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Get Up, Get your work week started. Have you had a great weekend? I did.

I had a D and D weekend. No, not Dungeons and Dragons.

I was like, what Disney and Dodgers very nice, only nice.

The only bad things were on the Dodgers lost, but it was still it was such a great game. And then Disneyland was spectacular. It was so much fun. I had a friend in town and it was just it was awesome. We went on the Tiana's whatever it's called. Oh yeah, but you used to be see the old Splash Mountain.

We went on that ride.

People were coming off of that ride soaked, like drenched head to toe, and we're like.

Well, we gotta go, we gotta do it. We didn't get.

Wet, wow, lucky or not the people in front of us.

Head to toe. It was so fun. It was a great group of people though. It was fun.

We just like met up with these people and we started talking to them and they're like, hey, you want to go on our boat with us. We're like okay, And we had them sit in front. So anyway, it was a great weekend. Hope you had a great weekend too. Let's get started. We got a lot going on. Here's what's ahead. On wake up Call, La Metro begins screening passengers for concealed weapons at the Green Lines Norwalk station.

That's coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Another weekend, another car rams into a festival. This one leaves at least eleven people dead in Canada. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us at five point twenty. We're gonna see if there's anything that can be done to stop these kinds of attacks. And if you're looking for hope and inspiration and true love, I might have.

The perfect movie for you.

We're going to talk with the producer and director of Abby's List, a documentary, yes, not documentary, a dogumentary. It's in theaters this weekend. We're gonna find out all about it. That's coming up at about five point fifty. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Thousands of La County workers are planning to walk off the job tonight, and.

The strike could potentially disrupt key services. SEIU Local seven twenty one, representing fifty five thousand frontline employees, says the walkout is over on labor practices, wage stagnation, and excessive outsourcing. County officials warn't possible delays in healthcare, social services, and public works through Wednesday evening. Union leaders accused the county of spending billions on contractors while ignoring worker pay and staffing shortages. Heatherbrooker KFI news.

La County Supervisor Catherine Barger is set to visit a property in Alta, Dina where crews are about to start rebuilding a home destroyed by the Eton fire. The woman who owns the home, Margot Stuber, had debris cleared Firmer property by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Governor Newsom says wildfire resources in California are safe, even though the states facing major financial issues. He says California has nearly doubled its investments in CalFire over the past few years in state of.

The art technologies it relates to access the tools that the Pentagon provides the tools that private contractors like Lockeed provide.

Still, Newsom says there is a tough road ahead with lower revenue, higher unemployment, and rising costs. Santa Monica could soon be letting people sip a drink while strolling down the Third Street promenade.

Pantamonica City leaders have approved plans for an entertainment zone where public drinking would be allowed every day from eight am to two am between Wilshore and Arizona. Drinkers would need to wear wristbands, be twenty one or older, and use plastic cups. Some residents and leaders raise security concerns, but supporters say it's a smart way to bring visitors back. A final vote is expected in May, with a possible rollout in June. Brigida, Degastino, Okay.

If I news California's my Shake app has been downloaded more than four million times. Governor Newsom says the app gives people life saving seconds before an earthquake hits. His office says since its inception, the app has sent out more than five million alerts for nearly one hundred and seventy quakes. The state's encouraging people to use the free app and to follow the cal Oes Earthquake Readiness Guide and up for that last one. Yeah, that hit down

Yeah, Yeah, it was good. It was good. It's five seven on your Monday morning wake up call.

Time to say good morning to kfi's White House correspondent John Decker. Morning, John, Are peace talks continuing with Russia and the US and Ukraine?

Because President Trump's getting a little fed up.

