Latest / Wake Up Call with Amy King / Rising Price of Money

Transcript

Rising Price of Money · Wake Up Call with Amy King

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM 640. Wake Up Call with me,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Amy King. On demand on the iHeartRadio app.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: KFI.
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: And KOST HD2 Los Angeles, Orange County.
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: Early risers, come on down.
• 0:18
  Speaker 4: It's time for Wake Up Call.
• 0:21
  Speaker 5: And here's the host of your Wake Up Call, Amy King.
• 0:28
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: It's five o'clock straight up. This is your wake up
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: call for Thursday, September 17th. Halfway through September. You know,
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: fall is right around the corner. I'm ready for some
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: fall weather so I can like get out sweaters and
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: boots and that kind of stuff.
• 0:47
  Speaker 7: Not today.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: It's going to be another beautiful day in sunny Southern California.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Isn't it nice that it's not quite so hot, but
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: it's still nice and warm?
• 0:54
  Speaker 4: Love it. Love it.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: All right. Here's what's ahead on Wake Up Call this
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Thursday morning. Federal agents have arrested three people in L.A.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: for homelessness, corruption and fraud. One of the three is
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: the founder of a Culver City based nonprofit. He allegedly
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: misappropriated more than seven and a half million dollars in
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: taxpayer money and used it to buy real estate and
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: open a nightclub and a bingo hall. The troubled L.A.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: Homeless Services Authority has officially voted to step down from
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: its role as the region's lead agency on homeless services.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: LAHSA has been in charge of overseeing applications for federal funding,
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: managing statistical data, and the annual homeless count. Federal authorities
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: say the investigation into the deadly crash of a news
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: helicopter in Chatsworth will likely take months. Cockpit video is
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: expected to be a key piece of evidence. NBC4 reporter
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marcineau were killed on Tuesday night.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: A person on a loading dock was also killed. Interest
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: rates going up for the first time in three years.
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: ABC's Jim Ryan's going to join us to tell us
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: what that means. That's coming up in just a couple
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: of minutes. Saudi Arabia's missile interceptor cupboard is getting bare.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem is going to join us
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: at 520 to find out how Saudi Arabia is trying
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: to call in reinforcements. 10,000 eaten fire survivors have become
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: quite a force to be reckoned with. Jason Nathanson says
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: it all started with pickleball. We're going to be hearing
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: from him a little later on Wake Up Call. And
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: in eight days, I'm going to be jumping off the
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: side of a building to try to end homelessness. I
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: need your help to do it. I'll tell you how
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: and also how you can join me if you're looking
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: for something to cross off your bucket list. That's also
• 2:40
  Speaker 1: coming up on Wake Up Call. Let's get started now.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: With some of the stories coming out of the KFI
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: 24-hour newsroom, the NTSB is now in L.A. investigating the
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: crash of the NBC4 news helicopter in Chatsworth. A reporter,
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: a pilot, and a person on the ground were all killed.
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: Investigators say they're going to be studying video that reporter
• 2:59
  Speaker 1: Eliana Moreno shot during the crash where the engine is
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: heard slowing down and alarms are blaring inside the cockpit.
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: Aviation expert Steve Ganyard says that'll provide big clues to investigators.
• 3:12
  Speaker 2: We can very clearly hear this engine fail and begin
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: to wind down. So the NTSB wants to know, why
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: did this engine fail? Was it material failure? Was it
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: properly maintained?
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: Authorities say the investigation is probably going to take months.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: A man from the San Gabriel Valley is pleaded guilty
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: to robbing two mail carriers, using stolen keys to get
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: into apartment complexes to steal mail. and assaulting the federal
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: officers who arrested him. The U.S. Attorney's Office says the
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: guy is facing up to 25 years in prison on
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: each robbery count and up to 15 years on the
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: ammunition count when he is sentenced in December.
• 3:50
  Speaker 8: The L.A.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: City Council has agreed to withhold rebuilding permits for the
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: burned out cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights.
• 3:56
  Speaker 6: The council has also advanced measures to assist residents impacted
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: by the fire that broke out at the lineage logistics
• 4:03
  Speaker 6: facility in June and subsequent cleanup of millions of pounds
• 4:06
  Speaker 6: of rotting food. Lineage completed the removal and cleanup of
• 4:09
  Speaker 6: more than 89 million pounds of food waste at its warehouse,
• 4:12
  Speaker 6: which officials say cost roughly $ 100 million. Last week, Lineage
• 4:17
  Speaker 6: sued the owner of the solar array on the building roof,
• 4:20
  Speaker 6: alleging one of its contractors sparked that fire. Debra Mark,
• 4:24
  Speaker 6: KFI News.
• 4:26
  Speaker 1: With National Coffee Day coming up at the end of
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: the month, ooh, that's going to be a very popular day,
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: a new report ranks Long Beach as the fourth best
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: place in the U.S. to enjoy a cup of joe.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Personal finance company WalletHub compared the country's 100 biggest cities
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: and measured 12 indicators of a strong coffee culture. The
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: data ranges from coffee shops, coffee houses, and cafes per
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: capita to to the average price per pack of coffee,
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: to the share of residents with coffee makers at home.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: Who doesn't have a coffee maker at home? Orlando, Florida
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: is ranked number one. Portland, Oregon, my old hometown, number two.
