July 14, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers opens the show talking about Mexico and the EU pushing back against newly announced tariffs. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan speak on the tragedy in Central Texas and an underestimation of flood risk. Bloomberg Media’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Really, it's time already.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is your wake up call for Monday, July fourteenth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio App. I want to say thanks to Heather Brooker
for filling in for me while I was on my
my West Coast tour. I drove more than two thousand miles.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Took my car.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
She's an older car. She's still cute and she runs good.
But I gotta tell you, you just never.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Know because she's getting up there.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, and I was like, okay, it's one hundred and
ten degrees driving through the Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well we made it. She ran like a champ. It
was great.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And I did it a little bit different than I
normally do because I don't know how you are about driving.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I want to get there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I like to go straight through, like stop for potty breaks,
stop to get some soda, but otherwise I just go
straight through and you can make it up to our
again in about eleven hours, not.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That you're speeding or anything.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And my brother is the exact opposite, like he'll take
three days to get to a house same time.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm like, dude, I've been here for two days. Where
have you been?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But this time I stopped in several places. I saw
a friend just north of Sacramento and hung out with her,
and then I spent time at Medford, and then I
drove up to Portland and then saw Jennifer Jones on
the way back.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Let's say I saw the pictures with jj L.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, so yeah, I stopped in reading on my way
home stuff. So I did it a little bit differently.
I'm happy to be out of the car and I'm
happy to be back here with you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So let's get to it. Let's get our day started.
Here is your Monday morning wake up call.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That Trump administration says it's going to appeal in LA
federal judge's order that limits the ability of agents to
detain people without reasonable suspicion beyond race, ethnicity, or occupation.
In response to Friday's ruling, the White House said no
federal judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy and
said it expects what it calls a gross overstep of
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judicial authority to be corrected on appeal. Police are investigating
the death of a small boy found in or near
a dumpster in Panorama City. The boy's body was found
Saturday morning in a deserted parking lot on Van Nuy's Boulevard.
The community held a vigil to mourn the boy on
Saturday night. Police have shot a man who'd been waving
a machete around near Crypto dot Com arena. The LAPD
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says after waving the machete around yesterday morning, the guy
took off in a car and led police on a chase,
and then when he got out of the car, police
say he lunged at officers and was shot. Could anything
have prevented the devastating losses from the fourth of July
flooding in Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us
at five point twenty to tell us about that. Will
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the markets take another hit today? With more Trump tariff's looming.
We'll check in with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in your
business at five point forty, as we do every morning.
In just minutes, we're going to find out how Mexico
and the EU are pushing back against those tariffs and
whether they'll actually be imposed. With ABC's Karen Travers and
if you're renting in California instead of buying, you're not
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alone by a long shot.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
That's coming up at five point fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Trump administration
says it will appeal in LA federal judge's ruling that
prevents immigration agents from detaining people based on ethnicity.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
This judge is ridiculous and the fact that he put
forward a decision like this. We will appeal it and
we will win it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'll lend Security Secretary Christy no I'm confirmed the appeal
of Friday's ruling, which applies to several counties, including La
and Ventura.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Loyola Law School.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Professor Jessica Levinson's says the ruling could change things for
the short term.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
This could change things in the short term. Judge Frimpong
issued a temporary restraining order, essentially telling ice agents that
they can apply federal law, but not the way they're
applying it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The judge cited the fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which
protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. A judge in
la is questioning the conviction of the Menendez brothers almost
thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
According to new court documents obtained by TMZ, a letter
from Eric Menendez to his cousin would corroborate testimony about
Eric being molested by his father. Another piece of evidence
is from a former member of the music group Menudo,
who claims he was raped by Jose Menendez in the
nineteen eighties. Eric and Lyo Menendez were convicted of killing
their parents in nineteen eighty nine. The judge in the
case says, if the new evidence is true, the brothers
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have made their case to toss the convictions. Prosecutors will
have to rebut within thirty days. Aileen Gonzalez k if
I News.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Trash continues to pile up an Orange County after garbage
collection employees walked off the job.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Republic Services workers in Orange County are striking in solidarity
with striking workers in Boston. Maria Anaheim, Fullerton and Gordon
Grover are now offering temporary trash drop off sites. Republic
Services employees in Boston want higher wages and better health benefits.
Negotiations are expected to resume this week. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, President
Trump threatening tariffs again. What sparked this latest round?
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean it's another round tariff now in Mexico.
He's announcing tariffs on the EU. Thirty percent of both
these will not go into effect until August first, So
that's important because today is only July fourteenth, so we'll
see if there is off ramps room for negotiations. Both
sides thought that they were still negotiating Mexico and the
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European Union and were a bit surprised by this announcement
over the weekend. This will likely, if this does go
forward on August first, have a significant impact on consumer prices.
You know, you think of the fruits and vegetables we
bring in from Mexico, beer and liquor from the European Union,
pharmaceutical products and mechanical appliances, that's the primary exports from
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the EUS to the US. So there could be a
pretty quick impact for consumers. But both the EU and
Mexico say they're hoping to work out negotiations but we've
seen the President in recent days say he's been just
frustrated in general at how time consuming trade negotiations have been,
which I think shouldn't be surprising because these things are
complicated and take a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, So if they do finish the trade deals, has
Trump indicated that those hair of higher tariffs that he's
just announced might not happen or it's just saying this
is just a push sort of sort.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Of, So that's a big question sort of. You know,
he's top trade, top economic advisors after over the weekend.
Are these real or are these just a threat to
see what you know he can push along? And Kevin
Hassett told ABC you know they're real in the sense
said if the President doesn't get a deal that he
thinks is good enough, they're going to go into effect.
But we have seen him announce the tariff only to
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bring the number down or do an off ramp. So
we will see what this looks like over the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, and I know we have you for like thirty
seconds more fifty percent tariff on Brazil?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Did he say why so high? There?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Yeah, he announced this last week and he was pretty
clear that he doesn't like the political situation down there.
Right now, there's a trial for the former president, President Bolsonaro,
who's a political ally, a friend of his. He is
on trial choused of orchestrating a coup after he lost
his reelection in twenty twenty two. We have a trade
surplus with Brazil, not a trade deficit, so it is
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kind of scratching a lot of heads as to why
this is happening like that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
All right, ABC's Karen Travers, thanks so much. We'll talk
to you again soon.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. CSU Channel Islands
officials have called for the release of a professor detained
an immigration raid protest at a marijuana grow operation in Camarillo.
The university says the professor was peacefully protesting.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
On Thursday. US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Sale says professor Jonathan Caravello was arrested after throwing a
tear gas container at federal agents and will be federally charged.
At least nine people have been killed in a fire
at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts. About seventy people
live there. The fire started around nine point thirty last night.
Fall River Fire chief Jeffrey Bacon says when crews arrived
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on the scene, they found they found out people had
become trapped inside.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Crews were met with heavy fire coming through the main
entrance and multiple people hanging out the windows looking to
be rescued.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Officials say the fire was out by this morning and
firefighters were able to get inside and rescue many of
the residents. Several people died at the scene, and historic
lodge on the north rim of the Grand Canyon has
been destroyed by a wildfire. ABC's Melissa Aiden says dozens
of other buildings have also burned.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That White Sage fire that's now forty thousand acres doubling
in size. We know that the flames broke out Wednesday
following a thunderstorm that moved through the area.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Visitors to the North Rim National Park were evacuated on Thursday.
The area is now closed to visitors for the rest
of the season. President Trump has defended US Attorney General
Pam Bondi over the administration's decision to close the Jeffrey
Epstein case. FBI Director Cashptel had asked if Trump supporters
believe he would refuse to release the incriminating material if
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it existed. Former US Attorney General Chris Christie says the
answer is yes.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
See, I don't believe you would give it to us if,
in fact, the President of United States told you not to, and.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Your direct boss, the Attorney General of the United States,
has ordered.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
You not to.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
FBI director A deputy Director, Dan Bongino is reportedly ready
to quit over all of this. Friends and family have
held a funeral for a Palestinian American killed by Israeli
settlers in the West Bank. A cousin of Sefoila Mussolot
claims the attack happened on his family's land Friday. The
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body of the twenty one year old man from Florida
was carried through the streets of a town in the
West Bank yesterday as mourners waved Palestinian flags and prayed.
Mussalat was there visiting his mother. It seems that diamonds
aren't the only rocks that sell for millions and millions
of dollars. ABC's Brian Clark says another kind of rock
is expected to fetch seven figures this week.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Of all the material from Mars currently on Earth, auction
house Southeby says seven percent will be on the auction
block on Wednesday. That seven percent represents one rock.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The auction house estimates the rock we'll go for anywhere
between two and four million dollars. It was found in
the Sahara in in twenty twenty three. Scientists say they
believe it broke off Mars in an asteroid strike. Artificial
intelligence startup based in northern California's raised one hundred million
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dollars to address math, which experts say is sometimes a
problem for AI models. Harmonic AI of Palo Alto aims
to build AI systems that can solve complex math problems.
