November 9, 2025 • 36 mins
Air travel chaos with flights canceled and delayed at LAX and other SoCal airports; Governor Newson takes his Prop 50 victory tour to Texas; Port of Long Beach says fewer toys have passed through the harbor this year; and the law catches up to Dodgers fans who celebrated the World Series with street takeovers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock tonight. Another beautiful autumn
day in southern California. But my goodness, it is chaot
account there as the federal government shutdown hits day thirty nine.
Tomorrow Sunday will be day forty the longest federal government
shut down in history. And you know, at first it
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was a bit of a political football. Then they'll come
back to the table, they'll reopen. But now people are
feeling it. A lot more people are feeling it. Of course,
the federal government workforce was feeling it almost instantly as
soon as the first pay period rolled around and they
only got a partial paycheck, and now they're.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Getting no paychecks.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And then its snowballed into a significant issue at our airports,
as air traffic controllers are finding it difficult to come
into work because they have other things to deal with.
They're being asked to work long hours or a few
of them available. And also because of the confusion with
snap funding, some states are starting to disperse funding, others
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are not. There's still an ongoing legal battle over whether
there is some bank account full of money that can
at least temporarily fund this program, and the Supreme Court,
a Supreme Court justice, a single one, said, we need
to wait for the appeals court to hear what the
Trump administration, which opposes dispersing those funds, has to say
about this situation.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So all of that is up in the air.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But if you are at LAX or Ontario Airport, or
San Diego Airport, San Francisco, some of these larger airports,
you're already dealing with it. Here's the latest four air
travel including from right here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
ABC News exclusively obtaining the list of the forty airports
that will be affected, from Hartsville Jackson in Atlanta to
LAX in Los Angeles, and from Miami to JFK in
New York. Sources say the FAA will begin at four
percent of the flights tomorrow and will ramp up to
ten percent of flights through the coming weekend if the
government is still shut down.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Here at United, they have told us they were successfully
able to rebook people and passengers within four hours of
their next available flight, so United saying they were able
to move on that. Other airlines as well, American Delta
also sharing that they were able to do so. But look,
passengers tell me they're nervous. How do you get your
flight back home to your destination? Right? So, if you're
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heading out to travel and this is just the first
leg of your travel, that is some of the anxiety
already that so many travelers and passengers tell me that
they're worried about.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
They have a tremendous amount of fees that are that
are building up. You know, when they get back paid,
it's not going to be enough. They need more money
than what we're going to be back paid to pay
all the people to the oh, it's really became a
snowball effect at this point.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We took an oath to pull the constitution.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You took an oath, the polled the constitution.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Fund the government, fix what you need to do because
the people, the one million employees that are not being
paid right now across the country or furlough the government shutdown.
This is insane the impacts that these guys are facings.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's financial, but.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
It's also mental.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's very stressful, not annoying.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
When you're going to get your next paycheck.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Travel is stressful enough, and then you put these restrictions
in place in it, and it really makes everything more challenging.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
We make plans based on the flights that we buy,
so it worries me and maybe we can use our
flight and lose our jobs. But I also do want
to go see my family, So I mean I'm going
to take the risk.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I guess flight aware it's going to show you what
the delays and cancelations are, but more importantly, it's also
showing you other flights on that same route and which
ones are available. So airlines like United, they've already said,
you know what, we will go ahead, whether your flight
is affected or not. We'll give you a refund so
that you can make any change.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
For the travelers who have made it here and are
fortunate to have their flight that is listed on time,
they feel this sense of relief. Actually, for international travelers
that's been a big talking point over here. They're being
able to fly due to the international agreements that we
have with that flight space. But when it comes to
domestic flights, that is the concern. Sean Duffy, the Secretary
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of Transportation, is stressing that this FAA decision was made
with safety in mind. Now, keep in mind if you
are traveling, it is up to the airline to notify
their customers directly of any changes, work to rebook passengers,
or offer a refund. Melissa Dahn eighty News Los Angeles
International Airport.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So it is a mess. It is in fact a
mess now.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A few days ago, the federal government said we are
going to be reducing flight capacity at these forty airports,
including lax Ontario and San Diego by ten percent. Now
that has not happened yet. This reduction is only four percent.
This is the fallout from a four percent reduction in
flight capacity. As long as the government remains shut down,
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it will incrementally decrease that capacity further until it hits
ten percent late next week. So this situation could only
get worse all across the country. As of this afternoon,
Flight Tracker, the website you heard referenced there, said there
were more than fifty six hundred delayed flights across the
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country and more than seventeen hundred cancelations. And it is
already a pain to travel these days, between security lines
and airplanes themselves being more uncomfortable and stingier than they
used to be. Now you've got all these cancelations, and
here we are just a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving
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and the holiday travel rush and then the holiday season starting.
And if this thing drags on and the flight reduction capacity,
the flight capacity reduction remains in place, it's just going
to be an absolute mess and you might be better
off just to stay home right now. According to flight Tracker,
as of this moment, at LAX, there have been more
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than two hundred and forty delayed flights and fifty three
total cancelations. In San Diego today one hundred twenty six
total delays, twenty three cancelations, and Ontario International Airport fifty
one total delays and four total cancelations. Keep in mind
those numbers reflect both inbound and outbound flights, so it's
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not necessarily all of those flights are originating here. Some
of them were planned to arrive at some point at
these local airports, but not anymore. That is just an
absolute travel mess. It's a bit of a holiday weekend
for a lot of people as well. We've got Veterans
Day on Tuesday, so you could imagine that there were
probably a lot of people who were looking to take
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advantage of that federal holiday by sneaking out of town
yesterday for a nice long weekend, and that stretches into
early next week.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
What chaos. What chaos.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Meanwhile, people on foodstamps or SNAP and here in California
cal Fresh, they're feeling this government shut down. We got
a call in the newsroom yesterday in the middle of
the morning, late morning, i would say, from a listener,
a guy who said, my cal Fresh card got loaded,
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and that was news to me. But it looks like
some states have been able to start to disperse some funds.
Other states have not. So even that part is a
bit confusing. Folks who are getting their funding maybe not
getting all of the funding that they want.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Here's the latest on that.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Justice Cantaji Brown Jackson temporarily blocking in order to release
fully funded SNAP benefits after the Trump administration appealed a
decision from a federal judge who ordered them to pay up.
