Hey, it's Jennifer Jones. Lee. You're listening to KFI, a M. Six forty wake up call on demand on the iHeartRadio app. Tuesdays aren't so bad when they start with Jennifer Jones Late. Here she is with your morning wake up call. You know how we often talk about the national days. Today is two that I feel are really important. One the most important one. It is National Teacher's Day. Any teacher who was up an atom
right now, probably a lot of you are. I have such respect for you because here's the way that I feel when it comes to who people who are like teachers get paid too much. Teachers don't get paid en up right, you get both sides of that coin. I look at this and I go, any teacher who had knee in their class did not get paid enough. I don't care if they were making six figures. Bottom line, I was that kid. So to mister Cropsey and mister Brown and missus Peterson and
mister Edwards. Literally that's like fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh grades, I apologize and I celebrate you today. Today is also National Lost Sock Memorial Day. What is I'm one person in a house screen made three dogs who like socks. But what I'm saying is one person in a house, I'm in charge of all the laundry. I fold the laundry, I do the laundry. Where in the hell do those socks go? Is there a vortex? A sock vortex? You put them in the washer, and then who
they're sucked up into the board. I'm convinced there is. Other people are convinced the vortex's name is Betty White the dog. Quite possible as well. Also, the writer's strike has entered its second week, and apparently the two sides are still way at odds over pay, streaming, residuals, and AI. We'll talk about the debt ceiling and the White House says it's got a constitutional duty to raise it. And we also got the autopsy results on actor
ray Leota. I'll tell you what those are in just a second, but let's start with some of these stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The writer's strike has entered its second week. WGA negotiator Chris Kaiser says the two sides are still at odds over pay, streaming, residuals, and AI. To become a gig economy, there's no ladder up for writers. They get the same pay over and over again, year after year,
and our members they're telling us they just can't make it. Many of the more than eleven thousand striking writers have called out streaming services because they are changing the way that the writers are paid unlike network shows. Now, the creators of Stranger Things have shut down production of its final season until the strike ends. Other Netflix series like Cobra Kai and Rob Blow's new project Unstable, We're
also shut down. But you know, what I was thinking about, sort of the ripple effect that this strike has not taking a side of you know, the writers or the studios. Here, all I'm saying is this writer's strike is impacting more than just the writers. Right, You've got the hair and makeup people, the caterers, the people who's living, you know, make their living renting out the microphones and the stages and the sets and all that kind of stuff. All those people, and I know far more than
I'm even thinking of. But it's just anytime that you hear, oh it's the writers strike. No, this impacts Hollywood. I mean, this could impact your neighbor, right, maybe your neighbor is a set designer, or maybe your neighbor is the clothing person, the stylist for one of these shows. They're not working right now either. The White House says it is Congress's constitutional duty to raise the debt ceiling. There shouldn't be negotiations on the debt
limit. This is something that they should get to regular order and get to work on. White House Press Secretary Korean Jean Pierre says President Biden will make that clear today when he meets with Republican leaders to talk about the debt limit. Now, we're going to talk with ABC's Karen Travers more about this in just a second. The La School District Board of Education is said to give
final approval to a new labor agreement with the union representing its teachers. The agreement includes a twenty one percent pay hike in increments that go back to July one of last year, then run through January first of twenty twenty five. When the agreement was announced, the district noted the increases were on top of a five percent hike that was included did in the twenty twenty one twenty two budget. Ray Leoda, we've now found out that the actor died from cardiovascular
disease. The Good Fellows actor died in his sleep last May while filming in the Dominican Republic. Officials confirmed yesterday he died from a build up of fat's cholesterol and other substances in and on the artery walls. They cited pulmonary edema, heart and respiratory failure as all things that contributed to his death. The National Institute of Health say about six hundred ten thousand people die of heart disease every year in the US. Will they won't they? Karen Travers, good
morning to you. Let's talk debt ceiling negotiations and frustrations. Yeah, it's good today, big meeting at the White House. President Biden's sitting down with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other congressional leaders. But really this is all about the presidents and the House Speaker. It's the first time that they have sat
down and talks in February. First. It's a really significant meeting. But I can say the expectations are really being managed, if not lowered, for any major breakthrough on the debt ceiling and the bigger issue about budget and spending cuts because the two sides are so firmly entrenched in their positions, and it's