The company calls it mathematical super intelligence. Yeah, but who's
going to check its work. We've been talking about this.
(11:35):
AI is doing amazing things, but so often it's not correct,
Like dudes, we need to figure that out before we
move forward and before it takes over the world.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
A national nonprofit is helping kids in military families get
ready to go back to school. Operation Homefront has partnered
with Kelenova Volunteers for its annual Back to School Brigade.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I love that name.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It provided one hundred and six backpacks to kids in
Torrents on Saturday. Operation Homefront says the program's designed to
help ease the financial burden of back to school shopping
for military families. Anything we can do to help military families.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Three hundred and sixty one people in all have been
swept up in those immigration sweeps at Glasshouse marijuana farms
in Camerio and Carpenteria. Federal officials confirmed the arrests happened
on Thursday and say they also rescued fourteen miners. A
man trying to get away from immigration agents fell thirty
feet off a building and died Saturday at the hospital.
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President Trump says the US will be sending Patriot missiles
to Ukraine. Trump has voiced his disappointment from the last
couple of weeks with Russia's President Putin. Trump says Ukraine
needs the Patriots for protection and that the European Union
will pay the US back for them. Superman has flown
into the top spot at the box office. The latest
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remac of the super remac of the Superman franchise took
in one hundred and twenty three million dollars in its
opening weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth and the Race Car movie
F one finished, second and third. I feel bad. I
haven't seen any of these movies, and I hear that
they're all pretty good.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Are we going to go to Superman? Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, okay, all right, good and then well we'll do
our joint review on it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Do we have ABC's Jim Ryan. We do ABC's Jim Ryan.
Good morning morning. So as we look back.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
On the events that led up to the devastating floodings
on the Job Live fourth weekend, and they're now facing
some more flooding as more storms are moving through. Is
there anything that could have been done to prevent not
the floods, but the deaths from the floods?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Well, certainly a better warning system would have helped to
be able to reach those people out there, especially in
these camps, the summer camps and the campground where people
were washed away, to let them know that something was coming,
that the rivers were rising up and that there was
a terrible danger on the way. Yeah, letting them know,
letting people know about it would have been the best
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thing to try to mitigate this a bit. I mean,
right now we have one hundred and thirty two people
confirmed dead, another over one hundred and sixty in just
one county alone, but there are others missing too. So
once the weather clears, and that might not be until
this afternoon sometime, they will get back out and resume
the search for more of the victims. But yet it's
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been complicated over the weekend by the possibility of more flooding.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, Jim, we had got word that the searches that
they were conducting looking for anybody were called off because
there was another storm system moving in and it just
wasn't safe.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, well, that's true. And across much of Texas today
and including here in Dallas Fort Worth, we're seeing a
pretty substantial rain. And of course the Guadalupe River, which
was still running quite hot after the July fourth flooding,
it won't take much to trip it over its banks again.
It won't be anything like we saw that day with
ten to twelve inches falling in just a couple of
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hours time, but it does make it more.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Difficult, Okay, And wasn't there a flood like this years
and years ago?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Nineteen eighty seven was the last one. Manything close to this.
It does flood down there occasionally because of the topography
because it is so hilly. It's called the hill country.
After all, it's been in a drought for some time,
so the ground is very hard like concrete. It just
washes the water off into the creeks and streams that
feed into rivers like the Guadalupe and the Concho and
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the Colorado and the other La Medina, the different rivers
that run through that part of the state. And that's
where you start getting into these problems. But predicting this
kind of event shouldn't be as difficult as it is. Normally.
You can look at a map put out by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency see what the flood risk is
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for any particular area. That map, though the one that
represented Central Texas was changed in about twenty eleven, changed
because the people who own Camp Mystic wanted to change.
They wanted some of the buildings on their camp taken
off the extreme flood zone that was listed on that map,
and they were successful. They were taken off that map.
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Some of those buildings were washed away on July fourth.
So now the big question is why did they ask
for that exemption, Why do they ask to be taken
off the flood zone map?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And Why did they get it?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Yeah, why did FEMA grant that?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It's hard to say, Yeah, Jim, what would a warning
system look like?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
They talk about that.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, we've got tsunami warning systems, and you know,
they've got air raid warning systems in other well not
here in the US, but in other parts of the world.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Like, what does it look like if they do that
in flood zones?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Now, it would look a lot like tornado warnings that
we get here in North Texas, that the sirens start blaring,
so you might start getting text messages on your phone,
getting National Weather Service notifications that will let you know
danger is coming. But the in Central Texes down in
that part of the world, they have no real siren
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system at all through the hill country, and so people
were relying on text notifications. But it was the middle
of the night, so people were asleep. Sell coverage is
out there is fairly spotty. Now, I'll tell you that
there was a great story here I supposed to be told.
A little town of Comfort, Texas, twenty two hundred people,
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not too far from Curville, where so many of the
deaths happen. It does have a siren system. It put
it into place in nineteen eighty seven, after that last
big flood that killed some people, Comfort Taxes put up
its own sirens system, about seventy thousand dollars worth of sirens.
Those sirens blared on July fourth to let people know
that danger was coming. All twenty two hundred people made
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it out okay. They they had no loss of life there,
although there was flooding. So I think that may be
the example that the rest of the Hill Country uses hardcore,
old school siren systems that don't rely on cell phones
and don't rely on the internet.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, especially like you said, in the Hill Country, because
I'm thinking of all those kids at the camp and
that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Did they even have phones at camp or do they not?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
They don't because that's part of what the counselors want.
They want a screen free experience for those girls there,
and so they take up their phones at the very
beginning that it was just a domino effect of problems.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the information.
I hope that they invest in those warning systems. They
don't sound like they're going to.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Cost to going to regard they help a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, all right, thanks Jim. We'll talk to you soon,
all right, Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A man has been mauled to death
by pitbulls and a home in Lancaster, LA. Kenny Sheriff's
deputies were called out Saturday night they got report of
a vicious animal at a house. When they got there,
they found two pitbulls attacking a man in the backyard.
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A deputy shot one of the dogs. The man was
taken to the hospital, but he died from his injuries.
Animal control took four pitbulls from the home. A farm
worker who fell from a roof during an ice raid
at a licensed cannabis farm and camerio has died. Jime
Alanni's was reportedly trying to run away last week. He
fell thirty feet. He was taken off life support on Saturday.
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The Department of Homeland Security says he was not being
chased or in custody. The raid led to more than
three hundred and fifty arrests and the discovery of more
than a dozen illegal immigrant children. The farm grower, Glasshouse Farms,
says it is cooperating and helping workers get legal support.
The La Kenny Sheriff's Department's trying to find an eleven
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year old boy who maybe with his father. Deputies say
there is concern for the boy's well being. Jackson Marchesano
was last seen Friday in Malibu. He's white, five foot two,
one hundred and twenty pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes.
His father, David, maybe driving a twenty fourteen white Volkswagen
Passat with a California license plate that ends in the
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number two six 't nine. A memorial has been set
up in Panorama City at the site where a young
boy's body was found. It was between a couple of
dumpsters on Saturday and a parking lot on Van Euy's Boulevard.
Bellie say the boy was probably three or four years old.
This woman, who lit a candle for the boy says,
it is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I live here, I work here, and to see that
this has happened, it's horrific.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It's aren't shocked.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
We're griefing, realise, say.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Witnesses reported seeing a car make a quick stop at
the site early Saturday morning. It's not known if the
boy had been reported missing. The Coastguard is rescued eleven
people from a charter yacht that was taking on water
about seven miles south of Dana Point Harbor. A distress
call went out around on six thirty Saturday night from
the operator of the fifty foot catamaran. He reported the
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yacht was flooding while headed over into the harbor. Coastguard
crew got the passengers off the yacht and transferred them
to another charter boat. The flooded yacht was towed back
to the harbor. A man with a machet's been shot
by police officers near Crypto dot Com Arena in downtown
LA Police say the guy was chanting yesterday and threatening
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a security guard. When officers showed up, the guy got
into a car and took off. LAPD Detective Megan Aguilar
says at one point the man crashed into a police
cruiser while waving the machete around.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
The suspect drove here on Figaroa, just south of Twelfth
Street when he stopped the vehicle and exited. He was
still armed with the machete and he charged towards the
officers again, this time resulting in an officer involved shooting.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
The man was taken to the hospital. His condition is
not known.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Authorities in Victorville say what looked like human remains found
outside an ampm turned out to be a macabre piece
of art.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Someone spotted what looked like a teddy bear wrapped in
human skin and reported it. A coroner responded, but it
turns out the object was a handmade skin bear created
by artist Robert Kelly, who runs Dark Seed Creations in
South Carolina. He says he shipped it to a customer
in Victorville last week and had no idea it would
be used in what appears to be a prank. The
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is investigating Brigitia Degastino O
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k if I News this is gross.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Long Beach fully say a woman found dead near the
La River may have fallen from a moving vehicle. The
woman's body was found early yesterday morning near Willow Street.
