Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M six forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. You are halfway to the weekend already. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your Wednesday morning wake up call. I've decided the music for Wednesday's show open is my favorite. It's got a like a Luke Briany feel to it, or maybe a Dirk's Bentley kind of thing going on. I clearly need to go to a country concert.
I don't know what the summer, for whatever reason for me, I know it's Coachella time, but for whatever reason, the summer says sunburns, flaid shirts, jean shorts, which I'm some kind of halfway there, and a hat teller. Do you own a cowboy hat? I do not own a cowboy hat or cowboy boots. Really, have you ever been to a country concert? Yeah? I went to a Rascal Flats concert. Oh, I'm not way back in the day, maybe like ten years ago the best rights
shoot, it should have been like fifteen at this point. Those guys are performers. Yeah, it was like a there was a hillside that we kind of just sat on night chairs just like a grassy hillside. Yeah yeah, full picnic action. Yes yeah. I mean Rascal Flats is just, you know, one of the all time greatest. So it was it was cool to see them. I was listening to Bless the Broken Road last night. Yeah that's a sad one. Oh no, it's gets me in the fields,
makes me all lovey dovey good stuff. I don't know, but this just makes me think of summer. Hi, everybody, well good. This is technically your wake up call, although this morning it's nostalgia Wednesday. Apparently we're get down and kick some dirt around Wednesday. Welcome to it either way. It's the twenty sixth of April. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. Some of
the stories were watching in the KFI twenty four hour news room. The mother and her boyfriend who murdered and tortured Anthony Oblos in Lancaster have been sentenced in LA to life in prison without parole. Tell you about this tool that El Monte has approved that's aimed at reducing gun violence. See what they did.
They're aimed at reducing five five We're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers all about the South Korean president and his state visit to Washington and what he had to say about the relationship South Korea has with the US after some leaked documents came out. And today is a holiday with a twist. That's my tease. Can you guess what today, what national day it is if I tell
you it's a holiday with a twist. So that's all coming up. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The woman and her former boyfriend convicted of torturing and killing Anthony Avelous had been sentenced in LA to life in prison without parole. Anthony's sister Destiny, read her victim impact statement to the court, blaming her mother and her mother's former boyfriend for taking Anthony away and sadly, because these two monsters, he
is not here anymore. Destiny then says she wishes she could turn back time to speak up for her brother, but she can't get through the statement. That's when Deputy da John Hatammi reads Destiny's statement for her, where she writes, if I would have known that this would end with me losing a brother, I would do it all again with just one difference that it would be mean, not dempty. Heather Baron and Kareem Leva were convicted in March of
murdering and torturing the ten year old in twenty eighteen. Attorneys for the defendants set in court yesterday they will try to appeal the case. In Downtown La Chris Adler KFI News. These are the times when it's hard for me to understand how somebody can be a defense attorney. I know that's your job, and I know that you're not supposed to look at your client and decide whether they committed the crime or not. You're just supposed to defend them, and
everybody has that right. But in a case like this, I don't understand how somebody can defend two people who killed a child. A man who climbed the KTLA tower in Hollywood and stayed up there for about three hours has been arrested. The guy was sitting up there for thirty feet the tower. He was straddling the marquee and he was holding his sign that read free Billie Eilish. Now, last I checked, she's free. I didn't. Did I
miss something. I even went online yesterday and like searched Billie Eilish News. She's fine, right, we have no idea what the issue is. No, I mean, good for him if he was maybe he's on Billie Eilish's PR team and they thought, hey, this is a great way to get people to look her up, just like Tyler did. But I and the message on the back made reference true to mk Ultra. The guy even started playing a guitar at one point. You know, come on, he brought
his own music. He climbed down just before ten last night. It was quite a spectacle. Kicking it to the curb is the number one reason people complained to the City of La Bendon. Couches and furniture account for one hundred forty three thousand calls. That's forty seven percent of the more than three hundred thousand calls made to the city's three one one system during the first quarter of this year. The other top complaints include illegal dumping, graffiti, potholes,
and homeless camps. May Or Bass even mentioned the problems in her recent State of the City address and had a suggestion please call three one one our download the three one one out. Yes, I am asking Angelinos to put us tour. Most all of the complaints so far this year have originated in the San Fernando Valley. Steve Gregory King if I knew, Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Traverse. So, Karen, how is the US and
