April 1, 2025 • 43 mins
Amy King hosts your Monday Wake Up Call. KFI White House correspondent Jon decker starts the show talking about President Trump floating the idea of serving a third term. ABC News national reporter Jim Ryan speaks on the extended-stay astronauts and their 286-day mission. 24/7 reporter Rory O’Neill joins the show to talk about Ark of the Covenant. We get in your business with Bloomberg’s Courtney Donohoe talking about the latest trends in business and an update on the stock market. Host of ‘How to Money’ on KFI Joel Larsgaard closes the show talking about ‘Liberation Day’, Tax Day is 2 weeks away; LA County has until October.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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This is Amy King with kfi's wake up call.
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How do you hear me? I can hear you loud
and clear.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
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I've landed and its name is Amy King.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Tuesday,
April First. I'm Amy King. April Fool's Day got and
he put good pranks planned maybe WELLS day.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Maybe I didn't plan them yet.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I used to like spend a lot of time like
going what can I do?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I remember this when I was a kid, like going
what can I do? What can I do? And I
didn't ever really come up with very good ones. We
did do one really good one one year on the
air when I was in Eugene, Oregon. Uh well, there
was two. One. We said that they were canceling daylight
saving time and that caught on. I think the news
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stations were like, what where'd you do that. And the
other one was that a beer truck had crashed on
the freeway and they didn't want to clean it up,
so they just invited people to come down and pick
it up. We kind of got in trouble for that one. Yeah, Okay. Also,
I told you yesterday that I got my new ring camera.
My brother got it for me for Christmas, and I
finally installed it three months later because I'm well a
(02:06):
bit of a procrastinator. The thing's driving me crazy. Look
at all these alerts. I'm holding my phone up to this.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Can you can turn them down? Can't you?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I got to figure out how to turn off the alerts. Okay,
time for creepy crawleys to hatch. That's an alert. Here's
another one. Be cautious. There's a man walking a black
dog in the neighborhood looking for a vet cutaneous horn recommendation.
My kitten is a polydactyl and needs cutaneous horn removing.
I don't know what this is. Does someone have a
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good recommendation for a place for car detailing. There's two
men trespassing with blowtorches trying to steal catalytic or steal
electric motorcycles.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Oh, that might be worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But yeah, is there a power outage in Frogtown? I mean,
just like non stop high neighbors. Can anyone foster five kittens? Oh?
I know the answer. But is there street sweeping today
because of the Caesar Chavez holiday?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Stop people? This is why I turned off next door.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yes, no, close out.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm sure there's a way to stop the alerts. Okay,
here's what's ahead on wake up call. Everything costs just
a little bit more in La County today, a quarter
percent tax to pay for homelessness programs kicks in County.
Voters approved the sales tax increase in November. It will
remain in place unless it's repealed by voters. A fifteen
(03:30):
year old girls recovering after being attacked by a sea
lion off the coast of Long Beach. She was attacked
on Sunday while taking a swim test for the Cadet
lifeguard program. She was rescued and will be okay. Sea
lions have been acting aggressively lately because of demoic acid
poisoning from that toxic algae bloom. With Kid Rock by
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his side, President Trump assigned in executive order to protect
Americans from exploitive ticket scalping in the entertainment industry. The
order is designed to stop price gouging by middleman. This
is a I'm so excited about this. We were just
talking about it last week like that. You know, like
when you make it, you buy a ticket to Disneyland,
you go, it's like buying a train ticket or something,
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or a plane ticket. But with concerts, the scalpers snap
them all up and then triple and quadruple the price
for him, and you can't you can't afford to go.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
And I don't understand why they can't make it like
an airline ticket, like someone else can't just use your
air latic.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
When you sign up for it, you buy the ticket.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The President says he's not joking when he floats the
idea of serving a third term in office. We're going
to check in with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker,
who just happens to be a constitutional lawyer, so that'll
come in handy. We're gonna talk to him in just
a minute. Astronauts Sunny and Butch back from the International
Space Station. They've held their first press conference, and ABC's
Jim Ryan's going to tell us how they're adjusting to
life with gravity. President Trump's Liberation Day is just one
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day away. The host of How to Money on KFI,
Joel Glar's Guard, is going to weigh in on how
that will affect your money and it's Raiders of the
Lost Ark come to Life. Kfi's Rory O'Neil is going
to join us to tell us about the search for
the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
La County's new higher sales tax is in effect starting today.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Covers in the county approved the measure last November, making
a permanent half cent sales tax to support homeless services
and affordable housing. It replaces a quarter cent tax that
was supposed to expire in twenty twenty seven. The new
tax comes with the promise of more oversight and accountability.
It provides sixty percent of its anticipated hundreds of millions
of dollars in revenue to deal with homelessness. Fifteen percent
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of that is to be directed to cities depending on
their homeless population, thirty five percent is for affordable housing programs.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So that brings the sales tax in La County up
to nine point seventy five percent in Palmdale and Lancaster,
it's ten point twenty five percent and eleven point twenty
five percent, respectively create its own homeless services department. Kfi's
Mark Mayfield says supervisors are said to vote today on
whether to consolidate homeless services into one county run department.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
The vote comes as the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
continues to face criticism. Several audits have revealed funding is
being wasted and has shown gaps in the tracking of
the services that are provided by the organization.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
If supervisors approve the new department, it would start operating
on July. First, let's check in now with KFI White
House correspondent and constitutional lawyer John Decker. John, we thought
you're the perfect person to talk to today because President
Trump has talked about the idea of serving a third term.
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First he joked about it, then he said it was
no joke, and then he said in the oval yesterday
there could be a way to do it. So let's
break this down. Do you think you serious?
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Well, other presidents have mulled over this idea. Even President
Eisenhower in nineteen six six mold over this idea. But
the problem for each of those presidents who've thought about
this is the twenty second Amendment to the Constitution. Now,
there are ways around the twenty second Amendment. You can
repeal the twenty second Amendment, which bar is a president
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from serving two terms in the White House, but that's
really difficult, especially with the narrow majority that exists right
now in Congress. You need two thirds of the vote
in both the House and the Senate. That's going to
be difficult. And then if you are even able to
do that, you'd need three quarters of the states to
ratify that amendment to the Constitution, and that takes time.
(07:37):
But the president's talking about it now, he's got time
before twenty twenty eight rolls around. But I just don't
think the numbers are there. And we'll see where the
president's popularity is around that time to see if you know,
the American public would like the president to even serve
for a third term in the White House.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, and you mentioned that even if you could get
the states to go along with it, with the way
that the House and the senat are today today, there's
no way you'd get two thirds approval.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
No, you'd need Democratic votes, and there's a very narrow
majority in the House, just a one seat majority that
Republicans have there. It's fifty three forty seven in the Senate.
You're not going to get two thirds of the Senate
for sure, so that's going to be difficult. Now, the
President has floated this possibility running as vice president to
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jd Vance, for instance, in twenty twenty eight, and then
have jd Vance essentially hand the keys to the White
House over to Donald Trump upon winning the presidency. That
I think is pie in the sky. But people always
talk about jd Vance doing that scenario. What about the
scenario brought up by my wife, and that's Donald Trump
Junior at the top of the ticket. That's a possibility,
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and then he turns the keys over to the White
House to his father. So you know, look, these are
possibilities that are fun to talk about. Certainly, he got
the press not talk about Signalgate for a day or so,
and I think that was maybe one of the reasons
why the President brought this idea up in the first place.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, so I hadn't heard the one about Donald Junior.
I did hear the one about jd Vance, But so
would they could they abdicate not abdicate because it's not thrown.
But could they step down and appoint Trump president or
would it be they would be president and Trump would
be basically be the puppet master.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Yeah, the way it would happen under the scenario that
I just mentioned is simply if you are president resigning
your office and then the vice president assumes the presidency.
That's how that would work. But you know, getting someone
to go along with that, like JD. Vans, who's certainly ambitious,
wants to be president himself. I don't think he wants
to be vice president, you know, for or forever, you know,
(09:52):
I don't think that maybe he'd go along with that idea.
That's the reason why maybe Donald Trump Junior would be
the perfect person if Donald Trump wants to pursue that
to run at the top of the ticket and then
hand the keys to the White House over to his.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Father, or he could get really power hungry and then
once he gets in office, you could say forget it,
the deal's off.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
That's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
How do you know JD.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Vance isn't going to pull a fast one on Donald
Trump if that happens. But you know, look, this is
fun to talk about. This is a long time from
now twenty twenty eight. And you know, they are presidents
that certainly have been very intelligent, have or have had
very bright people working around them. And you know, Ronald
Reagan could have worn for a third term, and I
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think he would have won in nineteen eighty eight. The
same thing with Eisenhower. But they realized the twenty second
Amendment is problematic. They didn't want to go down that road,
you know, and they certainly didn't want to defy the Constitution.
