May 30, 2025 • 41 mins
Amy King hosts your Friday Wake Up Call. ABC News investigative journalist Peter Charalambous talks about the Trump administration backtracking on Harvard foreign student policy. Futurist Kevin Cirilli talks about longevity of life. The House Whisperer Dean Sharp is back on Wake Up Call for another edition of ‘Waking Up with the House Whisperer!’ Today, Dean talks about fun new things to take your home into the future. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give insight into business and Wall Street. The show closes with ABC News national reporter Steven Portnoy discussing an appeals court reinstating Trump’s tariffs… for now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, good morning. It's five o'clock this Friday morning. This
is your wake up call for May thirtieth. Next time
we talk on Monday, it's gonna be June. We're even
closer to Christmas. H stop, thanks for getting your day
started with us today. I have to tell you about
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one of life's little joys.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It's for me.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's like when you do little things around the house,
you make a little change, and then you look.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
At it and you go, oh, I'm so happy I
did that.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So my latest little change is that at Christmas time,
I put up I took down or I took out
the porch light and put in some twinkly lights along
my walkway, well from all the rain. And they've been
on for six months. You know, they started to burn out.
So I got red, white and blue lights. Oh, because
you know it's summertime. We've got Fourth of July coming up.
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We just had Memorial Day, so I put up the red,
white and blue lights that now line my little walkway.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I love that. There you go, it's the little thing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, we're going to talk about lots of little things,
actually some really cool futuristic things with Dean Sharp Today,
host of Home on KFI. You're gonna want to hear that.
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour. But
here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Let's get going.
Thieves have stolen millions of dollars worth of merchandise from
a family owned jewelry store in Glendale Sound Familiar. Burglars
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got in through the roof, disabled security cameras, used blow
terches to open at least two of the three safes,
and ransacked Bedruzian jewelry. Another jewelry store in Simi Valley
had about two million dollars in cash and merchandise stolen
by thieves on Sunday. They also cut through the roof
and then through a wall to get in. The Pacific
Palisades City Council is going to spend two hundred and
(02:17):
sixty thousand dollars for security in neighborhoods burned in the wildfires.
In January, a thirty day contract was approved Wednesday, it
could be extended. There are concerns that vacant homes are
going to be vulnerable to looters and thieves. Now that
PCH has reopened, Heat advisories are in effect for parts
of the Southland, with temperatures expected to hit triple digits
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in some areas. The heated advisory is up for Santa
Clarita and the San Fernando Valley. President Trump's plans to
keep foreign students out of Harvard has hit a snag.
ABC's Peter Harrlumboose was in the courtroom yesterday. He's going
to give the latest on that coming up in just
a couple of minutes. Also, we've all wondered at some point,
right how long am I going to live? We're going
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to be joined by futurist Kevin Surilli. He's going to
talk about how you may be able to maybe able
to hack your lifespan and become a super ager. That's
coming up at five twenty. Also, we're going to find out,
as I mentioned, some of the new futuristic things you
can get for your home now in the present. That's
with the house whisper at the bottom of the hour.
And then yesterday the tariffs were blocked.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
ABC.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Stephen Portnoy joins us to tell us today how it's
a new day for tariffs, at least for now, and
that's at five point fifty. It's an ever changing, ever changing,
very fluid situation and we need people like Stephen Portnoy
to help us keep up with it. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Southern California is in for a
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mini heat wave this weekend.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Wells Angeles and Orange Counties are expected to see highs
in the upper eighties and lower nineties. The valleys and
the Inland Empire will likely see highs in the mid
nineties Today. Inland, Ventura County and the La County Valleys
will be under a heat advisory from eleven o'clock this
morning to eight o'clock tonight. There's a chance of rain
and thunderstorms, especially on Sunday and Monday. Thunderstorm chances will
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be the highest in the mountains. Daniel Martindale, CAFI News.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
AH, this is welcome news.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
The algae bloom that's been making sea animals sick and
even killing them in the Southland is.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Wilting The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro says
the worst of the deadly algae bloom is over, with
no new patients showing signs of demoic acid toxicosis over
the last week. Birds, sea lions, and marine mammals have
gotten sick or killed by the poison in the past
few months. Veterinarians and care centers near the coasts say
many were treated and able to recover, but it was
the longest, most toxic, and deadliest bloom they've ever experienced.
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The MMC says it's expanding its facilities and increasing patient
capacity as these types of events increase in intensity and
frequency thanks to climate change. Michael Krozier KFI News.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Two men have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping
and robbery in Culver City. A man told police a
couple of weeks ago that he was walking to his
car when he was approached by someone in a silver
FUV and ordered at gunpoint to get inside. He said
he was driven to a bank and was forced to
make several withdrawals. He pulled out about five hundred and
forty dollars. The man says he was eventually let go
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in a residential area and was warned not to call police.
A thirteen year old Fasin Zaki is the best speller
in the land. The team from Texas won the Script's
National Spelling be last night by correctly spelling the word eclairezizman.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
E C O A I R C I S E
M E and teh eficial That is correct.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's so excited. I love that.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Besides winning the trophy, Zaki gets a fifty thousand dollars
grand prize. Brent Wood's Oliver Halkett finished seventh. Way to
Go Oliver. He was eliminated after struggling with the word
a roar, which is the yellow or pink tint given
a white sauce by the addition of egg ye, ooks,
tomato puree, or lobster coral.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Who knew.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Harralumbus.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Good morning Amy.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We got some more challenges for the Trump administration and
its executive orders. Judge says, not so fast when it
comes to taking action against Harvard. You were in the courtroom.
Tell us what happened to Lease.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
That's exactly right. A really a big day for Harvard yesterday.
Not only was it the school's commencement, but they got
a big win in their lawsuit against the Trump administration,
this one over their right to enroll international students. Judge
issuing Saint she's going to issue a preliminary injunction protecting
those international students. This comes to the Trump administration with
seemingly backtracking on that policy. They issued a letter just
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twenty four hours ahead of that hearing, kind of giving
Harvard more time to respond to the allegations and basically
extending the window, despite the fact that they originally made
it seem like this would be an immediate change, this
inabillage to enroll internationals students. Harvard's president taking a job
at this issue during his commencement address, basically saying that
everyone across the country and across the world belongs to Harvard.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Okay, so you were in the courtroom yesterday. Was it
sort of a civil thing? Did they present arguments? Did
it get heated?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
You know?
Speaker 9 (07:19):
I was there expecting a pretty long day of maybe
an hour or two of arguments, but it went in
about twenty minutes. The fact that the Trump administration kind
of backtracked overnight ahead of this hearing, kind of changed
the playing field entirely. The Department of Justice insisted that
this was kind of a moot issue, basically that because
the Trump administration was giving Harvard more time, there wasn't
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actually a need to issue an order. But the judge
shot back saying that students were anxious, students were terrified
about these kind of changes, and that some kind of
order was necessary. It was really a resounding win for Harvard.
They didn't really even have to argue in a way.
The judge had her mind made up when she entered
that courtroom, and this came just hours ahead of the
school's commencement.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Okay, so now, Peter, tell us, then, what happens next,
because I'm guessing that there's going to be an immediate appeal,
or is this this this just continues her stay against
it while it plays out in court.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
What is I'm a little confused on that. No.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
No, it's confusing and tricky in part because the Trump
administration has made it tricky each because you know, at
the end of the day, this order, you know, offers
some kind of temporary protection for these international students. The
Truman administration has not going to be able to just
go in within a matter of hours and say, well,
you're not allowed to have a visa as a student here.
But it does still allow kind of an administrative avenue
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for the Trump administration to challenge the school's ability to
enroll international students. That's a long, lissed, tedious process, it
takes months, and there's an appeals process, but the Trump
administration can try to use that administrative avenue and that
might eventually return them to federal court one day if
the Trump administration actually seems to follow through with this.
But ultimately, sources close to the matter basically told us
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that yesterday's backtracking, the fact that Trump administration gave Harvard
more time and kind of loosened their threat a bit,
was because they realized that they were on very shaky
I legal ground that all things considered, they weren't really
gonna win. They didn't have much of a chance, and
they needed to amend basically the situation to have any
chance of succeeding in court. That didn't help them at
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the end of the day yesterday they still lost in court,
and they still gave Harvard more flexibility, but that doesn't
mean Harvard's out of the woods per se. There's still
that long term threat. There's still a threat of billion
dollars of funding being cut to Harvard, and other threats
like Sexuary of State Marko Rubio, for example, it is
threatening at this point to begin clamping down on Chinese
visa holders.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Okay, so for now, foreign students can still apply and
go to They're not going to be you know, thrown
out of Harvard on a whim or Okay, so that's
for now, for now.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
For now their sakes, But that doesn't mean in the
long term the Trump amanie fish and can try different avenues.
