June 9, 2025 • 44 mins
5a - Alex Stone joins Amy to talk about the National Guard being unleashed in response to the violent ICE protests
5:15a - Steven Portnoy discusses the latest news from the Abrego Cargia case.
5:30a - Courtney Donohoe - Bloomberg Report
5:45a - Sandy Steers gives us the latest eagle news. Eagle's take flight!
5:15a - Steven Portnoy discusses the latest news from the Abrego Cargia case.
5:30a - Courtney Donohoe - Bloomberg Report
5:45a - Sandy Steers gives us the latest eagle news. Eagle's take flight!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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It's time for your morning wake up call.
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Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your
wake up call for Monday, June ninth. I'm Amy King.
Thanks for starting your day with us. WHOA what a weekend?
Huh protests all weekend long and the residuals continued overnight.
(00:51):
We're gonna bring you the latest. We're gonna have all
the updates, let you know what happened, what's about to happen.
We're checking in with the ABC's Alex Stone, who's been
covering the protests all weekend. Of course, we had our
Michael Monks on it even got tear gas that was nice.
I'm being facetious, but it seems like things have calmed
down a bit over overnight, although there were still protesters
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out overnight. But like I said, we're going to keep
you updated with that. We're going to bring you all
up to date, see what happened while you were sleeping.
And then we're also going to because the world continues
to turn. We're going to also cover the other things
that have been happening around the world and right here
in LA during this time. So here's what's ahead on
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wake up Call. Plumes of black smoke have risen into
the skies over downtown La as ICE immigration protests turned
violent yesterday, prompting police to declare a tactical alert and
an unlawful assembly call for all of downtown. The one
oh one remained closed in We're going to get the
latest on that from Will Coleschreibers. At the north it's
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the southbound lanes right.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Actually, it looks like everything's open.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
They got it open finally. Okay, that's good. That's good
because that was a mess. We'll be telling you about that.
Several hundred National Guard members have arrived in LA to
assist in protecting federal property during the ice protests. President
Trump called up two thousand and also put marines at
Camp Pendleton on standby in case they're needed. LA Mayor
Bass and Governor Newsom say they are not needed and
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are a dangerous escalation. LA schools will be in session
today in spite of the unrest. District authorities say they
support families in any decision that's best for the students
in the circumstances, and that the demonstration would be monitored
for updates. The man caught up in an ice sweep
in Maryland and deported to a Central American prison has
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been returned to the US. ABC. Stephen Portenoy's going to
join us at five point twenty to tell us what's
next for the alleged MS thirteen member Kilmar Abrago Garcia.
And of course, the big news over the weekend, because
I am an optimist, Gizmo left the nest. So Sonny
(03:04):
and Gizmo, our big Bear Eglitz have both left the nest.
They were pretty much gone all weekend, but I checked
last night and they're both back in the nest this morning.
So we're gonna check with We're gonna check in with
Sandy Steersy, executive director at Friends of Big Bear Valley,
find out how our eagles are doing and what is
next as they continue their journey. It was so cool
(03:25):
to see it, although Gizmo kind of fell out of
the nest oops, but she made it and she did great,
and she spent the weekend away and then they both
came back last night, so we'll keep you all up
to date on that. Again. We'll be talking to Sandy
Steers at five point fifty, So let's get started with
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Of course, we're talking protests. Dozens of arrests have been
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made during the demonstrations in downtown. La Police declared that
unlawful assembly yesterday in the area of Alameda Street, where
National Guardsmen were positioned outside the Federal Building. Kfi's Michael
Monks was there and says the troopers responded in mediately
when confronted.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
These shields went down, the helmet mask came down, and
the pushing started, the tear gas started, and this crowd
just cleared out in an instant.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It was a third day that demonstrators got violent. The
LAPD requested mutual aid last night from the La County
Sheriff's Department, which sent more than one hundred deputies to
support the department and the Highway patrol. Sheriff Robert Luna
says they were mostly tasked with clearing people out of
the area.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
As we're doing this and we see that the crowds
are not diminishing, I have put out a formal request
for more mutual late.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Assistance, the National Guard was called in to help protect
the police who were trying to disperse demonstrators. Chief McDonald's
says he wouldn't have jumped in pulling the National Guard
in so quickly.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I'd say that we would go to that right away.
I'd say we wouldn't have been there yet. Looking at
the violence tonight, I think we got to make a reassessment, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Referring to the violence last night, McDonald says people causing
chaos may not believe in the spirit of the actual demonstration.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Even more disgusting that many of the people who were
doing this come in from other places just to hurt
people and to cause havoc.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
McDonald says his officers are facing more and more potentially
deadly violence, including being shot at with commercial grade fireworks.
And we're going to get the latest on the protest
with ABC's Alex Stone in just a moment, But first
let's take a first look at your morning commute. And
we had that one on one freeway closed for much
of yesterday, but will Cole Schreiber says it's open.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The good news is.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
At this hour the mainline lanes of the north and
south one oh one through downtown Los Angeles are open.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
There are exceptions though.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
The transition roads it looks like from the one ten
freeway are still closed. So if you're trying to get
through the four level interchange and thinking you're going to
go from the one ten to the south one o one,
not quite yet. They're still working on that. And some
of the the on and off ramps in downtown LA
are closed. We know for sure that the Alameda off
ramp from the northbound side of the one on one
is blocked off as they were to clean up debris
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and just have that blocked.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Off until further notice.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
And we've got some issues fifty five southbound dire road
crash there on the off ramp, and the westbound side
of the ten at Ediwanda in Ontario from Ediwanda to
the fifteen two lanes closed for Caltrans were huge delays
back from Citrus. So that's a big Caltrans project that
they're still working on. With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm will Cole Schriver.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's five oh six on your wake up call, so
will the protest yesterday I was watching it from the
comfort of my home, as was I and just the
police cars and the pelting of them with the rocks.
I mean, it was just absolutely unbelievable to me.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Those police cars were all on the you know, the
lower level of the freeway and those on and off
ramps are elevated above them, and anybody up there just
had free rain basically to just throw stuff down there.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And it was unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And I'm wondering where they got these big, huge chunks
of rocks that they got. But it started when there
was the protests that were on the surface streets spilled
out onto the freeway. They blocked the one on one
freeway for a while, which is a scary thing of itself,
aside from you know, bottlenecking traffic and leaving people completely stuck. Yeah,
it's also really difficult because it's dangerous to have people
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out on the roadway like that.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
You'll have some times people get fed up and they
do things behind the wheel that they wouldn't normally do,
like you know, aim for protesters. Later that evening last night,
I saw a video of a minivan. It seemed like
the minivan was doing circles and actually going after protesters.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So, yeah, a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
There a lot going on. But the good news is
that they've cleared that roadway off and it doesn't appear
that any officers were hurt as they were tossing these
huge chunks of concrete over the overpass. Okay, let's say
good good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone, who has
been covering this all weekend. Alex, can you give us
the latest on what's going on overnight and what's happening
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this morning if anything.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Amy, Good morning. Yeah, all is fairly quiet right now.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Wasn't even a couple of hours ago, though, I mean
a very long night for mainly the LAPD that even
two o'clock in the morning, that there were people that
were out and throwing concrete and shooting off fireworks at
the officers. But just how quickly this whole thing has
escalated since Friday when we got the first word of
the emigration enforcement that was.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Going on, and then to the point that we're at now.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
But you heard Chief McDonald saying overnight that they know
this is bad, that it has escalated, that they know
that they've got to get a handle on this, saying this.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
It is violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated
now since the beginning of this incident. What we saw
the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to
that is getting increasingly worse and more violent and amy.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
Overnight, the crowd's using dumpsters and park benches as their
shields downtown around City Hall to protect themselves against the
pepper balls and the rubber and the foam rounds. The
lapd has been shooting off and we know that they're
around sixty who have been arrested. But I mean, really,
for a lot of the officers, they can't deal with arresting.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
People because they don't have the resources.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
They don't have the time that that takes time to
put them in handcuffs, haul them away, transport them, do
the paperwork that it's just about moving these crowds out,
getting them to eventually disperse, eventually go home. And they
were able to do it yet again overnight that things
are calm now, but it'll be a question of where
things go today. There are a couple of protests, mainly
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earlier in the day that are planned today, so hopefully
then those crowds disperse.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
And we're not going into the evening hours, but we'll
see what happened tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. I think one of the things that I was
thinking as I was watching all of this, Alex is
you mentioned the dumpsters and the park benches, like they
literally went into Grand Park ripped the pink benches that
are all around the park that have been put there,
you know, for people to enjoy. They took them and
they stole them and put them in the roadways. They're
all damaged. They're going to have to all be replaced.
