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Karen Travers. Trump's first 100 days
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty wake Up Call with
me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. I
want to say a happy birthday a day late to
my sister in law, Casey. Of course I wish my
brother a happy birthday, and he doesn't even listen. She
listens every days and I forgot to mention her yesterday.
So sorry about that, Casey. And also today would have
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been my dad's birthday. Sure miss him. So you guys
know the ring doorbell dilemma that I have. I okay,
so here's the latest. I ran out of the free
trial and it keeps going, Oh, you you're going to
run out of the recording where you can play back
the videos for and you know, forever. And I'm like, well,
(00:45):
do I really need that? Do I have to pay
for a subscription or can I just you know, have
the alerts of somebody's at the front door. So I'm
holding off. I'm paying for the subscription. I have enough subscriptions.
But you know what hasn't stopped the messages. Anyone see
these lights last night freeway north of Highland going towards Universal.
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What are they? Ooh, there's a helicopter flying around right now.
Any idea what's going on besides drones? Anybody know of
any mobile pet grooming in downtown La Hey? Did you
see the lights on the night sky? Oh? Spotted a
very friendly black cat in Echo Park.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's worth worse the next door.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh my gosh, it's hysterical. Oh there's another helicopter in
Eagle Rock circling what seems to be the new car wash.
Oh no, oh, found a dog on Normandy. I mean, like,
it's crazy, so there's got to be a way to
turn it off. There is, but now it's become sort
of a thing that I think it's funny, so I
just leave it on. Okay, here's what's a head on
(01:46):
wake up call. The rebuilding process has officially begun for
the first of more than nine thousand homes and other
buildings burned in Altadena. Homeowner Margot Stuber was joined by
County Supervisor Catherine Barger yesterday for the groundbreaking. Stuper says
she's hoping to be able to move into her new
home in January. Thousands of La County workers have walked
(02:06):
off the job for a forty eight hour strike. The
union claims the county is spending two hundred five million
dollars on things like office space and a skyscraper in downtown,
while insisting there's no money to give employees a raise.
A bill has been introduced in Sacramento to make the
Internet more affordable. It aims to require providers to offer
plans for no more than fifteen bucks a month, and
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that's for people who qualify for cal fresh or medical.
Estimates are that more than three million people don't have
reliable access to high speed internet. Well, it's all about
the first one hundred days. We're going to take a
quick look back and recap what President Trump has done
since taking office with ABC's Karen Travers in about two minutes,
and then at five point twenty, the Borders are had
some choice words about the past administration's border stance. ABC's
(02:51):
bar is going to join us to talk about Tom
Holman's continued tough stance on illegal border crossings. Just after
five thirty, ABC Stephen Portnoy joins it. He's got the
results of a brand new poll about how people in
America feel about, you know, things like taking over Greenland
and annexing Canada And how about an ev for twenty
thousand dollars. A host of how to money on KFI.
(03:12):
Joel Larsgaard says one is about to hit the market,
and also how saving a little bit goes a long
way and predicting your financial well being in the future.
Definitely tuning in for that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I'll be talking to him anyway. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. La County supervisors are considering an ordinance
to allow for fire debris cleanup at properties where the
owners have failed to opt in to have the government
do it and haven't hired their own private contractor. The
removal work has to be done by June thirty if
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if the ordinances approved, properties that haven't been cleared by
that date will be declared a public nuisance and a
health hazard, and if the county then clears the debris,
the property owner will get the bill. The ATF is
doing a controlled burn in Pacific Palisades to try to
figure out how the massive wildfire started in January.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
The burn will be conducted along the Tamescal Ridge trail
between Skull Rock and Green Peak, near where the initial
fire is believed to have started. The Los Angeles Fire
Department will have firefighters on hand to protect public safety
and the environment during the burn.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Kay if i's Daniel Martindale says the burn is said
to be done tonight. Between tonight and Thursday, detectives have
released images of a man who sexually assaulted a woman
on a metro bus in East Hollywood. Laped says it
happened shortly before ten pm on April twelfth, near Sunset
Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. The man sat next to the
woman and pulled a knife on her. He then assaulted
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her after she told him she didn't have any money.
Then he got off the bus and ran off toward
Fortieth Place. A bear has broken into an ice cream
shop near Lake Tahoe and made off with a tasty treat.
The owner of Tahoe Time ice Cream and Coffee shop
says she and her crew went on a lunch break Sunday,
and when they returned, they found a trash can had
been knocked over, the ice cream freezer was open, and
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a three gallon tub of chocolate chip cookie ice cream
was gone. They say the barry even tried to get
back inside to get more. It's five oh seven on
your Tuesday morning wake up call. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, the first hundred
days been anything but boring. So let's take a quick
look back at what he's done and what the President
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hasn't done in the first one hundred Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I mean what he has done is came in promising
swift change, and he has really relied on executive actions
to move his agenda forward. He's signed more than one
hundred and forty executive orders since January twentieth, according to
the Federal Register, and has really leaned on that to
try to get things done. And that's what the administration
will point to. He's taken swift action on immigration ice
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raids across the country. The Department of Homeland Security says
there have been one hundred and fifty thousand deportations so far.
On tariffs, I think that's the big thing, the big
action on the economy, the sweeping set of tariffs that
he announced on nearly ninety countries, most on pause right
now after the stock market took a significant nose dive,
but the President told me ten days ago that they
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will go back into effect if there are not trade
deals reached at the end of this pause, and notably,
poll after poll over the last several days have shown
Americans are not feeling great about the economy. Seventy three
percent in our polls that it's in bad shape right now,
fifty three percent gotten worse since he took office, and
really all of the underlying reasons for that is the
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tariffs and the trade war right now that are happening,
which I ama, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What the tariffs being the main sticking point as you mentioned,
are there are there any things that are getting a
good response from the public, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
In terms of the polls right now. You know, when
you look at it, forty six percent approve of the
president's immigration policies. That was obviously a big thing that
he talked about as a candidate, people like that when
he was on the campaign trail. But notably forty eight
percent say that the actions supporting undo undocumented migrants have
gone too far. You know, we might have talked about
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this earlier too, that you know, his approval rating right
now is that just thirty nine percent. That is the
lowest at one hundred days mark for any president over
eighty years since we've been doing this polling and was.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Thirty nine percent. Sounds kind of familiar. Is that kind
of where he hovered during his first presidency.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I have to go back and look and see I
think probably around that forty percent mark. But you know,
presidents tend to come in higher view. You just got elected,
so if you won the election, people might be feeling good.
It's striking to see kind of this sharp decline and really,
again just to underline some of those economic bullet points
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in the poll, it is very interesting to see that
when you drill down in it why people are not
feeling good about the economy. What they're saying is the
reason that they don't think things are good right now
is specifically about the policies. You know, it's not some
outside force, it's not some global trend. They're saying it's
because of the administration's policies, specifically on trade.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, and I bet ABC has lots and lots of
questions for the president on how he thinks things are going.
And you guys get that opportunity, don't you.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Coming up in a couple of hours by colleague Terry
Moran will sit down with the president. You'll be able
to hear that. See that tonight in a big special,
but stay tuned for that. We're going to get quite
a bit of time with the president later this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Awesome, Okay, Karen Travers, ABC News White House Correspondent, Thank
you so much.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Have a great thing, all right, you too.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Bet she's busy today talking about the first one hundred days.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Michigan Democratic Representative
Shri Thanadar. Since President Trump is unfit to serve and
plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president, Thanadar
says Trump presents a clear and present danger to the
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constitution and our democracy. Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green, you
may remember he was censured for interrupting Trump's speech to
a joint session of Congress, says he too, plans to
introduce articles of impeachment against Trump. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
who replaced Justin Trudeau, has won the support of Canadians
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in a victory for his party. ABC's ran On Ali
says Carneie's Liberal Party has won the country's federal election.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
It marks the historic turnaround for the party, fueled in
part by President Trump's tariffs and talk about making Canada
the fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
In a victory speech, Carnegie stressed the importance of Canadian
unity in the face of Washington's threats. He said President
Trump is trying to break Canadians so American or American
can own them. But he says that's not going to happen.
Power has been almost fully restored to Spain and Portugal.
A massive outage yesterday grounded flights, shut down transit systems,
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disrupted phone communications, and shut down ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.
