November 27, 2023 • 36 mins
Amy King hosts your Cyber Monday Wake Up Call. ABC News Radio Correspondent Jim Ryan talks about autism diagnoses rising among children, says CDC. Amy speaks with Alonda Batteo, who benefited first-hand by Chef Bruno and Caterina's Club, about tomorrow’s 13th Annual KFI PastaThon benefiting Caterina's Club. To date, they have provided over 9 million meals, helped get 265 families back into stable homes, and graduated over 800 teens from their Hospitality Academy. ABC News Reporter live from Jerusalem Jordana Miller discusses the two Americans who were among the latest group of Hamas hostages released. ABC National News Correspondent Tom Rivers speaks on the 3-year cruise that was cancelled after the company acknowledged it doesn’t have a ship.
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You're listening to KFI AM six fortywake Up Call with me Amy King on
demand on the iHeartRadio app KFI andKOST HD two Los Angeles and Orange County.
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How dad can get a good callyour host Amy Kay, good morning,
It's five o'clock. Straight up.This is your wake up call for
Monday, November twenty seventh. Lessthan thirty days still Christmas. We can
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totally geek out on Christmas. NowThanksgiving is done, so now we're free
and clear. I'm one of thosepeople who tries to stay, you know,
stick to the rule that one holidayat a time. Well, now
Thanksgivings over, it's on. Hada great weekend, hope you guys had
a great weekend and enjoyed some timeoff. I know kno was having two
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Thanksgivings. Did you recover? Itwas a long day the first Thanksgiving with
a almost three year old, yeah, and five children under six years old.
When did the meltown? When didthe meltdowns start? At the end
of my parents which is the firsthouse we went to. Yeah, so
it was and then you had therest of the day. Yeah, it
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was a long day, but agood day. It was fun. Okay,
yeah, I did. We hada small Thanksgiving with my brother and
his girlfriend and it was great.And then I got to go up to
paser Obols for the weekend to seemy best friend who recently moved up there,
and so we did wine tasting,as one is wont to do in
paser Robos. That was fabulous.And then we did our small Business Saturday
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and went down to San Luis Obispo, which I've never been to. Their
little downtown area really cool. SoI love Small Business Saturday. It's just
a you know, you can goto the malls any day and you kind
of forget about some of the smallbusinesses, and if you forget about,
some of them are going to goaway, Like in Claremont. We used
to go to Claremont on Saturdays afterThanksgiving, and now Claremont is still a
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beautiful little place, but a lotof the little shops that they had that
you could do some of your greatshopping, have just closed up. So
gotta support. I also missed traffic. Did you guys get stuck in traffic?
I missed traffic because I headed homereally early yesterday, so I'm heading
south on the Grapevine and of coursestill freaking out because remember, I don't
know if you remember, but acouple months ago my car broke down on
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the Grapevine but that's a whole otherstory. So but and traffic was not
bad, but heading north it wascrazy. And that was like at ten
o'clock in the morning, and Iwas like, oh my gosh, I
feel bad for the people who didn'tget an early start yesterday. So hope
you made it home safe and sound. Hope you had a great weekend.
Here's what is ahead on wake UpCall. More hostages are expected to be
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released on this fourth day of theIsrael Hamas ceasefire. Israel has said it
would extend the ceasefire by one dayfor every ten day additional hostages released.
We're going to be talking with ABC'sGeordana Miller in about a half hour and
get the latest on what's going onnow, who's been released, and if
there's going to be an extension tothat ceasefire. So Call is bracing for
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another round of strong Santa Ana wins. Forecasters say gusts of thirty to fifty
miles per hour are expected through tomorrow, with US up to sixty miles per
hour in the mountains and foothills afterthe winds. We have a chance of
rain Wednesday through Friday. It's thislight one, but there's a chance.
A newly unsealed legal complaint claims Facebookand Instagram deliberately engineered its social platforms to
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hook kids. The complaint also allegesthe company new but never disclosed, that
it had received millions of complaints aboutunderage users and only acted on a fraction
of them. Parent company met usas the complaint misrepresents its work. At
six oh five, It's handle onthe news, A forty eight year old
has been arrested in connection with theshooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont that's
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being called a hate crime. Let'sget started with some of the stories coming
out of the CAMFI twenty four hournewsroom. An American girl who spent her
fourth birthday as a hostage in Gazais one of the latest group of hostages
released as part of the ceasefire agreementwith Israel. President Biden's The girl's parents
were killed when Hamas attacked on Octoberseventh. Those who are now Rappie and
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Abigail in love and care and thesupport of services she needs she's been through
a terrible trauma. A nine yearold Israeli girl, who also had a
birthday while being held hostage, wasalso freed over the weekend. She'd been
sleeping over at a friend's house whenshe was kidnapped. Her father thought she
had been killed and said he wasrelieved because she wouldn't have to suffer in
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captivity. Police and vermon have arresteda man accused of shooting three Palestinian College
students. Authority say the students wereoutside the man's apartment yesterday when they were
shot. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says twowere wearing Palestinian scars. They were reportedly
speaking Arabic while returning to one oftheir relatives' homes when police say the suspect
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approached them and fired at least fourrounds without saying a word, then ran
off. Two of the injured studentsare in stable condition. The other has
more serious injuries. The Oli CountySheriff's Burglary Robbery Task Force has arrested ten
people in connection with a flash mobrobbery at a Nike store in East la
The store on Whittier Boulevard was hitseveral times over the summer. Deputies have
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linked the robberies to two criminal streetgangs that focused on organized retail theft.
A man walking on the one toone Freeway has been hit and killed shpieces.
It happened in the eastbound lanes justwest of DeSoto Avenue around three this
morning. A burst water pipe inHermosa Beach is sent a torrent of water
into Redondo Beach. Hermosa Beach policesay the pipe, controlled by California Water
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Service burst last night in the areaof Harper Avenue in Ormond Lane. Official
say hundreds of thousands of gallons spilled. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Jim Ryan. Good night morning,Jim, Hey Amy, good morning,
Happy Thanksgiving, a little bit lated, happy belated Thanksgiving to you, and
now I will say happy Christmas seasonbecause it's on. It is on.
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Yeah. I was seeing all thestuff in the stores now a few twinkling
lights on a few houses and afew neighborhoods, and that's going to grow
right through the twentieth maybe the twentyfirst, when people finally finished putting up
their stuff. I know some peoplein where I was visiting this weekend already
had everything up like fully fully loadedand had all the inflatables up and all
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the lights and everything, and Iwas like, oh, I got to
get my Christmas stuff out. Butanyway, hey, we wanted to talk
to you today because we have anot it's pretty unsettling that the CDC has
come out with a new information.Autism used to become a pretty uncommon thing,
but this new report says that's notthe case anymore. Well, no,
you're right, and unsettling in away, yes, but also heartening.
