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You're listening to KFI AM sixty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio apps. I want to say a happy birthday a day late to my sister in law, Casey. Of course I wish my brother a happy birthday, and he doesn't even listen. She listens every days and I forgot to mention her yesterday. So sorry about that, Casey. And also today would have been my dad's birthday. Sure miss him. So you guys know the ring doorbell dilemma that I have. I okay,

It's worth worse the next door.

Oh my gosh, it's hysterical. Oh there's another helicopter in Eagle Rock circling what seems to be the new car wash. Oh no, oh, found a dog on Normandy. I mean, like, it's crazy, so there's got to be a way to turn it off. There is, but now it's become sort of a thing that I think it's funny, so I just leave it on. Okay, here's what's a head on wake up call. The rebuilding process has officially begun for the first of more than nine thousand homes and other

I have to.

I'll be talking to him anyway. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. La County supervisors are considering an ordinance to allow for fire debris cleanup at properties where the owners have failed to opt in to have the government

The burn will be conducted along the Tamescal Ridge trail between Skull Rock and Green Peak, near where the initial fire is believed to have started. The Los Angeles Fire Department will have firefighters on hand to protect public safety and the environment during the burn.

Kay if i's Daniel Martindale says the burn is said to be done tonight. Between tonight and Thursday, detectives have released images of a man who sexually assaulted a woman on a metro bus in East Hollywood. Laped says it happened shortly before ten pm on April twelfth, near Sunset Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. The man sat next to the woman and pulled a knife on her. He then assaulted her after she told him she didn't have any money. Then he got off the bus and ran off toward

I mean what he has done is came in promising swift change, and he has really relied on executive actions to move his agenda forward. He's signed more than one hundred and forty executive orders since January twentieth, according to the Federal Register, and has really leaned on that to try to get things done. And that's what the administration will point to. He's taken swift action on immigration ice

What the tariffs being the main sticking point as you mentioned, are there are there any things that are getting a good response from the public, you know.

In terms of the polls right now. You know, when you look at it, forty six percent approve of the president's immigration policies. That was obviously a big thing that he talked about as a candidate, people like that when he was on the campaign trail. But notably forty eight percent say that the actions supporting undo undocumented migrants have gone too far. You know, we might have talked about this earlier too, that you know, his approval rating right

Thirty nine percent. Sounds kind of familiar. Is that kind of where he hovered during his first presidency.

I have to go back and look and see I think probably around that forty percent mark. But you know, presidents tend to come in higher view. You just got elected, so if you won the election, people might be feeling good. It's striking to see kind of this sharp decline and really, again just to underline some of those economic bullet points in the poll, it is very interesting to see that when you drill down in it why people are not

Yeah, and I bet ABC has lots and lots of questions for the president on how he thinks things are going. And you guys get that opportunity, don't you.

Coming up in a couple of hours by colleague Terry Moran will sit down with the president. You'll be able to hear that. See that tonight in a big special, but stay tuned for that. We're going to get quite a bit of time with the president later this morning.

Awesome, Okay, Karen Travers, ABC News White House Correspondent, Thank you so much.

Have a great thing, all right, you too.

Bet she's busy today talking about the first one hundred days. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Michigan Democratic Representative Shri Thanadar. Since President Trump is unfit to serve and plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president, Thanadar says Trump presents a clear and present danger to the

It marks the historic turnaround for the party, fueled in part by President Trump's tariffs and talk about making Canada the fifty first state.

In a victory speech, Carnegie stressed the importance of Canadian unity in the face of Washington's threats. He said President Trump is trying to break Canadians so American or American can own them. But he says that's not going to happen. Power has been almost fully restored to Spain and Portugal. A massive outage yesterday grounded flights, shut down transit systems, disrupted phone communications, and shut down ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.

The vehicle struck multiple persons outside of the building before continuing through the building and exiting.

The police chief in Chatham, Scott Tartar, says the students killed yesterday ranged in age from four to eighteen. The driver has been arrested. The US Navy says a fighter jet has rolled off an aircraft carrier and right into the Red Sea. ABC Stephen Portnoy says it happened off the coast of Yemen.

