March 27, 2025 • 46 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. The show opens with ABC News crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett discussing what an investigation into the Signal chat leak would look like and the Supreme Court ruling on ghost guns. In lieu of MLB opening day [officially], Amy talks with Dodgers superfan Jose ‘Blue Beard’ Lara. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews The Residence now streaming on Netflix. Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe talks about this week in business and the stock market. The show closes with Friends of Big Bear Valley Executive Director Sandy Steers talking about Jackie, Shadow, and their eaglets that have captured the hearts of YouTube watchers from all over the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
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App kf I and KOST HD two Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Orange County and Daddy A good ball, your haste, Amy Kay.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's five o'clock this Thursday, March twenty seventh.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
This is your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and Big Day. It is Opening Day. Can't wait here
Todd Light and his fabulous voice ringing throughout Dodgers Stadium.
I'm so excited because we're going to the game this afternoon.
My best friend arrived in town last night now to
cheer on the boys in blue and of course.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Wearing her Padres sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But the San Diego has got their home opener today too, right,
they're playing the Braves, Dodgers playing the Tigers. You know.
Vegas says Dodgers are the odds on favorite to win
the World Series again. We shall see, but I'll be
cheering them on. So hope you're excited. We got We're
gonna be talking actually to a super fan, how much
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of a fan. He's turned himself blue for the Dodgers. Yeah,
that's coming up, coming up at five twenty. Here's what's
a head on wake up call. The La City Council
has decided to move forward with a package of motions
to protect illegal immigrants in the city. Among the motions
that will get further review of five hundred million dollar
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legal aid package that would provide legal services to illegal immigrants.
President Trump has frozen that funding at the federal level.
Protesters planned to be at Dodger Stadium. They want the
team to end its long term relationship with Phillips sixty six,
the oil company accused of dumping oil and grease from
its refinery and carson into the La County sewer system.
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The orange and blue seventy six logos have been displayed
prominently around Dodger Stadium for years and years. The protest
starts at two, The game starts at four to ten.
President Trump is downplaying the group chat between some of
his cabinet members that the editor in chief of the
Atlantic was inadvertently invited to join. The Atlantic published the
text yesterday. Trump called the story another witch hunt and
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said again that he has full faith in his intelligence community.
We're going to be digging a little deeper into that
with ABC's crime and Terrorism expert Brad Garrett in just
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Also coming up on Wake Up Call, Amy's on It.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We're doing it on Thursday today because we did out
and about yesterday, so we've got, well, first, I've got
a really bad show that I would say a hard pass.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I want to share the information with you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And then a really good show about people who do
really bad things and a really lovable bad guy that's
coming up Amy's on It. And then at five point fifty,
we're going to see how the kids are doing. We're
going to check in check in with Sandy Steers with
Friends of Big Bear Valley to get the latest on
the eglits who are growing so fast in an s
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high above Big Bear Lake. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. The La City Council has adopted additional measures
to protect illegal immigrants in the city.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The measures include a city wide information campaign to let
immigrants know their rights and a request of city staff
to find more than half a million dollars to support
legal defense. Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez says the city is
taking more than symbolic action.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
These motions are important because we have to use every
single tool to fight back, because we cannot normalize these
human rights issues.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
A separate motion, still making its way through city Hall
would establish a sports center at Lax in case of
any potential federal travel bands related to immigration. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Police in Southgate have shot and killed a suspected armed Robert.
Happened around twelve thirty yesterday next to an apartment building
in the Walnut Park area. It's not clear what led
to the shooting. Video from the scene shows the man
dead inside a bullet riddled suv, at at least two
guns and shellcasings on the ground. People who live in
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Sunland Tahunga say the area is being used as a
potentially toxic waste dump.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Residents are upset they weren't notified that sediment from the
Eaton fire zone would be dumped in their area. Sunland
Tonga Neighborhood Council president Lydia Grant tells kfi's John Cobalt
they've done their own testing and found toxic levels of
arsenic and selenium.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
The county did not notify the community. The county didn't
get a haul route.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
The county didn't called school district.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
They didn't do anything. They violated all of their own policies.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
County officials say the material is kind not from burned properties,
but from the sediment they wanted to control during recent reigns.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Deborah Mark Ka a fine news.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Betty White's about to be immortalized on a postage stamp.
A ceremony is being held this morning in La to
unveil the stamp on its first day of issue. The
event is at the La Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Of course,
she was an actress and a big animal lover. Betty
White Day died in late twenty twenty one, just shy
of her one hundredth birthday. One of my favorite actresses
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of all time. Okay, let's say good morning now to
ABC's crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Morning, Brad, Morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, So the signal scandal, that text communication between some
higher ups in the Trump administration that a journalist got
invited into still playing out in full force. White House
is basically saying, Okay, it happened, let's move on, But
what's everyone else saying.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
So you got to mix.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Obviously the Democrats want to have an investigation. So you
got three possibilities generally speaking, amy there one is an
inspector general, which is the internal basically law enforcement of
each agency that looks for internal issues, law violations, administrative violations.
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All the inspector generals are appointed by the president. I
think he fired all of them, but maybe one that
is the IG of Justice. Second possibility is a congressional investigation.
Congress has made some noise about this. We'll see if
that happens. And then the third element is the FBI,
because if in fact the IG with the FBI believe
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that they've got potential criminal violations, then they could open
a case, and then the US attorney in the district,
a Trump appointee, would then decide whether they're going to
get prosecuted or not.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, So there are a lot of I mean, part
of the flap is that a lot of people are saying, hey,
you had classified information that was leaked. Pete HeiG Seth,
the Secretary of Defense, took issue with that yesterday and
he said there was no classified information. The White House
is saying it was sensitive information. So was it how
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who determines who's you know, who makes that call? Is
it classified or not?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Well, it would have been classified, you know, long before
it got this secretary heg Seth's Seth's desk. So for example,
just generally speaking, any attack by the US on another country,
in particular before the attack occurs or during the attack
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itself is just classified. I mean, I can't. It just
is classified. So the idea that the pieces of information
about the type of planes, what time they attacked, what
type of drones, that stuff would be classified. I mean,
it's just it's that basically is just a no brainer.
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You know, people are running for the woods, I guess
to protect themselves. But that's the reality. So you know,
as we started this conversation, how they sort is get
sorted out in reality you'll probably be up to the
president with exception at Congress.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Okay. And then.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
President Trump was asked about it when he was announcing
tariff's yesterday, and what did he have to say.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Basically, he said it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Uh he did say that that doesn't mean that it's true,
but he did say.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That, yeah, okay, and then so tell us Brad, then
what is what is the the danger of this information
like in real in the real world.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Okay, so we'll start with both d O D and
NSA have said, particularly those in the government, do not
use this period. Yes, it's encrypted for you and I
to talk to each other, but the belief is the
Russians and the Chinese, maybe both, maybe others have the
ability to hack it and have hacked it. And so
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you're basically talking about super sensitive information about an attack
by the US and another country that could well have
gotten back to the HUTIES before the attack occurred. Now
you would say, okay, so what well, so what could
translate into a They could move a number of things
that they know that that could get bombed or destroyed.
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They could launch a preemptive attack on airplanes, drones and
or you know, warships that are in the area. So
you could have gotten US personnel hurt.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Now that didn't.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Apparently occur at all, and that we're very thankful. But
the idea that you would talk about this kind of
stuf on a commercial app that you and I can
download for free is beyond head scratching.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So so it's not that it was this conversation that
happened to have a journalist included on it by some
weird stretch of you know, whatever happened that happened, made
that happen. But it's the conversation happening on signal it's
really an issue.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Yeah, of course it is. It's how the information got,
how they were talking to each other. That conversation amy
should have occurred on super classified phones in classified space.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So the thing called skiffs.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
You know, every agency that does classified stuff has them.