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I mean it offers some hope becauseyes, the number of children diagnosed
with autism spectrum disorder has been risingconsistently. It's also risen dramatically since the
nineteen nineties, when really public awarenessbegan to spike about this. So right
now, Center's for Is Controlling Preventionshows that about one in thirty six children
age eight in the country has beendiagnosed with autism. In two thousand,
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the number was about one in onehundred and fifties. So, yes,
this number has gone up dramatically.But does that mean that not many more
children actually have autism spectrum disorder.No, but it means more have been
diagnosed. The diagnosis has gotten muchbetter. I mean the diagnostic criteria have
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changed. It was first described inthe nineteen forties, but back then they
didn't know what to do about it. They really didn't know what to look
for. But that has improved dramatically, and so in nineteen eighty four,
the American Psychiatric Association released the fourthedition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders. Was included in that, and so that's why we've seen this,
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the diagnosis go up dramatically. Soyou know, it's likely that by
age eight, most kids, maybeall kids, have been screened at one
time or another, and because ofpublic awareness, parents know what to look
for early on, even in theirtoddlers, even before the kid reaches toddler
age, there are signs that theycan look for. And when does is
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there a typical time when it startspresenting itself? Well, I mean again,
it's around the pre k around kindergarten, around those times, because that's
when you start to see kids whoare interacting more with other kids. And
for most of them, it's it'sa fairly easy natural process. They make
friends with their other little kids andgrow from there. But some kids have
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trouble. They don't socialize well.With other kids. Does that absolutely mean
autism spectrum disorder? No, absolutelynot, but certainly that's one of the
things on a checklist that pediatry sincewe'll be looking for as they try to
make this diagnosis. You know,I think back to when I was in
school and some of the kids whowere you know that they, like you
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said, they had trouble interacting withother kids, and you wonder maybe that
person was on the spectrum, asthey say, and we just didn't know
because we didn't have the diagnostic toolsat that time, so they didn't know
what they were looking for. Absolutely, And if you look back to the
fifties, the sixties, the seventies, then that's really when not the fifties,
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Gym, I'm not that old.Well, no, I understand,
but really that's when things came tolight. I'll tell you a story,
I mean personal story that my brotherwho's seventy and seventy years old now is
autistic, and really he was diagnosedway after even high school. There was
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just no recognition. Nobody knew whatto do about it. Misdiagnoses all along
the way. But he's lived agreat life. Mary lives independently with his
wife and so it's not a it'snot a sentence to a life of certainly
institutionalization, which it would have beenin the thirties and forties. Maybe,
Yeah, there is a there's alight head and for a lot of folks
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in great life, I love that. And and with the diagnoses, it's
it's kind of catching everybody who's onthe spectrum, as they call it.
Yes, and it has evolved somewhatso that certain things are not necessarily included
in that in that diagnosis. Butyou're right. For example, you know
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Asperger syndrome and this catch all pervasivedevelopmental disorder not otherwise specified d d n
os. Those were added to thediagnostic diagnostic tools back in the nineties but
then taken off that list. Theseare specialized things that those terms just really
aren't used so much anymore. Okay, So even though the numbers are up,
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it's actually a good thing because itmeans we're catching it absolutely, that's
right. You know, doesn't meanthe incidence is hire most likely Now it's
a matter of trying to find outwhy. And we still don't have any
idea why what's causing this. Well, there are clues, you know,
there are external factors. You know, women are giving birth later and that's
associated in a lot of cases withthe disorder prenatal exposure to air pollution or
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pesticide paternal OBCD. The country's weightoverall has gone up and that is associated
sometimes with this. So we've gotclues. Absolutely cause has been found,
not yet, but they're looking.Oh keep looking to Thank you so much,
Jim Ryan, appreciate all the information. Thanks Amy. Let's get back
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to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A couple dozen people have held aprotest outside the La County Sheriff station in
East La, calling for deputies toface consequences for beating a disabled man.
Video shows a deputy seeming to placea man in a chokehold while the other
punches him repeatedly in the face.The man's attorney says the beating was not
justified. There was no report ofa crime, There was no one who
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called nine one one on mister Ernandez, and there was nothing which should have
caused the deputies to have stopped misterHernandez. Despite those facts, they tried
to stop him, and when theystopped him, they recognized that he had
a disability. The Sheriff's Department saysAlejandro Hernandez, who is an amputee,
had reached for his waistband where hewas hiding a loaded gun and was resisting
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arrest. A major drug trafficker withconnections to L. Choppo's cartel in Mexico
has been killed in South LA.Investigators with the La County Sheriff's Department say
Eduardo Escobedo was one of two gunneddown in an industrial area of Willowbrook.
Officials say Escabato was killed during aparty overnight Wednesday and the Thursday, though
a specific motive wasn't given. Escobato, who went by the nickname El Mago
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or the Magician, was raised inEast LA and worked for L. Choppo's
oldest son, often bragging and flauntinghis lavish lifestyle by posting pictures of himself
drinking high end champagne and posing withcelebrities like Floyd Mayweather and Al Pacino.
Steve Gregory k if I knew,I wish. It was so sad to
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hear this. Over the weekend,fans and coworkers are remembering the co creator
of hr Puff and Stuff, MartyCroft, died of kidney failure over the
weekend at his home in La Hisolder brother Sid shared the news yesterday on
social media. As brothers created thepopular kids show featuring the life sized dragon
puppet back in nineteen sixty nine.They also were behind the Land of the
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Lost Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.Those were both in the seventies, and
of course, who could forget theBanana Splitz. Marty Croft was eighty six
pastath on twenty twenty three. Ishere. We're going to be at the
Anaheim White House tomorrow morning, startingright at five am with wake up call
and leading up to our show,we wanted to introduce you to one of
the kids whose life was changed thanksto Chef Bruno and Katerina's Club. The
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money and the pasta you donate helpskids now and continues to affect them after
they're all grown up. So let'ssay good morning now to Alandra Beteo.
Alandra, how did you first cometo know oh, Chef Bruno. I
was about six or seven years oldwhen I started going to the Boys and
Girls Club and Bruno people come bringpasta to the club that I would participate
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at. So he will give uspasta before we will go home every day,
and then he went to our mobilehome park where I used to live
at com bring his pasta. Andthen during the month of November he will
come with the Chapman students to comedeliver turkeys and all the stuff that you
know, it's needed for Thanksgiving dinner. And yeah, that's how I got
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to know him. So you wereinvolved in the Boys and Girls Club?
So did you go there every dayafter school? Yes? And about how
many kids were in your Boys andGirls clubs? Oh, well, we
got a lot of kids from mymobile home park. It was a good
ten of us every day, tenof us from Monday through Friday. But
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over on the Boys and Girls Club, I would say a good two hundred
to fifty kids a day. That'sgreat, okay. And I would imagine
when you're seven years old, youdon't really realize what's going on. I
know that Chef Bruno is bringing youguys food, and isn't that lovely?
But did you as you grew older, did you start to realize that one
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he was helping out your family bymaybe taking some of the food burden off
of them and really helping tons andtons of people. Yes, it was
actually a funny story, like onetime I had my shoes off for some
reason. There was a skate parkthere and I was changing my shoes and
there was holes on my socks andBruno saw that. The next day,
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he had someone buy me socks fromthe store, making sure that I have
what I needed, because back thenit was kind of hard on my family,
especially with the rent that my parentshad to pay. Were just him
buying socks or even him coming toour mobile file parking give us food to
low income families like it benefited alot. That's so cool. So that
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was when you were seven years old, and now you're twenty two, twenty
one, twenty one. Oh,she's still talking. One. Okay,
what are you doing with yourself thesedays? Right now? I am a
for fear, I ca'll say fulltil. I'll be finishing up my degree
in the sociology in May, soI'm hoping that I work with children.
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I do want to give back tomy community. Right now, I'm actually
working as a pre college advisor,So the students that I serve are low
income, first generation students trying toget to higher education, and hopefully I
get to my master's so I couldbecome a school counselor look at you along
he that is so great, andI think it's just testament to what this
program does. It changes lives.It doesn't only fill up their bellies and
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fills up their hearts and their mindstoo. So thank you so much,
and that's luck to you. Congratulations, thank you appreciate it, Alandro.
Butteo, isn't that great? Imean, like you feed a kid in
the afternoon and you don't realize thelong term implications that that has. And
you can help make a different byjoining us for Pastathon twenty twenty three.