And that's the reason why they just serve those two
terms in the White House.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Okay, hey, we were talking about amendments, and since you're
a constitutional lawyer, have we have we ever taken amendments off?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I know it's possible to do, but have we done it?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well?
Speaker 9 (11:05):
Yeah, of course. You know, there's amendments that have repealed
other amendments. So when you're talking about the voting age nationally,
that's an amendment that repealed another amendment. You know, you
talk about amendments that provided equality across our country, that's
an amendment that repealed another amendment.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So yes, of.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Course we have done that, but it's done through that process.
That process is lengthy, that's the reason why we don't
have that many amendments to the Constitution because of the
lengthy and process that we're talking about, and it's just
a difficult process to do.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, KFI White House correspondent and constitutional lawyer, which we appreciate,
especially today, John Decker, thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thank you. Have a great day, am.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. President Trump
is planning to move forward with a major tear of
blitz on several countries, including allies. It's expected to drive
up the cost of groceries, electronics, and cars in the US.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
A new poll from the Associated Press shows Americans aren't
sold on the president's trade policies, sixty percent disapproving, with
thirty eight percent approving.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
ABC's Mary Bruce says on Trump's handling of the economy,
fifty eight percent disapprove, forty percent approve. Goldman Sachs has
raised its expectation that the US will enter a recession
in the next year to thirty five percent. Kfi's Brian
shuk says that's not the only concern expressed by the
financial firm's report.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
In a note two investors.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Goldman also lowered its GDP forecast and predicted a rise
in unemployment.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The resident's mixed signals on tariffs sent stock markets on
another wild ride yesterday, with the down s ANDP finishing up.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
The NASDAK closed down. Trump has promised new tariffs to
be announced tomorrow. Five men accused of laundering money on
behalf of Mexico's Sinela cartel have been charged in a
pair of grand jury indictments unsealed in federal court in
San Diego, US Attorney's offices. The indictments were first returned
against the men in twenty twenty two. All of them
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are still on the run. Four of the five have
also been sanctioned by the US for their alleged roles
in supporting the cartel's drug trafficking activities. Officials in Iceland
say a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of
the country. A nearby town and the Blue Lagoon SPA
have been evacuated. The community was largely evacuated a year
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ago when the volcano came to life after lying dormant
for eight hundred years. Today, the magma flow was accompanied
by an intense earthquake storm similar to previous eruptions. Well,
that sounds like a fun place to be gall Lee.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
People could soon have the option of using an AI
doctor for health advice. ABC's Michelle frands And says Apple
is reportedly planning to bring an AI power doc to
its health app. There are reports that human doctors are
used to train the artificial intelligent agent that will act
as a physician and health coach and make recommendations. She says.
(14:08):
The revamped app is expected to be released next spring. Okay,
if you're going to the Dodger game tonight, it's oh
tany MVP Bobblehead Night. If you're not going, you can
still listen to all the action on AM five to
seventy LA Sports Live from the Galpin Motors broadcast booth.
(14:29):
The Dodgers are taking on the Braves. First pitch goes
out at five point thirty. You can also stream the
game in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five
seventy LA Sports. I'd like to get my hands on
one of those bobbleheads. The LA County Board of Supervisor
is going to vote today on whether to create its
own county run homeless services department. The vote comes as
the LA Homeless Services Authority continues to face criticism for
(14:53):
wasting money and not tracking where millions in funding has
been spent. A fire burning north of Bishop in central
California's grow to almost sixteen hundred acres. Firefighters continue to
be challenged by strong, gusty wins, but they were able
to stop the fire's forward progress and start drawing lines
around At the fires, forty seven percent surrounded. Evacuation orders
(15:14):
remain in place in parts of both Inyo and Mono Counties.
There will be no USC UCLA rematch or match up
in the Final four of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
USC's hopes of advancing to its first women's Final four
and almost forty years deflated with a seventy eight sixty
(15:35):
four loss to Connecticut last night in Spokane, Connecticut now
moves on to face UCLA in the women's Final four Friday.
At six oh five, It's handle on the news with
Neil Sevedra Corey Booker still talking. He hasn't stopped for
like thirteen hours. Tell you what that's all about. Right now,
Let's check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim two
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weeks ago, Crew nine with Colonel Nick Haig, Russian cosmonaut,
and then Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
What have they been doing for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Getting used to gravity, getting used to food and seeing
their families and being on the ground essentially, you know,
So it's been kind of a reacting process. They've been
in quarantine essentially, mainly for their own protection because there's
a clean environment up there aboard the International Space Station.
They haven't been exposed to things like the common cold
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or measles or anything else that's going around on this planet.
So they gradually reacclimate to the Earth's environment and the
potential threats that are out there. To that, they've also
been building up their physical endurance. Now. Sunny Williams did
two hours worth of exercise aboard the International Space Station
every day and has managed to maintain her conditioning. So
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she said that she went on a three mile run
yesterday before giving the first interview that she had Wilmore
had given since they got back from the Issamy.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I would imagine that running after running in space, because
I've seen some of the video of her on the
space station. They've got her like sideways, just running away,
but they're strapped down to hold them down, so they
don't just float around. I would imagine running now just
feels like really heavy.
Speaker 11 (17:23):
Oh yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
But she did three miles, so she's kind of back
up to it now, she says. Sonny said that as
they were aboard the space station, they really didn't know
about all the love and support they were getting in
concern from people down here on Earth about this extended
stay they were going through on the ISS.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I don't think we were aware to the degree, pretty
honored and humbled by the fact of when we came home, like, wow,
there's there are a lot of people who are interested,
very thankful, very amazed that we could hopefully be one
positive element to bring people together.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I love that. And I watched part of it because
it was on and I was on the air, and
so I wasn't able to pay attention to all of
what's going on. But they were talking about some of
the things that they missed while they were up in space.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Yes, well, Sonny, the first thing she did for her
first meal, it wasn't lobster, it wasn't a trip to
the buffet. It was a grilled cheese sandwich. Just simple
things like that, you know, that you take for granted
here on Earth and when you're off in the International
Space Station. I don't know if they're eating Pillsbury space
food snacks or what exactly, but so they missed just
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those common little things like that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
The reason they were up there so long, of course,
is that the Boeing star Line of that took Williams
and Wilmore to the ISS had a technical issue. NASSA
brought it back down to Earth. It was fine, there
wasn't a problem with it, but in an abundance of caution,
it was brought back without the crew board. So who
gets the blame for all of this? Butch Wilmore, who
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was the crew flight test chief, puts it this way.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
Responsibility with Boeing, yes, Responsibility with NASA yes.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
And he says that he, too, amy bears some responsibility.
He says that there are things that he should have
asked before they left, asked about this new Boeing Starliner
that he didn't ask, and so he takes some of
the blame for that too.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Imagine that taking responsibility. What a what a novel?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Idea.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Wow. So aside from the getting to see their families
and grilled cheese sandwiches and say that they were not
quite aware of how much support they were getting down here.
Did they have any other kind of revelations or anything
that they shared surprising things?
Speaker 11 (19:42):
Well, listening to during the news conference they took, there
was a phone bridge and so they were taking questions
from all over the place. An Indian reporter asked Sonny Williams,
who is of Indian descent, what it was like to
fly over India, and she talked and she had a
really great description of it. To the himalay Is on
one side, you could see them, you know, jutting up
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off the planet, off the surface, and then this vast
flat expanse. And she could pick out cities at night
based on the lights, and pick out communities during the daytime.
And so that was kind of an interesting thing. You
know that they're up there as scientists, they're up there
doing these experiments and keeping the iss and repair, but
also in a way they're tourists. Wilmore took hundreds of
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photographs while he was up there.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's so cool. What an amazing experience, And think about
when we got to talk to Colonel Haig, he was
like talking about just every once in a while he'd
take a break and just look out and see the
world and just go wow, you know, just like, oh,
inspiring is so cool? All right? How long are they
in quarantine?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Jim? Do we know?
Speaker 11 (20:47):
They've wrapped it up and they should be able to
go home now, home being you know, their homes in Houston.
They do all their training and work at Johnson Space Center.
They both said, you know, if we could go back
into space, we would do it again. But he is
sixty two, she's fifty nine. I think so their time
as actual astronauts might be an end, but I suspect
NASA we'll have jobs for them for the rest of
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their lives.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, if it's their last strip to space. They got
their money's worth.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Right, two hundred and eighty six days worth.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Instead of eight. Yep, all right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks
so much for the information. We always appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Thanks Amy, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
A multimillion dollar jewelry heist has landed a man from
Long Beach in federal prison.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
The group of guys scouted and then robbed luxury jewels
in Beverly Hills three years ago. They got away with
two point seven million dollars in loot, but they left
lots of clues at the scene. The car they stole
to take them there, one of the guy's phones, and
then laddel Tharp posted photos of the stolen jewels on Instagram.