Some people that's where they work all day long. It's
inside a skiff. It's no mobile devices, no any device
that sends a signal, and typically people at access level
losses level, they all have those gifts in their house
and so they can securely talk to each other. Now, granted,
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using signal is a lot easier. You just pick up
the phone and start typing, right, But that isn't how
this should have unfolded. And I know if these people
really had serious experience in the arenas that they're working in,
my belief is it wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, So what's your gut, Brad, do you think this
is going to escalate and really turn into something or
do you think is it's just going.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
To go away.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
I think because of the ability to not pursue things
because of who's in charge of certain departments, that it
certainly would this ever turned into a criminal investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'd be shocked.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Now.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Could Congress have hearings and say you shouldn't have done
this and it's a clear violation. Sure, but I'm not
even sure we'll have that either. I think it just
may go away.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, Well we'll be watching unfortunately. Yeah, Okay, always great
insight and information. Thanks so much, ABC's crime and Terrorism
analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Talk to you again soon. Okay, take care of me,
all right, you too.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noum has visited the high security prison in El
Salvador where hundreds of deported Venezuelans have been sent. The
Trump administration alleges they are members of the Venezuelan gang
Trende Arragua and are the worst of the worst. Officials
have argued in federal court the administration was justified in
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sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador. Activists say the prison
is rife with human rights abuses. A federal appeals court
has backed a decision to block the administration from sending
illegal immigrants from Venezuela to El Salvador using an eighteenth
century law. The deportations based on claims that, of course,
the immigrants were part of the trende ragua gang. US
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District Judge James Boseberg says people facing deportation should have
the chance to challenge being labeled as gang members. President
Trump says he could extend the deadline for the upcoming
TikTok ban if he wants to. He also told reporters
yesterday he might give China a reduction in tariffs if
its government approves a TikTok deal brokered by America.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
There are numerous ways you can buy TikTok, and we
will find the one.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
That's best for the country.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
For our country, I'm worried about our country more than
anything else.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
TikTok's fate has been up in the air for months
due to a bill forcing its Chinese owned parent company,
Byte Dance to sell the app to a non Chinese
buyer or be banned in the US. The deadline to
finalize the deal is April fifth. Vice President Vance has
been working to find a buyer for the app. A
tourist submarine has sunk off the coast of Egypt, killing
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six people. Nine others are heard. Officials say the sub
sink in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hergatta Kiss.
Fans have a chance to join the band on the road,
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but you're only get to be a roadie for a day,
and it's not free. Singer Gene Simmons says a fan
and a friend could be his personal assistance and banded
roadies for a day for just twelve thousand dollars. The
rocker calls it the ultimate Gene Simmons experience. He says
a package would include a signed bass guitar and the
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opportunity to hang out with the band backstage. The roadies
would even be introduced to the crowd. So far, nobody's
worked over the twelve grand.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I was going to say, that's a pretty good trick.
Get them detated to your work.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The ely Keunty Sheriff's Department is going to be reviewing
hundreds of criminal cases because of the use of faulty
DNA test kits. The bad kits were used between July
twenty twenty four and last month. About four thousand DNA
samples are affected. How did it happen? Well, the manufacturer
apparently told the Sheriff's department about the defective batch of
kits in late August, but that email was forwarded to
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a person who no longer works for the Sheriff's department,
so nobody got the message. Lasers were pointed at pilots
more times in the last year in California than in
any other year. More than fourteen hundred laser strikes were
reported to the FAA and the state. For twenty twenty four,
more than twelve thousand laser strikes were reported around the US.
Score one for In and Out Burger Fans, a Woodland
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Hills homeowners group that sued to stop the project until traffic, noise,
and water quality studies were done. As settled its case
and withdrawn its request for a pause. Construction of the
in and Out on Venture Boulevard east of Westlake Avenue
has already been approved by the City of la and
when it opens, long lines will ensue. That's almost a guarantee.
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Right at six ZHO five. It's handle on the news
New tariffs are coming for cars. What that means Chris
Merrill is in for handle. He's gonna have lots to
say about that. I have something to say. Go Dodgers.
I knew it right, Okay. The Dodgers' home opener, of
course this afternoon seems only fitting that we have a
super fan on wake up call. So we want to
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say good morning to Dodgers superfan Jose Bluebeard.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Laura, good morning.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Good morning. How are you today?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Well, I'm fabulous.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'm guessing that if I ask you, you're gonna say
you're fabulous too, because it's the home opener.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I'm blautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
So Jose, when did you become a super fan?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
It started? I'd say about twelve years ago. I just
was going to a game and I had some blue
spray there and I sprayed my beard and then I'm
willing to do it again nixt here, And when I
did it to nixt year, I was actually the first
fan of the game. They had me and my wife
on kiss cam and everything else, and it kind of
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your golf.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So once you're on kiss can, you're you're dedicated. You
know you're locked in. So, uh, you mentioned that you
sprayed your your beard blue.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
And now it's not just an once a year thing.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
No, it's all year. Now I diet and it's pretty
much until the last game of the Dodgers, So it's died.
I'd say about eleven months out of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Great, So then you go, oh natchural for about a month.
And I heard that you the upkeep on keeping that
beard Dodger blue is pretty extensive.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yes, it's about every four days. To keep it the
proper blue, I have to diet because once I wash
it starts to fade a little bit. But yeah, it's
it's a process. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Well, you could just not shower if you wanted to.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
But that's a whole other Oh no, no, no, no, got it.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So but and aside from Dodgers blue, there's significance to
the beard.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
What is that.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well, I become I became a Dodger called Dodgered Up.
And this group likes to help out a lot of families,
especially families that have children with cancer. But if your
family needs the group will help. And there's another friend
of mine named Hi coomes to Clown. He also kind
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of like brought that on so now donating blood every
eight weeks, helping out as much as I can. I'm
growing my hair to donate it in the little girl's name,
that's who has leukemia. So we're just always helping.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
And the group is called dodgered Up.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Yes, you know how you get dressed all dressed up? Yep,
but this is Dodger apostphree ed Up. It's on Facebook.
It's almost twenty thousand members.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I love that. I'm pretty dodgered up myself today.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And then I just saw I just saw our engineer
Rich He's in doing his thing, his early morning rounds,
and he's dodgered up too, unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Matter of fact, yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Matter of fact, right now walking my dog and he
has a personal last name. His name is Chavez, last
name Ravine.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So you really have a Dodger dog, Yes I do, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, And then not to eat your dog, of course,
But are you a Dodger dog only guy, or do
you sample other stuff around the stadium.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
I'll sample other stuff most of the times. Just get
Dodger dogs. Then my wife loves the nachos and uh,
you know a couple of beers. It's all we can afford.
Now here's like twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Okay, who's your favorite player.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
Jose, Mine would be Justin Turner. So Justin and actually
help me. There's a little girl that he helped out
three times, the little girl going in hair for Her
name is Natalie and she actually threw up the first
pitch three times with Justin. She was a little girl
that a little too too. And how he loves her
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giving his wife love do so much for I miss
Justin Turner.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
In fact, I am wearing my look. I'm wearing my
Justin Turner jersey today. Yeah, he's one of the best
of all time. What's your prediction for the game.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Today? I think it's gonna be five four Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, what's your prediction for the season.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
For the season, like, what's the same told me the
what's the manager told me last year? He told me
all the way, We're going all the way. Even Bonda
told me that's this morning yesterday, all the way.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, Jose blue Beard, We're gonna hold you to it
and we'll be looking for your blue Beard in the
stands this season.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Thanks so much for taking some time this morning.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Thank you. You guys have a great day and go
Dodgers go blue.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
All right, thanks so much. I love it. I can't wait.
I'm so excited. You need to buy something blue. Dye
something blue. I know, no, maybe a blue streak. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A vaccinated toddler from Riverside County or from Riverside the City,
actually has been diagnosed with measles. The two year old's
mom says everyone in the family's up to date with vaccines.
Mom says their daughter started feeling sick on Saturday, three
days after going to a community event with about twenty
other children. Doctors say the toddler's MMR shot gave her
about ninety one percent protection, and that it's not until
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the second shot at four to six years old that
a child gets about ninety seven percent immunity. The measles
outbreak is growing across at least four states.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Health officials announced at least twenty three cases have been
reported in Kansas. They say they're likely linked to the
nearly four hundred cases confirmed across Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
In Kansas, twenty one of the cases are in children,
and twenty of them were unvaccinated.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Kfi's Tammy Truchio says at least forty two people across
the US have ended up in the hospital with measles,
and one unvaccinated child has died. A convicted sex offender
is pleaded not guilty to theft, ID theft and being
a sex offender on school grounds Billsey. Fifty four year
old Fred Ruiz stole from several people at wrestling meets
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in Anaheim and Your Belinda Bilise also communicated with several
male students and took pictures at several athletic events. The
thefts happened at Esperanza High on January twenty fifth and
Your Belinda High on March ninth. Former workers of a
shutdown restaurant in downtown LA have asked city Hall for help.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The original Pantry Cafe has been closed since March second,
after one hundred years of service. Workers rallied at an
LA City Council meeting hoping for support, including seventeen year
cafe veteran Diana Garcia, who says it's been tough.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
We dedicated decades of her lives to this restaurant. We
were loyal to this restaurant, We love working at this restaurant,
and now that we are left without a job, with nothing,
no severance paid, no job nothing. We're very worried for
our future.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
The workers plan to return to City Hall Friday with
a pancake breakfast. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
The lineup for this year's CMA Fest in Nashville has
been announced. Love me Some country music headliners for the
four day festival include Megan Moroney, Jason al Dean Brooks
and Dunn, and Cody Johnson. Other big names in country
music will be there too, including Keith Urban, Luke Bryant,
Dirk s Bentley, and Kelsey Ballerini. Cmafest happens June fifth
through the eighth. If you haven't been, and you haven't
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an inkling to go to Nashville, it's a good time.
