April 10, 2025 • 43 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News White House correspondent Karen Travers starts the show talking about Trump pausing tariffs for 90 days for everyone except China. We ‘Get in Your Business’ with Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe discussing how the markets are reactions to the latest tariff news. The show closes with Amy talking with NASA astronaut and Space Force Guardian Col. Nick Hague in his first interview after returning from the 6 month NASA SpaceX Crew-9 mission that returned astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
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This morning we get to talk to Colonel Nick Haig.
He's a Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut, and last
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time we talked to him, he was live on the
International Space Station. Now he's got his feet back on
the ground and he's gonna come visit wake up call
that's happening a little bit later this hour, so please
do stick around. Can't wait to talk to him about
his adventures and a spacewalk and you know, like everything
that is just something that none of us get to
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experience except for you know, a handful of people on
this planet. I'm just so excited to have Colonel Hag
back with us again. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Stock futures are down this morning after a huge bounce
back on Wall Street. The Dow gained more than twenty
nine hundred points yesterday following President Trump's announcement that a
ninety pause was being put on tariffs for everyone except China.
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The President announced tariffs against China would increase to one
hundred and twenty five percent. A US Russian national from
Los Angeles has been freed in a prisoner swap between
the US and Russia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says
Ballerina Casina Krolina is on her way back to the US.
Garolina was serving a twelve year sentence after being convicted
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of treason last year for making a fifty two dollars
donation to a charity aiding Ukraine. Construction on the first
house to be rebuilt following the fire in Pacific Palisades
is underway. Mayor Bass toured the construction site yesterday. She
said for those who want to rebuild, she's looking at
what permit fees can be waived. Sixty eight hundred homes, businesses,
and other buildings burned down in the Palisades fire in January.
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Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho joins us a little earlier than normal
this morning. She's going to be with us at five
point twenty. We will of course be talking about the
near history day on Wall Street, the Dow closing, of
course up more than twenty nine hundred points. We're gonna
also go to check in with ABC's Karen Travers and
talk to why the President announced those ninety day tariffs,
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and then, of course, at the bottom of the hour,
Colonel hag Fresh office six months in space leading the
Crew nine mission to the International Space Station. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As construction to rebuild the
Palisades gets underway, La Mayor Bass says she's looking at
ways to ease traffic congestion around the burn area in
the Palisades. Speaking to KTLA outside of home where construction
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has begun, Bass says she's got some ideas, so we're
looking at a lot of options.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Maybe we do the debris removal at night, maybe we
have some of the trucks go at night.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So we're examining all of that right now. Bass was
in the Palisades to visit with a homeowner who has
received a permit to rebuild. She says she's also looking
at which permit fees can be waived as rebuilding efforts
pick up. LA. School district officials say federal officials, we
weren't allowed to go into two elementary schools this week.
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The district says the Homeland Security Department officials were denied
entry to the Lillian Street and Russell Elementary Schools. Both
schools are in South LA. The feds are jumping into
the homeless problem in the Southland.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
US Attorney Bill A. Saley and US District Judge David
Carter visited LA's skid row. As Salely tells kfi's Tim
Comway Junior, his office has begun an investigation into how
money for homeless programs has been spent in the area.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
All we know right now is that there's at least
two billion dollars that's unaccounted for voting to an audit
that was just conducted last month, and that's not a rounding, era.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Judge Carter ordered an audit of the LA Homeless Services
Authority and the City of LA's homeless spending. Saley says
it found the more than two billion dollars had been
poorly accounted for with limited evidence of results. Michael Krozer
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Today is Delores Horta Day in LA. The La County
Board of Supervisors voted to honor the legendary lab and
civil rights activist's ninety fifth birthday. She was born April tenth,
nineteen thirty in New Mexico and moved to Stockton as
a child. She co founded the United farm Workers' Union
with Caesar Chavez. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
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Karen Travers. So, Karen, if there's one predictable thing about
President Trumpet said, He's unpredictable.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Yes, And you know, this is a complete reversal from
what he had said on Monday, where he told my
colleague Mary Bruce that he was not looking at a
pause on tariffs to allow for negotiations. And that's exactly
what he did yesterday. His team said yesterday that this
was the strategy all along, that this was the president's
negotiating strategy. But the President then undercut that message by
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saying that he was looking at the markets, that he
saw people getting a little yippie, a little afraid, and
that the markets were looking a little glum over the
last few days, and that that was driving his decision
to put this pause in place.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Okay, And what exactly happened? And why does he say
that he did it. I mean, you said that it
was because they were yippie.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
That's what he said. I mean his reason yesterday was
because of the markets, That's what he said. His advisor
said it was because countries were reaching out to negotiate.
But we asked him on Monday, why not put a
pause in place before they go into effect? Because countries
had already started reaching out to negotiate at that point.
Why not not move forward with it and just do negotiations.
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Why announce it last week when you know you could
have had negotiations already. But the President said, you know, no,
we're full steam ahead. He wasn't looking at a pause.
The tariffs went into effect. They were in effect for
thirteen hours before the President announced this reversal, and the
reasons he cited yesterday all related to the stock market. Okay,
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and the bond market, I should say, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And then the big exception to pausing all the tariffs
is China.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Yes, China now has one hundred and twenty five percent
tariff all goods coming into the US from China. China
has retaliated significant teriffs on US goods. They've also said
this morning that they're going to limit the number of
Hollywood films that will be shown in China as a
way to strike back at you know, American cultural exports
as well. And this is showing no signs of flowing
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down that Chinese have not engaged at all with the
White House. Despite the White House please to reach out,
let's talk, let's have negotiations, they're not doing that. They
have said they're going to fight this to the end,
and that the United States trade policy right now amounts
to economic bullying. So it's not clear where this goes,
Like what's the end in sight here when it comes
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to China. One thing though, is that like this could
grind trade between the two countries to a halt.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, and there's a lot of it. I mean that's
a huge amount of.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Trade, Okay, significant amount of trade. And also you know
you think, well, you as a consumer. People out there
by a lot of products, and then you think of
the materials that go into things for small businesses, a
lot of that comes from China, and that's the significant
concern for companies that are, you know, getting parts and things.
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People that have already placed orders at this point, they've
already paid for things and now they're on their way here.
They've bought their stuff whatever that is. Well, should say widgets.
You know, you bought one hundred dollars of widgets and
now that widget when it gets offloaded at the ports
in California, is going to have an additional one hundred
and twenty five dollars charge to it. You didn't factor
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that in when you made your business plan.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right? And what happens if you don't accept the shipment?
I mean, I just could imagine at the ports it
could be kind of a nightmare.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Okay, Yeah, I mean it's going to be. And that's
all coming in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay, and we will be watching it because, as we
were just talking about the everything changes so quickly these days,
kind of hard to keep track of it. But thank
you for helping us make sense of it. Karen Travers,
have a great day, all right, you too. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. House Speaker Mike Johnson has
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delayed a vote on President Trump's budget bill. The bill,
which passed the Senate, includes tax cuts, more immigration enforcement,
more defense spending, and a higher debt limit. The House
was set to vote last night, but some Republicans opposed it,
mainly because the Senate's version only includes four billion dollars
in spending cuts. The House wants up to two trillion
(09:34):
in cuts. The vote's been pushed back to today at
the earliest. The Department of Homeland Security says the Trump
administration will keep deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador.
ABC's Matt Rivers says they're being held in a notorious prison.
There's a reason why it's become known as infamous.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It is an incredibly harsh place, is brutal. Frankly, it
is depressing, and it is designed to be that way.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He says. It was built as part of the El
Salvador government's push to clean up crime in that country.
