June 4, 2025 • 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. KFI Tech Reporter Rich DeMuro joins Wake Up Call for ‘Wired Wednesday’! Rich talks about the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2, WYZE’s new light bulb camera, and Photoshop arriving on Android. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews the finale of ‘Tt’ now streaming on Hulu. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with ABC News correspondent Luke Barr talking about an inmate admitting to writing a threat letter to President Trump to get migrants deported.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to kf I AM six forty wake Up
Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I had.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The moment.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I walked outside this morning and there was like missed.
Oh yeah, it wasn't really drizzled. It was just this light, light,
light mist. And I was like, that makes me think
of Johnny Maths. Isn't that who it is?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I thought London, the city of London, but yeah, Johnny Athestu.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, when I was in London it was sunny and warm,
so I don't have a good reference.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That mist is making for a messy drive in some spots.
So I'll have that coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
All right, thank you, thank you. Will Colech there. Hey,
guess who's back in the nest. Sonny came back yesterday.
First she was hovering over the nest, of course, talking
about the big bear eagles. Sonny left the nest, but
then she came back and she's there this morning with Gizmo.
I think Gizmo looked very lonely, and so we're still
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waiting for Gizmo to fledge or leave the nest. That man,
she was flapping good yesterday. It's sort of like she
was like, Okay, Sonny left, Now it's my turn. So
we'll see what happens, especially now that now that Sonny
is back, maybe that is a disincentive, but we'll keep watching.
There was like one hundred thousand people watching Yesterday's crazy. Yeah,
it was crazy. It's so wonderful. I just love it.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Right, here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The family
of a four year old Mexican girl in Bakersfield being
treated for a life threatening illness has been granted a
reprieve from possible deportation. The federal government granted the family
humanitarian parole, which allows them to stay in the country
for another year. Doctors at Children's Hospital LA said if
she didn't get continued treatments, she could die within days.
(01:47):
The Department of Justice is looking into people pardoned by
former President Biden. The DOOJ is going to investigate whether
staff took advantage of the former president in issuing pardons
to over fifteen hundred people, including his son Hunter and
other family members, doctor Anthony Fauci and January sixth committee members.
The mural of Kobe and GG Bryant downtown LA has
(02:07):
been vandalized again. The mural honoring the Lakers star and
his daughter who were killed in a helicopter crash. Was
first defaced in April. The artist restored the mural on
Main Street last month, and now it's all messed up again. Okay,
some other things that are coming up on wake Up
Call this morning. The Nintendo Switch is finally going to
(02:28):
be available. Your kids are probably very excited about it.
Rich de Murro's joining us at five point twenty to
tell us how much it costs, what's new, and whether
you can even get it. It releases officially tomorrow. Also,
you can now photoshop on your Android, and if you're
tired of typing, Rich has an app for that for
iPhone users. Amy's on it, I'm on the stream. The
(02:50):
series has wrapped. Does it do its job or does
it fall short? We'll tell you the tale coming up
at bottom of the hour. And a guy who sent
a letter threatening to assassinate President Trump. Remember we told
you about this. It was really written by a different
guy who wanted the guy who is accused of writing
the letter deported so we wouldn't testify against him in court.
(03:13):
I mean, you cannot make this stuff up. An interesting,
interesting story. ABC's Luke Barr is going to join us
at five point fifty to tell us about the tangled
web this guy weaved. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom that thunderca Clap was one of several during lightning
strikes that closed beaches in Orange County. Beaches and piers
(03:37):
were closed yesterday, and Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach,
and Seal Beach in the Inland Empire Riverside also had
lightning strikes that prompted public safety agencies to go on alert.
We had thunder and lightning at my house. I absolutely
loved it. It was so cool, especially in the afternoon. I
love a good afternoon thunderstorm. LA police have shot and
killed a man during a confrontation in the Harvard Heights
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neighborhood of South LA. Officers were called last night about
shots fired at an apartment complex near Ardmore Avenue on
Eleventh Street. The shooting happened shortly after they arrived. The
man died at the hospital. Police say they found a
gun and several shell casings. LA County DA Nathan Hawkman
says the man charged with killing a police officer and
(04:20):
another man in Baldwin Park is expected to be arraigned
this week. Eduardo Medina Beruman is still in the hospital
being treated for his injuries from Saturday night's shootout. Hawkman
says he'll make sure that justice prevails.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
And bringing mister Beruman to justice and making sure he
is held fully accountable for his actions.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Beruman is charged with two counts of murder, one of
attempted murder, and two other counts. He could get the
death sentence because of special circumstances allegations. Hotel and airport
workers are urging voters in LA not to sign a
petition to overturn a recently approved minimum wage hike that
will give them thirty dollars per hour by twenty twenty eight.
Members of the Tourism Workers Rising C coalition that lobbied
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for the wage increase rallied in downtown LA yesterday as
part of their campaign defend the wage. LA backers of
the petition say the pay raise is going to bump
up labor costs and could force some businesses to lay
off employees or be forced to shut down altogether. Let's
take a first look at your morning commute We got
some fog lingering in the Cone Pass.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, quite a bit of it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Actually, looking at the Caltrans cameras, it's hard to see
even the lights of the traffic there. On I fifteen's
you hit southbound through the cohone Pass, a little bit
of slowing. It's slower than usual at this time of day,
but probably because of that fog, So just factor that
into your drive. Also, quite a bit of slowing on
the northbound side of the five. This is going to
be in the downy Norwalk area between the six oh
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five and slows and that's Caltrans roadwork that is being
picked up.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
It's overdue.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
It's supposed to be picked up at around five, but
now it's going to go a little overtime there, so
expect some slowing again northbound five six oh five up
to Slawson and on the northbound seventy one at Valley Boulevard,
we've got a pickup truck that went over the side
as well. CHP is there on the side dealing with
that with Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I will Cole Schreiber, thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Will.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well's going to keep us up to date as the
morning goes on, make sure you can get where you're going.
As you mentioned, the road's a little bit soggy, and
I was a little bit worried about it. It was
a little bit slippy, yeah, but not bad because it
wasn't like rain rain, right, although yesterday we had rain
in the valley. Oh we had rain at my house too.
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We had and thunder, the thunder and lightning. Was I'm so.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Close to washing my car yesterday morning, and I'm I'm
so glad I didn't waste that money a one time.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement has detained the family of the man in Colorado
accused of fire bombing supporters of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
That head of Homeland Security Christinomes said an investigation is
now under way to determine to what extent the suspects
family knew about this heinous act, if they had knowledge
of it, or if they provided support to it. Forty
five year old Mohammed Suliman was arrested following Sunday's attack,
in which twelve people were injured with a makeshift flamethrower
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and molotov cocktails. He's been charged with a hate crime,
with FBI investigators saying he planned for a year targeting
pro Israel supporters. I'm Nick Harper and Washington.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
The Justice Department says two Chinese nationals smuggled a potential
agro terrorism weapon into the US. It's a fungus that's
known to kill crops and is harmful to humans. Former
senior Pentagon official Steve Ganyard says the fungus could have
disastrous effects on the country. The potential here for serious
(07:50):
damage to the US economy is actually very.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Very scary.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The two were allegedly getting Chinese government funding for their research.
Authorities in Arkansas have revealed an image of what a
convicted murderer and former police chief known as the Devil
in the Ozarks may look like two weeks after he
escaped from prison. The rendering shows fifty six year old
Grand Harden with hair on the sides of his head
and facial hair. Harden was serving sentences for rape and
(08:18):
murder when he escaped from prison on May twenty fifth.
Authority say he was wearing what looked like a law
enforcement uniform. The Israeli militaries. AID distribution centers in Gaza
are being shut down as roads leading to the sites
have become combat zones.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
The Israel Defense Forces says people will be prohibited from
entering the centers or traveling on roads leading to them.
