September 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Amy King hosts your Tuesday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Jim Ryan opens the show talking about Roblox deploying tech aimed at protecting kids from predators. ABC News journalist Steven Portnoy speaks on the Supreme Court lifting restrictions on Trump immigration tactics in California. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg joins the show to talk about the latest in business and what is affecting the markets today. The show closes with the host of ‘How to Money’ Joel Larsgaard about planning for Christmas, interest rates dropping, and used EVs getting cheaper.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Your host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up
call for Tuesday, September ninth. I'm Amy King. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and happy you're getting your
day started right here on KFI with us. So last week,
I don't know if you remember, but last week we
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had a story about a business owner who was a
blasting loud insects sounds around his business to kind of
drive the homeless people away, to just annoy the crap
out of them. I think that, well, it's not speakers,
but I got one of my own. I have this.
There's a cricket outside my door, and it is so loud,
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and it's so funny. It's like become this little game
because it's like just chirp and chirp and chirping, and
I'm just like, can you just shut up and leave
me alone? And then this morning I could hear it
from inside, so it's it's very close. And I walked
outside and he stopped, and then I've said okay, fine,
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and I walked back inside and he started chirping again.
I mean, he's close and he's toying with me. Ah,
they're good, they're good, They're good. I wonder how many
there are because it sounds like it's just one guy,
but he's enough to just drive you a little bit crazy.
Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. LA Mayor bass
Is called the Supreme Court's ruling that restrictions on roving
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immigration raids in LA on American. The mayor says the
decision is going to lead to more working families being
torn apart. Says not right to snatch people off the
street with no warrants and take them away with no explanation.
ABC Stephen Portnoy is going to join us to tell
us whether this fight is now over or whether it's
still on. I have a feeling it's still on. But
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Stephen's going to join us at five point twenty to
tell us more about that. A foul odor has led
police to the discovery of a body in a tow
yard in Hollywood. The LAPD says it has received several
complaints from people in the area of the odor A
search of the towyard on North Mansfield turned up a
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body in a bag inside a Tesla. Police said the
card been there for a couple of days. An effort
to repeal LA's so called Olympic Wage ordinance has come
up Shortbackers of a move to put a measure on
the ballot to repeal the city's plan to increase the
minimum wage to thirty dollars an hour in time for
the Olympics twenty twenty eight failed to get enough signatures
to qualify. Hospitality and tourism officials say thirty bucks an
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hour is going to hurt businesses. So have you played Roadblocks?
It's the most popular game in the world. Apparently I
have not played it. Now my eighteen year old is obsessed, obsessed,
and her coworkers who are like in their twenties. Okay, well,
there are just a few of the one hundred and
twelve million daily users of this game. And Jim Ryan's
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going to tell us that that leaves a lot of
kids vulnerable to online predators, something I'm sure you want
to hear, Kno, and what's being done about it. Jim's
going to join us in just a couple of minutes.
The host of How to Money on CAFI, Joel Larsgard, says,
you might want to start thinking of booking your Christmas
flights now, and if you're thinking about an ev used
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may be the better way to go. Also, I'm going
over the edge. I want you to join me. How
would you like to repel twenty five stories down the
side of a building for a cause. I'll tell you
more about that coming up this hour. I watch you
do it well. If you just want to watch, you
can make a donation and help support to TEAMKFI Team
Wake Up Call. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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Immigrant rights groups and state and local officials have spoken
out against the Supreme Court's decision that allows roving immigration
enforcement to resume. La City councilwoman Unices Hernandez says, the
decisions just playing wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It is unlawful. We out of a Supreme court in
this country that was supposed to set the rule of
the land. But this is a court that has been
bought off, where people have been appointed that have harmed
so many people in their past, and now what they're
doing is just harming more people.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Governor Newsom says the Supreme Court has become the grand
marshal of President Trump's parade of what he calls racial
terror in La. Mayor bas says the decision has permitted
racial profiling in the city. California's Department of Justice has
sued La County and the sheriff's departments.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Attorney General Rob Bonta says conditions at the jails in
the county are inhumane, unsanitary, and uninhabitable. He says there
are rat infestations, too much confinement to sales, and other issues.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
When we're talking about feces smeared on the walls and
medical care denied to those in need, we're talking about
a disrespect for the basic dignity.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
WANTA suit seeks major reforms of the county's jail system.
He says there have been more than two hundred deaths
inside the jails in the past four years, more than
forty percent, he says, were preventable. The state's been investigating
the jails here since twenty twenty one. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
A Congressional investigations being launched into the deadly Palisades fire
in La. Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rick Scott
of Florida say the investigation is going to look into
failures surrounding the preparation for and responds to the disaster.
The fires started January seventh. It killed twelve people and
destroyed more than sixty eight hundred homes, businesses, and other buildings.
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Johnson and Scott also say they wanted to uncover and
expose the truth. Governor Newsom says he welcomes the investigation.
A woman from Costa Mesa, accused of registering her to
vote and casting ballots in two elections, is due in court.
She's facing various charges. The woman allegedly told the Orange
County Registrar of Voters in October that she did it.
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Prosecutors say she even posted a picture of her dog
on social media in twenty twenty two with an I
voted sticker let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryant.
So let's get into Roadblocks. And for the few like
me who are not that familiar, it's a pretty popular game.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Extremely popular. Over one hundred million users of this game
on any given day. That means people right now around
the world are logged in and playing Roadblocks. It's kind
of it looks like the Lego characters and fairly simplistic,
and you know that you've got little missions that you accomplish.
You can buy upgrades to various tools and clothing and
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things like that, so you can there's a paid component too,
But critics say that it's also a breeding ground for
predatoris you've got millions and millions of kids play this game,
millions and millions potential victims for predators, and so State
of Louisiana, for example, is filed suit against Roadblocks. Roblocks
has responded by trying to put some new methods in
place to keep this from happening, something called facial age
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estimation technology. Right, So you sign up for Roadblocks and
you're told to submit a selfie and based on that,
Roadblocks then will sort you either as thirteen and under,
thirteen and up or eighteen and up, with varying restrictions
going with each of those age groups. Problem is, what
if you submit somebody else's selfie to keep you from
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doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So they're taking steps, but we'll have to see if
they're far enough. And Jim, is it an interactive game,
so like while I'm on there and I'm building things
that can talk to other people.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I have a young relative, he's seven years old, and
he's completely, stone cold addicted to this game.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
He is.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
If he's not, you know, he takes it everywhere his tablet.
He's gazing at this thing and playing. And anyway, the
other day we hear this voice come out of the
tablet and adult boys talking with him and conversing. Yeah,
it is the interactive or it can, but you can
shut down the communication, but kids know how to get
in and turn it back on.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Okay, and this is probably not a problem that's going
away anytime soon, since there's over one hundred million people
using it. All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much
for the warning. Hopefully parents will be watching a little
closer exactly. All right. Thanks, good to have you back back.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Tommy.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Department of
Homeland Security has begun an immigration operation in Chicago. DHS
says Operation Midway Blitz will target criminal illegal aliens. The
operation follows days of President Trump saying he wants to
clean up the city's crime problem. Ukraine's president says At
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least twenty one people in line to get their pensions
have been killed in a Russian bomb strike on a
village in eastern Ukraine. President Zelensky called the attack frankly brutal.
Heard the international community to make Russia pay economically for
its invasion with more sanctions. He says, the US, Europe
and the G twenty need to act. Israeli defense forces
(09:10):
they're telling people in Gaza City to leave for a
humanitarian zone before a new offensive starts against Hamas. The
military's warning that staying behind will be extremely dangerous.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Isella's promised to take over the city, the defense minister
threatening to on bolt the gates of Hell if the
Master does not surrender. Many now having to flee south
to escape the bombing, Others staying put saying they have
no roels to go.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
ABC's Guy Davies says Israel has leveled dozens of high
rise buildings ahead of the planned ground operation. Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu called them towers of terror used by Hamas.