not clear where there's any room for negotiating. The White House is saying yesterday, the President isn't budgeting, he does not want to negotiate on the debt ceiling, and is insisting that Congress just raised that without any conditions, without any strings attached. Well, the House Republicans have said, we've already raised the debt ceilings legislation that we passed. But that legislation, of course, cut federal spending by more than four and a half trillion dollars over a decade
and rolled back some of the key parts of the President's domestic agenda. That's a nonstarter for the Senate Democrats and for the President. So that's where we stand right now, and that's where we've stood now for several months. And it's not quite clear then, if these two sides are going in with these very firm positions, how there's a negotiation today and they talk about It's been my question and other people have been asking this at the White House for a
week since this meeting has been announced. What are they even going to talk about if they're both saying here's what we will not negotiate on how do you have a meeting today? Well, that's what I'm thinking. Is this a waste of time? Is this just so that each side can go Well, we tried to push our agenda and the other person wouldn't budge. So it's their fault, it might be, And we'll find out afterwards. We're going to see the beginning of the meeting. They're gonna let cameras and reporters in
for the photo opportunity at the start. Most likely President Biden is the only one that talks that that is his meeting. He invited them down to his turf at the White House. But then afterwards, I think we'll hear from lawmakers who will come out to the cameras afterwards to talk about what was discussed
in the meeting. And that's always the managing of or you know, the narration, the narrative setting afterwards, so you know, here's what my side was, and here's what we got out of the other side, and we'll see. But it's always interesting afterwards because presidents don't come out and talk like that, but the law acres do, so they're the ones that get to
set the tone a little bit afterwards. We'll likely get a paper statement to read out from the White House about what they think happened in the meeting, But I think there'll be a lot of political spin from both sides. You can guarantee, Oh, absolutely, June first being the day that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave as sort of the deadline to have this budget passed before we
default. She also made some comments when it was suggested that, oh, the President could invoke the fourteenth Amendment and go for the validity of the public debt and make the decision himself. And I just thought it was interesting that basically she was like, Nah, that's not a good option either. She essentially said there's no good option unless these two sides can figure something out.
Yeah. And you know, this is a White House that, on many issues always says like the best option is always to do it the right way with Congress and legislation. And the President was asked about this in an interview last week, about invoking the fourteenth and them and to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling. He said he's not there yet. It would surely face constitutional challenge, So it's it's unlikely. I don't want to say it's completely a zero
possibility, but unlikely that they would do that. They are still saying it's Congress that needs to do this. Pass legislation that just raises the debt ceiling, as they have done dozens of times before the President was sign it, take the threat of default off the table, and then the conversation can begin about the budget and spending cuts. All right, Karen, thank you so much. I appreciate it, and have fun. It's a photo by today.
Oh yeah, inside scoop you two see you later. ABC's Karen traversed, don't you ever wonder what these White House reporters actually find out about some of our nation's political leaders, like their quirks, you know, like, oh, we had one governor. I don't know if this is common knowledge. So he bit to myself, but he was colorblind, and from what I understand, his wife had to put out his clothes so that he matched.
And the joke was when he showed up to like a briefing, you know, in the I don't know, when he was wearing orange on top and pink pants or something. He had no idea. He thought he looked awesome. Just little things like that, Little quirks like that that I wish we knew. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. LA City Council is expected to get a report calling for more funding and more resources to expand street medicine services for city funded
housing. Street medicine provides general medical care, counseling, therapy, addiction recovery services, and health insurance and rome meant to homeless people. Emotion introduced in April, says the city had already made a large investment in street medicine in February, but there's an urgent need to provide more on site services. Renters at the Barrington Plaza apartments in West La are being forced to move out so
the complex can renovate with fire sprinklers and other safety upgrades. There have been two huge fires at that complex over the past decade, including one that killed a nineteen year old foreign exchange student. Eight floors in one of the complex's three towers have been red tagged and out of service since the fire. Remember I knew we covered this one January twenty twenty. Hundreds of people have until September to get out. Here's the thing. If somebody was like, you
know, the building you're living in, it's not the safest thing. I wouldn't wait till September. Granted I would have to have somewhere else to go, and that's always a problem, but don't give me a timeline. I'll get out. Yesterday, social media suggests the man who killed eight people at Amalin Allen, Texas, may have scouted the location for over a year.