He pleaded guilty to his role in the crime back
in September. He was just sentenced to seven years in
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federal prison. The others have already pleaded guilty. They've been
sentenced also for their roles in the heist. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Legislation that would give home buying assistant to descends of
slaves in California's moving forward. The bill made it through
a committee, but there are concerns over whether it's legal
and who qualifies for it. The bill's author says it
would not be limited to just black Californians. Her grandson
is mixed race, and under the bill, he'd qualify. The
bill moves on to another committee next. A group of
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mostly illegal immigrants has been rescued from a boat off
the coast of southern California.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
The US Coast Guard, along with a navy were able
to pluck seventeen migrants and one American from a vessel.
It happened Sunday morning. That boat, which officials say was
taking on water, was fifty miles off the coast of
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Kay if Ice Phil Farars's. All eighteen people were transferred
to the custody of Homeland Security. The Hooter's restaurant chain
has filed for bankruptcy. ABC's Alex Stones's. The chains known
for wings, beer and friendly staff.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
CEO says a company will reinvent itself in what he
has called Rehooterization. They plan to get rid of the riskue,
male clientele, image and things like MKINI amid changing customer preferences.
They want to make Hooters and more family friendly restaurant.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I love that Hooters closed forty restaurants last year as
it tried to improve its finances. Paris Hilton is helping
victims of the Eton fire. Her nonprofit has begun giving
out more than a million dollars in grants to women
owned small businesses impact by the Eton fire in Altadena.
The grand program is expected to provide twenty five thousand
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dollars grants to about fifty recipients. Two schools in Anaheim
are taking steps to keep kids from vaping on campus.
Cyprus High School and Laara High School have installed vape
detectors in bathrooms and locker rooms. If the device detects
vape smoke, it'll alert school staff through an app. The
devices also monitor loud noises, which could help staff members
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quickly respond to fights. The snowpack is pretty close to
where it needs to be for this time of year.
The California Department of Water Resources sy snow levels are
at ninety percent of normal. Recent storms have helped boost
water levels. The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about a third
of the state's water on average at six o five.
It is handle on the news. Everything costs more in
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La County starting today, and it has nothing to do
with Trump's tariffs plan. It again, because I love this thing.
Let's say good morning now to kfi's Rory O'Neill. Rory,
we thought it was just a movie, but the CIA
search for the Arc of the Covenant is real.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It has been, and in fact, this is all because
of a New York Post story that got floated last week.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
It's kept the Internet on fire. This is not a hoax.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But this is a report that was declassified in two
thousand talking about an event that happened back in nineteen
eighty eight when they were using remote viewers psychics to
try to find these mysterious objects. Now, in this report
from December fifth to nineteen eighty eight, one of these
so called psychics claims that they have sort of found
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the area where they could discover the arc of the Covenant.
It was described as a gilded box with some angels
on the top of it, and it was being kept
in a dark, damp, wet place. They talked about hearing
Arabic voices around it, seeing buildings with domes, and then
an energy field that was protecting this object of an
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unknown origin.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Wow, okay, so the psychic said they saw it, but
then did anybody actually see it?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, that may be a different CIA report that hasn't
been declassified yet. But the psychic or the person who
was doing the remote viewing number thirty two, by the way,
didn't get much more specific than saying it was in
the Middle East, So.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Not a whole lot of help and that description.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, let's be right part of the world at
least right sort of, but you know, there are some
tales of the Ark of the Covenant that could be
as far away as Ethiopia. It may have been destroyed
in some of the wars that were happening at the time.
It may have been buried somewhere, so a lot of
different folklore is out there. So much so they made
a movie about it in nineteen eighty one, I.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Know, one of the best movies ever.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Right, absolutely, although I think the third one is better
than the first one.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
But that's another one.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh, the one with his dad John Connick.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
The second one was my least favorite.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Absolutely, and then the new ones we don't really discuss.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well yeah, they kind of don't count a nice idea,
but anyway, okay, so here's a question for you, Rory.
So it was declassified in two thousand. This happened in
eighty eight or twelve years later. But why did it
pick ups seem just now? I mean, you said the
Washington Post people wrote an article about it, But what happened?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, the New York Post, And yeah it was the
most that they did the article. And I don't know
why they picked up on it last week of all weeks.
I think it was talking about the CIA and some
of the document sharing and stuff sort of half related
to the whole signal app business, the fact that the
CIA director was queued in on that group, and I
think it was some scrutiny there, But yeah, it certainly
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has everyone talking again about the arc of the Covenant.
And I've been hearing that theme song now play every
day in my head, dozens of times a day.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And we extended it because we were actually supposed to
talk to you earlier this week, but you weren't available,
so we just extended your Raiders of the Law, Stark,
So are there any is there any talk of looking
for this now that we've heard of?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, not particularly, but it is remarkable that this whole
remote viewing thing was being taken so seriously by the
CIA in the nineteen eighties. Again, the nineteen eighties, Ronald
Reagan was leaving the White House.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
He was a lame duck by the time this happened.
In December of that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Year, George Bush, the first Bush President, was about to
come in and.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Still we had remote viewer number thirty two.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Well that's what I was just saying. At number thirty two,
how many there?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, yeah, they didn't get any more specific about this
whole operation that they had been running.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
And that's also part of it.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean, was it just a phone call to a
nine hundred called a miss Cleo back in the day
that that qualify.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
As being remote viewer number two?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But it's pretty remarkable the scope of this investigation and
what they would do is they would just sort of
give the psychic some basic requests of you know, we're
trying to find a special object, and then this is
what they came back with, this description of the gilded
box and its approximate size and how it was decorated
and where it might be.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Right, well, before we leave, this is what I'm going
to say. That great as the last art came out
in nineteen eighty one, right, yep, so nineteen eighty eight, and.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
She goes, oh, it's this bucks and it's in the
Middle East.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I mean, come on, she just watched the movie or.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It could have been The Ten Commandments. Yeah, you know
it was December. Maybe they were showing that again. You know,
back when we watched TV movies, it was.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
All right, well we'll play this for you one more time.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Great, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Kfis worry O'Neil. Have a great day all right, Time
to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Courtney.
Amazon is bringing back screening its warehouse workers because yeah,
they're stealing.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
Yes, good morning Amazon. Those metal detectors were going to
see them. They want to screen the workers leaving the warehouses.
So this theft prevention measure, it was suspended during the pandemic,
but here's a new measure that they're going to try
to implement. Sources are telling us here at Bloomberg that
Amazon's asking employees to register their personal phones so security
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knows they aren't stolen. So the company's starting to inform
certain locations about this phone policy this week, but Amazon
aims to roll out both measures to all its facilities
sometimes throughout the year.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
How how much theft are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Did they did?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
They say, they didn't say how much. But for them
to bring this back, I'm sure this is a major
issue for them. They said in this phone registration issue
that employees are going to have to share the last
six digits of the serial number and then they're going
to receive a sticker to place on the device so
it lets security personnel knows it belongs to the worker,
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and it will help to screen up the process, screen
the process, and we can move along a little bit safter.
Because there was an issue a couple of years ago
where there were a lot of log jams at the
facilities because workers complained that they were stuck in line
for as long as twenty five minutes without compensation, waiting
to be screened on their way out of the warehouse.
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So this has been a pretty big point of contention
between Amazon and its hourly warehouse workers for a long time.
So this is it was stopped during the pandemic, and
now it seems to be these security lines are going
to be coming back.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Okay, well that's too bad, but I guess it's good
that they're going to cut down on theft.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
It's too bad that people are sealing from their players.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Tinder trying to win over gen z daters.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
What are they doing.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
Yes, they're rolling out a game where you flirt with
a chatbot. I don't know how I feel about that one.
But users can accumulate points for warmth and curiosity, receive
real time feedback on their responses, and ultimately win the
game if their AI character verbally agrees to a date,
so plays are limited to about five a day. You
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can only play this five times, but Tinder says the
goal is to give users the space to build a
little more confidence before diving into those real conversations with
other daters. Okay, I go, I don't know about this one,
you know. I mean, I'm I'm a single lady. I
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don't know how I would feel about playing a pretend game.
I mean, well, I mean your guys. I don't know. Well,
if it might make other guys a little bit better
communicating on the app, well then maybe in my work.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, So you flirt with the chatbot, you get this
great quote relationship, and then you meet the real person.
Speaker 13 (32:08):
You go, oh, exactly, It's like I thought it was
so good at this. Okay, they say it's going to
be it's fun and judgment free.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Nothing is judgment free, Courtney.
Speaker 14 (32:21):
Come on, I know, well that's what they say. I
did not say that. I'm just And they called the
chatbot the game game. They call the game game the
game game.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
When you're looking at the stock market game.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
What's going on with that today?