The temporary pause gives the appeals court more time to
weigh the legal arguments in the case. Attorney General Pam
Bondi posting a single district court in Rhode Island should
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not be able to see center stage in the shutdown
seek to upend political negotiations and dictate its own preferences
for how scarce federal funds should be spent Privately, Lawmakers
acknowledge that something has to be done, that the consequences
are only getting more devastating as each week goes by.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Some lawmakers are saying that it might be the brutal
Thanksgiving travel rush and disruptions that really pressure lawmakers to
do something and to compromise. Some of these states are
basically dipping into their own state funding to distribute that money,
including in Connecticut, where we've been talking to some very
relieved Americans about getting those benefits, including Christina Morales.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
She's thirty nine.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
She actually showed us that those SNAP benefits have been
loaded into her account.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
She tells us it's a huge sigh of relief as.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
She has been struggling to support her family, her child
after that SNAP funding ran out.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
On November first, Majority Leader John Thunne calling a Democratic
proposal to end the shutdown a non starter.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Republicans are not about to further burden taxpayers by blindly
extending a flawed program.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Democrats support, including a one year extension of the Affordable
Care Act tax credits Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's simply agreeing to maintain current funding levels.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
A one year extension is something many Republicans themselves have
said they want.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
This on day thirty nine of the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Day thirty nine of the shutdown, Day forty comes tomorrow,
and while there has been some movement in Washington, DC,
at least it seems like some new energy to get
some negotiations going, there's no end in sight yet.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
These folks.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I've seen some of those national political reporters say that
the Democrats and the Republicans look just as far apart
as they were when this whole thing started.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So muckle in.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It doesn't look like this is going to end anytime soon,
and it's only going to get worse for all of
us who live here in these United States. We have
a full show coming up for the next two hours.
This was a crazy busy week. We did have an
election across the country, including here in California on Proposition fifty,
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which was overwhelmingly by thirty points approved by voters here
in this state to redraw the congressional districts and send
likely more Democrats to Congress next year. Governor Newsom is
so happy about that. He has left California and gone
to another state to talk about what a victory it was.
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And you're gonna hear what he had to say in Texas.
Coming up next. By the way, the Port of Long
Beach says things have been good this year in spite
of the tariffs, but you might notice fewer items on
the shelves for Christmas. We'll get into that as well
as Michael Monks reports continues here on this Saturday night
in southern California.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Michael Monks from KFI News with you till nine o'clock
on this lovely Saturday night in southern California. Good Saturday
for the USC Trojans, twentieth ranked in the country. They've
improved as seven and two after taking care of the
Northwestern Wildcats thirty eight to seventeen. Meanwhile, your UCLA Bruins
are at the Rose Bowl right now with their three
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and five record. They are losing fourteen to seven in
the second quarter against the visiting corn Huskers of Nebraska,
twenty fifth ranked in the country. We'll keep an eye
on that game throughout the night, we were talking about
the delays at airports across the country, including here in
Southern California, cancelations as well. A report came out this
week that showed LAX already scores badly on international travel
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weight times during the holidays. So if you go overseas
for Christmas or New Year's you already know what a
mess LAX can be, and this government shutdown is likely
not going to help that situation. So a website issued
a list of airports with the worst wait times for
international travel during the holiday season, and LAX came close
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to winning that title. Orlando International Airport, which handles far
fewer international travelers during the holidays, was first place. LAX,
which accommodates the third most international travelers during the holidays
among major US airports, had the second longest wait times.
The website Upgraded Points is the one that released this information.
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Orlando had an average weight time of thirty two point
seven minutes, while LAX recorded an average of thirty point
three minutes. What Upgraded Points evaluated was US Customs and
Border Protection data for travelers passing through immigration and customs
during the twenty twenty four winter holiday travel season from
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the week before Christmas through the New Year holiday to
calculate its rankings. If you have comments about air travel
right now, if you have changed your plans for traveling,
especially as the holidays approach, let us know.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I love hearing from you on these Saturday nights.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
All you do is open up the iHeartRadio app, click
on that talkback button. We'll play some of your comments
about that or anything else we discussed today on this program,
including the successful push for Proposition fifty, which overwhelmingly was
approved by voters across the state on Tuesday, meaning that
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the congressional districts in California will be redrawn for next
year's elections and it will tilt heavily in favor of
more Democrats going to Washington to represent this state.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Here's what Governor Newsom said after the victory.
Speaker 13 (13:52):
What a night for the Democratic Party, A party that
is in its ascendency, a party that's on its no
longer on its heels. It sent a powerful message to
an historic president. Donald Trump is an historic president.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He is the.
Speaker 13 (14:11):
Most historically unpopular president in modern history. After poking the bear,
this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special
election with an extraordinary result. We need the state of Virginia.
We need the state of Maryland. We need our friends
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in New York and Illinois and Colorado. We need to
see other states with the remarkable leaders that have been
doing remarkable things meet this moment head on as well.
We can de facto end Donald Trump's presidency as we
know it. The minute Speaker Jeffries gets sworn in as
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Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is all on
the line. This is about those that feel alone, those
that feel isolated, those that feel an anxiety and a
stress that they never could have imagined in their lives.
This was about saying to them, we have your back,
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we see you, you matter, we care.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That was Governor Newsom on Tuesday, after Proposition fifty one
overwhelming approval from the voters of California. It won by
about thirty points at the latest count. Here is what
voters and analysts had to say about the results.
Speaker 14 (15:35):
Young voters were key to Mom Donnie's win, as well
as Prop fifty, which passed in California for a new
congressional map, and this was a direct response to Texas's redistricting.
Governor Gavin Newsom using that moment to take jobs at
President Trump, calling him historically unpopular, while also looking ahead
to the midterms.
Speaker 15 (15:54):
So we can get who want to say, Trump out
and make everything back great for everybody, not just for
certain people.
Speaker 16 (16:06):
Just in regards to the way the economy is, as
well in regards to society itself. I feel like some
changes need to be made, and I feel like it's
a good step in that direction.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Governor Newsom has this plan and the President has his,
but we need to come to some fair solution.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
So voters give the ok to Proposition fifty, but hold
your horses. Republicans are not finished fighting this thing.
Speaker 12 (16:32):
Hours after California voters overwhelmingly approved a plan to allow
the redrawing of congressional districts to favor Democrats, now California
Republicans have file the federal lawsuit claiming the new congressional
maps would be unconstitutional because they use race as a
factor in drawing the lines. An attorney behind the lawsuit
predictions will go to the US Supreme Court. Republicans were
previously unsuccessful at stopping the vote. Governor Gavin NEWSOM'SAFIUS predicts
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the lawsuit will fail. Alec Stone ABC Sancheles.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And Governor Newsom has been on a bit of a
victory tour, not just celebrating here in California, he went
back to Texas, where this whole argument started. Remember, Texas
has redrawn its congressional districts mid decade, and those new
maps favor Republicans, and there's been arguments that President Trump
pushed for Governor Abbott in Texas to do this. The
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razor thin margin that the Republicans control the House with
right now is threatened next year. Any small margin like that,
especially in a midterm election where the president's party typically
loses ground in the US House. So now Governor Newsom
has gone to Texas to rally Democrats there.
