July 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan shares the latest regarding the search for a motive in the Idaho firefighter ambush. Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe updates us on the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with the host of ‘How to Money’ Joel Larsgaard talking about the new MVNO cell services, financial advice from TikTok, and MorningStar’s list of the best 529 plans for your kids future education.
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Mark Runner has a very cool story about how you
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Now that's coming up. It's five o one on your
wake up call. The day is Tuesday, July. First. Had
to think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
July First, it feels like it was just Christmas. I mean,
we're less than six months away from Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with
us today.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That's Will Cole Schreiber. It's going to get you in
and make sure that you can get to where you're going.
This morning tomorrow is the busiest travel day, a record
number of people hitting the road for the Fourth of
July holiday. So I wanted to find out where you're going,
are you staying in town and putting on your ear
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plugs to block the sound of the war zone that
LA will be or you're heading out. We want to know,
so're we want you to let us know on the
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staying home. I'm hitting the road. I was going to
leave tomorrow, but not leaving tomorrow because that's the busiest
day of the year.
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But would love to hear back from you.
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So go to the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app
and again just click on that the mic in the
red circle and let us know what you're doing for
the fourth of July. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake
up call. Evacuation orders remain in place for neighborhoods of
Banning as the Wolf fire continues to grow. The fire
that broke out on Sunday afternoon has burned through more
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than twenty four hundred acres. It's thirty percent surrounded. Fire
officials say firefighters are getting an assist from air tankers
in the sky and bulldozers on the ground. Several other
smaller fires are also burning in riverside in San Bernardino County,
LA and LA County, and several cities are increasing minimum
wages today, the minimum wage for unincorporated LA County and
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Santa Monica goes up to seventeen eighty one per hour.
For the city of Los Angeles it'll be seventeen eighty seven,
and Pasadena will have a minimum wage of eighteen dollars
four cents per hour. Weeks away from the start of
his murder trial, Brian Coberger has apparently agreed to plead
guilty to murdering for University of Idaho students. The plea
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takes the death penalty off the table for Coburger the families,
so the college students are reportedly furious and say the
state of Idaho has failed them. Officials now know who
the guy is who shot and killed two firefighters who
were responding to a fire in the mountains near Quarterlaine, Idaho,
But do they know why. We're going to find out
with ABC's Jim Ryan that's coming up in just a
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couple of minutes. Also, gen Z is getting financial advice
off TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What could possibly go wrong? And how are you possibly
going to pay for your kids or your grandkids college?
We're gonna find out what.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The host of how to Money on KFI, Joel Larsguard,
joins us at five point fifty. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A wildfire in Banning has grown to
more than twenty four hundred acres and as I mentioned,
thirty percent surrounded. Full containment isn't expected until early next week.
Cal Fire Captain Daniel Potter says the fire is burning
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in some rough terrain.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Most of the area. We'll have to get by foot
or helicopter to get crews there, because we will you know,
one we can't drive there, or we can't send like
bulldozers and stuff and make our fire breaks to help
contain the fire.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
More than four thousand homes and other buildings are threatened.
Evacuation orders are in place for several neighborhoods. Other are
under evacuation warnings. A wildfire burning near Lake Matthews in
Riverside County has been stopped at just under seven hundred acres.
The fire in Gavalon Hills started late yesterday morning. Its
spread through grass and brush. By early afternoon it had
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grown to about one hundred acres. Evacuations were ordered, but
later down to warnings. That fire also thirty percent surrounded.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
The Trump administration is suing La over its sanctuary city policy.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Suit was filed in LA, where the federal government seeks
to invalidate the sanctuary policy adopted by the city council
late last year. It notes the policy was put in
place after President Trump's election, and Attorney General Pam Bondi
says la sanctuary status is to blame for violence and
vandalism and attacks on law enforcement officers. The lawsuit names
Mayor Bass, the city council, and the city itself. The
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city council has allocated half a million dollars to defend
itself against federal investigations and plans to ask the city
attorney to prepare to fight alleged racial profiling by federal
immigration agents. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, So, Jim,
we talked yesterday about the shooting and the basically the
ambush in the mountains outside Cordelaine, Idaho. What more do
we know now about the guy who shot and killed
the two firefighters.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
But he was twenty years old. West Rolling moved up
from Phoenix to that part of Idaho not too long ago.
There was some speculation. I mean that used to be
sort of neo Nazi country, a very northern Idaho. It
hasn't been for some time, but still people that kind
of that's sort of where people went. The thinking now
is that this may have been a mental break that
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this guy was having. His landlord says that he had
been acting strangely the last few months, had been living
in his pickup truck apparently, and on Sunday, he used
a flint, according to investigators, to start this fire on
Canfield Mountain. Firefighters responded and had some contact with him.
By the way, Amy told him to move his truck
or there was some conversation between west Rolling and these firefighters,
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and that's when the shooting started. That he took out
a gun and killed a battalion Chief Frank Harwood. He
killed Quarterlaining Fire Battalion Chief John Morrison, and wounded a
third quarterline firefighter before he eventually took his own life.
He was found out there with a shotgun. It wasn't
a rifle, but it was a shotgun that he was
found with in the mountain there some time later.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What's the difference between a shotgun and a rifle?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
I thought they were the right fule fire's bullets and
a shotgun fire's shotgun shells.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So interesting though that he appears to have started the fire, yeah,
but then started shooting the guys after they basically told
him to move right.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
More evidence of some kind of metal slip.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
And especially a kid. This twenty year old apparently had
the aspirations to become a firefighter himself at some time
in the past. His family members say they're completely confused
by this. They don't know what motivated him to do this,
but they do know that he at one point wanted
to be a firefighter. So I think it's just it's
a mystery as to what And we may never know
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because Wes Rowley, the person who carried this whole thing
out amy has has died.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, and have they found any kind of aside from
knowing that he wanted to be a firefighter and kind
of a manifesto, any kind of anything like that.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
No, they have not. There have been some postings that
have not been attributed firmly to him that may offer
some clues, but nothing that's been nailed down as something
that he wrote himself.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Okay, and then what is the status of the fire, Jim,
because I know that when all of this happened on Sunday,
the officials said, hey, we can't fight the fire because
it's not safe to send the firefighters out there, which
can also be a recipe for disaster during wildfire season.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Are they fighting it now?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
They are?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Yeah, that was you know, they gave up on fighting
that fire. It was growing yesterday afternoon, was growing into
the night last night. They were sending new replacement firefighters
in to try to battle it, but you know, it
was still raging overnight. So that's become the next step here.
You had the investigation into what happened. Memorials are being
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planned for these firefighters, but also a matter of putting
out the fire that westrolely apparently started.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Appreciate it. And like you said, we may never know
what sparked the shooting bec highly possible. Yeah, all right,
take care, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
House Republicans say a vote could happen tomorrow on President
Trump's Big, Beautiful Budget bill. ABC's Mary Bruce says it
needs to get through the Senate first, though the.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Bill includes roughly four trillion dollars in tax cuts for
the wealthy, along with new funding for immigration enforcement and
fulfill some campaign pledges like no taxes on tips and overtime.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
She says.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The bill also gets biden era clean energy initiatives and
Slash's medicaid. Republicans say there are reforms that target assistance
where it needs to go. The man charged with killing
four University of Idaho students is agreed to plead guilty.
Brian Cooeberger made a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
ABC's Kana Whitworth says a change of plea hearing is
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set for tomorrow, Sentencing then expected later in July. Simply
a stunning turn of events in a case that has
gripped this nation. The four students were killed in a
rental home near the university campus in Moscow, Idaho, in
November of twenty twenty two. Day two of jury deliberations
in the Shancomb's sex trafficking and racketeering trial will get
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under way this morning. ABC's Aaron Katirsky says deliberations were
paused yesterday when the judge was given a note saying
one of the jurors couldn't follow instruction.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
That juror is a fifty one year old scientist with
a doctorate in molecular biology.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
The note did not make clear what the issue was.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
The judge sent back a note of his own, telling
the jury to follow his instructions and keep deliberating. A
federal judge in Tennessee has ruled the man deported in
Al Salvador and returned to the US to face human
smuggling charges is going to stay in jail for now.