As we mentioned, Chef Bruno's charitycharity Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty
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five thousand meals every week to kidsin need in Southern California, and we
can't do it without you, sowe want you to join us. You
can donate at pastathon dot com,shop at any Smart and Final store and
donate at checkout, Go to anyWendy's restaurant in Southern California and donate,
and of course join us tomorrow allday. We're going to be broadcasting live
from the Anaheim White House on GivingTuesday from five am, starting with wake
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up call then with Gary and Shannonafter that and John and Ken and Tim
Conway and wrapping things up with laterwith Mo Kelly. So we're gonna go
all the way until ten o'clock tomorrownight, and we want you to come
and see us. Make a donation. One hundred percent of your donation goes
to Katerina's Club. It's pastathon dotcom. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour news room. A homeowner
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in Chatsworth says thieves have stolen dozensof high end purses and several watches from
his home. The family was outshopping on Black Friday, probably about thirty
to forty five handbags, Chanelle Gucci, about six watches, a Cardier diamond
watch, four rolixes. He tellsKTLA this stuff was worth about two hundred
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thousand dollars. He also says thethieves used bear spray on the family's two
Pomeranians. Police and Westminster have arrestedthe mother of a nine year old girl
found dead inside her home. Officershad gone to the home Friday to do
a welfare check and forced their wayin. Only the girl was there.
The mom was arrested at a shoppingcenter in Aliso Via Home. A five
year old girl rescued after she wasswept out to sea and half Moon Bay
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has died at the hospital. Thesearch for a fifty four year old man
also swept away Saturday has been calledoff. The Coastguard says two people at
Martin's Beach had been reported swept outto sea by what officials called a sneaker
wave. The Weather Service says suchwaves surge much farther up the beach than
expected and can overtake a person.Jesus. A naked man has been arrested
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for causing a commotion on the SmallWorld ride at Disneyland. The guy apparently
got off the ride yesterday, strippeddown to his underwear and walked or onto
some of the attractions. Video showshim walking around as Christmas music plays in
the background. It was splashing inthe water as park employees went up to
him. He was carried away andarrested for Indisian exposure and being under the
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influence of a controlled substance. Aguess station employee's mistake is paid off for
a lottery player in Michigan. Theman usually apparently buys a lottery ticket for
ten or twenty draws, but inSeptember, the employee accidentally printed out a
ticket with ten lines for a singledraw. Well. That ticket was worth
twenty five thousand dollars a year forlife. The man who bought it recently
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claimed the lump sum of three hundredand ninety thousand dollars. More hostages are
expected to be released on this fourthday of the Israel Hamas cease fire.
Israel has said it would extend theceasefire by one day for every ten additional
hostages released. Southern California is bracingfor another round of strong Santa Ana winds.
Forecasters say wind gus thirty to fiftymiles per hour are expected through tomorrow,
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with us up to sixty miles perhour in the mountains and foothills.
After the wind, there's a slightchance of rain Wednesday through Friday. Its
just a twenty percent chance, butstill there. Some Gen z Ers may
not be heading home for the holidaysbecause of student loans. A recent Credit
Karma survey found many Gen Z Americanswith student debt can't afford to pay for
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travel on top of their student loanpayments. About a third say they are
relying on their parents to pay fortheir holiday travel. At six oh five,
it's handle on the news. Thisone brings back memories. The King
of Saturday Mornings, Marty Kroft,has died at five poin fifty. We're
going to be talking to ABC's TomRivers about a dream cruise that has well
pretty much turned out to be anightmare and it hasn't even set sail.
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We're waiting for Georgiana mill It lookslike she's calling in right now from Jerusalem,
where it's early morning. Good morning, Jordana. First of all,
let's start with the good news,and that is that we got her back.
How's little Abigail doing. We understandshe's doing well. She's been reunited
with her siblings. She has twosiblings that survived the October seventh attack,
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even though her parents were murdered byHamas on that day. Her aunt is
with her. She's still at thehospital special children's ward that has been created
in one of his reluff hospitals,and she's doing well. Her aunt,
who is now going to raise her, is there with her, and we
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hear that she's okay. It's sohard because it's like, it's heartwarming to
hear that this four year old whoturned four years old while being held hostage
by a mosque is back free.She's, like you said, she's with
family, but her parents were murderedin front of her on October seventh.
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That's right, and it's you know, it's it's horrifying. Let's hope she
has no memory of it or youknow, because she was so little,
but she's there were many children whosaw their parents killed in front of them
on October seventh. I mean,there are there are two kids who essentially
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hid in a closet for fourteen hoursand they they saw their their first their
father being killed that was killed,and then their mother who was shot.
So these are these are this isgoing to be a whole group of children
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that are you know, have tolive with the trauma of growing up with,
you know, losing one or twoparents on October seventh, and some
of them being old enough to rememberwitnessing it. Yeah, And it was
I was watching some of the footagefrom from that area where you said that
they're taking some of the children andshowing them and it's so just surreal because
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they just look like kids and they'reholding teddy bears and they seem to be
okay, but there's going to bea lot of trauma for these kids.
Yeah, they, I mean,Israel's basically to its credit, they have
put together teams for each family todeal with any you know, to deal
with the symptoms of trauma that willlikely come out later, not right after
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the release. You know, Iknow, there was I think maybe you're
talking about the same picture. Iremember seeing a little girl, you know,
holding a teddy bear at the firstthe little blonde girl. That's that's
Emily, her name, her nameis Emily Alone and she was she was
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released. I think she's only aboutsix, but she was there with other
children as well. I mean,the only saving grace for these children is
that most of them were there withfamily, with their with one parent,
and in the case of Avigali Dan, you know, she was with another
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few children and a mother who tookcare of her as well. So you
know, they you know, theythe fact that they were kept in groups
helped them, you know, copewith the cope with captivity. It's had
their optimism that they would be essentiallyor ultimately uh you know, released and
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freed. So you know, that'smaybe the only silver lining of their captivity
is that they most of them werenot alone. Yeah, okay, and
we're expecting another group to be releasedtoday, So I think, what are
we at thirty nine ish, thirtyor nine or forty? Right? We're
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at thirty right, We're at thirtynine. And then in a separate deal
with Russia, one male Israeli inhis twenties was released. He also has
an incredible story. He escaped fromafter a bombing, an Israeli Israeli bombing
raid. His hideout got hit,he escaped. He was on the run
for a few days trying to findthe border, the Israeli border. Then
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Gosin's turned him back over to Hamasand you know, thank god, he
was freed last night. We're supposedto see another eleven come out today,
but there have been some hiccups andthere looks like there's going to be a
delay to the release. Instead ofhappening in the next hour, we might
have to wait a few more hoursbefore the handover begins. Israel says that
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Hamas has given them a list thatyou know, does not include mothers and
children together. And this is oneof the basic requirements, so they're trying
to sort that out. But thereis optimism that Israel and Hamas will extend
this eeaspire for at least one moreday, okay, and when if the
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fire is extended, that again it'sa slippery slope because it can help give
Hamas more time to regroup and getready to start the fighting again. Because
nett Ya, who's still saying,when the ceasefire is over, we're going
back at it, that's right.And obviously Israel is making a calculation that
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you know, they have achieved enoughin the war up until now, and
they're in a strong position where theycan afford to you know, hold their
fire for another couple of days andthen the overall plan to you know,
push them off out of the Godsenstrip that can still be accomplished even if
they give it another two or threeor four days. There have been,
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you know, no attacks on Israelisoldiers, there haven't been any serious violations
of the agreement. So far.It is going well. So you know,
every every extra day will bring homemore innocent people who are abducted,
and right now that seems to bethe priority. Okay, Well, we'll
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be watching and hope they get thehiccups ironed out, smooth out. We
can get more people home. Thankyou so much than it in tandem there.