It's just going to be kind of a long term project.
If the Trump administration is serious about restricting the school's
international students Harvard. Trump was asked about this in the
Oval Office earlier this week. He suggested that at the
end of the day, he might be fine with international
students at Rarvard, but he does want to see the
number of international students reduced. He said that they should
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be no more than fifteen percent of the school student body.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Ahah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Okay, all right, Well, we will continue to watch it,
and thankfully we continue to have you available to help
us sort it out.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Thanks Peter Harlumbus have a great weekend.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Thanks so much, Ami Tako.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President
Trump's tariff plan has been reinstated by a federal appeals
court for now. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says
the decision was not a surprise.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Well, very pleased with the ruling. We expected it.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
The bottom line is that our US Trade representative, Jamison Greer,
is the best trade thiker of the business that at
President Trump's case is ironclad.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
The court granted the administration's request to pause a lower
court's ruling that blocked most of Trump's tariffs on other countries.
The US Court of International Trade had ruled that an
emergency law doesn't give Trump the authority to impose tariffs
on nearly every country. Speaking of other countries, Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessant says trade talks with China have stalled.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
I believe that we will be having more talks with
them in the next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Essen says he thinks there may be a phone call
at some point between President Trump and Chinese President Hijinking.
Trump imposed massive tariffs on China's earlier this year, but
then cut them this month to thirty percent for ninety
days as talks between the two countries began. The White
House says Israel has accepted a US proposal for a
temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. White House Press Secretary
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Caroline Levitt says Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and President Trump
submitted the ceasefire proposal that Israel has backed and supported.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Israel signed off on this proposal before it was sent
to Hamas. I can also confirm that those discussions are continuing,
and we hope that a ceasefire in Gaza will take
place so we can return all of the hostages.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Home AMAS officials say they wanted to study the proposal
more closely before giving a formal answer. It comes days
after Israel killed tamas's top leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar.
The Department of Justice is dropping criminal charges against Boeing
after the company agreed to pay over a billion dollars
to avoid prosecution. The charges are related to the crashes
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of two Boeing seven thirty seven Max Passenger jets six
years ago. A lawyer for the families says they received
a letter yesterday informing them that the charges against Boeing
were being dismissed. United and Jet Blue if teamed up
to give members of their loyalty programs more chances to
earn perks.
Speaker 12 (12:46):
The airlines announced the new partnership, called Blue Sky yesterday.
The carrier said it will give customers new opportunities to
earn and use Mileage plus miles and True Blue points
across both airlines. As part of this collaboration, customers will
be to book United in Jet Blue flights on each
airline's booking platforms. The deal will also see United Airlines
return to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as
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early as twenty twenty seven, when it will be able
to use Jet Blue slots for up to seven daily
round trip flights.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Debor Mark Kfi News.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Carrick has died.
He was in charge on nine to eleven and was
later nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security. Krrick
was also a bodyguard for Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the
early nineties.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
In two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
He pleaded guilty to tax fraud, was sent to prison,
and was eventually pardoned. FBI director Cash Bettel says Kerk's
death yesterday came after what he called a private battle
with an illness.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Bernie Kerrick was sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And millennials and gen zers are googling basic life skills
in record numbers as they become adults.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
The search engine told Axios questions for things such as
how to use a mop, how to set up auto pay,
and how to do an oil change or at all
time highs this year. And it's not just Google. More
than half of YouTube users in the US say they
used that platform to figure out things they haven't done before.
As a Reddit user called it, the University of YouTube
studies show schools or dropping classes like homec that train
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students in practical life skills. Mark ronnerch KFI News.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
When we come back, we have all wondered at some
point how long will I live? Well, we're going to
be joined by futurist Kevin SURRILLI about how you may
be able to hack your lifespan and become a super ager.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I like that little superhero.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
La Counties asked for a preliminary injunction against the operators
of the Jaquita Canyon landfill. The injunction asked the court
to intervene and order the operators to help nearby homeowners
in relocating or updating their homes because residents have been
complaining for years of the odors from the landfill making
them sick. More than a week after La City Council
gave its first approval to a revised nearly fourteen billion
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dollars spending plan for the next fiscal year, the council
scheduled to take a second final vote on the plan today.
The original cast of Broadways Hamilton isn't giving up its
shot at a reunion. Stars Lynn Manuel, Miranda Leslie, Odom Junior,
de VD Diggs, and others will take the stage for
an anniversary performance at the Tony's next month. Let's say
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good morning now to futurist Kevin Surreally Kevin, It's something
that we all wonder, how long will I live?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yes? Yeah, super aging that's what they're calling it. Super agers.
And these are people who live not just for a
long time that they live well into their eighties and nineties,
but they've got the memory and the brain cognition of
folks in their thirties and forties and sometimes even younger
than that. So scientists at Northwestern University they studied these
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super agers using the latest artificial intelligence to map these
people's brains, and what they found is that the older
that you get, your brain actually shrinks or parts of
it get inflamed, and that's not really a good thing.
But for these super agers, the parts of their brain
connected to memory, they actually had a thicker cortex than
they didn't shrink. And so hopefully, as we are mapping
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the brain, it's really a map for all of us
to be able to age more gracefully.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So when somebody says, wow, check out the big brain
on that person, they literally mean.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It, yeah. Well but yeah, but it could be that
they're inflamed and that the brain is inflamed, and that's
not necessarily a good thing. There's another scientist named Dave Buner,
and he studies blue zones and what are blue zones.
That's parts of the world where they have a higher
concentration of people who have aged to be longer than
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one hundred years old. And Aquinawa, Japan is the number
one blue zone in the world where there are people
with who have aged in a higher concentration of being
older than one hundred Sardinia Italy is number two. There's
only one blue zone in the United States, a country
where one in five of us will be older than
sixty five by twenty thirty. So we're getting older faster.
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What part or what can you guess? Do you have
any guesses for your the one blue zone?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
It's your Belinda. I'm sorry, Loma, Linda.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It is Lomelinda.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
How did you know? I guess I celebrate this. Yeah,
while I'm talking to cowboy. Yeah, low Melinda. And so
the one thing that scientists at Northwestern and the Blue
zone people, what they argue is that they have daily
rhythm and so they check in. So it means you're
staying active. It doesn't mean you're Arnold schwartzen Anger in
the gym with grandma and grandpa at the age of
ninety years old. But you are doing something active every day.
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You're staying connected, you're eating healthier. But the staying connected
part is really crucial. You're talking to your friends and
family more and all of that contributes to your brain health,
which you know, should hopefully motivate all of us.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
So by staying connected, you're just saying that by talking
to other people and engaging, you're using your brain instead
of letting it go dormant.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, which sounds really simple, but then you put the
technology element into it, and as AI allows for individuals
to not just get their heart scans and better information
for different you know, checkups at the doctor. Hopefully we're
moving to a world where you're getting your brain checked
up and you're understanding, you know, not just if you're
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at risk or if you have the early signs for Parkinson,
cementia or Alzheimer's, but you're able to track hey, this
part of my brain is getting a little more inflamed,
or this part of my brain is being is starting,
you know, to develop signs for this, and then you
can make a course correction. Because thirty percent, and this
should motivate everybody, only thirty percent of longevity is genetic.
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The rest is up to us. So you know, we
have to make these little choices that really have a
long impact, not just on what we're how we're feeling today,
but how we're feeling decades from now.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Okay, so Kevin, before we go, just because yeah, I
have a short attention span. So what give me like
three or four things that we could do right now
to kind of cheat the grim reaper and work.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
One is that keeping engaged. What what are a couple
of things.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Read read a book, read a book, Challenge yourself to
read a book and finish it. And secondly is to
be active. Go outside practice them, even if it's just
for three times a week for twenty five minutes. Go
on a walk. Literally, just go on a walk outside
and get off your phone. And then finally, just stay
connected human to human. Contact your friends, your family, show up,
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go out and hang out with them. Don't just call them,
hang out with them and say engage, check in, stay
with it, practice the daily rhythm.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Okay, I'm going to go take a walk today. Kevin Serrelli, futurist.
