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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app Tuesday, March nineteenth. Good morning, I'm Amy King. It's the vernal equinox today. Spring officially arrives eight o'clock tonight, So happy first day of Spring. And in celebration, here's something kind of sweet. Dairy Queen is welcoming in spring by offering a free ice cream cone

all participating locations while supplies last. I think that's a nice gesture. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. Former President Trump's lawyers say Trump is not able to secure a bond for the four hundred and sixty four million dollar judgment against him in his New York civil fraud trial. Trump needs to post bond by next week or New York Attorney General Letitia James says she's going to start

seizing his assets during the appeals process. Rebecca Grossman, who was recently convicted of hitting and killing two young brothers with her SUV in Westlake Village, is being accused of a legal conduct in jail. The only County daa's office is also accusing her legal team of tampering with jurors. After the trial, she's said to be sentenced up to thirty four years to life in prison. On April tenth, a dazzling streak across the twilight sky was a Falcon SpaceX nine

rocket. Actually was a SpaceX Falcon nine rocket which launched last night from Vandenberg Space for Space along the California coast. The streak could be seen as far as one hundred five hundred miles away in Phoenix, Arizona. The Falcon nine dropped off another twenty two Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit at six oh five.

It's handled on the news. Have you noticed prices at the gas pumps are up over five bucks a gallon again, Well, Bill's going to tell you why and if we can expect them to come down or keep going up. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty

four hour newsroom. A new Department of Homelessness has been propose for Los Angeles Council Member Monica Rodriguez, who represents part of the San Fernando Valley set on Friday, when filing the motion, the work by the city and other agencies is too siloed with not enough communication and too much overlap. She says a new Department of Homelessness, which would report to the mayor and council, would streamline those efforts. The issue will be taken up first by the Council's Homelessness

Committee. The motion follows various questions from city and county leaders over where and how money is being spent to address homelessness. Michael Monks KFI News. Presidential primary elections are being held today in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, and Ohio. President Biden and former President Trump already have secured enough delegates to become their party's presumptive nominees. Biden's going to be in Arizona and Nevada today.

Trump was in Ohio over the weekend. Also, there's a special election today to decide who's going to fill former Speaker Kevin McCarthy's seat in the Bakersfield area. Two new school board members in Orange County who pushed conservative policies appear to have been recalled. All of the culture war issues are not what the recall was about. Recall organizer Michelle Weisenberg says the board members were pushing solutions

to politically exaggerated problems that don't exist. Our main issue was the chaos, the loss of staff, the bleeding of money. Orange School Board member Rick Ledesma says the policies were about protecting parental rights and improving education. I'd rather talk about a child's pronoun at six years old than how are we going to raise these test scores that are so low. New board members can be appointed

once election results are final. In Orange, Cobin Carson KFI News, congressional leaders have reached a tentative spending deal that'll keep the government funded and keep the lights on. Current funding is said to expire on Saturday morning for the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, Labor, and Health in Human Services. ABC's Chuck Sievertson says the agreement reached last night is said to fund the

Department of Homeland Security. Negotiators are still working out the details. Funding for DHS was a final sticking point. The other five funding bills were effectively settled over the weekend. Long Beach has kicked off its annual Walk to School week. City health officials say yesterday marked the beginning of a week meant to highlight the benefits of physical activity, while also emphasizing pedestrian safety and easing traffic congestion

near schools. The theme this year is walking with Sunshine, and students are asked to wear bright colored or reflective clothing so they can be more visible to drivers. Now, let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers at the White House. So, Karen, Israel says it's going into Rafa to weed out

Hamas, the US says, don't do it. So what's happening now, Yeah, I mean, the latest is that the White House has invited senior Israeli officials to come to Washington and have a conversation about what they say is a better way forward. Jakes Olivan, the National Security Advisor, came to the briefing yesterday and said, send your team to Washington. Let's talk about it. We'll lay out what we believe is a better way. He said that the key goals that Israel wants to achieve in Rafa can be done by

other means. And this was the strongest public opposition to a potential Israeli military operation in Rafa that we have seen and heard from the administration so far. Jake Sullivant was very blunt. He said a major ground operation. There would be a mistake. He said, it would lead to more innocent civilian deaths, it would worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis and deepen what he called the

