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Hey, it's Jennifer Jones Lee. You're listening to kf I AM six forty wake Up Call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. That's Monday, man, it's time to rise and shine. Here's Jennifer Jones Lee with your morning wake up call. How was your weekend. I feel, for the first time like I actually accomplished something. I can now open the door to my garage. The jeeps in one side, so look at that. A whole space has been cleaned out, and I'm about a third of the way through wave

six seven foot tall wall of just junk I don't need. I filled up two giant black you know, like the regular ash barrels, and it felt so freeing if it was. I was looking through things, going why didn't

I keep this? Why did I think I would ever need this? I've been in this house since September, and so what I was telling myself was if this has been in a bag or a box since September, And yesterday I was saying this, and I was thinking, and tomorrow is May first, I clearly don't need it, and what wow, is there just a lot of stuff I don't need. I was finding shoes that only had one to them. Now where the hell the other one went in the move?

I have no idea, and maybe it's in another bag for all I know, but that means I haven't worn those shoes since September. Off to goodwill those go, I mean, not just one shoe. Of course I'll find the other one. But what I'm saying is, if you've never done that before, where you went in your garage with the mindset that if I have not used this in months, I don't need it, try it. It

was. It was the best thing I could have done yesterday. Anyway, I know, boring weekend, I guess you could say, but it felt really really good. So anyway, and thank you to my neighbor Cupcake, who knew I was going to be clean in the garage. Cupcake who calls Tyler by the way, t dollar sign or tea money, as the case may be. Cupcake went and got me a big old soda just give me some sustenance throughout the day. What a guy, I'm telling you, He's

pretty amazing. So anyway, it was just a fun weekend. And it's you know, if you're also doing your garage, you get to hang out and see all the neighbors. You get to hang out and look in their garage. Is too because usually their doors are opening and closing, just saying it's a little voyeuristic. Then you see who also is like you and has a ton of crap in their garage, and who's very organized. Here's what's ahead for your wake up call. So it looks like police in la are

trying to find three home invasion robbers. These are so scary. They slipped in through a sliding door and assaulted a couple in bel Air, an elderly couple. Ooh. And the Crowning of King Charles. You know I love a good Lifetime movie. Apparently the UK is not without controversy in crowning the King. People in London are scoffing at the price tag. Wait till you hear how much this is going to cost taxpayers. It's not like it comes out of the I don't know King's Coronation fund, if there is such a

thing. It's just really sad. I guess you could say. Five o five We're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers all about the White House Correspondence dinner that happened over the weekend and the President did his own joke, and I'll tell you what it had to do with something that he's having to address. How's that for it? All that's coming up with Karen in just a few minutes. Let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI

twenty four hour newsroom. LA police are trying to find three home invasion robbers who went into a home in bel Air through a sliding door and assaulted an elderly couple. Police say the man was punched several times in the face Friday when he told the intruders there were no valuables in his home. The couple's son says the intruders also stepped on his mom's head. The sun says the robbers took a safe and some cash. A man from Baldwin Park's been arrested

for a hit and run crash that killed a pedestrian in Irwindale. Police say security video shows a guy walking along Azusa Canyon Road Saturday afternoon when he was hit by an suv. The driver took off. Cops eventually found the driver at his home and arrested him. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the crash of a single engine plane that was reported missing while headed to the airport and Van Eyes. There was thick fog Saturday a night when the plane

crashed in LA's Beverly Crest area. The La City Fire Department says the plane was eventually found on a steep hillside that has a large water tank which was not damaged. One person on the plane was killed. And there's a survey by La Metro that is found eight hundred homeless people find shelter on Metro trains on any given night and nearly six hundred end up sleeping on the streets when the trains reached the end of the line. Metro has been scrambling to find

solutions. That is considering enacting a homeless emergency similar to those enacted by the City and the County of La. Karen Travers, good morning to you. Did you get to go to the White House Correspondence dinner? Please say yes, I do. I'm actually on the board of the correspondence. Well look at you, wow, Okay, that's all. Yeah. I sit at

the head table. I was sitting next to Roywood Jr. The entertainer, and Karen Jean Pierre, the Press secretary, and presented the Journalism Awards to our colleagues who won the awards on Saturday night, and it was a really

