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October 13, 2025 39 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday morning Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Steven Portnoy opens the show discussing workers being laid off as the government shutdown negotiations stagnate. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan talks about realtors mapping wind, flood, and wildfire risk. Bloomberg Media’s Denise Pellegrini shares the latest in business and Wall Street. The show closes with Amy talking with KFI White House correspondent Jon Decker speaking on hostages being released in the Middle East.  
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI had kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Good morning. It's five o'clock this Monday morning. This is
your wake up call for October thirteenth. I'm Amy King.
Hope you had a great weekend. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Got up early this morning, one of
those mornings where you wake up early and you can't
go back to bed, or you can't go back to sleep.

(00:48):
I stayed there, just laid there. Feels like a waste
of my time. I finally just got up. And then
I got up and got a message from one of
my friends who said, I'm just riveted by the hostage release,
and so she was watching it all all night and
she sent me a message at like twelve fifteen, because,

(01:09):
as you know, the hostages have been freed in Israel.
The president's speaking to Israel's parliament, the Kanesse. He's been talking,
I don't know, for about two hours now. He does
like to go on. So what we'll be telling you
all about that, of course, the Dodger's in action. They're
in Milwaukee for Game one of the NLCS. So much

(01:30):
going on. Here's what's ahead on wake up call, Buckle up.
The twenty living hostages have now been freed. President Trump
is in Israel to celebrate their release after seven hundred
and thirty eight days in Hamas captivity. He is now
speaking to the Kanesse, which is Israel's parliament, saying that
a sun is rising on a holy land that is

(01:50):
at peace. The Trump Administration's begin laying off thousands of
federal workers is the shutdown approaches two weeks. The layoffs
include employees from seven eight agencies. ABC. Stephen Portnoy's going
to join us in just a couple of minutes to
tell us more about the ongoing shutdown, what's next in
any prospects for ending it. The Dodgers in Milwaukee for

(02:10):
Game one of the National League Championship Series against the
Brewers as their quest continues for a second straight World
Series win. The game gets underway at five eight. You
can hear all the action on our sister station A
and five seventy k LAC. Again, as I mentioned, President
Trump speaking to Israel's parliament. We're going to check in
with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker to get the

(02:31):
latest on what's going on in Israel and then what's
happening later today in Egypt. Also reminder that tax day
was delayed by six months for residents of La County,
So the tax filing deadline it's two days away. Just
to keep on your radar.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Also, we're gonna be talking about ABC's Jim Ryan in
about fifteen minutes about how the National Association of Realtor
is going around and checking out homes and which houses
are in disaster zones. Yeah, means you're going to be
paying more for insurance at some point. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Families of the people held hostage

(03:13):
by Hamas in Gaza are celebrating their release. All twenty
living hostages have now been freed after two years in captivity.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who praised President Trump this
morning for his help in making it happen.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
With our military pressure and President Trump's global leadership, we
achieved this historic moment. It's a moment of indescribable joy
as our nation embraces our sons who are coming home.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
He says he's nominated President Trump for the Israel Prize,
that's the state's highest honor. Natanya, who also talked about
forging peace with Arab nations. Israel has begun to release
Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire agreement. An aviation
influencer known for his death the buying stunt was the
pilot of that helicopter that crashed into a pedestrian bridge

(04:03):
in Huntington Beach. Eric Nixon, was one of five people
injured in the crash. The pilot apparently suffered broken ribs
and crushed vertebrae. Passenger and three people on the ground
were hurt when the helicopter crashed near the Highest Regency
on Saturday. A possible five days strike by healthcare workers
at Kaiser Permanente facilities in California set to start tomorrow.

(04:24):
It's part of a planned statewide walkout in California and
Hawaii involving more than thirty thousand healthcare workers. Their union
says it is striking to protect patient care and to
get a fair contract for its members. Dodgers opening the
National League Championship Series today, Game one in Milwaukee. Dodgers
manager Dave Roberts says he's confident pitchers like Tyler Glasnow

(04:46):
are up for the challenge after an impressive Division series
against the Phillies.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Couldn't wait for this moment to contribute, and so he's
prepared physically mentally again.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
The game starts at five OA with all the action
on our sister station AM five to seventy. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. Stephen, the government
shutdown are partial government shutdown almost two weeks old now.
Along with furloughs, the Trump administration is moving forward now
with its RIF reduction in.

