irs and the presidio trust, along with federal buildings in the bay area. put on the auction block. >> it's another example of how he's coming after democrats. he's coming after california. and it's all about payback. >> and with that, we say, good afternoon. thanks for joining us. i'm larry beil. >> and i'm kristen z. the trump administration taking aim at new targets in their federal budget cuts today. >> officials want to eliminate the presidio trust, sell off several federal buildings in the bay area, and slow down the high speed rail project. >> we have team coverage on the federal cuts affecting the bay area today. >> and let's begin with abc seven news reporter j.r. stone, who is live in the presidio with a look at the plans to eliminate parts of the presidio trust. j.r. >> larry, the argument among lawmakers and former lawmakers that i talked with is that parts of this trust can't be eliminated. in fact, the trust can't be eliminated because taxpayer money hasn't funded the presidio here in more than ten

years. the views from the presidio may be some of the most spectacular in all of san francisco. the federal land is run by the presidio trust, but a president trump executive order calls for parts of the trust to be eliminated and others downsized. former u.s. senator barbara boxer says not so fast. >> i would say to this administration, whether it's the president, trump or musk or all those people, that when something's a raging success, keep your hands off it. >> even the business community is coming to the defense of the presidio trust. bay area council president jim wunderman says before the trust came, the presidio didn't look like this. there were worn out buildings and challenged areas. >> this is a, you know, clearly a case in which a public private partnership has been successful in delivering a great public benefit without without putting

in government money. >> lawmakers say the presidio maintenance is not costing taxpayers and the trust is actually making a profit. >> guess what? since 2013, we haven't had to use any funds from the federal government for operations because this was put together so wisely that we're able to fund everything through the revenues. >> $200 million was given to the presidio as part of the inflation reduction act a few years ago. >> well, that was not maintenance. that was capital improvements. and i think the republicans are looking to grab some of that money that hasn't been spent if there is anything left. >> state senator scott wiener had strong words for the administration. >> these folks are inept. they don't know what they're doing. they're slashing and burning the government. >> former presidio trustee maria rubio isn't quite as worried about the future of the presidio. after reading the executive order. >> that is my read of this is

that it's an attempt to get information. it's saying we're not going to allow certain things. tell us what you're doing. what they should see is a phenomenally well run organization that is generating revenue, that is funding entirely funding a gem of a national park. >> the presidio trust will present a report on their activities and spending in two weeks. for now, they say services and business will continue to operate as normal. you are looking live at the golden gate bridge from the presidio. just a beautiful sight. former senator, boxer and state senator wiener said that this trust was approved with bipartisan support back in the 1990s, and written in a way where not much of it can be touched. that being said, there is certainly always a possibility for a court battle. reporting live in san francisco j.r. stone abc seven news.

>> spectacular views there. thank you j.r. restoration and environmental work at the presidio is not only transforming the former army post, but also benefiting the current ecosystem. abc seven news reporter luz pena with a look at what is at stake. if that trust is eliminated by the trump administration. >> when we first met, urban design professors evan jones and margaret akira, they were working with the presidio trust to transform a newly created tidal marsh near crissy field, installing experimental structures designed at the california college of the arts to provide a home and breeding ground for native bay oysters. and jones says the experience generated at the presidio can often be applied around the bay. >> and i think you can really get a lot of mileage out of the research work that happens there, in terms of how we might start to rethink some of our industrial areas. and the environmental transformation at the presidio goes well beyond the beaches and dunes at crissy

field. presidio ecologists are literally transforming a stands of non-native trees, originally planted as camouflage by the army into a healthy forest supporting native species. everything from coyotes that birth their young, to native frogs that had all but vanished from the bay. the work is also allowing the presidio trust to partner with local nonprofits. we followed along as teams reintroduced variations of the checkerspot butterfly in the secluded meadows. stu weiss is the chief scientist with the butterfly conservation center creekside science. >> the presidio is providing this amazing laboratory for taking highly degraded habitats, like old army dumps and turning them into very rich native habitats. >> other nonprofits like point blue conservation have explored