Forty five thousand pounds of cocaine worth a half billion
dollars has been seized by the Coast Guard in Florida.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Coastguard used drones, aircraft
and ships to ter intercept the traffickers leading to the
(10:18):
bus yesterday.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
What they did saved countless American lives.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Countless lives.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
This cocaine would have been distributed throughout our country and
perhaps throughout our world.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Bondi says the drugs originated from Mexican cartels. Eleven people
have been arrested in connection with the bust. The Supreme
Court has reversed a lower court ruling that ordered the
Trump administration to reinstate two heads of watchdog agencies. The
High Court says it will hear arguments from the lawyers
for the head of the National Labor Relations Board and
(10:52):
the Merit Systems Protection Board on why they should be
allowed to keep their positions. The search for survivors of
the nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic is over,
and victim recovery efforts are now underway. ABC's Victor Akendo
says the death toll is at at least two hundred
and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Just an incredibly difficult scene. Here outside of the jets
at nightclub.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You can see where the roof collapse.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
There's all that heavy machinery.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
He says. At least one American has died ahead of
the trial in the Idaho college killings. The defense is
pushing for the death penalty to be taken off the
table because of Brian Cooberger's autism spectrum disorder. At a
pre trial hearing yesterday, Judge Stephen Hipler said he didn't
think that's relevant.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Stay should not make the general argument that somehow the
diagnosis is an aggravating factor.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The trial is set to start later this summer. Flying
could soon become less stressful.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
American Airlines is teaming up with Customs and Border Protection
on a plan. They say we'll make international flights move
more quickly. Passengers would no longer pick up their bags
when they arrive and then recheck them for a domestic
connecting flight. Instead, the luggage would be transferred automatically. The
carrier says this will enhance safety. The pilot program will
be tested on flights from Sydney to Los Angeles, dep
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remark KFFI.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
News speaking of airlines Delta Airlines has pulled its financial
outlook for this year, saying it's because of concerns about
where global trade is headed. Virgin Atlantic is cutting back
its scheduled flights from London to New York and Seattle
this winter. The travel and tourism industry is a big
part of the US economy. It contributed more than two
trillion dollars in twenty twenty two. It also supports more
(12:43):
than nine million jobs. You'll soon be paying more to
wish people happy birthday, happy anniversary, or congratulations the old
fashioned way. The Postal Service is raising the price of
a first class stamp from seventy three oh I believe
seventy eight percent Tito there sorry. Postcard stamps will go
up from fifty six to sixty two cents. The USPS
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says prices are still among the most affordable in the world.
Two La City council committees have advanced a plan to
hike trash collection fees by more than fifty percent. If
it's approved by the city council on Friday, it would
be the first increase in seventeen years. Cities looking for
ways to raise revenues as it faces a nearly billion
dollar budget shortfall. A fifth person has died following a
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high speed crash into a tree in Santa Anna. Authority
say a thirteen year old girl, who was on life
support following the crash late Saturday night, has succumbed to
her injuries. Most of the people killed were teenagers. Police
are still investigating what led to the deadly crash. Pope
Francis has met privately with King Charles the Third and
Queen Camilla at the Vatican. The royal couple is in
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Italy to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. It was the
first confirmed meeting for the Pope since he returned to
the Vatican after spending five weeks in the hospital with
life threatening double pneumonia at six zho five. It's handle
on the news, was it art of the deal or
a fix because of a falling stock market. Bill's going
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to be talking about the huge gains on Wall Street
following the president's announcement of a ninety day pause in tariffs. Okay,
so we had to switch stuff up a little bit
this morning because we get to talk to Colonel Nick Haig,
a NASA Astronaut Space Force guardian. We've talked to him
several times as he was getting ready for his trip
to the International Space Station. And then we were so
(14:31):
lucky we got to talk to him while he was
on the International Space Station. And now he's back on Earth,
so we're going to be talking to him in about
ten minutes. And so we moved Courtney Donaho, Bloomberg's Business Specialist,
Getting In Your Business, to five twenty. But maybe she
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didn't get the message because we haven't heard from Courtney,
so we're going to try to reach out to her.
And there's a lot to talk about with his stock market. Man,
was that crazy? When President Trump announced the pause and
tariffs at about ten o'clock yesterday Actually it was just
about ten fifteen yesterday morning, and immediately the stocks shot
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up and ended the day up for Dow twenty nine
hundred points. Right now the Dow futures are down like
four hundred and eighty one points or down. Now it's
down five point fifty nine, so maybe things are looking
a little better. But now we have Courtney Donahoe, So
glad you could join us early. We're Getting in Your
Business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks so much for joining
(15:34):
us early today. Courtney. I guess the only thing we
can say is buckle up. We were just talking while
we were waiting to connect with you about the crazy
day it was on Wall Street.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Oh my goodness, it was unbelievable. All the tariff twists
and turns continue with the President announcing that ninety day
tariff pause. The New York Stock Exchange actually exploded in
huge roar as the news hit, but Wall Street was
practically begging for some relief, and yesterday traders got it,
with the S and P five hundred, ending the day
up nine and a half percent. Now this morning, it's
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not looking so good. It's looking pretty rough out there,
looking at Dow futures down five hundred eighty eight points,
SMP futures falling one point nine percent. But kind of
buried in all of this news in just a few
minutes from now. And why I kind of have to
jump here is the March consumer price report is going
to be on an economisty. Inflation likely stepped down last month,
but the information it contains is somewhat stale compared to
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some of the big economic policy changes that came in
the past week.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, and you have to jump, yes, I do. It's
so busy here today. I'm sorry, well, and we appreciate you,
you know, adjusting your schedule. So we'll be watching and
see what happens, and then we'll talk to you tomorrow
and get a recap of everything. Exactly, exactly. Have a
great day to all right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in
your business in an abbreviated version today, I would imagine
(16:54):
if you have anything to do with the financial industry,
things are a little hectic. It's crazy. Okay, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPD says it's looking
for a father who allegedly abducted his nine year old
daughter and seven year old son in Silmar after he
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lost custody. The children were last seen at their elementary
school around eleven am on Tuesday. He was picked up
by their father, who's Ukrainian. Police say Rhodian Colomets was
presumed to be driving a twenty sixteen gray Toyota Prius
with California license plate ending In nine six six, a
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man is dead after confronting shoplifters in a parking lot
in South Almani. The man's brother, Yamshid Yagoubi, says it
all happened really fast yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
It was three guys.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Two was in the car. They opened the door, they
come out and one of them they punched my brother.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
He go down.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The sixty year old man was helping at his brother's stores.
No arrests have been made and police have not at
least a description of the shoplifters who got away in
their car. Plans to expand the La Convention Center have
been approved by the full city Council.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
The project is estimated to cost more than two billion dollars,
but city council wants that price tag and other risks
to come down. Councilman Isabelle Herado says the city can't
wait any longer to improve its outdated center.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Moving forward with this project, albeit cautiously and responsibly, will
help us regain our competitive bitch.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Plans to revitalize the Convention Center seemed dead earlier this
year because of the city's financial condition. Now the plan
is for a phased approach, with work done until the
Olympics had been finished. After the games. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Some Democrats say they want Congress to investigate if anyone
may have known about President Trump's tariff moves in advance.
ABC Jurine Shaw says they want to know if anyone
may have benefited from the drastic market shifts.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
About six trillion wiped out from the S and P
five hundred, a major selloff in American bonds led by
China and Japan.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Some experts belief could have swayed the president. The Dow Jones,
S and P five hundred, and NASDAK all reversed their
losses yesterday. Amazon says it's canceling orders for a lot
of products made in China and other Asian countries so
it won't have to pay tariffs on them. The products
are mainly summer things like beach chairs, air conditioners, and scooters.
You know the things we need during the summer. Bloomberg says.
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One company that's been selling Chinese made beach chairs to
Amazon for years got an email from the online merchandiser
saying it was canceling its orders and not to ship them.
Calfires urging residents cross the state to take precautions as
peak wildfire season approaches. California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade
Crawfoot says the government is ready and the public needs
(19:43):
to be too.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
The state, federal, local partner sets remain intensely focused on
helping these communities are recover and rebuild and protecting Californians
from catastrophic wildfire. Remember, everybody has a role to play.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Grofoot says. The fires in the Palisades and Altadena have
shown the importance of being prepared. He says home hardening
and having defensible space are among the most important preparations.
CalFire does offer a fire planner tool, It's at readyfor
Wildfire dot org. The president of the La Urban Policy
Task Force is calling on police to do something about
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what he calls the epidemic of hit and runs in
South LA. Earl Offari Hutchison is asking police to set
up a task force to help prosecute what he calls
hit and run murders. Half dozen people have been killed
in hit and run recks in South LA in just
the last three months. A new bill could make it
harder to force people in California government to keep secrets
(20:38):
from the public.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
A build to block non disclosure agreements in the government
is moving forward in the Legislature AB thirteen seventy's goal
is to update California's Political Reform Act of nineteen seventy
four to prohibit lawmakers from signing or asking others to
sign NDAs. An exception can be made for NDA's used
to shield information for private businesses. The bill's text states
a violation of the Act as nishable as a misdemeanor.
