August 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News’ Patrick Reevell opens the show talking about more than 118,000 Russian troops positioning themselves at Ukraine frontline ahead of Friday’s peace talks in Alaska. KFI & KTLA tech reporter Rich DeMuro joins the show for ‘Wired Wednesday.’ Today, Rich talks about Perplexity $35BIL offer to Chrome, ChatGPT connecting to Google, AOL ending, BBB passports, and Sling TV launching a day pass. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe discussing how the markets are looking today. The show closes with Amy talking with ABC national news correspondent Steven Portnoy about options for DC’s homeless and Trump and Vance having a virtual call with Zelenskyy.
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Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's five o'clock this Wednesday morning, August thirteenth.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And since we
started with the spacey thing, look up in the sky,
the perseeds are peaking right now, so the percied meteor
shower goes on. I believe it's an annual thing and
it's been going on for a while, but astronomers say
that the absolute peak of the shower, where you're expected
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to see up to sixty meteors per hour, is right
before sunrise this morning, so it's happening right now. The
problem is, as I was driving in there's that weird haze.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
It's really hazy today.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, it's not like low clouds, at least not in Burbank.
It's just this weird, hazy kind of thing. So if
you can get out of that maybe, if you're up
in Big Bear yeah actually yeah, or Palmdale or something
where you're out of that Osha tree, well, I don't know.
If you haven't left yet.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
It's too late.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It's too late.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Sorry, But if you are out of the area, I
don't know if you have you ever seen a great
meteor shower.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
I've seen a few.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The best one I ever saw was on the Oregon
coast and we were out climbing on the rocks in
the middle of the night, you know, as as kids do,
and we didn't know that there was going to be
a meteor shower. And my cousins from Iowa were visiting,
and they had never even been to the coast, so
they were already.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Like, oh, my god, the Borific Ocean. That's the most
amazing thing ever.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And then I'm like, oh, let's go down to the
beach at night, and we climb up on these rocks
and we're sitting there looking at stars, and all of
a sudden we just start seeing them go and it
would have been about this time because they were out
for a family reunion and it's just so I mean,
it was just spectacular. So if you can't see it,
the perseids are peaking at this hour, here's what's ahead
on wake up call. Thousands of residents in Granada Hills
(02:56):
and Porter Ranch can now safely use their tap water again.
The LADDAP has lifted a boil water notice for the
impacted areas after more than a week where residents had
little or no water. Pressure testing has confirmed that the
water is up to safety standards once again. Prosecutors have
filed two new public corruption charges against La City Council
(03:18):
and Cure and Price. He's already facing ten felony counts
of embezzling government funds, perjury, and conflict of interest for
allegedly voting in favor of projects in which his wife
had a financial interest. Seagulls from Malibu to Redondo Beach
have been getting sick and dying, which has state wildlife
officials looking for what's causing it. San Pedro based International
(03:39):
Bird Rescue says environmental toxins are considered to be the
most likely culprit. Well, something's brewing on the eastern border
of Ukraine. Had a Friday's meeting between President Trump and
Russia's President Putin in Alaska, ABC's Patrick Reevel's going to
join us to give us the latest on that. Also,
there's a new digital camera that's going old school, and
(04:01):
if you don't want to commit to a streaming service,
apparently you can now buy one just for a day
or a week, kind of like renting a movie, but
probably more expensive. KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro is going
to tell us about that. That's coming up at five
point twenty. Part of President Trump's takeover of the DC
Metro Police Department and the deployment of National Guard troops
is a plan to clean up the streets. ABC Stephen
(04:23):
Portnoy joins us at five point fifty to share what's
next for the homeless in DC. Also, Amy's on it,
speaking of old school. This one's a bit old school,
and it's a lot of fun and sometimes it is
laugh out loud, tears rolling down your face, funny.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm on it. I'll let you know what it is
coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man wanted
from murder in Washington State has been caught in Los Angeles.
Police Chief Jim McDonald says Alexander Rodgers was arrested yesterday
after his car was found abandoned in Calabasas.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
Senior lead officers from Olympic Division responded to a radio
call where a security advised that they saw Alexander Rodgers,
who was wanted for murder in Washington State, in the
area of Sixth Street and Lafayette.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Police in Washington State say Rogers stabbed and elderly brother
and sister last week.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
The woman died.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
La Mayor Bounce is talking about keeping more people in
their homes. She'll be announcing an expansion of eviction prevention
services later this morning. The city already offers rental assistance,
legal help, and information on affordable housing options. A coalition
of major truck makers is suing California over its tougher
emissions rules for big rigs.
Speaker 10 (05:33):
Truckmakers argue the state can't enforce standards that go beyond
federal law, especially after Congress and President Trump revoked California's
EPA waivers in June. But lawsuit targets Governor Newsom and
the State Air Resources Board challenging regulations that phase in
more zero missions trucks and sharply cut nitrogen oxide pollution.
The manufacturers want a judge to stop the state from
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enforcing the rules. Brigida Augustino Kafi news.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And a former LA mayor, has picked up the endorsement
of big political player in the race to become California's
next governor.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Former Senator Barbara Boxer has not only thrown her support
behind Antonio Villa Ragosa to be the state's next governor,
she's also going to take on the role of his
campaign co chair. Fia Ragosa says the two are friends
and they've worked together for the past three decades with
mutual respect for each other's political ambition. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Here we go, Welcome to Patrick Reevill, ABC News correspondent
in London. Patrick, Russian forces have broken through Ukraine's eastern front.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Can you give us the latest on that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Good morning. Yeah, there's still a lot of fog of
war around what has actually happened here, but it appears
that Russian forces have managed to make a break in
Ukraine's front line. In the east, north of the key
defensive city of the Cross. Now, I think it's important
to say that our understanding of the moment is that
this breach is very small. It's likely only a few
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dozen if even that Russian soldiers managed to get through
and behind Ukraine's line there. But I think the reason
that this is causing a lot of concern is that
it seems to reflect bigger problems that Ukraine has right now,
which is that its lines are becoming very thinly manned
in eastern Ukraine. Now, most military analysts are saying that
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this is not yet a major breakthrough, that Ukraine can
still seal this breach and prevent it becoming much more serious.
And I think also what we're hearing from the Ukrainians
is that this ultimately is a deliberate attempt by Vladimir
Pussin to create the impression that there is a major
breakthrough in eastern Ukraine, just ahead of these talks with
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President Trump in Alaska. But I think certainly it reflects
more broadly how Ukraine's position on the battlefield is continuing
to deteriorate and getting more and more difficult as time
goes on.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay, and then Patrick, you mentioned that the lines are
getting really thin. I mean, are they just literally running
out of people or are they shifting their focus elsewhere?
And that's given Russia kind of an opportunity to start
pushing at this border.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's more the former ultimately in terms of in terms
of the army itself. Craine of course still has enough people,
but it has made decisions over time not to mobilize
young men, for example, like eighteen year olds, trying to
preserve the future of its country. But what we're seeing
is that both sides, really Russia and Ukraine, because of
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the enormous size of the country, are really strained, and
that the frontline has become quite complicated. You know, I
think when we describe it, many people probably will be
surprised to hear what it's like there now. Really what
we see is that the Russians, because they've suffered such
huge losses and because there's so many drones in the
sky at this point, often send very small groups, often
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just two or three soldiers to try and get behind
Ukrainian positions. Some times they do it even just on
motorbikes rather than using armored vehicles or anything like that.
And so what we've seen here, I think is one
of these examples where again you have a very small
number of Russian soldiers managing to sneak behind Ukrainian lines,
but because also Ukraine has so few soldiers there, they
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can't immediately stop them. So I think now Ukraine is
moving a much larger force to try and push them back.
But again it just shows that a larger picture, Ukraine
is a huge strain in the east. In the situation
there is likely just to become more and more difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, And initially patrick Ukraine had been kind of holding
its own, but Russia has gained ground. Are they have
they been recently taking more territory or are is Russia
basically holding on to the territories that they've been controlling
for a while now, or are they trying to expand that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So we're in the middle of Russia's summer offense that
they've been trying for months now to tell the rest
of the Dunetes region in eastern Ukraine, which is the
reason that Vladimir pus is demanding Ukraine now hand over
ahead of this summer And basically Russia, despite enormous efforts,
and we believe based on what we've heard from the
(10:15):
United States and just just this week that they may
have lost again sixty thousand troops in just the last month,
but Russia so far has only been able to gain
about one percent more of Ukraine's territory by while it
pushes who What's worrying people is that it's managed to
increasingly encircle two key defensive cities in Dunetes. One is
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across and the other is Constantinoka. And the fear is
that ultimately not that we're going to see immediate Russian
massive breakthrough somewhere, but that slowly we're seeing Ukraine have
more and more problems along that front line, and the
warrior is at some point Ukraine's military could break. Nobody
thinks that's likely to happen imminently, but it is a
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growing risk and they think that over time, you know,
in a year, six months, things can become more and
more dangerous for you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Crant Okay, ABC's Patrick Revill in London, thank you so
much for the information. We'll be watching to see what happens,
especially now that, as you mentioned, there's that summit coming up,
the meeting in Alaska on Friday.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Thanks Patrick, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
first of eight hundred National Guard troops have arrived in
DC as part of President Trump's move to take over
policing in the city. ABC's Mary Bruce's Trump wants to
clean up the capitol and get homeless people off the streets.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
The President claims crime in the city is spiraling out
of control, but the mayor points to official crime stats
violent crime down twenty six percent since last year, now
at a thirty year low.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She says Trump is also talking about doing the same
thing in other big cities.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
DC Police Chief.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Pamela Smith says she plans to cooperate with the city's
federal partners to help reduce crime in the district. Smith
and Mayor Muriel Bowser met with US Attorney Pam Bondi
and Interim Administrator Terry Cole yesterday to talk about the
federal takeover of the DC Police Department. Smith says she
still reports to the mayor and will treat the takeover
like any other operation involving federal law enforcement. Israeli Prime
(12:18):
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that ceasefire efforts in Gaza
are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release
the remaining hostages all at once.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Arab officials told the Associated Press last.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Week that mediators in Egypt and Qatar are preparing a
new framework for a deal. Talks appeared to break down
last month, but Egyptian state run media reports a Hamas
delegation arrived in Cairo for talks yesterday. The National Weather
Services warning people in Juno, Alaska to be ready for
possible historic flooding. Evacuation advisories have gone out, but National
(12:56):
Weather Service Senior hydrologist and meteorologist Aaron Jacob says he
suspects barriers to hold.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
At this time.