Let me tell you. Fortnite Stadium passes are on sale
now and then fans can sign up for pre sale
information for single night tickets when we come back.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Amy's on it? What am I?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I'm on A really good show about people who do
really bad things and a really lovable bad guy. President
Trump has signed an executive order imposing twenty five percent
tariffs on cars and trucks not made in the US.
He says the order will mean more cars and parts
will be made here. He also said people who buy
cars made in America will be able to deduct the
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interest on their car loans. A California lawmaker doesn't want
prisoners to have to work. Assembly Member Laurie Wilson introduced
a bill that would prevent the Department of Correction from
requiring people in prison to work, with some exceptions, local
governments would be responsible for paying inmates to work. Voters
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rejected a similar measure in the twenty twenty four election.
The MUD's been cleared out, the floors are being cleaned up,
and Dukes says it's planning to reopen. The iconic Beachfront
restaurant in Malibu was spared from the wildfires in January,
but got damaged in a mud slide in February. It's
been closed since then. Duke's posted on social media that
it doesn't have an exact date, but plans to reopen
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sometime this summer. At six o five, it's handled on
the news with special guests Chris Merrill, Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noam visited that prisoner or that prison in El
Salvador where all the people that the Trump administration says
our trende Arragua gang members are now calling home.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
As on its on it? What am I on?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm on TV, movie books, sometimes even live shows, but
mostly streaming. And there's a lot to see, a lot
of good, some not so good. So I watch it,
share it with you and if you have any recommendations,
because I take recommendations from friend, but if you have
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recommendations you want to share with me, I'll.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Check it out too.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Okay, first of all, I got to tell you there
is a show that I'm a hard pass on. I
tried to watch it. I thought, well, I should at
least give it a chance. It might be kind of interesting.
It's called The Baldwins. It's about Alec and his wife
and they're seven children. They live in New York City,
and it plays out like a propaganda video like here,
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let's make Alec Baldwin and his family look really good.
And I couldn't get through the first episode, so I
can't tell you about the whole series because I couldn't
get through the first episode. So I would say hard
pass on that if you want to dive in, let
me know what you think. But I love Alec Baldwin
as an actor, and he is a great actor. This
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show not great. But let's move on to something that
I think is worth watching. And it's Tulsa King season
two out on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
The whole season is out, and.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It's the saga of Sylvester Stallone, who plays Dwight the
General man Freddie. If you remember from season one, and
if you haven't watched season one, season one is great too.
He is basically, he's a gangster in New York City,
gets caught, whether he took a fall for the mob
or he just got busted for all the really crappy
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things that he did. He ended up in prison for
a very long time. He gets released. This all season one,
so it's just a quick recap. They don't want to
deal with him in New York, so they send him
to Oklahoma and he goes there to be a mobster
and he basically takes over in Tulsa. Now, I was
worried that season two wouldn't be as good as season one,
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but I think it really is. Maybe the first episode
maybe a little bit hard. I was talking to Debra
Mark about it and she said, ah, and I said,
give it another try.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
But it's great.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
There are bad guys, and he is one of the
bad guys, but then the show features more bad guys
who are even worse, so Sylvester Stallone and his gang
end up being the good guys when it comes to
bad guys, if that make sense. And the really cool
thing about it I think is one, it's just it's
a fun watch. It's Sylvester Stallone's character, Dwight Man Freddy
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really kind of struggles with wanting to be good and
wanting to do good, but he's also running a drug
and money laundering business, so he's doing a lot of
bad stuff. There are a lot of people who get killed,
and at some point I was thinking to myself, you know,
you'd think that somebody in Tulsa would say where are
all these bodies come from?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But that doesn't seem to come up. So whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
But it is a Taylor Sheridan show, which makes sense
to why I like it because there's several of his shows.
I was looking it up. I'm like, and what other
shows has he done?
Speaker 13 (28:10):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
He's behind some of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Even though they're a lot, they're pretty dark, and there
are lots of bad guys and lots of killing and
that kind of stuff. But Mayor of Kingstown, I love
that show Yellowstone all the way back to Sons of Anarchy.
I did not watch that so one, but from everybody
that I talked to who did, they loved it. And
then the new one land Man so love Taylor Sheridan
shows love this show. And season three is coming again.
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The first two seasons are out. It's on Paramount Plus.
They're already in production in Atlanta and Oklahoma for season three.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
It is a fun watch. I'm on it. I think
you should be too.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
All Right, it's time to get in your business with
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Good morning Courtney.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Yes, good morning.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So another day and another retailer says, that's enough foreclosed shop.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yeah, and we it's Petco that we're looking at to
Really Petco's going out. They're not going out.
Speaker 13 (29:06):
They're closing a bunch of locations because what they want
to do is they want to get higher profits. So
the retailer plans to cut its store count by as
much as thirty locations this year after shutting twenty five
last year. So their executives went into their balance sheet
and said, hey, we're closing all these stores. Our profits
are a lot better. Maybe we'll continue to do more
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and in its place, Petco says we're going to grow
our online store instead because that's where they believe the
money is. So they expect sales to fall this year,
surprisingly because the overall pet industry has been growing rival Chewy,
that's the online pet pet company. They said this week
that pet adoption rates are continuing to improve, especially for cats.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've got two now, Ah, do you have cats?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
No, my brother has a cat who is actually going
to be moving to New York very soon. And actually
next month I'm going to be flying a cat from
Florida to New York.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Just be prepared because when you go through security at TSA,
you actually have to take them out of the carrier.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
So make sure that you end.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The first time I found that out, I was like, Uh,
what if my cat gets loose and like freaks out
and runs off, So just make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 13 (30:25):
And Oscar Julio Jorge, named after a bunch of Yankees
grates it's not the easiest of cats.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Oscar's seventeen years old. Oh kind of set in his way. Yeah, well,
good luck with that, Courtney.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Okay, yes, and then just quickly, you've mentioned another store's closing.
We've got Khal's or a bunch of them are closing too.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
A number of retailers have been saying, all right, I'm
closing up shop. Walgreens is another that's cutting a bunch
of stores CVS. So they're even changing their format in
a way. They said, hey, you know what we're going
to do. We're going to have smaller stores that are
only the pharmacy and not the retail portion. So everybody
is looking at their business in the light of a
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inflation and b how a lot of people are getting
things from uh from online. And the other thing too,
you can't forget is theft. Theft has been a major
game changer. Oh and it's the worst mortar retailers.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's the worst to go into the stores and then
you have to find somebody to come unlock the case
where you we've come. We've talked about it before, but
it's just it's just a pain in the butt. So
I get where they're trying to.
Speaker 13 (31:30):
Figure out no employees, Yeah, thing slots up, so okay, yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Let's talk about, uh, why you might want to go
buy a car today.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Oh well, one of the issues coming up is these
tariffs on auto imports. We've been talking about this. This
is definitely going to hurt carmakers around the world. It's
going to push up prices for consumers. So that's why
you say, hey, now is the right time. But one
winner stands out in all of this, and that's Tesla.
They have large factories in California and Texas that turn
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out all the cars that sells in the US. So
analysts are pointing out that Elon Musk's car company is
the least exposed to all these new duties due to
its domestic manufacturing operations. Ford also could face a less
severe impact than some rivals. About eighty percent of its
cars are built domestically. On the other hand, the car
makers that are probably going to take the biggest hit
(32:23):
or Volkswagen and Hyundai. They're expected to be the most
among the most hardest hit.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
What about Chevy oh GM.
Speaker 13 (32:32):
Yeah no, they definitely have a significant amount of operations.
But you can't forget too is that it also deals
with parts too, engines, transmissions, and the supply chain. When
you look at what's going on within that industry is
just huge. So this is going to be It's not
(32:52):
that it's something that can turn on a dime. This
is something that's going to take a significant amount of
time to be able to turn around for many of
these car makers, especially the ones in the US too,
and not only thinking about Chevy and GM Stillantis two,
which is the maker of Jeep and Ram and Chrysler.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
They're going to take a hit. Oh key doky.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
But now we got to be careful with saying go
out and buy a car, because, like we were talking
to our money guy, Joel Larsgard, and he said, just
because that's coming, it doesn't mean if you don't need
a car you should like go oh, I need to
go buy a car. I mean, like, really weigh this
one carefully.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
And you have to think about it that so many
Americans are struggling to afford their monthly car payments because
of higher interest rates and these prices. That we're seeing
car repos surge last year to the most since two
thousand and nine, and remember two thousand and nine was
the financial crisis. Cox Automotive has the data and they
said roughly one point seven million cars wereceived. That's up
sixteen percent from the prior year. So you're paying these
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expensive cars and they're being taken away if you're not
making that payment.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay, And speaking of surges, are we going to see
any surges in the markets today.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
It's a little quiet compared to what we saw yesterday.
Investors continued to be concerned about the impact of tariffs
on economic growth that is holding backstocks. This morning, S
ANDB futures they're down a tenth of percent, so essentially
their little change. Same goes for Dow futures, which are
just up thirty five points. But yesterday it was a
rough day because big tech drove the major benchmarks lower.
