August 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers opens the show discussing President Trump saying he has ‘definitively ruled out’ the United States sending troops to Ukraine. ABC News technology reporter Mike Dobuski joins the show for ‘Wired Wednesday.’ Today, Mike talks about OpenAI’s rocky GPT-5 rollout out gives a review on the latest Pixel smartphone. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Dan Swchwartzman discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with CEA Chief Mitigation Officer for the California Earthquake Authority Janiele Maffei about their grant program to brace and bolt older homes to their foundation to protect against earthquakes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App k f I and k ost HT two, Los Angeles,
Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
I got a good, really good call your host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is your wake up call for Wednesday, August twentieth.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Hope you're ready to start a fabulous day. It's going
to be a hot one.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We're gonnare. Today's show is.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Going to be very positive because I got a note
on the talkback yesterday from a very nice man who
said that yesterday's show was just depressing. You said it
was horrible. In fact, I'm going to play it for
you if I can find it. It's like, okay, but
you know what, sometimes the news just isn't happy news,
(01:10):
and so you got to report it right.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So okay, so give this the listen.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Amy King on your show on Tuesday and completely was horrible.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Nothing but bad topics, nothing but the tragedy and suing
and stupid things.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Nothing cheerful you, okay, So we're going to be cheerful
today right. I mean, we still have bad news, but
we're going to be cheerful about it, and we're gonna
get y' all caught up on everything that happened while
you were sleeping.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
The strongest heat wave of the season starts today, with
inland areas, mountains, and valleys expected to top one hundred
degrees for the next several days. Forecasters say tomorrow's going
to be the hottest day. La Mayor Basa's city crews
are on standby ready to fight any heat related fires
and other emergencies. Governor Newsom is also sending extra resources
in the husband of a woman whose body was found
(02:08):
in the Angelus National Forest over the weekend has apparently
left the country. The Ellly Kenny Sheriff's Department says Jossimer
Cabrera changed his stories several times in the week his
wife was missing, first claiming ice took her, then saying
she left with another man, then saying she'd been in
an accident.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Officials say they think he fled to Peru with his kids.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
The White House has confirmed Russian President Putin is open
to advancing peace efforts, which may include a potential meeting
with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Vice President JD Vance, along with
other US officials, are continuing their diplomatic coordination with both
Russia and Ukraine. President Trump is saying no boots on
the ground in Ukraine is part of any security agreement
(02:49):
that could lead to an end to the war. ABC's
Karen Travers is going to join us in just a
couple of minutes to tell us what the US role
could be as the two sides try to find a
way to peace. Version of chat GPT apparently isn't very friendly.
ABC's tech reporter Mike Tbusky's going to join us to
tell us what open Ai plans to do about it. Hey,
(03:09):
if I'm going to talk to a robot, I wanted
to be friendly. Yeah, you know what, that's one of
the problems, Like when you're writing emails you know this,
or you're texting like, there's no emotion in it. So
you've got to be really careful because you might be
saying something in being haja sarcastic wink wink, nudge, nudge,
and that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Come across in writing, doesn't translate. Yeah, that'll be interesting, Okay,
so that's coming up at five twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's a show that's going to take you down memory
lane and have you reminiscing pretty much your whole life.
Amy's on it, coming up at the bottom of the hour.
I think you're gonna like this one. And we're just
a couple of days away from the anniversary of a
six point oho quake that rocked northern San Francisco Bay Area.
You know how you've heard that saying it'll shake you
to your foundation. Well, the Earthquake Authority can help you
(03:52):
with that when it comes to your home.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Being ready for an earthquake always a good idea.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And extreme heat
warning goes into effect today through Saturday as southern California
faces what could be the most significant heat wave of
the summer. The National Weather Service tempts most likely will
be in or near triple digits in many valley and
mountain areas. Downtown LA is expected to hit ninety four.
(04:22):
Mayor Bass's crews from different city departments are going to
be on standbyas I mentioned, to address any potential heat
related fires or other emergencies and the governor has called
for backup.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Governor Gavin Newsom pre deployed a total of ten fire engines,
two water tenders, two bulldozers, one helicopter, two hand crews,
three dispatchers, and one incident management team to Los Angeles,
with tempts in some areas of LA to hit triple
digits over the next couple of days. It's going to
make fire danger extremely high. Newsom says the effort will
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help ensure that the resources are ready to respond quickly,
minimizing the potential impact of a new fire. Jason Campedonia
at KFI News, the car.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Belonging to the father of a baby reported missing and
Ukaype has been impounded as evidence. Investigators in San Bernardino
County say it was taken shortly after the boy disappeared.
The mom reported her seven month old was taken last
Thursday from a parking lot outside of Big Five, but
detectives say she stopped cooperating when she was confronted about
inconsistencies in her story. The parents home was searched over
(05:24):
the weekend. The father, Jake Harrow, was convicted of child
cruelty in twenty twenty three California could be headed for
a rare special election this fall.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
State officials are preparing for a November fourth vote after
Governor Newsom called for changes to California's congressional districts. The
election isn't locked in yet, but counties are already lining
up ballot printers and polling sites. Local leaders are also
asking Sacramento to help cover the cost, warning that without
safe funding, money may be pulled.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
From public services. Brigida Degassino, KFI News, it's five oh
seven on your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen,
President Trump is still working to arrange that face to
face meeting between Russian President Putin and Ukraine's President Zelenski,
and a big part of any kind of peace deal.
According to as we understand it from that meeting of
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the world leaders on Monday, would be a security guarantee.
And that's sort of a sticking point because we don't
want bloots on the ground.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Yeah, I mean the President and no surprise, has said
that there would not be US boots on the ground.
I mean, that's not the deal breaker for this. He
has said that Europe would be the tagging the main
burden and front loading the effort on this because it's
in their neighborhood. And Europe has said that yes, they
would likely be taking the lead on this. But I
think the big question is, you know, what role would
the United States play? Because the President earlier this week
(06:49):
said repeatedly that the US would be involved, the US
would help, the US would have a role, but he
hasn't given details of what that's going to look like
except to rule out US again, not surprising that that's
something he's ruling out. He did indicate yesterday that there
could be air assets involved, and the White House was
asked a lot of questions about this at the briefing yesterday,
(07:11):
and the pre Secretary, Caroline Levitt said that the pilots
and aircraft could be an option and a possibility, but
wouldn't explain or get details of what that could look
like at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Karen, is this frustrating at this point because you know,
they want the talks to happen without basically spilling the
tea on everything that they're talking about. But as a reporter,
it's your job to find out what the heck they're
talking about.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Yeah, and I think you know, it's yes, and we're
trying to ask those questions. Of course, I think the
other big question too is, you know, the next stages
of all of this, so like, what's the next big
thing that will happen to move the ball forward? And that,
certainly from the White House perspective, is a meeting between
Zelensky and Putin, which the White House said, as Putin
(08:00):
assured the President he is willing to do and will
have that meeting. But all indications publicly from the Russian
side at this point are not committing to this meeting.
You know, they have not said yes, they haven't said no,
but they have not said sure, let's do it next week,
let's do it on this day. In fact, the public
statements from the Foreign Minister spokesperson for the Kremlin have
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all been very noncommittal and slow walking the planning of
any sort of meeting with Zelenski, saying, you know, well,
these have to be done with great care, they have
to first be handled at the expert level, and then
we're gradually up to when you get the leaders together.
That is not let's meet on Friday, that is, let's
take a couple of weeks and plan this out now
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The reason that it's concerning to European leaders, for example,
is you know, what is the pressure on Putin right
now to come to the table. The President met with
him already, so he got his photo op. The threat
of severe consequences if he doesn't agree to a seat fire.
That's off the table right now, according to what the
President has said in recent days.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So we'll see if it stays off the table and
see if you and the other pool of reporters ever
get any answers.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
ABC's Karen Travers, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
May I think that we all need to understand too
that this takes time, and in our instant gratification society,
we all want answers now, we want results now. So
it'll be interesting to see how this plays out and
hopefully they can find a way to peace. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
(09:34):
are trying to get his criminal case in Tennessee dismissed,
arguing that their client is being selectively and vindictively prosecuted
by the Trump administration. Abrego Garcia was originally deported from
the US in what the Trump administration was a mistake.
Remember he got swept up in an ice raid in Maryland,
(09:54):
but then the administration later claimed that he was a
member of a gang. He's now face seeing human trafficking charges.