Speaker 12 (13:02):
There is no release, and I think that's the main message,
and we're just seeing the overtopping.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
But the web serves and our partners are watching this
very closely.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Meteorologists are keeping an eye on a so called glacial
outburst that could fill a nearby basin. Beaches in France
are telling people to keep your clothes.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
On once they step off the sand.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
That is.
Speaker 13 (13:22):
The mayor of Lessab Delonne, Janick Moreau, says tourists are
being fined for going straight from the beach to markets,
stores and restaurants in town while still in only their swimsuits.
He says, you can go to the market half naked,
with hair falling onto vegetables his words. Other countries in
the EU were doing the same, including Italy, Croatia and Spain,
where it's illegal to wear just swimwear even on seafront
(13:43):
areas and adjacent streets, with fines and the hundreds.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Dollars or euros.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
Despite all the countries having nude beaches, they're telling tourists
to keep the skin on the sand. Michael Krozer kf
I News.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
As you know, our very own Steffan we know I
miss Fush was in a really nasty, nasty car crash
last week. His car flipped, landed on its side on
the one five to one ten transition and then the
car caught fire. You've heard us talking about it a ton,
(14:15):
and finally Tim got to talk to Fush yesterday on
his show, and if you want to listen to that,
you can listen to Tim's podcast. It's just amazing hearing
Fush actually talking about what all happened. And you know,
Tim had talked to two of the people who saved
Stefan's life literally brought the car upright as it was
(14:40):
catching on fire, and then we're able to drag Fush
out of the car. And Fush says he doesn't remember
that the car was on its side.
Speaker 14 (14:50):
I'll be honest, I thought the car flipped back on
its own.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
To know that they did it was like just astonishing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, he said, his mom doesn't like the word, but
he said it was kind of surreal to know what happened.
And he only remembers part of what happened, and that's
I think that's a really common thing when you experience
that kind of trauma. And his arm had been trapped
under the car when it was on its side, and
the damage is pretty bad, and like the skin and
the muscles and the tendons were basically scraped off. And
(15:22):
Bush said, yeah, it was kind of like a scene
out of a horror movie.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
But I looked like a scene straight out of Saw.
Like it was unreal. But I was in such shock.
I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
He's had three surgeries so far more on the way.
Surgeons are working to repair the arm and get it
to heal, and he was saying yesterday that basically the
surgeons are pretty amazed that it is. His recovery so
far is pretty miraculous. He's not done yet, He's got
a lot more long way to go. He's still in
the hospital and facing more surgeries. But we're wishing him
(15:54):
and praying for him for continued healing. And wow, what
an amazing story, and so glad to hear that he's
doing well. A federal judge in San Francisco continues to
moull over evidence on whether the Trump administration acted illegally
in deploying thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
The court proceedings continue today. Mexico's transferred twenty six cartel
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members wanted in the US as part of a deal
with the Trump administration. They're being flown to American soil
after the Justice Department agreed not to go after the
death penalty against any of them or any cartel leaders
and members transferred to the US in February. Lebron James
is set to become the first player in NBA history
to play for a twenty third season when the Lakers
(16:38):
opened the twenty twenty five to twenty six season on
October twenty first against the Golden State Warriors. The team
also announced they'll be playing again on Christmas Day this
year at Crypto dot Com Arena. Tickets go on sale
August twenty sixth. Let's say good morning now to the
host of Rich on tech on kfights KTLA's tech reporter
Rich Timuro.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You got a big deal possibly brewing between Perplexity and Chrome.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
What's up with that?
Speaker 15 (17:06):
Well, it's interesting. This is a one sided deal for sure.
So Perplexity is an AI company. They've been pretty hot
on the scene. You've searched something inside their app or
their website and they come up with sort of an
answer for you rather than a bunch of random links.
Google has something similar called AI Overviews and AI Mode. Anyway,
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they are offering Google almost thirty five billion dollars for
Google Chrome unsolicited. Google didn't say this is up for sale,
but we know that Google has been having some issues
with the antitrust stuff, and one of the remedies that
was floated was perhaps making them sell the Chrome web browser.
That has not happened yet. They're not forced to sell it,
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but Perplexity is jumping in saying, hey, we'll buy it
because we want this.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
And we know that it would expand our reach.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So they're being proactive.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
They're being proactive. But here's the deal.
Speaker 15 (17:59):
This company's not even or thirty five billion dollars to
value to eighteen billion. They've only raised a billion dollars,
so this would be a major stretch for them to
purchase this. But you know, things are wild right now
in the tech world because of AI, so anything can happen.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, and then we'll just have to kind of wait
and see on whether that means anything different or if
it's the same for the end user.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I don't think it's going to happen. Let's put it
that way, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Chat GPT is reaching ever deeper into our lives.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
What's up now with the Google services?
Speaker 15 (18:31):
Oh my gosh, this is so wild. So now chat
GBT you can add a connection to your Gmail, your
calendar and let it basically look inside those things to
help you with your chats. So if you want to say, hey,
what's on my agenda today? Or hey, can you compose
an email and look at my last five emails to
my mom and write it in the same way.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
So this is it's awesome but also scary.
Speaker 15 (18:56):
Last night, as I was trying to decide if I
wanted to do this, you really have to think about
it because think about giving AI access to your entire
email everything, your entire email account. So I didn't do
that just yet because I really need to sit and
think about this. But it can be very helpful because
people are already sharing all kinds of stuff with CHATCHBT.
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I just need to learn the privacy policy a little
bit more before I give access to this.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So then here's a question for you, Rich. Once you
do it, can you undo it?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Well? Right?
Speaker 15 (19:28):
And that's the thing I'm trying to figure out, because yes,
you can undo the connection, but do they save a
copy of your data? That's the thing I'm unclear on.
That's the thing that should be very clear when you
accept this terms through chatgubt. But I could not find
it readily available, So I need to investigate that a
little bit more.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, and then and then we'll wait for an update
from our tech guide.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Because you're the.
Speaker 15 (19:51):
One who get My advice is if you're worried about this,
don't do it. Yeah, if you're worried about this, maybe
don't do it right away.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, if you don't want to another streaming service, but
you want to see something that's on that streaming service,
this might be useful.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
This is actually very smart.
Speaker 15 (20:08):
So you know there's like those one or two times
a year where you're like, oh, I'd like to watch
that award show. Oh, but I don't have cable or
a streaming service whatever that has it. So sling tv
now has day passes for live TV, so you can
pay five dollars a day and get access to stuff.
You can pay ten dollars for a weekend pass or
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fifteen dollars for a week. It's instant, there's no contract.
You get access to all the different channels that they have,
you know, depending on the pass that you purchase.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
But kind of smart.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
I mean, look, if there's like a big game you
want to watch and they happen to have it on
sling TV, that's the main thing to know here. It's
like you have to see what channels you're getting for
that day pass and make sure whatever you want to
watch is on that channel.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Cool, sort of like renting a movie.
Speaker 15 (20:56):
Yeah, basically except for live TV. Very well, said Amy,
Thank you, I'll use that from now on.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Okay, good, and then you can credit me and Amy King. Okay, fine,
then let's just move on. Hey, so this is I'm
not sure if I like this idea or don't like
this idea because I'm too used to the digital stuff.
But there's a new digital video camera that's kind of
old school.
Speaker 15 (21:19):
Yeah, this is more just nostalgic kind of fun. The
company is camp Snap. They already make a point and shoot.
It looks like a disposable camera, but it's digital. So
the whole idea behind this company is that you can disconnect.
So that digital camera I was just talking about, there's
no screen on it. You can't look at the pictures.
There's just a viewfinder.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
You have to get home and connect it to your
computer to see the pictures that you took. So now they're.
Speaker 15 (21:44):
Taking that same idea and making a sort of a
Super eight style camera, but it's digital.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
It looks old school.
Speaker 15 (21:52):
You can film little clips or I say film, but
you can record little clips, vertical, widescreen, square, whatever you want.
It looks classic like that film style. But you get
back to your computer, you plug it in, you could
see what you did. This is just for people that
think it's cool or amy for people that want to disconnect.
