March 21, 2025 • 43 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers opens the show talking about President Trump singing a bill to drastically shrink the Education Department. ABC News journalist Jim Ryan speaks on marijuana being linked to heart attacks. The House Whisperer Dean Sharp is back on Wake Up Call for another edition of ‘Waking Up with the House Whisperer!’ Today, Dean talks about making your tract home homier. Coutrney Donohue from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a stock market update. The show closes with ABC News entertainment reporter Will Ganss and the ‘Entertainment Report.’
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And his name is Amy King.
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Here's Amy King.
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This is.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Good morning. This is your wake up call for Friday,
March twenty first. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Whether you're listening on the app or
over the airwaves. We're happy that you're here to start
your Friday with us. You just heard that intro to
the show with Colonel Mickhaigu, who's safely back on Earth
and in quarantine. And then SpaceX launched another rocket last night. Man,
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they're busy. We got March Madness underway. Will's wearing his
UCLA T shirt.
Speaker 9 (01:33):
Yeah, much to the chagrin of Cono.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Cono, did all your brackets get busted yesterday? All of them?
Speaker 9 (01:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
He was he happing me? You have twenty two and
they're all busted. Yeah, well that was fun.
Speaker 10 (01:44):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Our eagles are sleeping away in a nest high above
Big Bear.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Like I'm still obsessed with watching them. I did not
dream about them last night like I did the night before.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And I got to tell you, they're so funny to
watch now because like the one just keeps sitting on
the other one. I'm sure it's a dominance thing, but
he just like sits on his head. He's like, I'm
not done with my food yet, and just sits on him.
They're kids there, just rambunctious little kids. And it's also
it's a Disney day. I got my Disney Spirit jersey
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on head into Disneyland after the show today.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Haven't been for a while, so I'm excited.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Fun.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yep, they got food and wine festival going on, so
I will be partaking in both food and wine. Here's
what's ahead on your Friday morning wake up call. A
man who allegedly stole a car, led police on a chase,
and caused a crash that killed a San Bernardino County
Sheriff's deputy has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder.
The crash happened Monday. Deputy Hector Kuavos Junior was killed
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in the crash that split his patrol car in two.
Ryan Turner was arrested later that day. Residents of a
forty seven unit apartment complex in Altadnev held a rally.
They're calling for their homes to be fixed two and
a half months after they were damaged and eaten fire.
The building is still standing, but it's damaged. Residents say
they don't have electricity or gas, and there's mold, burned
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walls and ash. Residents say they just want their units
cleaned up and utilities restored. Hours after President Trump signed
an executive order calling for the dismantling of the Department
of Education, LA School Superintendent Alberto Carvallo said that undermining
current funding levels could prove to be catastrophic to the
quality of education for students. We're going to get more
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about what's getting cut and what's not and what's next
with ABC's Karen Travers in just a couple of minutes
smoking a.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Lot of weed.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
ABC's Jim Ryan's going to tell you why, if you
care about your heart, you might want to cut back.
We're also talking tracked homes and how you can make
them a little more homey with the house whispered Dean
Sharp and Hi Ho ABC's Willgans will tell us about
Disney's latest offering and what's good on the stream that's
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coming up before the end of the hour. So much
going on, Let's get right to it and get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. UCLA's being sued by a group
representing pro Palestinian protester.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
The Council on American and Islamic Relations, says the school
failed to protect protesters during last year's demonstrations against the
war in Gaza. Student Benyamin more Josef says he was
abused by campus police when he was taken into custody.
Speaker 11 (04:18):
I haven't forgotten the pinch a tightly wound plastic on
my wrist as I waited on those cold metal bus seats.
I couldn't imagine that my pain would ever end. The
pain my university decided that I deserve.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
UCLA has also been targeted for federal review for its
alleged treatment of pro Israeli protesters and Jewish faculty and
staff during the demonstrations. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
ARST investigators are looking into an explosion at a home
in Pacoima that may have been caused by a guy
making fireworks. A man in his twenties suffered critical burns yesterday.
He's still in the hospital. There were four dogs at
the home. One appeared to be stuck in the rubble
by its leash. It was rescued by firefighters. Twenty six
families had been displaced because of the explosion.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The number of.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Homeless people counted in the twenty twenty five Greater LA
Homeless count has dropped five to ten percent.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The count was done last month.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
The Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority says if the numbers
hold up, they're in line with last year, when the
number of homeless people in the city was down almost
eleven percent and down in the county five percent. The
final numbers from this year's count expected later this spring
or in early summer. SpaceX has completed a successful spy
satellite launch from the coast to Santa Barbara.
Speaker 12 (05:29):
County three two one technician slift off of the Falcon
nine Go SpaceX Go ROL fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
The Falcon nine rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force
Base just before midnight last night. The same rocket booster
launched a mission on March eleventh, marking the fastest turnaround
time for a rocket booster in SpaceX history. Let's say
good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, the President
signed the executive order yesterday that he says was forty
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five five years in the making.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, and he says this begins the process of eliminating
the Department of Education, saying that states should have more control.
The President said yesterday we're going to shut it down
as quickly as possible. Now. It's important to note that
in order to end and get rid of a federal
agency or department, it requires congressional action, legislation, and that
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would require sixty votes in the Senate, and that seems
very unlikely given the part is in breakdown right now
with Democrats, of course. But the President and his team
and the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon are trying to
take the agency down to studs, you know, strip it
down as much as they can. It was already the
smallest cabinet level agency. Nearly half of the staff have
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been laid off, and now they're saying they're going to
shift as many functions as possible to other agencies and
departments so that some critical services can continue. But again,
they're really trying to just break it down as much
as they can, even if they can't fully officially eliminate
it because of Congress.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Right, So I was just going to say, they can
just gut it, like you said, take it down to
the studs. So technically it's still there if Congress won't
remove it, but it will effectively be useless exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you know that's you could say, somebody else could
reconstitute it in another administration another time if it's still
you know, existed by statutes. But obviously, like the key functions,
the staff, all of that will have been reduced so dramatically.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, Now, the President did say that like key components
of people receiving funding are not going to be affected,
So which ones are those?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So what the White House cited yesterday was funding for
low income students and students with disabilities and special needs resources.
There also the programs that the process for students to
apply for college financial aid. Those are things that are
run at the national level at the Department of Education,
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residents said yesterday they will continue uninterrupted with no disruptions.
That is what the White House and the Secretary of
Education we're saying too. But there's a big thing here.
They're also saying they're going to get shifted to other
agencies and departments, that those you know, programs would be
operated somewhere else. But they haven't said how that's going
to work and which agencies would be doing it. So
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that is, of course, you know, that type of uncertainty
is sparking concerns among educators, education advocates, and parents across
the country.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay, and in his when he signed the executive order,
he cited some pretty dismal numbers like that's just crazy,
which I think would bolster the argument that this agency
is not doing what it needs to.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Do, you know, and I think the supporters of this
will say that this will cut the red tape, they
will cut bureaucracy and enable state and local jurisdictions to
have more control.
Speaker 13 (08:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Acounter to that is that the Education Department doesn't administer
currica or create lessons for students across the nation.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Didn't it do common for though.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
In local school districts that well I'm kind of broadly speaking,
I don't know where the statuses of that. I just
to look into a non education expert on these specifics
on that. But most of the funding for public schools
is provided by state and local governments as well.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, I have so many more questions and we don't
have any more time, so we'll have to do it again.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Great, are you?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Thank you, Karen Drivers.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA Mayor bass
is said to announce a new emergency executive order intended
to help people in Pacific Palisades affected by the wildfires
in January. The order will speed up the rebuilding of
homes and businesses in ways, the mayor says better protect
against wildfires and other climate fueled disasters. The LA Department
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of Water Empowers repaired or replaced many of the broken
fire hydrants flagged last year.
Speaker 14 (09:52):
The number of non functioning hydrants came to light following
January's deadly Palisades fire. The early time for reports of
the thirteen hundred fifty broken hydrants, twelve hundred and eighty
nine have been addressed. More than eight hundred have been repaired.
Nearly one hundred and fifty replaced. Six were actually working
but just needed water turned on at a nearby valve.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Kfi's Jim Roops says almost two hundred hydrids that were
flagged as broken were actually still functioning, and the DWP
is working with the LA Fire Department on a better
system to fix fixed busted hydrants moving forward. More than
two hundred breweries around the world are helping raise money
for LA wildfire relief efforts. Breweries are creating their own
(10:31):
beer that they're calling we Love LA. The beers will
all be different beers, but they will all have the
same logo and a QR code that directs them to
a donation website. Great way to raise some money. The
European Union has delayed its first counter tariffs against the
US until mid April to allow for more time to
have discussions with the Trump administration. ABC's and As de
(10:54):
la Caterra says that gives Americans a little more time
to stock up on French wine at current prices.