reintroducing birds like native quail back at crissy field. evan jones points to the advances in bioengineering fostered at the presidio that could soon be incorporated into major projects like san francisco's embarcadero seawall. >> which is going to benefit not only the economy of san francisco by protecting the most valuable real estate in the city, but also creating an opportunity to engage with with just an overall restoration of the bay. >> a dynamic they're hoping to continue in the face of potential changes at san francisco's iconic presidio in san francisco. luz pena, abc seven news. >> the trump administration's effort to drastically shrink the federal government is also taking aim at federal buildings in san francisco. the white house wants to sell the nancy pelosi federal building on seventh street, a building at 50 united nations plaza,

and another one in san bruno. the government would instead lease office space for federal agencies. former congresswoman jackie spears says the idea does not make sense. >> the lease is going to keep going up and you're gog to be paying the property taxes, ironically, of the lessor, whereas you don't pay any property taxes when you are federal government. >> the federal building in san bruno stores national immigration archives. the building is named after congressman leo ryan, who was killed during the jonestown massacre in 1978. >> joining us for more on this subject now is abc seven news insider phil matier. phil, let's start with the presidio trust because it was the very model of a public private partnership, and that's what the president says he wants. so why is it specifically being targeted? >> well, it's one of four agencies that is being examined by the trump administration. as you aptly point out, this is one of those deals that republicans seem to be talking about or saying we need more of, which is

a public private partnership. now, let's be clear. the park is not going to close. it's under the national parks. the question is whether or not it's going to have that local oversight and control that has helped make it unique and has helped rent out spaces on that, that has helped cover the costs of it. and it's also interesting and important to note that donald trump doesn't need to blow up the trust. as a matter of fact, he has the power to appoint six of the seven members on that board. and so and routinely, whether republicans or democrats have put their people in there. now, yes, right now, some of them are like its leader, mark buell. heavy democratic donors. but in the past they've had republicans as well. so this doesn't make a lot of political sense, and it doesn't necessarily make a lot of fiscal sense, but that's sort of what we're dealing with here. >> also try to help us make sense, if you can, of the potential sale of the pelosi building, the federal building, and the other federal buildings. as you heard from former congresswoman spear, it doesn't make sense from a tax basis. and

trump is kind of a real estate, you know, tax guy. so what other potential motivations could there be there. >> well, from their standpoint in washington, they're looking to shrink what they call the footprint. there's offices, federal offices all around the country. and they want to cut back on them in terms of a real estate deal. i think couldn't think of two buildings that would be sort of white elephants bigger than the nancy pelosi federal building, which is in south of market, this area that is constantly had trouble with drug dealing and open dealing to the point where workers were even advised to stay away from there. put that on the market. how much do you think you're going to get for that? the other one is that un plaza, which is also undergoing, you know, problems around that area. so i and given san francisco's, you know, glut of office space, putting two big office buildings on the block is not going to generate a lot of money. but it's got to be noted, whether it's deliberate or it's coincidental that two of the targets here are very close to

nancy pelosi. one, the building bears her name. the second one, the presidio trust, was her creation and something that she has nursed along for 30 years. so whether or not this is a scatter shot and we just happen to get hit, or whether it was targeted, one of the names that pops up, number one, is pelosi in both cases. >> and we know how the president feels about nancy pelosi. >> you decide. thank you phil. >> all right. moving on. federal funding for california's high speed rail project. that could be next on the chopping block. and today, the u.s. transportation secretary asked for a review of that project. abc seven news reporter suzanne fawn in the newsroom with reaction now. hi, suzanne. >> so, larry, the california high speed rail project has been hit hard by rising costs, estimates, delays and litigation. president trump and the transportation secretary say the project has been seriously mismanaged. supporters say it's an exciting and ambitious project designed to connect california from san francisco to los angeles. but critics say the