The border wall in New Mexico's getting a fresh coat
of paint. During a visit to the southern border, Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Noams said, the president wants the wall
painted black in.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
The hot temperatures down here.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
When something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and
it will make it even harder for people to climb.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
No I'm said.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
The cost of the wall's renovation was included in President
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. North Carolina Governor Josh
Stein has declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Aaron
threatens the coast with flooding and high winds. NBC's Aaron
Gilchrist says Erin is not expected to make landfall, but
the storm is still really dangerous.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Coastal flooding already impacting some areas along the outer banks.
Both Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands under mandatory evacuation orders, with
more than twenty one hundred people ferried off Oquacoke many
beachside rental properties threatened by Hurricane Aaron now empty.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Residents are being urged to have emergency kits ready and
to listen to whether alerts erin is now category two storm.
The American Alliance of Museums is pushing back against President
Trump's plan to review Smithsonian museums. ABC's Jonathan Carlos's Trump
wants museums to focus more on America's brightness than not
how bad things were.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
The organization warned that Trump's actions quote represent a growing
threat of censorship to a museums in the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
The Alliance says no president has the power to impose
the kind of review that Trump is demanding. Walmart has
recalled frozen raw shrimp sold in thirteen states because federal
officials have warned of potential radioactive contamination. Oh good, something
else to worry about. The Food and Drug Administration asked
Walmart to pull certain lots of Great Value brand frozen
(11:48):
shrimp when the agency detected potential contamination with a radioactive
isotope known as caesium one thirty seven. The contamination was
found in shipping containers and in a sample of breaded shrimp.
The shipping containers and shrimp were processed by a company
doing business as BMS Foods of Indonesia. New research says
(12:10):
you shouldn't believe all the new research out there.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
Any studies says shady organizations are pumping out fake or
low quality scientific studies on an industrial scale. Data scientists
say journal editors and watchdog groups have been flagging more
papers with fabricated data and doctored images. They say scientists
pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their name
attention to a paper they may have nothing to do with,
even at the info on the paper is bull crap.
(12:34):
The organization's then bribe corrupt editors to get the paper published.
The researchers say science relies on trusting what others have
done before, and if the trend isn't stopped, science is
going to be destroyed. Michael Krozer kf I News.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Oh good, I don't know. I don't know. Is this
is the show? Happy enough?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
We're taking it down the drains.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You know what, even when there's bad news, we can
have a good time. Ay, speaking of a good time,
Gary and Shannon are hitting the road. The Gary and
Shannon Show is going to be broadcasting live tomorrow at
nine o'clock to one o'clock from Bjay's Restaurant and brew
House in Huntington Beach. That's at one six Oho six
to oh Beach Boulevard. Come on down for a chance
(13:17):
to meet Gary and Shannon win some prizes. There's going
to be Bjay's gift cards, Dodgers tickets and Good Chargers tickets,
and good beer.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Gary and Shannon swag.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
And really good beer and good beer.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's tomorrow at the Bjay's Restaurant and brew House in
Huntington Beach on Beach Boulevard. Red flag warning for critical
fire danger goes into effect this morning in the Santa
Clarita Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, Anelope Valley foothills in the
five and fourteen freeway corridors because of what the National
Weather Service calls the most significant heat wave of the summer.
(13:51):
Those areas could see temperatures of ninety five to one
hundred and ten from tomorrow through Saturday. Police in Pasadena
are still looking for the guy caught on a now
How viral video punching and knocking out a woman at
a concert at the Rose Bowl. The woman says her
boyfriend accidentally spilled a drink on the guy and apologized.
The man left, then came back about a half hour later, threatened.
(14:13):
The couple then punched in the woman, repeatedly knocking her unconscious.
State lawmakers are pushing to lift a ban on the
use of public funds for election campaigns. The bill would
appear on the November twenty twenty sixth ballot if it
passes through the legislature. Supporters say the California Fair Elections
Act would create fairer elections by aiding candidates who have
(14:36):
limited resources. Those against it say that public money should
be used for public services, not for candidates. At six
oh five, its handle on the news Governor News and
plans to shift voting districts, but Republicans who stand to
lose seats in the move are fighting it. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's tech reporter Mike Dubaski. Mike
(14:57):
uh so, a open Ai has a new model and
it's not very friendly.
Speaker 12 (15:05):
Yeah, that's basically the size of it. So, about two
weeks ago, OpenAI launched GPT five. This is basically their
latest core large language model technology. This is the thing
that they build other consumer facing products on top of
For example, this is like the engine that powers chatgibt
or some of their image.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Generators or video generators.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
This is sort of the thing that lies beneath all
of that technology, and the launch of this has been
hyped for quite a while. The development of AI is
very rapid, the competition is very fierce, so there was
a lot of hype around the launch of GPT five
seeing you know just exactly how far forward OpenAI is
going to leap again in this very competitive race. But
(15:50):
about two weeks after it launched, many have found it
to be not quite what they expected. The previous model,
which was called GPT four H, was known for being
pretty upbeat, giving really enthusiastic responses to users questions, pumping
up the person who asked the question, and kind of
complimenting them occasionally. Amy this verged into the strange and
(16:12):
dangerous territory that many psychologists have said is one of
the real pitfalls of talking to these AI models for
extended periods of time.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Wa Wait, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 12 (16:22):
Well, multiple outlets have reported on people being convinced that
they're geniuses or superheroes. There are subredits, there are subreddits
on Reddit dedicated to people who formed romantic connections with
open ais technology. And not to go too dark here,
but in extreme cases, some people have even you know,
left their spouses or even committed suicide in some cases
(16:45):
because of responses that these models, or in part because
of these responses that these models have given, and mental
alf experts say that that really goes back, in large
part to these sort of sick of fancy that's the
term they use that GPT four US was known for
for basically just kind of parroting back what you said.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
And kind of pumping you up in a really big way.
Speaker 12 (17:06):
GPT five, by contrast, many users reported, is a lot colder,
you know, it kind of gives kurt to the point responses.
Many of the sort of things that open Aye was
touting about GPT five is that it's a lot more accurate,
it's a lot faster, it cuts down on the hallucination
problem that all these models seem to fall into at
one point or another. But you know, as a result
(17:29):
of that, they've also turned down sort of the warmth factor,
the tone of this model, and that really did kind
of reverberate around people who use these models quite a bit.
In fact, just to go back to those subreddits of
people who formed romantic connections with them. There's a big
sort of warning at the top of the subreddits now
saying it's like, hey, if you need help, there are
numbers you could call, maybe log off a little bit.
(17:51):
That's kind of the vibe that is going on here,
and it got to such a point where now the
company itself is making some changes. Sam Altman, who was
the CEO of open Ai, he told reporters last week
that they totally screwed up some things with this rollout,
and they are making GPT five now more approachable. It
will begin responses to your questions with a good question
(18:14):
or thanks for asking, or things like that, just to
kind of make it a little bit nicer to talk to.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
And they say nice, right, yeah, yeah, kinda.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
I mean it wants to be a little friendlier, and that,
you know, really does matter when these are sort of
things that people interface with and talk to as if
they're talking to another person, which is something that we're
seeing sort of increasingly happen.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Well, it matters if you have an unnatural attachment to
a computer.
Speaker 12 (18:40):
Certainly, and I mean, look, that's that's a big part
of this, right, And you know this it's such an
early and new thing that I don't think we've really
done extensive research on it. But you know, there's a
chunk of people out there who are boasting about their
AI girlfriends and boyfriends. And when you change the core
technology to something that's not quite as nice, then you
(19:01):
know that's really going to have an impact.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Well, maybe they'll want to break up with them, and
I think that that might be a good thing.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
This just smacks of her It's just like it does
whoever made it? When did they make that movie? Twenty thirteen?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
So twelve years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They had already predicted it, And it's so bizarre to
hear that people are actually developing these attachments to them
the AI.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
I'm excited to learn about exactly what impact this is
going to have long term, because like this, there's obviously,
you know, especially once you get into the people who
are convinced of, you know, having superpowers and things like that.
You know, there's other stuff going on, you know, mentally there,
but that's you know, just something that we need to
focus on and think about as one of the effects
(19:44):
of the large deployment of this technology because people inevitably
will spend a lot of time with it, and when
it talks like a human or some approximation thereof, people
are going to start forming connections with it. Right, we
personify our technology in a lot of ways. We see
faces in front ends of cars, and we give our
rumbas names and things like that, like, this's just kind
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of naturally human for us to do that. And this
seems to have really thrown fuel on that fire in
a pretty big way. They're also, for what it's worth,
making the old version of this model available again GPT four, oh,
the really sycophantic.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
One, so you can renew your crush.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
You can kind of rekindle that spark, all right.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Okay, and when is the the updated version?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Are they just going back to the old version or
are they updating the five?