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The S and P five hundred tumbled one point one percent.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, as
we do every day on wake up call.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Thanks Courtney. We'll talk to you tomorrow, see you later, Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Police are looking for the public's help to find a
man who groped a woman at a supermarket in South
la This is scary sore. Surveillance video shows the suspect
following a thirty two year old woman around the store
back in August, then he grabs her. He then punched
an elderly woman in the chest as he walked out.
He's Hispanic, in his thirties, five eleven, two hundred thirty
pounds and wears thick glasses. Governor Newsom has announced seventy
(34:51):
six million dollars in grants to help protect faith, communities
and nonprofits in California to go to about three hundred groups.
Newsom says Californians deserve the right to worship, love and
gather safely without fear of violence. Olympic soccer is headed
to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
The city of.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Pasadena announced the agreement yesterday with Olympics organizers to have
the iconic stadium host both the men's and women's semi
final and final matches for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games.
We're just minutes away from a handle on the news
this morning. A missed email apparently is the reason La
County Sheriff's deputies are going to have to redo four
thousand DNA tests. Right now, let's say good morning to
(35:29):
Sandy Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Sandy, we need an eaglet update.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Okay, good morning, good.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Morning, So tell us how the kids are growing. Tell
us the latest on how they're doing.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Well. They're doing great. They're both eating very well, getting
over stuffed if anything. And the big one is growing
faster than the little one, so that's interesting to watch.
And they both are now their clown feet where they
grow faster. Their feet grow faster than the rest of them,
(36:06):
and so they are very big when they're trying to
waddle around the nest.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
So you know, I remember seeing this from years past
that all of a sudden, you go, my goodness, look
at those feet when they're born. Are they that bright
yellowy orange color or does that happen as they start growing.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
That happens is they're a little bit yellow, but that
bright color gets as they start growing.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
And they're getting up and walking around a lot more.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
I'm noticing they are. And yes, yes, they're moving all
over the nest and sometimes falling down in between going
from one place to another. And they're also winger sizing.
They both are stretching their little wings out and slapping
up and down at least as much as they can,
which sometimes is only a flap or two.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
And you call it winger sizing. Yes, I think that
it's fun to watch them as they try to use
their wings to balance too.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
They do, yes, and sometimes bash each other with their
wings as they're trying to just.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Hold themselves up.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, so, Sandy, one of the things that we've talked
about before, the people like we're freaking out about it
is the thing that they do called bonking, where they
it's a dominance thing and like a establishing a pecking order.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
It's very natural.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But when you first see it, you go, oh, my goodness,
are they killing each other?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
But they're not.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
They're not at all. No, they are trying to establish
which one is in charge basically, and the actually, the
little one is the one that keeps instigating those things
and trying to prove well, I'm sure I'm big enough now,
and then it bows over and says, no, I guess
that didn't work.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yes, but he's see that's why we named him Rocky
because he's a little fighter.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
We love that about it.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yes, yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
And then how big are they?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Because we've noticed there's not nearly as much room in
the nest anymore.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
They're not quite a foot high. I mean they're probably
eight or nine inches, so.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
They're like the size of a small chicken at this point.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Yes, wow, they gets.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
It's deceptive when you're looking at the at the nest.
And then, speaking of watching, which I do kind of
obsessive Lane. Yesterday, when I looked there, we're like sixty
fifty sixty thousand people. There's twenty thousand people watching right now.
We know that in the last storm there was some
issues with the camera with the sound and the infrared,
and I'm guessing that can't be fixed until probably until
(38:33):
later this year.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Well, that's possible. We're looking at to see if there's
anything on the like the software mechanisms inside that we
might be able to do. But if it's the hardware,
then no, we can't do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I do I miss hearing them chirping, although I don't
necessarily miss the cries of Jackie in shadow because they
can be kind of piercing.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
So yes, that's true.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
And then the other thing that we've noticed is that
the eagles fly away and leave the kids behind a
lot more.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
And that's normal.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
That's okay, that's totally normal. What they're doing is allowing
the chicks to get their independence and to develop, and
so the chicks when they're left alone by the parents,
will you know, soon start pecking at the food themselves
and learning to eat. And it gives them room to
you know, exercise their wings and move around the nest.
(39:30):
And so they're just letting them develop. But they are nearby.
Jack and Shudder are always nearby, Okay.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
And then one other thing.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
It's a sad thing, but it was, I mean it
was beautiful, sad strange when we lost the other the eaglet,
which didn't make it through that last snowstorm and we
had like two feet of snow. First of all, it
was a shadow who removed him from the nest.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Bole, Yes, it was.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
And then and then Jackie.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Picked him up and flew off with him, like said,
I can't have them in the nest anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Right, It's kind of like what I figured out. It's
kind of like their way of bearing it so that
it's And actually we saw Jackie from a security camera.
We saw her drop the chick into the forest like
she was I mean, it's letting it go.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yes, Why are we so obsessed with this? I know
I'm obsessed with Sandy. Why do you think people are
so obsessed with watching these guys.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Because we don't get to see nature this close up
it and to see how much it's like us, how
much we are nature, and to see the behaviors and
the personalities that Jackie and Shadow have individual personalities. They're
not just these things out there they are they have
their own unique way of doing things. Each both of
(40:51):
them are different than each other, and I think people
are fascinated to find out they're all individuals out there
and they have emotions and they have things and living
their lives independently like we do.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Yeah, it is beautiful to watch.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I love it, and you can watch any old time
because that camera's going twenty four to seven. Friends of
Big Bear Valley is the website, and again we always
want to mention Sandy that you guys are a nonprofit
organization and so if anyone wants to help you out
a little bit, make a donation, where do they go?
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Go to the website friendso big Bear Valley dot org.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
We couldn't be watching, yeah, we couldn't be watching our
eglitz without you. So again, Sandy Steers with Friends of
Big Bear Valley. We always love talking to you and
hearing how the eglits are doing. Thanks so much for
the update.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Thank you, all right, take care. I can't help it.
I'm obsessed. I am will be ubsessed, definitely. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Environmental
activists are planning to protest outside Dodger Stadium ahead of
today's home opener.
Speaker 10 (41:54):
The group wants the team to cut ties with Phillips
sixty six, which owns the seventy six Gas Station chain.
Sinis based Phillips sixty six is accused of dumping oil
and grease from its Carson refinery into the La County
sewer system. The seventy six Gas Station chain is a
prominent sponsor at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the rally is set to start
at two, about two hours before the game. You can
hear all of the Dodgers games on our sister station,
klac AM five.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Seventy.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Metro's offering free rides to the game for fans with
a game ticket. Metro's also extending pregame service by one
hour for the twenty twenty five season. That means Express
buses will start taking fans to the stadium two and
a half hours before the games. Fans can get on
board at Union Station, the Harbor Gateway Transit Center in Guardina,
and at stops along the one ten Freeway at the
(42:43):
Slawson Manchester Harbor Freeway and rosecrans stations. The La City
Council's adopted a series of additional measures to strengthen its
sanctuary city status for illegal immigrants. City council in Hugo
Soto Martinez says the Trump administration has targeted some people
for deportation who haven't committed crimes.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Right now, innocent people are being sent to El Salvade,
a country they've never been there before without hearing. Mothers
and fathers are being taken to Guantanamo Bay and being
held with nine to eleven terrorists.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
The city council has approved a citywide information campaign to
make illegal immigrants aware of their rights. The council also
asked city staff to find more than five hundred thousand
dollars to prop up a legal defense support program that
some saw that's also funding frozen by the Trump White House.
(43:35):
President Trump is as the Supreme Court to freeze millions
of dollars in state grants meant to address teacher shortages.
The White House claims the funds were being used for
DEI programs. The administration is trying to stop funding to
state programs as part of its efforts against DEIS.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Piano Mans Sissole Then.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
HBO is in now to two part documentary on the
artist known as the Piano Man.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Yes we know, it's Billy Joel.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
It's named after a song on Joel's nineteen eighty nine
album storm Front.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
It's called Billy Joel and so it goes.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
The release date hasn't been announced, but it's going to
be on HBO and stream on Max sometime this summer.
Joel's currently recovering from surgery for an undisclosed medical condition
and has postponed his current current tour for four months.
Don't forget Wiggle Wagglewalk is coming up on April sixth,
and we would love to have you join the wake
Up Call Wigglers. If you want to join our team
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Tigers in opening Day action. It's at Dodgers Stadium. First
pitch goes out at four ten. You can listen to
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Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's five o'clock this Thursday, March twenty seventh.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
This is your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
and Big Day. It is Opening Day. Can't wait here
Todd Light and his fabulous voice ringing throughout Dodgers Stadium.
I'm so excited because we're going to the game this afternoon.
