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You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI and KOST HD two Los Angeles, Orange County. It's time for your morning wake up call. Here's Amy Ki. Here I am. It's five o'clock, straight up. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, February twenty seventh. I'm Amy King. Thanks for getting your day started with us. Today. You guys watch an American Idol. I'm still watching it. It's old, but it's like it's an oldie but

a goodie. They just started the most recent season. I think two episodes are out now, and I get it. I don't know how you feel about this, but the the auditions, which used to be sort of a joke, like when Simon Cowell was on it. You know, they had the really bad people on mixed in with a really good people. Now it's almost like everybody's just really good. Not one hundred percent, but for the most part, the people are really good and they have such cool stories.

I think American Idol does a really good job of highlighting some of the people when they audition, and I and I know I'm a woosp but I'm just brought to tears. So I'm looking forward to the season, except, like I said, the audition part. Same with the Voice, the blind auditions on the Voice, which is just getting underway too. I haven't watched the

first episode yet. The blind auditions are my favorite, and they just regular auditions in American Idol are my favorite because it's kind of the most real and after, you know, later in the season, when you get close to the winners and stuff, it's so rehearsed it doesn't feel as raw. So anyway, if you're thinking about watching American Idol, I highly recommend it.

Here's what's ahead. On wake Up Call. Police say a shooting in Santa Anna that left a three year old in critical condition may have been gang related. Really say someone ran up and started shooting at a car and an intersection on Sunday. The girl in the backseat was hit. WILLI say the mom's boyfriend was the intended target. The girl had several surgeries, She's expected to make it. Voters in Michigan are casting their primary ballots for president today.

Former President Trump is leading Nicky Hayley by a four to one margin in a recent five point thirty eight pole. Not a lot of people expected to turn out for California's primary election, which is just a week away. As of Saturday, just seven percent of twenty two million ballots had been returned. Experts say voter turnout could be below thirty percent. Ballots can be dropped off until election day and more than one hundred in person voting centers are now open.

Six hundred more we'll be opening up on Saturday. We six oh five. It's handle on the news and we could be getting closer to a ceasefire in the Israel Hamas war. But let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news from police in Fontana have shot and killed a man inside a home depot. Officers were called last night about a

guy running around in the street trying to get hit by cars. When police got there, they say the man ran into the store and armed himself with what they called an edged weapon. As they put it, that's when the shooting happened. Two students have been involved in a stabbing at Nogalis High School in Lapuente. The La County Sheriff's Department responded to the call where they found

one boy with a stab wound. That boy was taken to the hospital for a non life threatening injury, and the other boy was taken into custody. The role in school district says there was an incident between the boys, but what exactly led up to the stabbing is still unclear. The school was on temporary lockdown while deputies swept the campus, and the lockdown was lifted around eleven am yesterday. The district says additional supervision will remain on campus as needed to

support students and staff. Chris Adler kaf I News, the man who fatally shot two teenagers during a screening of Forever Purge in Corona has been sens to life in prison without parole plus one hundred years to life. The murders happened in twenty twenty one. On Joseph Jimenez Junior pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but a judge found him sane in December and he was convicted. His lawyer says Jimenez suffers from schizophrenia and severe mental health problems. We were

never contesting whether or not he committed the offenses. On the other hand, it was really what was the word cause and the cause was his mental illness. Jimnez apologized in court after hearing from family members of the people he killed. NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the Alliance has no plans to send troops to Ukraine. ABC's and As de la Katerra says Slovaki. As Prime Minister Robert Fico said yesterday that some countries are weighing whether to strike bilateral deals with

Ukraine to help fight off the Russian invasion. Did not provide any additional details, saying he was not allowed to say more. It's been just over two years since Russia invaded Ukraine. That spacecraft that landed on the Moon last night or not last night, last week, he is running out of power.

Initially, the engineer with intuitive machines says the Odysseus moonlander was going to be okay after it tipped over on landing, but a new assessment yesterday determined the sun wouldn't be able to shine on the solar panels to recharge the batteries. NASA says Odysseus landed in a crater with a twelve degree slope, the closest to spacecraft has ever come to the south pole of the Moon. The lander was able to send back some photos before its batteries will be completely depleted.