great event. So the President was very serious, talking about the importance of a free press and the importance of what the industry does and bringing journalists who are detained overseas home thing he's working like hell to bring home Wall Street journal reporter Evan Gerskovich who's detained in Russia, and then also had a good time poking fun at himself and his age, which was the big topic of most of his jokes, and how old he is and how much everybody else likes

to make jokes about how old he is. Right, And you know what, I think that that was smart of him to address the elephant in the room right away, to make it like, I know, you guys are all questioning this and joking about this, and so you know what, I'm going to not pretend like it's not there, just go ahead and hit it hard and then move on. Yeah, And you know, he started out very serious with his remarks, and it almost seemed like maybe he wasn't going

to do any jokes. I was sitting next the Kareem, like I said, and I kind of turned her and said as transitioning, and she said, yeah, he's getting into it. And his transition line actually was really funny and proud loved it. As he's talking about journalism in the industry, he said, I believe in the First Amendment. He paused and said not just because my good friend Jimmy Madison wrote it. And everybody laughed, and then I kind of laughter the races with all the old person jokes and how

old he is, and he said, you say I'm ancient. I say I'm Why do you say I'm over the hill? And then he got in the dig at the former CNN anchored Don Lemon. He said Don Lemon would say that's the man in his prime and then talks about how, you know, the media covers him being old, but they don't cover how old Donald Trump is. He talked about how that's unfair. But you know, he seemed to have fun and enjoyed being up there and enjoyed spending time at the

dinner. But again, it's all about scholarships. The dinners an annual fundraiser scholarships that the WHDA gives out the college students who to go to the dinner, they had a chance to take a picture with the president before and and

it's a really great event. And you know, yeah, there's always criticism too about the mingling of people from the government side and reporters, but it's also a chance to do some reporting there in the room too, when you're talking with those cabinet secretaries as you're sitting at a table with them and walking around the room and members of Congress or at the table next to you,

Oh my gosh, I can only imagine. And was there anybody there that was I don't want to say, a controversial guest, but a surprise guest or anything like that. I always want to know, like what the backstory is on stuff. Yeah, so a couple of notable guests, John Legend and Christy Keegan were there. Brittany Griner was there. She got a lot of mentions in various remarks from the president to the comedian, but very notable,

and a couple of standing locations. The people who seemed to be getting a lot of attention in terms of who people wanted to take the pictures with the most were the people from vander Pump Rules from Bravo, very very high in demand, so certainly seeing them showing up on a lot of social media accounts. Oh my gosh, yeah, I mean of all kinds of people. When I saw that too, I was like, oh, well, all right, I guess there's Secretary of State Anthony B. Lincoln and there

is Lisa Vandal Pumps. So you know, it's that type of events. It's a little bit of everything I mean, And that's what makes it kind of fun, is you know that you don't know who's going to be there, and it does make it for you do have to have those uh I don't know, sort of the now trending kind of people in there, just so you got a little bit of that, like wait, what what are they doing here? You guys need to have fun while you're there too.

Yeah, absolutely, And it creates buzz for the events, and then a lot of articles get written about it, and you know, you have those celebrities go back to Hollywood and talk a little bit about Washington and yeah about the event, and that's always good for it too, of course. But

you know, it's again, it's really about the scholarship students. It's about honoring our all leagues and maybe awards that we gave out and just underlining the importance of the work that journalists in Washington do, and you know, at the time when they're layoff throughout the industry at local level and at the national level. A lot of news organizations in that room hit recently with layoffs. It was important to celebrate the work it's being done and the importance of the

mission at the White House and in Washington. All right, Karen, thank you so much. And I kind of feel like I'm rubbing elbows with a celebrity here if you're on the board. For goodness sakes, holy cow. Well it was yeah, it was fun. It was really nice. But that's why my voice sounds like it does. Today is a long week, got it Monday and well yesterday, oh my gosh. All right, well, I hope you've got some vacation coming off. Just arrest that voice coming

up. All right, Thanks Karen, appreciate it, Thank you, all right, see you later. That is ABC's Karen Travers. Hey, So, what is this a possibility of rain in the forecast? This was weirding me out like crazy. Yesterday it was warm, warm, warm, I'm sweating in the garage, and then by the time that I'm putting the show together, last night I was sitting out on my patio it got cold.