Speaker 12 (20:32):
So it's both, so they're updating five to be a
little bit more friendly. But you can also select as
a subscriber of this model to go back to four
to oh, and you get all the sort of you know,
resultant capabilities there. So one of the other things that
Opening Eye kind of found itself in hot Water four
after the GPT five launch was that when you go
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to chat GPT or when you go to the main
interface of GPT five, it was supposed to direct your
question into the model that was best adept at answering it.
So GPG five is kind of an umbrella term for
a lot of different things. There's really sophisticated models that
can answer like scientific questions or really complex math problems
and that type of thing, coding questions and so on
and so forth. Or if you can ask it to
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like plan you an itinerary for a trip to Hawaii,
that can go to like a slightly lighter weight model
and you might get a fester response there, but it
just doesn't need to, you know, draw on that level
of computing power. GPT five was supposed to just know
how to do that automatically. It doesn't seem like it
really did that for many people, and it was directing
really complex questions to models that couldn't quite handle it,
(21:37):
so that it was kind of giving not great responses
in that regard. So open Ai is making some tweaks
to that. Ultimately, the race for this is like very intense,
so you can see why open aye would want to
get this new product out there, but it does seem
this one needed a little bit more time in the oven.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
All right, ABC's Mike Debuski, thanks for clearing that up.
I'm sure we're going to be watching. I'm sure there's
going to be many more iterations.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
Oh yes, oh yeah. Is not that far away than
sam Aldman.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Thanks Mike. Bite okay.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
A man scene on video dragging what turned out to
be the body of his dead wife in Lancaster's now
in Peru. The woman was reported missing last Tuesday. Her
remains were found on Saturday in the Angelus National Forest.
A friend of hers tells KTLA the woman had been
abused for a while.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
She told her mom, I don't want to be with him.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I want to, like, you know, report him, and that's what, yeah,
she was going to do that day. The husband and
the couple's three sons arrived in Peru over the weekend.
The La Kenis Sheriff's Department says it's going to give
the case to the DA's office to get the paperwork
needed to bring the guy back to the US. The
La City Council's approved a series of measures supporters say
would add protections against immigration enforcement.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
The La City Attorney has been directed by the city
Council to create a new ordinance requiring the LAPD to
verify the identity of any federal agent. City councilman Unsses
Hernandez says masked agents have terrified people in Los Angeles.
Speaker 12 (22:58):
Every Angelino deserves to feel safe in their own city,
and as the council, we have a responsibility to do
everything in our power to keep.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
That promise, and the council wants details on the LAPD's
duty to intervene when a federal agent may be violating
someone's rights. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
News California seeing a drop in homelessness in some areas.
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Santa Cruz County reports a twenty percent drop in homelessness
from twenty twenty four. La County has a four percent
decrease and Contra Costa Counties down twenty six percent, but
Calmatters reports in some communities chronically homeless numbers have risen.
Governor Knew some credit state investments for the trends. Despite
criticism from the California State Association of Counties over funding cuts.
Last year, news and allocated a billion dollars for homelessness,
(23:38):
which is reduced to zero this year. He plans for
five hundred million in homeless housing assistance and prevention funds
next year. Mark Groner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Staff at Los Angeles General Medical Center are looking for
anyone who might recognize a patient who's been in their
care since July thirty first. He was found in the
Torrance area, is five to seven hundred sixty six pounds
and is possibly around thirty five years old. If you
know anyone missing who matches that description, they're asking you
to call LA General. That's got to be just a
(24:09):
scary thing. You know, our very own Steffuch, the technical
director for Tim Conway and Moe Kelly, he got in
that car wreck a couple weeks ago. Is Id burned
up and they didn't know who he was. He was
a John Doe for about nine hours.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I honestly think about that every time I walk out
of my apartment.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
You know, do I have my idea? I mean, what
if something happens? She never knows?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, all right, So if you know who that
might be, give a call to LA General. LA schools
are taking extra steps to keep kids cool during the
heat wave that is descending on southern California. Those steps
include modifying recess and lunch schedules to minimize outdoor exposure,
rescheduling or modifying high school athletic events and outdoor clubs,
(24:52):
making sure air conditioners are working, and preparing portable units
in case those air conditioners fail in the classroom. Julio
Caesar Chavez Junior is in jail in Mexico after being
deported from the US.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
He was arrested Monday. Chavez Junior was picked up by
federal agents outside his home in Studio City last month
for overstaying his visa, four days after he lost a
fight at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The Trump administrations
confirmed that it will take a closer look at Smithsonian.
At the Smithsonian Museum, Trump said on truth Social there's
(25:25):
nothing in the museums about brightness and too much about
how horrible our country is and how bad slavery was.
They'll use the same pros process used on colleges and universities. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Trump added, this country cannot be woke because woke is broke.
At six oh five is handle on the news. Answers
to what went wrong in how the Palisades fire was
handled are on hold. Bill's going to tell you about that.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Aamie's on Itami's on, It's on it, damis on it?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
What am I on?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'm on the stream because there is so much content
out there, and there's some great shows, and there's some
shows that just plane suck.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I gotta be honest, I mean there really are.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So hopefully I can help you navigate through it and
find some really great ones to watch. And here's one
that was really great to watch, and that was Billy Joel.
And so it goes on HBO Max. It's a documentary.
It's two episodes, but I gotta warn you the two
episodes are very long. I think the whole thing, just
the two episodes was either between four and five hours,
(26:34):
so each one was like two hours long at least.
It's this is just a trip down memory lane. It's
interviews with Billy Joel now and then of course looks
into the past. It's clips from shows from the studio,
from radio stations, from all slices of his life. And
(26:54):
you get right off the bat that music is everything
to Billy Joel. And you see this as the documentary
chronicles his life. There's love in it, there's heartbreak in it,
and there's a lot of focus on the women behind
the man, the women who had a huge hand in
Billy Joel becoming Billy Joel. So I saw him in
(27:17):
concert like years ago, and it was just Billy Joel
behind the piano and it was spectacular. I mean, there's
like so many songs, so many hits, and I got
reminded of that watching and so it goes, of course,
his signature.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Song, Piano Man, and he goes through how that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Song became a song and how it's actually from his
life when he was playing in a piano bar because
he was trying to pay his bills because there was
a record deal that was going sour. And it was
just I mean, it's just fascinating. And then you go, well,
what else could he have? Well, there's just the way
you are, which really kind of catapulted him to superstar.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Start him. And then you start I don't want to
name all the songs.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was gonna name all the songs, but I don't
want to because it's so fun. While you're watching it,
you go, oh, I forgot he did that one. Oh
I forgot he did that one because it's.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Been a while.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
But I mean, like, there are so many and then
you get to the point in the documentary you go, well,
that's about it. His career must be, you know, that
must be the end of any new music. And then
there's more, and then there's more. It's just so interesting
and you get caught up in the emotion of the
music and also just enthralled at how talented he is.
Speaker 11 (28:35):
What's your favorite Billy Joel song?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
M Just the Way You Are? I think is my
favorite favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But I mean they're just but then and I was
thinking that watching the documentary, because again that was kind
of the one that really put him over the top.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
And then I went, oh, wait, maybe that's my favorite.
Oh wait, maybe that one is.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I know, right, there's so many great ones. So really
interesting to see too, how he he fought for what
he believed in. He fought for his women, his music,
and his band, but he also struggled and in the
midst of this huge success in his career, his personal
life is falling apart, and he speaks about that, and
you know, it goes into the whole Christy Brinkley thing
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and his first wife and his second wife, and his
third wife and now his fourth wife. But it's just
a fascinating look into his life and an amazing trip
down memory lane. I mean, like, I highly highly recommend this.
