GP or his entry
into this very hot AI sector right now. Groc has
been around for a few years now, and recently it's
been cropping up in other elon Musk companies, namely at
x which is the platform formerly known as Twitter, and
it basically is there to serve as like a little
helper bot. You can kind of, you know, tag GROC
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in a certain post and ask it to explain the
context of that post, and you know, with the caveat
that these systems are imperfect and they make mistakes, it
will be able to do that well. Two weeks ago,
Xai updated Groc and it's always been built as sort
of an edgier alternative to chat GPT with sort of
an uncouth sense of humor. It's the cool chatbot. It's
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kind of how they sell GROC, and this update was
intended to basically double down on that idea. They say
that this update forced Groc to assume subjective viewpoints sourced
from the media are biased and to not shy away
from making claims that are politically incorrect. Those are the
two sort of guide guidelines that were shipped alongside this
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update for this chatbot. However, any whenever we see moderation
or guardrails loosened around a given technology, this happens on
social media all the time. A lot of toxic content
does flow in, and that is what gave, you know,
seemingly is what led to GROC making a series of
very anti semitic posts on social media on X, really
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inflammatory stuff, specifically posting in supportive Hitler. You know it
called itself Mecha Hitler at one point, and Elon Musk
responded to all this saying that they had essentially made
grock too compliant to user prompts, saying that you know,
people were manipulating this thing and it didn't have the
proper guardrails in place. They've since deleted a lot of
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these posts and another update to combat this, and then
kind of separately from all this, but happening at the
same time, the CEO of X, Linda Yakarino, stepped down.
So that is Grock's sort of last week in a nutshell. Okay,
but there are a couple other things that happened more
recently that are wait before you before we jumped to
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what is happening most recently, How does it does this
chatbot just randomly put out things?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Or again, you said user prompts? Are people prompting it
to make these remarks?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
So a lot of these posts came in response to
user remarks and generally how GROC operates on x not
in general. I mean, you can go to like a
grock website and talk to it, like you can go
to chat gpt dot com and talk to it, but
GROC on social media you have to tag it, right,
You have to go make a post and say, hey, Grog,
can you explain this post to me? And then it
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will come back and write out sort of AI generated
writing to respond to it. And that's where a lot
of these these came from. And if you look at
Elon Musk's sort of response to all this, it seems
like he's saying that, like people were kind of pushing
this thing. Hey, they were trying to like test the
limitations of it. But again, I mean, this is something
that comes up all the time in the social media space,
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in the tech world in general. Like if you're not
thinking about how technology can be misused or how people
can kind of try to manipulate something, you're not doing
your job right, right, So, like he says that you know,
people were, you know, trying to manipulate this thing. It
was a little too eager to please those those users.
But even still, you know, there should be guardline. Okay,
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rails on that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So, speaking of how it could be misused, they're putting
GROC in Tesla.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Yeah, so this happened over the weekend. Certain Tesla models
made after twenty twenty one, specifically ones with AMD processors inside,
specific computer chips inside, now have access to GROC, but
it's in a pretty limited way. You can basically interact
with GROC the way you would on a normal computer
or on X. It cannot control any functionality of the car,
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so you can't ask it to like, you know, change
the radio station or change the air conditioning or anything
like that. You can ask it questions like just sort of,
you know, off the top of your head, questions like
you know, when is the first day of fall or
something like that, and it will presumably be able to
answer that question for you. But it doesn't actually have
any control over the car's function nobody. So it's more
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like an Alexa for your car essentially. Yeah, that's kind
of their idea, and any.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Chance that'll disobey and take over the car.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Again, it seems like it's completely separate from the car's controls.
So at this point I think we're safe. But yeah,
you can imagine that the eventual goal here is to
have this be sort of your general voice assistant in
the car. And Tesla already has like a voice control
sort of feature where you can like press a button
and ask it to you know, change the radio station
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or you know, adjust certain features in the vehicle. But
that's not ROCK, right, Like that's a separate thing. But
you can imagine like they want those two things to
merge eventually.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Okay, and then before we let you go or like
out of time. But I just read that the Pentagon
is going to use ROCK.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Yeah, the Department of Defense is contracting out with Xai
to use GROS. This is up to a two hundred
million dollar contract that they also awarded to Google, Anthropic
and Open AI. The DoD says these technologies could be
applied to the war fighting domain, to the intelligence, business,
and enterprise spheres, and that there are also GROC specifically
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is making custom models for things like national security, healthcare, science,
and also models that are accessible in classified environments, Seemingly
undeterred by some of the controversies around KROC in the
last week.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Hello terminator, Okay, well, I'm sure we'll be talking more
about this.
Speaker 12 (12:33):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Is implemented. Mike Debuski, thank you so.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Much, of course, Aby take care all right?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Anybody else worried about this? Okay, I don't like Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Supreme Court will
allow President Trump to lay off nearly fourteen hundred Department
of Education employees. The Court yesterday paused in order from
a federal judge in Boston who issued a preliminary injunction
reversing the layoffs and calling into question in the broader plan.
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The three liberal justices dissented. The federal Department of Education
and the Office of Management and Budget are being sued
by California in two dozen other states for withholding more
than six billion dollars in federal money for education programs.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson says not having the
money could be dire for students.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
This is one of those moments where something really big,
potentially really damaging, could be getting ready to occur.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
He says. Withholding the funding is against the Constitution and
against the Impoundment Act. India's aviation regulators ordered airlines to
inspect fuel control switches on certain Boeing model airplanes following
a preliminary report on the Air India crash that killed
two hundred and sixty people. The plane crash shortly after
takeoff last month. The reports is both engines lost fuel
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due to flipped switches. It also noted a twenty eighteen
US advisory urging inspections of those switches. Starbucks is cracking
down on some remote workers.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
Starbucks is requiring some remote workers to relocate to its
headquarters and increasing the number of days that corporate employees
are required to work in an office. In a letter
to employees, with the chairman and CEO said corporate employees
will need to be in the office four days a
week starting in early October. The company said that all
corporate people leaders must be based in either Seattle or
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Toronto within twelve months. The company is offering a voluntary
exit program with a cash payment to affected employees who
don't want to relocate. Deborah mark KOFFI News, I still
don't get that. Hey, you guys come back to work. No, okay,
it's a different world. Jd Vance, of course, visited Disneyland over.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The weekend, saw some social media posts about it, and
all I can say about it is seriously, he takes
his kids and his family to Dizzysneyland and people lose
their minds. And we read the La Times it says
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hundreds of people came out to protest. I saw a
couple of I saw a story on ABC and I
think on Fox showed about two dozen people waving flags,
marching around over on Harbor Boulevard or something like that.
Just leave the guy alone. And then there was also
a post I think it was on the Indian News
random right, and it says JD. Vans might just have
(15:26):
lost his vice presidency. He lost his child or something
like that, and it shows video of his you know,
they're at Disneyland and his kid kind of wanders off
and he chases after him. What parent has not chased
their child through Disneyland? True, it is not a national emergency.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
And something tells me there was somebody watching that kid. Anyway,
it's like entourage. They had like fifty people. Yeah, So anyway,
I hope he had fun. And you know, Governor Newsom
put out a nasty tweet because he had to make
it political. I hope Jadvans and his family enjoyed Disneyland
because the family in southern California being ripped apart or
(16:03):
not enjoying their time.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I was like, just stop, just for a minute,
just stop. You can play politics all you want, but
by golly, a good trip to Disneyland is good for
the soul. That's what I say. Hey, there's seventieth anniversary
officially on Thursday. So you know, in spite of higher
tariffs than more looming, business is booming at the Port
of Los Angeles. The port says June was its busiest
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June on record. The port handled nearly nine hundred thousand containers.
