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O'clock, straight up. This is your wake up call for Tuesday,
September thirtieth, last day of September. Can you believe it?
I'm Amy King. Good morning. We're live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app. Speaking of the iHeart Radio app, did you
know that California loves some Almond Joy? An instacart study
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found that almond joy is the number one favorite Halloween
candy in California. Personally, I can't stand them. That's just nationwide.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups took the top spot. Yeah, I'm
a big fan of Rees's Peanut butter Cups. Peanut m
and ms and Classic m and Ms round out the
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top three, followed by kit Kat and Snickers. Other sweet
treats in the top ten Sour Patch Kids all Right,
Hershey's Milk Chocolate, the Classic Milky Way Twicks love those,
and the Haribo or Hariboo gold Bears. The gummy bears.
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What's your favorite Halloween candy? Because we're almost October and
the candy is all over in every store except for Costco.
They've already moved on to Christmas, but everybody else has candy.
So what's your favorite candy? Let us know. Hit us
up on the talk back. If you're on the iHeartRadio app.
There's a little microphone in the upper right hand corner.
Would love to hear favorite candy. Also, Anne is wearing
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her San Diego podreised today representing I've got my Dodgers
jersey on today, and we were just talking before the show.
Don't be a hater ant. We were just talking about
how it's really cool because we don't have to plan
out what we're going to wear to work for the
next few days because we're going to be wearing our
respective team's jerseys, hopefully just the next two days. Hopefully
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we'll both win in two Here's what's ahead on wake
up Call. A government shutdown is looming just hours away.
Republican and Democrat leaders sat down with President Trump yesterday
to try to hammer out an agreement to a short
term deal, but no deal. The government runs out of
money at midnight tonight, a group of residents whose homes
(02:41):
were destroyed and the wildfire that tore through Altaden are
expected to call on state Attorney General Rob Bonta to
investigate La County's response to the fire that burned thousands
of homes. They say an after action report on the
fires that was released last week was conveniently worded pr spin.
They say they want public aidencies to be held accountable
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for their failures. Starting tomorrow, EV and hybrid drivers won't
have access to Hi HOV lanes unless they have a
passenger with them. The EV exemption for electric vehicles ends tomorrow,
October first. Some estimates suggest that a lot of commuters
bought electric vehicles to get the HOV pass rather than
to save the planet. Hundreds of generals and admirals from
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around the world are converging on Marine Corps based Quantico
in Virginia today. Why should we be worried? Kfi's White
House correspondent John Decker is joining us to fill us
in on that. In just a couple of minutes, President
Trump has laid out his twenty point plan to end
the war between Israel and Gaza. ABC's Jerdanna Miller in
Jerusalem's going to walk us through it. We'll get the
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latest on who's on board, what's in the deal, and
whether Hamas will take it. And only one in three
of us in the US have an emergency fund. The
host of How to Money on KFI, Joel Larsguard's going
to tell us how we can change that. That's coming
up before the top of the hour. Let's get started
with some of the stories coming out of the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom. La County has announced nearly two
(04:05):
million dollars to support businesses affected by federal immigration enforcement.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Applications for a new grant program are now open, offering
up to five thousand dollars in this first round. Supervisor
hill To Salise says, since immigration enforcement ramped up in
early June, people have lost income and live in fear.
Speaker 7 (04:20):
Our families, our workforce, and our slaw businesses are all
experiencing an incredibly difficult time and it is a fair
full time for many of our families.
Speaker 8 (04:30):
And business owners.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
The one point eight million dollars Small Business Resiliency Fund
is paid for through the county's Care First Community Investments program.
Applications are accepted through the end of October, Michael Monks
KFI news man.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
From Pasadenas's federal agents tricked his wife and took her
away during a scheduled green card meeting.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
Tucker May tells KTLA that his wife, who was from Brazil,
was following the rules when she attended a routine check
in two weeks ago. May says the agent's detained his
wife after separating her from her lawyer is as agents
cl her deportation is based on the meeting that she
missed six years ago, but the family says she was
not aware of that meeting. She's now in a federal
(05:07):
facility in Louisiana. The Feds toill KTLA that they are
looking into the matter. Mark Mayfield, KOFI News.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Nearly ten miles of new border wall is planned for
construction in San Diego County, as well as more infrastructure
like cameras and lights and roads along a roughly fifty
mile stretch of the US Mexico border. Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Christy Noams says the Border patrol San Diego
sector is an area of high illegal entry and there's
an acute need to build extra barriers to stop unlawful entries.
