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Okay, can you believe it? Baseball season's almost here? So exciting Opening day Dodger Stadium, twenty seventh. I'll be there. This is your wake up call for Friday, March fourteenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. So wow, what a difference a day makes on the roads. Yesterday it was like crazy, wet with and I was hydroplaning and driving like a ninety year old to make sure that I didn't spin
out like everybody else. And today, just an eighty year old, just an eighty year old booth sailing in might have sped a little bit. So a better day. Hopefully, Will's going to keep you updated on what's going on the roads. I missed the eclipse. Did you guys stay up and say see the eclipse. I got out of the house this morning on my way in and went, oh, the eclipse. And I looked up and there was the moon and it looked totally normal. Yeah, here's what's ahead on wake
up call. Swatted again students and staff at Claremont McKenna College were told to shelter in place after a threat was called into nine one one yesterday. The person said they were holding a person captive in a restroom on campus, that they had a bomb and a weapon and plan to walk around and shoot people. Claremont police later confirmed
it was a swatting call. Looks like a government shutdown might not happen now that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will vote in favor of the six month funding bill passed in the House. He said there are no winners if the government shuts down, and a shutdown would just give President and Trump more power. The Senate's expected to vote on that today. NASA is going to try to launch a mission again to bring two astronauts who been on the International Space Station for like nine
months back to Earth. A launch plan for yesterday was scrubbed about an hour before liftoff because of a hydraulics issue not related to the Falcon nine rocket itself. The next attempt is going to be tonight from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Okay, so there's fishing and now there's smishing. What the heck is it. ABC is Jim Wright's going to tell us in about fifteen minutes new fun things for your home, whether you're going to do a big
reno or a DIY project our house. Whisper Dean Sharp's going to share some of the top new gizmos and gadgets from the International home Builders Show. ABC's Will Gans is back from vacation to tell us about a new comedy on the stream, a thriller on the big screen, and a big old blockbuster that's on Disney Pluss. Let's get started. Oh that's coming up at five point fifty. Let's get started now with some of the stories coming
out of KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Police say Claremont mckinna College has been the target of a swating call. As I mentioned, a person called police and said they were in a restroom on campus holding a hostage, threatening to hurt that person. They also threatened to have a bomb and said that they were going to shoot people. Police from several departments responded. This student told KTLA it was really scary.
Because the police were sweeping every area, and at least from what I heard from my friends, they weren't announcing themselves, so it was scary to hear, you.
Know, like a rattle on the door for example. Police later determined it was a hoax, a swatting call. This one came just a day after a sweating call caused an evacuation and a massive police response at Loma Linda Medical Center. Officials with the Trump administration say they want to meet with La Mayor Bass.
The US Department of Justice says they want to discuss the city's response to alleged incidents of anti Semitism at schools and college campuses over the last two years. The federal Old Task Force to Combat Anti Semitism informed Bass that it wants to engage with city leadership, district or city attorneys, and law enforcement.
Kafi's Tammy Tree Hio says they also want to talk about allegations the local universities failed to protect Jewish students from discrimination. The task Force is also asking to meet with the mayors of New York, Chicago, and Boston. A new marketing campaign has begun to promote La County's mental health crisis hotline.
The Alternative Crisis Response Team has been designed to take the burden off nine one one and police. A new promotional video features a mom whose twelve year old son was helped by the team during a behavior crisis.
You're wondering what's going on with your child? You know, people are afraid that they're going to be in trouble, that their kids will be in trouble.
The county's hotline is operational twenty four to seven and dispatches mental health professionals instead of police to help de escalate certain situations and connect people to resources to get better. The campaign includes videos, billboards, and posters. Michael Monks KFI News Move in Now.
Nine percent of LA County residents say they are seriously considering moving out of southern California. The study out of UC Berkeley was taken after the devastating wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January. Twenty three percent of residents say they've given at least some thought to moving since the fires. Let's see if you're moving on the road, roadways. Let's check in with Will Cole Schreiber morning, well, good morning boy.