Speaker 15 (11:00):
As retaliatory tariffs came in response to President Trump's tariffs
on European medals. Trump responded to Europe's proposed tariffs by
threatening to implement a two hundred percent tariff on alcohol
coming from Europe.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
An EU spokesperson says the slight change in the timeline
will not diminish the impact of the EU's response. The
NTSB says transportation authorities in Maryland did not do a
proper risk assessment of Baltimore's Key Bridge before it collapsed
last year.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Had they done that, the collapse could have been prevented.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Six construction workers were killed when a cargo ship hit
one of the bridge's pillars. NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendi says
dozens of bridges across the US should have risk assessments done.
The list includes California's Golden Gate and Coronado Bridges, plus
New York's Brooklyn Bridge, Vera Zano, and George Washington Bridges.
(11:52):
A federal judges temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency
from social Security systems that hold personally I identifiable data
on millions of Americans, and the judge's order also requires
DOZE to delete any identifiable data it already has. Labor
unions in retirees asked for the emergency order limiting doze's
access to the agency. The department has led the widespread
(12:16):
rediction in the federal workforce. Three people have been indicted
in San Diego for allegedly using children to grow and
distribute magic mushrooms. Prosecutors say a married couple and another
man from Fallbrook and Oceanside used a nine and an
eleven year old to help them cultivate, harvest, and sell
psilocybin mushrooms, sometimes the children. The members of Guns N'
(12:41):
Roses are saying goodbye to one of their longtime members.
Speaker 16 (12:45):
The band announced that drummer Frank Fair had taken his
final bow in the Jungle and has left the group.
The band is assuring fans it was an amicable exit.
Fair had been with gn R for the past nineteen years.
The band made the announcement on their Instagram and said
they wish him success on his musical journey. Leading Your
Eyes Axl Rose has been the only consistent member since
the band began in nineteen eighty five. The broker Kfi
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news Hey.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
The Wiggle Waggle Walk is just over two weeks away.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's happening on Sunday, April sixth, and we would love
for you to join us. We're going to be out
at the Rose Bowl and we're walking to raise money
for Pasadena Humine, who they're doing such great work to
help animals. They help thousands of animals every year and
this year just add an extra one or two thousand
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on because of the wildfires, and you know all of
the rescue work that they do and the care work
and the ICU of treating animals not only burned animals
just but also animals who come in and are sick
and need to be nursed back to health before they
can be adopted to the forever family. Pasadena Humane does
all that and we need your help to help them.
(13:51):
So we're looking to raise ten thousand dollars and we
can do that with your help, So please come walk
with me. I'm going to be out there at Brookside
Park the Rose Bowl the Wiggle Waggle wake up Call Wigglers.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I just added some extraverbage.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
But anyway, it's a wake up call wigglers, and we're
gonna put the team together and we're all gonna walk
and with our dogs and enjoy a beautiful Sunday morning
at the Rose Bowl. And it's super easy for you
to do it. All you need to do to donate.
If you can't come out or join the team is
go to KFI AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle
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and along with the walk, there's also vendors and food
trucks and samples for the pups, and training demonstrations and
even a dog costume contest. And when you stop by
the KFI booth, we have some exclusive KFI swag for
the pups. Quantities are limited, but anyway, love to have
you join us. Put on your walking shoes, put the
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dog on a leash, and join us for the Wiggle
Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane April sixth, just
two weeks away.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Just came up fast, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Wallmakers and Sacramento are making moves to take more of
your money. The California Tax Foundation says lawmakers have introduced
thirty six proposals so far this year to raise taxes
and fees. They include taxes on gas, prepaid phones, emergency flares,
and public transportation tickets to sporting events. In La the
White Houses acknowledged the social security numbers of more than
(15:19):
four hundred former congressional staffers and others were made public
with the eighty thousand pages of JFK assassinate assassination files
that were just released. The White House says it is
doing what it can to mitigate the harm from that exposure.
The UCLA's men's basketball team moving on to the next
round of the NCAA Tournament. The seventh seed Bruins easily
(15:41):
beat Utah State seventy two forty seven.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
UCLA faces second seed Tennessee Saturday night in Kentucky. Sorry, kno,
All twenty two of his brackets are busted. I'm so sorry.
I feel bad for you. Here's something else that's busted.
Airport at six oh five is handle on the news.
The airport's closed because of a fire. We'll tell you
(16:05):
what's going on with that. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Dude, that weed is going to kill you.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
It is one way or another, I think. But yeah,
I mean, people talk about it. It's safe mine, it's natural,
it comes out of the ground, it's earth right. Well, sure, okay,
there are a lot of things. But this new study
that is published this week in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology points out something that maybe a
lot of people didn't think about. That cannabis use can
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damage your heart. Daily use of cannabis, predominantly through smoking,
was associated with a twenty five percent increased likelihood of
heart attack. But it goes beyond that. Second study that
is newly published shows that the use of cannabis raises
your heart attack risk by six times. So I mean
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it's remarkable, And this isn't just a couple of people
involved in this. Four point six million people in the US,
all of them fifty years were younger. Their medical records
were looked at. So I think the next step amy
is to is for rich researchers to get a group
of actual people in front of them, some smoke, others
who don't smoke or use cannabis, and take a look
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at them. But four and a half million people had
their medical records looked at.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Okay, so and you said daily, So this is daily users,
not occasional users.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Well, occasionally use. Occasional use has its own risks. Less
frequent use associated with heart attacks too. Weekly users, so
not daily, but weekly users showed a three percent increased
likelihood of heart attack and a five percent increased likelihood
a stroke. So there are risks even with the occasional
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use if you consider once a week occasionally.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Use, So the three and five percent doesn't alarm me
as much as the six times more likely.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah, and these again are two separate studies. The one
with the six times a result is even is newer
than that one from last year that talked about that
smaller outcome. But it's interesting that in the very even
in the introduction of this article, this scholarly article, it says, well,
it has therapeutic benefits. So it does note that there
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are things that marijuana does for you that are good
for you that apparently you know, helps with glaucoma, helps
with PTSD and other emotional issues. But that goes on
to say cannabis consumptions linked to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, especially
myocardialin function, which is heart attack.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, and does it say what happens? Because I thought
like marijuana should just relax you. So when it's stands
to reason that it relaxes everything.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Well, it also affects your heart rhythm. You probably knew
that too. Slows your heart down maybe, but it also
increases the demand for oxygen that your heart muscle has.
So the very thing that's making you relaxed and kind
of chill might be going into your heart and making
it need more oxygen certainly slows it down.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Okay, all right, that's just a little bit scary.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Like I said, the three and five percent, you go,
but six times more likely to have a heart attack.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
That's the research is what they want to do. It's
this is really aimed at physicians. The telling physicians that
when you are doing normal checkups on people, you need
to ask them about their their marijuna use or their
cannabis use, whether they're smoking it or drinking it or
vaping it or whatever they might be doing with it.
To ask your patients about their use because it could
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be setting them up for increased risk of heart problems.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, and that goes back to patients too. When you
go into your doctor. It's legal now, so just say, hey, dude,
you should know that this is what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Well even to watch that it isn't. You should be
able to trust your doctor. And yeah, yeah, I smoke some.
Even if you live in Houston and then it's completely illegal, then.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I'm very disappointed about that. Jim, Huh, you sound very disappointed.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
I don't live in Houston anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh, okay, you're good to go. ABC Jim Ryan, thank
you so much for the information.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
See you all right.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State democrats
have rejected a Republican lawmaker's plan to reroute money away
from the high speed rail project. State Senator Tony Strickland
says his plan was to use some of the money
to lower the state's gas tax.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
When you, when you're listeners, just check out what it
costs for a gallon of gas in Arizona, Michigan, Texas,
or Florida, and you're asking why the gas prices are
so high here, it's because of the taxes we put on it.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Strickland's amendment to defund the high speed rail project was
defeated twenty eight to ten. Relatives and other supporters of
the Menendez brothers are rallied in downtown LA to continue
their calls for the convicted killers to be released from prison.
Cousin Tamra good Old or Goodel, says La County Da
Hawkman has not been fair to them.
Speaker 17 (20:58):
Da Hawkman has dismissed us, ignored us, and quite frankly
treated us like we don't matter.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Hawkman has opposed a new trial and resentencing for the
brothers who murdered their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen
eighty nine. The brothers and their supporters claim new evidence
of sexual abuse should lead to a chance at freedom.
The States reported that more than one hundred and twenty
two thousand vote by mail ballots in California haven't been counted.
Kim Alexander with the California Voter Foundation says nearly sixty
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percent of the signature issues with mail in ballots come
from first time or young voters between the ages of
eighteen and twenty four.
Speaker 17 (21:33):
Part of it, I think is, you know, the vote
by mail process is asking voters who are young to
do two things they're not very familiar with. Use the
US mail, which they don't do that much, and make
a signature which many of them, you know, didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Get taught in school or have never really thought about.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Don't know how to sign your name. That's interesting. Ballots
that are received late are not counted. Those with missing
or non matching signatures could result in the voter being
contacted to fix the situation. The governor's office is touting
a state milestone.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
California now has forty eight percent more electric vehicle chargers
than gasoline nozzles. Governor Newsom announced that the state has
one hundred and seventy eight thousand, five hundred and forty
nine public and shared private EV chargers. The California Energy
Commission estimates there are about one hundred and twenty thousand
gas nozzles in the state. In a statement, Newsom said,
as the federal government works to make it harder for
you to charge your electric car, California is doing the opposite.