So the idea is, I know, we got we're run
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out of time here, But the idea is that you
could take let's say you're smart watch with you that
has cellular to your kids play, just record your video
on this and you are completely screen free and you know,
less distracted.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I would say, while you do this, I.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Kind of like that idea.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I know that the first time we went to Africa,
I had I think it was called a flip camera. Wow,
I know right, I think it was called a flip camera,
and I loved that thing. And because it was the
same thing, it didn't have like you couldn't watch anything
on it.
Speaker 15 (22:44):
Well it was look that was before people were super
addicted to their smartphones. Now there's this whole kind of
a lot of people are trying to figure out ways
of still doing what they like to do, which is
go out on the weekends and take pictures, but not
be behold into a screen that every time they get
notification they go down a rabbit hole for ten minutes
and ignore their friends. So I think that just check
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out campsnap. In general, what they're doing is really cool.
I did it once where you know, I was out
at an event. I just took my smart watch and
the camera and I was I mean, believe me, it's
different because you're so like disconnected from the world, but
you're still able to take pictures of your friends and family.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Okay, I have to check that out.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Kfi's tech guy is rich Demiro and you can hear
him every Saturday from eleven to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
It's called rich on Tech on KFI.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You can watch him on KTLA, follow him on Instagram
at rich on Tech, and if you want to hear
more about or read more about anything that we talk about,
you can go to his website rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Thank you, Rich, have a great day, all right you.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Two four people have been arrested for the burglary of
actor Brad Pittshome in Los Fela's LAPD Chief Jim McDonald
says detectives believe a crew of gang members is responsible
for a string of local break ins, include at Pitt's house.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
Burglary detective served the search one on the suspect's residents
in the city of Compton and in Newton Division in
the city of Los Angeles, where they recovered numerous items
taken during burglaries within the city.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
He says during the robbery, three thieves were seen on
video climbing a fence and smashing a window to get
into Pitt's house and then stealing stuff from it. Police
officer and Menefee has been arrested for sexual assault. Investigators
in Riverside County say there was sufficient evidence to support
the arrest of officer Juan Pensina yesterday. He's accused of
sexually assaulting victims both on and off duty. LA County
(24:35):
CEO says there is no two hundred ninety million dollar
project underway at the county's new skyscraper.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
The county spent two hundred million dollars to buy the
Gas Company Tower in downtown La. It plans to move
most county operations there. Supervisor Jannis Hahn, who opposed that purchase,
says she was surprised to learn of a two hundred
and ninety million dollars seismic retrofit.
Speaker 12 (24:55):
I agree there needs to be more transparency with taxpayers
on what the gas Company towers is at actually going
to cost the county, and I think this cost is
just the tip of the icebergs.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
CEO Fcia Davenport says there is no such project, just
an estimate. It would only move forward if the supervisors
approve it. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
And if you ask gen Z, love is overrated.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Burglary detective served the search one on the suspects residence
is not the right compet.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Sound by that's chief McDonald, Okay, let me start over again,
love is overrated.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
If you ask gen Z.
Speaker 14 (25:28):
A new survey by matchmaking service talk if I says
forty six percent of gen Zers choose long term financial
stability over romance, and almost a third would take back
an X who got rich. One in ten gen Z
women say their ideal match should make two hundred thousand
dollars or more, and most won't settle for less than
eighty thousand. Millennials have no problem with a broken magical relationship,
with fifty nine percent choosing love over financial security. Most
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gen zers also won't date a new one without a job,
and forty six percent say they wouldn't even if they're attractive.
Mark Ronner, KFI News, Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
A federal judge is order the Trump administration to restore
hundreds of National Science Foundation research grants to UCLA that
got suspended. A US district judge as a government's freeze
of millions in funding for UCLA violated her ruling from
June that blocked science research grants from being terminated. A
group of truck makers has sued California regulators. They claimed
(26:25):
the state can't keep enforcing stricter emission standards for heavy
duty vehicles now that the federal government has deemed the
stricter standards unlawful. Snoop Dogg has been named LA's Community
Chairman for the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup. Snoop
Dogg is a Long Beach native. He was picked by
the LA Sports and Entertainment Commission. He'll be in charge
of developing positive community engagement during the World Cup that
(26:49):
gets underway at sofar June eleventh next year with the
men's national team for the US.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Amy its on it, on it? What am I on?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I'm on the stream, I'm on movies. There's so many shows,
as you know, how do you pick the good ones
and bypass the bad ones? Hopefully I can help you
out with that just a little bit. Okay, here's one
that uh that dropped on July First, it's called LeeAnne
on Netflix. It's with stand up comedian Leanne Morgan who
(27:30):
I got to see at I believe it was The
Pantagious and she is huh hilarious. So she's just great
as a stand up comedian. Her comedy specials are really good.
If you haven't watched those, I highly recommend those. But
they've taken another comedian and put her in a role,
a starring role in a sitcom. There's sixteen episodes, so
(27:51):
it's almost like a real sitcom, you know, all.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
The all the shows are like eight episodes.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Now these are short episodes, they're like twenty five minutes,
but the sixteen of them, so you can grab one
or two and go, or you can binge like I
one to do. So they take her life and they
take her stand up, and they tweak it because they
put her in a different situation.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
In real life.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
She's still married, but right now she her husbands cheated
on her with a much younger woman and you know,
hilarity ensues, so they've split up. It also stars Kristin Johnston.
You might remember her from Third Rock from the Sun
and tons of other shows. She plays her sister and
then Her parents are Celia Watson and Blake Clark. Clark,
both veteran actors. You'll recognize them even if you're not
(28:37):
familiar with their names. You'll recognize them when you see him.
Then Tim Day, you remember him from Wings, Yeah, Yeah,
he's in it. It's a traditional three camera sitcom, that's
how they describe it as being filmed, so it's very
old school that way, and there's a lot of the
familiar things going on. It's a Chuck Lori show. There's family,
there's nosy neighbors, there's misunderstandings, double entendre, uncomfortable situations. So
(29:03):
I watched the first couple episodes and I'm like, Eh,
it's okay. And I was feeling like they took a really,
really hilarious person and tried to crammer into a sitcom
that didn't really work. And then I kind of walked
away for it from it a little bit, and then
I got back to it and I watched the next
episode and I went, hmm, well, she seems to be
settling in quite nicely to this role. And you start
(29:23):
to see the brilliant humor that makes LeeAnne Morgan so
much fun to watch, and some of the scenes are
kind of familiar to things that you might have experienced
in your life, but in a funny way. And there
were situations that literally were laugh out loud. I had
tears in my eyes laughing some of the interactions between
(29:45):
her parents when there it's just it's their relationship that's
so adorable and so funny. So I'm really glad that
I stuck with it and kind of gave the show
time to breathe because it needed that.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So the big question is is there going to be
a season two of Leanne.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It hasn't been renewed, but it's getting good viewership and
if there is another season, Leanne has already said I'm
in so I hope that they do because it was
it was just fun and it's kind of refreshing. Like
she doesn't she doesn't get disgustingly dirty. There are some
double entendres and stuff, but they're so like not sterile
(30:24):
what they're almost innocent, but they're very funny and the
situations are fun. And like I said, when I'm sitting
by myself and I'm laughing out loud with tears in
my eyes, I'm like.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
That's a good show.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So it's called Leanne. It's on Netflix. It dropped at
the end of July and you can watch it now.
Now it's time to drop into your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney.
Speaker 16 (30:46):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So we got two different restaurants and two different earnings.
Speaker 17 (30:52):
Results that you have to re oh, no doubt about it.
So it's looking like a rough day for Cava. Shares
are plunging this morning. We're talking a twenty dollars drop
and share, so that's a big, big fall. The fast
casual Mediterranean chain cut its sales out look.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
For the year.
Speaker 17 (31:08):
The restaurant says it seems to be under pressure to
keep up with its speedy growth because it's a relatively
new chain and diners spent a lot less on their
meals last quarter. On the other hand, this past year
has been a bit of a comeback for Chili's, which
has seen strong demand from some of their viral menu items.
It's fried Mozireli six, for example. I've been a big
hit with people filming their dramatic cheese pulls, so that's
(31:30):
helping parent company Bringer International.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
I love to see them in building.
Speaker 17 (31:34):
Ok yeah, I mean people are even whipping out their
tape measure to check.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
The length of the stretch. That's funny. I'm gonna have
to go check that out.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Okay, So everybody knows that, you know, owning a home
is part of the American dream, but maybe seniors have said, oh,
I've already lived that dream because there's no to ownership.
Speaker 17 (31:53):
Yeah, and owning a home it's a never ending expensive
to do list. I could tell you that one first,
and the cost of insurance, taxes, home repairs are eye popping,
and why moll along when you could travel instead. So
a lot of older folks are saying they've had enough
of home ownership. They're tapping out and they're renting instead.
The Wall Street Journal finds the fastest growing group of
renters in the US are seniors.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Okay, we talked I think it was last week about
how meat prices are pretty high, and apparently we're not
done seeing increases yet.
Speaker 16 (32:25):
Not at all.
Speaker 17 (32:26):
We're probably going to continue to see those high prices
next year, and even leaner plates too. According to the
Department of Agriculture, the beef supply in the US is
expected to drop to the lowest level since twenty nineteen.
So this threatens to push the record beef prices that
we're seeing right now even higher. And tariffs are actually
going to limit the ability of the importers to soften
(32:46):
the blow and import some beef.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Here, Okay, we'll be watching that. And what are as
we're watching stocks? Are we looking for another update because
yesterday was.