Speaker 13 (17:47):
Thank you for inspiring a nation Texas. Thank you for
inspiring the state of California.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Thank you for Proposition fifty.
Speaker 13 (18:00):
You didn't just have your back here, you had our
back in state of California. We were looking for a fight,
not only that we can win, but.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
A fight worth fighting for.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And that is why I'm here, Governor Newsom in Texas today,
on this Saturday. I'm sure you are starting to feel
the twitch of the holiday season approaching, maybe making your
Christmas list checking it twice. All that good stuff. The
weather is turning. It feels really nice out. There may
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be fewer items on the shelves for Christmas. The Port
of Long Beach has released its monthly numbers and it
shows that it's been a great year for cargo. But
we'll talk about why. The leader at the Port of
Long Beach says, you know, there might be fewer things
on the shelves. Also, last Saturday, at this time, the
Dodgers were in the midst of Game seven of the
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World Series against the Blue Jays. Of course they would
ultimately win that, and then some celebrations went into the streets.
Nothing like last year, but there were some street takeovers
and the Sheriff's department has caught up with some of
the culprits days later and took their vehicles. We'll talk
about that coming up. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
On Michael Monks from KFI News with you till nine
o'clock tonight. Someone has been arrested for threatening to kill
Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia is the former mayor of Long
Beach who now represents that part of the county in
the US House of Representatives, and because of Prop. Fifty,
it looks like if he's reelected, he'll represent a lot
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of the Orange County coastal area as well, much to
the chagrin of Republicans there. But it went from a
celebratory week for Democrats like Garcia to one of concern.
This was a threat that the US Capitol Police in Washington,
d C. Was able to uncover and make an arrest over.
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This involves forty three year old Richard Griffin. The US
Capitol Police say this guy has a history of emailing
a congressional office, as well as various government officials and
law enforcement issues. The Congressman's office says this guy allegedly
sent a message to his congressional office stating that he
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was going to travel to Washington, d C. To kill
him and Griffin was spotted by Capitol police around twelve
thirty pm on Tuesday and was stopped before he could
attempt to go through security screening at the Delaware Avenue
door of the Russell Senate Office Building. Now, the Congressman
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was here in California at the time. Griffin had been
the subject of a be on the Lookout bulletin published
by the Capitol Police's Threat Assessment Section on October twenty eight.
So this man apparently traveled from Pennsylvania to Washington, d C.
And allegedly to follow through on that threat to a
local congressmen from Long Beach. Meanwhile, in Long Beach, it's
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been a very busy year at the port, just like
it has been at the Port of Los Angeles as well.
It's these tariffs and the changing policy towards trade. It
got a lot of retailers and manufacturers to front low
their orders, so there was a ton of product moving
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into the ports. And now in September and October, we've
started to see a decline in the amount of traffic
that was going on. In October at the Port of
Long Beach, cargo traffic was down fourteen point nine percent
compared to October last year. So it looks like everything
that was coming into the country has already come into
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the country. But here's the important part for our purposes. Today,
the port says there is a noticeable decline in the
amount of stuff that folks like to buy a Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Ports CEO Mario Cordero says we are.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Anticipating a robust Black Friday, but consumers are likely to
be a little more cautious with their spending this year
due to rising prices, and he says this is reflected
by a slight decline in the types of goods usually
purchased as gift items. So the port moved ninety eight
thousand of those shipping containers filled with sweaters and coats
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and sweatshirts. That's down fifty two percent from the same
point last year. He also says the port moved sixty
five thousand shipping containers of refrigerators and other kitchen appliances.
That's down more than three percent from last year.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And here's the.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bad news for the kiddies toys and games from China.
They filled sixty two thousand shipping containers this year, but
that was down two point three percent compared to twenty
twenty four. Corderos says, rest assured we are doing our
part to ensure retailers keep the shelves stocked during the
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extraordinary time of consumer demand and shoppers will be able
to purchase their gifts for the holidays. He actually says
we look forward to a moderate increase in cargo in
twenty twenty six. He says, we're paying close attention how
our workforce and customers may be affected as trade policies
continue to evolve. So what are you thinking. Are you
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looking to scale back your spending this holiday season? Or
have you noticed price increases or product shortages for things
that you're looking for. Open up the iHeartRadio app and
click on that talkback button and let us know how
you're feeling about that or anything else that's on your
mind tonight. I want to know that Mario Cordero, the
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port CEO in Long Beach, spoke specifically about tariff policy.
He said, when these tariffs were first announced, at the time,
I said that these concerns were certainly legitimate. However, I
also said, let's step back and see how the tariff
policy conversations play out. And Cordero goes on to say, clearly,
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today it's fair to say that the worst scenarios that
some predicted did not occur. So even though cargo traffic
plummeted in October, it also dropped in September. It was
record breaking traffic for most of the year. In fact,
for the first time in port history, they've handled like
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ten million shipping containers. That's the first time, despite those
earlier predictions of ten to thirty five percent loss of
year to year cargo volumes because of those tariffs.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
There is one.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Guy who spoke today and said, yeah, the tariffs are
actually pretty terrible. This is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carr,
after he released his national budget.
Speaker 17 (25:02):
In the budget, we estimate that US tariffs and the
uncertainty that they're creating will cost Canadians about one point
eight percent of our GDP. Translating that is about fifty
billion dollars loss from our economy, the equivalent of about
thirteen hundred dollars for every Canadian. The world has become
more dangerous and divided, and that decades long process of
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an ever closer economic relationship between Canada United States is over.
The US has changed. That's their right, but we must respond.
That is our imperative.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So the tariff policies have certainly rubbed Canadian leaders the
wrong way. We hear from the Long Beach Port Leader
that the worst case scenarios of the tariffs did not
play out here. But keep an eye on products on
the shelf and keep an eye on the price. Whether
you can find what you're looking for and how much
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it cast. Remember, you can weigh in on our conversations
by opening up the iHeartRadio app and clicking on that
talkback button. We'll play some of your comments, like this
one from Kenneth.
Speaker 18 (26:09):
Please Michael Dula, Ricardo Laura story New York Times just released.
It's so relevant to this area and the car insurance situation.
You guys really uncovered a bomb show with this one.
Please follow up. I need your insight on it. Please, Michael,
talk about it tonight. Nobody's touching it on KFI.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
All right, Kenneth.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Just yesterday at two o'clock on the John COBLT Show,
I was on with lou Penrose, the host who was
filling in for John Well. John's away for a few days,
and we talked about this very topic. And that's not true.