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The Commission says the states continuing to invest in EV infrastructure,
especially and hard to reach areas, to make them an
easy choice for new car buyers. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The LA Department of Water and Power says it has
now repaired a lot of the fire hydrants that needed
repairs Following the wildfires. In January, it came to light
that thirteen hundred and fifty hydrants in the city weren't working. LEDWPISS.
More than a thousand of them have now been repaired
or replaced. A couple hundred flagged is broken. We're still working.
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A group of pro Palestinian students faculty and activists suing
you u CLA, claiming the university failed to protect them.
They alleged they suffered serious physical and verbal attacks and
even sexual assault while they had a camp set up
on campus to protest the war in the Guza Strip.
Last April, hundreds of thousands of passengers are facing flight
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cancelations at Europe's busiest travel hub after a fire knocked
out power to London's Heathrow Airport.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
The airport had to close.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's still closed, affecting at least thirteen hundred and fifty
flights in and out of Heathrow, including flights to and
from the US. At six oh five channel on the News,
Trump has signed an order he says is forty five
years in the making.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
What it's going to mean.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
every weekend right here on KFI the house whisper Dean Sharp. So, Dean,
we're taking a look at tracked homes this weekend and
how to make them a little more homey.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Huh, yes we are, yes, we are, okay, So start.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think this is interesting because I have a person
I know who bought a tract home and one of
the options was to make changes before she ever moved in.
But after you move in, you can still do some
upgrades to make it more like a home and less
like a pre fabricated box.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
You know, a well over eighty percent of us live
in some version or another of a tract home. And
you would think that a custom home designer like myself
would be like, you know, looking down our noses at
tract homes, but I live in one as well. And
the fact of the matter is, you know, the tract
home is essentially what has created the middle class homeowner.
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And so you know, I don't poo poo the idea
of living in a tract home. It's simply the thing
that has enabled most of us to actually own a home.
But you have to understand there are problems that come
with tracked homes. There's a very unique set of things
that are involvedmanship, you know, is not always that great
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in a in a tracked home, things like lot orientation,
the way the home is facing its street, the directions
of the compass. There are that same floor plan is
laid out so many different ways in attract it appears
so many different times. It's kind of you know, the
roll of the dice and yet the windows, the doors,
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they don't change their orientation. It's one fixed plan regardless
of its orientation to the compass. And that's one of
the things about a tract home that you can change
things like turning windows when necessary in two doors. And
when you think about that, you're like, oh, that must
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be a big thing. It's really not. Imagine taking like
a sliding glass door and turning it into a window. Okay,
you would take out the door, you would put in
a window the same with and then all you would
do is build that little wall section up underneath it.
It's a pretty simple move in terms of construction. You're
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not even touching the structure of the house. Well, the
opposite of that is exactly how every window and door
in a tract home is made. Every window started out
as a door, so turning it back into a door
is simply removing the window, removing that section of ball underneath,
and adding in a door. And when it comes to
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a bedroom that doesn't have a lot of light coming
into it, or a bedroom like in a ranch style
house that has access to the backyard through a door,
it could be a huge design game changer. So it's
one of those things that you can do in a
tract home remodel that is relatively little cost compared to
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a massive, massive payoff.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Right, Okay, And then here's another one that I wholeheartedly
agree with, and because I think they were a thing
for a while, not so popular now, and that's soffits
getting rid of them.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
Yes, soffits are placed in tracked homes in a very
very generalized way to leave room for HVAC ducting, you know,
air conditioning and heating ducting and things like that, little
plumbing things. And the thing about soffits is that whatever
space that AC duct needed, it wasn't just confined to that.
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It was much easier for the builder to just drop
the whole ceiling or make the soffit much much larger
than it needs to be. And so if we do
a little bit of investigating, we find out exactly where
the duct is, and I got to tell you nine
times out of ten, we can reroute the duct anyway
to get to that same space and get rid of
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soffits completely. And that can change things like entry ways
from seven foot ceilings up to eight or nine foot ceilings.
Kitchens are notorious for having soffits all around them. Those
soffits come out so easily and can make such a
big difference.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, and the real quick you mentioned ceilings, and I
love this idea. Maybe get rid of the attic space
and put in some vaults.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
Yeah, not everywhere in the house. Not every room in
the house needs to have its ceiling vaulted. But there
may be I mean, you're if you're already committing to
a remodel, there may be some of those prime rooms,
rooms like the living room or the kitchen or the
family room where if you get in the attic and
you actually understand, you know what's up there, there are
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ways to eliminate the or move the structural elements in
the attic. And just to imagine a ceiling line vaulting
up in some of these rooms that we spend most
of our time in volume, even though you're not changing
the square footage, the volume of the room makes all
the difference.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, And that's just a couple of the things that
you can do to make your tracked home more Homie,
You're going to find out a whole lot more this weekend.
Dean Sharp has a little show on KFI. It's called
Home six to eight am on Saturday nine to noon.
On Sunday, you can also follow Dean at Home with Dean.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Thank you so much, Dean. We always love talking to you.
Speaker 12 (29:07):
Thanks Amy. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
All right, you too.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Good morning, Courtney, Happy Friday, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, So, if you're looking into running, you might turn
to Nike, and they're running into some problems with their
efforts to fix things.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, Nike has been trying to do a turnaround for
some time. They realize that the merchandise pick that they
have it's not working out so well. So this morning
we are seeing shares taking a big hit in early trading.
So they've been in the process of clearing out all
of the inventory that people don't really want through big discounts.
So a lot of demand has been fading for some
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of the bigger sneaker franchises. We're talking about the Air
Force Ones and the Dunks. But Nike says it sees
sales declining further as it continues to reset all the
merchandise that it has. So the recent moves that they've
been doing to try to attract shoppers is a new
fitness line called Nike Skims that's a partnership with Kim
Kardashian's underwear brand. They also aired their first Super Bowl
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commercial in nearly three decades to try to get more
people to say, Hey, I'm going to buy some Nike apparel.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Is Skims doing well?
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Skim seems to be doing quite well. That's one of
the products. And again that's why Nike's teaming up with
her because that's more of a social media sort of thing,
and it seems like Nike has been a bit behind
the ball on their marketing and getting people excited about
their sneaker brands getting excited about their clothes. They kind
of made a lot of mistakes. They had a former
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eBay CEO, John Donaho. He's no relation to me, by
the way. He had a lot more money than me,
by the way, but he was He ran Nike for
a while and it didn't quite go as well as
people were expecting. So now they brought in new people.
They're trying to fix a lot of the problem that
they have and again trying to go with new upstart
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sort of brands teaming up with them and saying hey,
we're on board. We're hip.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Now you want to buy some of our stuff. Okay,
let's turn to coffee.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Young people are maybe kicking the habit when it comes to,
you know, hanging out at Starbucks.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well, you know what they're doing. They're going to a throwback.
They're going to instant coffee. Remember that back in the.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Day, soldiers.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yes, folders and more brands.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Are waking up.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Is folders in my cup.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
But a lot of people who are buying this weren't
even alive when that commercial was kind of hot back
in the day. Because it seems like a lot of
gen z there. It's growing the fastest in buying instant coffee,
and sales of instant coffee rose twenty four percent last
year compared to the two years prior. That's according to
data that we found from Nielsen. But one of the
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big problems is coffee is just so darn expensive in
midtown here Midtown Manhattan, a twelve and which is very
similar to where you guys are, a twelve ounce cup
of Starbucks costs three dollars and forty five cents. On
the other hand, if you were to make Starbucks instant coffee,
and now they have instant coffee VA. Yeah, if you
were to do it at home, it's about thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Six cents a cup, so that's a big difference. I
like that idea.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, markets, to wrap up the week, anything we should
be watching for.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Yeah, well this morning we're looking at more losses ahead,
and one stock we are watching is FedEx that's tumbling
in pre market trading. Along with Nike, they lowered their
full year financial outlook. FedEx is the latest company to say,
you know what, there's going to be a big fallout
from the trade war. So they're they're considered a big
economic bell weather because of their exposure to so many
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different industries out there, and they actually added which is
kind of interesting and somewhat sad, that their latest outlook
assumes that the global economic and trade environment doesn't get
any worse, and not a lot of people.
Speaker 14 (32:55):
See that getting any better.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
So S and P futures right now they're down about
seven tons of percent, continue to fall lower. ZAL futures
down three hundred points.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Alrighty Courtney, Dona who Donna who? Donahoe?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's okay what I answered to whatever, Hey hi ho.
Speaker 13 (33:14):
Hi ho.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
We're also gonna be talking to Will Ganson just a minute.
That just reminded me. So it was a little bit
of a rhyme. Blueberry, Courtney, Dona who see, I did
it again. I love it. I know, Will, what's going on?
Maybe I'm just sad because you know what, it's one
of two things. Either I'm really bummed that I haven't
had enough coffee, or I'm very sad for Kno who
had all twenty two of his brackets busted.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
Oh most people did, Amy, It's not just me, Okay,
most people did.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
My brackets were good.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
My brackets are Courtney's hanging in there. Okay.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Words, I only made one mistake, one mistake.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Bluebirgs, Courtney, Donna Hoe. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
There we go.
