You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app. I want to say thanks to Heather Brooker and also to Chris Little Heather for filling in for me tomorrow yesterday, and then Chris Little for filling in for Heather because she had the flu and came to work anyway, So hats off to Heather. I've been there before. Going to work sick sucks. So anyway, another beautiful day on the way.
Hasn't it been spectacular? I have just loved this weather, But don't get too used to it, because we've got more storms coming in. We'll tell you about that coming up. Here's what's ahead on wake Up Call. San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dykas says the massacre in a remote area of the Mojave Desert was tied to a dispute about marijuana. Five people were arrested in connection with the shooting on Sunday. Dyks confirms six Hispanic men were shot last Tuesday
night. Four of the bodies were burned. A thirty seventh said if the killings were cartel related, Boeing says it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of its seven thirty seven Max airliner. The announcement yesterday follows severe criticism after a door plug blew out on a different
model of the seven thirty seven Max over Oregon. Boeing had said that regulators or had asked regulators rather to let it roll out the seven thirty seven Max seven even though it doesn't meet a safety standard designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight. Probably good that they're not asking for that exemption anymore. Elon Musk says the first human to receive a
Neulink cybernetic brain implant is recovering. Musk says he hopes the implants will help people with diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and allow them to move again using the implants to control electronic devices. Musk posted on that the implant was put in a human for the first time on Sunday at six oh five. It's handle on the news. A case of mistaken identity may have contributed to the US service members killed by a drone in Jordan. Let's get started with some of
the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. Five men have been arrested for the murders of six people in high desert near Adelanto, San Bernardino County. Sheriff Shannandicke says the six were likely shot to death in a dispute over illegal marijuana. It certainly looks like it has a lot of the modeling of cartel cases and things of that nature. The bodies were found last week. Sheriff's Sergeant Michael Warwick says one of the people killed was able to
call nine one. One caller told dispatchers he was shot, but he did not know the location he was at, and it appeared the call ended. Investigators say all of the people killed had been shot, some were burned. So far, four of the people have been identified. Pilly say a number
of street takeovers around LA have kept them occupied. Jip says early so day morning, thirty cars took over the sixty three Bridge and Boil Heights, and officers on scenes say they handed out one hundred and fifty citations and I pounded fifteen vehicles. Later that evening, four people were shot during a takeover in the area of Alandra Boulevard in Central Avenue, near Compton. The four were
taken to a hospital in unknown condition. No arrests were reported, and later that night, during five additional takeovers at Century Boulevard in Western Avenue, the LAPED says it arrested twenty four people, issued fifteen citations, and in pounded fourteen vehicles. Steve Gregory ka Finans. Secretary of State Antony Blincoln says the US will respond to the attack on a military base in Jordan that killed three American service members. That response could be multi leveled, come in stages,
and be sustained over time. The Pentagon has confirmed three Army Reserve soldiers were killed in the drawn attack over the weekend. They were stationed in Jordan in support of Operation Inherent Resolve fighting ISIS. Forces officials say preliminary information suggests the na I drone may have been mistaken for an American drone that was in the air at the same time, and that's why there was no effort to shoot it down. We're going to find out more about the attack and the US
response to it with ABC's White House correspondent Karen Travers. That's coming up at five thirty five, So just about thirty minutes from now. It's been an amazing process. Space Shuttle Endeavor has landed in its upright position at the California Science Center. It's the latest piece of an upright display that has the shuttle and engines in launch ready position. Science Center President and CEO Jeff Rudolph tells
NBC four it took some maneuvering overnight to get the shuttle into place. Looked at it horizontally for a little bit and then went to vertical, and then very careful and slowly brought it up and over the wall and then down and in had rotated a few times to get up between some tight spots, he says, Now cruise, we'll start working on the building that will house the shuttle display. They're going to build the building up around the shuttle. The
exhibit won't be open for a couple more years, at least. It's five six on your wake up call. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, Jordanak let's get the latest on those talks to get the hostages being held in Gaza release. Well, we heard a lot of optimistic
