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going on. Not kidding. Hey, was watching American Idol last night, which I love, and they have They had a trailer on for the new Mufasa, which is the new Lion King movie, and it's going to be like the live action one. I personally like the old animated one, but I was like, oh yeah, so now they're doing backstories on lions. I love this, but it's not coming out till December. I think they're trying to get us hyped up a little bit too early. But it looks
really cool, so be watching that. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Columbia University says it is limiting campus access to students and essential employees. Now that pro Palestinian protesters have smashed windows and broken into a building on the campus, dozens of students are now occupying Hamilton Hall in protest of what the
group calls the university's complicity and genocide. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to send ground troops into Rafa with or without a deal as ceasefire talks with Hamas continue. Israel's put up an offer. Amas is looking into it, but has not agreed to it. Former President Trump will be in court in
New York for day number nine of his hush money trial. We're gonna get caught up with what happened last and what's on tap for today when we talk with ABC's Peter Hairalumbus at the bottom of the hour at six ZHO five. It's handle on the news. California is going to buy a bunch of generic narcn They're going to save some lives and save some money. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A pro Palestinian protesters tried to tase a man outside an anti Israel student camp at UCLA. The woman allegedly walked onto campus from the street, ripped an Israeli hostage flyer off a fence, and then tried to rip the photo. This man says he tried pulling the sign away from the woman when she pulled out a taser and tried to zapp it, pully on my hat, throwing my goggles off. I don't know. I she was all over me, so I just walked away. Try to call security. No, the security
didn't do anything. The woman can be seen on video hitting the man and then flipping off the crowd as bystanders recorded the fight. Yesterday, UCLA has added a metal fence with security guards to keep the public out of the protesters camp. Chris Adler, Yeah Fine News protests that UCLA got heated overnight. Police were called in when dozens of pro Israel protesters tried to breach a barricade where pro Palestinian protesters have set up tents. The pro Israel side also used
a megaphone to shout messages and played music outside the camp. Several items were thrown during the scuffle. Campus police broke it up. Investigators have ruled out arson as a possible cause of a fire on the ocean side pier. They say they're trying to see if the fire last week stemmed from an electrical issue,
since arson teams and dogs didn't find anything suspicious. The city is working on installing temporary fencing to block the damaged end of the pier, and the Coastguard has restricted areas around the pier one hundred yards for boats and one hundred
feet for swimmers and surfers. Governor newsom'sys twenty five percent of all vehicles sold in California at least new vehicles, were zero emission vehicles last year, and the governor says that's a good number considering he wants California to sell only zero emission vehicles by twenty thirty five. California dominates in this space. We want to obtain that leadership, maintain that dominance. Newsom says. As of this weekend, there is one fast charging EV station for every five gas stations in
California. To help build his vision of a greener state, Newsom says one hundred five thousand public or shared private EV chargers have been installed on top of the more than five hundred thousand at home chargers. Steve Gregor k if I News. Now, let's say good morning too, ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim. You know they say that there's a tornado Alley in the US, and they're not kidding. Oh no, my goodness. There's what is going on? Yeah, well, it's springtime. It's springtime, right, that's getting
flowers and tornadoes. Yeah, well, that's when they start to kick up, and then they sort of intensify through the summer and when it gets hot and you have that the heat waves coming off the earth. But it all starts now. And yes, Tornado Alley did live up to its name. From Nebraska down through Iowa, through Oklahoma and into Texas. We've seen a rash of tornadoes in the last few days and they're just beginning the cleanup now.
In Sulfur, Oklahoma. That town was especially hard hit. Town of about five thousand people or so. Thirty of the people were hurt there. One hundred people across Oklahoma were hurt in these tornadoes, thirty of them were in Sulfur, Oklahoma. One person there died, there were three others who were killed across Oklahoma, and then one person in Iowa was killed as well. So just a really deadly, horrific outbreak of tornadoes early in the year.