No vehicle was found at the scene, and the Federal
Reserves being criticized for approving a two and a half
billion dollar renovation of its Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Headquarters.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The Trump administration is not happy about it, and Economic
Advisor Kevin Hassett says it could be grounds for President
Trump to fire FED chairman Jerome Powell.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's a thing that's being looked ato. But certainly if
there's clause, he does.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Trump has been attacking Powell, of course for months, because
he has not been cutting interest rates, and Trump wants
that to happen. A man trying to break up a
fight in Lamorada has been shot and killed.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Another man was wounded.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Police say the shooting happened shortly before four am yesterday.
A man and a woman had gotten into a physical fight,
so the men tried to intervene. Later, a car pulled
up alongside them as they walked away, shot the men
and drove off. Trash continues to pile up in Orange County,
garbage collection employees walked off the job. A national nonprofit
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helping kids in military families get ready to go back
to school, Operation home Front, partnered with Kelenova volunteers for
its annual back to School Brigade. They provided one hundred
and sixty backpacks to kids in Torrents. On Saturday at
six poh five, its handle on the news, an LA
federal judge ruled against the Trump administration. Guess what they're appealing.
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We'll talk about that. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Cal State Channel Islands is demanding the immediate release of
one of its professors detained during an anti immigration protest
in Camillo. Professor Jonathan Caravello is facing federal charges for
allegedly throwing a tear gas container at law enforcement at
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LA Community College District Trustee Nachelle Henderson spoke at a
vigil for the professor last night.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We don't know how he's doing, will be released.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
CFA is devastated by it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The California Faculty Association claims Caravello was kidnapped, as they
put it, by federal agents. The professors do in court today.
Families have people killed in a fireworks warehouse explosion in
northern California held a vigil for their relatives. ABC's Chuck
Stevertson says they're waiting for a fire marshal's report.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Seven people died in the fireworks explosions in fire cal
Fire says one of the red flags to check is
whether the warehouse had necessary licenses and permits.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
The warehouse in Yolo County blew up almost two weeks ago,
and it happened to happen at near one of the
places that I stopped. My friend Heidi was telling me that,
like from miles away, you could hear the explosion and
it was rattling windows and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
It was a it was a big one.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
California's pushing back against claims by the White House that
the state's high speed rail project has no way forward.
Eric Idland with San Jose State's Meneta Transportation Institute says
there is a path forward, but it'll take longer without
federal support.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
For all megaprojects, and this is the mega project of
mega projects.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Time time as the enemy.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Time is money.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The state's still waiting to hear if it's going to
get four billion dollars in federal funding for the rail project.
The Trump administration has threatened to pull it. State officials
say if the funding is revoked, it could result in
a legal battle. If you're looking for a forever friend
for a bargain, Pasadena Humane is way all adoption fees
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for adult dogs and cats. It's called the Hot Dog,
Cool Cat Promotion. It runs through this Sunday, July twentieth.
Of course, it's an effort to reduce shelter over crowding. Summer,
who knew is one of the busiest times at shelters.
All adopted animals from Pasadena Humane will be spade or neutered.
They'll be microchipped and vaccinated before they head to your home.
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If you're thinking about it, it's always a good idea.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Don't put that pressure on me.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
No, Okay, Well, and I get it because some people
you can't, like I can't have a dog.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
If I could have a dog again, I would still
have a dog.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's really not fair because I'm a renter, which we're
going to talk about in just a couple of minutes.
If you're renting, you you're not alone, trust me. But yeah,
if you can do it, they really really bring joy
into your life. And I have to tell you my cats.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I've got two.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I've got Alexander, who I've had for like ten years,
and then I also have Shelby, who I inherited from
Jennifer Jones, who also got to see during my trip. Yeah,
and I just love, love, love love them, and I
left them, you know, for like ten days, and especially
Shelby is just following me all over in the house
like she's like a dog.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, you leave again.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Hey, are we ready to get in our business? We are.
Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 11 (27:25):
Good morning, welcome back. Thank you to hear your voice
this morning.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Always lovely to talk to you as well. So let's
get right in your business. It's gonna take a lot
to kick start the housing market. We know it's been
sluggish because of those relatively high interest rates.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Tell us what's going on?
Speaker 11 (27:42):
Yeah, And it doesn't seem like the pace is gonna
pick up anytime soon. For many homeowners, moving just asn't
on the table, no matter what happens to mortgage rates.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
And that's a surprise.
Speaker 11 (27:52):
According to a survey from Bank Grade, fifty four percent
of homeowners say there is no mortgage rate that would
make them call a moving truck. Really. Among those who
would be yeah, exactly, and among those who would be
open to buying a place, two and three say they
need a mortgage rate lower than five percent to feel
good about jumping in. And we're a while away from that.
And about three quarters of current homeowners current homeowners say
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mortgages would need to drop a low five percent to
consider a move. So a lot of people are missing
those days of three percent rates, which really chugged the
housing market along.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You know what's so interesting about that, Tommy Courtney is
I have a house that I bought fifteen years ago,
seventeen years ago, and I got a rate of five
and a half percent, And at that time, everybody's like,
that's a really good rate because that they had been
up higher. And I think my first house was about
eight percent. When my parents bought a house in California
was eighteen percent. That was years and years ago. I mean,
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so to say you're not going to move if it's
not five percent, those sub five percent interest rates have
not been the norm.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I mean, those were really an anomaly.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Exactly, and that's not going to happen anytime soon, especially
for the Federal Reserve saying everything's going to remain on
hold for some time now until we see what happens
and what shakes out with tariffs, the economy, inflation, because
they have that true prong mandate of taking a look
at the jobs market, which seems to be holding up,
and also inflation. Yes, it is higher than what we've seen,
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but we could see a lot more inflation coming into
the market tomorrow. By the way, we have the Consumer
Price Report that's going to be before the opening bill.
A lot of people are going to be watching that
to see what happens and how much of those import
prices are actually factored in. So there is a lot
that people are watching, especially the Federal Reserve and what
that means for us in the future when it comes
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to our homes.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Okay in Coortney.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
The consumer Price report that you're talking about, what is
that an indicator of what does it show?
Speaker 11 (29:48):
So the Consumer Price Report, it's our inflation report, it's
the CPI report. We get it once a month, and
this is going to be key to telling us how
much things have been really moving through the system. How
are we seeing, for example, grocery prices. What are we
looking at when it comes to gas prices. Where are
we seeing when it comes to close how much money?
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How much are things getting more expensive or getting cheaper?
But it seems to be according to economists that we surveyed,
where we're looking at probably a push through of some
of the tariff prices, some of the expectations some of
the things that have been happening from that April Push
and Liberation Day from President Trump.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Speaking of prices, and you mentioned gas, like technically in
California it's four fifty two a gallon on average, but
I'll tell you it's like a dollar more along the
F five.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Corridor Holway Iron California.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, if you have to drive through the Central Valley
and then remember how it used to be, like if
regular was four fifty nine, premium was for or there
was the next one up it was four sixty nine,
and then premium would be four seventy nine. Well, now
I'm seeing that it's like four to sixty nine, then
it goes up to four ninety nine, and then like
to five point fifty, like they're charging a ton more
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for premium.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
And oil has seen a lot of volatility lately. I
was looking at oil prices earlier today and we're close
to seventy dollars a barrel. But we have been seeing
a lot of fluctuation going within that market, dips and
moves based on what was happening with Iran and Israel,
and that made some changes within the oil market. So
a lot of people were watching what the geopolitical factors
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are and also Opek too Opek has been adding more
barrels to the market, but we've been we've been seeing
a lot of movement when it comes to oil of late,
and again that filters out to what we're seeing at
the gas station.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Okay, let's talk about joining forces and splitting up. We
have Craft and Hines splitting up, and then there's also
and then we'll talk about joining forces at two film studios.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
So first Draft and Hines.
Speaker 11 (31:56):
Yeah, So craft Hines, the big cheese is thinking about
getting small. I had to say it, but sources are
telling us the food company is debating about whether to
spin off a large part of its grocery business into
a new entity, and this would allow it to focus
on faster growing segments such as sauces.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Because package food.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
Companies have come to think about it, consumer sentiment has
shifted completely. People are looking for healthier, less processed options.
