July 24, 2025 • 42 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan opens the show talking about a troubling rumbling beneath Yellowstone National Park. ABC News’ Steven Portnoy speaks on Ghislaine Maxwell being subpoenaed and WSJ reporting Trump was informed he appears in the Epstein files. Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe shares the latest regarding business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News national correspondent Rory O'Neill talking about the Idaho murder sentencing.
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Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is five o'clock straight up. This is your wake
up call for Thursday, July twenty fourth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. I want to
say a special happy birthday to Brooke God not Brooke Taylor,
to Laura Taylor. She's all grown up. Who's that my
best friend's daughter.
Speaker 8 (01:24):
Okay, it was like I felt like really left out
for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's okay. I know random birthday wishes are kind of strange,
but I was there when little Laura was this big
and now she's all grown up. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call Southern California. Edison says it'll offer a
wildfire recovery compensation program this fall for those who lost homes, businesses,
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or rental properties in the wildfire. Now Ta Dina, the
investigation into the cause of the fire continues. Some say
this may be an attempt by Edison to avoid lengthy litigation.
A homicide investigation is underway following the discovery of a
body in Santa Clarita. The body was found late Tuesday
night after a brush fire behind a grocery store. Authorities
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have said the fire was suspicious, but didn't say exactly why.
The Wall Street Journalist's President Trump was informed in May
about the Justice Department that his name appears several times
in the Jeffrey Epstein files. One Administrative Administration official told
the journal that hundreds of other names are in the documents.
Trump was also reportedly told the DOJ did not plan
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to release more documents because they contained child pornography. So
lawmakers really want to talk to Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman,
Glane Maxwell ABC. Stephen Portnoy's going to join us to
see if they're going to get that chance and whether
she wants to talk to them. That's coming up at
five point twenty. Also, there's something rumbling under Yellowstone National Park.
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ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us in just a
couple of minutes to tell us about the potentially explosive
discovery and how are we feeling in the US these days?
How do you feel. Kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neill has
his finger on the pulse of America thanks to a
new Gallup poll. He's going to join us at five
point fifty see how we're feeling about all kinds of things,
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extramarital affairs, buying homes, having kids. That's coming up at
five fifty. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man accused of throwing concrete blocks at federal agents in
Paramount has been arrested after more than a month on
the run.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
The FBI arrested Compton resident LPD Arena on Wednesday morning
at the US Mexico border. Investigators say he threw concrete
blocks at passing ice and border patrol vehicles on June
the seventh, when federal immigration raids were beginning to ramp
up in Los Angeles County. Several vehicles were damaged, and
when federal officer was injured. Raina was taken back to
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Los Angeles to face criminal proceedings. I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The news brought to you by American Vision Windows. The American
Idol music supervisor and her husband who were murdered inside
their home in Encino may have missed police by just minutes.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
Robin Kay and her husband Tom de Luca were shot
to death on July tenth, allegedly by a man who
broke into their home in Encino. New public information filed
by detectives and court shows they were shot at four
forty three pm. The LAPD says it had officers outside
their home between four and four to twenty pm after
a neighbor called nine one one to report a man
climbing into the couple's property. Police officers left after they
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couldn't get past the locked gate and reported the home
appeared to be secure. Kay and de Luca's bodies were
found four days later. Daniel Martindale ca if I News at.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Twenty one year old man's pleaded no contest to murder
and DUI for a crash in Northridge that killed an
off duty LAPD officer and a man who was getting
ready to join the academy. Brian Olivavarez was immediately sentenced
yesterday to sixteen years and eight months to life in
state prison. Prosecutors say he was doing close to one
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hundred miles per hour when he crashed into the other car.
Crash happened in twenty twenty three. California public schools rank
in the bottom half of the US.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
A recent wallet hub study assessed thirty two metrics, including funding, safety,
and instructor credentials. In terms of overall quality and school safety,
California ranked twenty ninth and thirty seventh. The report did
find that California has among the highest average ACT scores
in the nation, tied with Connecticut and Washington, d C.
It highlights East Coast states as leading in public school quality,
with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and New Hampshire taking
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the top five spots. Mark Ronner, KFI.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
News, let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
there may be danger lurking under Yellowstone National Park. And
it's not just hot water bubbling under the surface.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, it's it's magma.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
It's that hot molten stuff that builds the earth essentially.
But Yeah, beneath Yellowstone is maybe the biggest volcano in
the whole country. Volcano they're calling it. And looking at
this over the last few years, scientists using artificial intelligence,
using machine learning have found that there have been tens
of thousands of small earthquakes, some of them in swarms,
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and it's the swarm's part that has these scientists considered.
Maybe they're saying that the earthquake swarms like that can
precede a big eruption of a volcano like the one
beneath the Yellowstone, which could have dire consequence. I mean,
on the short end, it would mean some more geysers
or some more you know, localized volcanic explosions within Yellowstone.
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But some more panicky people are saying that within the
next one hundred years or so, we could see a
huge volcanic explosion and eruption that would take out much
of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Take out Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Speaker 10 (06:54):
Yeah, cover them with something like we saw it POMPEII
with the ash and but also with lava in our lava.
We you know, interestingly, I grew up in Pokestel at all, right,
and we call it lava, you do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I've never called it lava, I know.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
But some people I don't know why that is. But
it's a very localized kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
I sound.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's like Chicago it's lava, yeah, I know, or the Midwest.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
But only the years I've tried to get used to
saying lava, I still have hard time doing it. Anyway,
Lava is the stuff that might cover those three states.
So anyway, nothing to worry about right now really, maybe
nothing to worry about ever. But scientists are monitoring this.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, So you mentioned the swarms of earthquakes, which I'm
trying to remember where that volcano is that keeps erupting,
and it's near some really luxurious spot. It's overseas, you
know what I'm talking about. Do you remember that.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Well, there's more in Iceland that you erupted. Yeah, yeah,
the one with the unpronounceable name unless you are from Iceland,
you know. But yeah, that's one that keeps going up.
Mount Rainier has had some of these volcanic eruptions and
some tremors beneath it as well. And that's up in
Washington connected maybe or you know, up in Washington State.
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So they're keeping tabs on that as well.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, So then this mega volcano, does it look like
a volcano right now or is it in the flatlands
and it's just under Yellowstone or is it.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Beneath the park. It's beneath there. So what we're seeing
with the guysers and the calderas and the the the
small eruptions up there in the hot water, that's a
byproduct of what's happening beneath with this big, big, big volcano.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay. And did people discover this or you said they
got an assist with AI or did AI find it?
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Well, they got to help, They got some help with
AI without with machine learning that that helped them to
identify these small earthquakes, these little tiny earthquakes then and
the and the swarms that they come in. So yeah,
it's it's something that, uh that scientists themselves had not
been able to pick up before, hadn't been able to detect,
and now with the AI they are able to pick
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these up.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay. And then something straight out of a Star Trek movie, literally,
the one with Chris Pine. NASA's working on ways to
cool the molten.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
Well, they were working at about ten years ago and
everybody kind of laughed them off the map. But yeah,
this plan to drill holes one hundred and sixty holes
down deep, six miles deep into Yellowstone to tap into
it and then to either pump in cold water or
just to release the pressure to try to keep this
thing from exploding. But I think they've kind of moved
away from that.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Would it work?
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Yeah, maybe maybe not, But I think that the outcry
was such that they thought, you know what, let's go
back to the drawing board.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Okay, Now I want to know which Star Trek movie
it was, because it really was. It was Spock. It
was Star Trek Into Darkness where they literally went to
like a primitive society, and Spock went and tried to
stop a volcano from exploding so it wouldn't wipe out
the population.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Wow, good old Spock.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I know, right, something else to worry about. Thanks Jim Ryan,
see ya, all right, have a good day. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The man who admitted to
killing four University of Idaho students in twenty twenty two
has been sentenced to four life prison sentences with no
possibility of parole. Brian Coberger did not speak in court yesterday.
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He showed no emotion. He didn't even acknowledge his mother
and sister who were in the room. Relatives and friends
of the students killed did address the court.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He is a hollow vessel, something less than human, a
body without empathy, without remorse.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Dylan Mortenson is one of the surviving roommates. Another said
in a statement that the day of the killings was
the worst day of her life. Questions have been raised
about the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. California
Democratic Congressman John Garamundy said during a congressional hearing that
he's worried FEMA may not survive Trump administration and cuts.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Two thousand employees have been have departed for multiple reasons,
some of them fired, those of them taking early retirement.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Girmndy says that represents a third of FEMA's staff, many
of whom were eliminated by the Department of Government efficiency.
