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Limited U.S. Military Actions Against Iran · Wake Up Call with Amy King

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640. Wake Up Call with me,
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  Speaker 1: Station, this is Amy King with KFI's wake-up call. How
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  Speaker 2: It's time for your morning wake-up call. Here's Amy King.
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  Speaker 1: It's 5 o'clock. Good morning. This is your wake-up call
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  Speaker 1: for Tuesday, September 1st. I'm Amy King. We're live everywhere
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  Speaker 1: on the iHeartRadio app. Good Tuesday morning to you. September, seriously?
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  Speaker 1: Where did the summer go? It's still here. We've got
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  Speaker 1: three more weeks of summer. But you know what it means.
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  Speaker 1: It means that I can change out my dishes and
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  Speaker 1: put my fall dishes out. I can get my autumn
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  Speaker 1: stuff out. I can get Halloween out. I thought you
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  Speaker 2: Say Christmas decorations.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. One holiday at a time. One holiday
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  Speaker 1: at a time. Okay. I got to go dig out
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  Speaker 1: my Halloween, though. It's too early. Is it too early?
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  Speaker 1: When's too early for Halloween? You guys tell me. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Halloween starts on July 5th, as many people,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Southern California, do.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 1: Let us know. Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call.
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  Speaker 7: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County has sued State Farm Insurance, claiming it mishandled claims
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  Speaker 1: filed by Eaton and Palisades fire survivors. The suit seeks
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  Speaker 1: reparation costs for individual policyholders. State Farm denies it has
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  Speaker 1: mishandled any claims, saying it has paid out more than
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  Speaker 1: $ 6 billion to L.A. fire victims. Jurors returned a verdict
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  Speaker 1: of guilty in the first-degree murder trial of Dwayne Keefey D. Davis.
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  Speaker 1: The jury deliberated for less than three hours yesterday before
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  Speaker 1: deciding that Davis orchestrated the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur.
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  Speaker 1: In closing arguments, the prosecutor argued that Davis' own words
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  Speaker 1: prove he set up the drive-by shooting. Davis' attorney countered
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  Speaker 1: that there was no evidence placing him in Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: that night. The Supreme Court has given the green light
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  Speaker 1: to construction to continue for the White House ballroom. The
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  Speaker 1: justices ruled 5-4 yesterday to grant Trump's emergency request to
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  Speaker 1: block a lower court ruling that would have halted construction. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that ruling all but assures that Trump's going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to complete the project by the end of his
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  Speaker 1: term before any of the legal challenges are resolved. The
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  Speaker 1: president held an Oval Office meeting yesterday to talk about
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  Speaker 1: plans to reduce more prescription drug costs, including drug Lowering
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  Speaker 1: the cost of GLPs to 50 bucks a month. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's Karen Travers is going to join us at 520
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  Speaker 1: to tell us about what reporters wanted to know about.
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  Speaker 1: And that is whether the U.S. strikes on missile launchers
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  Speaker 1: in Iran may lead to all out war again. She's
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  Speaker 1: going to join us. Tell us more about that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: anthropic in a lot of hot water legally for allegedly
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  Speaker 1: stealing money. A whole lot of intellectual property with its
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  Speaker 1: new AI. ABC's Mike Dubosky joins us in just a
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  Speaker 1: couple of minutes to tell us what they're being accused
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  Speaker 1: of stealing. And where's the beef? All that beef coming
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  Speaker 1: in from other countries that the president is allowing in
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  Speaker 1: tariff-free to try to bring down prices. Jim Ryan says
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  Speaker 1: it might be stuck. He'll tell us where and whether
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  Speaker 1: it will be cheaper. That's coming up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later on Wake Up Call. Let's get started with some
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  Speaker 1: of the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom.
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  Speaker 1: State Farm is disputing claims in a new lawsuit that
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  Speaker 1: it's not doing right by L.A. fire survivors.
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  Speaker 8: L.A.
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  Speaker 9: County Supervisor Catherine Barger says Eaton Fire survivors in her
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  Speaker 9: district have faced delays.
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  Speaker 1: In processing claims and payments, repeated changes in adjusters, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: up to 10 to 15.
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  Speaker 9: And outright denials stopping them from rebuilding. She and Supervisor
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  Speaker 9: Lindsay Horvath are behind a new county lawsuit against State Farm.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for State Farm to truly be there. and
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  Speaker 3: be the good neighbor they promised Angelenos they would be.
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  Speaker 9: State Farm says it's been a good neighbor, processing billions
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  Speaker 9: in clams, and it strongly disagrees with how it's being portrayed.
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  Speaker 9: Jason Athenson, KFI News.
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  Speaker 7: L.A.
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  Speaker 1: County D.A. Nathan Hockman says a decision has not yet
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  Speaker 1: been made on whether to ask for the death penalty
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  Speaker 1: for singer David, who's charged with killing a 14-year-old girl.
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  Speaker 10: We had invited David Anthony Burke's prior counsel to submit
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  Speaker 10: what's called a mitigation packet to the district attorney's office
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  Speaker 10: for consideration. A mitigation packet are factors that we are
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  Speaker 10: to consider why we should not bring the death penalty
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  Speaker 10: in this case.
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  Speaker 1: He says the D.A. 's office hasn't received that yet.