Thank you, Jordana. We'll talkto you soon. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
An ex convict recently found guilty ofshooting an LAPD officer to death is going
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to be sentenced today. Sixty fiveyear old Kenneth Gay was found guilty of
first degree murder in August after hiscase was retried. He killed an LAPED
officer during a traffic stop in WestTerrace in nineteen eighty three. He's now
facing life in prison without the possibilityof parole. Memorial observances for former First
Lady Rosalind Carter are set to beginin Georgia. The procession will begin in
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Plains, Georgia, where Rosalind Carterwas born. The Carter family is set
to hold a brief ceremony at theSumpter Medical Center, where the former First
Lady's remains will be transferred to aherb. ABC's Mike Dubuski says a reeflaying
ceremony is going to be held atthe Rosalind Carter Health and Human Sciences Complex
at Southwestern State University before the motorcadearrives at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in
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Atlanta. Rosalind Carter died on Novembernineteenth. She was ninety six. Well,
it turns out Wish was no matchfor The Hunger Games. So Disney's
new movie, the animated movie thatwe talked about on last week couple of
times, was supposed to be numberone at the box office, but The
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Hunger Games Songbirds and Snakes finished first. It's now grossed almost one hundred million
dollars domestically in two weeks of release. It won the weekend with forty two
million dollars for the five day holidayframe, and that was more than Whish,
which came in with thirty one pointseven million in five days. And
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actually even Napole beat Wish out andthat's the one with Joaquin Phoenix. It
took in thirty two and a halfmillion dollars for the five day long holiday
weekend. So that's sort of asurprise. I need. I think next
time I talk to Jason, Iwant to ask him. And maybe you
guys already know this, but howdo they make those estimates? Because you
go, oh, it's a Disneymovie, it's going to be big,
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But how do they estimate how bigit's going to be? Yeah, something
we'll ask him about. Israel andHamas are preparing for a fourth exchange of
hostages for Palestinians as mediators seek toextend a ceasefire in Gaza that's set to
expire after today. Hamas freed seventeenmore hostages yesterday on the third day of
the truce. In turn, Israelreleased thirty nine Palestinian prisoners. A federal
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court panel will consider the gag orderedtoday and former President Trump's civil fraud trial
in New York City. The orderwas temporarily blocked by an appeals court.
Trump has on several occasions railed againstthe judge and court staff in his trial,
leading to the gag order being imposedlast month. It is cyber Monday.
I might have to look for it. But there are some big deals
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out there. Amazon has won athirty two inch high def TV slashed in
half just eighty dollars. There's alsovacuum cleaners, pillows, air pods,
mattresses, furniture, and lots ofother electronics, but analysts are warning to
beware of scams and do your researchbefore you buy. We're just minutes away
from handle. On the news thismorning, somebody lost it on It's a
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Small World. He lost his mindand his clothes. I'll tell you about
that right now. Let's say goodmorning to ABC News correspondent Tom Rivers.
Good morning Tom. It was supposedto be the trip of a lifetime,
but it's kind of turned into anightmare for some passengers, oh very much.
So. Can imagine you're getting readyto go on a cruise for maybe
ten days or maybe even two weeks, and something happens with the operator.
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Okay, it's not good, butyou can bounce back from that. These
individuals, one hundred eleven cabins weresold for people to go on a cruise
for three count them three years,so a lot of them. All these
people you know at the age maybethey're retired. They rented out their houses
or sold their houses in some cases, got rid of some possessions. Some
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people got rid of small businesses.And they got a flight to Istanbul,
where this adventure was supposed to begin, and then they started getting the run
around. The firm called Life atSea Cruises said, well, we got
some delays, just hang loose fora while. A few weeks later they
said, have you guys hook upwith the boat in Amsterdam? Now what
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happened behind the scenes. The boatthey wanted to purchase for this three year
adventure. They didn't secure the fundsand was out bid. They went for
a second vessel, they got outbid on that one. They looked at
a third vessel, too small forthe amount of passengers. So finally they
threw in the towel said you're notgoing anywhere. We'll fly you home and
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we'll get your money back to youin three months December, January and February.
But you know, if you wereliving in la and said, okay,
I guess I'm flying home, gosh, I just just rented out my
flat for twelve months, exactly whata tangled, tangled mess. And of
course these things usually end up incourt for lengthy periods of time. But
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boy, what a mess for theindividuals that thought this was going to be
the most amazing way of dealing.I guess with the twilight, you know,
part of their lives. Oh mygod. Yeah, And I didn't
even think about that part that youjust mentioned, and that's that they probably
either sold their homes or rented themout or shut down their businesses because yeah,
three your crews, you don't needyour house for a while. So
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how much did the cruise cost?Do we know? We don't seen.
It's tens of thousands, but theysay on an average, and I don't
know how they calculate it, youknow, high and low, but they
said average couple, you know,paying whatever after you're retired per month,
that would be equivalent in your townto not maybe not l but in your
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average American town to say, tosay, the cost of a month on
this vessel. So you know you'repaying out the same amount, but you
get one heck of an adventure.Yeah, so let's just guesstimate five to
six thousand dollars, Yeah, somethinglike that. Yeah, okay, so
that time's twelve, that's sixty,so two hundred basically about two hundred and
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forty thousand dollars. Nope, onehundred and eighty thousand dollars for three lots
of bucks. Any inventive if youget if you get a nice balcony cabin
or you got an internal whatever.But yeah, everything is round figures.
But yeah, it's a lot ofmoney. And as I said at the
top, if you if this wereyou know, it would be bad if
it was a one week cruise,yeah, you know, but you can
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bounce back from No, you're goingback to maybe live with your kids or
or a cousin's gonna put you upuntil you get your life together whatever.
A real mess. Well, andthen to add insult to injury, they're
not even giving them a refund rightaway. They're like, oh, we're
going to spread it out. We'llget you, we'll get you that in
the next few months exactly. SoI mean, if if you if you
didn't see the red flags initially onthat score as well more red flag so
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you know, fingers crossed. Theyall get their money back. But you
know, I don't know if I'dbet on that or not. Okay.
So, and this isn't it's lifeat sea cruises. It's not one of
the big ones. It's not likePrincess or Caribbean or anything like that.
They're not a filliate no, okay. But again it's a small little world.
These people generally have worked for othercruise lines. They know what's going
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on. But the management here reallywas was caught out. And if you're
gonna, if you're gonna set upa boat. In fact, they were
initially going after a German subsidiary ofCarnival Corporation Cruises. They were going after
a vessel that was being put upfor sale. If you're gonna do that,
you do that many many months inadvance. Why because they said,
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in this case they have to getit into drydock. They have to,
you know, go through everything witha fine tooth comb because just this this
vessel is going to be at seafor three years. So you go through
everything, you know, the engine, the plant, everything from top to
bottom, generators, you name it. But you don't do it by saying,
well, let's buy a boat inSeptember and we'll sail it in October.
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It doesn't work like that. Yeah. Oh man, I feel really
bad for these people, I know. Yeah, all right, all right,
thank you so much, Tom Rivers, appreciate the information. Take care
boy, that sucks. That's anearly non Christmas present, right Hey,
Speaking of Christmas, the Hollywood ChristmasParade it's happening this weekend and it's going
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to step off from Orange Drive inHollywood, Boulevard, following a U shaped
route east to Vine Street, Southon Vine to Sunset, West on Sunset
back to Orange. It's going tobe co hosted by Eric Estrada and Dean
Kine, so Superman and Chips.I love that, plus other media personalities
and performances, and I love this. The Grand Marshall is retired Colonel Paris
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D. Davis, who was awardedthe Medal of Honor in March, nearly
sixty years after he was nominated forhis heroism during the Vietnam War. It's
going to be the Grand Marshall,retired Colonel Paris D. Davis. And
if you're not going to the parade, which is going to obviously cause a
mess for traffic around Hollywood on Sunday, you can watch it on the CW
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Network. It'll air December fifteenth.This is KFI and kost HD two Los
Angeles, Orange County, live fromthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
Amy King. This has been yourwake up call, and if you missed
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You've been listening to wake Up Callwith me, Amy King, you
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How dad can get a good callyour host Amy Kay, good morning,
It's five o'clock. Straight up.This is your wake up call for
Monday, November twenty seventh. Lessthan thirty days still Christmas. We can
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totally geek out on Christmas. NowThanksgiving is done, so now we're free
and clear. I'm one of thosepeople who tries to stay, you know,
stick to the rule that one holidayat a time. Well, now
Thanksgivings over, it's on. Hada great weekend, hope you guys had
a great weekend and enjoyed some timeoff. I know kno was having two
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Thanksgivings. Did you recover? Itwas a long day the first Thanksgiving with
a almost three year old, yeah, and five children under six years old.