South Korean relationship? Ironclad? Is the word? The White House Press Secretary Korean Jean Pierre used yesterday a lot of emphasis on the strong ties between the two countries, and they are certainly rolling out the red carpet today for the South Korean president. I mean, actually it's been several days now. The flags have gone up at the White House and all around the complex days ago
for what's been really a multi day visit. But today's the highlight, a rival ceremony on the South Lawn, one on one meeting in the Oval Office, press conference in the Road Garden after that Oval Office meeting, and then of course always the highlight of a state visit is the state dinner tonight in the White House East Room, which is the big hot ticket in Washington right
now. But you know, there's nothing booming over this the big policy issues from the meetings, or of course North Korea's nuclear program and China's military and
economic assertiveness in the Pacific region, but also around the world. But then you've got this issue of the leak documents from a couple of weeks ago and the fallout over that, because there was a leak document that reportedly suggested the US was spying on South Korea's leaders talking about how to handle a request from the United States to sell ammunition to Poland that then could ultimately be sent to Ukraine, and that really put the South Koreans or seemed to put the South
Koreans an uncomfortable tense position at South Korean policy bars it from providing lethal aid to Ukraine. There a lot of questions yesterday about this and what that might mean ahead of the summit, and that's when Koreem said the relationship is iron clad. But she didn't say that the administration engaged at high levels with allies
on the subject of those unauthorized disclosures. As she put it, so kind of diplomatic speak to say, they had to make a lot of phone calls, they had to do a lot of smoothing over of things, because that was a very big embarrassment for the administration. But South Korea, though, has been very restrained in its response, even given the White House a little
bit of cover by saying that perhaps the documents were altered. Okay, embarrassing on one hand, Yet every government spies on every other government, So I don't think that it should be all that like shocking to the South Korean. You don't want to get caught though, right right, Yeah, you don't want it weeked out. So when it comes to now where we go from
here, what happens after we had this big ticket night. Yeah, so today, the big announcement from this morning is something called the Washington Declaration, steps designed to deter a North Korean nuclear attack on North Korea, and White House officials say that this is all about making US deterrence more visible through regular deployment of strategic assets, kind of big fancy way of saying, you know, they're going to be a little bit more of a show of strength,
and that includes a visit by a US nuclear ballistic submarine to South Korea for the first time in four decades, and they're going to also strength and joint US Korean military training and simulations. South Korea is going to pledge to not have nuclear weapons, despite a stuth Korean public that's increasingly calling for that. So these are going to need the things that we'll hear from the presidents today
after their meeting. A lot of the you know, this is really aimed at kind of showing strength toward North Korea, and they're continued testing and saber rattling. All right, Karen, thank you so much. Do you get to go tonight? Do you get to cover this? I did not get an invitation. They canceled exactly. You could be on the waiting list, ready to go. Okay, that's awesome, Karen, thank you so much. We'll talk to you soon. By you too. ABC's Karen Travers.
How cool is that in a way that you're always like, I'm always ready just in case somebody says, hey, you know what, Karen Travers has done a hell of a job covering the White House. Let's get her in here. It's kind of fun. Let's get back to some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A judge in la has rejected a request for a temporary restraining arner that would have forced a journalist in a watchdog group to return the photos and info of more than nine thousand
LAPD officers. The photos were released as part of the freedom of information request, and the judge said the case was essentially about prior restraint and that the city would need to address it before any decisions are actually made in that case. The city of Santa Monica has adopted an ordinance requiring gender neutral restrooms in new buildings. The city says it's committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
The all gender restrooms would be private with enclosed stalls from Florida ceiling. If the urinals are installed, they have to be separated into a designated area or in individual compartments. Specialized teams have been created in San Bernardino County to get people who are going through mental health crisis into treatment. The teams consist of