(10:22):
And then you look at the Waimo cars that were
set on fire. Those who pays for that.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
And spirts cover right, Yeah, and they eventually shut that off,
so no cars will come into downtown right now. But yeah,
and then you have the whole element of the National
Guard here now, where what is their role going to
be Because they have been federalized by President Trump and
they didn't come through the normal channels. They're not really
communicating with the LAPD. Chief McDonald's saying that they had
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one conference call together, but they don't know what the
role of the National Guard is going to be.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
That he's not.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Against them being here, but there are steps that they
would have taken to get to this point and to
say we want this type of unit. This is a
combat brigade that is here right now. This is not
military police that normally we see come in during wildfires
and doing the roadblocks. So you know that they would
have gone to the mutual aid system and then where
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police trained together, that they're on the same radio channels.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
There are steps to get to this point.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
And because they are here for the first times in
nineteen sixty five some Alabama was the last time a
president deployed the National Guard in that case to protect protesters,
that without the governor doing it, that this is unusual
territory to be in. That they are not here working
with the state. They are not in lockstep with the
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LAPD at this point.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
And then this.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Threat of active duty Marines being called in, and I mean,
I can tell you within senior levels of law enforcement,
they do not.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Like that idea. The rules of engagement would be different.
They would not be on police radios.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
They are not trained in crowd control outside of a
warfare environment like a police are. They don't train with
the police in the state of California under police standards,
that would be a whole different thing. So there is
hope among law enforcement that that step is not taken
because it's really not welcome at the moment.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, and I don't know, Alex, did you get a
chance to talk to any protesters that yeah, yeah, yeah,
And what are they saying?
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Well, I mean, I think that you've got two different crowds.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
You've got the troublemakers who are out at night, who
whether it be George Floyd or a Lakers protest or
not a protest, but you know, a celebration that gets
out of control, don't want to call a riot or dodgers.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
You've always got that crowd.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
That comes in at night and we see them doing
the looting and setting the fires, and they may not
even really be into whatever they're out there for that
they're just out there to battle the police and create
mayhem and they find it fun.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Usually younger men who are out there doing that.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Of those who are out during the day, like the
protests that are planned this morning, that are typically very
into the topic, that are passionate, that have a reason
why they're there.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
This woman among them.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
Here protesting for our families that are being separated in
our neighborhoods and we want justice.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
Now, that's very different compared to nighttime where it's going
to be you know, bleep the police and you know,
we want this and we want that and breaking windows
and dropping concrete onto the CHP cars on the one
on one. So I mean, really two different crowds from
the daytime crowd to the nighttime crowd a world of difference.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And do the ones who are there for actually for
the cause to protest the ice raids, do they realize
that when there are things like blocking a freeway and
the vandalism and that kind of stuff, that does not
advance their cause.
Speaker 10 (13:50):
You know, I think some do. Others believe that they've
got to do.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
It to make a point.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
And then you've got the others who are just doing
it because are it's fun and it's fighting the police,
and you know, they think in mass that they can
do it and then they're not going to be arrested,
they're not going to get into trouble.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
There's a lot of motivation in these crowds.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Some are very authentic and they are there that they
believe that they have a point to make. Others are
there to hurt police or just to battle them, and
that it's you know, just fun on a Sunday night
because they've got nothing better to do. So, you know,
with thousands of people out there, everybody's got a different
reason for being out there. But yeah, I mean I
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think some of them realize that it's not helpful.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
All right. ABC's Alex Stone, thanks for all the information,
for covering this for us all weekend, and we shall
see what unfolds today.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
You got it, Thanks, Amy?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
All right, when we come back, the man speaking this
is all tied into ice raids. The man caught up
in that ice sweep in Maryland and mistakenly deported to
a Central American prison has been returned to the US.
Remember the Supreme Court said, hey, you need to fas
facilitate his return because he shouldn't have been sent down
(15:02):
to that prison. Well, he's back in the US. Who
was done probably differently than anybody had thought it would happen,
according to the US Supreme Court order. But ABC Stephen
Portnoy's going to join us to tell us what is
next for kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is now back in
the US. It is five twenty on your Monday morning
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wake up call. Good morning to you. I'm Amy King. Wow,
what a weekend here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. LA faces its fourth day of
protests over federal immigration raids. Rally is planned at Grand
Park in downtown LA at noon. Civil rights and labor
leaders are demanding the release of union leader David Huerta.
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He was taken into federal detention on Friday during an
immigration enforcement action. Huerta is doing court at the Royball
Federal Building at one point thirty this afternoon. The LAPD
almost thirty arrests yesterday and CHP arrested another nineteen during
the protests. One was arrested for throwing allegedly a Molotov
cocktail at officers, another for trying to ram police with
(16:11):
a motorcycle. The CHP arrests mostly tied to the one
oh one being blocked by protesters. CHP officers became trapped
under the one oh one freeway overpass at Los Angeles
Street as the crowd from above pelted their patrol car
with rocks. At times, the officers tossed tear gas up
under the roadway above to try to disperse the crowd.
One officer came out from under the overpass and was
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promptly pelted by rocks. He was able to run back
under to safety. At six oh five, it's Handle on
the news. Guess what Handle's going to be talking about. Well,
probably our dinner on Saturday night, which was fabulous by
the way, at the Anaheim White House. But also we'll
be talking about the protests and the National Guard and
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everything that has to do with what's going on in
downtown LA. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Stephen Portnoy. We're also talking about ice raids, but this
one was on the other side of the country that
started the whole ball rolling with k Abrego Garcia. He's
now been returned to the US, but not to face
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his due process on whether he should be deported, rather
to charge him with human trafficking.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
That's right, Amy. He was returned to the US late
last week. The charges allege that Kilmar Brego Garcia took
part in a years long conspiracy to transport thousands of
migrants from Texas.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
To the interior of the country.
Speaker 12 (17:33):
The indictment alleges that drugs and guns were also smuggled
as part of the conspiracy. That Abrego Garcia alone ran
more than one hundred trips from Texas to Maryland and
other states, and he appeared in federal court in Tennessee,
where he's now being held. The attorneys for Abrego Garcia
say that they're going to fight to ensure he receives
a fair trial, something that said they say he had
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not received when he was sent to El Salvador in March,
and the family remains in federal court in Maryland, saying
that the fact that he's back in the US does
not render the litigation that they initiated moot that.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
They say that the federal.
Speaker 12 (18:10):
Government thumbed its nose at the judge in Maryland for
months and that there need left a stain on the
constitution that needs to be addressed, perhaps with some sort
of contempt finding by the judge.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So his lawyers are his lawyers suing.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
His family has filed the suit in Maryland, and that's
where things have been for months now, and that was
where the judge said that the federal government had to
bring had to facilitate his release in return from l Salvador,
and that was ultimately a decision that was upheld by
the Supreme Court. So he's back now, but for not
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the reasons that the judge had ordered he's back for
different reasons, because of prosecutors went in and got a
federal grand jury indictment. Now it happens that the former
head of the Crew Fminal Division of that US Attorney's
office in the middle of Tennessee resigned some weeks ago.
He hasn't explained why fully, but our reporting is that
he did it because he believed that this case was
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being pursued for political reasons. Ben Schrader is his name,
fifteen year career prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in Tennessee,
and he said on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago
the only job description he's ever known is to do
the right thing and the right way for the right reasons,
which was all of his colleagues in the office and
across the department the best as they seek to do justice.
(19:33):
The fact that he resigned is interesting, and I wonder
whether at a certain point we'll hear more from him,
But so far he's said formally no comment.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, So it'd be interesting because when I think Pam
Bondi came out on Friday, she was saying they'd been
working on this for a while to put this together.
So did he get wind of it and say I
don't want to be part of it, or like what's behind?
Speaker 12 (19:52):
Well? Also defined for a while, I mean Pam Bondi's
only been in office for a few months and this
case has only been initiated for a couple of months.
The indictment was returned last month. So what does for
a while mean? And that'll be something that the defense
attorneys may point to if they do what Donald Trump's
defense lawyers did in his criminal prosecutions, which is to
allege that this is a selective and vindictive prosecution, an
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example of you find me the man, I'll find you
the crime.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, So then what happens next.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
Well, ultimately this case will proceed. And you remember that
we're talking about two separate things here. We're talking about
the case against a Brego Garcia and Tennessee and the
case that his family's brought in Maryland having to do
with his whereabouts and how his case has been handled.
These are two separate matters now on parallel tracks.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
All right, ABC's Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much for
the information. As always, you bet. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom, President Trump has promised to
maintain law and order in LA with the deployment of
National Guard troops about three hundred of our eyes. So far,
he's ordered two thousand. Speaking on his way to Camp
David yesterday afternoon, Trump told reporters he'll have troops everywhere
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if that's what it takes. When asked if he would
declare an insurrection, Trump said we're not there yet. Mayor
bass Is sending the National Guard to LA wasn't necessary,
She tells KTLA. It's the Trump administration just posturing to.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Have one hundred troops in Westwood where absolutely.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
Nothing had happened at all, and one hundred downtown is
just overreach.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Bass says the LAPD can handle the situation. President Trump's
borders are, says, elected officials in California and in LA
could be open to federal prosecution if they're found to
be impeding law enforcements.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's a family to noringly Harbord, cacil on Igo.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
It's a felity to impede law enforcements for doing their job.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
He says, so far, LA's mayor hasn't crossed that line,
but a post from the Department of Homeland Security on
x says it is sickening that Mayor Bass continues to
protect violent writers, rioters, and criminal illegal aliens at the
expense of the safety of American citizens and communities. John
Cobalt is going to be talking with Borders Are Tom
(22:08):
Homan on his show this afternoon. Cobalt Show between one
and four this afternoon. Tom Holman will be a guest.