He is, He's getting frustrated, and with good reason, and the reason being is because two months ago the US put a peace proposal on the table. It was a thirty day ceasefire peace proposal. It was accepted immediately by Ukraine. It has not been accepted by Russia. Now Russia said that today, just within the past few hours, that it will have a three day unilateralist ceasefire as it relates to the war in Ukraine. But that's not what the

Okay, And so you mentioned that two months ago we had put up this or the administration had put up that thirty day seas fire. Has any progress and that been made, I know you just mentioned that. I think May sixth, seventh and eighth is when they said that they're going to do a ceasefire. But did they say is that a precursor to accepting a longer cease fire? Is that because conclave starts on May seventh, I mean, did they say.

Why, No, they didn't haven't said why. I think they recognized the frustration that the President has indicated over the course of the past few weeks. Also, the President has threatened to impose what's called secondary sanctions on Russia, maybe going and targeting its oil sector. That oil really funds everything as it relates to the war. So that would be a very skiff sanction that the US and its allies could impose upon Russia.

And kind of interesting because it so far, I mean, from just you know, looking at bird's eye view, it seems like Trump has actually been siding more with Russia, you know, like saying, you know, Russia is going to get a lot of what it wanted, Ukraine is not going to get a lot of what it wanted, So that that putin seems to be sort of hedging his bets or not making any moves, seems a little surprising.

Yeah, you raised a really good point, Amy, and you know, I think that's one of the reasons that you haven't seen any movement by Russia. Russia sees that, you know, as it relates to public statements made by President Trump, it seems as if he's agreeing to some of the things that Russia has been putting out there, and from the Russian perspective, they probably feel, what's the purpose in offering up any concessions if we don't have to if the president buys into the point of view that we're

So we'll see.

I think this is an important week, and the President last week said I'll give Russia a week's time to come to some sort of movement getting to peace, and we'll see if this is that critical week that the President has been pushing for.

John does Trump actually have any power in this? Does he have any leverage?

That's a good question, you know, I think he has less leverage on this situation than he does concerning you know,

Okay.

You mentioned that he met with some leaders when he was overseas for the Pope's funeral. Did he meet with Selensky on Saturday?

He did an iconic photograph.

You could google it.

You can see a one on one meeting in the Vatican with President Zelensky and also meeting with leaders like here Starmer, the uk Prime Minister, French President Emmanuel Macron, and they huddled together, and that they've been putting a lot of pressure the president. Also last Thursday here at the White House meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nation of NATO Mark Ruda. All of those individuals putting a lot of pressure on the President to put

Okay, and we'll see what happens next.

Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, Thanks so much for the insight and information.

As always, Thanks Amy Bright, talk to you soon.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news. Murder chargers have been filed in Vancouver, Canada against a man who allegedly drove into a crowd at a Filipino heritage festival.

There are now eleven confirmed fatalities.

Interim police Chief Steve Ray says dozens more people were hurt on Saturday night.

This woman says the crash was shocking.

We had initially assumed that it was like a food truck that had fallen over. That's how loud it was, and then we heard screams.

Following investigators say they have ruled out terrorism. They say the man driving has a history of mental health issues. The retrial of Karen Reid continues this week in Boston. Legal analyst Brian Buckmeyer says the former economics professors accused of killing her boyfriend in twenty twenty two by backing her SUV into him and leaving him to die in a snowstorm.

We're all expecting for a former officer now, Michael Proctor.

He was the lead investigator in the case to testify, as well as an officer he worked with.

He says the defense is arguing the trial is a conspiracy and all of the officers are involved. The US and Iran are set to hold an round of nuclear talks following a weekend meeting in Jordan. The White House says those talks were positive and productive. President Trump's Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff and Iran's foreign minister led the two delegations, with the discussions lasting about four hours. The next meeting is schedule to take place May third.

More than one hundred.

People have been arrested at an illegal nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The DEA says illegal immigrants and active duty service members were detained. Many of the illegal immigrants were turned over to ICE. The Army Criminal Investigation Divisions looking into the involvement of about a dozen US service members who again were taken into custody. A legal analyst says the Supreme Court decision giving presidents immunity could be argued for A

No court has found that judges are immune from criminal prosecution, but that Trump immunity decision could be very relevant here.