firefighters, cops, and behavioral health workers, all wearing plainclothes. Sabredardino County Fire Captain Paul Kramer says, once people get into treatment, the teams continue to follow up with them for two months, making sure that if they have an ongoing concern, we're able to suit those needs and we're able to get to a point if somebody's hiccup is getting a driver's license, we're able to
get that driver's license for them. The program, which began last month, has responded to more than two hundred calls and gotten more than twenty people into treatment. Blake Trolley k if I News. Eight bodies have been found dumped at a resort in Cancoon. Investigators in the Mexican state of Quintana Rous say that they are trying to ide these people. The bodies were found in searches over the weekend that looked in these wooded lots and sinkhole ponds. More than
one hundred twelve thousand people are listed as missing in Mexico. A hundred twelve thousands. Don't you just wonder how many of those are related to drug cartels, because as we all saw on Narcos Man, they can dispose of you and make you disappear with the quickness. It's very scared. And brothers in Agora Hills have been turning billboards into bags. Two brothers get a bunch of
billboards at their office in Agora Hills, ten thousand billboards a month. Rareform CEO Eric Abdizian says, with a little cleaning, cutting and designing, Eric and his brother, along with a team of forty employees here in SoCal and Nashville have been turning pieces of old vinyl billboards into duffel bags, totes, and even surfboard bags. Alec Avedisian says he got the idea for the business
while living in El Salvador. All my friends using the billboards as roofing, and I was just amazed at the ingenuity that my friends had to use something that would otherwise go to the landfill. Rare Form partners with billboard companies like Outfront. Outfront says it gives rare Form about two million pounds of billboard vinyl every year. So far, rare Form has transformed more than two hundred and eighty four thousand billboards into products Alex says are durable, waterproof, it's fun,
it's colorful, it's vibrant. For more, you can go to Spectrum news one dot com. Joe Kuan kof I knew. A judge in LA has given life sentences without parole to the mom and her boyfriend who tortured and killed ten year old Anthony Abelos in Lancaster. Over twenty pack statements were tearfully read yesterday by Anthony's family members, condemning the couple. Heather Baron and her boyfriend, Kareem Leva, were convicted last month of first degree murder and torture
for the boy's death in twenty eighteen. The judge said Anthony died from blunt force trauma and dehydration. Attorneys for the defendants say they will appeal the sentences and the Queen Mary could get a twelve million dollar facelift all these repairs through a partnership that boost tourism while reducing the oil footprint in Long Beach. Long Beach will use an advance from the city's half of the lease profits to help
speed up the Queen Mary's return to profitability. The city council will vote on the partnership next week. Hey, there is talk about AM radio being removed from new cars and shrucks. Now, some people say you don't need the radio because you can get alert on your phone, but that is hardly the same. A text alert on your phone is no substitute for what broadcast radio
provides in time of need. A one line text cannot take the place of a voice on the radio telling you twenty four to seven about what's going on until the emergency passes. And that's assuming your cell phone network even works. And is up and running, which they often are not in an emergency. So when emergencies occurs, you need your local broadcast radio and that's we provide wall to wall coverage, life saving information and a live connection in the crisis.
So how can you do this? How can you stop this from happening? You can make your voice heard on this issue. Text the letters AM to five to eight eight six and tell Congress to keep AM Radio in all cars and trucks. That's the letters AM just texted to five to eight eight six and tell Congress to keep radio in your cars and trucks. Telling you AM radio is your lifeline in an emergency, Well, he knows all about it. He's now part of the radio family here at KFI. Not like
you haven't been sort of a before. I feel like you were kind of like a cousin who lived across the coast, who came and visited every now and then. And now you're sitting at the big kids table. Yeah. I like that and sharing in the adult food. Yes, exactly, Rich to Maaro, exactly, good morning to you. Saturdays, you can hear Rich on Tech eleven to two here on KFI, and of course you can follow him on social media, Rich on tech on all platforms and watch him
on KTLA. Good morning Rich, Good morning to you. Jennifer. Hey, so let's start with Can we start with what's app and why? This is kind of a minor thing, but it's actually kind of a big deal if you are a WhatsApp user. Yeah, and this is a feature that when I was researching group chat messages are messaging apps to use with my family members. This is the reason I didn't go with WhatsApp, and mainly because you can only use WhatsApp on one phone at a time because what'sapp is highly
secured. It's end to end encrypted. That's the way it worked for many many years until now WhatsApp has announced you can use the same account on multiple phones, so up to four additional devices. So you were always able to use WhatsApp on like a phone and maybe like a computer or an Android tablet.