Odysseus is the first privately built Moonlander. Steve greg rickaf I News. Now, let's take an early look at your morning commute with Nick Pauli Yochani. We got a mess in boil Heights on the five. It's like this due to an early morning rackad that is still a crash investigation. So heading north

and southbound along the five really gonna be a mess for you. There on the well southbound side of the five, it looks like it's going to be a busy one for you because the three left lanes are shut down and then it looks like the two right lanes may be taken away. It's a little unclear on what's going on, but having seen the coutrans cans in the area, you got a mess on the five northbound. As you come right from the seven to ten out of east Land commerces too make great toward downtown Land

in the one to one up outside of the five. Also busy for you coming away from the slit with the sixty as you're making a toward the seven ten so definitely heads up for you. There likely a good idea on the five southbound to avoid it, take the sixty east of the seven ten south. That'll definitely help you out and not looking too bad for your drive right

now. Same story for your northbound commute on the five northbound, take the seven ten north of the sixty west to get into the downtown LA area or get reconnected with the five if your travels are taking for the northbound there If you do have an update on this anything else, solwing you down pound to fifteen your cel phone keyword k if I traffic kay if I, and the sky helps get to their faster. I'm Nick Pauli o'keeaney. Thank you,

Nick. Now let's say good morning to ABC's Karen Travers at the White House. Karen Big meeting at the White House today, four days before a possible government shutdown. The big sticking point order security. You know, no, not on the government shutdown issue. That's one thing that Mike Johnson would like to talk about with the President separately. I mean, House Republicans are trying to use this government funding issue as an opportunity to push through some demands on

abortion and immigration. But they're non starters for Democrats, and so I don't know if that's going to be the big hold up. They are right now though, trying to talk about two big things at this meeting today. One government funding, because you've got the deadline on Friday, first deadline, then

there's a second deadline next week. And from the President's perspective, the other big issue, of course, is that National Security Bill ninety five billion dollars that sends sixty billion to Ukraine. That bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support, but its future is very uncertain in the House right now because it passed in the Senate and then everybody went on recess, and Mike Johnson, the House Speaker, hasn't really showed his cards on this yet, so we don't

know if they're going to try to add some border elements to it, just not take it up at all, or what the President wants them to do is just put it up for a vote and see if people will pass it. So we'll see what comes out of this meeting today. I think you and I talked about this last week. Mike Johnson wanted to meet one on one with the President and talk about border and immigration. The White House was very cool to that meeting and did not accept any invitations for it. That's

not what this meeting is. When you've got the other congressional leaders there, especially Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer who've already passed Ukraine aid, this is not

a border negotiation meeting, certainly not from the White House perspective. It feels and looks like it's going to be much more of a pressure meeting on Mike Johnson to move forward on that national security bill the Senate's already passed, okay, And just to be clear on the because there's so many bills floating around, so many bills, right, So there's the one bill that passed, the bipartisan one that was like a eighty twenty or seventy nine, twenty one,

seventy twenty nine I think it was. Yeah, that one had the border security in it, and that's that one. It was taken out. There is nothing that passed with any border security because they reached the bipartisan Border agreement and the House said, no, we will not move forward on that because we don't think it goes far enough. So the Senate said, fine, we'll take it out after months of negotiating that behind closed doors Republicans and

Democrats, they took it out. That bill that then was passed was just funding for Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine and other national security issues. And now that's what they're hoping the House passes because it has all that money for Ukraine. Okay. So then the other issue that they're going to be talking about today is, of course the government funding which runs out on Friday. Does it look like they're going to come up with a plan or are they

going to kick the can down the road again. We thought they were going to come up with a plan by Sunday night. That's what all the indications were that they were optimistic of coming up with an agreement and they could pass something. Now something could still be kicking the can down the road, just

another short term extension, but that at least keeps the government open. You know, this is a really striking statistic in my book, and I've been covering Washington a very long time, and I still think this is incredible. This is now the fourth time this fiscal year, so since October one,