Speaker 5 (05:16):
Force layoffs some four thousand according to our reporting. And
the notices went out late last week, some of which
apparently were sent out by mistake. That was the case
at the CDC, where some workers who respond to ebola
outbreaks in Africa and measles outbreaks here in the US
were told that they had mistakenly received these RIFF notices

(05:40):
that they were accidentally fired due to a coding error.
As it's described well. These cuts also impact other government
agencies in addition to HHS and the CDC, they also
affect HUD the Treasury Department at least twenty percent of
the Education Department, according to reports, particularly those who work
at that agency focused on special Edge Cation. Now this

(06:02):
is day thirteen of the shutdown, and there's no end
in sight to it. When it comes to paychecks, you know,
the last round of paychecks went out late last week
to federal employees, and it depends on which agency they
work for and what their payroll schedules are. But the
checks that just went out would have been partial paychecks

(06:22):
covering work through September thirtieth, the end of the fiscal year.
And now we're in that strange and uncomfortable period where
people are either working without pay or not working without pay,
with the hope and expectation that they will receive back
pay when this all ends. But over the weekend, the

(06:42):
President announced that he's directed the Defense Secretary to figure
out a way to move money around the Pentagon so
that troops are paid. How that's going to work, how
it's legal, is not known, but the expectation is it'll
come from accounts where there happens to be funds that
had been previously appropriated by Congress. The question about the

(07:05):
legality of the layoffs is something that the administration has
been confronting over the last several days. But i'll tell
you amy, as someone who's been around for a while
and has watched these shutdowns happen in the past, and
has a fairly decent understanding of how the federal budget
process works, I don't understand the argument, frankly, that the

(07:25):
shutdown requires layoffs. I don't get it because no federal
appropriations for this fiscal year have been made. The argument is, well,
you know, there are certain things that are essential, and
so to provide those services, we have to move money around,
and that means we have to fire people who aren't
fur load. I don't understand it. All the appropriations ended
at the last fiscal year, So what are you talking

(07:46):
about in terms of what's essential and how you're paying
for it. There's no money at all for anything. It's
sort of just an understanding that once the shutdown ends,
they'll be cash, you know, for everybody, everybody who's furloaded,
everybody who's working. I don't understand the argument. So, but anyway,
that's where we are, and when it comes to the
legality of moving money around the Pentagon. There's some questions

(08:07):
about that too, but I don't see how anyone would
have standing to bring a challenge, and I don't know
why anyone would.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Okay, so we'll be watching that, of course, And then
I have a question for you. We've got lawmakers are
not going to plan to vote again on possibly ending
the shutdown until at least tomorrow. They've voted on the
same measure seven times. Now, what's the point.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
Well, the point is to try to draw attention to
the fact that Democrats are consistently rejecting the House passed
bill that would reopen the government and fund it through
November twenty first, and the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
says that's the offer, and we're not coming back until
Democrats accept it. Democrats in the Senate, the minority in
the Senate, say that they're going to continue filibustering it

(08:52):
because it doesn't include their demands for an extension of
Obamacare tax subsidies that expire at the end of the year,
or reversal of the research Medicaid cuts that Republicans just
made in their reconciliation bill. The one big beautiful bill,
and Republicans are not interested really in doing either. They
don't have consensus certainly on the Republican side of even
extending the tax credits, even though there's a lot of

(09:13):
conversation about it, because they understand that many of their
constituents have benefited from it. So this will drag on.
There is not an incentive to bring it to conclusion
just yet. And we'll see what this week brings.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portinoy, thanks so much. We'll talk
to you again soon. You bet guess we're going to
have to wait and see who blinks first. Be interesting
to see how long this lasts. The last one was
thirty five days. I think that was the longest one yet.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Of Federal Appeals
Court is still blocking the White House room deploying federalized

(09:48):
National Guard troops to Illinois. President Trump says he may
use the Insurrection Act to send Guard and even military
troops to US cities, but Illinois Governor JB. Pritsker says
that law only covers rebellion if.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
The Constitution means anything. The Insurrection Act cannot be invoked
to send them in because they want to fight crime.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
He says, the administration wants troops on the ground because
it wants to militarize democratic cities and states. At least
four people have been killed and twenty others hurt in
a bar shooting in South Carolina. The Beaufort County Sheriff's
office says it happened around one am yesterday at Willie's
Bar and Grill on Saint Helena Island, which is about