For some reason, they still have no iPad app. I don't know why, but now you can link up to four additional phones, and this is handy for people that may travel and have a different phone for international or have a family member they want to share the account with, or more importantly, a business owner. If you've got a couple of employees and you all want to be able to respond to the messages you get on WhatsApp, you can now have a couple of phones logged in, so features rolling out will
be available to everyone in the coming weeks. Okay, I'm so glad you said that about the iPad because I thought that I was just layman couldn't find it. No, It's like when I was on this quest for like a message in the Perfect Messaging App, I'm like, wait, what what's going on here? I don't know why. I mean, this is owned by Meta, maybe they have something against Apple, I don't know. I mean,
seems odd. But what I like about WhatsApp is that everything is end to end encrypted by default that does not change even when you're using it on multiple phones. What that means is nobody can read these messages, not even Meta themselves if they wanted to, right. Okay, speaking of Meta, this just came out this morning. Did you hear about all these advertisers asking
for refunds because there was this platform wide ad glitch? I guess at Facebook, and I guess it caused these whoever had a campaign on there to spend most or all of their daily budget before nine in the morning. Yeah, I was like me on a weekend. Now, I don't know, I don't even know what that means, but I don't know, but all of
a sudden, you sound like a party rich. Look the good news on all these well, if you've ever put and I've helped some small businesses put ads on these platforms, yes, budgets go faster than you could ever imagine. You're like, wait, where's my return on this? So if you're spending big, big bucks, like whoever these companies are that we're spending in this glitch, Yeah, I'm sure they were like, oh, hold on, we need to see that again. Let's see the metrics on what happened
here. Well, yeah, I would think that you probably have a daily budget and that you it's kind of allocated then for morning, noon, and night kind of you know, I'm simplifying here, but you know that you have X amount of money that goes out per time frame, and to think that all of it went out just in the morning and then there was nothing later in the day that would be really frustrating. Yeah, I could totally
understand that. And the good news is we've got a lot of data on these things, so the companies are affected are probably like, uh no, let's let's just come on give me that money back. Well hope, yeah, And I don't blame them for wanting that back. All right. Can you tell me more about how yelp is going to help us connect with local
businesses. Yeah. So Yelp is doing a couple of new things. First off, they've got this new twenty five hundred money back guarantee, So if you try like a plumbing service, a moving service, a contractor, home cleaner, landscaper, if it doesn't work out, they'll guaranteed up to twenty five hundred dollars. I think that's huge because a lot of times you're hesitant to use someone on Yelp because you're like, I don't know, are they
gonna be good? Are they gonna be bad? That guarantee program is rolling out first to people in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, and DC. I'm surprised to us not in LA. Hopefully it'll come here soon. The other thing I thought was interesting, Jennifer, is they have this new surprise me. I don't know about you, but I have this decision paralysis sometimes, especially when it comes to where to eat. Yes, and so now yelp must know that because they probably see people like me searching
like the same thing a thousand times. And so now there's gonna be a surprise me button and you could just say, look, I want ramen. Just give me a good place and you can go try it. And finally you can now share videos in reviews. So I thought that was kind of cool. I always liked the idea of a video inside of restaurants you can see kind of like the vibe. The problem is someone has to record that video and everyone thinks you're a weirdo because you're recording a video of inside the
restaurants, exactly calling the cops on you. You're like, I swear, I'm just doing this for you. So I'm just yelping. Okay, I'm finally let's talk about this the ring car cam. I'm very interested in this. I like this idea, especially because I'm not gonna lie every now and then I forget to lock my car. I'm getting out, I'm talking to somebody, I'm not paying attention, and I get back to it and I'm like, oh gosh, I forgot to lock the darn thing that happens to
me too, Jennifer, believe me. So Ring this is their car cam. It's a dashcam. Basically, it's got front and back cameras. It records twenty four to seven while you're driving, or I should say, yeah, the entire time while you're driving, it will it will notice motion twenty four to seven. So if someone kind of bumps into your car or gets really close to it, it will record a clip of that as well.