Thank you for the information.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
We'll talk to you all right.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Loma Linda, way to go. We knew that because ConA,
you live in Loma Linda, are close to there. I
live in in Lama Linda. So you're to live to
be one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's the plan.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Okay, good h The Department of Homeland Security is putting
hundreds of sanctuary jurisdictions across the country on notice. The
Department is publishing a list of those jurisdictions and says
each one will get a formal notification if they're believed
to be in violation of any federal criminal statutes. Sanctuary
jurisdictions do not cooperate with immigration enforcement. Of course, California
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and the City of La are sanctuary jurisdictions. A woman
says her husband has followed the rules, but was still
handcuffed by immigration agents as he left his asylum hearing
in San Francisco.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
They pulled us apart and heard the handcuffs, and my
husband is not a criminal, and so that just kills me.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Shalen Ordez says her husband came to the US from
Columbia in January of last year to seek asylum because
of his sexual orientation. Ordas says the judge didn't dismiss
her husband's case following the asylum hearing last week. He
is being held in a detention center near Bakersfield. The
man accused of stalking actress Jennifer Aniston and vandalizing her
(21:06):
home has been found incompetent to stand trial.
Speaker 14 (21:08):
Two psychiatrists have examined Jimmy Wayne Carwhile and reached the
same conclusion he's not mentally fit to face the felony
charges brought against him and Eli. Superior court judge in
Hollywood agreed and says the criminal proceedings will stop for now.
Carwhile will get treatment. He's due back in court next
month for a hearing on where to put him. He's
accused of crashing his car into the front gate of
Aniston's house in bel Air. She was home but not hurt.
(21:30):
He also allegedly send emails, voicemails, and social media posts
to the star of Friends Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
People in Santa Monica say they're fed up with the
noise from Waimo's self driving cars.
Speaker 15 (21:42):
People who live near the cities to Waimo charging lots
say they can't stand the constant deeping noise when the
Weymo vehicles drive in reverse. They say they hear the
sound at all hours of the day. The City of
Santa Monica says that Weaimo has taken several steps to
reduce the noise, including planting.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Trees to create a sound barrier.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
There are also complaints about increased traffic and light pollution.
From headlights with more Waymo vehicles on the road going
to and from the charging lots. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Yankees at Dodgers Stadium,
with the first pitch going out at seven o'clock.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Good to have the boys home.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Listen to all the Dodger games on AM five to
seventy LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth,
and you can stream all the Dodgers games all season
long in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Again that keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. The toxic algae bloom off
the coast of southern California that's been causing marine birds
and animals to get sick or die appears to be dissipating.
(22:40):
The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro says in
the last week it has treated no new patients showing
signs of demoic acid poisoning. A thirty five year old
man has been convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting his ex
girlfriend's daughter in Santa Anna when she was between six
and ten years old. Prosecutors say the girl came forward
about the abuse after Sergio Erosio Martinez invited her and
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her mother to his wedding. She said she thought the
fiancee should know about the abuse. He'll be sentenced in August.
Millennials and gen z been turning to Google to navigate
their everyday life skills. The search engine axios or told
Axios that questions for things like how to use a mop,
how to set up autopay, and how to do oil
changes are at an all time high this year.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
All right, it's six.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh five, it's handle on the news. A judge is
going to weigh in on whether Mayor Bass is going
to be subpoenaed along with La City council members over
how they're handling homelessness. Let's say good morning now to
the host of Home on KFI, our house whisperer, Dean Sharp.
Welcome back from vacation, Dean, Ah, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Ah, You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So today we're talking about like cool, new futuristic things
that you can get for your house, not in the future,
but right now here in the presser.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
This is true. This is true.
Speaker 16 (24:02):
Every year or so I try and set aside at
least a couple of shows and we talk about new
stuff that's out there that really could change the game,
as it were, when it comes to your home or
home building or some aspect of home. And we've got
a really cool list this.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Year, all right, so give us, give us a couple
of the highlights. It sounds like you're you're fighting a
bit of a cold as well.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
Yeah, I'm I'm a little nasally this morning, so forgive
me for that. But all right, So right at the
top of the list, super wood. What is super wooder wood? Well,
here's the thing. It's not so much a particular wood,
but it is a process now that any kind of
wood can go through that makes it get this stronger
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than steal eighty percent, lighter than equivalent steal, and rot resistant,
fire resistant, water resistant. It's really kind of an amazing idea.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Okay, So here's my one question on this, because in
the wake of the wildfires in La County, they're talking
about how these all these fire burn areas are toxic
because the houses are built with things with chemically you know,
altered building materials, right, right, So is that does that
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superwood fall into that category?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Not at all, not at all. It is wood.
Speaker 16 (25:25):
It is, in fact, in fact, the strength of superwood
doesn't come from adding anything to the wood. It comes
from removing something from the wood. So it goes through
a little chemical treatment, and the chemicals don't stick around.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay.
Speaker 16 (25:39):
The chemical treatment is the equivalent to the kind of
treatment that we already take wood through to create pulp.
And what that does is it removes this part of
the wood that are lignins and what we call hemicellulose,
which are kind of the carbohydrates and the sugars inside
the wood. By the way, those are the materials that
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bugs like termites like to eat. Okay, so imagine imagine this.
Imagine you take a regular piece of wood and you
let termites just get to it. You know, we've all
come across it. That's got all these tunnels inside it,
all these voids spaces where they have just eaten out
all of the goodness inside this wood. What they've left
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behind are actually the strongest parts of the wood. And
now we take that after chemically removing those areas, we
take that kind of spongy, open, hollow wood and we
apply heat and pressure to it to press it down,
recompress those areas and get them to bind to each
other again. The walls of those inner voids, and what
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we end up with is a wood that is unbelievably strong,
no added chemicals to it, whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's wood. It's just wood that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
And is it available now?
Speaker 16 (26:59):
It is available now, just this year, just this year,
And they're beginning their rollout now because they're talking about
the possibilities of even creating car body frames, airplane frames,
and skyscrapers out of this material.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Wow.
Speaker 16 (27:14):
But this year the rollout starts with siding and decking
materials and then it will move on to structural beams.
So imagine this. You talk about wildfire areas. Imagine that
you have an house on the open space edge of
a wildfire area. Imagine the freedom you have now from
a design perspective to say, you know what, I'm going
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to put wood siding on my house and it's going
to be entirely class A fire rated because super wood
burns at the same temperature that stone and brick burn.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, okay, And you're going to talk about more about this,
and I would love to talk more about this, and
your list of things is all things that I want
to find out more about.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
But we don't have time.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I'm here now, but we will this weekend on Home
with Dean Sharp, and that is Saturday from six to
eight and Sunday from nine to noon. And I will
be particularly tuned into the firefly petunia.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
They glow in the dark.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It's a petunia that glows in the dark. Yes, and
there's no radioactivity.
Speaker 16 (28:22):
No no. They've mixed it with a lubinescent mushroom gene
and now they glow at night.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
That is so cool.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
All right, Dean Sharp, thank you so much. Can't wait
to listen to your show this weekend again. It's a
Home on KFI. It's six to eight on Saturday morning
and nine to noon on Sunday morning. Cool things in
the future that you can get right now in the present.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We'll see you there. All right, It's.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Courtney be Friday. I'm one of those petunias, by the way,
I know, isn't that so cool?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
It sounds like it's going to be, you know, like
bioluminescence in the waves.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I got to go find out when we can get those, Oh,
no doubt about it. I'm gonna be looking that up later. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Okay, So the first thing that you wanted to talk
about was Disney, and I will tell you that I
got my I got an email from Disney yesterday and
when I was watching Disney Plus, a little pop up
on my screen said, hey, we have some cool new perks.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Here's how you find them. Yes, So what are.
Speaker 17 (29:20):
The streaming Well, the streaming wars are heating up, so
Disney wants to get ahead of all of that. So
Disney Plus subscribers can score discounts on Disney resorts and
free items and video games. There's going to be contest
to win a Disney cruise and a ten movie persary upcoming.
Freak You're friend it good for you.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I want a Disney cruiz.
Speaker 17 (29:37):
Those things are expensive, right, And but the program also
includes discounts with partners like door Dash and Dual Lingo.
But Hulu is also doing the same thing. They're going
to debut their own perks program next week. It will
offer subscribers a chance to win tickets to Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Alive, Comic Con, and Lalapaloosa too.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Okay, so if you're a Disney Plus or a Hulu subscriber,
look for the deals. Like I said, mine popped up
when I opened the streaming app yesterday to watch Handmaid's Tale,
So watch for it in your inbox and also on
your TV Screenhundai, I can't wait Honday.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Honday.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Hyundai good cars, low prices, but not quite as low.