When did the meltown? When didthe meltdowns start? At the end
of my parents which is the firsthouse we went to. Yeah, so
it was and then you had therest of the day. Yeah, it
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was a long day, but agood day. It was fun. Okay,
yeah, I did. We hada small Thanksgiving with my brother and
his girlfriend and it was great.And then I got to go up to
paser Obols for the weekend to seemy best friend who recently moved up there,
and so we did wine tasting,as one is wont to do in
paser Robos. That was fabulous.And then we did our small Business Saturday
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and went down to San Luis Obispo, which I've never been to. Their
little downtown area really cool. SoI love Small Business Saturday. It's just
a you know, you can goto the malls any day and you kind
of forget about some of the smallbusinesses, and if you forget about,
some of them are going to goaway, Like in Claremont. We used
to go to Claremont on Saturdays afterThanksgiving, and now Claremont is still a
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beautiful little place, but a lotof the little shops that they had that
you could do some of your greatshopping, have just closed up. So
gotta support. I also missed traffic. Did you guys get stuck in traffic?
I missed traffic because I headed homereally early yesterday, so I'm heading
south on the Grapevine and of coursestill freaking out because remember, I don't
know if you remember, but acouple months ago my car broke down on
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the Grapevine but that's a whole otherstory. So but and traffic was not
bad, but heading north it wascrazy. And that was like at ten
o'clock in the morning, and Iwas like, oh my gosh, I
feel bad for the people who didn'tget an early start yesterday. So hope
you made it home safe and sound. Hope you had a great weekend.
Here's what is ahead on wake UpCall. More hostages are expected to be
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released on this fourth day of theIsrael Hamas ceasefire. Israel has said it
would extend the ceasefire by one dayfor every ten day additional hostages released.
We're going to be talking with ABC'sGeordana Miller in about a half hour and
get the latest on what's going onnow, who's been released, and if
there's going to be an extension tothat ceasefire. So Call is bracing for
(03:14):
another round of strong Santa Ana wins. Forecasters say gusts of thirty to fifty
miles per hour are expected through tomorrow, with US up to sixty miles per
hour in the mountains and foothills afterthe winds. We have a chance of
rain Wednesday through Friday. It's thislight one, but there's a chance.
A newly unsealed legal complaint claims Facebookand Instagram deliberately engineered its social platforms to
(03:38):
hook kids. The complaint also allegesthe company new but never disclosed, that
it had received millions of complaints aboutunderage users and only acted on a fraction
of them. Parent company met usas the complaint misrepresents its work. At
six oh five, It's handle onthe news, A forty eight year old
has been arrested in connection with theshooting of three Palestinian students in Vermont that's
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being called a hate crime. Let'sget started with some of the stories coming
out of the CAMFI twenty four hournewsroom. An American girl who spent her
fourth birthday as a hostage in Gazais one of the latest group of hostages
released as part of the ceasefire agreementwith Israel. President Biden's The girl's parents
were killed when Hamas attacked on Octoberseventh. Those who are now Rappie and
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Abigail in love and care and thesupport of services she needs she's been through
a terrible trauma. A nine yearold Israeli girl, who also had a
birthday while being held hostage, wasalso freed over the weekend. She'd been
sleeping over at a friend's house whenshe was kidnapped. Her father thought she
had been killed and said he wasrelieved because she wouldn't have to suffer in
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captivity. Police and vermon have arresteda man accused of shooting three Palestinian College
students. Authority say the students wereoutside the man's apartment yesterday when they were
shot. ABC's Andrew Dimbert says twowere wearing Palestinian scars. They were reportedly
speaking Arabic while returning to one oftheir relatives' homes when police say the suspect
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approached them and fired at least fourrounds without saying a word, then ran
off. Two of the injured studentsare in stable condition. The other has
more serious injuries. The Oli CountySheriff's Burglary Robbery Task Force has arrested ten
people in connection with a flash mobrobbery at a Nike store in East la
The store on Whittier Boulevard was hitseveral times over the summer. Deputies have
(05:25):
linked the robberies to two criminal streetgangs that focused on organized retail theft.
A man walking on the one toone Freeway has been hit and killed shpieces.
It happened in the eastbound lanes justwest of DeSoto Avenue around three this
morning. A burst water pipe inHermosa Beach is sent a torrent of water
into Redondo Beach. Hermosa Beach policesay the pipe, controlled by California Water
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Service burst last night in the areaof Harper Avenue in Ormond Lane. Official
say hundreds of thousands of gallons spilled. Let's say good morning now to ABC's
Jim Ryan. Good night morning,Jim, Hey Amy, good morning,
Happy Thanksgiving, a little bit lated, happy belated Thanksgiving to you, and
now I will say happy Christmas seasonbecause it's on. It is on.
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Yeah. I was seeing all thestuff in the stores now a few twinkling
lights on a few houses and afew neighborhoods, and that's going to grow
right through the twentieth maybe the twentyfirst, when people finally finished putting up
their stuff. I know some peoplein where I was visiting this weekend already
had everything up like fully fully loadedand had all the inflatables up and all
(06:30):
the lights and everything, and Iwas like, oh, I got to
get my Christmas stuff out. Butanyway, hey, we wanted to talk
to you today because we have anot it's pretty unsettling that the CDC has
come out with a new information.Autism used to become a pretty uncommon thing,
but this new report says that's notthe case anymore. Well, no,
you're right, and unsettling in away, yes, but also heartening.
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I mean it offers some hope becauseyes, the number of children diagnosed
with autism spectrum disorder has been risingconsistently. It's also risen dramatically since the
nineteen nineties, when really public awarenessbegan to spike about this. So right
now, Center's for Is Controlling Preventionshows that about one in thirty six children
age eight in the country has beendiagnosed with autism. In two thousand,
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the number was about one in onehundred and fifties. So, yes,
this number has gone up dramatically.But does that mean that not many more
children actually have autism spectrum disorder.No, but it means more have been
diagnosed. The diagnosis has gotten muchbetter. I mean the diagnostic criteria have
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changed. It was first described inthe nineteen forties, but back then they
didn't know what to do about it. They really didn't know what to look
for. But that has improved dramatically, and so in nineteen eighty four,
the American Psychiatric Association released the fourthedition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders. Was included in that, and so that's why we've seen this,
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the diagnosis go up dramatically. Soyou know, it's likely that by
age eight, most kids, maybeall kids, have been screened at one
time or another, and because ofpublic awareness, parents know what to look
for early on, even in theirtoddlers, even before the kid reaches toddler
age, there are signs that theycan look for. And when does is
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there a typical time when it startspresenting itself? Well, I mean again,
it's around the pre k around kindergarten, around those times, because that's
when you start to see kids whoare interacting more with other kids. And
for most of them, it's it'sa fairly easy natural process. They make
friends with their other little kids andgrow from there. But some kids have
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trouble. They don't socialize well.With other kids. Does that absolutely mean
autism spectrum disorder? No, absolutelynot, but certainly that's one of the
things on a checklist that pediatry sincewe'll be looking for as they try to
make this diagnosis. You know,I think back to when I was in
school and some of the kids whowere you know that they, like you
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said, they had trouble interacting withother kids, and you wonder maybe that
person was on the spectrum, asthey say, and we just didn't know
because we didn't have the diagnostic toolsat that time, so they didn't know
what they were looking for. Absolutely, And if you look back to the
fifties, the sixties, the seventies, then that's really when not the fifties,
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Gym, I'm not that old.Well, no, I understand,
but really that's when things came tolight. I'll tell you a story,
I mean personal story that my brotherwho's seventy and seventy years old now is
autistic, and really he was diagnosedway after even high school. There was
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just no recognition. Nobody knew whatto do about it. Misdiagnoses all along
the way. But he's lived agreat life. Mary lives independently with his
wife and so it's not a it'snot a sentence to a life of certainly
institutionalization, which it would have beenin the thirties and forties. Maybe,
Yeah, there is a there's alight head and for a lot of folks
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in great life, I love that. And and with the diagnoses, it's
it's kind of catching everybody who's onthe spectrum, as they call it.