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A man's been arrested for having what turned out to
be a BB gun near Santa Monica High School. Police
got a call about a man with a gun yesterday afternoon.
The high school was briefly placed on lockdown. An investigation
determined the gun was a BB gun and there is
no ongoing threat. Let's take a first look at your
morning commute and say good morning to Michael Morris who's
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checking out a crash in Irwindale on the two ten
for us.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
Damie is on the westbound side of the two ten,
just past Vernon Avenue. It's a multi vehicle accident. The
two right hand lanes are blocked. This crash involves three
big rigs and five vehicles. We're talking a multi vehicle
wreck here. CHP says there are several beer cakes and
beer cans scattered all over the roadway. This accident took
place near the Old Miller Brewery. The Vernon On ramp
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to the west two ten that's also closed. In the meantime.
Two ten west very slow, as you can imagine, from
Sunflower Avenue to Irwindale Avenue. Now, if you want to
take the ten westbound as an alternative route, well you can,
but it's slow right now between Baranka and Vincent Avenue.
We have a countrans project. It's going on for another hour.
On the four or five northbound. The left hand lane
shut down for median barrier work between Wilshire Boulevard and
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Skirtball Center Drive. And as I mentioned, quitting times in
an hour from now, no slowing leaving the west side
heading to the SUPULVTA Pass. Five northbound just passed the
one thirty four. An accident involving a pickup truck hauling
a trailer has just cleared from the carpool lane. The
Southern California most acrit traffic reports. I'm Mike Morris, free
beer and Irwindale.
Speaker 11 (07:05):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Nice, Hope everybody's okay. Let's say good morning now too.
Kfi's White House correspondent John Decker, So, John, hundreds of
generals and admirals are gathering at Quantico for a meeting
that everybody's losing their minds about President Trump's going to
be there. What's it all about?
Speaker 9 (07:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (07:24):
I wish I had a definitive answer for you, Amy.
I don't know. I don't think anybody knows definitively what
this meeting is all about, including all of those admirals
and generals from around the world that are flying in
for this meeting, about a thousand people altogether. You're talking
about admirals and generals from every corner of the earth
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flying in for this meeting with the Commander in Chief
and the Secretary of War. The President asked about it
over the weekend on NBC News, saying, essentially, it's a
pep rally more than anything else. He talked about US
free de corps. That's the phrase that the President used.
I think that there are some who are attending this
meeting that are concerned about cutbacks in terms of military
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personnel at the Pentagon. We've seen some cutbacks already, including
some very high level ranking individuals who serve our country
in uniform who've been relieved of their duties since President
Trump was sworn in, And so that I think is
on the minds of some of those traveling to Quantico,
Virginia today for this meeting.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And it's just one day.
Speaker 12 (08:30):
Not even just one full day. The President's flying flying
down to Quantico all Marine one that will be in
about an hour or so. He'll go down there and
be there for approximately ninety minutes and then he flies
back to the White House, so not a full day.
So think about that for these general admirals who've flown
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in from all across the world. They've flown in for
a meeting that's not lasting very long. And you have
to wonder about the cost benefit of having this meeting
in person. There certainly are there are ways to have
such a meeting with all of the technology, all the
security that can be had online, but the President wanted
to have this meeting in person, and you can only
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imagine a kind of physical security the Secret Service will
have to contend with today with all of these commanders
war commanders in the same place at the same time,
along with the commander in chief.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
And when this was first announced John, like I mentioned,
everybody just lost their minds. Everybody like really panicked, like
what is happening? Are we canceling the military? Are we
going to war? I mean, like everybody just kind of
freaked out. And then President Trump was asked about it.
I think it was in the Oval on Friday, and
he goes, I think it's a great idea, Like it
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was no big deal.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, he's certainly playing down this. This meeting,
which I think was a meeting that was conceived initially
not by the President, not by the Commander in chief,
but actually by Pete Hegseth, the command the Secretar of War,
and the President obviously wants to be there, wants to
address his admirals as generals from around the world. They're
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one star and up. And so the President, you know,
will certainly take place in this meeting, and as you
point out when he was asked about it Friday in
the Oval Office, playing down you know, all of the
significance of this particular meeting. That all being said, Amy,
I've covered the White House going all the way back
to Bill Clinton's first term, and I cannot recall any
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kind of meeting like the one that will take place
this morning in Quantico, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Okay, well, we'll soon know. Maybe maybe they're not going
to tell us what happened at the meeting. Who knows.