• 5:07
  Speaker 9: L.A.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: Comes in at number 14 overall. Hey, speaking of coffee,
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: earlier this week we told you that Starbucks had a
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: new special fall lineup of Peanuts merchandise. And it was
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: super cute. I did a story about it earlier this week.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: They had like this really cool peanuts mug and it's
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: all based on the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown. And they
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: had like the big coffee tumblers and the cold brew
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: cups and all that stuff. So I thought I should
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: go to Starbucks because my sister-in-law would love this. So
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: I went to the Starbucks down the street on Alameda
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: and I said, do you got any of the peanut stuff?
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: Because they have the signage up. And the guy just
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: looks at me like, you're an idiot. And he said,
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: he goes, people were literally lined up starting at about
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: one or two in the morning for it.
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: No.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: And they sold out immediately.
• 6:04
  Speaker 4: Immediately.
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: I said, are you going to get more stuff in?
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: And he said, I don't think so. I think it
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: was just a promotional stunt, which kind of ticks me off.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: Because, you know, you put out, they put it on
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: their website and, We did news stories on it, and
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: then it sold out immediately. I'm a little grumpy about that.
• 6:23
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Starbucks.
• 6:24
  Speaker 7: You need some coffee now.
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: Thank God National Coffee Day is coming up. Time to
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: say good morning to ABC's Jim Ryan. So, Jim, against
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: protests from President Trump, who wants interest rates to go down,
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: the Fed went the other direction yesterday.
• 6:40
  Speaker 10: Yeah, probably the worst kept secret in the whole country.
• 6:43
  Speaker 7: I know, right?
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: Everybody's like, it's going to happen. It's going to happen.
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 6:46
  Speaker 10: And it was unanimous, too. The Fed's Board of Governors
• 6:49
  Speaker 10: voted yesterday after meeting for two days to boost the
• 6:53
  Speaker 10: interest rate, the one that so many banks depend upon,
• 6:58
  Speaker 10: from between 3.75 percent up to 4 percent. So that's
• 7:01
  Speaker 10: the new range. And yeah, not too surprising that they
• 7:05
  Speaker 10: did that. The expectation is that it'll probably happen again
• 7:08
  Speaker 10: this year, Amy.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, I was going to just ask you, so there
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: could be another one?
• 7:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're good.
• 7:16
  Speaker 10: That's what the economists who look at this sort of
• 7:18
  Speaker 10: thing say that the chances are pretty good that there
• 7:21
  Speaker 10: will be another interest rate hike. I mean, the last
• 7:23
  Speaker 10: few sessions have found the interest rate being dropped down somewhat.
• 7:27
  Speaker 10: I mean, the last few years at least.
• 7:29
  Speaker 11: So.
• 7:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah, chances are it'll go up again. Will it happen
• 7:31
  Speaker 10: in October, right before the election? Probably not. The optics
• 7:36
  Speaker 10: would not be too good. That would have claims that
• 7:39
  Speaker 10: the group is politicized, that the Fed is working, you know,
• 7:42
  Speaker 10: to try to sway the election coming up. So maybe
• 7:45
  Speaker 10: not then, but the expectation is it'll probably happen before
• 7:48
  Speaker 10: the end of the year.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: Okay. And does the Fed meets every month, don't they?
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: Or is it every other month?
• 7:54
  Speaker 10: No, it's every, I think it's every other month. It's
• 7:57
  Speaker 10: not a regular kind of thing. And so Yeah, they'll
• 7:59
  Speaker 10: check the schedule and see when they're going to sit
• 8:01
  Speaker 10: down again. So there are plenty of opportunities to take
• 8:05
  Speaker 10: that step again. The goal, of course, is to drive
• 8:07
  Speaker 10: down the inflation, which has remained stubbornly above the Fed's
• 8:11
  Speaker 10: target of 2%. It just hasn't budged from there in years.
• 8:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: So my quick question is, how does raising the interest
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: rate bring inflation down? It's an economy question that I
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: probably shouldn't be asking you.
• 8:27
  Speaker 10: Well, if more people are outspending, and they are right now,
• 8:31
  Speaker 10: and the decision from the Fed came just after the
• 8:34
  Speaker 10: latest statistics on retail sales found that people are outspending.
• 8:38
  Speaker 10: So the goal is to throttle that down somewhat, right?
• 8:42
  Speaker 10: To have people spending less, taking out the fewer loans,
• 8:46
  Speaker 10: not using their credit card so much, and maybe saving
• 8:48
  Speaker 10: a little bit. That's kind of the goal here is
• 8:50
  Speaker 10: to put a damper on what some see as out
• 8:54
  Speaker 10: of control spending.
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Well, but we have to out of control spend. Everything
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: costs a gazillion dollars.