remarks from US and Katari officials. But here on the ground, it looks like not much progress has been made of The Israeli Prime Minister says that the current proposal on the table has conditions that are not acceptable to Israel, essentially rejecting that proposal. Hamas, you know, yesterday said that they also reject the proposal. Today the leader of the political wing of Hamas, If ma Hania, says, well, we have the proposal and we're studying it,
so they haven't outright rejected it again today. But it looks like there's still very big gaps on phase two or three of this deal. But the parties have agreed in general on phase one, which is essentially the release of the Israeli female, elderly and sick hostages in exchange for one to two months pause in the fighting, and the release of Palestinian criminals that are jailed here in Israel, you know, letting them out early, and some of them who've
committed very serious crimes such as murder. So those are the but that's only phase one, and the challenge is, you know, how do how do the parties move forward. Perhaps the United States and cutter in Egypt, they are going to pressure the size to just begin with phase one and say, hey, we'll discuss phase two and phase three during phase one while it's happening, because it seems hard for the party's to degree on the post, you know, the final end to this deal. In other words, Hamas wants
an end to the fighting. Israel doesn't. Hamas wants every troop out of the Gaza strip, Israel doesn't. Hamas wants to stay in power somehow. Israel won't agree to that. So there's a lot of long term issues that the gap seem very wide still, okay, and those are the phase two and three conditions. That's right, that's right. There's a lot of disputes about phase two and phase three. Even if there's some agreement on phase one, you know, it's not it hasn't been. It's not enough to clinch
the deal yet. And just phase one seems pretty intricriate. Do we know how many you said women and injured and the women and elderly, it's about forty, between forty and forty five that group, assuming they're alive, right, because the exchange of bodies wouldn't have until a later phase, So we're talking about everyone who's alive, Okay, to get whoever's alive out right. It does include several young women that is really very concerned about, including several
young Israeli soldiers. You know the testimony here from released hostages, and I know firsthand because ABC News talked to a release tassage hostage just last week who herd first hand accounts of the sexual assaults that's happening in the Gaza strip. And there's a lot of fear for the well being of these young girls. Okay, and we know that there was a lot of talk about the sexual assaults that early on, but it sounds like it's continuing for the people who
are still being held. Correct, there were obviously a lot of reports and evidence of sexual rape, on of rape and even mutile little mutilation on October seventh. That was kind of systematic, we understand now weeks later, but we were also hearing credible reports from the hostages who came out that some of the young women are being sexually assaulted on a regular basis in captivity by Hamas and this is you know, particularly disturbing, not only for the families,
but obviously for you know, Israel's a small country. Everyone's related to someone somehow, so to know, they're a lot of young girls. You know when I say girls nineteen twenty, twenty one, twenty five, twenty seven, thirty, you know that are being regularly sexually assaulted. It's frightening. I mean, there's a whole part of the Ministry of Health here who have launched committees to deal with what are we going to do if some of those
girls come out and the pregnant? What do we do for those women who are going to come out pregnant? Yeah, gosh, it's just horrifying. It's dark. Yeah, dark. So can we shift over just to the UN workers who Israel says collaborated with Hamas. I know this came out I believe over the weekend. What is the status of that. Yeah, this is another it's another dark part of this larger story. So ABC News I have the Doosier, the document that Israel distributed to the United States and others
laying out the allegations. There are twelve workers un AID workers. They're part of UNRA, the UN agency that aids the Palestinians and the Gaza strip. Some are teachers, some are social workers, and there were twelve that are alleged to have taken part either on October seventh, in the attacks or in
the days following. And I'll give you just two examples. There's one one UN worker who is suspected of taking part in the massacre on Kibbutzbeiri where over ninety Israelis were killed, a lot of evidence of sexual assault there as well another UN worker suspective taking part in helping to kidnap Israelis and others that provided arms on the day of on the day of October seventh to Hamas Terras, and then there were others who provided logistics stuff like cars, etc. So