The Coast Guard says it has found a debris field
of what may be from a small plane crash in
the waters off the coast of San Diego. Six people
were on board the plane that apparently went down three
miles west of Point Loma yesterday afternoon. The US Coast
(22:30):
Guard says it continues its search of the area. Legal
challenges are expected over President Trump's travel ban on twelve countries.
It goes into effect today. Former Department of Homeland Security
official Elizabeth Newman says it's a repeat of the travel
ban from twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
One of the first executive orders that was signed by
the President this year was to basically do the work
to reinstate the travel ban.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The band took effect at midnight this week, we'll see
political wrangling in the Senate to pass President Trump's megabill,
you know, the Big Beautiful Bill. ABC's Jonathan carl says
it was approved in the House by just one vote.
Speaker 13 (23:05):
It's very clear that there are going to be changes.
It's unclear if first of all, there are the votes
to pass it in the Senate, and with those changes,
if Johnson can get it passed again in the House.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He says, Johnson is asking the Senate not to make
any major changes to the bill because that'll make it
harder to pass again in the House. Authorities in Michigan
say a potential tragedy has been averted as they foiled
a mass shooting plot at a high school graduation. ABC's
Morgan Norwood says two people have been taken into custody.
Speaker 14 (23:34):
The large plot unraveling Tuesday after police responded to a
fight at the commencement ceremony for the Arts and Technology
Academy of Pontiac. Their investigators say they were tipped off
about a snapchat threat.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
She says authorities did a full sweep and found two
loaded guns hidden under cars in the parking lot. Leelo
in Stitches riding the wave of popularity, finishing first at
the box office for its third straight week. Live version
of the Disney animated hit movie took in over thirty
two million dollars in theaters over the weekend. The John
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Wick spin off Ballerina apparently Keanu Reeves makes appearances in it,
but he doesn't actually star in it, opened in second
place with twenty five million dollars. Mission Impossible The Final
Reckoning was third with fifteen million in ticket sales. It's
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change without notice. Southland weather from KFI June gloom clears
to sunny skies with highs in the low seventies at
the beaches, around eighty for Metro La and Inlando. C
(25:08):
eighties in the valleys, eighties and nineties in the Ie
and Annealo Valley. A couple degrees warmer for tomorrow. Morning clouds,
afternoon sun through the week with highs in the seventies
to mid nineties. It's sixty one and Garden Grove sixty
three in Newport Beach. And don't forget coming up at
five point fifty, we're going to be talking with the
executive director of the Friends of Big Bear Valley, Sandy Steers.
(25:29):
She's got the latest on our Eglitz who have left
the nest, although they both have come back. They're back
in the nest this morning. Well, I'm no place like home.
There's no play I know, right, they pick their little feet. Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
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Call this June ninth. Thanks for starting your day with us.
Hope you had a fabulous weekend. It was a weird
weekend because of the protests. Like, we went and had
the dinner with Bill Handle at the Anaheim White House
with some of his big fans, and it was so
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much fun. But we're driving down there and hearing how
people are, you know, tearing stuff up in Paramount and
lighting stuff on fire. It's just this weird, don't you think,
like this weird kind of reality where you want to
live your life but then there's all this stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, So anyway, we got lots more on the protests
coming up, and of course Handle's going to be talking
about that coming up with Handle on the news six
o five. But here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Ice protests continued through the night,
with crowds marching and gathering nil near La Live and
Crypto dot Com Arena. Several police cars were pelted by protesters.
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There's a report that a man was driving recklessly at
high speed, which was putting pedestrians in danger and also
caused a motorcyclist to go down. Several fires burned in
the streets and other parts of downtown, but police and
firefighters pretty much just let them burn. The Department of
Homeland Securities released information on several of the people detained
in the ice raids, saying that they have long rap sheets,
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including robbery, domestic violence, and second degree murder. Governor Newsom
says the state of California is going to sue the
Trump administration, this time over the deployment of two thousand
National Guard troops. He's urged the President to rescind the
order for the troops, calling it illegal and unconstitutional. Newsom
says Trump cannot activate the state's National Guard without coordinating
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it with him. First, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Demonstrators have protested outside the Federal Building as part of
their ongoing pushback against the ice raids that clashes with
National Guard troops yesterday, who used tear gas to try
to disperse the crowd. Kfi's Michael Monks was there and
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says the protesters were ready for it.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
A lot of people are wearing masks anyway, some in
full fledged gas mask, others and more makeshift masks. But
they're prepared with milk and water and other types of
liquids that they've learned to use. Should sheer gas come out.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The LAPD declared a tactical alert in its attempt to
clear the hundreds of protesters. Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding
to know why they were denied entry into the federal
detention center in downtown where illegal immigrants caught up in
the ice raids have been taken.
Speaker 15 (28:28):
We presented ourselves like were supposed to shorten my Congressional
ID cards, saying I'm a member of Congress. Under this law,
I have a right to inspect the facility.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Democratic Representative Jimmy Gomez says he and his constituents we
were trying to enter the facility after they heard people
inside had been denied basic necessities.
Speaker 15 (28:46):
It has a capacity about one hundred people. It's only
supposed to be a short term holding facility for twelve hours.
People were there for over twenty four hours and that
there were way above the one hundred person capacities.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Gomez says they were told they wouldn't go in because
of safety issues. A Chinese national living in Ontario is
expected to plead guilty today to federal charges that he
intended to illegally ship weapons to North Korea for use
by the secretive Communist countries military in a surprise attack
on South Korea. Prosecutors say that Shenwa Wen and his
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co conspirators exported at least two shipments of weapons and
AMMO to North Korea two years ago. They say the
items were concealed inside containers that were shipped from Long
Beach through Hong Kong to North Korea when is in
the country illegally after overstaying his student visa that expired
in twenty twelve. Israeli forces have seized an AID boat
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that was headed for Gaza and detained the activists on board,
including Greta Thunberg. The activists posted a series of videos
online saying Israeli troops had boarded the vessel as it
got close to Gaza. Please everyone. The Freedom Flotilla coalition,
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which organized the voyage, said the activists were kidnapped by
Israeli forces the boat was trying to get past a
long standing blockade of the Palestinian territory. Israel said the
activists would return to their home countries and the AID
would be sent to Gaza through established channels. A new
warning is out about weight loss and diabetes medications. Regulators
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in the UK say the drugs may weaken the effectiveness
of birth control. Doctor Alec Patel says the study also
warns weight loss drugs may be harmful to pregnant women.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Talk to your doctor about potentially another option and using
barrier contraception as well.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
He says people taking the meds should also talk to
their doctor about potential interactions with other drugs. Time to
get in your business, as we do every day at
five point forty with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Mourning Courtney, good morning. Well,
we've got the protests, but we still have you know,
life goes on and there's lots going on. So let's
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take a look at the major shakeup in the media business.
Speaker 16 (31:05):
Yes, Warner Brothers Discovery splitting into two publicly traded companies.
This has kind of been on the radar for some time.
In this report is sponsored by Total Wine En war
So here's what's going to happen. The streaming and studios
company will consist of Warner Brothers TV and Film HBO,
HBO Max, as well as its film and television libraries.
On the other hand, we have global Networks that's going
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to include its entertainment, sports, and news brands such as
CNNTNT Sports and bleacher Report. The separation is expected to
be completed by the middle of next year. But see,
here's the issue. Traditional media companies have been struggling the
face of all the expensive streaming wars that we've been seeing,
especially with Netflix. So Comcast recently did something similar. They
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separated their cable networks a CNBCMSNBC from the main NBC
network and it's Peacock streaming service and its universal theme parks.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay, so why do that so they can spin them off.
Speaker 16 (32:00):
Yeah, so they could be managed a little bit, a
little bit better, because sometimes when they're so large in
this case, and there has been so much consolidation within
the industry, different parts struggle. And this is why they'll
be able to have the focus then on the streaming business,
on HBO Max, things that have been doing stronger. Where
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the traditional news brands, the traditional cable brands such as
the Discovery Network for example, CNN, they've been struggling in
the light of what we've been seeing changing from streaming
to changing with the change from streaming from cable to streaming.
Speaker 11 (32:39):
Excuse me, all right, Walmart says, yeah, we got tariffs,
we got higher prices, but that's not keeping people away,
Oh not at all, they said.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Shoppers are still spending about the same that they did
a year ago. However, this time the focus is more
on food and essentials over discretionary purchases. Obviously, people are
holding onto the purse strings a little bit more. The
company also says that it's going to continue to communicate
the impact of tariffs to investors, consumers, and lawmakers. That's
an interesting point because last month, remember Walmart Warren that
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it was going to pass on all the tariff price
hikes on some of their goods, and that frustrated President Trump.