AMAS officials say over two dozen Palestinians were killed near
an AID center by the Israeli military early Tuesday. US
back Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it hopes to resume distributing
aid again on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm Michael Kassner, a top Cuban official, is accusing the
US of escalating tensions with the island. ABC's and as
de La Katera says the official is even voicing concerns
of a possible conflict.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Senior Cuban official Joanna Tablada saying the Trump administration has
been ratcheting tensions between DC and Havana, adding she is
worried the US is trying to provoke a military confrontation.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
She says since President Trump took office, Cuba was put
back on the list of state sponsors of terror. Disgraced
former attorney Tom Girardi's been sentenced to more than seven
years in prison for ripping off nearly twenty million dollars
from clients with a long running Ponzi scheme. In handing
down the sentence yesterday, the judge said the disbarred ex
attorney wielded his power against vulnerable people who'd gone to
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him for help. Girardi, who turned eighty six yesterday, was
also ordered to pay more than two million dollars in
restitution to four of his clients, plus fines. Elon Musk
is trashed President Biden's legislative agenda, posting on social media
that the One Big Beauty Full Bill Act is, in
his words, a disgusting abomination. House Speaker Mike Johnson says
(10:06):
musk stance is disappointing.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Elon is missing it okay, and it's not personal.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I know that the ev mandate very important to him.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
That is going away because the garment should not be
subsidizing these things.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Johnson says the mandate is part of the Green New Deal,
which has an effect on Musk's business. Closing arguments have
begun at Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes retrial in New York.
Is lawyer portrayed Weinstein as the falsely accused poster boy
of the me Too era, a prosecutor said the former
movie Mogul preyed on women he thought would never speak up.
(10:42):
Closing arguments are set to wrap up today and then
the mostly female jury is expected to start deliberations. Weinstein
is pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in twenty
thirteen and forcing oral sex onto others in two thousand
and six. More people are cooking at home since the pandemic.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
The soup company Can, which also makes V eight and
Pepperdge Farm, is seen an increase in sales of their
meals and beverages across different income levels. New data shows
many consumers are worried about the economy. In an April
survey by The Economist in Yugo of nearly half of
respondent's described the economy as poor, with fifty three percent
believing it's getting worse. The trend of eating in is
similar to early twenty twenty, when the pandemic led to
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Lockdown's unemployment and a decline in spending. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
A woman from Canyon Country is expected to plead guilty
to forty six charges tied to a crime tourism. Ring.
Prosecutors say Anna Maria Ariagata and her boyfriend dispatched thieves
from South America to shoplift, burglarize homes and businesses, and
steal credit cards to the tune of five and a
half million dollars over six years. A man in Milwaukee's
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been accused of trying to get a man who was
set to testify against him deported by sending a fake
assassination threat letter against President Trump. Prosecutors see Sey Dimitri
Scott wrote the letter and signed Ramon Morales Riah's name
to it. Scott has been charged with felony witness intimidation,
among other things. Morales Rias will be in court today
(12:11):
and could be deported. He's here illegally. We're gonna hopefully
find out more about that with ABC's Luke bar coming
up at five point fifty. A former varsity baseball coach
at California High School in Southwoodire has a new wheelchair
thanks to the LA Dodgers. Jason Ramirez had to retire
from coaching in twenty twenty three after he was diagnosed
with ALS that's Luke Garrig's disease. He was presented with
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the power wheelchair at the Dodgers game on Monday night,
Ramirez is a lifelong Dodgers fan. He says the wheelchair
is life changing for him. Are we going to say
good morning to Rich Demiro almost? We're okay, we're working
on that, and so while we work to connect with Rich,
he's the tech guy. He should be able to tell
us how to fix it. Right, Okay, here's some other
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stories we're working on in the KFI two twenty for
our newsroom. Four men have been arrested and more than
two thousand pounds of drugs have been confiscated at a
home in Compton, Billise. They got fentanyl, meth amphetamine, cocaine,
and thirteen weapons. The men allegedly made more than one
and a half million dollars in drug sales in the
last two years and avoided detection of what they were
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doing by using coded language on social media. A youth
soccer coach in Rodondo Beach is facing charges for allegedly
trying to meet up with a child for sex.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Police say Jared Cravar is currently free on bail following
his recent arrest. He's been charged with having hundreds of
items of child pornography in his possession. Cravar was arrested
after he allegedly trying to set up a meeting with
what he thought was a minor for its sexual purposes.
Investigators say Cravar may have more victims due to his
position as a youth soccer coach, and they're asking anybody
with any information to come forward. Mark Mayfield, KOFI News.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Three young girls from Washington State who were reported missing
on Friday have been found dead. The girls were five, eight,
and nine years old. Their father is now wanted for murder.
He had picked up the girls for a custodial visit,
but police Captain Brian Chantz says they did not return
when they were supposed to.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
With no reported history of problems with the parenting plan.
There were no reported or there were, I'm sorry. There
were reported concerns of Travis being homeless and financially stressed recently.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The father is an Army veteran. He is described as
a homeless drifter living in his pickup truck. Officials have
not said how the kids died. You see, Riverside School
of Medicine is getting its own teaching hospital. It'll have
medical offices and eventually a research center. The twenty one
acre site near Valley Springs Parkway and Gateway Drive will
mark the first hospital dedicated to UCR, which currently trains
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students at other local hospitals. The project will be funded
by the University of California. No timeline or cost estimate
has been announced. META is turning to nuclear power to
help with future business.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Facebook's parent company has cut it twenty year deal to
secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial
intelligence and other computing needs. The agreement, announced yesterday is
the latest in a string of tech nuclear partnerships as
the use of AI expands. Surging investments in small nuclear
reactors comes at a time when large tech companies need
(15:18):
to increase their energy supply for AI and data centers
while also trying to meet their long term goals to
significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Dep remark Kaffi News. Senate Republicans plan to meet today
to talk about President Trump's signature spending bill, you know,
the Big Beautiful Bill. ABC's Mary Bruce says the bill
passed the House by just one vote and faces challenges
in the Senate.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
At Walmart, the cost of some toys way up. A
baby born doll that cost thirty four ninety seven in
March now costs forty nine to ninety seven, up roughly
forty three percent.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
She says the president wants to get the bill across
the finish line as prices rise because of the trade
where he started. Four young sea lions treated at the
Marine Mammal Care Center in LA for demoic acid exposure
are about to be released in Venice. Officials say this
morning will also they will announce the end of the
current demoic acid bloom and the start of a preparedness
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campaign for future blooms. All right, looks like we have
Rich dmiro Yay on the line because we got a
lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you Amy.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Okay, so we got a Nintendo switch to I bet
a lot of parents are well. I bet a lot
of kids are excited. Their parents are ready to fork
over some cash. So let's talk about it because it's
it's sort of a long awaited release.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, this has been eight years in the making since
the original one came out. And yeah, tonight tonight, so
it's interesting it actually launches.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And I'm really bad at this stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
But it's midnight Thursday, which is actually like nine pm
tonight Pacific. So retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, they are
going to have this tonight game stop Target, And yes
it does launch at midnight, but I think that's on
the East Coast, so that's apparently nine pm here. Four
hundred and fifty dollars for the console. Five hundred dollars
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if you want the bundle. That is what the experts
are saying to get because the games are pricey on
this anywhere from seventy to ninety dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Of course, it's going to be improved.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
It's got a bigger screen, it's got better resolution, better
frame rate, faster magnetic attaching controllers.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So there's a lot to like here.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
It's going to be kind of a big deal for
gamers because this is a long time coming.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Like you said, Okay, you mentioned bigger screen. Don't you
play it on just a TV?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Well, the thing about the switch that's kind of unique
is that it works as both the portable.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Gaming system and it can connect to your TV.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
And that's kind of the magic that Nintendo invented a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
So that's what's pretty cool about this.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Okay, So I heard that they're already sold out. All
the pre orders are sold out, So can you get one?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Good question.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Pre Orders are sold out, but that does not mean
that the stores will not have them tonight. The pre
order people will get them, but they're going to of course,
like any other event that I've been to in the
you know, many years I've been covering this. The stores
want people there in person, so they will have you know,
it might be limited. We don't know, you know, we
don't know what the stock is on this. It could
be that everyone that goes tonight gets one. We just
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don't know until it happens, so we will find out
soon enough.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Pre orders, yes, have sold out instantly pretty much every time,
but there will be some stock tonight for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, but that's part of the fun of it. When
it's something that's so much anticipated like this, is going
and getting in line and seeing if you can get one,
and yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Except it could be pretty stressful. I think, I know,
I know some.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
People that really want one of these tonight, and it's
you know, it's very strategic. Where do I go, What
time do I get there? How long am I going
to wait in line? When do they tell you that
there's nothing. Some of these places they're using raffles, which
means even if you're this first person in line, you
still may not get it because the thirtieth person might
win the raffle. So it just sort of depends.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't like that raffle idea personally me either.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Me either.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm like, if you're going to get there early in
camp out, you should be first in line.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I think the last time I camped out for one
of these things was the PlayStation two, which goes to
show you how long I've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Okay, so let's move on and talk about It's called
Wise's New light Bulb Camera. So it's a tricky little gadget.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Yeah, I think they're going to sell a gazillion of these.