the fourth time that we are looking at a potential imminent government shutdown. They have now kicked the can three times already since October first, since the end of September, and we're looking at them probably doing it again into maybe early April, and as the longest they can do it three months? Is that why they're doing it in three month incremental? Oh, you could do a two day short term extension, you could do one week, you do whatever

you want. It's just kind of what they keep coming up with. Now. One thing, this is going to get so wonky. I'm not going to do it to you, but mark on your calendar April thirtieth. That is a very important date because last year they set April thirtieth as a day when very steep cuts would go into effect if they didn't get the full budget done, because they thought, oh, no way, we would still be dealing with this by April thirtieth. We're going to make ourselves, you know,

kind of like give yourself a hard, hard, terrible deadline. And it's getting closer to April thirtieth suddenly, and the way things are going, you and I will probably be talking. I know we're going to remember this conversation, all right. Karen Trevors, thanks so much for your time today. Thanks all right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out

of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Researchers have learned more about the tens of thousands of barrels dumped in the ocean between LA and Catalina Island, but forever chemical DDT was first thought to be inside the barrels, discovered in twenty

twenty by UC Santa Barbara professor David Valentine. But he says a now closed company was actually pouring that DDT straight into the ocean, but also they were accepting radioactive waste from different companies within LA and disposing those to the seafloor in the same area. Radioactive waste findings were released last week, and many of the barrels are now thought to be navy munitions dumped during World War Two.

Still, I am much more concerned about the DDT. He says. The DDT may have nearly eradicated bald eagles on Catalina Island at the time, and may be the cause for a serious cancer found in twenty five percent of local sea lions. And you can just imagine if twenty five percent of all human deaths was caused by the same cancer. What kind of epidemic that would be? He says. DDT can bio magnify or spread through the food chain from

sea life to humans. Valentine's team is trying to survey the spread of d DTS he which already covers an area the size of San Francisco, and the FEDS are working on possible clean up solutions. Corbin Carson k f I News. An oil field worker in Long Beach has been seriously hurt by a dereck that collapsed. Firefighters responded yesterday and found a worker had a workover unit had collapsed into a pumping unit. They say the man was about fifty feet up

when it fell over. He was pulled out of the derek and taken to the hospital. He's in stable condition. A second person suffered minor injuries. Prosecutors in former President Trump's hush money criminal case in New York have asked a judge to impose a gag order on Trump. They say it's for his long history of making public and inflammatory inflammatory remarks about people in his legal cases.

Jury selection in the case is scheduled to start March twenty fifth. Trump is already subject to a gag order in his case in DC that charges him with trying to overturn the results of the twenty twenty presidential election. Police in Houston have released bodycam footage showing off duty officers taking down the woman who shot up a mega church earlier this month. It shows the woman going too the church with her young son with an ar style rifle strapped across her chest. Officers

can be seen firing back at her until she collapses. The boy can be seen covering his ears and reaching for his mom. The woman was dead at the scene. Two people were heard, including the boy who was shot in the head. ABC's Mariah via Rial says the seven year old has been through at least six surgeries so far, but a bit of good news from his grandmother. She says, as of right now, he is off the ventilator and he is finally breathing on his own. Police are still trying to figure

out what the woman's motive was. I love that theme song. The Mandalorian and Grogu film is getting one of the largest tax incentives ever in the history of the California Film Commission. In exchange for it, the production is going to be done entirely in California. The twenty two million dollar tax break will help hire five hundred crew members, fifty four cast members, and thirty five hundred extras for ninety two days of filming. The projected payrolls around one hundred

and sixty six million. The last Star Wars movie filmed in California was Return of the Jedi in the early nineteen eighties. You're listening to a wake up call on demand from KFI Am six forty. I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Governor Newsom says he will fight yet another recall effort. He beat another attempt to kick him out of

office lists and three years ago. The group Rescue California launched the campaign yesterday, saying the governor spending too much time on a national issues and isn't doing enough in California to fight high homeless rates, crime and taxes. The last of nine LA firefighters injured when a truck exploded in Wilmington earlier this month has been released from the hospital. Dan Gowen was treated at a special burn center