anarchy in Gaza, and further isolate Israel internationally. That was the strongest thing we have heard from the administration about what this type of operation could do. He said that the President didn't threaten or issue any threats to Benjamin net and Yahoo, but they have made it very clear they want them to hold off. He said, they have every expectation that Israel would not proceed with this operation until that conversation in Washington is held between senior officials. Okay, So

when is the Israeli delegation supposed to get here. It's not clear the invitation was come in the coming days, not clear if they're even going to happen, But that is what the administration would like to see, and they don't want to see any military action until that conversation takes place. Okay, And Jake Sullivan said that there are better ways to handle this situation. Did he tip his hat at all or he did not tip his hand? Actually he

did not. Better way, he said will lay out for you what we believe is a better way, and also said that the goals could be achieved by other means, but did not get specific about what those other means could be and what the administration is prepared to lay out for the Israeli officials. But you know, he said, it's an alternative approach to target Jamas without

a major ground invasion. And he pushed back very strongly on you know, some kind of questioning your criticism that if you question Israel doing an operation like this, that you don't share the goal of defeating Hamas. He was very clear that you know, they want to know that the Israelis have a coherent and sustainable strategy, as he put it, to defeat the group. Okay, now, and Israel has said that it's going to go into Rafa, it's going to do what it needs to do to weed out Hamas, and

that it's basically not up to the US. So does the White House or the US do we actually have any power over them? Well, there's certainly military aid that has been going over there for an aid and that was a question that came up yesterday about whether there was a threat to withhold that aid. If there was a you know, if they do move forward in a

way that the United States administration does not like. Jake Sullivan said that there were no threats issued during this phone call, but that the President made it very clear where they stand and what they want to see and not see the Israelis do with this military operation. Okay, And I know the White House isn't going to say it, but is there any indication that it's talking tough to appease that large chunk of voters who say they're not going to support Biden

because of the White House's stance on supporting Israel. Jake Sullivan is certainly not going to talk about that. Yesterday in terms of politics, everything was from the policy and foreign policy perspective, Okay. And then they're also saying, so the White House is saying, hey, bring a delegation over, don't do anything until after you talk to us, don't go and make any big moves in Rafa. I wonder if Israel will go, Okay, We'll send

a delegation over and then go into Rafa. Anyway sort of is a surprise. It's possible. I mean, I couldn't tell you that. That's a question for them, but you know that is always possible. The administration, though, was very clear yesterday they don't want to see anything happen until there's the chance to lay out for the Israelis what the White House believes is a

better way of doing this. Yeah, and then has the White House indicated any possible reperca repercussions if Israel just ignores what they have to say, They're not laying that out publicly either. Probably best to keep those things quiet, all right, Karen Travers, thank you so much for the information. We'll be watching what happens. I have a great day, all right, you too. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI

twenty four hour newsroom. The Supreme Court has blocked a bill in Texas that would allow local cops to arrest people believed to be in the country illegally. This comes after a back and forth court fight, with opponents claiming only the federal government has the right to enforce immigration laws. The justices were asked to provide a ruling by yesterday. At first, no action was taken, but

then moments later they extended the stay pending further order of the court. The Director of the FBI has warned Congress that fake Mexicans are trying to cross the border. Christopher Ray told a committee on Intelligence that men from terrorist countries have been settling in Mexico, Central and South America, learning the language, shaving their beards, and assimilating into the culture. Then they try to enter California

as Mexican nationals, complete with fake IDs. Last year, people from one hundred and seventy countries were stopped at the California Mexico border, and border agents say because of lax immigration policy, the odds of these people successfully entering California and putting down roots are pretty high. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News, the owner of a food truck in Long Beaches, recovering from several stab

wounds after chasing a man who robbed an attacked an elderly woman. Brian Tacoon says he saw the attack on the morning of March tenth and pulled over to try to help the woman. I asked her she was okay what happened, and she said that her belongs had been spoiled by a gentleman running down the streets. Takun got into a fight with the robber, but managed to get the woman's cell phone back then, as he was driving home, he says

he started to feel sick, so he called nine to one one. At the hospital, doctors found he had been stabbed several times and had a punctured lung and internal bleeding. The police later found and arrested the suspected attacker. The man accused of killing two people that you see Colorado Springs is going to be evaluated as see if he is mentally competent to stand trial. A judge

granted the competency request yesterday. Nicholas Jordan is accused of killing his roommate and a woman inside a dorm room last month, just hours he asked after he asked to withdraw from school. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US is going to continue to support Ukraine's war effort against Russia, even as Congress remains stalled on getting additional aid for Ukraine. Austin told more than fifty defense leaders from Europe and around the world who are in Germany that the US will not let

