July 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Amy King hosts your Wednesday Wake Up Call. ABC News national correspondent Steven Portnoy opens the show talking about Vice President Vance breaking the tie to pass Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ in the Senate. ABC News tech reporter Mike Dobuski joins the show for ‘Wired Wednesday.’ Today, Mike discusses all the tech stuff in the Republican spending bill and shares an update on Trump mobile. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give a business and stock market update. The show closes with the Executive Director of Friends of Big Bear Valley Sandy Steers talking about the use of fireworks.
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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.
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The time is five am. This is your wake up
call for Wednesday, July second. I'm Amy King. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Thanks for getting your day
started with us. Hey, yesterday we were asking you, like
where you're going for Fourth of July speaking of the
iHeartRadio App. Got some fun responses, got a couple more
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we want to share with you this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
But if you want to share where you're going for.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Fourth of July holiday, we'll always take those responses.
You just go to the iHeartRadio app and as you're
listening to wake Up Call, just hit the little talkback button.
It's the red circle with a white microphone in it
on the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Let us know I'm headed out today is my last
day a little bit. Yeah, I know. Ann was like,
you're already on vacation and your brain I can tell.
I'm like, I know, it's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So but today is the busiest travel day of the year.
According to Triple A, they're expecting seventy two million people
to hit the road or hit the sky over the
long holiday weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
So I was actually going to leave this afternoon. I
went better not no, no, no, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Take off tomorrow morning instead. Okay, here's what's ahead on
wake up call. The vice mayor of Cutahey was a
no show. Cynthia Gonzalez didn't show up for last night's
city council meeting, a week after she posted a now
deleted that appeared to call on gangs to fight back
against ICE agents in La Council members didn't take any
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action in response to the video, but it has prompted
several calls for Gonzales to resign. The La County Board
of Supervisors has passed emotion directing its attorneys to look
for legal ways to prevent what they call unconstitutional Federal
Immigration Enforcement. Supervisor Hilldessileasis. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from
unreasonable search and seizures, and says La County residents have.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Been suggest subjected to just that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Cooler temperatures and higher humidity have helped firefighters slow the
spread of the fire that's burned more than twenty twenty
four hundred acres in Banning. The fire that started on
Sunday is still threatening about four thousand homes and buildings.
It's forty percent surrounded. Evacuation orders near the fire remain
in place. ABC Stephen Portnoy's going to join us in
just a couple of minutes to tell us who voted
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against the Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate and why,
and whether it can clear its next big hurdle and
get to the President's desk. There's a lot of tech
in the Big Beautiful Bill, so ABC's Mike Didbuski is
going to join us at five twenty to tell us
about that. Also, what's happening with President Trump's Big Beautiful
cell phone company.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Last week we talked about how just like.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
One thing can throw off your whole morning routine and
that can mess up your whole day. Well, kfi's Rory
O'Neil is going to join us to tell us about
how we can stay on track and how that can
make the whole day better. And also, not everyone is
happy about Big Bear's big Fourth of July fireworks show.
Friends of Big Bear Valley. Sandy Steers is going to
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join us to talk about whether it could hurt our
beloved Eagle family. You know, Jackie Shadow, Sonny Gizmo. We'll
be talking about that. That's at five point fifty. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Anti ice protesters have
taken over the sixth Street bridge between downtown LA and
Boyle Heights. It was shut down yesterday afternoon as several
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rallies were held across LA. The group on the bridge
set a barrack, aid with caution tape and put up
a large sign that read evaction or eviction moratorium now.
They eventually moved into Boyle Heights. LA Mayor Bass says
the city is going to fight the Trump administration's lawsuit
over immigration policies.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
The Department of Justice has asked a court to invalidate
LA's sanctuary City ordinance, which prohibits municipal collaboration with federal
immigration enforcement in most cases. The mayor says LA is
a city of immigrants and will defend itself.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The lawsuit is an attempt to overturn the will of
the city, calling for a halt to long standing policy
to protect immigrant Angelino's.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
The mayor says she wants federal agents out of LA.
The Department of Homeland Security says Bass could distance herself
from federal law enforcement by taking another trip to Ghana.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Some Republican lawmakers in Orange County say they think iceraates
are not going as planned. Six Republicans from the county
have sent a letter to President Trump urging him to
focus only on violent criminals who are in the country legally.
A recent study found that about seventy percent of those
scooped up in recent ice raids did not have criminal convictions,
and some had never been charged with a crime. Governor
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Newsom says President Trump just doesn't understand what it takes
to keep California safe from wildfires.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Quite literally thinks you should just go out and rake
the forest. Make America rake again.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Newsom is called on President Trump to rollback cuts to
the US four Service, which he says is underpaid and understaffed.
He's also calling on the President to increase funding for
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and FEMA. It's five
oh seven. Let's say good morning now. To ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
the so called big beautiful bill has cleared another huge hurdle.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
But it's not over yet.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No, it ain't finished yet, and I'll tell you it
may not be. I'll see what happens today.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Is the latest? Give us the latest?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, the House of Representatives is now racing back to
DC despite a major weather system that has canceled hundreds
of flights up and down the eastern seaboards. So you
have some members of Congress from both parties hopping in
their cars from the Midwest to trying to make it
back to DC. There's no exact time for the vote.
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The House convenes in less than an hour. We don't
know when it's going to hit the floor. But at
one o'clock this morning Eastern time, as you were sleeping,
the House Rules Committee voted to advance this bill and
put it on the floor. Two Republican members of that committee,
Ralph Norman of South Carolina Chip Roy of Texas, voted
against advancing the measure. They are unhappy with the changes
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that have been made by the Senate. The changes are
too much to get into on the radio, and that's
part of the problem because you have Republican members of
the House who say, wait a minute, we haven't had
a chance to read all these changes. Maybe we're not
on board a big picture. More cuts to Medicaid three
point three trillion dollar impact on the debt, according to
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the Congressional Budget Office, makes the business tax cuts permanent.
And yet you have concerns among moderates who are concerned
about the medicaid provisions, and you have concerns from fiscal
hawks about the overall impact on the debt, the idea
that it increases spending and has a five trillion dollar
increase in the dead ceiling. So these are real challenges
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for Speaker Johnson to overcome. But we've seen him do
it before. And remember this bill passed in the House
in late May by a single vote and passed yesterday
in the Senate with the Vice President casting a tie
breaking vote in favor. So Republicans have demonstrated they can
get this done on the slimmest of margins. But we'll
see whether they're able to do it today.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Okay, So a couple of questions for you.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
One, the House passed version went over to the Senate.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
They made some changes.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Do we know how substantial the changes were or were
they like little technical things.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, look, it's difficult to characterize because you know, as
a former and senior mentor of mine, still a mentor,
but senior former colleague of mine put it once. You know,
a single sentence in a thousand page bill can change lives. Yeah,
so how to characterize it. Look, there are substantial changes
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that the Senate may into the Medicaid provisions, and already
you had moderates in the House who weren't happy with
the changes that the bill is making. In the first place.
It has to do mainly with how states are able
to tax Medicaid providers to fund the program. And the
whole idea here is medicaid is a federal state match.
If you limit the state's abilities to raise revenue, that
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in theory curbs federal spending because the states aren't able
to match it. And so that's what they've done. You
have moderates, they're concerned about it. Let's see if they
vote for it anyway, because if they vote against it,
they have the ire of the President, who can turn
their constituents against them, and they'd essentially be voting The
argument goes for a nationwide tax increase, and they don't
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want to see that to see how it'll plays out.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portinoy, thanks as always for the information,
does such a great job helping us thus it out.