My best friend arrived in town last night now to
cheer on the boys in blue and of course.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Wearing her Padres sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
But the San Diego has got their home opener today too, right,
they're playing the Braves, Dodgers playing the Tigers. You know.
Vegas says Dodgers are the odds on favorite to win
the World Series again. We shall see, but I'll be
cheering them on. So hope you're excited. We got We're
gonna be talking actually to a super fan, how much
(01:30):
of a fan. He's turned himself blue for the Dodgers. Yeah,
that's coming up, coming up at five twenty. Here's what's
a head on wake up call. The La City Council
has decided to move forward with a package of motions
to protect illegal immigrants in the city. Among the motions
that will get further review of five hundred million dollar
(01:50):
legal aid package that would provide legal services to illegal immigrants.
President Trump has frozen that funding at the federal level.
Protesters planned to be at Dodger Stadium. They want the
team to end its long term relationship with Phillips sixty six,
the oil company accused of dumping oil and grease from
its refinery and carson into the La County sewer system.
(02:13):
The orange and blue seventy six logos have been displayed
prominently around Dodger Stadium for years and years. The protest
starts at two, The game starts at four to ten.
President Trump is downplaying the group chat between some of
his cabinet members that the editor in chief of the
Atlantic was inadvertently invited to join. The Atlantic published the
text yesterday. Trump called the story another witch hunt and
(02:37):
said again that he has full faith in his intelligence community.
We're going to be digging a little deeper into that
with ABC's crime and Terrorism expert Brad Garrett in just
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Also coming up on Wake Up Call, Amy's on It.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
We're doing it on Thursday today because we did out
and about yesterday, so we've got, well, first, I've got
a really bad show that I would say a hard pass.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I want to share the information with you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And then a really good show about people who do
really bad things and a really lovable bad guy that's
coming up Amy's on It. And then at five point fifty,
we're going to see how the kids are doing. We're
going to check in check in with Sandy Steers with
Friends of Big Bear Valley to get the latest on
the eglits who are growing so fast in an s
(03:23):
high above Big Bear Lake. Let's get started with some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. The La City Council has adopted additional measures
to protect illegal immigrants in the city.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The measures include a city wide information campaign to let
immigrants know their rights and a request of city staff
to find more than half a million dollars to support
legal defense. Councilman Hugo Soto Martinez says the city is
taking more than symbolic action.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
These motions are important because we have to use every
single tool to fight back, because we cannot normalize these
human rights issues.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
A separate motion, still making its way through city Hall
would establish a sports center at Lax in case of
any potential federal travel bands related to immigration. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Police in Southgate have shot and killed a suspected armed Robert.
Happened around twelve thirty yesterday next to an apartment building
in the Walnut Park area. It's not clear what led
to the shooting. Video from the scene shows the man
dead inside a bullet riddled suv, at at least two
guns and shellcasings on the ground. People who live in
(04:27):
Sunland Tahunga say the area is being used as a
potentially toxic waste dump.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Residents are upset they weren't notified that sediment from the
Eaton fire zone would be dumped in their area. Sunland
Tonga Neighborhood Council president Lydia Grant tells kfi's John Cobalt
they've done their own testing and found toxic levels of
arsenic and selenium.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
The county did not notify the community. The county didn't
get a haul route.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
The county didn't called school district.
Speaker 7 (04:54):
They didn't do anything. They violated all of their own policies.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
County officials say the material is kind not from burned properties,
but from the sediment they wanted to control during recent reigns.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Deborah Mark Ka a fine news.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Betty White's about to be immortalized on a postage stamp.
A ceremony is being held this morning in La to
unveil the stamp on its first day of issue. The
event is at the La Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Of course,
she was an actress and a big animal lover. Betty
White Day died in late twenty twenty one, just shy
of her one hundredth birthday. One of my favorite actresses
(05:28):
of all time. Okay, let's say good morning now to
ABC's crime and terrorism analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Morning, Brad, Morning Amy.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Okay, So the signal scandal, that text communication between some
higher ups in the Trump administration that a journalist got
invited into still playing out in full force. White House
is basically saying, Okay, it happened, let's move on, But
what's everyone else saying.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
So you got to mix.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Obviously the Democrats want to have an investigation. So you
got three possibilities generally speaking, amy there one is an
inspector general, which is the internal basically law enforcement of
each agency that looks for internal issues, law violations, administrative violations.
(06:17):
All the inspector generals are appointed by the president. I
think he fired all of them, but maybe one that
is the IG of Justice. Second possibility is a congressional investigation.
Congress has made some noise about this. We'll see if
that happens. And then the third element is the FBI,
because if in fact the IG with the FBI believe
(06:39):
that they've got potential criminal violations, then they could open
a case, and then the US attorney in the district,
a Trump appointee, would then decide whether they're going to
get prosecuted or not.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, So there are a lot of I mean, part
of the flap is that a lot of people are saying, hey,
you had classified information that was leaked. Pete HeiG Seth,
the Secretary of Defense, took issue with that yesterday and
he said there was no classified information. The White House
is saying it was sensitive information. So was it how
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who determines who's you know, who makes that call? Is
it classified or not?
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Well, it would have been classified, you know, long before
it got this secretary heg Seth's Seth's desk. So for example,
just generally speaking, any attack by the US on another country,
in particular before the attack occurs or during the attack
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itself is just classified. I mean, I can't. It just
is classified. So the idea that the pieces of information
about the type of planes, what time they attacked, what
type of drones, that stuff would be classified. I mean,
it's just it's that basically is just a no brainer.
(08:05):
You know, people are running for the woods, I guess
to protect themselves. But that's the reality. So you know,
as we started this conversation, how they sort is get
sorted out in reality you'll probably be up to the
president with exception at Congress.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Okay. And then.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
President Trump was asked about it when he was announcing
tariff's yesterday, and what did he have to say.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Basically, he said it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Uh he did say that that doesn't mean that it's true,
but he did say.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That, yeah, okay, and then so tell us Brad, then
what is what is the the danger of this information
like in real in the real world.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Okay, so we'll start with both d O D and
NSA have said, particularly those in the government, do not
use this period. Yes, it's encrypted for you and I
to talk to each other, but the belief is the
Russians and the Chinese, maybe both, maybe others have the
ability to hack it and have hacked it. And so
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you're basically talking about super sensitive information about an attack
by the US and another country that could well have
gotten back to the HUTIES before the attack occurred. Now
you would say, okay, so what well, so what could
translate into a They could move a number of things
that they know that that could get bombed or destroyed.
(09:39):
They could launch a preemptive attack on airplanes, drones and
or you know, warships that are in the area. So
you could have gotten US personnel hurt.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Now that didn't.
Speaker 8 (09:53):
Apparently occur at all, and that we're very thankful. But
the idea that you would talk about this kind of
stuf on a commercial app that you and I can
download for free is beyond head scratching.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So so it's not that it was this conversation that
happened to have a journalist included on it by some
weird stretch of you know, whatever happened that happened, made
that happen. But it's the conversation happening on signal it's
really an issue.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
Yeah, of course it is. It's how the information got,
how they were talking to each other. That conversation amy
should have occurred on super classified phones in classified space.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
So the thing called skiffs.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
You know, every agency that does classified stuff has them.
Some people that's where they work all day long. It's
inside a skiff. It's no mobile devices, no any device
that sends a signal, and typically people at access level
losses level, they all have those gifts in their house
and so they can securely talk to each other. Now, granted,
(11:05):
using signal is a lot easier. You just pick up
the phone and start typing, right, But that isn't how
this should have unfolded. And I know if these people
really had serious experience in the arenas that they're working in,
my belief is it wouldn't have happened.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, So what's your gut, Brad, do you think this
is going to escalate and really turn into something or
do you think is it's just going.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
To go away.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
I think because of the ability to not pursue things
because of who's in charge of certain departments, that it
certainly would this ever turned into a criminal investigation.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I'd be shocked.
Speaker 9 (11:48):
Now.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Could Congress have hearings and say you shouldn't have done
this and it's a clear violation. Sure, but I'm not
even sure we'll have that either. I think it just
may go away.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Okay, Well we'll be watching unfortunately. Yeah, Okay, always great
insight and information. Thanks so much, ABC's crime and Terrorism
analyst Brad Garrett.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Talk to you again soon. Okay, take care of me,
all right, you too.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noum has visited the high security prison in El
Salvador where hundreds of deported Venezuelans have been sent. The
Trump administration alleges they are members of the Venezuelan gang
Trende Arragua and are the worst of the worst. Officials
have argued in federal court the administration was justified in
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sending the Venezuelans to El Salvador. Activists say the prison
is rife with human rights abuses. A federal appeals court
has backed a decision to block the administration from sending
illegal immigrants from Venezuela to El Salvador using an eighteenth
century law. The deportations based on claims that, of course,
the immigrants were part of the trende ragua gang. US
(12:59):
District Judge James Boseberg says people facing deportation should have
the chance to challenge being labeled as gang members. President
Trump says he could extend the deadline for the upcoming
TikTok ban if he wants to. He also told reporters
yesterday he might give China a reduction in tariffs if
its government approves a TikTok deal brokered by America.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
There are numerous ways you can buy TikTok, and we
will find the one.