(21:01):
Experts say the use of NDAs in government is a
violation of the First Amendment that limits free speech and
freedom of the press. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
As construction gets underway on the first house destroyed in
the fires and Pacific Palisades, La Marebeth's roads are going
to be packed with big trucks. Trucks moving debris out
have been clogging streets. She says. One thing to look
at is having the trucks only move at night, but
that could result in a lot of noise for people
who still live in the area, So they're still trying
to figure that one out. LA City Council's voted to
(21:30):
move forward with plans to modernize the La Convention Center.
The project would connect the South Hall and West Hall
above Pico Boulevard with a new building. A new study
suggests hearing loss can increase your risk of heart failure.
Researchers at uk Biobanks say they found that those with
mild hearing issues had a fifteen percent increased risk. If
they were poor hearing, that was a twenty eight percent
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increased risk of heart failure. We've got Handle on the
news coming up at six oh five. Of course he's
going to be talking tariffs in the stock market a
whole lot more. But right now we have a very
special treat we'd like to say good morning to NASA
astronaut and Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, the first
Space Force Guardian ever on the International Space Station, the
(22:14):
commander of the Crew nine mission. Colonel Haig, I'm guessing
you hear this a lot, but welcome home.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Thanks Amy, it's great to be with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So you spent one hundred and seventy one days in space,
you did a space walk, you had a successful splashdown
obviously back down on Earth along with Alex and of
course Sonny Williams and Butch Willmore. It's been an exciting
six months. How are you and everybody doing?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, you know, it's hard to believe the six months
goes by really fast, and you know, we're back on
the ground and just over three weeks back in gravity
and adjusting and everything's going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Okay, So I want to ask you about that gravity
because we saw you when the capsules splashed down and
saw you come out of the capsule with a pretty
big smile on your face. Can you tell us what
you were feeling at that moment and what it feels
like to go from weightlessness to full on gravity gravity
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in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, you know, the smile coming out of the capsule
is just the thrill of you've just re entered. You've
gone from seventeen thousand, five hundred miles an hour down
to zero, and we do that by writing in the
center of essentially a fireball. And then you know, the
adrenaline rush from that experience, and then watching your parachutes
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open and landing safely. You're just ecstatic to be home.
And so there's a lot of that going on. But
then you're also starting to realize, hey, you know, gravity's
real and I've been able to ignore it for the
last six months. You're strong, you know you can stand up,
you can carry your own weight, but your sense of
balance is really not there, and so that's why they
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pull us out. They put us on ajourney, they wheel
us around. You know, so the first day or so,
somebody is there making sure that when we're walking, we
don't we don't stumble. But after a few days the
body snaps back. It is just truly amazing how adaptable
our bodies are.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, so when you say that that it's hard because
your balance is off, do you have sort of like
a vertigo feeling, or just you're just not used to
having to balance.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
You haven't used that part of your brain, you know,
your inner ear you've kind of ignored for the last
six months while you've been in space. And then when
you get down on the ground, you know, if I
stand up and close my eyes, my mind really doesn't
know how to figure out which ways up and which
ways down, and so you get a little bit off
balance and then gravity takes over. So you've just got
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to be really careful. But like I said, it's amazing
because you know, I'll take a nap, wake up, and
there's this just huge increase in the amounts that my
body has already adapted. And so over the course of
twenty four hours, you're you know, you're pretty close to
having your balance back. Even within the first six hours
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or so, you go from needing somebody to hold your
arm everywhere you go to being able to walk on your.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Own, okay. And then I was trying to figure out
what that might feel like, you know, like we were
talking about going from no gravity to having full gravity
and having to deal with that, and I was I
was like, would it be sort of like when they
put those weighted vests on you when you get X
rays at the dentist and then you have to walk
around all day with one on? Does it do you
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have that heavy feeling or what does it feel like?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, you know, when you described it perfectly, it's like
you're wearing this body suit that adds just this excessive
amount of weight. Everything feels like it's twenty pounds heavier
than it should be, and so just lifting your arm
takes effort, or or moving your head takes effort, and
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it feels strange because it, you know, for the last
six months it's taken no effort, and then slowly, over
the course of a couple of days, that just becomes
your new normal, and you know, I've been back just
over three weeks, and you know, after I get off
the off the call with you, I'm going to go
over and continue with my reconditioning and my strength and
(26:28):
conditioning coaches are going to have me, you know, running
and lifting and doing all the things that you would
expect somebody to be doing, you know, just trying to
stay in shape. And so we bounce back so fast.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, And when you were up on the space station,
weren't you exercising a couple hours a day.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yes, at two and a half hours a day every day. Yeah,
so you come you come back so much stronger. You know,
I came back stronger than when I launched because I
was lifting every day, and so the big muscles, the
you know, my skeleton remains you know strong, My big
muscles remain strong. The real challenge is all of the
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little muscles that stabilize everything and keep all my joints
in the right position. Those are a little bit you know,
those are a little bit atrophied. And so we spend
a good forty five days after we land getting all
of those conditions so that my joints go back to
the right positions that they're supposed to be in uh,
and you've got to be really patient because you're strong,
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so I can go and out, you know, outperform those
and end up hurting myself. So it's it's a very
regimented program.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Interesting. Okay, And are you taller too. I've heard that
some astronauts come back taller.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So I came back taller and then I lost it all.
Gravity took it away, so it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Was short lived. Okay, I want to go back up
into space for a second.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
We'll talk in a minute about like what you were
doing on the space station and stuff. But the whole
journey is so fascinating to me. We followed when you
undocked from the space station, when you were finally ready
to go home, and there's this pretty large lag time
between when you separate from the station and when you
re enter the Earth's atmosphere. How long was that and
what do you do during that time?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
So it was seventeen hours for us, It varies depending.
The reason there's that delay is you're waiting essentially for
the alignment of your orbit and the position of your
capsule to line up with your target for your splash down,
and depending on where the station is when you undock,
that could change anywhere from seven hours to forty hours,
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and that's just orbital dynamics, and so what do you
do during that time. We had a fairly long day
prior to undocking, and so as soon as we undocked,
we got our suits off and got into some comfortable
clothes and we all went to bed, and so we
slept solid eight hours and then we got up and
we still had a lot of time, and so we
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did what you might expect a crew coming home from
space would do. We were glued to the windows, looking out, enjoying,
you know, the last views we have, you know, for
the foreseeable future of the you know, the night sky
and all the stars and galaxies and looking down on
the Earth during the daytime and just trying to soak
(29:21):
it in as much as we could.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's so great. And then for the re entry again
we're talking to Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who
just returned from the International Space Station. For the re entry,
I mean, it's got to be nerve wracking because you're
still going thousands of miles an hour, and then when
you do the entry, you're super heated. You're basically like
you said, a big fireball, Like, what does that feel like?
(29:45):
Do you guys? Are you guys talking and joking during
that time? Are you just kind of holding on? I mean,
what do you do during that time? And what does
it feel like?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
So, you know, the first when you're in the space station,
you're four hundred kilometers two hundred and fifty miles above
the surface of the Earth, and so as the Earth
goes by below, because I mean, you're really traveling over
the Earth, but you see it as the Earth going
by below, you don't really realize what five miles a
(30:15):
second means in terms of speed. But once you start
to descend the lower we really don't slow down until
we start to get into the thick part of the atmosphere,
or a thicker part of the atmosphere. So that's four
hundred kilometers down to about eighty kilometers. At that point,
all those clouds that look really small start to look
really big and they are screaming by the windows, and
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so you get this sense of we are going really fast.
