February 27, 2024 • 41 mins
KAREN TRAVERS. AT THE WHITE HOUSE: CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS VISIT WHITE HOUSE TODAY
JOEL LARSGAARD. Host of “How To Money” Sunday 12pm-2pm @HowToMoneyJoel
DAVE RAMSEY, CREDIT REPORT COMPLAINTS, HALF OF COLLEGE GRADS DON’T USE THEIR DEGREES
STEVEN PORTNOY. SUPREME COURT CASTS DOUBT ON GOP-LED STATES’ EFFORTS TO REGULATE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
FREDDY ESCOBAR 34 YR VETERAN LAFD & Elected President of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City. MEASURE HLA
JOEL LARSGAARD. Host of “How To Money” Sunday 12pm-2pm @HowToMoneyJoel
DAVE RAMSEY, CREDIT REPORT COMPLAINTS, HALF OF COLLEGE GRADS DON’T USE THEIR DEGREES
STEVEN PORTNOY. SUPREME COURT CASTS DOUBT ON GOP-LED STATES’ EFFORTS TO REGULATE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
FREDDY ESCOBAR 34 YR VETERAN LAFD & Elected President of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City. MEASURE HLA
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortywake Up Call with Me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI andKOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County.
It's time for your morning wake upcall. Here's Amy Ki. Here
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I am. It's five o'clock,straight up. This is your wake up
call for Tuesday, February twenty seventh. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting
your day started with us. Today. You guys watch an American Idol.
I'm still watching it. It's old, but it's like it's an oldie but
a goodie. They just started themost recent season. I think two episodes
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are out now, and I getit. I don't know how you feel
about this, but the the auditions, which used to be sort of a
joke, like when Simon Cowell wason it. You know, they had
the really bad people on mixed inwith a really good people. Now it's
almost like everybody's just really good.Not one hundred percent, but for the
most part, the people are reallygood and they have such cool stories.
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I think American Idol does a reallygood job of highlighting some of the people
when they audition, and I andI know I'm a woosp but I'm just
brought to tears. So I'm lookingforward to the season, except, like
I said, the audition part.Same with the Voice, the blind auditions
on the Voice, which is justgetting underway too. I haven't watched the
first episode yet. The blind auditionsare my favorite, and they just regular
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auditions in American Idol are my favoritebecause it's kind of the most real and
after, you know, later inthe season, when you get close to
the winners and stuff, it's sorehearsed it doesn't feel as raw. So
anyway, if you're thinking about watchingAmerican Idol, I highly recommend it.
Here's what's ahead. On wake UpCall. Police say a shooting in Santa
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Anna that left a three year oldin critical condition may have been gang related.
Really say someone ran up and startedshooting at a car and an intersection
on Sunday. The girl in thebackseat was hit. WILLI say the mom's
boyfriend was the intended target. Thegirl had several surgeries, She's expected to
make it. Voters in Michigan arecasting their primary ballots for president today.
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Former President Trump is leading Nicky Hayleyby a four to one margin in a
recent five point thirty eight pole.Not a lot of people expected to turn
out for California's primary election, whichis just a week away. As of
Saturday, just seven percent of twentytwo million ballots had been returned. Experts
say voter turnout could be below thirtypercent. Ballots can be dropped off until
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election day and more than one hundredin person voting centers are now open.
Six hundred more we'll be opening upon Saturday. We six oh five.
It's handle on the news and wecould be getting closer to a ceasefire in
the Israel Hamas war. But let'sget started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews from police in Fontana have shot and
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killed a man inside a home depot. Officers were called last night about a
guy running around in the street tryingto get hit by cars. When police
got there, they say the manran into the store and armed himself with
what they called an edged weapon.As they put it, that's when the
shooting happened. Two students have beeninvolved in a stabbing at Nogalis High School
in Lapuente. The La County Sheriff'sDepartment responded to the call where they found
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one boy with a stab wound.That boy was taken to the hospital for
a non life threatening injury, andthe other boy was taken into custody.
The role in school district says therewas an incident between the boys, but
what exactly led up to the stabbingis still unclear. The school was on
temporary lockdown while deputies swept the campus, and the lockdown was lifted around eleven
am yesterday. The district says additionalsupervision will remain on campus as needed to
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support students and staff. Chris Adlerkaf I News, the man who fatally
shot two teenagers during a screening ofForever Purge in Corona has been sens to
life in prison without parole plus onehundred years to life. The murders happened
in twenty twenty one. On JosephJimenez Junior pleaded not guilty by reason of
insanity, but a judge found himsane in December and he was convicted.
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His lawyer says Jimenez suffers from schizophreniaand severe mental health problems. We were
never contesting whether or not he committedthe offenses. On the other hand,
it was really what was the wordcause and the cause was his mental illness.
Jimnez apologized in court after hearing fromfamily members of the people he killed.
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says theAlliance has no plans to send troops
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to Ukraine. ABC's and As dela Katerra says Slovaki. As Prime Minister
Robert Fico said yesterday that some countriesare weighing whether to strike bilateral deals with
Ukraine to help fight off the Russianinvasion. Did not provide any additional details,
saying he was not allowed to saymore. It's been just over two
years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Thatspacecraft that landed on the Moon last night
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or not last night, last week, he is running out of power.
Initially, the engineer with intuitive machinessays the Odysseus moonlander was going to be
okay after it tipped over on landing, but a new assessment yesterday determined the
sun wouldn't be able to shine onthe solar panels to recharge the batteries.
NASA says Odysseus landed in a craterwith a twelve degree slope, the closest
to spacecraft has ever come to thesouth pole of the Moon. The lander
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was able to send back some photosbefore its batteries will be completely depleted.
Odysseus is the first privately built Moonlander. Steve greg rickaf I News. Now,
let's take an early look at yourmorning commute with Nick Pauli Yochani.
We got a mess in boil Heightson the five. It's like this due
to an early morning rackad that isstill a crash investigation. So heading north
and southbound along the five really gonnabe a mess for you. There on
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the well southbound side of the five, it looks like it's going to be
a busy one for you because thethree left lanes are shut down and then
it looks like the two right lanesmay be taken away. It's a little
unclear on what's going on, buthaving seen the coutrans cans in the area,
you got a mess on the fivenorthbound. As you come right from
the seven to ten out of eastLand commerces too make great toward downtown Land
in the one to one up outsideof the five. Also busy for you
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coming away from the slit with thesixty as you're making a toward the seven
ten so definitely heads up for you. There likely a good idea on the
five southbound to avoid it, takethe sixty east of the seven ten south.
That'll definitely help you out and notlooking too bad for your drive right
now. Same story for your northboundcommute on the five northbound, take the
seven ten north of the sixty westto get into the downtown LA area or
get reconnected with the five if yourtravels are taking for the northbound there If
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you do have an update on thisanything else, solwing you down pound to
fifteen your cel phone keyword k ifI traffic kay if I, and the
sky helps get to their faster.I'm Nick Pauli o'keeaney. Thank you,
Nick. Now let's say good morningto ABC's Karen Travers at the White House.
Karen Big meeting at the White Housetoday, four days before a possible
government shutdown. The big sticking pointorder security. You know, no,
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not on the government shutdown issue.That's one thing that Mike Johnson would like
to talk about with the President separately. I mean, House Republicans are trying
to use this government funding issue asan opportunity to push through some demands on
abortion and immigration. But they're nonstarters for Democrats, and so I don't
know if that's going to be thebig hold up. They are right now
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though, trying to talk about twobig things at this meeting today. One
government funding, because you've got thedeadline on Friday, first deadline, then
there's a second deadline next week.And from the President's perspective, the other
big issue, of course, isthat National Security Bill ninety five billion dollars
that sends sixty billion to Ukraine.That bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support,
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but its future is very uncertain inthe House right now because it passed
in the Senate and then everybody wenton recess, and Mike Johnson, the
House Speaker, hasn't really showed hiscards on this yet, so we don't
know if they're going to try toadd some border elements to it, just
not take it up at all,or what the President wants them to do
is just put it up for avote and see if people will pass it.
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So we'll see what comes out ofthis meeting today. I think you
and I talked about this last week. Mike Johnson wanted to meet one on
one with the President and talk aboutborder and immigration. The White House was
very cool to that meeting and didnot accept any invitations for it. That's
not what this meeting is. Whenyou've got the other congressional leaders there,
especially Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer who'vealready passed Ukraine aid, this is not
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a border negotiation meeting, certainly notfrom the White House perspective. It feels
and looks like it's going to bemuch more of a pressure meeting on Mike
Johnson to move forward on that nationalsecurity bill the Senate's already passed, okay,
And just to be clear on thebecause there's so many bills floating around,
so many bills, right, Sothere's the one bill that passed,
the bipartisan one that was like aeighty twenty or seventy nine, twenty one,
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seventy twenty nine I think it was. Yeah, that one had the
border security in it, and that'sthat one. It was taken out.