I need to check my geography this morning. More than
ninety nine percent of energy demand in Spain has been restored,
and Portugal's grid operator said all of its eighty nine
power substations were back online. It's still not clear what
caused the outage. At least four girls have been killed
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in Illinois by a car that crashed into an after
school program near Springfield.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
The vehicle struck multiple persons outside of the building before
continuing through the building and exiting.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The police chief in Chatham, Scott Tartar, says the students
killed yesterday ranged in age from four to eighteen. The
driver has been arrested. The US Navy says a fighter
jet has rolled off an aircraft carrier and right into
the Red Sea. ABC Stephen Portnoy says it happened off
the coast of Yemen.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
The incident occurred as the seventy million dollar jet was
being towed from the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier
USS Harry S. Truman. Two crew members, one on board
the FA eighteen and another inside the tractor, jumped out
in time.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Officials say one sailor wind hurt, but not seriously. The
House has passed a bill known as the Take It
Down Act to combat revenge porn. The Senate unanimously passed
it in February, so now it goes to President Trump's
desk for his signature. The bill makes it a federal
crime to post real or fake sexually explicit images of
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a person online without their consent. Breast milk donations are
down in California.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Mother's Milk Bank California says only two percent of eligible
moms are donating breast milk, yet the demand for donor
milk is growing. The bank says it has seen a
thirty percent increase in requests over the past year. The
Milk Bank and Senator Dave Cortesi have authored State Resolution
twenty establishing May as California's first ever human milk donation
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month to address this issue. The resolution will be presented
at the State Capitol May first. Depor Mark kff I News, the.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Super Bowl winning Philadelphia Eagles have been welcomed to the
White House.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
See have turned out to be an incredible team, an
incredible group.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was a large and festive gathering yesterday. Even though
some players didn't show up, President Trump didn't seem to notice.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Complimenting Sai Kuan's historic season was an incredible year from
star quarterback Jalen Hurtz, and he really played a He
had a great season and a great game.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The missing players blamed scheduling conflicts for missing the ceremony. Tonight,
the Dodgers take on the Marlins at Dodgers Stadium. First
pitch goes out at seven o'clock. You can listen to
all the Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
You can also stream them in HD on the iHeartRadio
app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Zen She handcrafted
(12:43):
sushi made fresh daily at Ralph's near the deli counter
when we come back. Oh, we're not going to be
talking to Luke Barr. He had to go. So I
think we're going to talk to Jim Ryan about making
things real. How about that Jim Ryan making things real?
That's coming up next.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's a Taco Tuesday songs tacos. I know we always
talk about Taco Tuesday. We never have them.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I know we should.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
I know.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Well, will, let's put you on that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We'll do it next week.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
All right, Wait, I won't be here next weekly. Oh
and by the way, you might have noticed Heather Brooker
sitting next to me this morning. Good morning, hello Heather. Yeah,
so I'm gonna I'm going to take a vacation next week.
And you guys are so lucky because you get to
have Heather fill in for me. Yay, Yes, you are
gonna have so much fun. I can't wait. We will
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be working hard. Good because I'm going to be playing hard,
playing hard. Okay, here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. People may see flames and smoke
in Pacific Palisades this week not to worry atf is
doing a controlled burn between tonight and Thursday to help
determine how the Palisades fire started in January. The burn
will be conducted along the timescal Ridge Trail between Skull
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Rock and Green Peak, near where the fire is believed
to have sparked. The La City Council will vote on
a motion to reduce fees and other roadblocks to film
production in LA. The motion would include adjusting city fees, permits,
parking and security requirements for filming on city owned properties
and new sound stages. A mural honoring the lives of
Kobe and Gianna Bryant has been vandalized. The mural on
(14:24):
Main Street in downtown LA depicts Kobe with Gianna when
she was a toddler. The artist who created it says
he's planning to restore it. At six oh five, it's
handled on the news. You might notice Bill jumping up
and down. That's because nearly half of Americans are giving
President Trump an f Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Jim Ryan. Good morning, Jim.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Doesn't take much of get Bill jumping up and down.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
It does not.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, So we were starting we're sitting here thinking because
RFK Junior is making moves to get rid of artificial
So we're thinking of things like skittles, hot cheetos, cotton candy,
fruit loops, kool aid. Who doesn't love cherry kool aid,
marachino cherries, those kinds of things, and he wants to
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get rid of them all. Well, not the things that dyes.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The dyes, the artificial dies.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Then the synthetic coloring, the chemically based stuff that we
find in so many foods to make them more appetizing.
You know, we eat with our eyes, and then we
eat with our You eat with your nose, you smell
the scent of it, and then you finally put it
in your mouth. But eating with your eyes comes first.
And the folks, the good people who make tricks learned
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a hard lesson. About eight years ago. Consumers were demanding
and advocates were demanding that the artificial colors be taken
out of tricks. There they were bright blue, bright red,
bright orange, bright yellow, and so the artificial colors were
taken out and they were sort of a muted tone
of kind of acrew or light baby blue maybe, And
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you know, they still have those in Canada but they
the people. The sales started to slip because people just
didn't didn't think they looked as good. They tasted about
the same, but they looked different. So the food companies
learned a hard lesson from that. So when RFK Junior
says you must take out your artificial colorings by the
end of next year, or at least sit out and
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talk with us about it, the food companies are like, okay, yeah, well,
we'll get around to that at some point in the future.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But it's expensive and it's very time consuming.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Amy well to figure out new combinations of or new
ways to color them, and.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
All the testing that has to go into that to
ensure first of all that the new natural color is
safe and second that it's going to fly with consumers.
Because we're talking about, you know, products that people buy
and then they eat. Some of these colors are the
natural colors are ten times as expensive to produce as
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their artificial equivalent. Now there's a color called Barbie pink.
Have you ever had, for example, pink yogurt, and you've
probably had red, you know, candy, stuff like that. You
know what makes it or what in many cases gives
it that color. A little insect called the coach and eel,
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which lives on prickly pears in Perule, the Canary Islands
and Wajaca, Mexico. They have for centuries have been harvesting
this little tiny insects. It's very very small, and it's
dried and then it's ground up and it gives off
this bright red color. It's been used in textiles, and yes,
it's used in some foods that you probably have eaten.
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Red velvet cake, for example, has traces of this. It's
not vegetarian. If you're a vegetarian, you're eating meat if
you eat coach and eel insects, and they can cause
allergy issues. So and you know how this is what
I'm talking about the cost of switching to a natural
and the the trouble and expense. It takes seventy thousand
coaching eal insects to get two pounds of dye to
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put into food or textiles or whatever you're using it in.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Too bad.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
They can't figure out how to use mosquitos to color stuff.
There's lots of them.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
There, Yeah, are your own.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
And then you've got to convince people people hearing that
they're eating coach and ill insects aren't going to be
happy about that. Mosquitos probably not that either.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So I'm thinking things like jelly bellies are going to
have a real issue because almost all of those have
fun colors.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Well they do, right, bright bright colors, and and by design,
you know, they they put those colors into the first
place because it draws your eye, and it draws your
dollars to buy this stuff, and then it's psychologically changes
the taste of it taste. So yeah, we're looking at
potential changes over the coming years. PepsiCo, the maker of
all sorts of snack foods, says, okay, fine, we're going
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to start right now with lazed potato chips and tostitos,
which don't have really bright, brilliant colors in them anyway.
So they're going to take those natural color and natural
are those artificial colors out and put in natural colors.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Maybe not too far a stretch on that at least.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, So I have a question for you, Jim, isn't
we kept hearing that a lot of these guys are
already banned in Europe, so it's not like it's not
a big deal, Like, why don't we just replicate what
Europe is doing.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, it could, but it.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Takes Let's say you're going to replace the artificial red
dye that's in some foods and replace it with the
beat juice that can be used, and it can be
blanded out, so it doesn't really create much taste, but
it does give it that red color. First, you have
to grow a whole crop of beats. Then you have
to strain them out, you have to process them. It
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takes years, a couple of years at least to do that,
and so it's not as easy to just saying out, well,
the Europeans are doing it, we can do it tomorrow.
It's going to take time. So I think his his
quote deadline by the end of next year is a
little bit you know, Pie in the sky, red green.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Pie in the sky.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah. Well, and I will just end this segment by saying,
we were in Disneyland this over the weekend and we
had a mocktail. Well I didn't have the mocktail. My
friend had a mocktail. I had the real cocktail, but
she had, yeah, the real deal. I the real deal.
But they used an apple slice. And then also these
cherries that were like this deep, deep, deep rich bread
that they looked like they were natural, and I'm like
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they look better than a Maraschino cherry because they look
like they're real.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Yeah, well canned fruits and some fruits in jars like
Maraschino cherries. They have little insects that I'm a coaching.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Eil interesting interesting Abec's Jim Ryan, I'm gonna go eat
some bugs.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Enjoy.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Thank you, have a great day.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Thanks see.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Train service through Orange County has been shut down for
six weeks because of emergency repairs needed.
Speaker 11 (20:50):
Passenger trains will not be running between San Diego and
Orange Counties after the real lines were impacted by recent landslides.
The Orange County Transportation Authorities says the emergency work will
also protect trains from bluff and coastal erosion and storm surges.
A bus connection will be provided between Oceanside and Irvine.
Jack Cronin Kaphi news.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Man charged with felony animal abuse for allegedly slamming his
five month old puppy onto the ground and kicking and
dragging the dog down the street in Long Beach, is
scheduled to be arraigned today. Alexander Kwaeva could face up
to four years in state prison if convicted. The German
shepherd mix continues to recover under the care of Long
Beach Animal Care Services. One of ten people on trial
(21:30):
in Paris accused of robbing Kim Kardashian back in twenty sixteen,
says he has something to say to her.