CEO Gen Soroka says importers are bringing in holiday cargo
now ahead of potential tariffs later this year. See they're
getting ready for Christmas too. Five months, ten days, California
has joined twenty four other Democratic led states and DC
ensuing the Trump administration over billions of dollars in frozen
(16:49):
education grants. Attorney General Rob Bontas says nearly a billion
dollars meant for California schools is being withheld. The stalled
funds were set to support after school programs, teacher training,
and other stifle udent services. A lower cost way to
fly to smaller cities is going away. A Vello Airlines
shutting down all of its West Coast operations. Yeah, I
(17:09):
use them. The low budget Airport or Airline is reducing
flights out of Hollywood Burbank Airport on August twelfth and
then stopping all flights on December second. It's been operating
out of the Burbank Airport for more than four years.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Will staken Will
(17:30):
Just like the Wizard of Ozz, the administration says, pay
no attention to the files on Pam Bondi's desk. There's
nothing to see. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and
MAGA supporters are calling bs on.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's that's right. And it's not just, you know, pay
no attention. It's they're saying, pay no attention after weeks
and months of saying we're going to disclose everything and
you know, we're going to show you what's behind the curtain,
and also they shut the curtain. So it's kind of
a mess of their own making, and I don't see
it going away anytime soon. A lot of the blame
(18:03):
is being placed on, you know, on the Attorney General
Pam BONDI just given how it's been handled. You think
back to February when she passed out these binders to
this group of MAGA influencers at the White House, which
it's set on there. You know, these are the Epstein
files Phase one, and even then the influencers left saying
there's nothing new in these binders, who were completely duped.
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And now months later there's no Phase two or closing
up shop, nothing to see.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So then the question is is there really nothing to
see if there was nothing in those binders, or is
there a big cover up going on? And I guess
that's something that we don't know and might not ever know, right.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I mean, I get, I mean that's certainly what you know.
Trump supporters are thinking that this is leaning towards the
cover up. What we do know is that at least
in terms of like a client list or like a
black book of names that you know Epstein was you know,
working for that we know did has not existedly. Some
sources that have been very familiar with the case that
have told ABC News, now, is there information and details
(19:10):
and allegations and you know, financial information that could be released. Yes,
But of course when you're looking at a case, you know,
just like any other case. Right, you don't just open
up the floodgates and let every allegation out there that's
been uncorroborated. That's what criminal investigations are for, that's what
charges are for. That's what you know, you get to
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your day in court. And so it's a very complicated situation.
But it's being led now by you know, FBI Director
Cash Mattel and the deputy director Dan Bongino, who for
years have been the one screaming from the roofshop that
there was a client list and that they should all
be named. Now they've gotten on the inside and they're
probably seeing what we've known for a while, which is
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it's just not that simple. It's a much more complicated situation.
Speaker 14 (19:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And how's the president trying to tamp down the blowback
because again, and there's a lot of people who are
normally in support of the president who are really kind
of firing off on all cylinders because they're mad about
this one.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
At least over the weekend, you know, he put out
this really lengthy post on his own social media platform,
Truth Social, where he basically said, you know, I don't
know why my supporters are fighting with each other. We
have so many amazing things we're doing in the country.
We should move on from Jeffrey Epstein. You know, it
doesn't really matter. And you know, it's been fascinating to
see not only you know, kind of high profile voices
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in the magaworld like Marjorie Taylor Green and Laura Lumer
come out and say like this is you know that
you know, of course this matters to us. But if
you read the replies from kind of the everyday supporters
who are using Trump's own social media, you know, platform,
replying to him, pleading with him, saying this matters to us,
like this is why we supported you, and you know
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it dates back to These are core beliefs that people
found and why they support the president to begin with
for over ten years, which is he was supposed to
be the one to you know, hold the elites accountable
who have been doing the heinous crimes for years and
getting away with it, and now their person that they
thought would do that. The president is saying, you know,
let's just move on. This doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Is there any chance that we'll find out anything more?
I mean, if they get enough pressure, might they change
tech or is it kind of just people are going
to scream about it and nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Well, right now, a lot of the leading voices, you know,
that core group of supporters for the president, are saying
they want Sambondi fired. There's a lot of pressure on
the Attorney General. Like you said, you know, the president
of Whigain said he still stands by her for now.
But the president's daughter in law, Laura Trump, did an
interview yesterday where she was asked about the situation, and
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she implied that she was talking to folks around the
president and thinks that they're moving in the right direction,
that there might be a change, maybe some more disclosures
are coming. But you know, at this point, I don't
know what would satisfy you know, these MAGA supporters, given
just how much of an uproar they've been spun into
and how much they feel like they've been lied to
and kind of tossed around for the last few months.
(22:13):
It's really turned into a mess. And clearly the president
of the Attorney join, I want to move.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
On all right, Well, we'll see if they do. ABC's
will stake and thanks so much for the information. Thank
you all right, have a great day. SpaceX capsule, with
four astronauts on board, has successfully splashed down off the
coast of San Diego. The Dragon capsule undocked from the
International Space Station yesterday after spending three weeks on the
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space station. Along with the astronauts, The capsule returned with
more than five hundred and eighty pounds of cargo, including
data from dozens of experiments. Wonder if any of those
experiments had to do with our friend, Colonel Nick Hag.
The Trump administration has filed in a motion for an
emergency stay on a federal judge's order that limits immigration
enforcement efforts in Sow. The judge ruled federal agents cannot
(23:02):
detain people without reasonable suspicion beyond race, ethnicity, or job.
US attorney Bill A. Sale tells kfi's John Cobalt that
activist groups are behind the judges ruling.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
What I can tell you is we do not detain
people without reasonable suspicion, So the whole premise of this
lawsuit is just false, he says.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The government plans to keep doing its immigration enforcement operations.
The Cal's State Channel Islands professor arrested during an immigration
raid at a pot farm, and came Rio has been
released on bond. The US Attorney Bill A Sale says
Jonathan Caravello was detained by agents last Thursday for allegedly
throwing a tear gas container at border patrol agents. Supporters
(23:41):
say Caravello was trying to dislodge a tear gas container
that became stuck under someone's wheelchair when he was taken
into custody. California's goal of running the state's electric grid
entirely on renewable energies facing challenges because of federal budget changes.
Speaker 12 (23:57):
From's new budget law shortens the deadline for securing incentives
for solar and wind projects to the end of twenty
twenty seven instead of twenty thirty two. It also imposes
restrictions on using components from countries like China. The changes
could adversely affect the state's clean energy sector, making projects
more expensive for investors and potentially leading to delays or
cancellations of eleven solar projects across the state and one
(24:20):
wind project. Tammy Triheo KFI News, a.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Number one charting rock band never going to perform live
because guess what, there's no band.
Speaker 13 (24:29):
Dust all the Wind, Good Song on the Graph.
Speaker 14 (24:33):
Velvet Sundown's debut album, including this song, Dust on the Wind,
dropped in June, and its third album has already been
released barely a month later.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Muse extremist.
Speaker 14 (24:41):
Spotify says the folk rock vibe group has more than
a million listeners and hit number one on its daily
viral chart. It's also artificial intelligence. Spotify came clean about
the fake band after fans found no details about its
members and AI images had errors, including missing parts on instruments.
BLBT Sundown's bio on Spotify now says synthetic news sick
project guided by human creative direction, but Spotify itself does
(25:04):
not label music as AI generated. Michael Krozer K if
I knew.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They turn, what does that sound like? It sounds very
familiar to me. Yeah, that's the creepy part of it. Okay,
real quick. The Olympics. I might just watch all two weeks.
You don't know that the Summer Olympics. No, here's why.
(25:29):
I love me some gymnastics and I love swimming. But
this year and normally so, those both usually happened during
the first week of the Olympics, and then track and
field takes over for the second week, so this year
or not this year, but for the next games, which
will be here in LA. They flip flopped swimming and
(25:52):
track and field. Oh so track and field is going
to be the first week. Oh hey, they had to
start with the running events at Los Angeles Colleis, I believe,
on July fifteenth, and then the following week is going
to be the swimming events. And LA twenty eight is
the organizing committee, and they announced the schedules yesterday, and
(26:13):
then this morning I'm reading more about it and find
out that one of the reasons for the switch, because
it's always been this way. One of the reasons though,
is they need to build an indoor pool at SOFI
Stadium after the opening ceremony, so they need the time
to do that so they can run the track events
over at to the Coliseum and then come back to
(26:34):
SOFI and do the swimming. Pretty cool. Yeah, you're just amazed,
and I'm beyond thrilled again. I track and field's great.