National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall is on with us this morning. Todd, this is a rollercoaster weather ride I've never seen, or haven't seen in quite a while. Yeah, good morning, Jennifer. Yeah, we're looking at a really kind of a cold, unfeasonable storm system moving in. Uh, you know for this for this time of year. So for early day, you're going to start off pretty chili to start off, to start off May. What what are you expecting as far as chili? What's you know?

Are we back in the sixties again? Yeah, I mean we're gonna see temperatures in the upper fifties to six feet across across the area. Um, chances of rain are going to increase through the week, So probably looking at Wednesday and Thursday five potential for rain and maybe maybe Iceland thundersporns. Wow. So how much rain are you expecting right now? It looks like about a half an inch for the close valleys, but there's a chance that we could

see you know, it's a cutoff. It's it's one of these these these troughs that it's kind of going to wobble around and hang out, but it's gonna make us look bad over the over the coming week. Unfortunately, as far as meteorologists in Sounding California, it's not a great time to be a meteorologist when this kind of happened. So we're looking at the potential for you know, uh, you know where we could see you know, showers lingering

and musi on Friday possibly and increasing those rainfall amount. So right now we're saying it happened to one inch, but it's it's there's certain that there is a certain amount uncertainty with that, you know. Um as we're starting to

see more and more fires and they're just popping up here and there. A few have been in San Bernardino County recently, And I was talking with a friend of mine who's a firefighter, and he was talking about how, in spite of all the rain that we got and then obviously the fuel that grew from it, just this little tiny stint of dry weather that we had dried

all that fuel out so fast. So from a fire standpoint, I guess it's good if this thing lingers, Yeah, I mean, this will end up and actually help a little bit alleviate some of fire weather positions for a few weeks before we get into the summer. Um. So it's it's it's going to help a little bit. Um. But I mean, we have all this rain that happens over you know, over the winter, and then as we hit April May typically we start to dry out, and and we

have these grasses, these fine grasses that dry out as well. So as we get that warmer weather as the terms begin into summer. So that's that's kind of what we're that's kind of what you know, those those vegetation is starting to respond to that by weather we had. All right, Todd, thank you so much. All Right, so we'll start looking for the grace.

Guys, probably tomorrow. You think you think we'll have any sunshine today, we'll well, we may have a little bit of breaks of sunshine this afternoon, but it looks like we're going to continue to speak kind of the kind of a cloudy, dreary type May gray type pattern. Okay, you know that we're going to see over the next couple of days. I don't hate that because I love to nap when it's gray. So thank you Todd for that, Thank you so much. All right, see you later.

National Weather Service meteorologist Todd Hall. Is there anything worse than when you're trying to take a nap and the birds are singing and the sun is out? I have cussed birds more often than I would like to admit in my life because they're not on my schedule. How dare they? These are the Hollywood writers who could soon walk off the job if a new labor contract isn't reach

the sticking points pay and security. The Writers Guild says TV execs have used the transition to streaming to cut writer pay and separate writers from production, directly impacting scripts for series That's ABC's Derek Dennis. He says the writer's Guild is also concerned about artificial intelligence being used to generate scripts without the writers. I can only imagine, because that's what AI can do. It can write you a song, it can write you a script, It can write your paper

for school. Where the hell was AI when I was going to school. Some of TV's biggest shows could go dark as soon as midnight tonight if a deal is not reached. Cops in La are trying to find three home invasion robbers who slipped into a home in bel Air through a sladding door and assaulted an elderly couple. Police say the man was punched several times in the face late Friday when he told intruders that there were no valuables in the home.

The couple's sons says the intruders stepped on his mom's head. I don't the punching of the man is bad enough, but then you step on an elderly woman's head. Yeah, no place in society for you as far as I'm concerned. The Sun says the robbers took a safe and some cash coming up

at five thirty five. This is a horrific story that came out of Texas this weekend, and local, state, and federal investigators are trying to determine now what the connection is between five people who were aged eight to thirty one and the man accused of shooting them all to death. Over the weekend. Four people were dead at this scene, and that eight year old died at the hospital. Cops say all of the violence may have started as a dispute

between neighbors in the city of Cleveland, Texas. That's about forty five miles north of Houston. So we'll get into that with Jim in just a few minutes. Well, some kids from Boyle Heights have become new horse riders thanks to the LAPD. It's part of a rebounded program in Metro's Mounted Unit. Lieutenant Carlos Figeroa says the kids were selected by the department's Community Safety Partnership Division.