Judge Dugan could face up to six years in prison for her actions. A new poll shows President Trump has the lowest one hundred day job approval rating of any president in the past eighty years. The ABC News Washington Post IPSOS poll shows just thirty nine percent of Americans say the approve of what he's done so far. Gary Langer with Langer Research Association Associates, who produced the polls as fifty five percent of people disapprove.

It beats the record low at one hundred days set by Donald Trump in twenty seventeen.

He gets criticism on many issues, but perhaps his prime challenge is economic discontent.

Tomorrow is Trump's one hundredth day in office. The Vatican has announced the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin Wednesday, March not March May close. Friend of Pope Francis father James Martin says there are nine days of morning before the gathering, but there are some preliminary talks before the official conclave happens inside the Sistine Chapel.

They are starting now already with what's called general congregations, where they're discussing in general what they want in the next pope without campaigning.

More than thirteen thousand people filed into the Saint Mary Major Basilica yesterday to view Francis's tomb, with several more several thousand more waiting outside. When we come back, another cars plowed into a crowd. ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us on why these attacks are increasing and what's being done to prevent them.

That's coming out next.

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Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three men have been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion in Woodland Hills, Willy say. The three broke into the home early Saturday morning, held the forty seven year old homeowner captive, and beat him up. He died of a head injury. At the scene. All three are facing murder charges and are being held on two million dollars bail. A major power outages hit Spain and Portugal,

Jim.

Another horrific crash this weekend where a person driving a car plows into a crowd at a gathering or festival or celebration.

What's the latest on this, Well.

Yes, eleven people we know have died. One person is in constandy. The victims there ranged in age from five to sixty five years old of Filipino Street celebration in Vancouver. The suspects he's been identified as Kai g Adam Lowe. The police have not said anything about his ethnicity or his origin, where he came from, whether it was a Native Canadian. But the police don't think this was an

We're seeing these more and more often, it seems, Jim, I mean, especially if this guy has mental health issues. I mean, there are these copycat kind of crimes.

Sure, we're not just in this country. Germany seems to have a lot of these incidents, and there it may be copycats here, perhaps the same situation. People see if they've got you know, this intent in mind, they see that it works in one place and they might try it somewhere else. We saw it in Charlottesville, Virginia. We saw it January first, in New Orleans. We saw somebody you know, do the same thing at the parade, a

And politically it's got to be you know how lawmakers love to just pounce on things. It's got to be a little bit challenging for them because they can't say, oh, it's guns that are bad.

I mean, you can't say all cars are bad.

No, you're right, So what do we do about it? I mean maybe there is legislation, not sure, but within the and in some of these cases it was a rental car that was used. There was a rental car New Orleans that that man used to drive down Bourbon Street and kill fourteen. I think it was. It was a rented cyber truck that was part there in Las Vegas and blown up. So the rental car industry is looking at strengthening its procedures, making it more difficult to

But it will right, Well, I would think that the alarm or buzzer probably wouldn't if it's somebody's hell bent on plowing into a crowd.

Right, I know that's true. And even with the golf carts, if somebody's drunk and they're headed for the eighteenth.

Hole and not that that ever happens.

That's right.

No, people don't get wrong. But yeah, the buzzer, the alarm on the golf cart isn't going to keep that person from doing that. But if there is a kill switch, if the if the if the golf cart itself recognize it it's going into an area it shouldn't, it could shut itself off. If a car is headed onto Canal Street and over onto Bourbon Street, where there's a crowd of people, the car could shut itself off. You know. It's that's that maybe the future of preventing this kind of thing.

Yeah, and then we know it.

In New Orleans, which you referenced, their barriers were supposed to have been put in place, but they weren't there yet ahead of Super Bowl and that kind of stuff. So are more cities going to start doing that? I think they have them on the promenade, like the Third Street promenade. There's ballards there so you can't drive down.