He apparently posted a dozen images from the mall parking lots, even taking a screen grab of peak hours Saturday's three pm to six pm, exactly when the shooting happened. ABC's Matt Gutman says the shooters social media activity also includes references to Nazi ideology, hatred of women, racism, and anti Semitism. A three year old boy and two young girls were among those killed Saturdays. Seven people were hurt. The girls that were killed I think were fourth in sixth
graders. I think there were sisters. A bill in Texas to raise the age for buying assault style weapons to twenty one has passed a House committee vote. Families have lost loved ones in mass shooting celebrated the vote yesterday. Jerry Modi says he lost his daughter in the mass shooting last year at rob Elementary School in Uvaldi, Texas. He and his wife have been fighting ever since for stricter gun laws. No matter what happens in the floor, whether it
dies in the floor or not, we're gonna continue. We're gonna continue the fight. We're not gonna stop. Not to and his wife say they cried when they heard about the age vote. He says it's a big step because they've been told it would never happen in the Capitol. The bill still has to pass in the Senate, then get to Governor Abbott's desk for his signature. Have you gone outside if you live in Sherman Oaks, there's a chance that you've got a river running through it as in the streets. A sheared
fire hydrant has created this huge mess in Sherman Oaks. The hydrant was apparently hit by a car this morning on Woodcliff Road, and it caused water to shoot up about one hundred feet high. I know I shouldn't be excited about this, but have you ever been by a fire hydrant that gets cheered? It is impressive. Streets and several homes were flooded. That's not good.
The driver did not stick around. That's not good either. And a jury in Riverside County has found a guy convicted of fatally stabbing his girlfriend was sane when he did it. The woman was killed in twenty seventeen. Her body was dumped by a cemetery. Then apparently her mobile home was set on fire. Christian Potaco pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He will be sentenced next month. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Inez de la Kutera.
Mexico's president is saying, sure, I'll talk with President Biden today about the federal crisis in immigration, but I have a feeling in Es there might be some finger pointing going on. Hey, good morning. Yeah, that's right. So President Biden will be speaking with the Mexican president today. They're going to be speaking by a phone. And this is important because it comes just
days before the title forty two Border restrictions. Let's you'll remember those Dark Pandemic era immigration restrictions that allowed US authorities to quickly expel migrants to cross the border illegally. So they're gonna talk about that. They're going to talk about how to develop programs to help stem the flow of migrants to the US border. We know, for instance, Local Overdoor previously out the US government to contribute
more aid to Hello. Oh sorry, and as our connection is horrible, I'm gonna let you go for half a second so we can try and reconnect with you and see if we can get a slightly better connection. It's just very digitally. We're kind of getting every other word from Inez. I hate when that happens, especially when they get them on and they check them and Tyler and Ann are like, we're good to go, and then all of a sudden they start talking in their phone. Craps out happens all the time.
A woman from Kaipa who made child porn with two kids, including an infant, has been sentenced to forty years in prison. Stephanie Stevens admitted to investigators she made videos of herself performing oral sex on the infant and taking several nude photos with the other kid. US Attorney spokesman Kieran McAvoy says Stevens was babysitting the kids when she made the porn in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen. These were moms and a mom and a dad who had to work these were
different families. Macavoy says. Investigators found online messages between Stevens and another person in which Steven's expressed excitement to have the infide in her care so she could make porn with the baby Blake trolley. K if I News. That's possibly one of the worst stories I've heard. I mean, granted, the shootings and everything, but what are you watch my mouth on that one? All right, let's say good morning now again to ab season as dala kuta.