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  Speaker 1: The singer pleaded not guilty yesterday to murder and other
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  Speaker 1: crimes related to the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez. He's
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  Speaker 1: now being represented by a public defender because his private
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  Speaker 1: legal team withdrew from the case. A surge of voter
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  Speaker 1: fraud investigations in the U.S. is scheduled to start today.
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  Speaker 1: That's according to CNN. They report that California is one
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  Speaker 1: of nine states being targeted by the Department of Homeland Security.
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  Speaker 1: California is already investigating voter fraud led by first assistant U.S.
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  Speaker 1: attorney Bill Asaley's office in L.A. Monday, he told KFI's
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  Speaker 1: John Colbelt that two people have been arrested so far.
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  Speaker 5: Brenda Brown, who was paying homeless people to register to vote.
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  Speaker 5: We charged a guy last week who was not a
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  Speaker 5: citizen who was registered to vote. And we have, I suspect,
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  Speaker 5: more arrests coming.
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  Speaker 1: The woman in L.A., Brenda Brown, convicted of paying people
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  Speaker 1: on Skid Row to register to vote yesterday. and to
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  Speaker 1: sign petitions, has been sentenced to 18 months probation and
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  Speaker 1: 120 hours of community service. She could have gotten up
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  Speaker 1: to five years in prison. Let's say good morning now
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  Speaker 1: to ABC's Mike Dabusky. Mike, Anthropic has a big lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: on its hands for allegedly stealing intellectual property. Intellectual property
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  Speaker 1: of what?
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  Speaker 11: Music, specifically from music companies Sony Music and Warner Chappell,
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  Speaker 11: both music publishers, they allege that Anthropic, the maker of Claude,
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  Speaker 11: engaged in what they call a brazen campaign of intellectual
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  Speaker 11: property theft, basically accusing these companies of good old-fashioned music piracy.
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  Speaker 11: According to these publishers, Anthropic illegally acquired their songs by
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  Speaker 11: going through these sort of illegal torrents, shady downloads, And
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  Speaker 11: using that IP to train their large language model clawed.
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  Speaker 11: What's more, they say they went even one step further
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  Speaker 11: and removed the copyright information from those files as they
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  Speaker 11: were ingesting it into that large language model. The amount
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  Speaker 11: of copyrighted works here is innumerable, according to the lawsuit,
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  Speaker 11: but they include songs you're probably familiar with, things like
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  Speaker 11: Ain't No Mountain High Enough. September, All I Want for
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  Speaker 11: Christmas is You, Eye of the Tiger, some pretty big
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  Speaker 11: songs here. And the complaint says tens of thousands of
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  Speaker 11: these allegedly infringed works are at play. They're asking for
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  Speaker 11: $ 150, 000 for every allegedly pirated song, plus $ 25, 000 for every
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  Speaker 11: song where the copyright information was allegedly removed.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's going to add up to a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So they're saying that The AI used those songs to
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  Speaker 1: teach itself how to sing, basically? Or are they taking
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  Speaker 1: the songs, reproducing them, and then selling them off as
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  Speaker 1: their own?
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  Speaker 11: So this is an important bit of nuance here. The
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  Speaker 11: thing at play, the thing that's at the center of
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  Speaker 11: this lawsuit is not whether it is legal to use songs,
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  Speaker 11: copyrighted material to train a large language model. It's more
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  Speaker 11: about how Anthropic went about getting that information. So if
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  Speaker 11: we go back to September of last year, Anthropic settled
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  Speaker 11: a case from the literary world, which accused it of
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  Speaker 11: largely the same thing, pirating information, intellectual property, from shady
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  Speaker 11: online sources in this case it was ebooks not necessarily
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  Speaker 11: music but that case is potentially instructive because many of
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  Speaker 11: the same arguments are showing up again here anthropic again
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  Speaker 11: as we said last september agreed to settle that case
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  Speaker 11: for 1.5 billion dollars but in doing so the judge
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  Speaker 11: drew a line between training and piracy basically saying it's
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  Speaker 11: cool for an AI company to use copyrighted works to
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  Speaker 11: train models for whatever reason, whether it be you want
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  Speaker 11: to have this thing be more proficient at writing songs,
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  Speaker 11: you want it to have some context on music history,
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  Speaker 11: whatever it happens to be. They just have to go
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  Speaker 11: about acquiring those works legally. And what was coming out
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  Speaker 11: during that period of time when there was this scramble
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  Speaker 11: to find as much training data as you possibly can
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  Speaker 11: to ingest into your model because The more training data,
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  Speaker 11: the smarter the model is going to be and so
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  Speaker 11: on and so forth. It seems like, according to these cases,
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  Speaker 11: many of these publishers think that Anthropic went the cheaper route.