Kfi's White House correspondent, John Decker, thanks so much for
your time. Hopefully we'll know more soon. Let's find out
more about what kind of candy you like for getting
calls in on the talk back KitKat. Someone just called
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in and said KitKat is where it's at. I do
like me a good kit Cat, But according to this
Instacart survey, Almond Joy is the favored candy of Californians.
I'm not buying that, but I've never been an Almond
Joy fan. So when you're on the iHeartRadio app, let
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us know which your favorite candy. Let's get back to
some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. No agreement to avoid a government shutdown
has been reached in a meeting between President Trump and
top Democratic and Republican congressional leaders. Democrats want funding restored
for the Affordable Care Act and for Medicaid. Republicans say
that was never on the table. Vice President Van says,
(11:36):
the Democrats are playing a dangerous game.
Speaker 13 (11:38):
You don't say the fact that you disagree about a
particular tax revision is an excuse for shutting down to
the people's government and all the essential services that come
along with it.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
The federal government shuts down tonight at midnight if there's
no agreement on a funding build authorities in Michigan say
the search of a Mormon church set on fire Sunday
is complete and no more bodies have been found. Police
had feared that they would find more people in the
charred church building, but now they say they believe that
everyone has been accounted for. Investigators are focusing on what
(12:08):
motivated a former marine to ram his pickup truck into
the church, began shooting people, and then set the building
on fire. Four were killed, several or in the hospital.
The attacker was killed by police. At least three students
have been killed in the collapse of an Islamic school
in Indonesia. More than one hundred people were hurt yesterday
(12:28):
and dozens were missing. Rescuers ran oxygen and water to
students trapped in the rubble and say they saw bodies,
so the death tolls expected to rise. The students affected
were mostly boys between the ages of twelve and seventeen.
Keeping it kind is a key to social media health.
Speaker 13 (12:47):
New researchers confirming the idea that keeping things positive helps
online communities thrive. Cornell created a platform called vid share
where every video, comment and reply was scripted, and people
would upvote or down vote the responses. The negative replies
of insults are threats overwhelmingly created a cycle of more hostility,
while restorative responses created a space where people felt satisfied
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and more likely to stay engaged. Researchers say social media
companies could highlight constructive responses that appeal to shared values
and help change the culture of online conversations. Michael Krozer
KFI News.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Asking for your favorite candy instacart survey says that Californians
love Almond Joys. Nationally, it's supposed to be Reese's Peanut buttercups.
We would love to hear what you have to say.
Speaker 11 (13:36):
Hey, what's up, KFI.
Speaker 8 (13:39):
I think my favorite candy is cat Cat. I don't know.
I like them all. I'm a pig back.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I like them all. I love Halloween. It is Halloween
time at the Disneyland Resort, you know, and k IF
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Park and Disneyland Park through October thirty first, and the
parks are fabulous at this time. Those tickets are going
to be given away soon soon. Here's what we're following.
(14:34):
Swastikas and anti Jewish slurs have been found scrawled on driveways, sidewalks, hydrants,
and on public property in South Glendale. Fully say that
graffiti was reported Sunday. The anti Semitic graffiti was found
throughout the Adams Hills neighborhood. Glendale Police investigating it as
a hate crime and asking anyone with information to call
(14:56):
Glendale PD. The body of a fifteen year old girl
had been in the trunk of a tesla owned by
singer David for what police say was several weeks. Celeste
Reeves's body was found September eighth in the tesla's front
trunk after a worker at a towyard in Hollywood smell
the foul order odor. No arrests have been made. Rep
for David has said that the singer is cooperating with investigators.
(15:19):
School buses will be used to transport Olympics spectators to events.
At the twenty twenty eighth Summer Games in LA Organizers
say more than five hundred electric buses from several school
districts will be used to shuttle people around. It's part
of an effort to reduce the environmental impact of the games.
At six oh five, it's handle on the news. What
will the impact be of a government shutdown? Well, we
(15:41):
might find out the shutdowns looming at midnight if no
deal is made. Bill's going to be talking about that.