Speaker 13 (32:40):
So yeah, well, taking a look, we've been seeing a
lot of volatility overall, it's it's gripped the markets. Yesterday,
stocks are actually erased earlier losses and managed to finish
the day higher. So we're expected to maybe see the
same thing again today. Yesterday the down jump four hundred
and eighteen points. We have to keep the mind it's
the worst month and quarter for the S and P
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since twenty twenty two. Now this morning, we are kicking
off April on a down note.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
But it was a switch.
Speaker 13 (33:08):
We were higher earlier, maybe about two hours ago. But
the confusion about whether the President's going to be leaning
or tough when it comes to tariffs is making a
lot of investors less willing to make those risky bets,
and stocks are definitely a risky bet. Down futures right
now are down two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Tomorrow is going to be interesting when the tariffs actually
kick in, Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
And especially for the fact that we really don't know
what's in place. And again, what Wall Street does not
like is uncertainty, and we're getting a lot of uncertainty
every single day here.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Absolutely that's getting in your business.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
With Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, Thanks so much, Courtney let's do
it again tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (33:46):
Shall we exactly see you later?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Gas prices are getting closer to five dollars a gallon again.
The average price for regular unletted was up for the
tenth time in eleven days to just under four eighty
seven a gallon. Prices are up about twenty cents, actually
more than twenty cents in the last ten days, and
Orange County gas is just under forty five. The La
City Council plans to vote today on an ordinance that
would set up a right to Council program, providing legal
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defense to renters who were facing eviction. It would also
require landlords to inform tenants about their rights. The La
County Board of Supervisors approved a similar policy last year.
A missing painting of President George Washington's been recovered by
Colorado police. The painting is two hundred years old. It
was reported stolen in January of twenty twenty four. It
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was found in a hotel room in Denver. Police are
investigating the theft or just minutes away from Handle on
the news this morning. It is election day in Wisconsin
and Florida. While a lot of people around the US
are watching those closely. Let's say good morning now too.
The host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard, Joel,
Liberation Day is tomorrow. What is that going to mean?
Speaker 15 (34:56):
Oh yeah, that's like what everyone's this rush on everyone's
mind because we don't really know. The Liberation Day talk
has been kind of sort of specific but also intentionally vague,
and so I guess like the great unveiling will come
tomorrow and we'll all find out what thatck we're talking about.
But certainly it's going to mean increase tariffs on other
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countries who the President feel that the President feels like
we don't have a reasonable trading balance with And so
I think what that means for consumers at the end
of the day is higher prices on certain goods, and
it means right now a lot of uncertainty for businesses.
And so it's been I would say it's been a
tough start to the year economically and on the macro perspective,
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just because of the severe uncertainty in the fact that
businesses are just like, where's this going, and the lack
of clarity, which maybe we'll get more tomorrow has been
one of the toughest things the tariff part is tough,
but the uncertainty part is tougher.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, So then and I guess these are questions that
we won't know because you just said we kind of
don't know until we know. But you know, like, are
they going to start passing those increases along immediately?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Is there going to be some lag time?
Speaker 15 (36:11):
So typically I would say the lag time isn't long.
It's it's interesting because consumers have if you look at
the numbers, already said but we're looking down the line
and we're seeing the fact that prices are going to
go upon cars potentially significantly, and so I'm going to
go buy a new car. Now you and I have
talked about that, and how well if it wasn't already
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on your plan, Like you don't want to go out
and buy a car just because prices are likely to
go up. But it's true, like consumers are changing behavior
and their front loading purchases because of the reality of
tariffs coming in, especially when they know in advance it's
not going to be long before because of the way
the supply chain works and the economy functions, it's not
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going to be too long before we see rises and
prices on some of the things where tariffs are implemented,
and so the Yale budget predicts that if there are
like twenty percent broad based tariffs, the average household is
going to feel the pain between like three and four
thousand dollars in lost purchasing power per year.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
So that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, I can add that on to the twenty percent
inflation we've seen in the last couple of years. That's
another just keep piling.
Speaker 15 (37:18):
On, right, And it's I think it's exactly the opposite
of what they were hoping for in a lot of
ways when they opted for President Trump at the ballot box.
Was hey, like, lower prices is a huge part of
the reason I'm going in this direction. And then lower
prices and tariffs, well, you just can't really utter them
in the same breadth because they're they're going in opposite directions. Again,
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I think there are geopolitical reasons for certain specified tariffs,
but I think for the most part this is this
isn't great policy, at least from a consumer standpoint.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Okay, speaking of consumers and money and having it or not.
We have tax stage is two weeks away, although in
La County you do have the extension because of the fires.
It's everybody in La County has an extra six months,
So October fifteenth is the deadline. But that means that
probably fewer people have filed at this point.
Speaker 15 (38:18):
That's exactly because of natural disasters California and North Carolina
other parts of the South, when Hurricane Helene came through,
some people have extra time, and so the IRS did announce, Hey,
we're actually seeing we've had fewer filings so far than
we did last year. But I think that makes sense
because of the number of people overall who don't have
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to file yet, who have essentially the ability to file
in October and not pay any sort of penalty, which
is great. If you don't live in La County, it's
time to get on it, right, You got two weeks left,
And I just want to say, like one of my
favorite places for people to consider filing their taxes, it's
cash app Taxes, and cash app is is typically like
a peer to peer payment service. They bought this service
(39:01):
from Credit Karma and it's the only legitimate free service
I know of for federal and state filing, and it's
pretty robust, like they do a pretty good job. So
that's one to consider, especially if you have a not
very complex tax return that you need to file. If
you have a very complex tax return, it's typically a
good idea to hire somebody to help you with that.
(39:23):
And just know that you're probably at this point, even
if you find somebody who says I'm willing to do
your taxes, you're likely filing extension if you don't live
in La County in order to in order to have
longer two file. That still doesn't mean that you don't
have to pay estimated taxes if you're going to owe money,
but you might still need to file extension anyway. You
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might not be able to get it done in time
if you're finding someone else to help you with that
with your taxes.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Okay, Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money every
Sunday from noon to two on CAFI, always such great
advice and we appreciate it. I hope you get a
big refund this year.
Speaker 15 (40:00):
Thanks you too.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Hate me?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
A judge in New Mexico's denied the release of certain
court records. They show the bodies of Gene Hackman and
his wife, Betsy Arakawa. The couple's estate fought against making
the records public, which include an autopsy report. Hackman and
Arakawa died inside their home in February. Authorities announced last
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month that Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer's,
about a week after his wife died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
San Diego Republican Assemblyman Carl Demyo says a Democrat member's
response to his comments about Caesar Chavez were way out
of line.
Speaker 16 (40:37):
The Mayo was addressing the state Assembly on Friday when
he said Chavez opposed illegal immigration and supported a secure border.
He tells kfi's John Cobel. Democrat Cory Jackson lashed out
at those comments.
Speaker 13 (40:50):
I'm calling on the Democrats who run the show up
in Sacramento.
Speaker 12 (40:53):
Don't allow this sort of behavior.
Speaker 16 (40:55):
To Mayo, says, Jackson had to be restrained by Assembly security.
Deborah mark Ye Fine News.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
A sixty three year old woman in me and Maher,
has been rescued from the rubble of last week's Magnitude
seven point seven earthquake. Hope of finding more survivors is fading.
Experts say the likelihood of finding survivors drops dramatically after
seventy two hours. Officials say more than twenty seven hundred
people have died since the quake hit Friday, and that
number is expected to rise. The World Health Organization says
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more than ten thousand buildings overall are known to have
collapsed or been severely damaged in central and northwest man Marm.
The earthquake also shook neighboring Thailand, causing a high rise
building under construction a collapse. Officials say a lot of
workers were buried in the rubble. Three bodies have been recovered,
dozens are still missing. Overall, there were twenty one people
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killed and thirty four hurt in Bangkok, most of them
at the construction site. Onto more positive news, The Wiggle
Waggle Walk is coming up. We are like five days out.
It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk and run for passing. Danny
Humane would love to have you join our team. It's
happening Sunday, April sixth at Brookside Park at the Rosepole.
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Grab the dog's leash, don't forget the dog, and come
on down and take a walk with us. The event
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If you would love to walk a little bit, we
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please join us again. It's this Sunday the Wiggle Wackle
Wiggle Waggle Walk.
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And Run for Pasadena You Maine.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
This is KFI and kost HD two Los Angeles, Orange County, Southland.