It was a couple of days ago when John Colebelt
was in I talked about air travel with Loopinrose. Yesterday Thursday,
I went on with John coleblt and we talked about
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this very story. And the story that Kenneth was talking
about was a big, long story. But the New York Times,
by the way, with five different journalists byline on this,
and what they found was that State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo
Laro was trying to negotiate with insurance companies to get
them to ensure more customers in fire prone areas and
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exchange for allowing them to raise their rates a little bit,
he thought it would also get more people off of
the state's Fair Plan. That's like the insurance program of
last resort. When people can't get insurance privately at all,
they go to the fair plan, but it's expensive for
the state and not great for the customer. Instead, these
insurance companies were able to drop thousands and thousands and
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thousands of their customers and fire prone areas, raise their
rates anyway, and the number of folks on the state
Fair Plan almost doubled.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
That's hundreds of thousands, by the way.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So you can go check out the analysis on one
of the co Belt podcasts from Thursday and learn more
about this. Some survivors of the Eton fire and the
Palisades fire held a press conference just a couple of
days ago calling for Ricardo Lara's resignation and asking Governor
Newsom to support that call for Ricardo Lar's resignation, And
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you can read the full article, of course, at the
New York Times. If you google Ricardo Lara New York Times,
you'll be able to find that article. It's a very
long article, very detailed and as connethenticated, it's pretty frustrating
for folks who are experiencing this. Coming up next, arrest
after the celebration of the Dodgers World Series. It came
days after that celebration. We'll talk about why next.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News will be together till nine o'clock on this Saturday night.
In southern California, we have lost an off duty LAPD
officer was killed when his tesla crashed into a utility
pole in Santa Clarita today. The La County Fire Department
was called to Sendema Drive in Bouquet Canyon Road just
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after two o'clock this morning, where they found the vehicle
in gulfed in flames. Firefighters put out that fire and
said the driver was dead right there at the scene.
Deputies observed this tesla heavily damaged with live electrical wires
hanging from the utility Pole. The LAPD confirmed this afternoon
that the victim was a man who works as a
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police officer was off duty at the time, not immediately
identified while his family and fellow officers were being notified.
According to Sheriff's officials, a woman was arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence after she drove through the
crash scene, but she was not involved in that earlier accident.
Please say the Sheriff's department will handle the investigation. Another
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investigation from the Sheriff's Department has not land people behind bars,
but it's landed their cars there. One week ago today,
the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series for the
second season in a row in a dramatic, extra ending
battle with the Blue Jays. If I take you back
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a year ago, you may recall the chaos that flowed
into the streets of LA, particularly downtown Echo Park in
East LA in celebration of the Dodgers win. Was It
was a mess. You may recall a metro bus being torched.
You may recall a lot of police having to march
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down the streets ready to rock and roll, and you
may recall street takeovers. That is when these cars spin
around really fast in circles in an intersection, usually surrounded
by a crowd of people.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It looks very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
The videos I've seen show these cars coming dangerously close
to people who are watching them, and this is something
that local officials have been wanting to crack down.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
On.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Last Saturday, the celebrations were much more contained. The LAPD
was putting out notices all night leading up to the
finish saying we've got units staged everywhere. We're not putting
up with any nonsense. And they didn't. They really didn't,
and the Sheriff's Department isn't either. They say there were
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some street takeovers and days later they managed to catch
up with some of the owners of these vehicles and
confiscate their cars. They put out video that sounded like
this showing those street takeovers from last Saturday. The Sheriff's
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Department put out a statement that said chaos ensued when
several drivers were observed by deputies driving their vehicles in
a reckless manner. Several vehicles were utilized to conduct street
takeovers and perform burnouts and doughnuts in the middle of
multiple intersections, putting other motorists and celebrating pedestrians in danger.
So detectives with the Sheriff's Department's Major Crimes Bureau, they
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got court orders authorizing the seizures of these vehicles for
up to thirty days. So they went out on Thursday
and found and seized five of these cars at homes
across Los Angeles and East Los Angeles and Norwalk.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And they say they're not finished. They are still working
this case.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
They have video and they are identifying license plates, and
they plan to find these other drivers as well. In fact,
they say, if there are any snitches out there, if
you saw anybody witnessing reckless driving during World Series celebrations
in East LA last weekend or may have information, go
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ahead and call the Major Crimes Bureau and turn some
folks in. These street takeovers are something that La County
officials have been trying to crack the down on. It
was just this past August where La County DA Nathan
Hockman called for tougher penalties against people who get swept
up in these street takeovers, even if you're just there
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as a spectator. And we've also had multiple meetings at
La City Hall and at the La County Board of
Supervisors meetings to get feedback on how to better address this. Now,
there are some folks who are an elected office that
are sympathetic to these street takeovers. They want to maybe
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find they've talked about possibly finding legal locations for these
types of car events to take place. But there are
others who are getting tougher on crime. And that's sort
of the dichotomy of LA politics right now. You know,
most of the folks who are elected are at the
very least Democrats, and then it goes left from there.
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And at La City Hall, for example, we did hear
some of the further left members of the City Council
call for better engagement with the car community, and at
the Board of Supervisors meetings they've talked about exploring legal
areas for these events to take place. But last Saturday
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represented something I thought was interesting. It was a very
tough on crime approach to a very celebratory day.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
This wasn't even.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Violent protest that we saw in June or five years ago.
This was the Dodgers winning the World Series and law
enforcement anticipating that there would be a lot of people
out in the streets maybe getting up to the antics
that they got up to last year, and they acted
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in advance. They said we're not tolerating it and there
will be a price to pay for it. Before the
Dodgers game was even over, last Saturday night, a bar
was shut down because of capacity issues. Folks from that
bar in Echo Parks billed out into the street. The
police showed up, declared an unlawful assembly and told everybody
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to go home. The game was still being played. That's
how serious it was. Your thoughts are welcome on the
iHeartRadio app. Click on that talkback button. We'll play some
of your comments in our next hour, which we'll start
with La County's Board of Supervisors saying we don't want
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to pay fraudulent sex abuse claims, so we're going to
take steps to keep predatory lawyers away from our vulnerable citizens. Allegedly,
attorneys have been targeting people at government social services offices
and convincing them for the low price of two hundred
bucks to say they were molested by La County staff
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so that they could join in on this multi billion
dollar lawsuit. We'll talk about what the county is doing
to address that next as Michael Monks Reports continues right
here on KFI AM sixty Kfi
Speaker 1 (36:30):
AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you till nine o'clock tonight. Another beautiful autumn
day in southern California. But my goodness, it is chaot
account there as the federal government shutdown hits day thirty nine.
