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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app, k Fly and kost HT two, Los Angeles, Orange County, Ida. You a god, You're as Amy. Okay, good morning, it's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Thursday, March twenty eighth, Major League Baseball season's opening day. I'm Amy King and of course happy Dodgers Opening Day. Got my Dodger blue on Producer An has Her San Diego Padres gear on. We love that song. I

hope I get to hear it this afternoon. The first Bitch goes out at one ten, and it's going to be a beautiful day for baseball. Here's what's a head on wake up call. The cargo ship that caused the Baltimore Bridge collapse was reportedly carrying hazardous materials, including corrosives and flammables. We're going to be getting the latest on the spill and the cleanup with ABC's Sam Sweeney

coming up in about four minutes. Former LA Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan has been found guilty of twelve charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, and lining to federal agents. Dury only took about three hours to come to a decision yesterday in the case that accused Chan and others of giving favorable treatment to developers who gave them bribes. We're also going to be talking about the proposed road diet for a stretch of roadway that cuts right through Burbank. Residents and business

owners are worried that it's just going to jam up traffic. We'll be talking to the co owner of the tally Rand at five point fifty and show hey, Otani is a real giant. We told you that a mural is being created for the Superstar Player, and the giant mural is finished and has been unveiled in Little Tokyo at six oh five. It's handled on the news. Israel will send a delegation to Washington, d C. After canceling the trip last week. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the

KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A former deputy mayor of La has been found guilty of racketeering and bribery. It took a jury in downtown La less than two hours to return the guilty verdict against sixty seven year old Raymond Chan. Federal prosecutors argued Chan was a key player in what the FBI called casino loyal a scheme involving bribes and influence peddling at La City Hall on behalf of wealthy

real estate developers downtown. The investigation already secured guilty verdicts or please from others, including ex councilman Jose Weezar, who's set to begin a thirteen year prison sentence. Chan says he'll appeal. He's to be sentenced in June. Michael Monks KFI News. A twenty year old man who walked away from a halfway house in Orange County has been caught in Mexico. Ikes Sauser was found in

ros Rito. He was arrested by US Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials acting on an alert from the Orange County DAS Undercover AB one oh nine Task Force. Sauser had disappeared a week ago. He has a long criminal record, including the murder of his mother when he was thirteen. Orange, Huntington Beach, and Newport Beach have voted to leave the League of California Cities because of a mental health proposition. Couver living homes have over concentrated themselves all across

the coastal California. Newport Beach Mayor Will O'Neil says CAW City supported Prop one, which forces cities to accept more sober living homes. You're essentially operating businesses within neighborhoods, which he says brings crime, but also a lot of times they get what's called kurb meaning once the insurance runs out, they're kicked out and now they're homeless on the streets of the city that they don't know. Caw City says it represents all of its four hundred and eighty two cities,

but sometimes the consensus cannot be reached on which laws to support. In Orange County, Corbin Carson kf I News, a new mural in Little Tokyo is celebrating Dodger's pitch show Hey Otani. Fans flocked to First Street yesterday for the unveiling of the mural by artist Robert Vargas. He says he wants it to

reflect optimism for the new baseball season. I like that. He also says it's to get past the recent controversy involving Otani's interpreter and sports gambling bets, and I hope that this mural is a way that we can move forward and be positive like we all have been today and leave what someone else did behind us. The murals on the side of the Miaco Hotel on First Street between sam Pedro and Central and it's huge. Let's say good morning now to ABC's

Sam Sweeney. Sam. Two days after that cargo ship crashed into the bridge support collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge, we have some sad news and some bad news. Yeah, Rescuers last night told us that they were able to recover a red pickup truck with two bodies inside believe be those construction workers that were on the bridge during that collapse. We're also getting an update from the National Transportation Safety Board that there were fifty six containers of hazardous material on board

that ship, and some of them have fallen into the water. Others have been breached. But it is so difficult. The conditions there are so difficult that it's hard for them to actually see the full scope of what they are dealing with. There are containers that are not you know, tied in correctly anymore because of the impact of the ship. Some of them, again, as I said, are breached and in the water. They've ordered booms around the ship, but this is going to be a very long process to get

this cleaned up and that port reopened. Yeah, I was just looking at pictures of the collapse and how that ship is just you know, it's got the steel beams from the bridge on top of it and some of the containers kind of dangling off it, and I was like, how are they even going to get the bridge off of the ship. It's going to be a long process. Eventually, the Army Corps of Engineers will come up with a