It's called Billy Joel and so it goes. It's on
HBO Max. I'm on it, and if you've ever loved
a Billy Joel song.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I think you should be on it too.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Dan Schwartzman, who's in for Courtney Donaho all week morning.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Dan, tremendous conversation on Billy Joel.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And you mentioned Christy Brinkley, and I had read real
quick that he met her while playing the piano at
a I think at a resort, a club or whatever
it was. And he actually also met El McPherson and
he actually had a decision who we wanted to go
out with.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You just gave it away one of the secrets in
the documentiel.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's totally okay.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But they do talk about that, and it's just like
so funny because it sounds like El McPherson was kind
of like, hey, Billy, she was young.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
I think she's like nineteen or something.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But I mean for most guys, when you think El McPherson,
Christie Brinkley, you can't lose either way.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, that is true. That is true, and he did not.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, so Dan, let's talk business. We got biofuels could
see some big changes coming.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Absolutely, the renewable fuels market could have big changes. The
Trump administration is set to issue a new policy decision
Bloomberg learning that the EPA is expected to rule on
dozens of pending petitions from small oil refineries seeking exemptions
from ethanol and biodiesel blending mandates, while farmers and crowd
processors want to make sure more corn, ethanol, and vegetable
oils are blended into fuels as they're facing low prices
(30:51):
and the impact of tariffs. Some refiners, though, Amy complained
that the blending obligation is a costly burden, so that
could become a battle on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So they're saying that it's available, but if they have
to do it, it could be a problem.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, they don't want to do it, but obviously the
farmers do because they want to sell more corn and
vegetable ols, obviously to make more money because they're suffering
right now. But I think for the consumer to not
have the blend would actually make fuel a bit cheaper.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
For US okay, weight loss drug maker, maybe business isn't
so great?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Nova nor Disk is implementing a global hiring freeze. The
company is looking to cut costs and regain its footing
in the competitive weight loss drug market. The Danas drug
makers workforce ballooning to more than seventy eight thousand people
as a company rushed the boost production of popular obesity
drugs would go vi and ozepic. Nova, by the way,
about to be overtaken by rival Eli Lilly in weight
(31:46):
loss drug sales this year.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
So not good news for Nova nor Disk Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And the I can't even probably wrap my hand or
my fingers around, or my whatever my mind around how
much money those drug companies are making off this right now.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh a billions. And you know they just came out
of this thing yesterday. I think as Novo's saying that
if you pay cash, you'll get ze big for half
price every month, four hundred and ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
That's a nice car.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
By the way, what are we looking on looking at
for the markets today right now?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, Wall Street seems to be heading for a fourth
day of losses investors amy they're backing away from the
tech stock rally, NAZAC futures are right now down sixty
five points, about a third to one percent. S and
P's down eight and a half points, are a ten
to one percent. That was essentially flat. It's down four
points again. It is essentially flat.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, we'll keep watching it and we'll get in your
business again tomorrow with Bloomberg.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Stan Schwartzman, have a great day you as well.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Amy.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
LA schools are taking steps to keep kids cool during
the heat wave that's descending on southern California. It includes
adjusting schedules so the kids aren't outside, rescheduling or modifying
athletic events, and making sure the air conditioners working, and
if they're not, making sure that there are portable air conditioners.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
More than three hundred and sixty members.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Of La UCLA's Jewish community I've sent a letter to
the UC Board of Regents to speak out against the
Trump Administration's one billion dollar anti semitism settlement with the university.
They say the punishment levied against the UCLA is misplaced.
Attention fallout fans. The trailer for season two has dropped
in A release date has been announced. The second season
(33:30):
is based on the video game franchise. It's going to
be released December seventeenth. Walter Goggins is back, so is
the original cast, and there's a new member of the cast,
Colley Culkin. We're just minutes away from handle on the news.
This could be a sign that TikTok isn't going to
be banned. The President just got a TikTok account. Let's
(33:50):
say good morning now to the Chief Mitigation Officer for
the California Earthquake Authority, Janille Muffie.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Good morning, Janil, good morning. So when the shaking.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Starts, the big question is is your home brace to
make it through the shaking? And that's where the California
Earthquake Authority comes in. You can help make sure that
your home does make it through a quake.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
That's right.
Speaker 14 (34:14):
We have a program that provides grants of up to
three thousand dollars to help people who live in older
homes that's pre nineteen eighty, whose houses are not properly
anchored to the foundation embraced. If you have those short
little stud walls that go around the cross space, they
need to have plywood on them. And so the great
news is We have a grant program with up to
three thousand dollars and it opens today.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
It opens to day.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, so if you want to apply for up to
three thousand dollars, Let's talk a little bit about the
bolting thing, because I want to kind of paint a
picture of what can happen in the shaking, especially in
the older homes.
Speaker 14 (34:49):
The problem, of course, is that these homes were designed
and constructed before we knew a lot about how houses
performed in earthquakes, and so they didn't have the same
building codes that we have today. They don't have the
same p sections. So they may have some bolts, you know,
they used for construction, but they really don't have sufficient
bolts to keep that house from sliding off the foundation.
And then of course, if they do have those short
(35:10):
stud walls, those stud walls can just topple over. And
so that's where the plywood comes in. And it's a
relatively simple process. It takes about two to three days
for a contractor to do. It's about fifty two hundred dollars.
That's the median statewide for this particular retrofit. And we
also have a supplemental grant for income qualifying households, households
(35:30):
who have an income of eighty nine thou forty dollars
or less, we'll get additional funding. And once again it
is a grant, and we have done over thirty three
thousand retrofits across California.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay, and so then, Janiel, the difference between having your
house bolted to the foundation and not having your house
bolted to the foundation can mean a difference of total
destruction at this point, right.
Speaker 14 (35:58):
Well, yes, you know, it's interesting because some of these houses,
they are able to lift them back up and put
them on a foundation, but it is hundreds of thousands
of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in a
map or earthquake, we found houses that came off their foundation.
On average, we're not reoccupied two and a half years
after the event. So you can imagine, you know, the
people are have to move out of their house, all
(36:19):
the while still paying that mortgage. So really really catastrophic
disruptive damage. And the retrofit really is a simple process.
Will give you the information on what to do, and
then of course we'll give you some financing to assist.
And then we're very excited where that we're introducing rental
and income properties. It used to be that you had
(36:39):
to be owner occupied. Now it can be a rental
or income property.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Oh so, I would imagine you're going to have a
lot of landlords given you holler. And in this case,
it sounds like it's an ounce of prevention thing, like
you can spend a couple thousand now or you can
have your home have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of damage when they're shaking.
Speaker 14 (36:56):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Okay, So Janille, this sounds really cool. How is it
paid for?
Speaker 14 (37:03):
Okay, so this is paid for. The California Earthquake Authority
has a kind of feed funding for it, and then
we leverage that with FEMA funding. So we're using FEMA
funding and that's a grant to us, and then that
money is going into California homes to make them more resilient.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Okay, And where do we apply.
Speaker 14 (37:21):
Earthquake bracebolt dot com very simple to find, even if
you just put in retrofit my house in California. It's
going to pop up to the top and registration is
open through October first not first come, first served. Don't panic,
got lots of time to go on and take check
it out.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Okay, and this is is this open to everybody for
the three thousand dollars. And then as you mentioned, supplemental
if you have a certain income level.
Speaker 14 (37:44):
Right, so you need to be in one of our
zip codes. But you know you'll find that we are
in the majority of the zip codes of high hazard
up and down the coast and across the middle of
the state, the Garlock Fault. You need to have a
pre nineteen eighty house and basically have this this particular condition.
It's not I have one grade. It's not a hillside house.
It's a house with a crawl space that needs this
(38:04):
particular retrofit.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
That's such a great program. And yeah, we all need
to be prepared for the shaking. Janille again, give the
website if you.
Speaker 14 (38:13):
Would, Earthquake Briefsbolt dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Okay, and that's open up today. So if you have
a couple of minutes, go sign up. Janille Mfi, the
Chief Mitigation Officer for the California Earthquake Authority, Thanks so much.
Speaker 14 (38:28):
Thank you, Amy, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
All right, what a great thing that you can do.
It'll protect you.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
And yet like when you think about your whole house,
just like if there's jolts boom boom, boom boom, and
then your house just falls off the foundation, wives off
the foundation right off. Yeah, okay, this can prevent that.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The LA
City Council's voted to oppose state legislation that would make
it easier to build homes near transit stops.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Send It Bill seventy nine. Supporters have argued creating residential
day near train stations and high traffic bus stop solves
a couple of problems, it adds more housing and connects
people to their communities. LA City Councilman Monic Rodriguez disagree.
She says it gives too much power to the state.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
SB seventy nine would essentially say that one size fits
all and it takes nothing into account about the work
that the City of Los Angeles has engaged in.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
The vote at City Hall was eight to five. Some
council members argued the bill makes sense, or at least
should be considered, because LA has not done a good
enough job building housing. Michael Monks KFI News LA.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman is going to be honoring
three people who went above and beyond for fellow residents
at the Westchester YMCA later this morning. Hawkman is going
to recognize a woman who intervened when a family member
attacked another family member. Also a convenience store worker who
helped stop a woman and her baby from being kidnapped,
and a construction worker who stopped someone who randomly attacked
(39:52):
a co worker. I think we should do that more often,
recognize the heroes. NASA's web telescope has found a tie
any new moon around Uranus. The moon spotted in February
appears to be just six miles wide. Scientists say they
think it hid for so long because of its faintness
and because it's tiny. Uranus has twenty eight known moons
(40:14):
that are named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 4 (40:26):
I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
I got a good, really good call your host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Good morning. It's five o'clock, straight up.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
This is your wake up call for Wednesday, August twentieth.
