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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. Boy, what a difference of day makes? Huh? Yesterday driving in it was torrential downpours, and this morning it was smooth sailing and I saw the moon. So I was like, oh nice, And it looks like the rain that we're expected to get again at the end of the weekend being pushed back a little bit more, might not even

get it, but they're expecting rain again on Monday. Hey, if you were listening earlier this week, I interviewed the author of the Dream Dictionary, a disease. She has this whole book on how to decipher your dreams and what they mean. So I've been paying attention or trying to. So here's my dream from last night. And if you guys, you know, right when you wake up, write down your dreams and then go back and look at them later. You go go, God, that was weird. And

if you don't write it down, you're probably gonna forget it. But we were flying in a plane and it was flying really low and I was asking the pilot, I'm like, don't you think we need to get some more altitude. Like we were literally just like skimming the ocean, like one hundred feet or less over waters. And then the pilot was taking us over waterfalls and she'd go, oh, look, isn't that cool? And I kept saying, shouldn't we gain a little altitude? Don't you think that's a good

idea. At some point the tail hit something, but we were fine. Weird, weird dream And then there was a crazy lady who was screaming, but we took care of her. Maybe that's because of all the weird stuff that's been going on on planes. I don't know anyway, dreams, weird stuff. But here's what we're finding in the wake up world on wake Up Call Seale service is out to thousands of customers across the US. It's mostly affecting AT and T, but we're also getting reports at Cricket, Wireless,

Verizon and T Mobile or having out it. Just almost seventy five thousand are affected. Service went down early this morning in cities including LA Chicago, Houston, and Honolulu, and there are reports that some nine one one service has been interrupted as well. The La Metro Board of Directors is going to consider approving the Environmental Impact Report for the controversial Dodger Stadium Gondola project. The three

hundred million dollar private project was proposed by ex Dodgers owner Frank McCort. The one point two mile aerial tram would take people from Union Station downtown to the Dodger Stadium parking lot, which McCourt still owns. Beyonce has become the first black woman to score a number one hit on the Billboard Country charts. Her hit Texas Hold'em, debuted at number one on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart yesterday. She's now the first woman to have topped both the country and the R

and B hip Hop charts. President Biden's considering an executive order for the US Mexico border. Let's get started with some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room. A civil engineer says LA's infrastructure handled the recent heavy rains pretty well, but maintaining the infrastructure before and during the storm is key. We really need to be on our game, so to speak, all hours of the night while it's raining to make sure that none of

these outlets, none of these catch basins get clage. On Abelson's with Stantech in Pasadena and says while the entire system did handle the massive amounts of wastewater, the system is still antiquated. Abelson says he'd like to see a more green and eco friendly approach to drainage. Steve Gregory, King of Fine News, a man for Minnesota has been arrested for the murder of a model in downtown LA. Police say Melissa Mooney was beaten, bound and stuffed inside her

refrigerator back in September. They say the accused killers on probation for federal drug offenses. He was taken into custody at his home on an unrelated federal warrant and has agreed to be returned to LA. A two year old girl allegedly kidnapped by her mother in Garden Grove has been found safe at a bus station in Palm's It Brings. Polie say the girl was taken yesterday during a supervised

visit with a social worker. They say a man pepper sprayed the social worker at the Chuck E Cheese, then he and the mom took off with the girl. That triggered an Amber alert. The three were found about three hours later. La Kenny Sheriff's investigators in Lancaster trying to figure out what caused the death of a three year old boy. The child was found bleeding and not

breathing Tuesday night. There are reports he had cuts and abrasions. Investigators say the mother's live in boyfriend was also taken to the hospital because he tried to kill himself. He is considered a person of interest, but no arrests have

been made. House Republicans have moved forward with their impeachment investigation into President Biden by interviewing his brother, James Old, despite the fact Alexander Smirnoff, the man who made claims key to their probe, has been charged with lying to the FBI when he said President Biden was connected to his son's overseas business dealings.