Let's say good Morning now too. ABC's Geordana Miller in Jerusalem. Gordana,
President Trump and Benjamin Nettanne, who presented a twenty point
plan for peace in the Gaza strip. What's in the deal?
Speaker 11 (16:01):
All for the swift release of all of the Israeli
hostages living in the dead in the first three days
of the deal. It also calls for an immediate stop
to all fighting and that age should flood into Gaza
at the same levels that we saw during the last
sease fire, So that's somewhere around six to seven hundred
(16:23):
trucks a day. There are tough parts of this twenty
point plan for both sides. Hamas is asked to turn
over its arms to destroy tunnels and other weapons that
it has, including weapon making factories. It also has to
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take a firm step away from any role in running
the Gaza Strip and its leaders. Those who choose to
leave will be given immunity and safe passage. But essentially
this demands Hamas step aside from any real position of
power or influence militarily or politically in the Gaza Strip.
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The Israelis are you know, will commit to not annex
any parts of Gaza. There will be no forcible displacement
of any Gazans in the future. If the Palestinian Authority
goes through reforms which the PA has said it is
willing to take at a future date, the Palsenian Authority
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would come back to Gaza. That's something the Israeli Prime
ministers not happy about. And later down the road, the
United States back a renewal of Israeli Palsenian peace talks
that could, you know, pave the way for Palestinian statehood. Again,
the Israeli Prime minister not happy with that either. The
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Israelis are asked to as well withdraw from all of
most of Gaza and pull back to a border, a
buffer zone that was carved out during the war. That
buffer zone has been on the table for a long
time and in previous agreements, so that's nothing new. But
Israel will stay along the border with Egypt, and it
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looks like they'll control the Rafa crossing, which is also
a key that is one of the key wins for Israel.
So the Israeli Prime Minister says that he supports this steal.
We're just waiting to see what Hamas says, and there's
kind of conflicting messages coming out of their leadership. So
we're going to have to wait and see a lot
of pressure is going to come down on Hamas, not
(18:39):
only from Trump, but from Cutter and Egypt and the
Amartis in Turkey, all of the regional partners here who
have signed on to this agreement and see it as
a way to finally end the Gaza war.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Okay, Jordana, you mentioned that the Amortis in the Turkish
people and Egypt and Cutar that everybody's on board. Now.
Is that a new development or has has the Middle
East kind of always been behind it? Or is it
new that everybody's saying, yeah, we're on board with this.
Speaker 11 (19:12):
Well, I think it's new that this is this is
the first US crafted plan to end the war, not
just pause the war. And I think you know in
the past, cut are of course supported a pause, but
the terms that are laid out here, uh, really are
acceptable to regional partners in a way that you know,
(19:36):
these positions in one way or another, were different just
several months ago.
Speaker 12 (19:41):
Right.
Speaker 11 (19:41):
We remember when President Trump talked about the fact that
all Gottens we're going to have to leave so that
the area could be rebuilt, and the you know, the
Arab regional leaders were said, no way, We're not going
to support the displacement of Palestinians, right, And the future
prospect of a Palestinian state Egypt and Jordan and Cutter
(20:02):
and the Amorantis and the Saudis, everybody needed to see
that in this deal, right because they see that as
as the final way to end this decade's long conflict.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Okay, well, we'll be watching. We know that Hamas has
the deal and considering it, and we'll see if they
take it.
Speaker 11 (20:23):
Yep, we'll be watching, all right.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Jerdana Miller in Jerusalem with ABC. Thanks so much. We'll
talk to you again very soon, I'm sure.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (20:31):
Thanks Amy touching all right.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Local leaders and Hollywood professionals have criticized President Trump's threat
of a one hundred percent tariff on films made overseas.
He says it's needed because the American movie business has
been stolen. Democratic Congresswoman Laura Friedman tells KTLA a better
idea would be a federal tax credit for the movie business.
I don't understand how Donald Trump's tariffs are envision to work,
(20:56):
and my biggest concern is that they run the risk
of raising prices for American consumers. Govinor Newsom's also criticized
the one hundred percent tariff threat, calling it one hundred
percent stupid. Newsom says it would do irreparable harm to Hollywood.