I hear our line has cleared up, so if you could go back and tell us everything that you said before, because we didn't catch a lot of it. So Mexico President is meeting with President Biden today and immigration obviously going to be right at the top of the list considering the expiration of Title forty two on Thursday. Oh hey, that's right. Yeah, so hopefully you
can hear me better now. But yes, they're gonna be talking about immigration, They're going to be talking about economic cooperation, and they are going to be talking about the fentinel crisis as well. The immigration part of it is especially interesting because it comes just days before the Title forty two border restrictions lift, so those are, of course, those pandemic era immigration restrictions that allow
US authorities to quickly expel migrants who across the border illegally. So they're going to talk about that. They're going to talk about how to, excuse me, how to develop programs to help stem the flow of migrants to the US borders, so we know, for instance, the Mexican president had previously asked the US government to contribute more aid to help develop the region economically, to help crack down on crime, for instance, so that people wouldn't have to
migrate in the first place. The Mexican president has also recently slammed Republicans for putting forward proposals that would make it more difficult for migrants to apply for asylum and easier for authorities to block migrants at the border. But it's a tricky situation for Mexico as well. We should point out Mexico has been accepting and continues to accept migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua who are turned away at the border, So if they don't make it into the US,
then they stay in Mexico. Mexico for now has been accepting that, but that does put a strain also on Mexican resources. Of course, now as this continues to be a problem and it's going to you know, become more and more of a problem for Mexico's resources, so the Mexican president also has a vested interest in resolving this situation. And of course the concern here is an ask title forty two runs outs, there could be a surge of migrants
heading to the US border, you know, some some new caravans. We've seen those caravans pop up time and time again, and and that's as expected here as Title forty two runs out, okay, and it has Mexico said specifically, we have X resources that are stretched to the limit and therefore we can't accept anybody else. Have they given a timeline for how long that they'll be able to use sustain this acceptance? You know, I don't know about
a specific timeline. I do know that they have said that they're going to continue accepting migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaraqua places like that. So it doesn't seem like right now they're looking to crack down on those arrivals. But that is something that certain you know, officials are pushing for in the US. They feel that it would be or if to to stop this migration problem if Mexico just didn't accept the migrants to you know, if
it didn't allow the migrants to come into Mexico to begin with. So yeah, there's a bit, a little bit of the US blaming Mexico here for this problem. Right. It feels like which came first, the chicken out of the egg. Either it's your fault for letting them in, or it's your fault for letting this expire. It's somebody's fault along the way. Right
on the fentyl crisis portion of it. I just happened to be watching El Chapo, that series on Netflix. I've never I hadn't watched it, and I know it's a couple of years old, but they just got to the part about fentyl and it being smuggled in in some I mean, I guess that we haven't really dealt specifically with the fentyl crisis until the last couple of
years. But knowing it was a while ago when we started getting that drug into the United States, to see the growth that it has had just over the last couple of years, or the explosion somebody's got to stop it somewhe. I mean, it can't be good from Mexico. It's got to be killing their people, but it's also killing ours left and right. Yeah, I mean similar to immigration. Like you say, these are big problems that have been going on for years, and so both sides they're facing lots of
pressure to domestically to actually resolve them. So this is going to be another interesting one, this topic of fentanel. So the US knows that the drugs are being mainly smuggled in from Mexico, but the Mexican president denies that drug cartels make fentanyl in Mexico. He's acknowledged that that precursor chemicals and finished fentinel are smuggled into Mexico from China. China denies that. So again we're seeing
that finger pointing. What we do know is that it is a very real problem for the US with um, you know, the centinel crisis causing about seventy thousand overdosed deaths per year in the US. And so yeah, President I did it under lots of pressure to resolve this, find a way to stop the flow of drugs into the US. Do you think that he and the Mexican president can come to any sort of agreement on that. I mean, I know, I know he says that it's not the drug cartels who
are producing it. However, I think history would maybe disagree with that, or at least they would say, you guys might not be the A plus B equals C on this one, but you're certainly the distributor of it into
the United States. Yeah, you know, And I was just gonna say that that the Mexican prigels are very, very powerful, and that's the Mexican president, um, you know, much as the trance to crackdown on corruption, and there are some would argue that he doesn't do enough, but um, he has domestic concerns that he also needs to contemporally, let's put it