Speaker 17 (32:55):
Pretty good exactly because traders are betting that the Federal
Reserve will cut into straits at its meeting next month.
Yesterday's inflation report showed a modestize in prices, but this
is fueling speculation that the Fed will move more aggressively
to protect a labor market that's showing some signs of strains.
So yesterday the Dow rose four hundred and eighty four points.
This morning, we're looking at Dow futures up one hundred
(33:17):
and sixty All.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Right, getting in your business like we do every morning
with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaha.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Thanks Courtney. We'll talk to you tomorrow, See you later.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The LAPD has found an arrested a man in connection
with the stabbing death of a woman in Washington. State
Police believed fifty one year old Alex Rogers was in
the area after his car was spotted abandoned in Calabasas.
Authorities had warned that he was armed in dangerous Details
of his arrest not immediately released, but he was picked
up yesterday. The White House has denied Governor Newsim's accusation
(33:46):
of political extortion related to anti Semitism findings at UCLA.
Newsim's comment follows President Trump's one billion dollar settlement offered
to the university over what the administration says was UCLA's
failure to protect First Amendment rights. Newton Newsom has threatened
to sue over what he calls the administration's coercive tactics.
(34:07):
There's no train, but residents in Van Nuy's have been
hearing train horns and sirens almost every day, and they're
well fed up. Neighbors say the sounds of the horns
and sirens rattled their windows. The guy who's doing it
told k EBC that he's sounding the horns because he's
crying out for help, but he didn't say what he
needs help with. He has not been sighted by police.
(34:29):
We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
the White House is saying it can find or jail
homeless people in DC if they don't agree to leave.
Talked about that right now. Let's check in with ABC's
Stephen portnoy. So, Stephen, part of the president's plan in
having the FEDS take control of DC metro police and
(34:51):
bringing in the National Guard is to round up bad guys,
but it's also to clear out the homeless from the
streets of DC.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
How's he planning to do.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That well by enforcing the laws that have been on
the books for some time. The White House said yesterday
that the homeless in Washington who sleep in tents and
on the streets will be given options leave, go to
a shelter, hopefully it is in full, be offered addiction
or mental health services, and if they refuse, they'll be
(35:19):
susceptible to jail or fines.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
That was the word yesterday from the Press secretary.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
She was asked to explain the president's pledge to try
to take care of those who are homeless in Washington, DC,
and she said essentially that the expectation is that the
officials in the city will enforce the laws on vagrancy
and the options are go to a shelter or go
to go to treatment or go to jail.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, So Stephen, do we know how boud is the
problem in DC?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
I mean, like in LA you see them.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
You see the homeless people everywhere, and there's a lot
of resistance to people pople taking the offers when they
try to clear the camps that they go. Now, we
don't want to go to the shelter, we don't want
to go to a treatment program. So are they expecting
that kind of resistance there too?
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I think that ultimately you would look, here's the problem.
You have a significant number of homeless encampments in Washington,
d C. The President sees it as a blight. It's
a quality of life problem that it exists in cities
all across America. The President has now asserted authority that
(36:31):
we haven't seen asserted in some time to.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Say no more.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
That's it, and now we're going to see what comes
of it. The question was asked, what canter should be
done about these people? The President's pledge to take care
of them and send them far outside the city. Is
it going to do either one of those things or
are they just going to be essentially carted off to jail.
A lot of them say they don't want to go
(36:56):
to the shelters, they don't feel it's safe, or maybe
there's not enough room for them.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
They may have.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Mental health problems or addiction problems, but they may have
found treatment.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
Less than useful.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Whatever the reasons are, the question is what can the
government do about? And it happens that homelessness in America
is it record highs because what happens oftentimes is people
who even work, who have you know, low wage jobs,
wind up finding that rents in the nation's largest cities
are beyond reach. They may have been evicted, which puts
(37:31):
a black mark on their credit score, which means they
can't properly get an apartment even if they could afford
one in the city. And then they try to go
to the shelter. They may find that their family has
to be separated if they have teenage children, particularly male
teenage children, and then they wind up in a you know,
trying to find Section eight vouchures provided by the federal government.
(37:52):
And then they find that, you know, there's no one
who will rent to them because no one will take
those vouchers because the market rents are higher.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
So it becomes a cycle that people get trapped in.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Now, that's a circumstance in any city like Los Angeles,
like Atlanta, like places all over America.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Here in Washington, d C. It's a unique circumstance.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The encampments have been set up in many respects, are
on federal land, and the president has the ultimate authority
to say, you can't be here.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Go anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What was the line from the Closing Time song, You
don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
So that seems to be the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, Well, we'll be watching to see if he has
any success, because I know that they've pumped billions of
dollars into it here and there's not a lot of
success going on.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
And the answer isn't necessarily more public money or necessarily
a government solution.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
But it is a problem.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
It is a problem. Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Also, President Trump meeting with Russia's President Putin in Alaska
on Friday. Ahead of that, there's another meeting that's been scheduled.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Today's huddle just in a few minutes is expected to
take place via video conference between the European leaders and
Vladimirer Zelenski, Wh's traveled to Berlin for this huddle Trump
Vice President Vance will join virtually, and it's an opportunity
for the President to hear from Zelensky before he goes
into this meeting with Putin on Friday.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And are the other leaders going to have a say
or are they more observers or do we know?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Well, look, Europe I think speaks with one voice on this,
and but of course they've got Zelensky's back. The question
is does the president and you know, the President has
talked about the need for land swaps to end this war.
What essentially that means is that Ukraine will have to
seede territory to Russia. What is Russia giving up other
than land it's already seized from some other country, If
(39:37):
anything at all, we don't know. The President has said
it's complicated, so you know, I guess we'll I guess
we'll find out. It's also possible the President said this
week that he'll leave that meeting with Putin and say,
all your fellows will just have to keep fighting it out.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, and I think that you mentioned the swap thing.
I was wondering about that because I was like, does
that mean that Russia's going to give up some It's territory,
or it's just going to give back some of what
it took I mean, or is it just a supposed
to be a hey, Ukraine, just give up this land?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Or do they get anything out of it?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That's the question, the question that the President has not
been directly asked and certainly hasn't directly answered.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
All Right, Stephen Portnoy in Washington, Thanks so much for
the information as always, you bet.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
All right, let's get back.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
To some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Harvey Weinstein is set to be
sentenced in his sex crimes retrial in New York.
Speaker 16 (40:30):
The former Hollywood producer was found guilty of engaging in
a criminal sex act with one woman while being acquitted
on another count involving a different woman. Weinstein was found
guilty in twenty twenty, but the verdict was thrown out
because the judge didn't handle the witness testimony properly. Weinstein
has also expected to serve a sixteen year sentence in
Los Angeles on similar charges. Tammy Trio kf I News.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
The boil water notice for Porter Ranch and Granada Hills
has been lifted. The ledwpieces the tap water has been
tested and is safe to drink. Customers are being advised
to flush their pipes by turning on all the faucets
one by one and letting the water just run for
about five minutes. They're going to get a twenty dollars
credit on their bill for that.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Water.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Service had been low or out for several days because
of a broken underground valve La City Councilman Tim McCosker
has introduced a motion to temporarily stop the spread of
smoke shops in the Harbor Area its in response to
the growing number of shops around schools, parks, and daycare centers.
If his motion passes, new or expanded smoke shops wouldn't
be allowed for forty five days anywhere in the district,
(41:31):
which includes San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor Gateway, Harbor City, and Watts.
The ex boyfriend of a banking executive found dead inside
her home in Resita, has been convicted a first degree
murder in other charges including burglary and rape. Michelle Avon,
who was a senior vice president for b of A,
was killed in twenty twenty one. Prosecutors argued that she
(41:52):
was beaten and strangled by Anthony Turner. His lawyer claimed
unsuccessfully that the woman's injuries could have been self inflicted.
An unknown illness is making lots of seabirds sick.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
The International Bird Rescue in San Pedro says it's received
seventeen Western goals sick and dying from a stretch of
shoreline from Malibu to Redondo Beach. Other birds have died
at the beaches. They don't know what's causing it, but
officials there have expressed concern that it could be related
to the same things sickening and killing dogs that walk
near the Venice Canals. Symptoms include partial or complete paralysis, confusion,
(42:26):
difficulty blinking, and respiratory issues. State and county officials are investigating.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
The next big earthquake in California might not be like
anything we've felt before. A new study by the National
Academy of Sciences, co authored by scientists at Caltech and Pasadena,
says earthquakes never come back exactly the same way. When
the next quake hits, it'll hit differently than the devastating
earthquakes that have rocked California in the past. The quakes
(42:54):
that rolled through the state may become sharp or hard
jolts or shake the state to side. Oh, whatever it is,
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
You and Debora Mark.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
Oh, she's paired, she's petrified.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
I know, poor thing. She'll be fine, at least they
hope she'll survive. Hey, here's something that might rock your world.
The Dodgers and the Angels playing in Anaheim tonight. First
Bitch goes out at six point thirty. You can listen
to all Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA
Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and you
can stream all the Dodgers games in HD on the
(43:28):
iHeartRadio app. Keywork, Keyword, AM five seventy LA Sports. This
is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
I'm Amy King.