And then the air starts to impact our heat shield
and that drag builds up and you can kind of
feel the rumble the vibration. You know, we've spent the
time leading up to this kind of turning the air
(30:59):
conditioner on, if you will, to max to try to
get it as cool as we can inside, because that
that aerodynamic heat, that that friction from all that drag
is going to start to heat up all the atmosphere
around the capsule, heat up our each shield, and essentially
it creates a fireball around us that's about three thousand
degrees and we're in the center of that, in the
(31:22):
calm the eye of the storm, and you what we
feel is essentially just G. So we get squashed into
our seat and it goes from six months of not
feeling anything and floating to all of a sudden, the
G meter reads point zero one g's or point zero
two by the time it gets too point one one
(31:43):
tenth of the gravity everybody feels every day. It feels
like somebody's sitting on you because you just haven't been
used to feeling it, and you know, it's it's surprising
that the first half a G it's like a man,
I don't know if I'm going to be able to
handle this, uh, And then your body kind of gets
used to it, and then by the time we reach
(32:03):
our maximum g which is just under five gs. You
you're kind of comfortable. So I'm you know, looking at
the displays. I'm talking the crew through everything that's going
on where we're at, what what to prepare for next,
getting ready for shoots to deploy, and so it's a
it's kind of a normal conversation. Uh and you just
(32:24):
you know, you just get you get used to having
an earth squashy a little.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Bit another day at the office.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
It sounds like indeed, you know, it's like having a
conversation why while you're writing a roller coaster.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, okay, nice, that's a great analogy. We are joined
on wake up call this morning by NASA astronaut and
Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haigh. He's the first Space
Force Guardian ever on the International Space Station and also
the commander of the Crew nine mission. Colonel Haig, thanks
again for joining us. We so appreciate you spending some
(32:58):
time with us this morning. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Absolutely, it's fun to share the experience.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, I know that last time we talked to you,
Colonel Haig, we were well, I was kind of jumping
out of my skin thrilled we got to talk to
you live on the International Space Station, and that was
back that was about six months ago. It was pretty
early in your mission since you had gotten there, and
so we wanted to kind of check in and see
what it was like for the last six months. So
(33:25):
I know that one of the things that you guys
do is you do a lot of experiments. Are there
some of the experiments that you can tell us about
that we're kind of notable to you?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Absolutely. You know, the reason we're up there on the
space station, the International Space Station to begin with, is
to conduct science experiments. You know, I talked about all
the all the you know things that being in weightlessness
does to my body. It does those same things to
all of our experiments, and it helps us learn a
little bit more, a little bit deeper about everything. And
(33:56):
so there we in the course of six months, was
part of one hundred and fifty plus different types of experiments,
and it's it's everything from looking at at our bodies.
You know, how being weightless affects my immune system, how
it affects the age of my vascular system. Uh, you know,
(34:17):
being in weightlessness can cause my arteries to accelerate in
their aging or mimic what it's like to have accelerated aging,
and so we we research what those what those changes are,
and then by better understanding those we can we can
help inform medicine on the ground for for people that
are experiencing aging of their vascular system or have you know,
(34:40):
suppressed immune systems. So that's a couple of examples, but
it spans the whole game. I grew lots of things
up there because we're trying to figure out how do
we sustain crews when we send them on missions beyond
Earth orbit? How do we grow the food that we're
going to need to take because we can't resupply them.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
All the.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
So it's it's it's just a lot of fun to
be up there in the middle of it all. If
you enjoy a if you're a curious person, it's an
amazing job.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Okay, and Colonel Haig, were the experience that you did,
were those for NASA only or for they were they
also for Space Force because again there's this this symbiotic
relationship between the two. Even though NASA is a civilian organization,
of course, Space Force is a military organization.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, and so you know, I'm a Space Force guardian
and and my job is to work for NASA conducting
the Civil Space Mission, not the not the you know,
the National Security Space Mission, and it is a symbiotic relationship.
And so you know, I'd be remiss if I didn't
thank all of my fellow guardians that are stationed around
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the globe that provided all those essential things like you know,
keeping us clear of debris up there, and helping us
move the station to get out of the way, or
helping us launch and land. You know, they do some
fundamental things that make it possible for us to even
go up there and do those science experiments and there.
You know, it's just phenomenal to be associated with that
(36:11):
team and to be a representative of the Space Force.
But yeah, those experiments up there. It's an international space station,
and so I'm conducting experiments across you know, for for
universities across the nation, you know, the United States, but
I'm also conducting them for other governments, you know, whether
(36:32):
it's Japan or the European Space Agency and all of
the countries associated with that. It's a little you know, agnostic.
I don't necessarily care where the research is coming from,
because in principle, we're sharing that information with everyone, and
so the discoveries on the space station come back and
benefit the whole world.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Good to see that we all get along in space. Okay,
So when we talk to you, when you're on the
space station, no space had been done. But as it
turns out, you got to do one. How long was
that and what did you do and what was it like?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
You know, a spacewalk is effectively eleven hours in a spacesuit.
It takes a while to put it on, and then
once you're in it, before you even step out of
the space station, you have to purge all of the
nitrogen that's naturally in your body because you go down
to a lower pressure when you start to work outside
(37:30):
in the vacuum of space. So after about four hours,
then we go out the hatch, and you know, from
a thrill perspective, you open the hatch and you look
down and two hundred and fifty miles below there's the
Earth kind of just gliding by, and you can see
snow covered mountaintops and fan dunes and oceans and it's
(37:51):
just spectacular. You know, it's an office. It's the best
view you could have at work. And you go out
and you're you know, at some point the suit just
kind of melts away and you're just working outside with
your with your coworker.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Sonny was out there with me and uh and we uh,
we got to work. We we were working on repairing
a couple of things.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
You know, the station is old, it's been up there
for two and a half decades.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And and so we repaired a couple of pieces of
equipment that needed to be replaced.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And then I also got to work on an X
ray telescope, which we used to kind of try to
answer those deep questions about why are we here and
how did the universe? How did the universe come into being?
You know, it studies neutron stars and the you know,
the remnants of of of massive explosions in space. And
(38:43):
so I got to work on that and help repair it.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
That's so cool. Okay, So we only have a couple
of minutes left, So I got to ask you a
couple of questions about life on the space station. You
were up there for Christmas? Did you get to like
did what is that like? I mean, did you get
to take the day off? Did you celebrate or was
it just another day in the office.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
You know, we still have to we still have to
make sure that the station goes and keeps running. And
so there's a little bit of work on every day.
But holidays, it's an international space station, so we celebrated.
We celebrated Christmas just like everybody else here in the
United States, but we also ended up celebrating Russian Orthodox Christmas.
(39:22):
Uh and and so we celebrate international holidays up there
as well. And so we find time to get together
as a crew of seven and and have a meal,
you know, make a cake, put out, you know, a
spreadshare our you know us food or or partake in
you know, the international food that's there, and and really
(39:44):
just commune with each other as as people and and
talk about you know, families and everything that's going on
in each other's lives, and share our favorite music with
each other and tell jokes and and just be uh
And those are a really special time up there.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
And I would imagine for New Year's no one got
to pop Champagne. I would think that might be a.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Little dangerous, a little bit dangerous. All right.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I did see one of your videos, and I noticed
that your hair was shorter than when we talked to you.
So you've got a haircut in space, and I want
to know this is important question stuff, How does that work?
Because I would imagine it would be very problematic to
have hair floating around the space station.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Absolutely anything floating around is if it floats around, it
can get in your eyes. Even worse, you could breathe
it in than it gets in your lungs. And so
we're always trying to scrub the air up there to
make sure that stuff that's floating around gets taken out
of it. So a haircut, essentially you're hooking a vacuum
cleaner hose to the hair trimmer. But an interesting fact
(40:46):
is we receive no training on how to give a haircut.
So the first one is a little you know, dicey,
but we learn as we go.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
I love that, okay, And we're coming up at the
top of the I know we got to go. You
got to go in thirty seconds. Colonel Hag what's next
for you?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
So the mission doesn't end when you land. Surprisingly, I'm
going to do rehab. But there's also those science experiments.
They're still collecting data on me for the next thirty days,
sixty days. Some of them will collect data on me
up to two years after I land. That's the science aspect.
The other aspect is for the next four or five months,
my focus is going to be on going out and
(41:28):
engaging the public and sharing the story, and so that
post flight tour I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Well. We hope that your tour includes a stop in
Los Angeles. We would love to welcome you home in person.
And again, Colonel Haig, we can't thank you enough for
all of your time and everything that you're doing. It's
been such a thrill to get to talk to you
and get a little bit of insight into what it's
like to be an astronaut. So we thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Yeah, no, my pleasure, Amy, and I do look forward
to visiting.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
LA all right. Again. That is Space Force Guardian NASA
astronaut Colonel Nick Haig, fresh off his trip around the
Earth six months in space. Amazing stuff. This is KFI
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This morning we get to talk to Colonel Nick Haig.
He's a Space Force guardian and NASA astronaut, and last
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the ground and he's gonna come visit wake up call
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that is just something that none of us get to
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experience except for you know, a handful of people on
this planet. I'm just so excited to have Colonel Hag
back with us again. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call.