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  Speaker 11: They went to these kind of shadier websites and pirated
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  Speaker 11: the music as opposed to paying for it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So if they would have gone to the person
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  Speaker 1: who wrote Eye of the Tiger, one of my favorite songs.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: So if they went to the publisher and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we want to purchase rights to it or whatever, it
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  Speaker 1: would have been different, kind of like with radio play
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  Speaker 1: or that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 12: OK, so.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: That's that's really what's at play here. But you also
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  Speaker 11: have to think from Anthropic's point of view. like that's
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  Speaker 11: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 11: Like, you know, not to pull back the curtain on radio,
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  Speaker 11: but like it's expensive when we play music.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 11: Like it or it can be, especially, you know, if
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  Speaker 11: we don't get the proper permissions to do so. You know,
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  Speaker 11: often that comes with monetary payment. And when you're talking
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  Speaker 11: about a company like Anthropic that just. need so much
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  Speaker 11: music right like they need just tons of just stuff
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  Speaker 11: from around the internet to train these models you know
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  Speaker 11: that can add up pretty quickly for them but you
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  Speaker 11: know depending on how this potential case goes like this
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  Speaker 11: could also potentially add up for them you know if
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  Speaker 11: it ends up they they find that like they were
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  Speaker 11: actually you know pirating these things in an illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Way okay we'll be watching it abc's mike debusky thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for the info as always of course take
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  Speaker 1: care all right Let's get back to some of the
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  Speaker 1: stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. Search and
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  Speaker 1: rescue efforts continue in Arizona for one person still missing
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  Speaker 1: following flash flooding at the Grand Canyon. The search has
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  Speaker 1: been delayed because of the weather. The flood threat isn't over.
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  Speaker 1: Meteorologist Melissa Griffin says flood watches are in effect for
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  Speaker 1: much of Arizona. I've been watching these heavy downpours kind
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  Speaker 1: of slowly moving through, and we have a widespread flood
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  Speaker 1: threat all the way from southern Arizona right into south
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  Speaker 1: central Utah, even into parts of western Colorado. At least
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  Speaker 1: two people were killed in the flooding Saturday. Officials have
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  Speaker 1: barred tourists from staying at lodges and hotels inside Grand
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  Speaker 1: Canyon National Park and have issued emergency water restrictions for
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  Speaker 1: local residents. The death toll in Nepal and China... has
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  Speaker 1: topped 1,000 as rescue teams search for thousands of people
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  Speaker 1: still missing after the catastrophic flash flooding. Most of those
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  Speaker 1: deaths are in Nepal. The number of missing people stands
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  Speaker 1: at more than 4,000. The scale of last week's disaster
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  Speaker 1: is hampering rescue efforts with landslides and destroyed roads cutting
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  Speaker 1: off remote areas. In Nepal, rescuers are racing to reach
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of hydropower workers believed to be trapped in tunnels.
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  Speaker 1: The secretary of the Army has stepped down. ABC's Karen
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  Speaker 1: Hua says Dan Driscoll resigned last night.
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  Speaker 14: He was the youngest Army secretary in history. He was
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  Speaker 14: confirmed just 18 months ago, sworn in by his old
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  Speaker 14: law school friend, Vice President J.D.
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  Speaker 7: Vance.
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  Speaker 14: Sources say his exit follows growing tension with Hegseth over
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  Speaker 14: the firing and sidelining of senior officers.
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  Speaker 1: She says Driscoll had become popular on Capitol Hill and
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  Speaker 1: had a direct line to the White House through J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 1: Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts are
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  Speaker 1: set to enter their fourth day of deliberations. They must
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  Speaker 1: decide whether to hold the 36-year-old criminally responsible for killing
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  Speaker 1: her three young children in 2023. The jury began deliberating
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  Speaker 1: last Thursday. There's been no communication with the judge suggesting
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  Speaker 1: how things might be going. Clancy's defense claims postpartum psychosis
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  Speaker 1: led to her actions. A new liquid infant formula with
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  Speaker 1: whole milk is coming into the markets. ABC's Yuri Benajud
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  Speaker 1: says the formula by Abbott is pre-mixed and is the
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  Speaker 1: only whole milk option available in the U.S.
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  Speaker 11: While formula made with whole milk does have some properties
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  Speaker 11: that are closer to breast milk, it still needs added
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  Speaker 11: oils and nutrients to meet.
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  Speaker 12: Babies' needs.
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  Speaker 1: Liquid formula also undergoes an additional sterilization step. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: is touting a new plan to make health care more
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  Speaker 1: affordable through drug pricing agreements with manufacturers. He says the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: has been building up a strategic reserve of prescription drugs.
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  Speaker 7: These materials are critical for lifesaving medicines used to treat seizures,
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  Speaker 7: bacterial infections, high blood pressure and organ failure, and especially in.
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  Speaker 4: Times of need.
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  Speaker 1: He says other countries will now pay more for medications
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  Speaker 1: so Americans can pay less. singer david due back in
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  Speaker 1: court in october as he awaits trial in the death
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  Speaker 1: of a 14 year old girl whose remains were found
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  Speaker 1: in the trunk of his tesla the 21 year old
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  Speaker 1: singer pleaded not guilty yesterday to murder and other charges
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  Speaker 1: he's now being represented by a public defender after his
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  Speaker 1: team of attorneys withdrew from the case county supervisor janice
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  Speaker 1: han has asked governor newsom to intervene and stop the
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  Speaker 1: eradication of more than 2 000 mule deer from catalina
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  Speaker 1: island Without the governor's intervention, efforts to eliminate the herd
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  Speaker 1: could start as early as today. Hahn says getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of the deer will have consequences, including increased fire danger
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  Speaker 1: on the island. Governor Newsom has launched a Made in
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  Speaker 1: California campaign. It'll allow manufacturers to put an official state
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  Speaker 1: label on qualifying products from food and beverages to electronics, aerospace, biotech.