that way. And so and there have been Mexican officials who actually accuse the US of overstepping and entry enacting too much of Mexico and trying to meddle in Mexican affairs. So, um, that's you know, part of all of this. I think there's also the very real possibility that this will cause friction between the US and Mexico, and they certainly want to maintain a good kind
of neighborly relationship. And then the other part of it is is China, of course, and and China. Recently, because of the tensions between the US and China over Taiwan, China said that it was going to stop stopping the flow of drugs. Oh, now we've lost her complete eventually, So that's another part of all of the defichiens. Oh and as I'm sorry at the end we lost you, and as if you can hear me, thank
you very much, or as we tried. You know. I think one of the most interesting parts of I know I keep talking about it about this El Chapo Netflix series. Yes, it's a drama and all of that kind of stuff, but it whether you watched Narcos, any one of them, or whether you watched El Chappo. I think there's Pablo Escobar, which is an extramentalist. The thing that cannot be dramatized is over and over and over again. I don't care what series that is you're watching, or what you've
been reading or what news organization. The thing is, these Mexican drug cartels control Mexico. And I feel like, not that he's gonna say it, but that the Mexican president. I wish that there was at least acknowledgement of it, like, hey, yeah, I don't know what. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. You know, there are assassination attempts left right up down, I'm sure, all the time on him. Anytime he does crack down, he's got to know his life and his family's life is
in danger because these guys don't stop. But still it's also killing his own people. So at what point does he go, all right, you know what, I gotta bite the bullet. Well, that's a bad phrase. I've got to, you know, I've got to crack down on this and get I can't have my own people being killed just so these drugs smugglers and drug cartels can get their stuff over the US border and don't Hey, I don't have a solution for it. But there have been presidents who have tried,
there have been governments who have tried. There have been police organizations in Mexico who have tried, or that have tried to fix this problem. I don't know. Is it too big to fail? Are they like the banking industry? Maybe The writer's strike has entered its second week WGA negotiator Chris Kaiser says that two sides are still way at odds over pay streaming residuals and AI.
The White House says it is Congress's constitutional duty to raise the debt ceiling, and we do have the autopsy now on Actor ray Leota, and he died of cardiovascular disease. Hey, there are some people who are saying, you don't need AM radio in your car. You can get those alerts on your phone, pup Lees. There is talk about AM radio being removed from new cars and trucks, but if you get rid of AM radio, yes, we have an obvious vested interest in this. However, think about it.
We are the way that millions of Americans get their local emergency information, especially when the cell towers are dead and there's no power. How are you going to charge your phone? How are you going to get any of those alerts on your phone if it's dead. So what we're trying to do is make sure our voices are heard and make sure that you get Congress to hear you. And the way you can do that is don't let AM radio out of the cars. Just text AM to five to eight, eight to six
and tell Congress to keep AM radio in all cars and trucks. That's AM to five to eight eight six. That's the way that you can tell Congress to keep AM radio in your car. Mike Dubuski, good morning to you. I'm pretty sure that you wrote this in French. I have no idea what steet skylines, the fetaverse and Blue Sky are all right. Well, let's start with blue Sky then, because that's kind of the hot new app
of the moment. It's where people kind of are congregating popular Twitter figures like Alexandriocazio Cortez, Chrissy Teagan Drill, the popular comedy account are all showing up on this new app called blue Sky. And it's very similar to Twitter jen It's sort of short posts that are character limited. You can follow people, those people can follow you. You can post pictures if you want. It
looks and feels and has the same sort of vibe generally as Twitter. And that's kind of no surprise because Blue Sky got off the ground as sort of a side project at Twitter, a pet project of Jack Dorsey, who used to be head of that company. Okay, so if you have big name people like a Chrissy Teagan on there and they can pull their followers from Twitter and bring them to Blue Sky. Is this something Elon must needs to be worried about? So as of right now, Blue Sky only has a couple
we'll say, about sixty to sixty five thousand users on it. It is right now inclosed beta, which means that in order to get onto Blue Sky you need to be invited by someone who's already on the platform. So right now it's pretty exclusive club. And I think that also contributes to why it's kind of being discussed so much. It's like people always want what they can't have, right tell someone they can't go somewhere, they inevitably want to go
