May 9, 2025 • 42 mins
Heather Brooker fills in for Amy King while she is on vacation in Paris, France. ABC News correspondent Brian Clark opens the show talking about Pope Leo XIV, the first American Pope. The host of ‘Home’ on KFI Dean Sharp joins the show and gets candid about color. The show closes with ABC News correspondent Shannon Kingston discussing Trump appointing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in DC.
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Good morning, it's five o'clock on your wake up Call
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This week. You did it, Ann, you didn akay, So
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It's not your first time on the board, Oh, she
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want to hear from you right now. Here's what's ahead
on wake Up Call. The new Pope has a hometown
connection with LA Archbishop Jose Gomez. He is celebrating the
historic rise of Pope Leo the fourteenth, and we're going
to tell you why. He says, this American pontiff brings
hope to immigrant communities, and tough choices are ahead at
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LA City Hall. Job cuts are coming and not everyone
will be spared what some on the council are saying
about the city's billion dollar budget shortfall. Newport Beach Police
have released dash cam video of a deadly shooting evolving.
Forty five year old Jeffrey Sterling, the brother of former
Real Housewives star Polise Sterling, grabbed an officer's taser during
(02:30):
a struggle before he was shot and then later died
at the hospital. Ahead on wake up Call at five
oh five, we're going to get the latest news on
Pope Leo's first day as pontiff. We'll have more details
on the two hundred and sixty seventh Pope and tell
you what significance this pope has for Americans. At five
(02:50):
point twenty, a new housing development promises to be wildfire proof.
We're going to get a closer look at how they
created this neighborhood and how it could change the landscape
of housing in Califul, Wornia. Then at five point thirty five,
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, joins us we are going
to be talking about one of the trickiest parts of
home design color. From why your brain is to blame
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for that weird green wall or how to pick the
right white Dean is going to explain the science and
psychology behind every shade and if I point fifty, controversy,
politics and a familiar face from primetime TV. President Trump
has tapped Fox News host Jeanine Pirot to serve as
the interim US attorney for DC, replacing a Trump loyalist
(03:33):
linked to January six. We're going to break it all
down and what it means for justice in the Capitol
with ABC as Shannon Kingston. Then at six 'zh five,
it's handle on the news. The US has agreed to
cut tariffs on some UK goods, and the UK has
agreed to buy more American beef and ethan all. We're
going to tell you about the deal and tell you
what it means for consumers. But let's get started with
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some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The election of Pope Leo has been
well received at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Archbishop Jose Gomez says it's a great day for America
and the world. He says he looks forward to Pope
Leo leading the Catholic Church. Gomez talked yesterday at the
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown LA
shortly after the announcement.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'm delighted to welcome Leo, the fourteenth an honor to placementphilia, love,
and obedience to our new Holy Father.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The archbishop says, the new Pope's experience as an American
who served in Latin America gives him keen insight into
issues facing immigrants. A Mass of Thanksgiving has been scheduled
for noon at the cathedral downtown. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
A judge, we'll hear a motion today to remove the
La County DA's office from the Menendez brother's case. The
defense wants new prosecutors, but DA Nathan Hoffman and Attorney
General Rob Bonta pose the move. Eric and Lyle Menendez
are serving life or killing their parents in nineteen eighty nine.
Yesterday we spoke with ABC's Brian Clark as the world
watched and waited for that white smoke from the Vatican,
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and then just a few hours later, history was made
as American Cardinal Robert Prevost has elected as the two
hundred and sixty seventh Pope of the Catholic Church. Brian
joins us again now with a recap of this extraordinary
moment in church history and a look at what's next.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Good morning, Brian, good morning, thanks for having me again.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
All right, So walk us through those moments after the
pope was elected and we got this new pope leadership.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, we were all watching the chimney.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We saw the seagulls flopping around, and then all of
a sudden, we saw the white smoke.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So there's the excitement.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Okay, there's a pope, but there's a more than an
hour wait from the time we see the white smoke,
knowing that the cardinals have made their selection to seeing
the pope for the first time. So the drama, the pageantry,
the suspense, it all builds. And then on the low
show overlooking Saint Peter Square, the hobbais popham announcement and
everybody is straining to try to understand the Latin that's
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being read, and you have to go back and watch
it a few times. But nobody realized at first, at
least immediately, that he was saying, you know, Cardinal Prevost,
who was going to take the name Pope Leo. And
then we became aware that it was Robert Prevost of
the United States was going to be Pope Leo the fourteenth.
And then we saw him for the first time, and
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I think we could just see on his face the
emotion and the magnitude of that moment, it was really extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
All right. So the conclave wrapped up kind of quickly.
I think some people thought it might go a little
bit longer. So what do we know about how the
cardinals came to this decision so fast.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Well, it maybe seemed a little bit quicker than we
might have thought, but it was in line with what
we've seen over the last few conclaves. It only lasted
two days, so that's a little bit shorter. But in
terms of the number of votes they took, remember, three
votes came and went with no pope before they convened
for that afternoon session yesterday, So that was about in
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line with what's been averaged for really about one hundred
and fifty years or so for the most part. So
it seems like there was a pretty quick decision from
these cardinals. One of our correspondents was in Saint Peters
Square actually able to speak with Cardinal Bow and archbishop
from Asia. The cardinals obviously can't talk about their actual
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decisions or their actual votes, but he said that he
kept saying very happy, and he said trump and put
his hands together to signal a bridge and saying dialogue
just about what perhaps a new pope can do in
terms of relations with the United States government and relations
with the global sphere.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, I think that will definitely be something to watch.
And one thing we thought was really interesting too is
in his first message, Pope Leo emphasized peace and unity
and continuity with Pope Francis. Now, how is that being
received both inside the Vatican and around the world.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's going to be the big question.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Is this a continuation of what Pope Francis was doing,
Is this a sharp departure from what Pope Francis was doing,
or is it somewhere in the middle, which is probably
the most likely answer. We were looking for clues from
everything to what he was wearing this morning. Is he
celebrated Mass for the first time. He was wearing the
plain black shoes, the same kind that Pope Francis wore,
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not those flashy red slippers made by Gucci that we
saw Pope Benedict wear, the more traditional footwear for a pope.
So from those little clues he could try to get
some crumbs, but it's really going to be in terms
of deeds and what he does, what kind of priorities
he sets. This is somebody who has done a you know,
he's experienced living in Peru.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
He's actually a dual citizen.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
So that missionary work and that service work that Pope
France has made such a high priority for the church,
you would think that continues under Pope Leo.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And quickly, before we let you go, what has the
response been like in the US Catholic community to the
first American Pope.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Incredible excitement, especially you look in the Chicago area where
the pope grew up. We're hearing from his brothers and
they were saying that he was always interested. You know,
when they were little, they would play the average child
will play cops and robbers, but he would always be
giving out Neco wafers'.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Communion as the Eucharist.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
So there's a lot of excitement that it's an American
and now I think everybody just wants to wait and see.
People were hearing people who maybe went to school with him,
studied with him. They're excited for him, and they're saying
that the world will be excited as.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
They get to know this new pope more and more.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I think even non Catholics at this point are just
feeling a little bit of American pride in this situation, like,
yay an American.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
That's absolutely right. You heard it from President Trump yesterday.
I think he spoke for everybody. He said, we were
a little surprised, but what an honor and how exciting
this is for the United States.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, it really is. Well, Brian, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
chair of the La City Council Budget Committee has said
that there is no way to save all the city
jobs slated for layoffs. Councilwoman Katie or Aslovsky says, the
council has to adopt a budget and there will be cuts.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
We will put together a balanced budget, one that restores
key services to the extent possible and minimizes our structural
deficit heading into next year, which will almost certainly be
a tough one as well.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
The committee has worked to protect some of the sixteen
hundred positions proposed for layoffs by Mayor bas It'll finish
its work next week and then the full council will
weigh in on the one billion dollar budget shortfall. Officials
with the Eli County Public Health departments say new soil
testing has found high levels of lead and other toxic
materials at homes burned down in the wildfires and cleared
(10:34):
by federal cleanup crews. The company doing the test say
in areas of the Eaton Fire burn scar, about twenty
seven percent of soil samples still have lead levels above
California's safety standards. In the Palisades fire zone, it's not
as bad, with three percent of samples from scraped areas
and twelve percent of areas not yet scraped having elevated levels.