There are also concerns about the availability of a grant
program that could help wildfire mitigation and disaster preparedness. Columbia
Universities reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore
federal research money canceled in the name of combating anti
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Semitism on campus. The university will pay more than two
hundred twenty million dollars to the federal government as part
of a three year settlement. The White House says it'll
also pay twenty one million dollars to resolve alleged civil
rights violations against Jewish employees after the October seventh attack
on Israel by Hamas, the school stood to lose billions
of dollars in government support. Harvard's now being investigated over
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its participation in a visa program.
Speaker 11 (11:56):
The State Department says it's investigating whether Harvard University will
run main part of a government program that allows four
nationals to take part in cultural and education exchange programs.
The move yesterday is the latest in a series of
inquiries by the Trump administration targeting the Ivy League school.
Harvard already has filed a lawsuit challenging two point six
billion dollars in federal funding cuts, and the school accuses
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the administration of waging a retaliation campaign after Harvard rejected
demands from a federal anti Semitism task force in April.
Deborah mark Kffi News.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Paramount is trading Stephen Colbert for Cartman, Kyle and Kenny
from Owing.
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Man south On Olner Hamles, the creators of South Parker
reached a five year, one and a half billion dollar
deal to stream all episodes on Paramount Plus. It's one
of the richest deals in TV history and ends negotiations
between the two which delayed the start of season twenty
seven by two weeks. South Park began on Paramount's Comedy
Central in August nineteen ninety seven. Has continued to air
on the network, but creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone,
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who co owned the show, had a five year deal
to stream the show only on HBO Max. That deal
ended last month, and now all of South Park's episodes,
old and new, moved to Paramount Plus. Michael Krozer KFI
News when we.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Come back open?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Was it me?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Uh Yeah? Armed security guards are now patrolling neighborhoods in
Encino Is following a recent wave of burglaries and the
murders of an American idol executive and her husband, who
were shot and killed in their home two weeks ago.
Some residents say their home security systems aren't enough and
have hired armed patrols. One hundred and forty thousand signatures
(13:34):
have been turned in in an effort to overturn LA's
Olympic wage ordinance. The signatures submitted to the city clerk
are now being verified. If it qualifies, voters would be
deciding whether to scrap the city measure that raises wages
for tourism workers to thirty dollars an hour by the
twenty twenty eight Olympics. NASCAR is coming to the streets
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of San Diego. Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson made the announcement,
saying he's excited that NASCAR's coming to his hometown. He's
from alcohol in The racecourse is being worked out, but
drivers are going to be racing around Naval based Coronado
over Father's Day weekend June nineteenth to twenty first next year.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
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lawmakers made it official they want to have a little
chat with Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman, Gallaine Maxwell.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know that subpoena which was issued yesterday was met
with a response from Gallaine Maxwell's attorney.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
He said, well, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Of course, I'm paraphrasing, we'll see whether Gallainne Maxwell pleads
the fifth as she is deposed by the House Oversight Committee,
presumably at the prison in Florida where she's serving a
twenty year sentence. And the reason he says we'll see
is it depends on how a meeting goes today, because
today the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, a
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man named Todd Blanche, is in Tallahassee to meet there
with Gallainne Maxwell.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Earlier this week, Todd Blanche said he wanted to have
this meeting because he's curious. He says, no one's ever
asked before from his department whether Galayn Maxwell feels that
anyone else should be charged in the sex trafficking ring.
Earlier this month, the Justice Department, with Todd Blanche's sign off,
put out a statement that said that there's no evidence
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that would even precipitate an investigation into any uncharged third parties.
So how will this meeting go today? How will the
testimony go next month if it happens. Oh, and what
of the fact that the Wall Street Journal reported late
yesterday that there was a meeting in late May at
the White House where the President was told by the
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Attorney General and Deputy Blanche that his name appears in
the Epstein files multiple times, but that there would not
be any further releases because there is no evidence that
anyone else committed any crimes, and some of the documents
contain material that's viewed as child pornography, and you want
the need to protect the rights of the victims. So
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that announcement, which was made a few weeks ago, sparked
the outcry that's led to this continued drumbeat of news
around Epstein that's precipitated this moment where the Deputy Attorney
General of the United States is going down to speak
with a woman who was alleged to have not only
recruited victims but participated in the abuse.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Super interesting, Stephen, because that they're saying, oh, no more crimes.
This a lot of these involved underage girls, didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It, That's right, apparently hundreds of them, which.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Is and they're saying there's no crime.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, they're saying that no one else, takes no evidence
that anyone else was involved.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Look, that's somebody had to have been having sex with them.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, and the question is was it all simply Epstein
and Maxwell, or were there others? You know, there have
been suggestions, these these allegations made by Virginia Giuffrey, who
died earlier this year by suicide, that perhaps a member
of the British royal family, Prince Andrew, was involved in this,
perhaps other high profile while people. All of course, these
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allegations have been denied and there been no other charges brought.
So the question is what is Ghlainne Maxwell going to
say that she's never said before, and what is the
Justice Department going to do about it? And how trustworthy
is Glaine Maxwell, because federal prosecutors have argued in court
that she's not a trustworthy figure, that.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
She has lied.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The Speaker of the House yesterday invoked the specter that
she's lying. He asked reporters, can we trust what she's
going to say? Can she be counted on to tell
the truth? Is she a credible witness? These are questions
that no one's prepared or position to answer just yet,
But her attorney said in response to Speaker Johnson that
his concerns are unfounded. He also held out the prospect
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that she'll plead the fifth if she actually is deposed
by the House Oversight Committee. But a lot of that
hinges on how today's meeting goes, which suggests that he's
trying to bargain for something. Well, what does the Justice
Department have to offer? The Justice Department runs the Bureau
of Prisons. It controls, you know, how people are treated
in prison. As president of the United States has the
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power of pardon and clemency. Is that is that something
that's been offered.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Interesting. Gosh, this is so interesting because also with her
lawyer saying, oh, we'll see, there was talk in the
last few weeks that she was saying that she was
willing to talk.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, that was reported, But the official statements that we've
seen in writing from the attorney himself is, you know,
we're interested in having this meeting with the Justice Department.
Maxwell is grateful to President Trump for his eagerness to
get to the bottom of this. What does that all mean? Yeah,
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so it's high stakes, high drama, and we'll see if
there's any substance to it or not.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, And then I have another question for you. With
the Wall Street Journal reporting that Trump is Trump is
named several times or his name is mentioned several times,
We're not sure exactly how did the Well Street Journal
give any detail or just that that Attorney General Bondi
told him that, hey, your name is in there.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I think that what you just said characterized as it
best that the meeting took place in May, it was
a briefing for the president, and that among the bits
of information where that there were other high profile individuals
also in the files.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well, of course he knew everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, that's right, and to what end? I mean, you know, again,
there was there's flight records. A lot of this has
been public for years. So the question is, you know,
what more are they sitting on that they haven't released,
and what references are there to the president or other
high profile individuals. But the president was told at that
time there was no indication in the files that there
was any wrongdoing. So why then, this is a political
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question sort of gets you know, Trump psychology or strategy.
Why would he then say that it's all a hoax,
that it's that Republicans who had been clamoring for.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
These files for years are fools.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That was his position about a week and a half ago,
and that resulted in further pushback. And now it's oh,
let's all let's do what we can to unearth it all.
Let's go into federal court and tell federal judges that
they have to release the grand jury material and turn
their facts on you know, a couple of centuries of
the way we do business in this country, where a
grand jury testimony is secret and meant to be secret
for all time. Yesterday, a federal judge in Florida said, sorry,
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can't help you because of the prevailing precedent in the
Eleventh Circuit, which oversees Florida, and essentially saying the court's
hands are tied and that the government knows that and
acknowledged that in its filing. So we'll see if that
decision is appealed. Maybe we're also waiting on federal judges
in New York, which operate under a slightly different legal
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regime because of the way the circuits are set up.
You know, you and California have the Ninth Circuit. In
New York they have the Second Circuit, And so we'll
see how those judges rule on the same request.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, I have a feeling we'll be talking about this
against Stephen.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I'm sure you're right, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much for the information you back.
Two new executive orders by La Mayor Bass aim to
speed up rebuilding in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
The orders will waive Local Coastal Act requirements for single
family home projects as long as they comply with zoning
laws and environmental protections. It also includes launching a pilot
program that will offer a virtual library of single family
home plans that are pre approved and code compliant. The
Mayor's also extending fast tracked permits for people who want
to rebuild homes that are different from original plans. Aileen
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Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The Mayor's office is more than eighty five percent of
residential properties destroyed during the Palisades fire have been cleared
of debris and have received a final sign off for rebuilding.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has asked a court to
place the La County juvenile system into receip. Bonta says
the county has failed to fix systemic issues like abuse, drugs,
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and violence, so a receiver has to be appointed.
