NEW Financial Aid Scams

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We're just happy you're here. Aren't you happy about it?

Will?

Yes, I'm so happy. I'm glad to thank you. Will.

Cole Shreiver's going to get you up to date with all the traffic. I'm hoping it's not going to be a bad traffic day.

We're already up to a bad start.

Really.

I was gonna say there was a there was a lot of traffic for me coming in, Yes, and that was at three thirty. I don't, okay, So a lot is like ten cars.

A lot of people are awake.

I wonder if it's because next week is fourth of July and people are just they're getting out and taking the whole week off or something.

I don't know.

Okay, here's something else. I want to know where the heck are Sunny and Gizmo. Oh my eagles. I thought I saw some movement in the nest this morning, but now the light is breaking on the nest high above Big Bear, like, I don't see a darn thing. So I know they're growing up and it's harder to catch

But they're just they're not the nest anymore.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to find a new obsession, seriously.

Disneyland maybe, Well that's an ongoing obsession along with Dodgers games. So I'll find something else, all right. Here's what's ahead on wake up Call. The Metro Board of Directors has advanced emotion instructing the agency staff to update policies regarding station closures during protests in downtown LA. The Little Tokyo train station was closed between June eighth and thirteenth, four about eight to twelve hours a day. Other downtown stations

Of the budget.

Police are investigating a break in at Brad Pitt's home in Los Felis.

Pitt isn't at home.

He's on the road promoting his latest movie, f One that debuts in theaters today. The home was broken into Wednesday night. Police say the burglars broke in through a front window, stole some stuff, and ransacked the place. Okay, so there are scams on the elderly, there are scams from the DMV, there's scams from the Sheriff's department. And now if you've got student loans, there are scams for

You see what I did, even though they flew at night.

ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us at five twenty to tell us about the plans that were fifteen years in the making with more and more people renting instead of buying. We're gonna do a little apartment therapy with the host of Home on KFI, Dean Sharp.

That's at the bottom of the hour, and then at.

Five point fifty you may want to race to movie theaters this weekend. ABC's Will Gans is going to tell us why let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The LA Department of Water and Power says the Santa Ynez Reservoir in the Pacific Palisades is finally back online. It was out of service and empty since early last year because its cover had a tear in it and it needed to be fixed. The reservoir was empty at the

It's just lame that we don't have access to the Guard right now to do that sort of work.

Four without and California National Guard members are supporting the ice rates. Three cities in La County that are predominantly Hispanic have canceled or postponed Fourth of July celebrations. Officials in Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, and Cutahee say it's because of the ongoing immigration raids. Bell Gardens Mayor orhel Chevez tells KTLA his city is encouraging people to stay at home to celebrate.

These federal agents, these bounty hunters, whatever they are, because they're not identifying themselves. They're coming out picking people up walking across the street and they're not even no questions asked. You're taking you in a car.

A report by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of La or CHURLA says Bell Gardens is one of the communities impacted the most by ice raids, and LA is ranked in the top ten best places in the US to celebrate the fourth of July. A study by luggage storage network bounce dot com analyzes cities that offer the best blend of atmosphere and affordability based on things like average hotel prices, parade schedules, historical weather. LA checks in

So you got another one for us.

Yeah, this one really goes both directions. It's two scams in one if you will, all of it involving colleges.

Yeah.

I told two friends, they told two friends, they told AI, and AI made an application for a student loan based on a ghost student. So yeah, these are real things. So much of the loan application process now and student assistance. You know, the financial aid is done online right that students don't walk in in person anymore and sit down in front of a registrar or a financial aid person then fill out applications. It's all done online. That has

Okay, so, like, how do you protect yourself from this one, because, like you said, it looks legit.

Yeah, well, these of course are targeting colleges and universities and they're financial aid offices. But you also have the other kind of scam number two here, and that is the scams that target student borrowers or their parents who are trying to get their kids educations paid for. So you have debt relief companies that promise there they can help out with student loan forgiveness, or companies that will help you with the loan application process. But remember FAFSA.

So those are maybe some buzzwords to look for. It look for, you know, when they want you to pay upfront, or when they're like saying, oh, don't wait, there's this you know sale only today or something like that.

Okay, right, And in this case it's student loans and you know you need to get in here and you need to apply for it right now, and you need to have us help you in order to get to that student loan or that loan forgiveness.

Which is it's sort of a double edged sword too, because some people who might not be that savvy with it would rather have somebody help them kind of help navigate the student loan process.

Yeah.