(10:30):
fifty miles north of Savannah, Georgia. No arrests were reported,
and the motive for the shooting is not clear. There
were deadly mass shootings in Mississippi after high school football
games on Friday. One of the shootings happened in the
small town of Leland at an event that was not
being held on campus. Officials originally said four people were
killed over twenty others injured, but ABC's Olivia Rubins says

(10:52):
two more people have died of their injuries, so releasing.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Some information about some of those victims. It's heartbreaking.

Speaker 7 (10:59):
They're young, nineteen year old, two eighteen year olds killed
during this, but they are not yet saying if they
have anyone.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
There in custody. In the other shooting, two people were
killed at a high school football game in Heidelberg. One
person was taken into custody. A new study finds your
paycheck may say a lot about your LIFESPAM.

Speaker 7 (11:18):
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Boston found older adults
earning under twenty thousand dollars a year died nearly a
decade earlier on average than those making at least one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The study also shows most
people over age sixty whilch struggle to handle a sudden
financial emergency. The study highlights how money stress and limited

(11:38):
access to care can take a serious toll on health.
Brigida Augustino Kafi News.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
And again I mentioned this a couple minutes ago, but
that tax day was delayed by six months for residents
of La County of course because of the fires in Pasadena,
in Altadena and of course the Pacific Palisades. They decided,
how do we just single out those people, Let's just
make it cover all of La County. So your new

(12:08):
tax day October fifteenth, and it's not getting in a
lot of play. I don't know if everybody already filed
their taxes. I know that I actually did mine back
at the normal tax day, because I knew that if
I didn't do it right away, I would procrastinate it
and I would just be worried about it for the
next six months. Did you get a refund? I actually did,
which was which was a shocker. But I didn't want

(12:29):
to be worried about whether I was going to have
to pay and how much I was going to have
to pay and all that stuff. So it was a
nice surprise that I got a refund. But if you
did not do taxes on the regular day, the new
one October fifteenth. So on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah,
who has pledged he is committed to this piece. In

(12:50):
a speech to Parliament following the release of twenty living
hostages this morning, net Yahoo thanked President Trump repeatedly for
his efforts to secure the release of the hostages and
the end to the fighting. Nenyaw who also announced he
has submitted the nomination for Trump to be the first
non Israeli citizen to get Israel's highest award, called the
Israel Prize. He said that the other one is coming,

(13:14):
referring to the Nobel Peace Prize. Former LA School Superintendent
Austin Buttener is expected to throw his hat in the
ring for the mayor's race next year. The sixty five
year old investment banker and philanthropist ran lausd from twenty
eighteen to twenty one. He's expected to make the announcement today,

(13:34):
Bututener has been critical of LA Mayor Bass's response to
the deadly Palisades fire, saying the city showed a failure
of leadership. A winter like storm system is headed to
southern California. The National Weather Services the storm's going to
move in late tonight with light to moderate rain and
the possibility of heavy showers, thunderstorms, and gusty winds. Up
to three and a half inches could fall in and

(13:54):
around the San Gabriel Mountains. Snow is even possible above
six thousand feet at six handle. On the news, it's
been almost two weeks since the partial government shut down began,
and tempers are flaring. Bill's gonna have something to say
about that. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Okay, so, Jim,
we've got a few weeks left in the hurricane season,
and this year we seem to have kind of dodged

(14:16):
the bullets so far for the most part. But the
National Association of Realtor says hurricanes are just one risk
for homeowners and they've done an analysis of markets around
the country to determine what disasters may be looming.