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Good morning.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
It's five o'clock this Wednesday morning, August thirteenth.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
This is your wake up call. I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. And since we
started with the spacey thing, look up in the sky,
the perseeds are peaking right now, so the percied meteor
shower goes on. I believe it's an annual thing and
it's been going on for a while, but astronomers say
that the absolute peak of the shower, where you're expected
(01:33):
to see up to sixty meteors per hour, is right
before sunrise this morning, so it's happening right now. The
problem is, as I was driving in there's that weird haze.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
It's really hazy today.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Yeah, it's not like low clouds, at least not in Burbank.
It's just this weird, hazy kind of thing. So if
you can get out of that maybe, if you're up
in Big Bear yeah actually yeah, or Palmdale or something
where you're out of that Osha tree, well, I don't know.
If you haven't left yet.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
It's too late.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
It's too late.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Sorry, But if you are out of the area, I
don't know if you have you ever seen a great
meteor shower.
Speaker 8 (02:09):
I've seen a few.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The best one I ever saw was on the Oregon
coast and we were out climbing on the rocks in
the middle of the night, you know, as as kids do,
and we didn't know that there was going to be
a meteor shower. And my cousins from Iowa were visiting,
and they had never even been to the coast, so
they were already.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Like, oh, my god, the Borific Ocean. That's the most
amazing thing ever.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And then I'm like, oh, let's go down to the
beach at night, and we climb up on these rocks
and we're sitting there looking at stars, and all of
a sudden we just start seeing them go and it
would have been about this time because they were out
for a family reunion and it's just so I mean,
it was just spectacular. So if you can't see it,
the perseids are peaking at this hour, here's what's ahead
on wake up call. Thousands of residents in Granada Hills
(02:56):
and Porter Ranch can now safely use their tap water again.
The LADDAP has lifted a boil water notice for the
impacted areas after more than a week where residents had
little or no water. Pressure testing has confirmed that the
water is up to safety standards once again. Prosecutors have
filed two new public corruption charges against La City Council
(03:18):
and Cure and Price. He's already facing ten felony counts
of embezzling government funds, perjury, and conflict of interest for
allegedly voting in favor of projects in which his wife
had a financial interest. Seagulls from Malibu to Redondo Beach
have been getting sick and dying, which has state wildlife
officials looking for what's causing it. San Pedro based International
(03:39):
Bird Rescue says environmental toxins are considered to be the
most likely culprit. Well, something's brewing on the eastern border
of Ukraine. Had a Friday's meeting between President Trump and
Russia's President Putin in Alaska, ABC's Patrick Reevel's going to
join us to give us the latest on that. Also,
there's a new digital camera that's going old school, and
(04:01):
if you don't want to commit to a streaming service,
apparently you can now buy one just for a day
or a week, kind of like renting a movie, but
probably more expensive. KTLA's tech reporter Rich Demiro is going
to tell us about that. That's coming up at five
point twenty. Part of President Trump's takeover of the DC
Metro Police Department and the deployment of National Guard troops
is a plan to clean up the streets. ABC Stephen
(04:23):
Portnoy joins us at five point fifty to share what's
next for the homeless in DC. Also, Amy's on it,
speaking of old school. This one's a bit old school,
and it's a lot of fun and sometimes it is
laugh out loud, tears rolling down your face, funny.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I'm on it. I'll let you know what it is
coming up at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man wanted
from murder in Washington State has been caught in Los Angeles.
Police Chief Jim McDonald says Alexander Rodgers was arrested yesterday
after his car was found abandoned in Calabasas.
Speaker 9 (04:55):
Senior lead officers from Olympic Division responded to a radio
call where a security advised that they saw Alexander Rodgers,
who was wanted for murder in Washington State, in the
area of Sixth Street and Lafayette.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Police in Washington State say Rogers stabbed and elderly brother
and sister last week.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
The woman died.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
La Mayor Bounce is talking about keeping more people in
their homes. She'll be announcing an expansion of eviction prevention
services later this morning. The city already offers rental assistance,
legal help, and information on affordable housing options. A coalition
of major truck makers is suing California over its tougher
emissions rules for big rigs.
Speaker 10 (05:33):
Truckmakers argue the state can't enforce standards that go beyond
federal law, especially after Congress and President Trump revoked California's
EPA waivers in June. But lawsuit targets Governor Newsom and
the State Air Resources Board challenging regulations that phase in
more zero missions trucks and sharply cut nitrogen oxide pollution.
The manufacturers want a judge to stop the state from
(05:54):
enforcing the rules. Brigida Augustino Kafi news.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And a former LA mayor, has picked up the endorsement
of big political player in the race to become California's
next governor.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
Former Senator Barbara Boxer has not only thrown her support
behind Antonio Villa Ragosa to be the state's next governor,
she's also going to take on the role of his
campaign co chair. Fia Ragosa says the two are friends
and they've worked together for the past three decades with
mutual respect for each other's political ambition. Jason Campedonia KFI News.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Here we go, Welcome to Patrick Reevill, ABC News correspondent
in London. Patrick, Russian forces have broken through Ukraine's eastern front.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Can you give us the latest on that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Good morning. Yeah, there's still a lot of fog of
war around what has actually happened here, but it appears
that Russian forces have managed to make a break in
Ukraine's front line. In the east, north of the key
defensive city of the Cross. Now, I think it's important
to say that our understanding of the moment is that
this breach is very small. It's likely only a few
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dozen if even that Russian soldiers managed to get through
and behind Ukraine's line there. But I think the reason
that this is causing a lot of concern is that
it seems to reflect bigger problems that Ukraine has right now,
which is that its lines are becoming very thinly manned
in eastern Ukraine. Now, most military analysts are saying that
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this is not yet a major breakthrough, that Ukraine can
still seal this breach and prevent it becoming much more serious.
And I think also what we're hearing from the Ukrainians
is that this ultimately is a deliberate attempt by Vladimir
Pussin to create the impression that there is a major
breakthrough in eastern Ukraine, just ahead of these talks with
(07:42):
President Trump in Alaska. But I think certainly it reflects
more broadly how Ukraine's position on the battlefield is continuing
to deteriorate and getting more and more difficult as time
goes on.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Okay, and then Patrick, you mentioned that the lines are
getting really thin. I mean, are they just literally running
out of people or are they shifting their focus elsewhere?
And that's given Russia kind of an opportunity to start
pushing at this border.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It's more the former ultimately in terms of in terms
of the army itself. Craine of course still has enough people,
but it has made decisions over time not to mobilize
young men, for example, like eighteen year olds, trying to
preserve the future of its country. But what we're seeing
is that both sides, really Russia and Ukraine, because of
(08:32):
the enormous size of the country, are really strained, and
that the frontline has become quite complicated. You know, I
think when we describe it, many people probably will be
surprised to hear what it's like there now. Really what
we see is that the Russians, because they've suffered such
huge losses and because there's so many drones in the
sky at this point, often send very small groups, often
(08:54):
just two or three soldiers to try and get behind
Ukrainian positions. Some times they do it even just on
motorbikes rather than using armored vehicles or anything like that.
And so what we've seen here, I think is one
of these examples where again you have a very small
number of Russian soldiers managing to sneak behind Ukrainian lines,
but because also Ukraine has so few soldiers there, they
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can't immediately stop them. So I think now Ukraine is
moving a much larger force to try and push them back.
But again it just shows that a larger picture, Ukraine
is a huge strain in the east. In the situation
there is likely just to become more and more difficult.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, And initially patrick Ukraine had been kind of holding
its own, but Russia has gained ground. Are they have
they been recently taking more territory or are is Russia
basically holding on to the territories that they've been controlling
for a while now, or are they trying to expand that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So we're in the middle of Russia's summer offense that
they've been trying for months now to tell the rest
of the Dunetes region in eastern Ukraine, which is the
reason that Vladimir pus is demanding Ukraine now hand over
ahead of this summer And basically Russia, despite enormous efforts,
and we believe based on what we've heard from the
(10:15):
United States and just just this week that they may
have lost again sixty thousand troops in just the last month,
but Russia so far has only been able to gain
about one percent more of Ukraine's territory by while it
pushes who What's worrying people is that it's managed to
increasingly encircle two key defensive cities in Dunetes. One is
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across and the other is Constantinoka. And the fear is
that ultimately not that we're going to see immediate Russian
massive breakthrough somewhere, but that slowly we're seeing Ukraine have
more and more problems along that front line, and the
warrior is at some point Ukraine's military could break. Nobody
thinks that's likely to happen imminently, but it is a
(10:58):
growing risk and they think that over time, you know,
in a year, six months, things can become more and
more dangerous for you.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Crant Okay, ABC's Patrick Revill in London, thank you so
much for the information. We'll be watching to see what happens,
especially now that, as you mentioned, there's that summit coming up,
the meeting in Alaska on Friday.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Thanks Patrick, thank you.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
first of eight hundred National Guard troops have arrived in
DC as part of President Trump's move to take over
policing in the city. ABC's Mary Bruce's Trump wants to
clean up the capitol and get homeless people off the streets.