Absolutely, And it's a complicated process or it can be and especially if you're doing it totally online, you might think that, Okay, I can get some help from a person who really knows what they're doing. Well, that person may or may not be working in your best interest, may just be looking for that fee that they're asking that you pay.

Okay, So you just need to do your due diligence, don't trust anything, and crush your fingers and hope for the best.

That's it. That's it. And if you do get scammed, get in touch with your bank, get in touch with you know, the actual university, and try to make good.

Geez, they're just doing it everywhere. Okay.

ABC's Jim Ryan, thank you for alerting us to this latest scam because I know that it's probably student loan time too, because it's June and with people going to.

College in the fall, now's the time.

All right, Thank you so much. Have a good weekend. We had a weird little delay on that one, but we made it through.

Okay.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.

The Supreme Court's term is almost over.

They wrap up today and before that we're expecting to get decisions on the six cases still outstanding. They include age verification for online pornography, preventative care under Obamacare, opt out rights for kids, lgt LGBTQ books, and President Trump's birthright Citizenship executive order.

That's a big one.

ABC's Devin Dwyer s's justices have heard arguments on whether judges can block Trump's order to end birthright citizenship.

The decision today will likely focus almost perhaps entirely on that issue, and I should add that might even be more consequential than the issue of citizenship itself.

The fourteenth Constitutional Amendment grants the right to citizenship for every baby born in the US. Times winding down for Republican lawmakers who want to pass President Trump's so called One Big Beautiful Bill by the fourth of July. Michigan Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin says her party is trying to get Republicans to vote against the bill, which includes significant cuts to medicaid funding.

At the end of the day, the President is trying to browbeat people into voting for this thing and soon, and so it's going to be up to my Republican colleagues whether they have a spine on these issues or not.

The Senate parliamentarian has advised a medicaid provider tax overhaul central to Trump's bill does not meet procedural rules. The defense will give closing arguments today in the trial of music mogul Sean Combs. ABC's Aaron Katursky says Combs is pleaded not guilty to all sex trafficking and racketeering charges against him.

He was rather calm and occasionally he would write notes to his lawyers. If he heard something that he may not have liked, he gestured to his family, put his head and over his heart.

Prosecutors wrapped their closing arguments yesterday. An elderly woman in Florida says she's lucky to have survived a tornado that tore through her retirement community. Seventy six year old Deborah Metler says she was inside when the tornado hit her home.

I didn't realize I was actually up in the air.

Was too busy doing some resaults and.

Getting thrash from one side the room through the wall to the other side. Yike's video shows an EF one tornado moving through the city of Largo, north of Saint Petersburg, lifting a mobile home nearly completely off the ground and leaving it teetering on its side before it slammed back down to the ground. Former Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo says he's staying in the race to become New York City's next mayor. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says that's despite his unexpected loss in the primary.

Cuomo, who enjoyed support from big money donors, says he'll be on the November ballot as an independent.

The Democratic Party has been won by Indie Muslim candidate Zorhan Mom.

Donnie just a good old Board.

And No Hog, the actor who played Deputy Cleatus Hog on The Dukes of Hazzard, has died. His wife says he died unexpectedly yesterday in la He appeared in dozens of shows in the seventies, including Mash Happy Days in Kojak. In the eighties, his movie credits included The Karate Kid and Steel Magnolia's, but most will remember him as the deputy who was always getting into car chases with the

And this mission was not just hatched a few weeks.

Ago, and no, I mean this takes a lot of time to determine how you could target an underground nuclear facility.

And then the time came and they.

Went ahead and launched that attack.

And during that briefing, which I think we kind of thought we were going to get a little bit more confirmation of what the mission accomplished, did we get any more information about what it accomplished, So.

There was no new evidence or intelligence. Yesterday, presented by the Secretary of Defense feed HEGSEP or general pain that indicates around nuclear program in fact destroyed. Cain said that that determination is up to despite its agencies, and that the military doesn't grade its own homework. Secretary Hegseth notably continued to dismiss the early intelligence report from within the Pentagon that sources say indicates the attack only set back

Okay, and I heard I heard somebody it might have been the President say I don't think they got it out, but we don't have any indication of whether it actually was removed or where it might be.

At this time, the.

President on social media said nothing was taken out of the facility. He said it would have taken too long and it was too dangerous and very heavy and hard to move. But again, sources tell us that the preliminary intelligence assessment from this agency at the Pentagon indicates that they removed at least some of it before the strike.

Yeah, and then that begs the question because I think a lot of us now have seen the aerial photo of all those trucks lined up outside one of the nuclear facilities leading up to the attacks, and what were those trucks for?

So they didn't say exactly.