Weather from KFI partly cloudy skies with gusty winds kicking
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Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
It's five o'clock. This is your wake up call for Tuesday,
April First. I'm Amy King. April Fool's Day got and
he put good pranks planned maybe WELLS day.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Maybe I didn't plan them yet.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I used to like spend a lot of time like
going what can I do?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I remember this when I was a kid, like going
what can I do? What can I do? And I
didn't ever really come up with very good ones. We
did do one really good one one year on the
air when I was in Eugene, Oregon. Uh well, there
was two. One. We said that they were canceling daylight
saving time and that caught on. I think the news
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stations were like, what where'd you do that. And the
other one was that a beer truck had crashed on
the freeway and they didn't want to clean it up,
so they just invited people to come down and pick
it up. We kind of got in trouble for that one. Yeah, Okay. Also,
I told you yesterday that I got my new ring camera.
My brother got it for me for Christmas, and I
finally installed it three months later because I'm well a
(02:06):
bit of a procrastinator. The thing's driving me crazy. Look
at all these alerts. I'm holding my phone up to this.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Can you can turn them down? Can't you?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I got to figure out how to turn off the alerts. Okay,
time for creepy crawleys to hatch. That's an alert. Here's
another one. Be cautious. There's a man walking a black
dog in the neighborhood looking for a vet cutaneous horn recommendation.
My kitten is a polydactyl and needs cutaneous horn removing.
I don't know what this is. Does someone have a
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good recommendation for a place for car detailing. There's two
men trespassing with blowtorches trying to steal catalytic or steal
electric motorcycles.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Oh, that might be worthwhile.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But yeah, is there a power outage in Frogtown? I mean,
just like non stop high neighbors. Can anyone foster five kittens? Oh?
I know the answer. But is there street sweeping today
because of the Caesar Chavez holiday?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Stop people? This is why I turned off next door.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Yes, no, close out.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I'm sure there's a way to stop the alerts. Okay,
here's what's ahead on wake up call. Everything costs just
a little bit more in La County today, a quarter
percent tax to pay for homelessness programs kicks in County.
Voters approved the sales tax increase in November. It will
remain in place unless it's repealed by voters. A fifteen
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year old girls recovering after being attacked by a sea
lion off the coast of Long Beach. She was attacked
on Sunday while taking a swim test for the Cadet
lifeguard program. She was rescued and will be okay. Sea
lions have been acting aggressively lately because of demoic acid
poisoning from that toxic algae bloom. With Kid Rock by
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his side, President Trump assigned in executive order to protect
Americans from exploitive ticket scalping in the entertainment industry. The
order is designed to stop price gouging by middleman. This
is a I'm so excited about this. We were just
talking about it last week like that. You know, like
when you make it, you buy a ticket to Disneyland,
you go, it's like buying a train ticket or something,
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or a plane ticket. But with concerts, the scalpers snap
them all up and then triple and quadruple the price
for him, and you can't you can't afford to go.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
And I don't understand why they can't make it like
an airline ticket, like someone else can't just use your
air latic.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
When you sign up for it, you buy the ticket.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh wow.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The President says he's not joking when he floats the
idea of serving a third term in office. We're going
to check in with kfi's White House correspondent John Decker,
who just happens to be a constitutional lawyer, so that'll
come in handy. We're gonna talk to him in just
a minute. Astronauts Sunny and Butch back from the International
Space Station. They've held their first press conference, and ABC's
Jim Ryan's going to tell us how they're adjusting to
life with gravity. President Trump's Liberation Day is just one
(04:55):
day away. The host of How to Money on KFI,
Joel Glar's Guard, is going to weigh in on how
that will affect your money and it's Raiders of the
Lost Ark come to Life. Kfi's Rory O'Neil is going
to join us to tell us about the search for
the arc of the Covenant.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
La County's new higher sales tax is in effect starting today.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Covers in the county approved the measure last November, making
a permanent half cent sales tax to support homeless services
and affordable housing. It replaces a quarter cent tax that
was supposed to expire in twenty twenty seven. The new
tax comes with the promise of more oversight and accountability.
It provides sixty percent of its anticipated hundreds of millions
of dollars in revenue to deal with homelessness. Fifteen percent
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of that is to be directed to cities depending on
their homeless population, thirty five percent is for affordable housing programs.
Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
So that brings the sales tax in La County up
to nine point seventy five percent in Palmdale and Lancaster,
it's ten point twenty five percent and eleven point twenty
five percent, respectively create its own homeless services department. Kfi's
Mark Mayfield says supervisors are said to vote today on
whether to consolidate homeless services into one county run department.
Speaker 8 (06:09):
The vote comes as the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
continues to face criticism. Several audits have revealed funding is
being wasted and has shown gaps in the tracking of
the services that are provided by the organization.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
If supervisors approve the new department, it would start operating
on July. First, let's check in now with KFI White
House correspondent and constitutional lawyer John Decker. John, we thought
you're the perfect person to talk to today because President
Trump has talked about the idea of serving a third term.
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First he joked about it, then he said it was
no joke, and then he said in the oval yesterday
there could be a way to do it. So let's
break this down. Do you think you serious?
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Well, other presidents have mulled over this idea. Even President
Eisenhower in nineteen six six mold over this idea. But
the problem for each of those presidents who've thought about
this is the twenty second Amendment to the Constitution. Now,
there are ways around the twenty second Amendment. You can
repeal the twenty second Amendment, which bar is a president
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from serving two terms in the White House, but that's
really difficult, especially with the narrow majority that exists right
now in Congress. You need two thirds of the vote
in both the House and the Senate. That's going to
be difficult. And then if you are even able to
do that, you'd need three quarters of the states to
ratify that amendment to the Constitution, and that takes time.
(07:37):
But the president's talking about it now, he's got time
before twenty twenty eight rolls around. But I just don't
think the numbers are there. And we'll see where the
president's popularity is around that time to see if you know,
the American public would like the president to even serve
for a third term in the White House.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Well, and you mentioned that even if you could get
the states to go along with it, with the way
that the House and the senat are today today, there's
no way you'd get two thirds approval.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
No, you'd need Democratic votes, and there's a very narrow
majority in the House, just a one seat majority that
Republicans have there. It's fifty three forty seven in the Senate.
You're not going to get two thirds of the Senate
for sure, so that's going to be difficult. Now, the
President has floated this possibility running as vice president to
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jd Vance, for instance, in twenty twenty eight, and then
have jd Vance essentially hand the keys to the White
House over to Donald Trump upon winning the presidency. That
I think is pie in the sky. But people always
talk about jd Vance doing that scenario. What about the
scenario brought up by my wife, and that's Donald Trump
Junior at the top of the ticket. That's a possibility,
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and then he turns the keys over to the White
House to his father. So you know, look, these are
possibilities that are fun to talk about. Certainly, he got
the press not talk about Signalgate for a day or so,
and I think that was maybe one of the reasons
why the President brought this idea up in the first place.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Okay, so I hadn't heard the one about Donald Junior.
I did hear the one about jd Vance, But so
would they could they abdicate not abdicate because it's not thrown.
But could they step down and appoint Trump president or
would it be they would be president and Trump would
be basically be the puppet master.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Yeah, the way it would happen under the scenario that
I just mentioned is simply if you are president resigning
your office and then the vice president assumes the presidency.
That's how that would work. But you know, getting someone
to go along with that, like JD. Vans, who's certainly ambitious,
wants to be president himself. I don't think he wants
to be vice president, you know, for or forever, you know,
(09:52):
I don't think that maybe he'd go along with that idea.
That's the reason why maybe Donald Trump Junior would be
the perfect person if Donald Trump wants to pursue that
to run at the top of the ticket and then
hand the keys to the White House over to his.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Father, or he could get really power hungry and then
once he gets in office, you could say forget it,
the deal's off.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
That's right, Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
How do you know JD.
Speaker 9 (10:16):
Vance isn't going to pull a fast one on Donald
Trump if that happens. But you know, look, this is
fun to talk about. This is a long time from
now twenty twenty eight. And you know, they are presidents
that certainly have been very intelligent, have or have had
very bright people working around them. And you know, Ronald
Reagan could have worn for a third term, and I
(10:38):
think he would have won in nineteen eighty eight. The
same thing with Eisenhower. But they realized the twenty second
Amendment is problematic. They didn't want to go down that road,
you know, and they certainly didn't want to defy the Constitution.
And that's the reason why they just serve those two
terms in the White House.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Okay, hey, we were talking about amendments, and since you're
a constitutional lawyer, have we have we ever taken amendments off?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
I know it's possible to do, but have we done it?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Well?
Speaker 9 (11:05):
Yeah, of course. You know, there's amendments that have repealed
other amendments. So when you're talking about the voting age nationally,
that's an amendment that repealed another amendment. You know, you
talk about amendments that provided equality across our country, that's
an amendment that repealed another amendment.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So yes, of.
Speaker 9 (11:27):
Course we have done that, but it's done through that process.