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  Speaker 1: The state says the program will help local manufacturers stand
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  Speaker 1: out and attract customers. Manufacturers can apply now to be
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  Speaker 1: certified to use the label. I would be likely to
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  Speaker 1: buy something if it said made in California. I like
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  Speaker 1: that idea. Let's say good morning now to ABC's Karen Travers. Karen,
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  Speaker 1: the president held a meeting in the Oval Office yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: He did it to announce the price of several more
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  Speaker 1: drugs being reduced for Americans and expanding Trump Rx. But
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  Speaker 1: when he opened it up for questions, the first one was,
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  Speaker 1: are we buying? going to be back at all at
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  Speaker 1: war with Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there wasn't much clarity from the president on this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the question was whether the strikes that we
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  Speaker 3: saw earlier this week targeting Iran are now a resumption
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  Speaker 3: of strikes in a limited campaign or a return to
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  Speaker 3: full scale war. Of course, we saw in July nearly
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  Speaker 3: two straight weeks of strikes against Iranian targets. But then
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  Speaker 3: in August, things have quieted down and the administration had
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  Speaker 3: shifted to what they were calling an economic pressure campaign.
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  Speaker 3: More talk of sanctions. And we didn't see any strikes.
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  Speaker 3: The president didn't really answer that question. He again said
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  Speaker 3: that Iran is a failed nation. He said that they
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  Speaker 3: don't have a navy. They don't have an air force.
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  Speaker 3: But pushed, he did leave open the possibility of potential
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  Speaker 3: for increased escalation, saying, quote, that doesn't mean we won't
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  Speaker 3: smack them. We'll see what happens. That is something we've
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  Speaker 3: heard from him before, kind of leaving it dangling like that,
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  Speaker 3: but really not much clarity from the president or the
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  Speaker 3: White House yesterday on what might come next.
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  Speaker 1: He sure uses terms that are easy to understand, though.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean we won't smack him.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And have there been any additional strikes? I know that
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  Speaker 1: they said that they, CENTCOM said that they hit two
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  Speaker 1: rocket launchers because they were going to attempt to lay
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  Speaker 1: more mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Has there been
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  Speaker 1: anything else since then?
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  Speaker 3: We have not seen anything since then. We saw the
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  Speaker 3: Iranians strike back by targeting U.S. bases in Jordan. The
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  Speaker 3: military says all of those were intercepted. But other than that,
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  Speaker 3: there hasn't been a retaliation by the U.S. for that strike.
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  Speaker 1: OK. ABC's Karen Travers, thanks so much for the update.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: OK. Southern California could be in the path of a
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  Speaker 1: tropical storm or maybe even a hurricane by the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Meteorologist Jason Farhang, known online as Weather Daddy, tells KFI's
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  Speaker 1: Monks in Merrill, it's still too early to tell exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen, but the weather models are looking
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  Speaker 1: like something will happen.
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  Speaker 15: For about a week, it's been consistency and it has
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  Speaker 15: not let go at all.
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  Speaker 11: It's continuing to show Southern California of some sort of
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  Speaker 11: tropical activity.
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  Speaker 1: A hurricane has never made landfall in the state. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: the storm system, named 95E, is churning off the coast
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  Speaker 1: of Baja, California. They're saying that it could form an
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  Speaker 1: eye by Thursday, and then we'll have to wait and
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  Speaker 1: see what happens after that. Remember a couple years ago
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  Speaker 1: when Hurricane Hillary, that became Tropical Storm Hillary, and then
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  Speaker 1: it kind of petered out by the time it got
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  Speaker 1: to us? Still caused a lot of rain, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: have to wait and see what happened. A 19-year-old from
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  Speaker 1: Beverly Hills has been arrested in the stabbing death of
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  Speaker 1: a homeless man The man was killed late Sunday night
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  Speaker 1: behind an apartment building in Beverly Hills. Police were called
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  Speaker 1: about a fight in the alley and found a man
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  Speaker 1: suffering from a neck wound. He died at the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: The 19-year-old was treated for his injuries and was later
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  Speaker 1: arrested on suspicion of murder. A 17-year-old girl in North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina has been charged with murder in connection with the
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  Speaker 1: killings of three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say instead of calling 911, Sarah Santiago live-streamed the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: attack in May.
• 18:25
  Speaker 13: That person is guilty of the crime just as if
• 18:29
  Speaker 13: he or she had personally done all of the acts
• 18:33
  Speaker 13: necessary to constitute the crime.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Forsyth County D.A. Jim O'Neill says Santiago was indicted by
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a grand jury on three counts of first-degree murder and
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Prosecutors say
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the teen agreed and planned with the attackers before the shooting.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: to stream it, and to release the manifesto justifying the attack.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Condo owners in San Clemente are pushing back against $ 26, 000
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: emergency assessment bills they've received from their HOA.
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: Residents say the Homeowner Association has threatened to put liens
• 19:07
  Speaker 16: on homes if they don't get their money to replace
• 19:09
  Speaker 16: the roofs.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: HOAs will dress up just a special assessment as an
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: emergency assessment to try to push it through faster.