the un has fired nine of the twelve, Two of the twelve are dead, one is missing. And this prompted the US and the UK and France and several other countries of Austria, Germany to freeze their funding of UNRAH until the investigation, you know, is complete and they know what happened, but the pretty serious allegations. Israel has long claimed that UNRA has turned the blind
eye to employees that have links to terror groups in the Gaza strip. So the Israelis aren't surprised by this, but I think the world is yeah, yeah, and there must have been some at least credible information for the you know, for several countries to say Okay, we're gonna we're gonna hold off
on funding. Yeah, exactly, exactly is all provided, right, They provided evidence, including like geolocating some of the some of the suspects on October seventh, for example inside Israel. Right, so yeah, the evidence seemed credible. And now I mean, Unrah, they're warning they could run out of money in February, and they provide food, eight shelter, they run the schools in the Gaza strips. So you know, these bad actors are going to you know, they're going to what they did will end up harming
again. You know, innocent civilians and Gaza have nothing to do with them us, right, Yeah, Okay, Jordana, thank you so much for the update. I think it's so important that we keep sharing the information. So we're going to keep talking to you. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty for our newsroom. Hope you've enjoyed our warm sunny weather. Because a series of storms is headed
toward the Southland Thursday should pack a punch along the coast. We think most places will receive one to two inches of rain locally up to three because of thunderstorms and the instability and the banding along the system could bring some local rainfall rates even higher. The National Weather Services Alex Tarti says the rain will continue with snow possible about five thousand feet on Friday, rains possible against Sunday,
and then a heavy rain of rain is expected to arrive on Monday. Ten counties have teamed up to stock by a stockpile a ninety day emergency supply of PPE to serve all of southern California during the next pandemic. We would within a couple of years have it all produced locally. LA Care Health CEO Don Beachus says PPE is mostly produced overseas, which created a bidding frenzy as prices
skyrocketed during the last pandemic. He says, the goal here is build a plant in southern California to produce the polypropylene, taking the pellets and making it into the sheet material that goes into globes, counts, and masks, so that we would not have to depend on that. The plant would cover routine PPE consumption, search capacity, and the emergency supply all at a set price.
Corbin Carson, KFI News. When we come back, we'll be checking in with Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money on KFI, about how the banks may not be looking out for your best financial interest. You're listening to Wake Up Call on Demand from KFI Am six forty is what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour news room. Malibu is adding a dedicated
task force to patrol a dangerous section of Pacific Coast Highway. There have been several violent crashes in the area in recent years, highlighted by a crash that killed four Pepperdine University students last year. The man accused of crashing into the young women was apparently driving at least one hundred four miles an hour. More
than two thousand homeowners in Redlands are losing their fruit. State agriculture officials say they're going to work to eradicate the invasive oriental fruit fly by stripping the fruit off trees. Workers are going door to door and we'll be removing the fruit from all citrus trees and other fruit producing plants now through February. The Illinois State Board of Elections is going to vote today on whether to kick former President
Trump off the twenty twenty four ballot for participating in an insurrection. A Republican judge says the board doesn't have the authority or the time to consider the matter before Illinois primary on March nineteenth. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next month on whether Colorado can remove Trump from the ballot. At six of five, it's handle on the news. Marijuana is likely behind the massacre in the Mojave Desert that left six people dead last week. Let's say good morning
now to the host of How to Money on KFI. It's Joel lars Guard. Joel, banks are not necessarily looking out for your best interest. Literally, Yeah, two puns right there, right, And yes, banks, I've always had a problem with the big banks. Just the biggest banks in the country don't pay rates that are competitive in any way, form or fashion. They fee us to death. That why people stay with the big banks, even though they kind of use us and abuse us. Has always bothered
me. And so I'm constantly seeing the praises of online banks, some of my favorites, who have better customer service, better user interface, they pay competitive rates, and especially now the rates have gone significantly up for savers. There's a massive gap there between what you can get paid at the big banks versus the online banks. But there was something that happened recently. And Capital One is one of my favorite online banks. I speak of them highly.