You said, what a difference to day makes is just a huge difference as far as they're driving today. We do have a work zone in effect right now. Northbound side of the five. This is going to be in the downy area from the six oh five up to Slaws in one lane taken away, it's slowed from the six to oh five kind of slow through that stretch westbound side of the one oh five. The one ten Caltrans work there as well. They're picking up the cones.
So you're going to find a little bit of slowing on the westbound side of the one oh five approaching the one ten Freeway northbound five Penrose crashed. There also little problem in the fast track lanes of the ninety one westbound at Weird Canyon. Overturned vehicle reported and CIGPI in the fire department on the way to deal with it. With Southern California's most accurate traffic reports.
I'm Will Coles Roper. Thank you Will. It's five oh seven on your Friday morning wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Peter Haralambu's Peter. Another roadblock for DOGE efforts.
Yeah, that's exactly right. Amy. Over the course of the last day, two separate federal judges came out and said that those attempts to fire probationary employees thousands of them, as many as twenty thousands, we understand, were actually illegal and ordering all those employees the immediately being reinstated.
Okay, and why was that illegal?
So really, at the end of the day, it came down to two different things. First, the way these employees were fired, the fact that they weren't given notice, kind of broke the standard rules for if you're going to do what's called the reduction in force than the federal government. Second, the judges found that the reasons the government gave for these firings were lies. Basically, so in most of these instances, the government fired these for these employees for what they
listed as performance reasons. If you look at like the letters that most of these employees received, it cited performance itself for some kind of individualized reason, when in reality these were just layoffs that had nothing to do with cause or performance. The judges in both these cases came to the conclusion that the Trump administration functionally lied about the reason for the layoffs so that they can get around the kind of requirements necessary to layoff huge numbers of employees.
Okay, So this is very interesting to me because in the private sector, I mean, they can fire you at any time for pretty much any reason. I mean, we've experienced here at here, I've I know, tons of others just recently, they have layoffs and there's no warning given. You just come into work one day and they say thanks, goodbye. So why is it different for these workers?
No, that's exactly right. I mean, unlike the private sector. These employees, though, who are a few more additional protections. The government kind of has these built in measures to prevent mass kind of unscheduled layoffs of government employees. For example, if you're going to go to a department, like let's say that Apartment of Education and fire fifty percent of the workforce for reasons like just strategy, just saying we
don't need the Department of Vegucation anymore. The Trump administration is allowed to do that. The thing is, in order to do it, they have to kind of give sixty days notice and say, you know, we're doing this because we're reducing the size of this department, not because you know, for performance reasons. Is that's not actually the case. There's actually a judge on San Francisco yesterday, one of the two judges who made these similar kinds of rulings, who
was furious with the Trump administration. He said that Trump administration lied and used sham documents, It basically committed a fraud on American workers by saying that the reason for all these fire was performance and basically hiding the fact that all they were trying to do was reduce the size of the federal government without actually following the laws governing how you reuse the size in the federal government.
Okay, so in the judges ruling, then Peter, in your assessment, if are the judges saying that if they would have said, okay, you get sixty days, and we're doing it because it's a reduction in force, if they would have you know, had different verbiage and maybe you know, instead of cutting them immediately giving them sixty days, then it would have been okay.
Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, that judge on San Francisco even went as far as to say that he does not want this decision being interpreted that some crazy left wing judge in San Francisco said the Trump administration can fire government's employees. It's actually just the opposite. He reaffirmed the thing in the idea that the Trump administration can fire employees they just have to go through that appropriate process. So in a way, this is a temporary
reprieve for all these employees. Yes, they're being reinstated back into their jobs, but it's unclear how long they're actually going to stay in that job if the Trump administration is insistent that they're going to be fired, So they might just be back on the job for one or two days and then all of a sudden they get a sixty day notice that they're gonna get laid off in two months?
Okay, And can the administration appeal this ruling as well? Or is this done now?
They can appeal this ruling. In fact, last night they did begin the process of appealing that to the Ninth Circuit. So the challenge has begun and the Trump administration has already slammed this as then the legal ruling in their eyes.