plan. They're going to have to bring in heavy equipment, cranes, tugboats, barges, and they're going to have to chop this up piece by piece. But you have to look at the entire picture. When you cut one piece, is it going to affect another piece. It's a very risky operation. You know, think about nine to eleven when we saw those firefighters struggling to get through that mangled steel and the wreckage of the towers. That's what

they're doing. But most of that is underwater, and this water is not exactly you know, the Caribbean. This is murky, muddy, cold water with about one foot of visibility. Yeah, and I mean, like they are they going to have to pull ships up beside the ship and start to do the cutting because they don't have solid ground to work on. I mean, it's just it's just going to be a crazy undertaking. So that being said, And because it's a mess and there's so much debris, the port

is still closed. Do they have any kind of idea of how long it's going to be before that they start moving traffic again. No, No one has been able to give any sort of timeline, but it is likely going to be weeks, probably months though, before they can get ships in and out of there and that area cleared. It's a very narrow spot and the deepest that gets there is about fifty feet, so you have to keep the ships right in the center where that bridge was. And then as far as

traffic cars moving across another bridge, that could be years. That original bridge took five years to build, probably won't take that long to rebuild it, but it's going to be years before traffic is crossed and the air again. Yeah, and then Sam, I'm not familiar with the area, but the bridge that goes over there, is there a way around there are alternates.

Now, Baltimore is in the city around the Baltimore Harbor. There are tunnels that go underneath the city, but this particular bridge was the outermost area and it carries fifteen percent of the traffic on the north east I ninety five corridor. It also handled all the hazmat material. So if they can't go through the tunnels moving, they can't. After nine to eleven, they said, you can't come through the tunnels anymore. So it'll be interesting to see how

they how they work with that. But there's gonna be a lot of congestion in this area, oh my goodness. And then going back to the recovery of the two bodies, So they were found in a pickup truck. Does that suggest that they had gotten the warning to get off the bridge. It's unclear exactly what happened. We were, you know, some some theories are that they were on a break and they were inside the truck when it happened,

and other employees were outside of the truck. One employee, we heard from Governor Wes Moore yesterday, heard the police alarms and shouting saying get off the bridge, and he ran and was able to get onto the portion of the bridge that did not fall, saving his life. Another person we know did fall but was able to swim to safety. But there are still four bodies that are missing, and they believe that they are in taste in that steel structure, and it is simply too dangerous right now to go in and

retrieve them. So they've said that its switched from it was a search and rescue and then it became a recovery, and now I think are they calling it a salvage effort at this point? Yeah? I mean, they still obviously are going to want to recover those bodies and do the best that they can, but yes, this is a salvage operation, and they're going to need to cut up all of that steel to eventually be able to find those other bodies that they believe are in case in there. And again, this

is going to be a lengthy process. You don't just have this heavy type of machinery sitting around for this type of operation to move a bridge out of a harbor. It's going to take time to source it, Okay. And then just one last question for the cargo that normally goes into the port, which I think it's the eleventh busiest or ninth busiest port. But it's also a big port for cars. So do they just go to different ports and make up the truth that way? That's the question. You know, the

automakers are trying to come up with solutions. Does it go to Norfolk, does it go to Philadelphia, does it go to Delaware. That's what they're trying to figure out. How they're going to reroute this. But as you said, it is the biggest port for bringing in cars into the United States. All right, Sam Sweeney, thank you so much for all the information. We appreciated a ton. Thanks for having me. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour

newsroom. The group behind the latest recall efforts against California's governor has received approval to start collecting more than a million signatures across the state. We're at the top of every dad list and at the bottom of every important list. We're

at the bottom and educating our students. We have the highest crime, the highest homelessness, the highest summer of homeless veterans, and dunsmore with Rescue California says the governor has been ignoring his state its popularity is below fifty percent. He's out detaining for people all around the country, including President Biden, and

I would say for himself on a national level. Attorney's Clean Dunsmore says they've all read he received seventy five thousand requests from people who want to help gather signatures for the recall effort. The former CFO of an LA based development company has been accused of embezzling money that was supposed to go towards building housing for

low income and homeless people. A lawsuit says Cody Holmes used the millions of dollars he took to pay for exotic cars, expensive handbags, jewelry, private jets, concert tickets, and a mansion in Beverly Hills. Attorneys for the Church of Scientologists say they want a new judge to preside over a civil suit filed by actress Lea Remedy. The attorney's claim Judge Randolph Hammock is prejudiced against

their clients, though they wouldn't offer any details to support that claim. Remeny, an outspoken critic of the church, filed a lawsuit in August with claims of harassment, stalking, intentional infliction of emotional distress and defamation. Remeny left the church in twenty thirteen after being a member for nearly forty years. The church has already claimed victory in the case because of the judge's previous rulings.

