May 15, 2024 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. Amy talks with ABC News investigative reporter Peter Charalambous about NY v. Trump day 17 recap: Michael Cohen cross examination begins. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about Google IO notable announcements. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s On It’ she reviews You Hurt My Feelings streaming on Paramount+ and Love Again on Netflix. The show closes with ABC News correspondent Jim Ryan talking about that new car smell could be making you sick.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty KFI hand KOSTHD
two, Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up
call. Here's Amy King. Goodmorning, It's five o'clock. This is
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your wake up call for Wednesday,May fifteenth, Humpday. I'm Amy King.
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appand glad you're getting your day started
with us. Got your coffee done, your morning stretches, Let's get right
to it. Lot's going on today. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
A person has been attacked and robbedon a metro bus and Encino.
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That marks the third violent attack onthe Mestro metro system in twenty four hours.
The LAPD says the attack happened yesterdayafternoon near the intersection of Ventura Boulevard
and Balboa Avenue. Please say theyhave arrested an attacker. Eight teenagers on
a field trip to the LaBrea tarPits had to be taken to the hospital
after going on a different kind oftrip. LA Fire says the teens became
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disoriented yesterday afternoon after taking cannabis edibles. Michael Cohen has testified for a second
day, and former President Trump's hushmoney trial. Cohen says he mislabeled checks
and created false receipts because of hisblind loyalty to Trump. ABC's Peter Hara
Lumbus has been in the courtroom everyday. We're going to be talking with
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him in just a couple of minutes. Always enjoy our conversations, getting a
little inside scoop on what's going oninside the courtroom. Also a little bit
later this hour, Jim Ryan's goingto be telling us why your new car
could be making you sick. Ohgoodie, another thing to make us sick.
At six o five its handle onthe news, Tom Brady says he
regrets agreeing to be roasted during theNetflix Is a Joke Festival live streamed on
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Netflix. Bill's going to tell youall about that. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And
assault on a metro bus in Encinoagain marks the third attack on the metro
system in twenty four hours. Ithappened yesterday afternoon. The attacker stole a
guy's cell phone and then slammed awrench into his chest. The night before
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a woman was stabbed at a greenline station in South LA and a man
was stabbed or actually a teenager wasstabbed on a bus in Glendale. He
was being robbed by three teenagers whowere trying to take his backpack. The
LAPED chiefs discussions are underway on howto make the Metro safer for riders and
drivers. Keith dominic Joy was askedat the weekly Board of Police Commissioner's meeting,
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what is being done about the spikein violence on buses and trains?
The chief said, yesterday the LAPDand other agencies are having talks whether we
need to be in our vehicles oractually riding the lines, which is going
to have better coverage and more coverage. Do we need to increase ambassadors or
security guards? These are all discussthat we're having with MTA, the city,
the county, and the Metro boardhave all sawt tougher security measures in
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recent weeks, but no formal longterm plan has been announced yet. In
downtown La, Michael Monks KFI News, a state senator from Huntington Beach,
claims a secret gas tax will increasegas prices by fifty cents per gallon for
each of the next two years incarbon tax, not including the state's gas
tax. Republican State Senator Janet Winsays she found the tax hidden in the
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State Air Resources Board emissions reduction report, which means people can't get to the
grocery store, the doctor's offices towork. It will hit the middle class
and the low income. No wonderwhy people are leaving California. However,
the State Air Resources Board says thisis not a tax, it's just a
preliminary report that was released last yearthat discusses options for supporting cleaner fuel in
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Orange County. Corbin Carson KFI News, doesn't that make your blood boil?
You know, we're already paying twodollars more per gallon than the rest of
the country. And Corbin and thatwoman said, it's going to affect poor
people the most. Why why?Why? Yeah, that's the Secretary of
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State Anthony Blincoln. He took alittle break from the horrors of war to
do a set with a Ukrainian barband. Blinken told the audience in the
basement bar the United States is withyou, and the Free World is with
you too, then played rocket inthe Free World. Blincoln met with Ukrainian
President Zelensky earlier in the day andvowed the US would continue to help Ukraine
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overcome the Russian invasion. Let's saygood morning now to ABC's Peter Hara Lambus
sees front and center at the formerpresident's hush money trial. Good morning,
Peter. Michael Cohen on the standfor a second day. First, before
we dig into some more other interestingthings, tell us some of the highlights
and low lights of his testimony whenhe was being questioned. Yeah, so,
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at this point we've heard from MichaelCohen for two days. He offered
some of the most damning testimony forformer President Donald Trump, saying that he
was deeply involved in the scheme tideinformation from voters, and that he directly
ordered him to make that Stormy Danieltouch money payment, and that he approved
a plan to repay Cohen that requiredfalse fying documents. Cohen has begun his
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cross examination. Defense attorneys are reallyleaning in to his animosity for Donald Trump,
Conan admitting that he's called Donald Trump, saying this is including a cheeto
dusted cartoon villain, an borish,cartoon misogynist. Conan admitting that he used
to be obsessed with Donald Trump.He thought the art of the deal was
a masterpiece, and he told jurorsthat he was quote knee deep in the
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cult of Donald Trump. Ultimately,this cross examination hasn't touched on the underlying
conduct. We haven't heard during thiscross examination about Stormy Daniels or hush money
payments, or the plan to youfalsify invoices and checks. It's really focused
on Cohen's conduct after you got releasedfrom prison in twenty twenty. So when
the cross examination picks up on Thursday, I expect we're going to hear more
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about actually the heart of the criminalconduct here, because at the end of
the day, Cone is the onlywitness to clearly tie Trump to this conduct.
If the jury doesn't believe him,the case is not in good shape.
Okay, But the conduct of doingthe hush money payment is not illegal.
That's what defense attorneys have hammered atthis entire case. The idea of
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signing a non disclosure agreement. There'snothing illegal about that. There's nothing at
heart illegal about the Stormy Daniels payments. According to Trump's lawyers, defense that
prosecutors have offered a more complex legaltheory here. They're arguing that the entire
effort to silence people ahead of thetwenty sixteen election through these NDAs, these
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three different hush money payments, twohave them made by the Neat inquirer,
one of them made by Cohen,we're part of an illegal scheme to influence
the twenty sixteen election. The actualunderlying criminal conduct of those thirty four counts
of false find business records through thoseinvoices, those checks, those business ledgers.
According to prosecutors, that illegal conductfurther the conspiracy to influence the election.
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The jury will ultimately not have toworry too much about the law here.
The judge is going to instruct themon what the law means for them.
Really at the end of the day, the judge is going to set
essentially the kind of the goalposts here, and the jury will have to determine,
based on the facts and the evidencethey've heard, whether or not the
prosecution case has met that burden.Okay, And tomorrow Cohen's going to be
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back on the stand for more crossexamination, right, Yeah, that's right.
I we'll probably hear more about theactual hush money payments on Thursday.
Defense lawyers have said there across thetermination will take the entire day the prosecution
case. If that cross the naminationends, the prosecution could theoretically rest their
case on thirsdy. Okay, Sotell us, Peter, because you're in
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the courtroom, how is the juryreacting or not reacting or do they react
at all? You know? WithCone's testimony, despite the fireworks at times,
what's been most interesting is the lackof reaction. The jury seems to
be paying attention. They're looking atCone for large portions of the testimony.
They're staring at the monitors in frontof them whenever evidence is presented. You
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know, despite being four weeks thiscase, they seem to be well attuned
and in paying attention. Interestingly,though, Donald Trump himself, despite this
being his cross examination of Cone,in a way, doesn't seem to be
dialed in at all. For largeportions of the afternoon session yesterday, Donald
Trump had his eyes completely closed.He was leaning back in his chair,
he had his head slumped forward attimes, making it seem as though he
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might be sleeping or just zoning outthis testimony. So it's kind of remarkable
to see for perhaps eighty ninety percentof the cross examination, Donald Trump's eyes
were completely closed. I think it'sinteresting that that becomes the focal thing.