Speaker 8 (14:32):
Well exactly, and obviously it's not hurricanes that you folks
have to worry about. It's not even so much flooding.
It's wildfire. And this is fascinating. At the manaar dot
com website and app, they take a look at this
almost block by block to assess your own individual risk
to wildfire, flooding, and wind. And a shockingly high number

(14:54):
of American homes are at risk from one of these,
and some from more than oneential risk like this twenty
six point one percent of homes nationwide phase and elevated
risk of wildfire, flooding, or wind over the next thirty years.
And that's how they map this out. And you know,
Los Angeles, obviously the major risk is fire. Two hundred

(15:16):
and six thousand properties around Los Angeles that have some
risk of being affected by a wildfire over the next
thirty years. That's about thirty percent of all the properties there.
So each region has its own risk, and some regions
have very little risk from the potential for weather damage. Montana, Wyoming,
the Upper Midwest, they have fairly small risk of this

(15:37):
kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Okay, So then the question is why is the National
Association of Realtors going through and mapping this out?

Speaker 8 (15:45):
Well because of property values. Right, So if one in
five homes, that's about eight trillion dollars worth of eight
trillion dollars worth of property from extreme risk just from hurricanes, right,
another three point four trillion dollars worth of property from flooding.
So yeah, it's going to affect property vialuge. It's already

(16:05):
affected insurance rates, and some insurance companies have completely pulled
out of a few parts of the country where they've
paid out such massive, massive settlements over the last few years.

Speaker 9 (16:16):
So if you live in Tampa, Florida, or you live.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
In Houston, Texas, it's almost impossible to get wind or
or flooding insurance because of the high risk of hurricane Okay.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
So here's the question too, then, I mean, if you
put all this risk on stuff, it's also going to
give the insurance companies kind of more AMMO to say, hey,
we got to raise these prices. And at what point
is it going to be too much where you literally
can't afford to pay insurance and you can't have a
mortgage if you don't have insurance, or are people just

(16:49):
going to break the law. I mean, it really sets
up a kind of a no win situation.

Speaker 8 (16:54):
Well sure, you know, and even if you can afford
insurance against hurricanes in that hurricane zone, you might not
be able to buy it because the insurance companies have
pulled out altogether. You know, they just don't write policies
in those places anymore. The markets with the highest insurance
burden five of the top ten are in Florida because

(17:15):
of the extreme risk and coastal Florida specifically. But you know,
you look at us and unusually it's the fourth highest
insurance burden is in Oklahoma City because tornadoes really and.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Where where does California land in all of this?

Speaker 8 (17:31):
California isn't even in the top ten in terms of
the insurance burden.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
Now.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
The wildfire risk, of course, is what you're looking at there.
But yeah, I mean, if you look at the top ten,
it's all places that are looking at high high risk
of hurricanes, but obviously the wildfire risk is something or
the wildfire damage has coused millions, billions of dollars. You know,
the metro is ranked by the value gap if you

(17:56):
look at the severe or extreme flood risk outside of
flowd hazard zones, and FEMA maps these out as well,
and your home may or may not be in the
FEMA map even if it is in a flood zone.
So yeah, it's you know, maybe La Long Beach, Hannaheim.
The gap there is sixty five billion dollars between what's

(18:16):
in the map and what you know the actual risk is.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
And again it's just going to be really it's just
going to be really interesting because like you said, you
get you buy a house and you need to get
insurance on it, and there's some places where the insurance
companies are like, nope, too much risk, We're not even
offering it. So then you can't get a mortgage because
I know that when I on my mortgage, they require

(18:41):
me to have insurance of course, so you would have
to pay cash, so then you wouldn't have to have
the insurance technically. But then if your house goes up
in smoke or or gets pummeled by a hurricane. You're
out of luck with that. I mean it just I
just don't see anything great coming up.

Speaker 9 (18:57):
It would risk it. I mean, knowing that you live
in a high risk area, Well.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Some people are going without insurance there.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
Sure.

Speaker 8 (19:03):
Yeah, you know, I saw a story about a guy
who won the lottery right down there in southern California
somewhere and now, so we want a billion dollars or
something like that. Oh yeah, he lost one of his
signing up property around Altadena to try to build that
area back up again from a wildfire.

Speaker 9 (19:18):
So you know, either win the lottery or moved.