Speaker 10 (13:23):
That's best for the country.
Speaker 11 (13:25):
For our country, I'm worried about our country more than
anything else.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
TikTok's fate has been up in the air for months
due to a bill forcing its Chinese owned parent company,
Byte Dance to sell the app to a non Chinese
buyer or be banned in the US. The deadline to
finalize the deal is April fifth. Vice President Vance has
been working to find a buyer for the app. A
tourist submarine has sunk off the coast of Egypt, killing
(13:51):
six people. Nine others are heard. Officials say the sub
sink in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hergatta Kiss.
Fans have a chance to join the band on the road,
(14:13):
but you're only get to be a roadie for a day,
and it's not free. Singer Gene Simmons says a fan
and a friend could be his personal assistance and banded
roadies for a day for just twelve thousand dollars. The
rocker calls it the ultimate Gene Simmons experience. He says
a package would include a signed bass guitar and the
(14:36):
opportunity to hang out with the band backstage. The roadies
would even be introduced to the crowd. So far, nobody's
worked over the twelve grand.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
I was going to say, that's a pretty good trick.
Get them detated to your work.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
The ely Keunty Sheriff's Department is going to be reviewing
hundreds of criminal cases because of the use of faulty
DNA test kits. The bad kits were used between July
twenty twenty four and last month. About four thousand DNA
samples are affected. How did it happen? Well, the manufacturer
apparently told the Sheriff's department about the defective batch of
kits in late August, but that email was forwarded to
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a person who no longer works for the Sheriff's department,
so nobody got the message. Lasers were pointed at pilots
more times in the last year in California than in
any other year. More than fourteen hundred laser strikes were
reported to the FAA and the state. For twenty twenty four,
more than twelve thousand laser strikes were reported around the US.
Score one for In and Out Burger Fans, a Woodland
(15:35):
Hills homeowners group that sued to stop the project until traffic, noise,
and water quality studies were done. As settled its case
and withdrawn its request for a pause. Construction of the
in and Out on Venture Boulevard east of Westlake Avenue
has already been approved by the City of la and
when it opens, long lines will ensue. That's almost a guarantee.
(15:57):
Right at six ZHO five. It's handle on the news
New tariffs are coming for cars. What that means Chris
Merrill is in for handle. He's gonna have lots to
say about that. I have something to say. Go Dodgers.
I knew it right, Okay. The Dodgers' home opener, of
course this afternoon seems only fitting that we have a
super fan on wake up call. So we want to
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say good morning to Dodgers superfan Jose Bluebeard.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Laura, good morning.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Good morning. How are you today?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Well, I'm fabulous.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I'm guessing that if I ask you, you're gonna say
you're fabulous too, because it's the home opener.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
I'm blautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
So Jose, when did you become a super fan?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
It started? I'd say about twelve years ago. I just
was going to a game and I had some blue
spray there and I sprayed my beard and then I'm
willing to do it again nixt here, And when I
did it to nixt year, I was actually the first
fan of the game. They had me and my wife
on kiss cam and everything else, and it kind of
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your golf.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So once you're on kiss can, you're you're dedicated. You
know you're locked in. So, uh, you mentioned that you
sprayed your your beard blue.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
And now it's not just an once a year thing.
Speaker 9 (17:15):
No, it's all year. Now I diet and it's pretty
much until the last game of the Dodgers, So it's died.
I'd say about eleven months out of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Great, So then you go, oh natchural for about a month.
And I heard that you the upkeep on keeping that
beard Dodger blue is pretty extensive.
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yes, it's about every four days. To keep it the
proper blue, I have to diet because once I wash
it starts to fade a little bit. But yeah, it's
it's a process. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Well, you could just not shower if you wanted to.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
But that's a whole other Oh no, no, no, no, got it.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
So but and aside from Dodgers blue, there's significance to
the beard.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
What is that.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Well, I become I became a Dodger called Dodgered Up.
And this group likes to help out a lot of families,
especially families that have children with cancer. But if your
family needs the group will help. And there's another friend
of mine named Hi coomes to Clown. He also kind
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of like brought that on so now donating blood every
eight weeks, helping out as much as I can. I'm
growing my hair to donate it in the little girl's name,
that's who has leukemia. So we're just always helping.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
And the group is called dodgered Up.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
Yes, you know how you get dressed all dressed up? Yep,
but this is Dodger apostphree ed Up. It's on Facebook.
It's almost twenty thousand members.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I love that. I'm pretty dodgered up myself today.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
And then I just saw I just saw our engineer
Rich He's in doing his thing, his early morning rounds,
and he's dodgered up too, unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Matter of fact, yeah.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Matter of fact, right now walking my dog and he
has a personal last name. His name is Chavez, last
name Ravine.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So you really have a Dodger dog, Yes I do, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Okay, And then not to eat your dog, of course,
But are you a Dodger dog only guy, or do
you sample other stuff around the stadium.
Speaker 9 (19:23):
I'll sample other stuff most of the times. Just get
Dodger dogs. Then my wife loves the nachos and uh,
you know a couple of beers. It's all we can afford.
Now here's like twenty dollars.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Okay, who's your favorite player.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
Jose, Mine would be Justin Turner. So Justin and actually
help me. There's a little girl that he helped out
three times, the little girl going in hair for Her
name is Natalie and she actually threw up the first
pitch three times with Justin. She was a little girl
that a little too too. And how he loves her
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giving his wife love do so much for I miss
Justin Turner.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
In fact, I am wearing my look. I'm wearing my
Justin Turner jersey today. Yeah, he's one of the best
of all time. What's your prediction for the game.
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Today? I think it's gonna be five four Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, what's your prediction for the season.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
For the season, like, what's the same told me the
what's the manager told me last year? He told me
all the way, We're going all the way. Even Bonda
told me that's this morning yesterday, all the way.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay, Jose blue Beard, We're gonna hold you to it
and we'll be looking for your blue Beard in the
stands this season.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Thanks so much for taking some time this morning.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Thank you. You guys have a great day and go
Dodgers go blue.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
All right, thanks so much. I love it. I can't wait.
I'm so excited. You need to buy something blue. Dye
something blue. I know, no, maybe a blue streak. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
A vaccinated toddler from Riverside County or from Riverside the City,
actually has been diagnosed with measles. The two year old's
mom says everyone in the family's up to date with vaccines.
Mom says their daughter started feeling sick on Saturday, three
days after going to a community event with about twenty
other children. Doctors say the toddler's MMR shot gave her
about ninety one percent protection, and that it's not until
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the second shot at four to six years old that
a child gets about ninety seven percent immunity. The measles
outbreak is growing across at least four states.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Health officials announced at least twenty three cases have been
reported in Kansas. They say they're likely linked to the
nearly four hundred cases confirmed across Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
In Kansas, twenty one of the cases are in children,
and twenty of them were unvaccinated.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Kfi's Tammy Truchio says at least forty two people across
the US have ended up in the hospital with measles,
and one unvaccinated child has died. A convicted sex offender
is pleaded not guilty to theft, ID theft and being
a sex offender on school grounds Billsey. Fifty four year
old Fred Ruiz stole from several people at wrestling meets
(22:07):
in Anaheim and Your Belinda Bilise also communicated with several
male students and took pictures at several athletic events. The
thefts happened at Esperanza High on January twenty fifth and
Your Belinda High on March ninth. Former workers of a
shutdown restaurant in downtown LA have asked city Hall for help.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
The original Pantry Cafe has been closed since March second,
after one hundred years of service. Workers rallied at an
LA City Council meeting hoping for support, including seventeen year
cafe veteran Diana Garcia, who says it's been tough.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
We dedicated decades of her lives to this restaurant. We
were loyal to this restaurant, We love working at this restaurant,
and now that we are left without a job, with nothing,
no severance paid, no job nothing. We're very worried for
our future.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
The workers plan to return to City Hall Friday with
a pancake breakfast. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
The lineup for this year's CMA Fest in Nashville has
been announced. Love me Some country music headliners for the
four day festival include Megan Moroney, Jason al Dean Brooks
and Dunn, and Cody Johnson. Other big names in country
music will be there too, including Keith Urban, Luke Bryant,
Dirk s Bentley, and Kelsey Ballerini. Cmafest happens June fifth
through the eighth. If you haven't been, and you haven't
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an inkling to go to Nashville, it's a good time.
Let me tell you. Fortnite Stadium passes are on sale
now and then fans can sign up for pre sale
information for single night tickets when we come back.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Amy's on it? What am I?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
I'm on A really good show about people who do
really bad things and a really lovable bad guy. President
Trump has signed an executive order imposing twenty five percent
tariffs on cars and trucks not made in the US.