Of course, I mean because hehas his eyes closed doesn't mean he's nodding
off. And I think there's alot of I mean, unless did you
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see him nodding off. No,that's one hundred percent right. At the
end of the day, Donald Trumpis suggested when he's closing his eyes,
he's just trying to take it allin. Yeah, And there's no evidence
to suggests, for example, hewas snoozing at his defense table at the
end of the day, as othercolleagues that I've reported with has kind of
suggested this might be an effort forDonald Trump at times to just zone it
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out and focus on being there.It's not to suggest that, you know,
he's an old man and he's fallingasleep and he can't do an entire
day in court and more just bemight be an intentional effort or even a
signal to Michael Cohen that you know, he doesn't care about Basically, it's
hard to say with Donald Trump,we can't get in his head, but
he seems happy with the cross examinationyesterday. When he left court, he
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said yesterday it was a good dayand he seemed excited for Thursday when this
crossing day miss continues, okay,and we will be watching. And I
have to ask you, because you'vebeen in the court every day. After
you're sitting there for a while,I mean, do you just want to
get up and run out? Ordo you I mean, is it comfortable
in there? It's fine? Imean, it's fine, afternoon. I
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think what's been interesting is the lasttwo weeks have been in particularly in particularly
quite exhausting with Stormy Daniels and thenMichael Cohen. And I'm curious what the
jury is like at this point becausethey've seen a lot of information and it's
come to them in a rapid succession. So I'm curious, based on I
guess my reaction to this testimony whereit's just felt like a lot in a
short period of time, how thejury is digesting all of this. Yeah,
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well it would be a fun oneto watch. Most of us don't
get to you do, and thankyou for being our eyes and ears in
the courtroom. And we'll talk toyou soon. Absolutely, my pleasure will
all right, Thanks Peter. Let'sget back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four ournewsroom. Officials in Pasadena say the twenty
two year old driving the Tesla thatcrashed and killed people, including the driver,
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had a suspended license. He'd beencited for DUI in September and recently
failed to show up for a hearingin the case, so an arrest warrant
was issued. Police say that teslawas speeding about one hundred miles an hour
early Saturday morning when it crashed intoseveral poles and then into a building.
Six people were in the car.A man has agreed to plead guilty to
hate crime charges for the targeted shootingsof two Jewish men in the Pico Robertson
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area. US attorney Martine Estrada sayshe's very concerned about the crime. You
see, this person had these viewsfor many years, acted out on them,
sending vitriol to classmates of his.The guy charges accused of shooting the
men as they were leaving synagogues lastyear. Prosecutors say he researched kosher markets
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to find areas where there would beJewish people. He's facing up to forty
years in jail, actually in prison. The driver of a pickup truck who
caused a crash in Florida that killedeight farm workers has been arrested for dui
and man's slaughter. Sheriff Billy Woodssays his heart goes out to those who
lost loved ones yesterday. I praythat the Good Lord will give them whatever
peace said he can to make themthrough this. Officials say Mexican citizens were
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among those going to work at awatermelon farm when their bus was hit and
rolled over. A judge in Delawaresdenied a request by Hunter Biden's lawyers to
delay his federal gun trials set fornext month. The defense claimed pushing it
to September was necessary to line upwitnesses and go through evidence. The judge
says she thinks everyone can get donewhat needs to get done by the June
third start date. A federal appealscourt also ruled yesterday the tax case again
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Biden, set to go on trialin California on June twentieth, can also
move forward. Okay. Very excitedabout this and hope you will be too.
Kfim six forty wants to give youthe chance to celebrate friendship and beyond
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It's a Pixar night Time Spectacular.More than just fireworks, it's also
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Frederickson's House from up will float overSleeping Beauty Castle. There's festival market places.
You can explore six different market placesin Disney California Adventure Park with tasty
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can see Pixar Pals wandering around atPixar Pier, hanging with a host of
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of one day one park tickets toDisneyland Park or Disney California Adventure Park,
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and I can give you a hint. We're giving those tickets away on wake
Up Call this week and other dayparts as well. A landfill in Palmdale's
being searched for the remains of amissing three week old child who was last
seen May third. The case hastransitioned from a missing child case to a
homicide. Authorities say the baby's parentsare both being held in Utah on unrelated
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charges. UCLA could pay the Universityof California at Berkeley ten million dollars a
year for three years instead of sixyears as a result of the Bruins' upcoming
move to the Big ten and thedemise of the PAC twelve. The matter
is nicknamed Calimony by UCLA and calsupporters will come up for a vote for
the full Board of Regents on Thursday, no big surprise. Commutes in southern
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California are some of the worst inthe US. A study from LLC dot
org says people who live in Palmdalehave the longest commute in the country,
at about ninety one minutes. Peoplewho live in Moreno Valley, Corona,
Fontana, and Lancaster are also inthe top ten at six oh five.
It's handle on the News guests,who is going to be on the cover
of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Oprah's friendGail King. Let's say good morning to
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the host of Rich on Tech onKFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro
rich is, uh, well,you're in Mountain View for Google IO.
What is IO? What is thatstand for? Rich? IO stands for
input output. It is a developersconference. Yes, it's very nerdy,
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and this is typically where Google showsoff kind of like their latest greatest in
hardware in software, and it's reallylike the first day is for the journalists
to see what Google's up to.They do a big keynote. But after
that then it's all for the developersso they can demo these tools that Google
has available so that they can buildapps on top of those tools. Okay,
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wait, so what they told youabout it yesterday and now they're going
to start demoing it today. Yeah. They basically like they have a big
keno, you know, first thingright off the top, where you know,
all the main folks from Google kindof get up there and say here's
what we're working on. And thenafter that all of the developers who are
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in the audience as well as thejournalists they kind of peel off and it's
almost like a tech circus I callit. There's food, there's drinks,
there's parties, there's but a lotof it is about learning and so for
the journalists yesterday. The big takeawayis that, you know, Google has
been a very dominant position for manymany years now, and now they are
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being challenged by open ai, Andthat was kind of my main takeaway is
that Google is trying to figure outthis AI stuff. They have the smart
people to do it, but Googlemakes a lot of money on search advertising
and it's a very delicate balance.They don't want to disrupt that, but
they also want to embrace the AIstuff because they're getting a lot of pressure
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from open ai and chat GPT.Okay, so I'm guessing that they have
some new tricks and toys that they'regoing to be unveiling. So what are
some of the things that they're comingout with. Yeah, so, I
mean some of the things I thoughtwere interesting. When it comes to Google
Photos, you'll now be able toask questions about your photos using AI.
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So instead of searching for a particularphoto, you can say, hey,
when did my kid learn how toswim? And it will figure out when
you first started taking pictures of yourkids swimming and it will say, oh,
July first, twenty nineteen. Oryou can say what's my license plate
number and it will figure out thecar that you take the picture of the
most and I'll say, oh,here's your current license plate number. Things
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like that. That's in Google Photos. Then when it comes to image creation
and audio creation, of course theyshowed off tools for generating artificial intelligence based
video, audio, and text.And that's of course text to text AI
to sorry, that's of course textto AI generation. Let's see Gmail.
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This is actually really handy for folksusing Gmail. Instead of searching for any
email, you'll now have a sidebarthat will let you summarize your emails.
It will come up with really specificor applies to your emails. It will
just basically be a sidebar assistant tohelp you get through your email faster.
So it's all these examples that Googleshowed off yesterday. The best one,
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by the way, was this thingcalled Astro, which I got a demo
of. After and basically your phone, your phone becomes sort of a live
video chat window with AI. Soyou could just point your phone at something
and say, hey, tell meabout this, and then just talk back
and forth with it and interrupt itand ask it to tell you stories about
it, whatever you want. It'salmost like having the smartest person now on
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a video call. With you.Okay. So for an example, I
could take my phone and point itat the board that I'm looking that we
used to run the newsroom, andI could say, tell me what this
is? Yeah, or hey,explain what this or how do I fix
this? Or and it's a backand forth, livetime conversation. Now,
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this is something that they did notgive a date for. I did try
it out yesterday. It is justas amazing as you might imagine, because
it feels like the Internet is justin a chatbot with you, and it's
just different than typing because you're justshowing it something like I showed it a
donut and I said, hey,how many calories do you think are in
this thing? I mean, somethingas simple as that, Okay, And
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then you were talking. That's justfreaky. So I mean, could you
point it a car and say teachme how to drive? Yeah? Absolutely,
I mean that's just imagine having aperson equipped with all of the world's
information that you can talk to andinteract with and interrupt. By the way,
so if you were talking, likewhile the AI assistant was talking,
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and the voice sounds really good,by the way, while the AI assistant
is talking, you just interrupt itand say okay, stop, just not
even stop, just interrupt it andask a different question, and it just
it just continues, and it's inalmost real time, which makes it uncanny.