Speaker 14 (22:08):
With the full authority to manage staffing, to manage budgets,
procurement oversight, and safety protocols. A receiver can do what
the county has not.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
A hearing is scheduled for mid August. The state has
been in a settlement agreement with the county's juvenile system,
but Bontes says the county is out of compliance with
seventy five percent of it. LA County DA Nathan Hafckman
has taken what he calls a hard middle approach since
taking office. He told kfi's Tim Conway Junior Show, first
time non violent offenders are given a chance to pay
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back a debt to society through a diversion program.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You can go to prison, or you can do an
eighteen month, one day at a time, rigorous rehab program that,
if you succeed, will give you a certificate and will
wipe that crime off your record.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Hawkman says his approach includes looking at individual cases the
impact on victims to determine true threats to public safety.
He says those are often repeat offenders and are there
aliens among us? Jessica or Teas and Compton thinks so.
She says her ring camera caught something walking by her
home in the middle of the night.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I was sitting in my sundrome with my son and
we were staring at each other, like what do we do?
Speaker 11 (23:21):
We didn't even know what to do, Like I'm not
gonna call the police, I'm not gonna go outside. I
guess I'm gonna have to live with it, doubt because
I'm I'm not checking.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The small, dark creature appears to have an elongated head
and was walking slightly hunched over. Or Tea says she's
convinced it's extraterrestrial. Paranormal investigator Zach Begins isn't so sure.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I would see there's anything to worry about, but I cannot.
Speaker 15 (23:44):
Conclude that this is a hoax after seeing that footage,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Skeptics say it's a child, a person wearing a mariachi hat,
or a person covering themselves with a blanket, among other theories.
More than a million people have viewed the eleven second
clip that was reported around one aim on June fifth. Okay,
I have to tell you I looked at it me too.
It's kind of freaky.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
It looks like ET.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It like literally but not well, yeah, but his head's
shaped a little different, but yeah, he looks he looks
like an et uh huh, yeah, go just google it.
Ring camera eleven second clip of alien and it pops
right up. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has kicked off
a new program to supported legal immigrants affected by recent
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federal immigration raids. Developer Rick Caruso donated fifty thousand dollars
to the program to get it started. It'll help provide groceries, meals,
and medicine deliveries through local parishes to families afraid to
leave their homes because they are worried they might be arrested.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbert has released more classified documents,
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as she says shows former President Obama and his administration
manufactured evidence that Russia interfered with the twenty sixteen election
in an effort to sabotage Donald Trump's run for president.
Gabbert says it's up to the Department of Justice to
decide if what Obama did was criminal. California public schools
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rank in the bottom half of the US. A wallet
Hub study looked at thirty two metrics, including funding, safety,
and instructor credentials. California's thirtieth overall. The report did find
that California has among the best average ACT scores in
the nation. Top schools can be found in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New Jersey, Virginia, and New Hampshire. Those are the top five.
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Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. So Cal Edison
is offering to quickly pay to resolve claims from the
Eaton fire, even though the cause of the fire is
still being investigated. Edison said yesterday it would begin a
wildfire recovery compensation program this fall for those who lost homes, businesses,
or rental properties. Claims would also cover total and partial
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structure loss, commercial property loss, business interruptions, smoke and ash,
down image, physical injury, and fatalities. News brought to you
by Semper Solaris. It's been a cool summer across southern California.
Speaker 16 (26:08):
There have only been eight days in July in downtown
LA where the temperatures have been at or above the
normal average. National Weather Service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld says it's
cooler than usual this month because the marine layer has
hung around.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Certainly good for our fire season, so it keeps that
at bay, even if we're not getting precipitation.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Just having that marine layer moisture across a lot of.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
The valley area.
Speaker 16 (26:28):
Schowinfeld says the cooler temperatures look to be hanging around
into next week too. Northern California is also experiencing a
lot of below average temperatures for this time of year.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I don't know about you, but I think that's kind
of nice. I've enjoyed the weather. The man accused of
crashing a car into a post office in San Diego
causing an explosion is expected to get mental health support
while he's in custody. Legal analyst Stephen Clark says could
help Richard Tillman avoid prison time.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
If he does that and becomes stable and then moves
forward with two years of rehabilitation, he could put this
behind him.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Tilman's the brother of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who
became an army ranger after nine to eleven and was
killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Police a Richard Tillman
intentionally drove into the post office. President Trump has unveiled
his AI action plan.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
The plan is shaped by Silicon Valley tech leaders who
supported the president's campaign. The plan, disclosed yesterday, focuses on
boosting artificial intelligence technology exports, streamlining permits for energy intensive
data centers, and exporting American AI around the world. Trump
gave his tech advisor six months to come up with
new AI policies after revoking President Biden's AI guardrails his
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first day in office. Opponents of the President's AI agenda
argue it prioritizes the needs of big tech over people.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Deporah mark Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Minor league baseball is a step closer to rounding the
bases in Long Beach. A city council voted unanim to
move forward with a plan to get a team in
the city, could happen as early as next year. The
team would be the thirteenth in the Independent Pioneer Baseball League.
The city's last professional baseball team, the Long Beach Armada,
folded in two thousand and nine. I love me some
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good minor league baseball. Time to get in your business now.
Normally it's with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, she's out, John Tucker's in.
Good morning, John, A little under the weather for Courtney.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh so we wish of the best.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
All right, well, John tell Us Tesla is having a
little trouble losing its spark.
Speaker 15 (28:34):
Apparently yeah, well this morning, I'll just look at the
shares right now pre market, down about six percent.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I guess it's no secret they've been having their problems.
Speaker 15 (28:43):
The shares are falling after Elon boss warn of what
he said was a few rough quarters, as he put it,
followed one of the worst earnings report in more than
a decade for the company. The earnings offered little in
terms of actual detailed metrics evaluations, so rust overwhelmingly on
visions of robots and autonomous vehicles. The company depends, as
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you know, a lot on EV credits and they were
wiped out under President Trump's Big Beautiful bill, along with
other things that the company pretty much depended on.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So, John, you mentioned that sales are down because the
EV credits have gone away, So can they directly tie
that to it that people just start saying, Hey, if
I don't get the credit, I'm not buying a Tesla.
Speaker 15 (29:27):
Well, it's also you know, there's the reputational risk of
the company because Elon Musk has injected himself into politics.
So I think that's turned off even more people. So
there you go. And also keep in mind that the
fuel standards they've been pretty much wiped out. Also, Tesla
benefited a great deal from that as well, So a
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lot of tough times for Tesla.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, okay, but high tech is still, you know, front
and center. And speaking of that, we're talking about implanting
chips in your brain and we've heard some rumblings about that,
but apparently it's a real thing.
Speaker 15 (30:04):
This is this is another Elon Musk company newerlink. They expect.
This is what they say. At least amy, they're going
to put chips in twenty thousand people a year by
twenty thirty one.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Wow.
Speaker 15 (30:16):
And as far as the money that generates at least
a billion dollars in annual sales. Must Brain Implant Company
plans to have about five large clinics in operation in
the next six years. Now, before everybody pooh poohs this
like what planting chips in my brain? One of their
chips blind site that's aimed at giving vision to blind people.
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They promise a host of benefits for people with neurological
disorders like Parkinson's.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Wow, that would be amazing. Will Cole Shreiver is he's
our traffic eye and he's shaking his head and note
like uh uh, not.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
A believer Okay, we have a different chip for you.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Will thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Interesting technology though, can you imagine if you could cure
blindness with it? I mean there's just so many interesting opportunities.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Well, I mean it's not as creepy as it sounds.
Speaker 15 (31:07):
The end result is is basically for healthcare for people
with like I say, neurological problems.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Okay, and then this is I'm not sure what this
has to do with business, but I'm gonna ask what
is your favorite scary movie?
Speaker 15 (31:23):
Mine would have to be this is the one that
still sticks with me because my parents, I don't know
what they were thinking when they allowed me to go
see as a kid The Exorcist.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I didn't see that until I was like thirty, and
it's still freaked.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Me out anyway.
Speaker 15 (31:38):
Roger L. Jackson, you've never heard of him. He's actually
the chilling voice behind Screams ghost Face. He is now
part of an audiobook series about the horror franchise, and
he's expecting to collect some big bucks as a result
of this.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
It's kind of business, ye all right?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
John Tucker in for Courtney Donaho from Bloomberg. We're getting
in your business and we'll either talk to you or
to Courtney tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Thanks so much, John, all right, good at talk you.
Thanks all right.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
La Mayor bas has issued two new executive orders to
speed up home rebuilding in Pacific Palisades. The city has
extended a program to fast track permits to families who
plan to rebuild homes that are different than what was
there before the fires. The orders also launch a virtual
library of pre approved home designs. A plane with forty
(32:28):
nine people on board is crashed in eastern Russia. Officials
say the wreckage was found in mountainous terrain near the
Chinese border after the plane lost contact with air traffic control.