Tomorrow Sunday will be day forty the longest federal government
shut down in history. And you know, at first it
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was a bit of a political football. Then they'll come
back to the table, they'll reopen. But now people are
feeling it. A lot more people are feeling it. Of course,
the federal government workforce was feeling it almost instantly as
soon as the first pay period rolled around and they
only got a partial paycheck, and now they're.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Getting no paychecks.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
And then its snowballed into a significant issue at our airports,
as air traffic controllers are finding it difficult to come
into work because they have other things to deal with.
They're being asked to work long hours or a few
of them available. And also because of the confusion with
snap funding, some states are starting to disperse funding, others
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are not. There's still an ongoing legal battle over whether
there is some bank account full of money that can
at least temporarily fund this program, and the Supreme Court,
a Supreme Court justice, a single one, said, we need
to wait for the appeals court to hear what the
Trump administration, which opposes dispersing those funds, has to say
about this situation.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
So all of that is up in the air.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
But if you are at LAX or Ontario Airport, or
San Diego Airport, San Francisco, some of these larger airports,
you're already dealing with it. Here's the latest four air
travel including from right here in southern California.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
ABC News exclusively obtaining the list of the forty airports
that will be affected, from Hartsville Jackson in Atlanta to
LAX in Los Angeles, and from Miami to JFK in
New York. Sources say the FAA will begin at four
percent of the flights tomorrow and will ramp up to
ten percent of flights through the coming weekend if the
government is still shut down.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Here at United, they have told us they were successfully
able to rebook people and passengers within four hours of
their next available flight, so United saying they were able
to move on that. Other airlines as well, American Delta
also sharing that they were able to do so. But look,
passengers tell me they're nervous. How do you get your
flight back home to your destination? Right? So, if you're
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heading out to travel and this is just the first
leg of your travel, that is some of the anxiety
already that so many travelers and passengers tell me that
they're worried about.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
They have a tremendous amount of fees that are that
are building up. You know, when they get back paid,
it's not going to be enough. They need more money
than what we're going to be back paid to pay
all the people to the oh, it's really became a
snowball effect at this point.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
We took an oath to pull the constitution.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
You took an oath, the polled the constitution.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Fund the government, fix what you need to do because
the people, the one million employees that are not being
paid right now across the country or furlough the government shutdown.
This is insane the impacts that these guys are facings.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's financial, but.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
It's also mental.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It's very stressful, not annoying.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
When you're going to get your next paycheck.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Travel is stressful enough, and then you put these restrictions
in place in it, and it really makes everything more challenging.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
We make plans based on the flights that we buy,
so it worries me and maybe we can use our
flight and lose our jobs. But I also do want
to go see my family, So I mean I'm going
to take the risk.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
I guess flight aware it's going to show you what
the delays and cancelations are, but more importantly, it's also
showing you other flights on that same route and which
ones are available. So airlines like United, they've already said,
you know what, we will go ahead, whether your flight
is affected or not. We'll give you a refund so
that you can make any change.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
For the travelers who have made it here and are
fortunate to have their flight that is listed on time,
they feel this sense of relief. Actually, for international travelers
that's been a big talking point over here. They're being
able to fly due to the international agreements that we
have with that flight space. But when it comes to
domestic flights, that is the concern. Sean Duffy, the Secretary
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of Transportation, is stressing that this FAA decision was made
with safety in mind. Now, keep in mind if you
are traveling, it is up to the airline to notify
their customers directly of any changes, work to rebook passengers,
or offer a refund. Melissa Dahn eighty News Los Angeles
International Airport.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
So it is a mess. It is in fact a
mess now.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
A few days ago, the federal government said we are
going to be reducing flight capacity at these forty airports,
including lax Ontario and San Diego by ten percent. Now
that has not happened yet. This reduction is only four percent.
This is the fallout from a four percent reduction in
flight capacity. As long as the government remains shut down,
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it will incrementally decrease that capacity further until it hits
ten percent late next week. So this situation could only
get worse all across the country. As of this afternoon,
Flight Tracker, the website you heard referenced there, said there
were more than fifty six hundred delayed flights across the
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country and more than seventeen hundred cancelations. And it is
already a pain to travel these days, between security lines
and airplanes themselves being more uncomfortable and stingier than they
used to be. Now you've got all these cancelations, and
here we are just a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving
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and the holiday travel rush and then the holiday season starting.
And if this thing drags on and the flight reduction capacity,
the flight capacity reduction remains in place, it's just going
to be an absolute mess and you might be better
off just to stay home right now. According to flight Tracker,
as of this moment, at LAX, there have been more
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than two hundred and forty delayed flights and fifty three
total cancelations. In San Diego today one hundred twenty six
total delays, twenty three cancelations, and Ontario International Airport fifty
one total delays and four total cancelations. Keep in mind
those numbers reflect both inbound and outbound flights, so it's
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not necessarily all of those flights are originating here. Some
of them were planned to arrive at some point at
these local airports, but not anymore. That is just an
absolute travel mess. It's a bit of a holiday weekend
for a lot of people as well. We've got Veterans
Day on Tuesday, so you could imagine that there were
probably a lot of people who were looking to take
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advantage of that federal holiday by sneaking out of town
yesterday for a nice long weekend, and that stretches into
early next week.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
What chaos. What chaos.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Meanwhile, people on foodstamps or SNAP and here in California
cal Fresh, they're feeling this government shut down. We got
a call in the newsroom yesterday in the middle of
the morning, late morning, i would say, from a listener,
a guy who said, my cal Fresh card got loaded,
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and that was news to me. But it looks like
some states have been able to start to disperse some funds.
Other states have not. So even that part is a
bit confusing. Folks who are getting their funding maybe not
getting all of the funding that they want.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Here's the latest on that.
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Justice Cantaji Brown Jackson temporarily blocking in order to release
fully funded SNAP benefits after the Trump administration appealed a
decision from a federal judge who ordered them to pay up.
The temporary pause gives the appeals court more time to
weigh the legal arguments in the case. Attorney General Pam
Bondi posting a single district court in Rhode Island should
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not be able to see center stage in the shutdown
seek to upend political negotiations and dictate its own preferences
for how scarce federal funds should be spent Privately, Lawmakers
acknowledge that something has to be done, that the consequences
are only getting more devastating as each week goes by.
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Some lawmakers are saying that it might be the brutal
Thanksgiving travel rush and disruptions that really pressure lawmakers to
do something and to compromise. Some of these states are
basically dipping into their own state funding to distribute that money,
including in Connecticut, where we've been talking to some very
relieved Americans about getting those benefits, including Christina Morales.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
She's thirty nine.