So many questions. ABC's Karen Travers, thank you for answering some of them.

I have a great day, all right you.

Two officials have released details about how a teenage soccer player from North Hollywood died earlier this year.

The body of thirteen year old Oscar Omar Hernandez was found in a ditch earlier this year in Ventura County. The Medical Examiner's office is now saying that he died from alcohol poisoning. A forty three year old soccer coach who had already been under investigation for two other alleged sexual assaults, has been charged with murdering the boy. Jason Campedonia KFI News.

A fifty nine year old man in Irvine's been charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls that he is related to. Richard Lamox is facing several felonies for assaulting the girls, who are fourteen or fifteen. The assaults apparently happened in January and June, Lamox did not enter a plea.

He's scheduled to be arraigned July twenty fourth.

California's recent hate crime report shows an increase of almost three percent from twenty twenty three to twenty four.

There were just over two thousand reported incidents last year. Despite the rise, the numbers remain lower than a peak in twenty twenty two. Most hate crimes are racially motivated, particularly against the Black community, which accounted for nearly a quarter of reported cases in the state in twenty twenty four. There were also rises in hate crimes targeting Jewish, Latino, and LGBTQ plus people, with a significant increase of over two hundred percent for Jewish and transgender people over the

Kenny Sheriff's homicide detectives say the shooting and killing of a man in the Florence Graham neighborhood of South la could have been part of a carjacking. Deputies from the department Century City Station were called out late last night to Compton Avenue and East ninetieth Street, where they found the man.

He died at the scene.

Faster EV chargers are coming to Costco membership only.

Big Bucks Warehouse store has installed supercharger stalls at six locations, including its store in Northport, Florida. The company electric Era, founded by former SpaceX engineers, is looking to help solve the electric vehicle charging infrastructure problem in America with its Level three charging stalls. Those can recharge a battery up to eighty percent and twenty minutes to an hour. That's just enough time to pop into the Costco, buy more stuff than you need, and return to your EV ride

Okay, so we were just talking to Karen Travers about how the US executed its attack on Iran nuclear facilities and including that one that was buried deep inside the mountain. The US dropped bunker busters down air shafts at the facility.

Oh that's very teams bondy.

No, but I do think it sounds familiar.

Oh, I knew I'd heard of that before.

So remember the rebellion shot its little laser bombs or photon bombs down a thermal exhaust port to destroy the Death Star.

Your ports will not be easy. You're required to maneuver straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small thermal exhaust port right below the main port. The shaft leads directly to the reactor system. A precise hit will start a chain reaction, which should destroy the station. Only a precise hit will set up a chain reaction. The shaft is ratiated, so you'll have to use proton torpedoes.

That's impossible for a.

Computer, that's not impossible.

Haste Bullseye womp rats in my T sixteen back home.

They're not much going to tim Rats.

They're nine your ships and may the Force be with you.

Another case of life imitating art.

Wow.

Bell Gardens has canceled its fourth of July firework show because of ongoing ice operations. The city made the announcement on Instagram, saying all scheduled events in the city have been called off through July tenth because of concerns over federal immigration enforcement. Ninety six percent of the thirty nine thousand people who live in Bell Gardens are Hispanic. Huntington Park and Katahey have also canceled their Fourth of July celebrations. A grand jury report issued today concludes or.

That has been issued.

I guess it was issued yesterday, concluded that Orange County officials should do more to combat hate crimes. It also questioned why the agency overseeing data collection was missing information from coast to Mesa Garden Grove, Orange and Westminster. The number of hate crimes reported in OC actually went down from one hundred twelve in two thousand and two to ninety five in twenty twenty three. A fire burning near the Tchikida Canyon landfill has charged about thirty seven acres.

Down walls exactly.

And a lot of people get discouraged because they think, well, you know, I'm renting this place. It's an apartment, it's a house, whatever the case may be. I just can't. I can't really make it home. And that's so not true. Home is where you live. You just have to take a difference strategy. Of course, you're not going to be knocking down well please don't not walk down knock on walls in your rental house. But that doesn't mean that you can't actually, you know, own the space for yourself.

And I've done some of these. You send a list of all these pictures and ideas and I'm like, oh, done that.

Oh wait, need to do that.

And then you also said, along with colors, like lighting can really help make your home feel more homey.

Oh, yeah, of course.

You know.

We live in the age now in the twenty first century, a very very high tech wireless lighting control, right, thing like smart lamps being able to control and to dim things. Let's say you live in an apartment. You're like, there are no dimmer switches in my apartment. That doesn't matter. You don't have to rewire the place. There are smart light dimmer controls that you can run down to the hardware store and buy, take with you whenever you move, plug them in into an outlet, hook them up to

I love that, okay.