Experts say a ship likely cut cables in the Red
Sea over the weekend, disrupting internet access in Africa, Asia
and the Middle East. The International Cable Protection Committee says
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fifteen underwater cables through the Bob Almandeb Strait. The committee
suggested that commercial shipping activity cause the damage. Re Routing
traffic after these kinds of cuts can cause Internet lag,
effecting at least ten countries. Democrats on the House Oversight
Committee released a letter in a birthday book for Jeffrey
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Epstein that they say was signed by President Trump. ABC's
Lionel Moyes says sexually suggestive note was written twenty two
years ago before Epstein was charged. Trump says it was
not signed by him.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
The so called birthday book was compiled by Epstein's accomplished
Glenn Maxwell, who was serving twenty years in prison for
sex trafficking. Glenn Maxwell spoke about the book in a
recent interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, saying she
didn't remember if Trump contributed a message to the book.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The so called birthday book also includes a letter from
former President Bill Clinton in the friends category. Guilt tipping, Oh,
I hate guilt tipping is turning into no tipping.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
New research says pressure driven tips where that tablet at
the checkout counter swings around to you for a fifteen
twenty or even thirty percent. Tip are down thirty eight
percent over the same time last year. Twenty percent of
people surveyed say they always are often tip higher because
they feel guilty or pressured, but thirty percent now say
they rarely or never give in to the tactics anymore.
(11:19):
Forty one percent say the cost of living has led
to less tipping, but seventy eight percent of Americans say
businesses should be paying their employees more instead of relying
on tips for their workers. Michael Krozer k if I News.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I hate guilt tipping. I hate it. I hate it.
I hate it, and I do feel guilty when I
hit no tip, But I still I'm like, you didn't
do anything. I don't understand why they you know, and
I know that it just popped up in like the
last two years, but it's it's just become so pervasive.
You handed me a soda that I ordered and paid
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for here, would you like a fifteen percent tip? Sure,
not gonna happen, not on my watch. But if I
get good service at a restaurant, you betcha. You bet you.
City Cruise have begun clearing brush from the supulvita basin.
In response to frequent brushfires in the area. ELLI Fire
(12:13):
says it has responded to more than two hundred and
fifty fires in the first two hundred and forty days
of this year. Crews are also going to be contacting
LA's Sanitation to remove any homeless camps they find within
the brush. Congress is going to look into the deadly
Palisades fire. Republican Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rick
Scott of Florida say a congressional investigation will look into
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failures surrounding the preparation for and the response to the disaster.
The fire in January killed a dozen people and destroyed
more than sixty eight hundred homes, businesses, and other buildings.
Nepal has lifted its ban on social media in the country,
a day after protests against the ban in Catman Dou
turned violent. At least nineteen people were killed. At six
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oh five, it's handle on the news the evacuation of
Gaza has been ordered. Prime Minister Nettagnah, who says this
is just the beginning. Bill's going to have more on
that for us coming up. At six zho five. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy, So Stephen
a big win for the Trump administration when the Supreme
Court lifted those restrictions that a judge had imposed about
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the way ICE is carrying out immigration raids. Can you
explain the ruling to us, please?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (13:26):
I mean, look, this sets aside the order of a
judge in June who said that ICE could not profile
based on where a person works, of the kind of
job they have, whether they speak Spanish or with an accent,
based on their race or ethnicity. Now, the Court yesterday
did not explain its move, but conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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wrote to explain his thinking, and he says it's common
sense that ICE should not be encumbered in an area
where so many people who are in the country illegally
happened to live in work, Kavanaugh says, citing an estimate
as many as ten percent of the people who live
in the Greater Los Angeles area are in the country illegally,
and he says, in that kind of environment, ICE should
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not have to be worried about the suggestion that it's profiling. Now,
on the other side of the coin, and as part
of the litigation, you had the testimony of people who
were born in this country. Who are American citizens who
say they were swept up in this and have been
stopped in their mind harassed by ICE agents. There was
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one man who spoke to Kekal who said, who was
cited yesterday by Sonya Soda Mayor, who said that he
was stopped by ICE born in this country. He said,
I'm an American bro and they didn't believe him. They
asked what hospital he was born at, and he under pressure,
couldn't remember, so they threw him against a fence. There's
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a video of this. They took his driver's license. He
says he didn't get it back. Sonya Soda Mayor pointed
to a case like that and said, in her descent,
we should not have to live in a country where
the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish
and appears to work a low wage job. A Kavanaugh,
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acknowledging the idea that citizens have been and will be stopped, says, well,
they'll be free to go after what he calls a
brief encounter, and he says that constitutional rights are a
separate thing can be addressed separately if need be. But
Sonya Soto Mayor says that This essentially means that more
American citizens who happen to look a certain way, speak
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a certain way, or work a certain type of legitimate
job that pays very little. Those are her words, will
wind up being encountered by law enforcement. However brief that
might be. So that's what the Supreme Court ruled yesterday,
and that's the impact it could have.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, So a couple of questions for you, is this
the end of it now that the Supreme Court has ruled,
or did this Supreme Court just do one of its
rulings that isn't like a It just lifted the temporary
restraining order, but it's not like settled now or is it?
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Well, look, this particular litigation's not over. That goes back
to the district court judge in Los Angeles and that
will play out over time. But ultimately, what the court
did do at the early stage of this litigation is
to say, whatever that judge said about what Ice can't do,
never mind that, and that will have practical impact. Now,
the broader question, if there's going to be one, as
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to what the court may have to revisit in the
end is not clear because that don't have to play
out over time, the judge may issue a ruling based
on certain rationale that could then be reviewed on appeal, upheld,
or overturned, and that ultimately could wind up back at
the Supreme Court. But what you need to know today
is that whatever that judge said in June is no
longer operative, which means that ICE can operate in the
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way that it intends to and has been operating outside
the Central District of California, Los Angeles and the surrounding counties.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay. So I think that that's an interesting distinction because
I think a lot of people are like, Okay, the
Supreme Court ruled, it's done, but it's not. It goes
back and the courts still have to decide this case.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Yes, and as much as there's a particular issue that
is raised by the plaintiffs, and the judge will ultimately
make a ruling that could then be turned on appeal.
The bottom line is, again, this judge issued an order
in June that's said that here are the things that
ICE can't do, and on appeal the Supreme Court has
said never mind that.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Okay, ABC, Stephen Portner, thanks for helping us start it out.
We appreciate it. You bet all right. The four or
five has reopened through the Supulvita Pass hours after a
person was killed on the freeway.
Speaker 12 (17:37):
The person who was getting out of a car was
hit by a flatbed tow truck shortly before two o'clock
Monday afternoon and died. It happened in the southbound lanes
between the Supulvita and Sunset Boulevard exits. The freeway was
shut down for nearly six hours before opening on Monday night.
This HP confirms one person was arrested at the scene.
The driver of the tow truck was taken into custody
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after being given a field sobriety test. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy
at the Port of la This is.
Speaker 13 (18:08):
The first onshore energy site in the US. ECO Wavepower
installed its technology on an unused wharf where it will
generate a small amount of energy. The goal is to
show what works well enough to build it out along
eight miles of breakwater to make enough power for about
sixty thousand homes. Experts say the technology being officially unveiled
this week can be scaled up to tap the immense
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wave energy off America's coasts and help meet the country's.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Growing energy needs. Depor Mark Koffi News. Love your keto
diet It could make you age faster.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
The study suggests that estrogen protected female mice consuming a
ketodiet from the risk of aging. The studies authors say
the keto diet produces excess oxidative stress, which feeds up
cellular aging by producing cells responsible for aging. The researchers
found that giving the mice estrogen or estradol and antioxidant
agents stopped the rapid cell aging Mark Ronner Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The study found that the aging process especially speeds up
in men. Still loving your kedo diet, A man from
Inglewood has been charged with murdering two other men and
trying to kill a third after meeting them through an
online dating app the La Kenny DA's offices. The remains
of one man were found in the Angelus National Forest
(19:24):
in twenty twenty one. The body of a man who
disappeared in twenty twenty three has not been found. Rakim
Prowell was arrested last week and has been ordered held
without bail. He's dubak in court next month. Happy Birthday.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
California, the Golden State, turns one hundred and seventy five today.
The date commemorates the day in eighteen fifty when California
was admitted to the Union as the thirty first state.
Fun fact, California was never a territory. It quickly became
a state after the Mexican American War because of the
thousands of people who came here during the gold Rush
with hopes of striking it rich. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, so we know that homelessness is a huge problem.
We know that they throw billions of dollars at it
here in southern California, and it just doesn't seem to
be getting much better. But there is a group that
actually helps people get off the streets and get their
lives restarted. They are the Union Rescue Mission and we
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have teamed up with a Union Rescue Mission again this year.