I think that this would be very unsettling for workers, like, you know, hey, you're fired, Okay, come back, but oh then you're going to be fired again. I mean, it's just got to have people's head spinning.
Yeah, I think that's exactly right. It's been kind of a roller coastal right for these employees. If you recall you know that it first started off with that email about a buyout offer that quickly got rescinded and then kind of came back, and then you know, was deemed of wallful three hours before it was actually finalized. And then pretty much as soon as that buyout offer ended,
the layoffs began. And now even if they're being reinstated, it's unclear how long they're actually going to stay in the government because the term of administration is pretty insistent that they want to reduce the federal government and no one's really going to stop them.
Okay, thanks so much for the information. That clears up a lot of my questions that we had about that, because it is, it's all moving so fast, it's a little bit confusing.
Head spinning. Its time spaks Force for having me.
Absolutely, we'll talk to you soon. Peter. That's ABC's Peter Haralambus. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out at the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says there almost certainly will be enough Democratic votes to advance the House bill and keep the government funded. He told the Senate yesterday they either passed the Continuing resolution or risk President Trump throwing America into the chaos of a shutdown.
The shutdown would give Donald Trump and Elon Musk cart launch to destroy vital government services at a significantly faster rate than they can right now.
The House bill funds the government through September. Deadline to pass a funding bill is midnight. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect while legal challenges continue. The administration wants to narrow court orders that have blocked the directive Trumps signed when he took office in January. The order would prevent children born to illegal immigrants after February nineteenth
from becoming legal citizens. So far, three federal appeals courts have rejected the administration's requests. Anti Israel protesters who stormed Trump Tower in New York been arrested. They were there yesterday demanding the release of a pro Palestinian activist who is facing deportation. Video shows at least one hundred people in the dining area of the Trump Tower. Former Columbia
student Macmood Khalil was arrested last weekend. President Trump says Khalil is a terrorist sympathizer and should be deported because of his pro Hamas activities. Hamas says it has accepted a proposal to release an American Israeli hostage in Gaza and also the bodies of four dual nationals who died in captivity. The group did not say when it was going to happen. The announcement comes as talks continuing Katar on the next stage of the Israel Hamas sees fire.
The first phase ended two weeks ago. A volcano in Alaska could erupt at any time, maybe you see's. Alex Stone says there are fifty three volcanoes in the state that have been active in the last two hundred and fifty years, including Mount Spur, which is northeast of Anchorage.
Alaska's Volcano Observatory says Mount Spur is emitting significantly elevated amounts of volcanic gas and that if it's going to erupt, they expect to see earthquakes, more gas, and surface heating before it blows.
Saying to say the volcano could erupt in the next few weeks or months, they say it's possible it could happen with little or no warning. A new community notes option is expected to start appearing on Meta's Facebook, Instagram and threads page. ABC's Mike Debuski reports Meta envisions community notes as small boxes of information that appear next to viral posts on its platforms, designed to add context to any misleading or harmful content.
Notes will be written by volunteers who hold a range of viewpoints. The company says they'll also be rated for helpfulness by an open source algorithm that Meta is borrowing from its competitor x.
X, formerly known as Twitter, of course, has used community notes in a similar capacity. Facebook previously had fact checkers police harmful content before Meta decided to end the practice in favor of community notes. Investigators are looking into what has caused an oil spill in the Port of Long Beach. The Department of Fish and Wildlife's Office of Spill Prevention and Response was called about a small oilchine yesterday. The oil seeped from the street onto or into the storm
dreams leading into port. Channel's three officials say it does not appear to be impacting wildlife. California has joined several other demo cratic led states ensuing the Trump administration over its layoffs at the Department of Education. The suit claims the layoffs are unconstitutional. It says only Congress has the power to dismantle the department and the work it does. Meazel's cases still on the rise. In the US, health officials have confirmed at least two hundred and fifty eight
cases and two deaths in nearly a dozen states. One case was just confirmed this week in La County and LA County resident who flew into lax on March fifth. Most of the cases are in unvaccinated children in Texas. Speaking of Texas, let's go there now and say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan in Dallas. Morning, Jim, See how do you where you do and wear big hats? It seems like every time we talked, Jim, we're talking about scams, which lead me to believe that they are
absolutely everywhere they are. Yeah, So we know about fishing, and now there's smishing.