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrigo Garcia say they're worried he could
be deported again if he's released. A federal prosecutor had
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earlier told a judge there were plans to deport him,
but he didn't say when. The Justice Department says has
said it intends to try Abrego Garcia on the smuggling
charges before any moves.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Are made to remove him from the US.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The judge last week hauld say let's keep him behind bars. Well,
we make this decision, and then made the decision yesterday
to keep him because the worry was that they'd release
him on bail and then Ice would swoop in, grab
him and deport him. The Trump administration says it has
revoked US visas for the British band Bob Villain. State
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Department Press Secretary Tammy Bruce says it's in response to
the rapper chanting death Death to Israeli defense forces during
the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It really is.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
About the issue of national security, about issues of violence,
the increase certainly of anti Semitism, but of terrorism in general.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
She says.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The band is free to do what it did at Glastonbury,
and the administration can do what it's done. The Trump
administration has sent a letter to Harvard University threatening all
of the school's federal funding over alleged civil rights violations.
ABC's Karen Travers says the governor government has already frozen
more than two billion dollars in grants to the school.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Harvard says in a statement that a quote strongly disagrees
with the federal government's findings. Pushing back on the Trump
Administration's threats to strip federal funding, Harvard saying it has
made quote significant strides to combat bigotry, hate, and bias.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The where did I Lost My place?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The White House has also targeted Harvard's ability to enroll
foreign students and threaten to rescind its tax exempt status.
The school has been criticized over its alleged treatment of
Jewish students.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
And you could call it space flicks.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
NASA's live programming will begin streaming on Netflix this summer.
According to a news release, viewers can watch rocket launches,
spacewalks and views of Earth from space on Netflix as
part of NASA's efforts to reach a global audience. NASA
didn't disclose financial details of the deal, However, the agency
has noted that the content will remain free and ad
free on the NASA app and website, where it already
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has live programming. Ourkronner KFI News.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh, that could be.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
My new obsession since I can't watch sunny and Gizmo
in the in the tree above Big Bear Lake anymore,
Maybe I'll start watching NASA twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Maybe that's not such a great idea.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
LA City Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez says the council is
going to do everything within its power to keep families together.
He says LA will defend its sanctuary policies from a
lawsuit filed by the Trump administration. The city Mayor, Bass,
and the council council are all named in the suit
that accuses LA of blocking immigration enforcement and violating the constitution.
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Dozens of Routs and Food for Less stores in LA
and Orange County closing. Parent company Croger says poor earnings
are to blame. Revenue was down one hundred million dollars
in the first quarter of twenty twenty five. It's not
known yet which stores are going to close, but there
are sixty of them in southern California. Kroger says all
employees will be offered jobs at other locations. Three men
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trying to hop the border wall have had to be
rescued after getting stuck on top of the wall between
US and Mexico. Border Patrol agents say they were trying
to cross near the O Ti Mesa Port of entry
early Sunday morning. They apparently used carpet to cover the
wire along the top of the wall, climbed up and
then got stuck and couldn't get down. All three were
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taken into custody after they were rescued at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. You know, we got a
big vote a rama going in the Senate. Check in
and see if if the big beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Bill is going to pass, and then what happen spans next?
Blinded by the light?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Have you noticed this more often when you're driving at
night that car headlights seem to be brighter or they're
just kind of getting in your eyes and irritating you
a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, they actually are.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They're bluer, they're higher, and they're brighter, and that has
increased the irritation that a lot of us are experiencing
when we drive. And since a lot of us are
going to be driving over the fourth of July, get
ready for it. Older model vehicles used halogen bulbs, which
put out about a thousand lumens, but in the mid
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two thousands, car makers shifted gears and moved to LED technology,
and the LED bulbs shine even brighter, so instead of
a thousand lumens like a halogen bulb, they put out
four thousand lumens. And then aftermarket LED lights, which can
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be purchased on size like Amazon, have ten thousand lumens
or more.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And you really notice those because they pop out.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The new technology also aggravates the human eye more because
the light is blue, and those blue hues are also
hitting at eye level because more people are driving SUVs
and trucks, and then that puts the body of the
car up higher, which puts obviously the lights up higher,
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and all of those are, you know, contributing to the
nighttime blindness. There are some people who are saying, you
know what, we got to put a stop to this.
It's getting out of control, and so some are looking
for regulatory crackdowns on blinding beams, but it hasn't happened
yet and so for now, the light red. All right, Hey,
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we want to know where you're headed for the fourth
of July, so hit us up on the talk back
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I know there's some of you out there listening on
the iHeartRadio app. This is new for us.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I know Gary and Shannon do this all the time,
but on wake up call it's a lot to ask
early in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But we would love to have you weigh in.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Tell us if you're staying home or if you're heading
out for the Fourth of July weekend, and if you
are leaving town, where are you going? So just go
to the iHeartRadio app, or if you're already listening, it's
already up there on your screen and there's a up
on the upper right hand corner. There's a little white
microphone in a red circle, and just hit that, record
it and we'll get it. I want to know where
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you're going for the fourth Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. LA County officials say there will be penalties
for anyone caught shooting off illegal fireworks. District Attorney Nathan
Hafkman says, amateur is using commercial grade fireworks pose a
real day to the community.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
If you want it anyway in danger our county by
setting off illegal fireworks, we will come after you with
the full force and wrath of the law to make
sure you do not do that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Hawkman says last Christmas, someone shot off high caliber fireworks
in Inglewood, doing damage to buildings, homes, and vehicles. That
person is now facing criminal charges in the fines are
pretty extreme too, so if you get busted, sadly, I
don't think it's going to affect anything. Because on Saturday
night there was a lot of booms in my neighborhood
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and I remember I was I think I worked last
fourth of July, so I was home on the third
of July or and the fourth of July, and man,
it was NonStop. Sounded like a war zone in my neighborhood.
The top military commander in charge of National Guard troops
deployed to LA has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if
two hundred of those National Guard members can be returned
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to wildfire fighting duty. Peak wildfire season is just getting
underway in the state, and Governor Newsom has warned the
National Guard is understaffed because of the LA deployment to
protect federal agents and properties. A report from the RAND
Corporation says the number of homeless camps in Hollywood and
Venice was down last year, but the number of people
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sleeping without a tent, a car or a makeshift shelter
held steady. Homelessness on skid Row was up nine percent.
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority says it will release final
results of its Point in Time homeless count on July fourteenth.
A man from Compton has been sinced more than seven
years in prison for his role in a series of
armed robberies of mostly seven elevens in South la He
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was ordered yesterday to pay almost eight thousand dollars in
restitution the US Attorney's offices. The guy and three others
robbed the seven eleven stores and a CBS in Hollywood
two years ago. Several new state laws are kicking in today.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
One of the laws is designed to help people more
easily cancel subscriptions. Another is expected to help crack down
on the online sale of stolen goods. A third will
require short term rental lodging sites like Airbnb to disclose
additional fees and charges. Schools serving grades seven through twelve
will be required to print the number of the nine
eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline on campus, and occupational
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safety and health protections will be extended to many household
domestic service workers. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
A woman who worked at a seven to eleven in
Hollywood has died a week after she was attacked at work.
The woman's family alleges her assistant store manager attacked her
when a verbal argument got physical. She was hit with
a bottle and found unconscious on the floor of the store.
She later died at the hospital. The attacker apparently left
before police got there. A man from Oranges facing federal
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charges in a two hundred and seventy million dollar medical
fraud scheme. Prosecutors say sixty six year old Paul Randall
and two others helped submit bobit bogus claims for prescription
drugs that weren't medically necessary and in many cases never
given to patients. Prosecutors alleged Randall and the others took
advantage of a suspension of medical authorization requirements during a
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transition to a new payment system. Ah finding the loopholes
the beach may not be the best choice for a
family get away for the fourth of July. The La
County Department of Public Health has issued water warnings at
seven beaches because of high bacteria levels in the water.
Among the beaches, you're being advised to avoid swimming, surfing
or playing in the water. Are Mother's Beach in Marina
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del Rey, the Santa Monica Pier and Innercabrio in San Pedro.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Signs will be posted. Long Beach is now going to
share some of its events for the twenty twenty eight
Olympic Games.
Speaker 13 (21:40):
Organizers say sailing will be held in the Port of
LA in San Pedro and Belmont Shore in Long Beach.
The Port of LA will host six boat events. Long
Beach is expected to host four board events. The two
venues are approximately ten miles from each other. LA will
host a majority of events in the downtown area, west
side and in the San Fernando Valley. Law is expected
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to release the full twenty twenty eight competition schedule for
all Olympic sports later this summer. Deborah mark KOFFI News.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Saving Butterflies one caterpillar at a time. I love this story.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
The silver spot butterfly that once lived in grasslands from
northern California all the way up to British Columbia, has
been listed as endangered since nineteen eighty well. The Oregon
Zoo is now working to change that. It collects females
from the wild and then gives their offspring a safe
space to grow. So far this year, they've released nearly
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two thousand caterpillars into the coast range. Since two thousand,
they've released more than thirty five thousand, giving the species
a real chance to fly. Evacuation orders remain in place
for neighborhoods of Banning as the wolf fire continues to grow.