It's so brilliant. Think about this, a light bulb that
screws into a socket, but at the end there is
a small security camera on it. So now anywhere you
have a light bulb socket, you can install a camera
without wires, without solar, without batteries. And the thing about
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this amy is that people buy these things like crazy
on Amazon. They usually cost about thirty bucks, but they
come from these really off brands that nobody knows, you know,
who's making these things, and how good the security is.
This is a major company and for what's this price,
fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's not bad.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
And you can connect up to five of them, so
you can actually have additional light bulbs that are seventeen
dollars each, and then if the camera sees motion, it'll
turn on all the light bulbs. So it's a really
smart little system without a lot of wiring.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Okay, and then does it also it's got the cameras
on it, so then do you see what's going on
on your phone? Kind of like a ring.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Camera exactly, so you can see on your phone.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
You can use the app or it can also record locally,
so if you don't want to pay any subscription fees,
it can record onto a memory card built into the device,
or I guess you put it into the device. The
only problem with that is we know amy that if
someone stole the camera, they would also steal the memory card.
So that's why they sell the cloud backup option, which
you know is three dollars a month if you want
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your clips to go to the cloud, So if someone
stole the camera, at least you would still have the
clip in the cloud.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, And it's sold by Wyswyze.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, and they're pretty well known.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
They've had a couple of little security issues in the past,
but they've really polished those up. So I have no
problem suggesting that this is a recommendation of a good camera.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I have to test it out, but seems like a
really good solution.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, perfect. Then Photoshop, which we all know what that is,
but I didn't know it wasn't available on Android, but
now it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Photoshop launched a version of their mobile app on the
iPhone a couple months ago, and everyone was like, wait,
what about Android? What about Android? And now guess you
can get it on Android. It's a beta version of
the app, so not every feature is there, but it
brings a lot of those like Photoshop features people love
to Android phones, like layering, masking, you can select little objects,
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you can sort of get blemishes off of people or whatever,
you know, erase something from a picture. And of course
everyone is all about these AI features, So Firefly is
their version of AI. They have a generative fill feature,
which means, let's say you take a picture in front
of a mountain background, you'd rather be in front of
an ocean.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You can literally.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Erase the mountains and added ocean. So it's free right now.
You can get on Android and it will be free
during the beta period and most of the features are
I guess many of the features will remain free, but.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
At some point they will introduce some paid features to okay.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And then you've got a new voice to text app
for iPhone users, which what do you need that? Because
I do the voice to text on my iPhone all
the time and I don't have a specific app for it.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
And are you correcting what it does all the time,
like I am, Well, yes, it's horrible.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I mean it's really bad.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's bad, but it's not as bad as my typing.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
No, and it's a little bit faster, and yes, to
Apple's credit, it has gotten better. But if you try this,
it is called whisper flow WISPR. I will put the
link on my website rich on tech dot tv because
people are just searching and find different things. But there
is an official app. I'm not kidding, Amy. This is
single handedly the best app I've ever downloaded on the iPhone.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Really, it is so good. I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
It gets the punctuation right, it gets the proper nouns right.
If you say spult a boulevard, it will get it.
Or if you say lasienga like I used to say
it before I moved to California, it'll get that right.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
But this is really cool.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
It's free to use for the basic features, and I'm
not kidding it is it is so perfect because it
does use AI.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So there's a little quirk.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
About how you have to activate it every time, which
is kind of annoying, but it does work and it's
just tried it out see if you like it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's it's really really cool.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, whisper flow without.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
The h exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay. That is all the great tech advice from our
tech guy, rich Demiro. You can hear him every weekend
on a show called rich on Tech right here on
KFI Saturdays. It's from eleven to two. Of course, you
can see him. We love seeing you on KTL. You
can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech and
everything that we've talked about here and what he talks
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about on KTLA, you can find all that information on
his website, rich on Tech dot TV. Thanks so much,
Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Thanks for having me Amy. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You two the man accused of killing a Baldwin Park
police officer and another man has been charged with two
counts of murder, among other charges. The charges against Eduardo
Medina Buruman include special circumstance ALEX allegations, and for that
he could get the death penalty if he's convicted. A
man who led police on a car chase along with
(24:37):
three passengers, including two kids, have been hurt when the
chase ended with a crash in Inglewood. The chase started
in Culver City around ten am yesterday. The man police
were chasing as one and for several felonies, including robbery
and carjacking. X is back up and running following a crash.
A down detector website says it got thousands of reports
(24:58):
yesterday afternoon that X was down and content wasn't loading
on personal or major news and information sites. There have
been several X outages. X hasn't said what led to
this one.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
Amie's on it.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Aamie's on it, AMI's on Itami's on it?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What am I on? I'm on the stream. There's so
much to watch, how do you know what to watch?
And uh I hopefully I can help you out, maybe
steer you towards the really good things, maybe steer you
away from things that are just a waste of your time.
This one a long time coming. It's The Handmaid's Tale Hulu.
The six seasons are all now completely out. The series
(25:42):
finale has dropped. That dropped last week, and I went
ahead and watched it. And I have been a big
fan of Handmaid's Tale. I'll tell you. I read the
book and hated it, but then I watched the movie
or the series and loved it. Weird, right, I watched
the final episodes. I'm not going to tell you what happens.
I'm not going to give you even any hints, just
(26:05):
to say that I think they wrapped it up, but
I was disappointed. That's all I'm going to say about that. Now.
What I'm going to go back and say is this
series started in twenty seventeen, and that was a long
time ago. So I thought I need to go back
and watch the very first episodes, and I'm glad I did.
(26:25):
There was a lot that's happened since then. There's a
lot that I had forgotten, and I felt like the
last couple of seasons of Handmaid's Tale, while compelling, we're
missing something, so going back, it was kind of fun
to revisit it, and it was the creepy horror factor
that was missing, like when it first came out that
(26:47):
the situation that these women were put in is so
like otherworldly and unlikely and chilling and scary. I just
think the first season was absolutely the best, and then
once June gets out of Gilead, I think it lost
some of its edge. So the story is always interesting
and I always wanted to watch the next one, but
(27:07):
it just became more and more unlikely, and the more
opportunities that June escaped death when you know, any of
the other Handmaids probably would have been wiped out. She
made it through, but of course she's the star of
the movie anyway. The last episode does bring the series
to a close, but like I said, I struggle with
it a little bit because it didn't close out the
way that I think it should. I do think that
(27:30):
they took Margaret Atwood's book and added five more books basically,
which was an amazing feat. So kudos to the writers
and the actors. Elizabeth Moss of course fantastic as Handmaid
offered June Osborne my favorite, though Commander Lawrence Bradley Whitfield
is fantastic, and so is a Serena Joy who is
(27:51):
Ivonne Strahovsky. Both of them are so good at being
bad and then they show you a little good but
then you go, oh, I can root for them, and
then they're so bad and they do such a good
job of that. And then of course also Lydia aunt
Lydia played by Anne Dowd. She is so fantastic. So
(28:11):
there's some great performances in this. If you haven't watched
the whole series, go do it. If you haven't watched
any of it, go watch it. It's great. And like
I said, I think that the first season was absolutely
the best because it's the most chilling, creepy of them all.
Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Courtney Wells Fargo finally escaped the federal reserves cap on
(28:35):
its assets. On its assets? What does that mean?
Speaker 13 (28:39):
So here's what happened good morning in this report a
sponsored by Total Wine and more so, the federers ave
put limits on Wells Fargo's size to penalize the bank
for a number of misdeeds, which included employees opening millions
of unauthorized customer accounts. So what happened is the Federalserve
restricted the bank's size for more than seven years. But
(29:00):
this closes the door on nearly a decade of scandals
for the lender. It also allows Wells Fargo to pursue
growth again because Wells Fargo has spent years cleaning.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Up this whole big mess.
Speaker 13 (29:11):
But the move by the Fed now and this unprecedented punishment,
this never happened before, but it restricted the bank's ability
to grow. It also restricted their ability to compete with
its financial peers. So right now investors are pretty excited
about it that they're going to be back, they're going
to be competitive, and Wells Fargo shares are hire in
the pre market.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
A Courtney the scandal was it Wells Fargo that was
creating accounts for people?