You know, it's just like infuriating to me that they
wait until the last second like this, because, like Stephen
just said, it's a like a nine hundred and forty
page biller and I can't remember the exact number of pages.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
But you have to read the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And then even though Chuck Schumer said yes, we have
to read it in the Senate and made them read
the whole thing, how many lawmakers actually sat there and
listened to it? And when they make the changes, do
they highlight them so you can just go through and
see the highlighted changes, like when you mark up a
document on a word document, or do they just kind
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of sneak them in there. It's just so fascinating to
me and also infuriating. Don't know how you feel about it.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jury deliberations are
expected to continue today in the sex trafficking and racketeering
trial of Sean Comb's. ABC's Aaron Kadurski says, got to
a partial verdict yesterday after.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
A day and a half of deliberations. We have an
incredible cliffhanger here, a verdict but no conclusion, a defendant
who looked shaken, and a jury told it's not done yet.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The jurors said they had reached verdicts on four of
the five counts against Combs, but couldn't reach a unanimous
decision on the charge of racketeering conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Judge said, deliberate some more.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Israel has apparently agreed to terms of a sixty day
ceasefire with Gaza or in Gaza. President Trump says he
hopes for the good of the Middle East that Hamas
will take this deal, because, as he put it, it
won't get any better, it will only get worse. Trump
is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White
House to talk more about ending the war in Gaza
on Monday. The Defense Department has paused a weapons shipment
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to Ukraine. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth apparently ordered it because
of concerns of US military stockpiles that have been depleted
from sending weapons to Ukraine for the more than three
years of the Russia Ukraine. More the July fourth holiday
weekend is expected to kick off with extreme heat in
the Midwest, but sunny or dry conditions for most of
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the rest of the US Meteorologist Melissa Griffin says a
storm system could develop in Florida thunderstorms.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
From Taxes up to the northern Rockies, but for the
most part, billions of Americans will be enjoying a very
nice Fourth of July holiday.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Here in southern California, condition is expected to be warm,
but not too hot, temperatures mainly in the eighties nineties
for the inland areas. Heat wave is in the forecast
for next week. A coffee out of China is looking
to get Luckin' in the US.
Speaker 11 (11:38):
Luckin Coffee has opened its first two stores in the US.
The largest coffee chain in China, open in twenty seventeen
and now has more than twenty two thousand stores in
that country. The two new stores are both in Manhattan.
It's known for its mobile app, which is designed to
be like getting an uber, so no cashier is involved.
Luckin passed up Starbucks and revenue in China in twenty
twenty one. Despite its drinks being thirty percent cheaper than
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star Bucks, don't expect it to be that much cheaper
here in the US. Starbucks has a fifty year head
start on lucking in the US, but it's been struggling
after more than a year of falling sales. Michael Krozier
kf I News, what's.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Your catch, Tridge going to be finger licking? Finger lucking?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Good?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh my, you're on vacation, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I Yep, yep, absolutely not quite yet. We still have
some more wake up call to go. Hey, yesterday we
were asking you, like, what are you doing for the
fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And I loved this answer.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, for fourth of July, I'll be driving door dash
the entire day, barely keeping my head above the water.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
When it comes to the.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Bills I need to pay.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Yeah, So fourth of July I'll be coming to your house.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Tip your drivers.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
A good reminder.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
news room. Riverside Police they're going to be using drones
to catch people firing off illegal fireworks. The drones, which
the department just got this week, have night vision cameras
that allow images to be magnified up to two hundred times.
The drones can also record video that can be used
as evidence all fireworks are illegal. In the city of Riverside,
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two people are facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly assaulting
La County Sheriff's Department horses during anti ice protests. Prosecutors
say sixty six year old Dana Whitson of Arizona pushed
and hit a horse's muzzle during protests last month in
downtown La Iroan Castro of Almont's accused of pulling on
the bridle of two horses. Forty people were arrested during
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last month's protests. The Bear is Gonna Roar back for
a fifth season. Season four just dropped on Hulu last week.
In twenty twenty four, the show made history with twenty
three Emmy nominations. It won eleven. That was the most
ever for a comedy series in a single year. It
is not a comedy. I just gotta say it's not cono.
(13:53):
You think it is a comedy, you think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
The high anxiety pace of that shows corped individual. You
probably just sit there giggling during the show. Don't you true?
Have you watched this season yet?
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'm ell yeah? Are you done with it? No? I
am so good. I'm disappointed. I gotta tell you. I
got I was.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I had high hopes, started out and was like, this
is gonna be great and then went mmm, and by
the end I was really kind of mad.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Anyway, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
We'll talk about it more, because I gotta give you
time to catch up. Even if Kono's not done with it,
probably you're not done with it either.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Mike Debusky.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Morning, Mike, good morning. How are you? And I will
say I'm with you on on the Bear. Actually I'm
a little out on the Bear.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I know, I'm really I'm not happy with it. Lost
me after three after season three.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, season three was I didn't like it at all.
I loved season one, I loved season two. Season three
I was like what And then season four there were
moments of greatness, I think, but then it slid back
into the we'll talk about it more.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Let's let's talk about the issue at hand, and that
is technology that's wrapped into the big beautiful bill. So
what are some things that are in the bill that
could affect us.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
So one of the big tech provisions that was going
to be in the bill was actually stripped out of
the Senate Republican spending bill at the last minute. And
this was one that got a lot of attention and
it's still worth talking about just because it could crop
up in another form, either as a standalone piece of
legislation or bundled into a future bill. It was known
as the AI Moratorium, and this was a provision that
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was written by Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Ted Cruz
of Texas, and it essentially instituted a temporary pause on
state level AI regulation, meaning if you're a state government,
you for a set period of time would not have
been able to pass any legislation with certain carve outs
related to artificial intelligence. And originally that was going to
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be a ten year pause, then it was a five
year pause. And the idea here that lawmakers and many
in the AI industry had was that they wanted to
prevent patchwork from emerging across the country that these AI
companies were going to have to navigate either you know,
having Google sort of figure out conflicting laws in different,
you know, parts of the country. And more importantly, these
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smaller AI companies that make sort of more tailored services
to certain industries, whether it be you know, manufacturing or
medicine or what have you. You know, they don't necessarily
have the lawyers that Google or Open Ai has to
sort of figure out all of that sort of thing.
So the concern there was that this was going to
disadvantage smaller companies. It was going to hinder the larger
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companies ability to focus on developing super advanced intelligence at
a moment when we're in an AI race with China
and we don't want to take our foot off the gas.
That was the argument in favor of this piece of legislation. However,
there was a lot of opposition to it. There's a
lot of pushback both from Democrats and from Republicans. Seventeen
Republican governors wrote to Majority Leader John Thune. House Speaker
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Mike Johnson called for this AI moratorium to be stripped
out of the bill, And even in the AI space,
there was a little bit of pushback, with Dario Amida,
who is the CEO of Anthropic, writing that this is
a blunt instrument that gives us the worst of both
possible worlds. It stops states from being able to legislate
quickly on a quickly developing technology, and it does not
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allow for a federal backstop. Right there's no federal AI
legislation that you know these states could fall back on.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Okay, wait, so then my question, Mike is as it
stands now since that was stripped out. Yeah, the takeaway
is that right now ais on a free for all.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
The takeaway right now actually is that states still have
the ability to legislate on this, and many have.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Do you have that patchwork that you were talking about?
Speaker 8 (17:44):
You still have that patchwork? And interestingly enough, there's been
some analysis of the more than one thousand state level
laws governing artificial intelligence in some capacity or another that
suggests that this idea that it's going to be really
hard for Google to figure out like all these varying
sort of state level laws, is maybe a little overblown.
A lot of these state laws sort of overlap with
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one another. For example, about a dozen states across the
country have laws that have to do with protecting against
like political deep fakes and whatnot, so it actually kind
of similar in that regard. So it's not, you know,
necessarily that these guys are going to be thrown to
the wind.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Though.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
You know, I was talking to some experts yesterday who
also say that this concern that the smaller guys in
the AI space could be left out in the cold
here just because they don't have, you know, the backing
or the money to pay for lawyers to figure all
of this out. You know, it is a real one.
So it's going to be interesting to see if this
crops up in any future legislation. Marshall Blackburn, as we said,
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co authored this bill, but she was actually the one
who reversed her position on it and was kind of,
you know, in favor of stripping it out of the deal.
So you know, she teamed up with Ted Cruz. Maybe
those two get back together and figure something else out.
But you know, as of this point, it is now
up to the states to figure out kind of how
to regulate AI. We're still waiting on the federal government
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for sort of more broad reaching governance of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Okay, and then here's my thought before we move on
to the Trump's self. One thing is why do they
need lawyers? Just ask their own AI, Hey, did these
bills overlap, do they with each other?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Just ask your AI buddy.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Well, that gets at the crucial problem with AI, and
in fact, why many say that it needs regulation is
that this hallucinates and it makes mistakes. In fact, in
the law section of the in the law sector, some
lawyers have used artificial intelligence to summarize briefs to you know,
get more information on a case, and they've hallucinated. They've
made up crimes that didn't happen, accused people of all
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sorts of things. This technology, for as advanced as it
is and for as much hype as it gets, is
still fundamentally flawed. Right, It is still imperfect, and it
still you know, you know, makes mistakes. It always needs
to be double checked, and that's why there is some
degree of need for governance.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Here here's my latest example.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I just fact checked it because I asked about the
Dodgers score this morning and it said that the Dodgers
on the White Sox played on Monday night, July first,
And I went, you know what, there was no Monday night,
July first, Tuesday night. Okay, we don't really have time
to talk about the big beautiful mobile service, but is
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it moving along or is it stalled.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Well, it is changing, I think is maybe the takeaway here.