The fire that broke out Sunday afternoon has burned through
more than twenty four hundred acres, about thirty percent surrounded.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The state of Idaho has failed us.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's the reaction from one of the families of a
murdered college student from the University of Idaho. The reaction
comes after Brian Coburg apparently agreed to a plea deal
in his murder case. For the plea, he's expected to
get life in prison, but the death penalty is off
the table. In Idaho, judges can reject plea agreements, but
that rarely happens. The late Senator Dianne Feinstein's home in
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San Francisco has sold. The ninety five hundred square foot
mansion and the Pacific Heights neighborhood sold last week for
nineteen million.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Dollars. Senator Feinstein, who died in twenty twenty three, and
her husband bought the home in two thousand and six
for sixteen and a half million. Feinstein was the eighth
richest member of Congress. She was worth ninety million dollars
six oh five. It's Handle on the news. You never
know what Handle's gonna say, so you'll want to be
there again. That's right after six o'clock tonight, the Dodgers
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take on the White Sox at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
First pitch goes out at seven. You can listen to
all the Dodger games on AM five seventy LA Sports
live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and you can
stream all games in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Republicans in the California Senate and Assembly say
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they're asking President Trump to focus federal immigration operations on
undocumented violent criminals. Senator Susette Valderis tells KFI LA is
in the situation it's in because of sanctuary laws. The
sanctuary laws have pushed undocumented criminals onto our streets, and
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that's where we're seeing these ice raids in our communities.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
She says.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
The frustration is why they're asking Trump to make sure
enforcement operations focus on criminal immigrants and try to avoid
sweeping raids that are causing fear and disrupting work sites.
Officials with Immigration and Customs enforcement have condemned a new
iPhone app it lets users anonymously report sightings of ice
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raids in real time. The app, called ice Block, is
modeled after Ways, but for immigration enforcement. It allows users
to pinpoint ice locations on a map, add details about
what they saw, and then send push and notifications to
others within a five mile radius. Officials say it puts
their offices in danger. Artificial intelligence is about to put
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your doctor out of work.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Microsoft says it's aisystem can diagnose patients four times more
accurately than human doctors. It's MAAI system used several AI models,
including chat, GPT, Google's Gemini, and X's Rock to mimic
human experts on more than three hundred case studies, and
found the NAI system was eighty percent accurate in diagnosing
those cases, compared to twenty percent accuracy for the human doctors.
It also reduced healthcare costs twenty percent by selecting less
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expensive tests and procedures. They say the next step to
achieving medical superintelligence is using the system to compare results
with real doctors treating real patients in real time. Michael
Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Pretty amazing. What that's going to do.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney
Donaho Morning, Courtney, good morning. So fireworks aren't the only
thing blowing up this fourth of July. So we're barbecue prices, yes,
and you know, I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I can't wait.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
But consumer firepower is definitely on display this fourth of July.
So let's play Little James Brown to get us in
the mood for today.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
A little fun.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
So, according to wallet Houb, we plan to spend eight
point nine billion dollars on food this holiday, and we
eat a whole lot of hot dogs to celebrate, one
hundred and fifty million of them. Plus we're making a
toaster too for America's birthday. And additional four billion dollars
will be doled out for.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Beer and wine. Four billion dollars for just beer and wine. Yeah,
and mostly beer.
Speaker 14 (26:46):
I didn't realize Independence Day is the number one holiday
for beer drinking. I thought it'd be Saint Patrick's Day,
but it kind of came up and shocked me with that.
But a lot of people are getting together with their
family and friends. Sixty one percent of us are looking
forward to attending a barbecue.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So I will be, you will be. And are you
staying in town?
Speaker 14 (27:06):
Yes, I'll be staying in New York my town. I
live right on the water in New York in the
northern suburbs, and so you can see just the whole
entire waterfront, just all it up in fireworks, and it's
actually pretty.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Neat, lovely, love it.
Speaker 14 (27:22):
Okay, Yeah, but I'm glad it's a Friday because this
is the first time that I'll be able to actually
stay up late for the.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Fireworks and not have to leave early to come to
work the next day. I feel you. We were talking
earlier how last Fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I worked on the day on fourth of July and
then the day after, and so I had to go
to bed at like seven thirty, and that's just when
that's when the show.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Starts, exactly exactly.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
I feel it because every single year, and I always
forget to take the day off after, like I'm at
a barbecue going, oh.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, okay, let's move on to other business.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The springtime surge in.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Auto sales to get ahead of the tariffs or they
anticipated tariffs, has affected sales now.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, So we did see a.
Speaker 14 (28:09):
Lot of car shoppers rushing to the showrooms because they
wanted to beat all the tariff price increases. However, the
momentum starting to slow down. We saw a little bit
in June. Some experts that followed the market have said
that and they say, eh, it's looking a little rufa
out there because a recent dealer survey finds that fears
about the economy have become the number one factor holding backshoppers.
(28:30):
So we talked to one haunted dealership here in Queens
and they said that sales have slowed down after an
uptick and buyers that these I was like a run on.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The grocery store before a blizzard. They said, everybody was
running in. You get a car, You get a car.
Speaker 14 (28:43):
But there's so much uncertainty out there, and people are
worried about taking on a big payment, what if they
don't have a job.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
In a couple of months from now, and have prices
actually gone up yet Cortney.
Speaker 14 (28:54):
Well, in some cases yes, and some companies have announced
individual ones like two two hundred, three hundred dollars ones.
We're seeing it across the board because again, and not
only is the car, but look at the parts too.
Parts are also tariff too. So it's it's a tough
time for the car dealers because they have to figure
(29:14):
out what are we going to do in order to
keep people coming into the showroom, keep people buying when
prices are at these escalated levels.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I mean, prices aren't for cars are at all time
highs right now? Okay.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
There have been lots of fashion hybrids over the years.
You know sports, I love sports. There's jaggings, jeans and leggings,
which I love sports.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Jeggings not so much.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, I know, I love a sport. I'm not so
much a jagging person. But now there's a new style mashup.
Speaker 14 (29:42):
Yes, it's called snowfers. So it combines a the cushioned
sole of a sneaker with the upper of a loafer.
So it's a comfy business on top, party on the
bottom shoe.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
If you want to think about it.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
That way, but it looks like a penny loafer on
top of on top of a regular sneak sole. But
snowfirs have emerged as this viral breakout hit for a
lot of the major sneaker brands New Balance, Hoka, Puma,
and they've definitely been selling out quickly and they're landing
on resale sites at these wildly inflated prices.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, so if you want your snow firs, expect to
shell out a lot of money for them.
Speaker 14 (30:18):
Yeah, and by the way, big apparel companies are also
taking note of this trend. The gap actually said it
takes into account which shoe styles are trending to make
sure that its clothes will look good with.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
What's on our feet. These snow firs are are the
souls white or black or do they go?
Speaker 14 (30:36):
Well, the souls are different colors, but they're just it's
it's an odd looking shoe because if you could think
of a penny over with a big thick.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Sole, that's what it kind of looks like. Okay, all right,
not a great first half of the year for the dollar.
Speaker 14 (30:52):
No, So the dollar actually typically strengthens in times of
economic or geopolitical strife. But that has a happen at
all this year. The dollar has fallen close to eleven
percent year to date. It's the worst first half performance
since nineteen seventy three. Think back about that Richard Nixon
was in office over fifty years ago. But the decline
(31:14):
isn't necessarily a worry for President Trump. He at times
has said he'd like to see the dollar soften because
he hopes that will give a boost.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
To US manufacturing.
Speaker 14 (31:23):
Still, we have to think about a weeker dollar could
definitely complicate the picture for economic growth here in the
US because it tends to drive inflation, and now Americans
will be forced to pay more.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
For foreign made goods.
Speaker 14 (31:35):
But it's actually better for exports because then they can
buy it a little cheaper.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Gotcha, And before we let you go, what are we
looking at today?
Speaker 14 (31:44):
Ooh, well, we hit a record yesterday. The bulls drove
stocks to all time highs. We had a solid quarter,
I mean unbelievable. The S and P five hundred has
jumped over twenty three percent from that tariff driven low
in April.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
The dout jumped.