• 9:01
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 9:01
  Speaker 10: And people are still paying it. You know, you got
• 9:03
  Speaker 10: no choice with your car, of course. And fuel prices,
• 9:07
  Speaker 10: of course, are being driven right now by what's happening
• 9:09
  Speaker 10: in the Middle East.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, we will continue to watch it and see what,
• 9:15
  Speaker 1: you know, when the interest rate goes up. I know
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: that it affects things, but it doesn't automatically immediately affect things.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: You know, like sometimes there's some lag time.
• 9:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and there will be with this, too, even with
• 9:28
  Speaker 10: credit card borrowing. But the mortgage rates are sitting right
• 9:32
  Speaker 10: now at about 6.76%. That's really high. I mean, it's
• 9:35
  Speaker 10: as high as it's been in the last few years.
• 9:39
  Speaker 10: And it lags behind, as you point out there. It
• 9:43
  Speaker 10: rides more on the 10-year Treasury yield as opposed to
• 9:46
  Speaker 10: what the Fed does with interest rates. But it will
• 9:48
  Speaker 10: happen at some point in the future.
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: All right. We'll be watching it. ABC's Jim Ryan. Thank
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: you so much.
• 9:53
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: Talk to you soon. Let's get back to some of
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: the stories coming out of the KFI 24-hour news. The
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: House has sent a bill to President Trump imposing new
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: sanctions on Russia amid the war in Ukraine. The legislation
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: punishes the largest buyers of Russia's oil and gas and
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: allows President Trump to impose up to 100 percent tariffs
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: on goods from those countries, which could include China and India.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he's all for it.
• 10:21
  Speaker 10: It's the most significant international action taken so far to
• 10:25
  Speaker 10: bring the unjust war to an end over there.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: The bill is named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham,
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: who spent more than a year negotiating it. UN-backed human
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: rights experts say they have found reasonable grounds to believe
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: The International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran says the findings focus
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: on airstrikes, including one on a school at the start
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: of the war. The team also called out killings by
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: state security forces in Iran. They say civilians are caught
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: between gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity by
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: their own government and the war with the U.S. and Israel.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: President Trump has criticized the Federal Reserve governors after the
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: board raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: since 2023. Trump did not blame his appointed Fed chair,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Kevin Warsh.
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: I talked to Kevin and I said, you might as
• 11:20
  Speaker 4: well vote with the board because it's not going to matter.
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: The board is very hostile.
• 11:24
  Speaker 7: They're very political.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Trump says Warsh has a board put there by a
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: lot of other people. He also says the interest rates
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: are too high and not appropriate. A new National Geographic
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: survey finds nearly two thirds of Americans would choose a
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: shorter lifespan if if that meant their remaining years would
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: be free from physical and mental decline. Harvard geneticist David
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: Sinclair says the majority of the 1,000 people surveyed said
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't want to live longer without quality of life.
• 11:54
  Speaker 4: Especially one in such a small fraternity as all of
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: us Airbornes were.
• 11:59
  Speaker 10: I mean, nationwide, at its best, we were a handful.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: A third of people surveyed said they would give up
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: alcohol forever in exchange for 10 extra healthy years. However,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: only 15% said they would give up their favorite food.
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: The survey can be found in the September edition of
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: National Geographic at natgeo.com. Super interesting. Something to think about, right?
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Give up years if you were going to have better years.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: LASA is stepping down from its role as the region's
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: lead agency on homeless services at the end of the
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: current fiscal year. The agency has come under intense scrutiny
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: for alleged mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and a lack of transparency.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: The agency's vote come as federal prosecutors announce that three
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: people have been charged for allegedly defrauding taxpayers of millions
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: of dollars. They were supposed to go to help homeless people. U.S.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: attorneys say they've exposed a profound failure by the state
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: of California and Los Angeles County to safeguard public funds.
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: UCLA students can now go to home football and basketball
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: games for free. The university's new policy goes into effect
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: this Saturday for the Big Ten opener against Purdue at
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl. Students can claim free tickets using existing accounts.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: Students who already bought ticket packages, they're called den passes,
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: will automatically get refunds. So that's an extra 200 bucks, guys.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Good news. I think that that's good news. Students should
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: be able to go to football and basketball games for free.
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: I think that they did when I was in school
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: 100,000 years ago. At 6.05, it's handle on the news.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: The Fed has hiked interest rates and President Trump is
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: not happy about it. Here's what's coming out of the
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: KFI 24-hour newsroom. City Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky says, has announced
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: a two-part plan to expand pathways for home ownership in L.A.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: by making condos, townhomes, and other smaller homes easier and
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: less expensive to build. She says, we're living in an
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: economy where people who already own assets keep building wealth
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: while working and middle-class families fall further behind. Yaroslavsky says
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: if the path to home ownership starts with a $ 1. 5
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: million single-family home, too many people are being shut out. Okay,
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: now let's check in with ABC's Jordana Miller in Jerusalem. Jordana,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia is running short on missile interceptors. How are
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: they going to be able to keep fighting back against Iran?