I've had a bank account with them for a lot of years. And they pulled this sneaky little maneuver where they have multiple different savings accounts. One of them is a highly competitive savings account and the other one pays something similar to what the big banks pay, and they kind of tricked some of their customers into being in the account that pays less. They're loyal, long time, long term customers, and to me, that's a problem too. I don't
really like that sort of behavior. How did they trick people into taking the lower interest Well, basically what they did was they launched this new savings account called the Performance Savings Account. But they didn't really they didn't automatically bump up
current customers into that higher paying account. They didn't raise interest rates on the account that they've been in for years, and they didn't really do a good job notifying them that, hey, guess what, now we have a better product that exists, you should migrate over here and make sure that you're taking
advantage of the higher interest right now. So there are a lot of people for multiple years that were like, as interest rates were skyrocketing on this other account, they were in the old paltry one that was paying next to nothing, earning you know, essentially pennies on the money that they had in savings. And so there were a lot of Capital one customers who are frustrated by that. I do want to say Capital one is not the only bank that
does this. A lot of banks have multiple different savings accounts that have kind of different fee structures and different minimum account balances that you have to maintain and stuff like that. Most of the online banks have done away with all that stuff. But this is this is a rare chance, a rare opportunity essentially where I can say something somewhat negative about an online bank because most of the time they're doing right by their customers. And it's the big banks that are
the ones that are usually in hot water with me. But this is kind of frustrating to see that people who have been with Capital One for years and years and years didn't get rewarded for that loyalty and they weren't even really told about this new account where they could earn a whole lot. More So, then moving forward, and as we're looking about how do we find the places that have the best interest for us? And and what you know, how do we how do we find it? I don't even know where to start
looking. Yeah, so there are two really good websites for this bank rate dot com and there's one called Doctor of Credit dot com, and those both highlight the banks that pay the highest rates right now on like CDs. On savings, there are I will say Capital One, the performance saving product is really good and they have their overall do right by their customers. This was
one instance where there is a problem here. But I name regularly on the show a few banks that I like that I've done business with that really meet kind of all my requirements in the ways that i've vet banks. And Capital One, ally, Discover and c I T are kind of four of the top ones. There are other great online banks too, but online banks really
do for most people. It's great to have a relationship with a local credit union also, but online banks typically hit a lot of those other things for savers in particular, they're a boon, They're a great place to land, Okay, So I think that like for me, I always think, oh, I just keep everything at one place, uh huh. And I stay with the bank that i'm with because there's a bank branch that I used to go into but now actually they're closing it. And I always felt like because
it was a big bank, it might be better. So if you're educating me, as hopefully you are, what can I just transfer everything over one? And I think a lot of people feel like you. They feel bigger is better. And I think especially in spring of last year when we had three bank failures, there was kind of a push for a lot of people to go to take their money and move to the big banks instead of the regional banks because they're like, well, wait a second, my money's at
risk here. But the truth is FDIC insurance is an amazing invention that protects all of us, whether our money is at a big bank or an online bank. Make sure the bank that you're doing business with is FDIC insured, and you can find that out at FDIC dot gov. But that is a massive protection. So I think sometimes people are like, ooh, but is the online bank reliable, Is it trustworthy? Is my money actually protected? Yes, up to two hundred and fifty grand, which is you know,
a lot of money to have in savings. Your money is protected, So don't worry about that. Go with the bank that pays the best rates, has good customer service, has a good interface. And yeah, when it comes to migrating your account, Amy, it's not as hard as you would think. You open up the new account, put some money in that account, and then just make sure you're changing your bill, pay those automatic ach transfers or whatever that you have going on, transfer those over to the new
bank. Actually, there's legislation or a proposal that might actually help us as Americans change banks much easier where some of those things will be automatic. I'm curious to see if that passes, because it'll really grease the wheels and make it a lot easier to switch banks in the future. Okay, And if I do business with an online bank like Capital One, yeah said that that's one of the good ones. Can I still talk to someone if I need
to? Yeah, that's what you're saying. Okay. Yeah, And to be honest, most of these online banks don't have brick and mortar locations, which is why they prioritize other things. I can't tell you the last time I went into a brick and mortar location for a bank. And maybe that's just a function of age, but I do think that millennials and Gen Z they feel very comfortable doing everything online. Think about what we would have said
about car buying a car side unseen online fifteen years ago. People would have said, you're crazy. And now you know CarMax Carbana. They've really crushed it with that model. And I think the next generation feels comfortable doing almost everything online, and banking is one of them. So I don't think most people are going to miss the brick and mortar locations. If you're a small business owner, that's different. You're depositing cash, that kind of thing.