They selected kids from the Ramona Gardens Housing develop who got some funding through help of the Los Angeles Police Foundation to purchase helmets and boots, food for the kids when they were here. On Saturday, ten kids graduated from the Mini Mounties program. They spent five saturdays in a row here at the Almonds and Equestrian Center learning how to ride and care for horses. At first, I was nervous and I didn't want to go on the horse because I was

like, what if I fall? But you get comfortable riding a horse and being with the horse, so it was it was pretty cool. He was fourteen and says this was life changing. Then there's fifteen year old Jose I came out. It turns out riding horse it turns out to be my passion is fun. What was it like when you first got on that saddle? When I first gone on that saddle? Kind of nervous, almost fell once, but I didn't give up. The kids got certificates, cool polo shirts

and a bunch of memories in atwater. Steve Gregory, King of I News, I love that horses are the best. If you've never ridden a horse, you're doing yourself a disservice. Eric Katursky, good morning to you. You know that has to be my question. Have you ever ridden a horse? Yeah? Yeah, not like competitively. I was just thinking, right, but I was just thinking maybe, I don't know. You're a big

city guy. I don't know if you've ever ridden a horse. Yeah, yeah, sure, like when I was eight at summer camp or something. Sure, Okay, that makes only interactions of wildlife. We have her, you know, pigeons, cockroaches and rats. So like, if I try not to go too crazy, all right, well, you know what, I will take a horse over all of that any day. So come out and visit us. Aaron, good morning to you. Let's get back into

what the trial is now or where we stand. I guess you could say of journalist E Jean Carroll, who will be back today and her federal battery and defamation suit against former President Trump. She's due back She's due back today for a cross examination, which will continue under Joe Tacopina, the defense attorney or former President Trump, and this morning, Jen he wrote to the judge

asking for a mistrial. He said that the judge had improperly limited some of the questions that he was asking her about, why she didn't go to the police, why she didn't pursue security camera footage, why she just made some of the decisions that she did after she was allegedly raped. The judge at different points intervened and told Tacopina to move along, and he took exception to

that, and so much so that he's now asking for a mistrial. I'm not sure that's necessarily going to go anywhere, but it does lay the groundwork for an eventual appeal perhaps, And so her cross examination will continue, and then we expect to hear from two friends of hers that she says she told in real time after the alleged rape occurred. Will that make a difference based on the line of questioning that Tacopino was going with, Well, the friends

could because there's no physical evidence here and there's no direct eye witnesses. So in order to boast the bull Eegeene Carol's credibility with the jury that the pointiff side wants to show that, you know, she didn't just make this up whole cloth, as Trump alleges, but she actually told two friends about it at the time it allegedly occurred in the mid nineteen nineties, and those two friends, Carol Martin, a former television news anchor, and Lisa burned Back,

a writer, are expected to testify about it. And we'll also see at some point during the trial, probably later this week, the so called Access Hollywood take to remember that from the twenty sixteen campaign, when you know, Trump has overheard telling then host Billy Bush about what he does with women without their consent, and although he's dismissed it as locker room banter, Carol's attorneys have said it wasn't locker room talk. It's exactly what he did to

Egeene Carol. And then I'm sure then the defense will say, well, Eejeene Carroll came out with this after we all saw that video, so they could say that. I'm sure they'll try and say she's making it up or something. I mean, you're what the tip for to in this trial is

kind of predictable. I'm a little bit surprised by it. Well, I mean, you know, absent any physical evidence or direct eyewitness accounts it you know, it isn't, he said, she said, but the you know, the plaintiffs insist it's not because they're these you know, corroborating witnesses. We'll see if the jury believes it. You know, the defense has already gotten Carol at a concide. She can't remember the exact date the alleged rape

occurred. She did not go to the police, she didn't seek security camera footage, she didn't seek medical treatment or psychological help after. The defense is suggesting she didn't do the things that other rape victims do, including screaming during the alleged attack, and Carol said, he can't beat up on me for not screaming. Some women scream, some don't. And then she said, with dramatic flair, you know he raped me, whether I screamed or not.