He said the retailer should eat the tariffs. So the
company signaled its its intention to keep prices low overall,
but noting that it won't.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Do so at the expense of profit growth. Okay, speaking
of eating, we might have a sign of economic hard
times ahead. Sales are down at Dominoes and Pizza Hut.
Speaker 16 (33:36):
Yeah, pizza losing some of its byte, same store sales
and losing some of its bite.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, trying to see what I did there.
Speaker 16 (33:43):
Same store sales down at all of the three major
pizza chains Pizza Hut, Pop, John's, Dominoes. There are a
number of factors that are denting sales at the restaurants.
We could talk about uberyates, we could talk about grub hub,
but the biggest one seems to be low income families
are getting priced out pizza.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
It's getting so expensive.
Speaker 16 (34:01):
The average price of a large pizza at these chains
now a little more than eighteen dollars. The overall check
has jumped nearly thirty percent since twenty nineteen, and according
to market research firm Technomic, that's slightly higher than the
increases at burger and chicken chains. So people are saying,
you know what, if pizza's going to be this expensive,
maybe I'll go get myself a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, but your chicken sandwich is eight or nine dollars
on itself, and you don't get a whole pizza exactly.
Speaker 16 (34:30):
But people are saying, you know, it's it's we're going
to eat at home too. Another big trend that they've
been noticing is that a lot more people are making
their own pizza in their house. So they're getting dough,
they're getting the ingredients and making everything at home.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
And sometimes that's a lot of fun and quite delicious.
Speaker 16 (34:46):
Okay, what do we look atbably better in the markets today, well,
we're looking at slight gains. Investors are focused on the
trade talks between the US and China. The event of
the week is coming up on Wednesday. That's the inflation
report for May. We'll talk about that. Consumers probably saw
slightly faster pace of price hikes from the tariffs. So
that's something that we're going to be watching because inflation
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has hurt so many people, frustrating so many people across
the country and down futures. Right now they're fifty points
and on Friday stocks closed at the highest level since February.
The S and P five hundred hit the six thousand
mark once again, rising one percent.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Wow. Okay, that's getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho,
as we do every morning. Thanks Courtney. We'll talk to
you tomorrow, see you later. All right. When we come back, Well,
we've got Sandy Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley.
She's got the latest on our eagles that have flown
the coop, left the nest, but then they came in back. Yeah,
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so we'll find out what's next for our favorite eagles,
which we already have thousands and thousands of people watching
at five point forty five in the morning. I know
I'm addicted, you are too, right, Okay, Kat, it's five
fifty three on your Monday morning wake up call. Good morning.
I'm me king. Here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Borders are Tom Holman says elected
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officials could face federal prosecution if they're found to be
impeding law enforcement. Holman says he doesn't think Mayor Bass
has crossed that line yet, but says it is sickening
that the mayor continues to protect rioters and criminal illegal
immigrants at the expense of the safety of American citizens
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and communities. Borders our Tom Holman is going to be
on with John Cobalt today at one o'clock. The wave
of protests began Friday, when dozens of people were arrested.
The protests against ice immigration raids continued Saturday in Paramount
Compton and in Downtown LA and in Downtown LA Yesterday,
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several way mos were set on fire. Protesters blocked the
one on one freeway, which caused one direction of the
freeway to be shut down for hours and hours. Protesters
stole Pink Park benches from Grand Park to build a
barrier on the street near City Hall. Yesterday afternoon, LAPD
declared an unlawful assembly shortly after three in the afternoon,
hundreds refused to disperse. Right now, let's say good morning
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to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley,
Sandy Steers. Sandy, Gizmo did it? Ope? Do we have Sandy?
We had Sandy on the phone. She's on the phone.
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There we go, there's Sandy. Hi, Good morning, Sandy, Good morning. Okay,
So I started to say, Gizmo did it. We're so
proud our our youngest eagle left the nest.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Yes, she did, although she came back. She came back
last night. Both of them came back last night. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I see that they're both in there right now. So
tell us what happened. How did she fledge? Because we
know that he left the nest on Monday and we
were waiting and waiting to see if Gizmo would do it,
and she did it. How did it all come together?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
I'm actually not sure that she intended to do it.
Right at the moment that she did, she was flapping
all around the nest and running from one branch to another.
And practicing, and she kept looking up at different branches
seeing if she could hop over to that one rather
than go around through the nest. And when she did that,
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I think she tried to get up to another branch
but didn't quite make it, and so the only option
was to fly. But she did it beautifully, she did.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
And so she and she did sort of like what
Sonny did. She just went over to another tree. And
then did she just hang out there for the weekend.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
No, she stayed there for that day, but before evening
she flew off to another Before nightfall, she flew off
to another tree and spent the night over there.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I just love that because I was worried, Like you said,
we weren't sure that she actually planned to do that,
and so I was like, I hope she's strong enough.
But then when we saw them last night, both of
them were back in the nest, You're like, Yep, she's
got this.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
She does, and she made a beautiful landing in the
nest last night, so she's got it all figured out.
She's together.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Okay, So they're both there this morning, and of course
we don't know for sure, but is there a good
chance that Jackie and Shadow will come feed them before
they take off this morning.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
Probably yes, But I don't know what time they're going
to take off or how early Jackie and Shadow will come.
But I'm sure they would both like some food. They
both had food, and Sonny was back at the nest
soon enough yesterday that she got a whole fish from mom.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I love that, Okay, and Sandy, how long? How long
does this continue? I know we've talked about this before,
but they can fly now, but they're not ready to
quote leave the nest.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
No, they're not ready yet. They haven't learned how to
really maneuver in the wild, as in how to find
food or fish or anything like that. So that Jackie
and Shadow will be following them around and bringing them
food and keeping guard over them and teaching them all
these skills of being out in the world.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's amazing. And you've been following this and along with
thousands of people. I just checked the numbers on it,
and like this morning, it's already up to like thirty
five thousand people are watching it before six o'clock in
the morning. I mean, like, how rewarding is this for you?
After we had a couple of years were Jackie in Shadow,
We unfortunately didn't get any eglits and now we have
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two and it looks like they're both they're both rare
and to go and fly like an eagle.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yes, no, I'm thrilled that they made it this far.
It's a huge success story to have. It's the first
time Jackie In and Shadow have had to make it
to fledging and they're both doing great.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Okay, And for Friends of Big Bear Valley, you know,
why is this an important thing? I mean, we get
to sneak and sort of be voyeurs and watch them
do this, but why is this important for people? And
for you?
Speaker 7 (41:18):
First, it gives us information about the eagles and how
they live their life and what things are essential to
their thriving. And also just having so many people connected
and seeing what it's like for them to have to
be out there in the world. It's making people realize
that they need to appreciate and support nature rather than
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fight with it.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Absolutely well, Sandy Steers, Friends of Big Bear Valley, thank
you so much for giving us your insight into the
first flights of our favorite little eagles, Gizmo and Sonny.
We're going to continue to watch them and again, if
you want. This is all nonprofit for Friends of Big
Bear Valley. If you want to make a donation, where
do they go.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
To Friends at big Bear Valley dot org.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
And you can get cool little plush animals, and you
can get eagle calendars and you know, so you get
something cool for your donation too.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Yeah, yes, thank you, all.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Right, Sandy, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
You too. You know, I just with all the unrest
and the ick stuff going on in the world, that's
why I want to focus on things like this. It's
just like amazing stories. There's still amazing things happening in
the world every single day.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
And the eagles are up there.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
They don't have any idea about any of this stuff,
you know, they're the lives.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Thank goodness. All right, We're going to continue to watch
everything that's been going on with the protests and see
if they ramp up again today. We know that we've
got a noontime rally scheduled at Grand Park. We'll see
if the if there's any flare ups today after everything
that happened yesterday. And of course we've got handle on
the news and Bill's gonna have a lot to say
about that that's coming up in just moments. This is
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the IE and actually the Antelote Valley is going to
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be mid eighties to mid nineties warming up tomorrow after
the June gloom burns off. Highs will be in the
mid seventies at the coast, low to mid eighties for
the metro areas, eighties and nineties in the valley's I
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that same pattern morning clouds, afternoon sun through the week.
It's sixty one in Brea, sixty in Lake Forest, sixty
one in Marina del Rey, and fifty nine in Burbank.
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Thanks for starting your day with us. WHOA what a weekend?
Huh protests all weekend long and the residuals continued overnight.
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We're gonna bring you the latest. We're gonna have all
the updates, let you know what happened, what's about to happen.
We're checking in with the ABC's Alex Stone, who's been
covering the protests all weekend. Of course, we had our
Michael Monks on it even got tear gas that was nice.
I'm being facetious, but it seems like things have calmed
down a bit over overnight, although there were still protesters
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out overnight. But like I said, we're going to keep
you updated with that. We're going to bring you all
up to date, see what happened while you were sleeping.