They're looking for fresher items as well as when they
go into the grocery store because of inflation, as we
were talking about, people are looking for cheaper items. They're
going to store brands, They're not going to the major
brands that craft Hines has. So that's something that Craft
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Hines has needed to evaluate and that's why they're looking
to get smaller and same. There's another company too that
we've been following, the maker of tailanol nutrigena listine. They
appear to be making some changes to appeace a number
of investors who have been looking for some sort of shakeup, and.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
This is ken View.
Speaker 11 (32:55):
They're CEOs leaving. They've hired advisors to look at their
brands because they may get rid of some of their
brands because they've been getting a push from activist investors
to overhaul the company ever since it was spun off
from Johnson and Johnson two years ago.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Now you were talking about the film studio.
Speaker 11 (33:11):
I have a lot to talk about today, the film
studio behind the Dune trilogy, Minecraft movie, which was such
a huge movie, highs grossing movie so far. They're considering
a takeover of the company that owns the rights to
John Wick, Hunger Games, Twilight. So sources are telling us
that Legendary Entertainment has approached Lionsgate Studio about a deal.
(33:31):
So we reached out to both companies and they declined
to comment. Of course they did yes until it's a
done deal. A Lionsgate keep in mind, separated from Stars
in May. But Minecraft movie has been huge. I mean
my son screaming chicken Jockey all the time to.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Me, you know what, I'm sure that that means something
to somebody who knows anything about Minecraft.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
I do not. Yes, no, same with Mata.
Speaker 11 (33:58):
He's going chicken jockey.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm like, okay, right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho like we do every day. We'll do it
again tomorrow at five forty. Thanks Courtney, definitely so glad
to have you back.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
All right, thank you. I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
A convenience store has been looted during a street takeover
in Long Beach. A large crowd it turned out last
night at Orange Avenue and Harding Street. J and G
Market is on the corner there. It was raided by
people stealing all kinds of stuff. At least nine people
have been killed and dozens more injured in a fire
at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, as already say,
(34:34):
people were hanging out of windows screaming for help last
night at the Gabriel House in Fall River. About seventy
people live at the facility. Superman has flown into the
top spot at the Box office. The latest remac of
the remake. You know, I said remac earlier. I'm not
sure what it is. Maybe I'm thinking of Big Max
or something. The latest remac of this remake of the
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Superman franchise took in one hundred and twenty three million
dollars and it's opening weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth and the
Race Car movie F one finished second and third. We're
just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
the European Union has suspended retaliatory tariffs on US goods
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to try to negotiate a trade deal as President Trump
threatens more tariffs.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
We'll be talking about that, Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So we were talking about housing and how people are
not moving, and we were talking with Courtney Donahoe from
Bloomberg about how people are saying they're not even going
to consider moving unless interest rates are below five percent.
And then we've, of course, we've talked about the high
cost of buying a home in California. I have not
bought a home in California at I have a home,
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but it's in another state. And KNA, do you guys
own or you rent?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Renters?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You're renters And I know Will's renting producer and is
a homeowner. But we're not alone in not owning home homes.
And a lot of times, like, I don't know how
you feel about it if you're a renter. If you're
a homeowner, probably you're not having the same feelings. But
if you're a renter, you're like, God, I wish I
could buy a home, but how are you going to
do that? Because everything's so expensive, And say you add
a half million dollars, that's barely a down payment on
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houses here. So well, if you are renting, you are
not alone. California has the second lowest rate of home
ownership in the country, second only to New York. California
has fifty five percent of its households living in a
home that they own. That's between twenty twenty two and
(36:35):
twenty twenty four. Nationally, sixty nine percent of people own
their home. And if you want, if you want to
know where there's a lot of homeowners, West Virginia, seventy
eight percent of people own their homes there. And in California,
you think that maybe fewer people are buying because those
prices have gone up so high. Well, obviously they've been really,
(36:55):
really high because Back in the nineteen eighty eight to
ninety time frame, California was still second lowest. It had
fifty four percent home ownership, So it's actually gone up
just a little bit. Nationally, home ownership is up one
point eight percentage points, but that's over the last thirty
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seven years, so we're kind of slowly getting more home ownership.
Colorado up seven and a half percent. Now sixty seven
percent of Colorado's own their homes. And Oklahoma fell They've
got like sixty eight percent own homes, but that number
has fallen by like three and a half percent.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Haven't and you can't and you're not going to afford
it right now, you're in good company. Right Three out
of the four of us on wake up call do
not own at this point in time.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Well, also, we work in radio. Okay, we should have
factored day.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
federal judge has temporarily blocked ICE from using race, language,
or type of work as the reasons to stop or
arrest people in the LA area, also in Ventura County.
The order comes after the ACLU and Public Council argued
that the agency was engaging in racial profiling. The judge
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also ordered that detainees at the downtown B eighteen facility
have to be given access to lawyers and confidential phone calls.
Of course, Trump administration is appealing that ruling. Federal officials
say three hundred and sixty one arrests were made during
last week's immigration sweeps at the two pot farms in
Ventura County.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
The sweeps took place last Thursday at Glasshouse Farms in
Camillo and another Glasshouse facility about thirty five miles north
in Carpenteria. The US Department of Homeland Securities says that
arrested undocumented workers and rescued fourteen migrant children. A man
who was trying to evade immigration agents at the facility
in Camio fell about thirty feet off of a building.
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He died on Saturday after being taken off life support.
Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has criticized the ray agents
are wearing masks, they're driving unmarked vehicles, They're dressing in
playing clothes and refusing to identify themselves when asked, making
it difficult to distinguish them from criminals. He says, farm
workers have been traumatized. A bicyclist has been hit and
killed by a car that crashed into the bike and
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three parked cars in the Vermont Square area of South la.
The crash happened shortly before one a m Sunday at
Vernon Avenue and South Figueroa. The cause of the crash
is being investigated. It's not clear if the driver is
going to face charges. Former NFL quarterback John Elway will
not be charged in the death of his friend and
business partner, Jeffrey Sperbeck. The sixty two year old fell
(39:39):
out of a golf cart that Elway was driving in April.
He hit his head on the pavement. They were at
an after party event for the Stagecoach Country music Festival.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told the TV station in
Denver that investigators have talked with everyone involved and found
nothing new. Bianco says the fall was a tragic accident.
(40:00):
After years of calls to fix the homelessness crisis in California,
the state's finally making some changes.
Speaker 10 (40:05):
California is launching its first ever state agency you focused
only on housing at Homelessness. Governor Newsom says it's a
step toward fixing a system that's been called a bureaucratic
mess with money scattered across too many departments. Supporters say
it could help speed up affordable housing. Critics argue it
won't matter unless state leaders work together on the bigger
funding picture.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Brigida Degasino k if I knew.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
The search for flood victims in Central Texas has been
suspended as the region braces for more flooding. Water has
been seen rushing down city streets in Kerrville, one of
the city's hardest hit. Officials in Cerville have called it
a dangerous, life threatening situation and have warned residents not
to travel unless they get evacuation orders. Over one hundred
(40:46):
and sixty people are still missing following the fourth of
July weekend flooding. New data from the CDC shows one
in three teenagers between the ages of twelve and seventeen
have been diagnosed with pre diabetes. That's about eight million
million teens in the US. Physician doctor Darien Sutton says
pre diabetes can increase a person's risk of developing type
(41:08):
two diabetes. As well as other things like heart disease
and stroke.
Speaker 10 (41:12):
Pre Diabetes is essentially a warning sign that your body
is having difficulty managing sugar, and the reason why it's
important to know about that is because there's no symptoms.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Often it is often silent. He says.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
For people diagnosed with pre diabetes, the risk of developing
diabetes increases by up to thirty percent. Meta has invested
three and a half billion dollars in the world's largest
eyewear company, es Lore Axotica.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Oh, that's a fun name.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Bloomberg News says it's a big bet on the fast
growing smart glasses industry. The companies have already worked together
on Meta's ray band glasses that have a built in
camera and an AI assistant. Just what we need, another
thing talking in our heads. No, this is KFI and
KHD two Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI
(42:04):
twenty four hour newsroom. The group's back together again for
producer and and technical producer Kno along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,
and if you missed any wake up call, you can
listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always
hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through
(42:24):
Friday on KFI AM six forty, and anytime on demand
on the iHeartRadio app
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app
KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Really, it's time already.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
This is your wake up call for Monday, July fourteenth.
Good morning, I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio App. I want to say thanks to Heather Brooker
for filling in for me while I was on my
my West Coast tour. I drove more than two thousand miles.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Took my car.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
She's an older car. She's still cute and she runs good.