Speaker 12 (33:54):
We'll get later.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
We'll get in your business again on Monday. Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
I have a great weekend, everybody.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
A series of late winter storms in the Southland has helped,
but the region is still coming up short with water.
The total volume of stormwater captured by Los Angeles County
is nearly twelve billion gallons, but still downtown LA has
only received six and a half inches of rain since October.
That's less than half the annual average of fifteen point
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four inches. The European Union says it's going to delay
retaliatory tariffs against the US. Tariffs on US whiskey and
clothes were set to start April first, but the EU
says it is putting them off until mid April to
allow for more time to negotiate. The EU tariffs are
on the table in response to President Trump's twenty five
percent tariffs on European aluminum and steel. California is expanding
(34:46):
its electric vehicle charging network. Governor Newsom says the state
already has more than one hundred and seventy eight thousand
public and shared private electric vehicle chargers and is going
to put in more. Newsom's office is California and now
has forty eight percent more EV chargers than gas nozzles
in the state. We're just minutes away from Handle. On
(35:08):
the news this morning. The big news is Mo Kelly's
in for Bill Handle. You're gonna have a lot of fun.
Can't wait to talk to him, Moe. Also, it's time
to talk to Will gans Hi.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Ho Will, It's off to the movie theater we go, Amy,
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
It is yes, it is snow white.
Speaker 10 (35:23):
Huh yeah, So this is some critics are saying that
this is Disney's best live action remake so far. You know, yeah,
not everybody is as enthusiastic about it, but what most
people are agreeing on is that Rachel Zegler is a star,
that she is just charismatic and just carries this movie effortlessly.
(35:45):
And of course, like if you've heard her sing ever,
you know, she was in West Side Story when Steven
Spielberg did it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
She's she's just so good.
Speaker 10 (35:55):
So it's a snow White that's been updated, you know
for a twenty twenty five audience. You know, she has
more agency, and there's a fresh soundtrack from Pasik and Paul,
who are the Egot winners, you know, behind some big
Broadway hits. And so if you have, you know, some
time to kill with the kids this weekend, I think
snow White is a great option for anyone who's willing
(36:17):
to take a trip to the movie theater and check
out the updated version of snow White.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, so here's a question for you. Is it is
it the same story? Because I will be honest with you,
I watched Snowy White a couple of years ago because
I never saw it as a kid, and or if
I did, I didn't remember it. That's probably more likely
because I can't remember anything. But anyway, I didn't care
for it. Like I watched the movie and I went, well,
this is long and not very engaging, and it just
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I didn't like it.
Speaker 10 (36:46):
Yeah, yes it is. I mean, so it is an
updated you know, there's more of a filled out story
and more of a character, and like the motivations become
more clear. There's almost like a political sort of message,
like it's a disparity between well not not in a
way that's like, oh great, in a way that's like, okay,
now I understand why there's such tension between the Queen
(37:06):
and snow White, and snow White's backstory makes a little
bit more sense. And so you know, it's it's it
is a much more fleshed out, I guess plot than
what the cartoon was in nineteen thirty whatever.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, and you're a gal Gadote as the evil Queen.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Huh, yes, yes, so she is.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
You know, she's done, wonder woman, She's done you know,
a bunch of different things, and this is her turn
as the Evil Queen, which is just it is honestly
one of the great Disney villains.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yes, And are there any other familiar faces in the movie?
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Do we know the No, the Prince is like sort
of an actor that I'd never heard of. And then
you know, the the dwarves are CGI, so they're not
like real actors. Yeah, I would say that it's Rachel
Zegler and Galgado are the you know, the names that
you would recognize.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Okay, so now we're going to move over to the stream.
I took your advice and watched Kate Hudson's new show
Running Point, and I liked it. So you just earned
some cred. So what you got on the stream for
us this week?
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Okay? So two Netflix shows to keep your eye on.
The first is Adolescence. It's only four episodes. It's the
number one show on Netflix right now. There's a lot
of hype around it. And so it's about a thirteen
year old boy in the UK who is being accused
of murder. So if the show starts basically by the
police raiding this normal family's house and you know, bursting
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into this boy's bedroom and are like, you know, you're
under arrest for suspicion of murder and you know, the
cool thing artistically about the show is that it's all
done in one shot, So each episode is one long shot,
no breaks, no scene breaks, nothing like that. So like
when the kid gets put in the police car and
taken to you know, the police station, you're in the
car with him and hearing him you know, get his
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Miranda rights red and all of that stuff. So it's
really you know, and at the beginning, you're sort of like,
there's no way this thirteen year old can could do it.
He has such like a sweet space, you know, he's
and then there are some plot twists along the way
and you start to realize, oh my gosh, maybe we
don't know this kid and this situation as well as
we thought we did. So it's really really fascinating, and
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you know, it's it feels very honest. It's not based
on any specific true story, but it feels like it
could be any thirteen year old kid.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Okay, perfect. And then the other one is the residence.
I mean, we love some white house intrigue. I doubt
it's going to be as good as Paradise.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Though, I know, I know, but it's a very different
vibe than Paradise. So this if you remember Knives Out
with Daniel Craig and Jamie Lee Curtis. This is sort
of like that. It's like a quirky murder mystery where
it's like you have this bizarre sort of detective who's
you know, looking at birds through a binoculars and all
of this stuff and you're like, what is she doing?
So it's quirky and it's a little sillier, but it
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is a murder mystery that takes place in the White
House on the night of the Australian Ambassadors like gal
or whatever. So lots of suspects all in the White
House for this big event and she has to figure
out which one of them committed this murder. The detective
is played by Uzo Aduba, who you might remember from
Orange is the New Black, and the show comes from Shondaland,
(40:13):
so it has sort of the you know, the for'
quirky writing that you might remember from like Scandal and
things like that.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
So Shonda Rhimes meets Eggatha Christie exactly.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Yes, thank you, you make the recommendations next week. You
just summed it up so much more better than than
I did.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Oh no, you're fabulous. Thank you will Ganz. Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 12 (40:37):
Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
All right, you too.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new report
shows lawmakers in California have proposed increasing state taxes and
fees by more than ten billion dollars, and that's just
in the first three months of the year. David Klein
with the California Tax Foundation says the report shows thirty
six proposed hits to taxpayers so far.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
As of right now, only six of those can be quantified,
So the ten billion only counts six of the thirty
six proposals. The other thirty there's just no way to
estimate the revenue as of now or the hit on taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
The new taxes and fees proposed by lawmakers include increase
costs for gasoline, prepaid phones, emergency flares, and public transportation
tickets for specific sporting events. In Los Angeles, a child
has taken a pill laced with fentanyl at a daycare
in Victorville. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says the
preschool aged child and two other kids found the pills
(41:30):
on the ground at the La Petite Academy on Tuesday
and ate them. Staff grabbed the pills and called nine
one one. The kids and two staff members were treated
at the hospital. One child tested positive for fentinyl. It's
not clear how the pills got into the daycare. The
chairman of the LA Olympics Committee has said the twenty
twenty eight Games will be open to all athletes.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
The International Olympic Committee's meeting in Greece featured an update
from officials with the LA twenty eight organizing Committee. Chairman
Casey Wasserman says he's worked with multiple presidents to ensure
visas would be expedited and honored.
Speaker 12 (42:02):
All of them have affirmed and reaffirmed their commitment to
both full access for everyone and the Olympic Charter.
Speaker 9 (42:11):
Wasserman had been asked at the meeting about the impact
of any potential travel restrictions from President Trump. He says
Trump is committed to a smooth Olympics in La. Michael
Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Don't forget Wiggle Wagglewalk coming up in just over two weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
It's April sixth that.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Were going to be walking around the Rose Bowl to
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Speaker 4 (42:31):
We have a team, the Wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Wigglers, and we would love for you to join it,
So grab your dog and come on down. You can
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donation if you'd like, And that's at KFIAM six forty
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Might see a few areas of Patchee fog. Otherwise it's
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going to be sunny. Hi's in the sixties at the beaches,
low to mid seventies for Metro LA and in Lando
c around eighty in the valleys and Inland Empire. Sixties
to low seventies for the Antelope Valley. Low clouds tomorrow morning,
then mostly sunny highs in the upper sixties to upper seventies,
warming up Sunday into the seventies to mid eighties, and
then even warmer to start next week with his in
the seventies to low nineties. It's fifty in Irvine, forty
(43:18):
nine Huntington Beach, forty eight in Canyon Country, fifty one
in Inglewood. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer Kno
along with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King. This has
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Speaker 1 (01:02):
Good morning. This is your wake up call for Friday,
March twenty first. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on
the iHeartRadio app. Whether you're listening on the app or
over the airwaves. We're happy that you're here to start
your Friday with us. You just heard that intro to
the show with Colonel Mickhaigu, who's safely back on Earth
and in quarantine. And then SpaceX launched another rocket last night. Man,
(01:25):
they're busy. We got March Madness underway. Will's wearing his
UCLA T shirt.