Speaker 10 (08:48):
She actually showed us that those SNAP benefits have been
loaded into her account.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
She tells us it's a huge sigh of relief as.
Speaker 10 (08:55):
She has been struggling to support her family, her child
after that SNAP funding ran out.
Speaker 11 (09:00):
On November first, Majority Leader John Thunne calling a Democratic
proposal to end the shutdown a non starter.
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Republicans are not about to further burden taxpayers by blindly
extending a flawed program.
Speaker 11 (09:12):
Democrats support, including a one year extension of the Affordable
Care Act tax credits Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
It's simply agreeing to maintain current funding levels.
Speaker 12 (09:21):
A one year extension is something many Republicans themselves have
said they want.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
This on day thirty nine of the shutdown.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Day thirty nine of the shutdown, Day forty comes tomorrow,
and while there has been some movement in Washington, DC,
at least it seems like some new energy to get
some negotiations going, there's no end in sight yet.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
These folks.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I've seen some of those national political reporters say that
the Democrats and the Republicans look just as far apart
as they were when this whole thing started.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
So muckle in.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
It doesn't look like this is going to end anytime soon,
and it's only going to get worse for all of
us who live here in these United States. We have
a full show coming up for the next two hours.
This was a crazy busy week. We did have an
election across the country, including here in California on Proposition fifty,
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which was overwhelmingly by thirty points approved by voters here
in this state to redraw the congressional districts and send
likely more Democrats to Congress next year. Governor Newsom is
so happy about that. He has left California and gone
to another state to talk about what a victory it was.
(10:40):
And you're gonna hear what he had to say in Texas.
Coming up next. By the way, the Port of Long
Beach says things have been good this year in spite
of the tariffs, but you might notice fewer items on
the shelves for Christmas. We'll get into that as well
as Michael Monks reports continues here on this Saturday night
in southern California.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Michael Monks from KFI News with you till nine o'clock
on this lovely Saturday night in southern California. Good Saturday
for the USC Trojans, twentieth ranked in the country. They've
improved as seven and two after taking care of the
Northwestern Wildcats thirty eight to seventeen. Meanwhile, your UCLA Bruins
are at the Rose Bowl right now with their three
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and five record. They are losing fourteen to seven in
the second quarter against the visiting corn Huskers of Nebraska,
twenty fifth ranked in the country. We'll keep an eye
on that game throughout the night, we were talking about
the delays at airports across the country, including here in
Southern California, cancelations as well. A report came out this
week that showed LAX already scores badly on international travel
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weight times during the holidays. So if you go overseas
for Christmas or New Year's you already know what a
mess LAX can be, and this government shutdown is likely
not going to help that situation. So a website issued
a list of airports with the worst wait times for
international travel during the holiday season, and LAX came close
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to winning that title. Orlando International Airport, which handles far
fewer international travelers during the holidays, was first place. LAX,
which accommodates the third most international travelers during the holidays
among major US airports, had the second longest wait times.
The website Upgraded Points is the one that released this information.
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Orlando had an average weight time of thirty two point
seven minutes, while LAX recorded an average of thirty point
three minutes. What Upgraded Points evaluated was US Customs and
Border Protection data for travelers passing through immigration and customs
during the twenty twenty four winter holiday travel season from
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the week before Christmas through the New Year holiday to
calculate its rankings. If you have comments about air travel
right now, if you have changed your plans for traveling,
especially as the holidays approach, let us know.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I love hearing from you on these Saturday nights.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
All you do is open up the iHeartRadio app, click
on that talkback button. We'll play some of your comments
about that or anything else we discussed today on this program,
including the successful push for Proposition fifty, which overwhelmingly was
approved by voters across the state on Tuesday, meaning that
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the congressional districts in California will be redrawn for next
year's elections and it will tilt heavily in favor of
more Democrats going to Washington to represent this state.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Here's what Governor Newsom said after the victory.
Speaker 13 (13:52):
What a night for the Democratic Party, A party that
is in its ascendency, a party that's on its no
longer on its heels. It sent a powerful message to
an historic president. Donald Trump is an historic president.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
He is the.
Speaker 13 (14:11):
Most historically unpopular president in modern history. After poking the bear,
this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special
election with an extraordinary result. We need the state of Virginia.
We need the state of Maryland. We need our friends
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in New York and Illinois and Colorado. We need to
see other states with the remarkable leaders that have been
doing remarkable things meet this moment head on as well.
We can de facto end Donald Trump's presidency as we
know it. The minute Speaker Jeffries gets sworn in as
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Speaker of the House of Representatives. It is all on
the line. This is about those that feel alone, those
that feel isolated, those that feel an anxiety and a
stress that they never could have imagined in their lives.
This was about saying to them, we have your back,
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we see you, you matter, we care.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
That was Governor Newsom on Tuesday, after Proposition fifty one
overwhelming approval from the voters of California. It won by
about thirty points at the latest count. Here is what
voters and analysts had to say about the results.
Speaker 14 (15:35):
Young voters were key to Mom Donnie's win, as well
as Prop fifty, which passed in California for a new
congressional map, and this was a direct response to Texas's redistricting.
Governor Gavin Newsom using that moment to take jobs at
President Trump, calling him historically unpopular, while also looking ahead
to the midterms.
Speaker 15 (15:54):
So we can get who want to say, Trump out
and make everything back great for everybody, not just for
certain people.
Speaker 16 (16:06):
Just in regards to the way the economy is, as
well in regards to society itself. I feel like some
changes need to be made, and I feel like it's
a good step in that direction.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
Governor Newsom has this plan and the President has his,
but we need to come to some fair solution.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
So voters give the ok to Proposition fifty, but hold
your horses. Republicans are not finished fighting this thing.
Speaker 12 (16:32):
Hours after California voters overwhelmingly approved a plan to allow
the redrawing of congressional districts to favor Democrats, now California
Republicans have file the federal lawsuit claiming the new congressional
maps would be unconstitutional because they use race as a
factor in drawing the lines. An attorney behind the lawsuit
predictions will go to the US Supreme Court. Republicans were
previously unsuccessful at stopping the vote. Governor Gavin NEWSOM'SAFIUS predicts
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the lawsuit will fail. Alec Stone ABC Sancheles.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And Governor Newsom has been on a bit of a
victory tour, not just celebrating here in California, he went
back to Texas, where this whole argument started. Remember, Texas
has redrawn its congressional districts mid decade, and those new
maps favor Republicans, and there's been arguments that President Trump
pushed for Governor Abbott in Texas to do this. The
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razor thin margin that the Republicans control the House with
right now is threatened next year. Any small margin like that,
especially in a midterm election where the president's party typically
loses ground in the US House. So now Governor Newsom
has gone to Texas to rally Democrats there.
