June 18, 2025 • 37 mins
Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to discuss 12 more Iranian missile sites being targeted by Israel. Amy talks with ABC News tech reporter Mike Dobuski about Meta creating a superintelligence lab & the Trump phone plan. On this week’s edition of ‘Amy’s on It’ she reviews Echo Valley starring Syndney Sweeney & Julianne Moore now streaming on Apple TV+. Courtney Donohoe from Bloomberg Media joins the show to give insight into business and Wall Street. The show closes with Amy talking to Michael Gertz about Jazz music students from Agoura High School wanting to help replace instruments lost to music students during the Eaton Fire. They are planning a fundraiser at the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas on June 18 where 100% ticket proceeds are going directly to the Pasadena School District.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty wake Up Call
with Me Amy King on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, good morning. This is your wake up call for Wednesday,
June eighteenth. It's five o'clock straight up. I'm Amy King.
Time to get up, get going. Lots of big stuff
planned again today. One of not remind you, but want
to let you know that we had Colonel Haig in yesterday.
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NASA Astronaut Space Force guardian came and visit us at
the studio and then went to the Dodger game last night.
Throughout the first pitch, his son was a little nervous
about it. It was perfect. It was, of course perfect,
he did. It's so good, I know, right, So I'm
going to probably post that on my Instagram at Amy
Kay King. We also have part of the interview from
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our time with Colonel Haig yesterday, and you can also
listen to Bill Handle's interview with Colonel Haig because he
was on with Bill at seven o'clock. But such a
treat and he signed some pictures his official astronaut picture
for us, and so we're going to give you a
chance to win some So that's coming up this hour
as well. If you'd like an autographed picture of Colonel
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Nick Haig, here's what's ahead on wake up Call. For
the first time this week, there was no overnight curfew
in downtown La Mayor Bass announced that the order was
being lifted yesterday afternoon. She said though if there is
more violence or looting, the curfew could be reinstated. Homeowners
have sued the state's largest insurance company, claiming that State
Farm under insured them. The lawsuit says State Farm used
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faulty tools to estimate the cost of rebuilding, which allowed
the company to sell lower value policies that cost costs less,
but that misled them about their coverage, and homeowners say
they've been left with coverage limits that don't cover the
cost of rebuilding. Israeli warpay planes have pounded in Iran's
capital overnight and into Wednesday, as Iran launched a small
(02:17):
barrage of missiles at Israel, with no reports of any casualties.
We're going to find out the latest with ABC's Jordana
Miller in Jerusalem, who's hopefully not in a bomb shelter
right now, we're talking to her. In about three minutes.
Metta is going all in to get super smart and
a big, beautiful phone. What else could it be but
a Trump phone. ABC's Mike Dubuski joins us to tell
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us more about Trump Mobile. Amy's on it. A new
Julianne Moore movie. This woman gets into it deep, the
links a mother will go to for her child and
the stupid things she will also do. Really interesting show
that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. And
then a group of kids has gathered together to help
kids affected by the Eton fire rise from the ashes.
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It's a really special concert. It's happening tonight. They're raising
money to buy new instruments for students who lost theirs
in the fire. And that's so cool. That's coming up
at five point fifty. We'll tell you all about that.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The la keunny
DA and the US Attorney have announced war arrests and
charges against people allegedly involved in the recent anti ice protests.
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These weren't peaceful protesters.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
They weren't holding up signs expressing a political message.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
They were agitators.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
People came to do violence.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
US Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Assale,
says his office has charged dozens of people with felony
crimes since the protests began on June sixth. DA Hawkman's
office has filed state charges against thirty people. Some are
facing both state and federal charges. News brought to you
by Sit and Sleep. Businesses in downtown have started to
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reopen now they're just waiting on customers.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
There's a restaurant here in Little Tokyo that has a
handwritten sign that says open, immigrant own, and that sign
is attached to the boards that are protecting the door.
Without that sign, you might otherwise not know that it
is open. That you have a couple of other cheeky
signs saying please no destroy, support immigration, not enough insurance.
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It's kind of the vibe down here. There are businesses
that are open, it's difficult to tell sometimes because of
the plywood that's been attached to the windows to protect them.
Reporting in downtown La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The biggest lottery jackpot winner in history is keeping his
money close to home.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Edwin Castro's two dollars lottery ticket was the only winner
for the more than two billion dollar jackpot in twenty
twenty two. He ended up with about six hundred twenty
nine million dollars have to take in the lump sum
and taxes. With that, he's been buying real estate, including
a four million dollar home in his hometown, Alta Dina,
and a nearly four million dollar home in Malibu, which
was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades Fire in January. La
County property records shows since the fires, Castro has bought
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at least a dozen homes in the Alta Dina area
at prices between five hundred and thirty thousand and nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for a total of just
under nine million bucks. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Keeping it close. I like that, Okay, we're waiting to
connect with ABC's Jordona Miller. She'll be calling us from Jerusalem.
Of course, things are very dicey at times there, so
we don't know. She might have been into a bomb
shelter or something like that if Iran has launched more missiles.
But we'll wait for her, and in the meantime, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
(05:30):
the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Oh, we have her,
so let's go right to her. ABC's jerdonnah Miller in Jerusalem,
Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire, with Israel continuing
its attacks on military nuclear development sites in Iran firing
in civilian areas. How are things going this morning.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Well, overnight, the Iranians fired two waves of ballistic ballistic
missile strikes on Israel around twelve thirty local and one am.
Those about thirty missiles were fired, according to the Israeli Army,
and thankfully no one was really hurt, a few running
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to their bomb shelters, but no major injuries and no fatalities. Again,
most of those missiles were shot down, but a few
did crash down around the central Tel Aviv area and
from what we understand, around the complex near the complex
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of some Israeli military defense and buildings. And that's not
the first time that that has happened. And on the
Israeli side, we heard from the spokesman of the Israeli
Army a short while ago that the Israelis have carried
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out in ten strikes overnight on ten Iran, hitting not
only factories that make most of missiles, but also centrifuges,
and the IAEA appears to confirm that Israel has destroyed
some centrifuge factories in the Tehran area in their reporting
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on the events. And of course, the big headline here
really and what has preoccupied israelis not only officials but
the public is the question of whether President Trump will
join Israel's war against Iran's nuclear ambitions or not.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, And while we wait for that information, I mean,
Israel is just kind of keeping on its same tack
and knowing that the big thing, at least from what
I've been hearing, Jordana, and tell me if I'm wrong,
is that we can't or Israel can't get that main
nuclear development site because it's down too deep. They need
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like a bunker buster bomb and Israel doesn't have.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Them, right, Israel doesn't have them and they don't have
the aircraft to carry them. So the Israelis can do
some damage to for Dow. That's the nuclear facility that
Israel hasn't touched yet. It's buried deep inside mountain and
Quom and it was you know, it was built there
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of course to protect it from aerial strikes. So the
Israelis can do some damage to that facility, but they
can't really deal a fatal blow to that facility without
the help of the United States. That is from everything
we know now. Do the Israelis potentially have something up
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their sleeve that they are going to unleash on before
Dow that we don't know about. It's entirely possible, but
the conventional wisdom is that to really strike like that facility,
Israel would need the United States. And Israel has been
at least in these opening days, quite successful in keeping
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Iran in a state of kind of shock and awe
and establishing a degree of superiority from the skies, and
they're able to get in and out of Iran safely, right,
So this is a this is a major achievement, and
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because they've been so successful, it appears that it has
now created this kind of ripe moment where if the
United States decides to join in, you know, it could
be a decisive blow to Iran's nuclear ambitions, which is
you know, the aim of this operation according to the Israelis, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And of course, President Trump continues to say Iran cannot
have a nuclear weapons, so we're gonna have to wait
and see what happens if the US joins in or
Israel does it on their own. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem,
thank you so much for the information. As always, Stay safe, Okay,
thanks talk soon, all right, And we're just we're also
hearing word this morning that leader Komayne is saying that
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if the US does join up with Israel, it's going
to cause irreparable harm. He said it could cause all
out war. So we don't know if that's saber rattling,
if Iran has something up at sleeve. So we're just
going to have to wait and see. And as I
was listening to Gary and Shannon yesterday, they were saying
that they think something's going to happen soon, and it
sounds like things are kind of heating up or moving
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our assets into place in the Middle East, our military
and that kind of stuff in a defensive posture. So
we shall see. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
New figures show up to a million illegal immigrants have
left the US since President Trump started his second term.