Now, I know you're gonna probablyask about open ai because that's another
side of this. They showed offsomething very similar to this, and open
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Ai is putting a lot of pressureon Google right now because they on Monday
had a big event where they showedoff a whole bunch of stuff, including
a very similar vision response which isvery very fast and very similar. And
also a lot of their features aregoing free. So if you wanted the
best open ai features for chat GPT, you had to pay twenty dollars a
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month. Now they're opening up alot of these you know, futuristic features
at a free price, which ispretty cool for people. And how do
they make money on it if they'reoffering it free? Well, funny you
should ask. I mean, look, we are training, We are training
their systems, and by us trainingthe free system, they make money on
the back end by selling their youknow systems to big companies that are developing
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apps. So we are used totrain their system and then they use all
that great training to make their modelbetter, and they sell that model so
that people can create you know,all kinds of different apps that include AI.
Okay, it's all very interesting andstill just very unnerving to me,
but well, you just got toyou know, look, you just got
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to play with it. Like Google'sis called Gemini, so if you go
to Gemini dot Google dot com,you know, just kind of play around,
see what you can do with it. And then same thing with open
Ai chat GBT. That's the mainthing with these with these chatbots is that
there's no instructions. You just kindof see what they can do and you'll
be surprised. Okay, I'll giveit a shot. Kfis tech reporter Rich
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Djimiro. He's the host of richon Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from
eleven to two. You can alsofollow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech
website rich on Tech dot tv.I'm sure you're gonna have a lot more
to say about Google Io this weekendon rich on Tech on KFI. Can't
wait to talk about it all right, Thank you so much. Rich.
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Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
our newsroom a plan to raise sewerrates for customers in La. We first
told you about it yesterday. Wellit's moving forward. The only city council
has given the green light to theSanitation Department's intention to raise sewer bills by
an average of twenty two percent thisfall and then more than double four years
from now. Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky setit yesterday's meeting. This hit is bigger
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this year due to a long ratefree started during the pandemic. This sewer
fee was something that we did prettymuch every year to keep it small,
and we are now in the unfortunateposition that for five years we haven't assessed
it. There will be a protestperiod and a public hearing later this year
in downtown La. Michael monks KFINews. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
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has announced two billion dollars in anarms deal for Ukraine. It's mostly from
the package that we approved last month. Part of it. The total for
Ukraine is supposed to be over sixtybillion dollars. The President of Ukraine,
Zelenski, has postponed all of hisupcoming foreign visits because of a new Russian
offensive. His office says he hadsome trips planned for the coming days.
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He was going to go to Spain, maybe Portugal later this week. Ukraine's
Army's been fighting to contain a frontlinepush by Russian forces. Russia's Defense ministry
says its air defenses shot down tenUS supplied Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea. California
condors continue to make their comeback,thanks in large park to the Oregon Zoo.
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The Zoo's California condor hatching program inthe Hills above Portland has thirteen fluffy
condor chicks this season. That's arecord for the zoo program that's been working
to grow the species for twenty yearsnow. In nineteen eighty two, only
twenty two condors remained in the wild. Now there are five hundred and sixty.
The chicks will spend at least eightmonths with their parents before moving to
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pre release pens for about a year, and then they will eventually be released
back into the wild in California andArizona. The Dodgers take on the Giants
tonight at Oracle Park. The firstpitch goes out at six forty five.
You can listen to every play ofevery Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA
Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcastbooth, and you can stream all the
games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports when
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person has been attacked and robbed ona metro bus en Encino. That marks
the third violent attack on the metrosystem in just twenty four hours. LAPD
says the attack happened yesterday afternoon nearthe intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Balboa Avenue.
Good news is please say they've arrestedthe attacker. A guy who used
to live in Riverside has agreed toplead guilty to federal hate crime and gun
charges in connection with the shooting oftwo Jewish men last year as they were
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leaving synagogues in the Pico Robertson neighborhood. Please say the man targeted men wearing
yarmacas both men survived. A miniaturepoodle named stage as one best in Show
at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Showin Queens, New York. The poodle
beat out twenty five hundred dogs competingto become best in Show at six oh
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five. It's handled on the news. California Gas prices could spike another fifty
cents a gallon, you know,to save the planet at five point fifty.
You know that new car smell thatwe all like so much, Well,
ABC's Jim Ryan says it could bemaking you sick. Amy's on it,
Aami's on it. Amy's on it, Aami's on it? What am
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I on? I'm on the stream, also on movies and books, but
mostly streaming, And there's so muchcontent out there. How do you decide
what in the heck you're going towatch and spend your time and invest in.
So hopefully I can help you navigatethrough that find some good stuff and
maybe some things that you might wantto skip. We're going to talk about
two today. The first one isfrom Paramount Plus. It's called You Hurt
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My Feelings. It stars Julia LeuisDreyfuss. It was released in twenty twenty
three, although on Paramount Plus whenyou go to the when you google it,
it says it was released in twentytwenty four, so maybe it was
delayed and it was just recently released. It's supposed to be a comedy drama,
but there's also this weird romance aspectto it, so that's why I'm
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talking about it as a romance.But You Hurt My Feelings is a story
about a novelist who had a bookout. She's working on a second book,
and she's having a tough time withit, writer's block and all that.
She seems to be in a perfectrelationship with her husband, who's a
psychiatrist, but then her world turnsupside down when she overhears him talking about
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her book and he says he doesn'tlike it. Hurt My Feelings. There's
the name. It's kind of cute, has some charming parts. There's an
interesting supporting cast and some familiar faceslike Amber Tamblin and David Cross from Arrested
Development and one of the funniest linesever from Just Shoot Me Chicken Pop Chicken
Pop Chicken Pop Pie. I don'tknow if you remember that, but I
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remember. We used to just playit over and over again and cry because
we were laughing so hard. Butthat's David Cross. It's slow, it's
kind of fun, but it's easyto walk away from. It's easy to
you know, like if you're doinghousework and you want to just have something
on. It is a good streamif you don't really have anything pressing to
do, but if it's a mussynah. And then there's Love Again,
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which is on Netflix, and it'sanother one of those movies that I'd never
heard of, called Love Again,and I just kind of stumbled on it.
It stars Priyanka Chopra Jones. Isit Chopra or Chopra? She lost
her fiance, beautiful woman. She'sdevastated, of course, because she lost
her fiance. So it starts outthere that she loses him, and then
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we fast forward two years and she'sstill looking to get some closure, so
she starts texting her fiance's phone number, and of course someone else now has
that number and starts getting the texts, and that's where it all begins.
Celine Dion is part of the storyline. Nick jonas her husband as a small
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and very cute, funny role.It is a rom com, so it
has that meeting and that attraction anda misunderstanding is pretty formulaic. It's kind
of predictable, but it's a nicedistraction. And it's a rom com for
goodness sake, so of course it'spredictable. But I say give it a
watch. It's not great, butit is a good watch it's called Love
Again. It's very cute. It'son Netflix, and I recommend it.
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Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. KTLA entertainment reporter SamRubin has been honored by the La City
Council. Council members called him aloss to local journalism and celebrated the l
see he leaves behind. Yesterday's meetingwas adjourned in memory of Sam Rubin.
Council President Paul krekrey And says Rubenwas a unique presence in the city.
In a city that is often sodivided and that reinvents itself so often,
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to have one person for thirty yearsbe a voice that brought us together is
a rare achievement. Rubin died ofa heart attack last week after three decades
on LA Television in downtown La.Michael monks KFI News that one was such
a shock, such a shock,and you know what, the people at
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KTLA, I don't know how theydid it. They, you know,
talking about somebody that they worked withevery day. And I know, I
don't know where you were when youheard it, but I was like,
I just watched him yesterday. Imean, how can he be gone?
And they had to sit and talkabout it and talk about it, and
of course they got to share theirstories and hopefully that helps them with their
grieving and stuff. But wow,that was a big loss for LA.
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A missing baby report in the AnalepeValley has led to a homicide investigation and
a search for the baby's body ina landfill. The three week old was
last with his father on May third. The family hasn't seen him since.
The father and the baby's mother areboth in jail in Utah for abuse and
obstruction charges not related to the missingboy. Investigators didn't say what led them
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to the landfill yesterday. Nothing wasfound. The United Nations says more than
a half million Palestinians in Gaza havebeen displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli
military operations in Rafa and also inthe north. No food has been able
to get into the main border crossingsin southern Gaza for over a week now.