Biden aby C's j O'Brien says. Democrats argue they haven't heard anything indicating Biden had anything to do with the business ventures of brother or his son Hunter. James Biden says the President was never involved in any of his financial deals. Bed Bugs have been found crawling around in some big name hotels in Las Vegas, gross at least four people staying at the Encore, the Venetian, the Excalibur and The Mirage have reported finding the bugs in their rooms between September

and January. The Nevada Resort Association says four rooms out of about one hundred and fifty five thousand and the city shows it is still very rare. The group says when hotels encounter bed bugs, guests are relocated and exterminators are called, that's reassuring. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. Jim tell us how much are we making in the US on average? We're doing

okay, We're doing better than they were a couple of years ago. National average income in the last quart of last year was fifty nine three hundred and eighty four dollars. That's across everybody, all in levels, all races, genders, every state, it all balls up together. And the Census Bureau says we're making fifty nine three hundred and eighty four dollars on average amien. That's up in the last year, and in fact the rate of increase.

The average salary grew by nearly five and a half percent, a gain of three point two percent though in the Consumer Price Index, so salaries at least in the fourth quarter of last year, we're outpacing inflation. Oh so technically we're making five percent, but it's only two percent because inflation is at three percent. Yeah, but still I did the math there. That's pretty impressive, right, pretty good, bitter and most radio folks could manage it better

if I could do. But yeah, so, I mean the key takeaway though, is that, yeah, well you might as well reduce it by that much, by three point two percent, it's still keeping up in a little ahead of inflation. When you get the other direction, when you get to the opposite, with inflation outpacing salaries, then you see an economy and major problems. Well that's not happy news. Who's doing the best, Jim who? Yeah, Well, let's see, folks in Massachusetts are doing the

best. I guess if you had to categorize, put the person, it's a cardiologist living in Massachusetts. Cardiologists who live in Massachusetts are doing the best. White males are oh, white male cardiologists in Massachusetts. Okay, And I mean if you look across all the categories, all the occupations, medical occupations do the best. Cardiologists do the best out of all you know, on the average doctor living in Massachusetts, you make the more most of any

state in the country. And if you're a man, you're making about ten thousand bucks a year more than the cpparable woman in terms of education. You know, is that getting any better than the gender gap? It is. It's not obviously that it's not a one for one kind of thing. Still isn't. But and it has shrunk by about one percent over the last ten years years. That sounds very much not much, no, but still the average male earning or the average male gets sixty three, nine hundred and sixty

dollars. That's about ten thousand dollars per more per year more than his female counterpart with a similar, similar occupation and similar education level. Okay, and then according to all these numbers, because I'm sure they broke it down every which way, what when's your prime earning time age wise? Yeah, well, when you are kind of a middle aged earner thirty five to forty four, When you're between thirty five and forty four years old, you're making on

average about thirteen point eight percent more than the national average. The lowest paid group, as you can imagine, are the youngest workers, the sixteen to twenty four year olds. But surprisingly, once you hit forty five, your income on average starts to drop off somewhat average forty five. Really yeah, oh see, I thought it. I thought like the prime earning years were

up until you were about fifty five. No. Not. According to Census Bureau, thirty five to forty four are your prime earning years, and then between forty five and sixty five you start to see a decline about eight percent less than the national average. Okay, and does do all these studies predict that incomes are expected to continue to increase as the salary or as the job market stays tight or are they just reporting numbers and now they just look at

the numbers for the for Q four of last year. So no predictions, no estimates, no expectations or a crystal ball about what might happen next. But folks in California should be pretty happy. I mean, yes, the cost of most things is higher than in the rest of the country, but yeah, rich, salary high. Yeah, my brother lives in San Francisco and oh gosh, that's even higher than here. Right. Eighty four four hundred and forty eight dollars is the average salary in California. Surprisingly, Washington

State has a slightly higher. Course, it's kind of weighted up by a lot of all the tech firms up there in the Pacific Northwest. But eighty five thousand, seven forty eight in Washington State, and where Massachusetts has the highest average income, right, Massachusetts, Yeah, what's it there? That's consistently about what you can expect. Eighty six thousand, eight hundred and forty So there are a couple of thousand dollars per year higher than you folks in

California, okay. And who makes the least minutes rather Mississippi. Mississippi's average is forty eight thousand and forty eight. That's way below the national average. And that that whole southern strip there in the Deep South there see some of the lowest incomes in the whole country. Alabama's is down there. Georgia does a bit better, and then Florida does. Okay, but yeah, that whole the Mississippi, the Arkansas, Louisiana, they're all consistently near the bottom.