Stock futures are down this morning after a huge bounce
back on Wall Street. The Dow gained more than twenty
nine hundred points yesterday following President Trump's announcement that a
ninety pause was being put on tariffs for everyone except China.
(02:04):
The President announced tariffs against China would increase to one
hundred and twenty five percent. A US Russian national from
Los Angeles has been freed in a prisoner swap between
the US and Russia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says
Ballerina Casina Krolina is on her way back to the US.
Garolina was serving a twelve year sentence after being convicted
(02:26):
of treason last year for making a fifty two dollars
donation to a charity aiding Ukraine. Construction on the first
house to be rebuilt following the fire in Pacific Palisades
is underway. Mayor Bass toured the construction site yesterday. She
said for those who want to rebuild, she's looking at
what permit fees can be waived. Sixty eight hundred homes, businesses,
and other buildings burned down in the Palisades fire in January.
(02:50):
Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho joins us a little earlier than normal
this morning. She's going to be with us at five
point twenty. We will of course be talking about the
near history day on Wall Street, the Dow closing, of
course up more than twenty nine hundred points. We're gonna
also go to check in with ABC's Karen Travers and
talk to why the President announced those ninety day tariffs,
(03:13):
and then, of course, at the bottom of the hour,
Colonel hag Fresh office six months in space leading the
Crew nine mission to the International Space Station. Let's get
started with some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. As construction to rebuild the
Palisades gets underway, La Mayor Bass says she's looking at
ways to ease traffic congestion around the burn area in
the Palisades. Speaking to KTLA outside of home where construction
(03:37):
has begun, Bass says she's got some ideas, so we're
looking at a lot of options.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Maybe we do the debris removal at night, maybe we
have some of the trucks go at night.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
So we're examining all of that right now. Bass was
in the Palisades to visit with a homeowner who has
received a permit to rebuild. She says she's also looking
at which permit fees can be waived as rebuilding efforts
pick up. LA. School district officials say federal officials, we
weren't allowed to go into two elementary schools this week.
(04:08):
The district says the Homeland Security Department officials were denied
entry to the Lillian Street and Russell Elementary Schools. Both
schools are in South LA. The feds are jumping into
the homeless problem in the Southland.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
US Attorney Bill A. Saley and US District Judge David
Carter visited LA's skid row. As Salely tells kfi's Tim
Comway Junior, his office has begun an investigation into how
money for homeless programs has been spent in the area.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
All we know right now is that there's at least
two billion dollars that's unaccounted for voting to an audit
that was just conducted last month, and that's not a rounding, era.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Judge Carter ordered an audit of the LA Homeless Services
Authority and the City of LA's homeless spending. Saley says
it found the more than two billion dollars had been
poorly accounted for with limited evidence of results. Michael Krozer
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Today is Delores Horta Day in LA. The La County
Board of Supervisors voted to honor the legendary lab and
civil rights activist's ninety fifth birthday. She was born April tenth,
nineteen thirty in New Mexico and moved to Stockton as
a child. She co founded the United farm Workers' Union
with Caesar Chavez. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
(05:14):
Karen Travers. So, Karen, if there's one predictable thing about
President Trumpet said, He's unpredictable.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Yes, And you know, this is a complete reversal from
what he had said on Monday, where he told my
colleague Mary Bruce that he was not looking at a
pause on tariffs to allow for negotiations. And that's exactly
what he did yesterday. His team said yesterday that this
was the strategy all along, that this was the president's
negotiating strategy. But the President then undercut that message by
(05:44):
saying that he was looking at the markets, that he
saw people getting a little yippie, a little afraid, and
that the markets were looking a little glum over the
last few days, and that that was driving his decision
to put this pause in place.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Okay, And what exactly happened? And why does he say
that he did it. I mean, you said that it
was because they were yippie.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
That's what he said. I mean his reason yesterday was
because of the markets, That's what he said. His advisor
said it was because countries were reaching out to negotiate.
But we asked him on Monday, why not put a
pause in place before they go into effect? Because countries
had already started reaching out to negotiate at that point.
Why not not move forward with it and just do negotiations.
(06:32):
Why announce it last week when you know you could
have had negotiations already. But the President said, you know, no,
we're full steam ahead. He wasn't looking at a pause.
The tariffs went into effect. They were in effect for
thirteen hours before the President announced this reversal, and the
reasons he cited yesterday all related to the stock market. Okay,
(06:53):
and the bond market, I should say, okay.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And then the big exception to pausing all the tariffs
is China.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Yes, China now has one hundred and twenty five percent
tariff all goods coming into the US from China. China
has retaliated significant teriffs on US goods. They've also said
this morning that they're going to limit the number of
Hollywood films that will be shown in China as a
way to strike back at you know, American cultural exports
as well. And this is showing no signs of flowing
(07:23):
down that Chinese have not engaged at all with the
White House. Despite the White House please to reach out,
let's talk, let's have negotiations, they're not doing that. They
have said they're going to fight this to the end,
and that the United States trade policy right now amounts
to economic bullying. So it's not clear where this goes,
Like what's the end in sight here when it comes
(07:44):
to China. One thing though, is that like this could
grind trade between the two countries to a halt.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, and there's a lot of it. I mean that's
a huge amount of.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Trade, Okay, significant amount of trade. And also you know
you think, well, you as a consumer. People out there
by a lot of products, and then you think of
the materials that go into things for small businesses, a
lot of that comes from China, and that's the significant
concern for companies that are, you know, getting parts and things.
(08:16):
People that have already placed orders at this point, they've
already paid for things and now they're on their way here.
They've bought their stuff whatever that is. Well, should say widgets.
You know, you bought one hundred dollars of widgets and
now that widget when it gets offloaded at the ports
in California, is going to have an additional one hundred
and twenty five dollars charge to it. You didn't factor
(08:38):
that in when you made your business plan.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Right? And what happens if you don't accept the shipment?
I mean, I just could imagine at the ports it
could be kind of a nightmare.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Okay, Yeah, I mean it's going to be. And that's
all coming in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Okay, and we will be watching it because, as we
were just talking about the everything changes so quickly these days,
kind of hard to keep track of it. But thank
you for helping us make sense of it. Karen Travers,
have a great day, all right, you too. Let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. House Speaker Mike Johnson has
(09:14):
delayed a vote on President Trump's budget bill. The bill,
which passed the Senate, includes tax cuts, more immigration enforcement,
more defense spending, and a higher debt limit. The House
was set to vote last night, but some Republicans opposed it,
mainly because the Senate's version only includes four billion dollars
in spending cuts. The House wants up to two trillion
(09:34):
in cuts. The vote's been pushed back to today at
the earliest. The Department of Homeland Security says the Trump
administration will keep deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador.
ABC's Matt Rivers says they're being held in a notorious prison.
There's a reason why it's become known as infamous.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
It is an incredibly harsh place, is brutal. Frankly, it
is depressing, and it is designed to be that way.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
He says. It was built as part of the El
Salvador government's push to clean up crime in that country.
Forty five thousand pounds of cocaine worth a half billion
dollars has been seized by the Coast Guard in Florida.
Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Coastguard used drones, aircraft
and ships to ter intercept the traffickers leading to the
(10:18):
bus yesterday.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
What they did saved countless American lives.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Countless lives.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
This cocaine would have been distributed throughout our country and
perhaps throughout our world.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Bondi says the drugs originated from Mexican cartels. Eleven people
have been arrested in connection with the bust. The Supreme
Court has reversed a lower court ruling that ordered the
Trump administration to reinstate two heads of watchdog agencies. The
High Court says it will hear arguments from the lawyers
for the head of the National Labor Relations Board and
(10:52):
the Merit Systems Protection Board on why they should be
allowed to keep their positions. The search for survivors of
the nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic is over,
and victim recovery efforts are now underway. ABC's Victor Akendo
says the death toll is at at least two hundred
and eighteen.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Just an incredibly difficult scene. Here outside of the jets
at nightclub.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You can see where the roof collapse.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
There's all that heavy machinery.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
He says. At least one American has died ahead of
the trial in the Idaho college killings. The defense is
pushing for the death penalty to be taken off the
table because of Brian Cooberger's autism spectrum disorder. At a
pre trial hearing yesterday, Judge Stephen Hipler said he didn't
think that's relevant.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Stay should not make the general argument that somehow the
diagnosis is an aggravating factor.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
The trial is set to start later this summer. Flying
could soon become less stressful.