Speaker 14 (31:58):
Yesterday, but this morning stocks have pulled back slightly. People
are taking a bit of a breather their doubt. Futures
are down fifty points.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
day with Bloomberg's courtney Donaho. Let's do it one more
time tomorrow exactly. I'll be here, all right, talk to
you then to see you later. State and local officials
speaking of fireworks have issued a warning ahead of the
fourth of July, and that is illegal fireworks will not
be tolerated anywhere in California. CalFire and Governor Newsom say
(32:24):
violators can face fines up to fifty thousand dollars and
maybe even date jail time. Even safe insane fireworks are
banned in many areas, including the city of La us.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says LA's sanctuary policies have undermined
law enforcement after the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the city,
Mayor Bass and the city council. Bondi said the city
(32:47):
is to blame for violence during anti ice protests and
says the city is protecting illegal immigrants over citizens. A
ten year old from Santa Clarita sure knows how to
walk the dog. Geo Gone is one first place in
his division at the National Yo Yo Championships in Las Vegas,
Gon first picked up Yo Yo just fourteen months ago.
(33:08):
He got it in Niagara Falls during a family trip.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Let's say good morning now to the host of how
to Money on KFI.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It's our buddy, Joel lars Guard.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Morning Joel, Morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
We know you are going to head out for vacation
because this is the last time we're going to talk
to you for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Where are you guys going?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
So we are going to head over to Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Nice.
Speaker 15 (33:29):
Yeah, my wife's best friend lives there, so we'll be
staying with them for a few days and we'll hit
up the Big Island for five or six days too.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And look at that how to Money Joel has figured
out how not to spend money on a hotel room
in Hawaii.
Speaker 15 (33:42):
Stay with a friend, especially in expensive places like Hawaii
to go.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, let's talk about these new cell services, their MVNO.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
What does MVNO stand for.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Mobile Virtual Network Operator? And what is that? Yeah? Okay,
So basically.
Speaker 15 (33:59):
It's all of these these new name brands are trying
to establish themselves as name brands. The big three are
you know, Verizon and AT and T and T Mobile.
Those are the ones you see the ads for everywhere,
and if you've been if you're a little more online,
you've seen the ads for companies like mint Mobile, which
is an mb and O that runs on T mobiles network.
(34:20):
But there have just been a proliferation of these mb
and o's and they're essentially, you know, buying space from
the big three and then they're reselling cell service at
a much cheaper price to the general public. And so
if you don't fall for the advertising when you're watching
your favorite sports team, then you're.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
You're actually doing your research.
Speaker 15 (34:40):
You can save a ton of money on cell phone service,
and it's amazing. It's one of those things where in
the era of inflation, we have seen a downward trend
in prices on cell phone service, and so what used
to be a good price three years ago, even you're
you're overpaying if you haven't re shopped your cell phone service.
So it's it's really important to re shop. They're Mint
Mobile just mentioned they're a great one. US Mobile is
(35:02):
my current favorite, and they've got some of the best plans.
We're talking about unlimited cell phone service with talk, text
and data as well for the low low price of
seventeen dollars and fifty cents a month. If you prepay
for a year, that's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay that and you prepay for a year, so it
would be about two hundred bucks, right, Yeah, I mean
I pay almost that in a month.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
Well, I'm always shocked by this, but when you look
at the stats of what the average I'm always baffled.
I'm like, there's no way this is true. The stats
show that the average person pays something like one hundred
dollars a month for cell phone service, and I'm like
that that can't be right because I'm paying not much
more than that for cell phone service for a full year.
(35:45):
So if that is true, if those numbers really are accurate,
then some people must be paying much more than one
hundred dollars a month. If I'm paying a whole lot less,
and I think a lot of folks think amy, well,
then I must be getting this inferior. I'm getting this
third rate cell phone service. And you do have to
look at the fine print. For instance, with US Mobile,
(36:06):
yeah it's unlimited data, but after ten gigs they're going
to throttle you, so you're not going to get as
fast as speeds.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
But the truth is also that.
Speaker 15 (36:12):
Most people don't use even ten gigs in a month
because they're on Wi Fi at work, they're on Wi
Fi at home, and unless you're watching like copious amounts
of YouTube videos when you're driving around in your car
or walking the streets of your neighborhood, you don't need
that much data.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
And there are other options.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
Out there too, like Google's Google has a pretty good
cell phone service as well that works well overseas, So
there are lots of options in the NB and O world.
What's interesting, too, is there these companies. They are new
ones springing up, like the SmartLess podcast the Jason Bateman,
Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. They're creating a SmartLess cell
(36:49):
phone service. I guess it's just easier than ever to
create one of these companies. You know, the President has
a new ish m V and O cell phone service
that they announced just a couple of weeks ago. But
just be careful, be wary what are you getting and
how much are you paying? Because I do believe the
President's is like forty seven dollars a month, and like
I said, I'm paying seventeen dollars a month, So look
(37:09):
at the trade offs between what you're getting and just
because yeah, I wouldn't buy it because my favorite podcast
host launched one. I'm looking for the best value cell
phone plan and US Mobile Mint Mobile, those are typically
two of the top two. I would recommend people check
out Okay Perfect.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
And then you know we're doom scrolling all over the place,
and one of those places is TikTok. And so people
are now getting financial advice from TikTok.
Speaker 15 (37:34):
Yeah, I mean this has been a growing problem right
where there's something about financial advice in sixty seconds that's
cast out to everybody everywhere where. There's just it's hard
to find nuance. And so there's a lot of people saying, well,
I heard this on TikTok and I applied it to
my life, and it turns out, actually it didn't work
for me. Think about getting tax advice from TikTok. I mean,
(37:55):
it's so specialized your tax situation and what makes sense
for you, you know, the tax maneuvers that are actually
going to help you save on your taxes versus your neighbor.
A lot of it depends on how you make your
money and do your own real estate. Right, all these
other things. And if you're taking your tax advice from
TikTok and then trying to apply it directly to your life,
(38:16):
you could be making a mistake. And then there's just
all sorts of fraudulent claims on TikTok as well. And again,
I have friends in this space.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Do what I said shocking?
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Yeah, I know right?
Speaker 15 (38:28):
Well, when I have friends in this space and they
really aren't, they're smart, they're good, They're delivering good content,
good advice on TikTok and on Instagram. So I'm not
like castigating everyone who creates content on these platforms. I
think there are some really well intentioned people who do
offer good advice and who do try to create the
nuance that's necessary.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
It's just that there's a lot of people who aren't
doing that.
Speaker 15 (38:47):
And there was this trend going around lately, and especially
with kind of what's happening with student loan repayment now,
where the government, the current administration saying yeah, you got
to start paying your student loan bills again after three
and a half years of not having to, and people
are like, I didn't remember I had student loans.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
How much do I owe again?
Speaker 15 (39:04):
What's my monthly payment, and you know, a lot of
people are shocked, and so a lot of people haven't,
you know, because they haven't been paying. They're not paying,
and their credit score is getting dinged, and so you're
looking for anything, you're grasping on to hope that somehow,
some way you don't actually have to pay that student loan,
and TikTok is more than happy to oblige and interesting
theories of how you can avoid paying your student loan.
(39:27):
And The New York Times wrote about this recently and
they're basically saying, oh, you can file acclaim based on privacy,
or you can dispute a student loan record, and this
is a way that you can get your student loan
debt erased. And man, if only it were that easy.
In fact, student loan debt is one of the hardest
things to get rid of. There are special exemptions for
(39:47):
student loans where you can't get rid of them even in.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Bankruptcy court typically.
Speaker 15 (39:52):
So, yeah, these if you follow this advice on TikTok,
you might be you know, excited to think that you
can get rid of your student loan debt, but it's
not going to happen in reality.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Okay, So basically think twice before following financial advice that
you get from a platform known for recipes and dance moves.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, stick to the recipes and dance moves.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
The host of How to Money on KFI, it's Joel Larsgard.
You can hear them every Sunday from noon to two.
Have a wonderful vacation. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
All right, thank you, Amy, All right, take.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Care and with that, our time is done. But before
we leave, where are you going for the fourth of July?
We want to hear from you on the talkback on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I'm staying at my house in Mexico for the fourth
of July.
Speaker 14 (40:37):
All right, good morning, Amy, flying Fish on the way
to the airport Lancaster going out to Lake Caves.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
O little little water skiing and house boating on Lake Cavesy.
That sounds fabulous.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I suspect there might be a couple of people other
people there too.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Maybe one or two.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Be busy.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
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to think about that for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
July First, it feels like it was just Christmas. I mean,
we're less than six months away from Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
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and make sure that you can get to where you're going.