But I gotta tell you, you just never.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Know because she's getting up there.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, and I was like, okay, it's one hundred and
ten degrees driving through the Central Valley.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Well we made it. She ran like a champ. It
was great.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And I did it a little bit different than I
normally do because I don't know how you are about driving.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I want to get there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I like to go straight through, like stop for potty breaks,
stop to get some soda, but otherwise I just go
straight through and you can make it up to our
again in about eleven hours, not.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
That you're speeding or anything.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And my brother is the exact opposite, like he'll take
three days to get to a house same time.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
I'm like, dude, I've been here for two days. Where
have you been?
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But this time I stopped in several places. I saw
a friend just north of Sacramento and hung out with her,
and then I spent time at Medford, and then I
drove up to Portland and then saw Jennifer Jones on
the way back.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Let's say I saw the pictures with jj L.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Yeah, so yeah, I stopped in reading on my way
home stuff. So I did it a little bit differently.
I'm happy to be out of the car and I'm
happy to be back here with you guys.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So let's get to it. Let's get our day started.
Here is your Monday morning wake up call.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
That Trump administration says it's going to appeal in LA
federal judge's order that limits the ability of agents to
detain people without reasonable suspicion beyond race, ethnicity, or occupation.
In response to Friday's ruling, the White House said no
federal judge has the authority to dictate immigration policy and
said it expects what it calls a gross overstep of
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judicial authority to be corrected on appeal. Police are investigating
the death of a small boy found in or near
a dumpster in Panorama City. The boy's body was found
Saturday morning in a deserted parking lot on Van Nuy's Boulevard.
The community held a vigil to mourn the boy on
Saturday night. Police have shot a man who'd been waving
a machete around near Crypto dot Com arena. The LAPD
(02:49):
says after waving the machete around yesterday morning, the guy
took off in a car and led police on a chase,
and then when he got out of the car, police
say he lunged at officers and was shot. Could anything
have prevented the devastating losses from the fourth of July
flooding in Texas. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us
at five point twenty to tell us about that. Will
(03:09):
the markets take another hit today? With more Trump tariff's looming.
We'll check in with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in your
business at five point forty, as we do every morning.
In just minutes, we're going to find out how Mexico
and the EU are pushing back against those tariffs and
whether they'll actually be imposed. With ABC's Karen Travers and
if you're renting in California instead of buying, you're not
(03:29):
alone by a long shot.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
That's coming up at five point fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Trump administration
says it will appeal in LA federal judge's ruling that
prevents immigration agents from detaining people based on ethnicity.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
This judge is ridiculous and the fact that he put
forward a decision like this. We will appeal it and
we will win it.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I'll lend Security Secretary Christy no I'm confirmed the appeal
of Friday's ruling, which applies to several counties, including La
and Ventura.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Loyola Law School.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Professor Jessica Levinson's says the ruling could change things for
the short term.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
This could change things in the short term. Judge Frimpong
issued a temporary restraining order, essentially telling ice agents that
they can apply federal law, but not the way they're
applying it.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
The judge cited the fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which
protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. A judge in
la is questioning the conviction of the Menendez brothers almost
thirty years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
According to new court documents obtained by TMZ, a letter
from Eric Menendez to his cousin would corroborate testimony about
Eric being molested by his father. Another piece of evidence
is from a former member of the music group Menudo,
who claims he was raped by Jose Menendez in the
nineteen eighties. Eric and Lyo Menendez were convicted of killing
their parents in nineteen eighty nine. The judge in the
case says, if the new evidence is true, the brothers
(04:48):
have made their case to toss the convictions. Prosecutors will
have to rebut within thirty days. Aileen Gonzalez k if
I News.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Trash continues to pile up an Orange County after garbage
collection employees walked off the job.
Speaker 8 (05:00):
Republic Services workers in Orange County are striking in solidarity
with striking workers in Boston. Maria Anaheim, Fullerton and Gordon
Grover are now offering temporary trash drop off sites. Republic
Services employees in Boston want higher wages and better health benefits.
Negotiations are expected to resume this week. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen, President
Trump threatening tariffs again. What sparked this latest round?
Speaker 9 (05:26):
Yeah, I mean it's another round tariff now in Mexico.
He's announcing tariffs on the EU. Thirty percent of both
these will not go into effect until August first, So
that's important because today is only July fourteenth, so we'll
see if there is off ramps room for negotiations. Both
sides thought that they were still negotiating Mexico and the
(05:49):
European Union and were a bit surprised by this announcement
over the weekend. This will likely, if this does go
forward on August first, have a significant impact on consumer prices.
You know, you think of the fruits and vegetables we
bring in from Mexico, beer and liquor from the European Union,
pharmaceutical products and mechanical appliances, that's the primary exports from
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the EUS to the US. So there could be a
pretty quick impact for consumers. But both the EU and
Mexico say they're hoping to work out negotiations but we've
seen the President in recent days say he's been just
frustrated in general at how time consuming trade negotiations have been,
which I think shouldn't be surprising because these things are
complicated and take a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Okay, So if they do finish the trade deals, has
Trump indicated that those hair of higher tariffs that he's
just announced might not happen or it's just saying this
is just a push sort of sort.
Speaker 9 (06:44):
Of, So that's a big question sort of. You know,
he's top trade, top economic advisors after over the weekend.
Are these real or are these just a threat to
see what you know he can push along? And Kevin
Hassett told ABC you know they're real in the sense
said if the President doesn't get a deal that he
thinks is good enough, they're going to go into effect.
But we have seen him announce the tariff only to
(07:08):
bring the number down or do an off ramp. So
we will see what this looks like over the next
couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, and I know we have you for like thirty
seconds more fifty percent tariff on Brazil?
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Did he say why so high? There?
Speaker 9 (07:21):
Yeah, he announced this last week and he was pretty
clear that he doesn't like the political situation down there.
Right now, there's a trial for the former president, President Bolsonaro,
who's a political ally, a friend of his. He is
on trial choused of orchestrating a coup after he lost
his reelection in twenty twenty two. We have a trade
surplus with Brazil, not a trade deficit, so it is
(07:43):
kind of scratching a lot of heads as to why
this is happening like that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
All right, ABC's Karen Travers, thanks so much. We'll talk
to you again soon.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. CSU Channel Islands
officials have called for the release of a professor detained
an immigration raid protest at a marijuana grow operation in Camarillo.
The university says the professor was peacefully protesting.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
On Thursday. US Attorney Bill A.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Sale says professor Jonathan Caravello was arrested after throwing a
tear gas container at federal agents and will be federally charged.
At least nine people have been killed in a fire
at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts. About seventy people
live there. The fire started around nine point thirty last night.
Fall River Fire chief Jeffrey Bacon says when crews arrived
(08:33):
on the scene, they found they found out people had
become trapped inside.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Crews were met with heavy fire coming through the main
entrance and multiple people hanging out the windows looking to
be rescued.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Officials say the fire was out by this morning and
firefighters were able to get inside and rescue many of
the residents. Several people died at the scene, and historic
lodge on the north rim of the Grand Canyon has
been destroyed by a wildfire. ABC's Melissa Aiden says dozens
of other buildings have also burned.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That White Sage fire that's now forty thousand acres doubling
in size. We know that the flames broke out Wednesday
following a thunderstorm that moved through the area.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Visitors to the North Rim National Park were evacuated on Thursday.
The area is now closed to visitors for the rest
of the season. President Trump has defended US Attorney General
Pam Bondi over the administration's decision to close the Jeffrey
Epstein case. FBI Director Cashptel had asked if Trump supporters
believe he would refuse to release the incriminating material if
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it existed. Former US Attorney General Chris Christie says the
answer is yes.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
See, I don't believe you would give it to us if,
in fact, the President of United States told you not to, and.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Your direct boss, the Attorney General of the United States,
has ordered.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
You not to.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
FBI director A deputy Director, Dan Bongino is reportedly ready
to quit over all of this. Friends and family have
held a funeral for a Palestinian American killed by Israeli
settlers in the West Bank. A cousin of Sefoila Mussolot
claims the attack happened on his family's land Friday. The
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body of the twenty one year old man from Florida
was carried through the streets of a town in the
West Bank yesterday as mourners waved Palestinian flags and prayed.
Mussalat was there visiting his mother. It seems that diamonds
aren't the only rocks that sell for millions and millions
of dollars. ABC's Brian Clark says another kind of rock
is expected to fetch seven figures this week.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Of all the material from Mars currently on Earth, auction
house Southeby says seven percent will be on the auction
block on Wednesday. That seven percent represents one rock.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The auction house estimates the rock we'll go for anywhere
between two and four million dollars. It was found in
the Sahara in in twenty twenty three. Scientists say they
believe it broke off Mars in an asteroid strike. Artificial
intelligence startup based in northern California's raised one hundred million
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dollars to address math, which experts say is sometimes a
problem for AI models. Harmonic AI of Palo Alto aims
to build AI systems that can solve complex math problems.