Five children were among those on board. Officials say there
is no sign of survivors. Uber is testing a new
women preference feature that will pair women drivers with women riders.
(32:53):
It's already being used in more than forty countries and
has provided one hundred million women only rides. Trials are
being done in San Francisco right now, with plans to
launch the program in Los Angeles starting next month. Let's
say good morning now to kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neill.
We're talking to Rory today because we want to find
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out how we're feeling in the United States, and for
that we have the Gallup Poll to help us out.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Yeah, good morning, Amy.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
There's an interesting poll, actually a series of poles out
from Gallup, but one of the most fascinating actually looks
at whether or not we think things are morally acceptable
these days. There are twenty different topics and then they
ask people is this morally acceptable to you? They range
in topics from the death penalty to having babies out
of wedlock, to abortion, to polygamy and suicide and the
(33:49):
canodling coldplay couple may actually be a factor in this
one because when it comes to things that are morally
wrong to the majority of Americans, eighty nine percent said
that married men and women having an affair is morally wrong.
That's the highest percentage in this poll for things that
are morally wrong. Also, in that part of the survey,
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cloning humans, eighty seven percent said that was wrong. Seventy
one percent said that suicide was morally wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, well, let's keep going down the list. I want
to find out what we think is right and what
we think is wrong these days.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Sure, well, on abortion, just flip a coin, because you
know it's always that way, it seems.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
With abortion.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
As to things that are morally acceptable, ninety percent these
days think that birth control is morally acceptable, divorce is
acceptable to seventy five percent, unmarried sex is acceptable to
sixty eight percent, and having a baby outside of marriage
sixty seven percent say that is now morally acceptable, and
gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable for sixty four percent.
(34:53):
There is a big divide though, when it comes to
the party division. Conservatives and Liberals have very different interpretations
on some of these. The biggest split actually comes in
the issue of changing genders, where we'll see that Democrats
are much more likely to find a gender changing much
more morally acceptable compared to Republicans. Only nine percent of
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Republicans find it morally acceptable to change genders.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay, and then Rory, was this gallipol only about how
we are feeling morally or did they ask some other
stuff too?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Oh, they asked a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
There was one about cryptocurrency that said there is still
very limited appeal to main street USA. Only about fourteen
percent of Americans own cryptocurrency. I think everybody's heard of it,
like coins like bitcoin. Problem, is nobody really understands it,
and certainly not enough to put some serious money into it.
They're finding the people who are getting into crypto tend
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to be men eighteen to forty nine years old, same
group that sort of does the sports betting as well,
because essentially it is almost betting. And it's fascinating to
see just how little people really understand about cryptocurrency, even
though it is quickly emerging all around the world.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I'm one of those people. I absolutely understand nothing about it,
and I even invested a little bit of money, but
not in not in a coin. I did doge douge coin.
It was a couple of years ago when it was
like right before Elon Musk was going to announce whether
he was going to really get involved with it or
something like that. So I think I bought like two
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hundred dollars and right now it's worth one hundred and
fourteen dollars in ninety five cents.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Well, I was going to say, you're working at five
o'clock in the morning on a Thursday, so it chose
you where the doze went, right?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
You're not funny? No, okay? What else did we find
out in our gallophy?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
The way I work at three in the morning. So
there you go. There were attitude and that.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
We also asked the attitudes about gen Zers, and when
it comes to remote work, they're out there on board
with more of us working remotely. Turns out gen Z
actually wants to be in the office a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
That you might suspect.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Seventy one percent though one some sort of a hybrid thing.
They can be in the office, they can work from home,
but there are twenty three percent. Only twenty three percent
of gen z Ers want just remote work. It looks
like the baby boomers, the gen xers, and the millennials
all pretty much agree. About a third are all for
exclusive remote work and about half or so little more
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want some sort of hybrid schedule. So it's interesting to
see that gen Z is a little bit more interested
in going to the office. Clearly they've never been before,
because if they had, they'd be more interested in that
remote working.
Speaker 14 (37:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I disagree wholeheartedly. I'd rather be in the office than
at home sitting by myself. We did that from COVID.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Well, right, it's interesting though the younger people who you know,
didn't have that grind as long.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Right, If you think you've only been in a workforce
twenty two.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
If you're twenty two to twenty five, maybe you don't
didn't have that years of the commute and things like that.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
You haven't been worn down and.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Bitter like me, so you are more likely to still
look forward to that office trip.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
All right, quick question. I don't know if you have
the answer, but does it's just a these are moment
in time polls. Does it compare it to like what
it was five years ago? Or are there any historical
background like how we're changing, especially for like that remote
only work. Was that A Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
Haven't seen anything that looks to earlier questions from Gallup
about the preferred location for work. But you know, some
say this is a deal breaker for them. A lot
of people in the survey said that really be looking
for another job if some sort of remote or hybrid
work isn't available.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
It looks like that is going to be the norm.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
They want the flexibility, whether or not it's more time
in the office or more time at home, you know,
you can decide, but they want flexibility in the future.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Okay. Kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil, thanks for getting usup
to speak on how we're feeling about things these days.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Funeral
services will be held in Covina for an LAPD sergeant
killed in a crash on the four or five freeway
in West La. Show Dang was hit last month when
he stopped to help the driver of a pickup truck
after a crash. The truck was in the far left lanes.
The driver of the pickup was also hit and killed.
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LAPED Chief Jim McDonald called Danng an exceptional guy, a
true leader and a true hero who spent about seventeen
of his twenty six years with the department assigned to
the Mental Evaluation Unit, caring for the most vulnerable in society.
Those are McDonald's words. A plan to take a new
minimum wage to voters in Los Angeles has moved forward.
Speaker 16 (39:45):
The LA Alliance for Tourism Jobs in Progress has collected
more than one hundred and forty thousand signatures an attempt
to place a possible repeal of the Olympic Wage Ordinance
on the ballot. The City Clerk has sent the signatures
to the Recorder's office for review. The Ly City Council
approved higher pay for some hotel and airport workers with
yearly increases until it hits thirty dollars an hour in
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twenty twenty eight. The Alliance says it will kill jobs
and businesses. The races which we're supposed to start this
month are on pause during the review process. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
News, NASCAR is going to be hitting the streets of
San Diego. Alcohol native and Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson
says the race is going to happen over Father's Day
weekend next year.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
San Diego.
Speaker 10 (40:25):
And to hear those words, just smiling like no way,
like this really can happen.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Johnson says, with NASCAR doing races in several cities, street
races rather in several cities, along with the sports strong
ties to the military, San Diego just made sense. He
says he's hoping he gets to drive in the race.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Desire to race in my hometown is off the charts,
so I will aggressively work on being in the event.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, the course is still being worked out. NASCAR says
drivers will race at Naval Base Coronado. Never miss a
play with the Dodgers if you listen to them on
AM five seven the LA Sports, because you never know
what's gonna happen, like when Shohei o Tani matched a
franchise record with a fifth straight home run in last
night Scary Yesterday's game, and of course then Freddy Freeman
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drove in two runs with a two out single in
the ninth up.
Speaker 10 (41:15):
Of the bases loaded here today in the ninth behind
Jack's one and two.
Speaker 16 (41:19):
The rider deals Freddy let fail.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
That is not taught by bead bet.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
Scores hold Toddy behind him.
Speaker 16 (41:29):
And the Dodgers walk it off.
Speaker 9 (41:33):
Head first diving catch at temp by Harrison Vader and left.
Speaker 10 (41:38):
He could not come up.
Speaker 16 (41:39):
With it, and the Dodgers come up with a win.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I love to hear that music. The Dodgers rallied to
beat the Minnesota Twins four to three. The boys in
Blue get a day off. Then tomorrow the Dodgers take
on the Red Sox in Boston. First pitch is going
out at four o'clock. You can listen to all Dodger
games on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from
the Gallpin Oters Broadcast Booth, and you can stream all
Dodgers games in h D on the iHeartRadio app. That's
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how I listened. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. This
is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up Call. If you missed
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your morning wake up call.
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Here's Amy King.
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Business.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
It is five o'clock straight up. This is your wake
up call for Thursday, July twenty fourth. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. I want to
say a special happy birthday to Brooke God not Brooke Taylor,
to Laura Taylor. She's all grown up. Who's that my
best friend's daughter.