• 19:16
  Speaker 16: HOA specialist Kirk Pearson with L.S. Carlson Law Firm says
• 19:19
  Speaker 16: the HOA offering a payment plan option means it may
• 19:22
  Speaker 16: not be an emergency.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: If it's something that they can split up over months
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: and months and months to have paid, I tend to
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: cut against the idea that it's an emergency.
• 19:29
  Speaker 16: Homeowners say the HOA is suggesting taking out a loan
• 19:32
  Speaker 16: or equity from their home or dipping into their retirement
• 19:35
  Speaker 16: to pay the charge. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: A former LAPD officer indicted again for a fatal shooting
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: in 2015 has pleaded not guilty. The first charge was
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: dismissed earlier this year. The new indictment of Clifford Proctor
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: was handed down by a grand jury on August 18th.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: It was unsealed yesterday. Proctor and his partner had removed
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Brendan Glenn and his dog from a restaurant in Venice.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Glenn later got into a fight with a bouncer outside
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: another business, leading to his arrest. During a struggle, Proctor
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: allegedly shot Glenn twice in the back. President Trump has
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: called on lawmakers to give Hollywood a hand up.
• 20:16
  Speaker 15: Trump has called on Congress to immediately create a federal
• 20:19
  Speaker 15: production incentive for film and television. The idea has been
• 20:22
  Speaker 15: floated around since major production houses have been farming out work.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: To other countries.
• 20:27
  Speaker 15: On social media, Trump said that the Republicans and Democrats should, quote,
• 20:30
  Speaker 15: craft legislation to save the movie, television, and entertainment business
• 20:34
  Speaker 15: here in America. Trump went on to praise actor Jon Voight,
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: who is a Hollywood ambassador for Trump and has been
• 20:40
  Speaker 15: working on some legislation. Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 20:45
  Speaker 13: The L.A.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: County Board of Supervisors has announced a public comment registration
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: system they say will make it easier for residents to
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: participate in meetings.
• 20:53
  Speaker 12: The system will let people who want to speak by
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: phone or in person register for one or more agenda
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: items and receive real-time text notifications when an item is
• 21:00
  Speaker 12: being considered. County officials say this system eliminates the need
• 21:03
  Speaker 12: for callers to use access codes or pins and replaces
• 21:06
  Speaker 12: the raise hand feature. And if they get disconnected, they
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: keep their place in line. You can register online at publiccomment.lacounty.gov.
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: A voice will announce registered speakers' names when it's time
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: to speak. The system's set to debut today. Mark Rauner,
• 21:20
  Speaker 12: KFI News.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Winemakers in Napa Valley could be in trouble as demand
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: falls and grapes are left on the vine.
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: According to Silicon Valley Bank's 2026 Wine Industry Report, about
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: half of California wineries are not making a profit. and
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: the industry lost over $ 1 billion last year. Sales and
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: tasting room visits are down, and fewer people, especially younger ones,
• 21:41
  Speaker 8: are drinking wine. On top of industry-wide challenges, many farmers
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: in Northern California say they're facing financial trouble because of
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: new state rules about groundwater use. Tammy Trujillo, KFI News.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: All I can say is I'm doing my part to keep.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Them in business. This is despite Amy King.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Dodgers catcher Will Smith is expected to return from the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: injured list today. Smith hasn't played since June 5th after
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: he suffered a neck injury. He just finished a five-game
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: rehab assignment with the AAA Oklahoma City Comets. The Dodgers
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: start a nine-game homestand tonight. And your official home for
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Dodger baseball is AM570 LA Sports. Tonight, your back-to-back world
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: champion Dodgers take on the Cardinals. First pitch goes out
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: just after 7 p.m. Labor Day is almost here. This Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and Monday only, Hoffie bacon-wrapped hot dogs, 14-ounce packages, are
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: just $ 5. 99 at Superior Grocers. Quality, variety, and value. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: bacon-wrapped hot dogs.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Sounds so good.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I know, right? A former Wells Fargo banker has been
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: sentenced to five years in prison for his role in
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a COVID-19 benefits fraud scheme. It's crazy, after all this
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: time that These still are coming up and still getting
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: prosecuted all these years later. Narayar Madhadi pleaded guilty to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: conspiracy last year. Prosecutors say he stole the identities of
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: disabled people in long-term care facilities. Madhadi's brother also pleaded guilty.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: He'll be spending two years behind bars. The Burbank butt
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: sniffer is back. Khalees Crowder was arrested in Glendale Friday.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: after he was caught, as they say, hunkered down in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a store, getting close to people to try to smell him.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Police say he'd done something similar at the Marshalls on
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Brand Boulevard a little earlier. Crowder was located on South
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Brand Boulevard and was arrested for violating his parole. He's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: currently being held without bail. Thrill seekers, mark your calendars.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: September 16th is the official opening date for Universal Studios'
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: new Fast and Furious Hollywood Drift Roller Coaster. The ride
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: features cars that spin 360 degrees to give the feeling
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: of a drifting race car. The opening comes after nearby
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: residents and to look like complained about riders screams being
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: heard all day long during testing. Universal says it is
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: adding more sound barriers and says the ride was built
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: with sound reduction technology. At 6.05, it's Handle on the News.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Bill's back today. We've got two people dead in the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Grand Canyon and one person still missing. So they've found
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the other 14 that were missing that we were telling
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: you about yesterday. We were talking about nine to five.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: And how since Dolly Parton passed away, everybody's kind of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: tuning in and it's all checking out Dolly and what
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: she did over her long, illustrious career. And 9 to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: 5 has been trending. In fact, it was leading in
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the streaming, one of the top streaming movies. And Dolly
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Parton movies, apparently not the only ones.