Census data shows they've been dropping out of the workforce
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at a high rate. Art Arthur from the Center for
Immigration Studies tells kfi's John Cobalt it's about one hundred
ninety thousand people per month.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
ICE admit that it's deported about just over two hundred
thousand people. Those other people had to gone somewhere, and
they went home.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He says, most illegal immigrants who come to the US
end up working blue collar jobs. At least one member
of Congress has canceled a scheduled town hall after learning
that their name was included on the hit list of
an accused killer in Minnesota.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Authority say fifty seven year old Vans volt Or had
a hit list of at least forty five state and
federal elected officials, most or all Democrats.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
ABC's Faith Abu bass Hiss. Members of Congress want the
divisive political rhetoric on all sides to be toned down.
A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were shot and
killed over the weekend. A state senator and his wife
were also shot, but they survived. Americans have been warned
not to travel to Iran under any circumstances. The warning
comes mid reports at the White House is considering an
(12:02):
offensive strike against Iran. State Department spokesperson Tammy bursas the
department's working to help US citizens in the Middle East
stay informed as tensions escalate. Civil aviation officials in India
have met with Air India officials to go over the
airline's operations following a crash that killed more than two
hundred and forty people.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Following the inspections of the airline's Boeing seven to eighty
seven fleet, no major safety concerns were found. The aircraft
and associated maintenance systems were found to be compliant with
existing safety.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Standards ABC's and As Delacataire says it's still not known
what caused the crash last week. One man survived. The
Food and Drug Administration says it'll offer faster drug reviews
to some companies.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
The FDA says the sped up process will go to
those companies that align with Trump administration priorities for Americans' health.
The new program aims to review select drugs in just
one to two months. The FDA already has a variety
of programs designed to speed up drug reviews, but they
all have fairly strict medical criteria, debor Mark Kafi.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
News celebrity chef Anne Burrell has died. TMC says she
was found unresponsive in her home yesterday in Brooklyn, New York,
and paramedics couldn't revive her. Burrell, with her signature bleached blonde,
spiky hair, was best known for her appearances on the
Food Network. She was fifty five years old. Tom Cruise
and Dolly Parton will be honored by the Academy of
(13:25):
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year's Governor's Awards. Cruz
is going to get an Honorary Oscar for what the
Academy calls his incredible commitment to our filmmaking community, to
the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community. Of course,
he does its own stunts. Parton is getting the Gene
Herschalt Humanitarian Award. The board says the country music legend
exemplifies the spirit of the award with unwavering dedication to
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charitable efforts. She does so much. The sixteenth annual Governor's
Awards will be held in November in LA. The Trump
administration has activated another two thousand California National Guard troops
to send to LA as immigration enforcement efforts in the
area continue. The troops are stationed in northern California. Governor
Newsom's office criticized the announcement yesterday. The governor has requested
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a six month delay in the implementation of a new law,
which requires large employer health plans to cover in vitro
fertilization and infertility treatments. If no change is made, the
law will start on July first. Carson's been declared a
fireworks free zone ahead of the fourth of July. Violators
face finds up to five thousand dollars. People who report
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illegal fireworks can earn rewards up to five hundred dollars.
At six oh five tandle on the news, he's gonna
be taking a look at all the hot topics for
the day. Right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's
tech reporter. It's Mike Debusky. Morning, Mike, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
How are you good.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So Meta is making moves to make itself really really smart.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Meta is investing in what's called a super intelligence lab,
and they are making this major investment more than fourteen
billion dollars in this company called Scale AI in order
to do that So what Scale AI is is they
are a human verified AI research firm. Essentially, they're a
picks and shovels company. They're a company that gives the
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larger large language models, right the Googles and the open
Ayes of the world, the material they need to train
their chatbots and AI systems. So they're kind of behind
the scenes, but they're really important in the AI space.
Meta is making a more than fourteen billion dollar investment
in this company. They are making a forty nine percent
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acquisition stake in this company, and they're getting their CEO
in the process, a guy named Alexander Wang, to head
up this new super intelligence lab with the goal of
creating technology that they say will be smarter than the
human brain, that will go beyond the capabilities of what
we can do as humans and usher in this new
era of technology. Amy. I can already tell that your
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eyebrow is raising, but there is reason to be skeptical here.
But that is what they say they are doing, and
Meta seems very committed to the idea because fourteen billion
dollars is nothing to sneeze at.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Okay, So, Mike, is is it to catch up to
like open AI or is it to go beyond.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Them both essentially. So Meta has found itself sort of
behind in the AI race right Their large latest large
language model, it's known as LAMA four, kind of you know,
failed to meet expectations. It doesn't do quite as well
on some of the tests that we subject these large
language models to. And Open AI and and some others
out there Anthropic Google are kind of at the head
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of this, and Meta doesn't want to be left behind
because they see this as again kind of the next
turn of the screw, the next evolution in the world
of technology, and they think that scale AI are the
kind of guys to help do this. So that is
part of this. There are again some reasons to be
skeptical of this idea of a superintelligence that's gonna you know,
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change our lives and let us all go on vacation
and you know, computers handle things. For example, Apple recently
put out a reportant Apple itself is very much in
the AI race that found that the current cutting edge
of large language models, known as large reasoning models, have
quote fundamental limitations that they're not quite as smart as
we think they are, that they're not really reasoning in
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the way that our human brains do. Reports from Arizona
State University and others sort of back that claim up.
Even still, this is a hot topic in Silicon Valley,
with Sam Altman, who's the CEO of Open Ai, telling
President Trump recently that they are going to achieve this
super intelligent computer that matches or surpasses the capabilities of
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the human brain by the end of his term. Dario Amiday,
who's the head of Anthropics, said that we could see
major disruptions from this type of technology in the next
two to three years.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Okay, so it's exciting and scary al at the same time. Okay,
so cool job. Yeah, let's talk about this big, beautiful phone.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So on Monday here in New York City, the Trump
Organization announced that they are making a major move into
the world of telecom. They are announcing Trump Mobile, which
is what's known as an mv and O, a mobile
virtual network operator, which is essentially a small cell phone
provider that kind of piggybacks off the networks of the
larger providers.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So it's like Mint Mobile, It's.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Exactly like Mick Mobile. These two companies are going to
compete with one another. Cricket Wireless is another one that
is in this space. And as part of this, despite
the fact that they say Trump Mobile will work with
pretty much any modern smartphone, they are launching their own
proprietary device. It's called the T one. Technically its full
name is the T one eight thousand and two Gold version,
and that name is not a missover. It is gold.
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It is trimmed in gold leaf for or some sort
of gold.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Effect it has to be if it's tied to Trump,
oh of course.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And it has a big T on the bag an
American flag as you would expect, and it appears to
be a pretty standard Android device. They are saying that
this is going to go for about five hundred dollars
and that you know, runs Android fifteen. It has a
six point eight inch screen, one hundred and twenty hertz
for fresh rate, what you would kind of expect from
a phone at that price point in the Android ecosystem.