The cost of living is so much lower, so probably that compensates for it too well. Yeah, still, okay, so we want to be a eight male cardiologist in Massachusetts. Ill, Yeah, that in mind, if you can arrange that, if you can make that possible. Good luck. All right, thank you, Jim, I appreciate it. Jem. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Jurors in Van Nuys can choose manslaughter or murder

if they reach a verdict to convict Rebecca Grossman. Prosecutor cited a speeding ticket as proof Grossman knew speeding could kill seven years before she allegedly killed two children in a crosswalk in Westlake Village in twenty twenty. The prosecution said during closing arguments yesterday that ticket and some text messages from Grossman are proof of the implied malice necessary for a murder conviction. The defense asked jurors, where is the

other driver who Grossman's lawyers alleged hit the kids first? And why was his car never investigated? The defense says that should be all jurors need for reasonable doubt. At Vanni's Courthouse, Corbin Carson KFI News jury deliberations are expected to start today when closing arguments are complete. Lawyers for former president and Trump have asked for a delay of enforcement. In New York on the three hundred and

fifty five million dollar judgment in his civil fraud trial. The verdict this week gives Trump a month to pay the penalty. His team asked for a thirty day extension yesterday, saying New York Attorney General Letitia James is in a rush to enforce the verdict. James says she'll go after Trump's assets if he doesn't pay up. A hospital in Alabama's paused in vitro fertilization treatments as health care providers weigh the impact of a state court ruling that frozen embryos are legally children.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System says it has to evaluate whether its patients or doctors could face criminal charges or punitive damages for undergoing IVF treatments. And James Hong will place his hand prints and footprints in the cement on the court of the TCL Chinese Theater Imax in Hollywood today. It's to celebrate

Hong's ninety fifth birthday. In his seven decade long acting career, Hongs appeared in more than six hundred movies and TV shows, including the award winning Everything Everywhere, All At Once, He's also the voice of mister Ping in the Kung Fu Panda movies. Kung Fu Panda four premieres March eighth. When we come back, we're going to check in with ABC's Karen Travers. We're talking student loan debt, forgiveness, and a possible executive order for the border.

You're listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. President Biden has one more fundraising event before he leaves California. His appearance today in San Francisco following fundraisers and a speech in southern California Tuesday and yesterday. The boyfriend of the mother of a three year old boy who was found unresponsive in a home in Lancaster and later died has been named a person of interest in the boy's death. The boy had a cut on him when he was found.

Officials say the boyfriend tried to kill himself. He's in the hospital. No arrests have been made. Lucky the Horse is a very lucky horse. He was rexecued yesterday after falling into a sinkhole in the backyard in Lakeview Terrace. Gala. Firefighters a couple hours to dig him out of the mud. And then hoist him up. Yesterday afternoon, Lucky was not injured. At six oh five, it's handle on the news. The head of the seven thirty seven Max program is out. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen

Travers. So, Karen, one hundred and fifty three thousand people got an email from the President. What did it say. Yeah, yesterday, one hundred and fifty three thousand Americans got word that all or a portion of their student debt has been relieved. The administration says the total number of Americans approved for some kind of student debt relief is now nearly three point nine million people. Now, the people who got that word yesterday hand have been enrolled in

the President's student loan payment man called the Save Plan. This is something they rolled out last summer. There's about seven and a half million people enrolled in that. There are many more who qualify, so look it up and see if you can get into that. And those people who got that relief yesterday started with an original balance of less than twelve thousand dollars in their student debt, and they've been paying down their loans for a debt decade or longer.

So the White House says that this is just the first round of borrowers to benefit from this aspect of the Save Plan, and moving forward, anyone else who enrolls in that plan and meets the criteria can also get debt relief. Don't have a timeline on when that next round will come and how many people it'll apply to, but they say it will be coming. And Karen the Supreme Court said that he couldn't just do this blanket student loan debt forgiveness.

So how are they doing it? Yeah, you know, he couldn't do that big sweeping student debt relief for millions of Americans ten to twenty thousand for most people, even more for others who were pelgrant recipients. That was struck down last year by the Supreme Court. So they've been doing this in a piecemeal approach through different methods, and this so far has been working for them.

Again, this is part of a payment plan. So you enroll as a federal student debt holder, you had federal student loans, you enroll in the payment plan called the Safe Plan. Can go online and look it up, and then when the administration goes through and sees how you started with your original balance how many payments you've been making over the course of a decade consistently.