The lawsuit also includes the church's leader, David ms Gavin Steve Gregory kay Off. I News former Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman has died. His family says he died yesterday of complications from a fall. Lieberman nearly won the vice presidency with Democrat Al Gore in the disputed two thousand election. Eight years later, he came close to being John McCain's running mate. The Democrat turned Independent left the Senate in twenty thirteen. He was eighty two. It is time for

Opening Day Dodger Baseball from Dodger Stadium. As you know, big game today. The Dodgers take on Saint Louis this afternoon at one ten. You can listen to the game on AM five seventy LA Sports and in HD on the iHeartRadio app keyword. AM five seventy LA Sports brought to you in part by LA Care for all of LA. Today is Dodgers Opening Day and the debut of Superstar Show Hey Otani at Dodger Stadium. The Boys in Blue opened their

home schedule with four games against the Saint Louis Cardinals. First pitch goes out at one ten. Manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or unload cargo. While the main operations at the Port of Baltimore remain closed because of the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the port is the busiest for so called roll on roll off cargo, things like cars

and construction and agricultural vehicles. Former cryptomogul Sam Bankman Freed faces the potential of decades in prison when he sentenced for his role in the twenty twenty two collapse of FTX. A jury found in November that bankmin Freed illegally used money from x FTX depositors to cover his expenses. Is lawyers say he is not the evil genius depicted in the media. At six oh five, It's handle on the news, Disney and Florida Governor Ronda Santis have made nice at least settled

a two year fight over who gets to govern Disney property. Let's say good morning now to KTLA's tech reporter and the host of Rich on Tech on KFI. It's Rich de muro Rich. So my friend and I were just talking about phones and the fancy new cameras because she just got the brand new Samsung is it the twenty four correct twenty four and so she's like, look at in this camera and these lenses, and the guy at the store said, you got to be really careful and don't damage them. And I was thinking,

my iPhone has the same thing. It's got the three lenses, but I never even think about it, and I don't think they're very protected. Well, you know, look, here's the thing. First off, yes, they're very similar. The lenses get bigger and bigger every year. And do some people crack the lenses, Absolutely, it happens. But here's the thing. I have had many many phones over the years, testing them, bringing them everywhere in my bag, out of my bag, falling out of

my pocket, and I have yet to crack a lens. And I rarely have even cracked a screen on my phone. So my advice. A lot of people try to get these like lens protector things that go over the lenses. But here's the thing. Why would you want to ruin all of the beautiful glass work that Apple and Samsung have spent so much money engineering. By putting some sort of cheap plastic or other piece of glass in front of that

lens, you're putting something between you and your pictures. Yeah, So I typically don't recommend that, but I would recommend a case that has raised edges, because those are going to protect you the most in a fall. Yeah. I think mine has raised edges, but if I look at it, you know, crossview, I think the lens still sticks out a little bit. Well, I would look at a different place that does not allow that.

Yeah, because I always have a case that has a raised lip around the lenses so that they are protected when you put it face down on the desk or I guess down on the desk. Yeah, just something to think about. I know, we think about the front of the screens and a lot of people put that film across the front of it, But I've never

even really thought about the camera that I'm okay with. I do always recommend some sort of screen protector, and quite honestly, if you have a good screen protector on your phone and a good case on your phone, that's going to protect you in like ninety nine percent of issues and drops and things like that. It's when you don't have your phone protected from that, that's when you're gonna have problems. Okay, so we've got moving on to streaming.