The incident occurred as the seventy million dollar jet was being towed from the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman. Two crew members, one on board the FA eighteen and another inside the tractor, jumped out in time.

Officials say one sailor wind hurt, but not seriously. The House has passed a bill known as the Take It Down Act to combat revenge porn. The Senate unanimously passed it in February, so now it goes to President Trump's desk for his signature. The bill makes it a federal crime to post real or fake sexually explicit images of a person online without their consent. Breast milk donations are down in California.

Mother's Milk Bank California says only two percent of eligible moms are donating breast milk, yet the demand for donor milk is growing. The bank says it has seen a thirty percent increase in requests over the past year. The Milk Bank and Senator Dave Cortesi have authored State Resolution twenty establishing May as California's first ever human milk donation month to address this issue. The resolution will be presented at the State Capitol May first. Depor Mark kff I News, the.

Super Bowl winning Philadelphia Eagles have been welcomed to the White House.

See have turned out to be an incredible team, an incredible group.

It was a large and festive gathering yesterday. Even though some players didn't show up, President Trump didn't seem to notice.

Complimenting Sai Kuan's historic season was an incredible year from star quarterback Jalen Hurtz, and he really played a He had a great season and a great game.

The missing players blamed scheduling conflicts for missing the ceremony. Tonight, the Dodgers take on the Marlins at Dodgers Stadium. First pitch goes out at seven o'clock. You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM five to seventy LA Sports. You can also stream them in HD on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five seventy LA Sports. Zen She handcrafted sushi made fresh daily at Ralph's near the deli counter when we come back. Oh, we're not going to be

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It's a Taco Tuesday songs tacos. I know we always talk about Taco Tuesday. We never have them.

I know we should.

I know.

Well, will, let's put you on that.

We'll do it next week.

All right, Wait, I won't be here next weekly. Oh and by the way, you might have noticed Heather Brooker sitting next to me this morning. Good morning, hello Heather. Yeah, so I'm gonna I'm going to take a vacation next week. And you guys are so lucky because you get to have Heather fill in for me. Yay, Yes, you are gonna have so much fun. I can't wait. We will be working hard. Good because I'm going to be playing hard, playing hard. Okay, here's what we're following in the KFI

Doesn't take much of get Bill jumping up and down.

It does not.

Okay, So we were starting we're sitting here thinking because RFK Junior is making moves to get rid of artificial So we're thinking of things like skittles, hot cheetos, cotton candy, fruit loops, kool aid. Who doesn't love cherry kool aid, marachino cherries, those kinds of things, and he wants to get rid of them all. Well, not the things that dyes.

The dyes, the artificial dies.

Then the synthetic coloring, the chemically based stuff that we find in so many foods to make them more appetizing. You know, we eat with our eyes, and then we eat with our You eat with your nose, you smell the scent of it, and then you finally put it in your mouth. But eating with your eyes comes first. And the folks, the good people who make tricks learned a hard lesson. About eight years ago. Consumers were demanding and advocates were demanding that the artificial colors be taken

But it's expensive and it's very time consuming.

Amy well to figure out new combinations of or new ways to color them, and.

All the testing that has to go into that to ensure first of all that the new natural color is safe and second that it's going to fly with consumers. Because we're talking about, you know, products that people buy and then they eat. Some of these colors are the natural colors are ten times as expensive to produce as their artificial equivalent. Now there's a color called Barbie pink. Have you ever had, for example, pink yogurt, and you've

Too bad.

They can't figure out how to use mosquitos to color stuff. There's lots of them.

There, Yeah, are your own.

And then you've got to convince people people hearing that they're eating coach and ill insects aren't going to be happy about that. Mosquitos probably not that either.

So I'm thinking things like jelly bellies are going to have a real issue because almost all of those have fun colors.

Well they do, right, bright bright colors, and and by design, you know, they they put those colors into the first place because it draws your eye, and it draws your dollars to buy this stuff, and then it's psychologically changes the taste of it taste. So yeah, we're looking at

Maybe not too far a stretch on that at least.