Speaker 13 (29:37):
Yes, they were opening millions of unauthorized customer accounts, but
that wasn't the only thing. What was happening is they
were getting a ton of pressure from bank management a
lot of the employees to be able to speed up
their growth. And at the time, back many years ago,
I mean Wells Fargo was the third biggest bank in
(29:58):
the country, and now they ended up bringing in a
new CEO. He was named to the top job in
twenty nineteen, and it pretty much was his whole entire job,
Charlie Sharf, to fix all of these problems that happened.
But I mean, in twenty sixteen, regulators found that Wells
Fargo the staff there opened as many as three and
a half million accounts without customer's knowledge so that they
(30:21):
can meet these aggressive sales targets. So they wanted to
rapidly expand, but that was not the way to be
able to do it. Through fraud, identity, theft, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
We'll see if they do it right this time. Okay,
Exactly a lot of people bought pelotons during the pandemic
because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go.
And now people want to get rid of them, and
now they can. Yeah, well take those pants.
Speaker 13 (30:43):
Hanging on your unused peloton and you could sell now
your bike. They're in the process of launching a new
platform so folks can sell their use bikes, treadmills, another
peloton equipment right now. Really, the way to be able
to do it is through Facebook Marketplace. That's how I
ended up getting my peloton. This is called Peloton repowered,
so it gives them part of the deal, which also
(31:05):
helps them, so it's not a deal on the side
without Peloton being involved. It's only available in a few
cities right now, but there are plans to expand nationwide.
There's also an option to have the equipment delivered to you,
and I could tell you I would have enjoyed that
option instead of moving that heavy peloton myself up to
a second floor, second floor place.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So yeah, not good. Okay, So if you want used peloton,
you can sell it and you can buy it used.
Now that's exact. And I would imagine that a lot
of those used units are very gently used, as they
call it.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
As I said, there's a lot of Pelotons sitting there
with clothes.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
It's a coat rack instead. Yeah, okay, Hey, is it
going to be a gentle day on Wall Street or
we're in for a rocky roam.
Speaker 13 (31:50):
Well, here's what happened yesterday. Stocks finished the day higher.
Data show the labor market is still holding up. We
got a report on job openings the unexpectedly in April
that lifted the major benchmarks in the dowrows two hundred
fourteen points.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now, this morning.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Earlier we were building on that momentum, but then we
got a big miss on another piece of key data
in the whole entire employment picture. Leaning up to the
big jobs report this Friday, so eighty p said, hiring
private payrolls cool to the slowest pace in two years.
Private sector payrolls increased by thirty seven thousand last month.
That's not a lot. I mean, it missed so many
(32:27):
expectations of economists. So it looks like the strong start
for the year for hiring is definitely losing steam. And
that's why we're seeing a bit of pressure on the
markets right now. We're a little changed across the board,
but as I said, we were higher for Muslim morning.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Okay, well, we'll keep an eye on it. That's getting
in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks, we'll do
it again tomorrow. See you later, all right, have a
good one. Former legal bigwig Tom Girardi has been send
to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing
more than fifteen million bucks from his clients in a
long running Ponzi scheming. Has to surrender to authorities. July sevenventeenth,
(33:00):
Trump Administration's pulled nearly seven seventy million dollars in environmental
justice grants for southern California. MET has agreed to a
twenty year partnership to use nuclear power for its technology
and AI projects. It'll reportedly create one thousand jobs and
generate more than thirteen million dollars in annual tax revenue.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's law enforcement reporter
(33:23):
Luke Barr. And Luke, I know we only have a
couple of minutes with you because we had some technical
issues this morning, and this story we could talk about
all hours for about an hour. But tell us about
the illegal immigrant who allegedly send a letter threatening to
assassinate President Trump. But things are not as they seem.
Speaker 14 (33:41):
Things are not as they seem. So well, this guy,
according to DHS, two weeks ago, sent a threatening letter
to the President of United States, which obviously is a
big deal, but it might kind of be all a
ruse because, according to local authorities in Wisconsin, the letter
that was sent on behalf of, or purporting to be from,
(34:04):
this guy named Ramon Morales Res, who was in the
country illegally, was actually the victim of this crime. So basically,
what had happened, according to court documents, is that Morales
Rays was the victim of a robbery last year. The
guy gets arrested who allegedly robbed him, and he's in jail.
(34:25):
Somehow the guy who robbed him finds out that he's
illegally in the country and says, his hell of a
plan is to get Morales out of the country so
that he doesn't have to testify against him. And how
does he allegedly do that by writing a letter threatening
the president of the United States. Ice picks him up
and now he's going through the deportation process.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh my god, I mean, like awfully brilliant plan if
it would have worked, right. So the guy's in jail
right now, waiting for his trial or is he.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Out, No, he's in jail waiting for his trial.
Speaker 14 (35:03):
And the kind of kicker to all this is that
Morales Reys was supposed to testify against this guy on
July sixteenth. And so this is all kind of laid
out in this court document, which has text of recordings
that were made on jailhouse phones. Were basically this guy
(35:24):
who's in prison and who allegedly victimized Morales Reyes was
laying this all out for everybody to hear, including jail staff.
And in fact, he was informed that his plan worked
when he was interviewed by Milwaukee Police Department detectives about
this case. You know, because when authorities interviewed Morales Res,
(35:46):
they asked him, is there anybody that has it out
against you? And he said, yes, this guy who allegedly
robbed him. And so that's kind of what got the
ball rolling on this case.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, and I know you have to go. Are they
trying to keep him here? Now? See?
Speaker 14 (36:01):
Well, DHS has told us that the investigation of the
strata is ongoing. They realized that he was determined to
be in the country illegally and he's a criminal record.
He will remain in custody, in ice custody, but it
remains to be seen if he's going to meet that
July sixteenth deadline, which is the day for this guy
his trial may be seen, if he'll be in the
(36:24):
country or.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Not, or even if he'll be allowed to testify. Okay,
I think they're got to sort that out during immigration court.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
And other than that, does Ramon Morales Rayas have a
criminal record?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
He does.
Speaker 14 (36:34):
DHS says that he was in and out of the
country at least nine times between nineteen ninety eight and
two thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
After that kind of becomes.
Speaker 14 (36:43):
Hazy where he was, but obviously he was in the
country when he got picked up by Ice and is
a convicted criminal.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Accordantize crazy Okay. ABC's law enforcement reporter Luke Barr would
love to talk more about this, but thanks for getting
us up to date on it. What a crazy story.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Crazy story.
Speaker 14 (36:59):
Talk to you guys later.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I take care. So he doesn't want the guy to
testify against him, so he fakes an assassination letter against
President Trump so he'll get deported. That'll get you in trouble,
which it looks like it's gonna work. Yeah, And like
initially I'm thinking, well, then should they should? He should
testify and then he should get a pass because of that.
But if he has a criminal record before that becomes
(37:23):
a little more sketchy. Yeah, all right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room. A woman from Canyon Country
is expected to plead guilty to forty six charges tied
to a crime tourism. Ring. Prosecutors say Anna Maria Ariagatta
and her boyfriend dispatched thieves from southern South America to shoplift,
(37:43):
burglarize homes and businesses, and steal credit cards to the
tune of about five and a half million dollars over
six years between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four. The
indictment says Aria Gatta and her boyfriend, whose trial is
scheduled for August, ordered associates who stole credit cards to
immediately go to stores like Target, buy a home depot
and maxim out by purchasing electronics, gift cards, designer purses,
(38:05):
and other high end luxury goods. And they did that
quickly before the cards that were stolen could be canceled.
News brought to you by Seller's Advantage. A mental health
support hotline could face big cuts as the state continues
to trim its twelve billion dollar budget deficit. Funding for
the free twenty four hour non emergency mental health support
(38:26):
lines been cut from fifteen million to five million dollars.
Governor Newsom says is actually an increase because the peer
run warm line wasn't in his original budget. The Education
Department will not be garnishing the social security of student
loan borrowers who are in default.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
And Education Department spokespersons as borrowers who have defaulted on
their student loans will no longer be at risk of
having their Social Security benefits garnished. The government last month
restarted collections for the millions of people in default on
their federal student loans, and estimated four hundred and fifty
two thousand people aged sixty two and older had student
loans in default, according to a report from the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. Advocates encourage the Trump administration to go
(39:06):
further to provide relief for the roughly five point three
million borrowers in default. Mark Ronner KFI.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
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HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from the KFI
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
I had.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
The moment.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
I walked outside this morning and there was like missed.
