You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy King. It's five o'clock. I'm gonna turn on the coffee pot, get your day going. This is your wake up call for Monday, April twenty ninth. Oh, this would be my Danny's birthday. That happy birthday, and heaven to Nick. It is as I said. It's Monday, April twenty ninth.
We are live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us. Gotta tell you I went out to one thousand Oaks over the weekend and was driving down the one oh one and got my first look at the Annis Wallenberg Wildlife Crossing. It's pretty impressive. Looks like they've got like half of it up already. You know they're doing the
overnight road closures. I think that roadway should be reopening right now. I'm not sure if it's open on or closed on Sunday nights, but it's pretty cool. Looks like it's halfway down it's not gonna be finished finished for a while, but once it is, big mountain lions have a place to cross. Also, this happened yesterday morning, so it was a beautiful morning. I went out out of my little tiny balcony and I'm having my coffee and
I was like, what's that noise? They were these bees like buzzing around under the cover of the balcony, a bunch of them. And I always, you know, you get one or two bees that kind of buzz by, but this was like a a definite group, like a little gang of bees. And I was like, oh God, are they looking for a new place to like bring the queen and start a hive or something like that. So I just went out. I said, I'm not going to be scared of you guys, sat down, They buzzed around, left me alone.
I left them alone, and then they eventually left. I was just thinking the whole time because I don't know if you know this, but Moe Kelly is deathly afraid of bees. Can't stand him. So it was like, oh, I got a call, but I was seriously worried, like what do they were they scouting for a new location? I guess I'll find out when I go home today, but they didn't stick around much anyway. Here's what's a head on wake up call this Monday morning. Protesters on both
sides have shouted and shoved each other during dueling demonstrations at UCLA. About two hundred and seventy five people were arrested on Saturday at campuses around the US, including at Indiana University Bloomington, Arizona State University, and Washington University in Saint Louis Man. They have a cool campus. I've been there before. The number of arrest nationwide is approaching nine hundred. A baby is among at least
five people killed by tornadoes in the Midwest. Yesterday was the third day of severe weather across the Heartland that saw millions under threat of violent storms. The number of babies born in the US is at its lowest level in decades. Birth rates in twenty twenty three were down two percent from the year before, and the CDC says the three point six million babies born last year is the
lowest number we've seen since nineteen seventy nine. We're going to be talking with ABC's Jim Ryan about this a little bit more coming up in about fifteen minutes or so at six oh five, it's handle on the news. Here's a protest I can get behind, A rally against La County DA George Gascon I was going to tell you about that. Let's get started with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. Fights have broken out at UCLA during dueling protests between pro Palestinian and pro Israeli groups on campus. The Israeli American Council and other Jewish groups sponsored a rally yesterday to show support for Jewish students. Others held a demonstration to support the pro Palestinian students
right to protest. The vice Chancellor of you U UCLA Strategic Communications says their heart broke into report that some fights broke out between demonstrators on Royce squad. She says the universities put in additional security measures and increased the number of safety team members on site. Hundreds have been arrested over the weekend during protests by
pro Palestinian demonstrators. ABC's Jerine Shaw says about two hundred and seventy five were arrested Saturday at schools including Indiana University Bloomington, Arizona State and Washington University Saint Louis demonstrators demanding their university divest from companies base a profit from the Israel Hamas War and called for a ceasefire, while counter protesters demand one hundred plus hostages be released by Hamas. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was among those arrested.
In Missouri. Nearly nine hundred arrests have been made on college campuses since April eighteenth. Cornell University has suspended several students and referred some employees to human resources, saying they are deeply distressed by chance made at some of the rallies. A person has died in house fire in South LA. The man was found inside a century old home in the Florence area that burned last night. LA Fire says firefighters kept the flames to one room in the house. The
agency also says there were no working smoke detectors in the home. Challengers challenged and beat the competition at the box office. Zendaa's movie about a love triangle and the Tennis World took in about fifteen million dollars in its opening weekend. The faith based unsung Hero about a Christian rock band was second. Godzilla X Kong the New Empire is still destroying it at the box office. It came in in third place. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers.