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: Hey, talk about corny movies from the 80s. Just watched Clue,
• 24:59
  Speaker 13: the movie, with Tim Curry. And a cast of a
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: bunch of other comedians. But I saw it when it
• 25:08
  Speaker 13: first came out, and, you know, it was kind of cool. But, boy,
• 25:13
  Speaker 13: if you see it now, you'll be laughing for other reasons.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's it. I've got to watch 9 to 5,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and I need to watch Clue. I don't think I
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: ever saw that. I know it was based on the
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: board game.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: So.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Colonel Muster with the pipe in the study. Remember he
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: used to play that? Do you remember this, Will?
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: You didn't play Clue as a kid?
• 25:37
  Speaker 12: I did not. Oh my gosh.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It was a fun board game.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: So those are my, I'll do that for Amy's on
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it tomorrow. There you go.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: See what's what. Here's what's coming out of the KFI
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom. The man charged with orchestrating the killing of
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996 has been
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: found guilty. Legal analyst Bernarda Villalona says prosecutors told the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: jury that over the years, Davis repeatedly put himself in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the car from which the shots were fired at Shakur.
• 26:11
  Speaker 17: KVD in his own words had said that had Tupac
• 26:15
  Speaker 17: Shakur's car had pulled up on his side of the vehicle,
• 26:19
  Speaker 17: that he would have been the one to take the shot.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: After the verdict was read, Shakur's sister cried and hugged
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the prosecutors. Rabies has been detected in bats in Pasadena
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: for the second time this year. The Pasadena Health Department
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: got some reports of infected bats found near the baseball
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: field at Brenner Park last Thursday afternoon. City officials say
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the overall risk to the public is low, with no
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: human rabies cases reported, but the public's being urged to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: be cautious around bats. Basically, don't touch them. California Attorney
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: General Rob Bonta and the California Air Resources Board are
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: leading a multi-state effort opposing a proposal by the EPA
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to loosen regulations that control emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxides
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: from trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles. He says the EPA's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: proposed rule would contribute to air pollution that causes harmful
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: health effects and poor air quality. Bonta says the Trump
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: administration should be strengthening protections against vehicle pollution... not weakening them.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Governor Newsom's desk is piled high with bills passed by
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: lawmakers this legislative session.
• 27:27
  Speaker 15: The bills are on everything from wildfires to guns to
• 27:30
  Speaker 15: social media. Newsom has until September 30th to sign or
• 27:34
  Speaker 15: veto the bills, but if he takes no action, it's
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: called a pocket veto. That means that the bill will
• 27:38
  Speaker 15: automatically become law without his signature after that deadline. If
• 27:42
  Speaker 15: Newsom does put his John Hancock on a bill, it
• 27:44
  Speaker 15: takes effect in January of next year. Newsom ended the
• 27:47
  Speaker 15: legislative session on Monday by heading into chambers and posing
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: for selfies. Lawmakers are due back on the floor in December.
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: Jason Campadonia, KFI News.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: So Jason, you're calling the governor a poser, really? Okay.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Dan.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Amy.
• 28:08
  Speaker 13: How are you?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I'm good. So CEO's Tim Cook, or Apple's CEO Tim Cook.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: He's out. He is. Yeah, we do.
• 28:19
  Speaker 18: John Ternus taking over today from Cook, who led the
• 28:22
  Speaker 18: tech giant for 15 years. Now, Ternus has served as
• 28:25
  Speaker 18: head of hardware engineering since 2021, spent 25 years focused
• 28:30
  Speaker 18: on product development at the tech giant. Cook took over
• 28:32
  Speaker 18: for Steve Jobs in August 2011, and under his tenure,
• 28:36
  Speaker 18: check this out, has seen stock shares gain 2,275%. When
• 28:42
  Speaker 18: he took over, the market value was about $ 350 billion.
• 28:46
  Speaker 18: As we know, it is now a $ 4. 5 trillion company.
• 28:50
  Speaker 18: So I'd say in 15 years, he did a pretty
• 28:52
  Speaker 18: good job.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, I have a friend who bought some
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Apple stock early on. Like he bought like $ 200 worth
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of it. It's worth like $ 400, 000. I mean, it's crazy.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Imagine if he bought $ 2, 000 worth. Okay.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Let's move on, shall we? It just depresses me.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And we're just working stiffs. How about that?
• 29:11
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: So drug companies agreeing to lower prices. I know the
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: president held a meeting in the Oval yesterday. He was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: all excited about it. So what happened?