• 14:45
  Speaker 12: Well, against Iran and against Iran's proxy, the Houthis, they
• 14:49
  Speaker 12: have found themselves very vulnerable over the last week. We
• 14:54
  Speaker 12: saw the Houthis carry out successful strikes on the Saudi
• 14:59
  Speaker 12: east-west pipeline. you know, a very aggressive strike that forced
• 15:04
  Speaker 12: the Saudis to shut down the pipeline. And it looks
• 15:08
  Speaker 12: like it's going to take several weeks for it to
• 15:10
  Speaker 12: be up and running again, according to Saudi officials. The
• 15:15
  Speaker 12: Houthis also hitting the Aramco refinery that belongs to the Saudis.
• 15:22
  Speaker 12: And the problem is that the Saudis have very little,
• 15:26
  Speaker 12: you know, their ability to fight off the Houthis They're
• 15:31
  Speaker 12: having trouble because they are running low on those interceptors.
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: And they missed the intel.
• 15:38
  Speaker 12: That the Houthis were going to launch a massive assault
• 15:41
  Speaker 12: to take control of the Bab al-Nandib street. which is
• 15:45
  Speaker 12: another critical waterway, and they are having success there on
• 15:49
  Speaker 12: the ground, controlling some islands and some areas around this strait.
• 15:54
  Speaker 12: The Saudis missed that. Their forces there have fallen pretty quickly.
• 15:59
  Speaker 12: And so the Saudis are desperately looking for help. Over
• 16:03
  Speaker 12: the weekend, they turned to President Trump, and he wasn't
• 16:06
  Speaker 12: interested in jumping in militarily to help defend them. Now
• 16:09
  Speaker 12: the Saudis are turning to the French, to the British,
• 16:12
  Speaker 12: to the Turks, and to the Egyptians. But again, no
• 16:17
  Speaker 12: one seems very enthused about getting involved in fighting and
• 16:23
  Speaker 12: trying to help the Saudis send off the Houthis. So
• 16:26
  Speaker 12: I don't think this is a conflict that's going to
• 16:28
  Speaker 12: go away. We're going to see more of this, I think,
• 16:31
  Speaker 12: in the coming weeks.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's interesting, Jordana, because the reason that
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: this is all going on is because the U.S. attacked
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Iran and to go after their nuclear facilities and say,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: we can't have a nuclear weapon. And now Saudi's saying, hey,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: we need help, and the U.S. is saying not interested?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 16:52
  Speaker 12: Well, this is absolutely the.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: Most severe crisis in U.S.-Saudi ties in decades. The inability
• 17:04
  Speaker 9: of the United States to commit to helping to protect
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: the Saudis at this point in this.
• 17:10
  Speaker 12: War is And I think we're going to feel the
• 17:13
  Speaker 12: repercussions of that politically in the future. Right now, we're
• 17:18
  Speaker 12: kind of in the middle of it. But it is,
• 17:21
  Speaker 12: I think, going to set off alarm bells to other allies,
• 17:25
  Speaker 12: Gulf allies of the United States, that the United States
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: may not be able to readily lend a military hand
• 17:35
  Speaker 12: to protect them against Iran. And that could apply to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar.
• 17:42
  Speaker 12: So this is a kind of dangerous precedent. And I
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: think some here are hoping that President Trump changes his
• 17:51
  Speaker 12: mind and sees what's really at stake here and how
• 17:55
  Speaker 12: it could change. It will impact American consumers as well.
• 18:00
  Speaker 12: If they control that straight, Amy, you can bet your
• 18:02
  Speaker 12: bottom dollar that gas and oil prices are going to
• 18:05
  Speaker 12: continue to rise, and they're already very high.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, we'll continue to watch that. That's disturbing news
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: at best. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem, thank you so much,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. I know there was a mix-up
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on the time today. That was my fault. So thanks
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: for being here. All right, here's what's coming out of
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The city of L.A. is asking
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: a judge to dismiss the second of two lawsuits filed
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: by former fire chief Kristen Crowley.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Crowley is suing the city over her termination by Mayor
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Bass after the Palisades fire. However, the city's lawyers say
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Crowley's second suit for defamation is not viable because of
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: free speech considerations. They say Crowley wants to hold Bass
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: liable for something she said during a televised mayoral debate.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Crowley's suit is set to be heard at a hearing
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: in November. Aileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: The Chino Valley School District has lost in court over
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: parental notification.
• 19:02
  Speaker 13: A Superior Court judge has kept a ban on a
• 19:04
  Speaker 13: district policy that required school staff to tell parents if
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: a child wanted to use a different gender. The school
• 19:09
  Speaker 13: board president says staff will continue to notify parents because
• 19:12
  Speaker 13: they changed the policy to remove any mention of gender.