Yeah, and along with the tornadoes and that then they're also getting dumped on. They are heavy, heavy, rained down in Trinity County, Texas, which Misoga stood by the name the Trinity River runs through it. The Trinity itself has been flooding. And now there's been an evacuation order issued for Polk County out there in southeast Texas. But they too, that area also had a tornado. Still a little E one tornado. Don't count out the
danger that an EF one tornado can bring to an area like this. Yeah, and the F one has top wins of one hundred and ten miles per hour. Man, it was an EF one tornado that touchdown on Sunday in Trinity County. One man was critically injured when that tornado hit his house, destroyed the house. His wife was injured as well. He's still hospitalized, and I mean he may or may not make it. So, Yeah, even an EF one tornado can do a lot of damage. Yeah, one
hundred mile an hour winds. That's and then you said that there's there was that the one in Marietta, Oklahoma is an EF four. How strong are those wins that's going to be topping one hundred and thirty hundred and forty miles per hour and you know, but it's all relative, like say, I mean, they come up with these scales both for for tornadoes and for you know, for hurricanes. But if you're caught in the middle of something like
this, then you know you're you're in trouble. So yeah, So the EF rating system, there's even an EF zero and occasionally we get EF zero tornadoes. That means the winds were up to eighty five miles per hours. But you can imagine even that can do some damage. And it goes all the way to the EF five ranking, which is winds over two hundred miles per How they don't even try to measure that at that point. That's how strong they are. In the movie Twister, I think, yeah, great
movie. I was in Oklahoma, ac surely covering a tornado when that when that movie, they are really the only thing. Here's one of the things that was a beef for me about that movie. So I thought it was super interesting. But you know, how is it continuity? What's the thing that making making sure that everything kind of goes in the correct succession. Yeah. So at one point they're in those bright red trucks uh huh, as they're chasing the tornadoes, and then they get caught up in something and the
trucks are just a mess and covered with mud and the windshields broken. And the next scene that's supposed to happen like five minutes later, it's not like the next day. But the next scene, the truck is clean and the windshield is intact. I was like, dudes, come on, you think nobody's going to notice that. That's why they have continuity directors. There's another scene that is the same sort of issue, not as big, and probably
I'm the old person in the world who noticed it. But the second unit, you know when they have sort of background stuff and things that aren't the main characters, right, you're familiar with that term. And they're driving down the free when you see out the front of the car that's rolling along the Oklahoma skyline and these clouds that are roiling up there, and it's real video. It's clearly real, real video. But as they're driving along, there's
a Texas highway side that they drive past. They're not in Oklahoma. That video was shot in Texas. How about that. I hate when they do that. Okay, so back to the real life tornadoes I know I get caught up in movie stuff too. How much warning do do they typically get before a tornado comes down? Well, it depends if it's something like we've seen here. A particularly dangerous situation PDS is the new term for that that
the Weather Service has come up with. You can get a day and a half two days worth of notice you know that something might be coming, but in terms of a serious and immediate threat is sometimes ten to fifteen minutes. You know that, you realize something's happening. But of course, getting the warning and doing something about it, that is, taking shelter are sometimes two
different things. And everybody has a cell phone so and especially in tornado Alley, they're all set to accept those kinds of notifications when there is severe weather. But again it's kind of up to the individual to do something with that information, that is, to seek shelter and get safe. Do most people have storm shelters in the Midwest? Not most? No. And you know this was something I saw starting maybe fifteen twenty years ago in Watervoklahoma. There
was a big tornado there that I have to cover. And at that point, you know, there was a push to get people to install these shelters and they were doing it. So in a lot of places, especially in Oklahoma, you find that people do have these backyard shelters. You wouldn't even know it was there. Really, there's kind of a it's almost like a cellar door in an old house. You open it up and you go down there and you're safe. So they stocked them with provisions and they get in
it. So and that was one thing I noticed about this outbreak of tornado, saying hearing people talk about it, folks who were saying, yeah, I got down to my shelter and I called my cousin who was over in his shelter. And so people do take it seriously, knowing the threat and history is a tough teacher. And the More Oklahoma that struck in twenty eleven, I think it was and just devastated that area in More Oklahoma, in Norman, Oklahoma into Oklahoma City. A lot of folks took action after that.