There is nothing that passed with anyborder security because they reached the bipartisan Border
agreement and the House said, no, we will not move forward on that
because we don't think it goes farenough. So the Senate said, fine,
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we'll take it out after months ofnegotiating that behind closed doors Republicans and
Democrats, they took it out.That bill that then was passed was just
funding for Israel, Taiwan, andUkraine and other national security issues. And
now that's what they're hoping the Housepasses because it has all that money for
Ukraine. Okay. So then theother issue that they're going to be talking
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about today is, of course thegovernment funding which runs out on Friday.
Does it look like they're going tocome up with a plan or are they
going to kick the can down theroad again. We thought they were going
to come up with a plan bySunday night. That's what all the indications
were that they were optimistic of comingup with an agreement and they could pass
something. Now something could still bekicking the can down the road, just
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another short term extension, but thatat least keeps the government open. You
know, this is a really strikingstatistic in my book, and I've been
covering Washington a very long time,and I still think this is incredible.
This is now the fourth time thisfiscal year, so since October one,
the fourth time that we are lookingat a potential imminent government shutdown. They
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have now kicked the can three timesalready since October first, since the end
of September, and we're looking atthem probably doing it again into maybe early
April, and as the longest theycan do it three months? Is that
why they're doing it in three monthincremental? Oh, you could do a
two day short term extension, youcould do one week, you do whatever
you want. It's just kind ofwhat they keep coming up with. Now.
One thing, this is going toget so wonky. I'm not going
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to do it to you, butmark on your calendar April thirtieth. That
is a very important date because lastyear they set April thirtieth as a day
when very steep cuts would go intoeffect if they didn't get the full budget
done, because they thought, oh, no way, we would still be
dealing with this by April thirtieth.We're going to make ourselves, you know,
kind of like give yourself a hard, hard, terrible deadline. And
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it's getting closer to April thirtieth suddenly, and the way things are going,
you and I will probably be talking. I know we're going to remember this
conversation, all right. Karen Trevors, thanks so much for your time today.
Thanks all right, let's get backto some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Researchers have learned more about the tens
of thousands of barrels dumped in theocean between LA and Catalina Island, but
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forever chemical DDT was first thought tobe inside the barrels, discovered in twenty
twenty by UC Santa Barbara professor DavidValentine. But he says a now closed
company was actually pouring that DDT straightinto the ocean, but also they were
accepting radioactive waste from different companies withinLA and disposing those to the seafloor in
the same area. Radioactive waste findingswere released last week, and many of
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the barrels are now thought to benavy munitions dumped during World War Two.
Still, I am much more concernedabout the DDT. He says. The
DDT may have nearly eradicated bald eagleson Catalina Island at the time, and
may be the cause for a seriouscancer found in twenty five percent of local
sea lions. And you can justimagine if twenty five percent of all human
deaths was caused by the same cancer. What kind of epidemic that would be?
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He says. DDT can bio magnifyor spread through the food chain from
sea life to humans. Valentine's teamis trying to survey the spread of d
DTS he which already covers an areathe size of San Francisco, and the
FEDS are working on possible clean upsolutions. Corbin Carson k f I News.
An oil field worker in Long Beachhas been seriously hurt by a dereck
that collapsed. Firefighters responded yesterday andfound a worker had a workover unit had
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collapsed into a pumping unit. Theysay the man was about fifty feet up
when it fell over. He waspulled out of the derek and taken to
the hospital. He's in stable condition. A second person suffered minor injuries.
Prosecutors in former President Trump's hush moneycriminal case in New York have asked a
judge to impose a gag order onTrump. They say it's for his long
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history of making public and inflammatory inflammatoryremarks about people in his legal cases.
Jury selection in the case is scheduledto start March twenty fifth. Trump is
already subject to a gag order inhis case in DC that charges him with
trying to overturn the results of thetwenty twenty presidential election. Police in Houston
have released bodycam footage showing off dutyofficers taking down the woman who shot up
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a mega church earlier this month.It shows the woman going too the church
with her young son with an arstyle rifle strapped across her chest. Officers
can be seen firing back at heruntil she collapses. The boy can be
seen covering his ears and reaching forhis mom. The woman was dead at
the scene. Two people were heard, including the boy who was shot in
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the head. ABC's Mariah via Rialsays the seven year old has been through
at least six surgeries so far,but a bit of good news from his
grandmother. She says, as ofright now, he is off the ventilator
and he is finally breathing on hisown. Police are still trying to figure
out what the woman's motive was.I love that theme song. The Mandalorian
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and Grogu film is getting one ofthe largest tax incentives ever in the history
of the California Film Commission. Inexchange for it, the production is going
to be done entirely in California.The twenty two million dollar tax break will
help hire five hundred crew members,fifty four cast members, and thirty five
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hundred extras for ninety two days offilming. The projected payrolls around one hundred
and sixty six million. The lastStar Wars movie filmed in California was Return
of the Jedi in the early nineteeneighties. You're listening to a wake up
call on demand from KFI Am sixforty. I'm Amy King. Here's what
we're following in the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom. Governor Newsom says he will
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fight yet another recall effort. Hebeat another attempt to kick him out of
office lists and three years ago.The group Rescue California launched the campaign yesterday,
saying the governor spending too much timeon a national issues and isn't doing
enough in California to fight high homelessrates, crime and taxes. The last
of nine LA firefighters injured when atruck exploded in Wilmington earlier this month has
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been released from the hospital. DanGowen was treated at a special burn center
following the explosion of the truck's compressednatural gas tanks on February fifteenth. His
injuries are not considered career ending,but doctors say he's got a long way
until he's fully recovered. A wintertimeheat waves sweeping across the country, forecasters
say hundreds of records could be brokentoday, about two hundred and fifty million
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people experiencing higher than average temperatures.Fifty eight cities broke record his yesterday,
including Dallas where it was ninety fourdegrees. Yeah, it's February at six
oh five. It's handle on thenews. Speaking of Texas, both President
Biden and former President Trump are headedthere. They're making their appearances on Thursday.
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Let's say good morning now to thehost of How to Money on KFI,
Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel. Morning Amy. So credit card
report complaints or credit rod report complaintsare surging. Let's talk about what's going
on and why. Oh yeah,so nobody really likes the credit bureaus.
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It's kind of this necessary evil ofmodern life. None of us really signed
up to do business with Equifax,Experience or TransUnion, but we're all kind
of forced to. It's this,it's this system by which we're able to
get credit. You know, we'reable to essentially figure out whether we're financially
trustworthy. This is this is howthe what the credit scoring system is all
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about. But it's run so poorlyin the three big bureaus don't do a
great job. And so people arereporting in record numbers complaints to the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, which is essentiallythe arm of the federal government which is
supposed to help individual consumers out ifthey're having an issue with a financial services
company. Complaints have tripled in justtwo years. Almost half a million people
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filed the complaint last year against oneof the bureaus for incorrect things on their
credit report, and the credit bureauseemed to take the stance of it's your
fault, not ours. They're pointingthe finger back at us and saying,
well, you're filing disputes for stuffthat it's not actually incorrect, and depending
on who you believe, the reports, and that's something. But somewhere between
thirteen and twenty five percent of creditreports contain an error. So I think
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the credit bureaus are in the wronghere, and it turns out they're not
really doing much to help us outon that front. Okay, And so
first of all, how do weknow if there's credit reports, we can
go check our credit reports. Now, that's right, that's right, So
there is one site. Do notgo to the individual credit bureau websites and
try to buy your credit report becauseyou're legally entitled to a free one at
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annual creditreport dot com. And onceafter the pandemic began, the credit company
the credit bureaus made our credit reportsfree, not just once a year,
but once a week, so youcan check your credit reports every single week
if you want. That might beoverkill, but it's nice to know that
it's there. So I would say, get your credit reports from each of
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the three bureaus for free from Annualcredit report dot com. Take a look
and see if there's anything on therethat looks incorrect and challenge challenge that thing.
With the bureaus, there's a processthat you can you can challenge something
that you think is incorrect on yourcredit report. So that's really important thing
to do. The problem is thecredit bureaus have essentially said, well,
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they've got an automated system now thatkicks back and says, well, your
challenge, we don't think it's wedon't think it's valid. So usually the
first round, they just say,no, no harm, no foul.