Speaker 17 (30:18):
Yeah, because they're going to be shifting into a higher
gear when it comes to.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
What I did.
Speaker 17 (30:26):
Sources tell us the automaker is preparing to increase the
price of all of its cars in the US by
one percent, of course, because of tariffs. In addition, Hyundai
is likely to raise shipping charges and fees for options
such as floor mats and roof racks. The price hike,
the higher fees, that's expected to add several hundred dollars
at least to each of the vehicles. So it's going
(30:46):
to be a lot more expensive when you go into
the dealership. But keep in mind the move would apply
to newly built vehicles, leaving cars already sitting at the
dealership unaffected.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Okay, so you might still be able to get a deal.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And the tariffs are kind of you know, they've got
everybody nervous and thinking about raising prices and a lot
of retailers are saying, yeah, we're gonna have to, but
Costco's trying to hold the line.
Speaker 17 (31:09):
Yeah, They're flexing their muscles to try to keep the
prices low. So the warehouse chain is taking a number
of steps in response to tariffs. It's rerouting goods source
from countries with high tariffs to other markets. It's sourcing
more American produced mattresses, pillows, other items.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Kind of like that.
Speaker 17 (31:25):
The retailer also pulled forward some summer products, which has
helped Costco keep a lid on some prices. And of
course it's been expanding the popular lower cost Kirkland brand.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I love me a Kirkland product. Oh yeah they do.
That's good stuff, no doubt. Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
And then we've got the last trading day of the month,
because my goodness, June is almost here.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
What are we expecting, Almahstrie, Well, listen to this.
Speaker 17 (31:50):
In nineteen ninety, this Billy Joel classic was at the
top of the charts. And speaking of extremes, May is
usually not a good month for stocks. There's actually an
old adage on Wall Street selling May and go away.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Everybody talks about that.
Speaker 17 (32:10):
But it's been a completely different story in twenty twenty five,
and it's one of extreme See I'm bringing it back
to that. The S and P five hundred is on
track for its biggest monthly gain in May since nineteen ninety.
The INDEXO swords six point two percent this month and
we're now listened to this one within four percent of
the February record, which definitely took a hit in April
after the tariff.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Swore rolled out.
Speaker 17 (32:31):
But as we wrap up the last training day of
the month, it's not looking so good. The Dow Right now,
Dow futures are down one hundred and twenty five points.
President Trump within the half hour posted on truth social
that China violated its trade agreement with the US and
that immediately since stocks south of course.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
My goodness, it's just amazing how when he tweets something,
everybody just goes, eh, hair on.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Fire, and when the T word comes out, that's that's
never good.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Okay, Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, thanks for getting in your business today.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Let's do it again Monday. Shall we have a great
we can enjoy? All right, you too.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
US inflation is cooled again, with little sign of any
impact from Trump's tariffs. Consumer prices rose two point one
percent for April compared to a year earlier, down from
two point three percent in March and the lowest in September.
A woman who worked as Sean Combe's personal assistance has
testified in his sex trafficking trial that he sexually assaulted
her over and over during the several years she worked
(33:31):
for him. The woman is expected to be back on
the stand today in Manhattan. Heat advisories are in effect
for parts of the Southland, with temperatures expected to hit
triple digits. The heat advisory mainly for the Santa Clarita
and San Fernando Valleys. We're just minutes away from Handle
on the news. He'll be talking about all the happenings
of the day with his own handle.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Take always fun. Let's say good.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, yesterday the
Trump tariffs were blocked. But as we know with this administration,
things change fast.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
What's the latest.
Speaker 10 (34:04):
Yeah, So it's a bit of a follow of the
bouncing ball here. We have an important ruling by a
federal court in New York, the US Court of International Trade,
that struck down the tariffs on Wednesday night, and then
yesterday the appeals court above that put a temporary pause
on that ruling. I call it a temporary pause because
we don't know whether it's going to last, and the
court hasn't signaled one way or the other. It's just
(34:26):
an administrative stay, that's how it's described, to allow for
both sides to put in their initial round of filings
in the case, and then the court will decide whether
that stay remains in place, whether the state stays or
the state goes, and then at that point the tariffs
would again be.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Put on pause.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
So for now, this morning, Friday, May thirtieth, legally speaking,
the tariffs are still on that's the ten percent global
tariffs the President put in place, and ultimately he's on
track to have them the rest of the so called
reciprocal tariffs supply in early July. But for now, it
so back and forth, and the appeals court here in Washington,
(35:03):
d C. That's the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
will look at it now separately, not to confuse you,
but separately on a different track in a different jurisdiction,
but still here in Washington, a federal district court, in
the District Court a federal districturt judge issued a ruling
also striking the tariffs down, and that will be appealed
to a separate federal circuit court, also here in Washington.
(35:26):
But ultimately, and of course, it'll be the Supreme Court
that is asked to weigh in on this. One way
or another. The administration argues that judges should have nothing
to say about this, that the president has been given
emergency powers by the Congress, that that was a law
passed in nineteen seventy seven, that while no president ever
before tried to use these powers in this way, President
Trump has the legal right to declare a national emergency
or several national emergencies, and deal with those emergencies in
(35:49):
the way that Congress, he says, intended, which is to
impose these tariffs to deal with this rare and extraordinary
emergency that he says is now in place.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
The opposite side.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Of the argument, obviously, is that it's not only not
an emergency, but that the tariffs won't deal with whatever
he claims is the emergency, that he's merely trying to
accomplish a whole nother round.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Of other objectives.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
That really is for Congress to decide the people's elected representatives.
If the president had the power simply to have impose
taxes by simply signing a piece of paper, what's the
point of having a congress. Now the administration, what's the
point of having a president if a judge can come
in and say, well, blah blah blah. So look, this
is about power, it's about who has the final word.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
It's about you know, what.
Speaker 10 (36:38):
The broader objectives are. But ultimately it's about the limits
of the government, limits of the law, and we'll see
who wins.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Okay, So, right now, as it stands, the tariffs are
not blocked, but it still needs to play out in
the courts. No decision has been made, right.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 10 (36:56):
Yeah, So this is all very procedural and early, so
there's no final ruling yet. It's just a matter of
where are we in the process and what do the
judges need and want. And right now they say they
need more time to be able to make a decision.
So they're going to put the pause in places the
pause of the lower court ruling to allow for themselves
to make sort of an informed decision as to whether
(37:16):
the tariff should be on or off.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Okay, well, what's that We're going to pause our conversation
with Stephen Portnoy because I'm sure that we're going to
put it back on again very soon, because it's probably gonna.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Change on Monday.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
You can count on that.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much. Have a
good weekend, you bet. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Thieves have stolen millions of dollars in merchandise from a
family owned jewelry store in Glendale, Burglars got in through
the roof of Badrussian Jewelry early Tuesday morning. They disabled
security cameras, used blowtorches to open at least two of
(37:47):
the three safes, and ransack the store. The store has
been in business for more than twenty years. Another jewelry
store in Seemi Valley had about two million dollars in
cash and merchandise stolen by thieves on Sunday who cut
through the roof and got through a wall to get in.
News brought to you by Simper Solaris La Mayor Basses
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Speaker 12 (38:06):
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businesses access permits, resources, and procurement opportunities much more easily.
Bass highlighted this during yesterday's twenty twenty five Procurement LA Summit.
Last year, the Mayor's Office of Business and Economic Development
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Speaker 4 (38:37):
A lawsuit's been filed over a woman's headstone at Forest
Lawn Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills. A man claims the
cemetery engaged in fraud, breach of contract, and negligence when
it buried his mom in the right plot but put
the monument in the wrong place. He says he visited
that incorrect site for years, causing him emotional distress when
(38:59):
he learned the truth. The suit says he only learned
of the mistake when a Forest Lawn employee explained the
situation at his dad's burial. A case involving a cake
for a same sex couple may be headed to the
highest court.
Speaker 13 (39:11):
Two women in Bakersfield requested a simple cake from a
bakery for their wedding in twenty seventeen, but the owner
refused to make it due to her religious beliefs. California
courts now say that violated state anti discrimination loss. Though
a local judge ruled in twenty twenty two the owner's
refusal was for religious motivations, an appeals court decided personal
beliefs can't justify breaking California discrimination loss. The case could
(39:32):
now be taken to the US Supreme Court, which has
previously supported businesses refusing service to same sex couples. Mark
Ronner KFI News and if you've.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Been thinking about buying a piano, there is a pretty
good deal at Loyola Marymount this weekend.
Speaker 18 (39:46):
The university sells its year old pianos each year to
make way for new keyboards for the upcoming school year.