Speaker 9 (01:33):
Yeah, much to the chagrin of Cono.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Cono, did all your brackets get busted yesterday? All of them?
Speaker 9 (01:39):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:39):
He was he happing me? You have twenty two and
they're all busted. Yeah, well that was fun.
Speaker 10 (01:44):
It was great.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Our eagles are sleeping away in a nest high above
Big Bear.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Like I'm still obsessed with watching them. I did not
dream about them last night like I did the night before.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
And I got to tell you, they're so funny to
watch now because like the one just keeps sitting on
the other one. I'm sure it's a dominance thing, but
he just like sits on his head. He's like, I'm
not done with my food yet, and just sits on him.
They're kids there, just rambunctious little kids. And it's also
it's a Disney day. I got my Disney Spirit jersey
(02:16):
on head into Disneyland after the show today.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Haven't been for a while, so I'm excited.
Speaker 8 (02:20):
Fun.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yep, they got food and wine festival going on, so
I will be partaking in both food and wine. Here's
what's ahead on your Friday morning wake up call. A
man who allegedly stole a car, led police on a chase,
and caused a crash that killed a San Bernardino County
Sheriff's deputy has pleaded not guilty to second degree murder.
The crash happened Monday. Deputy Hector Kuavos Junior was killed
(02:44):
in the crash that split his patrol car in two.
Ryan Turner was arrested later that day. Residents of a
forty seven unit apartment complex in Altadnev held a rally.
They're calling for their homes to be fixed two and
a half months after they were damaged and eaten fire.
The building is still standing, but it's damaged. Residents say
they don't have electricity or gas, and there's mold, burned
(03:05):
walls and ash. Residents say they just want their units
cleaned up and utilities restored. Hours after President Trump signed
an executive order calling for the dismantling of the Department
of Education, LA School Superintendent Alberto Carvallo said that undermining
current funding levels could prove to be catastrophic to the
quality of education for students. We're going to get more
(03:26):
about what's getting cut and what's not and what's next
with ABC's Karen Travers in just a couple of minutes
smoking a.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Lot of weed.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
ABC's Jim Ryan's going to tell you why, if you
care about your heart, you might want to cut back.
We're also talking tracked homes and how you can make
them a little more homey with the house whispered Dean
Sharp and Hi Ho ABC's Willgans will tell us about
Disney's latest offering and what's good on the stream that's
(03:53):
coming up before the end of the hour. So much
going on, Let's get right to it and get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. UCLA's being sued by a group
representing pro Palestinian protester.
Speaker 9 (04:06):
The Council on American and Islamic Relations, says the school
failed to protect protesters during last year's demonstrations against the
war in Gaza. Student Benyamin more Josef says he was
abused by campus police when he was taken into custody.
Speaker 11 (04:18):
I haven't forgotten the pinch a tightly wound plastic on
my wrist as I waited on those cold metal bus seats.
I couldn't imagine that my pain would ever end. The
pain my university decided that I deserve.
Speaker 9 (04:29):
UCLA has also been targeted for federal review for its
alleged treatment of pro Israeli protesters and Jewish faculty and
staff during the demonstrations. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
ARST investigators are looking into an explosion at a home
in Pacoima that may have been caused by a guy
making fireworks. A man in his twenties suffered critical burns yesterday.
He's still in the hospital. There were four dogs at
the home. One appeared to be stuck in the rubble
by its leash. It was rescued by firefighters. Twenty six
families had been displaced because of the explosion.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The number of.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Homeless people counted in the twenty twenty five Greater LA
Homeless count has dropped five to ten percent.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
The count was done last month.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
The Los Angeles Homeless Service Authority says if the numbers
hold up, they're in line with last year, when the
number of homeless people in the city was down almost
eleven percent and down in the county five percent. The
final numbers from this year's count expected later this spring
or in early summer. SpaceX has completed a successful spy
satellite launch from the coast to Santa Barbara.
Speaker 12 (05:29):
County three two one technician slift off of the Falcon
nine Go SpaceX Go ROL fifty seven.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
The Falcon nine rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force
Base just before midnight last night. The same rocket booster
launched a mission on March eleventh, marking the fastest turnaround
time for a rocket booster in SpaceX history. Let's say
good morning to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, the President
signed the executive order yesterday that he says was forty
(05:59):
five five years in the making.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, and he says this begins the process of eliminating
the Department of Education, saying that states should have more control.
The President said yesterday we're going to shut it down
as quickly as possible. Now. It's important to note that
in order to end and get rid of a federal
agency or department, it requires congressional action, legislation, and that
(06:23):
would require sixty votes in the Senate, and that seems
very unlikely given the part is in breakdown right now
with Democrats, of course. But the President and his team
and the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon are trying to
take the agency down to studs, you know, strip it
down as much as they can. It was already the
smallest cabinet level agency. Nearly half of the staff have
(06:44):
been laid off, and now they're saying they're going to
shift as many functions as possible to other agencies and
departments so that some critical services can continue. But again,
they're really trying to just break it down as much
as they can, even if they can't fully officially eliminate
it because of Congress.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Right, So I was just going to say, they can
just gut it, like you said, take it down to
the studs. So technically it's still there if Congress won't
remove it, but it will effectively be useless exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
And you know that's you could say, somebody else could
reconstitute it in another administration another time if it's still
you know, existed by statutes. But obviously, like the key functions,
the staff, all of that will have been reduced so dramatically.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, Now, the President did say that like key components
of people receiving funding are not going to be affected,
So which ones are those?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
So what the White House cited yesterday was funding for
low income students and students with disabilities and special needs resources.
There also the programs that the process for students to
apply for college financial aid. Those are things that are
run at the national level at the Department of Education,
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residents said yesterday they will continue uninterrupted with no disruptions.
That is what the White House and the Secretary of
Education we're saying too. But there's a big thing here.
They're also saying they're going to get shifted to other
agencies and departments, that those you know, programs would be
operated somewhere else. But they haven't said how that's going
to work and which agencies would be doing it. So
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that is, of course, you know, that type of uncertainty
is sparking concerns among educators, education advocates, and parents across
the country.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Okay, and in his when he signed the executive order,
he cited some pretty dismal numbers like that's just crazy,
which I think would bolster the argument that this agency
is not doing what it needs to.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Do, you know, and I think the supporters of this
will say that this will cut the red tape, they
will cut bureaucracy and enable state and local jurisdictions to
have more control.
Speaker 13 (08:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Acounter to that is that the Education Department doesn't administer
currica or create lessons for students across the nation.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Didn't it do common for though.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
In local school districts that well I'm kind of broadly speaking,
I don't know where the statuses of that. I just
to look into a non education expert on these specifics
on that. But most of the funding for public schools
is provided by state and local governments as well.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Okay, I have so many more questions and we don't
have any more time, so we'll have to do it again.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Great, are you?
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Thank you, Karen Drivers.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA Mayor bass
is said to announce a new emergency executive order intended
to help people in Pacific Palisades affected by the wildfires
in January. The order will speed up the rebuilding of
homes and businesses in ways, the mayor says better protect
against wildfires and other climate fueled disasters. The LA Department
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of Water Empowers repaired or replaced many of the broken
fire hydrants flagged last year.
Speaker 14 (09:52):
The number of non functioning hydrants came to light following
January's deadly Palisades fire. The early time for reports of
the thirteen hundred fifty broken hydrants, twelve hundred and eighty
nine have been addressed. More than eight hundred have been repaired.
Nearly one hundred and fifty replaced. Six were actually working
but just needed water turned on at a nearby valve.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Kfi's Jim Roops says almost two hundred hydrids that were
flagged as broken were actually still functioning, and the DWP
is working with the LA Fire Department on a better
system to fix fixed busted hydrants moving forward. More than
two hundred breweries around the world are helping raise money
for LA wildfire relief efforts. Breweries are creating their own
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beer that they're calling we Love LA. The beers will
all be different beers, but they will all have the
same logo and a QR code that directs them to
a donation website. Great way to raise some money. The
European Union has delayed its first counter tariffs against the
US until mid April to allow for more time to
have discussions with the Trump administration. ABC's and As de
(10:54):
la Caterra says that gives Americans a little more time
to stock up on French wine at current prices.
Speaker 15 (11:00):
As retaliatory tariffs came in response to President Trump's tariffs
on European medals. Trump responded to Europe's proposed tariffs by
threatening to implement a two hundred percent tariff on alcohol
coming from Europe.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
An EU spokesperson says the slight change in the timeline
will not diminish the impact of the EU's response. The
NTSB says transportation authorities in Maryland did not do a
proper risk assessment of Baltimore's Key Bridge before it collapsed
last year.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Had they done that, the collapse could have been prevented.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Six construction workers were killed when a cargo ship hit
one of the bridge's pillars. NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendi says
dozens of bridges across the US should have risk assessments done.
The list includes California's Golden Gate and Coronado Bridges, plus
New York's Brooklyn Bridge, Vera Zano, and George Washington Bridges.