This isn't a real problem. Whatyou're seeing on your credit report is supposed
to be there, so you haveto keep at it. It's kind of
frustrating, but you have to beyour own advocate here fighting the credit bureaus
tooth and nail over what something thatmight be incorrect on your report. And
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again, that report influences your score, and your score influences the rate you're
going to pay for a mortgage,the rate you're going to pay for a
car loan. It can affect whetheror not you get the apartment you're trying
to get. If there's something that'swrong on your credit report weighing down your
score, it can impact your lifein a whole ways. Okay, annual
credit report dot com because I remember, if you checked your credit too often,
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it used to ding your credit.So checking your credit report and your
credit score are two different things.And the cool thing is there's a lot
of ways to get your score forfree. Now. Most credit card issuers
will offer it. You can signup for a site like credit Karma and
it's not giving you. The thingis, there's like dozens of credit scores
out there, so it's really hardto figure out, well, what is
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my exact score. Well, everysingle one of the bureaus has a bunch
of different scores on you, soyou're kind of getting a ballpark estimate by
signing up for something like Credit Karmaor by using it. And sometimes the
standard is the FIGHTO score, thenewest FIO score. So maybe your credit
card offers your credit score for freeevery single month. It used to be
a score. This credit score wasshrouded in mystery, and that's kind of
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changed. Fortunately, we have alittle more access to understanding what's going on
with our credit our credit score.And if you sign up for Credit Karma,
it's cool because they get this likecredit report card essentially and they'll tell
you, well, here are theareas where you're messing up, and here's
how you can improve your credit score. So I really like that because again,
credit score is a really important partof your modern financial life and it's
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another good way to keep tabs.Is something messed up on your credit report
that shouldn't be there, well you'llnotice if you're tracking your credit score there's
a drop. If there's a significantdrop in your credit score and you didn't
do anything different, like you didn'tforget to pay your credit card bill or
you didn't pay late. Well,that's a sure sign that something fishing might
be going on. And its creditcard a free or is that a paysafe?
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It's free. It's free. Sothey'll try to sell you stuff.
They'll try to sell you. Youknow, they want you to sign up
for a credit card via their sideor something like that. And that's fine
if it's a great credit card offer, I guess, but just know that
they're trying to sell. That's howthey're trying to make money. But it's
a free site to be able todig in and learn more about your credit
score. Okay, then let's moveon to college graduates. Half of them
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aren't using their degrees. Yeah,that's true. There was this new study.
It's not just a phone survey oflike a thousand people, it's literally
a study of ten million people,so it's very very thorough and it found
that roughly fifty percent of college graduatesended up in a job that didn't require
the degree that they worked really hardto get. And to me, that's
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really revealing. It doesn't necessarily meanthat you got a degree in engineering and
you're a barista. But basically alot of people are working outside of their
intended career path, and it does, for a lot of people reduce the
amount of pay that they get.It reduces job satisfaction for a lot of
people. And it turns out thatthe key to making sure that you are
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working inside of the career path youwant to work in once you graduate,
and that your career is and thatfirst job is so crucial. If you
get the wrong first job, itcan really change your career trajectory in a
big way. Getting an internship,even if that internship that's what I did
out of school. I wanted towork in radio, and so my first
internship was at a radio station.It didn't pay anything, but that is
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for a lot of people the rightstepping stone to make sure that that first
job then is also in the industryyou want to be in. I think
some people are like internship. Theinternships have fallen by the wayside a little
bit. But the study found thatmore and more people who get the internship
they end up working in and pursuingthe career that they want. So a
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college degree still is a good idea, but I mean that's a good question.
I don't know, because like,I don't think that everybody needs to
go to college. I don't thinkeverybody wants to go to college. So
I don't think that they should justhave to go to college. Because if
everybody goes to college, like literally, who is going to be the plumbers?
Who's going to be the electricians?And those are good jobs that don't
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require a college degree. No,you're spot on, and we have kind
of made college the end all beall in this country, and it's like,
well, you don't. And thetruth is that the average college graduate
out earned the average high school graduate, but that in a significant way over
their lifetime earnings. But the valueproposition has also changed, right as college
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costs have soared and interest rates onthat college debt have gone up too,
and then there's a diminishing return onthe college degree as well. So so
much depends on well, what areyou going to do instead? And you're
totally right. If you have thisidea to build a business or you know,
be a service provider locally, youknow, in some sort of HVAC
school or something like that, ifyou want to work in that industry,
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or if you want to apprentice undera plumber. That can be a much
better way for a lot of peopleto go, avoiding six figures of student
loan debt, making money earlier,and potentially being able to start and create
your own, your own small business. I think it's important for us to
distinguish college degrees, and getting theright college degree can matter for a whole
lot of people, but then there'sa whole bunch of people who are not
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served well by going to college.Okay, Joel, As usual, we're
out of time way too quickly,and you have so much more great advice
to share, and so people willbe able to hear that when they listen
to How to Money. It's onSundays right here on KFI from noon to
two. You can also follow Joelat how to Money. Joel, thanks
so much, Joel. Thanks Amy. All right, take care. You're
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listening to Wake Up Call on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. Good morning.
I'm Amy King. Here's what we'refollowing in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Three men have been arrestedin a social media car rental vehicle theft
scheme. The La County Sheriff's Departmentsays the guys would rent a car,
advertise it for sale on Facebook marketplace, make the sale, then steal the
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car and return the rental. TheSheriff's department says they pulled it off in
several counties and are looking for victims. Michigan voters are casting their primary ballots
for president today. Voters unhappy aboutPresident Biden's support of Israel are being urged
to mark uncommitted on their ballots.Not a lot of people expected to turn
out for California's primary election, whichis just a week away. As of
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Saturday, seven percent of the twentytwo million ballots mailed out had been returned.
Earned experts say voter turnout could beas low as or below thirty percent.
Ballots can be dropped off until electionday. More than one hundred in
person voting centers are already open insix hundred more will open up Saturday at
six oh five. It's handled onthe news. You might lose your access
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to Netflix if you pay via theApple app. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy Steven. The question before the Supreme Court is
whether social media content can be regulated, Whether social media content can be regulated
by states and in the case ofyesterday's argument, it was the states of
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Florida and Texas that have passed lawsin the aftermath of January sixth aimed at
curbing what critics say is a politicallymotivated online censorship. The Texas law says
that essentially social media companies can't pulldown posts based on the politics of the
poster, and the Florida laws,I understand it says that if if you're
a candidate, you have the rightto post, and the social media company
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can't pull down your post. Theconservatives on the Court yesterday were in the
lead questioning the legality of these laws, the conscertionality. John Roberts, the
Chief Justice, started this four houroral argument yesterday by saying that the primary
concern of the court really ought tobe whether the state has the power to
regulate the modern public square. JusticeBrett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, told
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an attorney defending Florida's law that hewas essentially misreading the right to free speech.
That he left out the idea thatthe First Amendment protects the individual from
the government, not a third partycompany, and its decisions to decide what
is appropriate or inappropriate for a particularplatform. The Justice Amy Cony Barrett,
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another Trump appointee, asked why theseplatforms Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok
can't decide for themselves what's inappropriate topost the way that newspapers decide what's inappropriate
appropriate to publish. I will say, despite all these the back and forth
over the merits, a great dealof time was spent yesterday with the judges
probing whether it's even ripe for thefor the justices to consider this case at
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this moment, because there are anumber of areas where there is not a
fully established record. This is afacial challenge of the law and not an
as applied challenge, which is tosay that the opponents of the laws,
the companies, brought suit right awayand sought a preliminary injunction to prevent these
laws from going into effect. Andso there's not an example of a particular
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case that the justices can look atand say, here's the record of how
this law was applied, and here'shere's a real life example of how you
know it was it was enforced.And so instead, what the justices have
to do is sort of envision intheir minds how it could be enforced and
how it could be applied. Anda couple of justices yesterday raised the question
of what about sites unlike social mediabut at Sea or Uber? Could they
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be targets of this law? Andthe answer is well, maybe because Etsy
allows for individuals to sell items,and doesn't ets have the right to say,
well, that crosses a line forus, we don't want that item
sold on our page? Right?And then you have Uber. Could Uber
decide that it doesn't certain Uber driverswant to discriminate for a variety of reasons,
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or could users be told that they'renot allowed to comment on the quality
of drivers. Then you have anexample that was raised by Justice Alito,
what about Gmail? Does Google havethe right to go into people's emails and
discriminate against or otherwise censor what peopleare saying in private communications? That was
something that I think a lot ofthe lawyers had trouble answering. And so
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the point is there's so many unansweredquestions here that it might not be appropriate
for the justices to issue a finalruling at this point without a more established
record in the courts. So couldthey say, we, like you just
said, we don't have enough informationthat it hasn't been tested, yet we're
going to put this on the backburner and decide in two years, well
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send send it back to lower courtsand say, you know, either keep
the law on pause or let itgo into effect to allow for an example
of injury that could be the subjectof further litigation. So I'm not sure
what path the courts will take,but the court will take. But it
seems to me that the justices areinterested in further establishing a record before making
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a final decision on this. Andit is pretty interesting that they start going
down down that the rabbit hole.Basically, well, this could happen,
and that could happen, and thatcould happen. I mean, it's it
could be very far reaching, sointeresting case, and that's the role of
the justices to probe those hypotheticals tosee, you know how if they have
to make a final ruling on this, they want to explore as many possible
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outcomes as they can. Okay,and we will be watching. Thank you
so much for helping us unpack it, Stephen. It helps a lot.
All right, let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Athree year old girl who was shot in
a car and Santa Anna is expectedto survive. The child was in the
back seat where her four year oldsister when at least three shots were fired
at the car, one bullet goingthrough the younger girl's back. Santa Annipdes
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Natalie Garcia says the girl's mother wassitting in the front seat with her boyfriend
and that boyfriend was the gang relatedtarget. The shooter was on foot and
at this time we know that thesuspect is a male adult and that's all
the information that we have at themoment. Garcia says. The girl had
several operations at Children's Hospital, OrangeCounty Sunday night after the shooting. End
is in critical but stable condition.No arrests have been made. Chris Sadler
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ka FI News News brought to youby one eight hundred Got junk so cal
Edison has agreed to pay one ofthe largest wildfire cost recovery settlements ever.