The selection includes Grand, upright and studio pianos for makers
like Steinway, Estonia, Yamaha, and more. The prices ranged from
ten thousand dollars for an upright toime twenty thousand for
a baby Grand Kim's Pianos at Orange County loans LMU
new pianos each year, then sells them after the school year.
(40:07):
You could see them through Saturday at lmus Burns Fine
Arts Center. The sale is Sunday. Jim Rope KFI News.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange
County live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom for
producer Ann and technical producer Kno along with traffic specialist
Will I'm Amy King. This has been your wake up call.
And if you missed any of wake Up Call, oh
you missed a lot. We've got Dean Sharp talking about
super wood that's stronger and lighter than steel, fireproof and
(40:37):
non toxic. And then futurist Kevin SURRELLI a few simple
things you can do to become a super ager and
live a healthier, happier, longer life. Those are all things
that you missed on wake Up Call if you didn't
hear it, but you can listen anytime catch up on
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Speaker 1 (40:52):
You've been listening to wake Up Call with me Amy King.
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
am Monday through Friday on KFI IAM six forty and
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
App KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Well, good morning. It's five o'clock this Friday morning. This
is your wake up call for May thirtieth. Next time
we talk on Monday, it's gonna be June. We're even
closer to Christmas. H stop, thanks for getting your day
started with us today. I have to tell you about
(00:52):
one of life's little joys.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
It's for me.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
It's like when you do little things around the house,
you make a little change, and then you look.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
At it and you go, oh, I'm so happy I
did that.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So my latest little change is that at Christmas time,
I put up I took down or I took out
the porch light and put in some twinkly lights along
my walkway, well from all the rain. And they've been
on for six months. You know, they started to burn out.
So I got red, white and blue lights. Oh, because
you know it's summertime. We've got Fourth of July coming up.
(01:26):
We just had Memorial Day, so I put up the red,
white and blue lights that now line my little walkway.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
I love that. There you go, it's the little thing.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
Yeah, we're going to talk about lots of little things,
actually some really cool futuristic things with Dean Sharp Today,
host of Home on KFI. You're gonna want to hear that.
That's coming up at the bottom of the hour. But
here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Let's get going.
Thieves have stolen millions of dollars worth of merchandise from
a family owned jewelry store in Glendale Sound Familiar. Burglars
(01:56):
got in through the roof, disabled security cameras, used blow
terches to open at least two of the three safes,
and ransacked Bedruzian jewelry. Another jewelry store in Simi Valley
had about two million dollars in cash and merchandise stolen
by thieves on Sunday. They also cut through the roof
and then through a wall to get in. The Pacific
Palisades City Council is going to spend two hundred and
(02:17):
sixty thousand dollars for security in neighborhoods burned in the wildfires.
In January, a thirty day contract was approved Wednesday, it
could be extended. There are concerns that vacant homes are
going to be vulnerable to looters and thieves. Now that
PCH has reopened, Heat advisories are in effect for parts
of the Southland, with temperatures expected to hit triple digits
(02:37):
in some areas. The heated advisory is up for Santa
Clarita and the San Fernando Valley. President Trump's plans to
keep foreign students out of Harvard has hit a snag.
ABC's Peter Harrlumboose was in the courtroom yesterday. He's going
to give the latest on that coming up in just
a couple of minutes. Also, we've all wondered at some point,
right how long am I going to live? We're going
(02:59):
to be joined by futurist Kevin Surilli. He's going to
talk about how you may be able to maybe able
to hack your lifespan and become a super ager. That's
coming up at five twenty. Also, we're going to find out,
as I mentioned, some of the new futuristic things you
can get for your home now in the present. That's
with the house whisper at the bottom of the hour.
And then yesterday the tariffs were blocked.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
ABC.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Stephen Portnoy joins us to tell us today how it's
a new day for tariffs, at least for now, and
that's at five point fifty. It's an ever changing, ever changing,
very fluid situation and we need people like Stephen Portnoy
to help us keep up with it. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Southern California is in for a
(03:44):
mini heat wave this weekend.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Wells Angeles and Orange Counties are expected to see highs
in the upper eighties and lower nineties. The valleys and
the Inland Empire will likely see highs in the mid
nineties Today. Inland, Ventura County and the La County Valleys
will be under a heat advisory from eleven o'clock this
morning to eight o'clock tonight. There's a chance of rain
and thunderstorms, especially on Sunday and Monday. Thunderstorm chances will
(04:06):
be the highest in the mountains. Daniel Martindale, CAFI News.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
AH, this is welcome news.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
The algae bloom that's been making sea animals sick and
even killing them in the Southland is.
Speaker 7 (04:17):
Wilting The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro says
the worst of the deadly algae bloom is over, with
no new patients showing signs of demoic acid toxicosis over
the last week. Birds, sea lions, and marine mammals have
gotten sick or killed by the poison in the past
few months. Veterinarians and care centers near the coasts say
many were treated and able to recover, but it was
the longest, most toxic, and deadliest bloom they've ever experienced.
(04:39):
The MMC says it's expanding its facilities and increasing patient
capacity as these types of events increase in intensity and
frequency thanks to climate change. Michael Krozier KFI News.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Two men have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping
and robbery in Culver City. A man told police a
couple of weeks ago that he was walking to his
car when he was approached by someone in a silver
FUV and ordered at gunpoint to get inside. He said
he was driven to a bank and was forced to
make several withdrawals. He pulled out about five hundred and
forty dollars. The man says he was eventually let go
(05:11):
in a residential area and was warned not to call police.
A thirteen year old Fasin Zaki is the best speller
in the land. The team from Texas won the Script's
National Spelling be last night by correctly spelling the word eclairezizman.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
E C O A I R C I S E
M E and teh eficial That is correct.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
He's so excited. I love that.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Besides winning the trophy, Zaki gets a fifty thousand dollars
grand prize. Brent Wood's Oliver Halkett finished seventh. Way to
Go Oliver. He was eliminated after struggling with the word
a roar, which is the yellow or pink tint given
a white sauce by the addition of egg ye, ooks,
tomato puree, or lobster coral.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Who knew.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Harralumbus.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Good morning, Peter.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Good morning Amy.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
We got some more challenges for the Trump administration and
its executive orders. Judge says, not so fast when it
comes to taking action against Harvard. You were in the courtroom.
Tell us what happened to Lease.
Speaker 9 (06:26):
That's exactly right. A really a big day for Harvard yesterday.
Not only was it the school's commencement, but they got
a big win in their lawsuit against the Trump administration,
this one over their right to enroll international students. Judge
issuing Saint she's going to issue a preliminary injunction protecting
those international students. This comes to the Trump administration with
seemingly backtracking on that policy. They issued a letter just
(06:46):
twenty four hours ahead of that hearing, kind of giving
Harvard more time to respond to the allegations and basically
extending the window, despite the fact that they originally made
it seem like this would be an immediate change, this
inabillage to enroll internationals students. Harvard's president taking a job
at this issue during his commencement address, basically saying that
everyone across the country and across the world belongs to Harvard.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Okay, so you were in the courtroom yesterday. Was it
sort of a civil thing? Did they present arguments? Did
it get heated?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
What happened?
Speaker 7 (07:19):
You know?
Speaker 9 (07:19):
I was there expecting a pretty long day of maybe
an hour or two of arguments, but it went in
about twenty minutes. The fact that the Trump administration kind
of backtracked overnight ahead of this hearing, kind of changed
the playing field entirely. The Department of Justice insisted that
this was kind of a moot issue, basically that because
the Trump administration was giving Harvard more time, there wasn't
(07:40):
actually a need to issue an order. But the judge
shot back saying that students were anxious, students were terrified
about these kind of changes, and that some kind of
order was necessary. It was really a resounding win for Harvard.
They didn't really even have to argue in a way.
The judge had her mind made up when she entered
that courtroom, and this came just hours ahead of the
school's commencement.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Okay, so now, Peter, tell us, then, what happens next,
because I'm guessing that there's going to be an immediate appeal,
or is this this this just continues her stay against
it while it plays out in court.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
What is I'm a little confused on that. No.
Speaker 9 (08:18):
No, it's confusing and tricky in part because the Trump
administration has made it tricky each because you know, at
the end of the day, this order, you know, offers
some kind of temporary protection for these international students. The
Truman administration has not going to be able to just
go in within a matter of hours and say, well,
you're not allowed to have a visa as a student here.