• 29:20
  Speaker 18: All right, so the Trump administration is striking new drug
• 29:22
  Speaker 18: pricing agreements with nine more biotech and pharma companies. Now,
• 29:26
  Speaker 18: as part of the deal, Amy, the companies will provide
• 29:28
  Speaker 18: discounts on outpatient drugs to state Medicaid programs so that
• 29:32
  Speaker 18: the prices states pay align with what companies charge in
• 29:35
  Speaker 18: foreign countries. The White House says the companies also agreed
• 29:38
  Speaker 18: to launch new medicines in the U.S., So as we know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 18: if you go to Europe, a lot of these medications
• 29:33
  Speaker 18: are a heck of a lot cheaper than if you
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: walk into your local drugstore. So hopefully that's slowly changing here.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: And are all of the you said that they're for
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: like Medicaid and that kind of stuff. So are these
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: on the Trump Rx, the Web site only or not?
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: Are they?
• 30:03
  Speaker 18: Yeah, it's not for, you know, I guess people that
• 30:06
  Speaker 18: are considered healthy that are on private insurance.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: You know, you're not going to get these deals.
• 30:11
  Speaker 18: This is for those on the state Medicaid plans, which,
• 30:14
  Speaker 18: by the way, many Americans are. So this will help
• 30:16
  Speaker 18: people to say the least. But it's not going to
• 30:19
  Speaker 18: help everybody in this country.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned GOPs. They were talking about that because
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: they caught part of it. And they were saying they're
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: going to make GOPs available for 50 bucks a month.
• 30:29
  Speaker 18: Well, you know what? Then we'll have even more people
• 30:31
  Speaker 18: on those things. I'll tell you that because, man, those
• 30:33
  Speaker 18: things are popular right now.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: OK, so we got OpenAI and Apple legal battle expanding.
• 30:41
  Speaker 18: It's like taking place in an octagon right now. They've
• 30:44
  Speaker 18: escalated this legal battle. As Apple accuses OpenAI of stealing
• 30:49
  Speaker 18: trade secrets, the iPhone maker claims the chat GPT maker
• 30:52
  Speaker 18: is actively destroying crucial evidence while a former iPhone engineer
• 30:56
  Speaker 18: downloaded confidential Apple information and used it in his work
• 31:00
  Speaker 18: at OpenAI. The AI company says it adheres to industry-wide
• 31:03
  Speaker 18: recruiting standards. and insists the engineer was just trying to
• 31:06
  Speaker 18: help a former colleague at Apple when accessing the cloud data.
• 31:10
  Speaker 18: So this is, you know, these tech wars are getting
• 31:13
  Speaker 18: nastier and nastier for sure.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were just talking earlier about Anthropix legal battles
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: over allegedly stealing music, basically, to train the AI.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, so the fashion industry, not as green as it
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: wants to be?
• 31:28
  Speaker 18: Yeah, we always hear about them and the environment, but
• 31:31
  Speaker 18: the nonprofit Apparel Impact Institute says... Greenhouse gas emissions in
• 31:36
  Speaker 18: the fashion industry rose in 2023 and 24, due in
• 31:40
  Speaker 18: part to increased global production of fiber, especially polyester. Apparel
• 31:44
  Speaker 18: sector emissions rose 6.3% in 2024. That follows an increase
• 31:49
  Speaker 18: of 7.5% the previous year. 2024 is the most recent
• 31:53
  Speaker 18: year for which the Institute has data. So, you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 18: they say the right things, but apparently based on these numbers,
• 31:59
  Speaker 18: they're not doing.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: The right things.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I hate polyester.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Me too. Only 100% cotton for me.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg's Dan Schwartzman getting in your business. We do it
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: each weekday morning at this time. We'll talk to you
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: again soon.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Sounds good, Amy.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: Thanks.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: A storm that could become a hurricane could be headed
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to Southern California. Forecasters say it's a tropical disturbance off
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the coast of Baja, California, and could form an eye
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: by Thursday. Now, if that happens, there's a lot of
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: ifs here. It could strengthen to a hurricane by Friday
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: or Saturday. Forecasters say it would most likely weaken to
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a tropical storm by the time it makes landfall, if
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: it does, but it could bring heavy rain, high humidity,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: and the potential for flooding. A lot of ifs here,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: but it's because we've never been hit by a hurricane,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and there's the possibility that we could be, and it
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: could happen this weekend, so we'll keep an eye on that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: A jeweler in Orange County who admitted stealing nearly $ 1. 7
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: million through fraudulent Rolex sales... is in trouble. Nelson Holdo
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to charges last week. He could be sentenced
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to three years in prison. Holdo swindled 32 victims out
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of hundreds of thousands of dollars for Rolex watches that
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: never existed over a period of several years, starting in 2021.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: The Dolly Parton estate has announced that it's holding events
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: to honor the life of the late country legend Dolly Fest.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: The celebration of a lifetime is going to happen in
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Nashville and in London on two consecutive weekends next year.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Exact dates haven't been announced. Parton reportedly didn't want to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: have a traditional public memorial, so it appears that these
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: festivals will serve as that opportunity for fans to honor her.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Let's say good morning now to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: where's the beef?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: The beef?
• 33:46
  Speaker 12: The beef?