project has faced all sorts of construction and funding setbacks. >> where are we today? well, today we are severely. no pun intended. off track. >> u.s. transportation secretary sean duffy wants a compliance review of california's high speed rail project. >> this is going to help determine whether billions of dollars in taxpayer money should remain committed to california's high speed rail. >> duffy says the federal railroad administration review will focus on the $4 billion the biden administration allocated to the project. those funds were specifically for a section of rail in the central valley from merced to bakersfield. >> we're going to look at whether california high speed rail has actually complied with the agreements that they've signed with the federal government. and we can't just say we're going to give money and then not hold states accountable to how they spend that money. >> california state senator dave cortese chairs the transportation committee and responded to the call for a compliance review. >> we welcome that scrutiny. we're in complete compliance with all the federal funding

agreements. most of this project has been financed, financed by the state of california, not the federal government. >> state senator jim costa f fresno pointed out this. theta f delays and cost overruns have been a direct result of people who wanted to kill the project, who have litigated the project, who have delayed the project, that have added additional costs. so let's be clear about that. >> the high speed rail authority says there's a lot of construction underway in the central valley. more than 170 miles. they also say the project has created more than 14,000 jobs. the authority's ceo pointed out in a statement, quote, we welcome this investigation and the opportunity to work with our federal partners with multiple independent federal and state audits completed. every dollar is accounted for, and we stand by the progress and impact of this project. according to the l.a. times, about $13 billion has already been spent on the high speed rail project. the budget is about $100 billion more than what? high speed rail

authority originally estimated. live in the newsroom suzanne fawn, abc seven news. >> suzanne. thank you. voters approved $10 billion in bonds in 2008 for the project. back then, the total cost was estimated at around $33 billion. the rail line was supposed to be finished by 2020, but it's encountered so many delays and it's now looking at a partial opening in the early 2030s. construction started in the central valley in 2015, and last month, governor newsom announced the project was ready to start laying track in kern county. the san francisco aids foundation is joining a lawsuit challenging three executive orders from the trump administration. the orders include ending gender ideology and banning diversity, equity and inclusion, or dei initiatives. the lawsuit, filed by lambda legal calls the orders an attack on the effort to end the hiv epidemic. the aids foundation says they also target the very people it serves and undermines public health. >> coming up on abc seven news

at four, some free covid tests turn out to be pretty pricey. the battle over the bills that were not expected. an update on a major flood prevention project and when that is expected to be completed. plus the new technology. are you ready for robot umps balls and strikes at spring training? today this is a new twist. >> i'm meteorologist sandhya patel and it is feeling like spring out there. temperatures are running higher. it's just the beginning of what's to come. i'll have your weekend forecast

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valley water and local lawmakers are celebrating the near completion of phase one of a major flood protection project. it comes ahead of the eighth anniversary of the devastating 2017 flood. tomorrow, homes in the area were severely damaged when heavy rain caused coyote creek to spill over. flood walls were built along a four mile stretch between old oakland road and interstate 280. officials say they enhanced coyote creek's capacity to manage increased water flows. >> in this specific area. the water will be up, but in the residences around the area, you wouldn't have any flooding. so basically, if this project was here, then you wouldn't have seen the impacts that you saw, at least in this area. now, the other phase of the project is required to protect the rest of the community against the 20-17 flows.

>> phase two will extend along coyote creek from montague expressway to tully road. construction is set to begin in 2026. >> the san francisco police department is trying to track down thieves who are targeting utility covers like we see right here. more than 400 covers have been stolen in the past couple of years. the theft creates obviously a tripping hazard for pedestrians. so if you see somebody stealing covers, please call 911 immediately. and if you find a cover, call 311 so they can be recovered. they have to be considerably like really heavy, i would think. kind of like you ever try to lift a manhole cover? no. >> probably not. i have had you, larry. >> i know they're heavy. >> but i sense there's. >> a naughty teenage story. >> behind that. no. there's nothing. not that. no, this is just my general. >> research for the show. >> i see, yeah, but i don't know what you would do with them, even. >> if you could. >> lift them up. >> i don't know. you don't need to lift anything overhead. not