there, So that that's part of it. But yeah, the idea that you know, Jack Dorsey has gone along and created just like a Twitter that is not run by Elon Musk, I think certainly is speaks to kind of where Twitter is at right now, and a lot of people are very dissatisfied with the way that Elon Musk has run Twitter during his tenure there, the sort of scuffles over verification, the lacks content moderation guidelines allowing you know,
sort of hateful accounts and hateful content to sort of run rampant there. You can see why people would be looking for other options, and Blue Sky is presenting that to them. Admittedly a pretty exclusive club of them, but you know, I expected to kind of open up and become a less exclusive club, you knows, as the app sort of irons out some of it's more rougher edges. But even in the Jack Dorsey part of it, where he can go, hey, remember when you liked Twitter. That was the thing
that I created back in the day. So let's go back to the good old days. Get on Blue Sky. However, also, it's kind of like when um, I'm just going to use a Kardashian when they endorse something or when they're like, oh, I love this lipstick. That lipstick is sold out for the next six months or so because people want to be like them. And I can only imagine all the people that will be knocking at the door hoping that they get one of those invitations so that they too can
be part of the you know, fancy people's network. Right, And it's also worth mentioning that since Elon Musk took over Twitter, there's been a bunch of Twitter clones, right, just accident popped up that operate and and sort of you know, function similarly to Twitter. It's just the Blue Sky is the Jack Dorsey one, right, It's the one that you know is from the guy who created Writer. And it's also worth mentioning that it's not a
strict Twitter clone. It looks and feels like Twitter. You use it just like you would use, you know, a normal Twitter app, but it's built on a different technology. It's built on what's known as a decentralized protocol, which is essentially what Jack Dorsey is trying to do with this app and
another app that he's built called Noster. And it's this idea that your social profile, right the things that you post on social media, the people that you follow, the people that follow you right now, that is segmented to the app that you use. Your Twitter followers are your Twitter followers, Your Instagram followers are your Instagram followers. Under a decentralized protocol, which you know
Blue Sky is built on. That doesn't necessarily need to be the case, though, your followers can just be your followers and you can access them and interact with them and post to them through whatever app you like kind of similar to email, right, Like I could have a Gmail account, you could have an Outlook account, but we can st will communicate with one another. We just prefer different apps. And one last thing before I let you go
the fetaverse, tell me what exactly that is? So that is what a decentralized protocol kind of gets at. Right, So, decentralized protocol is at the architecture that Blue Sky is built on right now, It's called the at protocol. They've built Blue Sky a sort of their flagship app. Right, this is the Twitter of the Fetaverse. But you could conceivably build a Green Sky and it could be an Instagram clone, or it could be a YouTube
clone or something like that. It's this idea that I can log into a federated Facebook and like your federated tweet, right, and it would all just play very nicely together. The question is, you know, how if that's actually going to play out the way they sort of scripted it. There's not a ton of money in the fetaverse right now, but you know a lot of people really seem to be pushing this idea. Jack Dorsey among them. All right, thank you so much, Mike, You're so much fun.
We'll do it again soon, of course. Take care jin All right, thanks ABC's Mike Debuskie. So it's looking up. How do you get an invite specifically? And there's a Digital Trends dot com. Okay, how about this. You know how you wait in line at Disneyland, Like you get in the queue right and it says, okay, you can get on the matterhorn in forty minutes. Okay. That's what a Blue Sky invite essentially is. You have to log onto the Blue Sky Beta website. Then you get
on a wait list, so you put your yourself in the queue. And there are times, like Mike was saying, that some of these these different people who are on there will give an invite code. However, scammers are lovingness and here's the thing, I bet there you are going to nab a bunch of people. Digital Trends says, we do not recommend spending money to get a Blue Sky code because a there's very little stopping somebody from taking your money, and be they might take your money and not give you a code
after all. So don't do it, don't fall for it. Just watch the fancy people for a while, put your name in the queue. What else are you doing at five forty five in the morning, and then just wait and see but don't pay for it. And what is a Tuesday without a story about Koalas and chlamydia? Right, Koalas and chlamydia as the fun Tuesday. Some of the other stories we're watching in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Also, we're keeping an eye in Sherman Oaks. In fact,
we've got like trolley on his way there. There was a sheered fire hydrant that created this huge mess. There's a little river going down some streets and even several homes were flooded. And the driver who hit that fire hydrant apparently did not stick around. Weird. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim the state of Texas. Man, it had an awful weekend.