Smishing that is it. It stands for short Message service. That's the formal name for text messaging. We know about phishing, and smishing is sending out scam messages by text message. So here's how it works. You get your phone beeps notification, you look at it and it says hi, Amy, this is fast Track. You recently drove in the four or five express lanes and you owe us a toll for that. Please click below to pay your toll or face loosing
your driver's license. Send see your fees mounting. So there's always that little hint of a threat that goes with it. You could lose your driver's license. So you click on the link and if there's a form that opens up, you put your name in there, Amy King. You can put your address, your phone number, your credit card information, your the security code, and then hits send to pay
your toll. Well, you just sent your credit card information to an absolute scammer, because neither fast Track, nor the Chicago Toll Authority, nor the North Dallas Toll Radio, none of them send out bills by text message. That's number one. Just don't do it. Don't click on the link, just
delete the thing. McAfee, which looks at this stuff, says you can go ahead and forward it on to you know, a text number specifically that is supposed to look at these things seven seven two six, which stands for spam. But the best thing to do is just to a leader, because it's it's a scam.
And it's funny that you mentioned that one, because I got that one. Ah ah, And that's not the only one. Another one that I got this week was and now I know what to call it. It's missing. I got one. It says Microsoft unusual sign in for the asterisk, and then the last two digits of your email address and then it says review at and it has a link.
Well, that's the thing. They've been able to customize these things by regions. So fast Track is the one sending out the text or people representing themselves as fast Track. They could be in Kolkata, India, they could be in Nigeria, could be anywhere, and they can They're customized the text message to be for that specific region, and apparently it's working.
The FBI says that there were ten thousand new domain names taken out in just the last couple of months, things like the toll roads paytoll dot world or the toll roads paytoll dot dot com. It's really insidious. At McAfee also has tried to quantify this in terms of the frequency that people are receiving these things. I get them all the time. Dallas is top of the list for the most people getting these the highest number. Los Angeles is in third place behind Atlanta.
I don't know why we're not number one and something bad.
Well, I think it's.
Because you don't have that many toll I mean, it's all express lanes there that are toll right.
Well, yeah, we are toll roads, are the express lanes?
Yeah.
There actually are a couple of toll highways freeways down in Orange County.
I guess San Francisco has several, right, but it's mainly express lanes out there here. I lived just south of Fort Worth, and to get the twenty miles up to Fort Worth, if I don't want to spend you know, an hour going this roadway, that highway, this road, I can take the tollway get there in fifteen minutes. But it's a toll road. Yeah, right, you're trapped around here.
Well, and with the express lanes, Like if you get into an express lane then they charge.
You for that, that's right.
Yeah, And I know. Actually when I got the message, I don't know, it was a while back, I was like, oh crap, because I drive around and go into areas that I'm not familiar with. I'm like, did I end up in express lanes think think they they think, and I was like, no, I didn't. And then the other one I get frequently is from the USPS. Yes, we couldn't deliver your package here click Yes.
Yeah, that's smishing as well. That's exactly what that is. And they have this air of believability maybe considering how many people are using delivery now or delivering things, you know, and getting things by Amazon. It's totally within the a possibility that you drove on that toll road, or that you ordered something and that USPS can't find you or and so you know, it's it's just it's getting more and more difficult because the scammers are getting more sophisticated.
The technology is improving such that they don't have to be brain surgeons to send out a text message specifically to you and imitating your specific situation.
Okay, one last question. If you do click through, Oops, you go, I clicked through? What should you never do?