Speaker 8 (01:24):
Okay, it was like I felt like really left out
for a second.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That's okay. I know random birthday wishes are kind of strange,
but I was there when little Laura was this big
and now she's all grown up. Here's what's ahead on
wake Up Call Southern California. Edison says it'll offer a
wildfire recovery compensation program this fall for those who lost homes, businesses,
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or rental properties in the wildfire. Now Ta Dina, the
investigation into the cause of the fire continues. Some say
this may be an attempt by Edison to avoid lengthy litigation.
A homicide investigation is underway following the discovery of a
body in Santa Clarita. The body was found late Tuesday
night after a brush fire behind a grocery store. Authorities
(02:10):
have said the fire was suspicious, but didn't say exactly why.
The Wall Street Journalist's President Trump was informed in May
about the Justice Department that his name appears several times
in the Jeffrey Epstein files. One Administrative Administration official told
the journal that hundreds of other names are in the documents.
Trump was also reportedly told the DOJ did not plan
(02:31):
to release more documents because they contained child pornography. So
lawmakers really want to talk to Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman,
Glane Maxwell ABC. Stephen Portnoy's going to join us to
see if they're going to get that chance and whether
she wants to talk to them. That's coming up at
five point twenty. Also, there's something rumbling under Yellowstone National Park.
(02:52):
ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us in just a
couple of minutes to tell us about the potentially explosive
discovery and how are we feeling in the US these days?
How do you feel. Kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neill has
his finger on the pulse of America thanks to a
new Gallup poll. He's going to join us at five
point fifty see how we're feeling about all kinds of things,
(03:14):
extramarital affairs, buying homes, having kids. That's coming up at
five fifty. Let's get started with some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A
man accused of throwing concrete blocks at federal agents in
Paramount has been arrested after more than a month on
the run.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
The FBI arrested Compton resident LPD Arena on Wednesday morning
at the US Mexico border. Investigators say he threw concrete
blocks at passing ice and border patrol vehicles on June
the seventh, when federal immigration raids were beginning to ramp
up in Los Angeles County. Several vehicles were damaged, and
when federal officer was injured. Raina was taken back to
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Los Angeles to face criminal proceedings. I'm Mark Neefield.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
The news brought to you by American Vision Windows. The American
Idol music supervisor and her husband who were murdered inside
their home in Encino may have missed police by just minutes.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
Robin Kay and her husband Tom de Luca were shot
to death on July tenth, allegedly by a man who
broke into their home in Encino. New public information filed
by detectives and court shows they were shot at four
forty three pm. The LAPD says it had officers outside
their home between four and four to twenty pm after
a neighbor called nine one one to report a man
climbing into the couple's property. Police officers left after they
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couldn't get past the locked gate and reported the home
appeared to be secure. Kay and de Luca's bodies were
found four days later. Daniel Martindale ca if I News at.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Twenty one year old man's pleaded no contest to murder
and DUI for a crash in Northridge that killed an
off duty LAPD officer and a man who was getting
ready to join the academy. Brian Olivavarez was immediately sentenced
yesterday to sixteen years and eight months to life in
state prison. Prosecutors say he was doing close to one
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hundred miles per hour when he crashed into the other car.
Crash happened in twenty twenty three. California public schools rank
in the bottom half of the US.
Speaker 8 (05:12):
A recent wallet hub study assessed thirty two metrics, including funding, safety,
and instructor credentials. In terms of overall quality and school safety,
California ranked twenty ninth and thirty seventh. The report did
find that California has among the highest average ACT scores
in the nation, tied with Connecticut and Washington, d C.
It highlights East Coast states as leading in public school quality,
with Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and New Hampshire taking
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the top five spots. Mark Ronner, KFI.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
News, let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
there may be danger lurking under Yellowstone National Park. And
it's not just hot water bubbling under the surface.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
No, it's it's magma.
Speaker 10 (05:51):
It's that hot molten stuff that builds the earth essentially.
But Yeah, beneath Yellowstone is maybe the biggest volcano in
the whole country. Volcano they're calling it. And looking at
this over the last few years, scientists using artificial intelligence,
using machine learning have found that there have been tens
of thousands of small earthquakes, some of them in swarms,
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and it's the swarm's part that has these scientists considered.
Maybe they're saying that the earthquake swarms like that can
precede a big eruption of a volcano like the one
beneath the Yellowstone, which could have dire consequence. I mean,
on the short end, it would mean some more geysers
or some more you know, localized volcanic explosions within Yellowstone.
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But some more panicky people are saying that within the
next one hundred years or so, we could see a
huge volcanic explosion and eruption that would take out much
of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Take out Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Speaker 10 (06:54):
Yeah, cover them with something like we saw it POMPEII
with the ash and but also with lava in our lava.
We you know, interestingly, I grew up in Pokestel at all, right,
and we call it lava, you do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I've never called it lava, I know.
Speaker 10 (07:11):
But some people I don't know why that is. But
it's a very localized kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
I sound.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
It's like Chicago it's lava, yeah, I know, or the Midwest.
Speaker 10 (07:20):
But only the years I've tried to get used to
saying lava, I still have hard time doing it. Anyway,
Lava is the stuff that might cover those three states.
So anyway, nothing to worry about right now really, maybe
nothing to worry about ever. But scientists are monitoring this.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, So you mentioned the swarms of earthquakes, which I'm
trying to remember where that volcano is that keeps erupting,
and it's near some really luxurious spot. It's overseas, you
know what I'm talking about. Do you remember that.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Well, there's more in Iceland that you erupted. Yeah, yeah,
the one with the unpronounceable name unless you are from Iceland,
you know. But yeah, that's one that keeps going up.
Mount Rainier has had some of these volcanic eruptions and
some tremors beneath it as well. And that's up in
Washington connected maybe or you know, up in Washington State.
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So they're keeping tabs on that as well.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Okay, So then this mega volcano, does it look like
a volcano right now or is it in the flatlands
and it's just under Yellowstone or is it.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Beneath the park. It's beneath there. So what we're seeing
with the guysers and the calderas and the the the
small eruptions up there in the hot water, that's a
byproduct of what's happening beneath with this big, big, big volcano.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay. And did people discover this or you said they
got an assist with AI or did AI find it?
Speaker 10 (08:40):
Well, they got to help, They got some help with
AI without with machine learning that that helped them to
identify these small earthquakes, these little tiny earthquakes then and
the and the swarms that they come in. So yeah,
it's it's something that, uh that scientists themselves had not
been able to pick up before, hadn't been able to detect,
and now with the AI they are able to pick
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these up.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Okay. And then something straight out of a Star Trek movie, literally,
the one with Chris Pine. NASA's working on ways to
cool the molten.
Speaker 10 (09:14):
Well, they were working at about ten years ago and
everybody kind of laughed them off the map. But yeah,
this plan to drill holes one hundred and sixty holes
down deep, six miles deep into Yellowstone to tap into
it and then to either pump in cold water or
just to release the pressure to try to keep this
thing from exploding. But I think they've kind of moved
away from that.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Would it work?
Speaker 10 (09:35):
Yeah, maybe maybe not, But I think that the outcry
was such that they thought, you know what, let's go
back to the drawing board.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Okay, Now I want to know which Star Trek movie
it was, because it really was. It was Spock. It
was Star Trek Into Darkness where they literally went to
like a primitive society, and Spock went and tried to
stop a volcano from exploding so it wouldn't wipe out
the population.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Wow, good old Spock.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
I know, right, something else to worry about. Thanks Jim Ryan,
see ya, all right, have a good day. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The man who admitted to
killing four University of Idaho students in twenty twenty two
has been sentenced to four life prison sentences with no
possibility of parole. Brian Coberger did not speak in court yesterday.
(10:22):
He showed no emotion. He didn't even acknowledge his mother
and sister who were in the room. Relatives and friends
of the students killed did address the court.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He is a hollow vessel, something less than human, a
body without empathy, without remorse.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Dylan Mortenson is one of the surviving roommates. Another said
in a statement that the day of the killings was
the worst day of her life. Questions have been raised
about the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. California
Democratic Congressman John Garamundy said during a congressional hearing that
he's worried FEMA may not survive Trump administration and cuts.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Two thousand employees have been have departed for multiple reasons,
some of them fired, those of them taking early retirement.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Girmndy says that represents a third of FEMA's staff, many
of whom were eliminated by the Department of Government efficiency.
There are also concerns about the availability of a grant
program that could help wildfire mitigation and disaster preparedness. Columbia
Universities reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore
federal research money canceled in the name of combating anti
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Semitism on campus. The university will pay more than two
hundred twenty million dollars to the federal government as part
of a three year settlement. The White House says it'll
also pay twenty one million dollars to resolve alleged civil
rights violations against Jewish employees after the October seventh attack
on Israel by Hamas, the school stood to lose billions
of dollars in government support. Harvard's now being investigated over
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its participation in a visa program.