Oh yeah, it wasn't really drizzled. It was just this light, light,
light mist. And I was like, that makes me think
of Johnny Maths. Isn't that who it is?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
I thought London, the city of London, but yeah, Johnny Athestu.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Okay, when I was in London it was sunny and warm,
so I don't have a good reference.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
That mist is making for a messy drive in some spots.
So I'll have that coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
All right, thank you, thank you. Will Colech there. Hey,
guess who's back in the nest. Sonny came back yesterday.
First she was hovering over the nest, of course, talking
about the big bear eagles. Sonny left the nest, but
then she came back and she's there this morning with Gizmo.
I think Gizmo looked very lonely, and so we're still
(01:02):
waiting for Gizmo to fledge or leave the nest. That man,
she was flapping good yesterday. It's sort of like she
was like, Okay, Sonny left, Now it's my turn. So
we'll see what happens, especially now that now that Sonny
is back, maybe that is a disincentive, but we'll keep watching.
There was like one hundred thousand people watching Yesterday's crazy. Yeah,
it was crazy. It's so wonderful. I just love it.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
All.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Right, here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. The family
of a four year old Mexican girl in Bakersfield being
treated for a life threatening illness has been granted a
reprieve from possible deportation. The federal government granted the family
humanitarian parole, which allows them to stay in the country
for another year. Doctors at Children's Hospital LA said if
she didn't get continued treatments, she could die within days.
(01:47):
The Department of Justice is looking into people pardoned by
former President Biden. The DOOJ is going to investigate whether
staff took advantage of the former president in issuing pardons
to over fifteen hundred people, including his son Hunter and
other family members, doctor Anthony Fauci and January sixth committee members.
The mural of Kobe and GG Bryant downtown LA has
(02:07):
been vandalized again. The mural honoring the Lakers star and
his daughter who were killed in a helicopter crash. Was
first defaced in April. The artist restored the mural on
Main Street last month, and now it's all messed up again. Okay,
some other things that are coming up on wake Up
Call this morning. The Nintendo Switch is finally going to
(02:28):
be available. Your kids are probably very excited about it.
Rich de Murro's joining us at five point twenty to
tell us how much it costs, what's new, and whether
you can even get it. It releases officially tomorrow. Also,
you can now photoshop on your Android, and if you're
tired of typing, Rich has an app for that for
iPhone users. Amy's on it, I'm on the stream. The
(02:50):
series has wrapped. Does it do its job or does
it fall short? We'll tell you the tale coming up
at bottom of the hour. And a guy who sent
a letter threatening to assassinate President Trump. Remember we told
you about this. It was really written by a different
guy who wanted the guy who is accused of writing
the letter deported so we wouldn't testify against him in court.
(03:13):
I mean, you cannot make this stuff up. An interesting,
interesting story. ABC's Luke Barr is going to join us
at five point fifty to tell us about the tangled
web this guy weaved. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom that thunderca Clap was one of several during lightning
strikes that closed beaches in Orange County. Beaches and piers
(03:37):
were closed yesterday, and Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach,
and Seal Beach in the Inland Empire Riverside also had
lightning strikes that prompted public safety agencies to go on alert.
We had thunder and lightning at my house. I absolutely
loved it. It was so cool, especially in the afternoon. I
love a good afternoon thunderstorm. LA police have shot and
killed a man during a confrontation in the Harvard Heights
(04:00):
neighborhood of South LA. Officers were called last night about
shots fired at an apartment complex near Ardmore Avenue on
Eleventh Street. The shooting happened shortly after they arrived. The
man died at the hospital. Police say they found a
gun and several shell casings. LA County DA Nathan Hawkman
says the man charged with killing a police officer and
(04:20):
another man in Baldwin Park is expected to be arraigned
this week. Eduardo Medina Beruman is still in the hospital
being treated for his injuries from Saturday night's shootout. Hawkman
says he'll make sure that justice prevails.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
And bringing mister Beruman to justice and making sure he
is held fully accountable for his actions.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Beruman is charged with two counts of murder, one of
attempted murder, and two other counts. He could get the
death sentence because of special circumstances allegations. Hotel and airport
workers are urging voters in LA not to sign a
petition to overturn a recently approved minimum wage hike that
will give them thirty dollars per hour by twenty twenty eight.
Members of the Tourism Workers Rising C coalition that lobbied
(05:01):
for the wage increase rallied in downtown LA yesterday as
part of their campaign defend the wage. LA backers of
the petition say the pay raise is going to bump
up labor costs and could force some businesses to lay
off employees or be forced to shut down altogether. Let's
take a first look at your morning commute We got
some fog lingering in the Cone Pass.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, quite a bit of it.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Actually, looking at the Caltrans cameras, it's hard to see
even the lights of the traffic there. On I fifteen's
you hit southbound through the cohone Pass, a little bit
of slowing. It's slower than usual at this time of day,
but probably because of that fog, So just factor that
into your drive. Also, quite a bit of slowing on
the northbound side of the five. This is going to
be in the downy Norwalk area between the six oh
(05:44):
five and slows and that's Caltrans roadwork that is being
picked up.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
It's overdue.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
It's supposed to be picked up at around five, but
now it's going to go a little overtime there, so
expect some slowing again northbound five six oh five up
to Slawson and on the northbound seventy one at Valley Boulevard,
we've got a pickup truck that went over the side
as well. CHP is there on the side dealing with
that with Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I will Cole Schreiber, thank you.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Will.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Well's going to keep us up to date as the
morning goes on, make sure you can get where you're going.
As you mentioned, the road's a little bit soggy, and
I was a little bit worried about it. It was
a little bit slippy, yeah, but not bad because it
wasn't like rain rain, right, although yesterday we had rain
in the valley. Oh we had rain at my house too.
(06:32):
We had and thunder, the thunder and lightning. Was I'm so.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Close to washing my car yesterday morning, and I'm I'm
so glad I didn't waste that money a one time.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement has detained the family of the man in Colorado
accused of fire bombing supporters of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Speaker 8 (06:56):
That head of Homeland Security Christinomes said an investigation is
now under way to determine to what extent the suspects
family knew about this heinous act, if they had knowledge
of it, or if they provided support to it. Forty
five year old Mohammed Suliman was arrested following Sunday's attack,
in which twelve people were injured with a makeshift flamethrower
(07:17):
and molotov cocktails. He's been charged with a hate crime,
with FBI investigators saying he planned for a year targeting
pro Israel supporters. I'm Nick Harper and Washington.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
The Justice Department says two Chinese nationals smuggled a potential
agro terrorism weapon into the US. It's a fungus that's
known to kill crops and is harmful to humans. Former
senior Pentagon official Steve Ganyard says the fungus could have
disastrous effects on the country. The potential here for serious
(07:50):
damage to the US economy is actually very.
Speaker 9 (07:54):
Very scary.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
The two were allegedly getting Chinese government funding for their research.
Authorities in Arkansas have revealed an image of what a
convicted murderer and former police chief known as the Devil
in the Ozarks may look like two weeks after he
escaped from prison. The rendering shows fifty six year old
Grand Harden with hair on the sides of his head
and facial hair. Harden was serving sentences for rape and
(08:18):
murder when he escaped from prison on May twenty fifth.
Authority say he was wearing what looked like a law
enforcement uniform. The Israeli militaries. AID distribution centers in Gaza
are being shut down as roads leading to the sites
have become combat zones.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
The Israel Defense Forces says people will be prohibited from
entering the centers or traveling on roads leading to them.
AMAS officials say over two dozen Palestinians were killed near
an AID center by the Israeli military early Tuesday. US
back Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it hopes to resume distributing
aid again on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm Michael Kassner, a top Cuban official, is accusing the
US of escalating tensions with the island. ABC's and as
de La Katera says the official is even voicing concerns
of a possible conflict.
Speaker 9 (09:07):
Senior Cuban official Joanna Tablada saying the Trump administration has
been ratcheting tensions between DC and Havana, adding she is
worried the US is trying to provoke a military confrontation.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
She says since President Trump took office, Cuba was put
back on the list of state sponsors of terror. Disgraced
former attorney Tom Girardi's been sentenced to more than seven
years in prison for ripping off nearly twenty million dollars
from clients with a long running Ponzi scheme. In handing
down the sentence yesterday, the judge said the disbarred ex
attorney wielded his power against vulnerable people who'd gone to
(09:43):
him for help. Girardi, who turned eighty six yesterday, was
also ordered to pay more than two million dollars in
restitution to four of his clients, plus fines. Elon Musk
is trashed President Biden's legislative agenda, posting on social media
that the One Big Beauty Full Bill Act is, in
his words, a disgusting abomination. House Speaker Mike Johnson says
(10:06):
musk stance is disappointing.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Elon is missing it okay, and it's not personal.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I know that the ev mandate very important to him.