Speaker 8 (19:22):
To North Dakota if you don't want the RESK, I guess.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I'm going to go for the lottery. ABC's Jim Ryan,
thanks so much for the information. Seem all right, I
have a good tack. Former USC quarterback and Fox commentator
Mark Sanchez has spoken for the first time since being
arrested for a fight with a delivery driver in which
he was stabbed in Indianapolis. He sat outside the Marion
County jail that he is recovering slowly and then it's

(19:50):
a long process. After posing for mugshots and getting fingerprinted,
on assault and battery charges. The man who stabbed Sanchez
is suing Sanchez and Fox for permanent disfigure urement. A
city council member's comments about killer cops has tempers flaring
at Santa Anna City Hall.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
The Santa Anna City Council has ordered a formal investigation
into council member Jonathan Hernandez after police officers accused him
of defamation and harassment. They alleged he called some of
them killer cops. Mayor Valerie A. Mesqua and three other
council members voted to move forward with the probe, while
two opposed it. The OC Register reports Hernandez is a
longtime critic of police since his cousin's twenty twenty one

(20:28):
death at the hands of Anaheim officers. He says the
investigation is an attempt to silence him. A report on
the investigation is expected in January. Heather Brooker KFI News.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
The La Archdiocese is facing a lawsuit by a former
official alleging that he was fired for being a man.
A former admissions director for Saint Anthony High School in
Long Beach claims that his female supervisor openly said the
job should go to a woman. And that men have
no business for the job. He also says he was
forced to do manual labor as punishment before taking medical

(20:59):
leave from our anxiety. He was fired in May. Today
is a holiday, but as ABC's Wayne Cabot says, there's
a bit of confusion about which holiday it is.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Banks and post offices will be closed, stock markets open
for Columbus Day as thirty states still call it Indigenous
People's Day, as it's known now in three states, New Mexico, Maine,
and Vermont.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
He says it's not a paid holiday in most places,
as only twenty states give paid time off. Stocks in
Earth imaging company Planet Labs, based in San Francisco, more
than tripled as countries start to realize the value of
seeing what's happening on Earth from hundreds of miles away.
Planet Labs is working on a new spacecraft it calls

(21:41):
the Owl, which it says we'll be able to provide
high resolution images within like an hour. Planet did a
deal with NATO this year and says it plans to
build a manufacturing plant in Germany soon. Someone Oh, speaking
of the lottery, someone has won the jackpot in the
lottery that we don't hear about very often. Ticket matching
all six winning numbers in the Superlatto drawing sold in

(22:04):
Westlake Village. It's worth fifty million dollars. The two other
tickets matching five numbers were sold, one in Chula Vista,
the other in Nipton. The winning numbers were three, thirteen,
twenty seven, thirty two, thirty four and the mega number
of four. Funny how fifty million doesn't even show up
on our radar anymore? I know, right, we don't even
pay attention until it's like a half billion dollars. Jury

(22:27):
selection expected to be completed today in the case involving
the death of Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs. Skaggs died of
a drug overdose in twenty nineteen. A former Angels public
relations director has already been convicted of selling him the
pill that led to his death. Skag's widow and parents
are now suing the Angels, alleging the team knew about

(22:47):
the drug abuse. President Trump has ordered the Defense Department
to issue paychecks to members of the military during the
government's shutdown. Trump posted on True's social that he has
directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use all available funds
to pay the troops. On October fifteenth, Trump didn't identify
the funding sources or the amount that would be used
for troop salaries. The Dodgers quest for a World Series

(23:09):
repeat continues as LA takes on the Brewers in Milwaukee
in Game one of the National League Championship Series. First
pitch goes out at five to eight. Games one and
two are in Wisconsin. Game three will be here on
Thursday afternoon at Dodgers Stadium. You can listen to all
the Championship action on our sister station, A five seventy

(23:29):
KLAC at six oh five. It's handled on the news.
Troops still aren't allowed in Chicago, but a higher court
also ruled that the troops don't have to go back
to their home states yet. Here's what's coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President Trump has been

(23:51):
given a standing ovation in Israel's Knesset, that's their parliament,
as they celebrate the US broker ceasefire hostage deal between
Israel and Hamas.

Speaker 8 (24:02):
Today, the skies are calm, the guns are silent, the
sirens are still, and the sun rises on a holy
land that is finally at peace, a land.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Trump's speech was interrupted by a member of the Kanessi
as he thanked his envoy, Steve Whitcoff for his negotiating
efforts JUSA. The man was quickly removed Trump continued with
his speech. Trump is also expected to meet some of
the families of the hostages. He's headed to Egypt later today.