We're raising money to go over the Edge. So here's
here's the deal. On September twenty sixth and twenty seventh,
I'm going to go over the Edge at the Universal City.
The Hilton Los Angeles. Universal City Hotel has long name.
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It's that big black building that you see as you
drive by on the one oh one. It's a beautiful building.
It's beautiful when it's on the ground. It's a little
terrifying when you're up twenty five stories. But we're going
to repel down the building to raise money for the
Union Rescue Mission. And what they do is they have
long term solutions. They actually help the people who want
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the help. They have emergency shelters, recovery programs, transitional housing, education,
training opportunities, and then they even help people get jobs.
So the money that you donate is actually going to
help people who want the help. And one of the
reasons that they need your help in raising money is
because they are completely privately funded. They don't get money
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from the federal government, they don't get money from the
city government, and it's because they don't allow drugs and
alcohol in their program, and apparently that's a requirement if
you're going to get federal money. So they do this
on their own, but they need your help to get
it done. So we'd love to have you. There's a
couple of different ways you could do it. Donate to
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Team Amy on wake up Call, because I'm going to
be repelling off the building. Any bit you have helps.
Also if you want to raise some money yourself and
jump over the edge. Okay, you don't jump, you do
repel down. It's terrifying, but it's a lot of fun building.
But anyway you can do it yourself if you would
like to do that, either you can get donations or
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you can make a donation and you can repel down
with us. Again, we're doing it September twenty sixth and
twenty seventh. Please join us to really make a difference
in fighting the homelessness issue. And the way that you
can do that is go to r M, which is
Union Rescue Mission yourm dot org slash ote over the
edge and if you can donate, I'd certainly appreciate it.
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And if you want to come out and watch, you can.
If you want to do it with us, you can.
Nil Sevader is going to go over the edge too,
and I would love to have you join us, whether
it's a donation or by joining us at the event
or repelling down the building with us. It's over the
edge and we appreciate your support. Democratic officials in LA
have condemned the ruling by the US Supreme Court that
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says immigration agents can detain anyone they believe maybe in
country illegally. The ruling lifts an earlier injunction by an
LA federal judge who said roving immigration patrols were illegally
arresting people based on their race or where they work.
LA Mayor Bass calls the ruling un American Children's Hospital
LA is cutting six percent of its workforce. CHLA officials
(23:20):
say rising costs and budget cuts in the Medicaid and
medical healthcare programs are forcing them to do what they
call strategic realignment. Four hundred and twenty nine employees are
going to be cut by the end of October. CEO
Paul Viviano says the layoffs are necessary for the hospital's survival.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
A woman in.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Coasta, Mesa is said to be arraigned on charges that
she registered her dog to vote. The dog cast ballots
in two elections. Laura Urou is accused of illegally casting
those ballots in her dog's name in Governor Newsom's failed
recall attempt in twenty twenty one and again in the
twenty twenty two primary. Prosecutors say she even posted a
(23:59):
picture on social media of her dog with an eye
voted Sticker at six oh five. Handle on the news.
The Epstein birthday book is out and President Trump's letter
is in it. Here's what's coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been found dead
inside a Tesla at a towyard in Hollywood. The body
was discovered yesterday following complaints from people who live in
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the area about a foul odor. This local tells KTLA
that knowing what happened isn't really a surprise.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Also not really a surprise.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
We live in a very big city, one of the
biggest on earth, and they're shady people doing shady things.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Officers found the body inside a bag in the front
trunk of the car. The lapds is. The car, which
has Texas plates, was towed from the Hollywood Hills after
it was reported abandoned about five days ago. News brought
to you by Simpers Solaris. A pastor from Santa Anna
has been convicted of sexually assaulting three girls he met
through churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Anna. The
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sixty one year old was convicted on seven counts against
miners under forty and under actually under fourteen sorry and
under ten. One of the girls says she was molested
in a van in a church parking lot, another in
the pastor's home. The third says she was molested started
when she was six years old. A global studi says
owning a smartphone before the age of thirteen is tied
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to poor mental health and well being in early adulthood.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
The study of over one hundred thousand young people published
in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities found eighteen
to twenty four year olds who had their first smartphone
when they were twelve or younger were more likely to
report suicidal thoughts, aggression, detachment from reality, poorer emotional regulation,
and low self worth. The data also shows these effects
are linked to early social media access and higher risks
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of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep, and poor family relationships in adulthood.
Mark Ronner KFI News Time.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
To get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 14 (25:54):
Morning, Courtney, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
It's a big day for Apple.
Speaker 15 (25:58):
Yes, biggest product Lune event of the year happening later today.
So the company's sets to one veiled in new iPhone
seventeen lineup, smart watches, air pods.
Speaker 14 (26:08):
All ahead of the key holiday season for them.
Speaker 15 (26:10):
Now, the most notable thing that everybody's going to be
watching as a product that's expected to be called the
iPhone seventeen air. This is the company's first entirely new
smartphone model in several years, and it's going to be.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
The thinnest ever by far.
Speaker 15 (26:25):
Now, the event which everybody's going to be watching ten
am your time.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
All right, and we will be watching, And I believe
a rich tamia Ar tech guy is there, so you'll
be telling us mucho more about this. Yeah, as it Apple,
go ahead.
Speaker 15 (26:39):
Apple's actually calling this video presentation that they're going to
have awe dropping, so we'll see what he has to
say when he's there. However, Apple doesn't really have a
lot of bit sleeves in terms of artificial intelligence, so
at least not in the near future, not yet.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
But they're working on it. Rupert Murdoch and his kids
have resolved their messy family feud.
Speaker 15 (27:00):
Yes, so it's actually the real life version of HBO's Succession.
That's the show inspired by Rupert Murdoch and his family.
So the question of who's going to take over his
media empire has finally been resolved.
Speaker 14 (27:15):
Eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch.
Speaker 15 (27:16):
He's going to become the sole beneficiary of the trust
that controls.
Speaker 14 (27:19):
Fox and News Corp.
Speaker 15 (27:21):
While three of Murdoch's children they're going to see their stakes.
They're going to receive one point one billion dollars each. Now,
the settlement assures assets such as Fox News, Wall Street
Journal will stand for Lachlan's control. And he's widely viewed
as holding the same conservative political.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Views as his dad. Okay, so one of them is
going to run the country and the other two are
just going to take the money and run, yes, all right, Okay,
And they've been fighting about it for some time, so
this is it's it's kind of interesting that they're moving away,
and now it will actually probably mean that all of
these his whole entire empire will stay in the same
(27:58):
conservative pitch as it always has for some time. Okay,
And what are we looking at for stocks today? Oh?
Speaker 15 (28:06):
Well, we have a major deal that is actually reshaping
the mining industry Anglo American, which is a European company,
a European miner. They've agreed to acquire Canada's tech resources.
This creates a more than fifty dollars fifty billion dollar
a copper mining giant. So if this deal goes through
the company is going to be known as Anglo Tech.
(28:26):
So anytime you have a deal that supports and markets. Also,
traders are betting that the Fetterserve's going to cut interest
rates by quarter point next week after the dismal jobs
report last week.
Speaker 14 (28:37):
So we are seeing down futures up thirty points.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
day at five forty with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks Courtney,
We'll talk to you tomorrow, see you later, all right.
Attorney General Rob Bonte has sued the County of La
and the Sheriff's Department, claiming conditions in the jail system
are inhumane. Ag Bonta says inmates lack access to healthcare
and have to deal with rat and cock roach infestations
(29:01):
and things like fecei smeared on the wall. The Sheriff's
Department issued a lengthy statement in response, insisting that progress
has been made in improving jail conditions. A man from
Inglewood's been charged with murdering two men he met through
an online dating app and for trying to kill another.
Prosecutors say Rakeem Powell killed a man whose body was
found in the Angelus National Forest in twenty twenty one.
(29:23):
He's also charged in the death of a twenty three
year old man in twenty twenty three whose body has
not been found, and allegedly attacked another man, tied him up,
beat him with a baseball bat, and then ran him
down after he got away. Prosecutors say they will decide
later whether to pursue the death penalty. Twenty three miles
of the Angelus Crest Highway is being closed for utility work.
(29:43):
The stretch of highway from Foothill Boulevard in law Conyata
flint Ridge is going to be closed from nine am
to two pm each day through most of this month.