Camera quality is just fine. It's not the best out there. This is kind of like having the video doorbell, but for your car, so it works really well. Installation was very easy. I actually put the installation of this thing off for like six weeks because I was like, oh, I don't feel like doing that. Running the wire, sticking it to the dashboard. It was all very easy. But it does plug into what's called the OBED two port, which not every car will support that setup, so you
do have to go on the website to see if your car will. Let's say, you can trigger a manual recording, so if you're stopped, let's say for a traffic stop, you can say ALEXA record and it will start recording. It'll also record, like I said, anytime you're moving in the car, anytime someone kind of hits your car or bumps into it or walks
near it, depending on the level of motion you have set. And you can also talk to people in your car, so you if you have a teenager, you can actually kind of, you know, just look in on what they're doing. But Jennifer, I tell you all of this stuff with the one caveat that most of these features only really work well if you subscribe to the cellular service. That is, how much is that six bucks a month or sixty dollars a year, so not a ton. But that's the
only way you can download videos off of this device. Otherwise they're locked to your phone. You can watch them on your phone, but you can't share them out or download them. Also, you're not gonna get any notifications. Let's say you drive your car to a parking lot, you know you park there, and so on bumps into your car. You're not going to get
a notification because there's no cellular. So unless you're paying for that cellular, nothing's going to happen unless you get home, and then all of a sudden you'll get all these notifications like oh, your car was bumped boom boom boom. Right, then you don't really have any recourse because you're not there anymore. Right, I mean, yeah, you might be the person, but what are you gonna you know, I mean so, I mean not like
you're gonna go up. Don't. Yeah, don't. Don't take the law into your own hands here, But you know what I mean, it's like you're not getting those a media alerts that you know. You kind of imagine if your doorbell only informed you of stuff, like, you know, from one hour a day now when you happen to be a Wi Fi zone. So that's my big caveat. You have to be prepared to pay the two hundred and fifty dollars for this thing and pay the six dollars a month to
really get the best use. And if you do that, I actually think it's really cool. All right, Rich, I'm sure are you gonna if people call in on Saturday from eleven to two, you could tell them more about this, I guess if they had questions. Yeah, absolutely, I'll definitely be talking about this because this is a popular device. I think people that are in that ring ecosystem at home with the doorbell and some other things. You are wondering, do I spend the money on this thing? Yeah,
that's me all right, Rich thank you so much. I appreciate it. Eleven to two Rich on Tech here on KFI. Have a good one, Jennifer, Jim Ryan, good morning to you. So I know a lot of people. I know a lot of people on the show who take melotone in gummies. They want them to work as a sleep aid. But that isn't always what happens. Well, no, and in fact, if you've ever used this stuff, Jen you you've probably noticed that one night worked great. I got to sleep, just had a wonderful night's sleep. Next
night maybe not so much. Next night you might have been up all night. You know. Well, here's part of the reason, at least according to researchers who are published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A lot of times it's just not what is build that this team of researchers looked at twenty five different melotonein gummy products, and they're a lot more
than that out there on the market. They found that of the twenty five bottles that they bought, twenty two of those bottles contained different amounts of melatonin from what was listed on the label, and within those brands, some had different amounts within individual bottles. You might have found different amounts of melatonin in individual gummies. It's not a whole lot of regulation. One of them contained about three quarters of what was advertised, another had three and a half times
the advertised amount of melatonin. Another one, in jend had no detectable melatonin at all. And I know there's even a difference in whether you get the melatonin that is just straight melatonin or the one that is like the time release one. So and a lot of people don't know the difference between that or that. There is a big difference in that. So now you've got what is in it, whether or not it's time released. I mean, this
is making me think him melatonin may not be the answer. Well, it would be easier, I think if you knew that the stuff had been through FDA vetting, right, they had been tested, and that some government agency had given It's okay, a lot of folks, you know, to say that might not matter, but still you would know that somebody, some specialists had looked at it. The same kind of thing with I think medical and recreational marijuana. Go into a shop and you think you know what you're getting,
but you may or may not get what is being advertised. There are organizations even though the FDA doesn't look at the stuff. There's a third party organization called us Pharmacopeia, which vets different supplements, including dietarist supplements like melatonin and melatonin gummies. Takes a look at these things and certifies them as either accurate in terms of labeling or inaccurate in terms of So that's one way to go. Talk to your pharmacist. If you want to use these things,
talk to your doctor. Maybe you don't need the stuff at all, And for Heaven's sake, keep them away from your kids, because you know a lot of parents give these melatonin gummies to their kids. It's an easy way to give them this stuff if they want them to help them sleep. But at the same time, a lot of kids are finding these bottles and eating them like candy. Oh yeah, And in thousands of cases since two twelve,
kids have ended up in the emergency room. You've had some that ended up in intensive care, and at least two kids have died from overdose of melatonin, and that is what is so scary about it is they are like gummies. I know, I had. I tried some CBD gummies, which we're supposed to be kind of like this. Although what's interesting is that a lot of these melatonin ones aren't build as CBD, but that they have CBD in them. But I tried. I tried the melatona arming the CBD ones,
and you know, it's funny. I did not find that they helped me sleep at all. That it did not help, But they were really yummy. And I remember when like you were only supposed to take two I think, or something like that, but I was like, dang, these are good. I kind of want a third. I didn't, But at the same time, I thought, if somebody got there, if you put these in a little candy dish and stuck them out on the table, I'd
be eating those just like a would regular gummy bears. Well, it seems like some of the companies are more into the flavoring, into the texture of the gummy and the coloring than into the supplement that's supposed to go into it, the melatonin. So yeah, just be very careful out there. I ask a specialist definitely. All right, Jim, thank you so much. I appreciate it. That's ABC's Jim Ryan and the ones that I had.