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A proposal by the Trump administration to cut federal rental
assistance programs could affect thousands of people in californiakfi's Deanna
Kodiak says the proposal would push for a forty three
percent reduction for programs like public housing and Section eight.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
The plan aims to give states more control and proposes
limiting rental assistance to two years for able bodied adults,
focusing support on the elderly and disabled. Advocates argue this
could worsen the housing crisis and increase homelessness, especially for
minimum wage workers.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Some studies have suggested minimum wage workers can't afford a
one bedroom apartment in just six percent of counties in
the US. The man accused of stalking Jennifer Aniston and
crashing through her bel air gate appeared in court shirtless
and wrapped in what they called a suicide prevention blanket.
Jimmy Carwile faces felony charges, but proceedings are pause pending
(11:49):
a mental health evaluation. He's ordered to stay one hundred
yards away from Aniston Deny. The Dodgers are taking on
the Diamondbacks in Arizona, with the first pitch at six forty.
Listen to all Dodgers games on AM five seventy LA
Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream
all Dodgers games NHD on the iHeartRadio app keyword AM
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five seventy LA. Sports. Authorities are investigating a disturbing discovery
near a SoCal hiking trail where the remains of a
man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds. The
bodies were located near a popular trail in the San
Bordino Mountains. Sambordino County Sheriff's Department is treating the case
as a double homicide and is asking for information for
(12:30):
the public. Animal of details is asked to contact the
Sheriff's department. A Sacramento man has been sent to twelve
years in federal prison for leading a catalytic converter theft
ring that generated thirty eight million dollars to Souvang, along
with his brother and mother, purchased stolen converters from local
thieves and ship them to a New Jersey refinery. The
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operation was part of a larger six hundred million dollar scheme.
Vang used the illicit proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle,
including perchaeeing, luxury homes and vehicles. Twenty four Hour Fitness
is offering discounted summer memberships for high school students. They
say this initiative aims to promote health and wellness among
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teens during the summer break. Interested students can sign up
at their local twenty four Hour Fitness club. What about
interested moms? I would like to also sign up for
that and at six zh five it's handle on the news.
A federal lawsuit alleges UCLA Medical School is using race
as a factor in admissions. We'll check in with Neil
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Savadra and we'll explain all about it coming up right now,
we're going to learn more about Dixon Trail in Escondido.
It is the first neighborhood in the US purpose built
to resist wildfire, from ember resistant vents to noncombustible fences.
KB Homes says they've constructed houses designed to survive the
next big blaze. But with millions of Californians living in
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high risk zones, can this model be scaled up up?
And who will pay for it? Joining me now is
Steve Ruffner, SVP of KB Homes. Hi, Steve, let's just
jump right in. Given that the homes in the Dixon
Trail started over at about a million dollars, what strategies
is KB Homes considering to make wildfire resistant housing more
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accessible and affordable for more Californians, especially those in high
risk fire zones.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Yeah, so that's the reason we did this project was
a kind of a research and development project to understand
the costs associated with doing the IBHS program in a
high fire zone. These homes are actually even though they're
in the like a million to a million one fifty,
they're actually at the medium price for a home in
San Diego County.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And then does KB Homes have any plan to replicate
the wildfire resilient design there in Dixon Trail into other
developments in California.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
That's what we're using this project to figure out how
we can do it. Obviously, we would only do this
in a high fire zone, and when you look at
the high fire zones in the state of California, those
have grown with a new map.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Are there any insurance benefits to living in a community
like Dixon Trail.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Yeah, So we're sharing this information with all the insurance
companies IBHS and ourselves have been meeting with them to
go over what the benefits of this program are.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And I'm sure it.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Will benefit the customers in the long term. Currently, all
of our customers that have closed are in s grow
do you have insurance? And that's a big plus a
high fire zone, so they are able to get insurance
at a reasonable price.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Only about half of the sixty four homes in this
Escondido neighborhood have been built, but they've already had their
grand opening. This is also the first time that the
Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety has given their
stamp of approval to an entire neighborhood. Joining me now
to talk about why they give their seal of approval
on an entire neighborhood is Ian Giamonco from IBHS.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes, so the Dixon's Trail development from KB home is
the first that meets our newest construction standard, which is
our Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood standard. They have what's called the
provisional designation in that space as the neighborhood is still
being constructed, but the homes in that neighborhood have put
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together the best system that science can offer to make
those homes more resistant to an approaching wildfire. So we
can start really at the roof system. They all have
what's called the Class A roof, which is the most
fire resistant material. They have non combustible wall covers, they
have double pain tempered glass, and then all the way
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down to perhaps the kind of the piece that ties
a lot of this system of fire resistance together. In
the first five feet from their wall outward, they have
a non combustible area, which is that last chain of
where fire can get to our homes. So that not
only includes non combustible landscaping, but it also includes things
like metal fences, so there's no bustable material that can
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ignite that directly touches the home in that five foot zone.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Would something like this make it easier for homeowners to
get fire insurance.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
So this is absolutely you know, with the insurance pressures
we see in the California market, this is the path
toward making sure you have the best chance for not
only insurance accessibility, that you can get coverage. All the
features of these homes also fall under the state of
California is a Safer for Wildfire discount program, so there's
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avid incentives out there for homeowners.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Do these homes come with sort of a seal of approval,
some kind of certification showing that their homes are made
safer against wildfires.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So IBHS issues each homeowner, as their homes are constructed
and inspected, will get a Wildfire Prepared Home designation. All
these homes have our Plus level, which is the highest
level of protection, so each homeowner will get that designation.
All of those features that are associated with those homes
do fall under the state's program that has incentives built in,
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and the neighborhood itself, once it is fully completed and inspected,
will get their full Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood designation. As I
mentioned right now, it's provisional. We've looked at the designs
with Katie Holmes and made sure all those provisions were met,
and so once that neighborhood's completed, each home owner not
only will have their own designation for their home through
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the Wildfire Prepared Home Program, the entire community the Wildfire
Prepared Neighborhood designation will exist there for everybody.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Ian and Steve, thank you so much for your time.
I think it's fair to say that these types of
requirements may become standard in the future of home building
in California. All right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
California and more than a dozen other states are suing
the Trump administration over blocking offshore wind leases.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Governor Gavin Newsome estimates offshore wind could produce up to
twenty five gigawatts by twenty forty five, significantly more than
the Diablo Kenyon nuclear plants output. In December twenty twenty two,
five companies were granted rights to develop wind farms over
more Obey and Humboldt Bay in northern California, at least
twenty miles from shore. Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized the
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order for harming clean energy, progress and local economies. Dina
Kodiak KFI News.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
The La City Council is scheduled to vote today on
two resolutions intended to demonstrate support for state legislation that,
if approved, would modernize California's film and TV tax credit program.
It's part of state and local efforts to support the
declining film industry as production has been affected by several challenges,
including the COVID pandemic and actors and writers' strikes, as
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well as the recent wildfires. A new study on cracking
eggs may surprise some people.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the first American pope.
He has taken the name Pope Leo the fourteenth. So
Cal Edison has removed an electrical transmission tower thought to
be connected with the ignition of the Eton fire. The
twenty twenty eight Olympic opening ceremonies have been scheduled for
the Colisseum and Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
All Right, well, that was a fun little recap of
news stories from Deborah Mark. Thanks dev all Right, let's
move along. Los Angeles is experience A brief heat wave,
with the Inland Empire temperature soaring into the nineties and
even reaching triple digits in some areas. On Friday and Saturday,
the beaches will see highs in the upper seventies and eighties,
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and while the heat is expected to ease up by
Mother's Day, temperatures will still remain above normal. Kendrick Lamar
leads the twenty twenty five BET Awards with ten nominations,
including Album of the Year for gn X and Video
of the Year for his Grammy winning diss track Not
Like Us. Ceremony is going to air in LA on
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June ninth. NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce made good
on a bet after the Boston Celtic lost Game two
to the New York Knicks. Pierce had vowed to walk
fifteen miles to work barefoot in a bathrobe if the
Celtics lost to get at home after their ninety one
ninety defeat. He started walking on a twenty mile eight
hour track across Los Angeles, documenting the entire journey on
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social media, and though he wore shoes instead of going barefoot,
he honored his promise, stating I'm a man of my word.
Then in six oh five, it's handle on the news.
United Airlines CEO says, well, he's glad that there's plans
for a new air traffic controller system that was announced
by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, but he's warning more problems
(21:37):
will be inevitable if we don't modernize the system soon.