an umbrella or anything else because it is gorgeous, warm and sunny out there. san diego, we love this. >> i'm so glad you love it. but you know what, kristin? larry, we'd like to hear more about this lifting from larry. yeah, yeah. >> i sense a getaway car in the story. yeah, i think so, too. >> good afternoon, everyone. let's take a look at a live picture right now. it is absolutely beautiful. looking from mount tam, you can see the city by the bay. the sun is out. it is actually warmer than where we were yesterday. 69, in santa rosa. it is 63. in petaluma you're in the upper 60 from napa to concord to livermore. fairfield, 66 degrees from our exploratorium camera, seeing a few high clouds passing through. 61 in the city, 63 in oakland. you're in the mid 60s. from san jose to redwood city, compared to 24 hours ago, just about everyone running warmer than yesterday by nine degrees in novato, seven degrees in livermore, up four in san jose. high pressure in control of our weather. and as long as this ridge is here, we're pretty much in for a nice pattern for the

next several days, going even into next week. here are the high clouds on live doppler seven. we're going to take a look at. the drought monitor came out today and here is the latest update. severe drought now covering 25% of the state. last week it was 35%. much of southern california is where the focus is. extreme drought has shrunk as well. it is now 15%. last week it was 21%. so we will take it. southern california got its share of soaking and that has helped here. we do have abnormally dry conditions in our inland east bay, but it's a small section compared to days past from our east bay hills. camera just a lovely view tomorrow. chilly morning, mild afternoon. your weekend weather is sunny and spring like and next week dry and still above average. so we're going to go hour by hour. temperatures 515, still in the 50s and 60s as we head towards 815, a couple of 40 showing up. and then tomorrow morning just continuing to see some of the high clouds with some patchy fog, 30s and 40s by the afternoon. most areas

are coming up into the 60s, even a few 70 sprinkled in, so it should be nice looking weather tomorrow morning. chill is in the air. inland valleys 3040 elsewhere. certainly we'll have some cloud cover around and then tomorrow afternoon we'll go 70 in san jose, 68 in santa rosa, 67 san rafael, low 60s san francisco, half moon bay, 66, in oakland, concord, vallejo for the black joy parade on sunday. it's looking good. 64 degrees in oakland. filtered sunshine for the afternoon, and it's going to be warmer by 4 p.m. upper 60s, still mild later on in the evening. the accuweather seven day forecast does feature that warming trend continuing into the weekend and looking good even beyond that next week. this dry, spring like pattern is going to continue. larry. >> kristen. >> lovely. >> yeah, i know so many happy people this week. thank you. sandhya. >> yeah. >> all right. a big surprise was brewing this afternoon at a peet's coffee shop in san francisco, because former warriors center festus ezeli was

behind the bar getting barista lessons. festus was there to promote a limited edition warriors pete's tumbler, and he seemed to enjoy his time making cups of coffee. >> i'm also helping here around the coffee shop. and you know, i'm kind of auditioning for a summer job because, you know, when the season is over, i need something to do. >> yeah, yeah, i doubt it. but the warriors tumblers will be sold for a short time at select peet's coffee locations across the bay area, and festus is just a fantastic person. >> he is so nice. >> he is really. >> nice in my community, things all the time and he's just like, down with everybody. >> he's a. >> wonderful human. this sunday we got the warriors hosting klay thompson and the mavericks. that game is a 12:30 p.m. tip right here on abc seven, followed by after the game, as well as the andre iguodala retirement ceremony. the jersey going up to the rafters. so we'll have all of that on sunday. >> great. >> coming up, the big league tryout for a new robotic umpire.

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third year in a row. you can watch it sunday starting at 1230 wherever you stream. abc seven news. >> and the weather will be perfect. okay, it's not unusual for someone to make up a song, but we've got an unusual musical influencer o has become a rising social media star. >> abc news reporter danny new has a look at the very young singer. >> my favorite song is yellow. i can see my own. my favorite yellow. you got me. izzy.te >> maybe you've seen these now viral videos from three year old vanessa imani as she improvises songs with her father, antonio, on the piano. >> no one. okay. ooh. >> over the last few weeks, their collaborations have quickly picked up millions of views on instagram, with commenters being blown away by her lyrics. one writing this is so much more than a song. it's a way of life and i want to live it. >> ouch. >> now when you meet vanessa in