Call your bank? First of all, that's the thing you should do. You know, if you click, if you clicked on it and you see this form there that has you know, everything including your credit card information asking for that, then just you know, delete it, get get rid of that thing if you do fall for it. Essentially, and by the way, you don't have to be gullible or
dumb to fall for it, because it's so believable. But if you do fill it out and you send off your credit card information, then you realize what you have done. Call the bank, call the credit card company, try to stop the whole thing and so that you don't lose more than just face absolutely.
ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks for sharing the information on schmishing. Smishing, stay out of the express Linds. All right, have a good weekend. We'll talk to you soon.
See you.
It was an accident and I'm not getting away with eddies because I lost.
Her and she lost her life.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson has spoken out for the first time since his murder trial ended in a mistrial. He shot his wife in their home in Anaheim Hills in twenty twenty three. He says it was an accident. The prosecution said it was intentional. Eleven of twelve jurors in the trial said it was murder. Ferguson says he's paying for what he did.
I don't have anything to look forward to all my life was built around Cheryl, and she built hers around me. We loved each other a great deal and I lost all of that. So I'm going to be in a cell up here in my head.
For the rest of my life.
The prosecution is pushing for a retrial. An injured cat thrown into a dumpster in Laguna Hills is improving and is going to be reunited with her owner. The owner's ex roommate was arrested on Wednesday, a few hours after a surveillance video showed someone throwing the injured cat into a dumpster. The guys being charged with felony animal cruelty. Sean Combs is said to have a pre trial hearing today on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges.
And Combe's lawyers are trying to have the twenty sixteen video in which Combs has seen beating his then girlfriend Cassie in the hallway of an La hotel removed as evidence. They claim CNN purchase the only copy of the surveillance video uploaded, it altered, it covered the time stamp, and that destroyed the original footage, but CNN denies the footage was altered and says the original video still exists. Heather Brooker KFI News.
A California board is allocating just over two million dollars to support illegal immigrants and refugees in response to stricter immigration policies. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors emphasized the funding is a community effort thanks to a public and private partnership. The decision follows an earlier allocation of over one million dollars in February to the Alameda County Public Defender's Office Immigration Unit, which provides legal aid to immigrants
who are facing deportation. New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Okazio Cortes has criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for saying that he would vote for the Republican funding bill to keep the government running. Schumer told CNN yesterday he'd vote to advance the six month bill to avoid a government shutdown tonight. Cortes called that a tremendous mistake and said the bill would turn the federal government into a slush
fund for Donald Trump and Elon musk Well. It is Pie Day this Friday because it is three fourteen.
Although this day celebrates the mathematical constant average people get to cash in because we're celebrating the circle today in food form with discounts and bogos think Pizza Caesadilla's and of course.
Pie Kfi's breed is mathematically pie can go on forever. But the deals are only for today, and in fact, we do have several of them, a lot of Most of the ones that we have are four Pizza Places seven eleven. Loyalty members can get a whole pizza for three fourteen. BJ's you can get if you get a Pazuki, you get a second one for three fourteen. At Blaze Pizza, if you buy an eleven eleven inch pizza, you can
get the second one for three fourteen. Mountain Mikes, you get a free mini pizza if you buy a twenty ounce bottled beverage. Pitfire Pizza Kitchen has has a deal. California Pizza Pizza Kitchen has a deal. Round Table Rewards members can get a personal cheese pizza for three fourteen if you buy a large or extra large pizza on Pie Day. Okay, that's it, I want pizza.
How do we not have any food here?
Anne was supposed to bring in a pie.
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Thanks, Ann, Thanks Ann. Hey, here's something else. It's very cool coming up. Ihearts Wango Tango returning to Southern California and it's headed to the beach Saturday, May tenth at Huntington City Beach. Wango Tango's all star lineup is going to feature performances by Doja, Cat, Katsei, Meghan Trainer, and a bunch of others, plus performing at Sunset, Orange County's owned Gwen Stefani Sunset Gwen Stefani on the Beach? Are
you kidding me? How great does that sound? Dikets go on sale this morning at ten am at AXS dot Com. It's Wingo Tango. The Trump administration has asked for a meeting with La Mayor Bass to talk about the city's response to reports of anti Semitism at USC Pomona College and Santa Monica College. Officials say city leaders may have failed to protect Jewish students in violation of federal law. Mayors of New York, Chicago, and Boston got the same request.