And then one of the other things is like, I'm sitting in my apartment, which I love and I've decorated, but the walls are white. Is there anything you can do without painting the walls?

There are lots of things you can do without painting the walls. There is removable static cling wallpaper these days, which is fantastic. I mean static cling, not glue. It doesn't leave a residue when it's done. There are sections of wallpaper that you can put up. There are things like magnetic refrigerator panels, pulling up drapes, creating drapes for your windows. And you may think, wait, hey, I'm not

I love this, Okay, then one other one that I like this idea too, just to personalize it. You're not making any structural changes, but like just swapping out like light switch plates or cabinet knobs and poles, you can always put them back exactly.

Cabinet knobs are just screwed onto the front of the cabinet with a simple bolt from the backside of the drawer or the door the same with the light switch plates. You can customize them to have your own kind of going on and again and take it with you. It's a screwdriver. It's going to take you two minutes to change these things out. You put the old ones in a drawer. When you move out, you just swap them back out again.

I love this, And of course plants always help make a home feel more homey, so that's a good idea. And then I love this one, which I just did it not too long ago. It's update your betting. But I'm gonna have to do it again because my cat likes to need and she's destroying my expensive duvet cover.

But yeah, so many great ideas.

So just because it's not your house, it doesn't mean it can't be a home.

Absolutely, you are the thing that makes your place your home. And finding creative ways of getting you all around, whether it's your color, whether it's your picture frames, whether it's your stuff, that is what makes that place you.

You're so wise.

If you want to hear more wisdom from Dean Sharp, you can listen to them tomorrow morning from six to eight right here on KFI, or and or nine to noon on Sunday it's home on KFI with our house whisper Dean Sharp.

You can also follow him at home with Dean. Thank you, Dean.

Thanks Amy.

Time to get your business now with Bloomberg's Monica Rix, who's in for Courtney again today.

So, Monica, I'm.

So excited to hear about this because there's so many stores and Target's one of them, and I think my CBS is one of them, and Walmart they're they're locking up stuff because thefts are so high. But now Target's testing some new tech to unlock the store shelves hopefully make it a little faster.

Yes, Target testing out new technology now to lock and unlock those store shelves from a smartphone. So once they have that in place, it's going to help staff to unlock those plastic cases a lot quicker than manually opening them with keys.

The weight time maybe a.

Little bit shorter as well, just because they'll have more time to get from point A to point B in this tour. So the retailer obviously says it's an effort to curb theft, but it also says that it could improve your shopping experience because of that. Walmart tested a similar tool at some of its locations last year and are they still using it. I'm not quite sure if it really took off, but we just know that they

It's frustrating. I get it.

It's you know, it's it's the reality that we live in. When it's time for concerts and you want to see a show, there's a new king and Queen.

Oh yeah.

Kendrick Lamar and Sizza's Grand National Tour is now the highest grossing co headline tour in history. They officially beat Beyonce and jay Z, who'd held that title since twenty eighteen. Billboard saying the k dot and says A generated two hundred and fifty six point four million dollars, sold more than a million tickets at twenty three shows, including those shows at SOFI and State Farm Stadiums in La last month.

Okay, okay, And if you love horror, is this that Universal in Florida so attraction?

No, Well, let me explain Universal.

Hollywood obviously has Halloween Horror Nights that's going to start September fourth, and the one in Orlando is going to start a little bit earlier, but Universal just announced that it's set to open another year round immersive horror experience. It's called Horror Unleashed and it's going to open up in Chicago and this would be the second of its kind. The first one is going to open up in Las

Not for me, but I think a lot of people would enjoy it.

Yeah, why only be scared at Halloween. And one last thing, Zoomba Cruises are back.

Oh yeah, start stretching, get that hip mobility going because the Zoomba Cruise will set sail again next year after a seven year hiatus.

They took a little bit of a pause.

But Norwegian says that the five day fitness cruise is going to depart from Miami and head to Cozumel, Mexico in March. They're going to be able to accommodate about twenty three hundred guests. And if you're interested, it'll cost about twelve hundred bucks a person.

You pay a lot more money to work out instead of just sitting there and eating and drinking on the cruise like you're supposed to. Okay, that's in your business with Bloomberg's Monika Rix. Thanks Monica, appreciate it, Thank you all right, Good weekend. Today's the deadline for the City of La to turn over protest related documents to Congress. A Congressional committee has launched an investigation into how Governor Newsom and La Mayor Bass handled the anti Ice demonstrations.