You're saying that Disney Plus has added Hulu. I already have Disney Plus and Hulu, so what's changing. So the big change is that now Hulu is going to be integrated into Disney Plus, so one app on your TV screen for both services. Yes. Now, a lot of people have been testing this over the past couple of months. It makes a lot of sense. You know, Disney purchased Hulu and that's part of their you know, catalog

at this point, and so why have people jump between apps? And also, if you search for a Hulu show inside Disney you wouldn't find it and you'd be like, oh, that's annoying, I don't have access. Now it'll all be integrated, so it's fully searchable. You can watch those Hulu shows inside Disney Plus. The trick is you do have to have a subscription to both still, So whether you have the bundle with Hulu and Disney or

whether you subscribe separately with the same email address. That's the only way you can't access Hulu shows for free through Disney unless you pay for Hulu. Can you still get just Hulu if you don't want Disney or are they are? They just kind of a package deal now and that's deal with it. At this point. You can still get Hulu by itself, but who knows if that'll change. I don't expect that to change anytime soon, but you never

know. Okay, So Google Maps has added best restaurant lists for cities, and they'll also help you find the good ones. Yeah, well, you know Google is leaning heavily into AI, and as is Samsung, and of course we're going to hear about what Apple's going to do with AI coming up in June at their Worldwide Developers Conference. But you know, it's the buzzword, you know, it's, you know, the thing everyone's talking about.

And so I thought this was pretty cool because Google has a ton of information and sometimes it could be tough to find what they have, you know, versus their search. But now they're going to do this cool thing in Google Maps. When you search for a city, it will give you lists based on their data. So you'll see a trending list, and this is updated weekly with places that have seen a spike in popularity. This is for discovering

the latest hot spots. Then they're going to show the awards list. This is the top list, and this is stuff that everyone just loves over and over. So if you go to a city, this is like guaranteed these are the best places. And then you've got the gems. This is the Gems list, and these will be sort of the best kept secret in different neighborhoods. But you search for a city. Yeah, I think this is just a great use of information that, by the way, Google Maps already

has. It's just like how do you figure it out? And they're also going to highlight the best dishes to order at a restaurant using AI because they'll see what people review the most and post pictures of the most and they'll say, okay, that makes sense, here's the most popular things to order.

It'll be interesting to see too how much that affects the individual businesses that I'm guessing that somebody might track that, but like you know, if it ends up on a trending list, maybe they see a huge spike in business and then the next week there's a different one trending, and so that one that just spiked might see a huge drop off, and I would think it would lead to more volatile I don't know, customers. Yeah, no, I

one hundred percent agree. I mean I think that these restaurants really live and die by a lot of social media. I mean it's a huge factor in things, and I think that this does add another dimension to that. The one other feature I do want to add on Google Maps. If you're not using it, I highly recommend it. It's called the lists. So if you tap your profile, there's a little area called your saved places. Why am I not seeing it right now? Oh? Here? It is your

places, Okay? And so I make lists for everything, like whatever city I'm visiting, places I want to go, and they're actually making these lists easier to organize and kind of rearrange. But I just always have a like, if someone says, hey, Rich, if you ever come to Pomona, you got to check out this restaurant, I like, literally put it in this little list, and then you can when you're in Pomona, you can tap this list and it will show you all the stuff ordered by distance

from you. And so you're like, oh, yeah, there's that restaurant I wanted to go to, so use that feature on Google Maps. Okay. And then one last thing. We've got a solar eclipse coming up on April eighth, and it's not going to be We're not going to see it here in California, right, No, sadly, we'll see a partial hopefully.

Okay, but you're going to be doing this on KTLA tomorrow morning, talking more in depth about it. But what are Where are some places that people can get more information and maybe watch it even though you won't see it when you step outside. Well, here's the deal. A lot of people are traveling. They're expecting like four million people to travel. It's April eighth,

and I'm just kind of obsessed. I did an interview with a NASA scientist and he got me like really into this because the next total solar eclipse doesn't happen until twenty forty four. So if you're thinking of traveling, the closest places are in Mexico and in Texas, San Antonio, Austin. But you know the place to look. There's a there's an eclipse app called the

Eclipse App that's excellent. But I really love this website eclipsetracks dot org and if you go on there, it'll show you the path of totality and all the little ideas and it's just, I don't know, the more you kind of look into this, the more you're like, oh, I really need to experience this, because I the last one was in twenty seventeen and I

really didn't care. Now I'm like all about it. Yeah, the last one passed through Oregon and I have still have a lot of friends up there because I'm from there, and they just said it was just one of the coolest things that they've ever experienced and was very kind of surreal and freaky. Yeah, like moving like it and I didn't experience it, but yes, anyway, So if you can do it, check out some of these resources and see if you can get there, because it'll it'll be neat all.