Ukraine fail. Russia has squandered up to two hundred and eleven billion dollars to equip, deploy, maintain and sustain its imperial aggression against Ukraine. The meeting comes the week after US defense officials managed to find and use three hundred million dollars in contract savings to send more weapons to Ukraine. Spring Break is shaking shaping up to be the busiest travel period ever ABC Derek Dennis's two point seven

million people screened at airport checkpoints across the country just on Sunday. The last time the nation's airport saw that many people fly was back on the Friday before Christmas and on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving in twenty twenty two. The TSA says the travel season started March seventh and continues through March twenty fifth. I think LAUSD students around spring Break next week. It says it expects to screen more

than forty seven point seven million travelers during that time period. That would break records. Thinking about breaking records earning a lot of money as a real estate agent, it might be tougher now the six percent commission, which is kind of standard for home purchases no more. The National Association of Realtors announced late last week that they had come to a settlement with groups of home sellers and agreed to end a bunch of antitrust lawsuits. They're going to pay four hundred

eighteen million dollars in damages and eliminate rules on commissions. The agreement effectively gets rid of the current home buying and selling business model, in which sellers pay both their broker and the buyer's broker. So it could be good news for homeowners, could be bad news for realtors, or who knows how it's all going to shake shake out. But yeah, that's six percent commission. Go on the way of the Dodo. It's time for Opening Day Dodger Baseball.

The Dodgers are going to take on the San Diego Padres from South Korea tomorrow morning at three am. You can listen live or you can listen to the replay at noon on AM five to seventy LA Sports and HD on the iHeartRadio app brought to you in part by LA Care for all of LA. When we come back, we're going to be talking about what Joel Larsgard calls the subscriptionification of everything. Yeah, it's a word, and how to avoid getting

underwater with your car Loan. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty Good morning, I'm Amy King. Happy first day of spring. It officially arrives at eight o'clock, but what the heck, let's start celebrating early. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A federal judge in La could soon mandate a court ordered independent audit of LA's spending on homeless services. The judge heard from La Mayor Bass yesterday promised

to be more transparent about what the city spends on homeless issues. The judge says six hundred million dollars was spent in the years before Bass was mayor without proper accounting. A Texas law allowing police to arrest anyone they believe is in the country illegally is back on hold. The Supreme Court allowed the temporary stay of the law to expire, but then moments later put a news stay in or extended the stay, citing a new filing challenging the law. Opponents say

only the federal government can enforce immigration law. The NBA championship ring Kobe Bryant gave to his father is up for auction. The fourteen carrot gold ring is a copy of the ring Bryant Bryant received for the Lakers two thousand NBA championship. That was his first championship. The ring has forty diamonds, the Lakers logo, Bryan's name, and his number at the time. Eight. The high bid as of this morning ninety four thousand dollars. The auction ends on

March thirtieth at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Former President Trump can't come up with the nearly four hundred and sixty four million dollars. What that means as he appeals his civil fraud trial punishment. I guess. But right now, let's say good morning too. The host of Money on KFI. It's Joel Larsgard. Joel, we saw this come out yesterday,

and I'm giving you credit for this word the subscriptionification of everything. Yeah, so I like making up new words on occasion, and I'm hoping, I'm hoping Websters gets in on the action and subscription ification. I deserve credit for this right now. Absolutely, it's so true though. It's so true. And there's an article I didn't realize this well. Target recently mentioned, Hey, we're we're following suit. Amazon has done so well with Amazon Prime.