• 19:15
  Speaker 13: The judge says the policy is unconstitutional because it targets
• 19:18
  Speaker 13: a specific group of students. The judge says parents always
• 19:21
  Speaker 13: have the right to ask about their kids, which then
• 19:23
  Speaker 13: triggers the obligation for schools to respond.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: A homeless woman has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: middle school student at a school in Ventura. Officers were
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: called to Cabrillo Middle School on Santa Clara Street Tuesday
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: after getting a call about a woman who was yelling
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: at students in the school parking lot. The woman left
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the scene by the time officers got there, but she
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: was located nearby and taken into custody. Beaumont's city treasurer,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: is facing charges following a public corruption investigation.
• 19:53
  Speaker 14: 39-year-old Anup Patel is looking at more than six years
• 19:56
  Speaker 14: in prison for felony charges. Prosecutors say he filed false
• 19:59
  Speaker 14: tax forms for a motel he operated, claiming no gross
• 20:02
  Speaker 14: rent and owes the city more than $ 166, 000. Mayor Jessica
• 20:06
  Speaker 14: Voigt made a statement at Tuesday night's city council meeting.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: When the city's financial audit identified discrepancies in our hotel tax,
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: the city pursued legal action to recover the unpaid fees
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: and fines, referred the matter to law enforcement, and has
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: cooperated with the district attorney's investigation.
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: She said the allegations involved Patel's private business activities and
• 20:28
  Speaker 14: not his role as treasurer. Mark Rauner, KFI News.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Governor Newsom has admitted that some of California's COVID-19 restrictions,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: like closing beaches and keeping schools closed, went too far.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: He said some COVID-19 measures are hard to justify in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: hindsight and Lasted longer than necessary, Newsom led California's strict
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but now acknowledges the negative effects,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: especially on students with test scores still down since the pandemic.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: His admission comes as he weighs whether to run for
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: president in 2028. I'm Mayor Karen Bass.
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: I don't run from a fight. L.A.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass has released her first campaign ad for the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: general election. In it, she talks about the moment she
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: confronted federal immigration agents during last year's crackdown around MacArthur Park.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: When someone comes after your family, you don't hesitate. You
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: stand up, you fight.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: So when Trump sent ICE to MacArthur Park, I met
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: them there. Looked them in the eye, told them to
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: get out.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The 32nd spot is running in English and in Spanish
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: across digital platforms. LASA is stepping down from its role.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: As the region's lead agency on homeless services, at the
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: end of the current fiscal year, the agency's come under
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: intense scrutiny for alleged mismanagement of taxpayer dollars and a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: lack of transparency. Warmer El Nino waters off the coast
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of Southern California expected to attract lots of unusual critters
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: in the coming months. Scientists say marine animals we normally
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: wouldn't see are already being spotted, including hammerhead sharks off L.A.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Orange in Ventura County. A whale shark has been seen
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: swimming in the waters off Malibu. And there are mahi-mahi
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: near the Channel Islands. Previous ocean warming events have brought
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: tropical reef fish like damselfishes, pufferfishes, and angelfishes north from Mexico.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And Governor Newsom has stopped by Jay Leno's garage in Burbank.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: His visit yesterday was to sign a bill that will
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: expand California's smog check exemption to certain classic cars. The
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: bill is dubbed Leno's Law. It creates a phased-in smog
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: check exemption for certain 1976 to 85 collector vehicles. California
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: currently exempts vehicles made before 1976 from regular smog checks. Okay,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: we're going over the edge in like eight days. September
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: 25th and 26th. We're going over the edge with the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Union Rescue Mission to Fight Homelessness. And not only get
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: people into a hotel room or give them a meal.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Of course, they they do that. They provide shelter. They
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: provide meals. But their goal is to actually get people
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: off the streets and get them back into homes, get
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: them back into life, get them back into society and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: end this cycle of what it. got them out on
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the streets in the first place. So we're getting closer.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We thank you so much to anybody and everybody who's donated.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I so appreciate it. Lots of anonymous donations have come in,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so I can't thank you. So this is my way
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of saying thank you. But we need more help. We
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: need your help to reach our goals so we can
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: repel 25 stories down the side of the Universal City Hilton.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I'm doing it. Neil Saavedra is doing it. And I
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: believe we're both going to go on Friday the 25th.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: We'll let you know for sure in case you want
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: to stop by and watch us scream as we go
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: down the side of a building. Actually, I didn't scream.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I know one person did. I remember hearing one person screaming.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I was kind of too terrified to make any noise
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: until we got about halfway down. And then I'm like, oh,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: this is kind of fun. So here's how you can donate.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And again, whatever you can spare. I know that times
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: are tough. Money's tight right now. But this is a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: program that actually works and actually addresses the homelessness issue.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It doesn't just throw money at it. But you can
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: make your donation at URM.org slash O-T-E for Over the Edge.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: URM.org slash O-T-E. And there's a Team KFI button right
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: there on the homepage. And if you click on that,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: my picture's there, Neil Savader's picture's there. And whatever you
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: can donate, we would so appreciate it. Also, if you
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: want to go over the edge yourself, you just need
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to raise a thousand dollars. You can do it by yourself.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: You can get a bunch of friends together and have
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: everybody chip in to help you do it. But if
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you'd like to go over the edge, a thousand dollars,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: we'll do it. And it all goes to the union
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: rescue mission. Again, an organization we believe in 87 cents
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of every dollar goes directly to the programs that help
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: people get off the streets.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Will this be your third time?