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A federal judges temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency
from social Security systems that hold personally I identifiable data
on millions of Americans, and the judge's order also requires
DOZE to delete any identifiable data it already has. Labor
unions in retirees asked for the emergency order limiting doze's
access to the agency. The department has led the widespread
(12:16):
rediction in the federal workforce. Three people have been indicted
in San Diego for allegedly using children to grow and
distribute magic mushrooms. Prosecutors say a married couple and another
man from Fallbrook and Oceanside used a nine and an
eleven year old to help them cultivate, harvest, and sell
psilocybin mushrooms, sometimes the children. The members of Guns N'
(12:41):
Roses are saying goodbye to one of their longtime members.
Speaker 16 (12:45):
The band announced that drummer Frank Fair had taken his
final bow in the Jungle and has left the group.
The band is assuring fans it was an amicable exit.
Fair had been with gn R for the past nineteen years.
The band made the announcement on their Instagram and said
they wish him success on his musical journey. Leading Your
Eyes Axl Rose has been the only consistent member since
the band began in nineteen eighty five. The broker Kfi
(13:05):
news Hey.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
The Wiggle Waggle Walk is just over two weeks away.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
It's happening on Sunday, April sixth, and we would love
for you to join us. We're going to be out
at the Rose Bowl and we're walking to raise money
for Pasadena Humine, who they're doing such great work to
help animals. They help thousands of animals every year and
this year just add an extra one or two thousand
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on because of the wildfires, and you know all of
the rescue work that they do and the care work
and the ICU of treating animals not only burned animals
just but also animals who come in and are sick
and need to be nursed back to health before they
can be adopted to the forever family. Pasadena Humane does
all that and we need your help to help them.
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So we're looking to raise ten thousand dollars and we
can do that with your help, So please come walk
with me. I'm going to be out there at Brookside
Park the Rose Bowl the Wiggle Waggle wake up Call Wigglers.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I just added some extraverbage.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
But anyway, it's a wake up call wigglers, and we're
gonna put the team together and we're all gonna walk
and with our dogs and enjoy a beautiful Sunday morning
at the Rose Bowl. And it's super easy for you
to do it. All you need to do to donate.
If you can't come out or join the team is
go to KFI AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle
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and along with the walk, there's also vendors and food
trucks and samples for the pups, and training demonstrations and
even a dog costume contest. And when you stop by
the KFI booth, we have some exclusive KFI swag for
the pups. Quantities are limited, but anyway, love to have
you join us. Put on your walking shoes, put the
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dog on a leash, and join us for the Wiggle
Waggle Walk and Run for Pasadena Humane April sixth, just
two weeks away.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Just came up fast, okay.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Wallmakers and Sacramento are making moves to take more of
your money. The California Tax Foundation says lawmakers have introduced
thirty six proposals so far this year to raise taxes
and fees. They include taxes on gas, prepaid phones, emergency flares,
and public transportation tickets to sporting events. In La the
White Houses acknowledged the social security numbers of more than
(15:19):
four hundred former congressional staffers and others were made public
with the eighty thousand pages of JFK assassinate assassination files
that were just released. The White House says it is
doing what it can to mitigate the harm from that exposure.
The UCLA's men's basketball team moving on to the next
round of the NCAA Tournament. The seventh seed Bruins easily
(15:41):
beat Utah State seventy two forty seven.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Last night.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
UCLA faces second seed Tennessee Saturday night in Kentucky. Sorry, kno,
All twenty two of his brackets are busted. I'm so sorry.
I feel bad for you. Here's something else that's busted.
Airport at six oh five is handle on the news.
The airport's closed because of a fire. We'll tell you
(16:05):
what's going on with that. Right now, let's say good
morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Dude, that weed is going to kill you.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
It is one way or another, I think. But yeah,
I mean, people talk about it. It's safe mine, it's natural,
it comes out of the ground, it's earth right. Well, sure, okay,
there are a lot of things. But this new study
that is published this week in the Journal of the
American College of Cardiology points out something that maybe a
lot of people didn't think about. That cannabis use can
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damage your heart. Daily use of cannabis, predominantly through smoking,
was associated with a twenty five percent increased likelihood of
heart attack. But it goes beyond that. Second study that
is newly published shows that the use of cannabis raises
your heart attack risk by six times. So I mean
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it's remarkable, And this isn't just a couple of people
involved in this. Four point six million people in the US,
all of them fifty years were younger. Their medical records
were looked at. So I think the next step amy
is to is for rich researchers to get a group
of actual people in front of them, some smoke, others
who don't smoke or use cannabis, and take a look
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at them. But four and a half million people had
their medical records looked at.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Okay, so and you said daily, So this is daily users,
not occasional users.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Well, occasionally use. Occasional use has its own risks. Less
frequent use associated with heart attacks too. Weekly users, so
not daily, but weekly users showed a three percent increased
likelihood of heart attack and a five percent increased likelihood
a stroke. So there are risks even with the occasional
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use if you consider once a week occasionally.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Use, So the three and five percent doesn't alarm me
as much as the six times more likely.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah, and these again are two separate studies. The one
with the six times a result is even is newer
than that one from last year that talked about that
smaller outcome. But it's interesting that in the very even
in the introduction of this article, this scholarly article, it says, well,
it has therapeutic benefits. So it does note that there
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are things that marijuana does for you that are good
for you that apparently you know, helps with glaucoma, helps
with PTSD and other emotional issues. But that goes on
to say cannabis consumptions linked to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, especially
myocardialin function, which is heart attack.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Okay, and does it say what happens? Because I thought
like marijuana should just relax you. So when it's stands
to reason that it relaxes everything.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Well, it also affects your heart rhythm. You probably knew
that too. Slows your heart down maybe, but it also
increases the demand for oxygen that your heart muscle has.
So the very thing that's making you relaxed and kind
of chill might be going into your heart and making
it need more oxygen certainly slows it down.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Okay, all right, that's just a little bit scary.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Like I said, the three and five percent, you go,
but six times more likely to have a heart attack.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
That's the research is what they want to do. It's
this is really aimed at physicians. The telling physicians that
when you are doing normal checkups on people, you need
to ask them about their their marijuna use or their
cannabis use, whether they're smoking it or drinking it or
vaping it or whatever they might be doing with it.
To ask your patients about their use because it could
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be setting them up for increased risk of heart problems.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, and that goes back to patients too. When you
go into your doctor. It's legal now, so just say, hey, dude,
you should know that this is what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Well even to watch that it isn't. You should be
able to trust your doctor. And yeah, yeah, I smoke some.
Even if you live in Houston and then it's completely illegal, then.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I'm very disappointed about that. Jim, Huh, you sound very disappointed.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
I don't live in Houston anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Oh, okay, you're good to go. ABC Jim Ryan, thank
you so much for the information.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
See you all right.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, let's get back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. State democrats
have rejected a Republican lawmaker's plan to reroute money away
from the high speed rail project. State Senator Tony Strickland
says his plan was to use some of the money
to lower the state's gas tax.
Speaker 13 (20:26):
When you, when you're listeners, just check out what it
costs for a gallon of gas in Arizona, Michigan, Texas,
or Florida, and you're asking why the gas prices are
so high here, it's because of the taxes we put on it.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Strickland's amendment to defund the high speed rail project was
defeated twenty eight to ten. Relatives and other supporters of
the Menendez brothers are rallied in downtown LA to continue
their calls for the convicted killers to be released from prison.
Cousin Tamra good Old or Goodel, says La County Da
Hawkman has not been fair to them.
Speaker 17 (20:58):
Da Hawkman has dismissed us, ignored us, and quite frankly
treated us like we don't matter.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Hawkman has opposed a new trial and resentencing for the
brothers who murdered their parents in Beverly Hills in nineteen
eighty nine. The brothers and their supporters claim new evidence
of sexual abuse should lead to a chance at freedom.
The States reported that more than one hundred and twenty
two thousand vote by mail ballots in California haven't been counted.
Kim Alexander with the California Voter Foundation says nearly sixty
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percent of the signature issues with mail in ballots come
from first time or young voters between the ages of
eighteen and twenty four.
Speaker 17 (21:33):
Part of it, I think is, you know, the vote
by mail process is asking voters who are young to
do two things they're not very familiar with. Use the
US mail, which they don't do that much, and make
a signature which many of them, you know, didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Get taught in school or have never really thought about.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Don't know how to sign your name. That's interesting. Ballots
that are received late are not counted. Those with missing
or non matching signatures could result in the voter being
contacted to fix the situation. The governor's office is touting
a state milestone.
Speaker 8 (22:03):
California now has forty eight percent more electric vehicle chargers
than gasoline nozzles. Governor Newsom announced that the state has
one hundred and seventy eight thousand, five hundred and forty
nine public and shared private EV chargers. The California Energy
Commission estimates there are about one hundred and twenty thousand
gas nozzles in the state. In a statement, Newsom said,
as the federal government works to make it harder for
you to charge your electric car, California is doing the opposite.
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The Commission says the states continuing to invest in EV infrastructure,
especially and hard to reach areas, to make them an
easy choice for new car buyers. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
The LA Department of Water and Power says it has
now repaired a lot of the fire hydrants that needed
repairs Following the wildfires. In January, it came to light
that thirteen hundred and fifty hydrants in the city weren't working. LEDWPISS.