One hundred and seventy eight people had to quickly get off a plane at Denver International Airport when it caught fire. American air air Line says flight one six experienced an engine related issue after it landed on yesterday. One hundred and seventy two passengers and six crew members were all able to safely exit the plane. Goats have begun chomping away at thirty seven acres of parkland and canyons and
hard to reach hillsides in Palace. Verti's estates about nine hundred goats are on the job, eating up weeds and brush to help reduce the risk of wildfires. The goat gobbling is being funded by the office of La County Supervisor Janis Han. The goats are expected to finish their job by the end of the month. Let's say good morning now to the host of home on KFI. It's
Dean Sharp, our house whisper. Dean, you got an all calls weekend, so we don't have a preview of what you're going to talk about, because you're going to talk about everything. But last week we talked about the Homebuilders show that was just held in Las Vegas, and there were so many cool things that you shared with as I wanted to see if you could share a few more.
Yeah, yeah, there are so many things. I put together a little list of fun things that I'm gonna slip out over the weekend as well. But this is a category that I call flush and hidden items. And they're fun and they're fascinating, and they're the kinds of finishes sometimes that homeowners have been yearning for and they don't even know are available out there. For instance, a barn door. You know, barn doors.
Yeah, they're very popular right now.
Yeah, they were very popular, and then they kind of sort of started losing their popularity. And this is a sliding door across an opening inside a house that isn't a pocket door. Pocket door is basically a sliding door that slides into the wall itself. Barn doors were such the thing, wow, but then people started backing away from them because they're like, well, Okay, what if I don't live in a barn. What if I don't have that kind of country chic look in my home?
What do I do?
Because you've got the track and the wheels and all of that kind of it has a very very specific look. What if you had a barn door where essentially any kind of a door, even a very modern contemporary door, was mysteriously sliding across an opening without any hardware visible at all. No track, no anything. And so people ask me what is a barn door without a visible track, and I just say it is very sexy, that's what it is. We actually shared this video last year when
we saw it at the Builder Show. Was just as popular this year. This is an amazing piece of hardware, really ingenious piece of hardware that holds a door onto a wall, allows the door to slide back and forth. But you cannot see any hardware. There's no track in the floor's rollers up.
Uh.
Well, you know, it's a very specific piece of hardware that's mounted just to the left or the right of the door itself. But the but the door always covers this piece of hardware, whether it's open or closed, and you just don't see it. And you know, I always say this when there's when it comes to innovations in hardware like this at the Builder Show, we just say there's one word to describe it. Germans. There's a German section actually of the Builder Show and they always have
unbelievable engineering innovations there. And now the point is you can have a barn quote unquote door in your house without it having to look country. It can be it can match any motif and it looks great.
Very cool. Okay, so here's something else that you you sent me a picture of it. It's a countertop, but it's also your cook top.
Yeah, this is something that is coming on straw. And now you've heard of induction cook tops, I'm sure because they become all the rage. They're electric, they use magnetic fields to heat up a pan. They are amazingly safe, they're amazingly simple, and they're as good as, if not more effective, at cooking than gas, which is the first time in history that electric cooktops have ever surpassed gas in its ability to cook better lower lows, higher highs
than all in between. Instead of just the standard induction cooktop, which of course you would cut in and set into a countertop, there are now these induction hobs, independent induction hobs that can be mounted to the bottom side of your stone countertop underneath, and therefore you just have a tiny reference dot up on the top, which means your countertop when there's no cooking going on, is just a stone countertop, and when it's time to cook, you just
simply know the location where you the pan down and you're cooking.
That's amazing. It looks very cool. Okay, So gosh, I want to talk about so much more, but we got to get in your business, so I gotta let you go.
All right, Well, but you can.