All right, let's dive into a topic that surrounds us
every second of every day, but most of us still
struggle to get it right. We're talking about color, what
it is, how it works, and why your kitchen might
look like a toothpaste ad gone wrong. Joining us now
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is our favorite design and Bill Despert, the house whisper
Dean Sharp, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Dean, Good morning, Heather. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You too.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I don't know if you heard, just really quickly the
last segment. I don't want to put you on the
spot here, but about wildfire home safety. Did you happen
to catch that at all?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I just want to know. The segment was about this
neighborhood in Escondido that is entirely wildfire proof, and it's
been certified, and people who move there will get certifications
for that. I was just wondering. And you know, I
know you do a lot of building. You're helping people
all the time with their homes. Are you getting more
requests for wildfire safety and safety proof homes?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh, my gosh, all the time, all the time. I
believe it. Yeah, And there's a lot of misunderstanding about it, Betty,
if you want to take a second, I'll be happy
to tell you.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Some of it is more overblown than what people think.
And I'm very familiar with the neighborhood. You're referring to
that certification, and that's great. I'm glad that they've done that.
But I got to tell you that most homes only
have a couple of things that need to be added
in order to have that level of fire hardening. For instance,
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if you own a home in southern California and it's
had a new roof on it anytime in the last
thirty to forty years, then that's a fire safe roof.
If you've got a stucco home in California, which well
over eighty percent of the homes are, then that's a
fire safe exterior. And it's just the nature of those materials. Now,
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if you live up against an open space, and you've
got standard windows instead of tempered glass windows, then that's
something that you can do. But I talk about this
all the time. The most important thing that every homeowner
in southern California could do to fire harden their home
is to get ember proof vents. Because in a wildfire situation,
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eight out of ten homes that burn ignite not be
because the flames have approached their house, but because embers
have arrived from a fire that still may be like
two miles away. So ember proofing your home, big, big way,
goes a long way towards plugging those holes.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I think that is so fascinating, and I think it
is an area of home building in Los Angeles and
especially Southern California that is going to continue to grow
and develop, and I think, you know, it'll be it'll
be interesting to see if we're going to see more
neighborhoods like this pop up, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And I hope so, I hope, I hope more builders
take it very seriously. From day one and more homeowners
asked the question, well, what more do I need to
do to my house in order to get it up
to speak?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah? Absolutely, And one of the things that people love
to do when they're building a new home is pick
out colors. Yeah, I am so excited. I love this topic.
It seems so simple, but it is so important. So
let's talk about just the basics. What what is color?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, color is a mess, that's what it is. Everybody
gets wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I know I do.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I feel like I do.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Oh no, I feel you. You know, I know your nightmares.
I've stood in your All you wanted to do is
freshen up the living room. So you know, you hopped
in the car and headed down to the paint store
and next thing you know, you're standing paralyzed in front
of a twenty foot long wall of color samples, and
behind you is a kid who pushes the buttons to
mix your paint. And last week she was working at
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Forever twenty one. And although she knows how to operate
the paint machine, she's probably received zero hours of color
theory training, and so she's really in no help. And
you know, you're completely overwhelmed. And even if you have
a decorator who suggested a triad of colors for your home,
you know, how do you know they're right? Do you
even know what a color triad is do you have one?
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Do you want one? Is there a way to check?
And then you know, you start feeling nauseous and you're
tempted to bolt out of there, but you press on.
You grab a few samples which seem, you know, know,
kind of good. You head home, only to discover that
when you walk them into the room itself, oh, they
look awful. And so this is such a common experience
(26:10):
with people, and there are reasons why, and that's what
we're going to break down for everybody this weekend, starting
with the fact that one of the biggest problems with
color is that it's an illusion. Color isn't actually a
real physical thing in the world. Color is in our heads.
It's the way a human brain interprets different wavelengths and
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frequencies of light. And because of that, when you get
one frequency next to another, the color changes and people
swear they're like, I don't know if it's me or
I'm crazy, but this color was different at the store
than it is in my living room.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
No, no, it's absolutely true. Yeah, And so there are
a series of steps that we've got to go through
in order to make sure we end up with the
color that we want because color is tricky, it really is.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It is, And I want to share with you quickly
my nightmare story. When my husband and I first got
married in our house, this was a very long time ago.
I'm very old, and we thought it would be so
fun to have a bright kitchen. So we were like,
you know what, let's paint it yellow. And we picked
up this beautiful yellow color and I was like, you know,
we'll accent it with like a darker contrasting color. And
(27:19):
so we picked black and we painted our whole kitchen
and we realized, oh my gosh, it looks like a bee.
It was black and yellow, and we had major regrets
and had to completely repaint it. So there is something
to that where you pick out a color in the
store and you think this will be great, and then
you get it home and you see your actual homelighting
(27:40):
and how it looks in your house. What I love
this color? Here, this color? This question. If you're picking
a color to keep the inmates calm in a prison,
what would it be?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know, it's weird. Their studies have been done about that.
It's pink Baker Miller pink akap six eighteen or drunk tank.
Pink clinically proven to reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior.
And if you think about it, like some of the
(28:14):
shows that you've seen, if you've ever seen the inside
of a prison on the news show, there's this weird
kind of pinkish background in a lot of prison cells,
and it is it's the ultimate feminine color. But it
lowers blood pressure, heart rate, even affects muscle strength in males.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
That's probably why they put it in baby's rooms too
right for little babies.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, exactly. But you know, ladies, here's a tip. If
you want to intimidate a man in a business environment,
don't dress gray like him. Go pink because it literally
makes him physically weaker. It does.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's our superpower we know about colors. There you go.
I love this topic and I wish we could continue
to talk about it more. But everybody is super lucky
because they can hear you talk about it even more
and all of your other expertise on the house whisper
on Home with Dean Sharp every Saturday from six to
eight am and on Sundays from nine to noon on kfive. Dean,
you're the best. I always enjoy talking with you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Thanks Heather. We're going to be talking about color all
Sunday long, so join us.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
We'll do. Thank you. All right, it's time to get
up in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahue. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
I love it and I'm sorry. I'm sick today, so
I have a head cold, so we'll see how I
get through it. I sound brutal today.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
That is the worst feeling. I totally understand. No, and
then especially when you're on a radio, then everyone's like, hey,
are you okay? Yeah, all right, well we'll jump right
in then for today. I love this. Pop Tarts are
going to be going from your toaster to your freezer.
I have mixed feelings about this. I love my pop tarts.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
Well, there's this new snack obsession that we're going to
be seeing coming soon. Pop Tarts is expanding into ice
cream pints and sandwiches. So the pints will blend ice
cream with the little pastry pieces.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
I like that anything that has like a little bit
of a crunch to it. And the flavors include frosted
brown sugar, cinnamon, frosted strawberry, and frosted s'mores. Meantime, the
ice cream sandwiches will be available in three flavors, the
frosted brown sugar, cinnamon, frosted strawberry, and frosted chocolate fudge.
So you can get them now at Walmart, and I'll
be at other retailers down the line. I am sure
(30:22):
I am going to be heading over to it, especially
that I'm sick.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
It'd be so nice to have an ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 11 (30:27):
There you go, Do you feel better?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I love this. Next topic, you know, we're gonna talk
about Costco. Bill Handle isn't here today, so we'll have
to fill him in next week. But Costco shoppers will
soon have a monthly payment option. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
So the warehouse store tapping a firm to let its
online choppers pay for pay overtime for a transaction. So
this has been helping a lot of retailers lately sell
those bigger ticket items that a lot of people are
having trouble affording right now with the economy. But Affirm
is one of the dominant buy now, pay later companies
in the US, and many people have been turning to
(31:01):
pay overtime options instead of credit cards, especially as interest
rates have increased so much so much recently, So this
is a better way for people to be able to
pay for those big ticket items.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
All right, pink slips coming to Panasonic.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Yeah, the big electronics company the clients make are slashing
ten thousand jobs globally. That's about four percent of its workforce.
So it just shows you how big the company is.
Panasonic says the layoffs are necessary to prepare the company
for the next decade or two, so it plans to
pivot to areas such as energy efficient power generation and
data center power sources. Of course, this is what we've
(31:39):
been hearing a lot lately from the tech industry. This
is a great way for them to be able to move.
But they're also building on its electric vehicle battery business
and its home appliance arms too.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
All Right, Courtney, thank you so much. We're going to
check in with you again on Monday. I hope you
feel better over the weekend.
Speaker 12 (31:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Well, we'll talk to you Monday.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
Have a great weeknd Happy day, everybody.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Thank you, saining to you. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A man convicted over a series
of violent road rage incidents in southern California is back
in jail on suspicion of doing the same thing in Hawaii.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
Nathaniel Radamac was released from prison last August after serving
less than a year of a five year prison sentence
for his crimes in southern California. The Honolulu Police Department
arrested Radamac on Thursday, one day after the thirty nine
year old allegedly assaulted an eighteen year old driver and
her mother. Honolulu police say Radamac sped past the young woman,
who was parking her vehicle at the time. He then
(32:36):
allegedly exchanged words with her and violently attacked her before
getting back in his tesla and driving off. Daniel Martindale
KFI News.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Shipping company DHL says it's planning to close a facility
in the Inland Empire and layoff hundreds of workers. Its
package handling center in Ontario will be closing in early July.