Yeah, and how long is this weather system supposed to be hanging around? Is it moving out now? It's dying on now, but it's turned into a different threat. Now there is the possibility for flash flooding, severe flooding in Texas and more severe weather winds and possible tornadoes up in to Des Moines in Iowa, Kansas City and then down through which John Tulsa, so Oklahoma might not be out of the woods just yet. All Right, Jim Ryan, thank you so much for the information. All Right, we'll talk
soon. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Almost a dozen cities in Orange County are making developers include affordable housing in projects of fifty or more home. It's just too expensive to live in southern California. Coasta Mason Mayor John Stephen says the city has no chance of meeting the state's lofty housing mandates, but must do something to address the housing crisis. What we were trying to do is find a sweet
spot that was acceptable to developers but also addressed the issue. The city this month also approved to feed that developers can pay to sidestep the mandate, which will go into an affordable housing fund. Critics say the plan will push developers to build in cities without the mandate. In Orange County, Corbin Carson. KFI News for law enforcement officers in North Carolina have been killed and five others were hurt in a shootout. Police chief Johnny Jennings says, it was a
tragic day yesterday for the city of Charlotte and for law enforcement. We lost some heroes that are out to just simply trying to keep our community safe. Jennings says the officers were serving a search warrant at a home when someone opened fire. The first shooter was killed, but two others inside the home started firing shortly after that. They were taken into custody. Jennings says this is a reminder that when officers put on their uniforms, there's no guarantee they get
to return home. Hunter Biden has threatened to sue Fox News for defamation, exploitation of his image, and publication of hacked photos. Attorney Mark Gerrigos tells kfi's John Cobalt the legal team is demanding corrections and on air retractions of claims Hunter and President Biden engaged in foreign bribery schemes, which were in a six part mock trial. They had a supposed simulation of a trial that involved Hunter
Biden Andy jury and supposed to evidence. Ergo says the evidence included photos the legal team say was revenge porn related to Hunter Biden. Warmer Weather's on its way, and CalFire says now is the time to protect your home from possible wildfires. Get that grass cut down and cut short before it drives out and then the clearing that you do could become a fire hazard. Calfire's Robert Foxworthy says fires are often started by people accidentally by hot exhaust touching grass or mowers,
striking rocks and causing sparks. Foxworthy says you should clear a total of one hundred feet around your home, and hedges and bushes should be up to five feet away from the house. You can visit Ready for Wildfire dot org to get more information on defensible spaces, evacuation plans, and more. Are you watching American Idol? I am. I'm loving it. Stayed up a little late last night to watch it. And I made a prediction last week that Abby Carter is going to win, so she did em and since last
night just angelic except oh, listen to this. I don't think she's gonna win them. And here's why. I think she has the like overall the best voice, I think, But for whatever the reason, I don't think the judges are behind her. Like when they do their their reviews of some people, they're more complimentary and more excited in that kind of stuff. They I mean, they said she did an amazing job what she did. But I think that they're kind of they've got it their heart set on other people.