Two weeks ago, the Trump Organization announced that they are
going to be making a smartphone. They called it the
T one eight thousand and two Gold version, and they
said it was going to be a six point eight
in screen, it was going to cost five hundred dollars,
is going to be an Android device, and it was
going to be built in the USA. Well, now the
website for this phone, no one has touched this phone
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or played around with it at all. The website for
this phone has changed some of those specific specs. They've
changed the size of the screen, and they now say
that it is proudly American, not built in America. So
it seems to imply that it's not going to be
built in America. No surprise there. No major smartphones are
built in America. We don't really have the infrastructure to
do that at this point without great cost and great expenditure,
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which made many people skeptical of the Trump Organization being
able to do that for a five hundred dollars price tag.
It seems a lot of that skepticism was warranted.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Wasn't the T one to eight thousand, like the name
of the Terminators.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
It was the T one thousand if I'm recalling from Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Mike Debuski, ABC, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
As always, of course, guys, take care. Hey, we spoke
of the Dodgers. The Dodgers opened their series with the
White Sox with a six to one win at Dodger
Stadium last night July first, but that was Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Shohei Otani hit his thirtieth home run of the season,
and he got to thirty faster than any Dodger in history.
He also hit thirty home runs for his fifth straight season.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Not bad.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Tonight, Clayton Kershaw could make history. He is three strikeouts
away from three thousand in his career. Could be exciting.
It's also Yamamoto Bobble that night. Tonight the Dodgers are
taking on the White side again. It's at Dodger Stadium.
First pitch goes out at seven. As I mentioned, Clayton
Kershaw gets the start and you can listen to all
Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports, stream
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or grocer. The Conservative House Freedom Concus says the Senate
passed version of the so called Big Beautiful Bill increases
the deficit more than they'd like. The House could start
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voting on the Senate passed bill this morning. The Republicans
can only afford to lose three votes to get it
passed and to the President's desk by the fourth of July.
One hundred and thirty five million dollars in state money
is being set aside to prevent wildfires. Governor Newsom says
even with this grant money, the state still needs help
from the federal government to fight fires in the state.
He says, of the thirty two hundred recent fires in California,
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half of them started on federal lands. Riverside County Animal
Shelters and put out an urgent request to anyone willing
to temporarily or permanently provide a home to dogs and
cats that it shelters. The shelters have seen a huge
surge in impounds, partly because of the fires in Riverside
County and the Department of Animal Service that says they
need the space because another surge is expected over the
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fourth of July weekend. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. It'll be talking about that Senate past
plan and its chances of making it through the house.
Let's say good morning now to cafi's Rory O'Neill.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Rory, good morning, Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
I was laughing because the last folks are I asked
the same question about what day is it, because everyone's
on vacation already and we're stuck working.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Oh, I hate that, but that's okay, it's a good thing.
So we were talking.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Actually we just talked about this home wake up call
last week because you know, you've got like a set
routine for your morning, Like you wake up, you start
the coffee, you.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Brush your teeth, you wash your face, you know, and
if if like.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
One of those routine things gets out of whack, it
can throw your whole day off.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
Yeah, And in fact, a lot of people in this
pole say they can know within the first ten minutes
if it's going to be a good day or a
bad day. And just about how long do you think
it takes for you to wake up each morning? You
and I both have weird schedules. So how long do
you take to like, I'm awake, now, how long does
that take?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
It's for me, it's pretty quick, but I would say
like ten minutes.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
The forumt it's about twenty it's about twenty five minutes
on average. And as you said, people are dependent on
that routine, either the cup of coffee, the hot shower.
Believe it or not, About a third said they would
not have a normal day if they didn't brush their
teeth in the morning.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I'm disturbed.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
I'm disturbed. It's only a yeah, but I'm disturbed it's
only a third.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Yeah, you know that's the.
Speaker 12 (24:46):
Or a shower. But they're also recommending that. Look, if
you can get it into your routine, it really does
help you wake up in the morning. If you can
get some fresh air, if you can get some exercise done.
I know a lot of folks that have dogs don't
need that reminder, but it can.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So just getting and moving for a little bit, maybe
like even a short walk, like a ten minute walk,
would it'd be good.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Yes, Well, if you have to take the dog out
for a walk, that's ideal, just to get that fresh
air and see what's going on and that really helps
you wake up. But it shows that it's more of
a process, right, It's not just the alarm going off
and maybe stumbling into the bathroom. But there's more to
it than that, and that we need that routine because
essentially we're going through the motions and slowly getting on board.
(25:28):
You know, you don't really think when we brew that
pot of coffee anymore.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Me.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
I'm one of those people that sets it up the
night before, so would automatically bruise, so I don't have
to think about it, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Because it's so great to wake up and you smell
that coffee and you go, okay, I'll.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Get up for that.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Right.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
That's better than a snooze alarm, in my opinion, is
smelling the coffee when it goes. But yeah, so it
just shows that it is much more of a routine
rather than just something with the sounding of an alarm
on your phone.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay, So and just having that schedule set that'll help
you as you move through the day stay on right.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
And we need that right more and more. I think
it's a fifty seven percent of millennials said their morning
routine can actually influence the quality of their day if
the morning routine is disrupted in some way, then the
rest of the day is all off kilter and they're
playing ketchup.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
All right, So stick to those routines, folks, and make
it a great day.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
And make healthy routines.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
By the way, all right, healthy routines. Kafi's Rory O'Neil.
Thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. It's Wednesday,
by the.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
Way, Thanks you well, Rank all right, thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho morning Courtney.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Hey the Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Look, you're part of our morning routine. We get to
talk to you every day at five point forty. I
love that, Yes, I love it too. So much fun
talking to you.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
All right, So let's let's talk about food.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Food companies are saying they're going to go small for
big sales.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
Yes, because this is a very expensive time. A major
food companies say, you know what, we're going to roll
out these smaller sized packages to keep our customers, maybe
bring in new ones. And this report is sponsored by
Total Wine and more so, if you walk through the
aisle of any grocery store, prices are of some foods
are still so incredibly high I mean, yeah, I tell
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my kids all the time, put that back, put that back.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
That's all you hear every time I'm walking down the aisle.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
So shoppers have been cutting back on snacks and they're
focusing on the essentials. So food companies feel if they
offer these smaller packages, they'll hold on to their customers.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So the Wall Street Journal talked to a number of companies.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Campbell's, for example, they said a two and a half
hours pack of goldfish that retails for less than two
dollars is a big hit.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
And Costco says muffin sales.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
Have grown after a downsized it's twelve pack to eight
muffins for seven dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ooh, that is a deal.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I you know what, I never buy the muffins at
Cosco because there's too many of them. But that's just
exactly yeah, no, exactly.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
But even if you have you know, I know in
my house, I have my kids, my parents around, it's
still a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Of Yeah, so eight is a lot better.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So they're going they're downsizing to grow.
Speaker 12 (28:15):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, okay, and this is not this isn't what is
it called shrink flation or is this different or is
it the package.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
It's kind of a version because they said, you know
what if we come up with these smaller packages and
smaller sizes and change it lays. For example, they said
that they're coming out with a whole bunch of different sizes,
some as high as five dollars, some as little as
a dollar. But they say, you know what, if they
see something smaller, they're going to be able to get
that package, and it's going to give them bigger profits too. So, yes,
(28:48):
the shrink flation is kind of there, but people are
trying to budget their money in any way possible. They
want to have those treats. They don't want to go
to just a regular store brand. They want the package
of goldfish, They want the regular potato chips that they like.
So at least giving them a little bit of treat,
these companies are saying people are still shopping that way.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Okay, there's a something that's been in most of our
kitchens for over one hundred years, but maybe not much longer.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Yeah, well, canned food and fruit and vegetable packer Delmonte Foods.
They filed for Chapter eleven, but they said they do
plan to keep operating through bankruptcy. The company has been
under pressure for a lot of time because people have
been moving away from canned goods that they've been going
to fresher food. But it's also been weighed down for
some time by a very heavy debtload. So the goal
(29:37):
in mind is del Monte wants to sell itself to
another company. But the good thing is for now, you
won't see anything different if you head to the supermarket.
But they may need to think differently because you know what,
a lot of people aren't buying those can foods anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I still love me some canned peaches, yup. Oh, and
I like can peas.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
I'm telling you really can't till ye throws me out. No,
it's that there's a little silver canon. I can't remember
the name of it, but I always like them. They're
really small and super sweet is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And staying in the food business, if you own a
bar or restaurant, you could increase your sales by using
a certain kind of glass.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Exactly so, there was a study that found that drinkers
served beverages in wide rimmed glasses as opposed to narrow ones.