It was a big night in DC over the weekend the Washington Corresponden's Dinner, Yes, the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner this weekend. The President, first Lady, the Vice President, and second gentlemen were our guest at this dinner. And you know, it's a one night a year where everybody can kind of put aside some political differences in the room. It's a bipartisan group out there in the audience and get together for some jokes. But also it's
a scholarship night. It's a big night to raise money for dozens of scholarships that the WHCA gives out to college students. And we also give out awards to members of our community, members of our White House Press Corps for the work that they do all throughout the year, and some lifetime achievement awards as
well. So you know, a lot of focus, of course on the Hollywood glam that shows up or athletes and all of that, but there's so much more that goes into it, and it's a very important night for our association to raise money for those big things. Well, unlike when Trump was president Biden. Biden attended and took the stage and it did get political. Yeah, it did. You know, he has attended every year he does a comedy bid, but this year it was pretty short remarks from the president.
He kept it much shorter than he has in previous years, and about half of it was spent on more serious things. He did get some zingers in about who he's running against. He said, you know that the election is in full swing and age is an issue. The President said, I'm a grown man running against a six year old in the crowd really liked that
one. But he also got very serious at the end, talking about the stakes right now in this country and what is happening, you know, around the world with journalists being in prison for the work that they're doing, and how the industry. You know, it's an important time. He also called on the press to move past what he called sensationalism and said that you know, he's not asking people to take sides, but to rise up for the
seriousness of this moment. Move past horse race poll numbers, gotcha moments and distractions and side shows that he says have sometimes dominated political coverage, and he said, focus on what's actually at stake right now. Well, he's not wrong about the gotchas and that kind of stuff. See a lot of that overall. Was he pretty well received? I mean that I think it's been basically a friendly room for him. Yeah, you know, he was well
received. Like some of the jokes maybe don't land, but you know, he's not a comedian. But it was funny. They work a lot on these for the president, every president before him. You know, it's not just his team working on it. You bring in some comedy writers that can help you with it. And then he was followed by Colin Jost of a
Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. Oh yeah, he's very funny and normally you see him with Michael Chay, his counterpart at the Weekend Update GUESK, but this was just a solo routine for him, so a little bit different of a scene. I personally like him. I think he's very funny on SNL and was funny on Saturday Night. But you know, he got in quite a bunch of lines going after the President for his age, for you know, trying to run up the stairs of Air Force one and how he shouldn't
be doing that anymore. And of course the former president as well was a frequent target of Colin Jost, but he also turned serious towards the end, and you know, talked about the you know, journalism, talked about his own family story and his grandfather who had recently passed away, who he said was a Staten Island firefighter for many decades, a pillar of his community, and you know, from a very conservative community that supported Donald Trump in the
twenty twenty election. And he told the president that his grandfather voted for him Joe Biden, because of decency. And so he kind of made a plea for decency in these very difficult times, you know, not really just took reporters, but to the politicians in the room, to the elected officials and the people who worked for them in the room. So it was a nice message to kind of close it out. Decency. What a concept. Huh. Yeah, All right, Well the fun is over for you, Karen.
It's back to us, yes, back to work, back to making sure the vending machines are stocked for the reporters today, because that's also the important work that we do from the WHCA. Karen Travers, thanks so much. We'll talk again soon. Thank you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A small plane has crashed into a neighborhood in Alcoholane. Jim Alen says it
happened around six last night, a few miles away from Gillespie Fields. I saw the plane coming in, sputtering, coming up down Lily hit the power lines up here, and I was in the backyard, so I didn't see where he but he hit this poll up the street and flipped over the house and landed on lily Aalen says he was surprised the plane didn't hit morequite a shock. I didn't think. I didn't think he was going to make it. It's coming down so low. I thought he was going to hit this
two story house across the street. Here. Flight Aware shows the plane taking off from the Gillespie Airfield and apparently turning back then it went down. Fourteen hundred people lost power when the plane hit that power line, but power has been restored. The pilot was taken to the hospital. Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafa have killed at least twenty two
people, including women and children. Israel has carried out air strikes on Rafa since the start of the war and is getting ready to send in ground troops. Israel says Rafa is the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza. More than a million Palestinians have sought refuge in the city, which is on the border with Egypt. The US and others have urged Israel not to invade. Talks continue for a pause in fighting in Gaza. ABC's Christiana Cordero says negotiators are
meeting today in Cairo to discuss a potential ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The Wall Street Journal reports, the potential deal includes around twenty hostages being released in return for Israel releasing an estimated five hundred Palestinian prisoners and allowing three hundred thousand people to return to northern Gaza. Israel's foreign minister has said Israel would delay
its offensive and Rafa in exchange for a hostage deal. We're going to be getting more information on that possible deal with ABC's tom Rivers coming up at the bottom of the hour. The mayors of La Long Beach and Santa Monica are in Washington, d C. To ask for help to address homelessness. Mayor Bass is leading the group of forty eight mayors meeting today. The three Cabinet secretaries and White House Chief of Staff Jeff zat Zeitz will also be attending.