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But once you dive a little deeper into the specs
that we have on the website, which is pretty much
all we have on this phone, no one's really gotten
a chance to play around with it, it gets a
little confusing. Under the storage section, they say that it
has twelve gigabytes of RAM, and RAM and storage are
two different things. There's no information about a processor, and
a processor is pretty important to the world of smartphones
and up until recently, on the website, they claimed it
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had a five thousand milliamp hour camera, but milliamp hours
are used to describe batteries, so there were some typos
on the website, it seems like. And the photo that
they have, again the only photo that we have of
this device, appears to be a rendering, a computer generated
image or some sort of photoshopped deal. Because it has
a three camera array. It looks sort of like an
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iPhone trimmed in gold, but there's no flash on that
camera array, which is what you would expect to see
on something like that. So maybe reason for pause if
you're thinking about purchasing a t one, but you still
can put down one hundred dollars deposit if none of
that is enough to dissuade you.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Do we have any idea of a timeframe, like when
they're going to launch the service and start telling the phones.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So on the website it says coming soon. There's also
other reporting out there that says that it could be
as soon as the fall. But a real wrench in
all this, Amy, is that the Trump organization says they
plan to build this phone in the United States. There
is no major smartphone that is built in the United States.
We don't really have an infrastructure to do it. And
that would mean that, you know, if they are serious
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about this, they would have to spin up a factory,
they would have to hire workers, they would have to
train workers. We don't train workers to build smartphones here,
set up supply chains and suppliers and what have you.
It would be really a monumental task that we have
not seen undertaken in the United States. And at five
hundred dollars, that is I think a big reason for
skepticism because, especially within that timeframe, that's that's kind of unrealistic.
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So it is possible that they're going to import a
phone from elsewhere, but also that would run counter to
the Trump organizations kind.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Of made in America thing.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Attempt to get yeah, manufacturing back to America. But we'll
just have to wait and see.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
All Right, ABC's tech reporter Mike Debuski, thanks so much,
of course, Amy too. All Right, Tucson and off duty
LA Kenny Sheriff's deputy has been killed in a crash
on the one to one freeway in Studio City. Thirty
one year old Marcos Pana Junior was a passenger in
a ride share car that was involved in a crash
near the one seventy and one thirty four interchange yesterday.
That was a crash that Will was telling you about
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all morning. Another passenger in the car was also killed.
A man in Santa Monica has been arrested for allegedly
trying to sexually assault an eighty four year old woman.
Police say she was grabbed June fifth and dragged into
an alley near sixth Street and Wilshire Boulevard. People heard
screaming and called for help. The man named Pope Tall
was arrested nearby. He's facing charges that include kidnapping, an
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assault with attempt to commit rape, and also a probation violation.
A former receptionist to music and dance school in her
Mosa Beach has been arrested for allegedly putting cameras in
several bathrooms at the school. Jordan Godoa is facing several charges,
including invasion of privacy and possession of child pornography. Law
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enforcement in California is warning about fake parking tickets.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
In Santa Cruz. Fake tickets are now showing up for
the third summer in a row. Fake tickets were recently
placed on cars near beaches. Police advised checking any ticket
details carefully. The scams often include QR codes on the
tickets that lead to fake payment websites. It's unclear how
many fake tickets have been issued or how many people
have been tricked into paying. Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
KFI News oh that Security Secretary Christy Nome has been
taken to the hospital in Washington, DC. ABC's Kana Whitworth
says it turned out to be just as a precaution.
She suffered an allergic reaction, adding that she was brought
to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. That
she is alert and recovering. She says Gnome is not
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expected to be in the hospital for law. Hey, the
Dodgers beat the Padres a to six last night at
Dodger Stadium. We'll try to make it three in a
row when the Dodgers take on the Padres at Dodger
Stadium again tonight. First pitch goes out at seven o'clock.
You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM
five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games
on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports,
(23:20):
Asahi super Dry, discover Japan's number one selling beer at
your favorite part or grocer. Who will have control of
California's National Guard remains up in the air. Governor Newsom
Scissors should be him. President Trump, who federalized troops to
protect federal buildings and ice agents around La, says he
has the authority. The ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
heard arguments in the case yesterday and is expected to
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make a decision this week. President Trump may be considering
an offensive strike against Iraq. The President met with his
national security team yesterday and also called for Iran's unconditional surrender.
Israel has already dealt a significant blow to Iran's nuclear program,
but doesn't have the weapons to take out sites buried
in the mountains the US does. You'll be seeing more
(24:04):
way mos around LA. I should say you'll be seeing
way more way moos around La. The autonomous ride hailing
service is expanding starting today into Plya, del Ray, Ladera Heights,
Echo Park, Silver Lake and along Sunset Boulevard. Weymos will
also be taking writers from mid City to Inglewood and Westchester.
It'll now be operating in more than one hundred and
(24:25):
twenty square miles of La County.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Aami's on it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
AM's on it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What am I? I'm on the stream because there's always
new movies and TV shows and I love a good binge. Actually,
this one I didn't even have to binge because it
was a movie, so it was just, you know, just
like Under two Hours just dropped on Apple TV. It's
trending now, right behind Stick, which we're going to talk
about another time. But it is a movie again, so
it's not a whole show. It stars Julianne Moore. It's
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called Echo Valley. So she is she owns a farm
or a ranch. It's a ranch more than a farm,
and she's got horses and she gives riding lessons and stuff.
But she's devastated because she recently lost her partner, so
she's super depressed. And then she's got this daughter played
by Sidney Sweeney, who's a drug addict and is incredibly manipulative.
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But Sidney Sweeney, you might know from anyone but you
and White Lotus. I was like, well, where do I
place her? Anyway? So the movie kind of dips a
toe into addiction, but it really focuses more on the
way the mother reacts to her daughter's addiction and the
lengths that she's going to go to to protect her
baby girl. And it's kind of heartbreaking from the get
(25:47):
go because you see how Kate or Julianne Moore is
being manipulated by her daughter, and she tries harder and
harder to keep that relationship with her daughter. She falls
deeper and deeper into a bad place, and I don't
want to tell you anymore, but you just go, boy, Kate,
You're making stupid decisions. So it's really interesting to watch.
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I don't think it got a great Rotten Tomatoes score,
but that generally means I'm gonna like it. So it's
kind of cringe worthy at times, but there's some really
good twists and turns, and I say it's a good ride.
Although without telling you anything, the ending feels more like
a cliffhanger than the end of a movie. So that
was a little bit weird, But I'm on it, and
if you find yourself on the couch. I think you
should be on it too. It's Echo Valley on Apple
(26:29):
TV just dropped to very recently, so it's brand new.
Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney,
good morning. Okay. So pharmaceutical ads I hate them, You
hate them, and maybe President Trump hates them too.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Well, it's a background of our lives. I mean, pharma
ads seem to be everywhere. You know, we all know
this one, donn It is really some a little pell
with a big story.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I even caught my kid humming this one. Oh yeah.