California recently doubled its tax incentive fund for TV and
film productions made in the state. California Attorney General Rob
(21:17):
Bonte is suing the Trump administration again, this time over
FEMA's planned reallocation of hundreds of millions of dollars in
homeland security grants away from California and other states. He
says it's against the law.
Speaker 13 (21:28):
These cuts are simply unfair, They're made without good reason,
and they go beyond the powers FEMA is legally allowed
to use.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Fonta says it looks like FEMA could be doing this
because California is a sanctuary state. A man accused of
harassing people in West Hollywood and peeping into apartments for
years has been arrested for indecent exposure. The man allegedly
went into a laundry room and started showing someone his
private parts. This woman tells KTLA her doorbell cam caught
the guy committing a lewd act at her doorstep.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
The cameras alerted me. Thank god, I was a home
and when I saw that.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
It was shocking.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
It was scary, It was shocking, was disgusting.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
I like keunty. Sheriff's detectives say fifty eight year old
Jackie Harrington has a long rap sheet for similar crimes.
People in who say he keeps coming back to the
area each time he's released from jail. A woman from
Texas has pleaded guilty in LA to fraudulently attaining more
than twenty eight thousand dollars in federal disaster relief money
by falsely claiming that she lived in Pasadena and that
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her property was damaged in the Eaten fire. She also
pleaded guilty to fraudulently getting more than fifty four thousand
dollars in jobless benefits during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Chat
JPT has rolled out new parental controls.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
The San Francisco based company behind chat GPT has announced
that parents can now link their accounts to their children's
open AI said the new chat bought accounts for miners
will limit answers related to graphic content, romantic and sexual roleplay,
and other things. Parents will also have the option to
set blackout hours where their teen can't use chat GPT.
(23:04):
The company will also alert parents if their teens account
indicates that they are thinking of harming themselves dep remark
Kaffin News.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
A shopping center in San Bernardino's getting a little caddy
in an effort to keep homeless people from camping out
on its property. The Sterling Plaza shopping center's been broadcasting
looped recordings of hissing and fighting cats at high volume
throughout the night. Shopping center officials say they've had a
homeless problem for years, and the recordings are the latest
step to try to improve safety for both workers and
(23:34):
for customers. The tactic appears to be working. Officials say
the number of homeless camping overnight on their property is down.
So here's a big question. What's your favorite candy? According
to an instacart survey, Californian's love Almond Joy is that
your candy of choice. Good Morning Amy, Mine is better finger.
Speaker 11 (23:58):
Nobody better lay a finger.
Speaker 12 (24:00):
On my better Figer.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I am so with you. That's absolutely my favorite favorite candy.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
Good Morning Amy, this is buried for windsor My favorite
candy happens to be Nechos, throwback to the nineteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
But it's pretty good.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
I like it.
Speaker 14 (24:18):
Nechos And by the way, go giants.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Next year, maybe next year, maybe next year, Barry this year,
Dodgers all the way. A toddler in Orange County who
has traveled domestically has been diagnosed with measles. Orange County
Healthcare Agency officials say the virus is not expected to
spread because the family's isolated. Twenty three new cases of
measles have been diagnosed in the US in the last
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couple of weeks. More than fifteen hundred diagnosed this year.
Doctors say the best way to protect from measles is
by getting the vaccine. Oakland has ranked in the top
ten of the most dangerous cities in the US. A
new six year study ranks Oakland at number six. Memphis
is first. The study also ranks things like perception of
crime Irvine says twelve point eight percent increase or Irvine
(25:05):
has had a twelve point eight percent increase in that category.
Even though it's not in the top twenty for crime stats,
Irvine is ranked forty second. La is ranked twenty fourth
most dangerous in the US. Priority mail, Express mail Parcels, Select,
and USPS Ground Advantage services are going to cost more
this holiday season. The US Postal Services it's hiking shipping
(25:26):
rates between forty cents and seven dollars as part of
it so called Delivering for America ten year plan. It's
to modernize the postal service and make it financially viable.
Higher prices will be in place from now through January eighteenth. Okay,
what's your favorite candy Kenny gorg Anny gore Kinny cork
Anny goreg Kinny, cork Kinny goork kinnyg.
Speaker 11 (25:48):
Cindecord.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Yeah, folloween though, Okay, and you don't have to wait
to hel to Halloween.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
Yo, Amy, Now you got me thinking candy bars, and
it is all about the whatch McCaw a candy bar.