The US Attorney's Office for Central Californiasays SEE is going to pay eighty million
dollars to help recover costs associated withfighting fires in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
The so called Thomas Fire in twentyseventeen, burned more than two hundred
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and eighty thousand acres, including overone hundred and fifty thousand acres of National
forest land. Investigators say the fireswere caused by power lines touching and sparking,
so cal Edison agreed to the settlementwithout admitting fault. Local grocery workers
have joined state Attorney General brob Bontain La to try to stop the proposed
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Kroger Albertson's merger. California has joinedthe federal government and seven other states ensuing
to block the twenty four point sixbillion dollar deal. As union workers like
Grace Garcia remember the store closures andjob losses following the Albertsons Safeway merger a
decade ago, it was devastating forworkers like myself, of many who live
paycheck to paycheck. Garcia lost herjob at Safeway, but was later hired
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at a Vaughan's for two bucks anhour less. The Grocery Workers union said
yesterday workers and customers would suffer ifthe Albertsons Kroger deal goes through. The
grocery giants say they'll fight in courtbecause the merger is necessary to compete against
Megastores Michael Monks KFI News. Awoman who says she just needed a ride
to get back to San Jose hasbeen arrested for allegedly stealing an Amazon deliveryvan
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to get herself there. Police sayshe jumped into the van when the driver
jumped out to deliver a package inPalo Alto. All the packages in the
van were accounted for when she wasarrested. Following an Oscar tradition, last
year's winner of Academy Awards will bepresenting awards this year. So Michelle Yo,
Jimmie Lee Curtis, and Quit ICan't remember how to say key Qui
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Kwan won Oscars for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and then Brendan
Fraser also won for the Whale.They're all going to be presenters at the
ninety sixth Oscar Awards on March tenth. Lots of other big stars are going
to be presenting, including Mahersha Ali, Nicholas Cage, Jessica Lang, Matthew
McConaughey, Lupidia, Nyango, AlPacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Rockwell,
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and Zendaia. The Academy Awards willair on ABC and They're going to start
an hour earlier than normal. Theyusually start at five on the West Coast.
They're going to start him at fourthis year. All at the Dolby
Theater in high Allwood. Jimmy Kimmelis the host. You're listening to a
wake up call on demand from KFIAm six forty. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The last of nine LA firefighters injured
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when a truck exploded in Wilmington earlierthis month has been released from the hospital.
Dan Gohen was treated at a specialburns center following the explosion of the
truck's compressed natural gas tanks on Februaryfifteenth. His injuries are not considered career
ending, but doctor says got aways to go for a full recovery.
Three people have been arrested in connectionwith an early morning burglary spree and Marina
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del Rey and Venice police responded toa smashed window at an Alta beauty shortly
after one this morning and found atleast six businesses had been burglarized at a
shopping center, Fox eleven saying aperson caught one of the guys as he
ran out of a business in Venice. Five hundred and sixty three million dollars
is on the line for tonight's MegaMillions jackpot. No one matched all six
winning numbers from last night's Powerball drawing, so the drawing on Wednesday night for
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that one, it'll be worth fourhundred twelve million dollars. Got to go
buy more lottery tickets. We're justminutes away from Handle on the news this
morning, and both President Biden andformer President Trump are head into the US
Mexico border. They're both going tobe there on Thursday. Right now,
let's say good morning to Captain FreddieEscobar. He is a captain with the
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LA Fire Department and also the presidentof United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
Thanks for joining us this morning,Freddy, Good morning, Amy. I'm
proud to be the United Firefighters ofLos Angeles City President. I'm also active.
I'm coming on my thirty fifth yearon the LAFC and I'm actually finishing
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off the shifts here at fire Stationeleven between Burnington and Bonnie Gray on Seventh
Street. And i got a headsup from our technical producer that since you're
still on duty, if you geta call, you're going to have to
go, so let's get right toit. Absolutely, let's do this,
okay. So one of the thingsthe voters are going to be voting on
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in on their ballots next Tuesday,or maybe they're already doing it with all
the mail in ballots out there isMeasure HLA and your union is against it.
First, can you tell us whatit is and then we'll go into
why you're against it? Absolutely First, that's the only measure on the ballot,
and it's titled the Healthy Streets ofLos Angeles, and we've actually titled
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it Hazard Streets of Los Angeles.I want to first start off by saying
we want to support good pedestrian accessto all Angelinos across the city of Los
Angeles. But the reason we areagainst it is that it is going to
provide a safety hazard to the residentsof Los Angeles when we get called out
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on a nine one one call.They currently exist today throughout this As I
mentioned earlier, I'm working today finishingoff the twelve hour shift at fire Station
eleven and just east of us fromfigure Out all the way to skid Row
on Seventh Street, they put theseroad diets in and it affects the response
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times that we respond to when weget called to these certain addresses and we
have to divert our response times andevery single second counts. Yep, when
the residents of Los Angeles down nineone one, And imagine if you're calling
and we have to take a differentroute to your emergency and we don't have
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a successful outcome. Okay, soCaptain Escobar, So just so people are
familiar with it, we're talking aboutwhere they've restricted lane access, they've put
bike lanes in, which has cutdown traffic lanes, and also put up
those bullards that I've got them inmy neighborhood and I'm just worried that I'm
a run into them every day andkind of feel like you have to,
like Bob and weave around them.And I didn't even think about like firefighters
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trying to respond to a fire andhow you guys have to weave in and
out of traffic sometimes to get towhere you're going, and how this could
really hurt your efforts. Oh.Absolutely, I mean they've already I mean
they've been tried and they have failed. They've tried them in Northern California has
failed. They've tried them in differentstates, they have failed. They've tried
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them here in the city of LosAngeles they failed. And also with the
l A measure, one of theother issues is they've purposely omitted having our
fire department command staff are fire chief, her command staff, and the police
to opine on this measure. Andthey did that purposely because they knew they
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would be violating laws that currently exists. This measure is misleading. This measure
needs to everybody needs to vote onit. And what we need to do
is address it with our city Councilat the horseshoe, with the fire chief,
with the police chief and come upwith something that is going to work.
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And there's also as also a liabilityunfunded three hundred million a year for
ten years, three billion liability forthe residents of Los Angeles because they want
to make the changes to like isis it two hundred and fifty miles of
road or something like that. Thereit's a lot a lot of roads that
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are going to be affected. It'snot just a few in a neighborhood.
Correct, anytime you resurface an eighthof a mile of road, then it's
going to say, Okay, whatare we going to do to add pedestrian
lanes and bike lanes. So,like I said, I'm currently on Seventh
Street between Bonnie Bray and Burlington.I think they were if they're scheduled to
resurface Seventh Street all the way tofigure out the engineers, everybody's going to
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say, Okay, what's this goingto look like on already a heavy congested
street where there's parking on both sides. They're going to have to add bike
lanes, They're might have to addbus lane, and we're already delayed leading
out of quarters. It is justnot a good plan moving forward for the
residence of Los Angeles. Okay,so Captain Eskerbar, for me, it's
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a pain because there are fewer trafficlanes and you've got to dodge those bullards.
For you and for the firefighters,it's a safety issue. And for
actually for us, it's a safetyissue because if our house catches on fire,
there's a bad accident and it takesyou guys longer to get to us.
That puts lives at jeopardy too.Yes, and it's occurring today,
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right. So you go down tothe west side, you go down down
to the valley, here in downtownLA. Anytime you down nine one one
in certain districts, the drivers understandwhere these road diets exist, so they
have to take a different route towhen they dial nine to one one,
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and there are unfortunate outcomes that comefrom that. Because you know, what
we do is we always critique ourselves. What can we have done better to
have a better outcome for the incidentwe went on and for the residents we
serve. We love protecting the cityof Los Angeles. We go on over
half a million emergency calls every singleyear, and then we also deal with
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the aftermath of it, the behavioralside of an outcome, and our members
that we represent as UFLAT, wewant the best opportunity for them to enjoy
retirements after a twenty five thirty yearcareer, not only physically but mentally as
well. Okay, Cavitain Escobar,thanks so much for your time and explaining
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things to us. So your messagenow a week out of the election,
My message is vote no on HLA. We need all the Angelinos to come
out and vote. You got yourvoting registration at home, if you haven't
sent it in, send it in. If you want to come down there's
a lot of polls that are currentlyopening. Come out and vote, make
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a statement, join your LAFP,your first responders, and vote no on
HLA. Okay, thank you,Captain Escobar. Appreciate it. Amy,
thank you, and have a greatmorning. And hello and good morning to
all the brothers and sister's driving intowork. You got it. Thanks so
much. You've been listening to WakeUp Call with me, Amy King.