So the trumpet industry the favorite songs.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
I love that it exactly, and it's everywhere, all of them.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I mean, you could go through a list of different
ones every single day.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
But the Trump administration is said to be discussing policies
that would make it harder and more expensive for pharma
companies to advertise directly to patients. Banning pharma ads outright
could make the administration vulnerable lawsuits. So they said, we're
going to go in a different direction. This is what
our sources are telling us. They're focusing on cutting down
the number by adding all these legal and financial hurdles.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
By the way, pharma is the third highest spending industry
for TV ads.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
I actually thought it'd be number one, but apparently it's
a little more down the line.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And I've heard that the doctors hate it because then
people go, hey, I want to try this one, even
though it doesn't necessarily fit with their condition.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Yeah, an RFK junior has said this is the reason
why the United States spends as much as it does
on drugs compared to other countries. You know, we are
the only other country besides New Zealand that allows advertising
television advertising for pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
One hundred and eighty countries to allow it. Interesting, Okay,
we don't care about high prices when it comes to
our morning jolt, oh exactly.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
And this report, by the way, a sponsor by Fidelity
Wealth Management, coffee fanatics are drinking the most high end
java in fifteen years. More than forty five percent of
Americans drank a cup of specialty coffee in the past day.
That's according to the National and Coffee Association. That includes lattes,
frozen drinks, cold brew, any other beverage made with premium beans.
But people are still spending on these fancier drinks, even
(28:49):
as a price of coffee hit a record in February. However,
I do want to point out that coffee futures are
down about twenty percent since that peak. The production forecast
has gotten a little bit better out of the top grower,
which is Brazil.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's improved recently. Okay, And speaking of things looking a
little bit better, markets are looking a little better today.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Yes, a little better than yesterday. See yesterday week economic data.
Wait on stocks. We had retail sales that felt for
a second straight month in May. Industrial production also declined,
but that retail sales number kind of an indication that
people are pulling back on their spending in light of tariffs.
So the Dow fell two hundred and ninety nine points.
Now this morning, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve.
(29:29):
The Central Bank's policy decision is out this afternoon. Officials
are expected to keep interest rates on hold. To be
on the lookout for that. But we do also have
a focus on whether the US is planning to get
directly involved in the Middle East conflict. Right now, we're
seeing just light moves higher. Dow futures are up twenty
five points all.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Right, get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Let's see you later, all right.
La Counties DA's announced more charges against anti ice protesters.
Nathan Hockmins says those charged to include people who attacked
police through fireworks at them, spit on them, and set
patrol cars on fire. A hospitality union is pushing to
expand Elly's upcoming thirty dollars an hour minimum wage for
(30:10):
hotel and airport workers to include all industries across the city,
and the studio that has been the TV home of
shoes shows like All in the Family, Dancing In with
the Stars, and The Price Is Right is evolving. The
historic Television City Studio Complex has announced a partnership to
offer boutique production space to social media influencers and digital creators.
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Let's say good morning now to Michael gertz Is with
the with the Benefit concert Out of the Ashes. Michael,
good morning, thanks for joining us this morning.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Hey, good morning, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Okay, So Michael, this I love this because we we
a lot of times we see kind of the worst
of the worst and see kids misbehaving, but sometimes kids
rise to the occasion, and the at a Gora Hills
certainly did. They're showing that they are the best of
the best. Tell us about what out of the ashes is.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yeah, So, you know, this is an idea that really
came out of a conversation with a few parents and
some band kids from a girl high school who two
years ago had formed a jazz band that was going
around and playing at local senior centers and nursing homes
(31:30):
and really just you know, just really for the love
of music and sharing it with the community. After the
LA fires, a few of them came to your parents
and said, why don't we try and do something to
help the music programs for some of these other high
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schools whose music programs don't exist anymore. They were burned
down and they lost instruments, and they don't have a
place to practice, and they really don't have, you know,
much support. And we thought, wow, this is a fantastic idea.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I don't know how we're going.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
To pull this off, but let's let's sit down, let's meet,
and let's see if we can bring on some partners
that can help us make this happen. And you know
that was only four months ago, and fortunately we met
up with two major partners. One was the Pasadena Educational Foundation,
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which is at five o' one C. Three that's already
exists to be able to fund arts and music programs
in the areas affected by the Eaton fire, and they've
partnered with us to you know, help collect funds. And
then the Sagebrush canteena a local restaurant venue, came along
(32:58):
and donated this space so that we could set up
a benefit concert there.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
And that benefit concert is tonight.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
And that benefit concert is tonight. There will be over
fifty musicians participating, four bands, and the venue holds up
to five hundred people. So we're really hoping to generate
quite a bit of funds and donations to help support
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music programs that were affected by the public schools and
the Eaton fires.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay, and then all of the money, Michael, that's raised
from the admission to the concert tonight or the donation
to the concert tonight is going right to the kids
and instruments and that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Correct, It is going directly to support the music programs
in public high schools in the Pasadena school districts.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Are you so proud? Of the kids who are coming
up with this and saying, hey, we want to help.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I am completely flabbergasted and really just humbled to be
a part of a part of it, and humbled to
know these kids.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
They're they're pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, okay, so what can you say to our wake
up call listeners that's going to make them get out
of their homes on a Wednesday night and come see
a show.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Well, look, it's going to be a beautiful night. There's
plenty of seating. It's five hundred five hundred seats, it's outdoors,
it's going to be shaded.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
There's four bands.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
You can come down, grab a burrito and a margarita.
Obviously drink responsibly, but come down and enjoy a night
of music from thirty five pm to nine thirty pm
at the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas and you'll have a
great time and you'll be doing a great thing for
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the community.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I love it. Michael Gertz, thank you so much for
the time this morning. I hope your event tonight is
wildly successful. Again. It's tonight at the Sagebrush Cantina two
three five two seven, Calabasas Road in Calabasas. It's called
out of the ashes, and it's supporting music programs. It's
going to buy instruments for kids who lost them in
the fires. Who could ask for anything more than that.
(35:10):
That's great, Thank you so much, Michael, appreciate it all right,
isn't that great? I love her when kids do good things.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Customers have been
slow to return to businesses in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
When the anti ice protests turned violent and when criminals
looted stores, businesses here started to close or at least
add protective wooden boards to windows and doors, and a
few calm nights later, business is not as usual. This
man was one of the few eating outside in the
fashion district.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's sad, you know, because there's still out here, but
they still don't make no money off he says.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Many customers are staying away still, not because of the demonstrations,
but because of what inspired them, the federal immigration enforcement
efforts in downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
A man suspected of driving to a crowd of protesters
in Riverside seriously injuring. One of them has been arrested,
along with a woman suspected of helping him get rid
of the evidence. She allegedly took the car to the
High Desert. The driver was in an suv Saturday when
he encountered marchers taking part in one of the many
No King's rallies. Video shows he floored his suv when
(36:18):
the protesters started hitting the car. A young woman who
couldn't jump out of the way got run over. Kraft
Heine says it's pulling artificial dies from its products.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
The company says starting in twenty twenty seven, it will
also no longer roll out new products with the dyes.
The move comes nearly two months after US health officials
said that they would urge food makers to phase out
petroleum based artificial colors in the nation's food supply. The
company said in a release that about ten percent of
its items in the US use FD and C colors,
(36:48):
the synthetic additives that make many foods more visually appealing.
Depor Mark KOFFI News brown ketchup.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You know what if it tastes the same, I'm down exactly,
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
This is KFI and KOSTHD two, Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up call. If you missed
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:15):
It's time for your morning wake up call.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here's Amy King.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, good morning. This is your wake up call for Wednesday,
June eighteenth. It's five o'clock straight up. I'm Amy King.
Time to get up, get going. Lots of big stuff
planned again today. One of not remind you, but want
to let you know that we had Colonel Haig in yesterday.
(00:47):
NASA Astronaut Space Force guardian came and visit us at
the studio and then went to the Dodger game last night.