This morning tomorrow is the busiest travel day, a record
number of people hitting the road for the Fourth of
July holiday. So I wanted to find out where you're going,
are you staying in town and putting on your ear
(01:51):
plugs to block the sound of the war zone that
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and again just click on that the mic in the
red circle and let us know what you're doing for
the fourth of July. Okay, here's what's ahead on wake
up call. Evacuation orders remain in place for neighborhoods of
Banning as the Wolf fire continues to grow. The fire
that broke out on Sunday afternoon has burned through more
(02:47):
than twenty four hundred acres. It's thirty percent surrounded. Fire
officials say firefighters are getting an assist from air tankers
in the sky and bulldozers on the ground. Several other
smaller fires are also burning in riverside in San Bernardino County,
LA and LA County, and several cities are increasing minimum
wages today, the minimum wage for unincorporated LA County and
(03:08):
Santa Monica goes up to seventeen eighty one per hour.
For the city of Los Angeles it'll be seventeen eighty seven,
and Pasadena will have a minimum wage of eighteen dollars
four cents per hour. Weeks away from the start of
his murder trial, Brian Coberger has apparently agreed to plead
guilty to murdering for University of Idaho students. The plea
(03:28):
takes the death penalty off the table for Coburger the families,
so the college students are reportedly furious and say the
state of Idaho has failed them. Officials now know who
the guy is who shot and killed two firefighters who
were responding to a fire in the mountains near Quarterlaine, Idaho,
But do they know why. We're going to find out
with ABC's Jim Ryan that's coming up in just a
(03:50):
couple of minutes. Also, gen Z is getting financial advice
off TikTok.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
What could possibly go wrong? And how are you possibly
going to pay for your kids or your grandkids college?
We're gonna find out what.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
The host of how to Money on KFI, Joel Larsguard,
joins us at five point fifty. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. A wildfire in Banning has grown to
more than twenty four hundred acres and as I mentioned,
thirty percent surrounded. Full containment isn't expected until early next week.
Cal Fire Captain Daniel Potter says the fire is burning
(04:22):
in some rough terrain.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Most of the area. We'll have to get by foot
or helicopter to get crews there, because we will you know,
one we can't drive there, or we can't send like
bulldozers and stuff and make our fire breaks to help
contain the fire.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
More than four thousand homes and other buildings are threatened.
Evacuation orders are in place for several neighborhoods. Other are
under evacuation warnings. A wildfire burning near Lake Matthews in
Riverside County has been stopped at just under seven hundred acres.
The fire in Gavalon Hills started late yesterday morning. Its
spread through grass and brush. By early afternoon it had
(04:56):
grown to about one hundred acres. Evacuations were ordered, but
later down to warnings. That fire also thirty percent surrounded.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
The Trump administration is suing La over its sanctuary city policy.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Suit was filed in LA, where the federal government seeks
to invalidate the sanctuary policy adopted by the city council
late last year. It notes the policy was put in
place after President Trump's election, and Attorney General Pam Bondi
says la sanctuary status is to blame for violence and
vandalism and attacks on law enforcement officers. The lawsuit names
Mayor Bass, the city council, and the city itself. The
(05:29):
city council has allocated half a million dollars to defend
itself against federal investigations and plans to ask the city
attorney to prepare to fight alleged racial profiling by federal
immigration agents. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, So, Jim,
we talked yesterday about the shooting and the basically the
ambush in the mountains outside Cordelaine, Idaho. What more do
we know now about the guy who shot and killed
the two firefighters.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
But he was twenty years old. West Rolling moved up
from Phoenix to that part of Idaho not too long ago.
There was some speculation. I mean that used to be
sort of neo Nazi country, a very northern Idaho. It
hasn't been for some time, but still people that kind
of that's sort of where people went. The thinking now
is that this may have been a mental break that
(06:21):
this guy was having. His landlord says that he had
been acting strangely the last few months, had been living
in his pickup truck apparently, and on Sunday, he used
a flint, according to investigators, to start this fire on
Canfield Mountain. Firefighters responded and had some contact with him.
By the way, Amy told him to move his truck
or there was some conversation between west Rolling and these firefighters,
(06:44):
and that's when the shooting started. That he took out
a gun and killed a battalion Chief Frank Harwood. He
killed Quarterlaining Fire Battalion Chief John Morrison, and wounded a
third quarterline firefighter before he eventually took his own life.
He was found out there with a shotgun. It wasn't
a rifle, but it was a shotgun that he was
found with in the mountain there some time later.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
What's the difference between a shotgun and a rifle?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
I thought they were the right fule fire's bullets and
a shotgun fire's shotgun shells.
Speaker 8 (07:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
So interesting though that he appears to have started the fire, yeah,
but then started shooting the guys after they basically told
him to move right.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
More evidence of some kind of metal slip.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Why would you do that?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
And especially a kid. This twenty year old apparently had
the aspirations to become a firefighter himself at some time
in the past. His family members say they're completely confused
by this. They don't know what motivated him to do this,
but they do know that he at one point wanted
to be a firefighter. So I think it's just it's
a mystery as to what And we may never know
(07:55):
because Wes Rowley, the person who carried this whole thing
out amy has has died.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Yeah, and have they found any kind of aside from
knowing that he wanted to be a firefighter and kind
of a manifesto, any kind of anything like that.
Speaker 7 (08:08):
No, they have not. There have been some postings that
have not been attributed firmly to him that may offer
some clues, but nothing that's been nailed down as something
that he wrote himself.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Okay, and then what is the status of the fire, Jim,
because I know that when all of this happened on Sunday,
the officials said, hey, we can't fight the fire because
it's not safe to send the firefighters out there, which
can also be a recipe for disaster during wildfire season.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Are they fighting it now?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
They are?
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Yeah, that was you know, they gave up on fighting
that fire. It was growing yesterday afternoon, was growing into
the night last night. They were sending new replacement firefighters
in to try to battle it, but you know, it
was still raging overnight. So that's become the next step here.
You had the investigation into what happened. Memorials are being
(09:00):
planned for these firefighters, but also a matter of putting
out the fire that westrolely apparently started.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Okay, ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the information.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Appreciate it. And like you said, we may never know
what sparked the shooting bec highly possible. Yeah, all right,
take care, We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
House Republicans say a vote could happen tomorrow on President
Trump's Big, Beautiful Budget bill. ABC's Mary Bruce says it
needs to get through the Senate first, though the.
Speaker 9 (09:32):
Bill includes roughly four trillion dollars in tax cuts for
the wealthy, along with new funding for immigration enforcement and
fulfill some campaign pledges like no taxes on tips and overtime.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
She says.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
The bill also gets biden era clean energy initiatives and
Slash's medicaid. Republicans say there are reforms that target assistance
where it needs to go. The man charged with killing
four University of Idaho students is agreed to plead guilty.
Brian Cooeberger made a plea deal to avoid the death penalty.
ABC's Kana Whitworth says a change of plea hearing is
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set for tomorrow, Sentencing then expected later in July. Simply
a stunning turn of events in a case that has
gripped this nation. The four students were killed in a
rental home near the university campus in Moscow, Idaho, in
November of twenty twenty two. Day two of jury deliberations
in the Shancomb's sex trafficking and racketeering trial will get
(10:28):
under way this morning. ABC's Aaron Katirsky says deliberations were
paused yesterday when the judge was given a note saying
one of the jurors couldn't follow instruction.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
That juror is a fifty one year old scientist with
a doctorate in molecular biology.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
The note did not make clear what the issue was.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
The judge sent back a note of his own, telling
the jury to follow his instructions and keep deliberating. A
federal judge in Tennessee has ruled the man deported in
Al Salvador and returned to the US to face human
smuggling charges is going to stay in jail for now.
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrigo Garcia say they're worried he could
be deported again if he's released. A federal prosecutor had
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earlier told a judge there were plans to deport him,
but he didn't say when. The Justice Department says has
said it intends to try Abrego Garcia on the smuggling
charges before any moves.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Are made to remove him from the US.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
The judge last week hauld say let's keep him behind bars. Well,
we make this decision, and then made the decision yesterday
to keep him because the worry was that they'd release
him on bail and then Ice would swoop in, grab
him and deport him. The Trump administration says it has
revoked US visas for the British band Bob Villain. State
(11:46):
Department Press Secretary Tammy Bruce says it's in response to
the rapper chanting death Death to Israeli defense forces during
the Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It really is.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
About the issue of national security, about issues of violence,
the increase certainly of anti Semitism, but of terrorism in general.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
She says.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
The band is free to do what it did at Glastonbury,
and the administration can do what it's done. The Trump
administration has sent a letter to Harvard University threatening all
of the school's federal funding over alleged civil rights violations.