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: Well, some of it is going to be stuck in
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: customs probably because more of it will be imported. At
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: least over the next three months, the president has decided
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: under proclamation to reduce the tariffs that some countries pay
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: on the beef trimmings that they export into the United States.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: It's not cattle. It's not steaks. It's beef trimmings.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: Well, beef trimmings come into the country and then they
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: are blended with U.S. beef, which is fattier beef. and
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: then turned into ground beef. So it's a component of
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: ground beef that we're always eating every day, from either
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: the US or from Uruguay, from Argentina, from New Zealand.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: It comes from all over the world. But for the
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: next 90 days, the tariffs are being reduced from a
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: few countries, including Brazil. Brazil would probably be the biggest
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: provider of this imported beef trimming product. So yeah, we'll
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: see what happens. 300,000 metric tons. You know how much
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: that is? That's 661 million pounds of beef. Still, that's
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: only 2% of the amount that we eat over a
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: three-month period.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Well, we do love our beef. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay, so
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: it's the trimming, so we're going to find eventually that
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: our hamburgers have a distinctly international flavor.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: They always have.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: They always have, and we didn't even know that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, so I thought it was on all kinds of beef,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: so it's really just the— The trimmings and not like
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a good Argentinian steak.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: You'll still pay premium prices for that or for wagyu
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: beef from Japan or something. This is strictly the beef
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: trimmings that are a component of the ground beef, the
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: wheat here. It's kind of boring, I guess, but that's
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: the thing that Americans eat the most of.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Okay. So we know that the supply of cattle is low.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: And part of that is we've had some issues with
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: health of the herds and that kind of stuff. There's
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: lower demand. So they... We're kind of culling the herds,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and now the demand is back up, and they don't
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: have the beef to support that. So it's raising the prices?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the long and short there.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, demand has remained strong this whole time. But
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: 86.2 million head in the U.S. cattle herd, and that's
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: beef cows, milk cows, cattle on feed, you know, the
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: different categories of cattle, 86.2 million. That's the smallest that
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: the national cattle herd has been in 75 years. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: you're right, for a lot of reasons, a lot of
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: them economic, some of them related to the weather. We've
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: had droughts across the cattle raising area here in Texas,
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  Speaker 4: for example. Droughts have wiped out a lot of the hay.
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  Speaker 4: Without hay, you can't feed cattle, and without cattle, you
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: can't make money. So cattle ranchers have been walking a
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: very fine line between making a little profit and failing, right?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So why are they so ticked that we're— The president's
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: letting these trimmings come in.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Well, because it's competition from elsewhere. It's competition from outside
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: the U.S. And that doesn't make them happy. You know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: their thinking was that, well, you should have found a
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: way instead to help us increase the size of the U.S.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: cattle herd to make it a little more profitable for
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: us to do our business. So, yeah, they're not too
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: happy about this. Yeah, it will. And by the way, consumers.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: So here's how it's supposed to work under this proclamation.
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  Speaker 4: The beef is brought into the country. By the way,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: it's inspected on both ends, the importing country and the
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: exporting country, both ends. And then it's processed out and
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: then provided then to restaurants and consumers, grocery stores. It's
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: supposed to be sold at a 25% discount to them.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: And that's supposed to be passed on to consumers. But
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of supposed to be's in that, right? And
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: no guarantee that somebody in the middle is going to say,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: you know what? I'm going to go ahead and take
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: that profit anyway. And then, you know, the consumer sees nothing.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So is there no requirement in the proclamation?
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: It's a soft requirement. This is not like an executive
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: order that would tell federal agencies to do such and such.
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: This is a proclamation, presidential proclamation. which really kind of
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: blankets the market, doesn't it? It's not just the, the, uh,
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: within the office, the department of agriculture or something. It's,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: it's sort of a broad proclamation. It makes clear the
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: president's policy without really the teeth of a, an executive order.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Okay. And then one more question. So if this is
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: just for trimmings, it's going to go into ground beef.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So it's probably not going to add, I mean, it's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: going to probably end up in the grocery store and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: some burger places and that kind of stuff. But, um,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Does that free up then the U.S. cattle ranchers to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: make more really good steaks? Because there's more of that
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: trimming stuff so they can dedicate more of their beef
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to the really high-end steaks.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Well, then you're looking at the supply and demand issue.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: If they don't have a big demand for top-grade steaks—
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  Speaker 4: then they're not going to make a profit in selling
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: that top premium price. So yeah, that complicates the entire thing.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: It's a fragile economy. As big as cattle are, as
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: big as ranchers are, and as solid as those folks are,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: it's a very fragile industry.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so interesting because you just think, oh, just
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: make more, you know, raise more cows. But it's so
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: much more complicated than that. And it's also making me
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: want to make a trip downstairs to Morton's for lunch.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Ooh, nice.
• 39:08
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: ABC's. What's the steak going for there now?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but we went to Fleming's for my birthday.
• 39:15
  Speaker 15: Nice.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: And got the tomahawk. I've never had a tomahawk, that
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: huge thing with the big bone on it that looks
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: like a Fred Flintstone steak. It was like a hundred
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: and something dollars. It was for two people, but it
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: was it was stupid expensive. It was so good.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Who has a line on eating at Wagyu steaks here
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: and he cooks them up and they are amazing. That's
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: the best steak ever, by the way. So ground beef
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: going for on average, six 89 per pound. That's almost
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: double what it was 10 years ago.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see if it comes down a little bit.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: We'll be watching. Jim Ryan, ABC, thank you so much.
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 39:51
  Speaker 12: See you.
• 39:52
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