Commuters can use Big Tahunga Canyon to Angelus Forest Highway
to get past the work. So Cal Edison says the
work should be done by septem twenty fifth. We're just
minutes away from a handle. On the news this morning,
(30:03):
DHS says it's gonna flood the zone in the wake
of a Supreme Court ruling on immigration raids. Right now,
let's say good morning too. The host of How to
Money on KFI it's our very own Joel lars.
Speaker 14 (30:16):
Guard morning, Joel, morning, Amy.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So not that anyone's counting, but three months and fifteen
days till Christmas, and apparently it is not too early
to book your Christmas travel.
Speaker 16 (30:29):
No, it's not. And by the way, just one other
thing while we're talking about Christmas, before I start talking
about travel, is have you started saving for the gifts
you want to buy for people now? I love the
idea of people starting a sinking fund in January right
after Christmas, which sounds insane to most people are like,
I just got done spending money, but you remember, especially
if you racked up a little bit of credit card debt,
(30:49):
that starting early makes a lot of sense and you
can't go back to January. We can't turn back time.
But start saving now. Starts stocking away money now so
you don't feel that pinch like as you get closer.
Set aside the money right now, but when we're every year,
I know, I know, and so I think most people do.
But then doing something about it is the hard thing.
(31:09):
But I think it just it's so important to start
putting aside money so that you don't feel like you're
getting punched in the face and start making that list too,
like who am I buying for? How much am I spending?
Start creating a Christmas budget, which, yeah, it's September, but
now is the time to start thinking about that stuff.
And it's also the time to start thinking about travel,
because when you talk about when the best deals are
(31:32):
right now, or we're getting really close to that point
where you might start seeing the best prices for holiday travels.
So if you're like, yeah, I'm definitely getting out of town,
I'm going to visit family or friends for the holidays,
starting to at least track airfare, set airfare alerts on
a site like Google Flights. That's that's my preferred one,
that's super easy to use, And I also love how
(31:53):
Google Flights gives you that kind of green, yellow, red,
is a good time to buy what's going on with prices,
And you know it's not perfect and they can't accurately
predict exactly what's going to happen with prices, but you
can get a pretty good clue of whether or not
this is a price you want to pounce on you
want a book now, or whether you want to hold
off for another week or two.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
As you're tracking, I so have to do this today.
And then I have a quick question. I think we'ressed
you've addressed it before, But say you buy your ticket
and then the price drops, are you stuck with it
or is there anything you can do at that point?
Speaker 16 (32:23):
So it depends on the on the airlines. Every airline
is different when it comes to that, and many airlines
like they're changing too. So so Southwest had a policy
right where it was pretty flexible when it came to
cancelation and you could you had you were able to
get this credit and then you could you could use
(32:46):
that credit for a long long time. And now they've said, hey,
actually it's just going to be for a year that
you can use that credit. So it depends on whether
or not you're going to be flying within the next year.
There's a Department of Transportation rule that they're a twenty
four hour refund rule, So if you're like, ooh, I regret,
I regret buying that ticket, you can get that refund
(33:08):
instantly within twenty four hours of booking. And when it
comes to the actual specific airlines, make sure you know
what that is because it's going to vary based on
the fare that you're buying too, So Basic Economy you're
not going to have as many refund options as you
are with some of the more upgraded tickets that you
(33:28):
can buy, but those cost more money. And so I'm
I'm the kind of guy who's totally willing to fly
Basic Economy and feel like a piece of cattle when
I'm flying, but it also comes with more stringent, less
flexible cancelation rules.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, all right, so note to self, do that today
and go at least set up for the alerts on
Google Flights. And then interest rates are starting to come down.
I think they were like six point two nine percent
when we checked earlier this week. So maybe you're starting
to think about buying a home and where might we
find an unexpected deal if you can call it that.
Speaker 16 (34:02):
Sure, Yeah, I mean this is one of those the
housing market endlessly fascinating to me, as we've seen just
incredible price rises and now we're seeing across much of
the country just those we're not seeing price increases. And
that makes sense, right, because we kind of hit a ceiling.
Buyers were like, yeah, I'm priced out, I'm not interested anymore,
(34:23):
and so a lot of buyers just sat on the
sideline saying not for me, not right now. The one
area though, that is really existing buyers can say I'm
not going to list my house because I don't think
I'm going to get what I want for it. But
the people who can't afford to not list their house
are new homebuilders, right so they build a new place
and you know that's been in the pipeline for sometimes
(34:46):
for many many months, if not multiple years, building out
those new units, and then those units are finished, and
what are they going to do? Sit on it, so
decide not to sell it. So new homes are actually
this one bright spot for potential buyers where typically new
homes cost more than existing homes. Then someone's selling their
nineteen sixties ranch or something like that, the new home
(35:09):
is going to cost more well right now, and we
haven't seen this in a really long time. I don't
remember a time since the year two thousand that we've
had new homes being cheaper on average than existing homes.
But that is where we're at right now. And so
if you're looking for a deal, builders are offering rate buydowns,
the prices are more likely to be cut from new builders.
(35:31):
So it's a really fascinating part of the market where
maybe that's where you start looking. If you're interested in
buying a home and you feel like you've been priced out,
well maybe you're not priced out of a brand new
home and that's an anomaly that's.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Just not normal, okay. And then on the opposite, a
flip side of homes, there's instead of going new, a
used EV maybe the way to go if you're looking
for a car.
Speaker 16 (35:52):
So the EV market, that's another fascinating thing right now
to me, because yeah, as those tax credits are they
were set to be around for many years now to
any longer, they're being phased out at the end of
the month, and so there's this I think something almost
like ten percent of cars being sold in the country
where electric vehicles that's set to drop off a clip.
What's going to happen with the used DV market is fascinating.
(36:15):
We've seen prices plummet in that regard, like new evs
are getting cheaper, but used vs are getting a lot cheaper.
And if you qualify for that used DV tax credit,
buying one before the end of the month, if that's
something you're you're interested and you've been saving for, it
could make a lot of sense. And then what happens
after those used V tax credits go away and the
new EV tax credits go away. I think just the
(36:37):
demand is going to plummet for electric vehicles and we
might start to see more deals on the electric vehicle front,
even though we don't have the federal tax credit attached
to it, which is substantial. I think we're going to
see discounts from from a lot of automakers because how
else are they going to get rid of the inventory
that they've been building up. So this will be a
fascinating one to watch. But Tesla's in particular, to see
(36:58):
this line cross of used Tesla used Tesla being cheaper
than the average used internal combustion engine vehicle, not to
mention then what you're going to save on gas on
top of it, right by plugging in at your house.
It's pretty incredible if you just look at that graph,
just a dramatic price drop that Tesla's and evs have seen.
(37:19):
It just makes it more financially viable. Whereas you remember
when when Tesla's first launch, and it was this luxury
vehicle essentially and only the super rich could afford it,
And now evs are for everybody, if you're interested, if
that's if that's what you're into.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
EV's for everybody, all right.
Speaker 16 (37:35):
I mean if you want it, if you want and we.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Don't have time to discuss it. But something that that
also made me think about it is like the prices
of those used evs are going down, But how long
does an electric vehicle last? I mean, like if you
take care of it, is it going to last twenty years?
Or does the battery crap out after five years? I
mean we just we don't know because I haven't been
on the market long enough.
Speaker 16 (37:56):
Right, Yeah, No, that's something we can totally talk about.
I had a friend who just to get AV battery replaced,
but it was under warranty. But if it's not out
in warranty, it's so expensive. And yeah, like that is
kind of one of those tough things for especially buying
the use electric vehicle. It's like, I don't know, I
need to make sure this battery is actually going to
last for me, so I'm not pitt spend ten thousand
(38:19):
dollars after I buy the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right. You can listen to more great financial tips
from our buddy Joel Larsgard on how to money on
KFI every Sunday from noon to two, and you can
also follow him at how to Money Joel. Thank you
so much, Schoel.
Speaker 16 (38:33):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right, we'll talk to you soon. This is KFI
and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Your host, Amy Kay.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up
call for Tuesday, September ninth. I'm Amy King. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and happy you're getting your
day started right here on KFI with us. So last week,
I don't know if you remember, but last week we
(00:54):
had a story about a business owner who was a
blasting loud insects sounds around his business to kind of
drive the homeless people away, to just annoy the crap
out of them. I think that, well, it's not speakers,
but I got one of my own. I have this.