Throughout the first pitch, his son was a little nervous
about it. It was perfect. It was, of course perfect,
he did. It's so good, I know, right, So I'm
going to probably post that on my Instagram at Amy
Kay King. We also have part of the interview from
(01:09):
our time with Colonel Haig yesterday, and you can also
listen to Bill Handle's interview with Colonel Haig because he
was on with Bill at seven o'clock. But such a
treat and he signed some pictures his official astronaut picture
for us, and so we're going to give you a
chance to win some So that's coming up this hour
as well. If you'd like an autographed picture of Colonel
(01:29):
Nick Haig, here's what's ahead on wake up Call. For
the first time this week, there was no overnight curfew
in downtown La Mayor Bass announced that the order was
being lifted yesterday afternoon. She said though if there is
more violence or looting, the curfew could be reinstated. Homeowners
have sued the state's largest insurance company, claiming that State
Farm under insured them. The lawsuit says State Farm used
(01:53):
faulty tools to estimate the cost of rebuilding, which allowed
the company to sell lower value policies that cost costs less,
but that misled them about their coverage, and homeowners say
they've been left with coverage limits that don't cover the
cost of rebuilding. Israeli warpay planes have pounded in Iran's
capital overnight and into Wednesday, as Iran launched a small
(02:17):
barrage of missiles at Israel, with no reports of any casualties.
We're going to find out the latest with ABC's Jordana
Miller in Jerusalem, who's hopefully not in a bomb shelter
right now, we're talking to her. In about three minutes.
Metta is going all in to get super smart and
a big, beautiful phone. What else could it be but
a Trump phone. ABC's Mike Dubuski joins us to tell
(02:38):
us more about Trump Mobile. Amy's on it. A new
Julianne Moore movie. This woman gets into it deep, the
links a mother will go to for her child and
the stupid things she will also do. Really interesting show
that's coming up at the bottom of the hour. And
then a group of kids has gathered together to help
kids affected by the Eton fire rise from the ashes.
(03:00):
It's a really special concert. It's happening tonight. They're raising
money to buy new instruments for students who lost theirs
in the fire. And that's so cool. That's coming up
at five point fifty. We'll tell you all about that.
Let's get started with some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. The la keunny
DA and the US Attorney have announced war arrests and
charges against people allegedly involved in the recent anti ice protests.
(03:24):
These weren't peaceful protesters.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
They weren't holding up signs expressing a political message.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
They were agitators.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
People came to do violence.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
US Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Assale,
says his office has charged dozens of people with felony
crimes since the protests began on June sixth. DA Hawkman's
office has filed state charges against thirty people. Some are
facing both state and federal charges. News brought to you
by Sit and Sleep. Businesses in downtown have started to
(03:55):
reopen now they're just waiting on customers.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
There's a restaurant here in Little Tokyo that has a
handwritten sign that says open, immigrant own, and that sign
is attached to the boards that are protecting the door.
Without that sign, you might otherwise not know that it
is open. That you have a couple of other cheeky
signs saying please no destroy, support immigration, not enough insurance.
(04:18):
It's kind of the vibe down here. There are businesses
that are open, it's difficult to tell sometimes because of
the plywood that's been attached to the windows to protect them.
Reporting in downtown La Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
The biggest lottery jackpot winner in history is keeping his
money close to home.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Edwin Castro's two dollars lottery ticket was the only winner
for the more than two billion dollar jackpot in twenty
twenty two. He ended up with about six hundred twenty
nine million dollars have to take in the lump sum
and taxes. With that, he's been buying real estate, including
a four million dollar home in his hometown, Alta Dina,
and a nearly four million dollar home in Malibu, which
was destroyed in the Pacific Palisades Fire in January. La
County property records shows since the fires, Castro has bought
(04:57):
at least a dozen homes in the Alta Dina area
at prices between five hundred and thirty thousand and nine
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for a total of just
under nine million bucks. Michael Krozer KFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Keeping it close. I like that, Okay, we're waiting to
connect with ABC's Jordona Miller. She'll be calling us from Jerusalem.
Of course, things are very dicey at times there, so
we don't know. She might have been into a bomb
shelter or something like that if Iran has launched more missiles.
But we'll wait for her, and in the meantime, let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of
(05:30):
the CAFI twenty four hour newsroom. Oh, we have her,
so let's go right to her. ABC's jerdonnah Miller in Jerusalem,
Israel and Iran continue to exchange fire, with Israel continuing
its attacks on military nuclear development sites in Iran firing
in civilian areas. How are things going this morning.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Well, overnight, the Iranians fired two waves of ballistic ballistic
missile strikes on Israel around twelve thirty local and one am.
Those about thirty missiles were fired, according to the Israeli Army,
and thankfully no one was really hurt, a few running
(06:13):
to their bomb shelters, but no major injuries and no fatalities. Again,
most of those missiles were shot down, but a few
did crash down around the central Tel Aviv area and
from what we understand, around the complex near the complex
(06:37):
of some Israeli military defense and buildings. And that's not
the first time that that has happened. And on the
Israeli side, we heard from the spokesman of the Israeli
Army a short while ago that the Israelis have carried
(06:58):
out in ten strikes overnight on ten Iran, hitting not
only factories that make most of missiles, but also centrifuges,
and the IAEA appears to confirm that Israel has destroyed
some centrifuge factories in the Tehran area in their reporting
(07:18):
on the events. And of course, the big headline here
really and what has preoccupied israelis not only officials but
the public is the question of whether President Trump will
join Israel's war against Iran's nuclear ambitions or not.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Okay, And while we wait for that information, I mean,
Israel is just kind of keeping on its same tack
and knowing that the big thing, at least from what
I've been hearing, Jordana, and tell me if I'm wrong,
is that we can't or Israel can't get that main
nuclear development site because it's down too deep. They need
(08:01):
like a bunker buster bomb and Israel doesn't have.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Them, right, Israel doesn't have them and they don't have
the aircraft to carry them. So the Israelis can do
some damage to for Dow. That's the nuclear facility that
Israel hasn't touched yet. It's buried deep inside mountain and
Quom and it was you know, it was built there
(08:26):
of course to protect it from aerial strikes. So the
Israelis can do some damage to that facility, but they
can't really deal a fatal blow to that facility without
the help of the United States. That is from everything
we know now. Do the Israelis potentially have something up
(08:46):
their sleeve that they are going to unleash on before
Dow that we don't know about. It's entirely possible, but
the conventional wisdom is that to really strike like that facility,
Israel would need the United States. And Israel has been
at least in these opening days, quite successful in keeping
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Iran in a state of kind of shock and awe
and establishing a degree of superiority from the skies, and
they're able to get in and out of Iran safely, right,
So this is a this is a major achievement, and
(09:33):
because they've been so successful, it appears that it has
now created this kind of ripe moment where if the
United States decides to join in, you know, it could
be a decisive blow to Iran's nuclear ambitions, which is
you know, the aim of this operation according to the Israelis, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
And of course, President Trump continues to say Iran cannot
have a nuclear weapons, so we're gonna have to wait
and see what happens if the US joins in or
Israel does it on their own. Jordana Miller in Jerusalem,
thank you so much for the information. As always, Stay safe, Okay,
thanks talk soon, all right, And we're just we're also
hearing word this morning that leader Komayne is saying that
(10:18):
if the US does join up with Israel, it's going
to cause irreparable harm. He said it could cause all
out war. So we don't know if that's saber rattling,
if Iran has something up at sleeve. So we're just
going to have to wait and see. And as I
was listening to Gary and Shannon yesterday, they were saying
that they think something's going to happen soon, and it
sounds like things are kind of heating up or moving
(10:42):
our assets into place in the Middle East, our military
and that kind of stuff in a defensive posture. So
we shall see. Let's get back to some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
New figures show up to a million illegal immigrants have
left the US since President Trump started his second term.