The delegation is going to lobby to expand veteran eligibility for housing vouchers, lift the cap on project based vouchers, and let cities build more affordable housing, and also urge federal leaders to increase funding for housing choice vouchers. Sounds like they got a lot going there. Oh, I would have loved to have seen that. Jelly Roll and hip hop legend t Paine took the stage at Stagecoach over the weekend to pay tribute to the late Toby Keith. They sang
Keith's first hit song should Have Been a Cowboy. Jelly Roll also released the duet on Amazon Music. The proceeds are going to benefit the Toby Keith Foundation. Toby Keith died in February. Fights had broken out at UCLA between Pro Palestinian and pro Israel supporters after a barrier was breached. The barrier was supposed
to separate the groups of demonstrators. A vice chancellor at UCLA says the university has instituted additional security measures and increase the number of safety team members on site. President Biden has spoken with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyaho as pressure builds for a deal on a ceasefire and hostage release. The White House says Biden reiterated his clear position that is against Israel going into Rafa to go after what Israel
considers the last Hamas stronghold. We're going to be talking more about this from ABC's Tom Rivers at the bottom of the hour. Check out the brains on these kids. El Camino Real Charter High School has won its tenth Academic Decathlon championship. The national competition happened over the weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school in Woodland Hills also won the national title last year. Not so shabby. Former President Trump is still leading President Biden in several polls at six oh
five handle. It's going to have a few things to say about that. But right now, let's see what ABC's Jim Ryan has to say, because we're not making babies, Jim, No, we're not. Marvin Gade choice of songs was good. Let's get it on because it was really good at that. About an hour ago, different station used Paul Ankaz having my baby. Oh my god, I heard that for years. Yeah, there's a reason you haven't heard it for years on the radio. It's awful. It
was really terrible. But yeah, so we're not we're not having as many kids as we used to. The American population continues to grow, but the rate at which our babies are being born has fallen behind three point six million babies born in twenty twenty three. That sounds like a lot, well, it does well, but consider but the three point one six million people died.
Yeah, there were people coming into the country. Immigration helps to bolster some of the numbers, but overall, our fertility rate has been declining for decades. In fact, it's that it's the lowest point ever. There was a minor little, if not an optic, then at least a slowing of the decline just after the pandemic, when people were saying, you know what, yea, I can work from home, we can let's have a kid.
Let's have our babies now, because if we're working from home, it's easier, we don't have pay for childcare, etc. Oh come on, Jim, it was because people couldn't leave their houses. They had nothing better to do, and they got it on, I guess, is what you're saying. But you know, once the pandemic was over and people were being called back into the office, reality sets in and while economists and demographers look decades down the road, couples and families are looking at the short term and
they see sky high interest rates, they can't afford a house. In a lot of cases, they see the sky high cost of childcare, I mean, and they say, let's just put this off for a while, And they put it off and put it off, and finally at some point they're
too old to have kids at all, and that's it. So yeah, the Elon Musk has issued sort of a dystopian view of what the country's going to look like if it's fertility rate, and for every Western country, he says they're going to fall into decline and be just heaps of ruin before it's over. You how many kids Elon Musk has. He's got like a dozen doesn't He got eleven eleven kids from three women. Yeah, so I guess
he's practicing what he preaches. But at the same time, wow, eleven kids that we know about anyway, So he's one of the he's one person who's promoting a turnaround in the declining fertility rate that people get a tax break for having kids. But you know, I don't know what else is out or what other you know. The good side of this is that with fewer people, you've got fewer resources being used up at such a rapid rate. At the same time, you don't have new people coming into the workforce to
help, for one thing, support the old people. Well I get that, but I mean we're up at like eight billion people on the planet now. At some point, don't we got to slow down? Well yeah, and this isn't just a US problem. Every country is seeing the same sort of thing. The United Nations says that around the world, the western countries
are every country almost is having the same situation. That ninety seven percent of the countries by the year twenty one hundred won't be able to sustain their population growth. So it's across the board. So eight billion around the world right now, something like that in twenty eighty. Right, it's what sixty something years from now fifty five, twenty eighty, we're going to sit at ten point one billion people and it's going to hold that number all the way up
through the year twenty one hundred. So yeah, the rate of birth just isn't growing. Well, it still sounds like it's growing. Like again, we're at eight billion out they're expecting ten billion, and we've got housing shortages. Now, how are we gonna how are we going to feed those people? I just don't I think that we need to readjust and like go, you know what, a shrinking population isn't necessarily a bad thing? Well, you're right, I mean, it's definitely a good news bad news sort of