Speaker 12 (21:36):
Unus a boss, telling the Associated Press he didn't know
who Kardashian was until the morning after the robbery and
is looking forward to his day in court an opportunity
to apologize.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
ABC's Melissa Aiden says millions of dollars worth of Kardashian's
jewelry was stolen in the robbery. Twelve people were charged,
one has since died, another can't be tried because of
a medical condition. California apparently believe they need nearly one
and a half million dollars to retire comfortably.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That figure accounts for saving sources like four oh one
ks and iras, but excludes real estate. According to a
twenty twenty five Northwestern Mutual survey for the San Francisco Chronicle,
California's magic number for retirement is the same as last year.
It's also two hundred ten thousand dollars higher than the
average Americans expectation. This indicates that Californians are feeling the
effects of inflation and the state's high cost of living.
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Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
A man airlifted off Mount Fuji in Japan clearly didn't
learn his lesson.
Speaker 13 (22:34):
A Chinese student living in Japan made a call last
week to be rescued from about ten thousand feet up
on the roughly twelve thousand foot mountain because of altitude sickness.
On Saturday, he was airlifted again off the mountain after
another climber found him unable to move because of altitude sickness.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Again.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
What was he doing up there four days after the
first rescue. He was looking for his cell phone and
other stuff that he left behind from the previous rescue.
There is no charge or penalty when a climber needs
to be rescued, even if it's not the first time.
Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Okay, I know he could have died. I should be
I shouldn't laugh at that, but come on, really, when
we come back. ABC, Stephen Portnoy has results of a
brand new poll about how people feel about you know,
the president saying that we need to take over Greenland
or Annex Canada.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
You're listening to a wake up call on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
More than fifty five thousand employees have walked off the
job in La County. The union says it's the first
strike of its kind in the county and is expected
to impact several services, including non urgent health clinics, public libraries,
wildfire cleanup services, trash pickup, and homeless camp enforcement. The
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strike is scheduled to end tomorrow evening. The La County
Board of Supervisors is going to be considering approving an
ordinance to allow for fire to breed cleanup at properties
where owners opted out of having the Army Corps of
Engineers do it but haven't hired a contractor to do
it either. Those properties would be declared a public nuisance
after June thirtieth, and then the properties would be cleared
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and the homeowner would be charged for the cleanup. Looking
for a good paying job out of college, you may
want to major in something other than education, social work,
or the arts. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank
shows graduates in those degrees, or with those degrees who
work full time earn the lowest median incomes five years
after finishing school at six h five. It's handle on
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the news one hundred twenty k in one hundred days.
We'll talk about deportations. Right now. Let's say good morning
to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. President Trump has said a lot
of things in his first one hundred days, and a
brand new poll out shows that some of the things
the president wants to do are not popular with the people.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Well, that's right.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
I mean, these are some of the more outlandish proposals
that we've heard about in recent years, for example, the
US taking over Canada, the US taking over Greenland, president
running for a third term, President sending American citizens to
overseas prisons. The ABC News Washington Post IPSOS poll finds
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overwhelming majorities disagree with these ideas. Eighty six percent say
they oppose the US trying to take control of Canada,
seventy six percent say they don't want the US to
try to acquire Greenland, eight in ten say the president
should not try to sidestep the Constitution to serve a
third term, and two thirds oppose sending American citizens to
prisons overseas. But this poll also shows that majorities believe
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the president is serious about each of these ideas. Seventy
one percent say that they believe the president is serious
about trying to send American citizens overseas to prisons, sixty
eight percent say the president is serious when he wants
to take over Greenland, and sixty two percent say the
president is serious about serving a third term even as
the constitution prohibits it. So that's among the upline findings
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of our poll, which this week put the president's approval
rating of thirty nine percent the lowest at the one
hundred day mark of any president dating to nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Does this president pay attention to polling or does he
just like, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Well, he certainly is aware. I mean, he's been putting
on social media this week. How much he you know,
just simply shrugs off polling data and says it's the
function of you know, the fake news. But when you
see poll after poll after poll with such enormous disparities
between support and opposition, there's no way that anyone can
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objectively come away with it and say that it's not
a realistic picture. I mean, just stop one hundred people
on the street and asking these questions and see how
they feel about the US taking over Canada. And most
people think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, they don't.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I always thinking, I always think it's interesting when you
hear him say stuff like that, like let's just annex
Greenland or whatever he's planning to do it, always going nah,
I mean he's just campaigning. He wouldn't actually try, and
then later you go, oh gosh, he's really trying it.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Well, look, and that's what this poll shows, right, people
believe you know, it's show he's trolling the media, he's
trolling his opponents. Okay, but majorities believe he's serious.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
So what is it?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Is he just trying to pull one over and have
fun or is he serious? And most people seem to
think he is serious?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, I guess time will tell, right.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Well, ultimately, you know there are limits to a president's power.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yes, and that's the way that the people who made
the constitution made it so. And that's that. Thank you, Steven,
you bet right. I'm begetting your business now with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho morning, Courtney, good morning, not good morning if
you work at UPS. Apparently.
Speaker 14 (27:48):
Yeah, UPS is going to cut twenty thousand jobs this year,
closing a number of facilities too. It's trying to dramatically
reduce his business with Amazon. So UPS, this is a
new sort of thing that's happening because UPS announces plan
back in January to slash the number of low margin
Amazon parcels that it delivers by more than half over
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eighteen months. So we knew that was going to happen.
They're looking to cut cost so one of the ways
to cut costs, unfortunately, is by cutting employees. But UPS
also has been reworking its operations. They've been trying to
shift away from low margin shipments. They want to get
more favorable business lines. So the company's been working to
position itself as a specialized logistics provider that can move
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more expensive items like healthcare shipments, for example, or urgent
things that need to get moved overnight by companies.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Okay, and when you say low margin shipments, just to
make sure that I'm understanding you, that's is it? Because
like they get less because the high volume through Amazon exactly.
Speaker 14 (28:51):
Oh yeah, they're not making a lot of money. What
they want to do is say, all right, we're going
to take your shipment that needs to be temperature controlled,
and it's all of these different things to work to
make it happen. And that's what they're focusing on because
they can make a lot more money on one of
those than just a quick Amazon shipment to get whatever
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you need, you know, to get like fantastic or something
like that from Amazon.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I thought it. I forgot. I bought crochet needles the
other day because I'm trying to fix a sweater. I
don't crochet or anything, but I'm trying to fix a
sweater that's got snags in it. It was a dollar
ninety nine and free shipping.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I was like, how can anybody make money on that?
Speaker 14 (29:33):
And that's also another thing too, where the growth in
Amazon and the growth in these shipments, because a lot
of times you go to the store and sometimes they
don't have those things that you need. They don't have
the right size and knitting needles or whatever. I mean,
I could go down the list of the different things
that they may not have, So a lot of times
it's just quicker and easier to be able to get
it from Amazon. But again, all of these shipments not
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really that helpful for UPS. And another thing that UPS
I said this morning is that they're not giving an
update of financial forecast for the year because of all
the economic uncertainty. But Corporate America has been trying to
come to terms with tariffs and what all of this
means for their business going forward.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Lots of uncertainty, which, as you have told us, leads
to lots of swings in the market. Markets. You're talking
about shopping, and now we can go shopping with chat gpt.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
Well, soap and AI is now letting users shop for
products within the chatbot. So users can quickly compare products
and click on a link within chat gpt to make
their purchase on an external website. I think I might
do this. I'm looking to buy a grill. So for now,
the feature will only work in a handful of categories electronics, fashion,
(30:44):
home goods, beauty, but the plan is to expand to
a bunch of other products over time.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That'll be interesting as AI takes over our lives. Quick
check of the markets. How are things looking today? I
know that yesterday we were saying things are kind of down,
but then they ended up again.
Speaker 14 (30:59):
Yeah, the final hour of trading, we saw a turnaround
as we kicked off this busy week here with earnings
on Wall Street. It was a fifth day of gains
for the S and P five hundred. But we're getting
this list every day of companies pulling their forecasts with
tariffs offending their business plans. So another company is pulling
their financial guidance for the year, and that was General
(31:19):
Motors withdrawing its forecast. So GM says it's going to
have an update when it has more information on the tariffs.
So taking a look at the markets, we did pull back.
We are slightly higher, but the S and P five
hundred is up only a tenth of a percent, so
just a slight move on that part. It was lower
for part of the morning. Dow futures right now at
one hundred and sixty points.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks Courtney, we'll talk to
you tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (31:47):
Let's see you later. Bye.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
City of La says it doesn't have the money to
continue operating most of its childcare centers. The city received
money through the American Rescue Plan Act, established during the pandemic.