I'm picking one up on my way in the work
and I'm gonna eat it for my morning snack. What
you might call it?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Why wait for Halloween?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
The Instagram service says almond Joy is the number one
favorite candy of people in California. I don't buy it.
Hit us back on the top or hit us up
on the talk back. Let us know what your favorite
candy is. As we head into the spooky season. Tonight,
the Dodgers take on the Cincinnati Reds. As I mentioned,
for Game one of the National League Wildcard Series. First
(26:30):
pitch goes out at six o'h eight. You can listen
to all Dodger games on a five seventy LA Sports
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what's coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
Some suspected illegal immigrants being held at a federal facility
in California City say conditions there are inhumane. Priya Patel
(26:52):
with the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justices. Some detainees have
been penalized for protesting.
Speaker 11 (26:58):
A number of folks for reporting either being threatened or
even actually taken to solitary confinement as a result of
asking for basic things.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
The POTELSA some detainees have not been given their medication,
that they are being held in crowded confinement spaces and
that there is limited access to clean drinking water. The
operators of the facility, core Civics, say the federal government
monitors monitors them to ensure an appropriate standard of living
and care. Two planes had a close call at lax
(27:32):
ABC's Alex Stones's and American Airlines jet had to abort
takeoff Sunday night.
Speaker 14 (27:37):
Down the runway a German cargo plane crossed the runway
without authorization. Air traffic control telling the German plane to
stop heavy stop the audio from Live atc dot net.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
The FAA says the two planes came within one mile
of each other. Ontario International Airport has been given almost
eleven million dollars in grants for infrastructure improvements by the FAA.
Airport officials say the money he's going to be used
to upgrade runways and taxiways. They say Ontario International will
continue growing into a premier travel hub in southern California,
(28:10):
Luftan's is planning to cut about four thousand jobs.
Speaker 7 (28:13):
The German Airlines says it wants to focus on administrative rules.
It aims to achieve this through artificial intelligence, digitalization and
consolidating work among its member airlines. Most of the job
cuts will occur in Germany. The company set it as
seeing strong demand for air travel and expects increased profitability
by the end of the decade. Left Tanza is also
(28:34):
preparing for the largest fleet modernization in its history, adding
more than two hundred and thirty new aircraft by twenty thirty.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Depro Mark Koffi News a sixty year old man's been
sentenced to federal prison for one year for selling hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of fake celebrity memorabilia. Anthony
Tremaine was also ordered to pay a seventy five hundred
dollars fine and will most likely be ordered to pay restitution.
Prosecutors say he got caught in twenty nineteen when he
sold a phony autographed picture of the Kardashian clan. Time
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to Get in Your Business with Bloomberg's Courtney Donahoe before
we get started, Courtney, what's your favorite candy? Ooh, Jolly Ranchers,
Jolly Ranchers. Okay, watermelon flavor for me?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Oh, I see, I always love the I think it's
blue raspberry, the one that turns your tongue blue. That's
always my favorite. But my kids, my kids love that.
They loved those new Nerds, the Nerds gummy clusters.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh you know what, Kono loves those. Yeah, and there's
ConA smiling. Now. Okay, we're gonna go from blue tongues
to pink slips.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Oh yeah, Well they're being handed out at Exon, the
energy giant, planning to cut about two thousand jobs globally.
So they've been working for a number of years on
simplifying their huge global footprint, which happened two decades ago
when Exon and Mobile combined. But a lot of these
major oil companies, we're talking Chevron, Conico, Phillips p P.
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They've slashed thousands of jobs this year because the price
of crude has come down. It's down about thirteen percent
over the past year so far.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Isn't it interesting that we want prices to come down,
but when they come down, it's bad for business.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah, it's bad for these businesses, and so they have
to regroup and think about what they have to do,
and of course their footprint and where they're making most
of their money and try to cut out some of
the stuff that's not making the money.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Yeah, we all have a good makeover. And now a
major beauty brand is giving itself one. Yes.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
And by the way, this report is sponsored by Fidelity,
so Cody they're taking a closer look into their makeup
bag a little bit. The cosmetics and fragrance company, they
started a strategic review of some of its major brands.
That includes Cover Girl, Max Factor, Rimmels, Sally Hints, and
stuff that you see at CVS and Macy's for example.