I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Hope you're ready to start a fabulous day. It's going
to be a hot one.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We're gonnare. Today's show is.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Going to be very positive because I got a note
on the talkback yesterday from a very nice man who
said that yesterday's show was just depressing. You said it
was horrible. In fact, I'm going to play it for
you if I can find it. It's like, okay, but
you know what, sometimes the news just isn't happy news,
(01:10):
and so you got to report it right.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So okay, so give this the listen.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Amy King on your show on Tuesday and completely was horrible.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Nothing but bad topics, nothing but the tragedy and suing
and stupid things.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Nothing cheerful you, okay, So we're going to be cheerful
today right. I mean, we still have bad news, but
we're going to be cheerful about it, and we're gonna
get y' all caught up on everything that happened while
you were sleeping.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Here's what's ahead on wake up call.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
The strongest heat wave of the season starts today, with
inland areas, mountains, and valleys expected to top one hundred
degrees for the next several days. Forecasters say tomorrow's going
to be the hottest day. La Mayor Basa's city crews
are on standby ready to fight any heat related fires
and other emergencies. Governor Newsom is also sending extra resources
in the husband of a woman whose body was found
(02:08):
in the Angelus National Forest over the weekend has apparently
left the country. The Ellly Kenny Sheriff's Department says Jossimer
Cabrera changed his stories several times in the week his
wife was missing, first claiming ice took her, then saying
she left with another man, then saying she'd been in
an accident.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Officials say they think he fled to Peru with his kids.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
The White House has confirmed Russian President Putin is open
to advancing peace efforts, which may include a potential meeting
with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Vice President JD Vance, along with
other US officials, are continuing their diplomatic coordination with both
Russia and Ukraine. President Trump is saying no boots on
the ground in Ukraine is part of any security agreement
(02:49):
that could lead to an end to the war. ABC's
Karen Travers is going to join us in just a
couple of minutes to tell us what the US role
could be as the two sides try to find a
way to peace. Version of chat GPT apparently isn't very friendly.
ABC's tech reporter Mike Tbusky's going to join us to
tell us what open Ai plans to do about it. Hey,
(03:09):
if I'm going to talk to a robot, I wanted
to be friendly. Yeah, you know what, that's one of
the problems, Like when you're writing emails you know this,
or you're texting like, there's no emotion in it. So
you've got to be really careful because you might be
saying something in being haja sarcastic wink wink, nudge, nudge,
and that doesn't.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Come across in writing, doesn't translate. Yeah, that'll be interesting, Okay,
so that's coming up at five twenty.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It's a show that's going to take you down memory
lane and have you reminiscing pretty much your whole life.
Amy's on it, coming up at the bottom of the hour.
I think you're gonna like this one. And we're just
a couple of days away from the anniversary of a
six point oho quake that rocked northern San Francisco Bay Area.
You know how you've heard that saying it'll shake you
to your foundation. Well, the Earthquake Authority can help you
(03:52):
with that when it comes to your home.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Being ready for an earthquake always a good idea.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And extreme heat
warning goes into effect today through Saturday as southern California
faces what could be the most significant heat wave of
the summer. The National Weather Service tempts most likely will
be in or near triple digits in many valley and
mountain areas. Downtown LA is expected to hit ninety four.
(04:22):
Mayor Bass's crews from different city departments are going to
be on standbyas I mentioned, to address any potential heat
related fires or other emergencies and the governor has called
for backup.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Governor Gavin Newsom pre deployed a total of ten fire engines,
two water tenders, two bulldozers, one helicopter, two hand crews,
three dispatchers, and one incident management team to Los Angeles,
with tempts in some areas of LA to hit triple
digits over the next couple of days. It's going to
make fire danger extremely high. Newsom says the effort will
(04:52):
help ensure that the resources are ready to respond quickly,
minimizing the potential impact of a new fire. Jason Campedonia
at KFI News, the car.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Belonging to the father of a baby reported missing and
Ukaype has been impounded as evidence. Investigators in San Bernardino
County say it was taken shortly after the boy disappeared.
The mom reported her seven month old was taken last
Thursday from a parking lot outside of Big Five, but
detectives say she stopped cooperating when she was confronted about
inconsistencies in her story. The parents home was searched over
(05:24):
the weekend. The father, Jake Harrow, was convicted of child
cruelty in twenty twenty three California could be headed for
a rare special election this fall.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
State officials are preparing for a November fourth vote after
Governor Newsom called for changes to California's congressional districts. The
election isn't locked in yet, but counties are already lining
up ballot printers and polling sites. Local leaders are also
asking Sacramento to help cover the cost, warning that without
safe funding, money may be pulled.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
From public services. Brigida Degassino, KFI News, it's five oh
seven on your wake up call.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen,
President Trump is still working to arrange that face to
face meeting between Russian President Putin and Ukraine's President Zelenski,
and a big part of any kind of peace deal.
According to as we understand it from that meeting of
(06:15):
the world leaders on Monday, would be a security guarantee.
And that's sort of a sticking point because we don't
want bloots on the ground.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
Yeah, I mean the President and no surprise, has said
that there would not be US boots on the ground.
I mean, that's not the deal breaker for this. He
has said that Europe would be the tagging the main
burden and front loading the effort on this because it's
in their neighborhood. And Europe has said that yes, they
would likely be taking the lead on this. But I
think the big question is, you know, what role would
the United States play? Because the President earlier this week
(06:49):
said repeatedly that the US would be involved, the US
would help, the US would have a role, but he
hasn't given details of what that's going to look like
except to rule out US again, not surprising that that's
something he's ruling out. He did indicate yesterday that there
could be air assets involved, and the White House was
asked a lot of questions about this at the briefing yesterday,
(07:11):
and the pre Secretary, Caroline Levitt said that the pilots
and aircraft could be an option and a possibility, but
wouldn't explain or get details of what that could look
like at this point.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Karen, is this frustrating at this point because you know,
they want the talks to happen without basically spilling the
tea on everything that they're talking about. But as a reporter,
it's your job to find out what the heck they're
talking about.
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Yeah, and I think you know, it's yes, and we're
trying to ask those questions. Of course, I think the
other big question too is, you know, the next stages
of all of this, so like, what's the next big
thing that will happen to move the ball forward? And that,
certainly from the White House perspective, is a meeting between
Zelensky and Putin, which the White House said, as Putin
(08:00):
assured the President he is willing to do and will
have that meeting. But all indications publicly from the Russian
side at this point are not committing to this meeting.
You know, they have not said yes, they haven't said no,
but they have not said sure, let's do it next week,
let's do it on this day. In fact, the public
statements from the Foreign Minister spokesperson for the Kremlin have
(08:21):
all been very noncommittal and slow walking the planning of
any sort of meeting with Zelenski, saying, you know, well,
these have to be done with great care, they have
to first be handled at the expert level, and then
we're gradually up to when you get the leaders together.
That is not let's meet on Friday, that is, let's
take a couple of weeks and plan this out now
(08:41):
The reason that it's concerning to European leaders, for example,
is you know, what is the pressure on Putin right
now to come to the table. The President met with
him already, so he got his photo op. The threat
of severe consequences if he doesn't agree to a seat fire.
That's off the table right now, according to what the
President has said in recent days.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
So we'll see if it stays off the table and
see if you and the other pool of reporters ever
get any answers.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
ABC's Karen Travers, thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
May I think that we all need to understand too
that this takes time, and in our instant gratification society,
we all want answers now, we want results now. So
it'll be interesting to see how this plays out and
hopefully they can find a way to peace. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
(09:34):
are trying to get his criminal case in Tennessee dismissed,
arguing that their client is being selectively and vindictively prosecuted
by the Trump administration. Abrego Garcia was originally deported from
the US in what the Trump administration was a mistake.
Remember he got swept up in an ice raid in Maryland,
(09:54):
but then the administration later claimed that he was a
member of a gang. He's now face seeing human trafficking charges.
The border wall in New Mexico's getting a fresh coat
of paint. During a visit to the southern border, Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Noams said, the president wants the wall
painted black in.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
The hot temperatures down here.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
When something is painted black, it gets even warmer, and
it will make it even harder for people to climb.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
No I'm said.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
The cost of the wall's renovation was included in President
Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. North Carolina Governor Josh
Stein has declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Aaron
threatens the coast with flooding and high winds. NBC's Aaron
Gilchrist says Erin is not expected to make landfall, but
the storm is still really dangerous.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Coastal flooding already impacting some areas along the outer banks.
Both Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands under mandatory evacuation orders, with
more than twenty one hundred people ferried off Oquacoke many
beachside rental properties threatened by Hurricane Aaron now empty.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Residents are being urged to have emergency kits ready and
to listen to whether alerts erin is now category two storm.