Well that funding ended in December of twenty twenty four,
and now the allocated money is running out. Unions of
asked LA's mayor to reconsider a spending plan that includes
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cutting sixteen hundred jobs.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Metro officials say a trial run detecting weapons at Union
Station and APU Citrus Station has been a success now
that it's expanded.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
To a welcome that because that is not the right one,
we'll get back to that story. The mayor of San Diego,
the former mayor has died, The Voice of San Diego,
says Bob Filner. The former congressman who just served as
mayor for nine months, died last week. He resigned in
twenty thirteen after being accused of sexual harassment and assault
(32:40):
and pleading guilty to false imprisonment and battery. Bob Filner
was eighty two and Disney's going to grant more than
one hundred and seventy wishes for critically ill kids.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
The Walt Disney Company has kicked off a campaign to
celebrate its forty five year relationship with the Make A
Wish Foundation. Some of the wishes to be granted include
meeting Luke Bryan of ABC He's American Idol, announcing a
draft pick for the NFL to be broadcast on ESPN,
having a Once Upon a Wish party at Walt Disney
World for about fifty Make a Wish kids and their families,
(33:11):
and sailing on its Disney cruise line. Deborah Mark KF
I knew.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Love that when we come back? How about an EV
for twenty k The host of How To Money on KFI,
Joel Larsgard says, one's about to hit the market.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
Residents whose homes survived the fires in Altadena say their
neighborhoods don't have the same level of security as properties
in Pacific Palisades. Since the fires, more than one hundred
and forty homes in Altadena have been burglarized, compared to
twenty three in the Palisades. The LAPD is asking for
your help and finding three men suspected of assaulting a
(33:50):
sixty one year old transgender woman several times at her
business in the Westlake District. The LPD calls it a
series of hate crimes. The Lkenna Bord of Supervisors is
expected today to approve a four billion dollars settlement of
more than sixty eight hundred claims of sexual abuse at
juvenile and foster care facilities dating back to the nineteen eighties.
(34:10):
It's billed as the costliest such payout in county history.
We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning.
Power is back on and Spain in Portugal. But do
we know what caused it to go off in the
first place. Let's say good morning now to the host
of How the Money on Cafeit's Joel Larsgard. Joel a
new truck, an EV for twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 15 (34:30):
It sounds impossible, does it does?
Speaker 14 (34:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (34:34):
So there's this new it just got announced just I
think Friday Auto company that is backed by Jeff Bezos,
which means ours deep pockets behind this new EV company.
It's called Slate Auto. And the video kind of went
viral for this new truck that they're launching. And part
(34:54):
of the reason that went viral is is because, yeah,
you can get it for twenty thousand dollars. Reason you
can get it for twenty thousand dollars or will be
able to once they start selling vehicles supposedly at the
end of next year, is because it's completely no frills,
so we're used to And I think this is so
fantastic because when you think about the reason that cars
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continue to cost more is because they get bigger and
nicer and fancier. And that's all good, but some people
like myself are totally down to save money by driving
something that's a whole lot more bare bones. And so
you know what comes standard these days, Amy in most
cars power windows or you know what else. It's like
pick the color you want, Like there's also this lovely
(35:41):
big screen that you can do everything with. And the
same is like there's all of these additional things that
they put into cars that make them cost so much
money these days. I think about my Toyota Camry from
nineteen eighty nine, my first car, and Toyota Camories these
days are so much nicer, and so Slate Auto is
kind of going back to the nineteen eighties. I think
this is awesome because all that they're doing is going
(36:02):
to help people save a whole lot of money buying
a new car, even if you want the average new
car is like what fifty grand? Now, it's insane. So
I love the idea of being able to buy a
twenty thousand dollars car well.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Plus especially if it's your first car. Like my first car, Well,
I bought a used car. But my first new car
that I bought was a Nissan CenTra. Yeah, and you know,
it had it had it had roll up windows, and
it didn't have the frills, but it was mine and
it was I was able to purchase it myself. And
like you said, cars are so expensive that kids can't
do that, and that's that pride of ownership. I think
(36:33):
that you're you know, introducing to people at a younger age.
Speaker 15 (36:37):
Yes, And I mean I think this is actually cheaper
than the average used car. Now, the average used car
costs something like twenty five thousand dollars, and so to
be able to get a brand new car for less
than the price of the average use car, to me,
usually when people call into the show and they're like, hey,
I'm thinking about buying a new car, and I might
need to take out a loan, and I'm usually like no, no, no, no,
(36:57):
don't don't think about it. And buying new cars is
typically just not a way to build wealth, right if
you spend if you spend less money on your car budget,
you're gonna come out ahead. But this is a way
to maybe have your cake and eat it too, to
where you're able to buy a new car for a
whole lot less money. There are some trade offs, right,
but I'm okay to make those, Like, truly, there's no
stereo in this car. What they're hoping that you'll be
(37:19):
okay with is putting like a Bluetooth speaker in there
and then playing your music from your phone to that
Bluetooth speaker. So they are all kinds of trade offs
with this. And even think about the range on electric vehicles.
This might not work for everyone because the range on
the base model is one hundred and forty miles I believe,
and so, but for a lot of people, if that's
their second car and they're just kind of putting around town,
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this could be a great second car for a whole
lot of people. I'm, as you can tell, I'm pretty
excited about it. I'm curious to see kind of what
it looks like in person. They also have, by the way,
all these little additions, so you can even turn this
truck into a five seater suv for an extra. I
think it's gonna be about five thousand dollars. So think
about a five seater suv for twenty five grand electric suv.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That's not bad, No, not at all. Okay, I want
to talk about really quick before we let you go,
a little bit of savings can go a long way
when it comes to your future.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 15 (38:14):
So I have always said there was this study done
in like twenty nineteen from economists and they found that
if you have twenty four hundred and sixty seven dollars
in your account, you're going to be able to cover
most emergencies. So I've always like I've always said, as
a baseline for people, you need to have that much saved, right.
That is the basically the number one step you need
(38:34):
to consider to write the ship with your finances. Once
you get a little bit of cash in the bank,
then you can start thinking about all the other things
like debt payoff and building wealth via investing. But that
is like basically square one, and a new Vanguard study
really mirrors this in a lot of ways. What they
found is that folks who have just two thousand dollars
in savings, that is actually the strongest predictor of financial
(38:59):
well being. And when you think about what you might
consider as the strongest predictor of financial well being, you
might be like, well, maybe it's just intelligence, or maybe
it is investing savvy, and no, it's really just the
ability to put a little bit of money away in savings.
And the sad truth is a slew of Americans, most
(39:20):
Americans are our debt heavy, savings light. And this is
this still remains. This is just more AMMO for me
to tell people that saving money matters and having some
financial margin, at least a little bit of margin a
couple grands worth is huge and it really is life changing.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Okay, that is the host of money. It's Joel Larsgard,
and you can hear more great money advice every weekend
noon to two on Sundays with how to Money on KFI.
Thank you Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
All Right, you can also follow him in how to Money. Joel.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The large algae
bloom off the coast southern California has killed more than
marine mammals like sea lions, whales, and dolphins.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
JD.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Bergeron with the group International Bird Rescueses migratory birds have
also fallen prey.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Because it is floating in the water. A lot of
the birds that you see most affected are the birds
that dive for their food, so birds like pelicans.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Bergeron says, the red tide won't go away soon, so
the birds being treated by his organization can't be released.
That has strained the rescue's resources. Unions have asked LA's
mayor to reconsider her spending plan that includes cutting sixteen
hundred jobs.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Mayor Bass's budget proposal includes layoffs and other cuts because
the city faces a billion dollar budget shortfall. Service Workers'
Union Rep. Genita ig Whaler says there's got to be
another way than layoffs.
Speaker 16 (40:46):
Allocations for liability claims, petroleum products, and other special purpose
funds needs to be analyzed and scrutinized for potential efficiencies.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Neighborhood councils also address the council's budget committe with their concerns. Yesterday,
budget hearings continue today at City Hall. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Amazon's launched its first Internet satellites to compete against SpaceX.
A rocket carrying twenty seven of Amazon's Project Kuyper satellites
was sent into space yesterday. Amazon is aiming to put
more than thirty two hundred satellites into orbit to provide fast,
affordable broadband service around the world. That sounds familiar, doesn't it.
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This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
Southland weather from KFI, sunny after some patchy morning fog.
His in the mid to upper sixties at the coast,
upper sixties to mid seventies for Metro La and Inland
Orange County, mid upper seventies in the valleys, seventies to
low eighties for the Inland Empire, seventies for the Antelope Valley.
It's going to be partly cloudy, few degrees cooler tomorrow
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through Friday, with eyes in the sixties to mid seventies.
It's fifty three in Orange, fifty five in Manhattan Beach,
fifty five in Siritos, and fifty three in Aliso, Vaho.
Live from the cak K twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm
Amy King. This has been your wake up call. You've
been listening to wake Up Call with me, Amy King.
You can always hear wake Up Call five to six
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You're listening to KFI AM sixty wake Up Call with
me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. I
want to say a happy birthday a day late to
my sister in law, Casey. Of course I wish my
brother a happy birthday, and he doesn't even listen. She
listens every days and I forgot to mention her yesterday.