Speaker 11 (11:56):
The State Department says it's investigating whether Harvard University will
run main part of a government program that allows four
nationals to take part in cultural and education exchange programs.
The move yesterday is the latest in a series of
inquiries by the Trump administration targeting the Ivy League school.
Harvard already has filed a lawsuit challenging two point six
billion dollars in federal funding cuts, and the school accuses
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the administration of waging a retaliation campaign after Harvard rejected
demands from a federal anti Semitism task force in April.
Deborah mark Kffi News.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Paramount is trading Stephen Colbert for Cartman, Kyle and Kenny
from Owing.
Speaker 12 (12:34):
Man south On Olner Hamles, the creators of South Parker
reached a five year, one and a half billion dollar
deal to stream all episodes on Paramount Plus. It's one
of the richest deals in TV history and ends negotiations
between the two which delayed the start of season twenty
seven by two weeks. South Park began on Paramount's Comedy
Central in August nineteen ninety seven. Has continued to air
on the network, but creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone,
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who co owned the show, had a five year deal
to stream the show only on HBO Max. That deal
ended last month, and now all of South Park's episodes,
old and new, moved to Paramount Plus. Michael Krozer KFI
News when we.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Come back open?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Was it me?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Uh Yeah? Armed security guards are now patrolling neighborhoods in
Encino Is following a recent wave of burglaries and the
murders of an American idol executive and her husband, who
were shot and killed in their home two weeks ago.
Some residents say their home security systems aren't enough and
have hired armed patrols. One hundred and forty thousand signatures
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have been turned in in an effort to overturn LA's
Olympic wage ordinance. The signatures submitted to the city clerk
are now being verified. If it qualifies, voters would be
deciding whether to scrap the city measure that raises wages
for tourism workers to thirty dollars an hour by the
twenty twenty eight Olympics. NASCAR is coming to the streets
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of San Diego. Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson made the announcement,
saying he's excited that NASCAR's coming to his hometown. He's
from alcohol in The racecourse is being worked out, but
drivers are going to be racing around Naval based Coronado
over Father's Day weekend June nineteenth to twenty first next year.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
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lawmakers made it official they want to have a little
chat with Jeffrey Epstein's right hand woman, Gallaine Maxwell.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
You know that subpoena which was issued yesterday was met
with a response from Gallaine Maxwell's attorney.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
He said, well, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Of course, I'm paraphrasing, we'll see whether Gallainne Maxwell pleads
the fifth as she is deposed by the House Oversight Committee,
presumably at the prison in Florida where she's serving a
twenty year sentence. And the reason he says we'll see
is it depends on how a meeting goes today, because
today the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, a
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man named Todd Blanche, is in Tallahassee to meet there
with Gallainne Maxwell.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Earlier this week, Todd Blanche said he wanted to have
this meeting because he's curious. He says, no one's ever
asked before from his department whether Galayn Maxwell feels that
anyone else should be charged in the sex trafficking ring.
Earlier this month, the Justice Department, with Todd Blanche's sign off,
put out a statement that said that there's no evidence
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that would even precipitate an investigation into any uncharged third parties.
So how will this meeting go today? How will the
testimony go next month if it happens. Oh, and what
of the fact that the Wall Street Journal reported late
yesterday that there was a meeting in late May at
the White House where the President was told by the
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Attorney General and Deputy Blanche that his name appears in
the Epstein files multiple times, but that there would not
be any further releases because there is no evidence that
anyone else committed any crimes, and some of the documents
contain material that's viewed as child pornography, and you want
the need to protect the rights of the victims. So
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that announcement, which was made a few weeks ago, sparked
the outcry that's led to this continued drumbeat of news
around Epstein that's precipitated this moment where the Deputy Attorney
General of the United States is going down to speak
with a woman who was alleged to have not only
recruited victims but participated in the abuse.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Super interesting, Stephen, because that they're saying, oh, no more crimes.
This a lot of these involved underage girls, didn't.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It, That's right, apparently hundreds of them, which.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Is and they're saying there's no crime.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, they're saying that no one else, takes no evidence
that anyone else was involved.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Look, that's somebody had to have been having sex with them.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Well, and the question is was it all simply Epstein
and Maxwell, or were there others? You know, there have
been suggestions, these these allegations made by Virginia Giuffrey, who
died earlier this year by suicide, that perhaps a member
of the British royal family, Prince Andrew, was involved in this,
perhaps other high profile while people. All of course, these
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allegations have been denied and there been no other charges brought.
So the question is what is Ghlainne Maxwell going to
say that she's never said before, and what is the
Justice Department going to do about it? And how trustworthy
is Glaine Maxwell, because federal prosecutors have argued in court
that she's not a trustworthy figure, that.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
She has lied.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
The Speaker of the House yesterday invoked the specter that
she's lying. He asked reporters, can we trust what she's
going to say? Can she be counted on to tell
the truth? Is she a credible witness? These are questions
that no one's prepared or position to answer just yet,
But her attorney said in response to Speaker Johnson that
his concerns are unfounded. He also held out the prospect
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that she'll plead the fifth if she actually is deposed
by the House Oversight Committee. But a lot of that
hinges on how today's meeting goes, which suggests that he's
trying to bargain for something. Well, what does the Justice
Department have to offer? The Justice Department runs the Bureau
of Prisons. It controls, you know, how people are treated
in prison. As president of the United States has the
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power of pardon and clemency. Is that is that something
that's been offered.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
We don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
We'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Interesting. Gosh, this is so interesting because also with her
lawyer saying, oh, we'll see, there was talk in the
last few weeks that she was saying that she was
willing to talk.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well, that was reported, But the official statements that we've
seen in writing from the attorney himself is, you know,
we're interested in having this meeting with the Justice Department.
Maxwell is grateful to President Trump for his eagerness to
get to the bottom of this. What does that all mean? Yeah,
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so it's high stakes, high drama, and we'll see if
there's any substance to it or not.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, And then I have another question for you. With
the Wall Street Journal reporting that Trump is Trump is
named several times or his name is mentioned several times,
We're not sure exactly how did the Well Street Journal
give any detail or just that that Attorney General Bondi
told him that, hey, your name is in there.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I think that what you just said characterized as it
best that the meeting took place in May, it was
a briefing for the president, and that among the bits
of information where that there were other high profile individuals
also in the files.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Well, of course he knew everybody.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well, that's right, and to what end? I mean, you know, again,
there was there's flight records. A lot of this has
been public for years. So the question is, you know,
what more are they sitting on that they haven't released,
and what references are there to the president or other
high profile individuals. But the president was told at that
time there was no indication in the files that there
was any wrongdoing. So why then, this is a political
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question sort of gets you know, Trump psychology or strategy.
Why would he then say that it's all a hoax,
that it's that Republicans who had been clamoring for.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
These files for years are fools.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
That was his position about a week and a half ago,
and that resulted in further pushback. And now it's oh,
let's all let's do what we can to unearth it all.
Let's go into federal court and tell federal judges that
they have to release the grand jury material and turn
their facts on you know, a couple of centuries of
the way we do business in this country, where a
grand jury testimony is secret and meant to be secret
for all time. Yesterday, a federal judge in Florida said, sorry,
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can't help you because of the prevailing precedent in the
Eleventh Circuit, which oversees Florida, and essentially saying the court's
hands are tied and that the government knows that and
acknowledged that in its filing. So we'll see if that
decision is appealed. Maybe we're also waiting on federal judges
in New York, which operate under a slightly different legal
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regime because of the way the circuits are set up.
You know, you and California have the Ninth Circuit. In
New York they have the Second Circuit, And so we'll
see how those judges rule on the same request.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Okay, I have a feeling we'll be talking about this
against Stephen.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
I'm sure you're right, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much for the information you back.
Two new executive orders by La Mayor Bass aim to
speed up rebuilding in Pacific Palisades.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
The orders will waive Local Coastal Act requirements for single
family home projects as long as they comply with zoning
laws and environmental protections. It also includes launching a pilot
program that will offer a virtual library of single family
home plans that are pre approved and code compliant. The
Mayor's also extending fast tracked permits for people who want
to rebuild homes that are different from original plans. Aileen
(21:40):
Gonzalez KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
The Mayor's office is more than eighty five percent of
residential properties destroyed during the Palisades fire have been cleared
of debris and have received a final sign off for rebuilding.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has asked a court to
place the La County juvenile system into receip. Bonta says
the county has failed to fix systemic issues like abuse, drugs,
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and violence, so a receiver has to be appointed.