The American Alliance of Museums is pushing back against President
Trump's plan to review Smithsonian museums. ABC's Jonathan Carlos's Trump
wants museums to focus more on America's brightness than not
how bad things were.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
The organization warned that Trump's actions quote represent a growing
threat of censorship to a museums in the United States.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
The Alliance says no president has the power to impose
the kind of review that Trump is demanding. Walmart has
recalled frozen raw shrimp sold in thirteen states because federal
officials have warned of potential radioactive contamination. Oh good, something
else to worry about. The Food and Drug Administration asked
Walmart to pull certain lots of Great Value brand frozen
(11:48):
shrimp when the agency detected potential contamination with a radioactive
isotope known as caesium one thirty seven. The contamination was
found in shipping containers and in a sample of breaded shrimp.
The shipping containers and shrimp were processed by a company
doing business as BMS Foods of Indonesia. New research says
(12:10):
you shouldn't believe all the new research out there.
Speaker 10 (12:12):
Any studies says shady organizations are pumping out fake or
low quality scientific studies on an industrial scale. Data scientists
say journal editors and watchdog groups have been flagging more
papers with fabricated data and doctored images. They say scientists
pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their name
attention to a paper they may have nothing to do with,
even at the info on the paper is bull crap.
(12:34):
The organization's then bribe corrupt editors to get the paper published.
The researchers say science relies on trusting what others have
done before, and if the trend isn't stopped, science is
going to be destroyed. Michael Krozer kf I News.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Oh good, I don't know. I don't know. Is this
is the show? Happy enough?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now?
Speaker 6 (12:54):
We're taking it down the drains.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You know what, even when there's bad news, we can
have a good time. Ay, speaking of a good time,
Gary and Shannon are hitting the road. The Gary and
Shannon Show is going to be broadcasting live tomorrow at
nine o'clock to one o'clock from Bjay's Restaurant and brew
House in Huntington Beach. That's at one six Oho six
to oh Beach Boulevard. Come on down for a chance
(13:17):
to meet Gary and Shannon win some prizes. There's going
to be Bjay's gift cards, Dodgers tickets and Good Chargers tickets,
and good beer.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Gary and Shannon swag.
Speaker 11 (13:29):
And really good beer and good beer.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
That's tomorrow at the Bjay's Restaurant and brew House in
Huntington Beach on Beach Boulevard. Red flag warning for critical
fire danger goes into effect this morning in the Santa
Clarita Valley, San Gabriel Mountains, Anelope Valley foothills in the
five and fourteen freeway corridors because of what the National
Weather Service calls the most significant heat wave of the summer.
(13:51):
Those areas could see temperatures of ninety five to one
hundred and ten from tomorrow through Saturday. Police in Pasadena
are still looking for the guy caught on a now
How viral video punching and knocking out a woman at
a concert at the Rose Bowl. The woman says her
boyfriend accidentally spilled a drink on the guy and apologized.
The man left, then came back about a half hour later, threatened.
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The couple then punched in the woman, repeatedly knocking her unconscious.
State lawmakers are pushing to lift a ban on the
use of public funds for election campaigns. The bill would
appear on the November twenty twenty sixth ballot if it
passes through the legislature. Supporters say the California Fair Elections
Act would create fairer elections by aiding candidates who have
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limited resources. Those against it say that public money should
be used for public services, not for candidates. At six
oh five, its handle on the news Governor News and
plans to shift voting districts, but Republicans who stand to
lose seats in the move are fighting it. Let's say
good morning now to ABC's tech reporter Mike Dubaski. Mike
(14:57):
uh so, a open Ai has a new model and
it's not very friendly.
Speaker 12 (15:05):
Yeah, that's basically the size of it. So, about two
weeks ago, OpenAI launched GPT five. This is basically their
latest core large language model technology. This is the thing
that they build other consumer facing products on top of
For example, this is like the engine that powers chatgibt
or some of their image.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
Generators or video generators.
Speaker 12 (15:27):
This is sort of the thing that lies beneath all
of that technology, and the launch of this has been
hyped for quite a while. The development of AI is
very rapid, the competition is very fierce, so there was
a lot of hype around the launch of GPT five
seeing you know just exactly how far forward OpenAI is
going to leap again in this very competitive race. But
(15:50):
about two weeks after it launched, many have found it
to be not quite what they expected. The previous model,
which was called GPT four H, was known for being
pretty upbeat, giving really enthusiastic responses to users questions, pumping
up the person who asked the question, and kind of
complimenting them occasionally. Amy this verged into the strange and
(16:12):
dangerous territory that many psychologists have said is one of
the real pitfalls of talking to these AI models for
extended periods of time.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Wa Wait, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 12 (16:22):
Well, multiple outlets have reported on people being convinced that
they're geniuses or superheroes. There are subredits, there are subreddits
on Reddit dedicated to people who formed romantic connections with
open ais technology. And not to go too dark here,
but in extreme cases, some people have even you know,
left their spouses or even committed suicide in some cases
(16:45):
because of responses that these models, or in part because
of these responses that these models have given, and mental
alf experts say that that really goes back, in large
part to these sort of sick of fancy that's the
term they use that GPT four US was known for
for basically just kind of parroting back what you said.
Speaker 11 (17:04):
And kind of pumping you up in a really big way.
Speaker 12 (17:06):
GPT five, by contrast, many users reported, is a lot colder,
you know, it kind of gives kurt to the point responses.
Many of the sort of things that open Aye was
touting about GPT five is that it's a lot more accurate,
it's a lot faster, it cuts down on the hallucination
problem that all these models seem to fall into at
one point or another. But you know, as a result
(17:29):
of that, they've also turned down sort of the warmth factor,
the tone of this model, and that really did kind
of reverberate around people who use these models quite a bit.
In fact, just to go back to those subreddits of
people who formed romantic connections with them. There's a big
sort of warning at the top of the subreddits now
saying it's like, hey, if you need help, there are
numbers you could call, maybe log off a little bit.
(17:51):
That's kind of the vibe that is going on here,
and it got to such a point where now the
company itself is making some changes. Sam Altman, who was
the CEO of open Ai, he told reporters last week
that they totally screwed up some things with this rollout,
and they are making GPT five now more approachable. It
will begin responses to your questions with a good question
(18:14):
or thanks for asking, or things like that, just to
kind of make it a little bit nicer to talk to.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
And they say nice, right, yeah, yeah, kinda.
Speaker 12 (18:22):
I mean it wants to be a little friendlier, and that,
you know, really does matter when these are sort of
things that people interface with and talk to as if
they're talking to another person, which is something that we're
seeing sort of increasingly happen.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Well, it matters if you have an unnatural attachment to
a computer.
Speaker 12 (18:40):
Certainly, and I mean, look, that's that's a big part
of this, right, And you know this it's such an
early and new thing that I don't think we've really
done extensive research on it. But you know, there's a
chunk of people out there who are boasting about their
AI girlfriends and boyfriends. And when you change the core
technology to something that's not quite as nice, then you
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know that's really going to have an impact.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Well, maybe they'll want to break up with them, and
I think that that might be a good thing.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
This just smacks of her It's just like it does
whoever made it? When did they make that movie? Twenty thirteen?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
So twelve years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They had already predicted it, And it's so bizarre to
hear that people are actually developing these attachments to them
the AI.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
I'm excited to learn about exactly what impact this is
going to have long term, because like this, there's obviously,
you know, especially once you get into the people who
are convinced of, you know, having superpowers and things like that.
You know, there's other stuff going on, you know, mentally there,
but that's you know, just something that we need to
focus on and think about as one of the effects
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of the large deployment of this technology because people inevitably
will spend a lot of time with it, and when
it talks like a human or some approximation thereof, people
are going to start forming connections with it. Right, we
personify our technology in a lot of ways. We see
faces in front ends of cars, and we give our
rumbas names and things like that, like, this's just kind
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of naturally human for us to do that. And this
seems to have really thrown fuel on that fire in
a pretty big way. They're also, for what it's worth,
making the old version of this model available again GPT four, oh,
the really sycophantic.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
One, so you can renew your crush.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
You can kind of rekindle that spark, all right.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Okay, and when is the the updated version?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Are they just going back to the old version or
are they updating the five?
Speaker 12 (20:32):
So it's both, so they're updating five to be a
little bit more friendly. But you can also select as
a subscriber of this model to go back to four
to oh, and you get all the sort of you know,
resultant capabilities there. So one of the other things that
Opening Eye kind of found itself in hot Water four
after the GPT five launch was that when you go
(20:53):
to chat GPT or when you go to the main
interface of GPT five, it was supposed to direct your
question into the model that was best adept at answering it.