But it does still allow kind of an administrative avenue
(08:40):
for the Trump administration to challenge the school's ability to
enroll international students. That's a long, lissed, tedious process, it
takes months, and there's an appeals process, but the Trump
administration can try to use that administrative avenue and that
might eventually return them to federal court one day if
the Trump administration actually seems to follow through with this.
But ultimately, sources close to the matter basically told us
(09:01):
that yesterday's backtracking, the fact that Trump administration gave Harvard
more time and kind of loosened their threat a bit,
was because they realized that they were on very shaky
I legal ground that all things considered, they weren't really
gonna win. They didn't have much of a chance, and
they needed to amend basically the situation to have any
chance of succeeding in court. That didn't help them at
(09:21):
the end of the day yesterday they still lost in court,
and they still gave Harvard more flexibility, but that doesn't
mean Harvard's out of the woods per se. There's still
that long term threat. There's still a threat of billion
dollars of funding being cut to Harvard, and other threats
like Sexuary of State Marko Rubio, for example, it is
threatening at this point to begin clamping down on Chinese
visa holders.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Okay, so for now, foreign students can still apply and
go to They're not going to be you know, thrown
out of Harvard on a whim or Okay, so that's
for now, for now.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
For now their sakes, But that doesn't mean in the
long term the Trump amanie fish and can try different avenues.
It's just going to be kind of a long term project.
If the Trump administration is serious about restricting the school's
international students Harvard. Trump was asked about this in the
Oval Office earlier this week. He suggested that at the
end of the day, he might be fine with international
students at Rarvard, but he does want to see the
number of international students reduced. He said that they should
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be no more than fifteen percent of the school student body.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
Ahah.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Okay, all right, Well, we will continue to watch it,
and thankfully we continue to have you available to help
us sort it out.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Thanks Peter Harlumbus have a great weekend.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
Thanks so much, Ami Tako.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. President
Trump's tariff plan has been reinstated by a federal appeals
court for now. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett says
the decision was not a surprise.
Speaker 9 (10:46):
Well, very pleased with the ruling. We expected it.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
The bottom line is that our US Trade representative, Jamison Greer,
is the best trade thiker of the business that at
President Trump's case is ironclad.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
The court granted the administration's request to pause a lower
court's ruling that blocked most of Trump's tariffs on other countries.
The US Court of International Trade had ruled that an
emergency law doesn't give Trump the authority to impose tariffs
on nearly every country. Speaking of other countries, Treasury Secretary
Scott Bessant says trade talks with China have stalled.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
I believe that we will be having more talks with
them in the next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Essen says he thinks there may be a phone call
at some point between President Trump and Chinese President Hijinking.
Trump imposed massive tariffs on China's earlier this year, but
then cut them this month to thirty percent for ninety
days as talks between the two countries began. The White
House says Israel has accepted a US proposal for a
temporary ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. White House Press Secretary
(11:49):
Caroline Levitt says Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and President Trump
submitted the ceasefire proposal that Israel has backed and supported.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Israel signed off on this proposal before it was sent
to Hamas. I can also confirm that those discussions are continuing,
and we hope that a ceasefire in Gaza will take
place so we can return all of the hostages.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Home AMAS officials say they wanted to study the proposal
more closely before giving a formal answer. It comes days
after Israel killed tamas's top leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar.
The Department of Justice is dropping criminal charges against Boeing
after the company agreed to pay over a billion dollars
to avoid prosecution. The charges are related to the crashes
(12:29):
of two Boeing seven thirty seven Max Passenger jets six
years ago. A lawyer for the families says they received
a letter yesterday informing them that the charges against Boeing
were being dismissed. United and Jet Blue if teamed up
to give members of their loyalty programs more chances to
earn perks.
Speaker 12 (12:46):
The airlines announced the new partnership, called Blue Sky yesterday.
The carrier said it will give customers new opportunities to
earn and use Mileage plus miles and True Blue points
across both airlines. As part of this collaboration, customers will
be to book United in Jet Blue flights on each
airline's booking platforms. The deal will also see United Airlines
return to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport as
(13:09):
early as twenty twenty seven, when it will be able
to use Jet Blue slots for up to seven daily
round trip flights.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Debor Mark Kfi News.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Carrick has died.
He was in charge on nine to eleven and was
later nominated to head the Department of Homeland Security. Krrick
was also a bodyguard for Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the
early nineties.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
In two thousand and nine.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
He pleaded guilty to tax fraud, was sent to prison,
and was eventually pardoned. FBI director Cash Bettel says Kerk's
death yesterday came after what he called a private battle
with an illness.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Bernie Kerrick was sixty nine.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
And millennials and gen zers are googling basic life skills
in record numbers as they become adults.
Speaker 13 (13:51):
The search engine told Axios questions for things such as
how to use a mop, how to set up auto pay,
and how to do an oil change or at all
time highs this year. And it's not just Google. More
than half of YouTube users in the US say they
used that platform to figure out things they haven't done before.
As a Reddit user called it, the University of YouTube
studies show schools or dropping classes like homec that train
(14:11):
students in practical life skills. Mark ronnerch KFI News.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
When we come back, we have all wondered at some
point how long will I live? Well, we're going to
be joined by futurist Kevin SURRILLI about how you may
be able to hack your lifespan and become a super ager.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I like that little superhero.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
La Counties asked for a preliminary injunction against the operators
of the Jaquita Canyon landfill. The injunction asked the court
to intervene and order the operators to help nearby homeowners
in relocating or updating their homes because residents have been
complaining for years of the odors from the landfill making
them sick. More than a week after La City Council
gave its first approval to a revised nearly fourteen billion
(14:54):
dollars spending plan for the next fiscal year, the council
scheduled to take a second final vote on the plan today.
The original cast of Broadways Hamilton isn't giving up its
shot at a reunion. Stars Lynn Manuel, Miranda Leslie, Odom Junior,
de VD Diggs, and others will take the stage for
an anniversary performance at the Tony's next month. Let's say
(15:17):
good morning now to futurist Kevin Surreally Kevin, It's something
that we all wonder, how long will I live?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yes? Yeah, super aging that's what they're calling it. Super agers.
And these are people who live not just for a
long time that they live well into their eighties and nineties,
but they've got the memory and the brain cognition of
folks in their thirties and forties and sometimes even younger
than that. So scientists at Northwestern University they studied these
(15:49):
super agers using the latest artificial intelligence to map these
people's brains, and what they found is that the older
that you get, your brain actually shrinks or parts of
it get inflamed, and that's not really a good thing.
But for these super agers, the parts of their brain
connected to memory, they actually had a thicker cortex than
they didn't shrink. And so hopefully, as we are mapping
(16:11):
the brain, it's really a map for all of us
to be able to age more gracefully.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So when somebody says, wow, check out the big brain
on that person, they literally mean.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
It, yeah. Well but yeah, but it could be that
they're inflamed and that the brain is inflamed, and that's
not necessarily a good thing. There's another scientist named Dave Buner,
and he studies blue zones and what are blue zones.
That's parts of the world where they have a higher
concentration of people who have aged to be longer than
(16:42):
one hundred years old. And Aquinawa, Japan is the number
one blue zone in the world where there are people
with who have aged in a higher concentration of being
older than one hundred Sardinia Italy is number two. There's
only one blue zone in the United States, a country
where one in five of us will be older than
sixty five by twenty thirty. So we're getting older faster.
(17:03):
What part or what can you guess? Do you have
any guesses for your the one blue zone?
Speaker 5 (17:09):
It's your Belinda. I'm sorry, Loma, Linda.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It is Lomelinda.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
How did you know? I guess I celebrate this. Yeah,
while I'm talking to cowboy. Yeah, low Melinda. And so
the one thing that scientists at Northwestern and the Blue
zone people, what they argue is that they have daily
rhythm and so they check in. So it means you're
staying active. It doesn't mean you're Arnold schwartzen Anger in
the gym with grandma and grandpa at the age of
ninety years old. But you are doing something active every day.
(17:36):
You're staying connected, you're eating healthier. But the staying connected
part is really crucial. You're talking to your friends and
family more and all of that contributes to your brain health,
which you know, should hopefully motivate all of us.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
So by staying connected, you're just saying that by talking
to other people and engaging, you're using your brain instead
of letting it go dormant.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Yeah, which sounds really simple, but then you put the
technology element into it, and as AI allows for individuals
to not just get their heart scans and better information
for different you know, checkups at the doctor. Hopefully we're
moving to a world where you're getting your brain checked
up and you're understanding, you know, not just if you're
(18:24):
at risk or if you have the early signs for Parkinson,
cementia or Alzheimer's, but you're able to track hey, this
part of my brain is getting a little more inflamed,
or this part of my brain is being is starting,
you know, to develop signs for this, and then you
can make a course correction. Because thirty percent, and this
should motivate everybody, only thirty percent of longevity is genetic.