Most of the three hundred plus jobs on the chopping
block are for order filler pickers. A Los Angeles judge
will hold a hearing today to consider removing d. A.
Nathan Hawkman from the Menendez brother's resentencing case. The brother's
(33:07):
attorneys argue Hawkman's actions demonstrate bias, including replacing prosecutors who
supported resentencing and rehiring one who opposed it. The judge
will also decide whether to admit new risk assessment reports
ordered by Governor Newsom. Eric and Lyow Menendez are seeking
reduced sentences after serving over thirty years for the nineteen
eighty nine murders of their parents. The Pentagon has begun
(33:31):
removing one thousand transgender troops under a new policy tied
to a Supreme Court ruling and President Trump's executive order.
Those diagnosed with gender dyswarphia dysmorphia must leave the military
by early June or a face involuntary discharge. The move
has sparked backlash from advocacy groups and renewed legal challenges.
(33:54):
Apple has agreed to a ninety five million dollar settlement
overclaims Serri accidentally recorded Prime to conversations. US users with
Syria enable devices from September of twenty fourteen to December
of twenty twenty four can file claims for up to
twenty dollars per device up to five devices total. The
deadline to submit is July second. We are just minutes
(34:17):
away from handle on the news this morning, and things
are heating up in Oregon, where a massive volcano is
showing signs of eruption. We'll tell you where it's happening
and what areas will be affected. President Trump has announced
that Janine Piro, best known as a Fox News personality
and former New York prosecutor, will serve as interim US
(34:38):
Attorney for the District of Columbia. We're joined right now
by ABC's Shannon Kingston for insight into what this appointment
signals and the reaction is getting across the political spectrum.
Good morning, Shannon, Good morning. All right, So let's talk
about with you know, we'll start with the basics. How
unusual is it for a sitting president to appoint a
media personality like this to such a high profile prosecutorial position.
Speaker 14 (35:04):
Well, look, at least in this term with this president,
it's not all that unusual. By our count, there are
at least twenty former Fox News personalities who and other
top employees at the company who left to come over
to government to work for the president. We know that
appearing on TV is something that he values, and having
(35:27):
that charisma, that personality is something that he looks for
when he's making some top appointments here.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
All right, So what does this move signal about Trump's
priorities when it comes to the Justice Department, especially in
a critical area like DC.
Speaker 14 (35:42):
Well, look, this is interesting because Judge Deenine does have
a considerable level of experience. She was elected as a
judge in New York's Westchester County in nineteen ninety and
that's before she went on to serve three terms as
the county's elected district attorney. But look, she wasn't the
president's top pick for this spot. He previously had announced
(36:03):
that Edwin Martin would be taking on the role, but
he had to withdraw that selection after Martin failed to
attract enough support from Republicans to clear the confirmation process.
So that writing was on the wall, and that's what
led to the President doing the shuffle here.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
So if we're looking ahead, what kind of influence do
you think she'll have on any major cases in Washington
and how will it set the stage in a way
for the twenty twenty five election cycle.
Speaker 14 (36:31):
Well, her close relationship with the president, they've been closed
for many decades. That's clear. That's something that's going to
give him a lot of insight and perhaps a lot
of control into the cases, what's on the doctor, et cetera.
But there is a big question here on whether the
White House will pursue the confirmation process when it comes
to Jeanine Piro or if she is in fact just
(36:54):
going to be an interim in this position, because that's
what they're saying right now, just interim. And if that's
the case, she has as only one hundred and twenty
days really in the position before the White House will
then have to appoint someone else or you know, they
have to pursue the confirmation process, which is not at
all clear that they're going to do at this point.
(37:14):
And the President has really taken on a broad interpretation
of his appointment powers. So this is something that could
definitely be challenged in the court because the Senate has
been really cut out of this process.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
And how are legal experts and lawmakers reacting to the announcement?
Are they concerned at all about the politicization of US
Attorney the US Attorney's Office?
Speaker 14 (37:35):
Well, right now still we're hearing, of course, there's concern
on the left side of the aisle, but from Republicans
the reactions still trickling in. Of course, not that many
are anxious to go against the president. So really, we're
eager to go against the president, I should say.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
So.
Speaker 14 (37:52):
Really, this is something that I think officials White House
are still feeling out because it was a surprised that
Martin wasn't aple to get the support from the right here,
and it's something that caught the White House off guard.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
All right, well, we will be watching to see how
things play out over the next few months. Thank you
so much, ABC's Shannon Kingston. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Governor Newsom is announcing a jump in compliance
from businesses towards removing toxic hemp products.
Speaker 15 (38:26):
The state's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says nearly ninety
eight percent of all California licensed businesses are following emergency
state regulations. Newsome proposed restrictions last September to increase constraints
on selling hemp products to children. The new regulations require
consumers to be at least twenty one years old to
purchase the products. Tammy Trihello k FI news.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Los Angeles is experiencing a brief heat wave with inland
Empire temperatures expected to store into the nineties and even
reaching triple digits in some areas. On Friday and Saturday,
the beaches will see high in the upper seventies and eighties.
While the heat is expected to ease up by Mother's Day,
it's still going to remain above normals and be very,
very warm. LA Archbishop Jose Gomez has welcomed the news
(39:11):
of Pope Leo the fourteenth. Gomez says the new Pope's
experience as an American who served in Latin America gives
him strong insights on issues facing immigrants.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Peter really understands well what is the reality of the
movement of peoples and the needs for immigration all over
the continent.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
The Archbishop has called for a Mass of Thanksgiving today
at noon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Angels in downtown La. The World Video Game Hall of
Fame has inducted its class of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16 (39:46):
The Hall of Fame recognizes arcade, console, computer, handheld and
mobile games that have had staying power and influenced the
video game industry or pop culture. This year's group defender
the nineteen eighty one arcade game that raised the bar
on difficulty, the digital pets that bridge toys and video games,
Golden Eye Double O seven, who's four person mode influenced
multiplayer games that followed, and Quake, which debuted in nineteen
(40:08):
ninety six with a three D engine that became the
new industry standard. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Ah, what was that ConA. I think Kona likes that
game approve. Yeah, you got that. We have the Golden
Eight Double O seven is the greatest?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Is the best? Is the best?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Okay, Well, it's good to know. Maybe I need to
check that one out. I don't know what Mark did
there at the end. That was hilarious. I'm gonna have
to ask you if he lost his name. LA rapper
Kendrick Lamar is leading the twenty twenty five be Et Awards.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
They not like Us, They not like us, They not
like Us.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
He has ten nominations, including Album of the Year for
gn X and Video of the Year for his Grammy
winning disc track not Like Us. The ceremony marking its
twenty fifth anniversary will air live from LA on g Night. Well,
I for one enjoy Kendrick Lamar moment, and I'm also
very excited because Sunday is Mother's Day, Cono. You have
(41:10):
any big plans for Mother's Day?
Speaker 12 (41:12):
Yeah, well for my wife, Oh, happy Mother's Day Mom,
because she's probably listening. So I'll probably try to hang
out with her on Saturday. And then my wife, I'm
taking her with all the kids. There's a Pixar Putt
golf in Anaheim, all fun, so we're gonna go do that.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Well, that sounds nice. Will you have any Mother's Day plans?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I'm going to the desert.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'm going to Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Get there, you go, all right? No better way to
celebrate Mother's Day, I guess than with a sunburn.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You know there's a big Wango Tango thing on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
That's right, beach lit little Wango Tango action. Well, I'm
gonna be celebrating with my mom and my family on
Mother's Day as well. And I also want to buy
everybody to come see me at the Ice House in
Pasadena Saturday night at seven o'clock. I'm gonna be doing
a stand up show there. Would love to see some
KFI listeners there and also abody from the KFI News team. Well,
(42:01):
not anybody, only a few. Let me let me revise
that Heather's funny. By the way, if you don't know
Heather's funny, oh thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
That is the perfect way to end the show with
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This week. You did it, Ann, you didn akay, So
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He is rushing in, and guys, Producer An stepped in
(00:41):
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I bet this is not Anne's first time touching aboard
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She's probably been around.