You can always hear Wake Up Callfive to six am Monday through Friday on
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kf I Am six forty and anytimeon demand on the iHeartRadio app.
You're listening to KFI AM six fortywake Up Call with Me Amy King on
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It's time for your morning wake upcall. Here's Amy Ki. Here
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I am. It's five o'clock,straight up. This is your wake up
call for Tuesday, February twenty seventh. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting
your day started with us. Today. You guys watch an American Idol.
I'm still watching it. It's old, but it's like it's an oldie but
a goodie. They just started themost recent season. I think two episodes
(00:46):
are out now, and I getit. I don't know how you feel
about this, but the the auditions, which used to be sort of a
joke, like when Simon Cowell wason it. You know, they had
the really bad people on mixed inwith a really good people. Now it's
almost like everybody's just really good.Not one hundred percent, but for the
most part, the people are reallygood and they have such cool stories.
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I think American Idol does a reallygood job of highlighting some of the people
when they audition, and I andI know I'm a woosp but I'm just
brought to tears. So I'm lookingforward to the season, except, like
I said, the audition part.Same with the Voice, the blind auditions
on the Voice, which is justgetting underway too. I haven't watched the
first episode yet. The blind auditionsare my favorite, and they just regular
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auditions in American Idol are my favoritebecause it's kind of the most real and
after, you know, later inthe season, when you get close to
the winners and stuff, it's sorehearsed it doesn't feel as raw. So
anyway, if you're thinking about watchingAmerican Idol, I highly recommend it.
Here's what's ahead. On wake UpCall. Police say a shooting in Santa
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Anna that left a three year oldin critical condition may have been gang related.
Really say someone ran up and startedshooting at a car and an intersection
on Sunday. The girl in thebackseat was hit. WILLI say the mom's
boyfriend was the intended target. Thegirl had several surgeries, She's expected to
make it. Voters in Michigan arecasting their primary ballots for president today.
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Former President Trump is leading Nicky Hayleyby a four to one margin in a
recent five point thirty eight pole.Not a lot of people expected to turn
out for California's primary election, whichis just a week away. As of
Saturday, just seven percent of twentytwo million ballots had been returned. Experts
say voter turnout could be below thirtypercent. Ballots can be dropped off until
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election day and more than one hundredin person voting centers are now open.
Six hundred more we'll be opening upon Saturday. We six oh five.
It's handle on the news and wecould be getting closer to a ceasefire in
the Israel Hamas war. But let'sget started with some of the stories coming
out of the KFI twenty four hournews from police in Fontana have shot and
(02:57):
killed a man inside a home depot. Officers were called last night about a
guy running around in the street tryingto get hit by cars. When police
got there, they say the manran into the store and armed himself with
what they called an edged weapon.As they put it, that's when the
shooting happened. Two students have beeninvolved in a stabbing at Nogalis High School
in Lapuente. The La County Sheriff'sDepartment responded to the call where they found
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one boy with a stab wound.That boy was taken to the hospital for
a non life threatening injury, andthe other boy was taken into custody.
The role in school district says therewas an incident between the boys, but
what exactly led up to the stabbingis still unclear. The school was on
temporary lockdown while deputies swept the campus, and the lockdown was lifted around eleven
am yesterday. The district says additionalsupervision will remain on campus as needed to
(03:44):
support students and staff. Chris Adlerkaf I News, the man who fatally
shot two teenagers during a screening ofForever Purge in Corona has been sens to
life in prison without parole plus onehundred years to life. The murders happened
in twenty twenty one. On JosephJimenez Junior pleaded not guilty by reason of
insanity, but a judge found himsane in December and he was convicted.
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His lawyer says Jimenez suffers from schizophreniaand severe mental health problems. We were
never contesting whether or not he committedthe offenses. On the other hand,
it was really what was the wordcause and the cause was his mental illness.
Jimnez apologized in court after hearing fromfamily members of the people he killed.
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says theAlliance has no plans to send troops
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to Ukraine. ABC's and As dela Katerra says Slovaki. As Prime Minister
Robert Fico said yesterday that some countriesare weighing whether to strike bilateral deals with
Ukraine to help fight off the Russianinvasion. Did not provide any additional details,
saying he was not allowed to saymore. It's been just over two
years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Thatspacecraft that landed on the Moon last night
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or not last night, last week, he is running out of power.
Initially, the engineer with intuitive machinessays the Odysseus moonlander was going to be
okay after it tipped over on landing, but a new assessment yesterday determined the
sun wouldn't be able to shine onthe solar panels to recharge the batteries.
NASA says Odysseus landed in a craterwith a twelve degree slope, the closest
to spacecraft has ever come to thesouth pole of the Moon. The lander
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was able to send back some photosbefore its batteries will be completely depleted.
Odysseus is the first privately built Moonlander. Steve greg rickaf I News. Now,
let's take an early look at yourmorning commute with Nick Pauli Yochani.
We got a mess in boil Heightson the five. It's like this due
to an early morning rackad that isstill a crash investigation. So heading north
and southbound along the five really gonnabe a mess for you. There on
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the well southbound side of the five, it looks like it's going to be
a busy one for you because thethree left lanes are shut down and then
it looks like the two right lanesmay be taken away. It's a little
unclear on what's going on, buthaving seen the coutrans cans in the area,
you got a mess on the fivenorthbound. As you come right from
the seven to ten out of eastLand commerces too make great toward downtown Land
in the one to one up outsideof the five. Also busy for you
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coming away from the slit with thesixty as you're making a toward the seven
ten so definitely heads up for you. There likely a good idea on the
five southbound to avoid it, takethe sixty east of the seven ten south.
That'll definitely help you out and notlooking too bad for your drive right
now. Same story for your northboundcommute on the five northbound, take the
seven ten north of the sixty westto get into the downtown LA area or
get reconnected with the five if yourtravels are taking for the northbound there If
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you do have an update on thisanything else, solwing you down pound to
fifteen your cel phone keyword k ifI traffic kay if I, and the
sky helps get to their faster.I'm Nick Pauli o'keeaney. Thank you,
Nick. Now let's say good morningto ABC's Karen Travers at the White House.
Karen Big meeting at the White Housetoday, four days before a possible
government shutdown. The big sticking pointorder security. You know, no,
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not on the government shutdown issue.That's one thing that Mike Johnson would like
to talk about with the President separately. I mean, House Republicans are trying
to use this government funding issue asan opportunity to push through some demands on
abortion and immigration. But they're nonstarters for Democrats, and so I don't
know if that's going to be thebig hold up. They are right now
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though, trying to talk about twobig things at this meeting today. One
government funding, because you've got thedeadline on Friday, first deadline, then
there's a second deadline next week.And from the President's perspective, the other
big issue, of course, isthat National Security Bill ninety five billion dollars
that sends sixty billion to Ukraine.That bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support,
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but its future is very uncertain inthe House right now because it passed
in the Senate and then everybody wenton recess, and Mike Johnson, the
House Speaker, hasn't really showed hiscards on this yet, so we don't
know if they're going to try toadd some border elements to it, just
not take it up at all,or what the President wants them to do
is just put it up for avote and see if people will pass it.
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So we'll see what comes out ofthis meeting today. I think you
and I talked about this last week. Mike Johnson wanted to meet one on
one with the President and talk aboutborder and immigration. The White House was
very cool to that meeting and didnot accept any invitations for it. That's
not what this meeting is. Whenyou've got the other congressional leaders there,
especially Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer who'vealready passed Ukraine aid, this is not
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a border negotiation meeting, certainly notfrom the White House perspective. It feels
and looks like it's going to bemuch more of a pressure meeting on Mike
Johnson to move forward on that nationalsecurity bill the Senate's already passed, okay,
And just to be clear on thebecause there's so many bills floating around,
so many bills, right, Sothere's the one bill that passed,
the bipartisan one that was like aeighty twenty or seventy nine, twenty one,
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seventy twenty nine I think it was. Yeah, that one had the
border security in it, and that'sthat one. It was taken out.
There is nothing that passed with anyborder security because they reached the bipartisan Border
agreement and the House said, no, we will not move forward on that
because we don't think it goes farenough. So the Senate said, fine,
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we'll take it out after months ofnegotiating that behind closed doors Republicans and
Democrats, they took it out.That bill that then was passed was just
funding for Israel, Taiwan, andUkraine and other national security issues. And
now that's what they're hoping the Housepasses because it has all that money for
Ukraine. Okay. So then theother issue that they're going to be talking
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about today is, of course thegovernment funding which runs out on Friday.
Does it look like they're going tocome up with a plan or are they
going to kick the can down theroad again. We thought they were going
to come up with a plan bySunday night. That's what all the indications
were that they were optimistic of comingup with an agreement and they could pass
something. Now something could still bekicking the can down the road, just
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another short term extension, but thatat least keeps the government open. You
know, this is a really strikingstatistic in my book, and I've been
covering Washington a very long time,and I still think this is incredible.