And then we're also going to because the world continues
to turn. We're going to also cover the other things
that have been happening around the world and right here
in LA during this time. So here's what's ahead on
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wake up Call. Plumes of black smoke have risen into
the skies over downtown La as ICE immigration protests turned
violent yesterday, prompting police to declare a tactical alert and
an unlawful assembly call for all of downtown. The one
oh one remained closed in We're going to get the
latest on that from Will Coleschreibers. At the north it's
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the southbound lanes right.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Actually, it looks like everything's open.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
They got it open finally. Okay, that's good. That's good
because that was a mess. We'll be telling you about that.
Several hundred National Guard members have arrived in LA to
assist in protecting federal property during the ice protests. President
Trump called up two thousand and also put marines at
Camp Pendleton on standby in case they're needed. LA Mayor
Bass and Governor Newsom say they are not needed and
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are a dangerous escalation. LA schools will be in session
today in spite of the unrest. District authorities say they
support families in any decision that's best for the students
in the circumstances, and that the demonstration would be monitored
for updates. The man caught up in an ice sweep
in Maryland and deported to a Central American prison has
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been returned to the US. ABC. Stephen Portenoy's going to
join us at five point twenty to tell us what's
next for the alleged MS thirteen member Kilmar Abrago Garcia.
And of course, the big news over the weekend, because
I am an optimist, Gizmo left the nest. So Sonny
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and Gizmo, our big Bear Eglitz have both left the nest.
They were pretty much gone all weekend, but I checked
last night and they're both back in the nest this morning.
So we're gonna check with We're gonna check in with
Sandy Steersy, executive director at Friends of Big Bear Valley,
find out how our eagles are doing and what is
next as they continue their journey. It was so cool
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to see it, although Gizmo kind of fell out of
the nest oops, but she made it and she did great,
and she spent the weekend away and then they both
came back last night, so we'll keep you all up
to date on that. Again. We'll be talking to Sandy
Steers at five point fifty, So let's get started with
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Of course, we're talking protests. Dozens of arrests have been
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made during the demonstrations in downtown. La Police declared that
unlawful assembly yesterday in the area of Alameda Street, where
National Guardsmen were positioned outside the Federal Building. Kfi's Michael
Monks was there and says the troopers responded in mediately
when confronted.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
These shields went down, the helmet mask came down, and
the pushing started, the tear gas started, and this crowd
just cleared out in an instant.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
It was a third day that demonstrators got violent. The
LAPD requested mutual aid last night from the La County
Sheriff's Department, which sent more than one hundred deputies to
support the department and the Highway patrol. Sheriff Robert Luna
says they were mostly tasked with clearing people out of
the area.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
As we're doing this and we see that the crowds
are not diminishing, I have put out a formal request
for more mutual late.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Assistance, the National Guard was called in to help protect
the police who were trying to disperse demonstrators. Chief McDonald's
says he wouldn't have jumped in pulling the National Guard
in so quickly.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
I'd say that we would go to that right away.
I'd say we wouldn't have been there yet. Looking at
the violence tonight, I think we got to make a reassessment, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Referring to the violence last night, McDonald says people causing
chaos may not believe in the spirit of the actual demonstration.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Even more disgusting that many of the people who were
doing this come in from other places just to hurt
people and to cause havoc.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
McDonald says his officers are facing more and more potentially
deadly violence, including being shot at with commercial grade fireworks.
And we're going to get the latest on the protest
with ABC's Alex Stone in just a moment, But first
let's take a first look at your morning commute. And
we had that one on one freeway closed for much
of yesterday, but will Cole Schreiber says it's open.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
The good news is.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
At this hour the mainline lanes of the north and
south one oh one through downtown Los Angeles are open.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
There are exceptions though.
Speaker 8 (05:47):
The transition roads it looks like from the one ten
freeway are still closed. So if you're trying to get
through the four level interchange and thinking you're going to
go from the one ten to the south one o one,
not quite yet. They're still working on that. And some
of the the on and off ramps in downtown LA
are closed. We know for sure that the Alameda off
ramp from the northbound side of the one on one
is blocked off as they were to clean up debris
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and just have that blocked.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Off until further notice.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
And we've got some issues fifty five southbound dire road
crash there on the off ramp, and the westbound side
of the ten at Ediwanda in Ontario from Ediwanda to
the fifteen two lanes closed for Caltrans were huge delays
back from Citrus. So that's a big Caltrans project that
they're still working on. With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I'm will Cole Schriver.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It's five oh six on your wake up call, so
will the protest yesterday I was watching it from the
comfort of my home, as was I and just the
police cars and the pelting of them with the rocks.
I mean, it was just absolutely unbelievable to me.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
Those police cars were all on the you know, the
lower level of the freeway and those on and off
ramps are elevated above them, and anybody up there just
had free rain basically to just throw stuff down there.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And it was unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And I'm wondering where they got these big, huge chunks
of rocks that they got. But it started when there
was the protests that were on the surface streets spilled
out onto the freeway. They blocked the one on one
freeway for a while, which is a scary thing of itself,
aside from you know, bottlenecking traffic and leaving people completely stuck. Yeah,
it's also really difficult because it's dangerous to have people
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out on the roadway like that.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
You'll have some times people get fed up and they
do things behind the wheel that they wouldn't normally do,
like you know, aim for protesters. Later that evening last night,
I saw a video of a minivan. It seemed like
the minivan was doing circles and actually going after protesters.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
So, yeah, a lot going on.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
There a lot going on. But the good news is
that they've cleared that roadway off and it doesn't appear
that any officers were hurt as they were tossing these
huge chunks of concrete over the overpass. Okay, let's say
good good morning now to ABC's Alex Stone, who has
been covering this all weekend. Alex, can you give us
the latest on what's going on overnight and what's happening
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this morning if anything.
Speaker 9 (08:15):
Amy, Good morning. Yeah, all is fairly quiet right now.
Speaker 10 (08:19):
Wasn't even a couple of hours ago, though, I mean
a very long night for mainly the LAPD that even
two o'clock in the morning, that there were people that
were out and throwing concrete and shooting off fireworks at
the officers. But just how quickly this whole thing has
escalated since Friday when we got the first word of
the emigration enforcement that was.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
Going on, and then to the point that we're at now.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
But you heard Chief McDonald saying overnight that they know
this is bad, that it has escalated, that they know
that they've got to get a handle on this, saying this.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
It is violence that I've seen is disgusting. It's escalated
now since the beginning of this incident. What we saw
the first night was bad. What we've seen subsequent to
that is getting increasingly worse and more violent and amy.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
Overnight, the crowd's using dumpsters and park benches as their
shields downtown around City Hall to protect themselves against the
pepper balls and the rubber and the foam rounds. The
lapd has been shooting off and we know that they're
around sixty who have been arrested. But I mean, really,
for a lot of the officers, they can't deal with arresting.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
People because they don't have the resources.
Speaker 10 (09:30):
They don't have the time that that takes time to
put them in handcuffs, haul them away, transport them, do
the paperwork that it's just about moving these crowds out,
getting them to eventually disperse, eventually go home. And they
were able to do it yet again overnight that things
are calm now, but it'll be a question of where
things go today. There are a couple of protests, mainly
(09:52):
earlier in the day that are planned today, so hopefully
then those crowds disperse.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
And we're not going into the evening hours, but we'll
see what happened tonight.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah. I think one of the things that I was
thinking as I was watching all of this, Alex is
you mentioned the dumpsters and the park benches, like they
literally went into Grand Park ripped the pink benches that
are all around the park that have been put there,
you know, for people to enjoy. They took them and
they stole them and put them in the roadways. They're
all damaged. They're going to have to all be replaced.
(10:22):
And then you look at the Waimo cars that were
set on fire. Those who pays for that.
Speaker 10 (10:28):
And spirts cover right, Yeah, and they eventually shut that off,
so no cars will come into downtown right now. But yeah,
and then you have the whole element of the National
Guard here now, where what is their role going to
be Because they have been federalized by President Trump and
they didn't come through the normal channels. They're not really
communicating with the LAPD. Chief McDonald's saying that they had
(10:49):
one conference call together, but they don't know what the
role of the National Guard is going to be.
Speaker 9 (10:54):
That he's not.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Against them being here, but there are steps that they
would have taken to get to this point and to
say we want this type of unit. This is a
combat brigade that is here right now. This is not
military police that normally we see come in during wildfires
and doing the roadblocks. So you know that they would
have gone to the mutual aid system and then where
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police trained together, that they're on the same radio channels.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
There are steps to get to this point.
Speaker 10 (11:21):
And because they are here for the first times in
nineteen sixty five some Alabama was the last time a
president deployed the National Guard in that case to protect protesters,
that without the governor doing it, that this is unusual
territory to be in. That they are not here working
with the state. They are not in lockstep with the
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LAPD at this point.
Speaker 9 (11:44):
And then this.
Speaker 10 (11:45):
Threat of active duty Marines being called in, and I mean,
I can tell you within senior levels of law enforcement,
they do not.
Speaker 9 (11:52):
Like that idea. The rules of engagement would be different.