I'm just not that interested in the gymnastics and swimming.
I'm all in so now I get to watch the
whole Olympics more than seventy two thousand people are homeless
in LA County. That's according to the latest homeless count
(26:55):
The La Homeless Services Authority, or LASA, says, in spite
of a four percent drop in the number of homeless,
the region still needs more than four hundred and eighty
five thousand affordable housing units. County Supervisor Lindsay Horvest says
at this pace, it would take three centuries to end
homelessness in the county. California state legislatures passed and sent
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a bill to Governor Newsom that would make buying a
child for sex a felony in the state. Two Democrats
voted no, several others didn't vote. Newsom has signaled that
he is on board the law is sitting on his
desk waiting for signature. The Getty Villa is getting back
to business as usual six months after wildfire tore through
the Pacific Palisades. The villa reopened last month with limited
(27:38):
hours starting tomorrow, though it'll be open Wednesday through Monday.
You do need to make reservations. The grounds were damaged,
but the villa itself wasn't damaged in the fire. At
six oh five, it's handle on the news. The Supreme
Court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration, they
can fire fourteen hundred people as they moved to get
(27:59):
rid of the Department of IT Education. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four our newsroom. LA County supervisors are said to
consider four motions that address the federal government's immigration enforcement
efforts and federal funding cuts that affect programs for illegal immigrants.
One of the motions being considered today would create a
cash aid fund within thirty days to support workers and
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families impacted by the immigration rates. The motions were introduced
by Supervisor Hilda Solise. Two LA County Sheriff's deputies have
admitted to federal charges of helping a businessman target his rivals.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
On Monday, deputies Christopher Cadman and David Rodriguez agreed to
plead guilty to conspiracy against rights and subscribing to a
false tax return. They will officially enter their pleas in
the coming days. The deputies are accused of helping to track, threaten,
and intimidate people disputing with cryptocurrency businessman Adam Iza. That
includes holding a man at gunpoint during a meeting that
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Lisa's mentioned in bel air. In twenty twenty one one,
Iza has pleaded guilty to similar charges. Mark Mayfield, Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Relatives of a seventy four year old man from Rancho
Cucamonga who's missing are offering a quarter million dollar reward
for information leading to his return. The family claims the
man was kidnapped in March. They and the San Bernardino
County Sheriff's Department say it could be financially motivated. The
man apparently made millions in the cryptocurrency business. His son
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says he believes someone stole his father's identity and took
more than a million dollars out of his bank accounts.
The man accused of leaving what looked like a bear
covered in human skin outside an AMPM and Victorville as
a prank, has been arrested. He's accused of causing a
report of emergency while knowing it to be false, and
intentionally and wrongfully planting evidence to falsely present as real.
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It's a long charge. The piece of art was found
on Sunday, the medical examiner was called. It was determined
that the bear was not made of any type of
human remains or skin. The FDA says ice cream makers
will have to stop using certain artificial colors in their
products by twenty twenty eight. The dyes include yellow number five,
red number forty, green three, and blue number one. FDA
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Commissioner doctor Marty McCarey says it'll change health outcomes for children.
Speaker 15 (30:18):
Parents are telling us that when a kid has abnormal
behavior and they try reducing or eliminating petroleum based food dies,
they have seen behavior improve.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
He says. Some studies suggest day or dies rather are
linked to certain health problems, but research hasn't turned up
anything conclusive. Time to get in your business now with
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Courtney, you got a report for us, don't you, Yes,
And it's on inflation. We talked a little bit about
this yesterday, but this is a key report. It always
has been that the jobs report was the big thing
that Wall Street looked for every single month. But now
with inflation rising, consumer price is being so tough on
so many people, especially when you go to the grocery store,
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you go fill up your car, you really feel the
pain each month. So that's why this inflation report A
lot of people are looking to this so Inflation rose
in June, but it came in less than expected for
a fifth month in a row. So Wallstreet was expecting
something a little bit tougher, especially with tariffs coming through.
But the consumer price index increased two tens of a
percent from May. On an annual basis, it rose two
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point nine percent. Now, housing is always the biggest factor.
Airfares though, down three and a half percent over the
past twelve months, and car insurance the rising car insurance
six point one percent. That was the smallest that we've
seen since twenty twenty two, and that's been a category
that's seen such huge increases in recent years. So the markets,
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they're responding well to this. We are seeing futures higher.
SMP futures are up twenty three points and Nasdaq futures
are rising one hundred and thirty five points.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
All right, well, that's sort of okay news, right. Two
point nine percent, though, is still way up over the
two percent that they want the Fed wants exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
It's come down tremendously. But what economists, we're expecting that
we would see tariffs and the cost of all of
that coming through a little bit more at this point,
and that doesn't seem to be the case that we're
getting this pass along cost from some of some of
the in goods and services that we're seeing across the country. Okay,
So and again we have to dig into that report
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and it's gonna take a little bit of time to
be able to see some of the anomalies and some
of the strange things that pop out that are a
little more expensive than we expect.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay, Thinking speaking of expensive and tariffs, if you and
it's been hot, you might be thinking about putting a
pool in the backyard. That tariffs might get in the
way of that.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, it's probably gonna dumb cold water on both plans.
The world's largest swimming pool maker, it's a Spanish company
called Fluidra, and they said it will likely hike prices
for a second time this year due to tariffs. So
half of the pool equipment that they sell in the
United States is manufactured in Mexico, fifteen percent is made
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in China and other markets such as India, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
The company says it is waiting to see what the
final tariff picture looks like before moving ahead with these
price hikes. Buff Fluidra has already raised prices by three
and a half percent in April to offset the impact
of tariff, So it might not be the time to
install that pool right about now, even though oh man,
I would love one.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And pools are so stupid expensive. I just know somebody
who spent one hundred thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars
to put a pool in. It's beautiful, but that's a
lot of cash.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Yeah, and to maintain it too. It costs a lot
of money. If you're not going to maintain you gotta
get somebody else to do it. And then when you
sell the house. Not everybody wants a pool. I was
always surprised about that as I got older, but now
I'm like, ooh, it might be tough to continue to
maintain a pool. Stuff having a big green thing sitting
in the yard.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
All right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho
as we do every day at five forty. Thanks so much, Courtney.
We'll talk to you tomorrow, see you later, bye, all right.
A cal State Channel Islands professor arrested for throwing a
tear gas container and ice agents during an immigration raid
at a Camerio cannabis farm is out on bail. Jonathan
Caravello appeared at an LA federal courtroom yesterday. He did
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not enter a plea. He's scheduled to be arraigned on
federal charges. August first, astronauts from the US, India, Poland,
and Hungary of return to Earth. They splashed down in
a SpaceX Dragon capsule early this morning about two thirty
off the coast of San Diego. The crew of four
launched nearly three weeks ago on a flight chartered by
the Houston company Axiom Space. They just released some great
(34:46):
video of the capsules streaking across the night sky that
you could see from Simi Valley. Pretty cool. Stamp prices
are going up the US Postal Services A first class
Forever stamp is going up from seventy three to seventy
eight cents. That was effective on Sunday. The USPS says
there will be a there will be five stamp price
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increases over the next few years as part of its
ten year financial stability plan. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning. Of course, he's going
to be talking about well, the Supreme Court saying okay,
laying off lots of Department of Education workers. Big win
for the Trump administration. Let's say good morning now to
(35:29):
ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim poison control centers sounding an alarm
over nicotine patches.