We'll have to wait and see we've got the top seven. I'm still team you See. Irvine is the latest campus dealing with a pro Palestinian protest. Several tents have been set up on campus law enforcements there, but no signs of any arrest. Protesters say the encampment will stay up until you see Irvine addresses their demands to cut financial ties with Israel. California has partnered with a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey to buy a generic version of Narcan. It
costs forty percent less. It's used to treat opioid overdoses. California will distribute the packs for free to first responders, universities, and community organizations as part of the state's naloxone distribution project. The nuggets have ended the Lakers season. For this second year in a row, the Lakers lost Monday Night's Game five in Denver one eight one oh six. Ah Nail bider La was trying to become the first NBA team ever to win a playoff series. After falling behind
three games to none, they'll try again next season. At six oh five, it's handled on the news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says deal or no deal, they're going to go into Rafa. Let's say good morning now to the host of how to Money on KFI, the guy who's helping us all hang on to more of our hard earned money. It's Joel lars Guard Hi Amy. Okay, we're going to get a lesson in fiduciary right now. Okay, let's do that. Yes, because I have no idea what
that is. So it is this fancy word essentially for whats a. It's a designation for financial advisors. And if your financial advisor is a fiduciary, then it means they have to act in your best interest too. That on ads. Yeah, And the problem currently is that there is no necessity for all advisors to be a fiduciary. So basically, which most consumers wouldn't be aware of. Hey, if I go to see a financial advisor, they can actually do things with my money and encourage me to buy products that serve
them that don't serve me. And so the there is now likely going to be I mean, there's gonna be some legal pushback, but a fiduciary standard adopted under by the Department of Labor, and basically all advisors and insurance salespeople too will be required to offer you and sell you products and manage your money in a way that is most beneficial to you. And so I am for
this change. I'm for this standard, and it's going to save I think a lot of consumers a lot of heartache and then also a lot of money. H Okay, you mean more clarification, maybe a little basic Okay, Basically, right now, if you're an insurance salespeople, you could I could sell If I'm an insurance salesperson, I could sell you something that's high commission, high fees, and it makes me a lot of money and it's not
the best product for you. Right and now this rule, which is going to go into implementation this fall, I'm now required, I'm held to a different standard, and so if I sell you something like that and you find out, oh, my goodness, Joe just got rich on the fees and the commissions from this product he sold me. And actually, I don't think this was the best thing for me. You could take me to court,
and so there is I think this is just a wonderful thing. Like, if you are in that sort of line of work, you should be held to a standard. It's similar to a doctor's charge to do no harm, right, Yeah. And if I give you surgery on something that doesn't require surgery, or encourage you to take some sort of medication that doesn't isn't actually going to help relieve your symptoms or the issues that you're facing, well, then I'm probably not a great doctor, right, and I should probably be
held to account. And the same is true for a whole lot of insurance salespeople, and I don't want to paint everybody in this industry in that way. There are currently ways that you can find and work with people who hold themselves to the fiduciary standard, whether or not they're required to, which I think is great. But I also like the idea of everybody having to be to live up to that standard in the first place, I agree. I think I don't like lots of rules, but that one seems like a good
one. You are a rule breaker to say, I don't know about that. Okay, maybe a little bit. Okay. So if you don't want to dump a lot of money into a car, but you want a good car, you've got some cars that might be good for you. Yeah. So Consumer Reports just came out with a list of the car cheapest cars to own and maintain over the first five years of ownership and then over the first
decade of ownership. And I love this stuff because so much of what we're thinking about when we buy a car is the sticker price, and we're not factoring in all the secondary costs that come down the line. I talk about insurance, you're talking about maintenance, you're talking about depreciation. Right, all of those things factor in, and you've got to be aware of those things
up front. And so when you think about, okay, which cars are going to be the cheapest to maintain, Man, I love looking at those because it just means you're gonna have less work to do on those cars overall. And it's no surprise, no surprise that Tesla comes in at number one because I think of electric vehicles as glorified golf cars. Right, there's fewer
moving parts, which is lovely. I mean, granted, if the battery pack goes could put which you know, we haven't seen massive problems in that department, but if it did, that's a really, really big expense. But Tesla is by far the cheapest. There's the other car manufacturers that are in that realm Buick, Toyota, Lincoln, and fod round out the top five. But if a Tesla's going to cost you four grand in total ten year maintenance costs, which is incredible. I mean that's like replacing tires and