We'll probably spend more so think red wine glass versus
a champagne flute, so those who were served drinks and
wide glasses were more likely to buy the beverage in
the future. Wide glasses also led people to pick a
more expensive beverage, but the studies author telling the Wall
(30:42):
Street Journal that wide glasses, even though they may hold
the same amount of your cocktail, maybe seen as bigger
and therefore better.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
See and that think about about a martini.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Yes, and that's a really wide glass there, so wide
rimmed glass.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
So it might be important if you own a bar,
if you own a restaurant, you have to think about
the types of silverware, the types of glasses, the types
of plates that you serve, because everything adds up to
the whole entire experience, and it can make him break
you when it comes to money.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, and for all of us listening to you right now, Courtney,
next time we go to a bar, we're gonna be
looking at how wide our glasses are.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I went as much as possible in there. Of course,
after a crazy day.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thank you
as always, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Definitely see you later, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The Department of Defense has agreed to send one hundred
and fifty of the two hundred National Guard members requested
back to wildfire duty. The military says it needs him
to fight fires in the state as California hits peak
fire season. Of course, they've been deployed to southern California
during the ice protest. All evacuation orders have been lifted
near the fire that's burned almost seven hundred and sixty acres,
(31:54):
and Mead Valley fire crews had thirty percent of the
fire surrounded early yesterday, it's ninety percent this morning. Ticket
prices for Saturday's Dodger game probably just went up with
manager Dave roberts announcement that show hey o Tani will
make his fourth start for the season against Houston. Roberts
also announced that reliever Michael Kopek has become the twelfth
(32:15):
pitcher on the injured list. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning. Make sure you stick
around for that. But right now, let's say good morning
to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valiant,
Sandy Steers.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Morning, Sandy, good morning. Okay, So the fourth of July
is just two days away.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Big Bear celebrates in a big way, but that can
be problematic for our beloved eagles, Jackie and Shadow and
the kids Sonny and Gizmo.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Tell us what the worry is.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
The worry is that Sonny and Gizmo are still learning
there around somewhere, learning how to do everything. Jackie and
Shadow are still following them. And Jackie and Shadow in
the past have left during fireworks. They just sway off
immediately when it starts. And if they leave Sonny and
(33:04):
Gizmo before they're really trained well or ready, it could
have a big impact on them.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And you mentioned that in the past they have flown off,
so they get scared by the booms and they just
take off in the middle of the night.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Yes, they do. And flying flying at night for eagles
is really dangerous for the adults even but for the
small ones because they're not used to that and they
have almost no night vision. It's even worse than ours
their vision at night, so it's very dangerous for them
to take off like that.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And because of these concerns, there was a petition that
was put together asking a Big Bear to not do
the fireworks.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
How many people got involved with that.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
I don't know. We didn't do the petition yet. We
had a fan that did the petition and put it together,
and it took off before we even knew it was there.
The last time I heard, I think there were almost
thirty thousand signature all.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Right, But in spite of that and the calls to
stop the fireworks, the city's still going to set them off.
And for the fireworks, Sandy, there are other side effects
aside from just our feathered friends, it also affects the
furry ones and the fish.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
It's the triple Fs.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yes, it does, because there's lots of pollutants that come
out of those fireworks, and all of that goes into
the lake, and the furry friends that have babies and
things like that, the same can happen with them getting separated,
they take off and don't know where to go, and
the pollutants also enter the air for humans as well
(34:46):
as the water. So it's it really has a lot
of bad effects that I think. You know, I'm happy
that people can enjoy them, except that they don't realize
how bad all.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Of it is.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I mean when when I first heard
about this, I was like, oh, it's just a firework show.
But then like hearing you talk about it and saying
it affects the water and it affects the air, and
that it could scare the eagles often, especially because right now,
let's get a check up on Sonny and Gizmo. So
they're doing their thing. I've been checking the nest. They're
never there almost right.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Yeah, they were a few days ago, but they haven't.
They've been around the area.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
So they're still hanging around the area. And what do
they do, Like do Jackie in Shadow the parents follow
them around or do they follow the parents around or
how are they teaching them things like how to hunt
and that kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
It's a little bit of both. Sometimes the young ones
will call out and let Jackie and Shadow know that
they're hungry and where they are, and the parents will
take the fish or whatever to them. Sometimes they are
showing them, you know, and the young ones are following
Jackie in Shadow and or show up when they they
(36:00):
have a fish, and they will are following Jackie in
Shadow to know where to go and get that fish
that has appeared suddenly on a trip.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, so how long how much longer is it going
to be before they actually start doing their own hunting.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
The kids, well, they will probably be looking for food
and trying to find things themselves, but we don't know
exactly how long it takes. It's different for each eaglet,
and it'll be a long time before they learn how
to fish. That's kind of trial and error, and they
have to fly much better and things like that before
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they really understand how to do that. It's more kind
of fend for yourself and look for food elsewhere now.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I've speak from personal experience that I miss getting to
watch them all the time, and I would imagine that
you kind of feel the same way. But do you
still get to see them or because I've seen like
Facebook posts where people catch them, I'm just not sitting
there watching the camera all day like I used to.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Right.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
Yeah, we do get to see them every once in
a while when the camera operators find them, or we've
gotten a few shots that people have seen them around
the area, But in general, we don't get to see
them very much.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It makes me sad, okay, And do we have any
idea when the team might get up to the nest
to repair that camera. I know that during the storm
it knocked out the sound and it knocked out the
night vision.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I'm guessing you guys are going to try to repair
that for next year.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Yes, we definitely will. It will probably be sometime in
August before we can get to all of that. We
want to make sure the eagles are safe and everything's
ready before we enter that area.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
All right, Sandy Steers with Big Bear Valley, friends of
Big Bear Valley. As always, we love to talk to
you and hear updates on our favorite eagles, the whole
family actually, So it's so great to see that, and
I hope that they continue to do well in that the.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Fireworks don't freak them out too much. We'll be watching
me too. Yeah, all right, thank you, Thank you, Sandy.
Take care.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I am a huge fireworks fan, and now I'm completely conflicted,
completely conflicted because I don't want the Eagles to get hurt.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Evacuation orders and
warnings still in place for a fire that's burned more
than twenty four hundred acres in Banning. It started Sunday
afternoon and is now forty percent surrounded. Firefighters say the
(38:26):
fire has been burning in rough terrain, but cooler nighttime
temperatures and humidity have helped. No damage has been reported,
but more than forty two hundred structures are said to
be threatened. A fire that's burned almost eight hundred acres
near Lake Matthews in Riverside Counties now ninety percent surrounded.
Firefighters say they've stopped the fire from spreading. That fire
started late Monday morning. All evacuation orders have been lifted.
(38:49):
The La City Council's approved recommendation to protect renters from
so called renovation evictions. Changes to the city's just Cause
Ordinance requires the landlord it's to have a legal reason
to terminate a tendancy. They'll no longer be able to
use substantial remodels as a legal reason to kick renters out,
except as required in order to comply with a specific order.
(39:11):
The chief of the LAPD has reiterated his department's role
in federal immigration enforcement.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Chief to McDonald has faced questions from anti immigration enforcement
activists who believe the department is too cozy with federal agents.
McDonald says the LAPD has put out a new document
for the public explaining what the department does and doesn't
do when immigration enforcement is happening.
Speaker 12 (39:30):
The LAPD does not participate in immigration enforcement and does
not initiate contact based on immigration status.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
McDonald says LAPD officers will work to keep the peace
when called to the scene of a federal immigration action,
and has directed them to ensure a supervisor is also
on scene. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
If you've ever wanted to be like Mike, you can
live like Mike for a price. A mansion owned by
NBA legend Michael Jordan. He doesn't own it now, he
once owned it can be.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Rented through airbna B.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
The Chicago Areas State has seven bedrooms, seventeen and a
half bathrooms, a movie theater, a cigar lounge, a salon,
and of course, a full sized basketball court. It accommodates
up to twelve guests at a time and you can
stay there for a week for one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars. This is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles,
(40:22):
Orange County live from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom
for producer and 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 wake up call,
you can listen anytime on the iHeartRadio app. You've been
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(40:46):
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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.
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
The time is five am. This is your wake up
call for Wednesday, July second. I'm Amy King. We're live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio App. Thanks for getting your day
started with us. Hey, yesterday we were asking you, like
where you're going for Fourth of July speaking of the
iHeartRadio App. Got some fun responses, got a couple more
(00:51):
we want to share with you this morning.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
But if you want to share where you're going for.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Fourth of July holiday, we'll always take those responses.