Right, Rich Tamara, thank you so much, and again you're going to be talking more about the eclipse tomorrow on KATE And of course Rich is our. Did I just call you Rick again? I think I did. Kfi's tech reporter is Rich DeMuro. He's the host of Rich on Tech right here on KFI Saturdays from eleven to two. You can follow him on Instagram at rich on Tech and his website is rich on Tech dot tv. And it's

your website where people can sign up for your newsletter. Correct, Okay, perfect, thank you rich all right, have a great one, Amy, all right. The cargo ship that caused the Baltimore Bridge collapse was reportedly carrying hazardous materials, including corrosives and flammables. Federal officials are also monitoring nearly two million gallons of fuel in the cargo ship for its spill potential, although they

say there's no sign that any fuel has spilled into the water. Former LA Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan has been found guilty of twelve charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, bribery, and line to federal agents. A jury quickly reached a verdict yesterday in the case that accused Chan and others of giving favorable treatment to

developers who gave them bribes. President Biden's going to be joined by former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for a fundraiser tonight at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan. Tickets for the events start at two hundred and fifty bucks. The highest donors paid about five hundred thousand dollars at five point fifty. We're going to be talking with the co owner of the tally Rand, whose restaurant is right along the path of a new road diet plan. We're going to find

out if she's happy about that one. You know, my two favorite things are D and D not Dungeons and Dragons, Dodgers and Disneyland. So I got to go to Disneyland for the Food and Wine Festival a couple of weeks ago, which is going on through April twenty second. But now it's time to head to Dodgers Stadium, and you know, we have opening day planned and so we want to make sure that we are ready for the game. And there's a familiar voice that you're going to hear every time you go to

Dodger State, and we got to catch up with him. Say hello to Todd Lights, Hello, Todd Lights. That's a T O D D L E I t Z pronounced lights harvict. So Todd is the PA announcer. So when the batters come up to the batting box, Todd's going to say something like leading off the bottom of the first ditty for the Dodgers, number fifty hookie bets. Oh my god. So what we're trying to do today, Todd is just kind of give people a little bit of a behind the

scenes look. So we got to go down on the field, and of course it wouldn't be complete if we didn't come up and see you, because you're such an integral part of the game. So how long have you been doing this? How long have you been the Dodgers. PA got the start in twenty fifteen, and it's been quite a ride. We've been very, very successful ever since I got here. So coincidence, I'm not sure.

Oh, I think it's tied to it. And actually it's funny that you mentioned that that the Dodgers have done well since you got here, because my best friend is also Amy, and we come to games a lot. We have season tickets, and we tend to lose more when we're at the games. I was gonna have to ask you to leave, but now it's okay. Oh, if you were going to eject me from the stadium, what

would you say. Anybody who's cursed cannot be sitting in the stands of this time, So please make your exit, eat a hasty retreat so that the Dodgers can continue their winning waste. So is this the most fun job ever? Well, it is a job. It is worth it's work. It requires me to be away from home a lot, working weekends and nights and so forth. But I mean to have this as your office, and the view from your from your little catbird set over there in the PA booth is

fantastic. I love it when I walk through the gates here Dodgers Stadium, I just feel happy. It's a happy place. People are happy to be here. The people that I work with are happy to work here, and I work with some of the best best professionals in this type of job that you can that you can have. Plus I get to see people like Fernando and Oral Hers every day. I used to get to see Vince Scully every day. Rick Monday and Charlie Stein are our radio guys at AM five seventy's.

It's just a wonderful place to be. And as I as I gain more traction here, more time behind the mic at Dodgers Stadium, I feel like I'm becoming more a part of the fabric of the family of the Dodgers. And you know, the people that I work with know who I am and what I do, and that feels nice to be a part of something bigger than myself. And now we know who you are too, and I can't now you know why they put me behind a mic and get out of town. I tell you it is such like you said, it's just an

integral part of the game. There's so many different elements and so many things that have to come together to make this spectacle that is a game at Dodgers Stadium. It's a small it takes a small city. Yeah, I mean, there's thousands of people who work here, and even late into the night they're cleaning the steep seats and the rows and everything of the peanuts and spilled beer and stuff. You know. It's it's just amazing how they're able to