Speaker 11 (11:37):
The President claims crime in the city is spiraling out
of control, but the mayor points to official crime stats
violent crime down twenty six percent since last year, now
at a thirty year low.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
She says Trump is also talking about doing the same
thing in other big cities.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
DC Police Chief.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Pamela Smith says she plans to cooperate with the city's
federal partners to help reduce crime in the district. Smith
and Mayor Muriel Bowser met with US Attorney Pam Bondi
and Interim Administrator Terry Cole yesterday to talk about the
federal takeover of the DC Police Department. Smith says she
still reports to the mayor and will treat the takeover
like any other operation involving federal law enforcement. Israeli Prime
(12:18):
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that ceasefire efforts in Gaza
are now focused on a comprehensive deal that would release
the remaining hostages all at once.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Arab officials told the Associated Press last.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Week that mediators in Egypt and Qatar are preparing a
new framework for a deal. Talks appeared to break down
last month, but Egyptian state run media reports a Hamas
delegation arrived in Cairo for talks yesterday. The National Weather
Services warning people in Juno, Alaska to be ready for
possible historic flooding. Evacuation advisories have gone out, but National
(12:56):
Weather Service Senior hydrologist and meteorologist Aaron Jacob says he
suspects barriers to hold.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
At this time.
Speaker 12 (13:02):
There is no release, and I think that's the main message,
and we're just seeing the overtopping.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
But the web serves and our partners are watching this
very closely.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Meteorologists are keeping an eye on a so called glacial
outburst that could fill a nearby basin. Beaches in France
are telling people to keep your clothes.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
On once they step off the sand.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
That is.
Speaker 13 (13:22):
The mayor of Lessab Delonne, Janick Moreau, says tourists are
being fined for going straight from the beach to markets,
stores and restaurants in town while still in only their swimsuits.
He says, you can go to the market half naked,
with hair falling onto vegetables his words. Other countries in
the EU were doing the same, including Italy, Croatia and Spain,
where it's illegal to wear just swimwear even on seafront
(13:43):
areas and adjacent streets, with fines and the hundreds.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Dollars or euros.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
Despite all the countries having nude beaches, they're telling tourists
to keep the skin on the sand. Michael Krozer kf
I News.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
As you know, our very own Steffan we know I
miss Fush was in a really nasty, nasty car crash
last week. His car flipped, landed on its side on
the one five to one ten transition and then the
car caught fire. You've heard us talking about it a ton,
(14:15):
and finally Tim got to talk to Fush yesterday on
his show, and if you want to listen to that,
you can listen to Tim's podcast. It's just amazing hearing
Fush actually talking about what all happened. And you know,
Tim had talked to two of the people who saved
Stefan's life literally brought the car upright as it was
(14:40):
catching on fire, and then we're able to drag Fush
out of the car. And Fush says he doesn't remember
that the car was on its side.
Speaker 14 (14:50):
I'll be honest, I thought the car flipped back on
its own.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
To know that they did it was like just astonishing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, he said, his mom doesn't like the word, but
he said it was kind of surreal to know what happened.
And he only remembers part of what happened, and that's
I think that's a really common thing when you experience
that kind of trauma. And his arm had been trapped
under the car when it was on its side, and
the damage is pretty bad, and like the skin and
the muscles and the tendons were basically scraped off. And
(15:22):
Bush said, yeah, it was kind of like a scene
out of a horror movie.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
But I looked like a scene straight out of Saw.
Like it was unreal. But I was in such shock.
I just couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
He's had three surgeries so far more on the way.
Surgeons are working to repair the arm and get it
to heal, and he was saying yesterday that basically the
surgeons are pretty amazed that it is. His recovery so
far is pretty miraculous. He's not done yet, He's got
a lot more long way to go. He's still in
the hospital and facing more surgeries. But we're wishing him
(15:54):
and praying for him for continued healing. And wow, what
an amazing story, and so glad to hear that he's
doing well. A federal judge in San Francisco continues to
moull over evidence on whether the Trump administration acted illegally
in deploying thousands of National Guard troops to Los Angeles.
The court proceedings continue today. Mexico's transferred twenty six cartel
(16:17):
members wanted in the US as part of a deal
with the Trump administration. They're being flown to American soil
after the Justice Department agreed not to go after the
death penalty against any of them or any cartel leaders
and members transferred to the US in February. Lebron James
is set to become the first player in NBA history
to play for a twenty third season when the Lakers
(16:38):
opened the twenty twenty five to twenty six season on
October twenty first against the Golden State Warriors. The team
also announced they'll be playing again on Christmas Day this
year at Crypto dot Com Arena. Tickets go on sale
August twenty sixth. Let's say good morning now to the
host of Rich on tech on kfights KTLA's tech reporter
Rich Timuro.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Morning, Rich, Good morning to you. Amy.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You got a big deal possibly brewing between Perplexity and Chrome.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
What's up with that?
Speaker 15 (17:06):
Well, it's interesting. This is a one sided deal for sure.
So Perplexity is an AI company. They've been pretty hot
on the scene. You've searched something inside their app or
their website and they come up with sort of an
answer for you rather than a bunch of random links.
Google has something similar called AI Overviews and AI Mode. Anyway,
(17:27):
they are offering Google almost thirty five billion dollars for
Google Chrome unsolicited. Google didn't say this is up for sale,
but we know that Google has been having some issues
with the antitrust stuff, and one of the remedies that
was floated was perhaps making them sell the Chrome web browser.
That has not happened yet. They're not forced to sell it,
(17:48):
but Perplexity is jumping in saying, hey, we'll buy it
because we want this.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
And we know that it would expand our reach.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So they're being proactive.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
They're being proactive. But here's the deal.
Speaker 15 (17:59):
This company's not even or thirty five billion dollars to
value to eighteen billion. They've only raised a billion dollars,
so this would be a major stretch for them to
purchase this. But you know, things are wild right now
in the tech world because of AI, so anything can happen.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, and then we'll just have to kind of wait
and see on whether that means anything different or if
it's the same for the end user.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
I don't think it's going to happen. Let's put it
that way, Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Chat GPT is reaching ever deeper into our lives.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
What's up now with the Google services?
Speaker 15 (18:31):
Oh my gosh, this is so wild. So now chat
GBT you can add a connection to your Gmail, your
calendar and let it basically look inside those things to
help you with your chats. So if you want to say, hey,
what's on my agenda today? Or hey, can you compose
an email and look at my last five emails to
my mom and write it in the same way.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
So this is it's awesome but also scary.
Speaker 15 (18:56):
Last night, as I was trying to decide if I
wanted to do this, you really have to think about
it because think about giving AI access to your entire
email everything, your entire email account. So I didn't do
that just yet because I really need to sit and
think about this. But it can be very helpful because
people are already sharing all kinds of stuff with CHATCHBT.
(19:17):
I just need to learn the privacy policy a little
bit more before I give access to this.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So then here's a question for you, Rich. Once you
do it, can you undo it?
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Well? Right?
Speaker 15 (19:28):
And that's the thing I'm trying to figure out, because yes,
you can undo the connection, but do they save a
copy of your data? That's the thing I'm unclear on.
That's the thing that should be very clear when you
accept this terms through chatgubt. But I could not find
it readily available, So I need to investigate that a
little bit more.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Okay, and then and then we'll wait for an update
from our tech guide.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Because you're the.
Speaker 15 (19:51):
One who get My advice is if you're worried about this,
don't do it. Yeah, if you're worried about this, maybe
don't do it right away.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, if you don't want to another streaming service, but
you want to see something that's on that streaming service,
this might be useful.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
This is actually very smart.
Speaker 15 (20:08):
So you know there's like those one or two times
a year where you're like, oh, I'd like to watch
that award show. Oh, but I don't have cable or
a streaming service whatever that has it. So sling tv
now has day passes for live TV, so you can
pay five dollars a day and get access to stuff.
You can pay ten dollars for a weekend pass or
(20:30):
fifteen dollars for a week. It's instant, there's no contract.
You get access to all the different channels that they have,
you know, depending on the pass that you purchase.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
But kind of smart.
Speaker 15 (20:42):
I mean, look, if there's like a big game you
want to watch and they happen to have it on
sling TV, that's the main thing to know here. It's
like you have to see what channels you're getting for
that day pass and make sure whatever you want to
watch is on that channel.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Cool, sort of like renting a movie.
Speaker 15 (20:56):
Yeah, basically except for live TV. Very well, said Amy,
Thank you, I'll use that from now on.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Okay, good, and then you can credit me and Amy King. Okay, fine,
then let's just move on. Hey, so this is I'm
not sure if I like this idea or don't like
this idea because I'm too used to the digital stuff.
But there's a new digital video camera that's kind of
old school.
Speaker 15 (21:19):
Yeah, this is more just nostalgic kind of fun. The
company is camp Snap. They already make a point and shoot.
It looks like a disposable camera, but it's digital. So
the whole idea behind this company is that you can disconnect.
So that digital camera I was just talking about, there's
no screen on it. You can't look at the pictures.
There's just a viewfinder.
Speaker 6 (21:40):
You have to get home and connect it to your
computer to see the pictures that you took. So now they're.
Speaker 15 (21:44):
Taking that same idea and making a sort of a
Super eight style camera, but it's digital.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
It looks old school.
Speaker 15 (21:52):
You can film little clips or I say film, but
you can record little clips, vertical, widescreen, square, whatever you want.
It looks classic like that film style. But you get
back to your computer, you plug it in, you could
see what you did. This is just for people that
think it's cool or amy for people that want to disconnect.
So the idea is, I know, we got we're run
(22:12):
out of time here, But the idea is that you
could take let's say you're smart watch with you that
has cellular to your kids play, just record your video
on this and you are completely screen free and you know,
less distracted.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
I would say, while you do this, I.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Kind of like that idea.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I know that the first time we went to Africa,
I had I think it was called a flip camera. Wow,
I know right, I think it was called a flip camera,
and I loved that thing. And because it was the
same thing, it didn't have like you couldn't watch anything
on it.