So GPG five is kind of an umbrella term for
a lot of different things. There's really sophisticated models that
can answer like scientific questions or really complex math problems
and that type of thing, coding questions and so on
and so forth. Or if you can ask it to
(21:15):
like plan you an itinerary for a trip to Hawaii,
that can go to like a slightly lighter weight model
and you might get a fester response there, but it
just doesn't need to, you know, draw on that level
of computing power. GPT five was supposed to just know
how to do that automatically. It doesn't seem like it
really did that for many people, and it was directing
really complex questions to models that couldn't quite handle it,
(21:37):
so that it was kind of giving not great responses
in that regard. So open Ai is making some tweaks
to that. Ultimately, the race for this is like very intense,
so you can see why open aye would want to
get this new product out there, but it does seem
this one needed a little bit more time in the oven.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
All right, ABC's Mike Debuski, thanks for clearing that up.
I'm sure we're going to be watching. I'm sure there's
going to be many more iterations.
Speaker 11 (21:59):
Oh yes, oh yeah. Is not that far away than
sam Aldman.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Thanks Mike. Bite okay.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
A man scene on video dragging what turned out to
be the body of his dead wife in Lancaster's now
in Peru. The woman was reported missing last Tuesday. Her
remains were found on Saturday in the Angelus National Forest.
A friend of hers tells KTLA the woman had been
abused for a while.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
She told her mom, I don't want to be with him.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
I want to, like, you know, report him, and that's what, yeah,
she was going to do that day. The husband and
the couple's three sons arrived in Peru over the weekend.
The La Kenis Sheriff's Department says it's going to give
the case to the DA's office to get the paperwork
needed to bring the guy back to the US. The
La City Council's approved a series of measures supporters say
would add protections against immigration enforcement.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
The La City Attorney has been directed by the city
Council to create a new ordinance requiring the LAPD to
verify the identity of any federal agent. City councilman Unsses
Hernandez says masked agents have terrified people in Los Angeles.
Speaker 12 (22:58):
Every Angelino deserves to feel safe in their own city,
and as the council, we have a responsibility to do
everything in our power to keep.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
That promise, and the council wants details on the LAPD's
duty to intervene when a federal agent may be violating
someone's rights. Michael Monks KFI.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
News California seeing a drop in homelessness in some areas.
Speaker 13 (23:16):
Santa Cruz County reports a twenty percent drop in homelessness
from twenty twenty four. La County has a four percent
decrease and Contra Costa Counties down twenty six percent, but
Calmatters reports in some communities chronically homeless numbers have risen.
Governor Knew some credit state investments for the trends. Despite
criticism from the California State Association of Counties over funding cuts.
Last year, news and allocated a billion dollars for homelessness,
(23:38):
which is reduced to zero this year. He plans for
five hundred million in homeless housing assistance and prevention funds
next year. Mark Groner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Staff at Los Angeles General Medical Center are looking for
anyone who might recognize a patient who's been in their
care since July thirty first. He was found in the
Torrance area, is five to seven hundred sixty six pounds
and is possibly around thirty five years old. If you
know anyone missing who matches that description, they're asking you
to call LA General. That's got to be just a
(24:09):
scary thing. You know, our very own Steffuch, the technical
director for Tim Conway and Moe Kelly, he got in
that car wreck a couple weeks ago. Is Id burned
up and they didn't know who he was. He was
a John Doe for about nine hours.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
I honestly think about that every time I walk out
of my apartment.
Speaker 11 (24:27):
You know, do I have my idea? I mean, what
if something happens? She never knows?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, all right, So if you know who that
might be, give a call to LA General. LA schools
are taking extra steps to keep kids cool during the
heat wave that is descending on southern California. Those steps
include modifying recess and lunch schedules to minimize outdoor exposure,
rescheduling or modifying high school athletic events and outdoor clubs,
(24:52):
making sure air conditioners are working, and preparing portable units
in case those air conditioners fail in the classroom. Julio
Caesar Chavez Junior is in jail in Mexico after being
deported from the US.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
He was arrested Monday. Chavez Junior was picked up by
federal agents outside his home in Studio City last month
for overstaying his visa, four days after he lost a
fight at the Honda Center in Anaheim. The Trump administrations
confirmed that it will take a closer look at Smithsonian.
At the Smithsonian Museum, Trump said on truth Social there's
(25:25):
nothing in the museums about brightness and too much about
how horrible our country is and how bad slavery was.
They'll use the same pros process used on colleges and universities. Apparently.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Trump added, this country cannot be woke because woke is broke.
At six oh five is handle on the news. Answers
to what went wrong in how the Palisades fire was
handled are on hold. Bill's going to tell you about that.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Aamie's on Itami's on, It's on it, damis on it?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
What am I on?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'm on the stream because there is so much content
out there, and there's some great shows, and there's some
shows that just plane suck.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
I gotta be honest, I mean there really are.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So hopefully I can help you navigate through it and
find some really great ones to watch. And here's one
that was really great to watch, and that was Billy Joel.
And so it goes on HBO Max. It's a documentary.
It's two episodes, but I gotta warn you the two
episodes are very long. I think the whole thing, just
the two episodes was either between four and five hours,
(26:34):
so each one was like two hours long at least.
It's this is just a trip down memory lane. It's
interviews with Billy Joel now and then of course looks
into the past. It's clips from shows from the studio,
from radio stations, from all slices of his life. And
(26:54):
you get right off the bat that music is everything
to Billy Joel. And you see this as the documentary
chronicles his life. There's love in it, there's heartbreak in it,
and there's a lot of focus on the women behind
the man, the women who had a huge hand in
Billy Joel becoming Billy Joel. So I saw him in
(27:17):
concert like years ago, and it was just Billy Joel
behind the piano and it was spectacular. I mean, there's
like so many songs, so many hits, and I got
reminded of that watching and so it goes, of course,
his signature.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Song, Piano Man, and he goes through how that.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Song became a song and how it's actually from his
life when he was playing in a piano bar because
he was trying to pay his bills because there was
a record deal that was going sour. And it was
just I mean, it's just fascinating. And then you go, well,
what else could he have? Well, there's just the way
you are, which really kind of catapulted him to superstar.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Start him. And then you start I don't want to
name all the songs.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I was gonna name all the songs, but I don't
want to because it's so fun. While you're watching it,
you go, oh, I forgot he did that one. Oh
I forgot he did that one because it's.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Been a while.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
But I mean, like, there are so many and then
you get to the point in the documentary you go, well,
that's about it. His career must be, you know, that
must be the end of any new music. And then
there's more, and then there's more. It's just so interesting
and you get caught up in the emotion of the
music and also just enthralled at how talented he is.
Speaker 11 (28:35):
What's your favorite Billy Joel song?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
M Just the Way You Are? I think is my
favorite favorite.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
But I mean they're just but then and I was
thinking that watching the documentary, because again that was kind
of the one that really put him over the top.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
And then I went, oh, wait, maybe that's my favorite.
Oh wait, maybe that one is.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
I know, right, there's so many great ones. So really
interesting to see too, how he he fought for what
he believed in. He fought for his women, his music,
and his band, but he also struggled and in the
midst of this huge success in his career, his personal
life is falling apart, and he speaks about that, and
you know, it goes into the whole Christy Brinkley thing
(29:15):
and his first wife and his second wife, and his
third wife and now his fourth wife. But it's just
a fascinating look into his life and an amazing trip
down memory lane. I mean, like, I highly highly recommend this.
It's called Billy Joel and so it goes. It's on
HBO Max. I'm on it, and if you've ever loved
a Billy Joel song.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
I think you should be on it too.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Dan Schwartzman, who's in for Courtney Donaho all week morning.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Dan, tremendous conversation on Billy Joel.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
And you mentioned Christy Brinkley, and I had read real
quick that he met her while playing the piano at
a I think at a resort, a club or whatever
it was. And he actually also met El McPherson and
he actually had a decision who we wanted to go
out with.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
You just gave it away one of the secrets in
the documentiel.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
That's totally okay.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
But they do talk about that, and it's just like
so funny because it sounds like El McPherson was kind
of like, hey, Billy, she was young.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
I think she's like nineteen or something.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
But I mean for most guys, when you think El McPherson,
Christie Brinkley, you can't lose either way.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, that is true. That is true, and he did not.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Okay, so Dan, let's talk business. We got biofuels could
see some big changes coming.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Absolutely, the renewable fuels market could have big changes. The
Trump administration is set to issue a new policy decision
Bloomberg learning that the EPA is expected to rule on
dozens of pending petitions from small oil refineries seeking exemptions
from ethanol and biodiesel blending mandates, while farmers and crowd
processors want to make sure more corn, ethanol, and vegetable
oils are blended into fuels as they're facing low prices
(30:51):
and the impact of tariffs. Some refiners, though, Amy complained
that the blending obligation is a costly burden, so that
could become a battle on Capitol Hill.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So they're saying that it's available, but if they have
to do it, it could be a problem.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, they don't want to do it, but obviously the
farmers do because they want to sell more corn and
vegetable ols, obviously to make more money because they're suffering
right now. But I think for the consumer to not
have the blend would actually make fuel a bit cheaper.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
For US okay, weight loss drug maker, maybe business isn't
so great?