Speaker 6 (11:57):
American Airlines is teaming up with Customs and Border Protection
on a plan. They say we'll make international flights move
more quickly. Passengers would no longer pick up their bags
when they arrive and then recheck them for a domestic
connecting flight. Instead, the luggage would be transferred automatically. The
carrier says this will enhance safety. The pilot program will
be tested on flights from Sydney to Los Angeles, dep
(12:20):
remark KFFI.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
News speaking of airlines Delta Airlines has pulled its financial
outlook for this year, saying it's because of concerns about
where global trade is headed. Virgin Atlantic is cutting back
its scheduled flights from London to New York and Seattle
this winter. The travel and tourism industry is a big
part of the US economy. It contributed more than two
trillion dollars in twenty twenty two. It also supports more
(12:43):
than nine million jobs. You'll soon be paying more to
wish people happy birthday, happy anniversary, or congratulations the old
fashioned way. The Postal Service is raising the price of
a first class stamp from seventy three oh I believe
seventy eight percent Tito there sorry. Postcard stamps will go
up from fifty six to sixty two cents. The USPS
(13:05):
says prices are still among the most affordable in the world.
Two La City council committees have advanced a plan to
hike trash collection fees by more than fifty percent. If
it's approved by the city council on Friday, it would
be the first increase in seventeen years. Cities looking for
ways to raise revenues as it faces a nearly billion
dollar budget shortfall. A fifth person has died following a
(13:27):
high speed crash into a tree in Santa Anna. Authority
say a thirteen year old girl, who was on life
support following the crash late Saturday night, has succumbed to
her injuries. Most of the people killed were teenagers. Police
are still investigating what led to the deadly crash. Pope
Francis has met privately with King Charles the Third and
Queen Camilla at the Vatican. The royal couple is in
(13:49):
Italy to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary. It was the
first confirmed meeting for the Pope since he returned to
the Vatican after spending five weeks in the hospital with
life threatening double pneumonia at six zho five. It's handle
on the news, was it art of the deal or
a fix because of a falling stock market. Bill's going
(14:10):
to be talking about the huge gains on Wall Street
following the president's announcement of a ninety day pause in tariffs. Okay,
so we had to switch stuff up a little bit
this morning because we get to talk to Colonel Nick Haig,
a NASA Astronaut Space Force guardian. We've talked to him
several times as he was getting ready for his trip
to the International Space Station. And then we were so
(14:31):
lucky we got to talk to him while he was
on the International Space Station. And now he's back on Earth,
so we're going to be talking to him in about
ten minutes. And so we moved Courtney Donaho, Bloomberg's Business Specialist,
Getting In Your Business, to five twenty. But maybe she
(14:51):
didn't get the message because we haven't heard from Courtney,
so we're going to try to reach out to her.
And there's a lot to talk about with his stock market. Man,
was that crazy? When President Trump announced the pause and
tariffs at about ten o'clock yesterday Actually it was just
about ten fifteen yesterday morning, and immediately the stocks shot
(15:12):
up and ended the day up for Dow twenty nine
hundred points. Right now the Dow futures are down like
four hundred and eighty one points or down. Now it's
down five point fifty nine, so maybe things are looking
a little better. But now we have Courtney Donahoe, So
glad you could join us early. We're Getting in Your
Business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks so much for joining
(15:34):
us early today. Courtney. I guess the only thing we
can say is buckle up. We were just talking while
we were waiting to connect with you about the crazy
day it was on Wall Street.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Oh my goodness, it was unbelievable. All the tariff twists
and turns continue with the President announcing that ninety day
tariff pause. The New York Stock Exchange actually exploded in
huge roar as the news hit, but Wall Street was
practically begging for some relief, and yesterday traders got it,
with the S and P five hundred, ending the day
up nine and a half percent. Now this morning, it's
(16:05):
not looking so good. It's looking pretty rough out there,
looking at Dow futures down five hundred eighty eight points,
SMP futures falling one point nine percent. But kind of
buried in all of this news in just a few
minutes from now. And why I kind of have to
jump here is the March consumer price report is going
to be on an economisty. Inflation likely stepped down last month,
but the information it contains is somewhat stale compared to
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some of the big economic policy changes that came in
the past week.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Okay, and you have to jump, yes, I do. It's
so busy here today. I'm sorry, well, and we appreciate you,
you know, adjusting your schedule. So we'll be watching and
see what happens, and then we'll talk to you tomorrow
and get a recap of everything. Exactly, exactly. Have a
great day to all right, Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe getting in
your business in an abbreviated version today, I would imagine
(16:54):
if you have anything to do with the financial industry,
things are a little hectic. It's crazy. Okay, let's get
back to some of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LAPD says it's looking
for a father who allegedly abducted his nine year old
daughter and seven year old son in Silmar after he
(17:14):
lost custody. The children were last seen at their elementary
school around eleven am on Tuesday. He was picked up
by their father, who's Ukrainian. Police say Rhodian Colomets was
presumed to be driving a twenty sixteen gray Toyota Prius
with California license plate ending In nine six six, a
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man is dead after confronting shoplifters in a parking lot
in South Almani. The man's brother, Yamshid Yagoubi, says it
all happened really fast yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
It was three guys.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Two was in the car. They opened the door, they
come out and one of them they punched my brother.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
He go down.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The sixty year old man was helping at his brother's stores.
No arrests have been made and police have not at
least a description of the shoplifters who got away in
their car. Plans to expand the La Convention Center have
been approved by the full city Council.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
The project is estimated to cost more than two billion dollars,
but city council wants that price tag and other risks
to come down. Councilman Isabelle Herado says the city can't
wait any longer to improve its outdated center.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Moving forward with this project, albeit cautiously and responsibly, will
help us regain our competitive bitch.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Plans to revitalize the Convention Center seemed dead earlier this
year because of the city's financial condition. Now the plan
is for a phased approach, with work done until the
Olympics had been finished. After the games. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Some Democrats say they want Congress to investigate if anyone
may have known about President Trump's tariff moves in advance.
ABC Jurine Shaw says they want to know if anyone
may have benefited from the drastic market shifts.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
About six trillion wiped out from the S and P
five hundred, a major selloff in American bonds led by
China and Japan.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Some experts belief could have swayed the president. The Dow Jones,
S and P five hundred, and NASDAK all reversed their
losses yesterday. Amazon says it's canceling orders for a lot
of products made in China and other Asian countries so
it won't have to pay tariffs on them. The products
are mainly summer things like beach chairs, air conditioners, and scooters.
You know the things we need during the summer. Bloomberg says.
(19:22):
One company that's been selling Chinese made beach chairs to
Amazon for years got an email from the online merchandiser
saying it was canceling its orders and not to ship them.
Calfires urging residents cross the state to take precautions as
peak wildfire season approaches. California Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade
Crawfoot says the government is ready and the public needs
(19:43):
to be too.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
The state, federal, local partner sets remain intensely focused on
helping these communities are recover and rebuild and protecting Californians
from catastrophic wildfire. Remember, everybody has a role to play.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Grofoot says. The fires in the Palisades and Altadena have
shown the importance of being prepared. He says home hardening
and having defensible space are among the most important preparations.
CalFire does offer a fire planner tool, It's at readyfor
Wildfire dot org. The president of the La Urban Policy
Task Force is calling on police to do something about
(20:17):
what he calls the epidemic of hit and runs in
South LA. Earl Offari Hutchison is asking police to set
up a task force to help prosecute what he calls
hit and run murders. Half dozen people have been killed
in hit and run recks in South LA in just
the last three months. A new bill could make it
harder to force people in California government to keep secrets
(20:38):
from the public.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
A build to block non disclosure agreements in the government
is moving forward in the Legislature AB thirteen seventy's goal
is to update California's Political Reform Act of nineteen seventy
four to prohibit lawmakers from signing or asking others to
sign NDAs. An exception can be made for NDA's used
to shield information for private businesses. The bill's text states
a violation of the Act as nishable as a misdemeanor.