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: This will be my third time.
• 25:12
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Actually my fourth time, because the first time I went twice.
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Loved it that much.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Well, that wasn't it. It's a longer story than that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: But yes. So please join us going over the edge
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: September 25th and 26th. Again, URM.org slash O-T-E. The city
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of L.A. is asking a judge to dismiss the second
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: of two lawsuits. Oh, I already did that story. Let's
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: do a different story. How about this one? Federal prosecutors
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: in L.A. have announced the arrests of two people. and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the indictment of a third accused of stealing millions of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: dollars meant to help homeless people.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: The suspects worked for Southern California nonprofits and are accused
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: of misusing funds, taking bribes, and billing for work never done.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Two were arrested in Los Angeles. One remains at large.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: One ran a nonprofit that received over $ 100 million in
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: public funds. He allegedly set up fake companies to overbill
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and misuse funds. He used the money for luxury and
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: business ventures. Another spent aid money on personal expenses. One
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: is accused of accepting bribes and placing ineligible people in
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: homeless programs. Another person pleaded guilty to stealing $ 2 million
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: in homeless aid. Mark Mayfield, KFI News.
• 26:25
  Speaker 11: L.A.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Mayor Bass has praised the decision of a federal judge
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: blocking immigration agents in Southern California from making warrantless arrests.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Under federal law, agents can only make these kinds of
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: arrests when they have probable cause to believe a person
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: is in the country illegally and is likely to try
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to get away before a warrant can be obtained. The
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security says federal agents protect American citizens
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: above everything else. Paramount is planning to pack up and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: leave California, but when? L.A.
• 26:54
  Speaker 14: Mayor Bass's office and H.E. Rob Bonta's office were told
• 26:57
  Speaker 14: Paramount would announce its departure Tuesday, but it didn't happen.
• 27:00
  Speaker 14: It's amid the legal fight over Paramount's merger with Warner
• 27:02
  Speaker 14: Brothers Discovery, which Bonta and 11 other attorneys general are
• 27:05
  Speaker 14: suing to block. Paramount CEO David Ellison threatened to move
• 27:09
  Speaker 14: the studio to Texas, Tennessee or Georgia if there's no
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: settlement by October 1st. And with negotiations stalled, sources say
• 27:15
  Speaker 14: a deal's unlikely. Paramount leaving would be a huge blow
• 27:18
  Speaker 14: to Hollywood as productions keep moving away, including American Idol,
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: which is moving to Atlanta. Mark Rauner, KFI News.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Time to get in your business as we do each
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: weekday morning with Bloomberg's Erica Herskovitz. Good morning, Erica.
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Amy.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's talk DoorDash and Uber and Costco. How
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: do they all partner up together?
• 27:40
  Speaker 15: Well, they are expanding their delivery partnership, ramping up competition
• 27:45
  Speaker 15: with Instagart. DoorDash says its users will be able to
• 27:48
  Speaker 15: order same-day service from every U.S. Costco warehouse starting today.
• 27:52
  Speaker 15: And Uber also just announced an expansion of its existing
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: Costco delivery partnership to 47 states, up from 17.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: So you'll be able to.
• 28:01
  Speaker 15: Grab that rotisserie chicken real fast.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: What about a couch? I wonder if they'll deliver a couch.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: A couch.
• 28:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 15: Love a store you can get tires and a chicken.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: Amazing.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: GLP-1 pills may be less of a threat to snack
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: makers than the shots themselves. Yeah.
• 28:19
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Bloomberg Intelligence finds pill users cut back less on
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: salty snacks, baked goods, and candy than people taking the injections. Yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 15: GLP-1 pills are also slightly less effective in curbing how
• 28:31
  Speaker 15: often people snacked. That could soften the hit to companies
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: like Hershey, Oreo maker Mondelez, and Kraft Heinz. Food executives
• 28:38
  Speaker 15: have been adapting to the GLP-1 world by boosting their
• 28:41
  Speaker 15: selection of products with protein, fiber, and other nutrients.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Interesting. So if you really want to kill the craving,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: it sounds like you need the shot.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would say so.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know either. Soaring fuel
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: prices have airlines looking at cutting flights and hiking fares.
• 29:01
  Speaker 15: Yeah, United and American say they may need to cut
• 29:03
  Speaker 15: more capacity in the fourth quarter, while Southwest also sees
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: room to hike fares. American estimates fuel will add a
• 29:09
  Speaker 15: billion dollars in extra costs in the last three months
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: of this year. United already earlier this year announced a 5%
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: reduction in scheduled flights for the second and third quarters.
• 29:17
  Speaker 15: And last week, JetBlue cut its capacity outlook.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they said this last time that prices spiked,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: but I don't remember them lowering their fares when the
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: gas prices went way down after that. So we'll have
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to watch and see. Tech companies that also make cars
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: are going to be required to install AM radios so
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: everybody can hear KFI.