Wow. And I mean, oh my gosh, even from just a watcher of this, you can't judge what a rape victim does or does not do. Reporting remembering the day, you don't know what she's suppressed. Who she you know, was she so ashamed when it happened that she just didn't want you want to say anything about it or whatever. And now as she's gotten older, maybe she's gotten stronger and wants to say something about it. But you can see where Tacapino can look at this and say, hey,

you never did any of this. So you told two friends, but you never did anything that a normal rape victim might or might not have done. I don't know what a normal victim is, but gosh, you can kind of see how both sides are or the believability I guess on both sides is

there. Well, And that's exactly what the defense is hoping for to say that, look, you know, you may have some sympathy, but but she can't prove it that you know she's And even if you don't believe she's fully made it up, he's already gotten her to conceive that some of the details are odd and inconceivable. You know, it is a former president of

the United States being accused of rape and open court. That's never happened before an American history, And so the defense is suggesting, you're gonna want to be sure, whereas you know, Carol's attorneys say it's Trump, it's his m just look at you know what two dozen other women have said, even though this would represent a first conviction. All right, Aaron, thanks for watching it for us. I'm sure we'll talk to you again. Thank you,

all right, see you later. ABC's horse riding Aaron Katursky. I think I need to see Aaron on a horse, just for the record, because Aaron is probably one of the most city guys that I know, you know, like he's got when you see him on TV. He's got the coat and the scarf and the you know, he's dressed to the nines, as a reporter from New York would be. I kind of need to see

him in jeans and like a snap up shirt and some boots. An assembly woman from Irvine is alerting small businesses about a new law that gives them equal chances. The Hollywood writers could soon walk off the job if a new labor contract is not reached. It's the writers Guild that's also concerned about artificial intelligence being used to generate scripts without the writers rightedly, so some of TV's biggest shows could go dark as soon as midnight tonight if a deal isn't reached.

And speaking of deals. The FDIC says JP Morgan Chase Bank will take over all deposits and most of the assets of First Republic Bank, which has struggled since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in early March. The FDIC announced early this morning that regulators in California had closed First Republic and appointed it as a receiver. First Republic Banks eighty four branches in eight states are

reopening today as branches of JP Morgan Chase Bank. It's so crazy because when I was working in the Bay Area pretty early on, I think when I started actually anchor, so it would have been twenty four, twenty five at the time, we had your weather forecast brought to you by First Republic Bank. First Republic Bank, where it's a privilege to serve you, and they were the hot thing. I remember them being the big up and comer. And then now this what twenty years later? That was fast. All right,

let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, what a horrific story out of Texas. Go ahead and give us just sort of the nuts and bolts of the story before we get into the investigation. So, yeah, Jennifer well, it started on Friday evening, and we're told that people in Cleveland, Texas, sometimes they get home from work on Friday, they blow off steam by shooting off guns in their yards, firing into the air. That's apparently, according to neighbors at least, what this man in

this case was doing. And now he is gone. Francisco Orld pass his name. He's thirty eight years old. Neighbors told him to stop it. They had somebody sleeping inside, a baby was asleep. He said he was in his own property, on his own yard, and so he wasn't going to stop. Instead of stopping, he went next door with this ar fifteen semi automatic rifle, according to police, shot and killed five people, including an eight year old boy. Killed them execution style, shooting them in the

head. And now he has disappeared. The police have been looking for him. They brought in the FBI, they brought in dogs, did an extensive search. They found his cell phone and some articles of clothing, but still Oral Pessa is nowhere to be found. All right. Do they think that he was drinking? Do they think that he on top of it all, it just seems like a random I'm shooting a gun I mean, that's weird enough. I'm shooting a gun in my own backyard. But was there more

to it? Was he on something to the neighbors know? No, they haven't said, and we may not know that ever. In fact, by the time he's caught, if he's caught, then whatever was in his bloodstream might not be there anymore. So Yeah, was it drug induce? Was it alcohol induce? We don't know. But all we know is that this horrific crime has happened. An eighty thousand dollar reward has been issued. Oropeza is now subject to arrest in a five million dollar bond. Meanwhile, the