ABC's Karen Travers says the governor government has already frozen
more than two billion dollars in grants to the school.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Harvard says in a statement that a quote strongly disagrees
with the federal government's findings. Pushing back on the Trump
Administration's threats to strip federal funding, Harvard saying it has
made quote significant strides to combat bigotry, hate, and bias.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
The where did I Lost My place?
Speaker 1 (12:45):
The White House has also targeted Harvard's ability to enroll
foreign students and threaten to rescind its tax exempt status.
The school has been criticized over its alleged treatment of
Jewish students.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
And you could call it space flicks.
Speaker 11 (13:07):
NASA's live programming will begin streaming on Netflix this summer.
According to a news release, viewers can watch rocket launches,
spacewalks and views of Earth from space on Netflix as
part of NASA's efforts to reach a global audience. NASA
didn't disclose financial details of the deal, However, the agency
has noted that the content will remain free and ad
free on the NASA app and website, where it already
(13:27):
has live programming. Ourkronner KFI News.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh, that could be.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
My new obsession since I can't watch sunny and Gizmo
in the in the tree above Big Bear Lake anymore,
Maybe I'll start watching NASA twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Maybe that's not such a great idea.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
LA City Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez says the council is
going to do everything within its power to keep families together.
He says LA will defend its sanctuary policies from a
lawsuit filed by the Trump administration. The city Mayor, Bass,
and the council council are all named in the suit
that accuses LA of blocking immigration enforcement and violating the constitution.
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Dozens of Routs and Food for Less stores in LA
and Orange County closing. Parent company Croger says poor earnings
are to blame. Revenue was down one hundred million dollars
in the first quarter of twenty twenty five. It's not
known yet which stores are going to close, but there
are sixty of them in southern California. Kroger says all
employees will be offered jobs at other locations. Three men
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trying to hop the border wall have had to be
rescued after getting stuck on top of the wall between
US and Mexico. Border Patrol agents say they were trying
to cross near the O Ti Mesa Port of entry
early Sunday morning. They apparently used carpet to cover the
wire along the top of the wall, climbed up and
then got stuck and couldn't get down. All three were
(14:47):
taken into custody after they were rescued at six oh five.
It's handle on the news. You know, we got a
big vote a rama going in the Senate. Check in
and see if if the big beautiful.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Bill is going to pass, and then what happen spans next?
Blinded by the light?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Have you noticed this more often when you're driving at
night that car headlights seem to be brighter or they're
just kind of getting in your eyes and irritating you
a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Well, they actually are.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
They're bluer, they're higher, and they're brighter, and that has
increased the irritation that a lot of us are experiencing
when we drive. And since a lot of us are
going to be driving over the fourth of July, get
ready for it. Older model vehicles used halogen bulbs, which
put out about a thousand lumens, but in the mid
(15:45):
two thousands, car makers shifted gears and moved to LED technology,
and the LED bulbs shine even brighter, so instead of
a thousand lumens like a halogen bulb, they put out
four thousand lumens. And then aftermarket LED lights, which can
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be purchased on size like Amazon, have ten thousand lumens
or more.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
And you really notice those because they pop out.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The new technology also aggravates the human eye more because
the light is blue, and those blue hues are also
hitting at eye level because more people are driving SUVs
and trucks, and then that puts the body of the
car up higher, which puts obviously the lights up higher,
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and all of those are, you know, contributing to the
nighttime blindness. There are some people who are saying, you
know what, we got to put a stop to this.
It's getting out of control, and so some are looking
for regulatory crackdowns on blinding beams, but it hasn't happened
yet and so for now, the light red. All right, Hey,
(17:04):
we want to know where you're headed for the fourth
of July, so hit us up on the talk back
on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
I know there's some of you out there listening on
the iHeartRadio app. This is new for us.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I know Gary and Shannon do this all the time,
but on wake up call it's a lot to ask
early in the morning.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
But we would love to have you weigh in.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Tell us if you're staying home or if you're heading
out for the Fourth of July weekend, and if you
are leaving town, where are you going? So just go
to the iHeartRadio app, or if you're already listening, it's
already up there on your screen and there's a up
on the upper right hand corner. There's a little white
microphone in a red circle, and just hit that, record
it and we'll get it. I want to know where
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you're going for the fourth Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. LA County officials say there will be penalties
for anyone caught shooting off illegal fireworks. District Attorney Nathan
Hafkman says, amateur is using commercial grade fireworks pose a
real day to the community.
Speaker 12 (18:01):
If you want it anyway in danger our county by
setting off illegal fireworks, we will come after you with
the full force and wrath of the law to make
sure you do not do that.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Hawkman says last Christmas, someone shot off high caliber fireworks
in Inglewood, doing damage to buildings, homes, and vehicles. That
person is now facing criminal charges in the fines are
pretty extreme too, so if you get busted, sadly, I
don't think it's going to affect anything. Because on Saturday
night there was a lot of booms in my neighborhood
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and I remember I was I think I worked last
fourth of July, so I was home on the third
of July or and the fourth of July, and man,
it was NonStop. Sounded like a war zone in my neighborhood.
The top military commander in charge of National Guard troops
deployed to LA has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if
two hundred of those National Guard members can be returned
(18:55):
to wildfire fighting duty. Peak wildfire season is just getting
underway in the state, and Governor Newsom has warned the
National Guard is understaffed because of the LA deployment to
protect federal agents and properties. A report from the RAND
Corporation says the number of homeless camps in Hollywood and
Venice was down last year, but the number of people
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sleeping without a tent, a car or a makeshift shelter
held steady. Homelessness on skid Row was up nine percent.
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority says it will release final
results of its Point in Time homeless count on July fourteenth.
A man from Compton has been sinced more than seven
years in prison for his role in a series of
armed robberies of mostly seven elevens in South la He
(19:39):
was ordered yesterday to pay almost eight thousand dollars in
restitution the US Attorney's offices. The guy and three others
robbed the seven eleven stores and a CBS in Hollywood
two years ago. Several new state laws are kicking in today.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
One of the laws is designed to help people more
easily cancel subscriptions. Another is expected to help crack down
on the online sale of stolen goods. A third will
require short term rental lodging sites like Airbnb to disclose
additional fees and charges. Schools serving grades seven through twelve
will be required to print the number of the nine
eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline on campus, and occupational
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safety and health protections will be extended to many household
domestic service workers. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
A woman who worked at a seven to eleven in
Hollywood has died a week after she was attacked at work.
The woman's family alleges her assistant store manager attacked her
when a verbal argument got physical. She was hit with
a bottle and found unconscious on the floor of the store.
She later died at the hospital. The attacker apparently left
before police got there. A man from Oranges facing federal
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charges in a two hundred and seventy million dollar medical
fraud scheme. Prosecutors say sixty six year old Paul Randall
and two others helped submit bobit bogus claims for prescription
drugs that weren't medically necessary and in many cases never
given to patients. Prosecutors alleged Randall and the others took
advantage of a suspension of medical authorization requirements during a
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transition to a new payment system. Ah finding the loopholes
the beach may not be the best choice for a
family get away for the fourth of July. The La
County Department of Public Health has issued water warnings at
seven beaches because of high bacteria levels in the water.
Among the beaches, you're being advised to avoid swimming, surfing
or playing in the water. Are Mother's Beach in Marina
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del Rey, the Santa Monica Pier and Innercabrio in San Pedro.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Signs will be posted. Long Beach is now going to
share some of its events for the twenty twenty eight
Olympic Games.
Speaker 13 (21:40):
Organizers say sailing will be held in the Port of
LA in San Pedro and Belmont Shore in Long Beach.
The Port of LA will host six boat events. Long
Beach is expected to host four board events. The two
venues are approximately ten miles from each other. LA will
host a majority of events in the downtown area, west
side and in the San Fernando Valley. Law is expected
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to release the full twenty twenty eight competition schedule for
all Olympic sports later this summer. Deborah mark KOFFI News.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Saving Butterflies one caterpillar at a time. I love this story.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
The silver spot butterfly that once lived in grasslands from
northern California all the way up to British Columbia, has
been listed as endangered since nineteen eighty well. The Oregon
Zoo is now working to change that. It collects females
from the wild and then gives their offspring a safe
space to grow. So far this year, they've released nearly
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two thousand caterpillars into the coast range. Since two thousand,
they've released more than thirty five thousand, giving the species
a real chance to fly. Evacuation orders remain in place
for neighborhoods of Banning as the wolf fire continues to grow.