He says the order will mean more cars and parts
will be made here. He also said people who buy
cars made in America will be able to deduct the
(23:55):
interest on their car loans. A California lawmaker doesn't want
prisoners to have to work. Assembly Member Laurie Wilson introduced
a bill that would prevent the Department of Correction from
requiring people in prison to work, with some exceptions, local
governments would be responsible for paying inmates to work. Voters
(24:16):
rejected a similar measure in the twenty twenty four election.
The MUD's been cleared out, the floors are being cleaned up,
and Dukes says it's planning to reopen. The iconic Beachfront
restaurant in Malibu was spared from the wildfires in January,
but got damaged in a mud slide in February. It's
been closed since then. Duke's posted on social media that
it doesn't have an exact date, but plans to reopen
(24:36):
sometime this summer. At six o five, it's handled on
the news with special guests Chris Merrill, Homeland Security Secretary
Christy Noam visited that prisoner or that prison in El
Salvador where all the people that the Trump administration says
our trende Arragua gang members are now calling home.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
As on its on it? What am I on?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I'm on TV, movie books, sometimes even live shows, but
mostly streaming. And there's a lot to see, a lot
of good, some not so good. So I watch it,
share it with you and if you have any recommendations,
because I take recommendations from friend, but if you have
(25:30):
recommendations you want to share with me, I'll.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Check it out too.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Okay, first of all, I got to tell you there
is a show that I'm a hard pass on. I
tried to watch it. I thought, well, I should at
least give it a chance. It might be kind of interesting.
It's called The Baldwins. It's about Alec and his wife
and they're seven children. They live in New York City,
and it plays out like a propaganda video like here,
(25:56):
let's make Alec Baldwin and his family look really good.
And I couldn't get through the first episode, so I
can't tell you about the whole series because I couldn't
get through the first episode. So I would say hard
pass on that if you want to dive in, let
me know what you think. But I love Alec Baldwin
as an actor, and he is a great actor. This
(26:17):
show not great. But let's move on to something that
I think is worth watching. And it's Tulsa King season
two out on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
The whole season is out, and.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
It's the saga of Sylvester Stallone, who plays Dwight the
General man Freddie. If you remember from season one, and
if you haven't watched season one, season one is great too.
He is basically, he's a gangster in New York City,
gets caught, whether he took a fall for the mob
or he just got busted for all the really crappy
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things that he did. He ended up in prison for
a very long time. He gets released. This all season one,
so it's just a quick recap. They don't want to
deal with him in New York, so they send him
to Oklahoma and he goes there to be a mobster
and he basically takes over in Tulsa. Now, I was
worried that season two wouldn't be as good as season one,
(27:09):
but I think it really is. Maybe the first episode
maybe a little bit hard. I was talking to Debra
Mark about it and she said, ah, and I said,
give it another try.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
But it's great.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
There are bad guys, and he is one of the
bad guys, but then the show features more bad guys
who are even worse, so Sylvester Stallone and his gang
end up being the good guys when it comes to
bad guys, if that make sense. And the really cool
thing about it I think is one, it's just it's
a fun watch. It's Sylvester Stallone's character, Dwight Man Freddy
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really kind of struggles with wanting to be good and
wanting to do good, but he's also running a drug
and money laundering business, so he's doing a lot of
bad stuff. There are a lot of people who get killed,
and at some point I was thinking to myself, you know,
you'd think that somebody in Tulsa would say where are
all these bodies come from?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But that doesn't seem to come up. So whatever.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
But it is a Taylor Sheridan show, which makes sense
to why I like it because there's several of his shows.
I was looking it up. I'm like, and what other
shows has he done?
Speaker 13 (28:10):
Well?
Speaker 4 (28:10):
He's behind some of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Even though they're a lot, they're pretty dark, and there
are lots of bad guys and lots of killing and
that kind of stuff. But Mayor of Kingstown, I love
that show Yellowstone all the way back to Sons of Anarchy.
I did not watch that so one, but from everybody
that I talked to who did, they loved it. And
then the new one land Man so love Taylor Sheridan
shows love this show. And season three is coming again.
(28:36):
The first two seasons are out. It's on Paramount Plus.
They're already in production in Atlanta and Oklahoma for season three.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
It is a fun watch. I'm on it. I think
you should be too.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
All Right, it's time to get in your business with
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Good morning Courtney.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Yes, good morning.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
So another day and another retailer says, that's enough foreclosed shop.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
Yeah, and we it's Petco that we're looking at to
Really Petco's going out. They're not going out.
Speaker 13 (29:06):
They're closing a bunch of locations because what they want
to do is they want to get higher profits. So
the retailer plans to cut its store count by as
much as thirty locations this year after shutting twenty five
last year. So their executives went into their balance sheet
and said, hey, we're closing all these stores. Our profits
are a lot better. Maybe we'll continue to do more
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and in its place, Petco says we're going to grow
our online store instead because that's where they believe the
money is. So they expect sales to fall this year,
surprisingly because the overall pet industry has been growing rival Chewy,
that's the online pet pet company. They said this week
that pet adoption rates are continuing to improve, especially for cats.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I've got two now, Ah, do you have cats?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
No, my brother has a cat who is actually going
to be moving to New York very soon. And actually
next month I'm going to be flying a cat from
Florida to New York.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
It's not a big deal.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Just be prepared because when you go through security at TSA,
you actually have to take them out of the carrier.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
So make sure that you end.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
The first time I found that out, I was like, Uh,
what if my cat gets loose and like freaks out
and runs off, So just make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 13 (30:25):
And Oscar Julio Jorge, named after a bunch of Yankees
grates it's not the easiest of cats.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Oscar's seventeen years old. Oh kind of set in his way. Yeah, well,
good luck with that, Courtney.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Okay, yes, and then just quickly, you've mentioned another store's closing.
We've got Khal's or a bunch of them are closing too.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 13 (30:47):
A number of retailers have been saying, all right, I'm
closing up shop. Walgreens is another that's cutting a bunch
of stores CVS. So they're even changing their format in
a way. They said, hey, you know what we're going
to do. We're going to have smaller stores that are
only the pharmacy and not the retail portion. So everybody
is looking at their business in the light of a
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inflation and b how a lot of people are getting
things from uh from online. And the other thing too,
you can't forget is theft. Theft has been a major
game changer. Oh and it's the worst mortar retailers.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It's the worst to go into the stores and then
you have to find somebody to come unlock the case
where you we've come. We've talked about it before, but
it's just it's just a pain in the butt. So
I get where they're trying to.
Speaker 13 (31:30):
Figure out no employees, Yeah, thing slots up, so okay, yeah,
I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Let's talk about, uh, why you might want to go
buy a car today.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
Oh well, one of the issues coming up is these
tariffs on auto imports. We've been talking about this. This
is definitely going to hurt carmakers around the world. It's
going to push up prices for consumers. So that's why
you say, hey, now is the right time. But one
winner stands out in all of this, and that's Tesla.
They have large factories in California and Texas that turn
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out all the cars that sells in the US. So
analysts are pointing out that Elon Musk's car company is
the least exposed to all these new duties due to
its domestic manufacturing operations. Ford also could face a less
severe impact than some rivals. About eighty percent of its
cars are built domestically. On the other hand, the car
makers that are probably going to take the biggest hit
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or Volkswagen and Hyundai. They're expected to be the most
among the most hardest hit.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
What about Chevy oh GM.
Speaker 13 (32:32):
Yeah no, they definitely have a significant amount of operations.
But you can't forget too is that it also deals
with parts too, engines, transmissions, and the supply chain. When
you look at what's going on within that industry is
just huge. So this is going to be It's not
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that it's something that can turn on a dime. This
is something that's going to take a significant amount of
time to be able to turn around for many of
these car makers, especially the ones in the US too,
and not only thinking about Chevy and GM Stillantis two,
which is the maker of Jeep and Ram and Chrysler.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
They're going to take a hit. Oh key doky.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
But now we got to be careful with saying go
out and buy a car, because, like we were talking
to our money guy, Joel Larsgard, and he said, just
because that's coming, it doesn't mean if you don't need
a car you should like go oh, I need to
go buy a car. I mean, like, really weigh this
one carefully.
Speaker 13 (33:25):
And you have to think about it that so many
Americans are struggling to afford their monthly car payments because
of higher interest rates and these prices. That we're seeing
car repos surge last year to the most since two
thousand and nine, and remember two thousand and nine was
the financial crisis. Cox Automotive has the data and they
said roughly one point seven million cars wereceived. That's up
sixteen percent from the prior year. So you're paying these
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expensive cars and they're being taken away if you're not
making that payment.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Okay, And speaking of surges, are we going to see
any surges in the markets today.
Speaker 13 (33:55):
It's a little quiet compared to what we saw yesterday.