Listen to Dean this weekend. It's an all calls weekend. You can ask them anything you want from six to eight Tomorrow morning and then nine to noon on Sunday. It's Home with Dean Sharp. You can follow them at Home with Dean. Thank you so much, Dean.
Thanks Amy.
All right, okay, now let's get in your business real quick with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Sorry we're late, Courtney, but we had to find out about cook tops that are countertops? Are you kidding me?
I saw a picture of that cooktop recently and I was absolutely blown away.
It looks so cool.
I know me it'll be an absolute disaster if I have, but it looks quite beautiful.
Yeah.
Okay, So, speaking of homes, a group of Palm builders teaming up for an LA wildfire rebuilding effort. What's that exactly?
Lenard told Brothers and Brookfield Residential. They're tea up to assist in the reconstruction of homes burn and the wildfires. They're calling it the Builders Alliance. Now, the goal is to speed up efficiency. They want to slash costs to The group is planning a portal so folks could go in and they could select from a limited menu of home plans. And the group would also work with government
agencies to try to streamline the permitting process. But what they want to do is scale up to speed up a lot of these efforts to get homes back and people back where they should live.
And a lot of homeowners are going to want to do that. Probably doubt about it, Okay, So another retailer probably going out of business.
Forever I feel like every single day we talk about one retailer or another having a problem going into bankruptcy closing up shop. Now we're talking about Forever twenty one, the fast fashion retailer. They could potentially close their doors as part of a bankruptcy filing in the coming days. So sources are telling us the company's efforts to find a buyer to avoid liquidation that has failed. At its height, Forever twenty one operated more than five hundred locations in
the US eight hundred worldwide. Now the footprint's about three hundred and fifty stores in America, but no comments so far from Forever twenty one's parent company.
Well, it's been a while since I was twenty one, so I haven't shop there in a while. It's a little tough for me to shot there. Okay, So yesterday another just crappy day on Wall Street. But things are looking up today.
Yes, and you know what, I'm so glad it's Friday here on Wall Street.
You don't know it.
Well, we're looking to finish another while week. We're looking to end it on an up note, removing the threat of a government shutdown, giving some relief to traders. We're ready nervous about tariffs. We're looking at SMP futures right now. They're up about one percent, But it was only three weeks ago that stocks were at a record high. Sentiment has turned from optimism to worry, driving the S and
P five hundred into a correction yesterday. Just so you know the difference between all these Wall Street terms I throw around. A drop of more than ten percent is the definition of a correction. So we're in that territory right now. A bear market is a tumble of twenty percent, So that's something on the radar we're hoping not as fast as we hit the correction, because it only took us sixteen trading sessions to go from peak to that correction.
Okay, Well, let's hope that the bears are still hibernating for a while. Yes, exactly, Okay, Bloomberg's Courtning, Donaho. Thanks so much for the information. We'll get into your business again on Monday morning, as we do every day on wake up call at five forty. Thanks. Have a great weekend, all right you too. Stretch of Long Beach's coast has been closed because of a more than ten thousand gallon
sewage spill. The La County Department of Public House says the origin of the spill is in Roland Heights, more than thirty miles away. A grease build up caused a main sewer line to overflow. The sewage washed down the San Gabriel to the San Gabriel River to Long Beach
during the rainstorm. Representative of Gene Hackman's estate has asked the court to block the public release of autopsy and investigative reports, especially photographs and police body camera video, related to the recent deaths of Hackman and his wife in their home in New Mexico. Officials say, Hackman's wife died of hantavirus and Hackman, who suffered from alzheimer, died days later.
A transgender woman whos sued Ellie County, the Sheriff's Department, and Sheriff Luna, claiming her civil rights were violated when she was housed with male inmates at the Twin Towers Jail, Corretta Simo love Monk says she had fully developed breasts and other female attributes, and she was harassed, intimidated, and humiliated in jail. Let's say good morning now to mister vacation. Will gans who's back? Good morning Will.
Mister vacation. I like it.