(30:36):
The UN says more than a millionPalestinians face catastrophic levels of hunger and
are on the brink of starvation.Congressional aids say the Biden administration has told
key lawmakers. It is sending morethan a billion dollars in additional arms and
ammunition to Israel. It's not knownhow soon the weapons would be delivered.
Biden recently put another arms transfer toIsrael on hold because he said he did
not want to provide the weapons forIsrael's millielitary operations in Rafa. More than
(31:02):
twelve hundred military veterans and others havebegun their Run for the Wall. The
motorcycle ride from California to DC startsin Ontario in just about an hour.
Bikers will be splitting off into threedifferent groups and take three different routes across
the country for the journey. Thegroups will then come back together on May
twenty fifth at the Vietnam Veterans MemorialWall. A landfill in Palmdale's being searched
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for the remains of a missing threeweek old child who has last seen May
third. The case has transitioned froma missing child case to a homicide case.
No surprise. Commutes in southern Californiaare some of the worst in the
US. A study from LLC dotOrg says people who live in Palmdale have
the longest commute in the country.Ninety one minutes on average. People who
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live in Moreno Valley, Corona,Fontana, and Lancaster are also in the
top ten. Right now, let'ssay good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Jim, we all love that newcar smell, but it could be making
us sick. It could well,great, you're right, that's according to
a study from Duke University. Theylooked at vehicles one hundred and one vehicles
built since twenty fifteen and found thatninety nine percent of them contained chloralizopropyl phosphate
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dcipople is that. Yeah, it'sa fire retardant. You know, it's
a flame retardant that's built into seatsand cushions and head rests and sun visors.
Anything with a padded surface inside acar is likely to contain tcipp.
And since nineteen seventy one that's beenthe case. These newer cars were tested
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and then indeed it would sound thatthey still do contain these things by law.
But yeah, they could be causingproblems, could be making your eyes
water, your throat itch, andin the worst case Canario scenario, says
Duke University, could be causing cancer. There could be carcinogenic materials inside those
vehicles. So, yeah, it'san issue, and especially in places like
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southern California and in Texas, Arizona, any place where it's really hot,
you get into your car in thesummertime, you can feel just the heat
inside that vehicle. Best thing todo, open the windows, turn on
the AC, blow the stuff outof there before you start driving. Then
recirculate, don't don't hit recirculate insidethere in the AC system. You know,
(33:19):
bring fresh air into the car.You know, fresh is a relative
term if it's coming from the outside, but it may be better than what's
on the inside of your car.Okay, And you said that there are
potentially carcinogenic materials. Aren't there potentiallycarcinogenic materials in everything? But these days?
So I mean, are the concentrationshigh enough that people have actually gotten
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cancer from this? That's a greatquestion. And I mean there's no data
about that, specifically about you know, specific illnesses that it might have caused
or or cancers that resulted from it. But I think it just serves as
a warning from these researchers that thelonger you're in that environment, the longer
you're exposure or to those kinds ofchemicals, the greater risk of running into
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trouble. And so, I meanthe goal is to try to shorten the
time that you have to spend inyour vehicle. That it's hard to do.
Summertime is here and people are goingto be taking road trips. Well,
it's especially tough for the people wholive in Land, who live in
Palmdale, who a new study saysthey have the longest commutes in the US.
I heard that, Yes, spendingan hours and hours inside your car.
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But yeah, and so just keepin mind that you need to keep
the air flowing. Okay, Sohere's a question for you. Obviously,
you get that new car smell,which everybody likes when the car is new,
or when you go to the youknow, when you go and get
a car washing and then get anair freshener. But is there anything that
you can do when you first geta car, you know, like you're
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supposed to off gas mattresses. Isthere anything you should do for your car?
Well, do what you can inthat regard, you know, try
to off gast some of that stuff. And it's the same as walking into
a brand new house. You're like, I can do this is a new
house. Well, that's because ofthe formal to hide in the car.
You know, it's the stuff,those those chemicals that have been added to
materials inside in a house. Andthe same holds true for your car.
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So yeah, try to vent someof that stuff off of there, open
up the car, let it airout as best you can. But these
things, you know, it takestime for it to leach out of the
materials inside your car seat and theheadliner and then signed byers or all the
rest of it. What's more,a statement from the International Firefighters Association says
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that those chemicals really aren't that greatdebt preventing or keeping fire from spreading inside
a car. And firefighters, youknow, set out to put out car
fires, the smoke coming off ofthere could have fumes. That's even in
greater concentration for them. Is thereany effort to get these things, to
get the flame retardants off of theventure There are, you know, and
(35:50):
there are people working right now inlaboratory somewhere trying to limit that that chemical
or limit the risk that it posesthe same with it. We used to
paint our houses, interior of houseswith lead based paint, right and then
we found out that was bad.Used to build our homes with asbestos as
a fire retardant. There, that'sbad and it's been taken out. So
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in that way, you know thisstuff at some point in the future TCIPP
may not be in car interiors andwe're gonna all breathe these here then,
So we just do what we dountil we know better, right, more
or less? Yes, what's thename of that thing? Again? I
can't chloralize a propophosphate? Well,you just say it like you're an old
pro. Well I said it aboutsixty times today. So oh okay,
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And one other question is there arethere any cars out there that don't have
it? You know, I wasinterested this the Duke University study. They
looked at one hundred and one vehiclesand they what they did. They had
the drivers hang these special sensors fromthe review mirrors. Okay, so one
hundred one vehicles were tested, allof the model twenty fifteen or later.
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Ninety nine percent were found to containthis TCIPP. I'm not quite sure what
the one or one and a halfcars were that didn't have that. I'd
like to find that out though.Yeah, well, I guess that's another
reason too to follow the advice ofour money guy, cafi's Joel Larsgard and
get an older model car. Yeah, one that's already leached out to chemicals.
(37:14):
Then you don't get that new car. Smell okay. ABC's Jim Ryan,
thank you so much for the information. Yeah, I'm going to roll
down my windows on my way home. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. A state lawmaker from
Huntington Beach claims a secret carbon taxwill raise gas prices forty seven cents per
gallon next year and then fifty onecents a gallon in twenty twenty six.
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Republican state Senator Janet Wynn says thetax was hidden in an emissions reduction report
from the State Air Resources Board.Twenty twenty two was a year when the
price of skyrock across the nation,but it was higher here, reaching over
seven dollars a gallon, and it'snot going down. People can't afford to
live in California. The State AirResources Board says the estimates are not at
(38:00):
or a secret. The board saysthe incomplete preliminary report released last year just
offers options on how the state canmeet its clean energy goals. The state
has been paying the Feds a onedollar lease for Sana No Fray State Beach
for fifty years now, but that'sgoing to have to change with the tide.
That one dollar lease was established byNixon and Reagan. Surfrider Foundations Alex
(38:22):
Farren says new federal statutes mean thestate's fifth most visited state beach must renegotiate
a realistic lease. Trying to establishfair market value for this stretch of coastline
and have that be affordable for stateparks is the real difficulty. Surfrider Foundation
started a petition that's been signed bya few thousand people to ensure public access
(38:43):
will continue during negotiations, which mustbe complete by August. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson kaf I News, abill making it easier to convert vacant
buildings into housing is making its waythrough the state legislature. Advocates say downtown
LA is filled with deserted office buildingssince the pandemic, and they should be
used to house people. The billwould require cities to fast track the conversion
(39:05):
of empty buildings. State Assemblyman MattHaney introduced the bill Monday. A section
of Highway One in northern California thatwas shut down because of storm damage is
about to reopen earlier than expected.Governor Newsom made the announcement yesterday, saying
Cruise been working hard to quickly repairthe damage near Big Sir. We're trying
to address, we have been forsome time, the deep anxiety of folks
out there on Highway One. Andgood news is this Friday at six thirty
(39:30):
am, Highway one will be reopened. That's eight days sooner than scheduled.
In March, a rockslide below HighwayOne south of the Rocky Creek Bridge caused
part of the roadway to collapse,making it impassable. KFI AM six forty
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We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appand glad you're getting your day started
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to it. Lot's going on today. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
A person has been attacked and robbedon a metro bus and Encino.
(00:53):
That marks the third violent attack onthe Mestro metro system in twenty four hours.