Speaker 4 (31:24):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Nova nor Disk is implementing a global hiring freeze. The
company is looking to cut costs and regain its footing
in the competitive weight loss drug market. The Danas drug
makers workforce ballooning to more than seventy eight thousand people
as a company rushed the boost production of popular obesity
drugs would go vi and ozepic. Nova, by the way,
about to be overtaken by rival Eli Lilly in weight
(31:46):
loss drug sales this year.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
So not good news for Nova nor Disk Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
And the I can't even probably wrap my hand or
my fingers around, or my whatever my mind around how
much money those drug companies are making off this right now.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh a billions. And you know they just came out
of this thing yesterday. I think as Novo's saying that
if you pay cash, you'll get ze big for half
price every month, four hundred and ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
That's a nice car.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
By the way, what are we looking on looking at
for the markets today right now?
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, Wall Street seems to be heading for a fourth
day of losses investors amy they're backing away from the
tech stock rally, NAZAC futures are right now down sixty
five points, about a third to one percent. S and
P's down eight and a half points, are a ten
to one percent. That was essentially flat. It's down four
points again. It is essentially flat.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, we'll keep watching it and we'll get in your
business again tomorrow with Bloomberg.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Stan Schwartzman, have a great day you as well.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Amy.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
LA schools are taking steps to keep kids cool during
the heat wave that's descending on southern California. It includes
adjusting schedules so the kids aren't outside, rescheduling or modifying
athletic events, and making sure the air conditioners working, and
if they're not, making sure that there are portable air conditioners.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
More than three hundred and sixty members.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Of La UCLA's Jewish community I've sent a letter to
the UC Board of Regents to speak out against the
Trump Administration's one billion dollar anti semitism settlement with the university.
They say the punishment levied against the UCLA is misplaced.
Attention fallout fans. The trailer for season two has dropped
in A release date has been announced. The second season
(33:30):
is based on the video game franchise. It's going to
be released December seventeenth. Walter Goggins is back, so is
the original cast, and there's a new member of the cast,
Colley Culkin. We're just minutes away from handle on the news.
This could be a sign that TikTok isn't going to
be banned. The President just got a TikTok account. Let's
(33:50):
say good morning now to the Chief Mitigation Officer for
the California Earthquake Authority, Janille Muffie.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Good morning, Janil, good morning. So when the shaking.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Starts, the big question is is your home brace to
make it through the shaking? And that's where the California
Earthquake Authority comes in. You can help make sure that
your home does make it through a quake.
Speaker 9 (34:14):
That's right.
Speaker 14 (34:14):
We have a program that provides grants of up to
three thousand dollars to help people who live in older
homes that's pre nineteen eighty, whose houses are not properly
anchored to the foundation embraced. If you have those short
little stud walls that go around the cross space, they
need to have plywood on them. And so the great
news is We have a grant program with up to
three thousand dollars and it opens today.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
It opens to day.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Okay, so if you want to apply for up to
three thousand dollars, Let's talk a little bit about the
bolting thing, because I want to kind of paint a
picture of what can happen in the shaking, especially in
the older homes.
Speaker 14 (34:49):
The problem, of course, is that these homes were designed
and constructed before we knew a lot about how houses
performed in earthquakes, and so they didn't have the same
building codes that we have today. They don't have the
same p sections. So they may have some bolts, you know,
they used for construction, but they really don't have sufficient
bolts to keep that house from sliding off the foundation.
And then of course, if they do have those short
(35:10):
stud walls, those stud walls can just topple over. And
so that's where the plywood comes in. And it's a
relatively simple process. It takes about two to three days
for a contractor to do. It's about fifty two hundred dollars.
That's the median statewide for this particular retrofit. And we
also have a supplemental grant for income qualifying households, households
(35:30):
who have an income of eighty nine thou forty dollars
or less, we'll get additional funding. And once again it
is a grant, and we have done over thirty three
thousand retrofits across California.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Okay, and so then, Janiel, the difference between having your
house bolted to the foundation and not having your house
bolted to the foundation can mean a difference of total
destruction at this point, right.
Speaker 14 (35:58):
Well, yes, you know, it's interesting because some of these houses,
they are able to lift them back up and put
them on a foundation, but it is hundreds of thousands
of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and in a
map or earthquake, we found houses that came off their foundation.
On average, we're not reoccupied two and a half years
after the event. So you can imagine, you know, the
people are have to move out of their house, all
(36:19):
the while still paying that mortgage. So really really catastrophic
disruptive damage. And the retrofit really is a simple process.
Will give you the information on what to do, and
then of course we'll give you some financing to assist.
And then we're very excited where that we're introducing rental
and income properties. It used to be that you had
(36:39):
to be owner occupied. Now it can be a rental
or income property.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Oh so, I would imagine you're going to have a
lot of landlords given you holler. And in this case,
it sounds like it's an ounce of prevention thing, like
you can spend a couple thousand now or you can
have your home have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of damage when they're shaking.
Speaker 14 (36:56):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Okay, So Janille, this sounds really cool. How is it
paid for?
Speaker 14 (37:03):
Okay, so this is paid for. The California Earthquake Authority
has a kind of feed funding for it, and then
we leverage that with FEMA funding. So we're using FEMA
funding and that's a grant to us, and then that
money is going into California homes to make them more resilient.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Okay, And where do we apply.
Speaker 14 (37:21):
Earthquake bracebolt dot com very simple to find, even if
you just put in retrofit my house in California. It's
going to pop up to the top and registration is
open through October first not first come, first served. Don't panic,
got lots of time to go on and take check
it out.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Okay, and this is is this open to everybody for
the three thousand dollars. And then as you mentioned, supplemental
if you have a certain income level.
Speaker 14 (37:44):
Right, so you need to be in one of our
zip codes. But you know you'll find that we are
in the majority of the zip codes of high hazard
up and down the coast and across the middle of
the state, the Garlock Fault. You need to have a
pre nineteen eighty house and basically have this this particular condition.
It's not I have one grade. It's not a hillside house.
It's a house with a crawl space that needs this
(38:04):
particular retrofit.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
That's such a great program. And yeah, we all need
to be prepared for the shaking. Janille again, give the
website if you.
Speaker 14 (38:13):
Would, Earthquake Briefsbolt dot com.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Okay, and that's open up today. So if you have
a couple of minutes, go sign up. Janille Mfi, the
Chief Mitigation Officer for the California Earthquake Authority, Thanks so much.
Speaker 14 (38:28):
Thank you, Amy, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (38:30):
All right, what a great thing that you can do.
It'll protect you.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
And yet like when you think about your whole house,
just like if there's jolts boom boom, boom boom, and
then your house just falls off the foundation, wives off
the foundation right off. Yeah, okay, this can prevent that.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. The LA
City Council's voted to oppose state legislation that would make
it easier to build homes near transit stops.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Send It Bill seventy nine. Supporters have argued creating residential
day near train stations and high traffic bus stop solves
a couple of problems, it adds more housing and connects
people to their communities. LA City Councilman Monic Rodriguez disagree.
She says it gives too much power to the state.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
SB seventy nine would essentially say that one size fits
all and it takes nothing into account about the work
that the City of Los Angeles has engaged in.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
The vote at City Hall was eight to five. Some
council members argued the bill makes sense, or at least
should be considered, because LA has not done a good
enough job building housing. Michael Monks KFI News LA.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
County District Attorney Nathan Hawkman is going to be honoring
three people who went above and beyond for fellow residents
at the Westchester YMCA later this morning. Hawkman is going
to recognize a woman who intervened when a family member
attacked another family member. Also a convenience store worker who
helped stop a woman and her baby from being kidnapped,
and a construction worker who stopped someone who randomly attacked
(39:52):
a co worker. I think we should do that more often,
recognize the heroes. NASA's web telescope has found a tie
any new moon around Uranus. The moon spotted in February
appears to be just six miles wide. Scientists say they
think it hid for so long because of its faintness
and because it's tiny. Uranus has twenty eight known moons
(40:14):
that are named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
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