They would not be on police radios.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
They are not trained in crowd control outside of a
warfare environment like a police are. They don't train with
the police in the state of California under police standards,
that would be a whole different thing. So there is
hope among law enforcement that that step is not taken
because it's really not welcome at the moment.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, and I don't know, Alex, did you get a
chance to talk to any protesters that yeah, yeah, yeah,
And what are they saying?
Speaker 9 (12:24):
Well, I mean, I think that you've got two different crowds.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
You've got the troublemakers who are out at night, who
whether it be George Floyd or a Lakers protest or
not a protest, but you know, a celebration that gets
out of control, don't want to call a riot or dodgers.
Speaker 9 (12:40):
You've always got that crowd.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
That comes in at night and we see them doing
the looting and setting the fires, and they may not
even really be into whatever they're out there for that
they're just out there to battle the police and create
mayhem and they find it fun.
Speaker 9 (12:56):
Usually younger men who are out there doing that.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Of those who are out during the day, like the
protests that are planned this morning, that are typically very
into the topic, that are passionate, that have a reason
why they're there.
Speaker 9 (13:11):
This woman among them.
Speaker 11 (13:12):
Here protesting for our families that are being separated in
our neighborhoods and we want justice.
Speaker 10 (13:18):
Now, that's very different compared to nighttime where it's going
to be you know, bleep the police and you know,
we want this and we want that and breaking windows
and dropping concrete onto the CHP cars on the one
on one. So I mean, really two different crowds from
the daytime crowd to the nighttime crowd a world of difference.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And do the ones who are there for actually for
the cause to protest the ice raids, do they realize
that when there are things like blocking a freeway and
the vandalism and that kind of stuff, that does not
advance their cause.
Speaker 10 (13:50):
You know, I think some do. Others believe that they've
got to do.
Speaker 9 (13:54):
It to make a point.
Speaker 10 (13:55):
And then you've got the others who are just doing
it because are it's fun and it's fighting the police,
and you know, they think in mass that they can
do it and then they're not going to be arrested,
they're not going to get into trouble.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
There's a lot of motivation in these crowds.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
Some are very authentic and they are there that they
believe that they have a point to make. Others are
there to hurt police or just to battle them, and
that it's you know, just fun on a Sunday night
because they've got nothing better to do. So, you know,
with thousands of people out there, everybody's got a different
reason for being out there. But yeah, I mean I
(14:30):
think some of them realize that it's not helpful.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
All right. ABC's Alex Stone, thanks for all the information,
for covering this for us all weekend, and we shall
see what unfolds today.
Speaker 9 (14:40):
You got it, Thanks, Amy?
Speaker 1 (14:41):
All right, when we come back, the man speaking this
is all tied into ice raids. The man caught up
in that ice sweep in Maryland and mistakenly deported to
a Central American prison has been returned to the US.
Remember the Supreme Court said, hey, you need to fas
facilitate his return because he shouldn't have been sent down
(15:02):
to that prison. Well, he's back in the US. Who
was done probably differently than anybody had thought it would happen,
according to the US Supreme Court order. But ABC Stephen
Portnoy's going to join us to tell us what is
next for kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is now back in
the US. It is five twenty on your Monday morning
(15:26):
wake up call. Good morning to you. I'm Amy King. Wow,
what a weekend here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. LA faces its fourth day of
protests over federal immigration raids. Rally is planned at Grand
Park in downtown LA at noon. Civil rights and labor
leaders are demanding the release of union leader David Huerta.
(15:48):
He was taken into federal detention on Friday during an
immigration enforcement action. Huerta is doing court at the Royball
Federal Building at one point thirty this afternoon. The LAPD
almost thirty arrests yesterday and CHP arrested another nineteen during
the protests. One was arrested for throwing allegedly a Molotov
cocktail at officers, another for trying to ram police with
(16:11):
a motorcycle. The CHP arrests mostly tied to the one
oh one being blocked by protesters. CHP officers became trapped
under the one oh one freeway overpass at Los Angeles
Street as the crowd from above pelted their patrol car
with rocks. At times, the officers tossed tear gas up
under the roadway above to try to disperse the crowd.
One officer came out from under the overpass and was
(16:34):
promptly pelted by rocks. He was able to run back
under to safety. At six oh five, it's Handle on
the news. Guess what Handle's going to be talking about. Well,
probably our dinner on Saturday night, which was fabulous by
the way, at the Anaheim White House. But also we'll
be talking about the protests and the National Guard and
(16:54):
everything that has to do with what's going on in
downtown LA. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's
Stephen Portnoy. We're also talking about ice raids, but this
one was on the other side of the country that
started the whole ball rolling with k Abrego Garcia. He's
now been returned to the US, but not to face
(17:14):
his due process on whether he should be deported, rather
to charge him with human trafficking.
Speaker 12 (17:19):
That's right, Amy. He was returned to the US late
last week. The charges allege that Kilmar Brego Garcia took
part in a years long conspiracy to transport thousands of
migrants from Texas.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
To the interior of the country.
Speaker 12 (17:33):
The indictment alleges that drugs and guns were also smuggled
as part of the conspiracy. That Abrego Garcia alone ran
more than one hundred trips from Texas to Maryland and
other states, and he appeared in federal court in Tennessee,
where he's now being held. The attorneys for Abrego Garcia
say that they're going to fight to ensure he receives
a fair trial, something that said they say he had
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not received when he was sent to El Salvador in March,
and the family remains in federal court in Maryland, saying
that the fact that he's back in the US does
not render the litigation that they initiated moot that.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
They say that the federal.
Speaker 12 (18:10):
Government thumbed its nose at the judge in Maryland for
months and that there need left a stain on the
constitution that needs to be addressed, perhaps with some sort
of contempt finding by the judge.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So his lawyers are his lawyers suing.
Speaker 12 (18:29):
His family has filed the suit in Maryland, and that's
where things have been for months now, and that was
where the judge said that the federal government had to
bring had to facilitate his release in return from l Salvador,
and that was ultimately a decision that was upheld by
the Supreme Court. So he's back now, but for not
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the reasons that the judge had ordered he's back for
different reasons, because of prosecutors went in and got a
federal grand jury indictment. Now it happens that the former
head of the Crew Fminal Division of that US Attorney's
office in the middle of Tennessee resigned some weeks ago.
He hasn't explained why fully, but our reporting is that
he did it because he believed that this case was
(19:10):
being pursued for political reasons. Ben Schrader is his name,
fifteen year career prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office in Tennessee,
and he said on LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago
the only job description he's ever known is to do
the right thing and the right way for the right reasons,
which was all of his colleagues in the office and
across the department the best as they seek to do justice.
(19:33):
The fact that he resigned is interesting, and I wonder
whether at a certain point we'll hear more from him,
But so far he's said formally no comment.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, So it'd be interesting because when I think Pam
Bondi came out on Friday, she was saying they'd been
working on this for a while to put this together.
So did he get wind of it and say I
don't want to be part of it, or like what's behind?
Speaker 12 (19:52):
Well? Also defined for a while, I mean Pam Bondi's
only been in office for a few months and this
case has only been initiated for a couple of months.
The indictment was returned last month. So what does for
a while mean? And that'll be something that the defense
attorneys may point to if they do what Donald Trump's
defense lawyers did in his criminal prosecutions, which is to
allege that this is a selective and vindictive prosecution, an
(20:14):
example of you find me the man, I'll find you
the crime.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Okay, So then what happens next.
Speaker 12 (20:21):
Well, ultimately this case will proceed. And you remember that
we're talking about two separate things here. We're talking about
the case against a Brego Garcia and Tennessee and the
case that his family's brought in Maryland having to do
with his whereabouts and how his case has been handled.
These are two separate matters now on parallel tracks.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
All right, ABC's Stephen Portnoy, thank you so much for
the information. As always, you bet. All right, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom, President Trump has promised to
maintain law and order in LA with the deployment of
National Guard troops about three hundred of our eyes. So far,
he's ordered two thousand. Speaking on his way to Camp
David yesterday afternoon, Trump told reporters he'll have troops everywhere
(21:01):
if that's what it takes. When asked if he would
declare an insurrection, Trump said we're not there yet. Mayor
bass Is sending the National Guard to LA wasn't necessary,
She tells KTLA. It's the Trump administration just posturing to.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Have one hundred troops in Westwood where absolutely.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
Nothing had happened at all, and one hundred downtown is
just overreach.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Bass says the LAPD can handle the situation. President Trump's
borders are, says, elected officials in California and in LA
could be open to federal prosecution if they're found to
be impeding law enforcements.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It's a family to noringly Harbord, cacil on Igo.
Speaker 7 (21:44):
It's a felity to impede law enforcements for doing their job.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
He says, so far, LA's mayor hasn't crossed that line,
but a post from the Department of Homeland Security on
x says it is sickening that Mayor Bass continues to
protect violent writers, rioters, and criminal illegal aliens at the
expense of the safety of American citizens and communities. John
Cobalt is going to be talking with Borders Are Tom
(22:08):
Homan on his show this afternoon. Cobalt Show between one
and four this afternoon. Tom Holman will be a guest.