More than a thousand of them have now been repaired
or replaced. A couple hundred flagged is broken. We're still working.
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A group of pro Palestinian students faculty and activists suing
you u CLA, claiming the university failed to protect them.
They alleged they suffered serious physical and verbal attacks and
even sexual assault while they had a camp set up
on campus to protest the war in the Guza Strip.
Last April, hundreds of thousands of passengers are facing flight
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cancelations at Europe's busiest travel hub after a fire knocked
out power to London's Heathrow Airport.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
The airport had to close.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's still closed, affecting at least thirteen hundred and fifty
flights in and out of Heathrow, including flights to and
from the US. At six oh five channel on the News,
Trump has signed an order he says is forty five
years in the making.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
What it's going to mean.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Let's say good morning now to the host of Home
every weekend right here on KFI the house whisper Dean Sharp. So, Dean,
we're taking a look at tracked homes this weekend and
how to make them a little more homey.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Huh, yes we are, yes, we are, okay, So start.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think this is interesting because I have a person
I know who bought a tract home and one of
the options was to make changes before she ever moved in.
But after you move in, you can still do some
upgrades to make it more like a home and less
like a pre fabricated box.
Speaker 12 (24:17):
You know, a well over eighty percent of us live
in some version or another of a tract home. And
you would think that a custom home designer like myself
would be like, you know, looking down our noses at
tract homes, but I live in one as well. And
the fact of the matter is, you know, the tract
home is essentially what has created the middle class homeowner.
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And so you know, I don't poo poo the idea
of living in a tract home. It's simply the thing
that has enabled most of us to actually own a home.
But you have to understand there are problems that come
with tracked homes. There's a very unique set of things
that are involvedmanship, you know, is not always that great
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in a in a tracked home, things like lot orientation,
the way the home is facing its street, the directions
of the compass. There are that same floor plan is
laid out so many different ways in attract it appears
so many different times. It's kind of you know, the
roll of the dice and yet the windows, the doors,
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they don't change their orientation. It's one fixed plan regardless
of its orientation to the compass. And that's one of
the things about a tract home that you can change
things like turning windows when necessary in two doors. And
when you think about that, you're like, oh, that must
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be a big thing. It's really not. Imagine taking like
a sliding glass door and turning it into a window. Okay,
you would take out the door, you would put in
a window the same with and then all you would
do is build that little wall section up underneath it.
It's a pretty simple move in terms of construction. You're
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not even touching the structure of the house. Well, the
opposite of that is exactly how every window and door
in a tract home is made. Every window started out
as a door, so turning it back into a door
is simply removing the window, removing that section of ball underneath,
and adding in a door. And when it comes to
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a bedroom that doesn't have a lot of light coming
into it, or a bedroom like in a ranch style
house that has access to the backyard through a door,
it could be a huge design game changer. So it's
one of those things that you can do in a
tract home remodel that is relatively little cost compared to
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a massive, massive payoff.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Right, Okay, And then here's another one that I wholeheartedly
agree with, and because I think they were a thing
for a while, not so popular now, and that's soffits
getting rid of them.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
Yes, soffits are placed in tracked homes in a very
very generalized way to leave room for HVAC ducting, you know,
air conditioning and heating ducting and things like that, little
plumbing things. And the thing about soffits is that whatever
space that AC duct needed, it wasn't just confined to that.
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It was much easier for the builder to just drop
the whole ceiling or make the soffit much much larger
than it needs to be. And so if we do
a little bit of investigating, we find out exactly where
the duct is, and I got to tell you nine
times out of ten, we can reroute the duct anyway
to get to that same space and get rid of
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soffits completely. And that can change things like entry ways
from seven foot ceilings up to eight or nine foot ceilings.
Kitchens are notorious for having soffits all around them. Those
soffits come out so easily and can make such a
big difference.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
Okay, and the real quick you mentioned ceilings, and I
love this idea. Maybe get rid of the attic space
and put in some vaults.
Speaker 12 (28:07):
Yeah, not everywhere in the house. Not every room in
the house needs to have its ceiling vaulted. But there
may be I mean, you're if you're already committing to
a remodel, there may be some of those prime rooms,
rooms like the living room or the kitchen or the
family room where if you get in the attic and
you actually understand, you know what's up there, there are
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ways to eliminate the or move the structural elements in
the attic. And just to imagine a ceiling line vaulting
up in some of these rooms that we spend most
of our time in volume, even though you're not changing
the square footage, the volume of the room makes all
the difference.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, And that's just a couple of the things that
you can do to make your tracked home more Homie,
You're going to find out a whole lot more this weekend.
Dean Sharp has a little show on KFI. It's called
Home six to eight am on Saturday nine to noon.
On Sunday, you can also follow Dean at Home with Dean.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
Thank you so much, Dean. We always love talking to you.
Speaker 12 (29:07):
Thanks Amy. Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
All right, you too.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
Good morning, Courtney, Happy Friday, Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Okay, So, if you're looking into running, you might turn
to Nike, and they're running into some problems with their
efforts to fix things.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Yeah, Nike has been trying to do a turnaround for
some time. They realize that the merchandise pick that they
have it's not working out so well. So this morning
we are seeing shares taking a big hit in early trading.
So they've been in the process of clearing out all
of the inventory that people don't really want through big discounts.
So a lot of demand has been fading for some
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of the bigger sneaker franchises. We're talking about the Air
Force Ones and the Dunks. But Nike says it sees
sales declining further as it continues to reset all the
merchandise that it has. So the recent moves that they've
been doing to try to attract shoppers is a new
fitness line called Nike Skims that's a partnership with Kim
Kardashian's underwear brand. They also aired their first Super Bowl
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commercial in nearly three decades to try to get more
people to say, Hey, I'm going to buy some Nike apparel.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Is Skims doing well?
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Skim seems to be doing quite well. That's one of
the products. And again that's why Nike's teaming up with
her because that's more of a social media sort of thing,
and it seems like Nike has been a bit behind
the ball on their marketing and getting people excited about
their sneaker brands getting excited about their clothes. They kind
of made a lot of mistakes. They had a former
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eBay CEO, John Donaho. He's no relation to me, by
the way. He had a lot more money than me,
by the way, but he was He ran Nike for
a while and it didn't quite go as well as
people were expecting. So now they brought in new people.
They're trying to fix a lot of the problem that
they have and again trying to go with new upstart
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sort of brands teaming up with them and saying hey,
we're on board. We're hip.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Now you want to buy some of our stuff. Okay,
let's turn to coffee.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Young people are maybe kicking the habit when it comes to,
you know, hanging out at Starbucks.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Well, you know what they're doing. They're going to a throwback.
They're going to instant coffee. Remember that back in the.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Day, soldiers.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Yes, folders and more brands.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Are waking up.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Is folders in my cup.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
But a lot of people who are buying this weren't
even alive when that commercial was kind of hot back
in the day. Because it seems like a lot of
gen z there. It's growing the fastest in buying instant coffee,
and sales of instant coffee rose twenty four percent last
year compared to the two years prior. That's according to
data that we found from Nielsen. But one of the
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big problems is coffee is just so darn expensive in
midtown here Midtown Manhattan, a twelve and which is very
similar to where you guys are, a twelve ounce cup
of Starbucks costs three dollars and forty five cents. On
the other hand, if you were to make Starbucks instant coffee,
and now they have instant coffee VA. Yeah, if you
were to do it at home, it's about thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Six cents a cup, so that's a big difference. I
like that idea.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, markets, to wrap up the week, anything we should
be watching for.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Yeah, well this morning we're looking at more losses ahead,
and one stock we are watching is FedEx that's tumbling
in pre market trading. Along with Nike, they lowered their
full year financial outlook. FedEx is the latest company to say,
you know what, there's going to be a big fallout
from the trade war. So they're they're considered a big
economic bell weather because of their exposure to so many
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different industries out there, and they actually added which is
kind of interesting and somewhat sad, that their latest outlook
assumes that the global economic and trade environment doesn't get
any worse, and not a lot of people.
Speaker 14 (32:55):
See that getting any better.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
So S and P futures right now they're down about
seven tons of percent, continue to fall lower. ZAL futures
down three hundred points.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Alrighty Courtney, Dona who Donna who? Donahoe?
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's okay what I answered to whatever, Hey hi ho.
Speaker 13 (33:14):
Hi ho.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
We're also gonna be talking to Will Ganson just a minute.
That just reminded me. So it was a little bit
of a rhyme. Blueberry, Courtney, Dona who see, I did
it again. I love it. I know, Will, what's going on?
Maybe I'm just sad because you know what, it's one
of two things. Either I'm really bummed that I haven't
had enough coffee, or I'm very sad for Kno who
had all twenty two of his brackets busted.
Speaker 12 (33:36):
Oh most people did, Amy, It's not just me, Okay,
most people did.
Speaker 5 (33:43):
My brackets were good.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
My brackets are Courtney's hanging in there. Okay.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Words, I only made one mistake, one mistake.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Bluebirgs, Courtney, Donna Hoe. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
There we go.