You just go to the iHeartRadio app and as you're
listening to wake Up Call, just hit the little talkback button.
It's the red circle with a white microphone in it
on the upper right hand corner.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Let us know I'm headed out today is my last
day a little bit. Yeah, I know. Ann was like,
you're already on vacation and your brain I can tell.
I'm like, I know, it's all right, it's all right.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So but today is the busiest travel day of the year.
According to Triple A, they're expecting seventy two million people
to hit the road or hit the sky over the
long holiday weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
So I was actually going to leave this afternoon. I
went better not no, no, no, I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Take off tomorrow morning instead. Okay, here's what's ahead on
wake up call. The vice mayor of Cutahey was a
no show. Cynthia Gonzalez didn't show up for last night's
city council meeting, a week after she posted a now
deleted that appeared to call on gangs to fight back
against ICE agents in La Council members didn't take any
(02:07):
action in response to the video, but it has prompted
several calls for Gonzales to resign. The La County Board
of Supervisors has passed emotion directing its attorneys to look
for legal ways to prevent what they call unconstitutional Federal
Immigration Enforcement. Supervisor Hilldessileasis. The Fourth Amendment protects individuals from
unreasonable search and seizures, and says La County residents have.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Been suggest subjected to just that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Cooler temperatures and higher humidity have helped firefighters slow the
spread of the fire that's burned more than twenty twenty
four hundred acres in Banning. The fire that started on
Sunday is still threatening about four thousand homes and buildings.
It's forty percent surrounded. Evacuation orders near the fire remain
in place. ABC Stephen Portnoy's going to join us in
just a couple of minutes to tell us who voted
(02:52):
against the Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate and why,
and whether it can clear its next big hurdle and
get to the President's desk. There's a lot of tech
in the Big Beautiful Bill, so ABC's Mike Didbuski is
going to join us at five twenty to tell us
about that. Also, what's happening with President Trump's Big Beautiful
cell phone company.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Last week we talked about how just like.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
One thing can throw off your whole morning routine and
that can mess up your whole day. Well, kfi's Rory
O'Neil is going to join us to tell us about
how we can stay on track and how that can
make the whole day better. And also, not everyone is
happy about Big Bear's big Fourth of July fireworks show.
Friends of Big Bear Valley. Sandy Steers is going to
(03:36):
join us to talk about whether it could hurt our
beloved Eagle family. You know, Jackie Shadow, Sonny Gizmo. We'll
be talking about that. That's at five point fifty. Let's
get started with some of the stories coming out of
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Anti ice protesters have
taken over the sixth Street bridge between downtown LA and
Boyle Heights. It was shut down yesterday afternoon as several
(03:56):
rallies were held across LA. The group on the bridge
set a barrack, aid with caution tape and put up
a large sign that read evaction or eviction moratorium now.
They eventually moved into Boyle Heights. LA Mayor Bass says
the city is going to fight the Trump administration's lawsuit
over immigration policies.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
The Department of Justice has asked a court to invalidate
LA's sanctuary City ordinance, which prohibits municipal collaboration with federal
immigration enforcement in most cases. The mayor says LA is
a city of immigrants and will defend itself.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
The lawsuit is an attempt to overturn the will of
the city, calling for a halt to long standing policy
to protect immigrant Angelino's.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
The mayor says she wants federal agents out of LA.
The Department of Homeland Security says Bass could distance herself
from federal law enforcement by taking another trip to Ghana.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Some Republican lawmakers in Orange County say they think iceraates
are not going as planned. Six Republicans from the county
have sent a letter to President Trump urging him to
focus only on violent criminals who are in the country legally.
A recent study found that about seventy percent of those
scooped up in recent ice raids did not have criminal convictions,
and some had never been charged with a crime. Governor
(05:10):
Newsom says President Trump just doesn't understand what it takes
to keep California safe from wildfires.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Quite literally thinks you should just go out and rake
the forest. Make America rake again.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Newsom is called on President Trump to rollback cuts to
the US four Service, which he says is underpaid and understaffed.
He's also calling on the President to increase funding for
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and FEMA. It's five
oh seven. Let's say good morning now. To ABC's Stephen Portnoy. So, Stephen,
the so called big beautiful bill has cleared another huge hurdle.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
But it's not over yet.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
No, it ain't finished yet, and I'll tell you it
may not be. I'll see what happens today.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Is the latest? Give us the latest?
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah, the House of Representatives is now racing back to
DC despite a major weather system that has canceled hundreds
of flights up and down the eastern seaboards. So you
have some members of Congress from both parties hopping in
their cars from the Midwest to trying to make it
back to DC. There's no exact time for the vote.
(06:18):
The House convenes in less than an hour. We don't
know when it's going to hit the floor. But at
one o'clock this morning Eastern time, as you were sleeping,
the House Rules Committee voted to advance this bill and
put it on the floor. Two Republican members of that committee,
Ralph Norman of South Carolina Chip Roy of Texas, voted
against advancing the measure. They are unhappy with the changes
(06:40):
that have been made by the Senate. The changes are
too much to get into on the radio, and that's
part of the problem because you have Republican members of
the House who say, wait a minute, we haven't had
a chance to read all these changes. Maybe we're not
on board a big picture. More cuts to Medicaid three
point three trillion dollar impact on the debt, according to
(07:00):
the Congressional Budget Office, makes the business tax cuts permanent.
And yet you have concerns among moderates who are concerned
about the medicaid provisions, and you have concerns from fiscal
hawks about the overall impact on the debt, the idea
that it increases spending and has a five trillion dollar
increase in the dead ceiling. So these are real challenges
(07:22):
for Speaker Johnson to overcome. But we've seen him do
it before. And remember this bill passed in the House
in late May by a single vote and passed yesterday
in the Senate with the Vice President casting a tie
breaking vote in favor. So Republicans have demonstrated they can
get this done on the slimmest of margins. But we'll
see whether they're able to do it today.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Okay, So a couple of questions for you.
Speaker 8 (07:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
One, the House passed version went over to the Senate.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
They made some changes.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Do we know how substantial the changes were or were
they like little technical things.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Well, look, it's difficult to characterize because you know, as
a former and senior mentor of mine, still a mentor,
but senior former colleague of mine put it once. You know,
a single sentence in a thousand page bill can change lives. Yeah,
so how to characterize it. Look, there are substantial changes
(08:14):
that the Senate may into the Medicaid provisions, and already
you had moderates in the House who weren't happy with
the changes that the bill is making. In the first place.
It has to do mainly with how states are able
to tax Medicaid providers to fund the program. And the
whole idea here is medicaid is a federal state match.
If you limit the state's abilities to raise revenue, that
(08:37):
in theory curbs federal spending because the states aren't able
to match it. And so that's what they've done. You
have moderates, they're concerned about it. Let's see if they
vote for it anyway, because if they vote against it,
they have the ire of the President, who can turn
their constituents against them, and they'd essentially be voting The
argument goes for a nationwide tax increase, and they don't
(08:59):
want to see that to see how it'll plays out.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portinoy, thanks as always for the information,
does such a great job helping us thus it out.
You know, it's just like infuriating to me that they
wait until the last second like this, because, like Stephen
just said, it's a like a nine hundred and forty
page biller and I can't remember the exact number of pages.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
But you have to read the thing.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And then even though Chuck Schumer said yes, we have
to read it in the Senate and made them read
the whole thing, how many lawmakers actually sat there and
listened to it? And when they make the changes, do
they highlight them so you can just go through and
see the highlighted changes, like when you mark up a
document on a word document, or do they just kind
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of sneak them in there. It's just so fascinating to
me and also infuriating. Don't know how you feel about it.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jury deliberations are
expected to continue today in the sex trafficking and racketeering
trial of Sean Comb's. ABC's Aaron Kadurski says, got to
a partial verdict yesterday after.