That process is lengthy, that's the reason why we don't
have that many amendments to the Constitution because of the
lengthy and process that we're talking about, and it's just
a difficult process to do.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Okay, KFI White House correspondent and constitutional lawyer, which we appreciate,
especially today, John Decker, thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Thank you. Have a great day, am.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. President Trump
is planning to move forward with a major tear of
blitz on several countries, including allies. It's expected to drive
up the cost of groceries, electronics, and cars in the US.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
A new poll from the Associated Press shows Americans aren't
sold on the president's trade policies, sixty percent disapproving, with
thirty eight percent approving.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
ABC's Mary Bruce says on Trump's handling of the economy,
fifty eight percent disapprove, forty percent approve. Goldman Sachs has
raised its expectation that the US will enter a recession
in the next year to thirty five percent. Kfi's Brian
shuk says that's not the only concern expressed by the
financial firm's report.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
In a note two investors.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Goldman also lowered its GDP forecast and predicted a rise
in unemployment.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
The resident's mixed signals on tariffs sent stock markets on
another wild ride yesterday, with the down s ANDP finishing up.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
The NASDAK closed down. Trump has promised new tariffs to
be announced tomorrow. Five men accused of laundering money on
behalf of Mexico's Sinela cartel have been charged in a
pair of grand jury indictments unsealed in federal court in
San Diego, US Attorney's offices. The indictments were first returned
against the men in twenty twenty two. All of them
(13:12):
are still on the run. Four of the five have
also been sanctioned by the US for their alleged roles
in supporting the cartel's drug trafficking activities. Officials in Iceland
say a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of
the country. A nearby town and the Blue Lagoon SPA
have been evacuated. The community was largely evacuated a year
(13:33):
ago when the volcano came to life after lying dormant
for eight hundred years. Today, the magma flow was accompanied
by an intense earthquake storm similar to previous eruptions. Well,
that sounds like a fun place to be gall Lee.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
People could soon have the option of using an AI
doctor for health advice. ABC's Michelle frands And says Apple
is reportedly planning to bring an AI power doc to
its health app. There are reports that human doctors are
used to train the artificial intelligent agent that will act
as a physician and health coach and make recommendations. She says.
(14:08):
The revamped app is expected to be released next spring. Okay,
if you're going to the Dodger game tonight, it's oh
tany MVP Bobblehead Night. If you're not going, you can
still listen to all the action on AM five to
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(14:29):
The Dodgers are taking on the Braves. First pitch goes
out at five point thirty. You can also stream the
game in HD on the iHeartRadio app. Keyword AM five
seventy LA Sports. I'd like to get my hands on
one of those bobbleheads. The LA County Board of Supervisor
is going to vote today on whether to create its
own county run homeless services department. The vote comes as
the LA Homeless Services Authority continues to face criticism for
(14:53):
wasting money and not tracking where millions in funding has
been spent. A fire burning north of Bishop in central
California's grow to almost sixteen hundred acres. Firefighters continue to
be challenged by strong, gusty wins, but they were able
to stop the fire's forward progress and start drawing lines
around At the fires, forty seven percent surrounded. Evacuation orders
(15:14):
remain in place in parts of both Inyo and Mono Counties.
There will be no USC UCLA rematch or match up
in the Final four of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
USC's hopes of advancing to its first women's Final four
and almost forty years deflated with a seventy eight sixty
(15:35):
four loss to Connecticut last night in Spokane, Connecticut now
moves on to face UCLA in the women's Final four Friday.
At six oh five, It's handle on the news with
Neil Sevedra Corey Booker still talking. He hasn't stopped for
like thirteen hours. Tell you what that's all about. Right now,
Let's check in with ABC's Jim Ryan. So Jim two
(15:56):
weeks ago, Crew nine with Colonel Nick Haig, Russian cosmonaut,
and then Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
What have they been doing for the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 11 (16:07):
Getting used to gravity, getting used to food and seeing
their families and being on the ground essentially, you know,
So it's been kind of a reacting process. They've been
in quarantine essentially, mainly for their own protection because there's
a clean environment up there aboard the International Space Station.
They haven't been exposed to things like the common cold
(16:29):
or measles or anything else that's going around on this planet.
So they gradually reacclimate to the Earth's environment and the
potential threats that are out there. To that, they've also
been building up their physical endurance. Now. Sunny Williams did
two hours worth of exercise aboard the International Space Station
every day and has managed to maintain her conditioning. So
(16:53):
she said that she went on a three mile run
yesterday before giving the first interview that she had Wilmore
had given since they got back from the Issamy.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I would imagine that running after running in space, because
I've seen some of the video of her on the
space station. They've got her like sideways, just running away,
but they're strapped down to hold them down, so they
don't just float around. I would imagine running now just
feels like really heavy.
Speaker 11 (17:23):
Oh yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 11 (17:25):
But she did three miles, so she's kind of back
up to it now, she says. Sonny said that as
they were aboard the space station, they really didn't know
about all the love and support they were getting in
concern from people down here on Earth about this extended
stay they were going through on the ISS.
Speaker 7 (17:42):
I don't think we were aware to the degree, pretty
honored and humbled by the fact of when we came home, like, wow,
there's there are a lot of people who are interested,
very thankful, very amazed that we could hopefully be one
positive element to bring people together.
Speaker 11 (17:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
I love that. And I watched part of it because
it was on and I was on the air, and
so I wasn't able to pay attention to all of
what's going on. But they were talking about some of
the things that they missed while they were up in space.
Speaker 11 (18:13):
Yes, well, Sonny, the first thing she did for her
first meal, it wasn't lobster, it wasn't a trip to
the buffet. It was a grilled cheese sandwich. Just simple
things like that, you know, that you take for granted
here on Earth and when you're off in the International
Space Station. I don't know if they're eating Pillsbury space
food snacks or what exactly, but so they missed just
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those common little things like that.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know.
Speaker 11 (18:38):
The reason they were up there so long, of course,
is that the Boeing star Line of that took Williams
and Wilmore to the ISS had a technical issue. NASSA
brought it back down to Earth. It was fine, there
wasn't a problem with it, but in an abundance of caution,
it was brought back without the crew board. So who
gets the blame for all of this? Butch Wilmore, who
(18:58):
was the crew flight test chief, puts it this way.
Speaker 12 (19:02):
Responsibility with Boeing, yes, Responsibility with NASA yes.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
And he says that he, too, amy bears some responsibility.
He says that there are things that he should have
asked before they left, asked about this new Boeing Starliner
that he didn't ask, and so he takes some of
the blame for that too.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Imagine that taking responsibility. What a what a novel?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Idea.
Speaker 11 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Wow. So aside from the getting to see their families
and grilled cheese sandwiches and say that they were not
quite aware of how much support they were getting down here.
Did they have any other kind of revelations or anything
that they shared surprising things?
Speaker 11 (19:42):
Well, listening to during the news conference they took, there
was a phone bridge and so they were taking questions
from all over the place. An Indian reporter asked Sonny Williams,
who is of Indian descent, what it was like to
fly over India, and she talked and she had a
really great description of it. To the himalay Is on
one side, you could see them, you know, jutting up
(20:04):
off the planet, off the surface, and then this vast
flat expanse. And she could pick out cities at night
based on the lights, and pick out communities during the daytime.
And so that was kind of an interesting thing. You
know that they're up there as scientists, they're up there
doing these experiments and keeping the iss and repair, but
also in a way they're tourists. Wilmore took hundreds of
(20:26):
photographs while he was up there.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
That's so cool. What an amazing experience, And think about
when we got to talk to Colonel Haig, he was
like talking about just every once in a while he'd
take a break and just look out and see the
world and just go wow, you know, just like, oh,
inspiring is so cool? All right? How long are they
in quarantine?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Jim? Do we know?
Speaker 11 (20:47):
They've wrapped it up and they should be able to
go home now, home being you know, their homes in Houston.
They do all their training and work at Johnson Space Center.
They both said, you know, if we could go back
into space, we would do it again. But he is
sixty two, she's fifty nine. I think so their time
as actual astronauts might be an end, but I suspect
NASA we'll have jobs for them for the rest of
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their lives.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, if it's their last strip to space. They got
their money's worth.
Speaker 11 (21:13):
Right, two hundred and eighty six days worth.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Instead of eight. Yep, all right, ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks
so much for the information. We always appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Thanks Amy, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
A multimillion dollar jewelry heist has landed a man from
Long Beach in federal prison.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
The group of guys scouted and then robbed luxury jewels
in Beverly Hills three years ago. They got away with
two point seven million dollars in loot, but they left
lots of clues at the scene. The car they stole
to take them there, one of the guy's phones, and
then laddel Tharp posted photos of the stolen jewels on Instagram.