scenario. And so, yeah, fewer people throwing plastic bottles into the landfill, that'd be nice. You're at the same time, you've got people fewer people working, generating income, you know, helping the economy to run, to keep the country alive. So yeah, it's there's a lot to be said. I think on both sides of this. It's a big debate, but the raw number does show that the US fertility rate has declined dramatically, and then you mentioned that it's it's not just us, that it's kind of
all over the place. I remember not too long ago hearing something about China saying, hey, you guys have more than one right there. One baby policy has worked for a long time. Kind of backfired now because it's not as though you can sit there and say, well, US is going to fall in competitiveness to China because China is still growing. Well it's not. It's it's growing, you know, at a very slow pace, just like
the US is interesting problem, Yeah it is. Yeah, Okay. Well, hey, by the way, I started playing Connection to the other day. Yeah, you recommended it. Yeah, what do you think of the game? I think I might be addicted. Yeah, it's a good thing. You can only do it once a day. That's how I feel about Wordle and Cordal too, because otherwise I just sit there for hours and play
them. Yeahs Jim and I were talking about last week. It'says they give you sixteen words and you have to group them in groups of four and figure out what ties each four words together, And if you're just starting, it can be darn tricky. Yeah. I'm looking at to day's puzzle right now, I see no connections among these words, but just hit shuffle a few times and it starts to jump out at tricks of the trade. You do the spelling B two Nah, that one bores me. I got it.
I had good luck with that the other day. Maybe I'll including well anyway, forget it, including what well? If there are seven letters, right, you have to include the one center letter in all of the words you form, and according to the rules, one word that you can come up with will include all of the letters. I got it. I got that one figured out. I tell check out the brain on you. Yeah, hey, I love it. Jim Ryan, Thank you so much, Jimmy,
talk to you soon. People in Oklahoma are cleaning up after a series of storm that spawned tornadoes over the weekend. At least four deaths are blamed on the storms, including an infant. The state reported about one hundred injuries. This man in the town of Holdenville says, the winds are really strong. My brother lives down there, and another mile or trying to get to him, I think it blow. Dish tractor shared away and the house is
found from there. The small town of Sulfur saw a tornado that crumpled many downtown buildings and sheared the roofs off houses in a fifteen block radius the White Houses. President Biden spoke to Oklahoma's governor yesterday and offered the full support of the federal government. A man and a woman from Glendale had been found dead
inside a car near Lake Matthews in Riverside County. Glendale police alerted the Riverside County Sheriff's Department yesterday morning that two people had threatened to kill themselves and were possibly in the area of Cahalco Road and Lo Sierra Avenue. Deputies found the car with the two bodies inside. Secretary of State Antony blink And is back in the Middle East to talk with leaders about the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza. He's stopping in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel this week.
Blanket is expected to repeat the Biden administration's opposition to as an Israeli offensive in Rafa, It's push for expanded aid for citizens or civilians, and the creation of a Palestinian state. A lawmaker in Orange County says he wants schools in California to serve halal and Kosher meals. Democratic State Senator Josh Newman says he wrote legislation because every student, no matter religion or culture, deserves to feel
supported and included at school. The Halal and Kosher School Meals Act would require schools to provide these meals if more than five percent of their students request it. Newman says kids shouldn't have to choose between hunger and adhering to their religious beliefs. Should it pass, the bill would take effect in the twenty twenty five twenty six school year. If less than five percent request the meals, the school could still provide those options, but would not be mandated to do
so. Steve Gregory, King of Fins the White House's protests on university campuses against the Israel Hamas war must be peaceful. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby condemned anti Semitic language and threats of violence seen at some of the demonstrations. Protesters on both sides shouted and shoved each other during dueling demonstrations at UCLA over
the weekend. We're going to get more on this from ABC's Stephen Portnoy in about fifteen minutes or So, a fifty eight year old man from Burbank, is expected to be arraigned today in federal court on charges of not paying nearly five point eight million dollars in federal taxes over several years by using a show company to illegally collect Medicare reimbursement payments made to his blood testing company. Arman
mariad Dian is charged with tax evasion. La Mayor Bass is leading a delegation of mayors and will meet Monday with three Cabinet secretaries and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Science to ask for more assistance from the federal government to reduce homelessness. The group includes the mayors of Long Beach and Santa Monica. At six oh five, it's handle on the news, william Sonoma is in a lot of trouble for advertising made in the USA products that were made somewhere else.