Walmart's doing pretty well with Walmart Plus, why don't we kind of come up with our own ninety nine dollars forty nine dollars for the time being until May kind of service to you know, get for target shoppers who want their stuff delivered in a timely fashion. And then Chuck E Cheese now has a potentially thirty dollars a month subscription. Thirty dollars a month. Can you imagine paying Chuck E Cheese three hundred and sixty dollars a year for like discounted pizza and

extra tickets and stuff like this. Everybody, everybody, every model, from almost you know, every every company these days, once a recurring, guaranteed dollars being spent from your account to them every single month. And this is we know this right, We've seen this trend. It continues to get more

and more pervasive. And I think you and I talked about this recently too, Like there was an article on the Wall Street Journal about one of the writers said, I canceled a bunch of subscriptions and I was able to afford a tesla. And that is maybe a little extra, but there's a lot of people in a boat similar to that, where hey, we're maybe spending two hundred, two hundred and fifty bucks more than we thought on subscriptions every

month. It is so wise, so smart to dig in and see where your money is going, because you in all likelihood and this is true for almost everyone. It was true for me recently. I was like, why are we paying for Paramount? Plus I don't even remember signing up for that, and so I had to ditch it. So but if you're not looking and seeing where your money's going, you don't realize that maybe it's going to a subscription that you forgot about. Yeah, I'm dealing with similar issues right

now. So to track your subscription, like, just go look at your credit card statement because it's all on auto pay, that's right. And they're actually apps too that can help with this. There's one called Rocket Money and then there's another one called Subscription Stopper. And so if you're trying to figure

out, well, how do I actually like identify which subscriptions? And I don't really love pouring over my credit card bill, although I would say it's a really good idea to do that because so many people don't know where their money's going. Hook it up to one of the to one of those subscriptions stopper apps and let it identify and sometimes it'll help cancel on your behalf. That's maybe like the easy new kind of like essentially digital way to do it.

But whatever it takes to get rid of some of those subscriptions that you're not using any There are subscriptions that I use, like I like my Mac subscription. That's probably where I watch most of my TV shows. But like, cancel it if you're not using it, you can always sign back up again. We just have so many ongoing subscriptions. It's cost and it's death by a thousand cuts, right, because it's five bucks here, it's ten bucks here, it's twenty bucks there. And that stuff really does add up.

I mean my mom used to tell me that when I was a kid, right, just that even those small things really do add up. And it's one hundred percent true. We think just ten bucks, who cares? But ten bucks times a dozen, man, that becomes real money. Yeah. And as far as like the target subscription is it really is it just shipping or is it special deals or is it free money or do we know yet? Because it's brand new, it's brand new, it's brand new,

and so I'm not sure exactly how robust it's going to get. I mean, think about Amazon Prime when it launched, and it was all about shipping, and then they had to come up with a bunch of other things to give you to make it kind of sticky. And now people think, well, I got the music and I got the shows, and so what Target's going to turn this into remains to be seen. But it's particularly good if you like shopping on Target and you want that stuff delivered within a couple of

hours. That's their main selling point. So Target or for Amazon it's two days, and for Target it's going to be two hours. And so if you're like I love shopping Target and I want that stuff immediately and I don't want it to go to the store, this is going to be for the

hyper loyal Target person. Yeah, but part of the fun of shopping at Target is wandering around in Target and discovering what my wife says, Yeah, so there is one, Joel that I do have a subscription to aside from Costco, but CBS has one and it's like you pay five dollars a month, but you get ten dollars a month. Oh, it's interesting. Yeah, no, I like, well, it makes me. That just makes me think of annual fees for credit cards. Some people have this knee jerk.

I hate annual fees. I'll never pay one. I say, well, look at the fine print. What sort of return are you going to get on your money. There are a lot of credit cards that have annual fees of ninety five dollars. My little sister has one that's like a six hundred dollars annual fee, but she and her husband travel. So it's an Amex, isn't it. Yeah, it's the Amex. Yeah, and it comes with lounge access and all these other perks that it's so worth it.