The fire that broke out Sunday afternoon has burned through
more than twenty four hundred acres, about thirty percent surrounded.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
The state of Idaho has failed us.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
That's the reaction from one of the families of a
murdered college student from the University of Idaho. The reaction
comes after Brian Coburg apparently agreed to a plea deal
in his murder case. For the plea, he's expected to
get life in prison, but the death penalty is off
the table. In Idaho, judges can reject plea agreements, but
that rarely happens. The late Senator Dianne Feinstein's home in
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San Francisco has sold. The ninety five hundred square foot
mansion and the Pacific Heights neighborhood sold last week for
nineteen million.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Dollars. Senator Feinstein, who died in twenty twenty three, and
her husband bought the home in two thousand and six
for sixteen and a half million. Feinstein was the eighth
richest member of Congress. She was worth ninety million dollars
six oh five. It's Handle on the news. You never
know what Handle's gonna say, so you'll want to be
there again. That's right after six o'clock tonight, the Dodgers
(23:48):
take on the White Sox at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
First pitch goes out at seven. You can listen to
all the Dodger games on AM five seventy LA Sports
live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and you can
stream all games in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Republicans in the California Senate and Assembly say
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they're asking President Trump to focus federal immigration operations on
undocumented violent criminals. Senator Susette Valderis tells KFI LA is
in the situation it's in because of sanctuary laws. The
sanctuary laws have pushed undocumented criminals onto our streets, and
(24:34):
that's where we're seeing these ice raids in our communities.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
She says.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
The frustration is why they're asking Trump to make sure
enforcement operations focus on criminal immigrants and try to avoid
sweeping raids that are causing fear and disrupting work sites.
Officials with Immigration and Customs enforcement have condemned a new
iPhone app it lets users anonymously report sightings of ice
(24:58):
raids in real time. The app, called ice Block, is
modeled after Ways, but for immigration enforcement. It allows users
to pinpoint ice locations on a map, add details about
what they saw, and then send push and notifications to
others within a five mile radius. Officials say it puts
their offices in danger. Artificial intelligence is about to put
(25:20):
your doctor out of work.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Microsoft says it's aisystem can diagnose patients four times more
accurately than human doctors. It's MAAI system used several AI models,
including chat, GPT, Google's Gemini, and X's Rock to mimic
human experts on more than three hundred case studies, and
found the NAI system was eighty percent accurate in diagnosing
those cases, compared to twenty percent accuracy for the human doctors.
It also reduced healthcare costs twenty percent by selecting less
(25:44):
expensive tests and procedures. They say the next step to
achieving medical superintelligence is using the system to compare results
with real doctors treating real patients in real time. Michael
Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Pretty amazing. What that's going to do.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney
Donaho Morning, Courtney, good morning. So fireworks aren't the only
thing blowing up this fourth of July. So we're barbecue prices, yes,
and you know, I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
I can't wait.
Speaker 14 (26:13):
But consumer firepower is definitely on display this fourth of July.
So let's play Little James Brown to get us in
the mood for today.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
A little fun.
Speaker 14 (26:26):
So, according to wallet Houb, we plan to spend eight
point nine billion dollars on food this holiday, and we
eat a whole lot of hot dogs to celebrate, one
hundred and fifty million of them. Plus we're making a
toaster too for America's birthday. And additional four billion dollars
will be doled out for.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Beer and wine. Four billion dollars for just beer and wine. Yeah,
and mostly beer.
Speaker 14 (26:46):
I didn't realize Independence Day is the number one holiday
for beer drinking. I thought it'd be Saint Patrick's Day,
but it kind of came up and shocked me with that.
But a lot of people are getting together with their
family and friends. Sixty one percent of us are looking
forward to attending a barbecue.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
So I will be, you will be. And are you
staying in town?
Speaker 14 (27:06):
Yes, I'll be staying in New York my town. I
live right on the water in New York in the
northern suburbs, and so you can see just the whole
entire waterfront, just all it up in fireworks, and it's
actually pretty.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Neat, lovely, love it.
Speaker 14 (27:22):
Okay, Yeah, but I'm glad it's a Friday because this
is the first time that I'll be able to actually
stay up late for the.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Fireworks and not have to leave early to come to
work the next day. I feel you. We were talking
earlier how last Fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I worked on the day on fourth of July and
then the day after, and so I had to go
to bed at like seven thirty, and that's just when
that's when the show.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Starts, exactly exactly.
Speaker 14 (27:46):
I feel it because every single year, and I always
forget to take the day off after, like I'm at
a barbecue going, oh.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yeah, okay, let's move on to other business.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
The springtime surge in.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Auto sales to get ahead of the tariffs or they
anticipated tariffs, has affected sales now.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, So we did see a.
Speaker 14 (28:09):
Lot of car shoppers rushing to the showrooms because they
wanted to beat all the tariff price increases. However, the
momentum starting to slow down. We saw a little bit
in June. Some experts that followed the market have said
that and they say, eh, it's looking a little rufa
out there because a recent dealer survey finds that fears
about the economy have become the number one factor holding backshoppers.
(28:30):
So we talked to one haunted dealership here in Queens
and they said that sales have slowed down after an
uptick and buyers that these I was like a run on.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
The grocery store before a blizzard. They said, everybody was
running in. You get a car, You get a car.
Speaker 14 (28:43):
But there's so much uncertainty out there, and people are
worried about taking on a big payment, what if they
don't have a job.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
In a couple of months from now, and have prices
actually gone up yet Cortney.
Speaker 14 (28:54):
Well, in some cases yes, and some companies have announced
individual ones like two two hundred, three hundred dollars ones.
We're seeing it across the board because again, and not
only is the car, but look at the parts too.
Parts are also tariff too. So it's it's a tough
time for the car dealers because they have to figure
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out what are we going to do in order to
keep people coming into the showroom, keep people buying when
prices are at these escalated levels.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I mean, prices aren't for cars are at all time
highs right now? Okay.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
There have been lots of fashion hybrids over the years.
You know sports, I love sports. There's jaggings, jeans and leggings,
which I love sports.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Jeggings not so much.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Yeah, I know, I love a sport. I'm not so
much a jagging person. But now there's a new style mashup.
Speaker 14 (29:42):
Yes, it's called snowfers. So it combines a the cushioned
sole of a sneaker with the upper of a loafer.
So it's a comfy business on top, party on the
bottom shoe.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
If you want to think about it.
Speaker 14 (29:54):
That way, but it looks like a penny loafer on
top of on top of a regular sneak sole. But
snowfirs have emerged as this viral breakout hit for a
lot of the major sneaker brands New Balance, Hoka, Puma,
and they've definitely been selling out quickly and they're landing
on resale sites at these wildly inflated prices.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, so if you want your snow firs, expect to
shell out a lot of money for them.
Speaker 14 (30:18):
Yeah, and by the way, big apparel companies are also
taking note of this trend. The gap actually said it
takes into account which shoe styles are trending to make
sure that its clothes will look good with.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
What's on our feet. These snow firs are are the
souls white or black or do they go?
Speaker 14 (30:36):
Well, the souls are different colors, but they're just it's
it's an odd looking shoe because if you could think
of a penny over with a big thick.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Sole, that's what it kind of looks like. Okay, all right,
not a great first half of the year for the dollar.
Speaker 14 (30:52):
No, So the dollar actually typically strengthens in times of
economic or geopolitical strife. But that has a happen at
all this year. The dollar has fallen close to eleven
percent year to date. It's the worst first half performance
since nineteen seventy three. Think back about that Richard Nixon
was in office over fifty years ago. But the decline
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isn't necessarily a worry for President Trump. He at times
has said he'd like to see the dollar soften because
he hopes that will give a boost.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
To US manufacturing.
Speaker 14 (31:23):
Still, we have to think about a weeker dollar could
definitely complicate the picture for economic growth here in the
US because it tends to drive inflation, and now Americans
will be forced to pay more.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
For foreign made goods.
Speaker 14 (31:35):
But it's actually better for exports because then they can
buy it a little cheaper.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
Gotcha, And before we let you go, what are we
looking at today?
Speaker 14 (31:44):
Ooh, well, we hit a record yesterday. The bulls drove
stocks to all time highs. We had a solid quarter,
I mean unbelievable. The S and P five hundred has
jumped over twenty three percent from that tariff driven low
in April.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
The dout jumped.