(21:01):
Experts say the use of NDAs in government is a
violation of the First Amendment that limits free speech and
freedom of the press. Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
As construction gets underway on the first house destroyed in
the fires and Pacific Palisades, La Marebeth's roads are going
to be packed with big trucks. Trucks moving debris out
have been clogging streets. She says. One thing to look
at is having the trucks only move at night, but
that could result in a lot of noise for people
who still live in the area, So they're still trying
to figure that one out. LA City Council's voted to
(21:30):
move forward with plans to modernize the La Convention Center.
The project would connect the South Hall and West Hall
above Pico Boulevard with a new building. A new study
suggests hearing loss can increase your risk of heart failure.
Researchers at uk Biobanks say they found that those with
mild hearing issues had a fifteen percent increased risk. If
they were poor hearing, that was a twenty eight percent
(21:53):
increased risk of heart failure. We've got Handle on the
news coming up at six oh five. Of course he's
going to be talking tariffs in the stock market a
whole lot more. But right now we have a very
special treat we'd like to say good morning to NASA
astronaut and Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, the first
Space Force Guardian ever on the International Space Station, the
(22:14):
commander of the Crew nine mission. Colonel Haig, I'm guessing
you hear this a lot, but welcome home.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Thanks Amy, it's great to be with you this morning.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
So you spent one hundred and seventy one days in space,
you did a space walk, you had a successful splashdown
obviously back down on Earth along with Alex and of
course Sonny Williams and Butch Willmore. It's been an exciting
six months. How are you and everybody doing?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yeah, you know, it's hard to believe the six months
goes by really fast, and you know, we're back on
the ground and just over three weeks back in gravity
and adjusting and everything's going pretty good.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Okay, So I want to ask you about that gravity
because we saw you when the capsules splashed down and
saw you come out of the capsule with a pretty
big smile on your face. Can you tell us what
you were feeling at that moment and what it feels
like to go from weightlessness to full on gravity gravity
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in a matter of minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, you know, the smile coming out of the capsule
is just the thrill of you've just re entered. You've
gone from seventeen thousand, five hundred miles an hour down
to zero, and we do that by writing in the
center of essentially a fireball. And then you know, the
adrenaline rush from that experience, and then watching your parachutes
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open and landing safely. You're just ecstatic to be home.
And so there's a lot of that going on. But
then you're also starting to realize, hey, you know, gravity's
real and I've been able to ignore it for the
last six months. You're strong, you know you can stand up,
you can carry your own weight, but your sense of
balance is really not there, and so that's why they
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pull us out. They put us on ajourney, they wheel
us around. You know, so the first day or so,
somebody is there making sure that when we're walking, we
don't we don't stumble. But after a few days the
body snaps back. It is just truly amazing how adaptable
our bodies are.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Okay, so when you say that that it's hard because
your balance is off, do you have sort of like
a vertigo feeling, or just you're just not used to
having to balance.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
You haven't used that part of your brain, you know,
your inner ear you've kind of ignored for the last
six months while you've been in space. And then when
you get down on the ground, you know, if I
stand up and close my eyes, my mind really doesn't
know how to figure out which ways up and which
ways down, and so you get a little bit off
balance and then gravity takes over. So you've just got
(24:53):
to be really careful. But like I said, it's amazing
because you know, I'll take a nap, wake up, and
there's this just huge increase in the amounts that my
body has already adapted. And so over the course of
twenty four hours, you're you know, you're pretty close to
having your balance back. Even within the first six hours
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or so, you go from needing somebody to hold your
arm everywhere you go to being able to walk on your.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Own, okay. And then I was trying to figure out
what that might feel like, you know, like we were
talking about going from no gravity to having full gravity
and having to deal with that, and I was I
was like, would it be sort of like when they
put those weighted vests on you when you get X
rays at the dentist and then you have to walk
around all day with one on? Does it do you
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have that heavy feeling or what does it feel like?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Yeah, you know, when you described it perfectly, it's like
you're wearing this body suit that adds just this excessive
amount of weight. Everything feels like it's twenty pounds heavier
than it should be, and so just lifting your arm
takes effort, or or moving your head takes effort, and
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it feels strange because it, you know, for the last
six months it's taken no effort, and then slowly, over
the course of a couple of days, that just becomes
your new normal, and you know, I've been back just
over three weeks, and you know, after I get off
the off the call with you, I'm going to go
over and continue with my reconditioning and my strength and
(26:28):
conditioning coaches are going to have me, you know, running
and lifting and doing all the things that you would
expect somebody to be doing, you know, just trying to
stay in shape. And so we bounce back so fast.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Okay, And when you were up on the space station,
weren't you exercising a couple hours a day.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Yes, at two and a half hours a day every day. Yeah,
so you come you come back so much stronger. You know,
I came back stronger than when I launched because I
was lifting every day, and so the big muscles, the
you know, my skeleton remains you know strong, My big
muscles remain strong. The real challenge is all of the
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little muscles that stabilize everything and keep all my joints
in the right position. Those are a little bit you know,
those are a little bit atrophied. And so we spend
a good forty five days after we land getting all
of those conditions so that my joints go back to
the right positions that they're supposed to be in uh,
and you've got to be really patient because you're strong,
(27:31):
so I can go and out, you know, outperform those
and end up hurting myself. So it's it's a very
regimented program.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Interesting. Okay, And are you taller too. I've heard that
some astronauts come back taller.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So I came back taller and then I lost it all.
Gravity took it away, so it.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Was short lived. Okay, I want to go back up
into space for a second.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
I want to.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
We'll talk in a minute about like what you were
doing on the space station and stuff. But the whole
journey is so fascinating to me. We followed when you
undocked from the space station, when you were finally ready
to go home, and there's this pretty large lag time
between when you separate from the station and when you
re enter the Earth's atmosphere. How long was that and
what do you do during that time?
Speaker 3 (28:16):
So it was seventeen hours for us, It varies depending.
The reason there's that delay is you're waiting essentially for
the alignment of your orbit and the position of your
capsule to line up with your target for your splash down,
and depending on where the station is when you undock,
that could change anywhere from seven hours to forty hours,
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and that's just orbital dynamics, and so what do you
do during that time. We had a fairly long day
prior to undocking, and so as soon as we undocked,
we got our suits off and got into some comfortable
clothes and we all went to bed, and so we
slept solid eight hours and then we got up and
we still had a lot of time, and so we
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did what you might expect a crew coming home from
space would do. We were glued to the windows, looking out, enjoying,
you know, the last views we have, you know, for
the foreseeable future of the you know, the night sky
and all the stars and galaxies and looking down on
the Earth during the daytime and just trying to soak
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it in as much as we could.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
That's so great. And then for the re entry again
we're talking to Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haig, who
just returned from the International Space Station. For the re entry,
I mean, it's got to be nerve wracking because you're
still going thousands of miles an hour, and then when
you do the entry, you're super heated. You're basically like
you said, a big fireball, Like, what does that feel like?
(29:45):
Do you guys? Are you guys talking and joking during
that time? Are you just kind of holding on? I mean,
what do you do during that time? And what does
it feel like?
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
So, you know, the first when you're in the space station,
you're four hundred kilometers two hundred and fifty miles above
the surface of the Earth, and so as the Earth
goes by below, because I mean, you're really traveling over
the Earth, but you see it as the Earth going
by below, you don't really realize what five miles a
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second means in terms of speed. But once you start
to descend the lower we really don't slow down until
we start to get into the thick part of the atmosphere,
or a thicker part of the atmosphere. So that's four
hundred kilometers down to about eighty kilometers. At that point,
all those clouds that look really small start to look
really big and they are screaming by the windows, and
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so you get this sense of we are going really fast.