Census data shows they've been dropping out of the workforce
(11:03):
at a high rate. Art Arthur from the Center for
Immigration Studies tells kfi's John Cobalt it's about one hundred
ninety thousand people per month.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
ICE admit that it's deported about just over two hundred
thousand people. Those other people had to gone somewhere, and
they went home.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He says, most illegal immigrants who come to the US
end up working blue collar jobs. At least one member
of Congress has canceled a scheduled town hall after learning
that their name was included on the hit list of
an accused killer in Minnesota.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Authority say fifty seven year old Vans volt Or had
a hit list of at least forty five state and
federal elected officials, most or all Democrats.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
ABC's Faith Abu bass Hiss. Members of Congress want the
divisive political rhetoric on all sides to be toned down.
A Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were shot and
killed over the weekend. A state senator and his wife
were also shot, but they survived. Americans have been warned
not to travel to Iran under any circumstances. The warning
comes mid reports at the White House is considering an
(12:02):
offensive strike against Iran. State Department spokesperson Tammy bursas the
department's working to help US citizens in the Middle East
stay informed as tensions escalate. Civil aviation officials in India
have met with Air India officials to go over the
airline's operations following a crash that killed more than two
hundred and forty people.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
Following the inspections of the airline's Boeing seven to eighty
seven fleet, no major safety concerns were found. The aircraft
and associated maintenance systems were found to be compliant with
existing safety.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Standards ABC's and As Delacataire says it's still not known
what caused the crash last week. One man survived. The
Food and Drug Administration says it'll offer faster drug reviews
to some companies.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
The FDA says the sped up process will go to
those companies that align with Trump administration priorities for Americans' health.
The new program aims to review select drugs in just
one to two months. The FDA already has a variety
of programs designed to speed up drug reviews, but they
all have fairly strict medical criteria, debor Mark Kafi.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
News celebrity chef Anne Burrell has died. TMC says she
was found unresponsive in her home yesterday in Brooklyn, New York,
and paramedics couldn't revive her. Burrell, with her signature bleached blonde,
spiky hair, was best known for her appearances on the
Food Network. She was fifty five years old. Tom Cruise
and Dolly Parton will be honored by the Academy of
(13:25):
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences this year's Governor's Awards. Cruz
is going to get an Honorary Oscar for what the
Academy calls his incredible commitment to our filmmaking community, to
the theatrical experience, and to the stunts community. Of course,
he does its own stunts. Parton is getting the Gene
Herschalt Humanitarian Award. The board says the country music legend
exemplifies the spirit of the award with unwavering dedication to
(13:49):
charitable efforts. She does so much. The sixteenth annual Governor's
Awards will be held in November in LA. The Trump
administration has activated another two thousand California National Guard troops
to send to LA as immigration enforcement efforts in the
area continue. The troops are stationed in northern California. Governor
Newsom's office criticized the announcement yesterday. The governor has requested
(14:11):
a six month delay in the implementation of a new law,
which requires large employer health plans to cover in vitro
fertilization and infertility treatments. If no change is made, the
law will start on July first. Carson's been declared a
fireworks free zone ahead of the fourth of July. Violators
face finds up to five thousand dollars. People who report
(14:31):
illegal fireworks can earn rewards up to five hundred dollars.
At six oh five tandle on the news, he's gonna
be taking a look at all the hot topics for
the day. Right now. Let's say good morning to ABC's
tech reporter. It's Mike Debusky. Morning, Mike, Good morning, Amy.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
How are you good.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
So Meta is making moves to make itself really really smart.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
So.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Meta is investing in what's called a super intelligence lab,
and they are making this major investment more than fourteen
billion dollars in this company called Scale AI in order
to do that So what Scale AI is is they
are a human verified AI research firm. Essentially, they're a
picks and shovels company. They're a company that gives the
(15:13):
larger large language models, right the Googles and the open
Ayes of the world, the material they need to train
their chatbots and AI systems. So they're kind of behind
the scenes, but they're really important in the AI space.
Meta is making a more than fourteen billion dollar investment
in this company. They are making a forty nine percent
(15:35):
acquisition stake in this company, and they're getting their CEO
in the process, a guy named Alexander Wang, to head
up this new super intelligence lab with the goal of
creating technology that they say will be smarter than the
human brain, that will go beyond the capabilities of what
we can do as humans and usher in this new
era of technology. Amy. I can already tell that your
(15:57):
eyebrow is raising, but there is reason to be skeptical here.
But that is what they say they are doing, and
Meta seems very committed to the idea because fourteen billion
dollars is nothing to sneeze at.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Okay, So, Mike, is is it to catch up to
like open AI or is it to go beyond.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Them both essentially. So Meta has found itself sort of
behind in the AI race right Their large latest large
language model, it's known as LAMA four, kind of you know,
failed to meet expectations. It doesn't do quite as well
on some of the tests that we subject these large
language models to. And Open AI and and some others
out there Anthropic Google are kind of at the head
(16:37):
of this, and Meta doesn't want to be left behind
because they see this as again kind of the next
turn of the screw, the next evolution in the world
of technology, and they think that scale AI are the
kind of guys to help do this. So that is
part of this. There are again some reasons to be
skeptical of this idea of a superintelligence that's gonna you know,
(16:57):
change our lives and let us all go on vacation
and you know, computers handle things. For example, Apple recently
put out a reportant Apple itself is very much in
the AI race that found that the current cutting edge
of large language models, known as large reasoning models, have
quote fundamental limitations that they're not quite as smart as
we think they are, that they're not really reasoning in
(17:19):
the way that our human brains do. Reports from Arizona
State University and others sort of back that claim up.
Even still, this is a hot topic in Silicon Valley,
with Sam Altman, who's the CEO of Open Ai, telling
President Trump recently that they are going to achieve this
super intelligent computer that matches or surpasses the capabilities of
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the human brain by the end of his term. Dario Amiday,
who's the head of Anthropics, said that we could see
major disruptions from this type of technology in the next
two to three years.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Okay, so it's exciting and scary al at the same time. Okay,
so cool job. Yeah, let's talk about this big, beautiful phone.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
So on Monday here in New York City, the Trump
Organization announced that they are making a major move into
the world of telecom. They are announcing Trump Mobile, which
is what's known as an mv and O, a mobile
virtual network operator, which is essentially a small cell phone
provider that kind of piggybacks off the networks of the
larger providers.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
So it's like Mint Mobile, It's.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Exactly like Mick Mobile. These two companies are going to
compete with one another. Cricket Wireless is another one that
is in this space. And as part of this, despite
the fact that they say Trump Mobile will work with
pretty much any modern smartphone, they are launching their own
proprietary device. It's called the T one. Technically its full
name is the T one eight thousand and two Gold version,
and that name is not a missover. It is gold.
(18:40):
It is trimmed in gold leaf for or some sort
of gold.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Effect it has to be if it's tied to Trump,
oh of course.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
And it has a big T on the bag an
American flag as you would expect, and it appears to
be a pretty standard Android device. They are saying that
this is going to go for about five hundred dollars
and that you know, runs Android fifteen. It has a
six point eight inch screen, one hundred and twenty hertz
for fresh rate, what you would kind of expect from
a phone at that price point in the Android ecosystem.