The LAPD says the attack happened yesterdayafternoon near the intersection of Ventura Boulevard
and Balboa Avenue. Please say theyhave arrested an attacker. Eight teenagers on
a field trip to the LaBrea tarPits had to be taken to the hospital
after going on a different kind oftrip. LA Fire says the teens became
(01:17):
disoriented yesterday afternoon after taking cannabis edibles. Michael Cohen has testified for a second
day, and former President Trump's hushmoney trial. Cohen says he mislabeled checks
and created false receipts because of hisblind loyalty to Trump. ABC's Peter Hara
Lumbus has been in the courtroom everyday. We're going to be talking with
(01:38):
him in just a couple of minutes. Always enjoy our conversations, getting a
little inside scoop on what's going oninside the courtroom. Also a little bit
later this hour, Jim Ryan's goingto be telling us why your new car
could be making you sick. Ohgoodie, another thing to make us sick.
At six o five its handle onthe news, Tom Brady says he
regrets agreeing to be roasted during theNetflix Is a Joke Festival live streamed on
(02:00):
Netflix. Bill's going to tell youall about that. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out ofthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. And
assault on a metro bus in Encinoagain marks the third attack on the metro
system in twenty four hours. Ithappened yesterday afternoon. The attacker stole a
guy's cell phone and then slammed awrench into his chest. The night before
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a woman was stabbed at a greenline station in South LA and a man
was stabbed or actually a teenager wasstabbed on a bus in Glendale. He
was being robbed by three teenagers whowere trying to take his backpack. The
LAPED chiefs discussions are underway on howto make the Metro safer for riders and
drivers. Keith dominic Joy was askedat the weekly Board of Police Commissioner's meeting,
(02:43):
what is being done about the spikein violence on buses and trains?
The chief said, yesterday the LAPDand other agencies are having talks whether we
need to be in our vehicles oractually riding the lines, which is going
to have better coverage and more coverage. Do we need to increase ambassadors or
security guards? These are all discussthat we're having with MTA, the city,
the county, and the Metro boardhave all sawt tougher security measures in
(03:05):
recent weeks, but no formal longterm plan has been announced yet. In
downtown La, Michael Monks KFI News, a state senator from Huntington Beach,
claims a secret gas tax will increasegas prices by fifty cents per gallon for
each of the next two years incarbon tax, not including the state's gas
tax. Republican State Senator Janet Winsays she found the tax hidden in the
(03:27):
State Air Resources Board emissions reduction report, which means people can't get to the
grocery store, the doctor's offices towork. It will hit the middle class
and the low income. No wonderwhy people are leaving California. However,
the State Air Resources Board says thisis not a tax, it's just a
preliminary report that was released last yearthat discusses options for supporting cleaner fuel in
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Orange County. Corbin Carson KFI News, doesn't that make your blood boil?
You know, we're already paying twodollars more per gallon than the rest of
the country. And Corbin and thatwoman said, it's going to affect poor
people the most. Why why?Why? Yeah, that's the Secretary of
(04:20):
State Anthony Blincoln. He took alittle break from the horrors of war to
do a set with a Ukrainian barband. Blinken told the audience in the
basement bar the United States is withyou, and the Free World is with
you too, then played rocket inthe Free World. Blincoln met with Ukrainian
President Zelensky earlier in the day andvowed the US would continue to help Ukraine
(04:44):
overcome the Russian invasion. Let's saygood morning now to ABC's Peter Hara Lambus
sees front and center at the formerpresident's hush money trial. Good morning,
Peter. Michael Cohen on the standfor a second day. First, before
we dig into some more other interestingthings, tell us some of the highlights
and low lights of his testimony whenhe was being questioned. Yeah, so,
(05:09):
at this point we've heard from MichaelCohen for two days. He offered
some of the most damning testimony forformer President Donald Trump, saying that he
was deeply involved in the scheme tideinformation from voters, and that he directly
ordered him to make that Stormy Danieltouch money payment, and that he approved
a plan to repay Cohen that requiredfalse fying documents. Cohen has begun his
(05:31):
cross examination. Defense attorneys are reallyleaning in to his animosity for Donald Trump,
Conan admitting that he's called Donald Trump, saying this is including a cheeto
dusted cartoon villain, an borish,cartoon misogynist. Conan admitting that he used
to be obsessed with Donald Trump.He thought the art of the deal was
a masterpiece, and he told jurorsthat he was quote knee deep in the
(05:53):
cult of Donald Trump. Ultimately,this cross examination hasn't touched on the underlying
conduct. We haven't heard during thiscross examination about Stormy Daniels or hush money
payments, or the plan to youfalsify invoices and checks. It's really focused
on Cohen's conduct after you got releasedfrom prison in twenty twenty. So when
the cross examination picks up on Thursday, I expect we're going to hear more
(06:15):
about actually the heart of the criminalconduct here, because at the end of
the day, Cone is the onlywitness to clearly tie Trump to this conduct.
If the jury doesn't believe him,the case is not in good shape.
Okay, But the conduct of doingthe hush money payment is not illegal.
That's what defense attorneys have hammered atthis entire case. The idea of
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signing a non disclosure agreement. There'snothing illegal about that. There's nothing at
heart illegal about the Stormy Daniels payments. According to Trump's lawyers, defense that
prosecutors have offered a more complex legaltheory here. They're arguing that the entire
effort to silence people ahead of thetwenty sixteen election through these NDAs, these
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three different hush money payments, twohave them made by the Neat inquirer,
one of them made by Cohen,we're part of an illegal scheme to influence
the twenty sixteen election. The actualunderlying criminal conduct of those thirty four counts
of false find business records through thoseinvoices, those checks, those business ledgers.
According to prosecutors, that illegal conductfurther the conspiracy to influence the election.
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The jury will ultimately not have toworry too much about the law here.
The judge is going to instruct themon what the law means for them.
Really at the end of the day, the judge is going to set
essentially the kind of the goalposts here, and the jury will have to determine,
based on the facts and the evidencethey've heard, whether or not the
prosecution case has met that burden.Okay, And tomorrow Cohen's going to be
(07:41):
back on the stand for more crossexamination, right, Yeah, that's right.
I we'll probably hear more about theactual hush money payments on Thursday.
Defense lawyers have said there across thetermination will take the entire day the prosecution
case. If that cross the naminationends, the prosecution could theoretically rest their
case on thirsdy. Okay, Sotell us, Peter, because you're in
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the courtroom, how is the juryreacting or not reacting or do they react
at all? You know? WithCone's testimony, despite the fireworks at times,
what's been most interesting is the lackof reaction. The jury seems to
be paying attention. They're looking atCone for large portions of the testimony.
They're staring at the monitors in frontof them whenever evidence is presented. You
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know, despite being four weeks thiscase, they seem to be well attuned
and in paying attention. Interestingly,though, Donald Trump himself, despite this
being his cross examination of Cone,in a way, doesn't seem to be
dialed in at all. For largeportions of the afternoon session yesterday, Donald
Trump had his eyes completely closed.He was leaning back in his chair,
he had his head slumped forward attimes, making it seem as though he
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might be sleeping or just zoning outthis testimony. So it's kind of remarkable
to see for perhaps eighty ninety percentof the cross examination, Donald Trump's eyes
were completely closed. I think it'sinteresting that that becomes the focal thing.
Of course, I mean because hehas his eyes closed doesn't mean he's nodding
off. And I think there's alot of I mean, unless did you
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see him nodding off. No,that's one hundred percent right. At the
end of the day, Donald Trumpis suggested when he's closing his eyes,
he's just trying to take it allin. Yeah, And there's no evidence
to suggests, for example, hewas snoozing at his defense table at the
end of the day, as othercolleagues that I've reported with has kind of
suggested this might be an effort forDonald Trump at times to just zone it
(09:33):
out and focus on being there.It's not to suggest that, you know,
he's an old man and he's fallingasleep and he can't do an entire
day in court and more just bemight be an intentional effort or even a
signal to Michael Cohen that you know, he doesn't care about Basically, it's
hard to say with Donald Trump,we can't get in his head, but
he seems happy with the cross examinationyesterday. When he left court, he
(09:56):
said yesterday it was a good dayand he seemed excited for Thursday when this
crossing day miss continues, okay,and we will be watching. And I
have to ask you, because you'vebeen in the court every day. After
you're sitting there for a while,I mean, do you just want to
get up and run out? Ordo you I mean, is it comfortable
in there? It's fine? Imean, it's fine, afternoon. I
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think what's been interesting is the lasttwo weeks have been in particularly in particularly
quite exhausting with Stormy Daniels and thenMichael Cohen. And I'm curious what the
jury is like at this point becausethey've seen a lot of information and it's
come to them in a rapid succession. So I'm curious, based on I
guess my reaction to this testimony whereit's just felt like a lot in a
short period of time, how thejury is digesting all of this. Yeah,
(10:41):
well it would be a fun oneto watch. Most of us don't
get to you do, and thankyou for being our eyes and ears in
the courtroom. And we'll talk toyou soon. Absolutely, my pleasure will
all right, Thanks Peter. Let'sget back to some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four ournewsroom. Officials in Pasadena say the twenty
two year old driving the Tesla thatcrashed and killed people, including the driver,
(11:03):
had a suspended license. He'd beencited for DUI in September and recently
failed to show up for a hearingin the case, so an arrest warrant
was issued. Police say that teslawas speeding about one hundred miles an hour
early Saturday morning when it crashed intoseveral poles and then into a building.