Speaker 9 (10:02):
A day and a half of deliberations. We have an
incredible cliffhanger here, a verdict but no conclusion, a defendant
who looked shaken, and a jury told it's not done yet.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The jurors said they had reached verdicts on four of
the five counts against Combs, but couldn't reach a unanimous
decision on the charge of racketeering conspiracy.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Judge said, deliberate some more.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Israel has apparently agreed to terms of a sixty day
ceasefire with Gaza or in Gaza. President Trump says he
hopes for the good of the Middle East that Hamas
will take this deal, because, as he put it, it
won't get any better, it will only get worse. Trump
is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White
House to talk more about ending the war in Gaza
on Monday. The Defense Department has paused a weapons shipment
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to Ukraine. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth apparently ordered it because
of concerns of US military stockpiles that have been depleted
from sending weapons to Ukraine for the more than three
years of the Russia Ukraine. More the July fourth holiday
weekend is expected to kick off with extreme heat in
the Midwest, but sunny or dry conditions for most of
(11:11):
the rest of the US Meteorologist Melissa Griffin says a
storm system could develop in Florida thunderstorms.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
From Taxes up to the northern Rockies, but for the
most part, billions of Americans will be enjoying a very
nice Fourth of July holiday.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Here in southern California, condition is expected to be warm,
but not too hot, temperatures mainly in the eighties nineties
for the inland areas. Heat wave is in the forecast
for next week. A coffee out of China is looking
to get Luckin' in the US.
Speaker 11 (11:38):
Luckin Coffee has opened its first two stores in the US.
The largest coffee chain in China, open in twenty seventeen
and now has more than twenty two thousand stores in
that country. The two new stores are both in Manhattan.
It's known for its mobile app, which is designed to
be like getting an uber, so no cashier is involved.
Luckin passed up Starbucks and revenue in China in twenty
twenty one. Despite its drinks being thirty percent cheaper than
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star Bucks, don't expect it to be that much cheaper
here in the US. Starbucks has a fifty year head
start on lucking in the US, but it's been struggling
after more than a year of falling sales. Michael Krozier
kf I News, what's.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Your catch, Tridge going to be finger licking? Finger lucking?
Speaker 7 (12:14):
Good?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Oh my, you're on vacation, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I Yep, yep, absolutely not quite yet. We still have
some more wake up call to go. Hey, yesterday we
were asking you, like, what are you doing for the
fourth of July?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
And I loved this answer.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, for fourth of July, I'll be driving door dash
the entire day, barely keeping my head above the water.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
When it comes to the.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Bills I need to pay.
Speaker 10 (12:40):
Yeah, So fourth of July I'll be coming to your house.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Tip your drivers.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
A good reminder.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour
news room. Riverside Police they're going to be using drones
to catch people firing off illegal fireworks. The drones, which
the department just got this week, have night vision cameras
that allow images to be magnified up to two hundred times.
The drones can also record video that can be used
as evidence all fireworks are illegal. In the city of Riverside,
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two people are facing animal cruelty charges after allegedly assaulting
La County Sheriff's Department horses during anti ice protests. Prosecutors
say sixty six year old Dana Whitson of Arizona pushed
and hit a horse's muzzle during protests last month in
downtown La Iroan Castro of Almont's accused of pulling on
the bridle of two horses. Forty people were arrested during
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last month's protests. The Bear is Gonna Roar back for
a fifth season. Season four just dropped on Hulu last week.
In twenty twenty four, the show made history with twenty
three Emmy nominations. It won eleven. That was the most
ever for a comedy series in a single year. It
is not a comedy. I just gotta say it's not cono.
(13:53):
You think it is a comedy, you think it's funny.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
The high anxiety pace of that shows corped individual. You
probably just sit there giggling during the show. Don't you true?
Have you watched this season yet?
Speaker 8 (14:05):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I'm ell yeah? Are you done with it? No? I
am so good. I'm disappointed. I gotta tell you. I
got I was.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I had high hopes, started out and was like, this
is gonna be great and then went mmm, and by
the end I was really kind of mad.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
Anyway, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
We'll talk about it more, because I gotta give you
time to catch up. Even if Kono's not done with it,
probably you're not done with it either.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Let's say good morning now to ABC's Mike Debusky.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Morning, Mike, good morning. How are you? And I will
say I'm with you on on the Bear. Actually I'm
a little out on the Bear.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I know, I'm really I'm not happy with it. Lost
me after three after season three.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, season three was I didn't like it at all.
I loved season one, I loved season two. Season three
I was like what And then season four there were
moments of greatness, I think, but then it slid back
into the we'll talk about it more.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Let's let's talk about the issue at hand, and that
is technology that's wrapped into the big beautiful bill. So
what are some things that are in the bill that
could affect us.
Speaker 8 (15:09):
So one of the big tech provisions that was going
to be in the bill was actually stripped out of
the Senate Republican spending bill at the last minute. And
this was one that got a lot of attention and
it's still worth talking about just because it could crop
up in another form, either as a standalone piece of
legislation or bundled into a future bill. It was known
as the AI Moratorium, and this was a provision that
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was written by Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Ted Cruz
of Texas, and it essentially instituted a temporary pause on
state level AI regulation, meaning if you're a state government,
you for a set period of time would not have
been able to pass any legislation with certain carve outs
related to artificial intelligence. And originally that was going to
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be a ten year pause, then it was a five
year pause. And the idea here that lawmakers and many
in the AI industry had was that they wanted to
prevent patchwork from emerging across the country that these AI
companies were going to have to navigate either you know,
having Google sort of figure out conflicting laws in different,
you know, parts of the country. And more importantly, these
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smaller AI companies that make sort of more tailored services
to certain industries, whether it be you know, manufacturing or
medicine or what have you. You know, they don't necessarily
have the lawyers that Google or Open Ai has to
sort of figure out all of that sort of thing.
So the concern there was that this was going to
disadvantage smaller companies. It was going to hinder the larger
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companies ability to focus on developing super advanced intelligence at
a moment when we're in an AI race with China
and we don't want to take our foot off the gas.
That was the argument in favor of this piece of legislation. However,
there was a lot of opposition to it. There's a
lot of pushback both from Democrats and from Republicans. Seventeen
Republican governors wrote to Majority Leader John Thune. House Speaker
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Mike Johnson called for this AI moratorium to be stripped
out of the bill, And even in the AI space,
there was a little bit of pushback, with Dario Amida,
who is the CEO of Anthropic, writing that this is
a blunt instrument that gives us the worst of both
possible worlds. It stops states from being able to legislate
quickly on a quickly developing technology, and it does not
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allow for a federal backstop. Right there's no federal AI
legislation that you know these states could fall back on.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Okay, wait, so then my question, Mike is as it
stands now since that was stripped out. Yeah, the takeaway
is that right now ais on a free for all.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
The takeaway right now actually is that states still have
the ability to legislate on this, and many have.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Do you have that patchwork that you were talking about?
Speaker 8 (17:44):
You still have that patchwork? And interestingly enough, there's been
some analysis of the more than one thousand state level
laws governing artificial intelligence in some capacity or another that
suggests that this idea that it's going to be really
hard for Google to figure out like all these varying
sort of state level laws, is maybe a little overblown.
A lot of these state laws sort of overlap with
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one another. For example, about a dozen states across the
country have laws that have to do with protecting against
like political deep fakes and whatnot, so it actually kind
of similar in that regard. So it's not, you know,
necessarily that these guys are going to be thrown to
the wind.
Speaker 7 (18:21):
Though.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
You know, I was talking to some experts yesterday who
also say that this concern that the smaller guys in
the AI space could be left out in the cold
here just because they don't have, you know, the backing
or the money to pay for lawyers to figure all
of this out. You know, it is a real one.
So it's going to be interesting to see if this
crops up in any future legislation. Marshall Blackburn, as we said,
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co authored this bill, but she was actually the one
who reversed her position on it and was kind of,
you know, in favor of stripping it out of the deal.
So you know, she teamed up with Ted Cruz. Maybe
those two get back together and figure something else out.
But you know, as of this point, it is now
up to the states to figure out kind of how
to regulate AI. We're still waiting on the federal government
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for sort of more broad reaching governance of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Okay, and then here's my thought before we move on
to the Trump's self. One thing is why do they
need lawyers? Just ask their own AI, Hey, did these
bills overlap, do they with each other?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Just ask your AI buddy.
Speaker 8 (19:19):
Well, that gets at the crucial problem with AI, and
in fact, why many say that it needs regulation is
that this hallucinates and it makes mistakes. In fact, in
the law section of the in the law sector, some
lawyers have used artificial intelligence to summarize briefs to you know,
get more information on a case, and they've hallucinated. They've
made up crimes that didn't happen, accused people of all
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sorts of things. This technology, for as advanced as it
is and for as much hype as it gets, is
still fundamentally flawed. Right, It is still imperfect, and it
still you know, you know, makes mistakes. It always needs
to be double checked, and that's why there is some
degree of need for governance.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Here here's my latest example.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I just fact checked it because I asked about the
Dodgers score this morning and it said that the Dodgers
on the White Sox played on Monday night, July first,
And I went, you know what, there was no Monday night,
July first, Tuesday night. Okay, we don't really have time
to talk about the big beautiful mobile service, but is
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it moving along or is it stalled.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Well, it is changing, I think is maybe the takeaway here.