Speaker 12 (33:54):
We'll get later.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
We'll get in your business again on Monday. Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
I have a great weekend, everybody.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
A series of late winter storms in the Southland has helped,
but the region is still coming up short with water.
The total volume of stormwater captured by Los Angeles County
is nearly twelve billion gallons, but still downtown LA has
only received six and a half inches of rain since October.
That's less than half the annual average of fifteen point
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four inches. The European Union says it's going to delay
retaliatory tariffs against the US. Tariffs on US whiskey and
clothes were set to start April first, but the EU
says it is putting them off until mid April to
allow for more time to negotiate. The EU tariffs are
on the table in response to President Trump's twenty five
percent tariffs on European aluminum and steel. California is expanding
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its electric vehicle charging network. Governor Newsom says the state
already has more than one hundred and seventy eight thousand
public and shared private electric vehicle chargers and is going
to put in more. Newsom's office is California and now
has forty eight percent more EV chargers than gas nozzles
in the state. We're just minutes away from Handle. On
(35:08):
the news this morning. The big news is Mo Kelly's
in for Bill Handle. You're gonna have a lot of fun.
Can't wait to talk to him, Moe. Also, it's time
to talk to Will gans Hi.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Ho Will, It's off to the movie theater we go, Amy,
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
It is yes, it is snow white.
Speaker 10 (35:23):
Huh yeah, So this is some critics are saying that
this is Disney's best live action remake so far. You know, yeah,
not everybody is as enthusiastic about it, but what most
people are agreeing on is that Rachel Zegler is a star,
that she is just charismatic and just carries this movie effortlessly.
(35:45):
And of course, like if you've heard her sing ever,
you know, she was in West Side Story when Steven
Spielberg did it a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
She's she's just so good.
Speaker 10 (35:55):
So it's a snow White that's been updated, you know
for a twenty twenty five audience. You know, she has
more agency, and there's a fresh soundtrack from Pasik and Paul,
who are the Egot winners, you know, behind some big
Broadway hits. And so if you have, you know, some
time to kill with the kids this weekend, I think
snow White is a great option for anyone who's willing
(36:17):
to take a trip to the movie theater and check
out the updated version of snow White.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, so here's a question for you. Is it is
it the same story? Because I will be honest with you,
I watched Snowy White a couple of years ago because
I never saw it as a kid, and or if
I did, I didn't remember it. That's probably more likely
because I can't remember anything. But anyway, I didn't care
for it. Like I watched the movie and I went, well,
this is long and not very engaging, and it just
(36:44):
I didn't like it.
Speaker 10 (36:46):
Yeah, yes it is. I mean, so it is an
updated you know, there's more of a filled out story
and more of a character, and like the motivations become
more clear. There's almost like a political sort of message,
like it's a disparity between well not not in a
way that's like, oh great, in a way that's like, okay,
now I understand why there's such tension between the Queen
(37:06):
and snow White, and snow White's backstory makes a little
bit more sense. And so you know, it's it's it
is a much more fleshed out, I guess plot than
what the cartoon was in nineteen thirty whatever.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, and you're a gal Gadote as the evil Queen.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
Huh, yes, yes, so she is.
Speaker 10 (37:28):
You know, she's done, wonder woman, She's done you know,
a bunch of different things, and this is her turn
as the Evil Queen, which is just it is honestly
one of the great Disney villains.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yes, And are there any other familiar faces in the movie?
Speaker 10 (37:41):
Do we know the No, the Prince is like sort
of an actor that I'd never heard of. And then
you know, the the dwarves are CGI, so they're not
like real actors. Yeah, I would say that it's Rachel
Zegler and Galgado are the you know, the names that
you would recognize.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Okay, so now we're going to move over to the stream.
I took your advice and watched Kate Hudson's new show
Running Point, and I liked it. So you just earned
some cred. So what you got on the stream for
us this week?
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Okay? So two Netflix shows to keep your eye on.
The first is Adolescence. It's only four episodes. It's the
number one show on Netflix right now. There's a lot
of hype around it. And so it's about a thirteen
year old boy in the UK who is being accused
of murder. So if the show starts basically by the
police raiding this normal family's house and you know, bursting
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into this boy's bedroom and are like, you know, you're
under arrest for suspicion of murder and you know, the
cool thing artistically about the show is that it's all
done in one shot, So each episode is one long shot,
no breaks, no scene breaks, nothing like that. So like
when the kid gets put in the police car and
taken to you know, the police station, you're in the
car with him and hearing him you know, get his
(38:52):
Miranda rights red and all of that stuff. So it's
really you know, and at the beginning, you're sort of like,
there's no way this thirteen year old can could do it.
He has such like a sweet space, you know, he's
and then there are some plot twists along the way
and you start to realize, oh my gosh, maybe we
don't know this kid and this situation as well as
we thought we did. So it's really really fascinating, and
(39:14):
you know, it's it feels very honest. It's not based
on any specific true story, but it feels like it
could be any thirteen year old kid.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Okay, perfect. And then the other one is the residence.
I mean, we love some white house intrigue. I doubt
it's going to be as good as Paradise.
Speaker 10 (39:30):
Though, I know, I know, but it's a very different
vibe than Paradise. So this if you remember Knives Out
with Daniel Craig and Jamie Lee Curtis. This is sort
of like that. It's like a quirky murder mystery where
it's like you have this bizarre sort of detective who's
you know, looking at birds through a binoculars and all
of this stuff and you're like, what is she doing?
So it's quirky and it's a little sillier, but it
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is a murder mystery that takes place in the White
House on the night of the Australian Ambassadors like gal
or whatever. So lots of suspects all in the White
House for this big event and she has to figure
out which one of them committed this murder. The detective
is played by Uzo Aduba, who you might remember from
Orange is the New Black, and the show comes from Shondaland,
(40:13):
so it has sort of the you know, the for'
quirky writing that you might remember from like Scandal and
things like that.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
So Shonda Rhimes meets Eggatha Christie exactly.
Speaker 10 (40:26):
Yes, thank you, you make the recommendations next week. You
just summed it up so much more better than than
I did.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Oh no, you're fabulous. Thank you will Ganz. Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
We appreciate you.
Speaker 12 (40:37):
Have a great weekend.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
All right, you too.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A new report
shows lawmakers in California have proposed increasing state taxes and
fees by more than ten billion dollars, and that's just
in the first three months of the year. David Klein
with the California Tax Foundation says the report shows thirty
six proposed hits to taxpayers so far.
Speaker 7 (40:55):
As of right now, only six of those can be quantified,
So the ten billion only counts six of the thirty
six proposals. The other thirty there's just no way to
estimate the revenue as of now or the hit on taxpayers.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
The new taxes and fees proposed by lawmakers include increase
costs for gasoline, prepaid phones, emergency flares, and public transportation
tickets for specific sporting events. In Los Angeles, a child
has taken a pill laced with fentanyl at a daycare
in Victorville. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department says the
preschool aged child and two other kids found the pills
(41:30):
on the ground at the La Petite Academy on Tuesday
and ate them. Staff grabbed the pills and called nine
one one. The kids and two staff members were treated
at the hospital. One child tested positive for fentinyl. It's
not clear how the pills got into the daycare. The
chairman of the LA Olympics Committee has said the twenty
twenty eight Games will be open to all athletes.
Speaker 9 (41:51):
The International Olympic Committee's meeting in Greece featured an update
from officials with the LA twenty eight organizing Committee. Chairman
Casey Wasserman says he's worked with multiple presidents to ensure
visas would be expedited and honored.
Speaker 12 (42:02):
All of them have affirmed and reaffirmed their commitment to
both full access for everyone and the Olympic Charter.
Speaker 9 (42:11):
Wasserman had been asked at the meeting about the impact
of any potential travel restrictions from President Trump. He says
Trump is committed to a smooth Olympics in La. Michael
Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
Don't forget Wiggle Wagglewalk coming up in just over two weeks.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
It's April sixth that.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Were going to be walking around the Rose Bowl to
raise money for Pasadena Humane.
Speaker 4 (42:31):
We have a team, the Wake Up Call.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
Wigglers, and we would love for you to join it,
So grab your dog and come on down. You can
sign up to walk with us or just make a
donation if you'd like, And that's at KFIAM six forty
dot com slash wiggle. This is KFI and KOST HD
two Los Angeles, Orange County South End. Weather from KFI.
Might see a few areas of Patchee fog. Otherwise it's
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going to be sunny. Hi's in the sixties at the beaches,
low to mid seventies for Metro LA and in Lando
c around eighty in the valleys and Inland Empire. Sixties
to low seventies for the Antelope Valley. Low clouds tomorrow morning,
then mostly sunny highs in the upper sixties to upper seventies,
warming up Sunday into the seventies to mid eighties, and
then even warmer to start next week with his in
the seventies to low nineties. It's fifty in Irvine, forty
(43:18):
nine Huntington Beach, forty eight in Canyon Country, fifty one
in Inglewood. We lead local live from the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom for producer and and technical producer Kno
along with traffic specialist Will I'm Amy King. This has
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