Six people were in the car.A man has agreed to plead guilty to
hate crime charges for the targeted shootingsof two Jewish men in the Pico Robertson
(11:26):
area. US attorney Martine Estrada sayshe's very concerned about the crime. You
see, this person had these viewsfor many years, acted out on them,
sending vitriol to classmates of his.The guy charges accused of shooting the
men as they were leaving synagogues lastyear. Prosecutors say he researched kosher markets
(11:48):
to find areas where there would beJewish people. He's facing up to forty
years in jail, actually in prison. The driver of a pickup truck who
caused a crash in Florida that killedeight farm workers has been arrested for dui
and man's slaughter. Sheriff Billy Woodssays his heart goes out to those who
lost loved ones yesterday. I praythat the Good Lord will give them whatever
peace said he can to make themthrough this. Officials say Mexican citizens were
(12:13):
among those going to work at awatermelon farm when their bus was hit and
rolled over. A judge in Delawaresdenied a request by Hunter Biden's lawyers to
delay his federal gun trials set fornext month. The defense claimed pushing it
to September was necessary to line upwitnesses and go through evidence. The judge
says she thinks everyone can get donewhat needs to get done by the June
third start date. A federal appealscourt also ruled yesterday the tax case again
(12:39):
Biden, set to go on trialin California on June twentieth, can also
move forward. Okay. Very excitedabout this and hope you will be too.
Kfim six forty wants to give youthe chance to celebrate friendship and beyond
at the Disneyland resort. Pixar Festis back. It's going on now through
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It's a Pixar night Time Spectacular.More than just fireworks, it's also
projections and instead of tinker Bell,Buzz Lightyear soars across the sky and Carl
Frederickson's House from up will float overSleeping Beauty Castle. There's festival market places.
You can explore six different market placesin Disney California Adventure Park with tasty
menus inspired by Pixar stories. Can'twait to taste those. And also you
(13:28):
can see Pixar Pals wandering around atPixar Pier, hanging with a host of
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and I can give you a hint. We're giving those tickets away on wake
Up Call this week and other dayparts as well. A landfill in Palmdale's
being searched for the remains of amissing three week old child who was last
seen May third. The case hastransitioned from a missing child case to a
homicide. Authorities say the baby's parentsare both being held in Utah on unrelated
(14:13):
charges. UCLA could pay the Universityof California at Berkeley ten million dollars a
year for three years instead of sixyears as a result of the Bruins' upcoming
move to the Big ten and thedemise of the PAC twelve. The matter
is nicknamed Calimony by UCLA and calsupporters will come up for a vote for
the full Board of Regents on Thursday, no big surprise. Commutes in southern
(14:37):
California are some of the worst inthe US. A study from LLC dot
org says people who live in Palmdalehave the longest commute in the country,
at about ninety one minutes. Peoplewho live in Moreno Valley, Corona,
Fontana, and Lancaster are also inthe top ten at six oh five.
It's handle on the News guests,who is going to be on the cover
of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Oprah's friendGail King. Let's say good morning to
(15:03):
the host of Rich on Tech onKFI. It's KTLA's tech reporter Rich DeMuro
rich is, uh, well,you're in Mountain View for Google IO.
What is IO? What is thatstand for? Rich? IO stands for
input output. It is a developersconference. Yes, it's very nerdy,
(15:24):
and this is typically where Google showsoff kind of like their latest greatest in
hardware in software, and it's reallylike the first day is for the journalists
to see what Google's up to.They do a big keynote. But after
that then it's all for the developersso they can demo these tools that Google
has available so that they can buildapps on top of those tools. Okay,
(15:46):
wait, so what they told youabout it yesterday and now they're going
to start demoing it today. Yeah. They basically like they have a big
keno, you know, first thingright off the top, where you know,
all the main folks from Google kindof get up there and say here's
what we're working on. And thenafter that all of the developers who are
(16:07):
in the audience as well as thejournalists they kind of peel off and it's
almost like a tech circus I callit. There's food, there's drinks,
there's parties, there's but a lotof it is about learning and so for
the journalists yesterday. The big takeawayis that, you know, Google has
been a very dominant position for manymany years now, and now they are
(16:27):
being challenged by open ai, Andthat was kind of my main takeaway is
that Google is trying to figure outthis AI stuff. They have the smart
people to do it, but Googlemakes a lot of money on search advertising
and it's a very delicate balance.They don't want to disrupt that, but
they also want to embrace the AIstuff because they're getting a lot of pressure
(16:51):
from open ai and chat GPT.Okay, so I'm guessing that they have
some new tricks and toys that they'regoing to be unveiling. So what are
some of the things that they're comingout with. Yeah, so, I
mean some of the things I thoughtwere interesting. When it comes to Google
Photos, you'll now be able toask questions about your photos using AI.
(17:12):
So instead of searching for a particularphoto, you can say, hey,
when did my kid learn how toswim? And it will figure out when
you first started taking pictures of yourkids swimming and it will say, oh,
July first, twenty nineteen. Oryou can say what's my license plate
number and it will figure out thecar that you take the picture of the
most and I'll say, oh,here's your current license plate number. Things
(17:33):
like that. That's in Google Photos. Then when it comes to image creation
and audio creation, of course theyshowed off tools for generating artificial intelligence based
video, audio, and text.And that's of course text to text AI
to sorry, that's of course textto AI generation. Let's see Gmail.
(17:55):
This is actually really handy for folksusing Gmail. Instead of searching for any
email, you'll now have a sidebarthat will let you summarize your emails.
It will come up with really specificor applies to your emails. It will
just basically be a sidebar assistant tohelp you get through your email faster.
So it's all these examples that Googleshowed off yesterday. The best one,
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by the way, was this thingcalled Astro, which I got a demo
of. After and basically your phone, your phone becomes sort of a live
video chat window with AI. Soyou could just point your phone at something
and say, hey, tell meabout this, and then just talk back
and forth with it and interrupt itand ask it to tell you stories about
it, whatever you want. It'salmost like having the smartest person now on
(18:41):
a video call. With you.Okay. So for an example, I
could take my phone and point itat the board that I'm looking that we
used to run the newsroom, andI could say, tell me what this
is? Yeah, or hey,explain what this or how do I fix
this? Or and it's a backand forth, livetime conversation. Now,
(19:06):
this is something that they did notgive a date for. I did try
it out yesterday. It is justas amazing as you might imagine, because
it feels like the Internet is justin a chatbot with you, and it's
just different than typing because you're justshowing it something like I showed it a
donut and I said, hey,how many calories do you think are in
this thing? I mean, somethingas simple as that, Okay, And
(19:29):
then you were talking. That's justfreaky. So I mean, could you
point it a car and say teachme how to drive? Yeah? Absolutely,
I mean that's just imagine having aperson equipped with all of the world's
information that you can talk to andinteract with and interrupt. By the way,
so if you were talking, likewhile the AI assistant was talking,
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and the voice sounds really good,by the way, while the AI assistant
is talking, you just interrupt itand say okay, stop, just not
even stop, just interrupt it andask a different question, and it just
it just continues, and it's inalmost real time, which makes it uncanny.