person, you see how she's also just a natural entertainer. for example, during our interview, she brought us cups of tea. not surprisingly, since she was a baby, music has apparently always come naturally to vanessa. in fact, here is how her parents, who are both musicians and music teachers, responded when she started singing along to their rehearsals at just a year old. >> she would just scat on top and we were like, is this real? >> by last fall, they started recording her improvizations, as these catchy melodies and vivid lyrics just spilled out whenever her father started playing piano. for example. here is what happened after i told her about my cat, peppa. >> peppa. and a cat. you could be so lot again.cat. you could >> but folks online sure do seem obsessed with her first big smash you heard earlier called you can be a watching job again. that's a word she invented with the utmost confidence i. jammed to it a little bit together too. but if you're wondering, antonio speculates that you can be a watch job

again is vanessa's way of telling her listeners, hey, you can be anything you want to be or get any job. >> endless possibility. you can be anything you want. that's what a wacky job is. >> oh, thank you, thank you. >> if you pay attention to the lyrics, you may notice that vanessa is trilingual. since her father speaks spanish and her mom speaks turkish. but if you want to hear for yourself, her songs are also now streaming on spotify in new york. for abc news, i'm danny new. wow. >> watch your job. put it down now. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. you can be. >> totally colloquial. everybody will be using it soon. >> oh, i wish i was young

say they're getting billed hundreds of dollars from a newark urgent care that was supposedly giving out free covid tests during the pandemic. >> now, the alameda county da's office has stepped in. abc seven news investigative reporter melanie woodrow is here. give us some background on this situation, because obviously if you hear free, then you don't expect to get a bill later on ever. >> yeah, right. >> and if you think back to the height of the pandemic, all of these covid tests were being covered by insurance companies. you might remember you were even able to go to an insurance company, or rather, to a place that wasn't necessarily in-network with your insurance. right. and you'd still get the test covered. well, that's not what's happening here. but now a court has put a temporary stop to this. the owner of afc urgent care in newark says the company filed for bankruptcy after more than $30 million in unpaid claims were denied. more than four years after the covid tests were given, the company started billing patients and threatening to take them to small claims court if they didn't pay. in november of 2020, john sheaffer

says he took his family to afc urgent care of newark to be swabbed for covid tests. he says the urgent care advertised as free. he didn't think much of it until four years later when the bills started coming. sheaffer didn't mind paying for the covid swabs, but didn't understand why he was also being charged for seeing a doctor. >> we didn't see anyone who appeared to be a physician or ask us any questions about our health or symptoms. we simply stood in line and filled out a form and got swabbed and left. >> sheaffer wasn't alone. fremont residents joshua zenzen and van li also started getting bills years after their free swabs. >> $600 is a pretty hefty fee for doing a nose swab and sending it out for, you know, a sample. >> $900 for a, you know, a q-tip test. that's that's ridiculous. i feel like it's a scam. >> san jose resident kenneth chu wondered the same. >> i just thought something was a bit off. >> he retained an attorney and started a facebook page for bay area residents who say they were

impacted. >> this is becoming a widespread issue. there's hundreds of people kind of going through what i'm going through. i just think it's unjust. i think it's unethical. >> chu hired attorney christian schreiber. >> there were a lot of a lot of people who rushed in during the covid era to try to make money, and i think this is a situation where a doctor did exactly that, tried to get money from insurers, failed, and now he's turned around and he's trying to get money from from his patients. >> i've always been service oriented, not money oriented. i have never worked for money in my life. >> afc urgent care of newark owner parmjit singh says he's been receiving anonymous threats. >> watch your back. you will be shot. >> singh says he reported the threats to police, but couldn't file a police report because he didn't have an exact name of who was threatening him. a spokesperson with newark police department says the department has no record of doctor singh attempting to file a police report or for calls for service at afc urgent care of newark on its website and in billing letters. afc urgent care