Then they're determining if you're eligible for some relief. Now, the balances on a lot of these accounts are probably pretty low, given that you started with less than twelve thousand and you've been paying them for a decade or more. But still it's clearing it out for so many people, which the President

said yesterday is significant. It's not just helping these individuals and their families, he says, it's helping the broader economy because these people then can now make different financial decisions, buy a house, maybe start a business, make other choices for their community that can help the broader economy. Okay, and then I know that you have to run, but real quick. When it comes to immigration, Yeah, he said just last week or a week before,

I can't do anything. Congress has to do it. And now he's saying, maybe I'm going to do an executive order. They're going to try. That's what we're told that he's looking at a wide range of options. No final decision has been made, but considering taking executive action that could possibly bar

migrants from seeking asylum if they cross illegally between US ports of entry. Now, the White House still says to us today they want Congress to act that that's the best way to do it, the best way to have policy reforms and resources at the border. But they're looking to take potential action where they can. This will likely face legal challenges, as anything and a president does

with executive action when it comes to border and immigration policy. But this shows that they're trying to do something on an issue that Americans say is a big priority for them. Okay, avc's Karen Travers, thank you so much, have a great day. Thanks. All right, let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. A man from Santa Anna has been charged with attacking a man in his late sixties in

Newport Beach. Police say it happened Monday near Crystal Cove, but it's not clear what provoked the assault. The alleged attackers facing several felony charges, including assault, was forced likely to cause great bodily injured, resisting arrest, and assaulting an officer. The guy pleaded not guilty yesterday. Lawyers for the eighteen year old accused of plotting to shoot up a school in Ontario. Says he

has cognitive issues and never planned an attack. Lise Sebastian Villa, senor was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and plotted to kill classmates at Ontario Christian High. He's being held without bail on five counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted criminal threat. City officials trying to relocate homeless people living in the La Grand Hotel. The la Homeless Services Authority wants to move at least three

hundred people as part of Mayor Bass's Inside Safe program. LASA director Miguel Fernandez says on February seventh, there were four hundred thirty three participants at the La Grand, and as of February fourteenth, there were four hundred forty. The discrepancy in number stems from the Mayor's office request to continue rolling individuals at the La Grant with the stated intent that the Mayor's office would be responsible for connecting

additional people to other resources. LASSA says the remaining homeless will be moved starting May first. Chris Adler k I News, the man accused of killing an eleven year old girl in Texas is facing capital murder charges. Polk County DA Shelley Sitton says that could mean the death penalty. Until we get all of the evidence and all the autopsy reports, we're going to have to hold and work with law enforcement to determine what is the best solution to this case.

Audrey Cunningham was reported missing last week when she didn't show up at her school bus stop. Her body was found in a river six days later. The man arrested, Don McDougall, lived behind the family's home and would sometimes drive the girl to school if she missed the bus. The IRS is offering tax help this weekend for people in La County. Walk ins are welcome. Phil Filers can get help resolving issues with returns, understanding tax obligations, and finding

other IRS resources. Extended hours are from nine am to four pm at tex Centers in downtown La and also Elmonte. When we come back, we're going to be talking with the executive director of the Music Forward Foundation and about how a passion for music could pay off ten thousand dollars worth. I'll tell you about that next. You're listening to a wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty. Glad you're waking up with us. Here's what we're following

in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Sale services out to thousands of customers across the US, and the carriers seven said why. It's mainly affecting AT and T, but also Cricket, Wireless, Verizon and T Mobile. About seventy five thousand were affected at last count. Service went down early this morning in cities including LA Chicago, Houston, and Honolulu. Some nine one one

service has apparently been interrupted as well. A United flight bound for Lax from New Jersey had to be diverted to Chicago when a bomb threat was found in the bathroom. Two hundred passengers on board were taken off the plane. In Chicago, a bomb sniffing dog found what's been called a specific a what a suspicious bag on board the plane. Getting Panda's back so excited. China is going to loan to pandas to the San Diego Zoo, about five years after

the last two pandas were returned to China. It's part of the Panda Diplomacy program. Zoo official say if everything goes as planned, the pandas will arrive at the Zoo as early as the end of this summer. At six oh five, it's handle on the news President Biden's considering an executive order to deal with the border. See how I rhyme that. At five point fifty, we're going to get an update on King Charles the Third from ABC's Tom Rivers,