Yes, and it has evolved somewhatso that certain things are not necessarily included
in that in that diagnosis. Butyou're right. For example, you know
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Asperger syndrome and this catch all pervasivedevelopmental disorder not otherwise specified d d n
os. Those were added to thediagnostic diagnostic tools back in the nineties but
then taken off that list. Theseare specialized things that those terms just really
aren't used so much anymore. Okay, So even though the numbers are up,
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it's actually a good thing because itmeans we're catching it absolutely, that's
right. You know, doesn't meanthe incidence is hire most likely Now it's
a matter of trying to find outwhy. And we still don't have any
idea why what's causing this. Well, there are clues, you know,
there are external factors. You know, women are giving birth later and that's
associated in a lot of cases withthe disorder prenatal exposure to air pollution or
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pesticide paternal OBCD. The country's weightoverall has gone up and that is associated
sometimes with this. So we've gotclues. Absolutely cause has been found,
not yet, but they're looking.Oh keep looking to Thank you so much,
Jim Ryan, appreciate all the information. Thanks Amy. Let's get back
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to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
A couple dozen people have held aprotest outside the La County Sheriff station in
East La, calling for deputies toface consequences for beating a disabled man.
Video shows a deputy seeming to placea man in a chokehold while the other
punches him repeatedly in the face.The man's attorney says the beating was not
justified. There was no report ofa crime, There was no one who
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called nine one one on mister Ernandez, and there was nothing which should have
caused the deputies to have stopped misterHernandez. Despite those facts, they tried
to stop him, and when theystopped him, they recognized that he had
a disability. The Sheriff's Department saysAlejandro Hernandez, who is an amputee,
had reached for his waistband where hewas hiding a loaded gun and was resisting
(12:22):
arrest. A major drug trafficker withconnections to L. Choppo's cartel in Mexico
has been killed in South LA.Investigators with the La County Sheriff's Department say
Eduardo Escobedo was one of two gunneddown in an industrial area of Willowbrook.
Officials say Escabato was killed during aparty overnight Wednesday and the Thursday, though
a specific motive wasn't given. Escobato, who went by the nickname El Mago
(12:43):
or the Magician, was raised inEast LA and worked for L. Choppo's
oldest son, often bragging and flauntinghis lavish lifestyle by posting pictures of himself
drinking high end champagne and posing withcelebrities like Floyd Mayweather and Al Pacino.
Steve Gregory k if I knew,I wish. It was so sad to
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hear this. Over the weekend,fans and coworkers are remembering the co creator
of hr Puff and Stuff, MartyCroft, died of kidney failure over the
weekend at his home in La Hisolder brother Sid shared the news yesterday on
social media. As brothers created thepopular kids show featuring the life sized dragon
puppet back in nineteen sixty nine.They also were behind the Land of the
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Lost Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.Those were both in the seventies, and
of course, who could forget theBanana Splitz. Marty Croft was eighty six
pastath on twenty twenty three. Ishere. We're going to be at the
Anaheim White House tomorrow morning, startingright at five am with wake up call
and leading up to our show,we wanted to introduce you to one of
the kids whose life was changed thanksto Chef Bruno and Katerina's Club. The
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money and the pasta you donate helpskids now and continues to affect them after
they're all grown up. So let'ssay good morning now to Alandra Beteo.
Alandra, how did you first cometo know oh, Chef Bruno. I
was about six or seven years oldwhen I started going to the Boys and
Girls Club and Bruno people come bringpasta to the club that I would participate
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at. So he will give uspasta before we will go home every day,
and then he went to our mobilehome park where I used to live
at com bring his pasta. Andthen during the month of November he will
come with the Chapman students to comedeliver turkeys and all the stuff that you
know, it's needed for Thanksgiving dinner. And yeah, that's how I got
(14:31):
to know him. So you wereinvolved in the Boys and Girls Club?
So did you go there every dayafter school? Yes? And about how
many kids were in your Boys andGirls clubs? Oh, well, we
got a lot of kids from mymobile home park. It was a good
ten of us every day, tenof us from Monday through Friday. But
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over on the Boys and Girls Club, I would say a good two hundred
to fifty kids a day. That'sgreat, okay. And I would imagine
when you're seven years old, youdon't really realize what's going on. I
know that Chef Bruno is bringing youguys food, and isn't that lovely?
But did you as you grew older, did you start to realize that one
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he was helping out your family bymaybe taking some of the food burden off
of them and really helping tons andtons of people. Yes, it was
actually a funny story, like onetime I had my shoes off for some
reason. There was a skate parkthere and I was changing my shoes and
there was holes on my socks andBruno saw that. The next day,
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he had someone buy me socks fromthe store, making sure that I have
what I needed, because back thenit was kind of hard on my family,
especially with the rent that my parentshad to pay. Were just him
buying socks or even him coming toour mobile file parking give us food to
low income families like it benefited alot. That's so cool. So that
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was when you were seven years old, and now you're twenty two, twenty
one, twenty one. Oh,she's still talking. One. Okay,
what are you doing with yourself thesedays? Right now? I am a
for fear, I ca'll say fulltil. I'll be finishing up my degree
in the sociology in May, soI'm hoping that I work with children.
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I do want to give back tomy community. Right now, I'm actually
working as a pre college advisor,So the students that I serve are low
income, first generation students trying toget to higher education, and hopefully I
get to my master's so I couldbecome a school counselor look at you along
he that is so great, andI think it's just testament to what this
program does. It changes lives.It doesn't only fill up their bellies and
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fills up their hearts and their mindstoo. So thank you so much,
and that's luck to you. Congratulations, thank you appreciate it, Alandro.
Butteo, isn't that great? Imean, like you feed a kid in
the afternoon and you don't realize thelong term implications that that has. And
you can help make a different byjoining us for Pastathon twenty twenty three.