brakes, right, I mean it's almost nothing. But if you look at the other end of the spectrum, Mercedes Portia land Rover, if you buy a land Rover instead of four grand over ten years, it's going to cost you over nineteen thousand dollars to maintain over the course of ten years. So the brand, the make, the model that you buy directly correlates to how much money you're going to be spending and how often you're going to be in
the repair shop. So but on the flip side of the I'm surprised that the Tesla is that low because I know that, like the Tesla, tires cost a lot more because they have to be because the cars are so heavy, they can't use regular tires. They're like industrial strength tires. But what else are you replacing on it? You know that with with your with your gas powered car, you're replacing belts and fans and you know, like all
of these different things. I just took mine in for I forget even my twenty thirteen Honda Odyssey minivan, and they are all sorts of things that just happen with two sensors, and you know, there's just fewer of those things obviously on an electric vehicle. And so that's why I get hybrids or the hot thing right now. I still like electric vehicles large, I mean,
because of the tax incentives. And then also because guess what those electric vehicles, they're going to mean you need zero gas and they're also going to mean you need less maintenance. So if it works for your lifestyle, especially for a two car family having one EV I think, and then a gas powered car often is the way to go okay. And then there is a budgeting method. I just learned about this doing a story a couple of weeks ago the sixty thirty ten method, and you're not a fan of it, So
real quick, what is it and why do you hate it? Yeah? So, basically, it's it's a slight pivot on a past budgeting method, the fifty thirty twenty budgeting method, and it basically says that you would spend fifty percent of your take home pay on your needs, thirty percent on wants, and twenty percent towards savings. So and then sixty thirty ten. The way it pivots is it says, well, actually, instead of that extra ten percent that you put into savings and investments in debt payoff, put that
more into the needs category. And I get with the with how prices have gone up and it's tougher to stretch your paycheck, but I think it's really really important that we don't lower the bar for savings in our lives. If we're only saving and investing in using money for debt payoff at ten percent, and granted that would still be higher than the average American, that's just not
enough. My minimum threshold floor for people is fifteen percent, and I really do want you to get to at least that twenty percent realm where you're saving and investing a good chunk of your paycheck because hey, it's future you. You're getting financial you're gaining financial security much more quickly, and it's so crucial
to make sure that you are living on less than you make. And when you pivot to this other, this newer budgeting method that's making the rounds, you're just not doing enough work in that regard and you're just going to find yourself in tougher financial circumstances and you're not going to be making the progress you want to be. You're going to kind of be like spinning your wheels a lot longer. Okay, So stick with the fifty thirty twenty I think so.
And these are just like that's like the most basic form of budgeting. And I know budgeting is like a four letter word for a lot of people, but I really think of if you think if you could reframe a budget. A budget is not a negative thing constraining your ability to do awesome stuff. It's actually your ability to roadmap out how you can spend on the things you care about the most. So think about a budget like that, Just reframe, a little reframe and a budget doesn't have to be this bad thing.
It's in fact this great thing allowing you to gain greater levels of financial freedom and ensure that you're spending money on the things that you care about, the things you say you care about, and then you can easily you don't mind actually cutting back and spending less money on the stuff you realize it doesn't
really matter that much to you. Okay. To find out more on how to best spend and save your money, listen to how to Money with Joel large Guard right here on KFI Sunday's noon to two, and also we can follow you at how to Money Jewel. Thank you Joel Larsguard. Thanks Amy. Pro Palestinian protesters have broken into Royce Hall on the UCLA campus, where an encampment is set up outside. Police have also detained a man with a big sword on campus yesterday. This is the sixth day of the protests at
the UCLA. Columbia University in New York has limited campus access to students and essential employees after dozens of protesters took over a building overnight. They barricaded the entrances and unfurled a Palestinian flag out a window. Columbia says it will suspend students who don't leave the encampment just in time for the summer Olympics. The Peacock streaming services increasing prices. The monthly subscription fee for Peacock Premium will jump
to seven ninety nine for new subscribers. The price for mostly ad free Premium Plus we'll go up to thirteen ninety nine a month. The new prices will go into effect for existing subscribers in August. At six oh five, it's handled on the news. GNC stores are in trouble, but it could be ozembic of all things to the rescue. Let's say good morning to ABC's Peter Harlumbus. Peter, it is day nine of New York versus Trump. We've been off for a couple of days, so can you catch us up on