Now, I know you're gonna probablyask about open ai because that's another
side of this. They showed offsomething very similar to this, and open
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Ai is putting a lot of pressureon Google right now because they on Monday
had a big event where they showedoff a whole bunch of stuff, including
a very similar vision response which isvery very fast and very similar. And
also a lot of their features aregoing free. So if you wanted the
best open ai features for chat GPT, you had to pay twenty dollars a
(20:37):
month. Now they're opening up alot of these you know, futuristic features
at a free price, which ispretty cool for people. And how do
they make money on it if they'reoffering it free? Well, funny you
should ask. I mean, look, we are training, We are training
their systems, and by us trainingthe free system, they make money on
the back end by selling their youknow systems to big companies that are developing
(21:02):
apps. So we are used totrain their system and then they use all
that great training to make their modelbetter, and they sell that model so
that people can create you know,all kinds of different apps that include AI.
Okay, it's all very interesting andstill just very unnerving to me,
but well, you just got toyou know, look, you just got
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to play with it. Like Google'sis called Gemini, so if you go
to Gemini dot Google dot com,you know, just kind of play around,
see what you can do with it. And then same thing with open
Ai chat GBT. That's the mainthing with these with these chatbots is that
there's no instructions. You just kindof see what they can do and you'll
be surprised. Okay, I'll giveit a shot. Kfis tech reporter Rich
(21:47):
Djimiro. He's the host of richon Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from
eleven to two. You can alsofollow Rich on Instagram at rich on Tech
website rich on Tech dot tv.I'm sure you're gonna have a lot more
to say about Google Io this weekendon rich on Tech on KFI. Can't
wait to talk about it all right, Thank you so much. Rich.
(22:08):
Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
our newsroom a plan to raise sewerrates for customers in La. We first
told you about it yesterday. Wellit's moving forward. The only city council
has given the green light to theSanitation Department's intention to raise sewer bills by
an average of twenty two percent thisfall and then more than double four years
from now. Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky setit yesterday's meeting. This hit is bigger
(22:30):
this year due to a long ratefree started during the pandemic. This sewer
fee was something that we did prettymuch every year to keep it small,
and we are now in the unfortunateposition that for five years we haven't assessed
it. There will be a protestperiod and a public hearing later this year
in downtown La. Michael monks KFINews. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken
(22:52):
has announced two billion dollars in anarms deal for Ukraine. It's mostly from
the package that we approved last month. Part of it. The total for
Ukraine is supposed to be over sixtybillion dollars. The President of Ukraine,
Zelenski, has postponed all of hisupcoming foreign visits because of a new Russian
offensive. His office says he hadsome trips planned for the coming days.
(23:17):
He was going to go to Spain, maybe Portugal later this week. Ukraine's
Army's been fighting to contain a frontlinepush by Russian forces. Russia's Defense ministry
says its air defenses shot down tenUS supplied Ukrainian missiles targeting Crimea. California
condors continue to make their comeback,thanks in large park to the Oregon Zoo.
(23:37):
The Zoo's California condor hatching program inthe Hills above Portland has thirteen fluffy
condor chicks this season. That's arecord for the zoo program that's been working
to grow the species for twenty yearsnow. In nineteen eighty two, only
twenty two condors remained in the wild. Now there are five hundred and sixty.
The chicks will spend at least eightmonths with their parents before moving to
(24:00):
pre release pens for about a year, and then they will eventually be released
back into the wild in California andArizona. The Dodgers take on the Giants
tonight at Oracle Park. The firstpitch goes out at six forty five.
You can listen to every play ofevery Dodgers game on AM five seventy LA
Sports live from the Galpin Motors Broadcastbooth, and you can stream all the
games in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports when
(24:25):
person has been attacked and robbed ona metro bus en Encino. That marks
the third violent attack on the metrosystem in just twenty four hours. LAPD
says the attack happened yesterday afternoon nearthe intersection of Ventura Boulevard and Balboa Avenue.
Good news is please say they've arrestedthe attacker. A guy who used
to live in Riverside has agreed toplead guilty to federal hate crime and gun
charges in connection with the shooting oftwo Jewish men last year as they were
(24:48):
leaving synagogues in the Pico Robertson neighborhood. Please say the man targeted men wearing
yarmacas both men survived. A miniaturepoodle named stage as one best in Show
at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Showin Queens, New York. The poodle
beat out twenty five hundred dogs competingto become best in Show at six oh
(25:11):
five. It's handled on the news. California Gas prices could spike another fifty
cents a gallon, you know,to save the planet at five point fifty.
You know that new car smell thatwe all like so much, Well,
ABC's Jim Ryan says it could bemaking you sick. Amy's on it,
Aami's on it. Amy's on it, Aami's on it? What am
(25:37):
I on? I'm on the stream, also on movies and books, but
mostly streaming, And there's so muchcontent out there. How do you decide
what in the heck you're going towatch and spend your time and invest in.
So hopefully I can help you navigatethrough that find some good stuff and
maybe some things that you might wantto skip. We're going to talk about
two today. The first one isfrom Paramount Plus. It's called You Hurt
(26:03):
My Feelings. It stars Julia LeuisDreyfuss. It was released in twenty twenty
three, although on Paramount Plus whenyou go to the when you google it,
it says it was released in twentytwenty four, so maybe it was
delayed and it was just recently released. It's supposed to be a comedy drama,
but there's also this weird romance aspectto it, so that's why I'm
(26:27):
talking about it as a romance.But You Hurt My Feelings is a story
about a novelist who had a bookout. She's working on a second book,
and she's having a tough time withit, writer's block and all that.
She seems to be in a perfectrelationship with her husband, who's a
psychiatrist, but then her world turnsupside down when she overhears him talking about
(26:51):
her book and he says he doesn'tlike it. Hurt My Feelings. There's
the name. It's kind of cute, has some charming parts. There's an
interesting supporting cast and some familiar faceslike Amber Tamblin and David Cross from Arrested
Development and one of the funniest linesever from Just Shoot Me Chicken Pop Chicken
Pop Chicken Pop Pie. I don'tknow if you remember that, but I
(27:15):
remember. We used to just playit over and over again and cry because
we were laughing so hard. Butthat's David Cross. It's slow, it's
kind of fun, but it's easyto walk away from. It's easy to
you know, like if you're doinghousework and you want to just have something
on. It is a good streamif you don't really have anything pressing to
do, but if it's a mussynah. And then there's Love Again,
(27:37):
which is on Netflix, and it'sanother one of those movies that I'd never
heard of, called Love Again,and I just kind of stumbled on it.
It stars Priyanka Chopra Jones. Isit Chopra or Chopra? She lost
her fiance, beautiful woman. She'sdevastated, of course, because she lost
her fiance. So it starts outthere that she loses him, and then
(28:00):
we fast forward two years and she'sstill looking to get some closure, so
she starts texting her fiance's phone number, and of course someone else now has
that number and starts getting the texts, and that's where it all begins.
Celine Dion is part of the storyline. Nick jonas her husband as a small
(28:22):
and very cute, funny role.It is a rom com, so it
has that meeting and that attraction anda misunderstanding is pretty formulaic. It's kind
of predictable, but it's a nicedistraction. And it's a rom com for
goodness sake, so of course it'spredictable. But I say give it a
watch. It's not great, butit is a good watch it's called Love
Again. It's very cute. It'son Netflix, and I recommend it.
(28:48):
Let's get back to some of thestories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. KTLA entertainment reporter SamRubin has been honored by the La City
Council. Council members called him aloss to local journalism and celebrated the l
see he leaves behind. Yesterday's meetingwas adjourned in memory of Sam Rubin.
Council President Paul krekrey And says Rubenwas a unique presence in the city.
In a city that is often sodivided and that reinvents itself so often,
(29:11):
to have one person for thirty yearsbe a voice that brought us together is
a rare achievement. Rubin died ofa heart attack last week after three decades
on LA Television in downtown La.Michael monks KFI News that one was such
a shock, such a shock,and you know what, the people at
(29:32):
KTLA, I don't know how theydid it. They, you know,
talking about somebody that they worked withevery day. And I know, I
don't know where you were when youheard it, but I was like,
I just watched him yesterday. Imean, how can he be gone?
And they had to sit and talkabout it and talk about it, and
of course they got to share theirstories and hopefully that helps them with their
grieving and stuff. But wow,that was a big loss for LA.
(29:55):
A missing baby report in the AnalepeValley has led to a homicide investigation and
a search for the baby's body ina landfill. The three week old was
last with his father on May third. The family hasn't seen him since.
The father and the baby's mother areboth in jail in Utah for abuse and
obstruction charges not related to the missingboy. Investigators didn't say what led them
(30:15):
to the landfill yesterday. Nothing wasfound. The United Nations says more than
a half million Palestinians in Gaza havebeen displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli
military operations in Rafa and also inthe north. No food has been able
to get into the main border crossingsin southern Gaza for over a week now.
