In the Middle of Rain Storms

Jason Middleton sits in for Jennifer Jones Lee to host your Thursday morning Wake Up Call. A little reprieve from the rain today, but there's more coming next week. ABC's Tom Rivers joins the show to talk about the U.S. and Russia ratcheting up the rhetoric over the downing of a U.S. Drone over The Black Sea by a Russian jet. Caleb Silver of Investopedia.com shares information on Wall Street's tumble stemming from bank fears while bond yields plunge. Janiele Maffei, the Chief Mitigation Officer for the California Earthquake Authority comes on the show. Janiele shares information regarding grants available this Spring to eligible homeowners in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Los Angeles and Pasadena for retrofitting. The funds are available out of a $5 million pool in FEMA funding that's allocated for homeowners to retrofit their soft-story homes. Janiele explains what soft-story means, and whether your home could be eligible for the grant. And ABC's Mike Dobuski talks about AI getting a new engine and the U.S. threatening a ban if TikTok's Chinese Owners don't sell their stakes.