• 29:39
  Speaker 15: Yeah, if a new bill makes it through the U.S.
• 29:41
  Speaker 15: State Senate. Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed a bill
• 29:45
  Speaker 15: designed to mandate AM radios in every new car at
• 29:48
  Speaker 15: no extra charge. Supporters say it would allow emergency broadcasts
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: to reach more Americans, while critics argue that consumers should
• 29:54
  Speaker 15: decide for themselves.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: What's to decide? I know, right? We got to keep
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: them there so we can be listening to KFI as we're,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you know, driving across country. Remember the old AM signals
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: at night? They go farther. All right. Erica Herskovitz with Bloomberg. Forever.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Have a great day. We'll get
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: in your business again tomorrow.
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: Yeah, sounds good.
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: Thanks, Amy.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Well, Southland gas prices are up another 5 cents a
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: gallon after increasing for the 30th straight day. The average
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: price for a gallon of regular gas in L.A. County
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: is up to $ 6.
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: 14.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Orange County's average is at $ 6. 12, and prices have just
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: topped $ 6 a gallon for the first time in the I.E.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: At least first time this go around. Police in Orange
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: County are looking for two people accused of cutting down
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and stealing a statue of Jesus from a Catholic church.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Surveillance video shows two guys cutting the bronze statue from
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: its base with an electric cutting tool at about 2 a.m.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: on August 30th at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Santa Ana. The statue is valued at about $ 50, 000. Police
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: are warning residents in Southern California to check around their
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: homes after a hidden camera was discovered in a bush
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: across the street from a home in Whittier. That had
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: been burglarized recently. Police say the discovery is a warning
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: that burglars may be using hidden cameras to monitor homes
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and find those opportunities to break in. Your official home
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for Dodger baseball is AM570 LA Sports. This morning, your
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: back-to-back world champion Dodgers are taking on the Cincinnati Reds
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. First pitch goes out at 940. Oh, I
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: love a day game. Listen on AM 570 LA Sports
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and stream all the games on the iHeartRadio app live
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: from the Galpin Ford broadcast booth. A group of Eaton
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: fire survivors has celebrated a couple of victories over the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: past few months, beating back legislation in Sacramento that they
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: say would have made the recovery process harder for them
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and future fire survivors, while also toasting new laws signed
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: this week that will hopefully make their challenges a little
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: bit easier for That group is now more than 10,000 strong.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: KFI's Jason Nathanson says it all started with pickleball.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: People in Altadena love their pickleball. It's fun.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: We laugh.
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: I'm sweating.
• 32:11
  Speaker 14: It's a hot day today.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: You don't need many athletic skills. I have very few
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: athletic skills.
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: It's super welcoming.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: And anybody can pick up a paddle and start whacking
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: the ball around within 10 minutes.
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Joy Chen is an organizer at heart. A former deputy
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: mayor of Los Angeles, she brought her political skills to pickleball.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: For two years before the fire, I was the admin
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: of the Pickleball WhatsApp of the Altadena Country Club.
• 32:34
  Speaker 11: The WhatsApp was a place to organize games.
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: Matt Craig was one of the original 50 or so
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: people in that Pickleball WhatsApp group.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a very serious chat.
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: It was very active.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Shared Pickleball memes, maybe a little smack talk.
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: But then, January 7th, 2025, everything changed.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: At 6.24, somebody typed into the chat, there's a fire
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: on the mountain.
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: Immediately, the WhatsApp channel started lighting up.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: Everybody walked out of their homes, and we started triangulating
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: the location of the Eaton fire based on who could
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: see it from their homes.
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: Ten blocks down, a forest fire was erupting and lighting
• 33:11
  Speaker 11: up the sky.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: We didn't have public evacuation alerts at the time for
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: most of Altadena.
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: They didn't exist, or you guys weren't signed up?
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: They never came. It was a complete failure of our
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: public evacuation system. There was only our WhatsApp, our pickleball WhatsApp.
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: We're trying to save our houses. If you can get
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: down here and help, you should.
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: Fire department's not coming.
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: What were some of those messages?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: It's getting close to Jean's house. I'm calling Jean now.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: There's a fire.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: Altenia's burning.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Get out of here. Someone saw a spot fire at
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: their home. People would say, there's a spot fire at
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: my house or next door.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: People would rush over there.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: With their buckets and take water out of pools to
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: put out spot fires.
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: My gosh, this house is fully engulfed.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: Look at this. 19 of our neighbors died that night.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: The devastation was unthinkable, but it's possible because of that
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: group chat, homes and lives were saved. And that was
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: only the beginning of what that chat would turn into.
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: In those first few days, it was tough finding a
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: place to stay.
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: People were going like, we figured out, somebody figured out, oh,
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: there's room at the Burbank Hilton. So everybody would rush
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: over to the Burbank Hilton, but we needed the WhatsApp
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: to trade that information.
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: Trading information would become so important to the recovery process,
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: the insurance part alone was a nightmare.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: We were just trying to figure out what these contracts meant,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: you know, and how to, like, navigate a large loss claim,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: which none of us had ever done.