Okay, So I have a question for you, Jim, isn't we kept hearing that a lot of these guys are already banned in Europe, so it's not like it's not a big deal, Like, why don't we just replicate what Europe is doing.

Well, it could, but it.

Takes Let's say you're going to replace the artificial red dye that's in some foods and replace it with the beat juice that can be used, and it can be blanded out, so it doesn't really create much taste, but it does give it that red color. First, you have to grow a whole crop of beats. Then you have

Pie in the sky.

Yeah. Well, and I will just end this segment by saying, we were in Disneyland this over the weekend and we had a mocktail. Well I didn't have the mocktail. My friend had a mocktail. I had the real cocktail, but she had, yeah, the real deal. I the real deal. But they used an apple slice. And then also these cherries that were like this deep, deep, deep rich bread that they looked like they were natural, and I'm like they look better than a Maraschino cherry because they look like they're real.

Yeah, well canned fruits and some fruits in jars like Maraschino cherries. They have little insects that I'm a coaching.

Eil interesting interesting Abec's Jim Ryan, I'm gonna go eat some bugs.

Enjoy.

Thank you, have a great day.

Thanks see.

Train service through Orange County has been shut down for six weeks because of emergency repairs needed.

Passenger trains will not be running between San Diego and Orange Counties after the real lines were impacted by recent landslides. The Orange County Transportation Authorities says the emergency work will also protect trains from bluff and coastal erosion and storm surges. A bus connection will be provided between Oceanside and Irvine. Jack Cronin Kaphi news.

Man charged with felony animal abuse for allegedly slamming his five month old puppy onto the ground and kicking and dragging the dog down the street in Long Beach, is scheduled to be arraigned today. Alexander Kwaeva could face up to four years in state prison if convicted. The German shepherd mix continues to recover under the care of Long

Unus a boss, telling the Associated Press he didn't know who Kardashian was until the morning after the robbery and is looking forward to his day in court an opportunity to apologize.

ABC's Melissa Aiden says millions of dollars worth of Kardashian's jewelry was stolen in the robbery. Twelve people were charged, one has since died, another can't be tried because of a medical condition. California apparently believe they need nearly one and a half million dollars to retire comfortably.

That figure accounts for saving sources like four oh one ks and iras, but excludes real estate. According to a twenty twenty five Northwestern Mutual survey for the San Francisco Chronicle, California's magic number for retirement is the same as last year. It's also two hundred ten thousand dollars higher than the average Americans expectation. This indicates that Californians are feeling the effects of inflation and the state's high cost of living. Mark Ronner KFI News.

A man airlifted off Mount Fuji in Japan clearly didn't learn his lesson.

A Chinese student living in Japan made a call last week to be rescued from about ten thousand feet up on the roughly twelve thousand foot mountain because of altitude sickness. On Saturday, he was airlifted again off the mountain after another climber found him unable to move because of altitude sickness.

Again.

What was he doing up there four days after the first rescue. He was looking for his cell phone and other stuff that he left behind from the previous rescue. There is no charge or penalty when a climber needs to be rescued, even if it's not the first time. Michael Krozer KFI News.

Okay, I know he could have died. I should be I shouldn't laugh at that, but come on, really, when we come back. ABC, Stephen Portnoy has results of a brand new poll about how people feel about you know, the president saying that we need to take over Greenland or Annex Canada.

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Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. More than fifty five thousand employees have walked off the job in La County. The union says it's the first strike of its kind in the county and is expected to impact several services, including non urgent health clinics, public libraries, wildfire cleanup services, trash pickup, and homeless camp enforcement. The

Well, that's right.

I mean, these are some of the more outlandish proposals that we've heard about in recent years, for example, the US taking over Canada, the US taking over Greenland, president running for a third term, President sending American citizens to overseas prisons. The ABC News Washington Post IPSOS poll finds

Does this president pay attention to polling or does he just like, damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.