(18:46):
The rest is up to us. So you know, we
have to make these little choices that really have a
long impact, not just on what we're how we're feeling today,
but how we're feeling decades from now.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Okay, so Kevin, before we go, just because yeah, I
have a short attention span. So what give me like
three or four things that we could do right now
to kind of cheat the grim reaper and work.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
One is that keeping engaged. What what are a couple
of things.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Read read a book, read a book, Challenge yourself to
read a book and finish it. And secondly is to
be active. Go outside practice them, even if it's just
for three times a week for twenty five minutes. Go
on a walk. Literally, just go on a walk outside
and get off your phone. And then finally, just stay
connected human to human. Contact your friends, your family, show up,
(19:34):
go out and hang out with them. Don't just call them,
hang out with them and say engage, check in, stay
with it, practice the daily rhythm.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Okay, I'm going to go take a walk today. Kevin Serrelli, futurist.
Thank you for the information.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
We'll talk to you all right.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Loma Linda, way to go. We knew that because ConA,
you live in Loma Linda, are close to there. I
live in in Lama Linda. So you're to live to
be one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's the plan.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Okay, good h The Department of Homeland Security is putting
hundreds of sanctuary jurisdictions across the country on notice. The
Department is publishing a list of those jurisdictions and says
each one will get a formal notification if they're believed
to be in violation of any federal criminal statutes. Sanctuary
jurisdictions do not cooperate with immigration enforcement. Of course, California
(20:25):
and the City of La are sanctuary jurisdictions. A woman
says her husband has followed the rules, but was still
handcuffed by immigration agents as he left his asylum hearing
in San Francisco.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
They pulled us apart and heard the handcuffs, and my
husband is not a criminal, and so that just kills me.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Shalen Ordez says her husband came to the US from
Columbia in January of last year to seek asylum because
of his sexual orientation. Ordas says the judge didn't dismiss
her husband's case following the asylum hearing last week. He
is being held in a detention center near Bakersfield. The
man accused of stalking actress Jennifer Aniston and vandalizing her
(21:06):
home has been found incompetent to stand trial.
Speaker 14 (21:08):
Two psychiatrists have examined Jimmy Wayne Carwhile and reached the
same conclusion he's not mentally fit to face the felony
charges brought against him and Eli. Superior court judge in
Hollywood agreed and says the criminal proceedings will stop for now.
Carwhile will get treatment. He's due back in court next
month for a hearing on where to put him. He's
accused of crashing his car into the front gate of
Aniston's house in bel Air. She was home but not hurt.
(21:30):
He also allegedly send emails, voicemails, and social media posts
to the star of Friends Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
People in Santa Monica say they're fed up with the
noise from Waimo's self driving cars.
Speaker 15 (21:42):
People who live near the cities to Waimo charging lots
say they can't stand the constant deeping noise when the
Weymo vehicles drive in reverse. They say they hear the
sound at all hours of the day. The City of
Santa Monica says that Weaimo has taken several steps to
reduce the noise, including planting.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Trees to create a sound barrier.
Speaker 15 (22:00):
There are also complaints about increased traffic and light pollution.
From headlights with more Waymo vehicles on the road going
to and from the charging lots. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Yankees at Dodgers Stadium,
with the first pitch going out at seven o'clock.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
Good to have the boys home.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Listen to all the Dodger games on AM five to
seventy LA Sports live from the Gallpin Motors Broadcast booth,
and you can stream all the Dodgers games all season
long in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Again that keyword
AM five seventy LA Sports. The toxic algae bloom off
the coast of southern California that's been causing marine birds
and animals to get sick or die appears to be dissipating.
(22:40):
The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro says in
the last week it has treated no new patients showing
signs of demoic acid poisoning. A thirty five year old
man has been convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting his ex
girlfriend's daughter in Santa Anna when she was between six
and ten years old. Prosecutors say the girl came forward
about the abuse after Sergio Erosio Martinez invited her and
(23:04):
her mother to his wedding. She said she thought the
fiancee should know about the abuse. He'll be sentenced in August.
Millennials and gen z been turning to Google to navigate
their everyday life skills. The search engine axios or told
Axios that questions for things like how to use a mop,
how to set up autopay, and how to do oil
changes are at an all time high this year.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
All right, it's six.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Oh five, it's handle on the news. A judge is
going to weigh in on whether Mayor Bass is going
to be subpoenaed along with La City council members over
how they're handling homelessness. Let's say good morning now to
the host of Home on KFI, our house whisperer, Dean Sharp.
Welcome back from vacation, Dean, Ah, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Ah, You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
So today we're talking about like cool, new futuristic things
that you can get for your house, not in the future,
but right now here in the presser.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
This is true. This is true.
Speaker 16 (24:02):
Every year or so I try and set aside at
least a couple of shows and we talk about new
stuff that's out there that really could change the game,
as it were, when it comes to your home or
home building or some aspect of home. And we've got
a really cool list this.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Year, all right, so give us, give us a couple
of the highlights. It sounds like you're you're fighting a
bit of a cold as well.
Speaker 16 (24:24):
Yeah, I'm I'm a little nasally this morning, so forgive
me for that. But all right, So right at the
top of the list, super wood. What is super wooder wood? Well,
here's the thing. It's not so much a particular wood,
but it is a process now that any kind of
wood can go through that makes it get this stronger
(24:46):
than steal eighty percent, lighter than equivalent steal, and rot resistant,
fire resistant, water resistant. It's really kind of an amazing idea.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Okay, So here's my one question on this, because in
the wake of the wildfires in La County, they're talking
about how these all these fire burn areas are toxic
because the houses are built with things with chemically you know,
altered building materials, right, right, So is that does that
(25:20):
superwood fall into that category?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Not at all, not at all. It is wood.
Speaker 16 (25:25):
It is, in fact, in fact, the strength of superwood
doesn't come from adding anything to the wood. It comes
from removing something from the wood. So it goes through
a little chemical treatment, and the chemicals don't stick around.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Okay.
Speaker 16 (25:39):
The chemical treatment is the equivalent to the kind of
treatment that we already take wood through to create pulp.
And what that does is it removes this part of
the wood that are lignins and what we call hemicellulose,
which are kind of the carbohydrates and the sugars inside
the wood. By the way, those are the materials that
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bugs like termites like to eat. Okay, so imagine imagine this.
Imagine you take a regular piece of wood and you
let termites just get to it. You know, we've all
come across it. That's got all these tunnels inside it,
all these voids spaces where they have just eaten out
all of the goodness inside this wood. What they've left
(26:23):
behind are actually the strongest parts of the wood. And
now we take that after chemically removing those areas, we
take that kind of spongy, open, hollow wood and we
apply heat and pressure to it to press it down,
recompress those areas and get them to bind to each
other again. The walls of those inner voids, and what
(26:46):
we end up with is a wood that is unbelievably strong,
no added chemicals to it, whatsoever.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's wood. It's just wood that's so cool.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
And is it available now?
Speaker 16 (26:59):
It is available now, just this year, just this year,
And they're beginning their rollout now because they're talking about
the possibilities of even creating car body frames, airplane frames,
and skyscrapers out of this material.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Wow.
Speaker 16 (27:14):
But this year the rollout starts with siding and decking
materials and then it will move on to structural beams.
So imagine this. You talk about wildfire areas. Imagine that
you have an house on the open space edge of
a wildfire area. Imagine the freedom you have now from
a design perspective to say, you know what, I'm going
(27:37):
to put wood siding on my house and it's going
to be entirely class A fire rated because super wood
burns at the same temperature that stone and brick burn.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, it's unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Yeah, okay, And you're going to talk about more about this,
and I would love to talk more about this, and
your list of things is all things that I want
to find out more about.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
But we don't have time.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I'm here now, but we will this weekend on Home
with Dean Sharp, and that is Saturday from six to
eight and Sunday from nine to noon. And I will
be particularly tuned into the firefly petunia.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
They glow in the dark.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It's a petunia that glows in the dark. Yes, and
there's no radioactivity.
Speaker 16 (28:22):
No no. They've mixed it with a lubinescent mushroom gene
and now they glow at night.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
That is so cool.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
All right, Dean Sharp, thank you so much. Can't wait
to listen to your show this weekend again. It's a
Home on KFI. It's six to eight on Saturday morning
and nine to noon on Sunday morning. Cool things in
the future that you can get right now in the present.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
We'll see you there. All right, It's.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Courtney be Friday. I'm one of those petunias, by the way,
I know, isn't that so cool?