Speaker 15 (22:44):
Well it was look that was before people were super
addicted to their smartphones. Now there's this whole kind of
a lot of people are trying to figure out ways
of still doing what they like to do, which is
go out on the weekends and take pictures, but not
be behold into a screen that every time they get
notification they go down a rabbit hole for ten minutes
and ignore their friends. So I think that just check
(23:05):
out campsnap. In general, what they're doing is really cool.
I did it once where you know, I was out
at an event. I just took my smart watch and
the camera and I was I mean, believe me, it's
different because you're so like disconnected from the world, but
you're still able to take pictures of your friends and family.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Okay, I have to check that out.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Kfi's tech guy is rich Demiro and you can hear
him every Saturday from eleven to two right here on KFI.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
It's called rich on Tech on KFI.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
You can watch him on KTLA, follow him on Instagram
at rich on Tech, and if you want to hear
more about or read more about anything that we talk about,
you can go to his website rich on Tech dot TV.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Thank you, Rich, have a great day, all right you.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Two four people have been arrested for the burglary of
actor Brad Pittshome in Los Fela's LAPD Chief Jim McDonald
says detectives believe a crew of gang members is responsible
for a string of local break ins, include at Pitt's house.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
Burglary detective served the search one on the suspect's residents
in the city of Compton and in Newton Division in
the city of Los Angeles, where they recovered numerous items
taken during burglaries within the city.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
He says during the robbery, three thieves were seen on
video climbing a fence and smashing a window to get
into Pitt's house and then stealing stuff from it. Police
officer and Menefee has been arrested for sexual assault. Investigators
in Riverside County say there was sufficient evidence to support
the arrest of officer Juan Pensina yesterday. He's accused of
sexually assaulting victims both on and off duty. LA County
(24:35):
CEO says there is no two hundred ninety million dollar
project underway at the county's new skyscraper.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
The county spent two hundred million dollars to buy the
Gas Company Tower in downtown La. It plans to move
most county operations there. Supervisor Jannis Hahn, who opposed that purchase,
says she was surprised to learn of a two hundred
and ninety million dollars seismic retrofit.
Speaker 12 (24:55):
I agree there needs to be more transparency with taxpayers
on what the gas Company towers is at actually going
to cost the county, and I think this cost is
just the tip of the icebergs.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
CEO Fcia Davenport says there is no such project, just
an estimate. It would only move forward if the supervisors
approve it. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
And if you ask gen Z, love is overrated.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Burglary detective served the search one on the suspects residence
is not the right compet.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Sound by that's chief McDonald, Okay, let me start over again,
love is overrated.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
If you ask gen Z.
Speaker 14 (25:28):
A new survey by matchmaking service talk if I says
forty six percent of gen Zers choose long term financial
stability over romance, and almost a third would take back
an X who got rich. One in ten gen Z
women say their ideal match should make two hundred thousand
dollars or more, and most won't settle for less than
eighty thousand. Millennials have no problem with a broken magical relationship,
with fifty nine percent choosing love over financial security. Most
(25:51):
gen zers also won't date a new one without a job,
and forty six percent say they wouldn't even if they're attractive.
Mark Ronner, KFI News, Okay.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
A federal judge is order the Trump administration to restore
hundreds of National Science Foundation research grants to UCLA that
got suspended. A US district judge as a government's freeze
of millions in funding for UCLA violated her ruling from
June that blocked science research grants from being terminated. A
group of truck makers has sued California regulators. They claimed
(26:25):
the state can't keep enforcing stricter emission standards for heavy
duty vehicles now that the federal government has deemed the
stricter standards unlawful. Snoop Dogg has been named LA's Community
Chairman for the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup. Snoop
Dogg is a Long Beach native. He was picked by
the LA Sports and Entertainment Commission. He'll be in charge
of developing positive community engagement during the World Cup that
(26:49):
gets underway at sofar June eleventh next year with the
men's national team for the US.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Amy its on it, on it? What am I on?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
I'm on the stream, I'm on movies. There's so many shows,
as you know, how do you pick the good ones
and bypass the bad ones? Hopefully I can help you
out with that just a little bit. Okay, here's one
that uh that dropped on July First, it's called LeeAnne
on Netflix. It's with stand up comedian Leanne Morgan who
(27:30):
I got to see at I believe it was The
Pantagious and she is huh hilarious. So she's just great
as a stand up comedian. Her comedy specials are really good.
If you haven't watched those, I highly recommend those. But
they've taken another comedian and put her in a role,
a starring role in a sitcom. There's sixteen episodes, so
(27:51):
it's almost like a real sitcom, you know, all.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
The all the shows are like eight episodes.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Now these are short episodes, they're like twenty five minutes,
but the sixteen of them, so you can grab one
or two and go, or you can binge like I
one to do. So they take her life and they
take her stand up, and they tweak it because they
put her in a different situation.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
In real life.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
She's still married, but right now she her husbands cheated
on her with a much younger woman and you know,
hilarity ensues, so they've split up. It also stars Kristin Johnston.
You might remember her from Third Rock from the Sun
and tons of other shows. She plays her sister and
then Her parents are Celia Watson and Blake Clark. Clark,
both veteran actors. You'll recognize them even if you're not
(28:37):
familiar with their names. You'll recognize them when you see him.
Then Tim Day, you remember him from Wings, Yeah, Yeah,
he's in it. It's a traditional three camera sitcom, that's
how they describe it as being filmed, so it's very
old school that way, and there's a lot of the
familiar things going on. It's a Chuck Lori show. There's family,
there's nosy neighbors, there's misunderstandings, double entendre, uncomfortable situations. So
(29:03):
I watched the first couple episodes and I'm like, Eh,
it's okay. And I was feeling like they took a really,
really hilarious person and tried to crammer into a sitcom
that didn't really work. And then I kind of walked
away for it from it a little bit, and then
I got back to it and I watched the next
episode and I went, hmm, well, she seems to be
settling in quite nicely to this role. And you start
(29:23):
to see the brilliant humor that makes LeeAnne Morgan so
much fun to watch, and some of the scenes are
kind of familiar to things that you might have experienced
in your life, but in a funny way. And there
were situations that literally were laugh out loud. I had
tears in my eyes laughing some of the interactions between
(29:45):
her parents when there it's just it's their relationship that's
so adorable and so funny. So I'm really glad that
I stuck with it and kind of gave the show
time to breathe because it needed that.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So the big question is is there going to be
a season two of Leanne.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
It hasn't been renewed, but it's getting good viewership and
if there is another season, Leanne has already said I'm
in so I hope that they do because it was
it was just fun and it's kind of refreshing. Like
she doesn't she doesn't get disgustingly dirty. There are some
double entendres and stuff, but they're so like not sterile
(30:24):
what they're almost innocent, but they're very funny and the
situations are fun. And like I said, when I'm sitting
by myself and I'm laughing out loud with tears in
my eyes, I'm like.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
That's a good show.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So it's called Leanne. It's on Netflix. It dropped at
the end of July and you can watch it now.
Now it's time to drop into your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney.
Speaker 16 (30:46):
Good morning.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
So we got two different restaurants and two different earnings.
Speaker 17 (30:52):
Results that you have to re oh, no doubt about it.
So it's looking like a rough day for Cava. Shares
are plunging this morning. We're talking a twenty dollars drop
and share, so that's a big, big fall. The fast
casual Mediterranean chain cut its sales out look.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
For the year.
Speaker 17 (31:08):
The restaurant says it seems to be under pressure to
keep up with its speedy growth because it's a relatively
new chain and diners spent a lot less on their
meals last quarter. On the other hand, this past year
has been a bit of a comeback for Chili's, which
has seen strong demand from some of their viral menu items.
It's fried Mozireli six, for example. I've been a big
hit with people filming their dramatic cheese pulls, so that's
(31:30):
helping parent company Bringer International.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
I love to see them in building.
Speaker 17 (31:34):
Ok yeah, I mean people are even whipping out their
tape measure to check.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
The length of the stretch. That's funny. I'm gonna have
to go check that out.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Okay, So everybody knows that, you know, owning a home
is part of the American dream, but maybe seniors have said, oh,
I've already lived that dream because there's no to ownership.
Speaker 17 (31:53):
Yeah, and owning a home it's a never ending expensive
to do list. I could tell you that one first,
and the cost of insurance, taxes, home repairs are eye popping,
and why moll along when you could travel instead. So
a lot of older folks are saying they've had enough
of home ownership. They're tapping out and they're renting instead.
The Wall Street Journal finds the fastest growing group of
renters in the US are seniors.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Okay, we talked I think it was last week about
how meat prices are pretty high, and apparently we're not
done seeing increases yet.
Speaker 16 (32:25):
Not at all.
Speaker 17 (32:26):
We're probably going to continue to see those high prices
next year, and even leaner plates too. According to the
Department of Agriculture, the beef supply in the US is
expected to drop to the lowest level since twenty nineteen.
So this threatens to push the record beef prices that
we're seeing right now even higher. And tariffs are actually
going to limit the ability of the importers to soften
(32:46):
the blow and import some beef.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Here, Okay, we'll be watching that. And what are as
we're watching stocks? Are we looking for another update because
yesterday was.
Speaker 17 (32:55):
Pretty good exactly because traders are betting that the Federal
Reserve will cut into straits at its meeting next month.
Yesterday's inflation report showed a modestize in prices, but this
is fueling speculation that the Fed will move more aggressively
to protect a labor market that's showing some signs of strains.