They get way more value than six hundred bucks in a given year. So much of it depends on, you know, what your spending looks like, what your life looks like. And uh so, yeah, I wouldn't just dismiss it out of hand. And I wouldn't dismiss a subscription out of hand. There's a lot of value you can get from some of those things. It's just that we're over subscribed and that everybody wants you to subscribe to something. Now, yeah, I would like to subscribe to this. I just

don't see it ever happening. But it's a thirty two hour work week. I think Bernie Sanders is the one who put that up ed. But he's saying he wants to implement a thirty two hour work week but have people make the same amount of money, so they'd be working eight hours less at least, but making the same amount of money. Sounds nice, right, Utopia coming to our shores. I mean I talk about this regularly, like I am more than okay with people trading off hours worked for time back in their

life. And the way to make that happen is typically by living a more frugal existence. It's by kind of reducing our wants and being comfortable maybe living in a smaller home or not eating out as much. Like, there are all sorts of ways that we can claw back money into our lives so that we don't have to not so that we can invest more necessarily or consume more, but so that we can get back the most precious resource, which is

time. I think that's actually a really worthy endeavor. I just don't know that this is going to work, because when it becomes like a government mandate that employers have to pay everybody the same amount for less work. In some ways, Actually there's some there's some brilliance to shorter work weeks. I think when you look at some of the studies that people end up being just as

productive working fewer hours. It's almost like we're we're online, we're there, we're at the water cooler or whatever, and we just end up feeling like the work we need to do can fill into smaller, smaller time in many cases. But the other thing is in this country, like the best things happen by people who are completely unconstrained. It makes me think of building rockets or something like that. I just read a book about four different you know,

startup rocket makers. The only way those things take off and those things, trust me, you're going to revolutionize our lives. You literally take off. Yeah, the way that that's going to change, it's going to change our lives. But the only way it happens is by people working eighty plus hour work weeks. And so it's I get why this proposal is made. I think it needs to be a personal choice and a choice that businesses make, and in that personal choice, you have more free to make that choice

as you get better handling your money. And you have a higher savings rate. I think the idea of that passing is just not it. No, it's not gonna happen. No, Okay, we're out of time as always, but more people are underwater on their car loans, and so just real quick, what are some ways you can avoid that? Okay, so super super duper sad that people are trading in a car that they owe more money

on than it's worth. And like something like one in five people are getting a new car and guess what, They're trading in an old car that they still owe a bunch of money on. And so now the terms are worse. They owe even more money than their new car is worth, and it becomes this negative equity cycle that a lot of people get into. It's incredibly expensive to do that, and it's it's a scary thing financially. So the way to avoid it is to drive your car longer. I literally forked over

a thousand bucks yesterday to repair our twenty thirteen hond Odyssey. It's not fun to pay the repair bill. But guess what I actually think of it as like this hashtag blessing, because the downside to not having to pay that repair bill is having a massive monthly new car payment, especially if you owe money on an older car and you're training it in. It's just it's a really bad idea, and so just hold onto that car longer. Even if that

car needs repairs. It's better to pay the mechanic than it is to go to the dealership and trade in a car of the your upside down on Okay, something to think about it is. It is Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money right here on KFI. You can listen to him give you lots and lots of smart money advice every Sunday from noon to two, and you can also follow him at how to Money. Joel. Thank you,

Joel. Thanks Amy. All Right, when we come back, we are going to be talking to somebody from the National Wildlife Federation because it's World Water Day. We're going to tap into that. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI AMCA. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Rebecca Grossman, who was recently convicted of hitting and killing two young brothers with a SUV in Westlake Village, is being accused of

illegal conduct in jail. The County DA's office is accusing her legal team of tampering with jurors. After the trials, she apparently has been trying to have her daughter's husband and legal team get her a new trial. She's supposed to be sentenced on April tenth. Lawyer lawmakers in Hong Kong have passed a new national security law that grants the government more power to quash dissent. The law means anything deemed a threat to national security could be punishable by life in prison.

Government officials say the laws needed to prevent a recurrence of pro democracy protests like in twenty nineteen, and will only affect an extremely small minority of disloyal citizens. March Madness is here. The NCAA tournament begins with two matchups in the first four, tipping off from Dayton, Ohio later today. The first round of the tournament tips off on Thursday, was sixteen games at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Sports Illustrated isn't going away after all.