This is now the fourth time thisfiscal year, so since October one,
the fourth time that we are lookingat a potential imminent government shutdown. They
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have now kicked the can three timesalready since October first, since the end
of September, and we're looking atthem probably doing it again into maybe early
April, and as the longest theycan do it three months? Is that
why they're doing it in three monthincremental? Oh, you could do a
two day short term extension, youcould do one week, you do whatever
you want. It's just kind ofwhat they keep coming up with. Now.
One thing, this is going toget so wonky. I'm not going
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to do it to you, butmark on your calendar April thirtieth. That
is a very important date because lastyear they set April thirtieth as a day
when very steep cuts would go intoeffect if they didn't get the full budget
done, because they thought, oh, no way, we would still be
dealing with this by April thirtieth.We're going to make ourselves, you know,
kind of like give yourself a hard, hard, terrible deadline. And
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it's getting closer to April thirtieth suddenly, and the way things are going,
you and I will probably be talking. I know we're going to remember this
conversation, all right. Karen Trevors, thanks so much for your time today.
Thanks all right, let's get backto some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Researchers have learned more about the tens
of thousands of barrels dumped in theocean between LA and Catalina Island, but
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forever chemical DDT was first thought tobe inside the barrels, discovered in twenty
twenty by UC Santa Barbara professor DavidValentine. But he says a now closed
company was actually pouring that DDT straightinto the ocean, but also they were
accepting radioactive waste from different companies withinLA and disposing those to the seafloor in
the same area. Radioactive waste findingswere released last week, and many of
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the barrels are now thought to benavy munitions dumped during World War Two.
Still, I am much more concernedabout the DDT. He says. The
DDT may have nearly eradicated bald eagleson Catalina Island at the time, and
may be the cause for a seriouscancer found in twenty five percent of local
sea lions. And you can justimagine if twenty five percent of all human
deaths was caused by the same cancer. What kind of epidemic that would be?
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He says. DDT can bio magnifyor spread through the food chain from
sea life to humans. Valentine's teamis trying to survey the spread of d
DTS he which already covers an areathe size of San Francisco, and the
FEDS are working on possible clean upsolutions. Corbin Carson k f I News.
An oil field worker in Long Beachhas been seriously hurt by a dereck
that collapsed. Firefighters responded yesterday andfound a worker had a workover unit had
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collapsed into a pumping unit. Theysay the man was about fifty feet up
when it fell over. He waspulled out of the derek and taken to
the hospital. He's in stable condition. A second person suffered minor injuries.
Prosecutors in former President Trump's hush moneycriminal case in New York have asked a
judge to impose a gag order onTrump. They say it's for his long
(12:41):
history of making public and inflammatory inflammatoryremarks about people in his legal cases.
Jury selection in the case is scheduledto start March twenty fifth. Trump is
already subject to a gag order inhis case in DC that charges him with
trying to overturn the results of thetwenty twenty presidential election. Police in Houston
have released bodycam footage showing off dutyofficers taking down the woman who shot up
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a mega church earlier this month.It shows the woman going too the church
with her young son with an arstyle rifle strapped across her chest. Officers
can be seen firing back at heruntil she collapses. The boy can be
seen covering his ears and reaching forhis mom. The woman was dead at
the scene. Two people were heard, including the boy who was shot in
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the head. ABC's Mariah via Rialsays the seven year old has been through
at least six surgeries so far,but a bit of good news from his
grandmother. She says, as ofright now, he is off the ventilator
and he is finally breathing on hisown. Police are still trying to figure
out what the woman's motive was.I love that theme song. The Mandalorian
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and Grogu film is getting one ofthe largest tax incentives ever in the history
of the California Film Commission. Inexchange for it, the production is going
to be done entirely in California.The twenty two million dollar tax break will
help hire five hundred crew members,fifty four cast members, and thirty five
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hundred extras for ninety two days offilming. The projected payrolls around one hundred
and sixty six million. The lastStar Wars movie filmed in California was Return
of the Jedi in the early nineteeneighties. You're listening to a wake up
call on demand from KFI Am sixforty. I'm Amy King. Here's what
we're following in the KFI twenty fourhour newsroom. Governor Newsom says he will
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fight yet another recall effort. Hebeat another attempt to kick him out of
office lists and three years ago.The group Rescue California launched the campaign yesterday,
saying the governor spending too much timeon a national issues and isn't doing
enough in California to fight high homelessrates, crime and taxes. The last
of nine LA firefighters injured when atruck exploded in Wilmington earlier this month has
(15:00):
been released from the hospital. DanGowen was treated at a special burn center
following the explosion of the truck's compressednatural gas tanks on February fifteenth. His
injuries are not considered career ending,but doctors say he's got a long way
until he's fully recovered. A wintertimeheat waves sweeping across the country, forecasters
say hundreds of records could be brokentoday, about two hundred and fifty million
(15:24):
people experiencing higher than average temperatures.Fifty eight cities broke record his yesterday,
including Dallas where it was ninety fourdegrees. Yeah, it's February at six
oh five. It's handle on thenews. Speaking of Texas, both President
Biden and former President Trump are headedthere. They're making their appearances on Thursday.
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Let's say good morning now to thehost of How to Money on KFI,
Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel. Morning Amy. So credit card
report complaints or credit rod report complaintsare surging. Let's talk about what's going
on and why. Oh yeah,so nobody really likes the credit bureaus.
(16:10):
It's kind of this necessary evil ofmodern life. None of us really signed
up to do business with Equifax,Experience or TransUnion, but we're all kind
of forced to. It's this,it's this system by which we're able to
get credit. You know, we'reable to essentially figure out whether we're financially
trustworthy. This is this is howthe what the credit scoring system is all
(16:30):
about. But it's run so poorlyin the three big bureaus don't do a
great job. And so people arereporting in record numbers complaints to the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau, which is essentiallythe arm of the federal government which is
supposed to help individual consumers out ifthey're having an issue with a financial services
company. Complaints have tripled in justtwo years. Almost half a million people
(16:52):
filed the complaint last year against oneof the bureaus for incorrect things on their
credit report, and the credit bureauseemed to take the stance of it's your
fault, not ours. They're pointingthe finger back at us and saying,
well, you're filing disputes for stuffthat it's not actually incorrect, and depending
on who you believe, the reports, and that's something. But somewhere between
thirteen and twenty five percent of creditreports contain an error. So I think
(17:15):
the credit bureaus are in the wronghere, and it turns out they're not
really doing much to help us outon that front. Okay, And so
first of all, how do weknow if there's credit reports, we can
go check our credit reports. Now, that's right, that's right, So
there is one site. Do notgo to the individual credit bureau websites and
try to buy your credit report becauseyou're legally entitled to a free one at
(17:37):
annual creditreport dot com. And onceafter the pandemic began, the credit company
the credit bureaus made our credit reportsfree, not just once a year,
but once a week, so youcan check your credit reports every single week
if you want. That might beoverkill, but it's nice to know that
it's there. So I would say, get your credit reports from each of
(17:59):
the three bureaus for free from Annualcredit report dot com. Take a look
and see if there's anything on therethat looks incorrect and challenge challenge that thing.
With the bureaus, there's a processthat you can you can challenge something
that you think is incorrect on yourcredit report. So that's really important thing
to do. The problem is thecredit bureaus have essentially said, well,
(18:21):
they've got an automated system now thatkicks back and says, well, your
challenge, we don't think it's wedon't think it's valid. So usually the
first round, they just say,no, no harm, no foul.
This isn't a real problem. Whatyou're seeing on your credit report is supposed
to be there, so you haveto keep at it. It's kind of
frustrating, but you have to beyour own advocate here fighting the credit bureaus
tooth and nail over what something thatmight be incorrect on your report. And
(18:42):
again, that report influences your score, and your score influences the rate you're
going to pay for a mortgage,the rate you're going to pay for a
car loan. It can affect whetheror not you get the apartment you're trying
to get. If there's something that'swrong on your credit report weighing down your
score, it can impact your lifein a whole ways. Okay, annual
credit report dot com because I remember, if you checked your credit too often,
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it used to ding your credit.So checking your credit report and your
credit score are two different things.And the cool thing is there's a lot
of ways to get your score forfree. Now. Most credit card issuers
will offer it. You can signup for a site like credit Karma and
it's not giving you. The thingis, there's like dozens of credit scores
out there, so it's really hardto figure out, well, what is
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my exact score. Well, everysingle one of the bureaus has a bunch
of different scores on you, soyou're kind of getting a ballpark estimate by
signing up for something like Credit Karmaor by using it. And sometimes the
standard is the FIGHTO score, thenewest FIO score. So maybe your credit
card offers your credit score for freeevery single month. It used to be
a score. This credit score wasshrouded in mystery, and that's kind of
(19:48):
changed. Fortunately, we have alittle more access to understanding what's going on
with our credit our credit score.And if you sign up for Credit Karma,
it's cool because they get this likecredit report card essentially and they'll tell
you, well, here are theareas where you're messing up, and here's
how you can improve your credit score. So I really like that because again,
credit score is a really important partof your modern financial life and it's
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another good way to keep tabs.Is something messed up on your credit report
that shouldn't be there, well you'llnotice if you're tracking your credit score there's
a drop. If there's a significantdrop in your credit score and you didn't
do anything different, like you didn'tforget to pay your credit card bill or
you didn't pay late. Well,that's a sure sign that something fishing might
be going on. And its creditcard a free or is that a paysafe?