Speaker 11 (35:36):
What's going on, well, patches and pouches and lozenges and
all sorts of things, gum, the things that smokers are
using amy in order to wean themselves off of nicotine,
but sometimes getting hooked on those other products. And yes,
there's been a study done published this week in Pediatric
showing that the incidents of kids getting into these products
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ingesting them have risen dramatically seven hundred and sixty percent
rise between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. All almost
all these cases happening at home. These are kids under
six years old who are getting into these products and
ingesting them one way or another. And yes, the vaping,
the patches, the gum, the lozenges play into it. But
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the authors of the studies say that nicotine pouches like
like Zin and like rogue and the other velo, that's
another popular one that they're behind this, that that's what
these kids are getting into. Why, well, the same reason
they're getting into THC gummy packages, colorful packaging, they smell good,
they taste good, and kids end up putting them in
(36:43):
their mouths.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
This is you know now hearing this, Jim, it's I
was like, oh, good, like it was. It's actually good
news to me because I thought that the kids were
taking them not because they look fun, but like using
them to get high or something like that. I'm like,
why are they use nicotine patches and all of that stuff.
It doesn't give you high, so.
Speaker 11 (37:04):
Well it could. I mean, it's going to make you nausea,
it's going to make you lightheaded. I suppose that those
are like symptoms sure that the parents should be looking for.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
And so it's more the kids.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Are getting into the parents' stuff.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
Exactly okay, exactly right, Okay, So, whether it's gummies or
something alcohol or whatever it might be, this is just
the next thing that parents need to watch out for
to keep out of the reach of kids. And in fact,
the packaging says keep out of reach of children for
all of these products. And yet they are in colorful
packages and in attractive smells and tastes that seem to
(37:40):
appeal to kids.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
So what are some signs like if you if you're
not sure, but like some signs of nicotine poisoning.
Speaker 11 (37:48):
Well, first is the you know, the dizziness, the nausea
that a little kid is going to have, right that
they're going to exhibit. But if they have more, if
they've gotten into more than you think, then they might
have a rapid heart rate, they'll start getting dizzy, maybe
some confusion there. And most of these cases don't end
up in a hospital visit or a visit to the
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doctor even but some of the cases are pretty serious.
There have been two fatalities of little boys who were
one year old got into these products. But yeah, between
twenty twenty and twenty twenty three, one hundred thirty four thousand,
six hundred and sixty three unintentional nicotine ingestions among.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Kids almost one hundred and thirty five thousand. Yeah, wow,
that's a lot. Okay, So is anything being done that
we know of, Jim that maybe making moves to make
the packaging a little less appealing or anything like that.
Speaker 11 (38:41):
Well, that's one thing that the authors are pushing for
the authors of this study in pediatrics, they're suggesting that
maybe new regulations should be put in a place to
sort of change the packaging, make it not so kid friendly,
the same sort of push we're seeing in some states
here in Texas, for example, to change up packaging for
THHC products or Delta nine products.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Here.
Speaker 11 (39:03):
I mean they're trying to limit them, trying to outlaw
them all together here, partly because they appeared to be
marketed toward kids. So that's one of the thrusts here.
But beyond that, these researchers are telling people who use
these products, the pouches or the lozenges, the gum, whatever
it might be, to keep them out of reach of
kids because it can make them sick.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Child proofing your homes, folks. All right, ABC's Jim Ryan,
thanks so much for the information. Didn't even know.
Speaker 11 (39:29):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
All Right, that's actually a good warning because maybe you
don't think about that. You're like, why would my kid
grab for my nicotine patch? Well, there's why. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries
has criticized the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy,
says the American people deserve to know the truth.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Democrats didn't put the Jeffrey Epstein thing into the public domain.
This was a conspiracy that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and
these MAGA extremists have been fanning the flames of for
the last several years.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The Justice Department in the FBI recently announced Epstein killed
himself in prison and did not have a client list.
Epstein's ex girlfriend and co conspirator, Galaine Maxwell, is apparently
willing to testify before Congress about the part she played
in facilitating the sex trafficking of underage girls. The Daily
Mail says Maxwell would be more than happy to tell
(40:25):
her side of the story. She was convicted in twenty
twenty two on child sex trafficking charges and is serving
twenty years in prison. La County and the City of
La both seen a drop in the number of homeless
people in the past year. LA Mayor Bass says the
three point four percent drop in the city is a
step in the right direction, but more work needs to
be done.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
Is reducing homelessness by having people in motels still very
expensive and do we need to look for more cost
effective ways?
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Yes, but all of this are step forward.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
She says. Programs like Inside Safe, which places homeless people
in motels has helped improve the numbers, but are not
financially sustainable in the long run. There are more than
seventy two thousand homeless people in the county, more than
half of them are in the city of La Avelo
Airlines is shutting down its West Coast operations. That means
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the low budget airline will no longer fly out of
the Hollywood Burbank Airport. It plans to reduce flights from
two aircraft to one starting August twelfth, and then leaves
the airport altogether on December second. Avella has been operating
out of the airport for more than four years. It's
going to move its planes to other hubs across the
country and will also offer its California based staff the
(41:40):
opportunity to transfer to other states. The Getty Villa get
him back to normal.
Speaker 10 (41:46):
The villa reopen in June with limited hours. Following months
have been closed due to the fire in the Palace Dades.
Now it will resume its regular operating schedule tomorrow. Hours
of operation are ten am until five pm Wednesday through Monday.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
The villa will.
Speaker 10 (41:59):
Also increase the number of daily reservations available. Admission to
the villa is free, but reservations are required. Deborah Mark,
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
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live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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And it's time for your morning wake up.
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Call God and his name is Amy King.
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Here's Amy King's.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Good Morning five o'clock straight up on this Tuesday. Get
this July fifteenth. We're five months and ten days away
from Christmas. Editor Carla is like, stop, stop, aby, I
can't help it. I already have bought some of my
(01:24):
Christmas presents. But well, I'm one of those people though,
I don't wait till the very last second I go
and like when I see something, I just pick it
up and then I shove it in the closet and
then I forget about it and have to remember right
before Christmas that I got it.
Speaker 9 (01:38):
Any second now, they're going to start putting up decorations
at home depot.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Oh, well, you're right, but we were in Costco last
weekend they've got Halloween up. Ah yep, the big huge
skeletons that crawl out, you know, the like six foot
tall skeletons. Yeah. Okay, here's something else. My first cup
of coffee is my favorite thing of the morning.
Speaker 10 (02:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I wake up because and I've got my coffee pot.
It makes the coffee for me before I get up,
and you smell the coffee and you go get it.
Something's off with my taste buds. And people are like,
do you have COVID? My coffee tastes weird. Oh, and
it's the same coffee. But if you have that, like
when and I'm like, what happened to my favorite thing
in the day. I'll get over it. It's those little
(02:27):
hic those little hiccups. Yeah, little monkey wrenches in your
daily routine. Okay, uh it is uh like I said,
it's five now, it's five oh two. My time flies.
Speaker 11 (02:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Here's what's a head on wakeup call? Got a lot
going on today. Trump administration is filed court papers seeking
a stay of an LA federal judge's order that limits
ICE agents from detaining people without reasonable suspicion beyond race, ethnicity,
or occupation. It was unclear when the government would file
its actual appeal, and when or if the Ninth Circuit
(02:58):
might hear the case. The La Sheriff's Department has its
missing rifle back. The Sheriff's Department says a person found
it in its black storage case near one hundred fourth
Street and Conden Avenue late Saturday night and then turned
it over to deputies at the South LA station yesterday.
They say they think somehow the rifle fell out of
the trunk of a patrol car. The first series or
(03:21):
first year series The Pit, starring E R's Noah Wiley
It's on My List, I still watched it, and Seth
Rogen's The Studio are expected to be among the most
nominated shows when nominations for the seventy seventh Annual Primetime
Emmy Awards are announced this morning. The Emmys will be
awarded on September fourteenth at the Peacock Theater at LA Live.
(03:43):
An AI that lost its mind and went on anti
Semitic rants as being installed in Tesla's and ABC's Mike
Debusky's joining us in a couple minutes to tell us
how the AI chatbot could also soon be used for
National Defense Terminator Anyone Trump and medministration has pulled a
little bit of a wizard of Oz. Pay no attention
(04:03):
to the man behind the curtain. There's nothing to see.
ABC's Will Staken's going to join us to talk about
the mega faithful who are not happy about this one.