Bill's going to tell you about that five point fifty Chef Bruno Serrato of the Anaheim White House and Pastathon and Katerina's Club has just hit a monumental milestone. Our own Chris Adler is going to tell us all about that. But right now, let's say good morning to the director of legal advocacy for the National Wildlife Federation. Hello, Jim Murphy, good morning, How are you doing great? Today is World Water Day, first day spring and World Water Day, two big days. So tell us, Jim, what is the

status of our drinking water and our waterways in the US? Well, right now, our waters, unfortunately, are in trouble. People broadly support clean water, but unfortunately, last year the Supreme Court issued a decision that effectively rolled back pollution and destruction protections for more than half of America's wetlands and millions of miles of streams. Okay, and that was with the Clean Water Act. They just decided that part of the part of it didn't need to be

enforced anymore. Yeah. No, they decided that the historic scope of Clean Water Act protections we've enjoyed since the early seventies that have kept our wetlands from being destroyed, and wetlands are really the brit of filters of nature that ensure that what comes out of our tap is clean and safe. That those protections don't apply to those waters anymore. The Brita Filters of Nature haven't thought of

it that way. That's really kind of interesting. So this might be the obvious question, Jim, But what is the biggest threat to our waterways? Our waterways are threatened by a variety of things. Climate change is putting a

lot of stress on our waters. Development has always been a threat, you know, obviously, unregulated pollution from from industry dumping chemicals we have, uh, you know, we have new chemicals like so called forever chemicals that are impacting a lot of waters and threatening you know, the basic health and safety of many communities. Okay, Unlike so many problems, there are some things that can be done to protect water and water ways. So what are some

things that we can do? Uh? Well, obviously, you know, restoring the protections of the Supreme Court rolled back are key to ensuring that we protect our waterways. There's a lot that can be done on the state and local level, uh to ensure that we uh preserve the waters we have, uh, and don't uh, you know, don't just roy the waters. We need those involved. Things like making sure we have state level protections for

waters. California has done a good job, but with the Supreme Court decision, they're going to have a lot more The state is going to have a lot more work to do. It also means, you know, things like giving incentives to developers to make sure that they restore and protect waters rather than pave them over. Okay, and you are with the legal the director of Legal Advocacy for the National Wildlife Federation. Is the Wildlife Federation working to try

to go back and get those Clean Water Act protections restored. We absolutely are. With the support of the Walton Family Foundation, we are working hard to make sure that Americans know about the threat to water. A recent poll has shown that over ninety percent of Americans value clean water and that four of five Americans are very upset to learn and that that these long standing protections have been

rolled back. So we are working hard to get the word out and to make sure that both Congress and states step up and protect the waters we need to to ensure that what comes out of our tap is clean, to ensure that wildlife has the water it needs to survive, and to ensure that you know, the other functions that things like wetlands play, like keeping us safe

from droughts and floods are also preserved and our wetlands. I was when I was reading through the information about World Water Day, I came across the natural infrastructure is that wetlands. Wetlands are type of natural infrastructure. Natural infrastructure is really using the the services that nature provides that that protects us. You know, nature is one of the best investments we can make h to ensure that

that flooding is reduced, to ensure that we have adequate water supply. So natural infrastructure is basically doing things that allow nature to do its job to protect us. It's affordable, and it's a great way to ensure that our communities are protected. Okay, and people want to find out more about this, learn what that natural infrastructure is, how they can help or get involved or just follow along and learn what's going on. Where would they go to find

out more information? They can go to National Wildlife Federation's website NWF dot dot org. The Walton Family Foundation also has a lot of information on its website, and there's many other organizations out there that are also dedicated to the protection of clean water. Okay, well, thank you so much for your time. Jim Murphy appreciate it, and I think you're right. We agree we need safe drinking water, and I don't think that's anything anyone is going to

go now. We don't need that, So yeah, absolutely, let's pay attention and keep those waterways safe, especially today Worldwater Days. Thank you, Jim Murphy. Great, thanks for having me. All Right, you got it. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The Only said Council has adopted a plan to address costs associated with childcare. Child Care Equity Plan was unanimously adopted by the council.