(19:09):
But once you dive a little deeper into the specs
that we have on the website, which is pretty much
all we have on this phone, no one's really gotten
a chance to play around with it, it gets a
little confusing. Under the storage section, they say that it
has twelve gigabytes of RAM, and RAM and storage are
two different things. There's no information about a processor, and
a processor is pretty important to the world of smartphones
and up until recently, on the website, they claimed it
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had a five thousand milliamp hour camera, but milliamp hours
are used to describe batteries, so there were some typos
on the website, it seems like. And the photo that
they have, again the only photo that we have of
this device, appears to be a rendering, a computer generated
image or some sort of photoshopped deal. Because it has
a three camera array. It looks sort of like an
(19:51):
iPhone trimmed in gold, but there's no flash on that
camera array, which is what you would expect to see
on something like that. So maybe reason for pause if
you're thinking about purchasing a t one, but you still
can put down one hundred dollars deposit if none of
that is enough to dissuade you.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Do we have any idea of a timeframe, like when
they're going to launch the service and start telling the phones.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So on the website it says coming soon. There's also
other reporting out there that says that it could be
as soon as the fall. But a real wrench in
all this, Amy, is that the Trump organization says they
plan to build this phone in the United States. There
is no major smartphone that is built in the United States.
We don't really have an infrastructure to do it. And
that would mean that, you know, if they are serious
(20:35):
about this, they would have to spin up a factory,
they would have to hire workers, they would have to
train workers. We don't train workers to build smartphones here,
set up supply chains and suppliers and what have you.
It would be really a monumental task that we have
not seen undertaken in the United States. And at five
hundred dollars, that is I think a big reason for
skepticism because, especially within that timeframe, that's that's kind of unrealistic.
(21:00):
So it is possible that they're going to import a
phone from elsewhere, but also that would run counter to
the Trump organizations kind.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Of made in America thing.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Attempt to get yeah, manufacturing back to America. But we'll
just have to wait and see.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
All Right, ABC's tech reporter Mike Debuski, thanks so much,
of course, Amy too. All Right, Tucson and off duty
LA Kenny Sheriff's deputy has been killed in a crash
on the one to one freeway in Studio City. Thirty
one year old Marcos Pana Junior was a passenger in
a ride share car that was involved in a crash
near the one seventy and one thirty four interchange yesterday.
That was a crash that Will was telling you about
(21:31):
all morning. Another passenger in the car was also killed.
A man in Santa Monica has been arrested for allegedly
trying to sexually assault an eighty four year old woman.
Police say she was grabbed June fifth and dragged into
an alley near sixth Street and Wilshire Boulevard. People heard
screaming and called for help. The man named Pope Tall
was arrested nearby. He's facing charges that include kidnapping, an
(21:54):
assault with attempt to commit rape, and also a probation violation.
A former receptionist to music and dance school in her
Mosa Beach has been arrested for allegedly putting cameras in
several bathrooms at the school. Jordan Godoa is facing several charges,
including invasion of privacy and possession of child pornography. Law
(22:15):
enforcement in California is warning about fake parking tickets.
Speaker 9 (22:18):
In Santa Cruz. Fake tickets are now showing up for
the third summer in a row. Fake tickets were recently
placed on cars near beaches. Police advised checking any ticket
details carefully. The scams often include QR codes on the
tickets that lead to fake payment websites. It's unclear how
many fake tickets have been issued or how many people
have been tricked into paying. Mark Ronner.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
KFI News oh that Security Secretary Christy Nome has been
taken to the hospital in Washington, DC. ABC's Kana Whitworth
says it turned out to be just as a precaution.
She suffered an allergic reaction, adding that she was brought
to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. That
she is alert and recovering. She says Gnome is not
(22:58):
expected to be in the hospital for law. Hey, the
Dodgers beat the Padres a to six last night at
Dodger Stadium. We'll try to make it three in a
row when the Dodgers take on the Padres at Dodger
Stadium again tonight. First pitch goes out at seven o'clock.
You can listen to all the Dodger games on AM
five to seventy LA Sports and stream all the games
on the iHeartRadio app Keyword AM five to seventy LA Sports,
(23:20):
Asahi super Dry, discover Japan's number one selling beer at
your favorite part or grocer. Who will have control of
California's National Guard remains up in the air. Governor Newsom
Scissors should be him. President Trump, who federalized troops to
protect federal buildings and ice agents around La, says he
has the authority. The ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals
heard arguments in the case yesterday and is expected to
(23:42):
make a decision this week. President Trump may be considering
an offensive strike against Iraq. The President met with his
national security team yesterday and also called for Iran's unconditional surrender.
Israel has already dealt a significant blow to Iran's nuclear program,
but doesn't have the weapons to take out sites buried
in the mountains the US does. You'll be seeing more
(24:04):
way mos around LA. I should say you'll be seeing
way more way moos around La. The autonomous ride hailing
service is expanding starting today into Plya, del Ray, Ladera Heights,
Echo Park, Silver Lake and along Sunset Boulevard. Weymos will
also be taking writers from mid City to Inglewood and Westchester.
It'll now be operating in more than one hundred and
(24:25):
twenty square miles of La County.
Speaker 9 (24:28):
Aami's on it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
AM's on it, Dami's on it.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
What am I? I'm on the stream because there's always
new movies and TV shows and I love a good binge. Actually,
this one I didn't even have to binge because it
was a movie, so it was just, you know, just
like Under two Hours just dropped on Apple TV. It's
trending now, right behind Stick, which we're going to talk
about another time. But it is a movie again, so
it's not a whole show. It stars Julianne Moore. It's
(25:01):
called Echo Valley. So she is she owns a farm
or a ranch. It's a ranch more than a farm,
and she's got horses and she gives riding lessons and stuff.
But she's devastated because she recently lost her partner, so
she's super depressed. And then she's got this daughter played
by Sidney Sweeney, who's a drug addict and is incredibly manipulative.
(25:25):
But Sidney Sweeney, you might know from anyone but you
and White Lotus. I was like, well, where do I
place her? Anyway? So the movie kind of dips a
toe into addiction, but it really focuses more on the
way the mother reacts to her daughter's addiction and the
lengths that she's going to go to to protect her
baby girl. And it's kind of heartbreaking from the get
(25:47):
go because you see how Kate or Julianne Moore is
being manipulated by her daughter, and she tries harder and
harder to keep that relationship with her daughter. She falls
deeper and deeper into a bad place, and I don't
want to tell you anymore, but you just go, boy, Kate,
You're making stupid decisions. So it's really interesting to watch.
(26:07):
I don't think it got a great Rotten Tomatoes score,
but that generally means I'm gonna like it. So it's
kind of cringe worthy at times, but there's some really
good twists and turns, and I say it's a good ride.
Although without telling you anything, the ending feels more like
a cliffhanger than the end of a movie. So that
was a little bit weird, But I'm on it, and
if you find yourself on the couch. I think you
should be on it too. It's Echo Valley on Apple
(26:29):
TV just dropped to very recently, so it's brand new.
Let's get in your business now with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho Morning, Courtney,
good morning. Okay. So pharmaceutical ads I hate them, You
hate them, and maybe President Trump hates them too.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (26:48):
Well, it's a background of our lives. I mean, pharma
ads seem to be everywhere. You know, we all know
this one, donn It is really some a little pell
with a big story.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
I even caught my kid humming this one. Oh yeah.
So the trumpet industry the favorite songs.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
I love that it exactly, and it's everywhere, all of them.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I mean, you could go through a list of different
ones every single day.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
But the Trump administration is said to be discussing policies
that would make it harder and more expensive for pharma
companies to advertise directly to patients. Banning pharma ads outright
could make the administration vulnerable lawsuits. So they said, we're
going to go in a different direction. This is what
our sources are telling us. They're focusing on cutting down
the number by adding all these legal and financial hurdles.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
By the way, pharma is the third highest spending industry
for TV ads.