Speaker 6 (10:15):
That is going away because the garment should not be
subsidizing these things.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Johnson says the mandate is part of the Green New Deal,
which has an effect on Musk's business. Closing arguments have
begun at Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes retrial in New York.
Is lawyer portrayed Weinstein as the falsely accused poster boy
of the me Too era, a prosecutor said the former
movie Mogul preyed on women he thought would never speak up.
(10:42):
Closing arguments are set to wrap up today and then
the mostly female jury is expected to start deliberations. Weinstein
is pleaded not guilty to raping a woman in twenty
thirteen and forcing oral sex onto others in two thousand
and six. More people are cooking at home since the pandemic.
Speaker 7 (10:59):
The soup company Can, which also makes V eight and
Pepperdge Farm, is seen an increase in sales of their
meals and beverages across different income levels. New data shows
many consumers are worried about the economy. In an April
survey by The Economist in Yugo of nearly half of
respondent's described the economy as poor, with fifty three percent
believing it's getting worse. The trend of eating in is
similar to early twenty twenty, when the pandemic led to
(11:21):
Lockdown's unemployment and a decline in spending. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
A woman from Canyon Country is expected to plead guilty
to forty six charges tied to a crime tourism. Ring.
Prosecutors say Anna Maria Ariagata and her boyfriend dispatched thieves
from South America to shoplift, burglarize homes and businesses, and
steal credit cards to the tune of five and a
half million dollars over six years. A man in Milwaukee's
(11:48):
been accused of trying to get a man who was
set to testify against him deported by sending a fake
assassination threat letter against President Trump. Prosecutors see Sey Dimitri
Scott wrote the letter and signed Ramon Morales Riah's name
to it. Scott has been charged with felony witness intimidation,
among other things. Morales Rias will be in court today
(12:11):
and could be deported. He's here illegally. We're gonna hopefully
find out more about that with ABC's Luke bar coming
up at five point fifty. A former varsity baseball coach
at California High School in Southwoodire has a new wheelchair
thanks to the LA Dodgers. Jason Ramirez had to retire
from coaching in twenty twenty three after he was diagnosed
with ALS that's Luke Garrig's disease. He was presented with
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the power wheelchair at the Dodgers game on Monday night,
Ramirez is a lifelong Dodgers fan. He says the wheelchair
is life changing for him. Are we going to say
good morning to Rich Demiro almost? We're okay, we're working
on that, and so while we work to connect with Rich,
he's the tech guy. He should be able to tell
us how to fix it. Right, Okay, here's some other
(12:58):
stories we're working on in the KFI two twenty for
our newsroom. Four men have been arrested and more than
two thousand pounds of drugs have been confiscated at a
home in Compton, Billise. They got fentanyl, meth amphetamine, cocaine,
and thirteen weapons. The men allegedly made more than one
and a half million dollars in drug sales in the
last two years and avoided detection of what they were
(13:19):
doing by using coded language on social media. A youth
soccer coach in Rodondo Beach is facing charges for allegedly
trying to meet up with a child for sex.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Police say Jared Cravar is currently free on bail following
his recent arrest. He's been charged with having hundreds of
items of child pornography in his possession. Cravar was arrested
after he allegedly trying to set up a meeting with
what he thought was a minor for its sexual purposes.
Investigators say Cravar may have more victims due to his
position as a youth soccer coach, and they're asking anybody
with any information to come forward. Mark Mayfield, KOFI News.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Three young girls from Washington State who were reported missing
on Friday have been found dead. The girls were five, eight,
and nine years old. Their father is now wanted for murder.
He had picked up the girls for a custodial visit,
but police Captain Brian Chantz says they did not return
when they were supposed to.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
With no reported history of problems with the parenting plan.
There were no reported or there were, I'm sorry. There
were reported concerns of Travis being homeless and financially stressed recently.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
The father is an Army veteran. He is described as
a homeless drifter living in his pickup truck. Officials have
not said how the kids died. You see, Riverside School
of Medicine is getting its own teaching hospital. It'll have
medical offices and eventually a research center. The twenty one
acre site near Valley Springs Parkway and Gateway Drive will
mark the first hospital dedicated to UCR, which currently trains
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students at other local hospitals. The project will be funded
by the University of California. No timeline or cost estimate
has been announced. META is turning to nuclear power to
help with future business.
Speaker 11 (14:58):
Facebook's parent company has cut it twenty year deal to
secure nuclear power to help meet surging demand for artificial
intelligence and other computing needs. The agreement, announced yesterday is
the latest in a string of tech nuclear partnerships as
the use of AI expands. Surging investments in small nuclear
reactors comes at a time when large tech companies need
(15:18):
to increase their energy supply for AI and data centers
while also trying to meet their long term goals to
significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Dep remark Kaffi News. Senate Republicans plan to meet today
to talk about President Trump's signature spending bill, you know,
the Big Beautiful Bill. ABC's Mary Bruce says the bill
passed the House by just one vote and faces challenges
in the Senate.
Speaker 12 (15:43):
At Walmart, the cost of some toys way up. A
baby born doll that cost thirty four ninety seven in
March now costs forty nine to ninety seven, up roughly
forty three percent.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
She says the president wants to get the bill across
the finish line as prices rise because of the trade
where he started. Four young sea lions treated at the
Marine Mammal Care Center in LA for demoic acid exposure
are about to be released in Venice. Officials say this
morning will also they will announce the end of the
current demoic acid bloom and the start of a preparedness
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campaign for future blooms. All right, looks like we have
Rich dmiro Yay on the line because we got a
lot to talk about.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Good morning, Rich, Hey, good morning to you Amy.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Okay, so we got a Nintendo switch to I bet
a lot of parents are well. I bet a lot
of kids are excited. Their parents are ready to fork
over some cash. So let's talk about it because it's
it's sort of a long awaited release.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, this has been eight years in the making since
the original one came out. And yeah, tonight tonight, so
it's interesting it actually launches.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
And I'm really bad at this stuff.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
But it's midnight Thursday, which is actually like nine pm
tonight Pacific. So retailers like Best Buy, Walmart, they are
going to have this tonight game stop Target, And yes
it does launch at midnight, but I think that's on
the East Coast, so that's apparently nine pm here. Four
hundred and fifty dollars for the console. Five hundred dollars
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if you want the bundle. That is what the experts
are saying to get because the games are pricey on
this anywhere from seventy to ninety dollars.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Of course, it's going to be improved.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
It's got a bigger screen, it's got better resolution, better
frame rate, faster magnetic attaching controllers.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
So there's a lot to like here.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
It's going to be kind of a big deal for
gamers because this is a long time coming.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Like you said, Okay, you mentioned bigger screen. Don't you
play it on just a TV?
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Well, the thing about the switch that's kind of unique
is that it works as both the portable.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Gaming system and it can connect to your TV.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
And that's kind of the magic that Nintendo invented a
couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
So that's what's pretty cool about this.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Okay, So I heard that they're already sold out. All
the pre orders are sold out, So can you get one?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Good question.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
Pre Orders are sold out, but that does not mean
that the stores will not have them tonight. The pre
order people will get them, but they're going to of course,
like any other event that I've been to in the
you know, many years I've been covering this. The stores
want people there in person, so they will have you know,
it might be limited. We don't know, you know, we
don't know what the stock is on this. It could
be that everyone that goes tonight gets one. We just
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don't know until it happens, so we will find out
soon enough.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Pre orders, yes, have sold out instantly pretty much every time,
but there will be some stock tonight for sure.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Okay, but that's part of the fun of it. When
it's something that's so much anticipated like this, is going
and getting in line and seeing if you can get one,
and yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Except it could be pretty stressful. I think, I know,
I know some.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
People that really want one of these tonight, and it's
you know, it's very strategic. Where do I go, What
time do I get there? How long am I going
to wait in line? When do they tell you that
there's nothing. Some of these places they're using raffles, which
means even if you're this first person in line, you
still may not get it because the thirtieth person might
win the raffle. So it just sort of depends.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I don't like that raffle idea personally me either.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Me either.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I'm like, if you're going to get there early in
camp out, you should be first in line.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
I think the last time I camped out for one
of these things was the PlayStation two, which goes to
show you how long I've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Okay, so let's move on and talk about It's called
Wise's New light Bulb Camera. So it's a tricky little gadget.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Yeah, I think they're going to sell a gazillion of these.