There, right, right, Physical barriers like that, and community planners are looking at doing things like that. Redesigned urban areas that protect the pedestrians from vehicles, you know, curbs that are higher or more boulevards with separation down the middle of them to prevent cars from doing committing mayhem. We've seen that happen in New York City, people driving out of the crew onto the sidewalk and mowing people down.

Yeah, that we have to do this. But ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks so much for the info. Thanks, you have a good day. The Menendez brothers have filed court papers asking a judge to remove La County DA Nathan Hawkman from their resentencing hearing. Attorney Mark garrigo says Hawkman should be disqualified because of a conflict of interest. Garrigos claims Hawkman has admitted to the conflict and has even helped organize protests against the resentencing. A hearing on the motion is

We don't want to see what happened down Chile continually by others.

It may get the bonehead idea, the dumb idea, let's go cut down the tree.

He says.

The destruction of trees is both criminal and environmentally damaging. An expert on rare earths says the US has most of the seventeen rare earth elements and fifty critical minerals underground, but it doesn't have the capacity to refine them into processed metals and magnets. Critical Minerals Institute co chair Melissa Sanderson tells The Epic Times the US has zero magnet manufacturers.

You just need to look in the top corner to see if you have a star star stamp where if you're in California, a bear with a star.

She says.

Those with an enhanced ID will see a flag emblem. Weight Watchers is reportedly getting ready to file for bankruptcy. Bloomberg reports the company's been dealing with increasing debt as its earnings have been dropping at the same time as weight lost drugs like ozempic have been gaining popularity. Speaking of Popular Dodgers, a popular bunch and tonight they'll be taken on the Marlins at Dodger Stadium. The first pitch

Well we will be tomorrow.

ABC's Stephen Portnoy joins us to see how the public says he's doing so far.

You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty.

Police had extra patrols on duty for the sixteenth annual Thai New Songgren Festival in East Hollywood following Saturday night's deadly vehicle attack on a Filipino festival in Vancouver, Canada. Extra barriers were added to block vehicles from getting into the festival area on Hollywood Boulevard. A conservative groups rallied in West Hollywood in an effort to get voters to leave the Democratic Party. The group, called American Restoration Tour,

Not great?

Look, the president has the lowest job approval of any president at this point in his term, going back to nineteen forty five, lowest job approval of any president on record in this first one hundred days thirty nine percent approval fifty five percent disapproval about in keeping. However, with his score eight years ago at his first one hundred days, he had forty two percent approval in our poll then and now it's at thirty nine percent, so slightly lower.

Look.

The reason is Americans are concerned about the state of the economy. That's the primary reason. Seventy two percent seventy two percent in our poll say that they believe the president's policies are likely to cause a recession. Sixty two percent say prices are going up for things that they want and need. Fifty three percent say the economy has already gotten worse since the president has taken office. Sixty seven percent say they are worried about the stock market turmoil.

Sad.

So the president obviously not aware of he is aware of these numbers and doesn't like them.

Yeah, and have the polls as have his numbers dropped or did they start out at thirty nine and they're just staying there.

Well, Look, this is the first significant survey that ABC News has done that I've seen since the president has taken office, and it's meant to be sort of a benchmark for where he goes going forward under this first one hundred days. Looking now at a survey we took in February, so two months ago his approval rating was at forty five percent. It has dropped six points to

Okay, and I know you got to run winer.

I know ABC scored an interview with him for the first one hundred days.

When's that happening.

Tomorrow night on ABC?

Terry Moran, our senior national correspondence, It's down with the President. Should be a fascinating conversation.

Absolutely, ABC. Stephen Portney, thanks so much. All right, time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho morning, Courtney, good morning. Okay, so let's talk about pina coladas.

What a great way to start your Monday.

And getting lost in the rain.

Yes, Oh my gosh, what if you love pea? I haven't heard that song?

Yeah, so I put that earworm in your ear this morning because if you're looking forward to having one a peinut pilata tropical drink on the beach this summer, it's probably going to cost you a lot more. Some of the world's top coconut rowers have been slammed by poor weather shrinking supplies, and that's raising the price of the fruit.