There's a cricket outside my door, and it is so loud,
(01:19):
and it's so funny. It's like become this little game
because it's like just chirp and chirp and chirping, and
I'm just like, can you just shut up and leave
me alone? And then this morning I could hear it
from inside, so it's it's very close. And I walked
outside and he stopped, and then I've said okay, fine,
(01:40):
and I walked back inside and he started chirping again.
I mean, he's close and he's toying with me. Ah,
they're good, they're good, They're good. I wonder how many
there are because it sounds like it's just one guy,
but he's enough to just drive you a little bit crazy.
Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call. LA Mayor bass
Is called the Supreme Court's ruling that restrictions on roving
(02:01):
immigration raids in LA on American. The mayor says the
decision is going to lead to more working families being
torn apart. Says not right to snatch people off the
street with no warrants and take them away with no explanation.
ABC Stephen Portnoy is going to join us to tell
us whether this fight is now over or whether it's
still on. I have a feeling it's still on. But
(02:23):
Stephen's going to join us at five point twenty to
tell us more about that. A foul odor has led
police to the discovery of a body in a tow
yard in Hollywood. The LAPD says it has received several
complaints from people in the area of the odor A
search of the towyard on North Mansfield turned up a
(02:43):
body in a bag inside a Tesla. Police said the
card been there for a couple of days. An effort
to repeal LA's so called Olympic Wage ordinance has come
up Shortbackers of a move to put a measure on
the ballot to repeal the city's plan to increase the
minimum wage to thirty dollars an hour in time for
the Olympics twenty twenty eight failed to get enough signatures
to qualify. Hospitality and tourism officials say thirty bucks an
(03:07):
hour is going to hurt businesses. So have you played Roadblocks?
It's the most popular game in the world. Apparently I
have not played it. Now my eighteen year old is obsessed, obsessed,
and her coworkers who are like in their twenties. Okay, well,
there are just a few of the one hundred and
twelve million daily users of this game. And Jim Ryan's
(03:27):
going to tell us that that leaves a lot of
kids vulnerable to online predators, something I'm sure you want
to hear, Kno, and what's being done about it. Jim's
going to join us in just a couple of minutes.
The host of How to Money on CAFI, Joel Larsgard, says,
you might want to start thinking of booking your Christmas
flights now, and if you're thinking about an ev used
(03:49):
may be the better way to go. Also, I'm going
over the edge. I want you to join me. How
would you like to repel twenty five stories down the
side of a building for a cause. I'll tell you
more about that coming up this hour. I watch you
do it well. If you just want to watch, you
can make a donation and help support to TEAMKFI Team
Wake Up Call. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
(04:11):
Immigrant rights groups and state and local officials have spoken
out against the Supreme Court's decision that allows roving immigration
enforcement to resume. La City councilwoman Unices Hernandez says, the
decisions just playing wrong.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It is unlawful. We out of a Supreme court in
this country that was supposed to set the rule of
the land. But this is a court that has been
bought off, where people have been appointed that have harmed
so many people in their past, and now what they're
doing is just harming more people.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Governor Newsom says the Supreme Court has become the grand
marshal of President Trump's parade of what he calls racial
terror in La. Mayor bas says the decision has permitted
racial profiling in the city. California's Department of Justice has
sued La County and the sheriff's departments.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Attorney General Rob Bonta says conditions at the jails in
the county are inhumane, unsanitary, and uninhabitable. He says there
are rat infestations, too much confinement to sales, and other issues.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
When we're talking about feces smeared on the walls and
medical care denied to those in need, we're talking about
a disrespect for the basic dignity.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
WANTA suit seeks major reforms of the county's jail system.
He says there have been more than two hundred deaths
inside the jails in the past four years, more than
forty percent, he says, were preventable. The state's been investigating
the jails here since twenty twenty one. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
A Congressional investigations being launched into the deadly Palisades fire
in La. Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rick Scott
of Florida say the investigation is going to look into
failures surrounding the preparation for and responds to the disaster.
The fires started January seventh. It killed twelve people and
destroyed more than sixty eight hundred homes, businesses, and other buildings.
(05:49):
Johnson and Scott also say they wanted to uncover and
expose the truth. Governor Newsom says he welcomes the investigation.
A woman from Costa Mesa, accused of registering her to
vote and casting ballots in two elections, is due in court.
She's facing various charges. The woman allegedly told the Orange
County Registrar of Voters in October that she did it.
(06:10):
Prosecutors say she even posted a picture of her dog
on social media in twenty twenty two with an I
voted sticker let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryant.
So let's get into Roadblocks. And for the few like
me who are not that familiar, it's a pretty popular game.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Extremely popular. Over one hundred million users of this game
on any given day. That means people right now around
the world are logged in and playing Roadblocks. It's kind
of it looks like the Lego characters and fairly simplistic,
and you know that you've got little missions that you accomplish.
You can buy upgrades to various tools and clothing and
(06:51):
things like that, so you can there's a paid component too,
But critics say that it's also a breeding ground for
predatoris you've got millions and millions of kids play this game,
millions and millions potential victims for predators, and so State
of Louisiana, for example, is filed suit against Roadblocks. Roblocks
has responded by trying to put some new methods in
place to keep this from happening, something called facial age
(07:14):
estimation technology. Right, So you sign up for Roadblocks and
you're told to submit a selfie and based on that,
Roadblocks then will sort you either as thirteen and under,
thirteen and up or eighteen and up, with varying restrictions
going with each of those age groups. Problem is, what
if you submit somebody else's selfie to keep you from
(07:34):
doing that.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So they're taking steps, but we'll have to see if
they're far enough. And Jim, is it an interactive game,
so like while I'm on there and I'm building things
that can talk to other people.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I have a young relative, he's seven years old, and
he's completely, stone cold addicted to this game.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
He is.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
If he's not, you know, he takes it everywhere his tablet.
He's gazing at this thing and playing. And anyway, the
other day we hear this voice come out of the
tablet and adult boys talking with him and conversing. Yeah,
it is the interactive or it can, but you can
shut down the communication, but kids know how to get
in and turn it back on.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Okay, and this is probably not a problem that's going
away anytime soon, since there's over one hundred million people
using it. All right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much
for the warning. Hopefully parents will be watching a little
closer exactly. All right. Thanks, good to have you back back.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
Tommy.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Department of
Homeland Security has begun an immigration operation in Chicago. DHS
says Operation Midway Blitz will target criminal illegal aliens. The
operation follows days of President Trump saying he wants to
clean up the city's crime problem. Ukraine's president says At
(08:48):
least twenty one people in line to get their pensions
have been killed in a Russian bomb strike on a
village in eastern Ukraine. President Zelensky called the attack frankly brutal.
Heard the international community to make Russia pay economically for
its invasion with more sanctions. He says, the US, Europe
and the G twenty need to act. Israeli defense forces
(09:10):
they're telling people in Gaza City to leave for a
humanitarian zone before a new offensive starts against Hamas. The
military's warning that staying behind will be extremely dangerous.
Speaker 9 (09:22):
Isella's promised to take over the city, the defense minister
threatening to on bolt the gates of Hell if the
Master does not surrender. Many now having to flee south
to escape the bombing, Others staying put saying they have
no roels to go.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
ABC's Guy Davies says Israel has leveled dozens of high
rise buildings ahead of the planned ground operation. Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu called them towers of terror used by Hamas.
Experts say a ship likely cut cables in the Red
Sea over the weekend, disrupting internet access in Africa, Asia
and the Middle East. The International Cable Protection Committee says
(09:57):
fifteen underwater cables through the Bob Almandeb Strait. The committee
suggested that commercial shipping activity cause the damage. Re Routing
traffic after these kinds of cuts can cause Internet lag,
effecting at least ten countries. Democrats on the House Oversight
Committee released a letter in a birthday book for Jeffrey
(10:18):
Epstein that they say was signed by President Trump. ABC's
Lionel Moyes says sexually suggestive note was written twenty two
years ago before Epstein was charged. Trump says it was
not signed by him.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
The so called birthday book was compiled by Epstein's accomplished
Glenn Maxwell, who was serving twenty years in prison for
sex trafficking. Glenn Maxwell spoke about the book in a
recent interview with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, saying she
didn't remember if Trump contributed a message to the book.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
The so called birthday book also includes a letter from
former President Bill Clinton in the friends category. Guilt tipping, Oh,
I hate guilt tipping is turning into no tipping.