Two weeks ago, the Trump Organization announced that they are
going to be making a smartphone. They called it the
T one eight thousand and two Gold version, and they
said it was going to be a six point eight
in screen, it was going to cost five hundred dollars,
is going to be an Android device, and it was
going to be built in the USA. Well, now the
website for this phone, no one has touched this phone
(20:41):
or played around with it at all. The website for
this phone has changed some of those specific specs. They've
changed the size of the screen, and they now say
that it is proudly American, not built in America. So
it seems to imply that it's not going to be
built in America. No surprise there. No major smartphones are
built in America. We don't really have the infrastructure to
do that at this point without great cost and great expenditure,
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which made many people skeptical of the Trump Organization being
able to do that for a five hundred dollars price tag.
It seems a lot of that skepticism was warranted.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Wasn't the T one to eight thousand, like the name
of the Terminators.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
It was the T one thousand if I'm recalling from Okay.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Mike Debuski, ABC, thank you so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
As always, of course, guys, take care. Hey, we spoke
of the Dodgers. The Dodgers opened their series with the
White Sox with a six to one win at Dodger
Stadium last night July first, but that was Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Shohei Otani hit his thirtieth home run of the season,
and he got to thirty faster than any Dodger in history.
He also hit thirty home runs for his fifth straight season.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
Not bad.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Tonight, Clayton Kershaw could make history. He is three strikeouts
away from three thousand in his career. Could be exciting.
It's also Yamamoto Bobble that night. Tonight the Dodgers are
taking on the White side again. It's at Dodger Stadium.
First pitch goes out at seven. As I mentioned, Clayton
Kershaw gets the start and you can listen to all
Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports, stream
(22:09):
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Discover Japan's number one selling beer at your favorite bar
or grocer. The Conservative House Freedom Concus says the Senate
passed version of the so called Big Beautiful Bill increases
the deficit more than they'd like. The House could start
(22:29):
voting on the Senate passed bill this morning. The Republicans
can only afford to lose three votes to get it
passed and to the President's desk by the fourth of July.
One hundred and thirty five million dollars in state money
is being set aside to prevent wildfires. Governor Newsom says
even with this grant money, the state still needs help
from the federal government to fight fires in the state.
He says, of the thirty two hundred recent fires in California,
(22:51):
half of them started on federal lands. Riverside County Animal
Shelters and put out an urgent request to anyone willing
to temporarily or permanently provide a home to dogs and
cats that it shelters. The shelters have seen a huge
surge in impounds, partly because of the fires in Riverside
County and the Department of Animal Service that says they
need the space because another surge is expected over the
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fourth of July weekend. At six oh five, it's handle
on the news. It'll be talking about that Senate past
plan and its chances of making it through the house.
Let's say good morning now to cafi's Rory O'Neill.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Rory, good morning, Amy, Good morning.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
I was laughing because the last folks are I asked
the same question about what day is it, because everyone's
on vacation already and we're stuck working.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Oh, I hate that, but that's okay, it's a good thing.
So we were talking.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Actually we just talked about this home wake up call
last week because you know, you've got like a set
routine for your morning, Like you wake up, you start
the coffee, you.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Brush your teeth, you wash your face, you know, and
if if like.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
One of those routine things gets out of whack, it
can throw your whole day off.
Speaker 12 (24:01):
Yeah, And in fact, a lot of people in this
pole say they can know within the first ten minutes
if it's going to be a good day or a
bad day. And just about how long do you think
it takes for you to wake up each morning? You
and I both have weird schedules. So how long do
you take to like, I'm awake, now, how long does
that take?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
It's for me, it's pretty quick, but I would say
like ten minutes.
Speaker 12 (24:22):
The forumt it's about twenty it's about twenty five minutes
on average. And as you said, people are dependent on
that routine, either the cup of coffee, the hot shower.
Believe it or not, About a third said they would
not have a normal day if they didn't brush their
teeth in the morning.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I'm disturbed.
Speaker 12 (24:37):
I'm disturbed. It's only a yeah, but I'm disturbed it's
only a third.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Yeah, you know that's the.
Speaker 12 (24:46):
Or a shower. But they're also recommending that. Look, if
you can get it into your routine, it really does
help you wake up in the morning. If you can
get some fresh air, if you can get some exercise done.
I know a lot of folks that have dogs don't
need that reminder, but it can.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So just getting and moving for a little bit, maybe
like even a short walk, like a ten minute walk,
would it'd be good.
Speaker 12 (25:07):
Yes, Well, if you have to take the dog out
for a walk, that's ideal, just to get that fresh
air and see what's going on and that really helps
you wake up. But it shows that it's more of
a process, right, It's not just the alarm going off
and maybe stumbling into the bathroom. But there's more to
it than that, and that we need that routine because
essentially we're going through the motions and slowly getting on board.
(25:28):
You know, you don't really think when we brew that
pot of coffee anymore.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Me.
Speaker 12 (25:33):
I'm one of those people that sets it up the
night before, so would automatically bruise, so I don't have
to think about it, I know.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Because it's so great to wake up and you smell
that coffee and you go, okay, I'll.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Get up for that.
Speaker 7 (25:43):
Right.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
That's better than a snooze alarm, in my opinion, is
smelling the coffee when it goes. But yeah, so it
just shows that it is much more of a routine
rather than just something with the sounding of an alarm
on your phone.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Okay, So and just having that schedule set that'll help
you as you move through the day stay on right.
Speaker 12 (26:04):
And we need that right more and more. I think
it's a fifty seven percent of millennials said their morning
routine can actually influence the quality of their day if
the morning routine is disrupted in some way, then the
rest of the day is all off kilter and they're
playing ketchup.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
All right, So stick to those routines, folks, and make
it a great day.
Speaker 12 (26:26):
And make healthy routines.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
By the way, all right, healthy routines. Kafi's Rory O'Neil.
Thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. It's Wednesday,
by the.
Speaker 12 (26:34):
Way, Thanks you well, Rank all right, thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
All right, time to get in your business with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho morning Courtney.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Hey the Amy.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Look, you're part of our morning routine. We get to
talk to you every day at five point forty. I
love that, Yes, I love it too. So much fun
talking to you.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
All right, So let's let's talk about food.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Food companies are saying they're going to go small for
big sales.
Speaker 10 (26:59):
Yes, because this is a very expensive time. A major
food companies say, you know what, we're going to roll
out these smaller sized packages to keep our customers, maybe
bring in new ones. And this report is sponsored by
Total Wine and more so, if you walk through the
aisle of any grocery store, prices are of some foods
are still so incredibly high I mean, yeah, I tell
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my kids all the time, put that back, put that back.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
That's all you hear every time I'm walking down the aisle.
Speaker 10 (27:27):
So shoppers have been cutting back on snacks and they're
focusing on the essentials. So food companies feel if they
offer these smaller packages, they'll hold on to their customers.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So the Wall Street Journal talked to a number of companies.
Speaker 10 (27:39):
Campbell's, for example, they said a two and a half
hours pack of goldfish that retails for less than two
dollars is a big hit.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
And Costco says muffin sales.
Speaker 10 (27:48):
Have grown after a downsized it's twelve pack to eight
muffins for seven dollars.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Ooh, that is a deal.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
I you know what, I never buy the muffins at
Cosco because there's too many of them. But that's just
exactly yeah, no, exactly.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
But even if you have you know, I know in
my house, I have my kids, my parents around, it's
still a lot.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Of Yeah, so eight is a lot better.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
So they're going they're downsizing to grow.
Speaker 12 (28:15):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, okay, and this is not this isn't what is
it called shrink flation or is this different or is
it the package.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
It's kind of a version because they said, you know
what if we come up with these smaller packages and
smaller sizes and change it lays. For example, they said
that they're coming out with a whole bunch of different sizes,
some as high as five dollars, some as little as
a dollar. But they say, you know what, if they
see something smaller, they're going to be able to get
that package, and it's going to give them bigger profits too. So, yes,
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the shrink flation is kind of there, but people are
trying to budget their money in any way possible. They
want to have those treats. They don't want to go
to just a regular store brand. They want the package
of goldfish, They want the regular potato chips that they like.
So at least giving them a little bit of treat,
these companies are saying people are still shopping that way.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Okay, there's a something that's been in most of our
kitchens for over one hundred years, but maybe not much longer.
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Yeah, well, canned food and fruit and vegetable packer Delmonte Foods.