Let's start in Allen, Texas. First off, as investigators are still trying to figure out exactly what caused that man to shoot up a shopping center. And I think that the backstory on this is that I can't believe how much research this guy did for so long. Yeah, research on the mall first of all, trying to figure out the layout of the place is like
a huge strip shopping center. I think you inscribed yesterday one of the biggest outdoor outlet malls anywhere, one hundred and twenty store or something like that. And Mauricio Garcia was very thorough in looking at all the angles there, figuring out where to pull his car into the parking lot and then start shooting. And that's what he did on Saturday and killing eight people altogether. Others are still hospitalized, some in critical condition and so, and you're right, and
finding out exactly why he did this. It's going to be tricky watching his social media or looking at it as investigators are now. They are seeing all these different pictures of time and time again where he took pictures of the mall he thought, you know, he categorized when the most people happened to be there, and that kind of thing. I mean, the planning that went
into this. Is this going to be another one of those see something, say something things considering he was posting this stuff, or is it going to be like, well, that's that weird guy that post pictures of the mall all the time. Well yeah, yeah, well probably a little of each. I think there is some indication that maybe some of this could have been caught by a person who could have done something about it. But at the
same time, Mauricio Garcia had no criminal background. He had no criminal record, He hadn't done anything wrong before he was kicked out of the army in two thousand and eight because of some mental health condition, but he had never broken the law before walking onto that parking lot and opening fire on people.
Besides the planning that went into this, he also had been online researching neo Nazi view who's apparently visiting white supremacist sites, and in fact, he had a patch on his tactical vest that he wore at the time of the shooting. Our w d S is what it said. That's come to be known as right wing that squad, as something that was in that community. So yeah, that's it's it's been kind of adopted by extremists over the last couple
of years. And I get you know, a lot of people are sort of parsing the fact that he was looking at neo Nazi things and yet he is a Hispanic manner was right, Yeah, he was. You know, That's that kind of leads to some of the confusion here is it is it realistic for a Hispanic to be a neo Nazi. It is. We've seen
that in the past. Back the head of the Proud Boys was not white, right, so you know that's I don't think he can be ruled out as somebody who has these sorts of views just because of his background, his family's background. All right. Yesterday I was watching the news conference out of Brownsville and the chief they're talking about just the horrific accident. The thing that I thought was so interesting is walking in yesterday morning reading the news, it
was this could be intentional. Seems like some people at the scene say that this guy was shouting different, you know, things at them before he crashed into them, or once he crashed into the people at the bus stop.
But then when I watched the police chief giving the news conference yesterday, the vibe around it anyway, although he couldn't rule out it was intentional, but the vibe was this was just a horrible accident, right, Yeah, George Albarez, he has an extensive criminal background, unlike Maria Ceo, and that
criminal background doesn't include at least one DWI conviction. We're waiting now for the toxicology report to see if he was drunk at the time, that wouldn't rule out his doing this on purpose, but it would seem to suggest that it was, as you point out, an accident. He ran a red light and then went up on the curb, striking eighteen people, killing eight of them there on the scene. Some are still hospitalized today. The vehicle flipped
on its side and Alvarez got out. He apparently tried to leave the scene. I've seen video of the crowd there that closed in on him to get him to stay in place, and there was a lot of shouting going on. He may have been yelling at them. I think he knew who those people were because he was from Brownsville. He knew that that bus stop was there. That bus stop is right in front of an immigrant services type center, and so yeah, it may be a little of both. He had
a gripe against these folks, but he also might have been drunk. Yeah, it could be a two fur on that one. All right, thanks, Jim, I appreciate it, all right, see you later. Maybec's Jim Ryan. Well, whatever we find out that the actual cause is or was, doesn't matter. Eight people were killed. That's what matters. And according to the police chief yesterday that ten people who were injured, some of them are still uncritical, so we could see the manslaughter charges go up against
that driver. If God forbid, more people end up dying in the hospital. Russian President Putin has told his country the West, this is so fun, this is rich coming from the old blad. He says, the West's untamed ambition, arrogance and impunity are driving the real war against Russia. Hello, pot, this is kettle. He praised soldiers taking part in the war
in Ukraine and urged Russians to stand together. He made the comments during a traditional Victory Day parade, which I might point out hat did not look at anything like the ones that we have seen in the past. Why because they don't have a freaking tank to spare. So, yeah, you had a lot of older ones that were in the parade. There's older ones that are defunct, like yeah, this one can still roll down the street, but it can't shoot anything anymore, or it doesn't have the technology in it to
actually be part of a war. That's what was in the parade yesterday. I don't know if you were if I was going to be a rapper, I don't know what my name would be. Actually hit me up on Twitter. This would be a fun one. If I was a rapper, what would my rap name be? I don't know that it would be Boozy Badass. But there is a rapper named Boozy Badass who has been arrested in San Diego for gun possession. Oh, by the way, his name is all
is actually Torrence Hatch Junior, who goes by Boozy Badass. Of course he does. He was performing at a nightclub and Say Diego last week, where videos show him leading a chant of f San Diego police. That's going to go well for you. Hatch was arrested during a traffic stop later Sunday for illegal possession of a gun. The rapper was acquitted a first degree murder in twenty ten. All right, do you have any plans to go to Florida?