(24:35):
Palestinians have been making their way back to their bombed
out homes in Gaza City. ABC's Ian panel says it's
estimated that a half million people have returned since the
ceasefire started.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Well, I can tell you many people and now heading
back south because there's nothing left, no homes, no access
to water, food, or internet.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
He says. President Trump's going to be going to Egypt
for a peace summer summit after the meeting with families
of hostages. The White House says more federal work are
going to be fired during the government's shutdown, but ABC's
Alex Presha preche rather says President Trump has ordered funds
been made available to pay members of the military.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Some two million military service members are part of that
essential federal employee group required to keep working through the shutdown.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Funds for the checks are coming from the Department of
Wars Research and Development. A twenty year old man has
been shot and killed near East Valley High School in
North Hollywood. It happened around nine Saturday night near Vineland
Avenue and Chandler Boulevard. Release say two people approached and
opened fire on the man, then took off. Authorities have
not released a motive for the killing. Tron Ares has

(25:40):
raced to the top spot at the box office, but
apparently didn't go as fast as industry analysts had been
looking for. The Disney sci fi sequel took in just
under thirty four million dollars in its opening weekend. It
was expected to earn between forty five and fifty million dollars.
Channing Tatum's dramedy roof Man came in second and earning
just eight million dollars in ticket sales, while One Battle

(26:04):
after Another came in third. Time to Get in Your
Business Now with Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Good morning, Denise, Yeah,
good morning. How are you doing? Amy? I wanted to
start out talking to you about lift.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
I'm one of those people who has a really bad
rating on Uber, even though I'm always on time and
I tip a lot, but I always forget to tip
right after the ride, and I think they give me
a bad rating.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
They give you a bad rating if you don't tip.

Speaker 6 (26:30):
They do and you can see your own rating, and
then it takes even longer to get a ride, so
you want to keep your rating good. Lift though, it
started this test that would show drivers how often you
tipped so that they could hire more drivers. But the
problem is a lot of customers really hated this. It
triggered a huge amount of backlash on social media from

(26:53):
some customers. So now they have ended this test that
used to show drivers how often you tipped. You still
better be on time, though, because Lyft is continuing the
test that shows drivers how often you're ready when they
come to pick you up. Remember, Lyft has to compete
with Uber for drivers. If they can get more drivers,
they can be faster to pick you up, so that's
why they're focusing.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Now.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
I'm trying to keep drivers happy, but passengers aren't taking it,
so kind of stuck there.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Okay, So just to be clear, Denise, Lyft was checking
to see if you tipped, but now they're not showing
drivers that. Yeah, because so many people complained on Reddit.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
Okay, so many customers complained on Reddit, that's going up
for the customers. Yes, I agree, all right, what's going
on with Targets? Okay, So you know in California, of course,
it's a whole different store. You have to go to
a dispensary to get hemp derived THHC beverages. But in

(27:50):
a lot of states, including in Minnesota, where Target is headquartered,
you can get these. You know, they're right next to
beer in the supermarket or you know, in the liquor store.
They're very enticing. They're getting a lot of business growing
in sales. So now Target is testing the sale of
hemp derived THHC beverages at its locations, and it is

(28:11):
the first national chain to do this. It says it
wants to better understand customers, but obviously they're testing the
waters there may be hoping that there will be better
federal acceptance of this. It is legal federally, but like
I said, a lot of states, including California, don't.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
Allow these beverages in retail stores.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
A lot of nice products that you can get there,
like Mary Jones right in PABs Blue Ribbon in California.
But California is tightening overside of the industry, amy and
Congress has been weighing whether to close the loophole in
the twenty eighteen Farm Bill that allows these nationwide sales
of these hemp products with THHC. So the future is uncertain,
but they think there's some possibility there of maybe getting

(28:55):
into this business.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I've never tried them, but it just if you think
about what hot smells like. I just can't imagine that
they taste any good. Apparently they do. My kids like them.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
I have never tried one either, but I will say
the cans that these things come in are beautiful. The
artwork on these cans is unbelievable, even for me.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Not stoned. Okay, okay. Bose makes great, great headphones, yes, sakers,
but because some customers are kind of ticked down them.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
Yeah, and they had some great sales of some of
those headphones on Amazon Prime Day. I know some of
my relatives pick those up and were really happy. This
is just a blue chip company for tech, but some
of its customers now and again on Reddit, which is
of course becoming the big consumer form for any kind
of complaint, a lot of people are complaining because Bows