of newark told patients if they didn't pay, they could face action in small claims court. >> beyond this, i'm not sure what else we can do. >> afc urgent care of newark attorney michael gabriel says the company tried to sue insurance companies for the lack of reimbursements, but didn't have the legal standing to do so under the cares act. >> congress, in its infinite wisdom and writing acts, didn't say who could sue to enforce the act. >> this is a recording of a proceeding in the ninth circuit court of appeals between solutions, inc, which was doing business as afc urgent care of newark, and aetna, with gabriel representing us. >> i never thought that there was an issue over being able to sue to enforce the payment. >> an attorney, emily costin, representing aetna. >> essentially, what the appellant is asking the court to do is to read into the statute something that congress did not write into the statute. >> and the court found that we couldn't sue to get it. >> gabriel says the company is out more than $30 million in unpaid claims. >> it's crazy. i mean, we

submitted a bill and we don't know if we're going to get anything or something or nothing. >> none of the major insurance companies responded to our requests for a statement on its website. previously wrote, we cannot sue the insurance companies directly for enforcement of the cares act. only you, the patient, can sue insurance company for breach of contract when the insurance company does not pay the bill. the content on the website has since been taken down and replaced by the words coming soon. >> i should be getting rewards and awards for being a selfless person, but instead i'm being haunted by patients who don't understand when they needed the service. at 2:00 in the morning, they came here and touched my feet. sir, thank you for being open. and today, the same patients say, why should we pay your bill? >> that's not how the law works. you can't. you can't go after your patients because you didn't get the money from the insurance company. this is just a fantasy world in which he plays the hero in his own mind.

>> last week in alameda county, judge issued a temporary restraining order against solutions inc. and doctor singh, precluding them from attempting to collect money from patients for the advertised free covid tests until they can appear in court to make their case. in march, attorney christian schreiber, who represents patient kenneth joo, says as a result of the alameda county da's office request for a temporary restraining order, they decided not to file a lawsuit since afc urgent care of newark filed for bankruptcy. schreiber also said it was unlikely he'd be able to obtain refunds for those patients who already paid their collection notices. bottom line if you've received a collection notice from solutions inc. or afc urgent care of newark threatening to take you to small claims court, according to this temporary restraining order, you can hold off on paying that notice for now. i spoke with another attorney who's also representing afc urgent care of newark, who said he's trying to work something out with the alameda county da's office and that the business had already stopped sending out those bills and collection notices. but kristen and larry, some people have already paid them. and

unfortunately, since the company has now filed for bankruptcy, i think the likelihood of them getting their money back is probably fairly slim. >> they're out that money most likely. >> so sad. thanks, melanie. >> thank you. >> seven on your side is here to help you. you can reach out by going to abc7 news.com. seven on your side. >> all right. coming up. major league baseball is going high tech the newest way. umps are saying strike. and a true crime

joining us. we begin with new technology being tested for the first time in a major league baseball game. so-called robo umps being used to call balls and strikes. abc news reporter jacqueline lee has the details. >> first pitch of 2025. fouled off. strike one. >> the first day of spring training games are today. >> inside one ball, one strike. >> and new technology is getting a major league test. >> here's here's what it looked like. so it was a st. >> for the first time in the big leagues, mlb is using what some are calling robot umpires. an automated ball strike system or abs, but not replacing the guy behind the plate. in this demo video, you can see the technology in action in a triple-a game last summer. >> so the pitch is called a strike. the hitter will tap his helmet. that's the sign uh- to challenge. the umpire will turn

around, announce that the pitch is being challenged. we will then show this graphic revealing the pitch location. so it's a ball obviously overturned. the umpire will turn around, announce the new count, and off we go again. >> teams will have two challenges they can use per game, and a team does not lose the challenge when a review is ruled in its favor. if you're watching on tv, the game will look different too. >> so what we're doing in spring training is we're going to test out a couple different ideas. one is to show the box, but not show where the ball was. the second is to show the ball, but not where the box was. >> mlb says it won't be using the robo ump during the regular season, so you'll still be free to argue over that pitch you think was clearly a strike. jacqueline lee, abc news, los angeles. >> this has been something that's been in the works for a while, and uh- old friend eric byrnes, former a and giant, has