Let's say good morning to ABC's Tom Rivers. Tom as the war rages on Israeli government officials that are taking their case to the court of public opinion to social media very much so. Yes, and it is a complex picture we're looking at Politically, You've got a couple members on the right wing that say, if a deal which is being talked about yet again in Cairo, if it were to be signed, sealed and delivered, they may walk. That
could mean a collapse of the Netanyahu government. That could create all kinds of problems. Although his opinion poll ratings are very very low. Indeed, having said that, on the other side of the coin, you got people shouting and yelling and protesting, saying you have had six months to get the hostages out. Why haven't you done that? You are inept. So that's under the domestic political football going on in Israel right now. In Cairo, who's
talks yet again about a deal. The Wall Street Journal says the deal might be along the lines of getting twenty of the suspected about one hundred hostages out this time exchange for five hundred Palestinian prisoners and about three hundred thousand people allowed to go to North Gaza to return to their homes or rubble piles where their homes once were. So we keep watching these one very very closely, indeed, And also the seventh trip right now for Anthony Blincoln not much success the
previous six. We'll see if this one is the magic one, Okay, And going back to the ceasefire deal that includes twenty hostages or twenty Israeli hostages for five hundred Palestinians. It's that one is in Hamasa's hands now. Basically, the deal's been presented and we're waiting to hear back exactly. So we again, we wait and see if that is a good enough deal for Hamas.
And kind of the icing on the cake. This is from the Foreign Minister of Israel, he says, if this in fact can be delivered, he says, the offensive in Rapa in southern Gaza would be delayed, we don't know for how long, but that would be at least a step in the right direction. And the delays would be a step in the right direction just because they're trying to get a million people out of the area. Well
that's what they would like to do. They bombed three homes last night, Israel did they killed twenty two people, including six women and five children. And is there been any response from Israel like why because they're saying that they're targeting places where Hamas is is there any indication that there was Hamas there. Well, if those five kids are not Hamas, correct, you know, I have a little bit of common sense. You can see that for yourself.
And there are also some videos came out a couple of days ago of a couple of the hostages. What was it exactly, Yeah, a couple of dual citizen Americans and one Israeli national. Again, you have to look at that in the light of Hamas is saying, look, we can release people that the deal is right and as I say, the devil's in the detail, and we're going to be watching this one in Cairo very very closely. This week's fingers crossed. A deal can be struck. But of course
we've been down this road before and many many false starts ending nowhere. Yeah, and do we know, Tom, if the videos that they released are current? Is there any way to know or if they were made months ago? That's a great question. You know, it's above my pay grade. But yeah, the people in the note would be looking at that very very closely and trying to determine, yes, is it current or was it you know, you know, pictures taken a long time ago and things have changed
since then. Yeah, and then as we were talking about, it's kind of in Hamas's hands right now on the deal. Is there any kind of a timeline on when they might have a response. You know, we I think people are hopeful that you know, with again Blinkol is back in the in the in the region Jordan and Israel, after Saudi Arabia. We have a French diplomatic team in Lebanon as we speak, too, trying to pour
oil on the waters there between Hezbollah and Israel, Northern Israel. So there are a lot of moving parts and pieces and you know, if it all came together, it might provide a six week you know, breather to say, can we find a better solution so no one else dies? But again we're not there yet. Okay, well, we'll continue to watch. And Tom Rivers thank you for bringing the information to us as take care. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestinian protests at colleges across the US have led to hundreds more protests over the weekend. About two hundred and seventy five people were arrested on campus's Saturday, including at Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State, and Washington University in Saint Louis. Nearly nine hundred protesters have been arrested since April eighteenth. La Mar bass Is the decision to cancel USC's main graduation
ceremony was due to safety concerns. The ceremony was canceled last week as pro Palestinian protests continue on campus. They were expecting about sixty five thousand people on campus, and they just did not feel that it was going to be safe. And the job of the president, just like my job as mayor, my number one job, is to make sure that Angelinos are safe. Best told CNN's State of the Union, free speech has to be protected, but
some protests went beyond what is acceptable. She didn't say whether she agreed with USC's decision to cancel graduation. The White House is weighed in on the protests spreading across college campuses kind of ABC Stephen Portnoy has the latest on that coming up in about ten minutes. US intelligence officials have found Russian President Putin likely
did not order the death of impresident of imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalney. One official says they found no smoking gun that Putin was aware of the timing of Navalney's death. In February or directly ordered it, but the official says it's believed Putin was ultimately responsible for Navalney's death. The US Department of Education has
found the Redlands School District repeatedly failed to protect students from sexual abuse. But twenty page letter to the district from the department's Office of Civil Rights listed multiple Title nine violations, including failing to maintain records responding to sexual harassment as required by federal law, failing to provide any evidence that the district took any action in twenty six of the thirty five reported incidents between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty.