The company calls it mathematical super intelligence. Yeah, but who's
going to check its work. We've been talking about this.
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AI is doing amazing things, but so often it's not correct,
Like dudes, we need to figure that out before we
move forward and before it takes over the world.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
A national nonprofit is helping kids in military families get
ready to go back to school. Operation Homefront has partnered
with Kelenova Volunteers for its annual Back to School Brigade.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
I love that name.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It provided one hundred and six backpacks to kids in
Torrents on Saturday. Operation Homefront says the program's designed to
help ease the financial burden of back to school shopping
for military families. Anything we can do to help military families.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
I'm all for that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Three hundred and sixty one people in all have been
swept up in those immigration sweeps at Glasshouse marijuana farms
in Camerio and Carpenteria. Federal officials confirmed the arrests happened
on Thursday and say they also rescued fourteen miners. A
man trying to get away from immigration agents fell thirty
feet off a building and died Saturday at the hospital.
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President Trump says the US will be sending Patriot missiles
to Ukraine. Trump has voiced his disappointment from the last
couple of weeks with Russia's President Putin. Trump says Ukraine
needs the Patriots for protection and that the European Union
will pay the US back for them. Superman has flown
into the top spot at the box office. The latest
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remac of the super remac of the Superman franchise took
in one hundred and twenty three million dollars in its
opening weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth and the Race Car movie
F one finished, second and third. I feel bad. I
haven't seen any of these movies, and I hear that
they're all pretty good.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Are we going to go to Superman? Yes?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yes, okay, all right, good and then well we'll do
our joint review on it.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Do we have ABC's Jim Ryan. We do ABC's Jim Ryan.
Good morning morning. So as we look back.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
On the events that led up to the devastating floodings
on the Job Live fourth weekend, and they're now facing
some more flooding as more storms are moving through. Is
there anything that could have been done to prevent not
the floods, but the deaths from the floods?
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Well, certainly a better warning system would have helped to
be able to reach those people out there, especially in
these camps, the summer camps and the campground where people
were washed away, to let them know that something was coming,
that the rivers were rising up and that there was
a terrible danger on the way. Yeah, letting them know,
letting people know about it would have been the best
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thing to try to mitigate this a bit. I mean,
right now we have one hundred and thirty two people
confirmed dead, another over one hundred and sixty in just
one county alone, but there are others missing too. So
once the weather clears, and that might not be until
this afternoon sometime, they will get back out and resume
the search for more of the victims. But yet it's
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been complicated over the weekend by the possibility of more flooding.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah, Jim, we had got word that the searches that
they were conducting looking for anybody were called off because
there was another storm system moving in and it just
wasn't safe.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
Yeah, well, that's true. And across much of Texas today
and including here in Dallas Fort Worth, we're seeing a
pretty substantial rain. And of course the Guadalupe River, which
was still running quite hot after the July fourth flooding,
it won't take much to trip it over its banks again.
It won't be anything like we saw that day with
ten to twelve inches falling in just a couple of
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hours time, but it does make it more.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Difficult, Okay, And wasn't there a flood like this years
and years ago?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Nineteen eighty seven was the last one. Manything close to this.
It does flood down there occasionally because of the topography
because it is so hilly. It's called the hill country.
After all, it's been in a drought for some time,
so the ground is very hard like concrete. It just
washes the water off into the creeks and streams that
feed into rivers like the Guadalupe and the Concho and
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the Colorado and the other La Medina, the different rivers
that run through that part of the state. And that's
where you start getting into these problems. But predicting this
kind of event shouldn't be as difficult as it is. Normally.
You can look at a map put out by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency see what the flood risk is
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for any particular area. That map, though the one that
represented Central Texas was changed in about twenty eleven, changed
because the people who own Camp Mystic wanted to change.
They wanted some of the buildings on their camp taken
off the extreme flood zone that was listed on that map,
and they were successful. They were taken off that map.
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Some of those buildings were washed away on July fourth.
So now the big question is why did they ask
for that exemption, Why do they ask to be taken
off the flood zone map?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
And Why did they get it?
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Yeah, why did FEMA grant that?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
It's hard to say, Yeah, Jim, what would a warning
system look like?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
They talk about that.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I mean, we've got tsunami warning systems, and you know,
they've got air raid warning systems in other well not
here in the US, but in other parts of the world.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Like, what does it look like if they do that
in flood zones?
Speaker 5 (16:55):
Now, it would look a lot like tornado warnings that
we get here in North Texas, that the sirens start blaring,
so you might start getting text messages on your phone,
getting National Weather Service notifications that will let you know
danger is coming. But the in Central Texes down in
that part of the world, they have no real siren
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system at all through the hill country, and so people
were relying on text notifications. But it was the middle
of the night, so people were asleep. Sell coverage is
out there is fairly spotty. Now, I'll tell you that
there was a great story here I supposed to be told.
A little town of Comfort, Texas, twenty two hundred people,
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not too far from Curville, where so many of the
deaths happen. It does have a siren system. It put
it into place in nineteen eighty seven, after that last
big flood that killed some people, Comfort Taxes put up
its own sirens system, about seventy thousand dollars worth of sirens.
Those sirens blared on July fourth to let people know
that danger was coming. All twenty two hundred people made
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it out okay. They they had no loss of life there,
although there was flooding. So I think that may be
the example that the rest of the Hill Country uses hardcore,
old school siren systems that don't rely on cell phones
and don't rely on the internet.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Yeah, especially like you said, in the Hill Country, because
I'm thinking of all those kids at the camp and
that kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Did they even have phones at camp or do they not?
Speaker 5 (18:22):
They don't because that's part of what the counselors want.
They want a screen free experience for those girls there,
and so they take up their phones at the very
beginning that it was just a domino effect of problems.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
All right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the information.
I hope that they invest in those warning systems. They
don't sound like they're going to.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Cost to going to regard they help a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, all right, thanks Jim. We'll talk to you soon,
all right, Thanks Amy. All right, let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A man has been mauled to death
by pitbulls and a home in Lancaster, LA. Kenny Sheriff's
deputies were called out Saturday night they got report of
a vicious animal at a house. When they got there,
they found two pitbulls attacking a man in the backyard.
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A deputy shot one of the dogs. The man was
taken to the hospital, but he died from his injuries.
Animal control took four pitbulls from the home. A farm
worker who fell from a roof during an ice raid
at a licensed cannabis farm and camerio has died. Jime
Alanni's was reportedly trying to run away last week. He
fell thirty feet. He was taken off life support on Saturday.
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The Department of Homeland Security says he was not being
chased or in custody. The raid led to more than
three hundred and fifty arrests and the discovery of more
than a dozen illegal immigrant children. The farm grower, Glasshouse Farms,
says it is cooperating and helping workers get legal support.
The La Kenny Sheriff's Department's trying to find an eleven
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year old boy who maybe with his father. Deputies say
there is concern for the boy's well being. Jackson Marchesano
was last seen Friday in Malibu. He's white, five foot two,
one hundred and twenty pounds, has brown hair and brown eyes.
His father, David, maybe driving a twenty fourteen white Volkswagen
Passat with a California license plate that ends in the
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number two six 't nine. A memorial has been set
up in Panorama City at the site where a young
boy's body was found. It was between a couple of
dumpsters on Saturday and a parking lot on Van Euy's Boulevard.
Bellie say the boy was probably three or four years old.
This woman, who lit a candle for the boy says,
it is heartbreaking.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I live here, I work here, and to see that
this has happened, it's horrific.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
It's aren't shocked.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
We're griefing, realise, say.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Witnesses reported seeing a car make a quick stop at
the site early Saturday morning. It's not known if the
boy had been reported missing. The Coastguard is rescued eleven
people from a charter yacht that was taking on water
about seven miles south of Dana Point Harbor. A distress
call went out around on six thirty Saturday night from
the operator of the fifty foot catamaran. He reported the
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yacht was flooding while headed over into the harbor. Coastguard
crew got the passengers off the yacht and transferred them
to another charter boat. The flooded yacht was towed back
to the harbor. A man with a machet's been shot
by police officers near Crypto dot Com Arena in downtown
LA Police say the guy was chanting yesterday and threatening
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a security guard. When officers showed up, the guy got
into a car and took off. LAPD Detective Megan Aguilar
says at one point the man crashed into a police
cruiser while waving the machete around.