Well, he certainly is aware. I mean, he's been putting on social media this week. How much he you know, just simply shrugs off polling data and says it's the function of you know, the fake news. But when you see poll after poll after poll with such enormous disparities between support and opposition, there's no way that anyone can objectively come away with it and say that it's not a realistic picture. I mean, just stop one hundred people on the street and asking these questions and see how

No, they don't.

I always thinking, I always think it's interesting when you hear him say stuff like that, like let's just annex Greenland or whatever he's planning to do it, always going nah, I mean he's just campaigning. He wouldn't actually try, and then later you go, oh gosh, he's really trying it.

Well, look, and that's what this poll shows, right, people believe you know, it's show he's trolling the media, he's trolling his opponents. Okay, but majorities believe he's serious.

So what is it?

Is he just trying to pull one over and have fun or is he serious? And most people seem to think he is serious?

All right, ABC, Stephen Portnoy, I guess time will tell, right.

Well, ultimately, you know there are limits to a president's power.

Yes, and that's the way that the people who made the constitution made it so. And that's that. Thank you, Steven, you bet right. I'm begetting your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho morning, Courtney, good morning, not good morning if you work at UPS. Apparently.

Yeah, UPS is going to cut twenty thousand jobs this year, closing a number of facilities too. It's trying to dramatically reduce his business with Amazon. So UPS, this is a new sort of thing that's happening because UPS announces plan back in January to slash the number of low margin Amazon parcels that it delivers by more than half over eighteen months. So we knew that was going to happen. They're looking to cut cost so one of the ways

Okay, and when you say low margin shipments, just to make sure that I'm understanding you, that's is it? Because like they get less because the high volume through Amazon exactly.

Oh yeah, they're not making a lot of money. What they want to do is say, all right, we're going to take your shipment that needs to be temperature controlled, and it's all of these different things to work to make it happen. And that's what they're focusing on because they can make a lot more money on one of those than just a quick Amazon shipment to get whatever you need, you know, to get like fantastic or something like that from Amazon.

I thought it. I forgot. I bought crochet needles the other day because I'm trying to fix a sweater. I don't crochet or anything, but I'm trying to fix a sweater that's got snags in it. It was a dollar ninety nine and free shipping.

Huh.

I was like, how can anybody make money on that?

And that's also another thing too, where the growth in Amazon and the growth in these shipments, because a lot of times you go to the store and sometimes they don't have those things that you need. They don't have the right size and knitting needles or whatever. I mean, I could go down the list of the different things that they may not have, So a lot of times it's just quicker and easier to be able to get it from Amazon. But again, all of these shipments not

Lots of uncertainty, which, as you have told us, leads to lots of swings in the market. Markets. You're talking about shopping, and now we can go shopping with chat gpt.

Well, soap and AI is now letting users shop for products within the chatbot. So users can quickly compare products and click on a link within chat gpt to make their purchase on an external website. I think I might do this. I'm looking to buy a grill. So for now, the feature will only work in a handful of categories electronics, fashion, home goods, beauty, but the plan is to expand to a bunch of other products over time.

That'll be interesting as AI takes over our lives. Quick check of the markets. How are things looking today? I know that yesterday we were saying things are kind of down, but then they ended up again.

Yeah, the final hour of trading, we saw a turnaround as we kicked off this busy week here with earnings on Wall Street. It was a fifth day of gains for the S and P five hundred. But we're getting this list every day of companies pulling their forecasts with tariffs offending their business plans. So another company is pulling their financial guidance for the year, and that was General

All right, getting in your business like we do every day with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe. Thanks Courtney, we'll talk to you tomorrow.

Let's see you later. Bye.

All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The City of La says it doesn't have the money to continue operating most of its childcare centers. The city received money through the American Rescue Plan Act, established during the pandemic. Well that funding ended in December of twenty twenty four, and now the allocated money is running out. Unions of asked LA's mayor to reconsider a spending plan that includes cutting sixteen hundred jobs.

Metro officials say a trial run detecting weapons at Union Station and APU Citrus Station has been a success now that it's expanded.