The plan aims to lower cost and to increase access to high quality childcare. Council member Hugo Soto Martinez says, families making the median salary in LA are spending roughly a quarter of it on childcare. But if we do not improve this system, we're going to see many more Angelinos being affected by this, including many folks who simply won't be able to work because they have to take care of their children. The plan also wants to find more workers for

childcare facilities. Michael Monks KFI News News brought to you by American Vision windows. A metro bus and a motorcycle have collided in Valley Glenn, killing the man on the motorcycle and critically injuring his twelve year old niece. The crash late last week was caught on security video. The motorcycle was crossing the intersection at Hazeltein Avenue and Bessemer Street when it was hit by the bus. It's not clear who is at fault. Attorneys for rest armorer Hannah Gutier's read have

asked that she be released from prison and granted a new trial. Gutiers was sentenced to eighteen months for negligence related to the onset shooting death of cinematographer Helena Hutchins in twenty twenty one. Her lawyers say a state Supreme Court opinion issued last week will lead to her conviction being overturned. They say jurors being asked and or that she failed to properly check the mo means they could convict even

if not unanimous. Two studies led by the National Institutes of Health have shown Havana syndrome doesn't harm the brain. ABC's j O'Brien says the mysterious health condition is affected US government employees stationed in countries at Cuba, China, and the US. The study doesn't mean something didn't happen to the eighty government employees it monitored, but it found whatever happened likely wasn't caused by something that can lead

to brain damage detectable on an MRI or other similar tests. Symptoms include hearing noises and experiencing head pressure, followed by headache, dizziness, and cognitive dysfunction. And the filmmakers behind Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey, Yeah Yeah, are creating a horror Avengers like crossover event featuring other characters. Oh Goodie, can't wait. The name of the movie is Poonaverse. Monsters assemble. Pooh teams up with murderous versions of Bambi, Tinkerbell, Pinocchio, Peter,

Pen, Tigger, Piglet, and the Mad Hatter. Also Sleeping Beauty. It's going to be released next year. Blood and Honey two hits theaters on March twenty six. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty This first day of Spring. I always thought spring was March twenty first, but the vernal equinox this year is on March nineteenth, here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The final count is still

not in on Proposition one. Two weeks after the election. The race remains too close to More than two hundred thousand ballots are left to be counted, and at last check, the Yes vote still has a slight lead by about twenty thousand votes. If Prop one passes, it would add eleven thousand beds to help homeless people with mental health issues and addiction. A federal judge in LA could soon mandate a court ordered independent audit of LA's spending on homeless services.

The judge heard from La Mayor Bass yesterday, who promised to be more transparent about what the city spends on homeless issues. The judge says six hundred million dollars was spent in the years before Bass took office without proper accounting. The FBI has returned a pair of ruby slippers stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Minnesota. They're back at their original owner now. It happened in a secret ceremony back on February first, but it was kept secret because of the

ongoing investigation into the theft. The slippers were stolen from the museum in two thousand and five. We're just minutes away from handle on the news this morning, Paris is getting ready for the twenty twenty four Summer Olympics with three hundred thousand condoms. Uh huh. As you know, every year we do Pastathon to raise money for Katerina's Club, which is Chef Bruno Serrato's passion project feeding

children. And while we do Pastathon one day a year, Bruno's been feeding kids every single day for years, and our Chris Adler says, Chef Bruno has served his ten millionth meal to the kids. Thousands of pounds of pasta have been served to needy children since two thousand and five, many who have had to sleep in cars and motel rooms with their struggling families. Chef Bruno says hitting the ten millionth meal milestone could never have been achieved without his Mama,

Katerina, who started the mission. Mama, that's at and also never forget that the peoples are Solan they needed us. Twenty years Chef Bruno's mother asked him to make pasta for a little boy who was eating a bag of potato chips for dinner. Nearly twenty years ago. Mama Katerina passed away in twenty fourteen, so I asked Chef Bruno what he would say to her, if he could say anything at all. Do you make me cry? Know

all the world better than thank you. The highlight of the celebration was a special visit from Billy Saldonna, the very first child to have ever been fed by Chef Bruno. Saldana jumped out of a pink, three tiered cake to surprise all the kids who had just finished their pasta, the same pasta Chef Bruno made Saldana when he was a little boy two decades ago. Bruno's been

a great mentor a really influencer. But for me, I just coming back and see he's still doing it is something that I'm really proud of him. For more than one hundred and fifty kids from Anaheim were treated like VIPs and served elbow pasta with chicken breast drizzled with lemon butter sauce, and for dessert,