Wow, that's a that's a that's a big hit. You know, the people on Survivor would really be in trouble if they didn't have coconuts.

No doubt about it. And that's what we're seeing, not only with the Philippines, but also Indonesia too. So they say, you know what, we're going to hold on to some of our output and not send it around the globe. But because global demand two has been climbing and climbing. The US, by the way, it is the largest market, and a lot of people have been jumping on the bandwagon because you know, it is a plant based milk option.

Coconuts, coconut oil, good for your skin. Yeah, okay, let's go to.

Amazon and their business may have just hit a big hiccup. What's going on with that?

Yeah, so a number of Amazon sellers are pulling out of the next Prime Day event. Reuters has reported that some third party merchants are sitting it out this year. They said, no way, we're not going to do it. Our margins aren't good, or they're offering fewer discounted items due to tariffs. But you can't forget Prime Day is one of Amazon's biggest shopping days of the year. Participation for sellers is optional, to point that out, but Amazon

That's uh.

The deadline seems to be the end of May.

Okay, So then here's a question for you. They they either have to make the decision to participate or not participate by May. What happens if, as Trump is predicting, we're going to take care of these tariffs and they're going to be going away.

If we're playing us, you know, we're playing the what if game.

But if they could they change their mind or they just out of luck, like if they go, hey, we're not going to have the supply train is supply train train issues because you know everything's going to start flowing again the tariffs are lifted.

Can we participate, Well, they have a.

Certain date that they have to say we're either in or out, So there there is a limit to all of this, and definitely that's within the ninety days. So we are not really sure what's going to happen. But a lot of these companies, they basically have to do a leap of faith on what they think is going to be ahead. But you have to think about how shoppers spent fourteen billion dollars during the last prime day last year, so it's a lot of money to kind

All right, we'll be watching, I'm sure, and big week. That's something else we're going to watch is the markets. What's going on this week?

Yes, so it's quiet this morning. I'd say it's the quiet before this storm. But the wild market moves that we've been seeing because of the tariff announcements, that's ease somewhat. But these corporate reports that we're going to be getting this week. We're hearing from Apple, Amazon, McDonald's, Coca Cola, some major companies this week, and that's going to give us a better look at the help of the consumer. We also have star books too, so these are game

All right, We'll be watching them, and we have you to help us sort them out. Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho getting in our business every day. We'll talk to you tomorrow morning.

Definitely. I'll see you later, all right.

Thanks, So let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Some students at Occidental College are on a hunger strike.

The ten students are demanding the school divest from weapons manufacturers tied to Israel and bolster protections for international students. The strike, now in its second week, follows a similar protest at Chapman University. Occidentals presidents as many students' concerns are already being addressed, but rejected calls for divestment. The students say the college isn't doing enough and vow to continue signing the humanitarian crisis in Gonza Heatherbrooker KFI News.

The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles swoop into the White House today. Running back Sequon Barkley met with President Trump yesterday took a ride on Marine one. The Eagles didn't visit the White House after their twenty eighteen victory during President Trump's first term. Trump claimed he withdrew the information, calling the team disrespectful because they stayed in the locker room during the national anthem as protest. When we come

That's coming up next.

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Six forty libraries in La County could be closed this week as union workers planned to strike. Employees are expected to walk off the jobs seven o'clock tonight.

They'll be on strike until Wednesday.

Officials in Santa Monica considering a measure that would allow people to drink in public along the Third Street Promenade.

If approved by city council, it would create a.

Permanent entertainment zone from eight am to two am every day. More than four million Californians have downloaded the my Shake app I've Got It.

Since its inception.

The app has delivered more than five million alerts to nearly one hundred and seventy earthquakes.

The app is free to download.

Let's say how good morning to the producer and director of Abby's List, A Dog youmentary? Yes, dog youmentary, not documentary. Good morning Mark Sutherland.

Good morning Amy King.