So sorry about that, Casey. And also today would have
(00:23):
been my dad's birthday. Sure miss him. So you guys
know the ring doorbell dilemma that I have. I okay,
so here's the latest. I ran out of the free
trial and it keeps going, Oh, you you're going to
run out of the recording where you can play back
the videos for and you know, forever. And I'm like, well,
(00:45):
do I really need that? Do I have to pay
for a subscription or can I just you know, have
the alerts of somebody's at the front door. So I'm
holding off. I'm paying for the subscription. I have enough subscriptions.
But you know what hasn't stopped the messages. Anyone see
these lights last night freeway north of Highland going towards Universal.
(01:05):
What are they? Ooh, there's a helicopter flying around right now.
Any idea what's going on besides drones? Anybody know of
any mobile pet grooming in downtown La Hey? Did you
see the lights on the night sky? Oh? Spotted a
very friendly black cat in Echo Park.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
It's worth worse the next door.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh my gosh, it's hysterical. Oh there's another helicopter in
Eagle Rock circling what seems to be the new car wash.
Oh no, oh, found a dog on Normandy. I mean, like,
it's crazy, so there's got to be a way to
turn it off. There is, but now it's become sort
of a thing that I think it's funny, so I
just leave it on. Okay, here's what's a head on
(01:46):
wake up call. The rebuilding process has officially begun for
the first of more than nine thousand homes and other
buildings burned in Altadena. Homeowner Margot Stuber was joined by
County Supervisor Catherine Barger yesterday for the groundbreaking. Stuper says
she's hoping to be able to move into her new
home in January. Thousands of La County workers have walked
(02:06):
off the job for a forty eight hour strike. The
union claims the county is spending two hundred five million
dollars on things like office space and a skyscraper in downtown,
while insisting there's no money to give employees a raise.
A bill has been introduced in Sacramento to make the
Internet more affordable. It aims to require providers to offer
plans for no more than fifteen bucks a month, and
(02:27):
that's for people who qualify for cal fresh or medical.
Estimates are that more than three million people don't have
reliable access to high speed internet. Well, it's all about
the first one hundred days. We're going to take a
quick look back and recap what President Trump has done
since taking office with ABC's Karen Travers in about two minutes,
and then at five point twenty, the Borders are had
some choice words about the past administration's border stance. ABC's
(02:51):
bar is going to join us to talk about Tom
Holman's continued tough stance on illegal border crossings. Just after
five thirty, ABC Stephen Portnoy joins it. He's got the
results of a brand new poll about how people in
America feel about, you know, things like taking over Greenland
and annexing Canada And how about an ev for twenty
thousand dollars. A host of how to money on KFI.
(03:12):
Joel Larsgaard says one is about to hit the market,
and also how saving a little bit goes a long
way and predicting your financial well being in the future.
Definitely tuning in for that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I have to.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I'll be talking to him anyway. Let's get started with
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. La County supervisors are considering an ordinance
to allow for fire debris cleanup at properties where the
owners have failed to opt in to have the government
do it and haven't hired their own private contractor. The
removal work has to be done by June thirty if
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if the ordinances approved, properties that haven't been cleared by
that date will be declared a public nuisance and a
health hazard, and if the county then clears the debris,
the property owner will get the bill. The ATF is
doing a controlled burn in Pacific Palisades to try to
figure out how the massive wildfire started in January.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
The burn will be conducted along the Tamescal Ridge trail
between Skull Rock and Green Peak, near where the initial
fire is believed to have started. The Los Angeles Fire
Department will have firefighters on hand to protect public safety
and the environment during the burn.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Kay if i's Daniel Martindale says the burn is said
to be done tonight. Between tonight and Thursday, detectives have
released images of a man who sexually assaulted a woman
on a metro bus in East Hollywood. Laped says it
happened shortly before ten pm on April twelfth, near Sunset
Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. The man sat next to the
woman and pulled a knife on her. He then assaulted
(04:39):
her after she told him she didn't have any money.
Then he got off the bus and ran off toward
Fortieth Place. A bear has broken into an ice cream
shop near Lake Tahoe and made off with a tasty treat.
The owner of Tahoe Time ice Cream and Coffee shop
says she and her crew went on a lunch break Sunday,
and when they returned, they found a trash can had
been knocked over, the ice cream freezer was open, and
(05:00):
a three gallon tub of chocolate chip cookie ice cream
was gone. They say the barry even tried to get
back inside to get more. It's five oh seven on
your Tuesday morning wake up call. Let's say good morning
now to ABC's Karen Travers. So, Karen, the first hundred
days been anything but boring. So let's take a quick
look back at what he's done and what the President
(05:21):
hasn't done in the first one hundred Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I mean what he has done is came in promising
swift change, and he has really relied on executive actions
to move his agenda forward. He's signed more than one
hundred and forty executive orders since January twentieth, according to
the Federal Register, and has really leaned on that to
try to get things done. And that's what the administration
will point to. He's taken swift action on immigration ice
(05:46):
raids across the country. The Department of Homeland Security says
there have been one hundred and fifty thousand deportations so far.
On tariffs, I think that's the big thing, the big
action on the economy, the sweeping set of tariffs that
he announced on nearly ninety countries, most on pause right
now after the stock market took a significant nose dive,
but the President told me ten days ago that they
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will go back into effect if there are not trade
deals reached at the end of this pause, and notably,
poll after poll over the last several days have shown
Americans are not feeling great about the economy. Seventy three
percent in our polls that it's in bad shape right now,
fifty three percent gotten worse since he took office, and
really all of the underlying reasons for that is the
(06:29):
tariffs and the trade war right now that are happening,
which I ama, okay, and.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What the tariffs being the main sticking point as you mentioned,
are there are there any things that are getting a
good response from the public, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
In terms of the polls right now. You know, when
you look at it, forty six percent approve of the
president's immigration policies. That was obviously a big thing that
he talked about as a candidate, people like that when
he was on the campaign trail. But notably forty eight
percent say that the actions supporting undo undocumented migrants have
gone too far. You know, we might have talked about
(07:06):
this earlier too, that you know, his approval rating right
now is that just thirty nine percent. That is the
lowest at one hundred days mark for any president over
eighty years since we've been doing this polling and was.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Thirty nine percent. Sounds kind of familiar. Is that kind
of where he hovered during his first presidency.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I have to go back and look and see I
think probably around that forty percent mark. But you know,
presidents tend to come in higher view. You just got elected,
so if you won the election, people might be feeling good.
It's striking to see kind of this sharp decline and really,
again just to underline some of those economic bullet points
(07:46):
in the poll, it is very interesting to see that
when you drill down in it why people are not
feeling good about the economy. What they're saying is the
reason that they don't think things are good right now
is specifically about the policies. You know, it's not some
outside force, it's not some global trend. They're saying it's
because of the administration's policies, specifically on trade.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, and I bet ABC has lots and lots of
questions for the president on how he thinks things are going.
And you guys get that opportunity, don't you.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Coming up in a couple of hours by colleague Terry
Moran will sit down with the president. You'll be able
to hear that. See that tonight in a big special,
but stay tuned for that. We're going to get quite
a bit of time with the president later this morning.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Awesome, Okay, Karen Travers, ABC News White House Correspondent, Thank
you so much.
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Have a great thing, all right, you too.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Bet she's busy today talking about the first one hundred days.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Michigan Democratic Representative
Shri Thanadar. Since President Trump is unfit to serve and
plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president, Thanadar
says Trump presents a clear and present danger to the
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constitution and our democracy. Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green, you
may remember he was censured for interrupting Trump's speech to
a joint session of Congress, says he too, plans to
introduce articles of impeachment against Trump. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,
who replaced Justin Trudeau, has won the support of Canadians
(09:15):
in a victory for his party. ABC's ran On Ali
says Carneie's Liberal Party has won the country's federal election.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
It marks the historic turnaround for the party, fueled in
part by President Trump's tariffs and talk about making Canada
the fifty first state.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
In a victory speech, Carnegie stressed the importance of Canadian
unity in the face of Washington's threats. He said President
Trump is trying to break Canadians so American or American
can own them. But he says that's not going to happen.
Power has been almost fully restored to Spain and Portugal.
A massive outage yesterday grounded flights, shut down transit systems,
(09:53):
disrupted phone communications, and shut down ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.
I need to check my geography this morning. More than
ninety nine percent of energy demand in Spain has been restored,
and Portugal's grid operator said all of its eighty nine
power substations were back online. It's still not clear what
caused the outage. At least four girls have been killed
(10:15):
in Illinois by a car that crashed into an after
school program near Springfield.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
The vehicle struck multiple persons outside of the building before
continuing through the building and exiting.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
The police chief in Chatham, Scott Tartar, says the students
killed yesterday ranged in age from four to eighteen. The
driver has been arrested. The US Navy says a fighter
jet has rolled off an aircraft carrier and right into
the Red Sea. ABC Stephen Portnoy says it happened off
the coast of Yemen.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
The incident occurred as the seventy million dollar jet was
being towed from the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier
USS Harry S. Truman. Two crew members, one on board
the FA eighteen and another inside the tractor, jumped out
in time.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Officials say one sailor wind hurt, but not seriously. The
House has passed a bill known as the Take It
Down Act to combat revenge porn. The Senate unanimously passed
it in February, so now it goes to President Trump's
desk for his signature. The bill makes it a federal
crime to post real or fake sexually explicit images of
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a person online without their consent. Breast milk donations are
down in California.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
Mother's Milk Bank California says only two percent of eligible
moms are donating breast milk, yet the demand for donor
milk is growing. The bank says it has seen a
thirty percent increase in requests over the past year. The
Milk Bank and Senator Dave Cortesi have authored State Resolution
twenty establishing May as California's first ever human milk donation
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month to address this issue. The resolution will be presented
at the State Capitol May first. Depor Mark kff I News, the.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Super Bowl winning Philadelphia Eagles have been welcomed to the
White House.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
See have turned out to be an incredible team, an
incredible group.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was a large and festive gathering yesterday. Even though
some players didn't show up, President Trump didn't seem to notice.