do it. And I remember watching it after a double header or in the middle of a double header. They came in and within an hour they had this place cleaned up and ready to go for the next the next crowd to come in. It's it's it's simply amazing the type of logistics that go into making this place work. Yeah, and for the fans, you know, one of the cool things about it, of course, there's there's expensive seats,

there's mid level seats. But you can come to a Dodger game for you know, twenty five thirty bucks, you know, and like it's not everywhere that you can do that. You can come and hang out for the afternoon and you just never know how somebody might give you a fabulous introduction. Could you do that for me? Yes? You hope you can edit this so you got it, give me the give me what you want exactly. Now batting for a wake up call, Amy King. Okay, now batting

for wake up call. Your host, Amy King, Tod likes. Thank you so much, Thank you, Amy. Pleasure. Looking forward to hearing Todd booming around Dodger Stadium this afternoon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Maryland Governor Wes Moore has requested emergency relief funds from the Biden administration following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Moore says the port closure is not just a

local problem. The national economy and the world's economy depends on the Port of Baltimore. The port handles more cars and more farm equipment than any other port in the country. More says the state is determined to rebuild the bridge as soon as possible. He says they're also focused on recovery efforts to bring closure and comfort to families who lost loved ones. Divers recovered the bodies of two workers yesterday. The search for four others is on hold because officials say it's

not safe for divers. Crews are starting salvage operations. LA County District Attorney Gascone is expected to announce charges against two people for a murder at LA Live. Men are accused of shooting Sydney Morris last year as he ate at a restaurant counter. A woman also eating at Fixon's Sole Kitchen was hurt. Hunter Biden's defense team has asked a federal judge in LA to drop the tax charges

against the president's sun. The defense team said the charges should be dropped because they violated a version agreement reached in a Delaware case against the president's son. Hunter Biden, who lives in Malibu, didn't attend yesterday's motion hearing in downtown LA, where US District Judge Mark Scarzy is set to preside over a June

trial. Federal prosecutors say Biden didn't pay one point four million dollars in taxes between twenty sixteen and twenty nineteen and instead spent that money on drugs, homes, cars, and women hunter Biden faces up to seventeen years in prison if convicted. Michael Monks KFI News Dollar Tree is raising its prices again. Dollar Tree says it's raising the maximum prices on items from five dollars to seven dollars

this year. ABC's Michelle Fransin says the company claims its growing customer demographic is making a yearly salary north of one hundred twenty five thousand dollars a year. The Dollar Store already raised the price of its lowest items to a buck twenty five earlier this year. The higher cost items will include food, pet and personal care items. Speaking of pets, I hope you will make plans now to come join me and the wake Up crew on Sunday, April twenty first.

It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk that benefits the Pasadena Humane Society. We're going to be at Brookside Park in Pasadena and hopefully raise a lot of money to help Pasadena Humane take care of the thousands of animals that they take in every year. We're gonna have adoptable puts pups that you can pet. You can check out some boothe there's the costume contests and games, demonstrations, some food and other stuff. You can join our team too, the wake up Call

Wigglers come out, walk with us, stop by the KFI booth. Might get an exclusive KFI swag bag. It's going to be a whole lot of fun. It's happening again on April twenty first at Brookside Park. It's the annual Wiggle Waggle Wwak to benefit Humane Society of Pasadena. You can find out all the information about how to donate, how to join the team, and what's going to be going on that day at KFI AM six forty dot com slash Wiggle Hope you'll make plans to join us. Today's Dodgers Opening Day and

the debut of superstars Shohi Otani at Dodgers Stadium. The Boys in Blue open their home schedule with four games against Saint Louis. First pitch goes out at one ten manufacturers and shippers are scrambling to figure out where they can load or unload cargo. While the main operations at the Port of Baltimore are closed due to the deadly collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the port's the busiest for so called roll on roll off cargo, like cars and construction and agricultural

vehicles. The Shark Lab at cal State Long Beach could lose nearly all of its state funding and could be forced to shut down by this summer. To stay in operation, officials say they need to raise nearly seven million dollars from private and nonprofit sources. The Shark Lab monitors hundreds of sharks along the southern California coast. We're just minutes away from Handle. On the news, a jury quickly decided that the former deputy mayor of La was doing dirty business.