Speaker 6 (21:36):
The suspect drove here on Figaroa, just south of Twelfth
Street when he stopped the vehicle and exited. He was
still armed with the machete and he charged towards the
officers again, this time resulting in an officer involved shooting.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
The man was taken to the hospital. His condition is
not known.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Authorities in Victorville say what looked like human remains found
outside an ampm turned out to be a macabre piece
of art.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Someone spotted what looked like a teddy bear wrapped in
human skin and reported it. A coroner responded, but it
turns out the object was a handmade skin bear created
by artist Robert Kelly, who runs Dark Seed Creations in
South Carolina. He says he shipped it to a customer
in Victorville last week and had no idea it would
be used in what appears to be a prank. The
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is investigating Brigitia Degastino O
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k if I News this is gross.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Long Beach fully say a woman found dead near the
La River may have fallen from a moving vehicle. The
woman's body was found early yesterday morning near Willow Street.
No vehicle was found at the scene, and the Federal
Reserves being criticized for approving a two and a half
billion dollar renovation of its Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
Headquarters.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The Trump administration is not happy about it, and Economic
Advisor Kevin Hassett says it could be grounds for President
Trump to fire FED chairman Jerome Powell.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
That's a thing that's being looked ato. But certainly if
there's clause, he does.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Trump has been attacking Powell, of course for months, because
he has not been cutting interest rates, and Trump wants
that to happen. A man trying to break up a
fight in Lamorada has been shot and killed.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Another man was wounded.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Police say the shooting happened shortly before four am yesterday.
A man and a woman had gotten into a physical fight,
so the men tried to intervene. Later, a car pulled
up alongside them as they walked away, shot the men
and drove off. Trash continues to pile up in Orange County,
garbage collection employees walked off the job. A national nonprofit
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helping kids in military families get ready to go back
to school, Operation home Front, partnered with Kelenova volunteers for
its annual back to School Brigade. They provided one hundred
and sixty backpacks to kids in Torrents. On Saturday at
six poh five, its handle on the news, an LA
federal judge ruled against the Trump administration. Guess what they're appealing.
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We'll talk about that. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Cal State Channel Islands is demanding the immediate release of
one of its professors detained during an anti immigration protest
in Camillo. Professor Jonathan Caravello is facing federal charges for
allegedly throwing a tear gas container at law enforcement at
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LA Community College District Trustee Nachelle Henderson spoke at a
vigil for the professor last night.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
We don't know how he's doing, will be released.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
CFA is devastated by it.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The California Faculty Association claims Caravello was kidnapped, as they
put it, by federal agents. The professors do in court today.
Families have people killed in a fireworks warehouse explosion in
northern California held a vigil for their relatives. ABC's Chuck
Stevertson says they're waiting for a fire marshal's report.
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Seven people died in the fireworks explosions in fire cal
Fire says one of the red flags to check is
whether the warehouse had necessary licenses and permits.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
The warehouse in Yolo County blew up almost two weeks ago,
and it happened to happen at near one of the
places that I stopped. My friend Heidi was telling me that,
like from miles away, you could hear the explosion and
it was rattling windows and that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
It was a it was a big one.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
California's pushing back against claims by the White House that
the state's high speed rail project has no way forward.
Eric Idland with San Jose State's Meneta Transportation Institute says
there is a path forward, but it'll take longer without
federal support.
Speaker 10 (25:33):
For all megaprojects, and this is the mega project of
mega projects.
Speaker 9 (25:37):
Time time as the enemy.
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Time is money.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The state's still waiting to hear if it's going to
get four billion dollars in federal funding for the rail project.
The Trump administration has threatened to pull it. State officials
say if the funding is revoked, it could result in
a legal battle. If you're looking for a forever friend
for a bargain, Pasadena Humane is way all adoption fees
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for adult dogs and cats. It's called the Hot Dog,
Cool Cat Promotion. It runs through this Sunday, July twentieth.
Of course, it's an effort to reduce shelter over crowding. Summer,
who knew is one of the busiest times at shelters.
All adopted animals from Pasadena Humane will be spade or neutered.
They'll be microchipped and vaccinated before they head to your home.
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If you're thinking about it, it's always a good idea.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Don't put that pressure on me.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
No, Okay, Well, and I get it because some people
you can't, like I can't have a dog.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
If I could have a dog again, I would still
have a dog.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
It's really not fair because I'm a renter, which we're
going to talk about in just a couple of minutes.
If you're renting, you you're not alone, trust me. But yeah,
if you can do it, they really really bring joy
into your life. And I have to tell you my cats.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I've got two.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I've got Alexander, who I've had for like ten years,
and then I also have Shelby, who I inherited from
Jennifer Jones, who also got to see during my trip. Yeah,
and I just love, love, love love them, and I
left them, you know, for like ten days, and especially
Shelby is just following me all over in the house
like she's like a dog.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah, you leave again.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Hey, are we ready to get in our business? We are.
Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 11 (27:25):
Good morning, welcome back. Thank you to hear your voice
this morning.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Always lovely to talk to you as well. So let's
get right in your business. It's gonna take a lot
to kick start the housing market. We know it's been
sluggish because of those relatively high interest rates.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Tell us what's going on?
Speaker 11 (27:42):
Yeah, And it doesn't seem like the pace is gonna
pick up anytime soon. For many homeowners, moving just asn't
on the table, no matter what happens to mortgage rates.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
And that's a surprise.
Speaker 11 (27:52):
According to a survey from Bank Grade, fifty four percent
of homeowners say there is no mortgage rate that would
make them call a moving truck. Really. Among those who
would be yeah, exactly, and among those who would be
open to buying a place, two and three say they
need a mortgage rate lower than five percent to feel
good about jumping in. And we're a while away from that.
And about three quarters of current homeowners current homeowners say
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mortgages would need to drop a low five percent to
consider a move. So a lot of people are missing
those days of three percent rates, which really chugged the
housing market along.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You know what's so interesting about that, Tommy Courtney is
I have a house that I bought fifteen years ago,
seventeen years ago, and I got a rate of five
and a half percent, And at that time, everybody's like,
that's a really good rate because that they had been
up higher. And I think my first house was about
eight percent. When my parents bought a house in California
was eighteen percent. That was years and years ago. I mean,
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so to say you're not going to move if it's
not five percent, those sub five percent interest rates have
not been the norm.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
I mean, those were really an anomaly.
Speaker 11 (28:56):
Exactly, and that's not going to happen anytime soon, especially
for the Federal Reserve saying everything's going to remain on
hold for some time now until we see what happens
and what shakes out with tariffs, the economy, inflation, because
they have that true prong mandate of taking a look
at the jobs market, which seems to be holding up,
and also inflation. Yes, it is higher than what we've seen,
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but we could see a lot more inflation coming into
the market tomorrow. By the way, we have the Consumer
Price Report that's going to be before the opening bill.
A lot of people are going to be watching that
to see what happens and how much of those import
prices are actually factored in. So there is a lot
that people are watching, especially the Federal Reserve and what
that means for us in the future when it comes
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to our homes.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
Okay in Coortney.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
The consumer Price report that you're talking about, what is
that an indicator of what does it show?
Speaker 11 (29:48):
So the Consumer Price Report, it's our inflation report, it's
the CPI report. We get it once a month, and
this is going to be key to telling us how
much things have been really moving through the system. How
are we seeing, for example, grocery prices. What are we
looking at when it comes to gas prices. Where are
we seeing when it comes to close how much money?
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How much are things getting more expensive or getting cheaper?
But it seems to be according to economists that we surveyed,
where we're looking at probably a push through of some
of the tariff prices, some of the expectations some of
the things that have been happening from that April Push
and Liberation Day from President Trump.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Speaking of prices, and you mentioned gas, like technically in
California it's four fifty two a gallon on average, but
I'll tell you it's like a dollar more along the
F five.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
Corridor Holway Iron California.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, if you have to drive through the Central Valley
and then remember how it used to be, like if
regular was four fifty nine, premium was for or there
was the next one up it was four sixty nine,
and then premium would be four seventy nine. Well, now
I'm seeing that it's like four to sixty nine, then
it goes up to four ninety nine, and then like
to five point fifty, like they're charging a ton more
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for premium.
Speaker 11 (31:07):
And oil has seen a lot of volatility lately. I
was looking at oil prices earlier today and we're close
to seventy dollars a barrel. But we have been seeing
a lot of fluctuation going within that market, dips and
moves based on what was happening with Iran and Israel,
and that made some changes within the oil market. So
a lot of people were watching what the geopolitical factors
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are and also Opek too Opek has been adding more
barrels to the market, but we've been we've been seeing
a lot of movement when it comes to oil of late,
and again that filters out to what we're seeing at
the gas station.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Okay, let's talk about joining forces and splitting up. We
have Craft and Hines splitting up, and then there's also
and then we'll talk about joining forces at two film studios.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
So first Draft and Hines.