following the explosion of the truck's compressed natural gas tanks on February fifteenth. His injuries are not considered career ending, but doctors say he's got a long way until he's fully recovered. A wintertime heat waves sweeping across the country, forecasters say hundreds of records could be broken today, about two hundred and fifty million people experiencing higher than average temperatures. Fifty eight cities broke record his yesterday,

including Dallas where it was ninety four degrees. Yeah, it's February at six oh five. It's handle on the news. Speaking of Texas, both President Biden and former President Trump are headed there. They're making their appearances on Thursday. Let's say good morning now to the host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard. Good morning, Joel. Morning Amy. So credit card report complaints or credit rod report complaints are surging. Let's talk about what's going

on and why. Oh yeah, so nobody really likes the credit bureaus. It's kind of this necessary evil of modern life. None of us really signed up to do business with Equifax, Experience or TransUnion, but we're all kind of forced to. It's this, it's this system by which we're able to get credit. You know, we're able to essentially figure out whether we're financially trustworthy. This is this is how the what the credit scoring system is all

about. But it's run so poorly in the three big bureaus don't do a great job. And so people are reporting in record numbers complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which is essentially the arm of the federal government which is supposed to help individual consumers out if they're having an issue with a financial services

company. Complaints have tripled in just two years. Almost half a million people filed the complaint last year against one of the bureaus for incorrect things on their credit report, and the credit bureau seemed to take the stance of it's your fault, not ours. They're pointing the finger back at us and saying, well, you're filing disputes for stuff that it's not actually incorrect, and depending on who you believe, the reports, and that's something. But somewhere between

thirteen and twenty five percent of credit reports contain an error. So I think the credit bureaus are in the wrong here, and it turns out they're not really doing much to help us out on that front. Okay, And so first of all, how do we know if there's credit reports, we can go check our credit reports. Now, that's right, that's right, So there is one site. Do not go to the individual credit bureau websites and try to buy your credit report because you're legally entitled to a free one at

annual creditreport dot com. And once after the pandemic began, the credit company the credit bureaus made our credit reports free, not just once a year, but once a week, so you can check your credit reports every single week if you want. That might be overkill, but it's nice to know that it's there. So I would say, get your credit reports from each of

the three bureaus for free from Annual credit report dot com. Take a look and see if there's anything on there that looks incorrect and challenge challenge that thing. With the bureaus, there's a process that you can you can challenge something that you think is incorrect on your credit report. So that's really important thing to do. The problem is the credit bureaus have essentially said, well, they've got an automated system now that kicks back and says, well, your

challenge, we don't think it's we don't think it's valid. So usually the first round, they just say, no, no harm, no foul. This isn't a real problem. What you're seeing on your credit report is supposed to be there, so you have to keep at it. It's kind of frustrating, but you have to be your own advocate here fighting the credit bureaus

tooth and nail over what something that might be incorrect on your report. And again, that report influences your score, and your score influences the rate you're going to pay for a mortgage, the rate you're going to pay for a car loan. It can affect whether or not you get the apartment you're trying to get. If there's something that's wrong on your credit report weighing down your

score, it can impact your life in a whole ways. Okay, annual credit report dot com because I remember, if you checked your credit too often, it used to ding your credit. So checking your credit report and your credit score are two different things. And the cool thing is there's a lot of ways to get your score for free. Now. Most credit card issuers will offer it. You can sign up for a site like credit Karma and

it's not giving you. The thing is, there's like dozens of credit scores out there, so it's really hard to figure out, well, what is my exact score. Well, every single one of the bureaus has a bunch of different scores on you, so you're kind of getting a ballpark estimate by signing up for something like Credit Karma or by using it. And sometimes the standard is the FIGHTO score, the newest FIO score. So maybe your credit card offers your credit score for free every single month. It used to be

a score. This credit score was shrouded in mystery, and that's kind of changed. Fortunately, we have a little more access to understanding what's going on with our credit our credit score. And if you sign up for Credit Karma, it's cool because they get this like credit report card essentially and they'll tell you, well, here are the areas where you're messing up, and here's