I get why you need a local relationship, But I do think more and more folks are going to individual consumers are going to be more and more comfortable with online banking as things move forward. Okay, one of these days, like all this great advice that you get to that you give me is actually going to sink in and I'm going to do something like migrate my money. It just just give me a second. It takes a minute for me to accept change. I'm like the angel or the devil on your shoulder, trying
to be know exactly with always such great advice. Okay, real quick, because of course we're running out of time, as we always do. And I know I say that to you every week, Joel, but that's because I like to talk to you. Remote workers are more likely to get fired
than they're hybrid or in office peers. Yeah, fascinating new study. And this is one of those things where we've already seen real evidence and anecdotal evidence from CEOs, from managers about how guess what if you if you work from home full time, if you're not you're out of sight, out of mind, you're more likely to not get the raise, to not get the promotion. Well, on the flip side, is also true, you're also more
likely to get asked if there's downsizing. Fortunately, unemployment still at record lows, but if the economy does tighten and layoffs increase, at home employees are going to feel it the most. Okay, out of sight, out of mind, keep that in mind. Yeah, exactly, it's gonna be a problem for some of those folks. And so being in the office, even just one day a week if you can, okay, or just at least saving up more knowing that you are, you're at greater risk should the economy
see some tightening. I think that's a really important thing for work, for work from home workers. Okay. Joel Larsgard the host of How to Money right here on KFI. You can listen to great advice from Joel every Sunday noon to two right here on KFI, and you can follow Joel at how to Money. Joel, Joel, thank you so much. We'll talk to you again next week. Sounds good. Thanks Amy. All right, Hey, baseball season is here. Don't miss live coverage from FanFest with insider David
Ves, nicest man in baseball this Saturday from noon to three. Check out another winning season at Broadway in Hollywood dot Com. When we come back, we're going to be checking in with ABC's Karen Travers to find out how and when the US may respond to the drug attacks that have killed three US service members. South Land weather from KFI. Another beautiful sunny day on the way with hies in the low seventies at the beaches, mid seventies to near eighty
Inland. Sixties for the Anealote Valley. About five degrees cooler tomorrow than cloudy on Wednesday, with rain possible. Overnight, heavy rain at times possible on Thursday. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Sam Bernardino County Sheriff Shennandikas says the massacre in a remote area of the Mojave Desert was tied to a dispute about marijuana. Five people were arrested in connection with
the shooting. Dykas confirms six Hispanic men were shot last Tuesday night and four of the bodies were burned. Authorities havn't said, or actually haven't confirmed, if the killings were cartel related. Boeing says it is withdrawing a request for a safety exemption needed to certify a new model of its seven thirty six seven
thirty seven Max airline. Boeing had asked regulators to let it roll out the seven thirty seven Max seven, even though it does not meet a safety standard designed to prevent part of the engine housing from overheating and breaking off during flight. Elon Musk says the first human to receive a neurolink cybernetic brain implant is
now recovering. Musk says he hopes the implants will help people with diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's use the implants to control electronic devices, which would enable them to move again. Musk posted on X the implant was put in a human for the first time on Sunday at six oh Five's handle on the news or
Republican led Committee. We'll be moving forward with the articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alexander Majorkis for the way he handled or didn't handle, the massive influx of illegal immigrants into the US. Right now, let's say good morning to ABC's White House correspondent to Karen Travers. Good morning, Karen. The US says it will respond to the drone attacks that killed three US service members.
Any insight from the White House on what that response might be or when it might happen, No surprise, the White House is not telegraphing punches, as John Kirby, the National Security spokesman, put it yesterday, but saying
that the President is considering options. He met with his National security team on Monday in the Situation Room as he looks to respond to the deadly attack on American troops in Jordan, and the White House says that there are no easy answers to this, but that this attack was escalatory and requires a response. Kirby said it was fundamentally different, and so the response will be different too.