Speaker 13 (17:47):
Thank you for inspiring a nation Texas. Thank you for
inspiring the state of California.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Thank you for Proposition fifty.
Speaker 13 (18:00):
You didn't just have your back here, you had our
back in state of California. We were looking for a fight,
not only that we can win, but.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
A fight worth fighting for.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
And that is why I'm here, Governor Newsom in Texas today,
on this Saturday. I'm sure you are starting to feel
the twitch of the holiday season approaching, maybe making your
Christmas list checking it twice. All that good stuff. The
weather is turning. It feels really nice out. There may
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be fewer items on the shelves for Christmas. The Port
of Long Beach has released its monthly numbers and it
shows that it's been a great year for cargo. But
we'll talk about why. The leader at the Port of
Long Beach says, you know, there might be fewer things
on the shelves. Also, last Saturday, at this time, the
Dodgers were in the midst of Game seven of the
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World Series against the Blue Jays. Of course they would
ultimately win that, and then some celebrations went into the streets.
Nothing like last year, but there were some street takeovers
and the Sheriff's department has caught up with some of
the culprits days later and took their vehicles. We'll talk
about that coming up. As Michael Monks Reports continues.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
On Michael Monks from KFI News with you till nine
o'clock tonight. Someone has been arrested for threatening to kill
Democratic Congressman Robert Garcia is the former mayor of Long
Beach who now represents that part of the county in
the US House of Representatives, and because of Prop. Fifty,
it looks like if he's reelected, he'll represent a lot
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of the Orange County coastal area as well, much to
the chagrin of Republicans there. But it went from a
celebratory week for Democrats like Garcia to one of concern.
This was a threat that the US Capitol Police in Washington,
d C. Was able to uncover and make an arrest over.
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This involves forty three year old Richard Griffin. The US
Capitol Police say this guy has a history of emailing
a congressional office, as well as various government officials and
law enforcement issues. The Congressman's office says this guy allegedly
sent a message to his congressional office stating that he
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was going to travel to Washington, d C. To kill
him and Griffin was spotted by Capitol police around twelve
thirty pm on Tuesday and was stopped before he could
attempt to go through security screening at the Delaware Avenue
door of the Russell Senate Office Building. Now, the Congressman
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was here in California at the time. Griffin had been
the subject of a be on the Lookout bulletin published
by the Capitol Police's Threat Assessment Section on October twenty eight.
So this man apparently traveled from Pennsylvania to Washington, d C.
And allegedly to follow through on that threat to a
local congressmen from Long Beach. Meanwhile, in Long Beach, it's
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been a very busy year at the port, just like
it has been at the Port of Los Angeles as well.
It's these tariffs and the changing policy towards trade. It
got a lot of retailers and manufacturers to front low
their orders, so there was a ton of product moving
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into the ports. And now in September and October, we've
started to see a decline in the amount of traffic
that was going on. In October at the Port of
Long Beach, cargo traffic was down fourteen point nine percent
compared to October last year. So it looks like everything
that was coming into the country has already come into
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the country. But here's the important part for our purposes. Today,
the port says there is a noticeable decline in the
amount of stuff that folks like to buy a Christmas time.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Ports CEO Mario Cordero says we are.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Anticipating a robust Black Friday, but consumers are likely to
be a little more cautious with their spending this year
due to rising prices, and he says this is reflected
by a slight decline in the types of goods usually
purchased as gift items. So the port moved ninety eight
thousand of those shipping containers filled with sweaters and coats
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and sweatshirts. That's down fifty two percent from the same
point last year. He also says the port moved sixty
five thousand shipping containers of refrigerators and other kitchen appliances.
That's down more than three percent from last year.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
And here's the.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bad news for the kiddies toys and games from China.
They filled sixty two thousand shipping containers this year, but
that was down two point three percent compared to twenty
twenty four. Corderos says, rest assured we are doing our
part to ensure retailers keep the shelves stocked during the
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extraordinary time of consumer demand and shoppers will be able
to purchase their gifts for the holidays. He actually says
we look forward to a moderate increase in cargo in
twenty twenty six. He says, we're paying close attention how
our workforce and customers may be affected as trade policies
continue to evolve. So what are you thinking. Are you
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looking to scale back your spending this holiday season? Or
have you noticed price increases or product shortages for things
that you're looking for. Open up the iHeartRadio app and
click on that talkback button and let us know how
you're feeling about that or anything else that's on your
mind tonight. I want to know that Mario Cordero, the
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port CEO in Long Beach, spoke specifically about tariff policy.
He said, when these tariffs were first announced, at the time,
I said that these concerns were certainly legitimate. However, I
also said, let's step back and see how the tariff
policy conversations play out. And Cordero goes on to say, clearly,
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today it's fair to say that the worst scenarios that
some predicted did not occur. So even though cargo traffic
plummeted in October, it also dropped in September. It was
record breaking traffic for most of the year. In fact,
for the first time in port history, they've handled like
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ten million shipping containers. That's the first time, despite those
earlier predictions of ten to thirty five percent loss of
year to year cargo volumes because of those tariffs.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
There is one.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Guy who spoke today and said, yeah, the tariffs are
actually pretty terrible. This is Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carr,
after he released his national budget.
Speaker 17 (25:02):
In the budget, we estimate that US tariffs and the
uncertainty that they're creating will cost Canadians about one point
eight percent of our GDP. Translating that is about fifty
billion dollars loss from our economy, the equivalent of about
thirteen hundred dollars for every Canadian. The world has become
more dangerous and divided, and that decades long process of
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an ever closer economic relationship between Canada United States is over.
The US has changed. That's their right, but we must respond.
That is our imperative.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
So the tariff policies have certainly rubbed Canadian leaders the
wrong way. We hear from the Long Beach Port Leader
that the worst case scenarios of the tariffs did not
play out here. But keep an eye on products on
the shelf and keep an eye on the price. Whether
you can find what you're looking for and how much
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it cast. Remember, you can weigh in on our conversations
by opening up the iHeartRadio app and clicking on that
talkback button. We'll play some of your comments, like this
one from Kenneth.
Speaker 18 (26:09):
Please Michael Dula, Ricardo Laura story New York Times just released.
It's so relevant to this area and the car insurance situation.
You guys really uncovered a bomb show with this one.
Please follow up. I need your insight on it. Please, Michael,
talk about it tonight. Nobody's touching it on KFI.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
All right, Kenneth.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Just yesterday at two o'clock on the John COBLT Show,
I was on with lou Penrose, the host who was
filling in for John Well. John's away for a few days,
and we talked about this very topic. And that's not true.