how you can improve your credit score. So I really like that because again, credit score is a really important part of your modern financial life and it's another good way to keep tabs. Is something messed up on your credit report that shouldn't be there, well you'll notice if you're tracking your credit score there's a drop. If there's a significant drop in your credit score and you didn't do anything different, like you didn't forget to pay your credit card bill or

you didn't pay late. Well, that's a sure sign that something fishing might be going on. And its credit card a free or is that a paysafe? It's free. It's free. So they'll try to sell you stuff. They'll try to sell you. You know, they want you to sign up for a credit card via their side or something like that. And that's fine if it's a great credit card offer, I guess, but just know that

they're trying to sell. That's how they're trying to make money. But it's a free site to be able to dig in and learn more about your credit score. Okay, then let's move on to college graduates. Half of them aren't using their degrees. Yeah, that's true. There was this new study.

It's not just a phone survey of like a thousand people, it's literally a study of ten million people, so it's very very thorough and it found that roughly fifty percent of college graduates ended up in a job that didn't require the degree that they worked really hard to get. And to me, that's really revealing. It doesn't necessarily mean that you got a degree in engineering and

you're a barista. But basically a lot of people are working outside of their intended career path, and it does, for a lot of people reduce the amount of pay that they get. It reduces job satisfaction for a lot of people. And it turns out that the key to making sure that you are working inside of the career path you want to work in once you graduate, and that your career is and that first job is so crucial. If you get the wrong first job, it can really change your career trajectory in a

big way. Getting an internship, even if that internship that's what I did out of school. I wanted to work in radio, and so my first internship was at a radio station. It didn't pay anything, but that is for a lot of people the right stepping stone to make sure that that first job then is also in the industry you want to be in. I think some people are like internship. The internships have fallen by the wayside a little bit. But the study found that more and more people who get the internship

they end up working in and pursuing the career that they want. So a college degree still is a good idea, but I mean that's a good question. I don't know, because like, I don't think that everybody needs to go to college. I don't think everybody wants to go to college. So I don't think that they should just have to go to college. Because if everybody goes to college, like literally, who is going to be the plumbers? Who's going to be the electricians? And those are good jobs that don't

require a college degree. No, you're spot on, and we have kind of made college the end all be all in this country, and it's like, well, you don't. And the truth is that the average college graduate out earned the average high school graduate, but that in a significant way over their lifetime earnings. But the value proposition has also changed, right as college costs have soared and interest rates on that college debt have gone up too,

and then there's a diminishing return on the college degree as well. So so much depends on well, what are you going to do instead? And you're totally right. If you have this idea to build a business or you know, be a service provider locally, you know, in some sort of HVAC school or something like that, if you want to work in that industry,

or if you want to apprentice under a plumber. That can be a much better way for a lot of people to go, avoiding six figures of student loan debt, making money earlier, and potentially being able to start and create your own, your own small business. I think it's important for us to distinguish college degrees, and getting the right college degree can matter for a whole lot of people, but then there's a whole bunch of people who are not

served well by going to college. Okay, Joel, As usual, we're out of time way too quickly, and you have so much more great advice to share, and so people will be able to hear that when they listen to How to Money. It's on Sundays right here on KFI from noon to two. You can also follow Joel at how to Money. Joel, thanks so much, Joel. Thanks Amy. All right, take care. You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Good morning.

I'm Amy King. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Three men have been arrested in a social media car rental vehicle theft scheme. The La County Sheriff's Department says the guys would rent a car, advertise it for sale on Facebook marketplace, make the sale, then steal the car and return the rental. The Sheriff's department says they pulled it off in several counties and are looking for victims. Michigan voters are casting their primary ballots

for president today. Voters unhappy about President Biden's support of Israel are being urged to mark uncommitted on their ballots. Not a lot of people expected to turn out for California's primary election, which is just a week away. As of Saturday, seven percent of the twenty two million ballots mailed out had been returned. Earned experts say voter turnout could be as low as or below thirty percent.