Right now, let's talk to the co owner of the tally Rand in Burbank. It's Karen ros Good morning, Karen, Good morning, Amy. Okay, so we got you up nice and early this morning, although you're probably dirty up getting ready for business today, but La voters are The city council has approved a plan to work with Metro to put a road diet on all of Avenue, which if you're familiar with the Burbank area. That's the one

that goes diagonally pretty much cuts through the whole city. And they want to take away one lane of traffic in each direction to put in dedicated bus lanes. And apparently that is something that affects you because the tally rand is on ali value. And how what's your response to this? Do you think it's a good idea, bad idea? I'm guessing that yeah, I think it's a really poor idea. You know, I knew nothing about it until two and a half months ago. And this is the main problem. There is

zero transparency out there. I walked the streets of Olive Avenue this last month, not one business I came across nooning about the BRT. So I think in order for anybody know what's going on, it makes be some major information process going forth at this point. Now, I sat in the council meeting another night for seven and a half hours. I left there confused as to

what even happened at the end of the night. And so, yes, we're being voted to have a cooperative agreement with Metro, but they're still going forth with mixed flow, which means buses would run with the existing two lanes of traffic in each direction for that two mile stretch that goes from Buena Vista to Glen Oaks, which is what we are so much fighting for because there's so many cars on Olive Avenue at any given hour of the day and to

think about it being reduced to one lane in each direction concerns me greatly. For people deciding to do them elsewhere, well, local streets are going to be so congested because of it. Yeah, and I I mean you see buses going up and down. And the plan here is they want to increase the bus service or the kind of the availability to get between different areas. And one of them is over at Pasadena, right, But there's a bus

that runs every ten minutes and they want to have it dedicated. Yeah, they want to have a dedicated lane and cut off traffic for everybody else so

a bus can go through every ten minutes. Right. And part of our concern as just the look of community is what is the ridership And they don't have to do a secret study that they're exempt from that, and that's an issue to us because ridership is not what they're claiming to be And We're not against BRT at all or for it, but let's look and see what the need is correct in Los Angeles at this moment or in Burbank specifically right now

or in twenty twenty seven when the roll is out, And what the twenty twenty two council agreed upon was until the writership's got to be seventeen thousand, five hundred writers, it would remain mixed flow, which is what we are all for. All of the people that are that came on Tuesday night, they are probably eighty something speakers that spoke. Some were for it, some were against. It was very much two different sides. But I think that

so many of us are against it. Going down Olive Avenue to remove a lane, yeah, it just would not work. You know, they overflow into all the small streets, would be significant. Residents would not be happy. All the business owners were concerned that, hey, you know what, people are going to choose good to business elsewhere because it's not easy to get done all of it. It's a major They're out there in Burbank and you're

saying that. Pretty much everybody that you've talked to is saying the same thing. Yes, yes, I mean, the population of b Bank is one hundred and five thousand. On a given day it grows to two hundred and forty thousand. Well, those people are not trying to go from Burbank to Pasadena. They're coming into work in the entertainment industry, that sector, you know, post production, take your kids to school, et cetera. And then it goes away again. It's an influx of vehicles that that will not

change. Okay, And if is there anything that the people can do, like to kind of join a cause or you part of a group now that's fighting this, or how are you moving forward? Well, I met individually with all the city council people and the member and the mayor, and we had great conversation. I would say, do you look a Burbankian. Get involved, Write your city council, show up to meetings when metros on the

agenda. We need to have a voice. They need to know where we're coming from and to hold stead acts as to what Burbankians want for our city. Yeah, and we've seen I remember, you know, John Cobalt railing against this in other areas and the business owners they're talking about how they're being businesses get affected. And again, if the bus ridership was there, if we were a city like New York City, it would make sense. But LA is such a different animal. It's just I don't know, there's a

different name, and we don't have the mass transit in place. Sadly, we really needed it, but here we are today you can't force it. And the thing is also means like there's no transparency. Metro was there saying that they had talked to people that in twenty eighteen. We never heard a

thing. We didn't hear a thing until I got brought into a meeting two months ago forty people who are passionate about not having this coming to Burbank, and it was like wow, it was just like where where has this been? How where's the conversation been to present residents and business owners? Yeah? All right, so yes, get out there, talk to city council. Okay, And Metro did say that they are going to continue public outreach and

will hold community meetings as they continue to develop this plan. So hopefully that's true, and they will keep you guys in the loop and keep that traffic moving exactly and have us in loop as far as just as the design goes. Let's have conversation about what will work and how we started. Correct, all right, Karen Ross, thank you so much for getting up early and

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