Speaker 11 (31:56):
Yeah, So craft Hines, the big cheese is thinking about
getting small. I had to say it, but sources are
telling us the food company is debating about whether to
spin off a large part of its grocery business into
a new entity, and this would allow it to focus
on faster growing segments such as sauces.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Because package food.
Speaker 11 (32:13):
Companies have come to think about it, consumer sentiment has
shifted completely. People are looking for healthier, less processed options.
They're looking for fresher items as well as when they
go into the grocery store because of inflation, as we
were talking about, people are looking for cheaper items. They're
going to store brands, They're not going to the major
brands that craft Hines has. So that's something that Craft
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Hines has needed to evaluate and that's why they're looking
to get smaller and same. There's another company too that
we've been following, the maker of tailanol nutrigena listine. They
appear to be making some changes to appeace a number
of investors who have been looking for some sort of shakeup, and.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
This is ken View.
Speaker 11 (32:55):
They're CEOs leaving. They've hired advisors to look at their
brands because they may get rid of some of their
brands because they've been getting a push from activist investors
to overhaul the company ever since it was spun off
from Johnson and Johnson two years ago.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Now you were talking about the film studio.
Speaker 11 (33:11):
I have a lot to talk about today, the film
studio behind the Dune trilogy, Minecraft movie, which was such
a huge movie, highs grossing movie so far. They're considering
a takeover of the company that owns the rights to
John Wick, Hunger Games, Twilight. So sources are telling us
that Legendary Entertainment has approached Lionsgate Studio about a deal.
(33:31):
So we reached out to both companies and they declined
to comment. Of course they did yes until it's a
done deal. A Lionsgate keep in mind, separated from Stars
in May. But Minecraft movie has been huge. I mean
my son screaming chicken Jockey all the time to.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Me, you know what, I'm sure that that means something
to somebody who knows anything about Minecraft.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
I do not. Yes, no, same with Mata.
Speaker 11 (33:58):
He's going chicken jockey.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I'm like, okay, right, getting in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho like we do every day. We'll do it
again tomorrow at five forty. Thanks Courtney, definitely so glad
to have you back.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
All right, thank you. I'm glad to be back.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
A convenience store has been looted during a street takeover
in Long Beach. A large crowd it turned out last
night at Orange Avenue and Harding Street. J and G
Market is on the corner there. It was raided by
people stealing all kinds of stuff. At least nine people
have been killed and dozens more injured in a fire
at an assisted living facility in Massachusetts, as already say,
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people were hanging out of windows screaming for help last
night at the Gabriel House in Fall River. About seventy
people live at the facility. Superman has flown into the
top spot at the Box office. The latest remac of
the remake. You know, I said remac earlier. I'm not
sure what it is. Maybe I'm thinking of Big Max
or something. The latest remac of this remake of the
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Superman franchise took in one hundred and twenty three million
dollars and it's opening weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth and the
Race Car movie F one finished second and third. We're
just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
the European Union has suspended retaliatory tariffs on US goods
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to try to negotiate a trade deal as President Trump
threatens more tariffs.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
We'll be talking about that, Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
So we were talking about housing and how people are
not moving, and we were talking with Courtney Donahoe from
Bloomberg about how people are saying they're not even going
to consider moving unless interest rates are below five percent.
And then we've, of course, we've talked about the high
cost of buying a home in California. I have not
bought a home in California at I have a home,
(35:47):
but it's in another state. And KNA, do you guys
own or you rent?
Speaker 4 (35:52):
Renters?
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You're renters And I know Will's renting producer and is
a homeowner. But we're not alone in not owning home homes.
And a lot of times, like, I don't know how
you feel about it if you're a renter. If you're
a homeowner, probably you're not having the same feelings. But
if you're a renter, you're like, God, I wish I
could buy a home, but how are you going to
do that? Because everything's so expensive, And say you add
a half million dollars, that's barely a down payment on
(36:14):
houses here. So well, if you are renting, you are
not alone. California has the second lowest rate of home
ownership in the country, second only to New York. California
has fifty five percent of its households living in a
home that they own. That's between twenty twenty two and
(36:35):
twenty twenty four. Nationally, sixty nine percent of people own
their home. And if you want, if you want to
know where there's a lot of homeowners, West Virginia, seventy
eight percent of people own their homes there. And in California,
you think that maybe fewer people are buying because those
prices have gone up so high. Well, obviously they've been really,
(36:55):
really high because Back in the nineteen eighty eight to
ninety time frame, California was still second lowest. It had
fifty four percent home ownership, So it's actually gone up
just a little bit. Nationally, home ownership is up one
point eight percentage points, but that's over the last thirty
(37:16):
seven years, so we're kind of slowly getting more home ownership.
Colorado up seven and a half percent. Now sixty seven
percent of Colorado's own their homes. And Oklahoma fell They've
got like sixty eight percent own homes, but that number
has fallen by like three and a half percent.
Speaker 4 (37:34):
So if you.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Haven't and you can't and you're not going to afford
it right now, you're in good company. Right Three out
of the four of us on wake up call do
not own at this point in time.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Well, also, we work in radio. Okay, we should have
factored day.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
federal judge has temporarily blocked ICE from using race, language,
or type of work as the reasons to stop or
arrest people in the LA area, also in Ventura County.
The order comes after the ACLU and Public Council argued
that the agency was engaging in racial profiling. The judge
(38:12):
also ordered that detainees at the downtown B eighteen facility
have to be given access to lawyers and confidential phone calls.
Of course, Trump administration is appealing that ruling. Federal officials
say three hundred and sixty one arrests were made during
last week's immigration sweeps at the two pot farms in
Ventura County.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
The sweeps took place last Thursday at Glasshouse Farms in
Camillo and another Glasshouse facility about thirty five miles north
in Carpenteria. The US Department of Homeland Securities says that
arrested undocumented workers and rescued fourteen migrant children. A man
who was trying to evade immigration agents at the facility
in Camio fell about thirty feet off of a building.
(38:51):
He died on Saturday after being taken off life support.
Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has criticized the ray agents
are wearing masks, they're driving unmarked vehicles, They're dressing in
playing clothes and refusing to identify themselves when asked, making
it difficult to distinguish them from criminals. He says, farm
workers have been traumatized. A bicyclist has been hit and
killed by a car that crashed into the bike and
(39:17):
three parked cars in the Vermont Square area of South la.
The crash happened shortly before one a m Sunday at
Vernon Avenue and South Figueroa. The cause of the crash
is being investigated. It's not clear if the driver is
going to face charges. Former NFL quarterback John Elway will
not be charged in the death of his friend and
business partner, Jeffrey Sperbeck. The sixty two year old fell
(39:39):
out of a golf cart that Elway was driving in April.
He hit his head on the pavement. They were at
an after party event for the Stagecoach Country music Festival.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told the TV station in
Denver that investigators have talked with everyone involved and found
nothing new. Bianco says the fall was a tragic accident.
(40:00):
After years of calls to fix the homelessness crisis in California,
the state's finally making some changes.
Speaker 10 (40:05):
California is launching its first ever state agency you focused
only on housing at Homelessness. Governor Newsom says it's a
step toward fixing a system that's been called a bureaucratic
mess with money scattered across too many departments. Supporters say
it could help speed up affordable housing. Critics argue it
won't matter unless state leaders work together on the bigger
funding picture.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Brigida Degasino k if I knew.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
The search for flood victims in Central Texas has been
suspended as the region braces for more flooding. Water has
been seen rushing down city streets in Kerrville, one of
the city's hardest hit. Officials in Cerville have called it
a dangerous, life threatening situation and have warned residents not
to travel unless they get evacuation orders. Over one hundred
(40:46):
and sixty people are still missing following the fourth of
July weekend flooding. New data from the CDC shows one
in three teenagers between the ages of twelve and seventeen
have been diagnosed with pre diabetes. That's about eight million
million teens in the US. Physician doctor Darien Sutton says
pre diabetes can increase a person's risk of developing type
(41:08):
two diabetes. As well as other things like heart disease
and stroke.
Speaker 10 (41:12):
Pre Diabetes is essentially a warning sign that your body
is having difficulty managing sugar, and the reason why it's
important to know about that is because there's no symptoms.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Often it is often silent. He says.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
For people diagnosed with pre diabetes, the risk of developing
diabetes increases by up to thirty percent. Meta has invested
three and a half billion dollars in the world's largest
eyewear company, es Lore Axotica.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
Oh, that's a fun name.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Bloomberg News says it's a big bet on the fast
growing smart glasses industry. The companies have already worked together
on Meta's ray band glasses that have a built in
camera and an AI assistant. Just what we need, another
thing talking in our heads. No, this is KFI and
KHD two Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI
(42:04):
twenty four hour newsroom. The group's back together again for
producer and and technical producer Kno along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call,
and if you missed any wake up call, you can
listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to
Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always
hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through
(42:24):
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