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But management they're considering some of their options, including selling
or spinning those brands off. They want to focus a
little more on their luxury fragrance business. They have the
license for Gucci and Berbery, but also they want to
focus on their prestige makeup and skincare lines that's making
them a lot of money. That includes Kylie Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
They have a stake in that, okay, And then for
travel companies, it kind of depends on what kind of
travel that you want to do. As to whether there's
a lot of money being made, Delta plans to lose money,
but cruise ships are going to make it.
Speaker 8 (31:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
So Delta came out and they said most of the
airlines out there are going to lose money or come
close to losing money. Wealthier consumers, businesses, they're doing fine.
They're still spending on travel. But Delta CEO Ed Bastian
says it's tough for the lower end of the economic spectrum.
And we heard that also from American and United They
said the premium travel is driving their demand now. On
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the other hand, cruise companies they appear to be faring
a lot better than the airlines. Carnival raised its financial
forecast for a third straight quarter. They say bookings are
at a record pace. Royal Caribbeans had recently that it's
seeing accelerated demand for its offerings, and Norwegian has described
its bookings as a head of historical levels in recent months.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I want to go on a cruise, Okay, I do do.
And then Leslie Jennifer Gardner has the baby food company
and it's about to go public.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yeah, Once upon a Farm. They've taken the steps they
filed for initial public offering. She's the co founder of
this of the organic baby food company. You see them
in stores Target, Whole Foods, Kroger. They have those kid
friendly refrigerated food and vegetable pouches. They also have bars
and frozen meals and smoothie packets. But they're looking to
trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the ticker
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symbol is expected to be OFRM.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
All right, getting in your business like we do every
morning at five forty with Bloomberg's Courtney Donaho. Thanks Courtney,
see you later. For twenty year old man's pleaded not
guilty to murdering a thirteen year old boy at a
gas station in Pico Rivera. The La County DA's office
says Andre Chavez shot and killed the boy last month
as he waited for his mom to finish her shift
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at the gas station. La City Council is expected to
consider a plan to make nearly thirteen thousand additional beds
available for the homeless by twenty twenty seven. The city
administrator says the city already has seventy four hundred beds
and another thirty seven hundred are almost ready. The plan's
going to cost the city one hundred twenty million dollars
in the next several years. Police are asking for your
help in finding two Harris Hawks that were stolen from
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Sofi Stadium. The hawks are used during games at Sofi
to help keep other birds away. While on Sunday afternoon
ingl would police say the two raptors were sitting in
the back of a maroon colored gator. The gator got
stolen and the hawks were in it. We're just minutes
away from Handle. On the news this morning, we're gonna
be talking about a government shutdown. Is it going to
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happen and what happens if it does? Right now, let's
say good morning too. The host of How the Money
on KFI, Joel Larsgard, So, Joel, what's your favorite candy?
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Ooh, I would say, sour gummy worms? Okay, yeah, big fan.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Well, since you're so sweet, you offset this hour.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Okay, you want to. We wanted to talk about emergency
funds because it came out a few days ago that
only about one in three people in the US actually
have one.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Oh man, Yeah, that these stats and just seeing that
so few people have almost anything set aside in savings,
it just it worries me. It worries me because you're
living on the financial precipice and you have zero margin
for error. And I don't know about you, but stuff
happens in my life that is unexpected, and an emergency fund,
I think is a necessity from a piece of mind standpoint,
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but also from a financial backup reality. And so there
was this study I think it was in like twenty nineteen,
and it found that if you would just save up
twenty four hundred and sixty seven dollars, that's enough. Like
you don't eventually at some point you probably would like
to have more set aside than that in savings, but
that's a great beginning. And I recently updated that number
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for inflation, and three thousand and forty five dollars is
what I've found that equates to now. And this was
a study done by economists and they ran a bunch
of numbers, and I think it's a really helpful. It's
really helpful to have a specific goal that you're shooting
for and then to be documenting your progress towards that goal.
So if you take on the mantle of acquiring an
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emergency fund, having a specific amount, you're aiming for and
like an odd number is actually kind of like a
good thing because I think it makes it stickier in
your brain. So three forty five dollars, have that goal,
put it up, you know, put a sticky note on
your coffee maker, on the mirror of your bathroom, whatever
it is, and then I think once it's in front
of your mind, it's going to be easier to achieve.