who is in London right now. You know, I like to talk to people who give away money, and that's why we're talking to the executive director of the Music Forward Foundation, Narite Smith. Good morning, Narite, Thank you so much for having me. And I think this is a perfect match because I love giving away money. Oh that's perfect, and so tell us Narit what you have and who the money is going to and how they

get it right. So we're the Music Forward Foundation celebrating thirty one years of empowering the next generation and making the music industry and live entertainment available and accessible to all. And we do this a number of ways, including through these scholarships. We're looking for college students who have a passion for music and lives

and need that extra help to pull them through their education. This is for existing college students who are saying, you know what the music industries that's where I want to go and I need a helping hand exactly. We give them to juniors and seniors rising juniors and seniors. So this is not to enter college, but this is to help you continue and drive you through to that

completion point. Okay, and Nari I thought this was really fascinating as I was looking at what the scholarships are because there's five ten thousand dollars all the ships. But they're not just for like a person who plays music and wants to be an artist, because the music industry is so much bigger than that. So can you tell me really quickly about the Stephen J. Finkel Service

Excellent Scholarship and who's that one is for? So the Stephen J. Finkel is named after someone who has was really instrumental in the concerts world, right, and so we're really looking for someone who is interested in that customer service experience, that understands that fan experience. So the hundreds of thousands of audience members that come into venues, how do we make that experience more accessible, easier for them and engaging? And so that is someone who wants to go

into live and really excite about that audience fan experience. Okay. And then you have another one that's designed specifically to support women who want to get into a career in live entertainment exactly. You know, this is a very young industry, and it's a lot of guys that just learned on the job and has been driving and building this spectacular, multi billion dollar industry. We want to make sure that this industry is also available to young women, okaight.

And so this is dedicated specifically for a young woman who is looking at operations production and music engineering and other related fields that align with music and lives. Okay. And then there's another one, and I love this one because this one is specifically for someone who has already overcome some just huge obstacles because they've either had been homeless or been in the foster care system. So think about

how much they've already had to overcome to get into college. Exactly. This is a partnership with an amazing nonprofit called Inherit the Music, and we've been running this scholarship for the last five years. And you know, with college costs continuing to increase, a lot of young people are often forced to cut basic needs expenses food and housing, and so this not only reaches some of our most vulnerable young people who are trying to achieve more in their lives,

but it really helps to cut the cost of education down. And you know, I mean when you look at most scholarships range around twenty five hundred. With these ten thousand dollars scholarships, we're really saying we believe in you. Yeah. I love it, and I love that. This is like it's not a handout, it's a hand up and I like that. Yeah. Okay, And you know, these scholarships that we've been telling you about are

just kind of the tip of the iceberg. For the Music Forward Foundation, who I was just reading this narate to date has provided more than forty two million dollars in scholarships. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. We want to continuously transform young wives, inspire careers, and chapion a much more inclusive music industry, and with these scholarships, we hope to make that a reality.

Okay, So if this sounds like something that is interesting to you or to your kids and you want to take advantage of it, you have until March thirty first, and Nouri where can they find out all the information and applications and all that stuff. Music Forward Foundation dot org. Okay, music affects all of our lives in such a wonderful way, So I love that you're looking to the next generation. Nari Smith, thank you so much for your time. Thank you, and that's the love to all the applicants. Yes,

yes, why thanks Narita, appreciate it. The Musicforward Foundation dot org five ten thousand scholarships are available if you're interested in have a passion for music. Love that. Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Metro's Board of directors is set to consider the environmental impact report for a gondola project that would take baseball fans to Dodger

Stadium. The board's also expected to consider emotion today, establishing an agreement that's intended to address the concerns of the communities that would be impacted before any construction starts. The three hundred million dollars private project would create a one point two mile system to connect Union Station and the stadium. The project also needs approval

from the city and several state agencies. A former LAPED officers facing several charges for allegedly stealing credit and debit cards from people who were visiting inmates at a detention center in downtown La Qa. DA's office has the officers charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor count of unlawful use of credit cards. He's facing up

to five years and four months in prison if convicted. Officials say California should make cuts to temporary and one time spending to close the state's growing budget deficits. The Legislative Analysts Office says California can save around sixteen billion dollars with the cutbacks. California Senate Budget Committee Vice Chair Roger Nilo says he thinks the state should pause on offering health care to illegal immigrants. The Governor's not going to

remove it. I'm a realist, but to delay it to our years when revenues start to recover, I think would make good fiscal sense. The Legislative Analyst Office is projecting a seventy three billion dollars shortfall through June of twenty twenty five. Blake Trolly k if I News. Police in China have opened an investigation into an unauthorized dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the country's top policing Agency and other parts of its government. The documents from i