people in this house are trying to recover. There was a civil There was a vigil last night in Cleveland. People from around that community of about seven thousand gathered in solidarity with the families that lost loved ones, both the shooter and the folks the victims are thought to be in the country illegally, but Cleveland still came around this family and said that they were supporting them. Was

he illegal, No, he's from Mexico. The those who were killed, it's thought all of them were most of them at least were from Honduras and many of them had moved into this house only recently, so it's likely that he didn't know these people at all, that the neighbors didn't know him, he didn't know them, and that this was just a crime of passion or

something. Well. Yeah, I mean it sounds like one of those almost, um, I don't know, I'm trying to like, can it somehow a road rage where all of a sudden you get mad at somebody really fast and you see red. But usually for most of us, we see red for half a second and then you go, wait a minute, that person might have a gun or that person you know, like, all right, never mind, I'm backing off. But this guy, it's I know, this sounds awful. It's one thing to go after adults, but in eight

year old execution style. I mean, there's something screwed up with you if you're able to do that. Yeah. And I think there's there's a lot of credence to your theory that he was on something. He was either on drug store was drunk at the time, but again we just don't know that yet. All right, and then as far as he was not here legally, do they believe now they're going to have to work with Mexican authorities.

Do they think he went to Mexico. Well, yes, and certainly the State of Texas working with the US Customs and Border Protection there along the US Mexico border in uh, you know, in South Texas, in West Texas, to try to let them know, distribute his picture to those folks out there, to those border patrol agents so that if he does kind of try to leave the country through one of the international bridges, that he'll be caught. Yeah, you're right. It's it's a difficult thing once somebody gets out

of the country, but it's happened before. We've had fugitives from Texas who have made it into Mexico and have been caught and brought back to the US. Same story with California, I'm sure, all right. And the reward that you were talking about was that the Governor's office, who's it's a part of it, right, is from the Governor's office. That's part of it. The crime Stoppers, the multi county Crime Stoppers has put up five thousand

dollars. The State of Texas, through the Governor's office, has put up a reward, and the FBI is offering another twenty five thousand, So fifty plus five and twenty five is thirty's at eighty thousand. All right, well, let's hope that that gets somebody to come forward and talk about where this guy is. Jim, thank you so much. See Jennifer. All right, see you later. That is ABC's Jim Ryan. I you know, don't know. It's not that I am in any way, shape or forms

thing. It's it's okay for one person to shoot an adult. That's not what I'm saying. There's just that little the pit in your stomach when you hear a child was killed eight years old execution style. What the hell is wrong with people? Hey, I just I don't know why I can't wrap my head around it. All right, I'm gonna end with something light. Let's get out of that. Let's get out of that darkness, because we

can laugh at this or giggle at this. I should say, although if I was a prior or, if I was a taxpayer in the UK, I might not be laughing. I might be a little annoyed. The crowning of King Charles comes with a one hundred twenty five million dollar price tag, and who pays that price? The taxpayers? It just doesn't stay quite right, they could be paying for it themselves, and how it would be like a nice gesture. Yeah, it's not like the royal family is without some

money now. ABC's Lionel Moise says. People have also criticized the plans to have the archbishop asked the public to vocally vocally pledge allegiance to King Charles and his successors. Critics call the oath offensive and tone deaf, pointing out that it asked people to swear allegiance to Prince Andrew, who, despite being stripped of his royal titles, is still technically a successor. He's technically a successor. He's also been accused of being a Jeffrey Epstein, I don't know,

partner in crime with the sexual assault of women. What are we doing? The coordination of Britain's new monarch and his wife, Queen Kimilla is less than a week away. You know, there's they're only part of me that is made happy by that story. Well two parts, I guess, Like I said that I'm not a UK taxpayer, but also apparently they are as screwed up as we are. At times that make you feel a little better,

like misery loves company on that level a little bit. Hey, look at this, As of tonight at midnight, Hollywood writers could soon walk off the job. No, because that means some of TV's biggest shows could go dark as soon as midnight tonight if a deal isn't reached. Now. The writer's guild is very concerned about this new contract. But in addition to the contract, they're worried about artificial intelligence being used to generate scripts without the writers.