Speaker 10 (10:59):
New research says pressure driven tips where that tablet at
the checkout counter swings around to you for a fifteen
twenty or even thirty percent. Tip are down thirty eight
percent over the same time last year. Twenty percent of
people surveyed say they always are often tip higher because
they feel guilty or pressured, but thirty percent now say
they rarely or never give in to the tactics anymore.
(11:19):
Forty one percent say the cost of living has led
to less tipping, but seventy eight percent of Americans say
businesses should be paying their employees more instead of relying
on tips for their workers. Michael Krozer k if I News.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I hate guilt tipping. I hate it. I hate it.
I hate it, and I do feel guilty when I
hit no tip, But I still I'm like, you didn't
do anything. I don't understand why they you know, and
I know that it just popped up in like the
last two years, but it's it's just become so pervasive.
You handed me a soda that I ordered and paid
(11:52):
for here, would you like a fifteen percent tip? Sure,
not gonna happen, not on my watch. But if I
get good service at a restaurant, you betcha. You bet you.
City Cruise have begun clearing brush from the supulvita basin.
In response to frequent brushfires in the area. ELLI Fire
(12:13):
says it has responded to more than two hundred and
fifty fires in the first two hundred and forty days
of this year. Crews are also going to be contacting
LA's Sanitation to remove any homeless camps they find within
the brush. Congress is going to look into the deadly
Palisades fire. Republican Senators Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rick
Scott of Florida say a congressional investigation will look into
(12:35):
failures surrounding the preparation for and the response to the disaster.
The fire in January killed a dozen people and destroyed
more than sixty eight hundred homes, businesses, and other buildings.
Nepal has lifted its ban on social media in the country,
a day after protests against the ban in Catman Dou
turned violent. At least nineteen people were killed. At six
(12:59):
oh five, it's handle on the news the evacuation of
Gaza has been ordered. Prime Minister Nettagnah, who says this
is just the beginning. Bill's going to have more on
that for us coming up. At six zho five. Let's
say good morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy, So Stephen
a big win for the Trump administration when the Supreme
Court lifted those restrictions that a judge had imposed about
(13:19):
the way ICE is carrying out immigration raids. Can you
explain the ruling to us, please?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Sure?
Speaker 11 (13:26):
I mean, look, this sets aside the order of a
judge in June who said that ICE could not profile
based on where a person works, of the kind of
job they have, whether they speak Spanish or with an accent,
based on their race or ethnicity. Now, the Court yesterday
did not explain its move, but conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh
(13:48):
wrote to explain his thinking, and he says it's common
sense that ICE should not be encumbered in an area
where so many people who are in the country illegally
happened to live in work, Kavanaugh says, citing an estimate
as many as ten percent of the people who live
in the Greater Los Angeles area are in the country illegally,
and he says, in that kind of environment, ICE should
(14:09):
not have to be worried about the suggestion that it's profiling. Now,
on the other side of the coin, and as part
of the litigation, you had the testimony of people who
were born in this country. Who are American citizens who
say they were swept up in this and have been
stopped in their mind harassed by ICE agents. There was
(14:30):
one man who spoke to Kekal who said, who was
cited yesterday by Sonya Soda Mayor, who said that he
was stopped by ICE born in this country. He said,
I'm an American bro and they didn't believe him. They
asked what hospital he was born at, and he under pressure,
couldn't remember, so they threw him against a fence. There's
(14:50):
a video of this. They took his driver's license. He
says he didn't get it back. Sonya Soda Mayor pointed
to a case like that and said, in her descent,
we should not have to live in a country where
the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish
and appears to work a low wage job. A Kavanaugh,
(15:12):
acknowledging the idea that citizens have been and will be stopped, says, well,
they'll be free to go after what he calls a
brief encounter, and he says that constitutional rights are a
separate thing can be addressed separately if need be. But
Sonya Soto Mayor says that This essentially means that more
American citizens who happen to look a certain way, speak
(15:34):
a certain way, or work a certain type of legitimate
job that pays very little. Those are her words, will
wind up being encountered by law enforcement. However brief that
might be. So that's what the Supreme Court ruled yesterday,
and that's the impact it could have.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Okay, So a couple of questions for you, is this
the end of it now that the Supreme Court has ruled,
or did this Supreme Court just do one of its
rulings that isn't like a It just lifted the temporary
restraining order, but it's not like settled now or is it?
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Well, look, this particular litigation's not over. That goes back
to the district court judge in Los Angeles and that
will play out over time. But ultimately, what the court
did do at the early stage of this litigation is
to say, whatever that judge said about what Ice can't do,
never mind that, and that will have practical impact. Now,
the broader question, if there's going to be one, as
(16:27):
to what the court may have to revisit in the
end is not clear because that don't have to play
out over time, the judge may issue a ruling based
on certain rationale that could then be reviewed on appeal, upheld,
or overturned, and that ultimately could wind up back at
the Supreme Court. But what you need to know today
is that whatever that judge said in June is no
longer operative, which means that ICE can operate in the
(16:48):
way that it intends to and has been operating outside
the Central District of California, Los Angeles and the surrounding counties.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Okay. So I think that that's an interesting distinction because
I think a lot of people are like, Okay, the
Supreme Court ruled, it's done, but it's not. It goes
back and the courts still have to decide this case.
Speaker 11 (17:07):
Yes, and as much as there's a particular issue that
is raised by the plaintiffs, and the judge will ultimately
make a ruling that could then be turned on appeal.
The bottom line is, again, this judge issued an order
in June that's said that here are the things that
ICE can't do, and on appeal the Supreme Court has
said never mind that.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Okay, ABC, Stephen Portner, thanks for helping us start it out.
We appreciate it. You bet all right. The four or
five has reopened through the Supulvita Pass hours after a
person was killed on the freeway.
Speaker 12 (17:37):
The person who was getting out of a car was
hit by a flatbed tow truck shortly before two o'clock
Monday afternoon and died. It happened in the southbound lanes
between the Supulvita and Sunset Boulevard exits. The freeway was
shut down for nearly six hours before opening on Monday night.
This HP confirms one person was arrested at the scene.
The driver of the tow truck was taken into custody
(17:58):
after being given a field sobriety test. Daniel Martindale KFI News.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Bobbing blue floats are turning wave power into clean energy
at the Port of la This is.
Speaker 13 (18:08):
The first onshore energy site in the US. ECO Wavepower
installed its technology on an unused wharf where it will
generate a small amount of energy. The goal is to
show what works well enough to build it out along
eight miles of breakwater to make enough power for about
sixty thousand homes. Experts say the technology being officially unveiled
this week can be scaled up to tap the immense
(18:30):
wave energy off America's coasts and help meet the country's.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Growing energy needs. Depor Mark Koffi News. Love your keto
diet It could make you age faster.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
The study suggests that estrogen protected female mice consuming a
ketodiet from the risk of aging. The studies authors say
the keto diet produces excess oxidative stress, which feeds up
cellular aging by producing cells responsible for aging. The researchers
found that giving the mice estrogen or estradol and antioxidant
agents stopped the rapid cell aging Mark Ronner Kfi News.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
The study found that the aging process especially speeds up
in men. Still loving your kedo diet, A man from
Inglewood has been charged with murdering two other men and
trying to kill a third after meeting them through an
online dating app the La Kenny DA's offices. The remains
of one man were found in the Angelus National Forest
(19:24):
in twenty twenty one. The body of a man who
disappeared in twenty twenty three has not been found. Rakim
Prowell was arrested last week and has been ordered held
without bail. He's dubak in court next month. Happy Birthday.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
California, the Golden State, turns one hundred and seventy five today.
The date commemorates the day in eighteen fifty when California
was admitted to the Union as the thirty first state.
Fun fact, California was never a territory. It quickly became
a state after the Mexican American War because of the
thousands of people who came here during the gold Rush
with hopes of striking it rich. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Okay, so we know that homelessness is a huge problem.
We know that they throw billions of dollars at it
here in southern California, and it just doesn't seem to
be getting much better. But there is a group that
actually helps people get off the streets and get their
lives restarted. They are the Union Rescue Mission and we
(20:24):
have teamed up with a Union Rescue Mission again this year.