Ballots can be dropped off until election day. More than one hundred in person voting centers are already open in six hundred more will open up Saturday at six oh five. It's handled on the news. You might lose your access to Netflix if you pay via the Apple app. Right now, let's say

good morning to ABC's Stephen portnoy Steven. The question before the Supreme Court is whether social media content can be regulated, Whether social media content can be regulated by states and in the case of yesterday's argument, it was the states of Florida and Texas that have passed laws in the aftermath of January sixth aimed at

curbing what critics say is a politically motivated online censorship. The Texas law says that essentially social media companies can't pull down posts based on the politics of the poster, and the Florida laws, I understand it says that if if you're a candidate, you have the right to post, and the social media company can't pull down your post. The conservatives on the Court yesterday were in the

lead questioning the legality of these laws, the conscertionality. John Roberts, the Chief Justice, started this four hour oral argument yesterday by saying that the primary concern of the court really ought to be whether the state has the power to regulate the modern public square. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a Trump appointee, told an attorney defending Florida's law that he was essentially misreading the right to free speech.

That he left out the idea that the First Amendment protects the individual from the government, not a third party company, and its decisions to decide what is appropriate or inappropriate for a particular platform. The Justice Amy Cony Barrett, another Trump appointee, asked why these platforms Facebook, X, YouTube, TikTok can't decide for themselves what's inappropriate to post the way that newspapers decide what's inappropriate

appropriate to publish. I will say, despite all these the back and forth over the merits, a great deal of time was spent yesterday with the judges probing whether it's even ripe for the for the justices to consider this case at this moment, because there are a number of areas where there is not a

fully established record. This is a facial challenge of the law and not an as applied challenge, which is to say that the opponents of the laws, the companies, brought suit right away and sought a preliminary injunction to prevent these laws from going into effect. And so there's not an example of a particular case that the justices can look at and say, here's the record of how this law was applied, and here's here's a real life example of how you

know it was it was enforced. And so instead, what the justices have to do is sort of envision in their minds how it could be enforced and how it could be applied. And a couple of justices yesterday raised the question of what about sites unlike social media but at Sea or Uber? Could they be targets of this law? And the answer is well, maybe because Etsy allows for individuals to sell items, and doesn't ets have the right to say, well, that crosses a line for us, we don't want that item

sold on our page? Right? And then you have Uber. Could Uber decide that it doesn't certain Uber drivers want to discriminate for a variety of reasons, or could users be told that they're not allowed to comment on the quality of drivers. Then you have an example that was raised by Justice Alito, what about Gmail? Does Google have the right to go into people's emails and discriminate against or otherwise censor what people are saying in private communications? That was

something that I think a lot of the lawyers had trouble answering. And so the point is there's so many unanswered questions here that it might not be appropriate for the justices to issue a final ruling at this point without a more established

record in the courts. So could they say, we, like you just said, we don't have enough information that it hasn't been tested, yet we're going to put this on the back burner and decide in two years, well send send it back to lower courts and say, you know, either keep the law on pause or let it go into effect to allow for an example of injury that could be the subject of further litigation. So I'm not sure

what path the courts will take, but the court will take. But it seems to me that the justices are interested in further establishing a record before making a final decision on this. And it is pretty interesting that they start going down down that the rabbit hole. Basically, well, this could happen,

and that could happen, and that could happen. I mean, it's it could be very far reaching, so interesting case, and that's the role of the justices to probe those hypotheticals to see, you know how if they have to make a final ruling on this, they want to explore as many possible outcomes as they can. Okay, and we will be watching. Thank you so much for helping us unpack it, Stephen. It helps a lot. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the

KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A three year old girl who was shot in a car and Santa Anna is expected to survive. The child was in the back seat where her four year old sister when at least three shots were fired at the car, one bullet going through the younger girl's back. Santa Annipdes Natalie Garcia says the girl's mother was sitting in the front seat with her boyfriend

and that boyfriend was the gang related target. The shooter was on foot and at this time we know that the suspect is a male adult and that's all the information that we have at the moment. Garcia says. The girl had several operations at Children's Hospital, Orange County Sunday night after the shooting. End

is in critical but stable condition. No arrests have been made. Chris Sadler ka FI News News brought to you by one eight hundred Got junk so cal Edison has agreed to pay one of the largest wildfire cost recovery settlements ever. The US Attorney's Office for Central California says SEE is going to pay eighty million dollars to help recover costs associated with fighting fires in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