I get that, because you could also have news anchors without the news anchor. Some of TV's biggest shows again, we will be watching because they could have to stop as of midnight tonight. Also, Tyler, I need your help on this one, or Michelle or Anne or all if everybody's in there. Nobody's in here, Oh dude, it's just you then, all right. Singer songwriter at Cheron's copyright infringement trial resumes today in Manhattan. Tyler,

I need you to do the let's get it on part. He's facing a one hundred million dollar lawsuit over allegations that his song thinking Out Loud Baby UH Will Be Loving You to is seventeen. Tyler, it's a no for me, dog, dude, you were supposed to do. Good dog. It's a no for me. Dog. You suck the audio for you if you want it. No, I don't want it. I wanted you to sing,

but screw that. Cheron is the claim, and says he has twenty fourteen hit Thinking out Loud was he very collaborative effort with co writer Amy wedd Hey. By the way, there is talk about AM radio being removed from new cars and trucks. Not okay. FEMA and first responders across the country rely heavily on AM radio to deliver public warnings and emergencies because of AM's unmatched reach resiliency. And don't forget, it's free. So here's the deal.

If you're thinking, okay, I have a text alert on my phone and that's how I'm going to get it. That's lovely, but it's not a substitute for what broadcast radio provides in time of needs. If you get a one line text alert, it can't take the place of the voice on the radio who comes to you twenty four to seven until the emergency passes. And that's even assuming that the cell networks are up and running, which often they

are not. In a big emergency, So when emergencies occur, your local broadcast radio station is there providing wall to wall coverage, life saving information and a live connection in the crisis when radio stays in the aftermath. So this hits home. Do you think it's right for you to lose access to KFI when you're on the road. I didn't think so. So you need to

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 our cars and trucks. Standard data and messaging rates apply. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Inez de la Kutera. Inez. Last time we spoke to you about the evacuation in Sudan of US Americans. At that point, we knew that the embassy had been cleared and that it was a very quick and clean operation.

Those helicopters on the ground. I think the whole thing lasted like an hour if I remember correctly. But there were also sixteen thousand Americans still in the country. What happens to them? And where are we now in the evacuation of our citizens? Hey, good morning. Yeah, so you'll remember that dramatic rescue from last weekend when the US decided to step in and evacuate embassy staff and their families from Sudan. So they came in with military planes.

They got them all out safely. But the US at that point had told the remaining US nationals in Sudan, and there were a lot, I mean, there were over sixteen thousand Americans in Sudan at the time when the fighting

first broke out. A lot of them were dual US Sudanese nationals, but over sixteen thousand US nationals in Sudan, and the US had told those Americans that they were basically on their own, that the situation on the ground was too difficult too, that it just wasn't safe enough for the US to come and get them. And then the US based quite a bit of criticism because there were a number of other countries who were able to go in and get

their nationals. So Saudi Arabia, for instance, was pretty quickly able to send in ships to Sudan and evacuate Saudi nationals. We saw Germany sending in military plane, the UK evacuating some of its citizens as well, and so the question was why wasn't the US coming in to help US citizens. I actually spoke to one family so that the two parents were away. They were out of the country when the fighting first broke out, and the children were

with their aunt. And the children were dual US Sudanese nationals, and the father was frustrated, but that he had been reaching out to the embassy repeatedly, he was getting kind of automatic emails back. He was having a really hard time getting ahold of anyone. And he pointed repeatedly since that Saudi Arabia had been able to get their citizens out, and he didn't understand why the US couldn't do the same. So we did. Over the course of this

weekend, see the US begin to evacuate at citizens. They were using bus so bus convoys evacuating two hundred to three hundred Americans per bus convoys. There are drones flying overhead to ensure that the route is safe. And as far I mean in terms of the latest numbers, over a thousand Americans have now been evacuated. But again still the total out of Americans in Sudan was sixteen thousand, so you know, still a long ways to go before everybody is

out. And faith where what was the US answer to the criticism? I guess that other countries were able to do it, so why weren't we? So the US had told its citizens. So there were two things. So when they were saying the situation on the ground just wasn't safe enough to conduct

these evacuations. And then the US also pointed to the fact that the State Department had repeatedly told Americans not to travel to the Sudan and they had warned Americans that they wouldn't be able to get them out should things escalate, should the situation get to be too dire. So, uh, you know that that was also mean there had been a level for do not travel advisory in