We're raising money to go over the Edge. So here's
here's the deal. On September twenty sixth and twenty seventh,
I'm going to go over the Edge at the Universal City.
The Hilton Los Angeles. Universal City Hotel has long name.
(20:46):
It's that big black building that you see as you
drive by on the one oh one. It's a beautiful building.
It's beautiful when it's on the ground. It's a little
terrifying when you're up twenty five stories. But we're going
to repel down the building to raise money for the
Union Rescue Mission. And what they do is they have
long term solutions. They actually help the people who want
(21:07):
the help. They have emergency shelters, recovery programs, transitional housing, education,
training opportunities, and then they even help people get jobs.
So the money that you donate is actually going to
help people who want the help. And one of the
reasons that they need your help in raising money is
because they are completely privately funded. They don't get money
(21:29):
from the federal government, they don't get money from the
city government, and it's because they don't allow drugs and
alcohol in their program, and apparently that's a requirement if
you're going to get federal money. So they do this
on their own, but they need your help to get
it done. So we'd love to have you. There's a
couple of different ways you could do it. Donate to
(21:51):
Team Amy on wake up Call, because I'm going to
be repelling off the building. Any bit you have helps.
Also if you want to raise some money yourself and
jump over the edge. Okay, you don't jump, you do
repel down. It's terrifying, but it's a lot of fun building.
But anyway you can do it yourself if you would
like to do that, either you can get donations or
(22:12):
you can make a donation and you can repel down
with us. Again, we're doing it September twenty sixth and
twenty seventh. Please join us to really make a difference
in fighting the homelessness issue. And the way that you
can do that is go to r M, which is
Union Rescue Mission yourm dot org slash ote over the
edge and if you can donate, I'd certainly appreciate it.
(22:35):
And if you want to come out and watch, you can.
If you want to do it with us, you can.
Nil Sevader is going to go over the edge too,
and I would love to have you join us, whether
it's a donation or by joining us at the event
or repelling down the building with us. It's over the
edge and we appreciate your support. Democratic officials in LA
have condemned the ruling by the US Supreme Court that
(22:57):
says immigration agents can detain anyone they believe maybe in
country illegally. The ruling lifts an earlier injunction by an
LA federal judge who said roving immigration patrols were illegally
arresting people based on their race or where they work.
LA Mayor Bass calls the ruling un American Children's Hospital
LA is cutting six percent of its workforce. CHLA officials
(23:20):
say rising costs and budget cuts in the Medicaid and
medical healthcare programs are forcing them to do what they
call strategic realignment. Four hundred and twenty nine employees are
going to be cut by the end of October. CEO
Paul Viviano says the layoffs are necessary for the hospital's survival.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
A woman in.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Coasta, Mesa is said to be arraigned on charges that
she registered her dog to vote. The dog cast ballots
in two elections. Laura Urou is accused of illegally casting
those ballots in her dog's name in Governor Newsom's failed
recall attempt in twenty twenty one and again in the
twenty twenty two primary. Prosecutors say she even posted a
(23:59):
picture on social media of her dog with an eye
voted Sticker at six oh five. Handle on the news.
The Epstein birthday book is out and President Trump's letter
is in it. Here's what's coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. A person has been found dead
inside a Tesla at a towyard in Hollywood. The body
was discovered yesterday following complaints from people who live in
(24:22):
the area about a foul odor. This local tells KTLA
that knowing what happened isn't really a surprise.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Also not really a surprise.
Speaker 12 (24:30):
We live in a very big city, one of the
biggest on earth, and they're shady people doing shady things.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Officers found the body inside a bag in the front
trunk of the car. The lapds is. The car, which
has Texas plates, was towed from the Hollywood Hills after
it was reported abandoned about five days ago. News brought
to you by Simpers Solaris. A pastor from Santa Anna
has been convicted of sexually assaulting three girls he met
through churches in Riverside, Garden Grove and Santa Anna. The
(24:57):
sixty one year old was convicted on seven counts against
miners under forty and under actually under fourteen sorry and
under ten. One of the girls says she was molested
in a van in a church parking lot, another in
the pastor's home. The third says she was molested started
when she was six years old. A global studi says
owning a smartphone before the age of thirteen is tied
(25:20):
to poor mental health and well being in early adulthood.
Speaker 6 (25:24):
The study of over one hundred thousand young people published
in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities found eighteen
to twenty four year olds who had their first smartphone
when they were twelve or younger were more likely to
report suicidal thoughts, aggression, detachment from reality, poorer emotional regulation,
and low self worth. The data also shows these effects
are linked to early social media access and higher risks
(25:44):
of cyberbullying, disrupted sleep, and poor family relationships in adulthood.
Mark Ronner KFI News Time.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
To get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 14 (25:54):
Morning, Courtney, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
It's a big day for Apple.
Speaker 15 (25:58):
Yes, biggest product Lune event of the year happening later today.
So the company's sets to one veiled in new iPhone
seventeen lineup, smart watches, air pods.
Speaker 14 (26:08):
All ahead of the key holiday season for them.
Speaker 15 (26:10):
Now, the most notable thing that everybody's going to be
watching as a product that's expected to be called the
iPhone seventeen air. This is the company's first entirely new
smartphone model in several years, and it's going to be.
Speaker 14 (26:23):
The thinnest ever by far.
Speaker 15 (26:25):
Now, the event which everybody's going to be watching ten
am your time.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
All right, and we will be watching, And I believe
a rich tamia Ar tech guy is there, so you'll
be telling us mucho more about this. Yeah, as it Apple,
go ahead.
Speaker 15 (26:39):
Apple's actually calling this video presentation that they're going to
have awe dropping, so we'll see what he has to
say when he's there. However, Apple doesn't really have a
lot of bit sleeves in terms of artificial intelligence, so
at least not in the near future, not yet.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
But they're working on it. Rupert Murdoch and his kids
have resolved their messy family feud.
Speaker 15 (27:00):
Yes, so it's actually the real life version of HBO's Succession.
That's the show inspired by Rupert Murdoch and his family.
So the question of who's going to take over his
media empire has finally been resolved.
Speaker 14 (27:15):
Eldest son, Lachlan Murdoch.
Speaker 15 (27:16):
He's going to become the sole beneficiary of the trust
that controls.
Speaker 14 (27:19):
Fox and News Corp.
Speaker 15 (27:21):
While three of Murdoch's children they're going to see their stakes.
They're going to receive one point one billion dollars each. Now,
the settlement assures assets such as Fox News, Wall Street
Journal will stand for Lachlan's control. And he's widely viewed
as holding the same conservative political.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Views as his dad. Okay, so one of them is
going to run the country and the other two are
just going to take the money and run, yes, all right, Okay,
And they've been fighting about it for some time, so
this is it's it's kind of interesting that they're moving away,
and now it will actually probably mean that all of
these his whole entire empire will stay in the same
(27:58):
conservative pitch as it always has for some time. Okay,
And what are we looking at for stocks today? Oh?
Speaker 15 (28:06):
Well, we have a major deal that is actually reshaping
the mining industry Anglo American, which is a European company,
a European miner. They've agreed to acquire Canada's tech resources.
This creates a more than fifty dollars fifty billion dollar
a copper mining giant. So if this deal goes through
the company is going to be known as Anglo Tech.
(28:26):
So anytime you have a deal that supports and markets. Also,
traders are betting that the Fetterserve's going to cut interest
rates by quarter point next week after the dismal jobs
report last week.
Speaker 14 (28:37):
So we are seeing down futures up thirty points.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
day at five forty with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks Courtney,
We'll talk to you tomorrow, see you later, all right.
Attorney General Rob Bonte has sued the County of La
and the Sheriff's Department, claiming conditions in the jail system
are inhumane. Ag Bonta says inmates lack access to healthcare
and have to deal with rat and cock roach infestations
(29:01):
and things like fecei smeared on the wall. The Sheriff's
Department issued a lengthy statement in response, insisting that progress
has been made in improving jail conditions. A man from
Inglewood's been charged with murdering two men he met through
an online dating app and for trying to kill another.
Prosecutors say Rakeem Powell killed a man whose body was
found in the Angelus National Forest in twenty twenty one.
(29:23):
He's also charged in the death of a twenty three
year old man in twenty twenty three whose body has
not been found, and allegedly attacked another man, tied him up,
beat him with a baseball bat, and then ran him
down after he got away. Prosecutors say they will decide
later whether to pursue the death penalty. Twenty three miles
of the Angelus Crest Highway is being closed for utility work.