Speaker 9 (12:11):
Complimenting Sai Kuan's historic season was an incredible year from
star quarterback Jalen Hurtz, and he really played a He
had a great season and a great game.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
The missing players blamed scheduling conflicts for missing the ceremony. Tonight,
the Dodgers take on the Marlins at Dodgers Stadium. First
pitch goes out at seven o'clock. You can listen to
all the Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports.
You can also stream them in HD on the iHeartRadio
app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Zen She handcrafted
(12:43):
sushi made fresh daily at Ralph's near the deli counter
when we come back. Oh, we're not going to be
talking to Luke Barr. He had to go. So I
think we're going to talk to Jim Ryan about making
things real. How about that Jim Ryan making things real?
That's coming up next.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's a Taco Tuesday songs tacos. I know we always
talk about Taco Tuesday. We never have them.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I know we should.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
I know.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Well, will, let's put you on that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We'll do it next week.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
All right, Wait, I won't be here next weekly. Oh
and by the way, you might have noticed Heather Brooker
sitting next to me this morning. Good morning, hello Heather. Yeah,
so I'm gonna I'm going to take a vacation next week.
And you guys are so lucky because you get to
have Heather fill in for me. Yay, Yes, you are
gonna have so much fun. I can't wait. We will
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be working hard. Good because I'm going to be playing hard,
playing hard. Okay, here's what we're following in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. People may see flames and smoke
in Pacific Palisades this week not to worry atf is
doing a controlled burn between tonight and Thursday to help
determine how the Palisades fire started in January. The burn
will be conducted along the timescal Ridge Trail between Skull
(14:02):
Rock and Green Peak, near where the fire is believed
to have sparked. The La City Council will vote on
a motion to reduce fees and other roadblocks to film
production in LA. The motion would include adjusting city fees, permits,
parking and security requirements for filming on city owned properties
and new sound stages. A mural honoring the lives of
Kobe and Gianna Bryant has been vandalized. The mural on
(14:24):
Main Street in downtown LA depicts Kobe with Gianna when
she was a toddler. The artist who created it says
he's planning to restore it. At six oh five, it's
handled on the news. You might notice Bill jumping up
and down. That's because nearly half of Americans are giving
President Trump an f Let's say good morning now to
ABC's Jim Ryan. Good morning, Jim.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Doesn't take much of get Bill jumping up and down.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
It does not.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Okay, So we were starting we're sitting here thinking because
RFK Junior is making moves to get rid of artificial
So we're thinking of things like skittles, hot cheetos, cotton candy,
fruit loops, kool aid. Who doesn't love cherry kool aid,
marachino cherries, those kinds of things, and he wants to
(15:14):
get rid of them all. Well, not the things that dyes.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
The dyes, the artificial dies.
Speaker 10 (15:21):
Then the synthetic coloring, the chemically based stuff that we
find in so many foods to make them more appetizing.
You know, we eat with our eyes, and then we
eat with our You eat with your nose, you smell
the scent of it, and then you finally put it
in your mouth. But eating with your eyes comes first.
And the folks, the good people who make tricks learned
(15:41):
a hard lesson. About eight years ago. Consumers were demanding
and advocates were demanding that the artificial colors be taken
out of tricks. There they were bright blue, bright red,
bright orange, bright yellow, and so the artificial colors were
taken out and they were sort of a muted tone
of kind of acrew or light baby blue maybe, And
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you know, they still have those in Canada but they
the people. The sales started to slip because people just
didn't didn't think they looked as good. They tasted about
the same, but they looked different. So the food companies
learned a hard lesson from that. So when RFK Junior
says you must take out your artificial colorings by the
end of next year, or at least sit out and
(16:22):
talk with us about it, the food companies are like, okay, yeah, well,
we'll get around to that at some point in the future.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
But it's expensive and it's very time consuming.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Amy well to figure out new combinations of or new
ways to color them, and.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
All the testing that has to go into that to
ensure first of all that the new natural color is
safe and second that it's going to fly with consumers.
Because we're talking about, you know, products that people buy
and then they eat. Some of these colors are the
natural colors are ten times as expensive to produce as
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their artificial equivalent. Now there's a color called Barbie pink.
Have you ever had, for example, pink yogurt, and you've
probably had red, you know, candy, stuff like that. You
know what makes it or what in many cases gives
it that color. A little insect called the coach and eel,
(17:19):
which lives on prickly pears in Perule, the Canary Islands
and Wajaca, Mexico. They have for centuries have been harvesting
this little tiny insects. It's very very small, and it's
dried and then it's ground up and it gives off
this bright red color. It's been used in textiles, and yes,
it's used in some foods that you probably have eaten.
(17:44):
Red velvet cake, for example, has traces of this. It's
not vegetarian. If you're a vegetarian, you're eating meat if
you eat coach and eel insects, and they can cause
allergy issues. So and you know how this is what
I'm talking about the cost of switching to a natural
and the the trouble and expense. It takes seventy thousand
coaching eal insects to get two pounds of dye to
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put into food or textiles or whatever you're using it in.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Too bad.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
They can't figure out how to use mosquitos to color stuff.
There's lots of them.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
There, Yeah, are your own.
Speaker 10 (18:15):
And then you've got to convince people people hearing that
they're eating coach and ill insects aren't going to be
happy about that. Mosquitos probably not that either.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
So I'm thinking things like jelly bellies are going to
have a real issue because almost all of those have
fun colors.
Speaker 10 (18:32):
Well they do, right, bright bright colors, and and by design,
you know, they they put those colors into the first
place because it draws your eye, and it draws your
dollars to buy this stuff, and then it's psychologically changes
the taste of it taste. So yeah, we're looking at
potential changes over the coming years. PepsiCo, the maker of
all sorts of snack foods, says, okay, fine, we're going
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to start right now with lazed potato chips and tostitos,
which don't have really bright, brilliant colors in them anyway.
So they're going to take those natural color and natural
are those artificial colors out and put in natural colors.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Maybe not too far a stretch on that at least.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Okay, So I have a question for you, Jim, isn't
we kept hearing that a lot of these guys are
already banned in Europe, so it's not like it's not
a big deal, Like, why don't we just replicate what
Europe is doing.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, it could, but it.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
Takes Let's say you're going to replace the artificial red
dye that's in some foods and replace it with the
beat juice that can be used, and it can be
blanded out, so it doesn't really create much taste, but
it does give it that red color. First, you have
to grow a whole crop of beats. Then you have
to strain them out, you have to process them. It
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takes years, a couple of years at least to do that,
and so it's not as easy to just saying out, well,
the Europeans are doing it, we can do it tomorrow.
It's going to take time. So I think his his
quote deadline by the end of next year is a
little bit you know, Pie in the sky, red green.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Pie in the sky.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah. Well, and I will just end this segment by saying,
we were in Disneyland this over the weekend and we
had a mocktail. Well I didn't have the mocktail. My
friend had a mocktail. I had the real cocktail, but
she had, yeah, the real deal. I the real deal.
But they used an apple slice. And then also these
cherries that were like this deep, deep, deep rich bread
that they looked like they were natural, and I'm like
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they look better than a Maraschino cherry because they look
like they're real.
Speaker 10 (20:27):
Yeah, well canned fruits and some fruits in jars like
Maraschino cherries. They have little insects that I'm a coaching.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Eil interesting interesting Abec's Jim Ryan, I'm gonna go eat
some bugs.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Enjoy.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Thank you, have a great day.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Thanks see.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Train service through Orange County has been shut down for
six weeks because of emergency repairs needed.
Speaker 11 (20:50):
Passenger trains will not be running between San Diego and
Orange Counties after the real lines were impacted by recent landslides.
The Orange County Transportation Authorities says the emergency work will
also protect trains from bluff and coastal erosion and storm surges.
A bus connection will be provided between Oceanside and Irvine.
Jack Cronin Kaphi news.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Man charged with felony animal abuse for allegedly slamming his
five month old puppy onto the ground and kicking and
dragging the dog down the street in Long Beach, is
scheduled to be arraigned today. Alexander Kwaeva could face up
to four years in state prison if convicted. The German
shepherd mix continues to recover under the care of Long
Beach Animal Care Services. One of ten people on trial
(21:30):
in Paris accused of robbing Kim Kardashian back in twenty sixteen,
says he has something to say to her.