The Coast Guard says it has found a debris field
of what may be from a small plane crash in
the waters off the coast of San Diego. Six people
were on board the plane that apparently went down three
miles west of Point Loma yesterday afternoon. The US Coast
(22:30):
Guard says it continues its search of the area. Legal
challenges are expected over President Trump's travel ban on twelve countries.
It goes into effect today. Former Department of Homeland Security
official Elizabeth Newman says it's a repeat of the travel
ban from twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
One of the first executive orders that was signed by
the President this year was to basically do the work
to reinstate the travel ban.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
The band took effect at midnight this week, we'll see
political wrangling in the Senate to pass President Trump's megabill,
you know, the Big Beautiful Bill. ABC's Jonathan carl says
it was approved in the House by just one vote.
Speaker 13 (23:05):
It's very clear that there are going to be changes.
It's unclear if first of all, there are the votes
to pass it in the Senate, and with those changes,
if Johnson can get it passed again in the House.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
He says, Johnson is asking the Senate not to make
any major changes to the bill because that'll make it
harder to pass again in the House. Authorities in Michigan
say a potential tragedy has been averted as they foiled
a mass shooting plot at a high school graduation. ABC's
Morgan Norwood says two people have been taken into custody.
Speaker 14 (23:34):
The large plot unraveling Tuesday after police responded to a
fight at the commencement ceremony for the Arts and Technology
Academy of Pontiac. Their investigators say they were tipped off
about a snapchat threat.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
She says authorities did a full sweep and found two
loaded guns hidden under cars in the parking lot. Leelo
in Stitches riding the wave of popularity, finishing first at
the box office for its third straight week. Live version
of the Disney animated hit movie took in over thirty
two million dollars in theaters over the weekend. The John
(24:06):
Wick spin off Ballerina apparently Keanu Reeves makes appearances in it,
but he doesn't actually star in it, opened in second
place with twenty five million dollars. Mission Impossible The Final
Reckoning was third with fifteen million in ticket sales. It's
the Disneyland Resort's seventieth celebration, and guess what if you're
(24:27):
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change without notice. Southland weather from KFI June gloom clears
to sunny skies with highs in the low seventies at
the beaches, around eighty for Metro La and Inlando. C
(25:08):
eighties in the valleys, eighties and nineties in the Ie
and Annealo Valley. A couple degrees warmer for tomorrow. Morning clouds,
afternoon sun through the week with highs in the seventies
to mid nineties. It's sixty one and Garden Grove sixty
three in Newport Beach. And don't forget coming up at
five point fifty, we're going to be talking with the
executive director of the Friends of Big Bear Valley, Sandy Steers.
(25:29):
She's got the latest on our Eglitz who have left
the nest, although they both have come back. They're back
in the nest this morning. Well, I'm no place like home.
There's no play I know, right, they pick their little feet. Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Anyway, you're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from
KFI Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It is five thirty six on your Monday wake Up
Call this June ninth. Thanks for starting your day with us.
Hope you had a fabulous weekend. It was a weird
weekend because of the protests. Like, we went and had
the dinner with Bill Handle at the Anaheim White House
with some of his big fans, and it was so
(26:10):
much fun. But we're driving down there and hearing how
people are, you know, tearing stuff up in Paramount and
lighting stuff on fire. It's just this weird, don't you think,
like this weird kind of reality where you want to
live your life but then there's all this stuff going on.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, So anyway, we got lots more on the protests
coming up, and of course Handle's going to be talking
about that coming up with Handle on the news six
o five. But here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Ice protests continued through the night,
with crowds marching and gathering nil near La Live and
Crypto dot Com Arena. Several police cars were pelted by protesters.
(26:47):
There's a report that a man was driving recklessly at
high speed, which was putting pedestrians in danger and also
caused a motorcyclist to go down. Several fires burned in
the streets and other parts of downtown, but police and
firefighters pretty much just let them burn. The Department of
Homeland Securities released information on several of the people detained
in the ice raids, saying that they have long rap sheets,
(27:10):
including robbery, domestic violence, and second degree murder. Governor Newsom
says the state of California is going to sue the
Trump administration, this time over the deployment of two thousand
National Guard troops. He's urged the President to rescind the
order for the troops, calling it illegal and unconstitutional. Newsom
says Trump cannot activate the state's National Guard without coordinating
(27:33):
it with him. First, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Demonstrators have protested outside the Federal Building as part of
their ongoing pushback against the ice raids that clashes with
National Guard troops yesterday, who used tear gas to try
to disperse the crowd. Kfi's Michael Monks was there and
(27:57):
says the protesters were ready for it.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
A lot of people are wearing masks anyway, some in
full fledged gas mask, others and more makeshift masks. But
they're prepared with milk and water and other types of
liquids that they've learned to use. Should sheer gas come out.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
The LAPD declared a tactical alert in its attempt to
clear the hundreds of protesters. Several Democratic lawmakers are demanding
to know why they were denied entry into the federal
detention center in downtown where illegal immigrants caught up in
the ice raids have been taken.
Speaker 15 (28:28):
We presented ourselves like were supposed to shorten my Congressional
ID cards, saying I'm a member of Congress. Under this law,
I have a right to inspect the facility.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Democratic Representative Jimmy Gomez says he and his constituents we
were trying to enter the facility after they heard people
inside had been denied basic necessities.
Speaker 15 (28:46):
It has a capacity about one hundred people. It's only
supposed to be a short term holding facility for twelve hours.
People were there for over twenty four hours and that
there were way above the one hundred person capacities.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Gomez says they were told they wouldn't go in because
of safety issues. A Chinese national living in Ontario is
expected to plead guilty today to federal charges that he
intended to illegally ship weapons to North Korea for use
by the secretive Communist countries military in a surprise attack
on South Korea. Prosecutors say that Shenwa Wen and his
(29:20):
co conspirators exported at least two shipments of weapons and
AMMO to North Korea two years ago. They say the
items were concealed inside containers that were shipped from Long
Beach through Hong Kong to North Korea when is in
the country illegally after overstaying his student visa that expired
in twenty twelve. Israeli forces have seized an AID boat
(29:42):
that was headed for Gaza and detained the activists on board,
including Greta Thunberg. The activists posted a series of videos
online saying Israeli troops had boarded the vessel as it
got close to Gaza. Please everyone. The Freedom Flotilla coalition,
(30:03):
which organized the voyage, said the activists were kidnapped by
Israeli forces the boat was trying to get past a
long standing blockade of the Palestinian territory. Israel said the
activists would return to their home countries and the AID
would be sent to Gaza through established channels. A new
warning is out about weight loss and diabetes medications. Regulators
(30:24):
in the UK say the drugs may weaken the effectiveness
of birth control. Doctor Alec Patel says the study also
warns weight loss drugs may be harmful to pregnant women.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Talk to your doctor about potentially another option and using
barrier contraception as well.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
He says people taking the meds should also talk to
their doctor about potential interactions with other drugs. Time to
get in your business, as we do every day at
five point forty with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Mourning Courtney, good morning. Well,
we've got the protests, but we still have you know,
life goes on and there's lots going on. So let's
(31:01):
take a look at the major shakeup in the media business.
Speaker 16 (31:05):
Yes, Warner Brothers Discovery splitting into two publicly traded companies.
This has kind of been on the radar for some time.
In this report is sponsored by Total Wine En war
So here's what's going to happen. The streaming and studios
company will consist of Warner Brothers TV and Film HBO,
HBO Max, as well as its film and television libraries.
On the other hand, we have global Networks that's going
(31:26):
to include its entertainment, sports, and news brands such as
CNNTNT Sports and bleacher Report. The separation is expected to
be completed by the middle of next year. But see,
here's the issue. Traditional media companies have been struggling the
face of all the expensive streaming wars that we've been seeing,
especially with Netflix. So Comcast recently did something similar. They
(31:48):
separated their cable networks a CNBCMSNBC from the main NBC
network and it's Peacock streaming service and its universal theme parks.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay, so why do that so they can spin them off.
Speaker 16 (32:00):
Yeah, so they could be managed a little bit, a
little bit better, because sometimes when they're so large in
this case, and there has been so much consolidation within
the industry, different parts struggle. And this is why they'll
be able to have the focus then on the streaming business,
on HBO Max, things that have been doing stronger. Where
(32:22):
the traditional news brands, the traditional cable brands such as
the Discovery Network for example, CNN, they've been struggling in
the light of what we've been seeing changing from streaming
to changing with the change from streaming from cable to streaming.
Speaker 11 (32:39):
Excuse me, all right, Walmart says, yeah, we got tariffs,
we got higher prices, but that's not keeping people away,
Oh not at all, they said.
Speaker 16 (32:50):
Shoppers are still spending about the same that they did
a year ago. However, this time the focus is more
on food and essentials over discretionary purchases. Obviously, people are
holding onto the purse strings a little bit more. The
company also says that it's going to continue to communicate
the impact of tariffs to investors, consumers, and lawmakers. That's
an interesting point because last month, remember Walmart Warren that
(33:13):
it was going to pass on all the tariff price
hikes on some of their goods, and that frustrated President Trump.