Lawyers for thirty seven former students said Friday Redlands enabled and ignored sexual assaults by at least twenty five predators over the last twenty years. The district agreed without admitting guilt, to a list of reforms. Corbin Carson KFI News, He's a guy made a girl is dass orderbody didn't make no place to go. Asy pray Sure so man made the ball with stage coach now behind him.
Country star Morgan Wallen is headed to court this week in Nashville. He's facing three felony counts for allegedly throwing a chair from a rooftop bar, narrowly missing some police officers standing on the street below. He's facing reckless endangerment and
disorderly conduct charges. Wallen was last seen or was last night's headliner at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio. You know, movie theaters are trying to kind of reinvent themselves a little bit as fewer people are going to movies and more people are staying at home and streaming. And you know that it was a big commercial success obvious. Obviously when you put Taylor Swift in a movie theater, she made I don't know a grazillion dollars on that, and then
Beyonce tried it. Well, here's the latest move by movie theaters to entice
people to come on in this summer is the Olympics in Paris. And there are like one hundred and sixty AMC theaters across the US that will be showing the Olympics, so on weekdays over actually maybe it's probably weekends too, but over the two week period of the Olympics, they're going to say, hey, come on down watch the Olympics with a bunch of people on the big screen, and I was thinking all that that'd be kind of a fun way to do it, because you know, normally you sit at home and just
kind of turn it on and watch the track or watch gymnastics or something like that, but it might be kind of interesting to go and watch it with a crowd. So the showings are going to start on July twenty seventh, which is a day after opening ceremony, and then we'll conclude on August eleven. Might have to go check that out at least once, unless it's you know, fifty bucks or something like that. But some to look out for. The Dodgers play the Diamondbacks in Arizona tonight. First pitch goes out at
six point forty. You can listen to every play of every Dodgers game on AM five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for all of La Oh. The Dodgers have been out on the road for a long time, but guess what they're coming back. They'll be back at Dodgers Stadium this
weekend. Fights have broken out at UCLA between pro Palestinian and pro Israel supporters after a barrier was breached that was supposed to keep the two groups separators separated. Vice Chancellor at UCLA says the university has instituted additional security measures and has increased the number of safety team members on site. President Biden has spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure build for a deal on a ceasefire and
hostage release. The White House says Biden reiterated his clear position that is against Israel going into Rafa to go after what Israel considers an Hamas's stronghold. Governor Newsom says there's one out of five EV charging stations are now fast charging stations in California. On x the governor said the states working to improve the charging network in the state. There are one hundred five thousand public EV chargers around
California. Newsom also says twenty five percent of all new cars purchased in the state are now EV's. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, President Biden, as I mentioned, had a little chat with Israel's Benjamin nettan Yaho. Talk about that. But right now, let's say good Morning to ABC's Stephen Portnoy. As the protests continue at college campuses around the US, the White House is officially weighed in on it. Yes, I
mean to the extent that he Look. John Kirby was on This Week yesterday with George Stephanopoulos, and in the course of the interview, one of the questions was about the White House's reaction to the protests, and John Kirby said, quote, We'll leave it to local authorities to determine how these protests were managed, but we want them to be peaceful protests. Obviously, he said,
we don't want to see anybody hurt. Kirby said that the White House absolutely condemns the anti Semitism language that it's heard of late, and certainly condemns hate speech and threats of violence out there. Beyond just saying that position, is there anything else the White House could do? Not really? Well?