As we mentioned, Chef Bruno's charitycharity Katerina's Club, provides more than twenty
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five thousand meals every week to kidsin need in Southern California, and we
can't do it without you, sowe want you to join us. You
can donate at pastathon dot com,shop at any Smart and Final store and
donate at checkout, Go to anyWendy's restaurant in Southern California and donate,
and of course join us tomorrow allday. We're going to be broadcasting live
from the Anaheim White House on GivingTuesday from five am, starting with wake
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up call then with Gary and Shannonafter that and John and Ken and Tim
Conway and wrapping things up with laterwith Mo Kelly. So we're gonna go
all the way until ten o'clock tomorrownight, and we want you to come
and see us. Make a donation. One hundred percent of your donation goes
to Katerina's Club. It's pastathon dotcom. Let's get back to some of
the stories coming out of the KFItwenty four hour news room. A homeowner
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in Chatsworth says thieves have stolen dozensof high end purses and several watches from
his home. The family was outshopping on Black Friday, probably about thirty
to forty five handbags, Chanelle Gucci, about six watches, a Cardier diamond
watch, four rolixes. He tellsKTLA this stuff was worth about two hundred
(18:14):
thousand dollars. He also says thethieves used bear spray on the family's two
Pomeranians. Police and Westminster have arrestedthe mother of a nine year old girl
found dead inside her home. Officershad gone to the home Friday to do
a welfare check and forced their wayin. Only the girl was there.
The mom was arrested at a shoppingcenter in Aliso Via Home. A five
year old girl rescued after she wasswept out to sea and half Moon Bay
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has died at the hospital. Thesearch for a fifty four year old man
also swept away Saturday has been calledoff. The Coastguard says two people at
Martin's Beach had been reported swept outto sea by what officials called a sneaker
wave. The Weather Service says suchwaves surge much farther up the beach than
expected and can overtake a person.Jesus. A naked man has been arrested
(19:06):
for causing a commotion on the SmallWorld ride at Disneyland. The guy apparently
got off the ride yesterday, strippeddown to his underwear and walked or onto
some of the attractions. Video showshim walking around as Christmas music plays in
the background. It was splashing inthe water as park employees went up to
him. He was carried away andarrested for Indisian exposure and being under the
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influence of a controlled substance. Aguess station employee's mistake is paid off for
a lottery player in Michigan. Theman usually apparently buys a lottery ticket for
ten or twenty draws, but inSeptember, the employee accidentally printed out a
ticket with ten lines for a singledraw. Well. That ticket was worth
twenty five thousand dollars a year forlife. The man who bought it recently
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claimed the lump sum of three hundredand ninety thousand dollars. More hostages are
expected to be released on this fourthday of the Israel Hamas cease fire.
Israel has said it would extend theceasefire by one day for every ten additional
hostages released. Southern California is bracingfor another round of strong Santa Ana winds.
Forecasters say wind gus thirty to fiftymiles per hour are expected through tomorrow,
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with us up to sixty miles perhour in the mountains and foothills.
After the wind, there's a slightchance of rain Wednesday through Friday. Its
just a twenty percent chance, butstill there. Some Gen z Ers may
not be heading home for the holidaysbecause of student loans. A recent Credit
Karma survey found many Gen Z Americanswith student debt can't afford to pay for
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travel on top of their student loanpayments. About a third say they are
relying on their parents to pay fortheir holiday travel. At six oh five,
it's handle on the news. Thisone brings back memories. The King
of Saturday Mornings, Marty Kroft,has died at five poin fifty. We're
going to be talking to ABC's TomRivers about a dream cruise that has well
pretty much turned out to be anightmare and it hasn't even set sail.
(20:57):
We're waiting for Georgiana mill It lookslike she's calling in right now from Jerusalem,
where it's early morning. Good morning, Jordana. First of all,
let's start with the good news,and that is that we got her back.
How's little Abigail doing. We understandshe's doing well. She's been reunited
with her siblings. She has twosiblings that survived the October seventh attack,
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even though her parents were murdered byHamas on that day. Her aunt is
with her. She's still at thehospital special children's ward that has been created
in one of his reluff hospitals,and she's doing well. Her aunt,
who is now going to raise her, is there with her, and we
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hear that she's okay. It's sohard because it's like, it's heartwarming to
hear that this four year old whoturned four years old while being held hostage
by a mosque is back free.She's, like you said, she's with
family, but her parents were murderedin front of her on October seventh.
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That's right, and it's you know, it's it's horrifying. Let's hope she
has no memory of it or youknow, because she was so little,
but she's there were many children whosaw their parents killed in front of them
on October seventh. I mean,there are there are two kids who essentially
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hid in a closet for fourteen hoursand they they saw their their first their
father being killed that was killed,and then their mother who was shot.
So these are these are this isgoing to be a whole group of children
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that are you know, have tolive with the trauma of growing up with,
you know, losing one or twoparents on October seventh, and some
of them being old enough to rememberwitnessing it. Yeah, And it was
I was watching some of the footagefrom from that area where you said that
they're taking some of the children andshowing them and it's so just surreal because
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they just look like kids and they'reholding teddy bears and they seem to be
okay, but there's going to bea lot of trauma for these kids.
Yeah, they, I mean,Israel's basically to its credit, they have
put together teams for each family todeal with any you know, to deal
with the symptoms of trauma that willlikely come out later, not right after
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the release. You know, Iknow, there was I think maybe you're
talking about the same picture. Iremember seeing a little girl, you know,
holding a teddy bear at the firstthe little blonde girl. That's that's
Emily, her name, her nameis Emily Alone and she was she was
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released. I think she's only aboutsix, but she was there with other
children as well. I mean,the only saving grace for these children is
that most of them were there withfamily, with their with one parent,
and in the case of Avigali Dan, you know, she was with another
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few children and a mother who tookcare of her as well. So you
know, they you know, theythe fact that they were kept in groups
helped them, you know, copewith the cope with captivity. It's had
their optimism that they would be essentiallyor ultimately uh you know, released and
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freed. So you know, that'smaybe the only silver lining of their captivity
is that they most of them werenot alone. Yeah, okay, and
we're expecting another group to be releasedtoday, So I think, what are
we at thirty nine ish, thirtyor nine or forty? Right? We're
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at thirty right, We're at thirtynine. And then in a separate deal
with Russia, one male Israeli inhis twenties was released. He also has
an incredible story. He escaped fromafter a bombing, an Israeli Israeli bombing
raid. His hideout got hit,he escaped. He was on the run
for a few days trying to findthe border, the Israeli border. Then
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Gosin's turned him back over to Hamasand you know, thank god, he
was freed last night. We're supposedto see another eleven come out today,
but there have been some hiccups andthere looks like there's going to be a
delay to the release. Instead ofhappening in the next hour, we might
have to wait a few more hoursbefore the handover begins. Israel says that
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Hamas has given them a list thatyou know, does not include mothers and
children together. And this is oneof the basic requirements, so they're trying
to sort that out. But thereis optimism that Israel and Hamas will extend
this eeaspire for at least one moreday, okay, and when if the
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fire is extended, that again it'sa slippery slope because it can help give
Hamas more time to regroup and getready to start the fighting again. Because
nett Ya, who's still saying,when the ceasefire is over, we're going
back at it, that's right.And obviously Israel is making a calculation that
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you know, they have achieved enoughin the war up until now, and
they're in a strong position where theycan afford to you know, hold their
fire for another couple of days andthen the overall plan to you know,
push them off out of the Godsenstrip that can still be accomplished even if
they give it another two or threeor four days. There have been,
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you know, no attacks on Israelisoldiers, there haven't been any serious violations
of the agreement. So far.It is going well. So you know,
every every extra day will bring homemore innocent people who are abducted,
and right now that seems to bethe priority. Okay, Well, we'll
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be watching and hope they get thehiccups ironed out, smooth out. We
can get more people home. Thankyou so much than it in tandem there.
Thank you, Jordana. We'll talkto you soon. Let's get back
to some of the stories coming outof the KFI twenty four hour newsroom.