Okay, so your movies coming out in select theaters this weekend, and if you are looking for hope and inspiration and true love. This one might be the one for you, So please tell us about your movie.

Abby's List a documentary.

Back in twenty sixteen, I lived in Hermosa Beach and my dog was getting older. She was getting up in years. She was a whippet named Abby. I'd had two other whippets that it both unfortunately passed away around that age. So I figured we were on borrowed time and figured what better thing to do than to hit the road and do some of her favorite things. But her favorite things, in my eyes, maybe not exactly the same sort of favorite things that most people would think of, which I

And do little kids' faces and dogs faces look similar.

Oh my god, exactly the same little bit of droll, eyes wide open. So we just started out basically to do this and to shoot some you know, just ridiculous absurd videos for friends. And then two things happened really quickly. The videos started going crazy viral, and Abby started aging in reverse and started acting more like a nine or ten year old than a fourteen year old. So what we do, So what we decided to do was let's

Oh my goodness, and how many places did you visit in three years?

Mark?

Fifteen? Fifteen places including we went to the White House. We we got a private island in Canada for two weeks. Because she hadn't spent a lot of time outdoors, I mean at the beach and stuff, but not camping. I wanted her to experience that. We went to SeaWorld. One of the most magical scenes in the film is when I took her to SeaWorld and the dolphin found out there was a dog on the other side of the glass,

I love that, whether you're a dog or a person, go live your life, right, And if you want to see Abby's Best Life, you can head to movie theaters because it's hitting theaters this weekend, right.

Yeah, it opens on Friday the second, and we're doing we're also doing a special show in Rolling Hills, the AMC Rolling Hills in Torrents there in the South Bay seven five on Friday night. Bill Farmer, that's going to join me, the voice of Goofy. We're going to do a Q and A after we screen the film down there. It's only fifteen bucks, so like seeing a movie is, you know, about the greatest and the cheapest form of really solid entertainment, and you'll get to meet Goofy too.

I love it, And Mark, will you keep us post and let us know if it's going to be in Burbank. If you find out that it will Aaron Burbank and will share that. But for right now, it opens Friday, May second at Rolling Hills.

It's an AMC in Torrents. Correct.

Yeah, and you can get more information at abby'slistmovie dot com.

Abby's List Movie Great. We wish you so much great success, Mark. I mean, I love movies like this, and I hope you, you know, get everything out of it that you would hope too.

And I love your story of Abby. Can't wait to see it. Thank you, all right, take care Mark quickly, Yes, okay.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

If anybody wants to do this with your dog, just do it while they're young. I'm so glad that I did it, but I wish that we'd done it even earlier.

So okay, that's great words of advice. Thank you.

Mark Sutherland, director and producer of Abby's List a documentary.

Isn't that great. I love that.

Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three men have been arrested in connection with a deadly home invasion in Woodland Hills. The break in happened early Saturday morning.

Please say.

The homeowner was held captive, assaulted, and suffered a head injury, then died at the scene.

The suspects escaped with the victim's property.

Jeff I's Daniel Martindale says the arrests were made in Glendale and Sherman Oaks. The accused killers are being held on two million dollars bail. With the field of candidates for California governor getting crowded, cal State Domingus Hill's political science professor Christopher Holland Brook tells KFI at this stage, the candidates that have announced their running are really just testing the waters.

A lot of the reason to declare this early is to sort of see what happens, see what your poll numbers look like, see if anyone will give you money, and if there's any actual future to your campaign.

He says.

Most of the attention so far is on whether former Vice President Harris is going to get into the race. President Trump will no longer recognize Indigenous People's Day alongside Columbus Day.

He's reversing the practice initiated by Biden. Back in twenty twenty one, Trump criticized Democrats for undermining Columbus's legacy, calling for a return to traditional American symbols. Now, in California, the second Monday in October is officially observed as Indigenous People's Day, replacing Columbus Day. The state recognizes the contributions and resilience of Native peoples.

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