(29:48):
says it is discontinuing the cloud infrastructure for its older sound.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
Touch line of speakers.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
They'll be unable to directly stream music from you know, Spotify,
Right and other streaming services. So a lot of people
are really mad at this. I mean some people they
invested thousands of dollars in this hardware. Bloomberg talked to
one user who complained on Reddit said his aunt and uncle,
both in their eighties, still use a SoundTouch speaker at

(30:17):
their senior living home. They've grown accustomed to pressing the
device's preset buttons to easily play their favorite music stations,
but soon those buttons will no longer be functional and
there's no way, he says, that these people can figure
out how to do this over their cell phones. So
he's invested one thousand dollars in letting them listen to
the music in their senior home, and because of what

(30:39):
bos is doing, there not going to be able to
do it. Bose is offering a twenty five percent discount
on the equal So yeah, I know, I know, it.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Made me angry and I don't even have this system. Okay,
what are we expecting in the stock market today?

Speaker 6 (30:53):
Stock futures bouncing back after I mean, we had that
huge bloodbath on Friday. I had the day off on Friday,
but I know just from the echo effect, I was
actually in Paris. Even there, I knew it was really
ugly on Wall Street. But President Trump over the weekend
backpedaled on his tariff threats against Beijing and signaled a
willingness to negotiate. So kind of have a gung ho

(31:15):
kind of attitude today. Today, Dow futures are up three
hundred ninety two points, s and P futures they're up
four hundred and twenty five points.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
So you could see stocks really surged today.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
And also amy if you got some nice jewelry, some
silver jewelry, or some gold bars or coins, they're worth
more today. Gold just surged to a new all time
high this morning. Silver skyrocketed to its highest in decades.
There's this big, like short squeeze going on in London
where people can't get enough of it to cover their positions.
So that's kind of adding fuel to the fire. If

(31:48):
you're selling some stuff on eBay today, gold or silver,
it's all going to just be bought out immediately, all right.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini getting in your business. We do it
every morning at five forty. Thanks Denise So, President Trump
said he would be proud to visit Gaza in the future.
His comments came on Air Force One as he headed
to the Middle East. Trump is addressing Israel's parliament this morning,
saying that the guns are quiet, the sun is rising

(32:15):
with peace in the Middle East. Trump heads to Egypt
later today. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department continuing its investigation
into the shooting of a man near Santiago Peak by
an off duty Orange County Sheriff's deputy. The department says
a man who appeared to be under the influence approached
the deputy with a weapon on Saturday and refused commands.
That's when the deputy pulled out his gun and shot

(32:36):
the man. A floodwatch has been issued for La County
and other parts of southern California for tonight through tomorrow morning.
The National Weather Services Burned Scars or among the areas
most impacted. The Weather Services there's a risk of brief
and heavy rainfall that could trigger hazardous and damaging flooding
and debris flows. We're just minutes away from Handle on

(32:57):
the news this morning with park rangers furloughed during the shutdown.
Apparently people are breaking a lot of rules at Yosemite
National Park, including a lot of base jumpers. Let's say
good morning now to kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. John,
today is a big day and President Trump was there
for it.

Speaker 10 (33:17):
Yeah, monumental day. Two years after this war began, two
years after that terrorist attack by Hamas, twenty hostages released.
In addition to that, the process begins to find the
remains of twenty eight other hostages that were held by
Hamas for the past two years. In Israel, Fritzbart began

(33:38):
the process of releasing upwards of two thousand Palestinian prisoners.
The fighting has stopped in Gaza, and the President really
remarking the remarkable day that has become ending the war.
Phase one has now been complete. Phase two is more difficult.
Phase two concerns the future of Gaza. Who pays for

(33:59):
the re building of Gaza, Who governs Gaza? How do
you disarm Hamas? A lot of unanswered questions as it
relates to faith two. But today it's a day of
celebration in Israel.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Okay, and John, you mentioned the disarming of Hamas. Do
we have any idea of how bad Hamas has been devastated,
like what's left.