Now I need to figure out how to make that a full time title.
Right right? If only you could get paid to go on.
Vacation exactly exactly, Although with the Milana music that you were playing just a second ago and some of these movie choices, you could feel like you're on vacation with the things that you're watching.
Yeah, okay, nice tie in. Okay, So I saw the trailer for this one. Looks like something Goldie Hawn would have done in her heyday, but now it's her daughter's turn exactly.
Yes, So running Point is a new sitcom on Netflix and it comes from executive producer and writer Mindy Kaling, who I just love all of her projects. Kate Hudson plays the sister in a family of four siblings that she has three brothers and they are in the business of basketball, so she basically inherits a basketball team. She becomes the president of the Los Angeles Waves, which are a professional basketball team I guess loosely based on the Lakers, and you know, the team is full of big egos
and big characters. She has three brothers, as I mentioned, and it's a fun sitcom. It feels like something that would have been on you know, the big networks maybe ten or fifteen years ago. Just classic and there's something for everybody. There's a little bit of sports, there's a little bit of business, there's some romance involved, so just a fun, kind of feel good thirty Minutes to Come.
All ten episodes of season one are streaming on Netflix now and it's already been picked up for season two. So that's how you know that, you know people are into it. When they announced the season two right after season one's been dropped, it's usually a good sign.
Yeah, Okay, I might have to check that out. I've seen the trailers, and I think it's interesting too that big movie stars are doing these series now. It's such a switch from what they used to do.
One hundred percent.
And I also think you know that like when you can tell that they're having fun with it, and you know if they're working with people that they really like, you know. I don't know if you've seen any of the press tour moments with Mindy and Kate Hudson, like it just feels like the vibes are good, like they're they are having fun making it, and that always translates as I view.
Were Okay, I recently watched Kate chat and a series called Disclaimer, which was so creepy and so good and surprising. But now, well Kate is Kate and fabulous and she's in another movie. Is she fabulous in this one too?
I mean she can do no wrong.
Yeah.
It's like if you put Kate Blanchett in anything, it's like automatic Oscars, automatic Emmys, and this new spy thriller is going to be one of those, I think as well.
So this is in theaters. It's called Black Bag, and Kate Blanchett is a spy and she is married to a spy played by Michael Fassbender, and you sort of get the feeling right from the jump that the two of them are being set up for something and so are There's an amazing cast of supporting characters, and so you know that someone in this spy agency has gone rogue and is sort of, you know, pinning them against
each other. So where does their loyalty lie. Does it lie to their country, does it lie with each other? And it's it's so much fun to watch in the theater. It's only ninety minutes, which is amazing coming out of Oscar season when the movies were like four hours long. Yes, yeah, uh, this is just it's an easy thing to go sit and watch in a theater. It's called Black Bag, as I mentioned, and it's thrilling and it's actually pretty funny
as well. There are some laugh out loud moments too, so uh that one though, is rated R So don't bring the kids to see Black Bag, okay, And.
We can't let you go without without it? Wait sound for it?
Okay?
Yes, yes, Amy.
By the way, I thought you were prompting me to sing and nobody needs to hear that, so I'm glad that we have the music too ready to go. Yeah, ma Wana Too is finally streaming on Disney Plus. It's you know, it's sort of a follows the recipe of the first one, where she has to go on an adventure to you know, unite the different seafaring villages and she assembles a ragtag group of people, fun music, fun
cast of characters. So for any parents who need something to do for a couple hours at the kids this weekend, it's on Disney Plus. That Long Last, okay.
And it was it was huge, huge at the box office. Is it as good as the first one?
I mean that's an impossible question. I think the first one was pretty flawless, So this one.
Is.
If you liked the first one, you'll like this one as well. But you know, that first one just holds such a special place in my heart, and I think in everybody's heart. So is it as good? I'm gonna say it's almost as good, almost as good.
Okay, ABC's Willgans, thanks so much. You've got my list of things to watch much longer after our discussion.
Good good, happy to be back. Mister Vacation has returned at Long.
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