So yesterday the Dow rose four hundred and eighty four points.
This morning, we're looking at Dow futures up one hundred
(33:17):
and sixty All.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Right, getting in your business like we do every morning
with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaha.
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Thanks Courtney. We'll talk to you tomorrow, See you later.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The LAPD has found an arrested a man in connection
with the stabbing death of a woman in Washington. State
Police believed fifty one year old Alex Rogers was in
the area after his car was spotted abandoned in Calabasas.
Authorities had warned that he was armed in dangerous Details
of his arrest not immediately released, but he was picked
up yesterday. The White House has denied Governor Newsim's accusation
(33:46):
of political extortion related to anti Semitism findings at UCLA.
Newsim's comment follows President Trump's one billion dollar settlement offered
to the university over what the administration says was UCLA's
failure to protect First Amendment rights. Newton Newsom has threatened
to sue over what he calls the administration's coercive tactics.
(34:07):
There's no train, but residents in Van Nuy's have been
hearing train horns and sirens almost every day, and they're
well fed up. Neighbors say the sounds of the horns
and sirens rattled their windows. The guy who's doing it
told k EBC that he's sounding the horns because he's
crying out for help, but he didn't say what he
needs help with. He has not been sighted by police.
(34:29):
We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news this morning,
the White House is saying it can find or jail
homeless people in DC if they don't agree to leave.
Talked about that right now. Let's check in with ABC's
Stephen portnoy. So, Stephen, part of the president's plan in
having the FEDS take control of DC metro police and
(34:51):
bringing in the National Guard is to round up bad guys,
but it's also to clear out the homeless from the
streets of DC.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
How's he planning to do.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
That well by enforcing the laws that have been on
the books for some time. The White House said yesterday
that the homeless in Washington who sleep in tents and
on the streets will be given options leave, go to
a shelter, hopefully it is in full, be offered addiction
or mental health services, and if they refuse, they'll be
(35:19):
susceptible to jail or fines.
Speaker 7 (35:23):
That was the word yesterday from the Press secretary.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
She was asked to explain the president's pledge to try
to take care of those who are homeless in Washington, DC,
and she said essentially that the expectation is that the
officials in the city will enforce the laws on vagrancy
and the options are go to a shelter or go
to go to treatment or go to jail.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Okay, So Stephen, do we know how boud is the
problem in DC?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
I mean, like in LA you see them.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
You see the homeless people everywhere, and there's a lot
of resistance to people pople taking the offers when they
try to clear the camps that they go. Now, we
don't want to go to the shelter, we don't want
to go to a treatment program. So are they expecting
that kind of resistance there too?
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I think that ultimately you would look, here's the problem.
You have a significant number of homeless encampments in Washington,
d C. The President sees it as a blight. It's
a quality of life problem that it exists in cities
all across America. The President has now asserted authority that
(36:31):
we haven't seen asserted in some time to.
Speaker 7 (36:33):
Say no more.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
That's it, and now we're going to see what comes
of it. The question was asked, what canter should be
done about these people? The President's pledge to take care
of them and send them far outside the city. Is
it going to do either one of those things or
are they just going to be essentially carted off to jail.
A lot of them say they don't want to go
(36:56):
to the shelters, they don't feel it's safe, or maybe
there's not enough room for them.
Speaker 7 (37:00):
They may have.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Mental health problems or addiction problems, but they may have
found treatment.
Speaker 7 (37:07):
Less than useful.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Whatever the reasons are, the question is what can the
government do about? And it happens that homelessness in America
is it record highs because what happens oftentimes is people
who even work, who have you know, low wage jobs,
wind up finding that rents in the nation's largest cities
are beyond reach. They may have been evicted, which puts
(37:31):
a black mark on their credit score, which means they
can't properly get an apartment even if they could afford
one in the city. And then they try to go
to the shelter. They may find that their family has
to be separated if they have teenage children, particularly male
teenage children, and then they wind up in a you know,
trying to find Section eight vouchures provided by the federal government.
(37:52):
And then they find that, you know, there's no one
who will rent to them because no one will take
those vouchers because the market rents are higher.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
So it becomes a cycle that people get trapped in.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Now, that's a circumstance in any city like Los Angeles,
like Atlanta, like places all over America.
Speaker 7 (38:07):
Here in Washington, d C. It's a unique circumstance.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
The encampments have been set up in many respects, are
on federal land, and the president has the ultimate authority
to say, you can't be here.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Go anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
What was the line from the Closing Time song, You
don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
Speaker 7 (38:23):
So that seems to be the dynamic.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Okay, Well, we'll be watching to see if he has
any success, because I know that they've pumped billions of
dollars into it here and there's not a lot of
success going on.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
And the answer isn't necessarily more public money or necessarily
a government solution.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
But it is a problem.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
It is a problem. Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Also, President Trump meeting with Russia's President Putin in Alaska
on Friday. Ahead of that, there's another meeting that's been scheduled.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Today's huddle just in a few minutes is expected to
take place via video conference between the European leaders and
Vladimirer Zelenski, Wh's traveled to Berlin for this huddle Trump
Vice President Vance will join virtually, and it's an opportunity
for the President to hear from Zelensky before he goes
into this meeting with Putin on Friday.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
And are the other leaders going to have a say
or are they more observers or do we know?
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Well, look, Europe I think speaks with one voice on this,
and but of course they've got Zelensky's back. The question
is does the president and you know, the President has
talked about the need for land swaps to end this war.
What essentially that means is that Ukraine will have to
seede territory to Russia. What is Russia giving up other
than land it's already seized from some other country, If
(39:37):
anything at all, we don't know. The President has said
it's complicated, so you know, I guess we'll I guess
we'll find out. It's also possible the President said this
week that he'll leave that meeting with Putin and say,
all your fellows will just have to keep fighting it out.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Yeah, and I think that you mentioned the swap thing.
I was wondering about that because I was like, does
that mean that Russia's going to give up some It's territory,
or it's just going to give back some of what
it took I mean, or is it just a supposed
to be a hey, Ukraine, just give up this land?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Or do they get anything out of it?
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That's the question, the question that the President has not
been directly asked and certainly hasn't directly answered.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
All Right, Stephen Portnoy in Washington, Thanks so much for
the information as always, you bet.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
All right, let's get back.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
To some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Harvey Weinstein is set to be
sentenced in his sex crimes retrial in New York.
Speaker 16 (40:30):
The former Hollywood producer was found guilty of engaging in
a criminal sex act with one woman while being acquitted
on another count involving a different woman. Weinstein was found
guilty in twenty twenty, but the verdict was thrown out
because the judge didn't handle the witness testimony properly. Weinstein
has also expected to serve a sixteen year sentence in
Los Angeles on similar charges. Tammy Trio kf I News.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
The boil water notice for Porter Ranch and Granada Hills
has been lifted. The ledwpieces the tap water has been
tested and is safe to drink. Customers are being advised
to flush their pipes by turning on all the faucets
one by one and letting the water just run for
about five minutes. They're going to get a twenty dollars
credit on their bill for that.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Water.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Service had been low or out for several days because
of a broken underground valve La City Councilman Tim McCosker
has introduced a motion to temporarily stop the spread of
smoke shops in the Harbor Area its in response to
the growing number of shops around schools, parks, and daycare centers.
If his motion passes, new or expanded smoke shops wouldn't
be allowed for forty five days anywhere in the district,
(41:31):
which includes San Pedro, Wilmington, Harbor Gateway, Harbor City, and Watts.
The ex boyfriend of a banking executive found dead inside
her home in Resita, has been convicted a first degree
murder in other charges including burglary and rape. Michelle Avon,
who was a senior vice president for b of A,
was killed in twenty twenty one. Prosecutors argued that she
(41:52):
was beaten and strangled by Anthony Turner. His lawyer claimed
unsuccessfully that the woman's injuries could have been self inflicted.
An unknown illness is making lots of seabirds sick.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
The International Bird Rescue in San Pedro says it's received
seventeen Western goals sick and dying from a stretch of
shoreline from Malibu to Redondo Beach. Other birds have died
at the beaches. They don't know what's causing it, but
officials there have expressed concern that it could be related
to the same things sickening and killing dogs that walk
near the Venice Canals. Symptoms include partial or complete paralysis, confusion,
(42:26):
difficulty blinking, and respiratory issues. State and county officials are investigating.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
The next big earthquake in California might not be like
anything we've felt before. A new study by the National
Academy of Sciences, co authored by scientists at Caltech and Pasadena,
says earthquakes never come back exactly the same way. When
the next quake hits, it'll hit differently than the devastating
earthquakes that have rocked California in the past. The quakes
(42:54):
that rolled through the state may become sharp or hard
jolts or shake the state to side. Oh, whatever it is,
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 6 (43:03):
You and Debora Mark.
Speaker 5 (43:04):
Oh, she's paired, she's petrified.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
I know, poor thing. She'll be fine, at least they
hope she'll survive. Hey, here's something that might rock your world.
The Dodgers and the Angels playing in Anaheim tonight. First
Bitch goes out at six point thirty. You can listen
to all Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA
Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast Booth, and you
can stream all the Dodgers games in HD on the
(43:28):
iHeartRadio app. Keywork, Keyword, AM five seventy LA Sports. This
is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
I'm Amy King.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
This has been your wake up call, and if you
missed any of wake Up Call, you can listen anytime
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