what happened in the courtroom on Friday? Yeah, so we had a dramatic day testimony on Friday. It was the conclusion of National Inquirer David Pecker's testimony. He largely stood by his story, suggesting that he entered this arrangement with Donald Trump and Michael Cohen de cash and kill stories at twenty sixteen, and
then Donald Trump's longtime assistant and geekeeper, Ronograss, took the stand. She only testified for about thirty minutes, but she offered some relatively explosive testimony kind of going through some of the evidence in the case that prosecutors suggest connects Donald Trump to Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels, two of the women who received hush
money payments in this case. Grafts details how she created contact entries in the Trump Organization computer system for Trump for both McDougall and Daniels, and she also recounted that she saw Stormy Daniels on the twenty sixth floor of Trump's power that's the same floor as where Trump's law office is located. She suggested that Daniels Daniels was there because Trump was considering casting her in The Celebrity Apprentice. Okay, so then Peter, we know that he knows these women and may have
even paid them off. But there's nothing illegal about that. It's the way that they did the book keeping on it, basically allegedly. Yeah, at the end, at the end of the day, prosecutors, you know, point to all of this conduct, the sellacious conduct environment involving McDougall and Daniels, and they acknowledge that there's nothing illegal about, for example, a presidential candidate having an allegend affair. What they say is illegal conduct is this what
they allege is a conspiracy to illegally influence the twenty sixteen election. And the actual conduct that they allege is illegal in the indictment is the falsification of business records after the twenty sixteen election. So they're pointing to both the overaarching conspiracy during the election and the falsification of business records after the election. Okay, so that catches this up. That's what's happened. And then we're back in
court today. What are we expecting today? So Michael Cohen's former banker, Gary Farrow, was expected to take the stand and continue his direct examination this morning. This is actually some of the more technical testimony that we've heard, but it's going through a lot of the documents that are I guess important evidence in this case. Pharaoh was involved in the creation of two shell companies that
Michael Cohen frantically created in October twenty sixteen. Prosecutors alleged that they were both used in ways related to those hush money payermans to McDougall and Daniels. Specifically, we're going to hear today about the creation of a shell company on October twenty sixth, twenty sixteen that the very next day Cohen allegedly used to transfer
Daniels one hundred and thirty thousand dollars in exchange for her silence. So definitely not as dramatic as David Packer's testimony, but important evidence, rich testimony that really goes to the documents at the heart of this case. Okay, great, and then I have a question for you because you're one of the few people who actually gets to be in the courtroom. As we've mentioned, we know that you can't record anything. There's no video and no audio recording.
But for you, because you have to report on it and give updates to ABC, are you like, do you have your phone with you and you're frantically texting out the information or how does that all work? So thrones are very strictly prohibiting the courtroom. We'll get yelled at and we'll get kicked out if we even pull out a phone, but we're allowed to have laptops.
A bunch of us have. We're frantically typing away. Honestly, the most prominent noise in the courtroom other than the actual testimony, is the sound of keyboard teeth cooking throughout the entire day. It's the soundtrack of the trial in a way. And honestly, there are some times because there's no television, you know, this trial isn't televised, that there are certain things that we
can only witness in that moment. For example, when Graf was getting off the witness stand and graph is a long time trusted ally of Trump, his gatekeeper for decades, Trump got up off his witness, off his chair at council table and walked slightly towards Graf. He whispered something in her ear and appeared to pat her hand. But this entire moment wasn't captured on television, wasn't captured really in a way that we could look back and see what did
Trump say, what exactly did he do? Really, it was up to the sixty year silver reporters in that room in that very moment to capture what did Trump just do? To bring it back, So, you know, high stakes testimony, very short moments that can leave an impression on this jury okay, great, Well that's and that's what we're looking for, is we want we want the moments too, you know, we the big picture stuff,
but you get to see the moments. And thank you so much for sharing them, Peter, appreciate it a ton, and we'll talk to you again soon. Thanks much, had a good one. Take care. That's ABC's Peter Haralambus, and we'll be talking to him again soon because the trial is expected to last for like six weeks. I just think it's fascinating what goes on in a trial. I've sat in on one trial in my whole life, like from start to finish. Is His name was Bary James Duvenote.
I remember that from one hundred years ago. It was the first murder trial held in Jackson County, Oregon. So I sat in on it and it just watching it every day. It's it's it's an interesting, interesting experience. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom pro Palestinian protesters of setup camp at UC Irvine. The city's mayor warned the university yesterday against any law enforcement action to break it up.