The so called Thomas Fire in twenty seventeen, burned more than two hundred and eighty thousand acres, including over one hundred and fifty thousand acres of National forest land. Investigators say the fires were caused by power lines touching and sparking, so cal Edison agreed to the settlement without admitting fault. Local grocery workers have joined state Attorney General brob Bonta in La to try to stop the proposed

Kroger Albertson's merger. California has joined the federal government and seven other states ensuing to block the twenty four point six billion dollar deal. As union workers like Grace Garcia remember the store closures and job losses following the Albertsons Safeway merger a decade ago, it was devastating for workers like myself, of many who live paycheck to paycheck. Garcia lost her job at Safeway, but was later hired at a Vaughan's for two bucks an hour less. The Grocery Workers union said

yesterday workers and customers would suffer if the Albertsons Kroger deal goes through. The grocery giants say they'll fight in court because the merger is necessary to compete against Megastores Michael Monks KFI News. A woman who says she just needed a ride to get back to San Jose has been arrested for allegedly stealing an Amazon deliveryvan to get herself there. Police say she jumped into the van when the driver jumped out to deliver a package in Palo Alto. All the packages in the

van were accounted for when she was arrested. Following an Oscar tradition, last year's winner of Academy Awards will be presenting awards this year. So Michelle Yo, Jimmie Lee Curtis, and Quit I Can't remember how to say key Qui Kwan won Oscars for Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, and then Brendan Fraser also won for the Whale. They're all going to be presenters at the

ninety sixth Oscar Awards on March tenth. Lots of other big stars are going to be presenting, including Mahersha Ali, Nicholas Cage, Jessica Lang, Matthew McConaughey, Lupidia, Nyango, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Rockwell, and Zendaia. The Academy Awards will air on ABC and They're going to start an hour earlier than normal. They usually start at five on the West Coast. They're going to start him at four this year. All at the Dolby

Theater in high Allwood. Jimmy Kimmel is the host. 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. The last of nine LA firefighters injured when a truck exploded in Wilmington earlier this month has been released from the hospital. Dan Gohen was treated at a special burns center following the explosion of the

truck's compressed natural gas tanks on February fifteenth. His injuries are not considered career ending, but doctor says got a ways to go for a full recovery. Three people have been arrested in connection with an early morning burglary spree and Marina del Rey and Venice police responded to a smashed window at an Alta beauty shortly after one this morning and found at least six businesses had been burglarized at a shopping center, Fox eleven saying a person caught one of the guys as he

ran out of a business in Venice. Five hundred and sixty three million dollars is on the line for tonight's Mega Millions jackpot. No one matched all six winning numbers from last night's Powerball drawing, so the drawing on Wednesday night for that one, it'll be worth four hundred twelve million dollars. Got to go buy more lottery tickets. We're just minutes away from Handle on the news this morning, and both President Biden and former President Trump are head into the US

Mexico border. They're both going to be there on Thursday. Right now, let's say good morning to Captain Freddie Escobar. He is a captain with the LA Fire Department and also the president of United Firefighters of Los Angeles City. Thanks for joining us this morning, Freddy, Good morning, Amy. I'm proud to be the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City President. I'm also active.

I'm coming on my thirty fifth year on the LAFC and I'm actually finishing off the shifts here at fire Station eleven between Burnington and Bonnie Gray on Seventh Street. And i got a heads up from our technical producer that since you're still on duty, if you get a call, you're going to have to go, so let's get right to it. Absolutely, let's do this,

okay. So one of the things the voters are going to be voting on in on their ballots next Tuesday, or maybe they're already doing it with all the mail in ballots out there is Measure HLA and your union is against it. First, can you tell us what it is and then we'll go into

why you're against it? Absolutely First, that's the only measure on the ballot, and it's titled the Healthy Streets of Los Angeles, and we've actually titled it Hazard Streets of Los Angeles. I want to first start off by saying we want to support good pedestrian access to all Angelinos across the city of Los Angeles. But the reason we are against it is that it is going to provide a safety hazard to the residents of Los Angeles when we get called out