To go to Disney World? The resort in Florida says it is no longer going to make you have a reservation date when you're buying tickets, so partgoers will just buy a ticket and then select a date at checkout now. Disney also announced it's bringing back dining plans and it's bringing back the early entry to the park for people who are staying at one of the hotels there.
The changes take effect in January. Once old for the older set, hearing aids are now being used more and more by the young UN's by the age of thirty. The CDC says about twenty percent of Americans have damaged their hearing because of noise. That's on top of the younger Americans who have hearing lost, tight netics, or medical conditions, and more and more, the younger
sets seem okay with the idea of hearing aids. The FDA started allowing the sale of hearing aids over the counter last year, and since then companies like Sony and job Or have jumped into the market, adding new designs and features that appeal to young consumers. There are dozens of brands to choose from. Most new models have Bluetooth capability, and some of the over the counter options can even be ordered online with free shipping. Amy King kf I knew.
My dad just got some hearing aids that are Bluetooth equipped. Oh my god, I want to use them. He used to sit. My dad worked on heavy equipment, you know. He was a paver and then he was also a heavy equipment mechanic, so his ears from the ringing of those that machinery. He's got that what's it called tenitus? Right? Yes? I think so. Anyway, he got hearing aids. Holy God, he can answer the phone. Would like a touch of his ear. They're bluetooth enabled
so he can hear what's on the TV. They're fantastic if he ever, if one day he akes up and goes, hey, where are my hearing aggs? Don't look at me. Then finally we end with two stories out of Australia. The first one scientists there say they have started vaccinating wild koalas against clamidia. They say they hope to protect the marsupials against the disease that
causes blindness, infertility, and death. Experts say clamidia is killing koalas because they become so sick they are unable to climb trees, get food, escape predators, and the females can become infertile. The first koalas were vaccinated in March and the trial is expected to last about three months. And finally, this woman I feel like is the Shannon Farren of Australia, because I feel like if Shannon got lost in the bush in Australia, she too could survive
on lollipops and wine. In her case, it might be bacon and wine. But this woman who got lost in a remote bushland survived for five days on wine and lollipops. So police there showed this aerial picture of where she was. It was super dense. How they even found her, I don't know, but her car got stuck in the mud when she was kind of exploring the area, so she was forced to wander on foot alone for five days before the team spotted her. Police said she was able to survive the
ordeal on a few provisions that she had. She had lollipops in the car and a bottle of wine that was supposed to go to a friend of hers as a gift. The woman apparently was just fine when police found her, and she apparently was very great to see them, very grateful to see them. Shannon hashtag dreams, hashtag goals. So Cowweather from KFI. It's a partly gray day today. That's because we could have a little mist and drizzle
coming in. Should taper off though, buy tomorrow and warm and more sunshine for the weekend. We lead Local Live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Jennifer Jones Lee. This has been your wake up Call. You've been listening to your wake up Call with me, Jennifer Jones Lee, and you can always hear wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday at KFI AM six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app