Poison control cenders are sounding the alarm. ABC's Jim Ryan's
going to join us before the top of the hour
to tell us how kids are poisoning themselves now and
something has changed. The result is I just might watch
(04:24):
all two weeks of the Summer Olympics. Yeah, I know,
I'll tell you about that in just a few minutes.
It's all coming up on wake up calls. So much
going on. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
annual count of homeless people in La County shows a
decline for the second year in a row.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
The La Homeless Services Authority conducted its annual count in February,
pushback from January by the wildfires, the number of homeless
people dropped four percent in La County and more than
three percent in the city of La mer Bass says
the strategies are working, but more needs to be done now.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Are there still unhoused Angelinos?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Are there still encampments?
Speaker 8 (05:01):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:01):
There's still more than seventy two thousand homeless people in
La County, more than half in La and thirteen thousand
more than there were in the county in twenty nineteen.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
La County DA Nathan Hockman says the man from Tarzana
accused of killing his wife and her parents then cutting
up their bodies, has evaded justice. Samuel Haskell was found
dead in his jail cell on Saturday, two days before
he was supposed to be in court.
Speaker 12 (05:27):
Mister Haskell never volunteered what happened and where he put
the body parts, nor does he ever provide a full
explanation as to why he did it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Askell allegedly hired day laborers to take plastic trash bags
from his home in twenty twenty three, but they found
human remains inside and took them back. A former candidate
for Ventura County Sheriff's accused of trying to register for
cats to vote in the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 13 (05:54):
On Monday, Chatsworth resident Bruce Boyer was ordered to stand trial.
Prosecutors say, tried to enroll Cool Teacat, Astra d T Gray,
Fritz Teacat, and Sylvester Teacat has voters. All of the
cats had the same address Boyer listed on his candidacy
forms with Ventura County.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Kay if I's Daniel Martindale says Boyer has also run
unsuccessfully for congress and county clerk and recorder. I love
those names. They'd probably vote for him he feeds them.
Maybe let's say good morning to ABC's technology reporter Mike Debuski. So, Mike,
let's talk about Groc, the AI chatbot that went on
(06:33):
a an anti semitic rant. What happened there?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Yeah, so this all played out last week, and maybe
we should just start by talking about what Groc is
because it is an AI chatbot. It is in the
style of chat GPT where you can kind of go
to it and ask it questions, and it is made
by a company called Xai. Xai is Elon Musk's artificial
intelligence company. So a good way to think about Groc
(06:57):
is like his take on chat GP or his entry
into this very hot AI sector right now. Groc has
been around for a few years now, and recently it's
been cropping up in other elon Musk companies, namely at
x which is the platform formerly known as Twitter, and
it basically is there to serve as like a little
helper bot. You can kind of, you know, tag GROC
(07:20):
in a certain post and ask it to explain the
context of that post, and you know, with the caveat
that these systems are imperfect and they make mistakes, it
will be able to do that well. Two weeks ago,
Xai updated Groc and it's always been built as sort
of an edgier alternative to chat GPT with sort of
an uncouth sense of humor. It's the cool chatbot. It's
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kind of how they sell GROC, and this update was
intended to basically double down on that idea. They say
that this update forced Groc to assume subjective viewpoints sourced
from the media are biased and to not shy away
from making claims that are politically incorrect. Those are the
two sort of guide guidelines that were shipped alongside this
(08:02):
update for this chatbot. However, any whenever we see moderation
or guardrails loosened around a given technology, this happens on
social media all the time. A lot of toxic content
does flow in, and that is what gave, you know,
seemingly is what led to GROC making a series of
very anti semitic posts on social media on X, really
(08:25):
inflammatory stuff, specifically posting in supportive Hitler. You know it
called itself Mecha Hitler at one point, and Elon Musk
responded to all this saying that they had essentially made
grock too compliant to user prompts, saying that you know,
people were manipulating this thing and it didn't have the
proper guardrails in place. They've since deleted a lot of
(08:47):
these posts and another update to combat this, and then
kind of separately from all this, but happening at the
same time, the CEO of X, Linda Yakarino, stepped down.
So that is Grock's sort of last week in a nutshell. Okay,
but there are a couple other things that happened more
recently that are wait before you before we jumped to
(09:10):
what is happening most recently, How does it does this
chatbot just randomly put out things?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Or again, you said user prompts? Are people prompting it
to make these remarks?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
So a lot of these posts came in response to
user remarks and generally how GROC operates on x not
in general. I mean, you can go to like a
grock website and talk to it, like you can go
to chat gpt dot com and talk to it, but
GROC on social media you have to tag it, right,
You have to go make a post and say, hey, Grog,
can you explain this post to me? And then it
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will come back and write out sort of AI generated
writing to respond to it. And that's where a lot
of these these came from. And if you look at
Elon Musk's sort of response to all this, it seems
like he's saying that, like people were kind of pushing
this thing. Hey, they were trying to like test the
limitations of it. But again, I mean, this is something
that comes up all the time in the social media space,
(10:03):
in the tech world in general. Like if you're not
thinking about how technology can be misused or how people
can kind of try to manipulate something, you're not doing
your job right, right, So, like he says that you know,
people were, you know, trying to manipulate this thing. It
was a little too eager to please those those users.
But even still, you know, there should be guardline. Okay,
(10:24):
rails on that.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So, speaking of how it could be misused, they're putting
GROC in Tesla.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
Yeah, so this happened over the weekend. Certain Tesla models
made after twenty twenty one, specifically ones with AMD processors inside,
specific computer chips inside, now have access to GROC, but
it's in a pretty limited way. You can basically interact
with GROC the way you would on a normal computer
or on X. It cannot control any functionality of the car,
(10:52):
so you can't ask it to like, you know, change
the radio station or change the air conditioning or anything
like that. You can ask it questions like just sort of,
you know, off the top of your head, questions like
you know, when is the first day of fall or
something like that, and it will presumably be able to
answer that question for you. But it doesn't actually have
any control over the car's function nobody. So it's more
(11:13):
like an Alexa for your car essentially. Yeah, that's kind
of their idea, and any.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Chance that'll disobey and take over the car.
Speaker 7 (11:20):
Again, it seems like it's completely separate from the car's controls.
So at this point I think we're safe. But yeah,
you can imagine that the eventual goal here is to
have this be sort of your general voice assistant in
the car. And Tesla already has like a voice control
sort of feature where you can like press a button
and ask it to you know, change the radio station
(11:41):
or you know, adjust certain features in the vehicle. But
that's not ROCK, right, Like that's a separate thing. But
you can imagine like they want those two things to
merge eventually.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Okay, and then before we let you go or like
out of time. But I just read that the Pentagon
is going to use ROCK.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Yeah, the Department of Defense is contracting out with Xai
to use GROS. This is up to a two hundred
million dollar contract that they also awarded to Google, Anthropic
and Open AI. The DoD says these technologies could be
applied to the war fighting domain, to the intelligence, business,
and enterprise spheres, and that there are also GROC specifically
(12:16):
is making custom models for things like national security, healthcare, science,
and also models that are accessible in classified environments, Seemingly
undeterred by some of the controversies around KROC in the
last week.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Hello terminator, Okay, well, I'm sure we'll be talking more
about this.
Speaker 12 (12:33):
Is that.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Is implemented. Mike Debuski, thank you so.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Much, of course, Aby take care all right?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Anybody else worried about this? Okay, I don't like Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Supreme Court will
allow President Trump to lay off nearly fourteen hundred Department
of Education employees. The Court yesterday paused in order from
a federal judge in Boston who issued a preliminary injunction
reversing the layoffs and calling into question in the broader plan.
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The three liberal justices dissented. The federal Department of Education
and the Office of Management and Budget are being sued
by California in two dozen other states for withholding more
than six billion dollars in federal money for education programs.