on a nine one one call. They currently exist today throughout this As I mentioned earlier, I'm working today finishing off the twelve hour shift at fire Station eleven and just east of us from figure Out all the way to skid Row on Seventh Street, they put these road diets in and it affects the response times that we respond to when we get called to these certain addresses and we

have to divert our response times and every single second counts. Yep, when the residents of Los Angeles down nine one one, And imagine if you're calling and we have to take a different route to your emergency and we don't have

a successful outcome. Okay, so Captain Escobar, So just so people are familiar with it, we're talking about where they've restricted lane access, they've put bike lanes in, which has cut down traffic lanes, and also put up those bullards that I've got them in my neighborhood and I'm just worried that I'm a run into them every day and kind of feel like you have to,

like Bob and weave around them. And I didn't even think about like firefighters trying to respond to a fire and how you guys have to weave in and out of traffic sometimes to get to where you're going, and how this could really hurt your efforts. Oh. Absolutely, I mean they've already I mean they've been tried and they have failed. They've tried them in Northern California has failed. They've tried them in different states, they have failed. They've tried

them here in the city of Los Angeles they failed. And also with the l A measure, one of the other issues is they've purposely omitted having our fire department command staff are fire chief, her command staff, and the police to opine on this measure. And they did that purposely because they knew they would be violating laws that currently exists. This measure is misleading. This measure

needs to everybody needs to vote on it. And what we need to do is address it with our city Council at the horseshoe, with the fire chief, with the police chief and come up with something that is going to work. And there's also as also a liability unfunded three hundred million a year for ten years, three billion liability for the residents of Los Angeles because they want to make the changes to like is is it two hundred and fifty miles of

road or something like that. There it's a lot a lot of roads that are going to be affected. It's not just a few in a neighborhood. Correct, anytime you resurface an eighth of a mile of road, then it's going to say, Okay, what are we going to do to add pedestrian

lanes and bike lanes. So, like I said, I'm currently on Seventh Street between Bonnie Bray and Burlington. I think they were if they're scheduled to resurface Seventh Street all the way to figure out the engineers, everybody's going to say, Okay, what's this going to look like on already a heavy congested street where there's parking on both sides. They're going to have to add bike lanes, They're might have to add bus lane, and we're already delayed leading

out of quarters. It is just not a good plan moving forward for the residence of Los Angeles. Okay, so Captain Eskerbar, for me, it's a pain because there are fewer traffic lanes and you've got to dodge those bullards. For you and for the firefighters, it's a safety issue. And for actually for us, it's a safety issue because if our house catches on fire, there's a bad accident and it takes you guys longer to get to us. That puts lives at jeopardy too. Yes, and it's occurring today,

right. So you go down to the west side, you go down down to the valley, here in downtown LA. Anytime you down nine one one in certain districts, the drivers understand where these road diets exist, so they have to take a different route to when they dial nine to one one, and there are unfortunate outcomes that come from that. Because you know, what we do is we always critique ourselves. What can we have done better to have a better outcome for the incident we went on and for the residents we

serve. We love protecting the city of Los Angeles. We go on over half a million emergency calls every single year, and then we also deal with the aftermath of it, the behavioral side of an outcome, and our members that we represent as UFLAT, we want the best opportunity for them to enjoy retirements after a twenty five thirty year career, not only physically but mentally as well. Okay, Cavitain Escobar, thanks so much for your time and explaining

things to us. So your message now a week out of the election, My message is vote no on HLA. We need all the Angelinos to come out and vote. You got your voting registration at home, if you haven't sent it in, send it in. If you want to come down there's a lot of polls that are currently opening. Come out and vote, make a statement, join your LAFP, your first responders, and vote no on HLA. Okay, thank you, Captain Escobar. Appreciate it. Amy,

thank you, and have a great morning. And hello and good morning to all the brothers and sister's driving into work. You got it. Thanks so much. 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 kf I Am six forty and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.