We've heard from the Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln yesterday who said that the US will respond decisively to any aggression and will hold responsible the people who attacked US troops, and Blincoln gave a little bit more of a hint than what the White House was saying by saying that it's likely to not just be one show of force, but multi leveled, as you put it, and come
in stages and be stained over time. Where that is targeting who it's targeting when it starts, the White House Secretary of State, nobody is right now saying, because the President, they say, is still considering his options. Okay, and it seemed inevitable that something horrible like this would happen, given that there have been so many attacks. Does the deaths of the service members really change the US's approach to what the yeah. I mean, the questions
were coming up yesterday about you know, is this different now? And the White House has always said if US service members were killed, then that obviously changes the calculations. And Kirby did say that yesterday that this attack was fundamentally different where it came and obviously the outcome because it ended in tragedy. Notably, the new information we had yesterday is that this strike that came at this remote outpost in the Jordanian desert, were learning that it was an explosives laid
and drone that bypass US air defenses. Officials tell us that the initial reports indicate nobody tried to shoot it down, that it was mistakenly believed to be a US surveillance drone that was coming back and that's why it was not taken out. Wow, so we didn't we just didn't do anything about it because we didn't recognize that it wasn't a friendly drone. Okay. So, and officials are saying that all these attacks are Iranian proxies. Of course Iran is
denying that. But is there any talk of going directly after Iran to try to slow down or stop the attacks. There were questions yesterday about this about a strike inside Iran. The White House wouldn't confirm or deny that a response like that is under consideration. John Kirby said that the US is not looking for war with Iran. That's by not seeking conflict with Iran. But a US official tells us that the President has deep misgivings about a strike inside Iran,
fearing a wider war. Okay, Karen Travers, thank you so much for the information. Have a wonderful day. Let's get back now to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four our newsroom. The LAPD and La County Sheriff's Department have received a grant to help keep track of violent people ordered to give up their guns. Grant will fund an online portal accessible by multiple agencies, including the court system, to notify officials when a firearms
relinquishment order has been violated. LA County Sheriff Robert Luna says the portal will only target people with domestic violence restraining order. This grant will allow our team to expand its efforts to confiscate firearms from people prohibited by our courts from possessing firearms and ammunition. LAPD Chief Michael Moore says those who do not give up their guns as ordered could face felony charges. Chris Sadler Kaffi News News brought
to you by one eight hundred got junk. California lawmakers are taking steps to protect kids online. State Senator Nancy Skinner has introduced a bill that would ban social media from showing miners the more addictive algorithmic feed without getting consent from parents or guardians first. Also prohibits social media platform where from sending notifications to kids while they should be sleeping and or during the day while they're at school.
Social media platforms would have to set a default time limit of an hour a day for miners. Another bill would prohibit businesses from collecting, using sharing, or selling personal data of anyone under the age of eighteen without informed consent. A House committees expected to vote for two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Alejandro
Mayorchis. Republicans accuse him of failing to secure the border. New York Democratic Congressman Dan Goldman says Mayorcis needs Congress to pass stronger laws to enforce border safety. This is a rushed sham impeachment that is purely being done for political purposes. Texas Republican Congressman Mike McCall, who's chairing today's hearing, says nobody deserves
impeachment more than mayorchists. The FBI has found schools are the third highest place for hate crimes in the US. The report published yesterday says preschools, elementary, middle and high schools saw the highest amount of hate crimes from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty two, there were more than thirteen hundred reported hate crimes at schools and on college campuses. Hate crimes at school
rated behind hate crimes at home and on the road. Members of the US Olympic figure skating team will be getting gold medals since Russian skater Camilla Valievo was disqualified for doping. She's also been banned for four years for doping at the twenty twenty two Winter Games in Beijing. She was fifteen at the time, and man, her performance was so spectacular, So sad to see this. SmartLess is headed to SiriusXM. My name is Jason Bateman, my name is
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will only be available to serious XM subscribers starting this summer. Starting to get excited for Super Bowl? Maybe want to go to the big Game, Well it's going to cost you. So the Super Bowl prices are the most expensive in history for Super Bowl fifty eight. They're averaging this is the average price twelve thousand, eighty two dollars, And that's for the tickets plus all the
fees and that kind of stuff. And there are people who are tracking which has the quote cheapest seats available and the least expensive, which is still crazy stupid expensive is on the tick pic. They have tickets going for four hundred and fourteen dollars that includ fees. And this is of course as of yesterday afternoon, so those prices could have changed. But the interesting thing to me too, is not only the crazy high price of these tickets but the fees.