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It's not your first time on the board, Oh, she
said absolutely not. No, all right, I got it. Well,
I still give Anne lots of shut up. Yes, well,
we have a lot of stuff happening today, A lot
of news that we want to get to. But I
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(01:29):
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want to hear from you right now. Here's what's ahead
on wake Up Call. The new Pope has a hometown
connection with LA Archbishop Jose Gomez. He is celebrating the
historic rise of Pope Leo the fourteenth, and we're going
to tell you why. He says, this American pontiff brings
hope to immigrant communities, and tough choices are ahead at
(02:10):
LA City Hall. Job cuts are coming and not everyone
will be spared what some on the council are saying
about the city's billion dollar budget shortfall. Newport Beach Police
have released dash cam video of a deadly shooting evolving.
Forty five year old Jeffrey Sterling, the brother of former
Real Housewives star Polise Sterling, grabbed an officer's taser during
(02:30):
a struggle before he was shot and then later died
at the hospital. Ahead on wake up Call at five
oh five, we're going to get the latest news on
Pope Leo's first day as pontiff. We'll have more details
on the two hundred and sixty seventh Pope and tell
you what significance this pope has for Americans. At five
(02:50):
point twenty, a new housing development promises to be wildfire proof.
We're going to get a closer look at how they
created this neighborhood and how it could change the landscape
of housing in Califul, Wornia. Then at five point thirty five,
Dean Sharp, the House Whisper, joins us we are going
to be talking about one of the trickiest parts of
home design color. From why your brain is to blame
(03:12):
for that weird green wall or how to pick the
right white Dean is going to explain the science and
psychology behind every shade and if I point fifty, controversy,
politics and a familiar face from primetime TV. President Trump
has tapped Fox News host Jeanine Pirot to serve as
the interim US attorney for DC, replacing a Trump loyalist
(03:33):
linked to January six. We're going to break it all
down and what it means for justice in the Capitol
with ABC as Shannon Kingston. Then at six 'zh five,
it's handle on the news. The US has agreed to
cut tariffs on some UK goods, and the UK has
agreed to buy more American beef and ethan all. We're
going to tell you about the deal and tell you
what it means for consumers. But let's get started with
(03:55):
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. The election of Pope Leo has been
well received at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Archbishop Jose Gomez says it's a great day for America
and the world. He says he looks forward to Pope
Leo leading the Catholic Church. Gomez talked yesterday at the
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown LA
shortly after the announcement.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'm delighted to welcome Leo, the fourteenth an honor to placementphilia, love,
and obedience to our new Holy Father.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The archbishop says, the new Pope's experience as an American
who served in Latin America gives him keen insight into
issues facing immigrants. A Mass of Thanksgiving has been scheduled
for noon at the cathedral downtown. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
A judge, we'll hear a motion today to remove the
La County DA's office from the Menendez brother's case. The
defense wants new prosecutors, but DA Nathan Hoffman and Attorney
General Rob Bonta pose the move. Eric and Lyle Menendez
are serving life or killing their parents in nineteen eighty nine.
Yesterday we spoke with ABC's Brian Clark as the world
watched and waited for that white smoke from the Vatican,
(04:57):
and then just a few hours later, history was made
as American Cardinal Robert Prevost has elected as the two
hundred and sixty seventh Pope of the Catholic Church. Brian
joins us again now with a recap of this extraordinary
moment in church history and a look at what's next.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Good morning, Brian, good morning, thanks for having me again.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
All right, So walk us through those moments after the
pope was elected and we got this new pope leadership.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Well, we were all watching the chimney.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
We saw the seagulls flopping around, and then all of
a sudden, we saw the white smoke.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
So there's the excitement.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Okay, there's a pope, but there's a more than an
hour wait from the time we see the white smoke,
knowing that the cardinals have made their selection to seeing
the pope for the first time. So the drama, the pageantry,
the suspense, it all builds. And then on the low
show overlooking Saint Peter Square, the hobbais popham announcement and
everybody is straining to try to understand the Latin that's
(05:50):
being read, and you have to go back and watch
it a few times. But nobody realized at first, at
least immediately, that he was saying, you know, Cardinal Prevost,
who was going to take the name Pope Leo. And
then we became aware that it was Robert Prevost of
the United States was going to be Pope Leo the fourteenth.
And then we saw him for the first time, and
(06:12):
I think we could just see on his face the
emotion and the magnitude of that moment, it was really extraordinary.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
All right. So the conclave wrapped up kind of quickly.
I think some people thought it might go a little
bit longer. So what do we know about how the
cardinals came to this decision so fast.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Well, it maybe seemed a little bit quicker than we
might have thought, but it was in line with what
we've seen over the last few conclaves. It only lasted
two days, so that's a little bit shorter. But in
terms of the number of votes they took, remember, three
votes came and went with no pope before they convened
for that afternoon session yesterday, So that was about in
(06:50):
line with what's been averaged for really about one hundred
and fifty years or so for the most part. So
it seems like there was a pretty quick decision from
these cardinals. One of our correspondents was in Saint Peters
Square actually able to speak with Cardinal Bow and archbishop
from Asia. The cardinals obviously can't talk about their actual
(07:12):
decisions or their actual votes, but he said that he
kept saying very happy, and he said trump and put
his hands together to signal a bridge and saying dialogue
just about what perhaps a new pope can do in
terms of relations with the United States government and relations
with the global sphere.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Yeah, I think that will definitely be something to watch.
And one thing we thought was really interesting too is
in his first message, Pope Leo emphasized peace and unity
and continuity with Pope Francis. Now, how is that being
received both inside the Vatican and around the world.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's going to be the big question.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Is this a continuation of what Pope Francis was doing,
Is this a sharp departure from what Pope Francis was doing,
or is it somewhere in the middle, which is probably
the most likely answer. We were looking for clues from
everything to what he was wearing this morning. Is he
celebrated Mass for the first time. He was wearing the
plain black shoes, the same kind that Pope Francis wore,
(08:11):
not those flashy red slippers made by Gucci that we
saw Pope Benedict wear, the more traditional footwear for a pope.
So from those little clues he could try to get
some crumbs, but it's really going to be in terms
of deeds and what he does, what kind of priorities
he sets. This is somebody who has done a you know,
he's experienced living in Peru.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
He's actually a dual citizen.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
So that missionary work and that service work that Pope
France has made such a high priority for the church,
you would think that continues under Pope Leo.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And quickly, before we let you go, what has the
response been like in the US Catholic community to the
first American Pope.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Incredible excitement, especially you look in the Chicago area where
the pope grew up. We're hearing from his brothers and
they were saying that he was always interested. You know,
when they were little, they would play the average child
will play cops and robbers, but he would always be
giving out Neco wafers'.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Communion as the Eucharist.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
So there's a lot of excitement that it's an American
and now I think everybody just wants to wait and see.
People were hearing people who maybe went to school with him,
studied with him. They're excited for him, and they're saying
that the world will be excited as.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
They get to know this new pope more and more.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I think even non Catholics at this point are just
feeling a little bit of American pride in this situation, like,
yay an American.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
That's absolutely right. You heard it from President Trump yesterday.
I think he spoke for everybody. He said, we were
a little surprised, but what an honor and how exciting
this is for the United States.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yeah, it really is. Well, Brian, thank you so much
for your time.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
chair of the La City Council Budget Committee has said
that there is no way to save all the city
jobs slated for layoffs. Councilwoman Katie or Aslovsky says, the
council has to adopt a budget and there will be cuts.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
We will put together a balanced budget, one that restores
key services to the extent possible and minimizes our structural
deficit heading into next year, which will almost certainly be
a tough one as well.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
The committee has worked to protect some of the sixteen
hundred positions proposed for layoffs by Mayor bas It'll finish
its work next week and then the full council will
weigh in on the one billion dollar budget shortfall. Officials
with the Eli County Public Health departments say new soil
testing has found high levels of lead and other toxic
materials at homes burned down in the wildfires and cleared
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by federal cleanup crews. The company doing the test say
in areas of the Eaton Fire burn scar, about twenty
seven percent of soil samples still have lead levels above
California's safety standards. In the Palisades fire zone, it's not
as bad, with three percent of samples from scraped areas
and twelve percent of areas not yet scraped having elevated levels.
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A proposal by the Trump administration to cut federal rental
assistance programs could affect thousands of people in californiakfi's Deanna
Kodiak says the proposal would push for a forty three
percent reduction for programs like public housing and Section eight.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
The plan aims to give states more control and proposes
limiting rental assistance to two years for able bodied adults,
focusing support on the elderly and disabled. Advocates argue this
could worsen the housing crisis and increase homelessness, especially for
minimum wage workers.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Some studies have suggested minimum wage workers can't afford a
one bedroom apartment in just six percent of counties in
the US. The man accused of stalking Jennifer Aniston and
crashing through her bel air gate appeared in court shirtless
and wrapped in what they called a suicide prevention blanket.