Speaker 10 (34:18):
Of it, Well, we don't have a full picture of that.
I'm sure that the Israeli military has a good sense
of that. The US intelligence has a good sense of that. Clearly,
they are not what they were when this war began.
A lot of their leadership has actually been killed by
the Israeli military. So it's not really clear in terms

(34:41):
of whether they could formulate another effort to reconstitute its
military its military arm. And you know, there are lots
of questions in terms of how to disarm the remnants
of Hamas going forward.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
And as far as the hostages go, John, have we
gotten any word about their condition or anything like that.
I'm sure they're all being checked out and being reunited
with families and all of that.

Speaker 10 (35:11):
Yeah, no, that's right. So the first order of business
is having the Israeli military, the health arm of the
Israeli military doctors obviously examined these individuals who have gone
through hell over the course of the past two years.
Obviously also reuniting these twenty hostages with their families, and

(35:32):
in addition to that, trying to bring closure to those
families who had just simply want the bodies of their
loved ones brought back from Gaza. So that process, it's acknowledged,
will take some time. And we know that the Israelis
will do everything they can to find the bodies of
those hostages who did not survive their time in captivity

(35:55):
over the past two years.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, and then one last question. We know that President
Trump had a very long addressed to Israel's parliament, Parliament
the Kanessant, and now he is headed to Egypt. What's
up there?

Speaker 10 (36:11):
He is he's heading to a peace conference that is
taking place in Charmel Shake, Egypt. That's a resort town
in Egypt, and there are a number of world leaders
who are at that conference, and the focus of that
peace conference is essentially looking forward what becomes of Gaza,
who governs Gaza? And the President will make some remarks

(36:32):
at that peace conference. That's the final stop on his
very quick journey to the Middle East. And then after that,
he's about two hours behind schedule, he'll come back to
the US. Originally the schedule had the President arriving back
at the White House a little after midnight Tuesday. I
think it's going to be a little bit past then,

(36:52):
just based upon the schedule and the way it has
not gone according to schedule with all of the events
of this morning.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
All right, kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, thanks for
the update. We appreciate it, and we'll be talking to
you soon. Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom as
the government shutdown continues. It's almost two weeks old now.
The education departments's special education services are being hampered because
of layoffs. CEO of legal organization Democracy Forwards, Sky Perriman

(37:26):
says it could have an immediate impact on children with disabilities.

Speaker 6 (37:30):
This is really a white House that is using this
shutdown as a ploy, using our public servants as a
ploy in the shutdown.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
This does not have to happen. Democracy Forward will represent
civil servants fighting the mass federal layoffs at hearing set
for this week. Tesla's CEO Elon Musk says he supports
sending federal troops into San Francisco. He shared a survey
on x from the Voice of San Francisco which shows
eighty percent of voters would welcome federal intervention to deal

(38:02):
with the fentanel epidemic. Musk says it's the only solution.
Former LA School Superintendent Austin Buttner is expected to challenge
Mayor Bass when she runs for reelection next year. LA
Times says Buttner is going to announce his candidacy today.
He has questioned Bass's record on crime and development issues,
but has focused most of his criticism on her response

(38:24):
to January's Palisades fire, saying it was a failure of leadership.
LAPD traffic collisions have cost the city over ninety million
dollars in the last decade.

Speaker 6 (38:34):
Two brothers hit by a speeding police cruiser in the
San Fernado Valley have won an eighteen million dollar settlement.
It's the largest ever paid by Los Angeles taxpayers for
a police crash. Richard and Stephen Paper, both in their seventies,
suffered traumatic brain injuries when an LAPD officer driving nearly
eighty miles per hour without lights or sirens lammed into
their car last summer. The officer was found at fault.

(38:55):
The LA Times reports this highlights a growing problem in
the department, with dozens of life lawsuits against the LAPD
still pending. Heather Brooker KFI News.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
So being a social butterfly can apparently help you live longer.
A new study of more than two thousand adults by
researchers at Cornell University has found that social relationships can
slow cellular aging. Family relationships, emotional support, religious involvement, and
community involvement all contributed to lower levels of stress, hormones,

(39:25):
and inflammation that slow the pace of aging. Let's get
out there and be social, shall we. It's good for
your good for the soul, good for the heart. This
is KFI and kost HD two, Los Angeles, Orange County.
This has been your wake up call, and if you
missed any wake up call, you can listen anytime on
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(39:45):
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