(30:36):
The UN says more than a millionPalestinians face catastrophic levels of hunger and
are on the brink of starvation.Congressional aids say the Biden administration has told
key lawmakers. It is sending morethan a billion dollars in additional arms and
ammunition to Israel. It's not knownhow soon the weapons would be delivered.
Biden recently put another arms transfer toIsrael on hold because he said he did
not want to provide the weapons forIsrael's millielitary operations in Rafa. More than
(31:02):
twelve hundred military veterans and others havebegun their Run for the Wall. The
motorcycle ride from California to DC startsin Ontario in just about an hour.
Bikers will be splitting off into threedifferent groups and take three different routes across
the country for the journey. Thegroups will then come back together on May
twenty fifth at the Vietnam Veterans MemorialWall. A landfill in Palmdale's being searched
(31:27):
for the remains of a missing threeweek old child who has last seen May
third. The case has transitioned froma missing child case to a homicide case.
No surprise. Commutes in southern Californiaare some of the worst in the
US. A study from LLC dotOrg says people who live in Palmdale have
the longest commute in the country.Ninety one minutes on average. People who
(31:48):
live in Moreno Valley, Corona,Fontana, and Lancaster are also in the
top ten. Right now, let'ssay good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan.
Jim, we all love that newcar smell, but it could be making
us sick. It could well,great, you're right, that's according to
a study from Duke University. Theylooked at vehicles one hundred and one vehicles
built since twenty fifteen and found thatninety nine percent of them contained chloralizopropyl phosphate
(32:15):
dcipople is that. Yeah, it'sa fire retardant. You know, it's
a flame retardant that's built into seatsand cushions and head rests and sun visors.
Anything with a padded surface inside acar is likely to contain tcipp.
And since nineteen seventy one that's beenthe case. These newer cars were tested
(32:36):
and then indeed it would sound thatthey still do contain these things by law.
But yeah, they could be causingproblems, could be making your eyes
water, your throat itch, andin the worst case Canario scenario, says
Duke University, could be causing cancer. There could be carcinogenic materials inside those
vehicles. So, yeah, it'san issue, and especially in places like
(32:58):
southern California and in Texas, Arizona, any place where it's really hot,
you get into your car in thesummertime, you can feel just the heat
inside that vehicle. Best thing todo, open the windows, turn on
the AC, blow the stuff outof there before you start driving. Then
recirculate, don't don't hit recirculate insidethere in the AC system. You know,
(33:19):
bring fresh air into the car.You know, fresh is a relative
term if it's coming from the outside, but it may be better than what's
on the inside of your car.Okay, And you said that there are
potentially carcinogenic materials. Aren't there potentiallycarcinogenic materials in everything? But these days?
So I mean, are the concentrationshigh enough that people have actually gotten
(33:40):
cancer from this? That's a greatquestion. And I mean there's no data
about that, specifically about you know, specific illnesses that it might have caused
or or cancers that resulted from it. But I think it just serves as
a warning from these researchers that thelonger you're in that environment, the longer
you're exposure or to those kinds ofchemicals, the greater risk of running into
(34:02):
trouble. And so, I meanthe goal is to try to shorten the
time that you have to spend inyour vehicle. That it's hard to do.
Summertime is here and people are goingto be taking road trips. Well,
it's especially tough for the people wholive in Land, who live in
Palmdale, who a new study saysthey have the longest commutes in the US.
I heard that, Yes, spendingan hours and hours inside your car.
(34:23):
But yeah, and so just keepin mind that you need to keep
the air flowing. Okay, Sohere's a question for you. Obviously,
you get that new car smell,which everybody likes when the car is new,
or when you go to the youknow, when you go and get
a car washing and then get anair freshener. But is there anything that
you can do when you first geta car, you know, like you're
(34:45):
supposed to off gas mattresses. Isthere anything you should do for your car?
Well, do what you can inthat regard, you know, try
to off gast some of that stuff. And it's the same as walking into
a brand new house. You're like, I can do this is a new
house. Well, that's because ofthe formal to hide in the car.
You know, it's the stuff,those those chemicals that have been added to
materials inside in a house. Andthe same holds true for your car.
(35:07):
So yeah, try to vent someof that stuff off of there, open
up the car, let it airout as best you can. But these
things, you know, it takestime for it to leach out of the
materials inside your car seat and theheadliner and then signed byers or all the
rest of it. What's more,a statement from the International Firefighters Association says
(35:28):
that those chemicals really aren't that greatdebt preventing or keeping fire from spreading inside
a car. And firefighters, youknow, set out to put out car
fires, the smoke coming off ofthere could have fumes. That's even in
greater concentration for them. Is thereany effort to get these things, to
get the flame retardants off of theventure There are, you know, and
(35:50):
there are people working right now inlaboratory somewhere trying to limit that that chemical
or limit the risk that it posesthe same with it. We used to
paint our houses, interior of houseswith lead based paint, right and then
we found out that was bad.Used to build our homes with asbestos as
a fire retardant. There, that'sbad and it's been taken out. So
(36:10):
in that way, you know thisstuff at some point in the future TCIPP
may not be in car interiors andwe're gonna all breathe these here then,
So we just do what we dountil we know better, right, more
or less? Yes, what's thename of that thing? Again? I
can't chloralize a propophosphate? Well,you just say it like you're an old
pro. Well I said it aboutsixty times today. So oh okay,
(36:32):
And one other question is there arethere any cars out there that don't have
it? You know, I wasinterested this the Duke University study. They
looked at one hundred and one vehiclesand they what they did. They had
the drivers hang these special sensors fromthe review mirrors. Okay, so one
hundred one vehicles were tested, allof the model twenty fifteen or later.
(36:53):
Ninety nine percent were found to containthis TCIPP. I'm not quite sure what
the one or one and a halfcars were that didn't have that. I'd
like to find that out though.Yeah, well, I guess that's another
reason too to follow the advice ofour money guy, cafi's Joel Larsgard and
get an older model car. Yeah, one that's already leached out to chemicals.
(37:14):
Then you don't get that new car. Smell okay. ABC's Jim Ryan,
thank you so much for the information. Yeah, I'm going to roll
down my windows on my way home. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twentyfour hour newsroom. A state lawmaker from
Huntington Beach claims a secret carbon taxwill raise gas prices forty seven cents per
gallon next year and then fifty onecents a gallon in twenty twenty six.
(37:37):
Republican state Senator Janet Wynn says thetax was hidden in an emissions reduction report
from the State Air Resources Board.Twenty twenty two was a year when the
price of skyrock across the nation,but it was higher here, reaching over
seven dollars a gallon, and it'snot going down. People can't afford to
live in California. The State AirResources Board says the estimates are not at
(38:00):
or a secret. The board saysthe incomplete preliminary report released last year just
offers options on how the state canmeet its clean energy goals. The state
has been paying the Feds a onedollar lease for Sana No Fray State Beach
for fifty years now, but that'sgoing to have to change with the tide.
That one dollar lease was established byNixon and Reagan. Surfrider Foundations Alex
(38:22):
Farren says new federal statutes mean thestate's fifth most visited state beach must renegotiate
a realistic lease. Trying to establishfair market value for this stretch of coastline
and have that be affordable for stateparks is the real difficulty. Surfrider Foundation
started a petition that's been signed bya few thousand people to ensure public access
(38:43):
will continue during negotiations, which mustbe complete by August. In Orange County,
Corbin Carson kaf I News, abill making it easier to convert vacant
buildings into housing is making its waythrough the state legislature. Advocates say downtown
LA is filled with deserted office buildingssince the pandemic, and they should be
used to house people. The billwould require cities to fast track the conversion
(39:05):
of empty buildings. State Assemblyman MattHaney introduced the bill Monday. A section
of Highway One in northern California thatwas shut down because of storm damage is
about to reopen earlier than expected.Governor Newsom made the announcement yesterday, saying
Cruise been working hard to quickly repairthe damage near Big Sir. We're trying
to address, we have been forsome time, the deep anxiety of folks
out there on Highway One. Andgood news is this Friday at six thirty
(39:30):
am, Highway one will be reopened. That's eight days sooner than scheduled.
In March, a rockslide below HighwayOne south of the Rocky Creek Bridge caused
part of the roadway to collapse,making it impassable. KFI AM six forty
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