Speaker 10 (27:43):
I actually thought it'd be number one, but apparently it's
a little more down the line.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
And I've heard that the doctors hate it because then
people go, hey, I want to try this one, even
though it doesn't necessarily fit with their condition.
Speaker 10 (27:57):
Yeah, an RFK junior has said this is the reason
why the United States spends as much as it does
on drugs compared to other countries. You know, we are
the only other country besides New Zealand that allows advertising
television advertising for pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
One hundred and eighty countries to allow it. Interesting, Okay,
we don't care about high prices when it comes to
our morning jolt, oh exactly.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
And this report, by the way, a sponsor by Fidelity
Wealth Management, coffee fanatics are drinking the most high end
java in fifteen years. More than forty five percent of
Americans drank a cup of specialty coffee in the past day.
That's according to the National and Coffee Association. That includes lattes,
frozen drinks, cold brew, any other beverage made with premium beans.
But people are still spending on these fancier drinks, even
(28:49):
as a price of coffee hit a record in February. However,
I do want to point out that coffee futures are
down about twenty percent since that peak. The production forecast
has gotten a little bit better out of the top grower,
which is Brazil.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
That's improved recently. Okay, And speaking of things looking a
little bit better, markets are looking a little better today.
Speaker 10 (29:08):
Yes, a little better than yesterday. See yesterday week economic data.
Wait on stocks. We had retail sales that felt for
a second straight month in May. Industrial production also declined,
but that retail sales number kind of an indication that
people are pulling back on their spending in light of tariffs.
So the Dow fell two hundred and ninety nine points.
Now this morning, all eyes are on the Federal Reserve.
(29:29):
The Central Bank's policy decision is out this afternoon. Officials
are expected to keep interest rates on hold. To be
on the lookout for that. But we do also have
a focus on whether the US is planning to get
directly involved in the Middle East conflict. Right now, we're
seeing just light moves higher. Dow futures are up twenty
five points all.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Right, get in your business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
We'll talk to you tomorrow. Let's see you later, all right.
La Counties DA's announced more charges against anti ice protesters.
Nathan Hockmins says those charged to include people who attacked
police through fireworks at them, spit on them, and set
patrol cars on fire. A hospitality union is pushing to
expand Elly's upcoming thirty dollars an hour minimum wage for
(30:10):
hotel and airport workers to include all industries across the city,
and the studio that has been the TV home of
shoes shows like All in the Family, Dancing In with
the Stars, and The Price Is Right is evolving. The
historic Television City Studio Complex has announced a partnership to
offer boutique production space to social media influencers and digital creators.
(30:32):
Let's say good morning now to Michael gertz Is with
the with the Benefit concert Out of the Ashes. Michael,
good morning, thanks for joining us this morning.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
Hey, good morning, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Okay, So Michael, this I love this because we we
a lot of times we see kind of the worst
of the worst and see kids misbehaving, but sometimes kids
rise to the occasion, and the at a Gora Hills
certainly did. They're showing that they are the best of
the best. Tell us about what out of the ashes is.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yeah, So, you know, this is an idea that really
came out of a conversation with a few parents and
some band kids from a girl high school who two
years ago had formed a jazz band that was going
around and playing at local senior centers and nursing homes
(31:30):
and really just you know, just really for the love
of music and sharing it with the community. After the
LA fires, a few of them came to your parents
and said, why don't we try and do something to
help the music programs for some of these other high
(31:54):
schools whose music programs don't exist anymore. They were burned
down and they lost instruments, and they don't have a
place to practice, and they really don't have, you know,
much support. And we thought, wow, this is a fantastic idea.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
I don't know how we're going.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
To pull this off, but let's let's sit down, let's meet,
and let's see if we can bring on some partners
that can help us make this happen. And you know
that was only four months ago, and fortunately we met
up with two major partners. One was the Pasadena Educational Foundation,
(32:37):
which is at five o' one C. Three that's already
exists to be able to fund arts and music programs
in the areas affected by the Eaton fire, and they've
partnered with us to you know, help collect funds. And
then the Sagebrush canteena a local restaurant venue, came along
(32:58):
and donated this space so that we could set up
a benefit concert there.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
And that benefit concert is tonight.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
And that benefit concert is tonight. There will be over
fifty musicians participating, four bands, and the venue holds up
to five hundred people. So we're really hoping to generate
quite a bit of funds and donations to help support
(33:28):
music programs that were affected by the public schools and
the Eaton fires.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay, and then all of the money, Michael, that's raised
from the admission to the concert tonight or the donation
to the concert tonight is going right to the kids
and instruments and that kind of thing, right.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Correct, It is going directly to support the music programs
in public high schools in the Pasadena school districts.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Are you so proud? Of the kids who are coming
up with this and saying, hey, we want to help.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
I am completely flabbergasted and really just humbled to be
a part of a part of it, and humbled to
know these kids.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
They're they're pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Yeah, okay, so what can you say to our wake
up call listeners that's going to make them get out
of their homes on a Wednesday night and come see
a show.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
Well, look, it's going to be a beautiful night. There's
plenty of seating. It's five hundred five hundred seats, it's outdoors,
it's going to be shaded.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
There's four bands.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
You can come down, grab a burrito and a margarita.
Obviously drink responsibly, but come down and enjoy a night
of music from thirty five pm to nine thirty pm
at the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas and you'll have a
great time and you'll be doing a great thing for
(34:47):
the community.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I love it. Michael Gertz, thank you so much for
the time this morning. I hope your event tonight is
wildly successful. Again. It's tonight at the Sagebrush Cantina two
three five two seven, Calabasas Road in Calabasas. It's called
out of the ashes, and it's supporting music programs. It's
going to buy instruments for kids who lost them in
the fires. Who could ask for anything more than that.
(35:10):
That's great, Thank you so much, Michael, appreciate it all right,
isn't that great? I love her when kids do good things.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Customers have been
slow to return to businesses in downtown LA.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
When the anti ice protests turned violent and when criminals
looted stores, businesses here started to close or at least
add protective wooden boards to windows and doors, and a
few calm nights later, business is not as usual. This
man was one of the few eating outside in the
fashion district.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's sad, you know, because there's still out here, but
they still don't make no money off he says.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Many customers are staying away still, not because of the demonstrations,
but because of what inspired them, the federal immigration enforcement
efforts in downtown LA. Michael Monks KFI News.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
A man suspected of driving to a crowd of protesters
in Riverside seriously injuring. One of them has been arrested,
along with a woman suspected of helping him get rid
of the evidence. She allegedly took the car to the
High Desert. The driver was in an suv Saturday when
he encountered marchers taking part in one of the many
No King's rallies. Video shows he floored his suv when
(36:18):
the protesters started hitting the car. A young woman who
couldn't jump out of the way got run over. Kraft
Heine says it's pulling artificial dies from its products.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
The company says starting in twenty twenty seven, it will
also no longer roll out new products with the dyes.
The move comes nearly two months after US health officials
said that they would urge food makers to phase out
petroleum based artificial colors in the nation's food supply. The
company said in a release that about ten percent of
its items in the US use FD and C colors,
(36:48):
the synthetic additives that make many foods more visually appealing.
Depor Mark KOFFI News brown ketchup.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You know what if it tastes the same, I'm down exactly,
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
This is KFI and KOSTHD two, Los Angeles, Orange County,
live from the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. I'm Amy King.
This has been your wake up call. If you missed
any wake up Call, you can listen anytime on the
iHeartRadio app. You've been listening to wake Up Call with me,
Amy King. You can always hear wake Up Call five
to six am Monday through Friday on KFI AM six
(37:20):
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