Look, one of the questions is whether Title six of the Civil Rights Act should be enforced to withhold funding from these educational institutions if the Education Department determines that the presence of these protests on campus amounts to discrimination against Jewish students.
And that is the question that Republicans that they want answered. So when you see Speaker Johnson going to Columbia University as he did last week, and you see the House of Representatives voting this week, as we expect they will, on a bill that affirms up a definition of anti semitism in this regard, you get a sense of what it is Republicans want. They want to see federal tax dollars withheld from some of these schools where these protests have been ongoing.
Now, the protesters themselves say that the pressure from Republicans is meant to curb their right to speak. Let's see how it all plays out. Okay, and some of the pro Palestinian protesters have denounced anti semitism, But there is a lot of hate speech going on. If it's not coming from the students, who is it coming from or is it coming from the students too, well, if some of them are, you know, look in some
cases, most of the people who've been arrested or not. I think in one case, I think it was in Saint Louis, most of the people who arrested were not students. They just happen to be agitators, organizers' activists in the area. Who converged on a particular campus. I don't know what the situation is everywhere, but I think generally speaking, you are seeing examples of people saying that Jews should Inpe, in Israel, should or even here
should go back to Europe, whatever that means. And you also see signs I've seen signs where at pro Israel demonstrations held by pro Hamas or pro Palestinian
supporters saying that Hamas should target them next. These are obviously calls to violence, calls for the undoing of the decision of the international community in the aftermath of the Second World War to create a Jewish state, And that's why the House is set to pass this bill that would include in its definition of anti Semitism the notion that Israel is engaged in its own of racist governmental structure. The fact is that there are Arabs that are included in the Israeli government,
and Arabs who Israelis have the right to vote. There is the allegation that Israel is engaged in an occupation and in an apartheid, and it has to do with how the Israel interacts with the Palestinian territories in the West Bank. Most acutely and for the last several months the war on Gaza. I think that, or should say war on Hamas that has been in Gaza. Look, the Secretary of State right now is in Riad. He's meeting with Arab
leaders and with Saudi leaders. His aim is to try to get the Arab community to get behind a ceasefire agreement that Hamas and Israeli negotiators are now set to talk about in Cairo. The hope is that the sides can reach a deal in a six week cease fire that prevents or staves off an Israeli invasion of Rafa. The Israelis have their own internal political dynamic at play, where there are some elements in these rarely population who believe that hostages should be the
first priority and seeing to it that they're safely returned. There's the far right element in Israeli politics who believes that Netnahu should continue the fight and do what he pledged to do, which is eradicate Hamas and take out the remaining battalions that are now sheltering in Rafa. So you've got that internal dynamic. You've got the protests here in the United States that put political pressure on the president. He's acutely aware of the political weakness that he suffers on the left and
among young people across the board. Well, like everything else, whether it's you know, protests or fighting, it's just when when it when it involves Israel, it's just so complicated. Well, I think that is a function of the it is it is, of course it is, and it is it is is an element of the history of the world, the history of the region, the history of American Israeli relations, and these dynamics are shifting, and as everything, it's political, and it's political in Israel, it's
political in the United States. It's political in the Arab capitals. And there was a story I read this morning in one of the newspapers, it may have been the New York Times, about how possibly the Washington Post, about how there is pressure now in Arab capitals which have repressive regimes that have aligned themselves with Israel over the years for their own internal purposes, now trying to deal with unrest from their own populations. And so it is political everywhere.
Wow. All right, Stephen Portnoy, thanks so much for the information you've bet All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Five people have been killed in a two car crash on Pair Blossom Highway in Little Rock that's in the Annilo Valley. People were reported trapped in both cars last night. Both drivers were killed along with three other people from one of the cars. AM has collapsed in Kenya,
killing at least forty people. The waters swept through houses this morning and cut off a major road. Ongoing rains in Kenya since mid March have caused flooding that's killed nearly one hundred people and caused the opening of schools to be postponed. More rain is expected. La County is considering naming a day after Jane Fonda. April thirtieth would be declared Jane Fonda Day in La County this year and every year if the Board of Supervisors approves it at its meeting tomorrow.
Supervisor Lindsay Horbath says the Oscar winning actress and activists should be celebrated for her contributions to the entertainment industry and to peace, environmental and social justice work. Horbath says the honor should encourage communities across La County to celebrate Fonda's work by engaging in their own advocacy on behalf of social justice and the environment. The resolution says Fonda's activism can be traced to Santa Monica, where she became
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