(29:43):
The stretch of highway from Foothill Boulevard in law Conyata
flint Ridge is going to be closed from nine am
to two pm each day through most of this month.
Commuters can use Big Tahunga Canyon to Angelus Forest Highway
to get past the work. So Cal Edison says the
work should be done by septem twenty fifth. We're just
minutes away from a handle. On the news this morning,
(30:03):
DHS says it's gonna flood the zone in the wake
of a Supreme Court ruling on immigration raids. Right now,
let's say good morning too. The host of How to
Money on KFI it's our very own Joel lars.
Speaker 14 (30:16):
Guard morning, Joel, morning, Amy.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So not that anyone's counting, but three months and fifteen
days till Christmas, and apparently it is not too early
to book your Christmas travel.
Speaker 16 (30:29):
No, it's not. And by the way, just one other
thing while we're talking about Christmas, before I start talking
about travel, is have you started saving for the gifts
you want to buy for people now? I love the
idea of people starting a sinking fund in January right
after Christmas, which sounds insane to most people are like,
I just got done spending money, but you remember, especially
if you racked up a little bit of credit card debt,
(30:49):
that starting early makes a lot of sense and you
can't go back to January. We can't turn back time.
But start saving now. Starts stocking away money now so
you don't feel that pinch like as you get closer.
Set aside the money right now, but when we're every year,
I know, I know, and so I think most people do.
But then doing something about it is the hard thing.
(31:09):
But I think it just it's so important to start
putting aside money so that you don't feel like you're
getting punched in the face and start making that list too,
like who am I buying for? How much am I spending?
Start creating a Christmas budget, which, yeah, it's September, but
now is the time to start thinking about that stuff.
And it's also the time to start thinking about travel,
because when you talk about when the best deals are
(31:32):
right now, or we're getting really close to that point
where you might start seeing the best prices for holiday travels.
So if you're like, yeah, I'm definitely getting out of town,
I'm going to visit family or friends for the holidays,
starting to at least track airfare, set airfare alerts on
a site like Google Flights. That's that's my preferred one,
that's super easy to use, And I also love how
(31:53):
Google Flights gives you that kind of green, yellow, red,
is a good time to buy what's going on with prices,
And you know it's not perfect and they can't accurately
predict exactly what's going to happen with prices, but you
can get a pretty good clue of whether or not
this is a price you want to pounce on you
want a book now, or whether you want to hold
off for another week or two.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
As you're tracking, I so have to do this today.
And then I have a quick question. I think we'ressed
you've addressed it before, But say you buy your ticket
and then the price drops, are you stuck with it
or is there anything you can do at that point?
Speaker 16 (32:23):
So it depends on the on the airlines. Every airline
is different when it comes to that, and many airlines
like they're changing too. So so Southwest had a policy
right where it was pretty flexible when it came to
cancelation and you could you had you were able to
get this credit and then you could you could use
(32:46):
that credit for a long long time. And now they've said, hey,
actually it's just going to be for a year that
you can use that credit. So it depends on whether
or not you're going to be flying within the next year.
There's a Department of Transportation rule that they're a twenty
four hour refund rule, So if you're like, ooh, I regret,
I regret buying that ticket, you can get that refund
(33:08):
instantly within twenty four hours of booking. And when it
comes to the actual specific airlines, make sure you know
what that is because it's going to vary based on
the fare that you're buying too, So Basic Economy you're
not going to have as many refund options as you
are with some of the more upgraded tickets that you
(33:28):
can buy, but those cost more money. And so I'm
I'm the kind of guy who's totally willing to fly
Basic Economy and feel like a piece of cattle when
I'm flying, but it also comes with more stringent, less
flexible cancelation rules.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Okay, all right, so note to self, do that today
and go at least set up for the alerts on
Google Flights. And then interest rates are starting to come down.
I think they were like six point two nine percent
when we checked earlier this week. So maybe you're starting
to think about buying a home and where might we
find an unexpected deal if you can call it that.
Speaker 16 (34:02):
Sure, Yeah, I mean this is one of those the
housing market endlessly fascinating to me, as we've seen just
incredible price rises and now we're seeing across much of
the country just those we're not seeing price increases. And
that makes sense, right, because we kind of hit a ceiling.
Buyers were like, yeah, I'm priced out, I'm not interested anymore,
(34:23):
and so a lot of buyers just sat on the
sideline saying not for me, not right now. The one
area though, that is really existing buyers can say I'm
not going to list my house because I don't think
I'm going to get what I want for it. But
the people who can't afford to not list their house
are new homebuilders, right so they build a new place
and you know that's been in the pipeline for sometimes
(34:46):
for many many months, if not multiple years, building out
those new units, and then those units are finished, and
what are they going to do? Sit on it, so
decide not to sell it. So new homes are actually
this one bright spot for potential buyers where typically new
homes cost more than existing homes. Then someone's selling their
nineteen sixties ranch or something like that, the new home
(35:09):
is going to cost more well right now, and we
haven't seen this in a really long time. I don't
remember a time since the year two thousand that we've
had new homes being cheaper on average than existing homes.
But that is where we're at right now. And so
if you're looking for a deal, builders are offering rate buydowns,
the prices are more likely to be cut from new builders.
(35:31):
So it's a really fascinating part of the market where
maybe that's where you start looking. If you're interested in
buying a home and you feel like you've been priced out,
well maybe you're not priced out of a brand new
home and that's an anomaly that's.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Just not normal, okay. And then on the opposite, a
flip side of homes, there's instead of going new, a
used EV maybe the way to go if you're looking
for a car.
Speaker 16 (35:52):
So the EV market, that's another fascinating thing right now
to me, because yeah, as those tax credits are they
were set to be around for many years now to
any longer, they're being phased out at the end of
the month, and so there's this I think something almost
like ten percent of cars being sold in the country
where electric vehicles that's set to drop off a clip.
What's going to happen with the used DV market is fascinating.
(36:15):
We've seen prices plummet in that regard, like new evs
are getting cheaper, but used vs are getting a lot cheaper.
And if you qualify for that used DV tax credit,
buying one before the end of the month, if that's
something you're you're interested and you've been saving for, it
could make a lot of sense. And then what happens
after those used V tax credits go away and the
new EV tax credits go away. I think just the
(36:37):
demand is going to plummet for electric vehicles and we
might start to see more deals on the electric vehicle front,
even though we don't have the federal tax credit attached
to it, which is substantial. I think we're going to
see discounts from from a lot of automakers because how
else are they going to get rid of the inventory
that they've been building up. So this will be a
fascinating one to watch. But Tesla's in particular, to see
(36:58):
this line cross of used Tesla used Tesla being cheaper
than the average used internal combustion engine vehicle, not to
mention then what you're going to save on gas on
top of it, right by plugging in at your house.
It's pretty incredible if you just look at that graph,
just a dramatic price drop that Tesla's and evs have seen.
(37:19):
It just makes it more financially viable. Whereas you remember
when when Tesla's first launch, and it was this luxury
vehicle essentially and only the super rich could afford it,
And now evs are for everybody, if you're interested, if
that's if that's what you're into.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
EV's for everybody, all right.
Speaker 16 (37:35):
I mean if you want it, if you want and we.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Don't have time to discuss it. But something that that
also made me think about it is like the prices
of those used evs are going down, But how long
does an electric vehicle last? I mean, like if you
take care of it, is it going to last twenty years?
Or does the battery crap out after five years? I
mean we just we don't know because I haven't been
on the market long enough.
Speaker 16 (37:56):
Right, Yeah, No, that's something we can totally talk about.
I had a friend who just to get AV battery replaced,
but it was under warranty. But if it's not out
in warranty, it's so expensive. And yeah, like that is
kind of one of those tough things for especially buying
the use electric vehicle. It's like, I don't know, I
need to make sure this battery is actually going to
last for me, so I'm not pitt spend ten thousand
(38:19):
dollars after I buy the vehicle.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
All right. You can listen to more great financial tips
from our buddy Joel Larsgard on how to money on
KFI every Sunday from noon to two, and you can
also follow him at how to Money Joel. Thank you
so much, Schoel.
Speaker 16 (38:33):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right, we'll talk to you soon. This is KFI
and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, live from
the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King. This
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