So like on seat geek, you can get a ticket for the bargain price of seven seven hundred and eight dollars, but with the fees it's over ten thousand dollars. Three thousand dollars in fees. Interesting, Ticketmaster has them for just under ninety eight hundred dollars with fees. And these aren't even the good seats. The good seats will cost you a lot more. These are
for like end zone seats and the ones over in the corner. And the people who are watching this are saying the demand is so high not only because my nine ers are in it, but also because of the location, because it's in Las Vegas and people love Las Vegas. Me included most expensive Super
Bowl on record. And for people wanting to go to the game, an analyst says, if you are comfortable with current prices, than just buy the ticket because unlike in other years where tickets were expected to drop shortly before the game, they're not necessarily expected to do that this year, So good luck if you want to go. I think I'll just be watching it on TV. When we come back, we'll be checking in with ABC's Jim Ryan on
how a lot of Americans are literally betting on the economy. In twenty twenty four, Hey this afternoon or to actually tomorrow afternoon, the Clippers take on the Washington Wizards, with tip off at four o'clock. It's on your home of Clippers Basketball AM five seventy LA Sports, brought to you by California Community College. Open the door to unlimited possibilities. Enrolled today at I can go to college dot com. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI
AM six forty. Our time here is almost done, but thanks for starting your day with this. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four our newsroom. A statewide computer outage affecting the Department of Motor Vehicles does not appear to be fixed yet. The DMV said yesterday was experience network interruptions. What that means is customers can't get their driver licenses or real ID cards processed. Other services are still available online. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the US
will respond decisively to any aggression against US troops in the Middle East. Comments following the attacks by Iranian backed militants in Jordan that killed three US service members and injured dozens. Blinken said the US response against Iran could be multi leveled and sustained over time. Team USA is going to be getting some gold medals.
The US figure skating team finished second at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, but the International Limic Committee has stripped Russian skater Camilla Villa Villieva of her gold for doping. That puts Team USA in first place, and the IOC says, the team's going to get those gold medals. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, Elon Musk says the first neurolink implant has been put into a human brain, which allow paralyzed and severely impaired people
to move just by thinking right now. Right now, I'm thinking that it's time to say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim, Americans are literally betting that the economy is plugging along, betting billions that the economy is going to be better this year than it was last year and may be better next year as well. Because things are reflected in some of these numbers coming from the American Gaming Association about casino gambling. People are spending more and individually spending
or placing bigger bets at casinos around the country. Also have, of course, the increase in online betting that's happening in some parts of the country. But yeah, if you look at a state by state breakdown, it's not an across the board kind of thing. Right the November of twenty twenty three, the commercial gaming revenue, so California isn't factored in here because those are Indian casinos there, But if you look at some of the others in the
neighboring states, you'll see a pretty dramatic increase in casino gambling. For example, in Main forty one percent increase, Massa Chusett saw fifty six percent increase. Nebraska is gaming and you know, it's just kind of catching hold there, but it rows one hundred percent from one November to the next. And that's just whoever's watching these numbers are saying that when people are more willing to sort of throw away their money, it's because they had because the economy's plugging
along. Well, yeah, I mean that's one there. The other theory, of course, is that if you're feeling insecure about your finances, your funds. You know, maybe you go out and try to gamble to make up some of the losses, but at the same time, you have to have time off of work to do something like that, right, or maybe you're unemployed in taking what little you have your your unemployment check to the gaming
establishments. I think the jury is still out on exactly what this all means, whether it's a good thing or suggests that the economy is strong, or whether it suggests that things are kind of in trouble, that people are feeling insecure about their funds. If you look at a new survey from News Nation Decision detskhe Q, about ninety percent of voters say they are very concerned or someone concerned about inflation for the rest of twenty twenty four. So it may