Speaker 14 (22:08):
With the full authority to manage staffing, to manage budgets,
procurement oversight, and safety protocols. A receiver can do what
the county has not.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
A hearing is scheduled for mid August. The state has
been in a settlement agreement with the county's juvenile system,
but Bontes says the county is out of compliance with
seventy five percent of it. LA County DA Nathan Hafckman
has taken what he calls a hard middle approach since
taking office. He told kfi's Tim Conway Junior Show, first
time non violent offenders are given a chance to pay
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back a debt to society through a diversion program.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
You can go to prison, or you can do an
eighteen month, one day at a time, rigorous rehab program that,
if you succeed, will give you a certificate and will
wipe that crime off your record.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Hawkman says his approach includes looking at individual cases the
impact on victims to determine true threats to public safety.
He says those are often repeat offenders and are there
aliens among us? Jessica or Teas and Compton thinks so.
She says her ring camera caught something walking by her
home in the middle of the night.
Speaker 8 (23:17):
I was sitting in my sundrome with my son and
we were staring at each other, like what do we do?
Speaker 11 (23:21):
We didn't even know what to do, Like I'm not
gonna call the police, I'm not gonna go outside. I
guess I'm gonna have to live with it, doubt because
I'm I'm not checking.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The small, dark creature appears to have an elongated head
and was walking slightly hunched over. Or Tea says she's
convinced it's extraterrestrial. Paranormal investigator Zach Begins isn't so sure.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I would see there's anything to worry about, but I cannot.
Speaker 15 (23:44):
Conclude that this is a hoax after seeing that footage,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Skeptics say it's a child, a person wearing a mariachi hat,
or a person covering themselves with a blanket, among other theories.
More than a million people have viewed the eleven second
clip that was reported around one aim on June fifth. Okay,
I have to tell you I looked at it me too.
It's kind of freaky.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
It looks like ET.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It like literally but not well, yeah, but his head's
shaped a little different, but yeah, he looks he looks
like an et uh huh, yeah, go just google it.
Ring camera eleven second clip of alien and it pops
right up. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has kicked off
a new program to supported legal immigrants affected by recent
(24:28):
federal immigration raids. Developer Rick Caruso donated fifty thousand dollars
to the program to get it started. It'll help provide groceries, meals,
and medicine deliveries through local parishes to families afraid to
leave their homes because they are worried they might be arrested.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsea Gabbert has released more classified documents,
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as she says shows former President Obama and his administration
manufactured evidence that Russia interfered with the twenty sixteen election
in an effort to sabotage Donald Trump's run for president.
Gabbert says it's up to the Department of Justice to
decide if what Obama did was criminal. California public schools
(25:10):
rank in the bottom half of the US. A wallet
Hub study looked at thirty two metrics, including funding, safety,
and instructor credentials. California's thirtieth overall. The report did find
that California has among the best average ACT scores in
the nation. Top schools can be found in Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New Jersey, Virginia, and New Hampshire. Those are the top five.
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Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. So Cal Edison
is offering to quickly pay to resolve claims from the
Eaton fire, even though the cause of the fire is
still being investigated. Edison said yesterday it would begin a
wildfire recovery compensation program this fall for those who lost homes, businesses,
or rental properties. Claims would also cover total and partial
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structure loss, commercial property loss, business interruptions, smoke and ash,
down image, physical injury, and fatalities. News brought to you
by Semper Solaris. It's been a cool summer across southern California.
Speaker 16 (26:08):
There have only been eight days in July in downtown
LA where the temperatures have been at or above the
normal average. National Weather Service meteorologist Rose Schoenfeld says it's
cooler than usual this month because the marine layer has
hung around.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Certainly good for our fire season, so it keeps that
at bay, even if we're not getting precipitation.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Just having that marine layer moisture across a lot of.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
The valley area.
Speaker 16 (26:28):
Schowinfeld says the cooler temperatures look to be hanging around
into next week too. Northern California is also experiencing a
lot of below average temperatures for this time of year.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I don't know about you, but I think that's kind
of nice. I've enjoyed the weather. The man accused of
crashing a car into a post office in San Diego
causing an explosion is expected to get mental health support
while he's in custody. Legal analyst Stephen Clark says could
help Richard Tillman avoid prison time.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
If he does that and becomes stable and then moves
forward with two years of rehabilitation, he could put this
behind him.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Tilman's the brother of former NFL player Pat Tillman, who
became an army ranger after nine to eleven and was
killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. Police a Richard Tillman
intentionally drove into the post office. President Trump has unveiled
his AI action plan.
Speaker 11 (27:21):
The plan is shaped by Silicon Valley tech leaders who
supported the president's campaign. The plan, disclosed yesterday, focuses on
boosting artificial intelligence technology exports, streamlining permits for energy intensive
data centers, and exporting American AI around the world. Trump
gave his tech advisor six months to come up with
new AI policies after revoking President Biden's AI guardrails his
(27:45):
first day in office. Opponents of the President's AI agenda
argue it prioritizes the needs of big tech over people.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Deporah mark Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Minor league baseball is a step closer to rounding the
bases in Long Beach. A city council voted unanim to
move forward with a plan to get a team in
the city, could happen as early as next year. The
team would be the thirteenth in the Independent Pioneer Baseball League.
The city's last professional baseball team, the Long Beach Armada,
folded in two thousand and nine. I love me some
(28:16):
good minor league baseball. Time to get in your business now.
Normally it's with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, she's out, John Tucker's in.
Good morning, John, A little under the weather for Courtney.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
Oh so we wish of the best.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
All right, well, John tell Us Tesla is having a
little trouble losing its spark.
Speaker 15 (28:34):
Apparently yeah, well this morning, I'll just look at the
shares right now pre market, down about six percent.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I guess it's no secret they've been having their problems.
Speaker 15 (28:43):
The shares are falling after Elon boss warn of what
he said was a few rough quarters, as he put it,
followed one of the worst earnings report in more than
a decade for the company. The earnings offered little in
terms of actual detailed metrics evaluations, so rust overwhelmingly on
visions of robots and autonomous vehicles. The company depends, as
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you know, a lot on EV credits and they were
wiped out under President Trump's Big Beautiful bill, along with
other things that the company pretty much depended on.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
So, John, you mentioned that sales are down because the
EV credits have gone away, So can they directly tie
that to it that people just start saying, Hey, if
I don't get the credit, I'm not buying a Tesla.
Speaker 15 (29:27):
Well, it's also you know, there's the reputational risk of
the company because Elon Musk has injected himself into politics.
So I think that's turned off even more people. So
there you go. And also keep in mind that the
fuel standards they've been pretty much wiped out. Also, Tesla
benefited a great deal from that as well, So a
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lot of tough times for Tesla.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, okay, but high tech is still, you know, front
and center. And speaking of that, we're talking about implanting
chips in your brain and we've heard some rumblings about that,
but apparently it's a real thing.
Speaker 15 (30:04):
This is this is another Elon Musk company newerlink. They expect.
This is what they say. At least amy, they're going
to put chips in twenty thousand people a year by
twenty thirty one.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Wow.
Speaker 15 (30:16):
And as far as the money that generates at least
a billion dollars in annual sales. Must Brain Implant Company
plans to have about five large clinics in operation in
the next six years. Now, before everybody pooh poohs this
like what planting chips in my brain? One of their
chips blind site that's aimed at giving vision to blind people.
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They promise a host of benefits for people with neurological
disorders like Parkinson's.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Wow, that would be amazing. Will Cole Shreiver is he's
our traffic eye and he's shaking his head and note
like uh uh, not.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
A believer Okay, we have a different chip for you.
Speaker 6 (30:54):
Will thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Interesting technology though, can you imagine if you could cure
blindness with it? I mean there's just so many interesting opportunities.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Well, I mean it's not as creepy as it sounds.
Speaker 15 (31:07):
The end result is is basically for healthcare for people
with like I say, neurological problems.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Okay, and then this is I'm not sure what this
has to do with business, but I'm gonna ask what
is your favorite scary movie?
Speaker 15 (31:23):
Mine would have to be this is the one that
still sticks with me because my parents, I don't know
what they were thinking when they allowed me to go
see as a kid The Exorcist.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I didn't see that until I was like thirty, and
it's still freaked.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Me out anyway.
Speaker 15 (31:38):
Roger L. Jackson, you've never heard of him. He's actually
the chilling voice behind Screams ghost Face. He is now
part of an audiobook series about the horror franchise, and
he's expecting to collect some big bucks as a result
of this.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
It's kind of business, ye all right?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
John Tucker in for Courtney Donaho from Bloomberg. We're getting
in your business and we'll either talk to you or
to Courtney tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Thanks so much, John, all right, good at talk you.
Thanks all right.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
La Mayor bas has issued two new executive orders to
speed up home rebuilding in Pacific Palisades. The city has
extended a program to fast track permits to families who
plan to rebuild homes that are different than what was
there before the fires. The orders also launch a virtual
library of pre approved home designs. A plane with forty
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nine people on board is crashed in eastern Russia. Officials
say the wreckage was found in mountainous terrain near the
Chinese border after the plane lost contact with air traffic control.