Jimmy Carwile faces felony charges, but proceedings are pause pending
(11:49):
a mental health evaluation. He's ordered to stay one hundred
yards away from Aniston Deny. The Dodgers are taking on
the Diamondbacks in Arizona, with the first pitch at six forty.
Listen to all Dodgers games on AM five seventy LA
Sports Live from the Galpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and stream
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five seventy LA. Sports. Authorities are investigating a disturbing discovery
near a SoCal hiking trail where the remains of a
man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds. The
bodies were located near a popular trail in the San
Bordino Mountains. Sambordino County Sheriff's Department is treating the case
as a double homicide and is asking for information for
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the public. Animal of details is asked to contact the
Sheriff's department. A Sacramento man has been sent to twelve
years in federal prison for leading a catalytic converter theft
ring that generated thirty eight million dollars to Souvang, along
with his brother and mother, purchased stolen converters from local
thieves and ship them to a New Jersey refinery. The
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operation was part of a larger six hundred million dollar scheme.
Vang used the illicit proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle,
including perchaeeing, luxury homes and vehicles. Twenty four Hour Fitness
is offering discounted summer memberships for high school students. They
say this initiative aims to promote health and wellness among
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teens during the summer break. Interested students can sign up
at their local twenty four Hour Fitness club. What about
interested moms? I would like to also sign up for
that and at six zh five it's handle on the news.
A federal lawsuit alleges UCLA Medical School is using race
as a factor in admissions. We'll check in with Neil
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Savadra and we'll explain all about it coming up right now,
we're going to learn more about Dixon Trail in Escondido.
It is the first neighborhood in the US purpose built
to resist wildfire, from ember resistant vents to noncombustible fences.
KB Homes says they've constructed houses designed to survive the
next big blaze. But with millions of Californians living in
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high risk zones, can this model be scaled up up?
And who will pay for it? Joining me now is
Steve Ruffner, SVP of KB Homes. Hi, Steve, let's just
jump right in. Given that the homes in the Dixon
Trail started over at about a million dollars, what strategies
is KB Homes considering to make wildfire resistant housing more
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accessible and affordable for more Californians, especially those in high
risk fire zones.
Speaker 9 (14:23):
Yeah, so that's the reason we did this project was
a kind of a research and development project to understand
the costs associated with doing the IBHS program in a
high fire zone. These homes are actually even though they're
in the like a million to a million one fifty,
they're actually at the medium price for a home in
San Diego County.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And then does KB Homes have any plan to replicate
the wildfire resilient design there in Dixon Trail into other
developments in California.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
That's what we're using this project to figure out how
we can do it. Obviously, we would only do this
in a high fire zone, and when you look at
the high fire zones in the state of California, those
have grown with a new map.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Are there any insurance benefits to living in a community
like Dixon Trail.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
Yeah, So we're sharing this information with all the insurance
companies IBHS and ourselves have been meeting with them to
go over what the benefits of this program are.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
And I'm sure it.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Will benefit the customers in the long term. Currently, all
of our customers that have closed are in s grow
do you have insurance? And that's a big plus a
high fire zone, so they are able to get insurance
at a reasonable price.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Only about half of the sixty four homes in this
Escondido neighborhood have been built, but they've already had their
grand opening. This is also the first time that the
Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety has given their
stamp of approval to an entire neighborhood. Joining me now
to talk about why they give their seal of approval
on an entire neighborhood is Ian Giamonco from IBHS.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yes, so the Dixon's Trail development from KB home is
the first that meets our newest construction standard, which is
our Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood standard. They have what's called the
provisional designation in that space as the neighborhood is still
being constructed, but the homes in that neighborhood have put
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together the best system that science can offer to make
those homes more resistant to an approaching wildfire. So we
can start really at the roof system. They all have
what's called the Class A roof, which is the most
fire resistant material. They have non combustible wall covers, they
have double pain tempered glass, and then all the way
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down to perhaps the kind of the piece that ties
a lot of this system of fire resistance together. In
the first five feet from their wall outward, they have
a non combustible area, which is that last chain of
where fire can get to our homes. So that not
only includes non combustible landscaping, but it also includes things
like metal fences, so there's no bustable material that can
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ignite that directly touches the home in that five foot zone.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Would something like this make it easier for homeowners to
get fire insurance.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
So this is absolutely you know, with the insurance pressures
we see in the California market, this is the path
toward making sure you have the best chance for not
only insurance accessibility, that you can get coverage. All the
features of these homes also fall under the state of
California is a Safer for Wildfire discount program, so there's
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avid incentives out there for homeowners.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Do these homes come with sort of a seal of approval,
some kind of certification showing that their homes are made
safer against wildfires.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
So IBHS issues each homeowner, as their homes are constructed
and inspected, will get a Wildfire Prepared Home designation. All
these homes have our Plus level, which is the highest
level of protection, so each homeowner will get that designation.
All of those features that are associated with those homes
do fall under the state's program that has incentives built in,
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and the neighborhood itself, once it is fully completed and inspected,
will get their full Wildfire Prepared Neighborhood designation. As I
mentioned right now, it's provisional. We've looked at the designs
with Katie Holmes and made sure all those provisions were met,
and so once that neighborhood's completed, each home owner not
only will have their own designation for their home through
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the Wildfire Prepared Home Program, the entire community the Wildfire
Prepared Neighborhood designation will exist there for everybody.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Ian and Steve, thank you so much for your time.
I think it's fair to say that these types of
requirements may become standard in the future of home building
in California. All right, let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
California and more than a dozen other states are suing
the Trump administration over blocking offshore wind leases.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
Governor Gavin Newsome estimates offshore wind could produce up to
twenty five gigawatts by twenty forty five, significantly more than
the Diablo Kenyon nuclear plants output. In December twenty twenty two,
five companies were granted rights to develop wind farms over
more Obey and Humboldt Bay in northern California, at least
twenty miles from shore. Attorney General Rob Bonta criticized the
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order for harming clean energy, progress and local economies. Dina
Kodiak KFI News.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
The La City Council is scheduled to vote today on
two resolutions intended to demonstrate support for state legislation that,
if approved, would modernize California's film and TV tax credit program.
It's part of state and local efforts to support the
declining film industry as production has been affected by several challenges,
including the COVID pandemic and actors and writers' strikes, as
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well as the recent wildfires. A new study on cracking
eggs may surprise some people.
Speaker 10 (19:51):
Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the first American pope.
He has taken the name Pope Leo the fourteenth. So
Cal Edison has removed an electrical transmission tower thought to
be connected with the ignition of the Eton fire. The
twenty twenty eight Olympic opening ceremonies have been scheduled for
the Colisseum and Sofi Stadium.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
All Right, well, that was a fun little recap of
news stories from Deborah Mark. Thanks dev all Right, let's
move along. Los Angeles is experience A brief heat wave,
with the Inland Empire temperature soaring into the nineties and
even reaching triple digits in some areas. On Friday and Saturday,
the beaches will see highs in the upper seventies and eighties,
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and while the heat is expected to ease up by
Mother's Day, temperatures will still remain above normal. Kendrick Lamar
leads the twenty twenty five BET Awards with ten nominations,
including Album of the Year for gn X and Video
of the Year for his Grammy winning diss track Not
Like Us. Ceremony is going to air in LA on
(20:54):
June ninth. NBA Hall of Famer Paul Pierce made good
on a bet after the Boston Celtic lost Game two
to the New York Knicks. Pierce had vowed to walk
fifteen miles to work barefoot in a bathrobe if the
Celtics lost to get at home after their ninety one
ninety defeat. He started walking on a twenty mile eight
hour track across Los Angeles, documenting the entire journey on
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social media, and though he wore shoes instead of going barefoot,
he honored his promise, stating I'm a man of my word.
Then in six oh five, it's handle on the news.
United Airlines CEO says, well, he's glad that there's plans
for a new air traffic controller system that was announced
by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, but he's warning more problems
(21:37):
will be inevitable if we don't modernize the system soon.
All right, let's dive into a topic that surrounds us
every second of every day, but most of us still
struggle to get it right. We're talking about color, what
it is, how it works, and why your kitchen might
look like a toothpaste ad gone wrong. Joining us now
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is our favorite design and Bill Despert, the house whisper
Dean Sharp, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Dean, Good morning, Heather. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You too.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
All right.