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson says not having the
money could be dire for students.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
This is one of those moments where something really big,
potentially really damaging, could be getting ready to occur.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
He says. Withholding the funding is against the Constitution and
against the Impoundment Act. India's aviation regulators ordered airlines to
inspect fuel control switches on certain Boeing model airplanes following
a preliminary report on the Air India crash that killed
two hundred and sixty people. The plane crash shortly after
takeoff last month. The reports is both engines lost fuel
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due to flipped switches. It also noted a twenty eighteen
US advisory urging inspections of those switches. Starbucks is cracking
down on some remote workers.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
Starbucks is requiring some remote workers to relocate to its
headquarters and increasing the number of days that corporate employees
are required to work in an office. In a letter
to employees, with the chairman and CEO said corporate employees
will need to be in the office four days a
week starting in early October. The company said that all
corporate people leaders must be based in either Seattle or
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Toronto within twelve months. The company is offering a voluntary
exit program with a cash payment to affected employees who
don't want to relocate. Deborah mark KOFFI News, I still
don't get that. Hey, you guys come back to work. No, okay,
it's a different world. Jd Vance, of course, visited Disneyland over.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
The weekend, saw some social media posts about it, and
all I can say about it is seriously, he takes
his kids and his family to Dizzysneyland and people lose
their minds. And we read the La Times it says
(15:05):
hundreds of people came out to protest. I saw a
couple of I saw a story on ABC and I
think on Fox showed about two dozen people waving flags,
marching around over on Harbor Boulevard or something like that.
Just leave the guy alone. And then there was also
a post I think it was on the Indian News
random right, and it says JD. Vans might just have
(15:26):
lost his vice presidency. He lost his child or something
like that, and it shows video of his you know,
they're at Disneyland and his kid kind of wanders off
and he chases after him. What parent has not chased
their child through Disneyland? True, it is not a national emergency.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
And something tells me there was somebody watching that kid. Anyway,
it's like entourage. They had like fifty people. Yeah, So anyway,
I hope he had fun. And you know, Governor Newsom
put out a nasty tweet because he had to make
it political. I hope Jadvans and his family enjoyed Disneyland
because the family in southern California being ripped apart or
(16:03):
not enjoying their time.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
And I was like, just stop, just for a minute,
just stop. You can play politics all you want, but
by golly, a good trip to Disneyland is good for
the soul. That's what I say. Hey, there's seventieth anniversary
officially on Thursday. So you know, in spite of higher
tariffs than more looming, business is booming at the Port
of Los Angeles. The port says June was its busiest
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June on record. The port handled nearly nine hundred thousand containers.
CEO Gen Soroka says importers are bringing in holiday cargo
now ahead of potential tariffs later this year. See they're
getting ready for Christmas too. Five months, ten days, California
has joined twenty four other Democratic led states and DC
ensuing the Trump administration over billions of dollars in frozen
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education grants. Attorney General Rob Bontas says nearly a billion
dollars meant for California schools is being withheld. The stalled
funds were set to support after school programs, teacher training,
and other stifle udent services. A lower cost way to
fly to smaller cities is going away. A Vello Airlines
shutting down all of its West Coast operations. Yeah, I
(17:09):
use them. The low budget Airport or Airline is reducing
flights out of Hollywood Burbank Airport on August twelfth and
then stopping all flights on December second. It's been operating
out of the Burbank Airport for more than four years.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Will staken Will
(17:30):
Just like the Wizard of Ozz, the administration says, pay
no attention to the files on Pam Bondi's desk. There's
nothing to see. When it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and
MAGA supporters are calling bs on.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
That's that's right. And it's not just, you know, pay
no attention. It's they're saying, pay no attention after weeks
and months of saying we're going to disclose everything and
you know, we're going to show you what's behind the curtain,
and also they shut the curtain. So it's kind of
a mess of their own making, and I don't see
it going away anytime soon. A lot of the blame
(18:03):
is being placed on, you know, on the Attorney General
Pam BONDI just given how it's been handled. You think
back to February when she passed out these binders to
this group of MAGA influencers at the White House, which
it's set on there. You know, these are the Epstein
files Phase one, and even then the influencers left saying
there's nothing new in these binders, who were completely duped.
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And now months later there's no Phase two or closing
up shop, nothing to see.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
So then the question is is there really nothing to
see if there was nothing in those binders, or is
there a big cover up going on? And I guess
that's something that we don't know and might not ever know, right.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
I mean, I get, I mean that's certainly what you know.
Trump supporters are thinking that this is leaning towards the
cover up. What we do know is that at least
in terms of like a client list or like a
black book of names that you know Epstein was you know,
working for that we know did has not existedly. Some
sources that have been very familiar with the case that
have told ABC News, now, is there information and details
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and allegations and you know, financial information that could be released. Yes,
But of course when you're looking at a case, you know,
just like any other case. Right, you don't just open
up the floodgates and let every allegation out there that's
been uncorroborated. That's what criminal investigations are for, that's what
charges are for. That's what you know, you get to
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your day in court. And so it's a very complicated situation.
But it's being led now by you know, FBI Director
Cash Mattel and the deputy director Dan Bongino, who for
years have been the one screaming from the roofshop that
there was a client list and that they should all
be named. Now they've gotten on the inside and they're
probably seeing what we've known for a while, which is
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it's just not that simple. It's a much more complicated situation.
Speaker 14 (19:56):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
And how's the president trying to tamp down the blowback
because again, and there's a lot of people who are
normally in support of the president who are really kind
of firing off on all cylinders because they're mad about
this one.
Speaker 11 (20:10):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
At least over the weekend, you know, he put out
this really lengthy post on his own social media platform,
Truth Social, where he basically said, you know, I don't
know why my supporters are fighting with each other. We
have so many amazing things we're doing in the country.
We should move on from Jeffrey Epstein. You know, it
doesn't really matter. And you know, it's been fascinating to
see not only you know, kind of high profile voices
(20:33):
in the magaworld like Marjorie Taylor Green and Laura Lumer
come out and say like this is you know that
you know, of course this matters to us. But if
you read the replies from kind of the everyday supporters
who are using Trump's own social media, you know, platform,
replying to him, pleading with him, saying this matters to us,
like this is why we supported you, and you know
(20:54):
it dates back to These are core beliefs that people
found and why they support the president to begin with
for over ten years, which is he was supposed to
be the one to you know, hold the elites accountable
who have been doing the heinous crimes for years and
getting away with it, and now their person that they
thought would do that. The president is saying, you know,
let's just move on. This doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Is there any chance that we'll find out anything more?
I mean, if they get enough pressure, might they change
tech or is it kind of just people are going
to scream about it and nothing's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
Well, right now, a lot of the leading voices, you know,
that core group of supporters for the president, are saying
they want Sambondi fired. There's a lot of pressure on
the Attorney General. Like you said, you know, the president
of Whigain said he still stands by her for now.
But the president's daughter in law, Laura Trump, did an
interview yesterday where she was asked about the situation, and
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she implied that she was talking to folks around the
president and thinks that they're moving in the right direction,
that there might be a change, maybe some more disclosures
are coming. But you know, at this point, I don't
know what would satisfy you know, these MAGA supporters, given
just how much of an uproar they've been spun into
and how much they feel like they've been lied to
and kind of tossed around for the last few months.
(22:13):
It's really turned into a mess. And clearly the president
of the Attorney join, I want to move.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
On all right, Well, we'll see if they do. ABC's
will stake and thanks so much for the information. Thank
you all right, have a great day. SpaceX capsule, with
four astronauts on board, has successfully splashed down off the
coast of San Diego. The Dragon capsule undocked from the
International Space Station yesterday after spending three weeks on the
(22:40):
space station. Along with the astronauts, The capsule returned with
more than five hundred and eighty pounds of cargo, including
data from dozens of experiments. Wonder if any of those
experiments had to do with our friend, Colonel Nick Hag.
The Trump administration has filed in a motion for an
emergency stay on a federal judge's order that limits immigration
enforcement efforts in Sow. The judge ruled federal agents cannot
(23:02):
detain people without reasonable suspicion beyond race, ethnicity, or job.
US attorney Bill A. Sale tells kfi's John Cobalt that
activist groups are behind the judges ruling.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
What I can tell you is we do not detain
people without reasonable suspicion, So the whole premise of this
lawsuit is just false, he says.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The government plans to keep doing its immigration enforcement operations.