Speaker 12 (21:36):
Unus a boss, telling the Associated Press he didn't know
who Kardashian was until the morning after the robbery and
is looking forward to his day in court an opportunity
to apologize.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
ABC's Melissa Aiden says millions of dollars worth of Kardashian's
jewelry was stolen in the robbery. Twelve people were charged,
one has since died, another can't be tried because of
a medical condition. California apparently believe they need nearly one
and a half million dollars to retire comfortably.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
That figure accounts for saving sources like four oh one
ks and iras, but excludes real estate. According to a
twenty twenty five Northwestern Mutual survey for the San Francisco Chronicle,
California's magic number for retirement is the same as last year.
It's also two hundred ten thousand dollars higher than the
average Americans expectation. This indicates that Californians are feeling the
effects of inflation and the state's high cost of living.
(22:26):
Mark Ronner KFI News.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
A man airlifted off Mount Fuji in Japan clearly didn't
learn his lesson.
Speaker 13 (22:34):
A Chinese student living in Japan made a call last
week to be rescued from about ten thousand feet up
on the roughly twelve thousand foot mountain because of altitude sickness.
On Saturday, he was airlifted again off the mountain after
another climber found him unable to move because of altitude sickness.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Again.
Speaker 13 (22:50):
What was he doing up there four days after the
first rescue. He was looking for his cell phone and
other stuff that he left behind from the previous rescue.
There is no charge or penalty when a climber needs
to be rescued, even if it's not the first time.
Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Okay, I know he could have died. I should be
I shouldn't laugh at that, but come on, really, when
we come back. ABC, Stephen Portnoy has results of a
brand new poll about how people feel about you know,
the president saying that we need to take over Greenland
or Annex Canada.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
You're listening to a wake up call on demand from
KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
More than fifty five thousand employees have walked off the
job in La County. The union says it's the first
strike of its kind in the county and is expected
to impact several services, including non urgent health clinics, public libraries,
wildfire cleanup services, trash pickup, and homeless camp enforcement. The
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strike is scheduled to end tomorrow evening. The La County
Board of Supervisors is going to be considering approving an
ordinance to allow for fire to breed cleanup at properties
where owners opted out of having the Army Corps of
Engineers do it but haven't hired a contractor to do
it either. Those properties would be declared a public nuisance
after June thirtieth, and then the properties would be cleared
(24:06):
and the homeowner would be charged for the cleanup. Looking
for a good paying job out of college, you may
want to major in something other than education, social work,
or the arts. A report from the Federal Reserve Bank
shows graduates in those degrees, or with those degrees who
work full time earn the lowest median incomes five years
after finishing school at six h five. It's handle on
(24:29):
the news one hundred twenty k in one hundred days.
We'll talk about deportations. Right now. Let's say good morning
to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. President Trump has said a lot
of things in his first one hundred days, and a
brand new poll out shows that some of the things
the president wants to do are not popular with the people.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Well, that's right.
Speaker 7 (24:48):
I mean, these are some of the more outlandish proposals
that we've heard about in recent years, for example, the
US taking over Canada, the US taking over Greenland, president
running for a third term, President sending American citizens to
overseas prisons. The ABC News Washington Post IPSOS poll finds
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overwhelming majorities disagree with these ideas. Eighty six percent say
they oppose the US trying to take control of Canada,
seventy six percent say they don't want the US to
try to acquire Greenland, eight in ten say the president
should not try to sidestep the Constitution to serve a
third term, and two thirds oppose sending American citizens to
prisons overseas. But this poll also shows that majorities believe
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the president is serious about each of these ideas. Seventy
one percent say that they believe the president is serious
about trying to send American citizens overseas to prisons, sixty
eight percent say the president is serious when he wants
to take over Greenland, and sixty two percent say the
president is serious about serving a third term even as
the constitution prohibits it. So that's among the upline findings
(26:01):
of our poll, which this week put the president's approval
rating of thirty nine percent the lowest at the one
hundred day mark of any president dating to nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Does this president pay attention to polling or does he
just like, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
Well, he certainly is aware. I mean, he's been putting
on social media this week. How much he you know,
just simply shrugs off polling data and says it's the
function of you know, the fake news. But when you
see poll after poll after poll with such enormous disparities
between support and opposition, there's no way that anyone can
(26:37):
objectively come away with it and say that it's not
a realistic picture. I mean, just stop one hundred people
on the street and asking these questions and see how
they feel about the US taking over Canada. And most
people think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, they don't.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
I always thinking, I always think it's interesting when you
hear him say stuff like that, like let's just annex
Greenland or whatever he's planning to do it, always going nah,
I mean he's just campaigning. He wouldn't actually try, and
then later you go, oh gosh, he's really trying it.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
Well, look, and that's what this poll shows, right, people
believe you know, it's show he's trolling the media, he's
trolling his opponents. Okay, but majorities believe he's serious.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
So what is it?
Speaker 7 (27:14):
Is he just trying to pull one over and have
fun or is he serious? And most people seem to
think he is serious?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, I guess time will tell, right.
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Well, ultimately, you know there are limits to a president's power.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yes, and that's the way that the people who made
the constitution made it so. And that's that. Thank you, Steven,
you bet right. I'm begetting your business now with Bloomberg's
Courtney Donaho morning, Courtney, good morning, not good morning if
you work at UPS. Apparently.
Speaker 14 (27:48):
Yeah, UPS is going to cut twenty thousand jobs this year,
closing a number of facilities too. It's trying to dramatically
reduce his business with Amazon. So UPS, this is a
new sort of thing that's happening because UPS announces plan
back in January to slash the number of low margin
Amazon parcels that it delivers by more than half over
(28:09):
eighteen months. So we knew that was going to happen.
They're looking to cut cost so one of the ways
to cut costs, unfortunately, is by cutting employees. But UPS
also has been reworking its operations. They've been trying to
shift away from low margin shipments. They want to get
more favorable business lines. So the company's been working to
position itself as a specialized logistics provider that can move
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more expensive items like healthcare shipments, for example, or urgent
things that need to get moved overnight by companies.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Okay, and when you say low margin shipments, just to
make sure that I'm understanding you, that's is it? Because
like they get less because the high volume through Amazon exactly.
Speaker 14 (28:51):
Oh yeah, they're not making a lot of money. What
they want to do is say, all right, we're going
to take your shipment that needs to be temperature controlled,
and it's all of these different things to work to
make it happen. And that's what they're focusing on because
they can make a lot more money on one of
those than just a quick Amazon shipment to get whatever
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you need, you know, to get like fantastic or something
like that from Amazon.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
I thought it. I forgot. I bought crochet needles the
other day because I'm trying to fix a sweater. I
don't crochet or anything, but I'm trying to fix a
sweater that's got snags in it. It was a dollar
ninety nine and free shipping.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I was like, how can anybody make money on that?
Speaker 14 (29:33):
And that's also another thing too, where the growth in
Amazon and the growth in these shipments, because a lot
of times you go to the store and sometimes they
don't have those things that you need. They don't have
the right size and knitting needles or whatever. I mean,
I could go down the list of the different things
that they may not have, So a lot of times
it's just quicker and easier to be able to get
it from Amazon. But again, all of these shipments not
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really that helpful for UPS. And another thing that UPS
I said this morning is that they're not giving an
update of financial forecast for the year because of all
the economic uncertainty. But Corporate America has been trying to
come to terms with tariffs and what all of this
means for their business going forward.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Lots of uncertainty, which, as you have told us, leads
to lots of swings in the market. Markets. You're talking
about shopping, and now we can go shopping with chat gpt.
Speaker 14 (30:23):
Well, soap and AI is now letting users shop for
products within the chatbot. So users can quickly compare products
and click on a link within chat gpt to make
their purchase on an external website. I think I might
do this. I'm looking to buy a grill. So for now,
the feature will only work in a handful of categories electronics, fashion,
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home goods, beauty, but the plan is to expand to
a bunch of other products over time.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
That'll be interesting as AI takes over our lives. Quick
check of the markets. How are things looking today? I
know that yesterday we were saying things are kind of down,
but then they ended up again.
Speaker 14 (30:59):
Yeah, the final hour of trading, we saw a turnaround
as we kicked off this busy week here with earnings
on Wall Street. It was a fifth day of gains
for the S and P five hundred. But we're getting
this list every day of companies pulling their forecasts with
tariffs offending their business plans. So another company is pulling
their financial guidance for the year, and that was General
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Motors withdrawing its forecast. So GM says it's going to
have an update when it has more information on the tariffs.
So taking a look at the markets, we did pull back.
We are slightly higher, but the S and P five
hundred is up only a tenth of a percent, so
just a slight move on that part. It was lower
for part of the morning. Dow futures right now at
one hundred and sixty points.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks Courtney, we'll talk to
you tomorrow.
Speaker 14 (31:47):
Let's see you later. Bye.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The
City of La says it doesn't have the money to
continue operating most of its childcare centers. The city received
money through the American Rescue Plan Act, established during the pandemic.