Speaker 4 (22:06):
I don't know if you heard, just really quickly the
last segment. I don't want to put you on the
spot here, but about wildfire home safety. Did you happen
to catch that at all?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's okay.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I just want to know. The segment was about this
neighborhood in Escondido that is entirely wildfire proof, and it's
been certified, and people who move there will get certifications
for that. I was just wondering. And you know, I
know you do a lot of building. You're helping people
all the time with their homes. Are you getting more
requests for wildfire safety and safety proof homes?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Oh, my gosh, all the time, all the time. I
believe it. Yeah, And there's a lot of misunderstanding about it, Betty,
if you want to take a second, I'll be happy
to tell you.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Some of it is more overblown than what people think.
And I'm very familiar with the neighborhood. You're referring to
that certification, and that's great. I'm glad that they've done that.
But I got to tell you that most homes only
have a couple of things that need to be added
in order to have that level of fire hardening. For instance,
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if you own a home in southern California and it's
had a new roof on it anytime in the last
thirty to forty years, then that's a fire safe roof.
If you've got a stucco home in California, which well
over eighty percent of the homes are, then that's a
fire safe exterior. And it's just the nature of those materials. Now,
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if you live up against an open space, and you've
got standard windows instead of tempered glass windows, then that's
something that you can do. But I talk about this
all the time. The most important thing that every homeowner
in southern California could do to fire harden their home
is to get ember proof vents. Because in a wildfire situation,
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eight out of ten homes that burn ignite not be
because the flames have approached their house, but because embers
have arrived from a fire that still may be like
two miles away. So ember proofing your home, big, big way,
goes a long way towards plugging those holes.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
I think that is so fascinating, and I think it
is an area of home building in Los Angeles and
especially Southern California that is going to continue to grow
and develop, and I think, you know, it'll be it'll
be interesting to see if we're going to see more
neighborhoods like this pop up, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And I hope so, I hope, I hope more builders
take it very seriously. From day one and more homeowners
asked the question, well, what more do I need to
do to my house in order to get it up
to speak?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah? Absolutely, And one of the things that people love
to do when they're building a new home is pick
out colors. Yeah, I am so excited. I love this topic.
It seems so simple, but it is so important. So
let's talk about just the basics. What what is color?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Well, color is a mess, that's what it is. Everybody
gets wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
I know I do.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I feel like I do.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Oh no, I feel you. You know, I know your nightmares.
I've stood in your All you wanted to do is
freshen up the living room. So you know, you hopped
in the car and headed down to the paint store
and next thing you know, you're standing paralyzed in front
of a twenty foot long wall of color samples, and
behind you is a kid who pushes the buttons to
mix your paint. And last week she was working at
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Forever twenty one. And although she knows how to operate
the paint machine, she's probably received zero hours of color
theory training, and so she's really in no help. And
you know, you're completely overwhelmed. And even if you have
a decorator who suggested a triad of colors for your home,
you know, how do you know they're right? Do you
even know what a color triad is do you have one?
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Do you want one? Is there a way to check?
And then you know, you start feeling nauseous and you're
tempted to bolt out of there, but you press on.
You grab a few samples which seem, you know, know,
kind of good. You head home, only to discover that
when you walk them into the room itself, oh, they
look awful. And so this is such a common experience
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with people, and there are reasons why, and that's what
we're going to break down for everybody this weekend, starting
with the fact that one of the biggest problems with
color is that it's an illusion. Color isn't actually a
real physical thing in the world. Color is in our heads.
It's the way a human brain interprets different wavelengths and
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frequencies of light. And because of that, when you get
one frequency next to another, the color changes and people
swear they're like, I don't know if it's me or
I'm crazy, but this color was different at the store
than it is in my living room.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
No, no, it's absolutely true. Yeah, And so there are
a series of steps that we've got to go through
in order to make sure we end up with the
color that we want because color is tricky, it really is.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It is, And I want to share with you quickly
my nightmare story. When my husband and I first got
married in our house, this was a very long time ago.
I'm very old, and we thought it would be so
fun to have a bright kitchen. So we were like,
you know what, let's paint it yellow. And we picked
up this beautiful yellow color and I was like, you know,
we'll accent it with like a darker contrasting color. And
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so we picked black and we painted our whole kitchen
and we realized, oh my gosh, it looks like a bee.
It was black and yellow, and we had major regrets
and had to completely repaint it. So there is something
to that where you pick out a color in the
store and you think this will be great, and then
you get it home and you see your actual homelighting
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and how it looks in your house. What I love
this color? Here, this color? This question. If you're picking
a color to keep the inmates calm in a prison,
what would it be?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know, it's weird. Their studies have been done about that.
It's pink Baker Miller pink akap six eighteen or drunk tank.
Pink clinically proven to reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior.
And if you think about it, like some of the
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shows that you've seen, if you've ever seen the inside
of a prison on the news show, there's this weird
kind of pinkish background in a lot of prison cells,
and it is it's the ultimate feminine color. But it
lowers blood pressure, heart rate, even affects muscle strength in males.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
That's probably why they put it in baby's rooms too
right for little babies.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, exactly. But you know, ladies, here's a tip. If
you want to intimidate a man in a business environment,
don't dress gray like him. Go pink because it literally
makes him physically weaker. It does.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
It's our superpower we know about colors. There you go.
I love this topic and I wish we could continue
to talk about it more. But everybody is super lucky
because they can hear you talk about it even more
and all of your other expertise on the house whisper
on Home with Dean Sharp every Saturday from six to
eight am and on Sundays from nine to noon on kfive. Dean,
you're the best. I always enjoy talking with you.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Thanks Heather. We're going to be talking about color all
Sunday long, so join us.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
We'll do. Thank you. All right, it's time to get
up in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahue. Good morning, Courtney.
Speaker 11 (29:24):
I love it and I'm sorry. I'm sick today, so
I have a head cold, so we'll see how I
get through it. I sound brutal today.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
That is the worst feeling. I totally understand. No, and
then especially when you're on a radio, then everyone's like, hey,
are you okay? Yeah, all right, well we'll jump right
in then for today. I love this. Pop Tarts are
going to be going from your toaster to your freezer.
I have mixed feelings about this. I love my pop tarts.
Speaker 11 (29:49):
Well, there's this new snack obsession that we're going to
be seeing coming soon. Pop Tarts is expanding into ice
cream pints and sandwiches. So the pints will blend ice
cream with the little pastry pieces.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Oh.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
I like that anything that has like a little bit
of a crunch to it. And the flavors include frosted
brown sugar, cinnamon, frosted strawberry, and frosted s'mores. Meantime, the
ice cream sandwiches will be available in three flavors, the
frosted brown sugar, cinnamon, frosted strawberry, and frosted chocolate fudge.
So you can get them now at Walmart, and I'll
be at other retailers down the line. I am sure
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I am going to be heading over to it, especially
that I'm sick.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
It'd be so nice to have an ice cream sandwich.
Speaker 11 (30:27):
There you go, Do you feel better?
Speaker 4 (30:30):
I love this. Next topic, you know, we're gonna talk
about Costco. Bill Handle isn't here today, so we'll have
to fill him in next week. But Costco shoppers will
soon have a monthly payment option. Yeah.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
So the warehouse store tapping a firm to let its
online choppers pay for pay overtime for a transaction. So
this has been helping a lot of retailers lately sell
those bigger ticket items that a lot of people are
having trouble affording right now with the economy. But Affirm
is one of the dominant buy now, pay later companies
in the US, and many people have been turning to
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pay overtime options instead of credit cards, especially as interest
rates have increased so much so much recently, So this
is a better way for people to be able to
pay for those big ticket items.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
All right, pink slips coming to Panasonic.
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Yeah, the big electronics company the clients make are slashing
ten thousand jobs globally. That's about four percent of its workforce.
So it just shows you how big the company is.
Panasonic says the layoffs are necessary to prepare the company
for the next decade or two, so it plans to
pivot to areas such as energy efficient power generation and
data center power sources. Of course, this is what we've
(31:39):
been hearing a lot lately from the tech industry. This
is a great way for them to be able to move.
But they're also building on its electric vehicle battery business
and its home appliance arms too.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
All Right, Courtney, thank you so much. We're going to
check in with you again on Monday. I hope you
feel better over the weekend.
Speaker 12 (31:56):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Well, we'll talk to you Monday.
Speaker 11 (31:58):
Have a great weeknd Happy day, everybody.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Thank you, saining to you. All right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A man convicted over a series
of violent road rage incidents in southern California is back
in jail on suspicion of doing the same thing in Hawaii.