An ex convict recently found guilty ofshooting an LAPD officer to death is going
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to be sentenced today. Sixty fiveyear old Kenneth Gay was found guilty of
first degree murder in August after hiscase was retried. He killed an LAPED
officer during a traffic stop in WestTerrace in nineteen eighty three. He's now
facing life in prison without the possibilityof parole. Memorial observances for former First
Lady Rosalind Carter are set to beginin Georgia. The procession will begin in
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Plains, Georgia, where Rosalind Carterwas born. The Carter family is set
to hold a brief ceremony at theSumpter Medical Center, where the former First
Lady's remains will be transferred to aherb. ABC's Mike Dubuski says a reeflaying
ceremony is going to be held atthe Rosalind Carter Health and Human Sciences Complex
at Southwestern State University before the motorcadearrives at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in
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Atlanta. Rosalind Carter died on Novembernineteenth. She was ninety six. Well,
it turns out Wish was no matchfor The Hunger Games. So Disney's
new movie, the animated movie thatwe talked about on last week couple of
times, was supposed to be numberone at the box office, but The
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Hunger Games Songbirds and Snakes finished first. It's now grossed almost one hundred million
dollars domestically in two weeks of release. It won the weekend with forty two
million dollars for the five day holidayframe, and that was more than Whish,
which came in with thirty one pointseven million in five days. And
(28:56):
actually even Napole beat Wish out andthat's the one with Joaquin Phoenix. It
took in thirty two and a halfmillion dollars for the five day long holiday
weekend. So that's sort of asurprise. I need. I think next
time I talk to Jason, Iwant to ask him. And maybe you
guys already know this, but howdo they make those estimates? Because you
go, oh, it's a Disneymovie, it's going to be big,
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But how do they estimate how bigit's going to be? Yeah, something
we'll ask him about. Israel andHamas are preparing for a fourth exchange of
hostages for Palestinians as mediators seek toextend a ceasefire in Gaza that's set to
expire after today. Hamas freed seventeenmore hostages yesterday on the third day of
the truce. In turn, Israelreleased thirty nine Palestinian prisoners. A federal
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court panel will consider the gag orderedtoday and former President Trump's civil fraud trial
in New York City. The orderwas temporarily blocked by an appeals court.
Trump has on several occasions railed againstthe judge and court staff in his trial,
leading to the gag order being imposedlast month. It is cyber Monday.
I might have to look for it. But there are some big deals
(30:02):
out there. Amazon has won athirty two inch high def TV slashed in
half just eighty dollars. There's alsovacuum cleaners, pillows, air pods,
mattresses, furniture, and lots ofother electronics, but analysts are warning to
beware of scams and do your researchbefore you buy. We're just minutes away
from handle. On the news thismorning, somebody lost it on It's a
(30:22):
Small World. He lost his mindand his clothes. I'll tell you about
that right now. Let's say goodmorning to ABC News correspondent Tom Rivers.
Good morning Tom. It was supposedto be the trip of a lifetime,
but it's kind of turned into anightmare for some passengers, oh very much.
So. Can imagine you're getting readyto go on a cruise for maybe
ten days or maybe even two weeks, and something happens with the operator.
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Okay, it's not good, butyou can bounce back from that. These
individuals, one hundred eleven cabins weresold for people to go on a cruise
for three count them three years,so a lot of them. All these
people you know at the age maybethey're retired. They rented out their houses
or sold their houses in some cases, got rid of some possessions. Some
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people got rid of small businesses.And they got a flight to Istanbul,
where this adventure was supposed to begin, and then they started getting the run
around. The firm called Life atSea Cruises said, well, we got
some delays, just hang loose fora while. A few weeks later they
said, have you guys hook upwith the boat in Amsterdam? Now what
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happened behind the scenes. The boatthey wanted to purchase for this three year
adventure. They didn't secure the fundsand was out bid. They went for
a second vessel, they got outbid on that one. They looked at
a third vessel, too small forthe amount of passengers. So finally they
threw in the towel said you're notgoing anywhere. We'll fly you home and
(31:56):
we'll get your money back to youin three months December, January and February.
But you know, if you wereliving in la and said, okay,
I guess I'm flying home, gosh, I just just rented out my
flat for twelve months, exactly whata tangled, tangled mess. And of
course these things usually end up incourt for lengthy periods of time. But
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boy, what a mess for theindividuals that thought this was going to be
the most amazing way of dealing.I guess with the twilight, you know,
part of their lives. Oh mygod. Yeah, And I didn't
even think about that part that youjust mentioned, and that's that they probably
either sold their homes or rented themout or shut down their businesses because yeah,
three your crews, you don't needyour house for a while. So
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how much did the cruise cost?Do we know? We don't seen.
It's tens of thousands, but theysay on an average, and I don't
know how they calculate it, youknow, high and low, but they
said average couple, you know,paying whatever after you're retired per month,
that would be equivalent in your townto not maybe not l but in your
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average American town to say, tosay, the cost of a month on
this vessel. So you know you'repaying out the same amount, but you
get one heck of an adventure.Yeah, so let's just guesstimate five to
six thousand dollars, Yeah, somethinglike that. Yeah, okay, so
that time's twelve, that's sixty,so two hundred basically about two hundred and
(33:20):
forty thousand dollars. Nope, onehundred and eighty thousand dollars for three lots
of bucks. Any inventive if youget if you get a nice balcony cabin
or you got an internal whatever.But yeah, everything is round figures.
But yeah, it's a lot ofmoney. And as I said at the
top, if you if this wereyou know, it would be bad if
it was a one week cruise,yeah, you know, but you can
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bounce back from No, you're goingback to maybe live with your kids or
or a cousin's gonna put you upuntil you get your life together whatever.
A real mess. Well, andthen to add insult to injury, they're
not even giving them a refund rightaway. They're like, oh, we're
going to spread it out. We'llget you, we'll get you that in
the next few months exactly. SoI mean, if if you if you
didn't see the red flags initially onthat score as well more red flag so
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you know, fingers crossed. Theyall get their money back. But you
know, I don't know if I'dbet on that or not. Okay.
So, and this isn't it's lifeat sea cruises. It's not one of
the big ones. It's not likePrincess or Caribbean or anything like that.
They're not a filliate no, okay. But again it's a small little world.
These people generally have worked for othercruise lines. They know what's going
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on. But the management here reallywas was caught out. And if you're
gonna, if you're gonna set upa boat. In fact, they were
initially going after a German subsidiary ofCarnival Corporation Cruises. They were going after
a vessel that was being put upfor sale. If you're gonna do that,
you do that many many months inadvance. Why because they said,
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in this case they have to getit into drydock. They have to,
you know, go through everything witha fine tooth comb because just this this
vessel is going to be at seafor three years. So you go through
everything, you know, the engine, the plant, everything from top to
bottom, generators, you name it. But you don't do it by saying,
well, let's buy a boat inSeptember and we'll sail it in October.
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It doesn't work like that. Yeah. Oh man, I feel really
bad for these people, I know. Yeah, all right, all right,
thank you so much, Tom Rivers, appreciate the information. Take care
boy, that sucks. That's anearly non Christmas present, right Hey,
Speaking of Christmas, the Hollywood ChristmasParade it's happening this weekend and it's going
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to step off from Orange Drive inHollywood, Boulevard, following a U shaped
route east to Vine Street, Southon Vine to Sunset, West on Sunset
back to Orange. It's going tobe co hosted by Eric Estrada and Dean
Kine, so Superman and Chips.I love that, plus other media personalities
and performances, and I love this. The Grand Marshall is retired Colonel Paris
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D. Davis, who was awardedthe Medal of Honor in March, nearly
sixty years after he was nominated forhis heroism during the Vietnam War. It's
going to be the Grand Marshall,retired Colonel Paris D. Davis. And
if you're not going to the parade, which is going to obviously cause a
mess for traffic around Hollywood on Sunday, you can watch it on the CW
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Network. It'll air December fifteenth.This is KFI and kost HD two Los
Angeles, Orange County, live fromthe KFI twenty four hour newsroom. I'm
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