He said the retailer should eat the tariffs. So the
company signaled its its intention to keep prices low overall,
but noting that it won't.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Do so at the expense of profit growth. Okay, speaking
of eating, we might have a sign of economic hard
times ahead. Sales are down at Dominoes and Pizza Hut.
Speaker 16 (33:36):
Yeah, pizza losing some of its byte, same store sales
and losing some of its bite.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Yeah, trying to see what I did there.
Speaker 16 (33:43):
Same store sales down at all of the three major
pizza chains Pizza Hut, Pop, John's, Dominoes. There are a
number of factors that are denting sales at the restaurants.
We could talk about uberyates, we could talk about grub hub,
but the biggest one seems to be low income families
are getting priced out pizza.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
It's getting so expensive.
Speaker 16 (34:01):
The average price of a large pizza at these chains
now a little more than eighteen dollars. The overall check
has jumped nearly thirty percent since twenty nineteen, and according
to market research firm Technomic, that's slightly higher than the
increases at burger and chicken chains. So people are saying,
you know what, if pizza's going to be this expensive,
maybe I'll go get myself a chicken sandwich.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Yeah, but your chicken sandwich is eight or nine dollars
on itself, and you don't get a whole pizza exactly.
Speaker 16 (34:30):
But people are saying, you know, it's it's we're going
to eat at home too. Another big trend that they've
been noticing is that a lot more people are making
their own pizza in their house. So they're getting dough,
they're getting the ingredients and making everything at home.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
And sometimes that's a lot of fun and quite delicious.
Speaker 16 (34:46):
Okay, what do we look atbably better in the markets today, well,
we're looking at slight gains. Investors are focused on the
trade talks between the US and China. The event of
the week is coming up on Wednesday. That's the inflation
report for May. We'll talk about that. Consumers probably saw
slightly faster pace of price hikes from the tariffs. So
that's something that we're going to be watching because inflation
(35:08):
has hurt so many people, frustrating so many people across
the country and down futures. Right now they're fifty points
and on Friday stocks closed at the highest level since February.
The S and P five hundred hit the six thousand
mark once again, rising one percent.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Wow. Okay, that's getting in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho,
as we do every morning. Thanks Courtney. We'll talk to
you tomorrow, see you later. All right. When we come back, Well,
we've got Sandy Steers with friends of Big Bear Valley.
She's got the latest on our eagles that have flown
the coop, left the nest, but then they came in back. Yeah,
(35:44):
so we'll find out what's next for our favorite eagles,
which we already have thousands and thousands of people watching
at five point forty five in the morning. I know
I'm addicted, you are too, right, Okay, Kat, it's five
fifty three on your Monday morning wake up call. Good morning.
I'm me king. Here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Borders are Tom Holman says elected
(36:05):
officials could face federal prosecution if they're found to be
impeding law enforcement. Holman says he doesn't think Mayor Bass
has crossed that line yet, but says it is sickening
that the mayor continues to protect rioters and criminal illegal
immigrants at the expense of the safety of American citizens
(36:25):
and communities. Borders our Tom Holman is going to be
on with John Cobalt today at one o'clock. The wave
of protests began Friday, when dozens of people were arrested.
The protests against ice immigration raids continued Saturday in Paramount
Compton and in Downtown LA and in Downtown LA Yesterday,
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several way mos were set on fire. Protesters blocked the
one on one freeway, which caused one direction of the
freeway to be shut down for hours and hours. Protesters
stole Pink Park benches from Grand Park to build a
barrier on the street near City Hall. Yesterday afternoon, LAPD
declared an unlawful assembly shortly after three in the afternoon,
hundreds refused to disperse. Right now, let's say good morning
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to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valley,
Sandy Steers. Sandy, Gizmo did it? Ope? Do we have Sandy?
We had Sandy on the phone. She's on the phone.
(37:35):
There we go, there's Sandy. Hi, Good morning, Sandy, Good morning. Okay,
So I started to say, Gizmo did it. We're so
proud our our youngest eagle left the nest.
Speaker 7 (37:49):
Yes, she did, although she came back. She came back
last night. Both of them came back last night. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
I see that they're both in there right now. So
tell us what happened. How did she fledge? Because we
know that he left the nest on Monday and we
were waiting and waiting to see if Gizmo would do it,
and she did it. How did it all come together?
Speaker 7 (38:09):
I'm actually not sure that she intended to do it.
Right at the moment that she did, she was flapping
all around the nest and running from one branch to another.
And practicing, and she kept looking up at different branches
seeing if she could hop over to that one rather
than go around through the nest. And when she did that,
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I think she tried to get up to another branch
but didn't quite make it, and so the only option
was to fly. But she did it beautifully, she did.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
And so she and she did sort of like what
Sonny did. She just went over to another tree. And
then did she just hang out there for the weekend.
Speaker 7 (38:47):
No, she stayed there for that day, but before evening
she flew off to another Before nightfall, she flew off
to another tree and spent the night over there.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
I just love that because I was worried, Like you said,
we weren't sure that she actually planned to do that,
and so I was like, I hope she's strong enough.
But then when we saw them last night, both of
them were back in the nest, You're like, Yep, she's
got this.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
She does, and she made a beautiful landing in the
nest last night, so she's got it all figured out.
She's together.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Okay, So they're both there this morning, and of course
we don't know for sure, but is there a good
chance that Jackie and Shadow will come feed them before
they take off this morning.
Speaker 7 (39:35):
Probably yes, But I don't know what time they're going
to take off or how early Jackie and Shadow will come.
But I'm sure they would both like some food. They
both had food, and Sonny was back at the nest
soon enough yesterday that she got a whole fish from mom.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
I love that, Okay, and Sandy, how long? How long
does this continue? I know we've talked about this before,
but they can fly now, but they're not ready to
quote leave the nest.
Speaker 7 (40:05):
No, they're not ready yet. They haven't learned how to
really maneuver in the wild, as in how to find
food or fish or anything like that. So that Jackie
and Shadow will be following them around and bringing them
food and keeping guard over them and teaching them all
these skills of being out in the world.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's amazing. And you've been following this and along with
thousands of people. I just checked the numbers on it,
and like this morning, it's already up to like thirty
five thousand people are watching it before six o'clock in
the morning. I mean, like, how rewarding is this for you?
After we had a couple of years were Jackie in Shadow,
We unfortunately didn't get any eglits and now we have
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two and it looks like they're both they're both rare
and to go and fly like an eagle.
Speaker 7 (40:52):
Yes, no, I'm thrilled that they made it this far.
It's a huge success story to have. It's the first
time Jackie In and Shadow have had to make it
to fledging and they're both doing great.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Okay, And for Friends of Big Bear Valley, you know,
why is this an important thing? I mean, we get
to sneak and sort of be voyeurs and watch them
do this, but why is this important for people? And
for you?
Speaker 7 (41:18):
First, it gives us information about the eagles and how
they live their life and what things are essential to
their thriving. And also just having so many people connected
and seeing what it's like for them to have to
be out there in the world. It's making people realize
that they need to appreciate and support nature rather than
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fight with it.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Absolutely well, Sandy Steers, Friends of Big Bear Valley, thank
you so much for giving us your insight into the
first flights of our favorite little eagles, Gizmo and Sonny.
We're going to continue to watch them and again, if
you want. This is all nonprofit for Friends of Big
Bear Valley. If you want to make a donation, where
do they go.
Speaker 7 (42:00):
To Friends at big Bear Valley dot org.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
And you can get cool little plush animals, and you
can get eagle calendars and you know, so you get
something cool for your donation too.
Speaker 7 (42:13):
Yeah, yes, thank you, all.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
Right, Sandy, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (42:17):
All right, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
You too. You know, I just with all the unrest
and the ick stuff going on in the world, that's
why I want to focus on things like this. It's
just like amazing stories. There's still amazing things happening in
the world every single day.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
And the eagles are up there.
Speaker 8 (42:34):
They don't have any idea about any of this stuff,
you know, they're the lives.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Thank goodness. All right, We're going to continue to watch
everything that's been going on with the protests and see
if they ramp up again today. We know that we've
got a noontime rally scheduled at Grand Park. We'll see
if the if there's any flare ups today after everything
that happened yesterday. And of course we've got handle on
the news and Bill's gonna have a lot to say
about that that's coming up in just moments. This is
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KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland Weather
from KFI. Morning clouds clearing too, sunny skies. I S
will be in the low seventies at the beaches, around
eighty for Metro La and Inlando, c eighties in the
valleys in Anelotte Valley, mid eighties to mid nineties for
the IE and actually the Antelote Valley is going to
(43:23):
be mid eighties to mid nineties warming up tomorrow after
the June gloom burns off. Highs will be in the
mid seventies at the coast, low to mid eighties for
the metro areas, eighties and nineties in the valley's I
e and Anelote Valley, and then we're going to see
that same pattern morning clouds, afternoon sun through the week.
It's sixty one in Brea, sixty in Lake Forest, sixty
one in Marina del Rey, and fifty nine in Burbank.
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Live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom, I'm Amy King.
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