I don't remember what the company was set my body on Amazon really smart of me, but I just remember that they were like gummy bear that had like sugar on it. Oh my god. They were great. But it wasn't candy supposed to help me sleep, which again it did not, oh ed well to seventeen singer Ed Shearon has testified in New York in the copyright lawsuit against him over his song thinking Out Loud Now. He's denied allegations that he ripped off Marvin gay songs Let's get it on, try trying to hold back?
Okay. Airs of Ed Townsend, who co wrote Marvin Gay's song, claimed that Sharon's performance of the two songs on stage was tantamount to a confession. Now. Shearon says it was quite simple to weave in and out of the songs that are in the same key. He said he'd be an idiot to do it if he copied Gay song. All right, hold on, we're gonna do something here. We're doing a test. Are these in the same key? Well? Be loving you too, baby, I guess they
are in the same key Hard twenty three. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I didn't hear how he wove them. Sounds like kind of a stretch, But anyway, I don't know. I don't feel like I think I'm pro ed Shearon on this one. It feels like a stretch to me. Oh, but then there's Janet. So fans of Janet Jackson in Atlanta will have to wait to see her in concert because the Atlanta
Hawks are still alive in the playoffs. Game six is set forward tomorrow night, but that's when Jackson's concert was supposed to happen at the same arena. And so I want to know who just assumed that the Hawks would be out and scheduled the Janet Jackson concert win game six was supposed to happen. Favorite, like, our team will never make it that far. We totally scheduled the Janet Jackson concert for then. Her show now has been pushed back to
Friday. Anne Tyler ready with a little blank one eighty two music for me. Oh, nice, nice choice. So Travis Barker, also known as mister Courtney Kardashian Um, He's the drummer for Blank one eighty two. His neck tattoos fascinate me for some reason. He seems like an umm, a unique gentleman. How's that now? This might be the weirdest intersection of pop culture and a healthcare company, But Travis Barker is teaming up with Liquid Death
Mountain Water Hey for a You're ready hard rocking Enema kit. I love in this story. It says, I'm not making this up. I'm not making this up, you guys. The Liquid Death of Enema of the State collectible Enema kit pays homage to Blink one eighty two's album from nineteen ninety nine, Enema of the State. Remember that? But this is you, guys.
This is no joke. It's one hundred eighty two dollars. And I guess if you go on the Liquid Death website, which I didn't, there's a limited edition collectible adult art piece not intended for use as a real medical device.
I feel like it sucks that we have to put warnings like that on our websites, because people who go to those websites are also people who vote just saying I don't know what your ages, but you cost one hundred eighty two dollars and the kid apparently includes a can of Liquid Death water that has been hand signed by Travis Barker, or so they say, and there is an enema bulb in I guess. A video on the Liquid Death site, Barker says, thanks to my new Enema of the State collectible Enema kit,
I've been able to turn my dreams into reality. He had dreamt of an enema kit. Anyway, you can go to the Liquid Death website if you really want to. That's the weirdest freaking story I've ever heard. A judge in LA has given life sentences without parole to the mother and boyfriend who tortured and killed ten year old Anthony Avelos in Lancaster. There were over twenty impact
statements that were read by Anthony's family yesterday. They were heartbreaking. Heather Baron and her boyfriend Kareem Lava were convicted last month of first degree murder and torture in Avelos's death in twenty eighteen. The judge said Anthony died from blunt force trauma in dehydration. That's the I don't know why that part sickens me. Attorneys for the defendants say that they will appeal the sentence, and if you want to get back on the Queen Mary, you'll get to do that soon
and it'll be a spruced up Queen Mary. To the tune of twelve million dollars. That's how much the repairs are going to be to the ship. That will boost tourism, and the City of Long Beach says it will also reduce the oil footprint in the city. All right, Well, speaking of an oil footprint, one thing that is supposed to be better for the environment is saying goodbye, period to the world, and that is the Chevy Bolt. Mike Debuski is ABC News Technology reporter. Hey, Mike, welcome back.