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: That pickleball group quickly outgrew WhatsApp's 1,000-person limit. Now the
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: group is over 10,000 strong, first called the Eaton Fire
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: Survivors Network, then including Palisades and Malibu Fire Survivors to
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: become the Every Fire Survivors Network, with Joy Chen as
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: executive director.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: By now, we've collected over 2,200 firsthand accounts of insurance misconduct.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: LA County launched an investigation, which since then has unlocked
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: over $ 100 million in delayed claims.
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: From a pickleball group chat to an invaluable resource for
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: thousands of fire survivors. And for Matt Craig, pickleball has
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: also been a way to process what happened and heal.
• 35:21
  Speaker 11: It's not like we all had just time to just
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: focus on fire recovery. We had kids, we have health,
• 35:28
  Speaker 11: we have jobs, we have parents, the elderly, everything, and
• 35:32
  Speaker 11: then you throw the fire on top, right? So Pickleball
• 35:35
  Speaker 11: Remains is kind of this, like, hour, two hours to
• 35:38
  Speaker 11: let go of a lot of those things and just
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: sweat it out.
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: Jason Nathanson, KFI News.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I think that's very cool, all getting together through Pickleball.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I've never played pickleball. I've got too many friends who
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: have been severely injured playing pickleball.
• 35:52
  Speaker 14: I've been told I'd be less fat if I played pickleball.
• 35:54
  Speaker 14: So maybe I'll try.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe give it a try. But like wear wrist braces
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I know too many people who have like
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: broken wrists and ankles.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: You're not supposed to fall down.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Well, you're not supposed to, but it happens.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of the KFI 24-hour newsroom. The LAPD says the woman
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: accused of causing the deadly crash in Chatsworth before the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: NBC helicopter crash was was going the wrong way on
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: DeSoto Avenue when she allegedly ran a red light and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: slammed into the bus. They say she was driving south
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: in northbound lanes. The crash Tuesday threw one passenger from
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the bus and partially ejected another. The driver of the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: SUV is a 36-year-old. Bailey Rios was also hurt, taken
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: to the hospital. She has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: News brought to you by Pacific Coast Termite. A Cal
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: State Fullerton student has died just weeks after starting college.
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: Police say 18-year-old Anthony Joseph Blas was pronounced dead at St.
• 36:49
  Speaker 13: Jude's Medical Center where he was dropped off an unresponsive
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: early Sunday morning. Officials say it looked like alcohol consumption
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: was a contributing factor. Blas's father says his son was
• 36:58
  Speaker 13: pledging an off-campus fraternity and had been accepted just the
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: morning before and was invited to the fraternity house that
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: night to celebrate. Police say their investigation led them to
• 37:06
  Speaker 13: an area known as Frat Row, where unaffiliated fraternities are
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: located off campus. They say there is no evidence of
• 37:11
  Speaker 13: hazing or foul play. Michael Crozier, KFI News.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: People who live in Glendale and buy an EV are
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: now eligible to get a rebate of up to $ 2, 500
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: through a new city program. Glendale Water and Power is
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: offering $ 1, 500 to residential customers, $ 2, 500 to income-qualified customers who
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: are enrolled in the Glendale Care Program. The program is
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: funded by proceeds from California's low-carbon fuel standard. Rebates will
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: be offered as long as funding is available. The city
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: says customers may also be able to combine the utilities
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: rebate with incentives offered through California's My First EV program,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: and that could potentially increase the amount they receive. The
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: El Nino could bring some unusual marine life to Southern California.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Some unusual visitors are already being spotted, including hammerhead sharks
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: off L.A., Orange and Ventura counties, and whale sharks off Malibu.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: The reason is the warmer water from El Nino and
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: a marine heat anomaly. Greg Pauly, the curator of herpetology
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: with the Natural History Museum, says it'll be an unprecedented
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: year for sport fishing.
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: Species may show up that have never been documented as
• 38:20
  Speaker 10: far north in the eastern Pacific.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Yellow-bellied sea snakes could also show up, although only six
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: have ever been documented at SoCal beaches. Beachgoers are asked
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: to take pictures of any unusual sightings. Aileen Gonzalez, KFI News.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'll pass on the sea snakes.
• 38:34
  Speaker 14: Yellow-bellied sea snakes.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, pictures of any unusual sightings can be mailed to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the Natural History Museum of L.A. County at nature at nhm.org. Well,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: our time on Wake Up Call is done for today.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for starting your day with us. Don't
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: go anywhere. We got Handle on the News next, and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: we'll be back with you tomorrow morning, Friday morning. Ooh,
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: weekend's almost here. This is KFI and KOST, HD2, Los Angeles,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Orange County, live from the KFI 24-hour newsroom. I'm Amy King.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: This has been your Wake Up Call. And if you
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: missed any Wake Up Call, you can listen anytime on
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to Wake Up Call
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: with me, Amy King. You can always hear Wake Up
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Call 5 to 6 a.m. Monday through Friday on KFI
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: AM 640 and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.