point in the opposite direction from what some economists are saying. So it may actually be that people are super desperate and just grasping at straws to try to make hans meet. That's not great. Well, that are going on collecting cans or doing something. You know, it's not a sure thing by any stretch. Collecting cans is, but gambling isn't. So you know, I don't know what it says about the American psyche. Yeah, so, and
you mentioned that more states are allowing commercial gambling. Does who benefits from that? I mean, like three hundred and twenty nine billion dollars in economic activity? Does that translate to a bunch of extra tax revenue or who's who's making the money on this? Well? Yeah, indipodial owners. Yeah, I think a lot of it. And it depends upon which legislature you're talking about
and how those funds are allocated. I know here in Texas when the lotter, we don't have casino gambling here, might never have it in Texas. But when the lottery first was coming about, the big concern, the promise at least was that funds would go toward education. Well, during the next legislative session, the budget was way down. They needed money for the general
fund, and so it was diverted from education into the general fund. So I guess it benefits somebody, whether it's education or some other program or what. But yeah, that's again sort of a state by state kind of thing, depending upon where you live where that casino money goes. But I mean, at least to hear the American gaming Association and consider it the source. Of course that it's a big revenue generator for states, it's a big employer.
We know that thousands of people work in the industry, But what does it say about the overall economy. It's hard to say. Well, all I know, Jim, is all this talk about gambling makes me really want to go to Las Vegas. I haven't been there for a while. I've got a little money to burn. Yeah, not much, but you know, yeah, my brother blows a lot of money at the Indioe casino. He lives in San Francisco. Oh yeah, yeah, he drops a bunch
of change there every weekend. You know what. It's interesting that I love to gamble on occasion, but I don't really like to do it at the Indian gaming casinos. I like to go to Vegas, like. I don't like that it's available close to me, that I have to go somewhere far. Yeah. Right, maybe that's a good philosophy, a good way to look at it. We'll see, all right, gambling, but I hate losing, I know, right, Jim Ryan, thanks so much for your
time this morning. I appreciate it. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A woman in downtown la is offering a reward for whomever can help return her stolen French bulldog, Onyx. Ali Zacharias tells the John Cobalt Show that someone grabbed her dog Whole Foods on January eighteenth, so she went after the thief by jumping onto their car. She says she held onto the wipers as the car
sped off. It was about two long blocks, which felt like ten miles, and then she fell off, shot up, and I was whimpering, and I felt defeated, and I felt so confused, and I felt so sad my dog was gone. Police are looking for a white Kia Forte with a missing hubcap. Onyx is black with a spotted coat and two different colored eyes. The mother of an Almonte police officer killed in an ambush says a nine to one to one dispatcher failed to warn her son he was approaching a
man with a gun. Oga Garcia says her son, Officer Joseph Santana, would still be alive if the dispatcher had done her job. I'm very upset, especially that the Chief Fisher comes out and says that he supports the dispatcher's actions like that's like a disgrace to US officers. Santana and Michael Parades were killed in twenty twenty two responding to a stabbing. Elmonte. PDE says it has reviewed body cam footage and call logs and has found no wrongdoing. Well,
this feels wrong. Amazon Prime has started to air commercials on its streaming service. Users who did not agree to pay an extra two ninety nine a month for the ad free option started to see the limited ads on Monday. The company said in September. The extra charge will allow them to continue investing in compelling content. I went to turn on my Amazon Prime last night, got the little pop up message and I said, not now, But I didn't see any ads yet. I would imagine they'll be popping up any old
time. Hey, very excited. Jackie has laid another egg. Of course, she's one of Big Bear's famous bald eagles. The couple has its second egg of the winter. Jackie laid that second egg on Sunday afternoon. The first one was dropped on Thursday. Now. For the past several years, Jackie and her partner Shadow have been on a twenty four to seven live stream run by friends of Big Bear Valley. You can watch it on YouTube.
It's being watched by tens of thousands of people, including me. None of Jackie's eggs hatched last year, so we're hoping for a better result this year, and we'll be watching. 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 six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.