So why is the Chevy Bolt going away? Good to be here, Jen, So there's a couple different schools of thought when we're talking about the death of the Chevy Bolt. The Chevy Bolt, just to recap, is the cheapest electric car that you can buy new in the United States about twenty six twenty seven thousand dollars before you factor in federal and state tax incentives. People have gotten these things out the door for under twenty thousand dollars, which
is a really good price. Especially when you consider that this is two hundred and fifty six two hundred and fifty nine in some cases mile range electric vehicle, and when we're talking about axing it, the Bolt is not a new car, so it's about time that GM freshens the lineup. But it's also a car that has a bit of a pockmarked history. There was a pretty significant recall in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one where they had to recall it
over issues having to do with the battery. In some cases that battery could catch fire. It was such a concern for General Motors that they said for a time you shouldn't park these things inside lest your house catch fire, or you shouldn't park it near other vehicles in case the fire jumps to them. So not ideal, but the Bolt was very popular. In fact, it was the best selling non Tesla EV in the country. Yeah, and I
think that it's that profitability versus the what people have the ability to. I don't know, maybe now you're going to look at the Chevy Bolt and be like, if I spent a little bit more money, I could get me a Tesla. And you're thinking to yourself, maybe you want to if you're going to delve into the world of ev why not go ahead and go all the way. Why go with the one that, like you said, has had kind of a troubled history. Sure, but I mean I do think
that when we're talking about like affordable Tesla's. You know, Elon Musk did promise that he was going to sell a thirty five thousand dollars Model three, and I think the company did, but very briefly. There are like a couple dozen seats Model threes running around out there. But for the most part, you really aren't getting into a Tesla for for less than forty thousand dollars, not factoring in incentives. So you know, the Bolt was really in
a class of its own. The next cheapest electric car that's going to be on sale after the Bolt goes out of production is the Bass Nissan Leaf, most popular electric vehicle in the world. A fun fact, but that thing, the Bass version at least, only gets one hundred and forty nine miles of range. So there's just sort of like a different calculation that you have to do when we're talking about EV's. Yeah, I mean I had so I'd tell the story all the time. I had a feat that I was
doing an endorsement for back when they very very very first came out. That thing only had a range of ninety miles, and my commute was forty five miles. So if I turned on the heater, turn on the radio, turn I mean, I was like down to like twenty miles by the time that I got to the station. And I remember thinking to myself that until these things really have something like the two hundred and fifty mile range or something for me on the daily, that was not a car that really worked for
me. And unfortunately, probably if you get one of these, you're somebody who does have a longer commute, and that's where the gas mileage is really going to factor in. And unless you have some range that's really huge, that's dependable maybe for a day or two, maybe you don't have the chance to charge every night unless you have that big range. I would be very
nervous to buy an EV that didn't have a long range to it. I guess sure, I think you're not alone, Jen, But I was talking to some analysts yesterday who say that, you know, the average American actually drives less than forty miles a day. You're a supercommuter genet the answer there so and the you know, when we go back to the affordability question here, you know, the Bolt was a long range EV that was cheap, and the Nissan does have like one hundred fewer miles of EPA rated range here,
but it is also pretty cheap. It's about twenty eight thousand dollars or so not you know, it's not chump changed by any stretch of the imagination, but it's a Tesla sure. And what these analysts were saying that I thought was very interesting was that we are spending a lot of money and R and D and time and effort making evs that will one for one replace our
gas cars. Right like the industry is moving towards electric power. You know, there's there's federal legislation that is sort of mandating that that be the change that's going to happen, and that is forcing evs to be very expensive. By demanding longer range three hundred four hundred miles of range, you're gonna be spending you know, sixty seventy if not more, thousand dollars. The average new EV in the United States cost sixty six thousand dollars. Maybe a different
way of thinking about it, given how we drive in this country. Again, fewer than forty miles a day for most people is spending less money on a short range EV And then the one or two times a year that you drive more than one hundred miles at a time, maybe you rent a car, or maybe you have a used hybrid or a plug in hybrid or something like that, or you know, you have a scooter for around town or something like that. I bike to work, I drive. I live seven