place for Sudan for a while. Now. We should point out also so that the two warn military groups right now, it's the Studentese military versus a paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces. They had struck a truth, but that truth, you know, and then they extended it another seventy two hours. So there's been a ceasefire in place for a little over a week now. The problem is that it doesn't appear that the ceasefire is really being

respected. There have been reports of explosions and gunfire in the cap all of Khartoum, and so in a situation on the ground, it's still not safe. All right, thank you so much, and as I appreciate the update, thank you all right, see you later. That is ABC's Inez dela Kutera. And that's hard because on one hand, you think, okay, you should have abided by they do not travel to Sudan thing the issued,

the warning that was issued. However, if you live there, then what If you are a Sudanese and American citizen, then what and at what point is the US responsible for you or are you responsible for yourself if you choose to live there. I honestly I don't I don't know how to split those hairs because legally, I don't know how all of that works. But it, I mean, it is. It is a mess. Right. Let's look at some more stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.

President Biden is meeting with the President of the Philippines. The meeting between President Biden and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Junior at the White House showcasing US support for the strategically vital island, An administration officials saying the meeting will affirm that US security commitments to the Philippines remain ironclad amid provocative actions by China and Philippine

waters. ABC's Dave Packer says the two leaders will also talk about various commercial initiatives to bolster the US Philippines relationship and break failure has been blamed for a bus crash in Mexico that killed at least eighteen people. ABC's Connor Finnegan says the bus was in the western state of Nyard on Saturday when it fell off a cliff and ended up about fifty feet down a ravine. The bus was traveling on a highway connecting the state capitol to the popular tourist destination Port of

Way Arta. This same stretch of highway saw a deadly bus accident in December as well, when fifteen people were killed. Now more than thirty people were taken to the hospital in the crash on Saturday. Nearly a dozen kids were taken to the hospital. And I want to end with this story because I okay, so one thing that I noticed moving from northern California to southern California seven years ago now it's been was tinted windows. And I know that's a

really goofy thing. However, I just knew that in northern California, Man, they really seem to nail you if you have tinted windows. The reason I know this is because I might have fallen victim. To the fallen victim. Please, I knew what I was doing, But then I come to southern California, I'm like, hey, wait a minute, everybody's got tinted

windows, like dark tinted windows. So there was an article that came out in a newspaper in San Diego Fox five or TV station, I guess, called the Rules of the Road, and that was specifically our tinted windows legal in California. And I wanted to do it Friday, but I ran out of times, so we'll do it today. So what is legal and what is not? This station talked to California Highway Patrol Sergeant Brian Pennings. He says tinted windows have been a factor in a lot of crashes because drivers can't

see out their windows. So this is what is legal for your rear window. Drivers can tint their rear windows as long as their vehicle has two side mirrors, not including the rear view mirror. All right, So most cars all have the two right, all right front windows. Here's the one where I was like, wait a minute, you know you've passed one of those

cards where it's like blackout right. According to this front windows. When it comes to the front window, California law states drivers must have seventy percent transparency, meaning they can have thirty percent sent tint, which I'm sorry, but there's a whole load of boatload of people not abiding by that one. Front windshields. Drivers can tint their front windshields under certain circumstances. But apparently there

is actually a mathematical formula for this. So if you put the driver's seat all the way back right this, I don't know who does this, but put the driver's seat all the way back, measure four inches out from the back and the bottom, and then measure twenty nine inches up. It can't cross that horizontal plane. Well the hell is doing math on a tinted window?

And who was tinting their front window? Anyway? There are potential exceptions, like a doctor's note that does not allow drivers to permanently tint their front windows. However, you can have kind of a shape on it, so I don't know if you're gonna do it. Drive around with a doctor's note where your doctor says you can. Otherwise you're gonna have the officer in there with a tape measure twenty nine from the top and four when a mess.

Anyway, basically, it is illegal to tint super super dark like that, but based on the number of people I see doing it, it doesn't feel like anybody's abiding by the rules. This is KFI and KOSTHD to Los Angeles, Orange County. This has been your wake up call. You've been listening to your wake up call with me, Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday at kf I AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app