chocolate covered strawberries. One of the talented people behind that Neil is executive chef Eddie Mesa, who says his heart is full if the kid's bellies are full, I guess, so I'm motion a like excited because we stuffrom the you know one local club and after we stand in and stand and now is out so many, so many beats. It was Mesa's birthday, and he says he hopes he can spend many more birthdays making hot meals for hungry kids in the community. So now I have twenty four you, I can hand

twenty four you more right if Bruno wants me. I watched carefully as dozens of children completely finished their plates, knowing for many of them, hot meals aren't always available. Many of these children would never have been able to enjoy a hearty meal like the one Katerina's club has blessed them with. We don't have food, we don't smile. We have food and a good plate of

pasta, we smile for twenty four hours. Chef Bruno was honored with the twenty twenty four US President's Lifetime Achievement Award yesterday in recognition of his humanitarian service to the community. He's also been nominated for the Gentlemen of Hearts Award in London for years of dedication to feeding and housing families in need. But he says he would never have made it this far without a solid team standing behind him. We thought, your best, Coop, you don't do what you

do today. You needed to have an amazing coup. Behind the scene is sometime the most important people. Chef Bruno says ten million meals is great, twenty million will be better and says he hopes to continue inspiring the rest of the world. So no child goes to bed hungry again for wake up call. I'm Chris Adler. Thank you, Chris boy, that's amazing. Ten million meals and I'll just say now thanks to you. If you have donated

to Katerina's Club and we're looking forward. We've got another bostathon coming, but right now you can always donate and by doing to do that, just visit Katerinasclub dot org Katerinasclub dot org because their feeding kids every day. They need the donations every day. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom or three one Ignition and lift the Falcon nine Go Starlink Go SpaceX, a Falcon nine SpaceX rocket carrying twenty two Starlink

satellites to low Earth orbit has launched from Vandenberg Space four Space. The launch last night lit up the night sky over southern California. It was the tenth launch for the Falcon nine first stage booster, which has launched seven other Starlink missions and two missions for the US Space Development Agency. Apparently, that streak across the night sky could be seen as far away as Phoenix, Arizona. Researchers that you see Irvine say all cars will have to account for harmful tire,

road and break pollution before being considered zero emission. Think of it as sort of under the radar, but really they've been here quite a long time. We just haven't recognized it. You see. Irvine chemistry professor Jims Smith says their first study looked at breaks similar to what happens if you take a balloon, say, and you just rub it on your sweater or your hair. The particles that emit from breaks are actually carrying static electricity. Smith says

the particles are harmful to humans, just like exhaust particles. He says eighty percent of particles admitted during light breaking are charged, but can be removed by adding a simple device to brakes. In Orange County, Corbin Carson, kf I News Israel's prime ministers agreed to send a team to Washington, d C. To talk about an operation in Rafa with President Biden. Biden has warned the US would not support an operation in Rafa without a credible plan to make

sure that innocent Palestinians aren't caught in the crossfire. The US says more innocent civilians have been killed in this war than in all the wars in Gaza combined. Joe Anne Fabric and Craft Stores have filed for bankruptcy and Delaware ABC's Daria Albinger says the company will become private again just two years after it went public. One thing that is not expected to change the company's eight hundred stores,

which are expected to operate normally during the reorganization. Albinger says. The filing yesterday comes amid ongoing financial troubles and major layoffs late last year. Joanne says as part of the bankruptcy process, it expects to receive one hundred and thirty two million dollars in new financing. It says it'll also slice it's funded debt by about five hundred five million dollars. Having so it's a good time.

Having all the mansion in London, where Freddie Mercury lived the final decade of his life, is up for sale for the first time in nearly forty five years. The Neo Georgian brick home, dubbed Garden Lodge, is in the upscale Kensington neighborhood. It's selling for more than thirty eight million dollars US, but it's not publicly listed. Mercury bought the home in nineteen eighty, saying

he wanted to leave the Victorian life surrounded by exquisite clutter. As he put it, this is KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. You've been listening to Wake Up Call with me Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up Call five to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM's and any time on demand on the iHeartRadio app