(20:32):
It's free. It's free. Sothey'll try to sell you stuff.
They'll try to sell you. Youknow, they want you to sign up
for a credit card via their sideor something like that. And that's fine
if it's a great credit card offer, I guess, but just know that
they're trying to sell. That's howthey're trying to make money. But it's
a free site to be able todig in and learn more about your credit
score. Okay, then let's moveon to college graduates. Half of them
(20:53):
aren't using their degrees. Yeah,that's true. There was this new study.
It's not just a phone survey oflike a thousand people, it's literally
a study of ten million people,so it's very very thorough and it found
that roughly fifty percent of college graduatesended up in a job that didn't require
the degree that they worked really hardto get. And to me, that's
(21:15):
really revealing. It doesn't necessarily meanthat you got a degree in engineering and
you're a barista. But basically alot of people are working outside of their
intended career path, and it does, for a lot of people reduce the
amount of pay that they get.It reduces job satisfaction for a lot of
people. And it turns out thatthe key to making sure that you are
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working inside of the career path youwant to work in once you graduate,
and that your career is and thatfirst job is so crucial. If you
get the wrong first job, itcan really change your career trajectory in a
big way. Getting an internship,even if that internship that's what I did
out of school. I wanted towork in radio, and so my first
internship was at a radio station.It didn't pay anything, but that is
(21:57):
for a lot of people the rightstepping stone to make sure that that first
job then is also in the industryyou want to be in. I think
some people are like internship. Theinternships have fallen by the wayside a little
bit. But the study found thatmore and more people who get the internship
they end up working in and pursuingthe career that they want. So a
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college degree still is a good idea, but I mean that's a good question.
I don't know, because like,I don't think that everybody needs to
go to college. I don't thinkeverybody wants to go to college. So
I don't think that they should justhave to go to college. Because if
everybody goes to college, like literally, who is going to be the plumbers?
Who's going to be the electricians?And those are good jobs that don't
(22:41):
require a college degree. No,you're spot on, and we have kind
of made college the end all beall in this country, and it's like,
well, you don't. And thetruth is that the average college graduate
out earned the average high school graduate, but that in a significant way over
their lifetime earnings. But the valueproposition has also changed, right as college
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costs have soared and interest rates onthat college debt have gone up too,
and then there's a diminishing return onthe college degree as well. So so
much depends on well, what areyou going to do instead? And you're
totally right. If you have thisidea to build a business or you know,
be a service provider locally, youknow, in some sort of HVAC
school or something like that, ifyou want to work in that industry,
(23:26):
or if you want to apprentice undera plumber. That can be a much
better way for a lot of peopleto go, avoiding six figures of student
loan debt, making money earlier,and potentially being able to start and create
your own, your own small business. I think it's important for us to
distinguish college degrees, and getting theright college degree can matter for a whole
lot of people, but then there'sa whole bunch of people who are not
(23:47):
served well by going to college.Okay, Joel, As usual, we're
out of time way too quickly,and you have so much more great advice
to share, and so people willbe able to hear that when they listen
to How to Money. It's onSundays right here on KFI from noon to
two. You can also follow Joelat how to Money. Joel, thanks
so much, Joel. Thanks Amy. All right, take care. You're
(24:08):
listening to Wake Up Call on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. Good morning.
I'm Amy King. Here's what we'refollowing in the KFI twenty four hour
newsroom. Three men have been arrestedin a social media car rental vehicle theft
scheme. The La County Sheriff's Departmentsays the guys would rent a car,
advertise it for sale on Facebook marketplace, make the sale, then steal the
(24:32):
car and return the rental. TheSheriff's department says they pulled it off in
several counties and are looking for victims. Michigan voters are casting their primary ballots
for president today. Voters unhappy aboutPresident Biden's support of Israel are being urged
to mark uncommitted on their ballots.Not a lot of people expected to turn
out for California's primary election, whichis just a week away. As of
(24:55):
Saturday, seven percent of the twentytwo million ballots mailed out had been returned.
Earned experts say voter turnout could beas low as or below thirty percent.
Ballots can be dropped off until electionday. More than one hundred in
person voting centers are already open insix hundred more will open up Saturday at
six oh five. It's handled onthe news. You might lose your access
(25:17):
to Netflix if you pay via theApple app. Right now, let's say
good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy Steven. The question before the Supreme Court is
whether social media content can be regulated, Whether social media content can be regulated
by states and in the case ofyesterday's argument, it was the states of
(25:40):
Florida and Texas that have passed lawsin the aftermath of January sixth aimed at
curbing what critics say is a politicallymotivated online censorship. The Texas law says
that essentially social media companies can't pulldown posts based on the politics of the
poster, and the Florida laws,I understand it says that if if you're
a candidate, you have the rightto post, and the social media company
(26:03):
can't pull down your post. Theconservatives on the Court yesterday were in the
lead questioning the legality of these laws, the conscertionality. John Roberts, the
Chief Justice, started this four houroral argument yesterday by saying that the primary
concern of the court really ought tobe whether the state has the power to
regulate the modern public square. JusticeBrett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, told
(26:27):
an attorney defending Florida's law that hewas essentially misreading the right to free speech.
That he left out the idea thatthe First Amendment protects the individual from
the government, not a third partycompany, and its decisions to decide what
is appropriate or inappropriate for a particularplatform. The Justice Amy Cony Barrett,
(26:47):
another Trump appointee, asked why theseplatforms Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok
can't decide for themselves what's inappropriate topost the way that newspapers decide what's inappropriate
appropriate to publish. I will say, despite all these the back and forth
over the merits, a great dealof time was spent yesterday with the judges
probing whether it's even ripe for thefor the justices to consider this case at
(27:11):
this moment, because there are anumber of areas where there is not a
fully established record. This is afacial challenge of the law and not an
as applied challenge, which is tosay that the opponents of the laws,
the companies, brought suit right awayand sought a preliminary injunction to prevent these
laws from going into effect. Andso there's not an example of a particular
(27:33):
case that the justices can look atand say, here's the record of how
this law was applied, and here'shere's a real life example of how you
know it was it was enforced.And so instead, what the justices have
to do is sort of envision intheir minds how it could be enforced and
how it could be applied. Anda couple of justices yesterday raised the question
of what about sites unlike social mediabut at Sea or Uber? Could they
(28:00):
be targets of this law? Andthe answer is well, maybe because Etsy
allows for individuals to sell items,and doesn't ets have the right to say,
well, that crosses a line forus, we don't want that item
sold on our page? Right?And then you have Uber. Could Uber
decide that it doesn't certain Uber driverswant to discriminate for a variety of reasons,
(28:21):
or could users be told that they'renot allowed to comment on the quality
of drivers. Then you have anexample that was raised by Justice Alito,
what about Gmail? Does Google havethe right to go into people's emails and
discriminate against or otherwise censor what peopleare saying in private communications? That was
something that I think a lot ofthe lawyers had trouble answering. And so
(28:42):
the point is there's so many unansweredquestions here that it might not be appropriate
for the justices to issue a finalruling at this point without a more established
record in the courts. So couldthey say, we, like you just
said, we don't have enough informationthat it hasn't been tested, yet we're
going to put this on the backburner and decide in two years, well
(29:02):
send send it back to lower courtsand say, you know, either keep
the law on pause or let itgo into effect to allow for an example
of injury that could be the subjectof further litigation. So I'm not sure
what path the courts will take,but the court will take. But it
seems to me that the justices areinterested in further establishing a record before making
(29:26):
a final decision on this. Andit is pretty interesting that they start going
down down that the rabbit hole.Basically, well, this could happen,
and that could happen, and thatcould happen. I mean, it's it
could be very far reaching, sointeresting case, and that's the role of
the justices to probe those hypotheticals tosee, you know how if they have
to make a final ruling on this, they want to explore as many possible
(29:51):
outcomes as they can. Okay,and we will be watching. Thank you
so much for helping us unpack it, Stephen. It helps a lot.
All right, let's get back tosome of the stories coming out of the
KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Athree year old girl who was shot in
a car and Santa Anna is expectedto survive. The child was in the
back seat where her four year oldsister when at least three shots were fired
at the car, one bullet goingthrough the younger girl's back. Santa Annipdes
(30:14):
Natalie Garcia says the girl's mother wassitting in the front seat with her boyfriend
and that boyfriend was the gang relatedtarget. The shooter was on foot and
at this time we know that thesuspect is a male adult and that's all
the information that we have at themoment. Garcia says. The girl had
several operations at Children's Hospital, OrangeCounty Sunday night after the shooting. End
is in critical but stable condition.No arrests have been made. Chris Sadler
(30:36):
ka FI News News brought to youby one eight hundred Got junk so cal
Edison has agreed to pay one ofthe largest wildfire cost recovery settlements ever.