miles away from the office. So you wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Mike, you bike fourteen miles a day, not every day. How it's not so bad. It's it's it's a mostly bike lanes here in New York City where it's a very bike friendly environment. I will say, but yeah, much so, but also good for you and great for
your thighs. That's amazing. I appreciate it. Yeah, but I mean they get it gets back to that sort of mobility question, right, The idea that you know, the transition over to electric power is the most fundamental rethinking of car technology that we really had in the history of the car. The internal combustion engine has been around for more than one hundred years, why shouldn't we also rethink our relationship to the car? And I thought that was
just sort of an interesting, you know, point that they make. It is. I mean, it's a pivot that a lot of people are making, and it's just kind of a new way of thinking and of living every day. Mike, thank you so much. You're fun and I again, geez Louise fourteen miles. I'm impressed it. It's not so bad. It's it sounds more impressed than it is. Okay, well, for me, it would be bad. Let me let me tell you that there'd be a lot of huffin in poffin. Thanks Hike, I appreciate it. Sea,
take care, Jena bye. ABC's very fit. Mike Debusky. I've never seen it. Now I gotta go look him up. There better be a picture on social media of him on the bike, photos of his quads. Jen, Well, it's not that I was specifically Tyler. Who do you think I am? No comment. The mass mind behind the suicide bombing at an airport in Afghanistan that killed thirteen US service members and more than one hundred civilians in twenty twenty one has been killed by the Taliban ABC's Ian Panel says
it happened weeks ago without US involvement. We believe that the terrorist was killed in and on the ground. Rage at the Taliban, A calls facing an insurgency of their own. Bloody campaign against ISIS now the US making it clear it's not working together with the Taliban. The Taliban has been in control of
Afghanistan's government since the US withdrawal in twenty twenty one. I heard an interview with the father of one of the thirteen US service members who had been killed in that attack, and the reporter asked him, you know, doesn't make a difference to you that this terrorist, this mastermind, was killed by the Taliban versus the US, And the dad's comment was paraphrasing here, I don't care who killed him. Just as long as he's dead, that's one less
terrorist. Still so sad. And the dad also said there is never going to be justice. I mean his son was gone. Republican leaders in Montana are said to vote on censuring or expelling a transgender state lawmaker who's been silenced in the House for comments against to build a band gender affirming medical care for kids. Democratic representatives Zoe Zephyr will be given the chance to speak today. A protest disrupted the House floor session Monday, but the gallery will be closed
today. This next story is not okay. There's a woman in Florida who admitted to dressing up as a clown and fatally shooting her husband's first wife more than thirty years ago. The woman pleaded guilty yesterday to second degree murder as part of the plea deal. The woman's been in jail since she was arresting in twenty seventeen, and the plea deal calls for a twelve year sentence. If she was convicted, she would have faced a life sentence. Disneyland is
temporarily closing several rides for scheduled refurbishments now. The closures start June fifth, so it's going to be Peter Pan's Flight, Mister Toad's Wild Ride, Alice in Wonderland, and those are all in Fantasyland, all kind of the Little Kid rides. Also, the Little Mermaid Ride at California Adventure and Splash Mountain will be closed starting May thirty first, so that attraction can be transformed into The Bayou Adventure and Today's Holiday. I've teased you all morning with it.
It's a holiday with a twist. It's National Pretzel Day, all right. But there are at least a couple of pretzel origin stories. But they both have to do with religion. So according to one, pretzels were invented in six D ten a d by an Italian monk as a reward for kids who learned their prayers. I don't know exactly how he made the pretzel. Another version has pretzels in in a monastery in southern France, so either way they
have a they have monkey roots monk esque roots. They were introduced to North America in the nineteenth century by Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants. The observance of April twenty sixth National Pretzel Day started back in two thousand and three, so it's twenty years old. This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County.
Beautiful forecast for your National Pretzel Day. Temperatures will just be in the upper sixties, low seventies at the beaches, low to mid seventies for Metro La and o se upper seventies, low eighties, maybe even a couple of mid eighties for the valleys in thee and again we could see the nineties by the weekend. We lead local live from the KFI twenty four hour news Room.
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