Were an extraordinary success.

Connecticut Democrat Chris Murray or Murphy rather, says from what he's seen, the Iran nuclear program was damaged, but not obliterated, as the President claims. The Getty Villa, which has been closed since the fire in Pacific Palisades in January's reopening today with a new exhibit. The villa will be open on a limited schedule Monday from ten to five or through Monday from ten am to five pm. It's limited to limit the amount of traffic on PCH. We're just

Right now, say good morning to ABC's.

Multi platform reporter Will gans Bill. It's blockbuster time. You might want to raise the theaters.

Huh, that's right, and you'll see plenty of Brad Pitt on the big screen.

It's always a good day, right.

That's what I'm saying, Like, what else do you really need? And if you add in a score from Hans Zimmer, direction from the guy who did Top Gun Maverick, I mean it has all the trappings of a perfect summer movie, and audiences are definitely feeling that way leaving this movie. F one. It is about, you know, of course, Formula one racers and Brad Pitt plays sort of washed up, you know, could have been amazing driver who joins a team that needs a little help. And is it a

It sounds to me like Top Gun Maverick in a car.

Yeah. I think that's pretty much exactly correct. You know, it's like it's same, sounds similarly like you you know, I'm not a fighter pilot, but I was in the cockpit with Tom Cruise for you know, Top Gun Maverick. So yeah, you know, like it's like that's how it feels. It feels like, you know, suddenly you're there with them, and it's it's an action packed adventure.

Okay.

Sounds like fun, and it's getting good reviews. I Rotten Tomatoes is all over it.

Yes, yes, I mean the audience scores like ninety seven percent, which is crazy. Critics scores a little bit lower than that, but you know that's okay.

It's a summer blockbuster, so if critics hated, I probably love it anyway.

It's usually how it goes right yep.

Okay, So if you're not going to movie theaters and you want to do the couch thing like, which I am known for doing.

Uh, I didn't even know there was a new season for squid Game.

Yeah, and it's the last one. So you know, squid Game was initially supposed to be a movie. Then they released it as a series of television, and then it shattered like every record in the world on Netflix. Yeah, so they were like, Okay, guess we'll do it season two and a season three. So this is the final season and it is, you know, in line with the first two. It is. If you're squeamish or don't like to feel stressed out, this is not the show for you.

Okay, So it's not half the season like Netflix sometimes does, it's the whole season.

Correct, correct. Yeah, come December, November and December. They've split Stranger Things final season. There's like three different drops for that. But no, this is all of it at once.

Okay, I know.

What I'm doing this weekend, and then I'm very excited about this too, because I love the show.

Christine Baranski Cynthia Nixon.

Are back oh my gosh, yes, to name a few, Carrie Koon, Audra McDonald. The list goes on. The Gilded Age is back on HBO Max. And this is like I included it today, particularly because of how opposite it is from Squid Game. Like the Gilded Age is beautiful, and the costumes and the acting and the pacing is

Oh so we have to wait for Sunday for that one, Okay, So I can binge Squid Game, get done with that, and then by Sunday I'll be ready for the Gilded Age.

Yeah, And you have to sneak in a trip to go see Brad Pitt somewhere in between there on the big screen.

All Right, great, ABC's Willgans, thanks so much for the info.

All Right, Amy, have a great weekend.

All right, you too.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The massive budget bill that is crucial for President Trump's agenda is being worked on in the Senate. Trump is asking Congress to pass it by July fourth, but hebces. Nicole d Antonio says proposed changes to Medicaid and other things are causing some trouble. The Medicaid reforms include new work requirements, a crackdown on fraud, and closing a loophole that states used

In California, we are not going to be saved by Trump's energy policies because we are on an energy island. We do not have a pipeline that connects to the rest of the country, and that's been the case for decades.

DeMaio also says a pending pipeline shutdown could result with the cost of regular gas hitting above ten dollars a gallon and could even lead to gas rationing. Governor Newsom says Demio's just wrong. A burbank man has hit it big with a one million dollar win from a triple red Triple seven scratchers ticket. It was bought at Chuck's Corner Market. Meantime up in snow McKenny, a woman scored a thirty million dollars Superlatto plus jackpot. She chose the Lump Sun fourteen million before taxes.

I'd ticket. The guy behind an iconic theme song has died.

Lalo Schiffrin, who wrote the theme for Mission Impossible and more than one hundred other arrangements for film and TV, has passed away. The Argentinian won four Grammys. He was nominated for six Oscars, including five four Original Score for Cool Hand Luke. Lalo Schiffrin was ninety three. Tonight, the