The Cal's State Channel Islands professor arrested during an immigration
raid at a pot farm, and came Rio has been
released on bond. The US Attorney Bill A Sale says
Jonathan Caravello was detained by agents last Thursday for allegedly
throwing a tear gas container at border patrol agents. Supporters
(23:41):
say Caravello was trying to dislodge a tear gas container
that became stuck under someone's wheelchair when he was taken
into custody. California's goal of running the state's electric grid
entirely on renewable energies facing challenges because of federal budget changes.
Speaker 12 (23:57):
From's new budget law shortens the deadline for securing incentives
for solar and wind projects to the end of twenty
twenty seven instead of twenty thirty two. It also imposes
restrictions on using components from countries like China. The changes
could adversely affect the state's clean energy sector, making projects
more expensive for investors and potentially leading to delays or
cancellations of eleven solar projects across the state and one
(24:20):
wind project. Tammy Triheo KFI News, a.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Number one charting rock band never going to perform live
because guess what, there's no band.
Speaker 13 (24:29):
Dust all the Wind, Good Song on the Graph.
Speaker 14 (24:33):
Velvet Sundown's debut album, including this song, Dust on the Wind,
dropped in June, and its third album has already been
released barely a month later.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Muse extremist.
Speaker 14 (24:41):
Spotify says the folk rock vibe group has more than
a million listeners and hit number one on its daily
viral chart. It's also artificial intelligence. Spotify came clean about
the fake band after fans found no details about its
members and AI images had errors, including missing parts on instruments.
BLBT Sundown's bio on Spotify now says synthetic news sick
project guided by human creative direction, but Spotify itself does
(25:04):
not label music as AI generated. Michael Krozer K if
I knew.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
They turn, what does that sound like? It sounds very
familiar to me. Yeah, that's the creepy part of it. Okay,
real quick. The Olympics. I might just watch all two weeks.
You don't know that the Summer Olympics. No, here's why.
(25:29):
I love me some gymnastics and I love swimming. But
this year and normally so, those both usually happened during
the first week of the Olympics, and then track and
field takes over for the second week, so this year
or not this year, but for the next games, which
will be here in LA. They flip flopped swimming and
(25:52):
track and field. Oh so track and field is going
to be the first week. Oh hey, they had to
start with the running events at Los Angeles Colleis, I believe,
on July fifteenth, and then the following week is going
to be the swimming events. And LA twenty eight is
the organizing committee, and they announced the schedules yesterday, and
(26:13):
then this morning I'm reading more about it and find
out that one of the reasons for the switch, because
it's always been this way. One of the reasons though,
is they need to build an indoor pool at SOFI
Stadium after the opening ceremony, so they need the time
to do that so they can run the track events
over at to the Coliseum and then come back to
(26:34):
SOFI and do the swimming. Pretty cool. Yeah, you're just amazed,
and I'm beyond thrilled again. I track and field's great.
I'm just not that interested in the gymnastics and swimming.
I'm all in so now I get to watch the
whole Olympics more than seventy two thousand people are homeless
in LA County. That's according to the latest homeless count
(26:55):
The La Homeless Services Authority, or LASA, says, in spite
of a four percent drop in the number of homeless,
the region still needs more than four hundred and eighty
five thousand affordable housing units. County Supervisor Lindsay Horvest says
at this pace, it would take three centuries to end
homelessness in the county. California state legislatures passed and sent
(27:16):
a bill to Governor Newsom that would make buying a
child for sex a felony in the state. Two Democrats
voted no, several others didn't vote. Newsom has signaled that
he is on board the law is sitting on his
desk waiting for signature. The Getty Villa is getting back
to business as usual six months after wildfire tore through
the Pacific Palisades. The villa reopened last month with limited
(27:38):
hours starting tomorrow, though it'll be open Wednesday through Monday.
You do need to make reservations. The grounds were damaged,
but the villa itself wasn't damaged in the fire. At
six oh five, it's handle on the news. The Supreme
Court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration, they
can fire fourteen hundred people as they moved to get
(27:59):
rid of the Department of IT Education. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four our newsroom. LA County supervisors are said to
consider four motions that address the federal government's immigration enforcement
efforts and federal funding cuts that affect programs for illegal immigrants.
One of the motions being considered today would create a
cash aid fund within thirty days to support workers and
(28:22):
families impacted by the immigration rates. The motions were introduced
by Supervisor Hilda Solise. Two LA County Sheriff's deputies have
admitted to federal charges of helping a businessman target his rivals.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
On Monday, deputies Christopher Cadman and David Rodriguez agreed to
plead guilty to conspiracy against rights and subscribing to a
false tax return. They will officially enter their pleas in
the coming days. The deputies are accused of helping to track, threaten,
and intimidate people disputing with cryptocurrency businessman Adam Iza. That
includes holding a man at gunpoint during a meeting that
(28:57):
Lisa's mentioned in bel air. In twenty twenty one one,
Iza has pleaded guilty to similar charges. Mark Mayfield, Kofi News.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Relatives of a seventy four year old man from Rancho
Cucamonga who's missing are offering a quarter million dollar reward
for information leading to his return. The family claims the
man was kidnapped in March. They and the San Bernardino
County Sheriff's Department say it could be financially motivated. The
man apparently made millions in the cryptocurrency business. His son
(29:27):
says he believes someone stole his father's identity and took
more than a million dollars out of his bank accounts.
The man accused of leaving what looked like a bear
covered in human skin outside an AMPM and Victorville as
a prank, has been arrested. He's accused of causing a
report of emergency while knowing it to be false, and
intentionally and wrongfully planting evidence to falsely present as real.
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It's a long charge. The piece of art was found
on Sunday, the medical examiner was called. It was determined
that the bear was not made of any type of
human remains or skin. The FDA says ice cream makers
will have to stop using certain artificial colors in their
products by twenty twenty eight. The dyes include yellow number five,
red number forty, green three, and blue number one. FDA
(30:14):
Commissioner doctor Marty McCarey says it'll change health outcomes for children.
Speaker 15 (30:18):
Parents are telling us that when a kid has abnormal
behavior and they try reducing or eliminating petroleum based food dies,
they have seen behavior improve.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
He says. Some studies suggest day or dies rather are
linked to certain health problems, but research hasn't turned up
anything conclusive. Time to get in your business now with
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Courtney, you got a report for us, don't you, Yes,
And it's on inflation. We talked a little bit about
this yesterday, but this is a key report. It always
has been that the jobs report was the big thing
that Wall Street looked for every single month. But now
with inflation rising, consumer price is being so tough on
so many people, especially when you go to the grocery store,
(31:04):
you go fill up your car, you really feel the
pain each month. So that's why this inflation report A
lot of people are looking to this so Inflation rose
in June, but it came in less than expected for
a fifth month in a row. So Wallstreet was expecting
something a little bit tougher, especially with tariffs coming through.
But the consumer price index increased two tens of a
percent from May. On an annual basis, it rose two
(31:27):
point nine percent. Now, housing is always the biggest factor.
Airfares though, down three and a half percent over the
past twelve months, and car insurance the rising car insurance
six point one percent. That was the smallest that we've
seen since twenty twenty two, and that's been a category
that's seen such huge increases in recent years. So the markets,
(31:48):
they're responding well to this. We are seeing futures higher.
SMP futures are up twenty three points and Nasdaq futures
are rising one hundred and thirty five points.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
All right, well, that's sort of okay news, right. Two
point nine percent, though, is still way up over the
two percent that they want the Fed wants exactly exactly.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
It's come down tremendously. But what economists, we're expecting that
we would see tariffs and the cost of all of
that coming through a little bit more at this point,
and that doesn't seem to be the case that we're
getting this pass along cost from some of some of
the in goods and services that we're seeing across the country. Okay,
So and again we have to dig into that report
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and it's gonna take a little bit of time to
be able to see some of the anomalies and some
of the strange things that pop out that are a
little more expensive than we expect.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay, Thinking speaking of expensive and tariffs, if you and
it's been hot, you might be thinking about putting a
pool in the backyard. That tariffs might get in the
way of that.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Yeah, it's probably gonna dumb cold water on both plans.