been pushing this initiative as long as they can do it quickly. dan, that's the whole thing, because if you watch nfl games or nba games, you're trying to see if a ball touched a guy's fingernail and it takes ten minutes. yeah, if they can do this like fast, like they do it in tennis, then you got something. >> yeah. and baseball's already slow enough. i know they've tried to speed it up, so i agree with you. initially, i did not like this idea. i thought, hey, errors are part of the game and if the ump makes one, fine. but given the application, the way they're doing this, it's a little like the nfl. i think it's probably okay. >> yeah, i'm still old school. no, i want that call and i want to yell at the ump and say, what, are you blind? what? >> i can i can go that direction too. >> yeah. all right, well, we'll see. spring break is almost here, and triple a has compiled a list of the top destinations this year. the time honored tradition of heading to florida continues with orlando, fort lauderdale, miami and tampa all making the top eight.olulu larry was sixth on the list. the lone west coast destination in the top ten is los angeles anaheim at

number seven. this is for spring break. >> warm destinations. beach. kristen. >> yeah. spring break. >> yeah, yeah. >> where are we going for spring break? are we getting a spring break this year? >> dan, you have to choose between either cabo or lake havasu. that's. those are the two. i thought lake havasu would be number one on this. and as far as everybody doing spring break in hawaii. no, don't do that. >> don't. >> you don't want. we don't want that. we don't want that. yes. >> and that's only easy for west coast. you know, spring breakers to get to. yeah. whereas florida i mean, you got people coming from the south, from the northeast, from the central part of the country. it's just it makes sense. right, right. lots of flights. >> easy access. >> easy access. right. >> and cheap for the college kids. yeah. >> yeah. well, talking about vacations, how about a true crime vacation? norwegian cruise lines is offering up a true crime themed cruise that will feature america's most wanted host john walsh and several

popular hosts from podcasts like redhanded and scam fluencers. scam. i don't even know how to say that properly. >> influencers. >> sick scam. influencers, i don't know. anyway, the cruise will include murder, mystery events, workshops, self-defense classes, and a crime solving immersive theater. >> the murderer? is that why you need to. >> it's great. i could go practice my karate skills again on one of these things. who wants to take a true crime adventure with a scam? >> i think i'm going to join the kids in fort lauderdale. >> yeah. that doesn't appeal to me. that sounds much better. dan, too. >> much going on. i just want to relax on the trip. >> i mean, murder mystery dinners can be fun. >> i agree. yeah. >> but i don't want to do it for a week. >> i don't want and be stuck doing it the entire time. right. >> well, yeah. i guess if you had, like, a group of friends and maybe you can go solve the crime or something like that, maybe that would be fun. >> it's fun, but. >> right. but yeah, i'll just see at the midnight buffet. i

mean, i don't know. i don't need to solve a crime. >> all right. or commit a crime, larry. no, no. taking manholes. okay. >> coming back. >> i got a good memory there. >> bond. amazon. bond. amazon. mgm studios today announced they are taking over creative control of the bond franchise. amazon acquired the rights when it bought mgm for just over $8 billion in 2022. michael g. wilson and barbara broccoli, who brought the bond films to theaters, will continue on as co-owners of the franchise. >> wouldn't quite be a bond film without the broccoli family still involved in it somehow. but you know, i'm glad they can breathe new life into it. keep it going. >> well, the thing is, it's kind of been languishing for a while. i mean, you had daniel craig had this long run, and then it was all these questions about who's the next bond going to be. they throw out a bunch of names and nobody could agree on anything. so i hope with amazon in charge, they'll just go, all right, here's what we're doing. and they certainly have the money to do it. but it's such a great

franchise. i still keep saying idris elba is would be the perfect. he would be james bond. >> and you know, they ran into a problem and i got it. i like i think pierce brosnan maybe was the last bond before daniel craig if i'm not mistaken. and you know, i liked him fine. but they ran into a problem with the bourne identity movies and the mission impossible movies. much higher action. yeah. you know, much more physical. they needed