They filed for Chapter eleven, but they said they do
plan to keep operating through bankruptcy. The company has been
under pressure for a lot of time because people have
been moving away from canned goods that they've been going
to fresher food. But it's also been weighed down for
some time by a very heavy debtload. So the goal
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in mind is del Monte wants to sell itself to
another company. But the good thing is for now, you
won't see anything different if you head to the supermarket.
But they may need to think differently because you know what,
a lot of people aren't buying those can foods anymore.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
I still love me some canned peaches, yup. Oh, and
I like can peas.
Speaker 10 (29:56):
I'm telling you really can't till ye throws me out. No,
it's that there's a little silver canon. I can't remember
the name of it, but I always like them. They're
really small and super sweet is my favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
And staying in the food business, if you own a
bar or restaurant, you could increase your sales by using
a certain kind of glass.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
Exactly so, there was a study that found that drinkers
served beverages in wide rimmed glasses as opposed to narrow ones.
We'll probably spend more so think red wine glass versus
a champagne flute, so those who were served drinks and
wide glasses were more likely to buy the beverage in
the future. Wide glasses also led people to pick a
more expensive beverage, but the studies author telling the Wall
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Street Journal that wide glasses, even though they may hold
the same amount of your cocktail, maybe seen as bigger
and therefore better.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
See and that think about about a martini.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Yes, and that's a really wide glass there, so wide
rimmed glass.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
But yeah, that's what they're saying.
Speaker 10 (31:00):
So it might be important if you own a bar,
if you own a restaurant, you have to think about
the types of silverware, the types of glasses, the types
of plates that you serve, because everything adds up to
the whole entire experience, and it can make him break
you when it comes to money.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, and for all of us listening to you right now, Courtney,
next time we go to a bar, we're gonna be
looking at how wide our glasses are.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
I went as much as possible in there. Of course,
after a crazy day.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thank you
as always, We'll talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Definitely see you later, all right.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
The Department of Defense has agreed to send one hundred
and fifty of the two hundred National Guard members requested
back to wildfire duty. The military says it needs him
to fight fires in the state as California hits peak
fire season. Of course, they've been deployed to southern California
during the ice protest. All evacuation orders have been lifted
near the fire that's burned almost seven hundred and sixty acres,
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and Mead Valley fire crews had thirty percent of the
fire surrounded early yesterday, it's ninety percent this morning. Ticket
prices for Saturday's Dodger game probably just went up with
manager Dave roberts announcement that show hey o Tani will
make his fourth start for the season against Houston. Roberts
also announced that reliever Michael Kopek has become the twelfth
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pitcher on the injured list. We're just minutes away from
handle on the news this morning. Make sure you stick
around for that. But right now, let's say good morning
to the executive director of Friends of Big Bear Valiant,
Sandy Steers.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Morning, Sandy, good morning. Okay, So the fourth of July
is just two days away.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Big Bear celebrates in a big way, but that can
be problematic for our beloved eagles, Jackie and Shadow and
the kids Sonny and Gizmo.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Tell us what the worry is.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
The worry is that Sonny and Gizmo are still learning
there around somewhere, learning how to do everything. Jackie and
Shadow are still following them. And Jackie and Shadow in
the past have left during fireworks. They just sway off
immediately when it starts. And if they leave Sonny and
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Gizmo before they're really trained well or ready, it could
have a big impact on them.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And you mentioned that in the past they have flown off,
so they get scared by the booms and they just
take off in the middle of the night.
Speaker 7 (33:20):
Yes, they do. And flying flying at night for eagles
is really dangerous for the adults even but for the
small ones because they're not used to that and they
have almost no night vision. It's even worse than ours
their vision at night, so it's very dangerous for them
to take off like that.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
And because of these concerns, there was a petition that
was put together asking a Big Bear to not do
the fireworks.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
How many people got involved with that.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
I don't know. We didn't do the petition yet. We
had a fan that did the petition and put it together,
and it took off before we even knew it was there.
The last time I heard, I think there were almost
thirty thousand signature all.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Right, But in spite of that and the calls to
stop the fireworks, the city's still going to set them off.
And for the fireworks, Sandy, there are other side effects
aside from just our feathered friends, it also affects the
furry ones and the fish.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
It's the triple Fs.
Speaker 7 (34:25):
Yes, it does, because there's lots of pollutants that come
out of those fireworks, and all of that goes into
the lake, and the furry friends that have babies and
things like that, the same can happen with them getting separated,
they take off and don't know where to go, and
the pollutants also enter the air for humans as well
(34:46):
as the water. So it's it really has a lot
of bad effects that I think. You know, I'm happy
that people can enjoy them, except that they don't realize
how bad all.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Of it is.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I mean when when I first heard
about this, I was like, oh, it's just a firework show.
But then like hearing you talk about it and saying
it affects the water and it affects the air, and
that it could scare the eagles often, especially because right now,
let's get a check up on Sonny and Gizmo. So
they're doing their thing. I've been checking the nest. They're
never there almost right.
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Yeah, they were a few days ago, but they haven't.
They've been around the area.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
So they're still hanging around the area. And what do
they do, Like do Jackie in Shadow the parents follow
them around or do they follow the parents around or
how are they teaching them things like how to hunt
and that kind of thing.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
It's a little bit of both. Sometimes the young ones
will call out and let Jackie and Shadow know that
they're hungry and where they are, and the parents will
take the fish or whatever to them. Sometimes they are
showing them, you know, and the young ones are following
Jackie in Shadow and or show up when they they
(36:00):
have a fish, and they will are following Jackie in
Shadow to know where to go and get that fish
that has appeared suddenly on a trip.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Yeah, so how long how much longer is it going
to be before they actually start doing their own hunting.
Speaker 7 (36:14):
The kids, well, they will probably be looking for food
and trying to find things themselves, but we don't know
exactly how long it takes. It's different for each eaglet,
and it'll be a long time before they learn how
to fish. That's kind of trial and error, and they
have to fly much better and things like that before
(36:35):
they really understand how to do that. It's more kind
of fend for yourself and look for food elsewhere now.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
I've speak from personal experience that I miss getting to
watch them all the time, and I would imagine that
you kind of feel the same way. But do you
still get to see them or because I've seen like
Facebook posts where people catch them, I'm just not sitting
there watching the camera all day like I used to.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
Right.
Speaker 7 (36:59):
Yeah, we do get to see them every once in
a while when the camera operators find them, or we've
gotten a few shots that people have seen them around
the area, But in general, we don't get to see
them very much.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
It makes me sad, okay, And do we have any
idea when the team might get up to the nest
to repair that camera. I know that during the storm
it knocked out the sound and it knocked out the
night vision.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
I'm guessing you guys are going to try to repair
that for next year.
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Yes, we definitely will. It will probably be sometime in
August before we can get to all of that. We
want to make sure the eagles are safe and everything's
ready before we enter that area.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
All right, Sandy Steers with Big Bear Valley, friends of
Big Bear Valley. As always, we love to talk to
you and hear updates on our favorite eagles, the whole
family actually, So it's so great to see that, and
I hope that they continue to do well in that the.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Fireworks don't freak them out too much. We'll be watching
me too. Yeah, all right, thank you, Thank you, Sandy.
Take care.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
I am a huge fireworks fan, and now I'm completely conflicted,
completely conflicted because I don't want the Eagles to get hurt.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Evacuation orders and
warnings still in place for a fire that's burned more
than twenty four hundred acres in Banning. It started Sunday
afternoon and is now forty percent surrounded. Firefighters say the
(38:26):
fire has been burning in rough terrain, but cooler nighttime
temperatures and humidity have helped. No damage has been reported,
but more than forty two hundred structures are said to
be threatened. A fire that's burned almost eight hundred acres
near Lake Matthews in Riverside Counties now ninety percent surrounded.
Firefighters say they've stopped the fire from spreading. That fire
started late Monday morning. All evacuation orders have been lifted.
(38:49):
The La City Council's approved recommendation to protect renters from
so called renovation evictions. Changes to the city's just Cause
Ordinance requires the landlord it's to have a legal reason
to terminate a tendancy. They'll no longer be able to
use substantial remodels as a legal reason to kick renters out,
except as required in order to comply with a specific order.
(39:11):
The chief of the LAPD has reiterated his department's role
in federal immigration enforcement.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Chief to McDonald has faced questions from anti immigration enforcement
activists who believe the department is too cozy with federal agents.
McDonald says the LAPD has put out a new document
for the public explaining what the department does and doesn't
do when immigration enforcement is happening.
Speaker 12 (39:30):
The LAPD does not participate in immigration enforcement and does
not initiate contact based on immigration status.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
McDonald says LAPD officers will work to keep the peace
when called to the scene of a federal immigration action,
and has directed them to ensure a supervisor is also
on scene. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
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