It's so brilliant. Think about this, a light bulb that
screws into a socket, but at the end there is
a small security camera on it. So now anywhere you
have a light bulb socket, you can install a camera
without wires, without solar, without batteries. And the thing about
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this amy is that people buy these things like crazy
on Amazon. They usually cost about thirty bucks, but they
come from these really off brands that nobody knows, you know,
who's making these things, and how good the security is.
This is a major company and for what's this price,
fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's not bad.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
And you can connect up to five of them, so
you can actually have additional light bulbs that are seventeen
dollars each, and then if the camera sees motion, it'll
turn on all the light bulbs. So it's a really
smart little system without a lot of wiring.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Okay, and then does it also it's got the cameras
on it, so then do you see what's going on
on your phone? Kind of like a ring.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Camera exactly, so you can see on your phone.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
You can use the app or it can also record locally,
so if you don't want to pay any subscription fees,
it can record onto a memory card built into the device,
or I guess you put it into the device. The
only problem with that is we know amy that if
someone stole the camera, they would also steal the memory card.
So that's why they sell the cloud backup option, which
you know is three dollars a month if you want
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your clips to go to the cloud, So if someone
stole the camera, at least you would still have the
clip in the cloud.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Okay, And it's sold by Wyswyze.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, and they're pretty well known.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
They've had a couple of little security issues in the past,
but they've really polished those up. So I have no
problem suggesting that this is a recommendation of a good camera.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I have to test it out, but seems like a
really good solution.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Okay, perfect. Then Photoshop, which we all know what that is,
but I didn't know it wasn't available on Android, but
now it's going to be.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Photoshop launched a version of their mobile app on the
iPhone a couple months ago, and everyone was like, wait,
what about Android? What about Android? And now guess you
can get it on Android. It's a beta version of
the app, so not every feature is there, but it
brings a lot of those like Photoshop features people love
to Android phones, like layering, masking, you can select little objects,
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you can sort of get blemishes off of people or whatever,
you know, erase something from a picture. And of course
everyone is all about these AI features, So Firefly is
their version of AI. They have a generative fill feature,
which means, let's say you take a picture in front
of a mountain background, you'd rather be in front of
an ocean.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You can literally.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Erase the mountains and added ocean. So it's free right now.
You can get on Android and it will be free
during the beta period and most of the features are
I guess many of the features will remain free, but.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
At some point they will introduce some paid features to okay.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And then you've got a new voice to text app
for iPhone users, which what do you need that? Because
I do the voice to text on my iPhone all
the time and I don't have a specific app for it.
Speaker 5 (22:35):
And are you correcting what it does all the time,
like I am, Well, yes, it's horrible.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I mean it's really bad.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's bad, but it's not as bad as my typing.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
No, and it's a little bit faster, and yes, to
Apple's credit, it has gotten better. But if you try this,
it is called whisper flow WISPR. I will put the
link on my website rich on tech dot tv because
people are just searching and find different things. But there
is an official app. I'm not kidding, Amy. This is
single handedly the best app I've ever downloaded on the iPhone.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Really, it is so good. I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
It gets the punctuation right, it gets the proper nouns right.
If you say spult a boulevard, it will get it.
Or if you say lasienga like I used to say
it before I moved to California, it'll get that right.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
But this is really cool.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
It's free to use for the basic features, and I'm
not kidding it is it is so perfect because it
does use AI.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
So there's a little quirk.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
About how you have to activate it every time, which
is kind of annoying, but it does work and it's
just tried it out see if you like it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
It's it's really really cool.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, whisper flow without.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
The h exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Okay. That is all the great tech advice from our
tech guy, rich Demiro. You can hear him every weekend
on a show called rich on Tech right here on
KFI Saturdays. It's from eleven to two. Of course, you
can see him. We love seeing you on KTL. You
can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech and
everything that we've talked about here and what he talks
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about on KTLA, you can find all that information on
his website, rich on Tech dot TV. Thanks so much,
Rich Dmiro.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Thanks for having me Amy. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
You two the man accused of killing a Baldwin Park
police officer and another man has been charged with two
counts of murder, among other charges. The charges against Eduardo
Medina Buruman include special circumstance ALEX allegations, and for that
he could get the death penalty if he's convicted. A
man who led police on a car chase along with
(24:37):
three passengers, including two kids, have been hurt when the
chase ended with a crash in Inglewood. The chase started
in Culver City around ten am yesterday. The man police
were chasing as one and for several felonies, including robbery
and carjacking. X is back up and running following a crash.
A down detector website says it got thousands of reports
(24:58):
yesterday afternoon that X was down and content wasn't loading
on personal or major news and information sites. There have
been several X outages. X hasn't said what led to
this one.
Speaker 13 (25:10):
Amie's on it.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Aamie's on it, AMI's on Itami's on it?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
What am I on? I'm on the stream. There's so
much to watch, how do you know what to watch?
And uh I hopefully I can help you out, maybe
steer you towards the really good things, maybe steer you
away from things that are just a waste of your time.
This one a long time coming. It's The Handmaid's Tale Hulu.
The six seasons are all now completely out. The series
(25:42):
finale has dropped. That dropped last week, and I went
ahead and watched it. And I have been a big
fan of Handmaid's Tale. I'll tell you. I read the
book and hated it, but then I watched the movie
or the series and loved it. Weird, right, I watched
the final episodes. I'm not going to tell you what happens.
I'm not going to give you even any hints, just
(26:05):
to say that I think they wrapped it up, but
I was disappointed. That's all I'm going to say about that. Now.
What I'm going to go back and say is this
series started in twenty seventeen, and that was a long
time ago. So I thought I need to go back
and watch the very first episodes, and I'm glad I did.
(26:25):
There was a lot that's happened since then. There's a
lot that I had forgotten, and I felt like the
last couple of seasons of Handmaid's Tale, while compelling, we're
missing something, so going back, it was kind of fun
to revisit it, and it was the creepy horror factor
that was missing, like when it first came out that
(26:47):
the situation that these women were put in is so
like otherworldly and unlikely and chilling and scary. I just
think the first season was absolutely the best, and then
once June gets out of Gilead, I think it lost
some of its edge. So the story is always interesting
and I always wanted to watch the next one, but
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it just became more and more unlikely, and the more
opportunities that June escaped death when you know, any of
the other Handmaids probably would have been wiped out. She
made it through, but of course she's the star of
the movie anyway. The last episode does bring the series
to a close, but like I said, I struggle with
it a little bit because it didn't close out the
way that I think it should. I do think that
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they took Margaret Atwood's book and added five more books basically,
which was an amazing feat. So kudos to the writers
and the actors. Elizabeth Moss of course fantastic as Handmaid
offered June Osborne my favorite, though Commander Lawrence Bradley Whitfield
is fantastic, and so is a Serena Joy who is
(27:51):
Ivonne Strahovsky. Both of them are so good at being
bad and then they show you a little good but
then you go, oh, I can root for them, and
then they're so bad and they do such a good
job of that. And then of course also Lydia aunt
Lydia played by Anne Dowd. She is so fantastic. So
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there's some great performances in this. If you haven't watched
the whole series, go do it. If you haven't watched
any of it, go watch it. It's great. And like
I said, I think that the first season was absolutely
the best because it's the most chilling, creepy of them all.
Time to get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho.
Courtney Wells Fargo finally escaped the federal reserves cap on
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its assets. On its assets? What does that mean?
Speaker 13 (28:39):
So here's what happened good morning in this report a
sponsored by Total Wine and more so, the federers ave
put limits on Wells Fargo's size to penalize the bank
for a number of misdeeds, which included employees opening millions
of unauthorized customer accounts. So what happened is the Federalserve
restricted the bank's size for more than seven years. But
(29:00):
this closes the door on nearly a decade of scandals
for the lender. It also allows Wells Fargo to pursue
growth again because Wells Fargo has spent years cleaning.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Up this whole big mess.
Speaker 13 (29:11):
But the move by the Fed now and this unprecedented punishment,
this never happened before, but it restricted the bank's ability
to grow. It also restricted their ability to compete with
its financial peers. So right now investors are pretty excited
about it that they're going to be back, they're going
to be competitive, and Wells Fargo shares are hire in
the pre market.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
A Courtney the scandal was it Wells Fargo that was
creating accounts for people?