SOON reveal apparent hacking activity and tools despite both the Chinese and foreigners. Targets include ethnicities and dissidents in parts of China that have been have seen significant anti government protests. I SOON has ties to the Ministry of Public Security. Vandals

have damaged a monument to doctor Martin Luther King Junior in Denver. Doctor Vern Howard, who helped create the monument in two thousand and one, saw the damage yesterday in Denver's City Park and said, it's sad out of the project manager and this was like attacking one of my children. A three pound bronze panel that depicted Black War heroes was removed from the monument, so were two decorative emblems on the side. Howard says it had to be a coordinated effort

and it's obvious that tools were used. Florida Governor Ronda Santis is he supports term limits for members of Congress. This is something that the people in the states have the ability. The proposed changes to discipline Washington, the founding father structure of the constitution like that for a reason. DeSantis was in Indiana and South Carolina this week pushing for the change. He says term limits are supported by most Americans, and it's time to make it happen. It rained so

much in Death Valley. How much did it rain? Well? It rains so much that the bad Water Basin and Death Valley now has enough rain water in it that visitors can go kayaking on a temporary lake. It's called Lake Manly. It's about six miles long, three miles wide, and just one foot deep. Visitors must be t oka bring their own kayak now once the water dries up. Are we going to get another super bloom from all of this rain that we've received? Park officials say the potential for the wildfire wildfire

the wildflower super bloom is uncertain. I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. But man, they're spectacular. Listening to Wake Up Call on demand from KFI AM six forty, good Thursday morning to you, I'm Amy King Boy. The hour just went by so fast. Again. If you missed any of wake Up Call, you can always go back and listen

on an iHeartRadio app any old time you want. Here's what we're following in the KFI twenty four hour newsroom the head of Boeing's seven thirty seven Max program, is out ed. Clark had been with Boeing for nearly two decades. The seven thirty seven to nine Max fleet was grounded last month after a door plug blew out on an Alaska flight. Several other issues have been found since

then, including loose and missing bolts on several planes. The boyfriend of the mother of a three year old boy who was found unresponsive in a homean Landcaster and later died, has been named a person of interest in the boy's death. The boyfriend apparently tried to kill himself. He's in the hospital. No arrests have yet been made. California's nut industry is under attack by invasive almond by the Beatles, apparently bore holes into developing nuts and then eat the kernels

out inside. In a letter to the Department of Agriculture, Central Valley Congressman Josh Harder requested emergency funding to fight the little bugs, which he says are a major economic threat. California's almond and pistachio crop worth six point three billion dollars in twenty twenty two. We're just minutes away from handle. On the news this morning, cell phone service is out to about seventy five thousand AT and T Cricket, wireless, Verizon and T Mobile customers across the US.

The carriers have not said why. Let's get back to some of the stories coming from the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Ballots in La County will be counted and processed at a single location this March. The one hundred and forty four thousand square foot warehouse in the city of Industry has eliminated the need to transport ballots to several different sites. Officials say the warehouse as live streaming capabilities

to increase election integrity. When mail in voting was first expanded during the pandemic, ballots were processed at the Pomona County Fairgrounds, counted at an office in Downey, and then stored at a center in Santa Fe Springs. The La Kenny Sheriff's Department says it would like access to people's home security cameras. The request is part of a new program where homeowners would register their cameras through the

department's website. Doing so would allow investigators to see where cameras are located to help solve crimes or assess the situation in real time. The department would not have live access, but if you wanted to go the extra mile, you could buy an adapter for around three hundred and fifty dollars from a private company that would allow investigators to see your camera's live feed. Officials say they're interested in areas like Calabasas at Goura Hills and Malibu. Steve Gregory KAA FINOS.

Closing arguments have ramped up in the murder trial of Rebecca Grossman, who's charged with killing two kids in a crosswalk in Westlake Village. The fence lawyers told jurors investigators never bothered to investigate the six other cars that went through the intersection with Grossman that night in twenty twenty, including the suv they say hit the boys first. Grossman's lawyers say that's enough reasonable doubt for a not guilty verdict.