Well that funding ended in December of twenty twenty four,
and now the allocated money is running out. Unions of
asked LA's mayor to reconsider a spending plan that includes
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cutting sixteen hundred jobs.
Speaker 4 (32:12):
Metro officials say a trial run detecting weapons at Union
Station and APU Citrus Station has been a success now
that it's expanded.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
To a welcome that because that is not the right one,
we'll get back to that story. The mayor of San Diego,
the former mayor has died, The Voice of San Diego,
says Bob Filner. The former congressman who just served as
mayor for nine months, died last week. He resigned in
twenty thirteen after being accused of sexual harassment and assault
(32:40):
and pleading guilty to false imprisonment and battery. Bob Filner
was eighty two and Disney's going to grant more than
one hundred and seventy wishes for critically ill kids.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
The Walt Disney Company has kicked off a campaign to
celebrate its forty five year relationship with the Make A
Wish Foundation. Some of the wishes to be granted include
meeting Luke Bryan of ABC He's American Idol, announcing a
draft pick for the NFL to be broadcast on ESPN,
having a Once Upon a Wish party at Walt Disney
World for about fifty Make a Wish kids and their families,
(33:11):
and sailing on its Disney cruise line. Deborah Mark KF
I knew.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Love that when we come back? How about an EV
for twenty k The host of How To Money on KFI,
Joel Larsgard says, one's about to hit the market.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI
Am six forty.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four our newsroom.
Residents whose homes survived the fires in Altadena say their
neighborhoods don't have the same level of security as properties
in Pacific Palisades. Since the fires, more than one hundred
and forty homes in Altadena have been burglarized, compared to
twenty three in the Palisades. The LAPD is asking for
your help and finding three men suspected of assaulting a
(33:50):
sixty one year old transgender woman several times at her
business in the Westlake District. The LPD calls it a
series of hate crimes. The Lkenna Bord of Supervisors is
expected today to approve a four billion dollars settlement of
more than sixty eight hundred claims of sexual abuse at
juvenile and foster care facilities dating back to the nineteen eighties.
(34:10):
It's billed as the costliest such payout in county history.
We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning.
Power is back on and Spain in Portugal. But do
we know what caused it to go off in the
first place. Let's say good morning now to the host
of How the Money on Cafeit's Joel Larsgard. Joel a
new truck, an EV for twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 15 (34:30):
It sounds impossible, does it does?
Speaker 14 (34:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (34:34):
So there's this new it just got announced just I
think Friday Auto company that is backed by Jeff Bezos,
which means ours deep pockets behind this new EV company.
It's called Slate Auto. And the video kind of went
viral for this new truck that they're launching. And part
(34:54):
of the reason that went viral is is because, yeah,
you can get it for twenty thousand dollars. Reason you
can get it for twenty thousand dollars or will be
able to once they start selling vehicles supposedly at the
end of next year, is because it's completely no frills,
so we're used to And I think this is so
fantastic because when you think about the reason that cars
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continue to cost more is because they get bigger and
nicer and fancier. And that's all good, but some people
like myself are totally down to save money by driving
something that's a whole lot more bare bones. And so
you know what comes standard these days, Amy in most
cars power windows or you know what else. It's like
pick the color you want, Like there's also this lovely
(35:41):
big screen that you can do everything with. And the
same is like there's all of these additional things that
they put into cars that make them cost so much
money these days. I think about my Toyota Camry from
nineteen eighty nine, my first car, and Toyota Camories these
days are so much nicer, and so Slate Auto is
kind of going back to the nineteen eighties. I think
this is awesome because all that they're doing is going
(36:02):
to help people save a whole lot of money buying
a new car, even if you want the average new
car is like what fifty grand? Now, it's insane. So
I love the idea of being able to buy a
twenty thousand dollars car well.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Plus especially if it's your first car. Like my first car, Well,
I bought a used car. But my first new car
that I bought was a Nissan CenTra. Yeah, and you know,
it had it had it had roll up windows, and
it didn't have the frills, but it was mine and
it was I was able to purchase it myself. And
like you said, cars are so expensive that kids can't
do that, and that's that pride of ownership. I think
(36:33):
that you're you know, introducing to people at a younger age.
Speaker 15 (36:37):
Yes, And I mean I think this is actually cheaper
than the average used car. Now, the average used car
costs something like twenty five thousand dollars, and so to
be able to get a brand new car for less
than the price of the average use car, to me,
usually when people call into the show and they're like, hey,
I'm thinking about buying a new car, and I might
need to take out a loan, and I'm usually like no, no, no, no,
(36:57):
don't don't think about it. And buying new cars is
typically just not a way to build wealth, right if
you spend if you spend less money on your car budget,
you're gonna come out ahead. But this is a way
to maybe have your cake and eat it too, to
where you're able to buy a new car for a
whole lot less money. There are some trade offs, right,
but I'm okay to make those, Like, truly, there's no
stereo in this car. What they're hoping that you'll be
(37:19):
okay with is putting like a Bluetooth speaker in there
and then playing your music from your phone to that
Bluetooth speaker. So they are all kinds of trade offs
with this. And even think about the range on electric vehicles.
This might not work for everyone because the range on
the base model is one hundred and forty miles I believe,
and so, but for a lot of people, if that's
their second car and they're just kind of putting around town,
(37:42):
this could be a great second car for a whole
lot of people. I'm, as you can tell, I'm pretty
excited about it. I'm curious to see kind of what
it looks like in person. They also have, by the way,
all these little additions, so you can even turn this
truck into a five seater suv for an extra. I
think it's gonna be about five thousand dollars. So think
about a five seater suv for twenty five grand electric suv.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
That's not bad, No, not at all. Okay, I want
to talk about really quick before we let you go,
a little bit of savings can go a long way
when it comes to your future.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yes, okay.
Speaker 15 (38:14):
So I have always said there was this study done
in like twenty nineteen from economists and they found that
if you have twenty four hundred and sixty seven dollars
in your account, you're going to be able to cover
most emergencies. So I've always like I've always said, as
a baseline for people, you need to have that much saved, right.
That is the basically the number one step you need
(38:34):
to consider to write the ship with your finances. Once
you get a little bit of cash in the bank,
then you can start thinking about all the other things
like debt payoff and building wealth via investing. But that
is like basically square one, and a new Vanguard study
really mirrors this in a lot of ways. What they
found is that folks who have just two thousand dollars
in savings, that is actually the strongest predictor of financial
(38:59):
well being. And when you think about what you might
consider as the strongest predictor of financial well being, you
might be like, well, maybe it's just intelligence, or maybe
it is investing savvy, and no, it's really just the
ability to put a little bit of money away in savings.
And the sad truth is a slew of Americans, most
(39:20):
Americans are our debt heavy, savings light. And this is
this still remains. This is just more AMMO for me
to tell people that saving money matters and having some
financial margin, at least a little bit of margin a
couple grands worth is huge and it really is life changing.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Okay, that is the host of money. It's Joel Larsgard,
and you can hear more great money advice every weekend
noon to two on Sundays with how to Money on KFI.
Thank you Joel Larsgard.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
All Right, you can also follow him in how to Money. Joel.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The large algae
bloom off the coast southern California has killed more than
marine mammals like sea lions, whales, and dolphins.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
JD.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Bergeron with the group International Bird Rescueses migratory birds have
also fallen prey.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Because it is floating in the water. A lot of
the birds that you see most affected are the birds
that dive for their food, so birds like pelicans.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Bergeron says, the red tide won't go away soon, so
the birds being treated by his organization can't be released.
That has strained the rescue's resources. Unions have asked LA's
mayor to reconsider her spending plan that includes cutting sixteen
hundred jobs.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Mayor Bass's budget proposal includes layoffs and other cuts because
the city faces a billion dollar budget shortfall. Service Workers'
Union Rep. Genita ig Whaler says there's got to be
another way than layoffs.
Speaker 16 (40:46):
Allocations for liability claims, petroleum products, and other special purpose
funds needs to be analyzed and scrutinized for potential efficiencies.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
Neighborhood councils also address the council's budget committe with their concerns. Yesterday,
budget hearings continue today at City Hall. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Amazon's launched its first Internet satellites to compete against SpaceX.
A rocket carrying twenty seven of Amazon's Project Kuyper satellites
was sent into space yesterday. Amazon is aiming to put
more than thirty two hundred satellites into orbit to provide fast,
affordable broadband service around the world. That sounds familiar, doesn't it.
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This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County,
Southland weather from KFI, sunny after some patchy morning fog.
His in the mid to upper sixties at the coast,
upper sixties to mid seventies for Metro La and Inland
Orange County, mid upper seventies in the valleys, seventies to
low eighties for the Inland Empire, seventies for the Antelope Valley.
It's going to be partly cloudy, few degrees cooler tomorrow
(41:49):
through Friday, with eyes in the sixties to mid seventies.
It's fifty three in Orange, fifty five in Manhattan Beach,
fifty five in Siritos, and fifty three in Aliso, Vaho.
Live from the cak K twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm
Amy King. This has been your wake up call. You've
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