She issued the warning in response to police and Orange County Sheriff's deputies gathering in a university parking lot near the protest site. Mayor Farakhan issued a statement saying she will not tolerate any violations of students' rights to peacefully assemble and protest. A new report says LA is making progress and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but
maybe not fast enough. The LA Department of Sanitation and Environment used its most recent data from twenty twenty two to show a city council committee that municipal operations are right at the goal of reducing carbon emissions by fifty five percent next year compared to two thousand and eight, but the broader city, including the entire LA community, is still falling short. The report shows in that respect, the missions are down thirty percent, but well short of its goal of fifty
percent. Friday's presentation suggested that the city council should consider more strategies to speed up the city's effort to be entirely carbon neutral by twenty fifty. Michael Monks KFI News Jason Kelcey is joining ESPN's pregame show Monday Night Countdown following his retire
from the NFL Kelsey played for the Eagles for thirteen years. He co hosts a popular podcast, New Heights, with his brother, Travis Kelcey, and reportedly received interest from multiple networks who wanted him to join their programs before he confirmed with ESPN. The Dodgers take on the Diamondbacks tonight in Arizona at six forty. You can listen to the action on AM five seventy LA Sports, and you can stream every game in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five
seventy LA Sports powered by LA Care for All of LA. Demonstrators have taken their pro Palestinian protests to USC's president's home. Grad students, union workers, community members, and others assembled early yesterday morning outside President Carol Fuld's house in Santa Monica. Activists have demanded she begin what they call an emergency campus student dialogue about the protests and the war between Israel and Hamas. California has partnered
with a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey to purchase generic version of Narcon. It'll cost forty percent less a Narcan. It'll cost forty percent less than name brand Narcan. Of course, it's used to treat opioid overdoses. Governor Newsom has asked for Californians to help pick a design for a new one dollar coin. The coin apparently is going to go into a print into in twenty twenty six.
The governor says the coin should honor California's innovations. Critics were quick to post their ideas on X, including coins depicting tent cities and homeless encampment fires. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, Benjamin Netanyah, who says Israel's going into Rafa deal or no deal with Hamas. Let's say good morning now to the executive executive director of the Best Friend's Animal Society.
It's Britney Thorn and Brittany. We're talking to you today because it's Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. Yes, and we are so excited to celebrate with Best Friends Animal Society. Okay, and how is a best friend celebrating? You're launching a national campaign, right, Yes, we're launching a national campaign to inspire pet lovers to help get some more dogs and cats out of our
US shelters and into loving homes. Okay, and what are some specific things you're doing to try to get more dogs and cats out of the shelters and into the homes where they belong. Beginning today, April thirtieth, and actually continuing through May and June, all adoption fleas at Best Friends locations will be covered thanks to our sponsors Blue Buffalo and Walmart. So free adoptions, okay, And when someone adopts from the shelter, I'm assuming that the pets are
all spade and chipped and all of that stuff. Absolutely spade, neutered, chipped, vaccinated. All they need is you to come get them and take them home, okay. And so we're of course all about the adoptions, and I know you guys are because that's the most important thing, because pets are such wonderful companions. But one of the really heartbreaking things is that shelters only have so much room. So the reality of it is, without the
room and the resources, not all the animals can be saved. But that could be changed if just a few more people would adopt. Absolutely, So you know, we know that this campaign is coming at a really critical time. Pet adoption has been declining over the last five years, and we're seeing really more and more people acquiring pets from breeders and pet stores. So, like you said, with some new data, seven million people are planning to
bring home a pet this year. So if just six percent more Americans chose to adopt versus purchase pets, all of our US shelters would be no kill and they're cheaper too, because you don't have to pay form in right now, you guys are even covering the adoption fees absolutely, and you know there are so many places shelters, rescues that will help even after you bring the pet home. You know, we will help with food if you need it. We know that times are tough right now, and we will help with