Speaker 14 (31:58):
Yesterday, but this morning stocks have pulled back slightly. People
are taking a bit of a breather their doubt. Futures
are down fifty points.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
day with Bloomberg's courtney Donaho. Let's do it one more
time tomorrow exactly. I'll be here, all right, talk to
you then to see you later. State and local officials
speaking of fireworks have issued a warning ahead of the
fourth of July, and that is illegal fireworks will not
be tolerated anywhere in California. CalFire and Governor Newsom say
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violators can face fines up to fifty thousand dollars and
maybe even date jail time. Even safe insane fireworks are
banned in many areas, including the city of La us.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says LA's sanctuary policies have undermined
law enforcement after the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the city,
Mayor Bass and the city council. Bondi said the city
(32:47):
is to blame for violence during anti ice protests and
says the city is protecting illegal immigrants over citizens. A
ten year old from Santa Clarita sure knows how to
walk the dog. Geo Gone is one first place in
his division at the National Yo Yo Championships in Las Vegas,
Gon first picked up Yo Yo just fourteen months ago.
(33:08):
He got it in Niagara Falls during a family trip.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Love that.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Let's say good morning now to the host of how
to Money on KFI.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
It's our buddy, Joel lars Guard.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Morning Joel, Morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
We know you are going to head out for vacation
because this is the last time we're going to talk
to you for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Where are you guys going?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
So we are going to head over to Hawaii.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Nice.
Speaker 15 (33:29):
Yeah, my wife's best friend lives there, so we'll be
staying with them for a few days and we'll hit
up the Big Island for five or six days too.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
And look at that how to Money Joel has figured
out how not to spend money on a hotel room
in Hawaii.
Speaker 15 (33:42):
Stay with a friend, especially in expensive places like Hawaii
to go.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Okay, let's talk about these new cell services, their MVNO.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
What does MVNO stand for.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Mobile Virtual Network Operator? And what is that? Yeah? Okay,
So basically.
Speaker 15 (33:59):
It's all of these these new name brands are trying
to establish themselves as name brands. The big three are
you know, Verizon and AT and T and T Mobile.
Those are the ones you see the ads for everywhere,
and if you've been if you're a little more online,
you've seen the ads for companies like mint Mobile, which
is an mb and O that runs on T mobiles network.
(34:20):
But there have just been a proliferation of these mb
and o's and they're essentially, you know, buying space from
the big three and then they're reselling cell service at
a much cheaper price to the general public. And so
if you don't fall for the advertising when you're watching
your favorite sports team, then you're.
Speaker 4 (34:39):
You're actually doing your research.
Speaker 15 (34:40):
You can save a ton of money on cell phone service,
and it's amazing. It's one of those things where in
the era of inflation, we have seen a downward trend
in prices on cell phone service, and so what used
to be a good price three years ago, even you're
you're overpaying if you haven't re shopped your cell phone service.
So it's it's really important to re shop. They're Mint
Mobile just mentioned they're a great one. US Mobile is
(35:02):
my current favorite, and they've got some of the best plans.
We're talking about unlimited cell phone service with talk, text
and data as well for the low low price of
seventeen dollars and fifty cents a month. If you prepay
for a year, that's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay that and you prepay for a year, so it
would be about two hundred bucks, right, Yeah, I mean
I pay almost that in a month.
Speaker 15 (35:24):
Well, I'm always shocked by this, but when you look
at the stats of what the average I'm always baffled.
I'm like, there's no way this is true. The stats
show that the average person pays something like one hundred
dollars a month for cell phone service, and I'm like
that that can't be right because I'm paying not much
more than that for cell phone service for a full year.
(35:45):
So if that is true, if those numbers really are accurate,
then some people must be paying much more than one
hundred dollars a month. If I'm paying a whole lot less,
and I think a lot of folks think amy, well,
then I must be getting this inferior. I'm getting this
third rate cell phone service. And you do have to
look at the fine print. For instance, with US Mobile,
(36:06):
yeah it's unlimited data, but after ten gigs they're going
to throttle you, so you're not going to get as
fast as speeds.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
But the truth is also that.
Speaker 15 (36:12):
Most people don't use even ten gigs in a month
because they're on Wi Fi at work, they're on Wi
Fi at home, and unless you're watching like copious amounts
of YouTube videos when you're driving around in your car
or walking the streets of your neighborhood, you don't need
that much data.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
And there are other options.
Speaker 15 (36:28):
Out there too, like Google's Google has a pretty good
cell phone service as well that works well overseas, So
there are lots of options in the NB and O world.
What's interesting, too, is there these companies. They are new
ones springing up, like the SmartLess podcast the Jason Bateman,
Will Arnett and Sean Hayes. They're creating a SmartLess cell
(36:49):
phone service. I guess it's just easier than ever to
create one of these companies. You know, the President has
a new ish m V and O cell phone service
that they announced just a couple of weeks ago. But
just be careful, be wary what are you getting and
how much are you paying? Because I do believe the
President's is like forty seven dollars a month, and like
I said, I'm paying seventeen dollars a month, So look
(37:09):
at the trade offs between what you're getting and just
because yeah, I wouldn't buy it because my favorite podcast
host launched one. I'm looking for the best value cell
phone plan and US Mobile Mint Mobile, those are typically
two of the top two. I would recommend people check
out Okay Perfect.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
And then you know we're doom scrolling all over the place,
and one of those places is TikTok. And so people
are now getting financial advice from TikTok.
Speaker 15 (37:34):
Yeah, I mean this has been a growing problem right
where there's something about financial advice in sixty seconds that's
cast out to everybody everywhere where. There's just it's hard
to find nuance. And so there's a lot of people saying, well,
I heard this on TikTok and I applied it to
my life, and it turns out, actually it didn't work
for me. Think about getting tax advice from TikTok. I mean,
(37:55):
it's so specialized your tax situation and what makes sense
for you, you know, the tax maneuvers that are actually
going to help you save on your taxes versus your neighbor.
A lot of it depends on how you make your
money and do your own real estate. Right, all these
other things. And if you're taking your tax advice from
TikTok and then trying to apply it directly to your life,
(38:16):
you could be making a mistake. And then there's just
all sorts of fraudulent claims on TikTok as well. And again,
I have friends in this space.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Do what I said shocking?
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Yeah, I know right?
Speaker 15 (38:28):
Well, when I have friends in this space and they
really aren't, they're smart, they're good, They're delivering good content,
good advice on TikTok and on Instagram. So I'm not
like castigating everyone who creates content on these platforms. I
think there are some really well intentioned people who do
offer good advice and who do try to create the
nuance that's necessary.
Speaker 4 (38:45):
It's just that there's a lot of people who aren't
doing that.
Speaker 15 (38:47):
And there was this trend going around lately, and especially
with kind of what's happening with student loan repayment now,
where the government, the current administration saying yeah, you got
to start paying your student loan bills again after three
and a half years of not having to, and people
are like, I didn't remember I had student loans.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
How much do I owe again?
Speaker 15 (39:04):
What's my monthly payment, and you know, a lot of
people are shocked, and so a lot of people haven't,
you know, because they haven't been paying. They're not paying,
and their credit score is getting dinged, and so you're
looking for anything, you're grasping on to hope that somehow,
some way you don't actually have to pay that student loan,
and TikTok is more than happy to oblige and interesting
theories of how you can avoid paying your student loan.
(39:27):
And The New York Times wrote about this recently and
they're basically saying, oh, you can file acclaim based on privacy,
or you can dispute a student loan record, and this
is a way that you can get your student loan
debt erased. And man, if only it were that easy.
In fact, student loan debt is one of the hardest
things to get rid of. There are special exemptions for
(39:47):
student loans where you can't get rid of them even in.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Bankruptcy court typically.
Speaker 15 (39:52):
So, yeah, these if you follow this advice on TikTok,
you might be you know, excited to think that you
can get rid of your student loan debt, but it's
not going to happen in reality.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Okay, So basically think twice before following financial advice that
you get from a platform known for recipes and dance moves.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
Yeah, stick to the recipes and dance moves.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
The host of How to Money on KFI, it's Joel Larsgard.
You can hear them every Sunday from noon to two.
Have a wonderful vacation. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
All right, thank you, Amy, All right, take.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Care and with that, our time is done. But before
we leave, where are you going for the fourth of July?
We want to hear from you on the talkback on
the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
I'm staying at my house in Mexico for the fourth
of July.
Speaker 14 (40:37):
All right, good morning, Amy, flying Fish on the way
to the airport Lancaster going out to Lake Caves.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
O little little water skiing and house boating on Lake Cavesy.
That sounds fabulous.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
I suspect there might be a couple of people other
people there too.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Maybe one or two.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
Be busy.
Speaker 3 (40:58):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Speaker 3 (41:06):
I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call, and.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
If you missed any wake up call, you can listen
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(41:29):
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