The world's largest swimming pool maker, it's a Spanish company
called Fluidra, and they said it will likely hike prices
for a second time this year due to tariffs. So
half of the pool equipment that they sell in the
United States is manufactured in Mexico, fifteen percent is made
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in China and other markets such as India, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
The company says it is waiting to see what the
final tariff picture looks like before moving ahead with these
price hikes. Buff Fluidra has already raised prices by three
and a half percent in April to offset the impact
of tariff, So it might not be the time to
install that pool right about now, even though oh man,
I would love one.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
And pools are so stupid expensive. I just know somebody
who spent one hundred thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars
to put a pool in. It's beautiful, but that's a
lot of cash.
Speaker 6 (33:40):
Yeah, and to maintain it too. It costs a lot
of money. If you're not going to maintain you gotta
get somebody else to do it. And then when you
sell the house. Not everybody wants a pool. I was
always surprised about that as I got older, but now
I'm like, ooh, it might be tough to continue to
maintain a pool. Stuff having a big green thing sitting
in the yard.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
All right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho
as we do every day at five forty. Thanks so much, Courtney.
We'll talk to you tomorrow, see you later, bye, all right.
A cal State Channel Islands professor arrested for throwing a
tear gas container and ice agents during an immigration raid
at a Camerio cannabis farm is out on bail. Jonathan
Caravello appeared at an LA federal courtroom yesterday. He did
(34:22):
not enter a plea. He's scheduled to be arraigned on
federal charges. August first, astronauts from the US, India, Poland,
and Hungary of return to Earth. They splashed down in
a SpaceX Dragon capsule early this morning about two thirty
off the coast of San Diego. The crew of four
launched nearly three weeks ago on a flight chartered by
the Houston company Axiom Space. They just released some great
(34:46):
video of the capsules streaking across the night sky that
you could see from Simi Valley. Pretty cool. Stamp prices
are going up the US Postal Services A first class
Forever stamp is going up from seventy three to seventy
eight cents. That was effective on Sunday. The USPS says
there will be a there will be five stamp price
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increases over the next few years as part of its
ten year financial stability plan. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning. Of course, he's going
to be talking about well, the Supreme Court saying okay,
laying off lots of Department of Education workers. Big win
for the Trump administration. Let's say good morning now to
(35:29):
ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim poison control centers sounding an alarm
over nicotine patches.
Speaker 11 (35:36):
What's going on, well, patches and pouches and lozenges and
all sorts of things, gum, the things that smokers are
using amy in order to wean themselves off of nicotine,
but sometimes getting hooked on those other products. And yes,
there's been a study done published this week in Pediatric
showing that the incidents of kids getting into these products
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ingesting them have risen dramatically seven hundred and sixty percent
rise between twenty twenty and twenty twenty three. All almost
all these cases happening at home. These are kids under
six years old who are getting into these products and
ingesting them one way or another. And yes, the vaping,
the patches, the gum, the lozenges play into it. But
(36:21):
the authors of the studies say that nicotine pouches like
like Zin and like rogue and the other velo, that's
another popular one that they're behind this, that that's what
these kids are getting into. Why, well, the same reason
they're getting into THC gummy packages, colorful packaging, they smell good,
they taste good, and kids end up putting them in
(36:43):
their mouths.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
This is you know now hearing this, Jim, it's I
was like, oh, good, like it was. It's actually good
news to me because I thought that the kids were
taking them not because they look fun, but like using
them to get high or something like that. I'm like,
why are they use nicotine patches and all of that stuff.
It doesn't give you high, so.
Speaker 11 (37:04):
Well it could. I mean, it's going to make you nausea,
it's going to make you lightheaded. I suppose that those
are like symptoms sure that the parents should be looking for.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
And so it's more the kids.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Are getting into the parents' stuff.
Speaker 11 (37:18):
Exactly okay, exactly right, Okay, So, whether it's gummies or
something alcohol or whatever it might be, this is just
the next thing that parents need to watch out for
to keep out of the reach of kids. And in fact,
the packaging says keep out of reach of children for
all of these products. And yet they are in colorful
packages and in attractive smells and tastes that seem to
(37:40):
appeal to kids.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
So what are some signs like if you if you're
not sure, but like some signs of nicotine poisoning.
Speaker 11 (37:48):
Well, first is the you know, the dizziness, the nausea
that a little kid is going to have, right that
they're going to exhibit. But if they have more, if
they've gotten into more than you think, then they might
have a rapid heart rate, they'll start getting dizzy, maybe
some confusion there. And most of these cases don't end
up in a hospital visit or a visit to the
(38:09):
doctor even but some of the cases are pretty serious.
There have been two fatalities of little boys who were
one year old got into these products. But yeah, between
twenty twenty and twenty twenty three, one hundred thirty four thousand,
six hundred and sixty three unintentional nicotine ingestions among.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Kids almost one hundred and thirty five thousand. Yeah, wow,
that's a lot. Okay, So is anything being done that
we know of, Jim that maybe making moves to make
the packaging a little less appealing or anything like that.
Speaker 11 (38:41):
Well, that's one thing that the authors are pushing for
the authors of this study in pediatrics, they're suggesting that
maybe new regulations should be put in a place to
sort of change the packaging, make it not so kid friendly,
the same sort of push we're seeing in some states
here in Texas, for example, to change up packaging for
THHC products or Delta nine products.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Here.
Speaker 11 (39:03):
I mean they're trying to limit them, trying to outlaw
them all together here, partly because they appeared to be
marketed toward kids. So that's one of the thrusts here.
But beyond that, these researchers are telling people who use
these products, the pouches or the lozenges, the gum, whatever
it might be, to keep them out of reach of
kids because it can make them sick.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Child proofing your homes, folks. All right, ABC's Jim Ryan,
thanks so much for the information. Didn't even know.
Speaker 11 (39:29):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
All Right, that's actually a good warning because maybe you
don't think about that. You're like, why would my kid
grab for my nicotine patch? Well, there's why. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries
has criticized the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy,
says the American people deserve to know the truth.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
Democrats didn't put the Jeffrey Epstein thing into the public domain.
This was a conspiracy that Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and
these MAGA extremists have been fanning the flames of for
the last several years.
Speaker 1 (40:03):
The Justice Department in the FBI recently announced Epstein killed
himself in prison and did not have a client list.
Epstein's ex girlfriend and co conspirator, Galaine Maxwell, is apparently
willing to testify before Congress about the part she played
in facilitating the sex trafficking of underage girls. The Daily
Mail says Maxwell would be more than happy to tell
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her side of the story. She was convicted in twenty
twenty two on child sex trafficking charges and is serving
twenty years in prison. La County and the City of
La both seen a drop in the number of homeless
people in the past year. LA Mayor Bass says the
three point four percent drop in the city is a
step in the right direction, but more work needs to
be done.
Speaker 9 (40:44):
Is reducing homelessness by having people in motels still very
expensive and do we need to look for more cost
effective ways?
Speaker 6 (40:52):
Yes, but all of this are step forward.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
She says. Programs like Inside Safe, which places homeless people
in motels has helped improve the numbers, but are not
financially sustainable in the long run. There are more than
seventy two thousand homeless people in the county, more than
half of them are in the city of La Avelo
Airlines is shutting down its West Coast operations. That means
(41:17):
the low budget airline will no longer fly out of
the Hollywood Burbank Airport. It plans to reduce flights from
two aircraft to one starting August twelfth, and then leaves
the airport altogether on December second. Avella has been operating
out of the airport for more than four years. It's
going to move its planes to other hubs across the
country and will also offer its California based staff the
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opportunity to transfer to other states. The Getty Villa get
him back to normal.
Speaker 10 (41:46):
The villa reopen in June with limited hours. Following months
have been closed due to the fire in the Palace Dades.
Now it will resume its regular operating schedule tomorrow. Hours
of operation are ten am until five pm Wednesday through Monday.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
The villa will.
Speaker 10 (41:59):
Also increase the number of daily reservations available. Admission to
the villa is free, but reservations are required. Deborah Mark,
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
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live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
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