He pleaded guilty to his role in the crime back
in September. He was just sentenced to seven years in
(21:49):
federal prison. The others have already pleaded guilty. They've been
sentenced also for their roles in the heist. Michael Monks
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Legislation that would give home buying assistant to descends of
slaves in California's moving forward. The bill made it through
a committee, but there are concerns over whether it's legal
and who qualifies for it. The bill's author says it
would not be limited to just black Californians. Her grandson
is mixed race, and under the bill, he'd qualify. The
bill moves on to another committee next. A group of
(22:19):
mostly illegal immigrants has been rescued from a boat off
the coast of southern California.
Speaker 12 (22:23):
The US Coast Guard, along with a navy were able
to pluck seventeen migrants and one American from a vessel.
It happened Sunday morning. That boat, which officials say was
taking on water, was fifty miles off the coast of
San Diego.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Kay if Ice Phil Farars's. All eighteen people were transferred
to the custody of Homeland Security. The Hooter's restaurant chain
has filed for bankruptcy. ABC's Alex Stones's. The chains known
for wings, beer and friendly staff.
Speaker 10 (22:50):
CEO says a company will reinvent itself in what he
has called Rehooterization. They plan to get rid of the riskue,
male clientele, image and things like MKINI amid changing customer preferences.
They want to make Hooters and more family friendly restaurant.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
I love that Hooters closed forty restaurants last year as
it tried to improve its finances. Paris Hilton is helping
victims of the Eton fire. Her nonprofit has begun giving
out more than a million dollars in grants to women
owned small businesses impact by the Eton fire in Altadena.
The grand program is expected to provide twenty five thousand
(23:28):
dollars grants to about fifty recipients. Two schools in Anaheim
are taking steps to keep kids from vaping on campus.
Cyprus High School and Laara High School have installed vape
detectors in bathrooms and locker rooms. If the device detects
vape smoke, it'll alert school staff through an app. The
devices also monitor loud noises, which could help staff members
(23:51):
quickly respond to fights. The snowpack is pretty close to
where it needs to be for this time of year.
The California Department of Water Resources sy snow levels are
at ninety percent of normal. Recent storms have helped boost
water levels. The Sierra Nevada snowpack provides about a third
of the state's water on average at six o five.
It is handle on the news. Everything costs more in
(24:12):
La County starting today, and it has nothing to do
with Trump's tariffs plan. It again, because I love this thing.
Let's say good morning now to kfi's Rory O'Neill. Rory,
we thought it was just a movie, but the CIA
search for the Arc of the Covenant is real.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
It has been, and in fact, this is all because
of a New York Post story that got floated last week.
Speaker 5 (24:40):
It's kept the Internet on fire. This is not a hoax.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
But this is a report that was declassified in two
thousand talking about an event that happened back in nineteen
eighty eight when they were using remote viewers psychics to
try to find these mysterious objects. Now, in this report
from December fifth to nineteen eighty eight, one of these
so called psychics claims that they have sort of found
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the area where they could discover the arc of the Covenant.
It was described as a gilded box with some angels
on the top of it, and it was being kept
in a dark, damp, wet place. They talked about hearing
Arabic voices around it, seeing buildings with domes, and then
an energy field that was protecting this object of an
(25:29):
unknown origin.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Wow, okay, so the psychic said they saw it, but
then did anybody actually see it?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, that may be a different CIA report that hasn't
been declassified yet. But the psychic or the person who
was doing the remote viewing number thirty two, by the way,
didn't get much more specific than saying it was in
the Middle East, So.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Not a whole lot of help and that description.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
You know, let's be right part of the world at
least right sort of, but you know, there are some
tales of the Ark of the Covenant that could be
as far away as Ethiopia. It may have been destroyed
in some of the wars that were happening at the time.
It may have been buried somewhere, so a lot of
different folklore is out there. So much so they made
a movie about it in nineteen eighty one, I.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Know, one of the best movies ever.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Right, absolutely, although I think the third one is better
than the first one.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
But that's another one.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh, the one with his dad John Connick.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
That's a good movie.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
The second one was my least favorite.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
Absolutely, and then the new ones we don't really discuss.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well yeah, they kind of don't count a nice idea,
but anyway, okay, so here's a question for you, Rory.
So it was declassified in two thousand. This happened in
eighty eight or twelve years later. But why did it
pick ups seem just now? I mean, you said the
Washington Post people wrote an article about it, But what happened?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Yeah, the New York Post, And yeah it was the
most that they did the article. And I don't know
why they picked up on it last week of all weeks.
I think it was talking about the CIA and some
of the document sharing and stuff sort of half related
to the whole signal app business, the fact that the
CIA director was queued in on that group, and I
think it was some scrutiny there, But yeah, it certainly
(27:11):
has everyone talking again about the arc of the Covenant.
And I've been hearing that theme song now play every
day in my head, dozens of times a day.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
And we extended it because we were actually supposed to
talk to you earlier this week, but you weren't available,
so we just extended your Raiders of the Law, Stark,
So are there any is there any talk of looking
for this now that we've heard of?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Yeah, not particularly, but it is remarkable that this whole
remote viewing thing was being taken so seriously by the
CIA in the nineteen eighties. Again, the nineteen eighties, Ronald
Reagan was leaving the White House.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
He was a lame duck by the time this happened.
In December of that.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Year, George Bush, the first Bush President, was about to
come in and.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
Still we had remote viewer number thirty two.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Well that's what I was just saying. At number thirty two,
how many there?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, yeah, they didn't get any more specific about this
whole operation that they had been running.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
And that's also part of it.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean, was it just a phone call to a
nine hundred called a miss Cleo back in the day
that that qualify.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
As being remote viewer number two?
Speaker 2 (28:16):
But it's pretty remarkable the scope of this investigation and
what they would do is they would just sort of
give the psychic some basic requests of you know, we're
trying to find a special object, and then this is
what they came back with, this description of the gilded
box and its approximate size and how it was decorated
and where it might be.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Right, well, before we leave, this is what I'm going
to say. That great as the last art came out
in nineteen eighty one, right, yep, so nineteen eighty eight, and.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
She goes, oh, it's this bucks and it's in the
Middle East.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I mean, come on, she just watched the movie or.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
It could have been The Ten Commandments. Yeah, you know
it was December. Maybe they were showing that again. You know,
back when we watched TV movies, it was.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
All right, well we'll play this for you one more time.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Great, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Kfis worry O'Neil. Have a great day all right, Time
to get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Courtney.
Amazon is bringing back screening its warehouse workers because yeah,
they're stealing.
Speaker 13 (29:16):
Yes, good morning Amazon. Those metal detectors were going to
see them. They want to screen the workers leaving the warehouses.
So this theft prevention measure, it was suspended during the pandemic,
but here's a new measure that they're going to try
to implement. Sources are telling us here at Bloomberg that
Amazon's asking employees to register their personal phones so security
(29:40):
knows they aren't stolen. So the company's starting to inform
certain locations about this phone policy this week, but Amazon
aims to roll out both measures to all its facilities
sometimes throughout the year.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
How how much theft are we talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Did they did?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
They say, they didn't say how much. But for them
to bring this back, I'm sure this is a major
issue for them. They said in this phone registration issue
that employees are going to have to share the last
six digits of the serial number and then they're going
to receive a sticker to place on the device so
it lets security personnel knows it belongs to the worker,
(30:16):
and it will help to screen up the process, screen
the process, and we can move along a little bit safter.
Because there was an issue a couple of years ago
where there were a lot of log jams at the
facilities because workers complained that they were stuck in line
for as long as twenty five minutes without compensation, waiting
to be screened on their way out of the warehouse.
(30:38):
So this has been a pretty big point of contention
between Amazon and its hourly warehouse workers for a long time.
So this is it was stopped during the pandemic, and
now it seems to be these security lines are going
to be coming back.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Okay, well that's too bad, but I guess it's good
that they're going to cut down on theft.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
It's too bad that people are sealing from their players.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Tinder trying to win over gen z daters.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
What are they doing.
Speaker 13 (31:05):
Yes, they're rolling out a game where you flirt with
a chatbot. I don't know how I feel about that one.
But users can accumulate points for warmth and curiosity, receive
real time feedback on their responses, and ultimately win the
game if their AI character verbally agrees to a date,
so plays are limited to about five a day. You
(31:26):
can only play this five times, but Tinder says the
goal is to give users the space to build a
little more confidence before diving into those real conversations with
other daters. Okay, I go, I don't know about this one,
you know. I mean, I'm I'm a single lady. I
(31:47):
don't know how I would feel about playing a pretend game.
I mean, well, I mean your guys. I don't know. Well,
if it might make other guys a little bit better
communicating on the app, well then maybe in my work.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, So you flirt with the chatbot, you get this
great quote relationship, and then you meet the real person.
Speaker 13 (32:08):
You go, oh, exactly, It's like I thought it was
so good at this. Okay, they say it's going to
be it's fun and judgment free.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Nothing is judgment free, Courtney.