To a welcome that because that is not the right one, we'll get back to that story. The mayor of San Diego, the former mayor has died, The Voice of San Diego, says Bob Filner. The former congressman who just served as mayor for nine months, died last week. He resigned in twenty thirteen after being accused of sexual harassment and assault

The Walt Disney Company has kicked off a campaign to celebrate its forty five year relationship with the Make A Wish Foundation. Some of the wishes to be granted include meeting Luke Bryan of ABC He's American Idol, announcing a draft pick for the NFL to be broadcast on ESPN, having a Once Upon a Wish party at Walt Disney World for about fifty Make a Wish kids and their families, and sailing on its Disney cruise line. Deborah Mark KF I knew.

Love that when we come back? How about an EV for twenty k The host of How To Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard says, one's about to hit the market.

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Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Residents whose homes survived the fires in Altadena say their neighborhoods don't have the same level of security as properties in Pacific Palisades. Since the fires, more than one hundred and forty homes in Altadena have been burglarized, compared to twenty three in the Palisades. The LAPD is asking for your help and finding three men suspected of assaulting a sixty one year old transgender woman several times at her

It sounds impossible, does it does?

Yeah?

Yeah.

So there's this new it just got announced just I think Friday Auto company that is backed by Jeff Bezos, which means ours deep pockets behind this new EV company. It's called Slate Auto. And the video kind of went viral for this new truck that they're launching. And part of the reason that went viral is is because, yeah,

Plus especially if it's your first car. Like my first car, Well, I bought a used car. But my first new car that I bought was a Nissan CenTra. Yeah, and you know, it had it had it had roll up windows, and it didn't have the frills, but it was mine and it was I was able to purchase it myself. And like you said, cars are so expensive that kids can't do that, and that's that pride of ownership. I think that you're you know, introducing to people at a younger age.

Yes, And I mean I think this is actually cheaper than the average used car. Now, the average used car costs something like twenty five thousand dollars, and so to be able to get a brand new car for less than the price of the average use car, to me, usually when people call into the show and they're like, hey, I'm thinking about buying a new car, and I might need to take out a loan, and I'm usually like no, no, no, no,

That's not bad, No, not at all. Okay, I want to talk about really quick before we let you go, a little bit of savings can go a long way when it comes to your future.

Yes, okay.

So I have always said there was this study done in like twenty nineteen from economists and they found that if you have twenty four hundred and sixty seven dollars in your account, you're going to be able to cover most emergencies. So I've always like I've always said, as a baseline for people, you need to have that much saved, right. That is the basically the number one step you need

Okay, that is the host of money. It's Joel Larsgard, and you can hear more great money advice every weekend noon to two on Sundays with how to Money on KFI. Thank you Joel Larsgard.

Thanks Amy.

All Right, you can also follow him in how to Money. Joel. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The large algae bloom off the coast southern California has killed more than marine mammals like sea lions, whales, and dolphins.

JD.

Bergeron with the group International Bird Rescueses migratory birds have also fallen prey.

Because it is floating in the water. A lot of the birds that you see most affected are the birds that dive for their food, so birds like pelicans.

Bergeron says, the red tide won't go away soon, so the birds being treated by his organization can't be released. That has strained the rescue's resources. Unions have asked LA's mayor to reconsider her spending plan that includes cutting sixteen hundred jobs.

Mayor Bass's budget proposal includes layoffs and other cuts because the city faces a billion dollar budget shortfall. Service Workers' Union Rep. Genita ig Whaler says there's got to be another way than layoffs.

Allocations for liability claims, petroleum products, and other special purpose funds needs to be analyzed and scrutinized for potential efficiencies.

Neighborhood councils also address the council's budget committe with their concerns. Yesterday, budget hearings continue today at City Hall. Michael Monks KFI News.

Amazon's launched its first Internet satellites to compete against SpaceX. A rocket carrying twenty seven of Amazon's Project Kuyper satellites was sent into space yesterday. Amazon is aiming to put more than thirty two hundred satellites into orbit to provide fast, affordable broadband service around the world. That sounds familiar, doesn't it. This is KFI and KOSTHD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland weather from KFI, sunny after some patchy morning fog.