Speaker 4 (28:56):
It sounds like it's going to be, you know, like
bioluminescence in the waves.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I got to go find out when we can get those, Oh,
no doubt about it. I'm gonna be looking that up later. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Okay, So the first thing that you wanted to talk
about was Disney, and I will tell you that I
got my I got an email from Disney yesterday and
when I was watching Disney Plus, a little pop up
on my screen said, hey, we have some cool new perks.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Here's how you find them. Yes, So what are.
Speaker 17 (29:20):
The streaming Well, the streaming wars are heating up, so
Disney wants to get ahead of all of that. So
Disney Plus subscribers can score discounts on Disney resorts and
free items and video games. There's going to be contest
to win a Disney cruise and a ten movie persary upcoming.
Freak You're friend it good for you.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
I want a Disney cruiz.
Speaker 17 (29:37):
Those things are expensive, right, And but the program also
includes discounts with partners like door Dash and Dual Lingo.
But Hulu is also doing the same thing. They're going
to debut their own perks program next week. It will
offer subscribers a chance to win tickets to Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Alive, Comic Con, and Lalapaloosa too.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Okay, so if you're a Disney Plus or a Hulu subscriber,
look for the deals. Like I said, mine popped up
when I opened the streaming app yesterday to watch Handmaid's Tale,
So watch for it in your inbox and also on
your TV Screenhundai, I can't wait Honday.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Honday.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Hyundai good cars, low prices, but not quite as low.
Speaker 17 (30:18):
Yeah, because they're going to be shifting into a higher
gear when it comes to.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
What I did.
Speaker 17 (30:26):
Sources tell us the automaker is preparing to increase the
price of all of its cars in the US by
one percent, of course, because of tariffs. In addition, Hyundai
is likely to raise shipping charges and fees for options
such as floor mats and roof racks. The price hike,
the higher fees, that's expected to add several hundred dollars
at least to each of the vehicles. So it's going
(30:46):
to be a lot more expensive when you go into
the dealership. But keep in mind the move would apply
to newly built vehicles, leaving cars already sitting at the
dealership unaffected.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
Okay, so you might still be able to get a deal.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
And the tariffs are kind of you know, they've got
everybody nervous and thinking about raising prices and a lot
of retailers are saying, yeah, we're gonna have to, but
Costco's trying to hold the line.
Speaker 17 (31:09):
Yeah, They're flexing their muscles to try to keep the
prices low. So the warehouse chain is taking a number
of steps in response to tariffs. It's rerouting goods source
from countries with high tariffs to other markets. It's sourcing
more American produced mattresses, pillows, other items.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Kind of like that.
Speaker 17 (31:25):
The retailer also pulled forward some summer products, which has
helped Costco keep a lid on some prices. And of
course it's been expanding the popular lower cost Kirkland brand.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
I love me a Kirkland product. Oh yeah they do.
That's good stuff, no doubt. Okay.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
And then we've got the last trading day of the month,
because my goodness, June is almost here.
Speaker 5 (31:46):
What are we expecting, Almahstrie, Well, listen to this.
Speaker 17 (31:50):
In nineteen ninety, this Billy Joel classic was at the
top of the charts. And speaking of extremes, May is
usually not a good month for stocks. There's actually an
old adage on Wall Street selling May and go away.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Everybody talks about that.
Speaker 17 (32:10):
But it's been a completely different story in twenty twenty five,
and it's one of extreme See I'm bringing it back
to that. The S and P five hundred is on
track for its biggest monthly gain in May since nineteen ninety.
The INDEXO swords six point two percent this month and
we're now listened to this one within four percent of
the February record, which definitely took a hit in April
after the tariff.
Speaker 5 (32:30):
Swore rolled out.
Speaker 17 (32:31):
But as we wrap up the last training day of
the month, it's not looking so good. The Dow Right now,
Dow futures are down one hundred and twenty five points.
President Trump within the half hour posted on truth social
that China violated its trade agreement with the US and
that immediately since stocks south of course.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
My goodness, it's just amazing how when he tweets something,
everybody just goes, eh, hair on.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Fire, and when the T word comes out, that's that's
never good.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Okay, Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho, thanks for getting in your business today.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Let's do it again Monday. Shall we have a great
we can enjoy? All right, you too.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
US inflation is cooled again, with little sign of any
impact from Trump's tariffs. Consumer prices rose two point one
percent for April compared to a year earlier, down from
two point three percent in March and the lowest in September.
A woman who worked as Sean Combe's personal assistance has
testified in his sex trafficking trial that he sexually assaulted
her over and over during the several years she worked
(33:31):
for him. The woman is expected to be back on
the stand today in Manhattan. Heat advisories are in effect
for parts of the Southland, with temperatures expected to hit
triple digits. The heat advisory mainly for the Santa Clarita
and San Fernando Valleys. We're just minutes away from Handle
on the news. He'll be talking about all the happenings
of the day with his own handle.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Take always fun. Let's say good.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Morning now to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen, yesterday the
Trump tariffs were blocked. But as we know with this administration,
things change fast.
Speaker 5 (34:03):
What's the latest.
Speaker 10 (34:04):
Yeah, So it's a bit of a follow of the
bouncing ball here. We have an important ruling by a
federal court in New York, the US Court of International Trade,
that struck down the tariffs on Wednesday night, and then
yesterday the appeals court above that put a temporary pause
on that ruling. I call it a temporary pause because
we don't know whether it's going to last, and the
court hasn't signaled one way or the other. It's just
(34:26):
an administrative stay, that's how it's described, to allow for
both sides to put in their initial round of filings
in the case, and then the court will decide whether
that stay remains in place, whether the state stays or
the state goes, and then at that point the tariffs
would again be.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
Put on pause.
Speaker 10 (34:41):
So for now, this morning, Friday, May thirtieth, legally speaking,
the tariffs are still on that's the ten percent global
tariffs the President put in place, and ultimately he's on
track to have them the rest of the so called
reciprocal tariffs supply in early July. But for now, it
so back and forth, and the appeals court here in Washington,
(35:03):
d C. That's the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit,
will look at it now separately, not to confuse you,
but separately on a different track in a different jurisdiction,
but still here in Washington, a federal district court, in
the District Court a federal districturt judge issued a ruling
also striking the tariffs down, and that will be appealed
to a separate federal circuit court, also here in Washington.
(35:26):
But ultimately, and of course, it'll be the Supreme Court
that is asked to weigh in on this. One way
or another. The administration argues that judges should have nothing
to say about this, that the president has been given
emergency powers by the Congress, that that was a law
passed in nineteen seventy seven, that while no president ever
before tried to use these powers in this way, President
Trump has the legal right to declare a national emergency
or several national emergencies, and deal with those emergencies in
(35:49):
the way that Congress, he says, intended, which is to
impose these tariffs to deal with this rare and extraordinary
emergency that he says is now in place.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
The opposite side.
Speaker 10 (36:01):
Of the argument, obviously, is that it's not only not
an emergency, but that the tariffs won't deal with whatever
he claims is the emergency, that he's merely trying to
accomplish a whole nother round.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Of other objectives.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
That really is for Congress to decide the people's elected representatives.
If the president had the power simply to have impose
taxes by simply signing a piece of paper, what's the
point of having a congress. Now the administration, what's the
point of having a president if a judge can come
in and say, well, blah blah blah. So look, this
is about power, it's about who has the final word.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
It's about you know, what.
Speaker 10 (36:38):
The broader objectives are. But ultimately it's about the limits
of the government, limits of the law, and we'll see
who wins.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Okay, So, right now, as it stands, the tariffs are
not blocked, but it still needs to play out in
the courts. No decision has been made, right.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 10 (36:56):
Yeah, So this is all very procedural and early, so
there's no final ruling yet. It's just a matter of
where are we in the process and what do the
judges need and want. And right now they say they
need more time to be able to make a decision.
So they're going to put the pause in places the
pause of the lower court ruling to allow for themselves
to make sort of an informed decision as to whether
(37:16):
the tariff should be on or off.
Speaker 4 (37:17):
Okay, well, what's that We're going to pause our conversation
with Stephen Portnoy because I'm sure that we're going to
put it back on again very soon, because it's probably gonna.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Change on Monday.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
You can count on that.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much. Have a
good weekend, you bet. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
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Two women in Bakersfield requested a simple cake from a
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