Speaker 13 (29:37):
Yes, they were opening millions of unauthorized customer accounts, but
that wasn't the only thing. What was happening is they
were getting a ton of pressure from bank management a
lot of the employees to be able to speed up
their growth. And at the time, back many years ago,
I mean Wells Fargo was the third biggest bank in
(29:58):
the country, and now they ended up bringing in a
new CEO. He was named to the top job in
twenty nineteen, and it pretty much was his whole entire job,
Charlie Sharf, to fix all of these problems that happened.
But I mean, in twenty sixteen, regulators found that Wells
Fargo the staff there opened as many as three and
a half million accounts without customer's knowledge so that they
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can meet these aggressive sales targets. So they wanted to
rapidly expand, but that was not the way to be
able to do it. Through fraud, identity, theft, all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
We'll see if they do it right this time. Okay,
Exactly a lot of people bought pelotons during the pandemic
because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go.
And now people want to get rid of them, and
now they can. Yeah, well take those pants.
Speaker 13 (30:43):
Hanging on your unused peloton and you could sell now
your bike. They're in the process of launching a new
platform so folks can sell their use bikes, treadmills, another
peloton equipment right now. Really, the way to be able
to do it is through Facebook Marketplace. That's how I
ended up getting my peloton. This is called Peloton repowered,
so it gives them part of the deal, which also
(31:05):
helps them, so it's not a deal on the side
without Peloton being involved. It's only available in a few
cities right now, but there are plans to expand nationwide.
There's also an option to have the equipment delivered to you,
and I could tell you I would have enjoyed that
option instead of moving that heavy peloton myself up to
a second floor, second floor place.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
So yeah, not good. Okay, So if you want used peloton,
you can sell it and you can buy it used.
Now that's exact. And I would imagine that a lot
of those used units are very gently used, as they
call it.
Speaker 13 (31:41):
As I said, there's a lot of Pelotons sitting there
with clothes.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
It's a coat rack instead. Yeah, okay, Hey, is it
going to be a gentle day on Wall Street or
we're in for a rocky roam.
Speaker 13 (31:50):
Well, here's what happened yesterday. Stocks finished the day higher.
Data show the labor market is still holding up. We
got a report on job openings the unexpectedly in April
that lifted the major benchmarks in the dowrows two hundred
fourteen points.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Now, this morning.
Speaker 13 (32:05):
Earlier we were building on that momentum, but then we
got a big miss on another piece of key data
in the whole entire employment picture. Leaning up to the
big jobs report this Friday, so eighty p said, hiring
private payrolls cool to the slowest pace in two years.
Private sector payrolls increased by thirty seven thousand last month.
That's not a lot. I mean, it missed so many
(32:27):
expectations of economists. So it looks like the strong start
for the year for hiring is definitely losing steam. And
that's why we're seeing a bit of pressure on the
markets right now. We're a little changed across the board,
but as I said, we were higher for Muslim morning.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Okay, well, we'll keep an eye on it. That's getting
in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks, we'll do
it again tomorrow. See you later, all right, have a
good one. Former legal bigwig Tom Girardi has been send
to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing
more than fifteen million bucks from his clients in a
long running Ponzi scheming. Has to surrender to authorities. July sevenventeenth,
(33:00):
Trump Administration's pulled nearly seven seventy million dollars in environmental
justice grants for southern California. MET has agreed to a
twenty year partnership to use nuclear power for its technology
and AI projects. It'll reportedly create one thousand jobs and
generate more than thirteen million dollars in annual tax revenue.
Let's say good morning now to ABC's law enforcement reporter
(33:23):
Luke Barr. And Luke, I know we only have a
couple of minutes with you because we had some technical
issues this morning, and this story we could talk about
all hours for about an hour. But tell us about
the illegal immigrant who allegedly send a letter threatening to
assassinate President Trump. But things are not as they seem.
Speaker 14 (33:41):
Things are not as they seem. So well, this guy,
according to DHS, two weeks ago, sent a threatening letter
to the President of United States, which obviously is a
big deal, but it might kind of be all a
ruse because, according to local authorities in Wisconsin, the letter
that was sent on behalf of, or purporting to be from,
(34:04):
this guy named Ramon Morales Res, who was in the
country illegally, was actually the victim of this crime. So basically,
what had happened, according to court documents, is that Morales
Rays was the victim of a robbery last year. The
guy gets arrested who allegedly robbed him, and he's in jail.
(34:25):
Somehow the guy who robbed him finds out that he's
illegally in the country and says, his hell of a
plan is to get Morales out of the country so
that he doesn't have to testify against him. And how
does he allegedly do that by writing a letter threatening
the president of the United States. Ice picks him up
and now he's going through the deportation process.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Oh my god, I mean, like awfully brilliant plan if
it would have worked, right. So the guy's in jail
right now, waiting for his trial or is he.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Out, No, he's in jail waiting for his trial.
Speaker 14 (35:03):
And the kind of kicker to all this is that
Morales Reys was supposed to testify against this guy on
July sixteenth. And so this is all kind of laid
out in this court document, which has text of recordings
that were made on jailhouse phones. Were basically this guy
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who's in prison and who allegedly victimized Morales Reyes was
laying this all out for everybody to hear, including jail staff.
And in fact, he was informed that his plan worked
when he was interviewed by Milwaukee Police Department detectives about
this case. You know, because when authorities interviewed Morales Res,
(35:46):
they asked him, is there anybody that has it out
against you? And he said, yes, this guy who allegedly
robbed him. And so that's kind of what got the
ball rolling on this case.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, and I know you have to go. Are they
trying to keep him here? Now? See?
Speaker 14 (36:01):
Well, DHS has told us that the investigation of the
strata is ongoing. They realized that he was determined to
be in the country illegally and he's a criminal record.
He will remain in custody, in ice custody, but it
remains to be seen if he's going to meet that
July sixteenth deadline, which is the day for this guy
his trial may be seen, if he'll be in the
(36:24):
country or.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
Not, or even if he'll be allowed to testify. Okay,
I think they're got to sort that out during immigration court.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
And other than that, does Ramon Morales Rayas have a
criminal record?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
He does.
Speaker 14 (36:34):
DHS says that he was in and out of the
country at least nine times between nineteen ninety eight and
two thousand and five.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
After that kind of becomes.
Speaker 14 (36:43):
Hazy where he was, but obviously he was in the
country when he got picked up by Ice and is
a convicted criminal.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Accordantize crazy Okay. ABC's law enforcement reporter Luke Barr would
love to talk more about this, but thanks for getting
us up to date on it. What a crazy story.
Speaker 8 (36:58):
Crazy story.
Speaker 14 (36:59):
Talk to you guys later.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I take care. So he doesn't want the guy to
testify against him, so he fakes an assassination letter against
President Trump so he'll get deported. That'll get you in trouble,
which it looks like it's gonna work. Yeah, And like
initially I'm thinking, well, then should they should? He should
testify and then he should get a pass because of that.
But if he has a criminal record before that becomes
(37:23):
a little more sketchy. Yeah, all right, let's get back
to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour news room. A woman from Canyon Country
is expected to plead guilty to forty six charges tied
to a crime tourism. Ring. Prosecutors say Anna Maria Ariagatta
and her boyfriend dispatched thieves from southern South America to shoplift,
(37:43):
burglarize homes and businesses, and steal credit cards to the
tune of about five and a half million dollars over
six years between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four. The
indictment says Aria Gatta and her boyfriend, whose trial is
scheduled for August, ordered associates who stole credit cards to
immediately go to stores like Target, buy a home depot
and maxim out by purchasing electronics, gift cards, designer purses,
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and other high end luxury goods. And they did that
quickly before the cards that were stolen could be canceled.
News brought to you by Seller's Advantage. A mental health
support hotline could face big cuts as the state continues
to trim its twelve billion dollar budget deficit. Funding for
the free twenty four hour non emergency mental health support
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lines been cut from fifteen million to five million dollars.
Governor Newsom says is actually an increase because the peer
run warm line wasn't in his original budget. The Education
Department will not be garnishing the social security of student
loan borrowers who are in default.
Speaker 7 (38:43):
And Education Department spokespersons as borrowers who have defaulted on
their student loans will no longer be at risk of
having their Social Security benefits garnished. The government last month
restarted collections for the millions of people in default on
their federal student loans, and estimated four hundred and fifty
two thousand people aged sixty two and older had student
loans in default, according to a report from the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. Advocates encourage the Trump administration to go
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further to provide relief for the roughly five point three
million borrowers in default. Mark Ronner KFI.
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