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It doesn't happen overnight, and it's not like some sort
of believe it to achieve it, but it's a really
important goal. I think more people need to focus on.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Okay, and just like, is there a practical easy way,
like you go to the store and when you do
you transfer twenty dollars into your savings account or I mean,
is there like a technique that makes it aside from
putting it on your sticky note to put it front
of mine, what are a couple of practical things you
can do to start building it up, even if it's
a little bit at a time.
Speaker 12 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:16):
So, I think part of it is to look at
where your money is going, right, and a lot of
people are averse to even digging in to see, well,
where did I spend money? And what are the ways
that I can cut back without cramping my lifestyle significantly.
And I love to look at that low hanging fruit first,
like what are the areas of your budget or you're
spending where you're like, oh, I totally forgot I spent
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money on that, that didn't really move the needle, and
then you can reconsider whether or not you want to
include that moving forward, or whether you want to say, listen, gosh,
I think eating out is one of those things right
where we just kneed jerk do it and it's become
so much easier and we can have it delivered to
our doorstep, but that costs extra money. And so maybe
even just kind of meal planning is one is one thing.
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A little more meal planning on the weekends can help.
Changing your cell phone provider, that's one of those things
where it's like it's not like you're cramping your lifestyle
and you're you're not going to be able to make
phone calls or texts or anything like that anymore. You're
just going to save a bunch of money by going
with the cheaper cell phone provider. Shopping your insurance, especially
these days, there are fewer options, but the stakes are high.
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So I just want people to be aware of all
those things. Hey, you're not actually going to it's not
going to cramp your lifestyle by changing insurance companies if
you have the same coverage, but you have substantial savings
for that same coverage because you did shop around. There's
those are just some big ways, the cell phone and
the insurance where you could save quite a bit of
money without too much hassle.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay, So just create a plan and then start sacking
it away. Three forty five dollars. You can do it, yep,
one hundred percent okay, and then real quick. I hate
when we're out of time because I always have more
to talk to you about. But we are so addicted
to our streaming and the prices keep going up. What
the heck? Is there going to be a breaking point?
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Or are we just going to be like the little
frog in the boiling pot of water and just keep
paying it.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
I know, it seems like it's we're going to be
the frog because there was there was a credit Karma
survey and they found that streaming is at the top
of non essential priorities in people's lives. So people are like, yeah,
I know, it's not essential, but of all the non
essential stuff, it's my favorite. And I am not planning
on canceling any of my streaming services. And I hate
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to see that too, because I'm totally fine, like you'll
sign up for your favorite streaming service, that's no problem.
But as these price hikes continue, is you have to
question whether the value is there. Like I just canceled
one of my streaming services yesterday because I got the
price hike notice, and I just I think the other
thing people are becoming more aware of is churning. They're
just saying, Okay, listen, I'm there's something I really want
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to watch on Hulu right now, but I'm going to
cancel it after I watch the thing I want to watch.
Or there's a news you know, Stranger Things is coming
out at the end of November on Netflix. Maybe you
can get by with just one month of Netflix and
you can binge your favorite show and then you can
ditch it again. So churning, I think is a helpful way,
and just sign up, put calendar reminders so you actually
remember to cancel when you're done with that streaming service,
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because that's where they get you. Is just kind of like, oh,
I forgot, I keep forgetting to cancel. And most people
just don't realize how many subscriptions they have and how
much it's actually costing them.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
All right. The host of how to Money on KFI,
Joel Larsgard. You can listen to him every Sunday from
noon to two. Follow him at how to Money. Joel.
Thank you, Joel.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Thanks Amy.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
All right, and before we get out of here, we've
got just a couple more people weighing in on what
your favorite candy is, because an Instacart survey says it's
Almond Joy.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Good morning, Amy and the Morning wake Up Crew. My
absolute favorite candy is Reese's Anything Reeses. I love chocolate,
I love peanut butter and absolutely perfect reass all the way.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Okay, got it? And I think we found an almond.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond
Joy's gotten nuts. Males don't. Sometimes you feel like a nut,
sometimes you don't. God Snickers so boring. Almond Joys. Have
an almond Yeah, coconut, Yeah, chocolate?
Speaker 14 (40:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 12 (40:24):
Does it get better than that?
Speaker 4 (40:26):
Love you, Amy, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
All right, thank you. We finally found an Almondjoy fan.
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