It was a couple of days ago when John Colebelt
was in I talked about air travel with Loopinrose. Yesterday Thursday,
I went on with John coleblt and we talked about
(26:55):
this very story. And the story that Kenneth was talking
about was a big, long story. But the New York Times,
by the way, with five different journalists byline on this,
and what they found was that State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo
Laro was trying to negotiate with insurance companies to get
them to ensure more customers in fire prone areas and
(27:17):
exchange for allowing them to raise their rates a little bit,
he thought it would also get more people off of
the state's Fair Plan. That's like the insurance program of
last resort. When people can't get insurance privately at all,
they go to the fair plan, but it's expensive for
the state and not great for the customer. Instead, these
insurance companies were able to drop thousands and thousands and
(27:39):
thousands of their customers and fire prone areas, raise their
rates anyway, and the number of folks on the state
Fair Plan almost doubled.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
That's hundreds of thousands, by the way.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So you can go check out the analysis on one
of the co Belt podcasts from Thursday and learn more
about this. Some survivors of the Eton fire and the
Palisades fire held a press conference just a couple of
days ago calling for Ricardo Lara's resignation and asking Governor
Newsom to support that call for Ricardo Lar's resignation, And
(28:16):
you can read the full article, of course, at the
New York Times. If you google Ricardo Lara New York Times,
you'll be able to find that article. It's a very
long article, very detailed and as connethenticated, it's pretty frustrating
for folks who are experiencing this. Coming up next, arrest
after the celebration of the Dodgers World Series. It came
days after that celebration. We'll talk about why next.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News will be together till nine o'clock on this Saturday night.
In southern California, we have lost an off duty LAPD
officer was killed when his tesla crashed into a utility
pole in Santa Clarita today. The La County Fire Department
was called to Sendema Drive in Bouquet Canyon Road just
(29:09):
after two o'clock this morning, where they found the vehicle
in gulfed in flames. Firefighters put out that fire and
said the driver was dead right there at the scene.
Deputies observed this tesla heavily damaged with live electrical wires
hanging from the utility Pole. The LAPD confirmed this afternoon
that the victim was a man who works as a
(29:32):
police officer was off duty at the time, not immediately
identified while his family and fellow officers were being notified.
According to Sheriff's officials, a woman was arrested on suspicion
of driving under the influence after she drove through the
crash scene, but she was not involved in that earlier accident.
Please say the Sheriff's department will handle the investigation. Another
(29:56):
investigation from the Sheriff's Department has not land people behind bars,
but it's landed their cars there. One week ago today,
the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series for the
second season in a row in a dramatic, extra ending
battle with the Blue Jays. If I take you back
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a year ago, you may recall the chaos that flowed
into the streets of LA, particularly downtown Echo Park in
East LA in celebration of the Dodgers win. Was It
was a mess. You may recall a metro bus being torched.
You may recall a lot of police having to march
(30:39):
down the streets ready to rock and roll, and you
may recall street takeovers. That is when these cars spin
around really fast in circles in an intersection, usually surrounded
by a crowd of people.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
It looks very dangerous.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
The videos I've seen show these cars coming dangerously close
to people who are watching them, and this is something
that local officials have been wanting to crack down.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
On.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Last Saturday, the celebrations were much more contained. The LAPD
was putting out notices all night leading up to the
finish saying we've got units staged everywhere. We're not putting
up with any nonsense. And they didn't. They really didn't,
and the Sheriff's Department isn't either. They say there were
(31:29):
some street takeovers and days later they managed to catch
up with some of the owners of these vehicles and
confiscate their cars. They put out video that sounded like
this showing those street takeovers from last Saturday. The Sheriff's
(32:01):
Department put out a statement that said chaos ensued when
several drivers were observed by deputies driving their vehicles in
a reckless manner. Several vehicles were utilized to conduct street
takeovers and perform burnouts and doughnuts in the middle of
multiple intersections, putting other motorists and celebrating pedestrians in danger.
So detectives with the Sheriff's Department's Major Crimes Bureau, they
(32:26):
got court orders authorizing the seizures of these vehicles for
up to thirty days. So they went out on Thursday
and found and seized five of these cars at homes
across Los Angeles and East Los Angeles and Norwalk.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
And they say they're not finished. They are still working
this case.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
They have video and they are identifying license plates, and
they plan to find these other drivers as well. In fact,
they say, if there are any snitches out there, if
you saw anybody witnessing reckless driving during World Series celebrations
in East LA last weekend or may have information, go
(33:12):
ahead and call the Major Crimes Bureau and turn some
folks in. These street takeovers are something that La County
officials have been trying to crack the down on. It
was just this past August where La County DA Nathan
Hockman called for tougher penalties against people who get swept
up in these street takeovers, even if you're just there
(33:35):
as a spectator. And we've also had multiple meetings at
La City Hall and at the La County Board of
Supervisors meetings to get feedback on how to better address this. Now,
there are some folks who are an elected office that
are sympathetic to these street takeovers. They want to maybe
(33:55):
find they've talked about possibly finding legal locations for these
types of car events to take place. But there are
others who are getting tougher on crime. And that's sort
of the dichotomy of LA politics right now. You know,
most of the folks who are elected are at the
very least Democrats, and then it goes left from there.
(34:19):
And at La City Hall, for example, we did hear
some of the further left members of the City Council
call for better engagement with the car community, and at
the Board of Supervisors meetings they've talked about exploring legal
areas for these events to take place. But last Saturday
(34:40):
represented something I thought was interesting. It was a very
tough on crime approach to a very celebratory day.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
This wasn't even.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Violent protest that we saw in June or five years ago.
This was the Dodgers winning the World Series and law
enforcement anticipating that there would be a lot of people
out in the streets maybe getting up to the antics
that they got up to last year, and they acted
(35:12):
in advance. They said we're not tolerating it and there
will be a price to pay for it. Before the
Dodgers game was even over, last Saturday night, a bar
was shut down because of capacity issues. Folks from that
bar in Echo Parks billed out into the street. The
police showed up, declared an unlawful assembly and told everybody
(35:33):
to go home. The game was still being played. That's
how serious it was. Your thoughts are welcome on the
iHeartRadio app. Click on that talkback button. We'll play some
of your comments in our next hour, which we'll start
with La County's Board of Supervisors saying we don't want
(35:55):
to pay fraudulent sex abuse claims, so we're going to
take steps to keep predatory lawyers away from our vulnerable citizens. Allegedly,
attorneys have been targeting people at government social services offices
and convincing them for the low price of two hundred
bucks to say they were molested by La County staff
(36:17):
so that they could join in on this multi billion
dollar lawsuit. We'll talk about what the county is doing
to address that next as Michael Monks Reports continues right
here on KFI AM sixty Kfi
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