The US Attorney's Office for Central Californiasays SEE is going to pay eighty million
dollars to help recover costs associated withfighting fires in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
The so called Thomas Fire in twentyseventeen, burned more than two hundred
(30:57):
and eighty thousand acres, including overone hundred and fifty thousand acres of National
forest land. Investigators say the fireswere caused by power lines touching and sparking,
so cal Edison agreed to the settlementwithout admitting fault. Local grocery workers
have joined state Attorney General brob Bontain La to try to stop the proposed
(31:18):
Kroger Albertson's merger. California has joinedthe federal government and seven other states ensuing
to block the twenty four point sixbillion dollar deal. As union workers like
Grace Garcia remember the store closures andjob losses following the Albertsons Safeway merger a
decade ago, it was devastating forworkers like myself, of many who live
paycheck to paycheck. Garcia lost herjob at Safeway, but was later hired
(31:38):
at a Vaughan's for two bucks anhour less. The Grocery Workers union said
yesterday workers and customers would suffer ifthe Albertsons Kroger deal goes through. The
grocery giants say they'll fight in courtbecause the merger is necessary to compete against
Megastores Michael Monks KFI News. Awoman who says she just needed a ride
to get back to San Jose hasbeen arrested for allegedly stealing an Amazon deliveryvan
(32:00):
to get herself there. Police sayshe jumped into the van when the driver
jumped out to deliver a package inPalo Alto. All the packages in the
van were accounted for when she wasarrested. Following an Oscar tradition, last
year's winner of Academy Awards will bepresenting awards this year. So Michelle Yo,
Jimmie Lee Curtis, and Quit ICan't remember how to say key Qui
(32:23):
Kwan won Oscars for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and then Brendan
Fraser also won for the Whale.They're all going to be presenters at the
ninety sixth Oscar Awards on March tenth. Lots of other big stars are going
to be presenting, including Mahersha Ali, Nicholas Cage, Jessica Lang, Matthew
McConaughey, Lupidia, Nyango, AlPacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Rockwell,
(32:49):
and Zendaia. The Academy Awards willair on ABC and They're going to start
an hour earlier than normal. Theyusually start at five on the West Coast.
They're going to start him at fourthis year. All at the Dolby
Theater in high Allwood. Jimmy Kimmelis the host. You're listening to a
wake up call on demand from KFIAm six forty. Here's what we're following
in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The last of nine LA firefighters injured
(33:12):
when a truck exploded in Wilmington earlierthis month has been released from the hospital.
Dan Gohen was treated at a specialburns center following the explosion of the
truck's compressed natural gas tanks on Februaryfifteenth. His injuries are not considered career
ending, but doctor says got aways to go for a full recovery.
Three people have been arrested in connectionwith an early morning burglary spree and Marina
(33:35):
del Rey and Venice police responded toa smashed window at an Alta beauty shortly
after one this morning and found atleast six businesses had been burglarized at a
shopping center, Fox eleven saying aperson caught one of the guys as he
ran out of a business in Venice. Five hundred and sixty three million dollars
is on the line for tonight's MegaMillions jackpot. No one matched all six
winning numbers from last night's Powerball drawing, so the drawing on Wednesday night for
(33:59):
that one, it'll be worth fourhundred twelve million dollars. Got to go
buy more lottery tickets. We're justminutes away from Handle on the news this
morning, and both President Biden andformer President Trump are head into the US
Mexico border. They're both going tobe there on Thursday. Right now,
let's say good morning to Captain FreddieEscobar. He is a captain with the
(34:22):
LA Fire Department and also the presidentof United Firefighters of Los Angeles City.
Thanks for joining us this morning,Freddy, Good morning, Amy. I'm
proud to be the United Firefighters ofLos Angeles City President. I'm also active.
I'm coming on my thirty fifth yearon the LAFC and I'm actually finishing
(34:43):
off the shifts here at fire Stationeleven between Burnington and Bonnie Gray on Seventh
Street. And i got a headsup from our technical producer that since you're
still on duty, if you geta call, you're going to have to
go, so let's get right toit. Absolutely, let's do this,
okay. So one of the thingsthe voters are going to be voting on
(35:05):
in on their ballots next Tuesday,or maybe they're already doing it with all
the mail in ballots out there isMeasure HLA and your union is against it.
First, can you tell us whatit is and then we'll go into
why you're against it? Absolutely First, that's the only measure on the ballot,
and it's titled the Healthy Streets ofLos Angeles, and we've actually titled
(35:30):
it Hazard Streets of Los Angeles.I want to first start off by saying
we want to support good pedestrian accessto all Angelinos across the city of Los
Angeles. But the reason we areagainst it is that it is going to
provide a safety hazard to the residentsof Los Angeles when we get called out
(35:54):
on a nine one one call.They currently exist today throughout this As I
mentioned earlier, I'm working today finishingoff the twelve hour shift at fire Station
eleven and just east of us fromfigure Out all the way to skid Row
on Seventh Street, they put theseroad diets in and it affects the response
(36:17):
times that we respond to when weget called to these certain addresses and we
have to divert our response times andevery single second counts. Yep, when
the residents of Los Angeles down nineone one, And imagine if you're calling
and we have to take a differentroute to your emergency and we don't have
(36:42):
a successful outcome. Okay, soCaptain Escobar, So just so people are
familiar with it, we're talking aboutwhere they've restricted lane access, they've put
bike lanes in, which has cutdown traffic lanes, and also put up
those bullards that I've got them inmy neighborhood and I'm just worried that I'm
a run into them every day andkind of feel like you have to,
like Bob and weave around them.And I didn't even think about like firefighters
(37:07):
trying to respond to a fire andhow you guys have to weave in and
out of traffic sometimes to get towhere you're going, and how this could
really hurt your efforts. Oh.Absolutely, I mean they've already I mean
they've been tried and they have failed. They've tried them in Northern California has
failed. They've tried them in differentstates, they have failed. They've tried
(37:28):
them here in the city of LosAngeles they failed. And also with the
l A measure, one of theother issues is they've purposely omitted having our
fire department command staff are fire chief, her command staff, and the police
to opine on this measure. Andthey did that purposely because they knew they
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would be violating laws that currently exists. This measure is misleading. This measure
needs to everybody needs to vote onit. And what we need to do
is address it with our city Councilat the horseshoe, with the fire chief,
with the police chief and come upwith something that is going to work.
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And there's also as also a liabilityunfunded three hundred million a year for
ten years, three billion liability forthe residents of Los Angeles because they want
to make the changes to like isis it two hundred and fifty miles of
road or something like that. Thereit's a lot a lot of roads that
(38:34):
are going to be affected. It'snot just a few in a neighborhood.
Correct, anytime you resurface an eighthof a mile of road, then it's
going to say, Okay, whatare we going to do to add pedestrian
lanes and bike lanes. So,like I said, I'm currently on Seventh
Street between Bonnie Bray and Burlington.I think they were if they're scheduled to
resurface Seventh Street all the way tofigure out the engineers, everybody's going to
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say, Okay, what's this goingto look like on already a heavy congested
street where there's parking on both sides. They're going to have to add bike
lanes, They're might have to addbus lane, and we're already delayed leading
out of quarters. It is justnot a good plan moving forward for the
residence of Los Angeles. Okay,so Captain Eskerbar, for me, it's
(39:23):
a pain because there are fewer trafficlanes and you've got to dodge those bullards.
For you and for the firefighters,it's a safety issue. And for
actually for us, it's a safetyissue because if our house catches on fire,
there's a bad accident and it takesyou guys longer to get to us.
That puts lives at jeopardy too.Yes, and it's occurring today,
(39:44):
right. So you go down tothe west side, you go down down
to the valley, here in downtownLA. Anytime you down nine one one
in certain districts, the drivers understandwhere these road diets exist, so they
have to take a different route towhen they dial nine to one one,
(40:05):
and there are unfortunate outcomes that comefrom that. Because you know, what
we do is we always critique ourselves. What can we have done better to
have a better outcome for the incidentwe went on and for the residents we
serve. We love protecting the cityof Los Angeles. We go on over
half a million emergency calls every singleyear, and then we also deal with
(40:28):
the aftermath of it, the behavioralside of an outcome, and our members
that we represent as UFLAT, wewant the best opportunity for them to enjoy
retirements after a twenty five thirty yearcareer, not only physically but mentally as
well. Okay, Cavitain Escobar,thanks so much for your time and explaining
(40:49):
things to us. So your messagenow a week out of the election,
My message is vote no on HLA. We need all the Angelinos to come
out and vote. You got yourvoting registration at home, if you haven't
sent it in, send it in. If you want to come down there's
a lot of polls that are currentlyopening. Come out and vote, make
(41:13):
a statement, join your LAFP,your first responders, and vote no on
HLA. Okay, thank you,Captain Escobar. Appreciate it. Amy,
thank you, and have a greatmorning. And hello and good morning to
all the brothers and sister's driving intowork. You got it. Thanks so
much. You've been listening to WakeUp Call with me, Amy King.
You can always hear Wake Up Callfive to six am Monday through Friday on
(41:36):
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