Speaker 13 (32:14):
Nathaniel Radamac was released from prison last August after serving
less than a year of a five year prison sentence
for his crimes in southern California. The Honolulu Police Department
arrested Radamac on Thursday, one day after the thirty nine
year old allegedly assaulted an eighteen year old driver and
her mother. Honolulu police say Radamac sped past the young woman,
who was parking her vehicle at the time. He then
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allegedly exchanged words with her and violently attacked her before
getting back in his tesla and driving off. Daniel Martindale
KFI News.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
Shipping company DHL says it's planning to close a facility
in the Inland Empire and layoff hundreds of workers. Its
package handling center in Ontario will be closing in early July.
Most of the three hundred plus jobs on the chopping
block are for order filler pickers. A Los Angeles judge
will hold a hearing today to consider removing d. A.
Nathan Hawkman from the Menendez brother's resentencing case. The brother's
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attorneys argue Hawkman's actions demonstrate bias, including replacing prosecutors who
supported resentencing and rehiring one who opposed it. The judge
will also decide whether to admit new risk assessment reports
ordered by Governor Newsom. Eric and Lyow Menendez are seeking
reduced sentences after serving over thirty years for the nineteen
eighty nine murders of their parents. The Pentagon has begun
(33:31):
removing one thousand transgender troops under a new policy tied
to a Supreme Court ruling and President Trump's executive order.
Those diagnosed with gender dyswarphia dysmorphia must leave the military
by early June or a face involuntary discharge. The move
has sparked backlash from advocacy groups and renewed legal challenges.
(33:54):
Apple has agreed to a ninety five million dollar settlement
overclaims Serri accidentally recorded Prime to conversations. US users with
Syria enable devices from September of twenty fourteen to December
of twenty twenty four can file claims for up to
twenty dollars per device up to five devices total. The
deadline to submit is July second. We are just minutes
(34:17):
away from handle on the news this morning, and things
are heating up in Oregon, where a massive volcano is
showing signs of eruption. We'll tell you where it's happening
and what areas will be affected. President Trump has announced
that Janine Piro, best known as a Fox News personality
and former New York prosecutor, will serve as interim US
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Attorney for the District of Columbia. We're joined right now
by ABC's Shannon Kingston for insight into what this appointment
signals and the reaction is getting across the political spectrum.
Good morning, Shannon, Good morning. All right, So let's talk
about with you know, we'll start with the basics. How
unusual is it for a sitting president to appoint a
media personality like this to such a high profile prosecutorial position.
Speaker 14 (35:04):
Well, look, at least in this term with this president,
it's not all that unusual. By our count, there are
at least twenty former Fox News personalities who and other
top employees at the company who left to come over
to government to work for the president. We know that
appearing on TV is something that he values, and having
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that charisma, that personality is something that he looks for
when he's making some top appointments here.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
All right, So what does this move signal about Trump's
priorities when it comes to the Justice Department, especially in
a critical area like DC.
Speaker 14 (35:42):
Well, look, this is interesting because Judge Deenine does have
a considerable level of experience. She was elected as a
judge in New York's Westchester County in nineteen ninety and
that's before she went on to serve three terms as
the county's elected district attorney. But look, she wasn't the
president's top pick for this spot. He previously had announced
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that Edwin Martin would be taking on the role, but
he had to withdraw that selection after Martin failed to
attract enough support from Republicans to clear the confirmation process.
So that writing was on the wall, and that's what
led to the President doing the shuffle here.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
So if we're looking ahead, what kind of influence do
you think she'll have on any major cases in Washington
and how will it set the stage in a way
for the twenty twenty five election cycle.
Speaker 14 (36:31):
Well, her close relationship with the president, they've been closed
for many decades. That's clear. That's something that's going to
give him a lot of insight and perhaps a lot
of control into the cases, what's on the doctor, et cetera.
But there is a big question here on whether the
White House will pursue the confirmation process when it comes
to Jeanine Piro or if she is in fact just
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going to be an interim in this position, because that's
what they're saying right now, just interim. And if that's
the case, she has as only one hundred and twenty
days really in the position before the White House will
then have to appoint someone else or you know, they
have to pursue the confirmation process, which is not at
all clear that they're going to do at this point.
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And the President has really taken on a broad interpretation
of his appointment powers. So this is something that could
definitely be challenged in the court because the Senate has
been really cut out of this process.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
And how are legal experts and lawmakers reacting to the announcement?
Are they concerned at all about the politicization of US
Attorney the US Attorney's Office?
Speaker 14 (37:35):
Well, right now still we're hearing, of course, there's concern
on the left side of the aisle, but from Republicans
the reactions still trickling in. Of course, not that many
are anxious to go against the president. So really, we're
eager to go against the president, I should say.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
So.
Speaker 14 (37:52):
Really, this is something that I think officials White House
are still feeling out because it was a surprised that
Martin wasn't aple to get the support from the right here,
and it's something that caught the White House off guard.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
All right, well, we will be watching to see how
things play out over the next few months. Thank you
so much, ABC's Shannon Kingston. Let's get back to some
of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. Governor Newsom is announcing a jump in compliance
from businesses towards removing toxic hemp products.
Speaker 15 (38:26):
The state's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control says nearly ninety
eight percent of all California licensed businesses are following emergency
state regulations. Newsome proposed restrictions last September to increase constraints
on selling hemp products to children. The new regulations require
consumers to be at least twenty one years old to
purchase the products. Tammy Trihello k FI news.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Los Angeles is experiencing a brief heat wave with inland
Empire temperatures expected to store into the nineties and even
reaching triple digits in some areas. On Friday and Saturday,
the beaches will see high in the upper seventies and eighties.
While the heat is expected to ease up by Mother's Day,
it's still going to remain above normals and be very,
very warm. LA Archbishop Jose Gomez has welcomed the news
(39:11):
of Pope Leo the fourteenth. Gomez says the new Pope's
experience as an American who served in Latin America gives
him strong insights on issues facing immigrants.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Peter really understands well what is the reality of the
movement of peoples and the needs for immigration all over
the continent.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
The Archbishop has called for a Mass of Thanksgiving today
at noon at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the
Angels in downtown La. The World Video Game Hall of
Fame has inducted its class of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 16 (39:46):
The Hall of Fame recognizes arcade, console, computer, handheld and
mobile games that have had staying power and influenced the
video game industry or pop culture. This year's group defender
the nineteen eighty one arcade game that raised the bar
on difficulty, the digital pets that bridge toys and video games,
Golden Eye Double O seven, who's four person mode influenced
multiplayer games that followed, and Quake, which debuted in nineteen
(40:08):
ninety six with a three D engine that became the
new industry standard. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Ah, what was that ConA. I think Kona likes that
game approve. Yeah, you got that. We have the Golden
Eight Double O seven is the greatest?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Is the best? Is the best?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Okay, Well, it's good to know. Maybe I need to
check that one out. I don't know what Mark did
there at the end. That was hilarious. I'm gonna have
to ask you if he lost his name. LA rapper
Kendrick Lamar is leading the twenty twenty five be Et Awards.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
They not like Us, They not like us, They not
like Us.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
He has ten nominations, including Album of the Year for
gn X and Video of the Year for his Grammy
winning disc track not Like Us. The ceremony marking its
twenty fifth anniversary will air live from LA on g Night. Well,
I for one enjoy Kendrick Lamar moment, and I'm also
very excited because Sunday is Mother's Day, Cono. You have
(41:10):
any big plans for Mother's Day?
Speaker 12 (41:12):
Yeah, well for my wife, Oh, happy Mother's Day Mom,
because she's probably listening. So I'll probably try to hang
out with her on Saturday. And then my wife, I'm
taking her with all the kids. There's a Pixar Putt
golf in Anaheim, all fun, so we're gonna go do that.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
Well, that sounds nice. Will you have any Mother's Day plans?
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I'm going to the desert.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'm going to Palm Springs.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Get there, you go, all right? No better way to
celebrate Mother's Day, I guess than with a sunburn.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You know there's a big Wango Tango thing on Saturday.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
That's right, beach lit little Wango Tango action. Well, I'm
gonna be celebrating with my mom and my family on
Mother's Day as well. And I also want to buy
everybody to come see me at the Ice House in
Pasadena Saturday night at seven o'clock. I'm gonna be doing
a stand up show there. Would love to see some
KFI listeners there and also abody from the KFI News team. Well,
(42:01):
not anybody, only a few. Let me let me revise
that Heather's funny. By the way, if you don't know
Heather's funny, oh thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
That is the perfect way to end the show with
a compliment for me. This is KFI and KOSDHD two
Los Angeles, Orange County live from the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom for producer and technical producer CODO and traffic
specialists Will I'm Heather Brooker, and we made it work today,
you guys. I'm very proud of all of us. I
will be back on Monday with your wake up Call,
(42:31):
and then Amy will be back for the rest of
next week. This has been your wake up call. If
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