And then the air starts to impact our heat shield
and that drag builds up and you can kind of
feel the rumble the vibration. You know, we've spent the
time leading up to this kind of turning the air
(30:59):
conditioner on, if you will, to max to try to
get it as cool as we can inside, because that
that aerodynamic heat, that that friction from all that drag
is going to start to heat up all the atmosphere
around the capsule, heat up our each shield, and essentially
it creates a fireball around us that's about three thousand
degrees and we're in the center of that, in the
(31:22):
calm the eye of the storm, and you what we
feel is essentially just G. So we get squashed into
our seat and it goes from six months of not
feeling anything and floating to all of a sudden, the
G meter reads point zero one g's or point zero
two by the time it gets too point one one
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tenth of the gravity everybody feels every day. It feels
like somebody's sitting on you because you just haven't been
used to feeling it, and you know, it's it's surprising
that the first half a G it's like a man,
I don't know if I'm going to be able to
handle this, uh, And then your body kind of gets
used to it, and then by the time we reach
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our maximum g which is just under five gs. You
you're kind of comfortable. So I'm you know, looking at
the displays. I'm talking the crew through everything that's going
on where we're at, what what to prepare for next,
getting ready for shoots to deploy, and so it's a
it's kind of a normal conversation. Uh and you just
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you know, you just get you get used to having
an earth squashy a little.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Bit another day at the office.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
It sounds like indeed, you know, it's like having a
conversation why while you're writing a roller coaster.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Okay, okay, nice, that's a great analogy. We are joined
on wake up call this morning by NASA astronaut and
Space Force Guardian Colonel Nick Haigh. He's the first Space
Force Guardian ever on the International Space Station and also
the commander of the Crew nine mission. Colonel Haig, thanks
again for joining us. We so appreciate you spending some
(32:58):
time with us this morning. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Absolutely, it's fun to share the experience.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Well, I know that last time we talked to you,
Colonel Haig, we were well, I was kind of jumping
out of my skin thrilled we got to talk to
you live on the International Space Station, and that was
back that was about six months ago. It was pretty
early in your mission since you had gotten there, and
so we wanted to kind of check in and see
what it was like for the last six months. So
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I know that one of the things that you guys
do is you do a lot of experiments. Are there
some of the experiments that you can tell us about
that we're kind of notable to you?
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Absolutely. You know, the reason we're up there on the
space station, the International Space Station to begin with, is
to conduct science experiments. You know, I talked about all
the all the you know things that being in weightlessness
does to my body. It does those same things to
all of our experiments, and it helps us learn a
little bit more, a little bit deeper about everything. And
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so there we in the course of six months, was
part of one hundred and fifty plus different types of experiments,
and it's it's everything from looking at at our bodies.
You know, how being weightless affects my immune system, how
it affects the age of my vascular system. Uh, you know,
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being in weightlessness can cause my arteries to accelerate in
their aging or mimic what it's like to have accelerated aging,
and so we we research what those what those changes are,
and then by better understanding those we can we can
help inform medicine on the ground for for people that
are experiencing aging of their vascular system or have you know,
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suppressed immune systems. So that's a couple of examples, but
it spans the whole game. I grew lots of things
up there because we're trying to figure out how do
we sustain crews when we send them on missions beyond
Earth orbit? How do we grow the food that we're
going to need to take because we can't resupply them.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
All the.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
So it's it's it's just a lot of fun to
be up there in the middle of it all. If
you enjoy a if you're a curious person, it's an
amazing job.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Okay, and Colonel Haig, were the experience that you did,
were those for NASA only or for they were they
also for Space Force because again there's this this symbiotic
relationship between the two. Even though NASA is a civilian organization,
of course, Space Force is a military organization.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, and so you know, I'm a Space Force guardian
and and my job is to work for NASA conducting
the Civil Space Mission, not the not the you know,
the National Security Space Mission, and it is a symbiotic relationship.
And so you know, I'd be remiss if I didn't
thank all of my fellow guardians that are stationed around
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the globe that provided all those essential things like you know,
keeping us clear of debris up there, and helping us
move the station to get out of the way, or
helping us launch and land. You know, they do some
fundamental things that make it possible for us to even
go up there and do those science experiments and there.
You know, it's just phenomenal to be associated with that
(36:11):
team and to be a representative of the Space Force.
But yeah, those experiments up there. It's an international space station,
and so I'm conducting experiments across you know, for for
universities across the nation, you know, the United States, but
I'm also conducting them for other governments, you know, whether
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it's Japan or the European Space Agency and all of
the countries associated with that. It's a little you know, agnostic.
I don't necessarily care where the research is coming from,
because in principle, we're sharing that information with everyone, and
so the discoveries on the space station come back and
benefit the whole world.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Good to see that we all get along in space. Okay,
So when we talk to you, when you're on the
space station, no space had been done. But as it
turns out, you got to do one. How long was
that and what did you do and what was it like?
Speaker 3 (37:09):
You know, a spacewalk is effectively eleven hours in a spacesuit.
It takes a while to put it on, and then
once you're in it, before you even step out of
the space station, you have to purge all of the
nitrogen that's naturally in your body because you go down
to a lower pressure when you start to work outside
(37:30):
in the vacuum of space. So after about four hours,
then we go out the hatch, and you know, from
a thrill perspective, you open the hatch and you look
down and two hundred and fifty miles below there's the
Earth kind of just gliding by, and you can see
snow covered mountaintops and fan dunes and oceans and it's
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just spectacular. You know, it's an office. It's the best
view you could have at work. And you go out
and you're you know, at some point the suit just
kind of melts away and you're just working outside with
your with your coworker.
Speaker 5 (38:06):
You know.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Sonny was out there with me and uh and we uh,
we got to work. We we were working on repairing
a couple of things.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
You know, the station is old, it's been up there
for two and a half decades.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
And and so we repaired a couple of pieces of
equipment that needed to be replaced.
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
And then I also got to work on an X
ray telescope, which we used to kind of try to
answer those deep questions about why are we here and
how did the universe? How did the universe come into being?
You know, it studies neutron stars and the you know,
the remnants of of of massive explosions in space. And
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so I got to work on that and help repair it.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
That's so cool. Okay, So we only have a couple
of minutes left, So I got to ask you a
couple of questions about life on the space station. You
were up there for Christmas? Did you get to like
did what is that like? I mean, did you get
to take the day off? Did you celebrate or was
it just another day in the office.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
You know, we still have to we still have to
make sure that the station goes and keeps running. And
so there's a little bit of work on every day.
But holidays, it's an international space station, so we celebrated.
We celebrated Christmas just like everybody else here in the
United States, but we also ended up celebrating Russian Orthodox Christmas.
(39:22):
Uh and and so we celebrate international holidays up there
as well. And so we find time to get together
as a crew of seven and and have a meal,
you know, make a cake, put out, you know, a
spreadshare our you know us food or or partake in
you know, the international food that's there, and and really
(39:44):
just commune with each other as as people and and
talk about you know, families and everything that's going on
in each other's lives, and share our favorite music with
each other and tell jokes and and just be uh
And those are a really special time up there.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
And I would imagine for New Year's no one got
to pop Champagne. I would think that might be a.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Little dangerous, a little bit dangerous. All right.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
I did see one of your videos, and I noticed
that your hair was shorter than when we talked to you.
So you've got a haircut in space, and I want
to know this is important question stuff, How does that work?
Because I would imagine it would be very problematic to
have hair floating around the space station.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Absolutely anything floating around is if it floats around, it
can get in your eyes. Even worse, you could breathe
it in than it gets in your lungs. And so
we're always trying to scrub the air up there to
make sure that stuff that's floating around gets taken out
of it. So a haircut, essentially you're hooking a vacuum
cleaner hose to the hair trimmer. But an interesting fact
(40:46):
is we receive no training on how to give a haircut.
So the first one is a little you know, dicey,
but we learn as we go.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
I love that, okay, And we're coming up at the
top of the I know we got to go. You
got to go in thirty seconds. Colonel Hag what's next
for you?
Speaker 3 (41:06):
So the mission doesn't end when you land. Surprisingly, I'm
going to do rehab. But there's also those science experiments.
They're still collecting data on me for the next thirty days,
sixty days. Some of them will collect data on me
up to two years after I land. That's the science aspect.
The other aspect is for the next four or five months,
my focus is going to be on going out and
(41:28):
engaging the public and sharing the story, and so that
post flight tour I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Well. We hope that your tour includes a stop in
Los Angeles. We would love to welcome you home in person.
And again, Colonel Haig, we can't thank you enough for
all of your time and everything that you're doing. It's
been such a thrill to get to talk to you
and get a little bit of insight into what it's
like to be an astronaut. So we thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Yeah, no, my pleasure, Amy, and I do look forward
to visiting.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
LA all right. Again. That is Space Force Guardian NASA
astronaut Colonel Nick Haig, fresh off his trip around the
Earth six months in space. Amazing stuff. This is KFI
and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County south Land.
Weather from KFI. Some clouds this morning, then sunny with
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seventies to mid eighties in the Antelope Valley, partly cloudy tomorrow,
Heights in the seventies along the coast, eighties to low
nineties Inland. It's fifty four in Diamond Bar, fifty four
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