Speaker 14 (32:21):
Come on, I know, well that's what they say. I
did not say that. I'm just And they called the
chatbot the game game. They call the game game the
game game.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
When you're looking at the stock market game.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
What's going on with that today?
Speaker 13 (32:40):
So yeah, well, taking a look, we've been seeing a
lot of volatility overall, it's it's gripped the markets. Yesterday,
stocks are actually erased earlier losses and managed to finish
the day higher. So we're expected to maybe see the
same thing again today. Yesterday the down jump four hundred
and eighteen points. We have to keep the mind it's
the worst month and quarter for the S and P
(33:02):
since twenty twenty two. Now this morning, we are kicking
off April on a down note.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
But it was a switch.
Speaker 13 (33:08):
We were higher earlier, maybe about two hours ago. But
the confusion about whether the President's going to be leaning
or tough when it comes to tariffs is making a
lot of investors less willing to make those risky bets,
and stocks are definitely a risky bet. Down futures right
now are down two hundred and fifty points.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Tomorrow is going to be interesting when the tariffs actually
kick in, Oh, no doubt about it.
Speaker 13 (33:29):
And especially for the fact that we really don't know
what's in place. And again, what Wall Street does not
like is uncertainty, and we're getting a lot of uncertainty
every single day here.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Absolutely that's getting in your business.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
With Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe, Thanks so much, Courtney let's do
it again tomorrow.
Speaker 13 (33:46):
Shall we exactly see you later?
Speaker 1 (33:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Gas prices are getting closer to five dollars a gallon again.
The average price for regular unletted was up for the
tenth time in eleven days to just under four eighty
seven a gallon. Prices are up about twenty cents, actually
more than twenty cents in the last ten days, and
Orange County gas is just under forty five. The La
City Council plans to vote today on an ordinance that
would set up a right to Council program, providing legal
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defense to renters who were facing eviction. It would also
require landlords to inform tenants about their rights. The La
County Board of Supervisors approved a similar policy last year.
A missing painting of President George Washington's been recovered by
Colorado police. The painting is two hundred years old. It
was reported stolen in January of twenty twenty four. It
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was found in a hotel room in Denver. Police are
investigating the theft or just minutes away from Handle on
the news this morning. It is election day in Wisconsin
and Florida. While a lot of people around the US
are watching those closely. Let's say good morning now too.
The host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsgard, Joel,
Liberation Day is tomorrow. What is that going to mean?
Speaker 15 (34:56):
Oh yeah, that's like what everyone's this rush on everyone's
mind because we don't really know. The Liberation Day talk
has been kind of sort of specific but also intentionally vague,
and so I guess like the great unveiling will come
tomorrow and we'll all find out what thatck we're talking about.
But certainly it's going to mean increase tariffs on other
(35:19):
countries who the President feel that the President feels like
we don't have a reasonable trading balance with And so
I think what that means for consumers at the end
of the day is higher prices on certain goods, and
it means right now a lot of uncertainty for businesses.
And so it's been I would say it's been a
tough start to the year economically and on the macro perspective,
(35:42):
just because of the severe uncertainty in the fact that
businesses are just like, where's this going, and the lack
of clarity, which maybe we'll get more tomorrow has been
one of the toughest things the tariff part is tough,
but the uncertainty part is tougher.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Okay, So then and I guess these are questions that
we won't know because you just said we kind of
don't know until we know. But you know, like, are
they going to start passing those increases along immediately?
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Is there going to be some lag time?
Speaker 15 (36:11):
So typically I would say the lag time isn't long.
It's it's interesting because consumers have if you look at
the numbers, already said but we're looking down the line
and we're seeing the fact that prices are going to
go upon cars potentially significantly, and so I'm going to
go buy a new car. Now you and I have
talked about that, and how well if it wasn't already
(36:32):
on your plan, Like you don't want to go out
and buy a car just because prices are likely to
go up. But it's true, like consumers are changing behavior
and their front loading purchases because of the reality of
tariffs coming in, especially when they know in advance it's
not going to be long before because of the way
the supply chain works and the economy functions, it's not
(36:53):
going to be too long before we see rises and
prices on some of the things where tariffs are implemented,
and so the Yale budget predicts that if there are
like twenty percent broad based tariffs, the average household is
going to feel the pain between like three and four
thousand dollars in lost purchasing power per year.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
So that's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, I can add that on to the twenty percent
inflation we've seen in the last couple of years. That's
another just keep piling.
Speaker 15 (37:18):
On, right, And it's I think it's exactly the opposite
of what they were hoping for in a lot of
ways when they opted for President Trump at the ballot box.
Was hey, like, lower prices is a huge part of
the reason I'm going in this direction. And then lower
prices and tariffs, well, you just can't really utter them
in the same breadth because they're they're going in opposite directions. Again,
(37:41):
I think there are geopolitical reasons for certain specified tariffs,
but I think for the most part this is this
isn't great policy, at least from a consumer standpoint.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Okay, speaking of consumers and money and having it or not.
We have tax stage is two weeks away, although in
La County you do have the extension because of the fires.
It's everybody in La County has an extra six months,
So October fifteenth is the deadline. But that means that
probably fewer people have filed at this point.
Speaker 15 (38:18):
That's exactly because of natural disasters California and North Carolina
other parts of the South, when Hurricane Helene came through,
some people have extra time, and so the IRS did announce, Hey,
we're actually seeing we've had fewer filings so far than
we did last year. But I think that makes sense
because of the number of people overall who don't have
(38:40):
to file yet, who have essentially the ability to file
in October and not pay any sort of penalty, which
is great. If you don't live in La County, it's
time to get on it, right, You got two weeks left,
And I just want to say, like one of my
favorite places for people to consider filing their taxes, it's
cash app Taxes, and cash app is is typically like
a peer to peer payment service. They bought this service
(39:01):
from Credit Karma and it's the only legitimate free service
I know of for federal and state filing, and it's
pretty robust, like they do a pretty good job. So
that's one to consider, especially if you have a not
very complex tax return that you need to file. If
you have a very complex tax return, it's typically a
good idea to hire somebody to help you with that.
(39:23):
And just know that you're probably at this point, even
if you find somebody who says I'm willing to do
your taxes, you're likely filing extension if you don't live
in La County in order to in order to have
longer two file. That still doesn't mean that you don't
have to pay estimated taxes if you're going to owe money,
but you might still need to file extension anyway. You
(39:43):
might not be able to get it done in time
if you're finding someone else to help you with that
with your taxes.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Okay, Joel Larsgard, the host of How to Money every
Sunday from noon to two on CAFI, always such great
advice and we appreciate it. I hope you get a
big refund this year.
Speaker 15 (40:00):
Thanks you too.
Speaker 5 (40:00):
Hate me?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
All right, let's get back to some of the stories
coming out of the KFI twenty four hour news room.
A judge in New Mexico's denied the release of certain
court records. They show the bodies of Gene Hackman and
his wife, Betsy Arakawa. The couple's estate fought against making
the records public, which include an autopsy report. Hackman and
Arakawa died inside their home in February. Authorities announced last
(40:21):
month that Hackman died of heart disease with complications from Alzheimer's,
about a week after his wife died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
San Diego Republican Assemblyman Carl Demyo says a Democrat member's
response to his comments about Caesar Chavez were way out
of line.
Speaker 16 (40:37):
The Mayo was addressing the state Assembly on Friday when
he said Chavez opposed illegal immigration and supported a secure border.
He tells kfi's John Cobel. Democrat Cory Jackson lashed out
at those comments.
Speaker 13 (40:50):
I'm calling on the Democrats who run the show up
in Sacramento.
Speaker 12 (40:53):
Don't allow this sort of behavior.
Speaker 16 (40:55):
To Mayo, says, Jackson had to be restrained by Assembly security.
Deborah mark Ye Fine News.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
A sixty three year old woman in me and Maher,
has been rescued from the rubble of last week's Magnitude
seven point seven earthquake. Hope of finding more survivors is fading.
Experts say the likelihood of finding survivors drops dramatically after
seventy two hours. Officials say more than twenty seven hundred
people have died since the quake hit Friday, and that
number is expected to rise. The World Health Organization says
(41:25):
more than ten thousand buildings overall are known to have
collapsed or been severely damaged in central and northwest man Marm.
The earthquake also shook neighboring Thailand, causing a high rise
building under construction a collapse. Officials say a lot of
workers were buried in the rubble. Three bodies have been recovered,
dozens are still missing. Overall, there were twenty one people
(41:46):
killed and thirty four hurt in Bangkok, most of them
at the construction site. Onto more positive news, The Wiggle
Waggle Walk is coming up. We are like five days out.
It's the Wiggle Waggle Walk and run for passing. Danny
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Grab the dog's leash, don't forget the dog, and come
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And Run for Pasadena You Maine.
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