Investors continued to be concerned about the impact of tariffs
on economic growth that is holding backstocks. This morning, S
ANDB futures they're down a tenth of percent, so essentially
their little change. Same goes for Dow futures, which are
just up thirty five points. But yesterday it was a
rough day because big tech drove the major benchmarks lower.
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The S and P five hundred tumbled one point one percent.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, as
we do every day on wake up call.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Thanks Courtney. We'll talk to you tomorrow, see you later, Okay.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Police are looking for the public's help to find a
man who groped a woman at a supermarket in South
la This is scary sore. Surveillance video shows the suspect
following a thirty two year old woman around the store
back in August, then he grabs her. He then punched
an elderly woman in the chest as he walked out.
He's Hispanic, in his thirties, five eleven, two hundred thirty
pounds and wears thick glasses. Governor Newsom has announced seventy
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six million dollars in grants to help protect faith, communities
and nonprofits in California to go to about three hundred groups.
Newsom says Californians deserve the right to worship, love and
gather safely without fear of violence. Olympic soccer is headed
to the Rose Bowl.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
The city of.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Pasadena announced the agreement yesterday with Olympics organizers to have
the iconic stadium host both the men's and women's semi
final and final matches for the twenty twenty eight Summer Games.
We're just minutes away from a handle on the news
this morning. A missed email apparently is the reason La
County Sheriff's deputies are going to have to redo four
thousand DNA tests. Right now, let's say good morning to
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Sandy Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Sandy, we need an eaglet update.
Speaker 7 (35:37):
Okay, good morning, good.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Morning, So tell us how the kids are growing. Tell
us the latest on how they're doing.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
Well. They're doing great. They're both eating very well, getting
over stuffed if anything. And the big one is growing
faster than the little one, so that's interesting to watch.
And they both are now their clown feet where they
grow faster. Their feet grow faster than the rest of them,
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and so they are very big when they're trying to
waddle around the nest.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
So you know, I remember seeing this from years past
that all of a sudden, you go, my goodness, look
at those feet when they're born. Are they that bright
yellowy orange color or does that happen as they start growing.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
That happens is they're a little bit yellow, but that
bright color gets as they start growing.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
And they're getting up and walking around a lot more.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
I'm noticing they are. And yes, yes, they're moving all
over the nest and sometimes falling down in between going
from one place to another. And they're also winger sizing.
They both are stretching their little wings out and slapping
up and down at least as much as they can,
which sometimes is only a flap or two.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
And you call it winger sizing. Yes, I think that
it's fun to watch them as they try to use
their wings to balance too.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
They do, yes, and sometimes bash each other with their
wings as they're trying to just.
Speaker 9 (37:06):
Hold themselves up.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Yeah, so, Sandy, one of the things that we've talked
about before, the people like we're freaking out about it
is the thing that they do called bonking, where they
it's a dominance thing and like a establishing a pecking order.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
It's very natural.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But when you first see it, you go, oh, my goodness,
are they killing each other?
Speaker 4 (37:23):
But they're not.
Speaker 7 (37:25):
They're not at all. No, they are trying to establish
which one is in charge basically, and the actually, the
little one is the one that keeps instigating those things
and trying to prove well, I'm sure I'm big enough now,
and then it bows over and says, no, I guess
that didn't work.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Yes, but he's see that's why we named him Rocky
because he's a little fighter.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
We love that about it.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yes, yes, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (37:53):
And then how big are they?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Because we've noticed there's not nearly as much room in
the nest anymore.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
They're not quite a foot high. I mean they're probably
eight or nine inches, so.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
They're like the size of a small chicken at this point.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
Yes, wow, they gets.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
It's deceptive when you're looking at the at the nest.
And then, speaking of watching, which I do kind of
obsessive Lane. Yesterday, when I looked there, we're like sixty
fifty sixty thousand people. There's twenty thousand people watching right now.
We know that in the last storm there was some
issues with the camera with the sound and the infrared,
and I'm guessing that can't be fixed until probably until
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later this year.
Speaker 7 (38:34):
Well, that's possible. We're looking at to see if there's
anything on the like the software mechanisms inside that we
might be able to do. But if it's the hardware,
then no, we can't do anything with it.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
I do I miss hearing them chirping, although I don't
necessarily miss the cries of Jackie in shadow because they
can be kind of piercing.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
So yes, that's true.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
And then the other thing that we've noticed is that
the eagles fly away and leave the kids behind a
lot more.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
And that's normal.
Speaker 7 (39:08):
That's okay, that's totally normal. What they're doing is allowing
the chicks to get their independence and to develop, and
so the chicks when they're left alone by the parents,
will you know, soon start pecking at the food themselves
and learning to eat. And it gives them room to
you know, exercise their wings and move around the nest.
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And so they're just letting them develop. But they are nearby.
Jack and Shudder are always nearby, Okay.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
And then one other thing.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
It's a sad thing, but it was, I mean it
was beautiful, sad strange when we lost the other the eaglet,
which didn't make it through that last snowstorm and we
had like two feet of snow. First of all, it
was a shadow who removed him from the nest.
Speaker 7 (39:52):
Bole, Yes, it was.
Speaker 4 (39:55):
And then and then Jackie.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Picked him up and flew off with him, like said,
I can't have them in the nest anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Right, It's kind of like what I figured out. It's
kind of like their way of bearing it so that
it's And actually we saw Jackie from a security camera.
We saw her drop the chick into the forest like
she was I mean, it's letting it go.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yes, Why are we so obsessed with this? I know
I'm obsessed with Sandy. Why do you think people are
so obsessed with watching these guys.
Speaker 7 (40:30):
Because we don't get to see nature this close up
it and to see how much it's like us, how
much we are nature, and to see the behaviors and
the personalities that Jackie and Shadow have individual personalities. They're
not just these things out there they are they have
their own unique way of doing things. Each both of
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them are different than each other, and I think people
are fascinated to find out they're all individuals out there
and they have emotions and they have things and living
their lives independently like we do.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
Yeah, it is beautiful to watch.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I love it, and you can watch any old time
because that camera's going twenty four to seven. Friends of
Big Bear Valley is the website, and again we always
want to mention Sandy that you guys are a nonprofit
organization and so if anyone wants to help you out
a little bit, make a donation, where do they go?
Speaker 7 (41:22):
Go to the website friendso big Bear Valley dot org.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
We couldn't be watching, yeah, we couldn't be watching our
eglitz without you. So again, Sandy Steers with Friends of
Big Bear Valley. We always love talking to you and
hearing how the eglits are doing. Thanks so much for
the update.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
Thank you, all right, take care. I can't help it.
I'm obsessed. I am will be ubsessed, definitely. It's so beautiful.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
All right, Let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Environmental
activists are planning to protest outside Dodger Stadium ahead of
today's home opener.
Speaker 10 (41:54):
The group wants the team to cut ties with Phillips
sixty six, which owns the seventy six Gas Station chain.
Sinis based Phillips sixty six is accused of dumping oil
and grease from its Carson refinery into the La County
sewer system. The seventy six Gas Station chain is a
prominent sponsor at Dodgers Stadium.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
Kfi's Daniel Martindale says the rally is set to start
at two, about two hours before the game. You can
hear all of the Dodgers games on our sister station,
klac AM five.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
Seventy.
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Metro's offering free rides to the game for fans with
a game ticket. Metro's also extending pregame service by one
hour for the twenty twenty five season. That means Express
buses will start taking fans to the stadium two and
a half hours before the games. Fans can get on
board at Union Station, the Harbor Gateway Transit Center in Guardina,
and at stops along the one ten Freeway at the
(42:43):
Slawson Manchester Harbor Freeway and rosecrans stations. The La City
Council's adopted a series of additional measures to strengthen its
sanctuary city status for illegal immigrants. City council in Hugo
Soto Martinez says the Trump administration has targeted some people
for deportation who haven't committed crimes.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Right now, innocent people are being sent to El Salvade,
a country they've never been there before without hearing. Mothers
and fathers are being taken to Guantanamo Bay and being
held with nine to eleven terrorists.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
The city council has approved a citywide information campaign to
make illegal immigrants aware of their rights. The council also
asked city staff to find more than five hundred thousand
dollars to prop up a legal defense support program that
some saw that's also funding frozen by the Trump White House.
(43:35):
President Trump is as the Supreme Court to freeze millions
of dollars in state grants meant to address teacher shortages.
The White House claims the funds were being used for
DEI programs. The administration is trying to stop funding to
state programs as part of its efforts against DEIS.
Speaker 7 (43:53):
Piano Mans Sissole Then.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
HBO is in now to two part documentary on the
artist known as the Piano Man.
Speaker 4 (44:03):
Yes we know, it's Billy Joel.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
It's named after a song on Joel's nineteen eighty nine
album storm Front.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
It's called Billy Joel and so it goes.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
The release date hasn't been announced, but it's going to
be on HBO and stream on Max sometime this summer.
Joel's currently recovering from surgery for an undisclosed medical condition
and has postponed his current current tour for four months.
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