resources. You know, if someone wants to come and save a life, we are all about that and we want to do anything that we can to support that decision. Okay, so let's talk about the search for a new pet for just a minute. So before you go and adopt, what do you need to know? What should you do before you get to that adoption point. You know, you should make a decision that you want to obviously bring a new pet home a new family member, and think about some of
the things that you like to do in your life. Are you a little bit of a couch potato. Are you a hiker. Are you looking for a cat, a dog, a puppy, a kitten. You know, they all come with some different responsibilities, but we are happy to provide matchmaking opportunities and make sure that you're set up with an amazing pet. Okay, and I had lost a pet. I had had Cleopatra for more than twenty years, and then I was thinking, you know, I don't need to
get a new one right away. And then about ten months later, I was like, Okay, I think I'm ready. And that's when I found Alexander the Great. And it was at that moment that I really realized what I would had been missing, because when you get them into your home, all of a sudden, there's there's just a new life in your home,
you know. Yeah, And you know sometimes it's it's you know, you have that little bit of time to think about what you want to mourn the loss of your pet, but you know, you're really paying a great service to your former pet when you bring someone else home, and you're saving two lives. Really, you're bringing home an animal, so you're saving that pet's life, and then you're making space for another one who might need some additional
help. Okay. So anyone thinking about adopting Brittany, what might you tell them that might get them off the fence and down to a shelter. That it is the best feeling in the world, almost truly know that you have come in and rescued them. We do offer fostering for someone who might not quite be ready to make the plunge yet. We're happy to help with that as well. But it is really truly one of the best feelings, okay. And it is Adopt a Shelter Pet Day and Best Friends is on a
mission to get more pets out of shelters and into your homes. Where can they go go find the pets and where can they go find some more information? You can visit bfas dot org flash Love. There you'll be able to learn how to support best Friend's newest campaign get more pets in the homes, and you can even submit photos and videos of your pets living their best lives at your home. Oh I love that. Okay. So if you're thinking
about a pet, now's a good time to do it. And again, more information is that bfas dot org slash Love Britney Thorn, thank you so much for your time. I hope you get lots of pets adopted very quickly. Thank you, Thank you so much, Take care, Bye bye. I'm not kidding. I love having Alexander the Great around the house and now Shelby too. It's just fun to have them. You can't take them for walks. Cats don't do walks, at least mine don't, but they're great
to have around. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Pro Palestinian protesters taken over at building at Columbia University in New York. Dozens filed in early this morning, barricading the entrances and then flying a Palestinian flag from a window. The protesters had been given until yesterday afternoon to clear the encampment, but they say they're not going anywhere. This is a movement, an anti war movement. We have sparked
similar solidarity encampments across the nation and even across the globe. A post on social media said an autonomous group had reclaimed Hines Hall, previously known as Hamilton Hall, renamed by the group in honor of what the post said was a six year old martyr murdered at the hands of the genocidal Israeli State. Protesters say they plan to remain in the hall until the university concedes to their demands
of divestment, financial transparency, and amnesty for protesting students. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pledged to begin an encouragion into the southern Gaza city of Rafa, which Israel claims is the last stronghold of Hamas. The US and other allies have urged Israel not to go into Rafa, where more than a million Palestinians have taken refuge as ceasefire negotiations have been ongoing. Netanyahu said Israel would
enter Rafa to destroy Hamas's battalions there, with or without a deal. This year's La County Fair kicks off this weekend with stars, stripes and fun. For the third year in a row, the fair is happening in May instead of August, a decision that's been made permanent. The fair plex and Pomona plays host to animals, amusement rides, and old schools, gating rink, an arcade, and an indie music fest. Fair CEO Walter Marquez says it's
all about fun, but also learning. There's so much education and so much learning that goes on at the Fair, and that's where we get to be sneaky about it and make sure we get that education out. Some of the music access year include Pat Benattar, Nelly, and TLC. The fair runs May third through the twenty seventh. Michael Monks KFI News. You know what
Michael didn't talk about at least not much, the food. Well that's why wake Up Call is going to go out and about this week to the La County Fair because we're going to check out the food and then share it with you. And we're also going to have some family four packs of tickets to the LA County Fair for you wake Up Call listeners. You're going to score big time later this week, so be listening. This is KFI and kost
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