Five children were among those on board. Officials say there
is no sign of survivors. Uber is testing a new
women preference feature that will pair women drivers with women riders.
(32:53):
It's already being used in more than forty countries and
has provided one hundred million women only rides. Trials are
being done in San Francisco right now, with plans to
launch the program in Los Angeles starting next month. Let's
say good morning now to kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neill.
We're talking to Rory today because we want to find
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out how we're feeling in the United States, and for
that we have the Gallup Poll to help us out.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Yeah, good morning, Amy.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
There's an interesting poll, actually a series of poles out
from Gallup, but one of the most fascinating actually looks
at whether or not we think things are morally acceptable
these days. There are twenty different topics and then they
ask people is this morally acceptable to you? They range
in topics from the death penalty to having babies out
of wedlock, to abortion, to polygamy and suicide and the
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canodling coldplay couple may actually be a factor in this
one because when it comes to things that are morally
wrong to the majority of Americans, eighty nine percent said
that married men and women having an affair is morally wrong.
That's the highest percentage in this poll for things that
are morally wrong. Also, in that part of the survey,
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cloning humans, eighty seven percent said that was wrong. Seventy
one percent said that suicide was morally wrong.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Okay, well, let's keep going down the list. I want
to find out what we think is right and what
we think is wrong these days.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Sure, well, on abortion, just flip a coin, because you
know it's always that way, it seems.
Speaker 6 (34:28):
With abortion.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
As to things that are morally acceptable, ninety percent these
days think that birth control is morally acceptable, divorce is
acceptable to seventy five percent, unmarried sex is acceptable to
sixty eight percent, and having a baby outside of marriage
sixty seven percent say that is now morally acceptable, and
gay or lesbian relations morally acceptable for sixty four percent.
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There is a big divide though, when it comes to
the party division. Conservatives and Liberals have very different interpretations
on some of these. The biggest split actually comes in
the issue of changing genders, where we'll see that Democrats
are much more likely to find a gender changing much
more morally acceptable compared to Republicans. Only nine percent of
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Republicans find it morally acceptable to change genders.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Okay, and then Rory, was this gallipol only about how
we are feeling morally or did they ask some other
stuff too?
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Oh, they asked a whole bunch of things.
Speaker 7 (35:26):
There was one about cryptocurrency that said there is still
very limited appeal to main street USA. Only about fourteen
percent of Americans own cryptocurrency. I think everybody's heard of it,
like coins like bitcoin. Problem, is nobody really understands it,
and certainly not enough to put some serious money into it.
They're finding the people who are getting into crypto tend
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to be men eighteen to forty nine years old, same
group that sort of does the sports betting as well,
because essentially it is almost betting. And it's fascinating to
see just how little people really understand about cryptocurrency, even
though it is quickly emerging all around the world.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I'm one of those people. I absolutely understand nothing about it,
and I even invested a little bit of money, but
not in not in a coin. I did doge douge coin.
It was a couple of years ago when it was
like right before Elon Musk was going to announce whether
he was going to really get involved with it or
something like that. So I think I bought like two
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hundred dollars and right now it's worth one hundred and
fourteen dollars in ninety five cents.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Well, I was going to say, you're working at five
o'clock in the morning on a Thursday, so it chose
you where the doze went, right?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
You're not funny? No, okay? What else did we find
out in our gallophy?
Speaker 6 (36:47):
The way I work at three in the morning. So
there you go. There were attitude and that.
Speaker 7 (36:54):
We also asked the attitudes about gen Zers, and when
it comes to remote work, they're out there on board
with more of us working remotely. Turns out gen Z
actually wants to be in the office a little bit more.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
That you might suspect.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
Seventy one percent though one some sort of a hybrid thing.
They can be in the office, they can work from home,
but there are twenty three percent. Only twenty three percent
of gen z Ers want just remote work. It looks
like the baby boomers, the gen xers, and the millennials
all pretty much agree. About a third are all for
exclusive remote work and about half or so little more
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want some sort of hybrid schedule. So it's interesting to
see that gen Z is a little bit more interested
in going to the office. Clearly they've never been before,
because if they had, they'd be more interested in that
remote working.
Speaker 14 (37:42):
Now.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I disagree wholeheartedly. I'd rather be in the office than
at home sitting by myself. We did that from COVID.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
Well, right, it's interesting though the younger people who you know,
didn't have that grind as long.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Right, If you think you've only been in a workforce
twenty two.
Speaker 7 (37:58):
If you're twenty two to twenty five, maybe you don't
didn't have that years of the commute and things like that.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
You haven't been worn down and.
Speaker 7 (38:05):
Bitter like me, so you are more likely to still
look forward to that office trip.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
All right, quick question. I don't know if you have
the answer, but does it's just a these are moment
in time polls. Does it compare it to like what
it was five years ago? Or are there any historical
background like how we're changing, especially for like that remote
only work. Was that A Yeah, I.
Speaker 7 (38:27):
Haven't seen anything that looks to earlier questions from Gallup
about the preferred location for work. But you know, some
say this is a deal breaker for them. A lot
of people in the survey said that really be looking
for another job if some sort of remote or hybrid
work isn't available.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
It looks like that is going to be the norm.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
They want the flexibility, whether or not it's more time
in the office or more time at home, you know,
you can decide, but they want flexibility in the future.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Okay. Kfi's national correspondent Rory O'Neil, thanks for getting usup
to speak on how we're feeling about things these days.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Funeral
services will be held in Covina for an LAPD sergeant
killed in a crash on the four or five freeway
in West La. Show Dang was hit last month when
he stopped to help the driver of a pickup truck
after a crash. The truck was in the far left lanes.
The driver of the pickup was also hit and killed.
(39:24):
LAPED Chief Jim McDonald called Danng an exceptional guy, a
true leader and a true hero who spent about seventeen
of his twenty six years with the department assigned to
the Mental Evaluation Unit, caring for the most vulnerable in society.
Those are McDonald's words. A plan to take a new
minimum wage to voters in Los Angeles has moved forward.
Speaker 16 (39:45):
The LA Alliance for Tourism Jobs in Progress has collected
more than one hundred and forty thousand signatures an attempt
to place a possible repeal of the Olympic Wage Ordinance
on the ballot. The City Clerk has sent the signatures
to the Recorder's office for review. The Ly City Council
approved higher pay for some hotel and airport workers with
yearly increases until it hits thirty dollars an hour in
(40:05):
twenty twenty eight. The Alliance says it will kill jobs
and businesses. The races which we're supposed to start this
month are on pause during the review process. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (40:15):
News, NASCAR is going to be hitting the streets of
San Diego. Alcohol native and Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson
says the race is going to happen over Father's Day
weekend next year.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
San Diego.
Speaker 10 (40:25):
And to hear those words, just smiling like no way,
like this really can happen.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Johnson says, with NASCAR doing races in several cities, street
races rather in several cities, along with the sports strong
ties to the military, San Diego just made sense. He
says he's hoping he gets to drive in the race.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Desire to race in my hometown is off the charts,
so I will aggressively work on being in the event.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Well, the course is still being worked out. NASCAR says
drivers will race at Naval Base Coronado. Never miss a
play with the Dodgers if you listen to them on
AM five seven the LA Sports, because you never know
what's gonna happen, like when Shohei o Tani matched a
franchise record with a fifth straight home run in last
night Scary Yesterday's game, and of course then Freddy Freeman
(41:11):
drove in two runs with a two out single in
the ninth up.
Speaker 10 (41:15):
Of the bases loaded here today in the ninth behind
Jack's one and two.
Speaker 16 (41:19):
The rider deals Freddy let fail.
Speaker 6 (41:22):
That is not taught by bead bet.
Speaker 9 (41:26):
Scores hold Toddy behind him.
Speaker 16 (41:29):
And the Dodgers walk it off.
Speaker 9 (41:33):
Head first diving catch at temp by Harrison Vader and left.
Speaker 10 (41:38):
He could not come up.
Speaker 16 (41:39):
With it, and the Dodgers come up with a win.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I love to hear that music. The Dodgers rallied to
beat the Minnesota Twins four to three. The boys in
Blue get a day off. Then tomorrow the Dodgers take
on the Red Sox in Boston. First pitch is going
out at four o'clock. You can listen to all Dodger
games on AM five to seventy LA Sports live from
the Gallpin Oters Broadcast Booth, and you can stream all
Dodgers games in h D on the iHeartRadio app. That's
(42:05):
how I listened. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. This
is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up Call. If you missed
any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on
the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake Up Call
with me, Amy King. You can always hear wake Up
(42:27):
Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI
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