Prosecutors say eight witnesses a boy's body imprinted by Grossman's SUV, only pieces of that SUV at the scene, SUV data alleging she hit eighty one miles an hour, and a prior speeding ticket where Grossman was warned speeding could kill. Prosecutor say that's plenty of evidence to find Grossman guilty of murder. At van I's Courthouse, Corbin Carson kaf I News, jury deliberations are expected to

start today when closing arguments are complete. A civil engineer based in Pasadena s's the water drainage infrastructure in the LA area did what it was designed to do during recent storms. The overall flood control system is in relatively good capacity. It's working well. John Abelson with Stantec says while the system is pretty robust, it's still pretty old. He says, when it's time to upgrade the

infrastructure, he'd like to see a more eco friendly approach to drainage. A plan to move the homeless from the La Grand Hotel to the Mayfair is moving forward. Miguel Fernandez with the La Homeless Services Authority says LASA will continue to submit bi weekly reports to the city Council to make sure the public can track its progress. The report will include remaining participants, housing resources offered, planned exit exit outcomes, and pertinent data. He says they're trying to move about

three hundred people starting May first. The city has extended the lease through July thirty first, Hey have you ever been to Colorado, and well, if you've been to Colorado, you haven't gotten a Bucki's. But apparently BUCkies is a huge station convenience store combo, and it's in other areas of the country. I don't think we have them here, but Colorado is getting their first one. It's at the twenty five and County Road forty. It's going to

have a grand opening next month. Operations District manager Michael Buie says it's going to be the premier destination stop in Johnstown. You go down the highway, you see this big old Bucky's logo and it feels like it's an oasis. You families appreciated, clean facility, an you know, we've added on to that. We've added some amazing food offerings. We have a cult following. It's like a modern day rest stop. Right. Bucky's stores are known for

their size. The Colorado location is going to be the biggest one yet, seventy five thousand square feet. They're hiring more than two hundred workers. China has plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its long standing gesture of friendship towards the US. Nearly all of the pandas on loan to US zoo's were returned years ago as tensions grew between

the two countries. San Diego Zoo officials say if all the permits and other requirements are approved, the bears could arrive at the San Diego Zoo as early as the end of this summer. Hey, remember two dollar bills. I haven't seen one in years, But if you have one lying around and you're probably not going to spend it, it could be worth five thousand dollars to

you. So US currency auctions say that uncirculated two dollar bills from back in eighteen ninety could sell up for two about forty five hundred, and then other old uncirculated bills are worth like one thousand dollars. But newer bills have a lot of value. And remember when they started reprinting them again, I think the early two thousands. A two dollars bill printed in two thousand and three recently sold at auction for twenty four hundred dollars. Interesting, I don't have

any two dollar bills. Did you know your coworkers can help you lose weight? It's true. They can also hinder. You have you ever worked at a place. We go in spurts here at the radio station, but you go and you know, everybody's eating healthy food, and then somebody starts bringing in stuff, and then there's like donuts, and then there's cupcakes another day,

and somebody else brings something else sweet. Not helping, but apparently it turns out workers are more likely to eat fruit and vegetables and then exercise when their colleagues encourage them to do so. Coworkers have the potential to contribute to creating a culture of health within the workplace. Instead of opting for pizza every Friday, I still prefer pizza every Friday, but I think that's true.

It's the people around you. It's like at home, if your a boyfriend or girlfriend or husband or wife is hitting the ice cream every night and you're trying to have salad, it makes it harder. But studies show that creating a healthy lifestyle has a lot to do with the influence of family and friends and neighbors and even co workers. Good to know and speaking of food and going out, I hate this, but we're going to be seeing higher menu

prices because of a new law that takes effect, and here's why. Under a law that was signed by Gavin Newsom in October of last year, it goes into effect in July. The law prohibits junk fees across different businesses including restaurants, bars, and delivery apps. So what that means is you're going to know how much you're going to be charged at the outset as opposed to

having something tacked on at the end. And the practical result of this law is that instead of like putting on fees at the end, that diners are going to get charged upfront. So you can expect basically menu prices to go up. Something to look forward to as you head out and about and go out to dinner. 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.